Chapter 159: The Battle of Qingyun Pass (2)
"Attack." Yan Liang's long knife pointed at Qingyun Pass and shouted loudly Yuan Jun launched an attack on Qingyun Pass, Yuan Jun came all the way with siege equipment, although he was a little tired, but he still recovered a lot of strength after resting just now, and immediately carried the ladder and pushed the well to rush to Qingyun Pass with a knife.
Qingyun Pass is sandwiched on top of a sheep intestine path, and on both sides are slopes with a fairly high slope, which can only be placed on the path for large siege equipment such as Jingqi. Yuan's troops could only attack from the trail, while those soldiers carrying ladders and broadswords and spears climbed the hillside with great difficulty to attack the Jizhou army from the hillside.
The defenders of Qingyun Pass really didn't care about such an attack, when Qingyun Pass was originally built, they considered that they would have to withstand a 100,000 army for a day, and Yan Liang's men were only 10,000 horses, and the gap was not ordinary.
The average combat archer is played in the first round, because the archer has a long range and can do things that foot soldiers can't. Yan Liang was naturally an archer force when he commanded the troops to attack, but because the range of the archers was greatly reduced at the bottom of the hillside, the archers had to advance to a distance of ninety paces in front of Qingyun Pass if they wanted to make an effective attack.
The Yuan army brought by Yan Liang consisted of four major arms, 2,000 archers, 2,000 sword and shield soldiers, 3,000 pikemen, and 3,000 broadsword soldiers. The two thousand archers were placed on the two wings by Yan Liang, guarded by a thousand sword soldiers and two thousand sword and shield soldiers, and their task was to release arrows at Qingyun Pass to cover the attack of the brother troops.
In the case of the archer troops, the archers on the pass can not only aim more accurately but also improve the range by taking advantage of the slopes, while the archers of the attacking side are much more difficult to aim and range because of the disadvantage of the hillside.
The first wave of attacks was just a tentative attack, no matter how Yan Liang was provoked by the defenders on Qingyun Pass, it was impossible to put all his combat power into it at once, if there was really such a second-class Qingyun Pass guard, he would definitely send Yuan Shao a big gift to express his gratitude.
The situation of the defenders on Qingyun Pass is unknown, Yan Liang once hesitated for this, and since he couldn't find out, he guessed it by observing the enemy's defensive deployment during the attack. A simple tentative attack is enough to exclude one or two thousand people from attacking at most, and the reason why Yan Liang put all the troops out is just to build momentum for himself and form an oppressive trend against the enemy army.
If you want to talk about using psychological warfare to build momentum, Fan Xiwen is much more proficient than Yan Liang, and this group of veterans who have been around Fan Xiwen have naturally learned a lot from Fan Xiwen, and they don't even have the mood to take a look at Yan Liang's little tricks.
The Yuan army, who was in charge of the siege, watched the cloud ladder rush to the front, and countless Yuan troops behind pressed the formation, and the archers also put the arrows on the string and slowly moved towards Qingyun Pass under the protection of the sword and shield soldiers.
The two thousand archers went up for the first time with only a thousand people, all of whom were concentrated on the hillside on the left side, of course, Yan Liang's attack focus was also on the left slope, and the right slope only sent part of the army to contain the defenders of Guanshang.
Yuan Jun finally slowly moved to within a hundred paces under the expectant gaze of the Qingyun Pass defenders, and immediately Qingyun Pass began to boil, just like boiling water.
Yan Liang is a famous general in Hebei, which is true, but that is only in the past, and the current four famous generals in Hebei are Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Wang Fan.
After being promoted by his master Wang Yue, after a period of hard cultivation, Wang Fan's martial arts value has reached the level of a second-rate general, and he can barely support more than a dozen moves under Xu Chu. And Dian Wei is the same as Zhao Yun, it is a famous general that Fan Xiwen took the initiative to "excavate", it was Fan Xiwen who sent Jin Yiwei to take the initiative to recruit Dian Wei, at that time Dian Wei was still a fugitive and was living a life of hiding in Tibet, Jin Yiwei said that the prince and the prince and the Marquis of Chu wanted to recruit him, and Dian Wei was happy to close his mouth. Prince Taifu, Chu Hu, Hou General, Jizhou Assassin History, such a large number of titles, it seems that he must be a big official, as long as he takes refuge, he doesn't need to live this kind of life of hiding in Tibet, this is the truest thought in Dian Wei's heart.
Moreover, Dian Wei Chen Liuren had heard a lot about Fan Xiwen, so he readily agreed to Fan Xiwen's recruitment and became the commander of the Guards Brigade of the Jizhou Legion.
Although Fan Xiwen's deeds are known even to Dian Wei, a Chen Liuren, for Yan Liang, a former famous general in Hebei, Fan Xiwen's deeds are still in the stage of waiting to be cleared, and Yan Liang knows nothing about the Le'an Army, the predecessor of the Jizhou Army. Yan Liang was Yuan Shao who defected to the Yellow Turban Uprising, and it was precisely because of his courage in fighting against the Yellow Turbans that Yuan Shao paid more and more attention to Yan Liang. Yuan Shao was transferred to Luoyang, the capital division, and Yan Liang followed Yuan Shao to Luoyang at that time, and at that time, Fan Xiwen was just a small Le'an order, and he was still the kind that people didn't know.
