Chapter 70: Cutting the battlefield and retreating from the enemy

The river valley over there in Changping has a much larger space than Liangxiang.

The terrain should also be flatter.

Unlike Liangxiang, as long as you occupy a favorable narrow terrain, you can resist the attack of an enemy several times your size, Jiao Touch held the Changping River Valley, and could only barely resist the enemy by building strong forts, digging trenches, and taking advantage of part of the favorable terrain.

It was precisely because of the open terrain here that Yang Zhao's cavalry was convenient and smoothly went around the enemy's rear.

At this point, the sky was completely dark.

Yang Zhao looked at the light of the enemy's torches, rushed over, and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

The Xuanjia spirit rider beside him immediately drew his bow and shot while riding his horse.

The rain of arrows covered the enemy, and soon more than a hundred people were killed.

"The Han army has cavalry to sneak attack!"

The soldiers in the rear of the enemy quickly sounded various warnings, and the drums of war were beaten.

But these warnings had no effect on Yang Zhao and them, the rain of arrows came quickly, and a group of enemies fell, and when they were almost killed, Guan Yu led the cavalry to rush up first.

The focus of cavalry combat is to be mobile and flexible, and to charge and kill quickly.

If the cavalry rushes into the middle of a large number of enemy troops at the beginning, not only will it not be able to run, but it will also be easy to fall into it.

Yang Zhao's cavalry rushed to kill, cutting the battlefield, cutting diagonally, and the cavalry was like a sharp knife, cutting towards the edge of the enemy's phalanx, rather than rushing into the enemy.

Guan Yu's speed was the fastest, and with a swing of the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, after killing several enemies, he led the cavalry on the edge of the enemy and cut a small phalanx of hundreds of people diagonally.

The phalanx had just been cut open and separated from the large forces.

Zhang Fei, who followed behind, slaughtered these hundreds of people, and before the enemy could react to what was happening, he was swept by the cavalry, either kicked away by the front hooves of the war horse, or killed by the cavalry's spears, ring-headed knives and other weapons.

A small phalanx of hundreds of people was solved by cavalry in this way.

On the other side, the lead is responsible for cutting, and Tian Yu is responsible for rushing and killing.

The four of them cooperated with each other, crisscrossing the enemy's rear, and no one could stop them.

The cavalry led by Yang Zhao, after shooting the arrows he carried with him, ordered to put away his bow and take out the spears hanging from the saddle, and they were divided into two teams of four hundred, two hundred of whom were responsible for cutting, and the other two hundred were responsible for charging and killing the enemy.

The rebel generals who were attacking Jiao Touch in front found that the rear was attacked by the Han cavalry, and had to transfer their troops to kill them back, and the pressure on Jiao Touch's defense was greatly reduced.

"Retreat!"

Yang Zhao saw that the enemy in the front row gave up attacking the camp and wanted to kill them back, so he decisively ordered a retreat and did not entangle with the enemy.

Otherwise, they will be entangled by so many infantry, and their cavalry will be trapped in it, and they will not be able to run, and they will just wait for death.

The enemy was in a hurry to save the rear, which caused the formation to gradually become disorganized.

After Yang Zhao's cavalry retreated, it was difficult for these enemies to gather to storm the camp, and they were worried that the Han cavalry would come to hunt again, so they had to retreat to the north and temporarily retreat.

[Congratulations to the host, the level has been increased to lv43.] 】

As Yang Zhao killed the last enemy, the system finally prompted an upgrade.

Just now, he specially looked for the enemy's officers to kill, and it was not easy to increase his experience.

"System, add some marksmanship."

At present, Yang Zhao uses the spear to fight, and he uses it most easily, giving priority to upgrading the spear.

[Add points successfully, basic marksmanship (beginner, beginner).] 】

Hearing the prompt sound of the system, Yang Zhao turned off all the panels, did not chase the retreating enemy, gathered the cavalry phalanx of Guan and Zhang, and went back to the camp together.

"Captain Jiao!"

Yang Zhao turned over and dismounted, arching his hand.

