Chapter 79 Kill the Zhen brothers, the family is to be neat
Guan Yujun's momentum was like a rainbow, and the whole army pressed up, the array was neat, and it was not chaotic. Let the rebels in the camp feel a huge mental pressure.
Zhenrong moved to the three counties, wandered for four years, and encountered many enemies, but never encountered such a resolute and decisive advance of the whole army.
When he fought with Sun Ce two years ago, Sun Ce's department was brave, but his discipline may not be as good as Guan Yujun's.
In an instant, the front of the two armies was within range of the crossbows.
Guan Yujun's crossbowmen stood in rows, and released arrows in turn according to the drill tactics, and the arrows were like rain for a while.
The archers of the Zhenrong Army also fired arrows almost at the same time, but after only two or three rounds, they began to be timid and dodge, and even hid behind the base of the rammed earth pile of the camp wall, just shooting and throwing at the outside, not even daring to show their faces and aim visually.
Seeing this scene with his own eyes, Zhen Rong was immediately surprised: "Stand up and release the arrow!" Don't hide! Guan Yu's people didn't even have a sheltered fence, so they didn't hide! Stand up and for me! Our army will win! β
It's a pity that there are too many cowardly soldiers, where can Zhenrong himself manage it?
This can also be regarded as a long-term hidden danger of the Zhirong army, and it finally broke out completely today:
He also knew that there were too many recruits and strong people in his army, so when he organized long-range crossbowmen, he tended to let the militia be the archers, and let the relatively elite county soldiers and monk soldiers enrich the melee troops.
This is fine in peacetime, as melee soldiers need higher morale, more direct bloody killings, and strong-willed soldiers.
And the soldiers who are secretly output by long-range random shooting, the morale is a little lower, and the discipline is almost even better, anyway, they will not collapse if they are not rushed in front of them.
There must be advantages and disadvantages in everything, and since Zhenrong is usually deployed like this, he will have to pay the price today.
He had no choice but to order a few close monks and officers to immediately patrol the wall with long knives, and be sure to cut down a few militia archers who disobeyed the military order and refused to show their heads to aim!
Unfortunately, such a tough measure has instead caused a small amount of chaos and more panic, making the rebels' long-range firepower even more messy.
In the final analysis, it was the three defeats in the previous major battles, and the fact that they were harassed and frustrated by Gan Ning several times after this dispatch, and they never got back to the field, these "historical records" have suppressed the morale of the Rongrong Department to an extremely dangerous level.
Originally, Zhen Rong ordered the division of troops to go out to burn and loot a few villages and towns today, which can be regarded as a way to boost morale, and seeing that so many spoils of war can be divided, the soldiers will regain their strength.
It's a pity that the troops who have been robbed have not come back yet, but it has led to a decrease in the strength of the Chinese army, and none of the positive bonuses to morale have been added, but a lot of negative bonuses have been accumulated.
After the momentum of long-range shooting was completely suppressed, Guan Yujun's sabotage shield hook bearers suddenly increased their operational efficiency. After a while, even the several layers of antlers outside the camp were broken, and there were almost no casualties.
Fortunately, the Rong Army had already closed the gate of the camp, but it would not give Guan Yu the opportunity to rush in directly from the door.
After Guan Yu's army broke a few charging paths from the antler array, some soldiers began to hit the gate and the wooden fence wall with the bumping wood, and countless shield-wielding hookers began to climb the wooden fence and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the rebel archers standing behind the wall.
The rebel archers suddenly retreated in several places, and they did not dare to fight the enemy hand-to-hand through the wooden fence, even if they were condescending - the militia who were forcibly pulled in also suffered many rounds of heavy demoralization in a row, and this is what it looks like once they are hand-to-hand combat.
Zhen Rong was furious from the high place, and hurriedly ordered the monks who were the reserve to plunge into the battle for the wall.
After the fierce monks entered the battle, they finally reversed the disadvantage of close combat. But soon, Zhenrong discovers a new change.
The archers of Guan Yu's army, after a large number of their own melee soldiers stuck to the wall and the enemy's bows and crossbows were basically suppressed. In order to prevent accidental injury, they also stopped shooting one after another, and began to gallop forward, and even tried to shoot at the outside of the wooden fence wall and into the camp.
If you are camped by famous generals, they will usually find a way to build the wooden fence wall a little higher and sharpen the top into a stake to prevent climbing.
At the same time, a wooden staircase should be built on the inside of the camp wall for archers to climb, and only by standing on it can they expose their upper body to shoot. And because there are no such steps on the outside of the camp wall, even if they are pasted up by the enemy, they cannot shoot directly into the camp.
But Zhen Rong is obviously not this kind of famous general, and all his brains are spent on how to coerce and bewitch people. In order to save trouble, and also to facilitate the defense of the camp to have more archers at any time and at any time, the wooden fence wall was only five feet higher than the rammed earth foundation.
Such a plan led to the fact that once the outer wall was pasted by the enemy archers, they could shoot at the camp in equal proportions - perhaps Zhenrong never thought that his camp would encounter such a strong attack at the beginning.
