Chapter 116: The Turning Point
Under the city of Luoyang, a fierce battle is underway.
Outside the city, the drums and trumpets are noisy, the arrows are like rain, and the large arrays of the two warring sides are intertwined, vertical and horizontal.
The sound of gunfire, shouts of killing, wailing, and cannon fire resounded in everyone's ears, and bursts of gunpowder smoke continued to rise from the formations of the two armies.
Chen Wang held the horse lance in front of him, the blood was already soaked through his armor, and he even had three arrows stuck in his body.
However, none of the three feathered arrows could penetrate his armor, and the deepest one was blocked by the layer of chain mail he was wearing.
The Ming military camp will definitely be a high-risk profession, Chongzhen 17 years, the general soldiers, deputy generals, generals, guerrillas who died in the battle array, there are not a few.
Cao Wenzhao fought to the death, Yu Chongxiao fought for his life, as fierce as a tiger and fell to death, Hu Dawei was killed by a cannon, and Yang Guozhu was killed by an arrow in Songshan......
Although he has already become a battalion general, there are only more than 4,000 people under Chen Wang's command, and nearly 3,000 of them are recruits.
Relying on such a small number of troops, facing the elite cavalry under the command of Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan, there is no room for slackness.
Even as the commander of a battalion, he needs to be in battle at some point.
The memory of Rongma's career and the experience of this period of time made Chen Wang not lack the courage to go into battle.
Li Yangchun's heart is obvious, he wants to go straight through the Hanzhong Plain to stir up the east and west and reunite the momentum.
Li Yangchun, who had a large number of cavalry, was a huge disaster for Hanzhong Mansion, and once he really entered the Hanzhong Plain, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Hanzhong Province will once again suffer a new kind of suffering, and even become a scorched earth.
Li Yangchun and other troops who were pursued all the way did not loot much money and grain at all, nor did they have many soldiers and horses because the officials of the surrounding states and counties had been strong and clear.
Liukou rarely make a move to pile up Jingguan as a demonstration, after all, they have a natural fear of officers and soldiers, and they have been chased and fled since the first year of Chongzhen, and it must be false to say that they are not afraid.
Therefore, Chen Wangcai led the cavalry to march all the way, and finally bit the rear army of Li Yangchun's army outside Luoyang City.
Li Yangchun and other troops re-engulfed a lot of villagers and looted a lot of materials, and their speed was slowed down again.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The heavy sound of war drums rang out one after another in Chen Wang's chest.
Chen Wang looked at a blue banner not far away, and Chen Wang could clearly recognize that the flag was Li Yangchun's Daxu.
The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and under the leadership of Chen Wang, a group of Liao cavalry once again circled the formation.
The bowstring vibrated continuously, and the arrows flew high at the speed of the horse, and hundreds of light arrows shot out of the Kaiyuan bow.
Dense arrows swept through the air one after another, like a huge swarm of bees crossing the dark sky and shooting into the dense array of rogue riders.
The two armies were only more than fifty paces apart, which was within the range of the Kaiyuan bow.
Most of the horse troops on the periphery had no armor, only a few wore rudimentary leather armor, and all the fine armor was confiscated and given priority to the elite cavalry, and they were not qualified to use it.
The feather arrow fell into the Liukou cavalry formation, and in an instant, it already brought a bloody rain, and a large number of unarmored Liukou horse troops fell headlong under the horses, and then were trampled into flesh by the panicked war horses.
"Woo——————"
On the battlefield, there is no room for standing by, there is no room for the slightest distraction, and the horn sounds.
By the time Chen Wang turned his head, Liukou's elite cavalry had already come from the front!
The elite cavalry armor of the Liukou all rested their Yanling knives on their right shoulders and put on a posture of impact.
When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the army wants to be completely safe, where is this possibility.
Zhu Yuanzhang still wore armor and came to the battle in person when he led the crowd of 10,000 people in the past, and Li Shimin also led the charge after he was added as the king of Qin.
"Kill!"
Chen Wang roared angrily and issued an order.
Chen Wang's eyes were slightly cold, and he shook his horse, and more than a dozen armored horsemen were already riding horses and raising guns to escort him around, and everyone behind him was already saddle and crossed horses with swords forward.
Charging into battle is naturally not to hand over all the pressure to one person to bear, even if it is brave and brave like Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, they are accompanied by personal guards when they rush into battle.
However, the expected impact did not come, and there were still a hundred paces away, and the original imposing elite cavalry suddenly dispersed, and turned to the rear to flee.
Chen Wang saw it clearly, he watched the elite cavalry that was originally lined up in a neat array fall apart in an instant, so fast that Chen Wang almost thought it was a trick to lure the enemy.