Jiao Touch sighed and said gratefully: "The magistrate of Yang County came just in time to save us and the whole of Changping!" ”

After that, he invited them into the camp, and said: "The enemy has been attacking for almost a day, and I really can't support it, so I can only send people to ask for help from the commander of Yang County and the commander of Zhang Nan on the Yuyang side. ”

Yang Zhao said: "Fortunately, I have cavalry, so I can come as soon as possible." ”

Jiao Touch said again: "Since three days ago, Zhang Chun has placed the main force of the infantry in the north of Changping to carry out a strong attack, Liangxiang and Yuyang should be Zhang Chun's delaying strategy, contain you, and cannot come to support Changping." ”

His thoughts were no different from Yang Zhao's.

According to an analysis of the situation in the camps on both sides, this is indeed the case.

Yang Zhao looked to the north, and the light of the enemy's retreating torches was still extending to the north, and said, "Next, I will try my best to help the captain hold the camp, but I can't stay here for long." ”

Today they appear in Changping, and the enemy will consider the reduction of Liangxiang's forces, and then attack Liangxiang.

They have to go back at any time.

——

The enemy general who was responsible for leading the troops to attack Jiao Touch was none other than Zhang Chun.

He was attacked by Yang Zhao in the rear, causing a big chaos, and had to lead his troops to retreat, and when he returned to the camp at the northern foot of Yanshan, it was already the second half of the night.

"Defeated?"

Zhang Ju, who had been waiting for the results, saw them come back in embarrassment, and asked first.

Zhang Chun sighed: "I almost succeeded, but I still failed in the end!" ”

He recounted the situation on the battlefield in detail, and continued: "If it weren't for the cavalry from Liangxiang to come to support, we would definitely be able to break through Jiao's camp tonight. ”

Zhang Ju was not disappointed, but his eyes lit up: "In other words, there is no cavalry on the Liangxiang side, and the defensive strength is insufficient, so you can attack it?" ”

Zhang Chun disapproved of attacking Liangxiang, shook his head and said: "General, don't forget, Liangxiang also has that kind of strong bed crossbow, which can penetrate at least two war horses!" ”

How strong the bed crossbow is, they know.

They have never dared to attack Liangxiang, but only harassed and tempted, and now that they know that Yang Zhao led the cavalry to leave, they do not dare to attack rashly.

"If the cavalry of Liangxiang can come to support Jiao Touch, then Zhang Nan of Yuyang will definitely send troops to help."

Zhang Ju thought for a moment, then thought of a new plan, and said, "Our plan has to be changed." ”

He told Zhang Ju about this plan.

"I'm afraid that the good country will fail under the bed crossbow!"

Zhang Chun felt that the plan was feasible, but Liangxiang was an outlier.

Zhang Ju said confidently: "The problem of Liangxiang is not big, as long as there is no frontal conflict, close to harassment, our advantage is that there are many cavalry, fast speed, fast scheduling, suitable for running and fighting, can hit the Han army by surprise, I don't believe that the two thousand cavalry of Liangxiang dare to come out directly to fight with our tens of thousands of cavalry." ”

Zhang Chun thought about it for a long time and agreed: "I'll arrange it and implement the new plan from tomorrow." ”

——

It's just dawn.

Yang Zhao spent the night in the camp in Changping, and as soon as he got up, he received news that Zhang Nan, the commander of Yuyang, had brought 3,000 men to support.

From Yuyang to Changping, it is also necessary to walk seventy or eighty miles.

They are infantry, they have been on the road overnight, and they can arrive before dawn, which is considered fast, but when they arrived at the camp, Zhang Nan found that he was late, so Jiao Touch briefly told him about last night's events.

"It turns out that Your Excellency is the student of Mrs. Lu, Yang Mingguang who defeated the Yellow Turban Army."

Zhang Nan listened to the whole process and glanced at Yang Zhao again.

However, his attitude towards Yang Zhao was relatively cold.

Zhang Nan's background is better than Yang Zhao's, and he doesn't take a Xiangyong in his eyes.

The atmosphere of the meeting between the two sides was slightly awkward.