The first time Yan Liang knew the name Fan Xiwen was when Yuan Shao was furious after the secret guards sent out by Yuan Shao to assassinate were all killed, and at that time Yan Liang had been training new troops in Xiyuan, otherwise Yuan Shao would definitely send Yan Liang to assassinate Fan Xiwen that time.
In a word, Yan Liang is not familiar with the Jizhou Army, the style of the Jizhou Army, the establishment of the Jizhou Army, and the types of troops of the Jizhou Army. Yuan Shao and Fan Xiwen are mortal enemies, but the generals under them don't even know anything about the Jizhou Army that Fan Xiwen relies on the most, and what this pair does is really a bit speechless.
Yan Liang is not familiar with the Jizhou Army, so the Qingyun Pass garrison has this obligation to familiarize Yan Liang, and he is also an opponent!
"Grenadier, ready." After all, the Qingyun Pass defenders only had a thousand people, and it was impossible to convert all of them into grenadiers before confirming the enemy's combat intentions, so after the Yuan army entered the distance of 100 steps, Qingyun Pass experienced a boiling situation, and that was because they were all in a hurry to change their equipment.
"Ready, put." Under the command of the commander, the defenders of Qingyun Pass threw the javelin in their hands fiercely, what a spectacular situation. Yuan Jun looked at the black clouds that rose that day, and was immediately stunned and forgot his movements for a while.
The javelin blows thrown by the condescending Qingyun Pass defenders were more violent than usual, and all of them fell to the ground and died, and they couldn't survive when they saw it.
Those sword and shield soldiers in the Yuan army who had time to raise their hands hurriedly raised their shields to the sky, but the javelins of the Qingyun Pass defenders directly pierced the shield, and a two-meter-long javelin dragged a long tail into Yuan Jun's shield, and under the shield was the frightened Yuan Jun.
"Ready, put." The defenders at Qingyun Pass did not stop striking because Yuan Jun was almost stupid by the blow, they continued to fight, countless javelins pouring down. The strength that Yuan Jun had spent a long time to move to this distance had all been in vain, and those who did not retreat backward in the face of such a dense and continuous attack with super attack power were either madmen or fools.
Yuan Jun as a whole took about ten steps back, and Qingyun Pass stopped attacking. In fact, even now, most of the people of the Yuan army are still within the strike range of the Qingyun Pass defenders, and the reason why they stopped striking is just to create an illusion for Yan Liang, and the longest distance of the attack range is only so much, so that the hole cards are not easily exposed. Only by keeping his little secret can he be a yin person at the most critical moment, so that the opponent can have nothing to say.
Looking at the situation that the subordinates in front of him suffered heavy losses and did not dare to advance in place, Yan Liang's face turned pale, the attack distance of the defenders exceeded the distance of the attacker by thirty steps, how could this battle be fought? This battle is simply not fought. And just now, when the defenders on Qingyun Pass were boiling, Yan Liang couldn't guess the number of defenders. It can be said that this first round of tentative attacks did not succeed.
"Wang Hua, you take the men and horses of your headquarters to immediately rush forward and attack the enemy's left slope; Liu Kun, you take the men and horses of the headquarters to cross over and attack directly on the right slope; The rest of the troops attacked the middle of Qingyun Pass with their generals, and our army took a three-pronged approach, so that the enemy army could not cope with it in a hurry. Yan Liang ordered fiercely, the general didn't believe that he couldn't test your strength like this, Yan Liang gritted his teeth in his heart and said.
Under Yan Liang's order, the Yuan army once again swarmed towards Qingyun Pass, and thousands of men and horses were running wildly with their legs stretched so loosely, even if it was all over the mountains. Yan Liang, as the number one fierce general under Yuan Shao and the hero who fought against the Yellow Turban, had a good prestige in the Yuan army, so Yuan Jun still chose to carry out Yan Liang's order, at least until the morale of the whole army was not defeated.
The flaw of the long-range attack force is that if you are a soldier, you will know it, so after listening to Yan Liang's attack order, Yuan Jun let go of his feet and began to run wildly, they only have one thought in their hearts, that is, as long as they run to the front of the pass, these scary things are useless. Yuan Jun's conjecture was correct, as long as they shortened the distance to Qingyun Pass to seventy paces, the grenadiers would not be able to form a dense and effective blow to them, but they seemed to have forgotten that the Jizhou army also had archers, and even formed crossbow troops.
fell on the way to charge, it was glorious, so countless soldiers of the Yuan army were glorious, and they used their own blood to dye the slopes leading to Qingyun Pass red.
After someone in the Yuan army rushed through the javelin attack of the defenders of Qingyun Pass, the defenders of Qingyun Pass organized crossbows and archer troops to strike at them, and after a rain of arrows, the Yuan army, which continued to rush on the way forward, suddenly lost countless troops. Blood intertwined in the air, converging into a stave, waiting for people to sing this hero's sad song.
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