But when Chen Wang heard his name, he knew what was going on.
The scene in front of him Chen Wang is all too familiar.
"Defeated, defeated!!"
Those people shouted his name in their mouths, and then they all ran away, just like the horse soldiers and elite horsemen who fled when Cao Bianjiao led the troops to charge into battle in Pizhou.
"It's Chen Wang! It's Butcher Chen!! ”
"Let's go!"
In the past, Chen Wang often enjoyed such treatment when he followed Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao to rush into battle.
Chen Wang also thought that one day someone would be afraid of him as much as Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.
But Chen Wang didn't expect this day to come quickly.
Chen Wang's current fame is naturally not as terrifying as Cao Bianjiao, and he can deter hundreds of thousands of rogues.
However, Li Yangchun, Lin Shengquan, and Li Guo's elite cavalry and horse army were chased and fled by Chen Wang's troops all the way.
At the beginning, Li Guo wanted to go to Fengxiang Mansion, but Chen Wang personally led the cavalry to kill two formations in a row, and Li Guo, who killed nearly a thousand people, did not dare to turn back.
In the Battle of the Three Mountains, when they finally retreated from Nanshan, Chen Wang's army led a volley and killed hundreds of people.
In the three major wars, Chen Wang personally led the troops, beheaded the generals in battle, captured the flag and broke the formation, and slashed more than a dozen people.
How not to make people remember it vividly, especially the final interception battle of the Three Mountains.
At that time, Chen Wang was completely rushing to kill Lin Shengquan, Li Yangchun, and Li Guo casually, so that he could use the psychology of dealing with errands in the past to give Hong Chengchou an explanation.
At that time, Chen Wang was indeed murderous.
Almost half of the thieves who blocked the road were killed, and more than 300 people were killed in the battle by killing the elite cavalry under the command of Li Yangchun's three departments.
It's just that in the end, Lin Shengquan and the others escaped, and the rogue's combat power is not strong, but his escape kung fu can be regarded as top-notch.
Chen Wang was wearing a bright white fish scale armor, wearing a gray and silver high-topped helmet, wearing a red sticker, a waist knife belt, holding a horse lance, and the whole body of the war horse under the seat was pure white without a trace of miscellaneous hair, and the battle array was extremely eye-catching.
Seeing Chen Wang, all the rogues were terrified, it was this person who chased them for almost thousands of miles.
More than 900 heavily armed Liao cavalry followed behind Chen Wang and lined up in a neat cavalry formation, rushing straight ahead like a surging iron stream.
"Kill!!"
In the Liukou riding formation, Li Guo's face turned red, holding the Yanling knife high, and galloped in front of the riding formation, he had already seen Chen Wang wearing a bright silver fish scale armor.
He shouted loudly, venting, his emotions had been deeply pressed in his heart for months.
The feeling that all his worth and fate were in the hands of others made Li Guo almost crazy......
"Kill !!"
Although the rogue elite cavalry was terrified in their hearts, they still held the Yanling knife in their hands, and followed Li Guo to meet the Liao cavalry riding formation.
As battle-hardened veterans, they don't lack the courage to fight to the death.
Their faces were hideous, and they screamed and screamed, knowing that now was the time to fight for their lives.
However, the expected cavalry clash and the man turned on his back did not materialize.
Li Guo's eyes shrank suddenly, and through the guards in front of him, he saw a sudden puff of white smoke.
A slight sizzling sound then appeared in his ears, this sound Li Guo was familiar with it anymore, it was the sound of the fire fold igniting the primer!
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!!"
A large stream of gunpowder smoke flew up, and the endless explosion suddenly sounded, Li Guo only felt that his ears were shaken extremely uncomfortable, but he heard it - it was the explosion of the three-eyed gun!
A terrible howl rang out, and the rogue cavalry at the forefront of the charge were shot one after another, screaming and falling off their horses.
Li Guo's heart was beating wildly, fear swept towards him like a tide, and he watched as the last guard in front of him fell off his horse, and the sound of the sound had not yet stopped!!
Li Guo's heart was cold, although he was wearing two pieces of armor, he didn't have the confidence to resist the three-eyed gun's blow at close range......
"Kill !!"
Li Guo looked like crazy, his face was extremely red, his eyes were red, and behind him were a group of elite horsemen who followed him into battle, and he couldn't escape.
Once the cavalry formation is activated, it is difficult to stop, especially when the charge is launched, the speed has already increased, and the cavalry at the forefront of the charge has decided the qualification to stop.
The crazy secretion of adrenaline made Li Guo seem to have infinite strength, everything even slowed down in front of his eyes, Li Guo was clenched, he was ready to fight for his life!
Li Guo was engrossed, all his attention was ahead, and he stared at the oncoming crimson general flag - it was Chen Wang's general flag!
Li Guo's target is Chen Wang, but Chen Wang's goal is also Li Guo.
Chen Wang didn't know Li Guo, but the armor Li Guo was wearing separated him from the ordinary soldiers around him, and the banner behind Li Guo also betrayed his identity.
If the enemy enters Hanzhong, his goal has been achieved, but if he causes the rogues to flow into his mansion, he will suffer a certain amount of punishment for any reason.
But the head of a rogue leader was able to offset this guilt.
"Die!"
Chen Wang shouted violently, and the prancing horse suddenly sped up the speed of the horse, and the two guards who were blocking the front tacitly got out of the way.
Li Guo's expression froze at the last moment, his eyes were full of fear, and before he could react, the horse lance in Chen Wang's hand had already cut his throat.
The next moment, the heavens and the earth suddenly spun up, and Li Guo felt that his body was extremely light, and he actually flew up.
But soon he fell down again, and he felt a pain in his scalp, as if someone seemed to be grabbing him by the hair.
He wanted to speak, but he opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.
I don't know why, but the sound of horses' hooves that was like thunder in my ears is fading away.
At the last moment, Li Guo moved his only movable eye to the left, and he saw a white horse galloping all over pure white.
……
Under the city of Luoyang, the sound of swords and soldiers stopped.
The battle lasted from noon to dusk.
From beginning to end, there was not the slightest movement in Luoyang City, and even after the end of the war, no one dared to step out of the city gate for half a step.
Chen Wang wiped the blood from his face and climbed a slightly higher mound.
He pursued Li Yangchun all the way to the city of Luoyang, led the cavalry to intercept their way, and then the infantry pressed the front and rear combined attacks, pressing them under the city of Luoyang.
This move was naturally met with a crazy counterattack from the rogue.
The intensity of this battle was far greater than that of Chunhua and Sanshan, and at this time, a large number of corpses were piled up on the battlefield.
The dead cannot speak, but the living do not want to speak, and most of them have not yet recovered from the war.
However, Chen Wang belonged to a small group of people, and he was not immersed in the war, but had already begun to think about other things.
This battle is also an experiment, and practice brings true knowledge.
The three-eyed gun combat method used by Li Zicheng was indeed extremely effective, not only to block the charge of the cavalry, but also to resist the group charge launched by the enemy's unarmored infantry.
When the three-eyed gun bombarded each tube, it was shot out several times.
When the three-pronged salvo was fired, more than a dozen lead bursts were bursting out.
Although the accuracy of the three-eyed gun is not as good as that of the bird's gun, one lead can't hit the enemy, and a dozen leads, there are always people who hit people.
Although the power is also less than that of the bird, most of the Liukou are armorless, and as long as they are hit by the three-eyed gun, they will be blurred with flesh and blood.
"Order all ministries and divisions, count the casualties, clean up the battlefield, and camp under Luoyang City tonight to rest."
Chen Wang slowly let go of the reins in his hand, his hands were trembling slightly, this was caused by excessive force.
After the enemy fled, he led the cavalry to chase for nearly twenty miles before finally recovering his troops.
In this battle, he beheaded Li Guo, Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan not only left behind all the old and weak and hungry soldiers, but also the elite cavalry and horse army were seriously damaged, and they were really injured and their strength was greatly damaged.
Construction was difficult but destruction was extremely easy, Chen Wang's gaze turned to the south, it was impossible for him to let Li Yangchun enter the central area of the Hanzhong Basin.
Most of the soldiers in Hanzhong Prefecture are now in the Xixiang area to quell the rebellion, and now there are no troops in the Hanzhong Basin for field battles.
"Tomorrow, the three watches will make meals and the four watches will be camped, and we will continue to chase ......"
Chen Wang raised his head and was about to give orders, but at the last moment he stopped speaking.
"No ......"
Chen Wang's eyes flickered, and at the last moment he changed his mind.
"Chen Gong."
"You lead the cavalry to continue the pursuit, go around the path to Jinniu, block the way of Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan, and let them run to Ningqiang Prefecture."
After driving Li Yangchun into Ningqiang Prefecture, he only needed to hold three or four important places before he could be trapped in Ningqiang Prefecture.
At the same time, there is another place there, which became famous in the late Eastern Han Dynasty because of a great war.
It is not only strategically important, but also extremely suitable for military deployment and development.
After entering Hanzhong, the pace will be accelerated, and the content of farming will also be expanded, and I am exhausted these days, and the time for breaking off is a bit long, so I'm really sorry.
(End of chapter)