The suppression of long-range firepower was reversed in an instant, and as the archers of Guan Yu's army rushed to the outer wall one after another, it was finally the turn of the monks and soldiers in the camp who were like firefighting teams to plug the leak, and they were shot intensively.
Zhen Rong finally felt a burst of blood rush to his brain, knowing that he could no longer rely on the location of the camp.
He just couldn't understand why he was also a county soldier, who was cowardly and unwilling to fight when he was under him, hid when he could, and refused to work hard when he had a little martial arts.
And after only being captured by Guan Yu and reformed for forty days, these county soldiers were completely different: when they shot with bows and arrows, even if they saw that the robes around them were shot to death, they still did not waver or retreat. When rushing into the wooden wall with a hook knife and shield, they dared to climb directly when there were still so many enemies in the wall!
What is the difference between Guan Yu's army and his own army? Zhen Rong couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head.
But there was no time for him to think about it now, so he gritted his teeth and made the final desperate decision: "Open the camp gate!" Gather all the monks and soldiers to launch a counter-charge! Go around and hack to death all the enemy archers who dare to stick to the outer wall! β
Since the camp wall has become something more beneficial to Guan Yujun's army, of course he has to choose to open the gate.
As the camp gate burst open, countless blood-red-eyed monks and fanatical believers inside the door rushed out frantically, and they really caught the heavy infantry of Guan Yu's army who were originally hitting the door by surprise.
The heavy infantry of Guan Yu's army hurriedly dropped the crashing wood and retreated, and in the chaotic battle, they were trampled and hacked to death by the frenzied monks for a while.
However, Guan Yu reacted very quickly, and when he saw that the monk soldiers were actually fighting for their lives, he immediately responded, and let the spear array come forward to squeeze it.
At the same time, let the Danyang soldiers with sword shields or hammer shields respond on both wings. Avoid the weak points of the monks and soldiers who are flexible in position, detour behind the side of the gun formation, and inconvenient to turn around in the gun formation.
The monks and soldiers are not good at fighting in formation, their weapons are mainly long-handled war knives, four-fluted iron rods, mace sticks, bone copper hammers, and even axes, in short, all kinds of powerful and powerful weapons.
These weapons open and close, but they are not as long as spears, and in the chaos they just swing wildly, often smashing and opening the blades of pikemen, looking for an opportunity to strangle them closely. But more often than not, he was stabbed into a hornet's nest by a spear, screaming and unwilling to fall to the ground.
The monks and soldiers could not break the frontal conflict, so they had to spread to the two wings and detour, so they fought with the Danyang soldiers who responded, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
A small number of monks and soldiers rushed out of the circle of melee soldiers, and successfully rushed all the way along the outside of the camp wall to search and kill, and drove the archers of Guan Yu's army who were sticking to the outer wall to scatter as birds and beasts, but they were soon intercepted by the reserve of Guan Yu's army who rushed over, and the battle was chaotic.
The entire battlefield, from inside the camp to outside the camp, was completely chaotic, and there were dogs and teeth intertwined everywhere, and you had me and I had you bloody hand-to-hand combat.
Guan Yu's expression was grim, but he was very sure in his heart, he knew that he would winβZhen Rong had now put all the reserves of monks and fanatical believers into it with only this last breath of blood and courage.
Destroy these monks and soldiers who still dare to counterattack, and the militia behind them is not a concern at all.
Moreover, although Zhenrong claimed to have nearly 10,000 monks and soldiers, fanatical believers, he had lost some of them with Gan Ning in the past few days. Now it is divided into camps, and the monks and fanatics in this large camp of the Chinese army will definitely not exceed 5,000.
Just tear this hole open completely! Rip! It's over!
"The white soldiers will rush with me to kill! Go around from the left and cut off the monks who rushed out of the gate! Guan Yu finally gave the order, and then personally led more than two hundred white silk elite horses to charge.
As mentioned earlier, when Zhuge Jin came to Yuzhang, Chen Dao, whom Liu Bei sent to him, had 300 white cavalry, which were actually not combat troops, but Liu Bei's personal bodyguards for Zhuge Jin.
This is also the only cavalry unit of the Yuzhang Han Army today, and the others only have war horses to ride with generals and scouts.
Because of the small scale, Guan Yu didn't dare to use it much, but now that the final word is reached, he finally went into battle in person.
The elite cavalry of 200 horsemen, when the monks and pikemen and Danyang soldiers were fighting to the death head-on, suddenly came from the flanks against the wall, and the power was unstoppable.
Even if the main battlefield outside the camp gate has been piled up with thousands of soldiers and is very chaotic, these two hundred horsemen can still completely move thousands of pounds.
"Kill!" With the shouts of the cavalry, Guan Yu took the lead in wielding the Qinglong knife to rush and kill, and there was no enemy under the knife.
Every time the knife is struck, the short-haired head of a monk and a monk general rises to the sky, or the head and shoulders are waved in two.
Sometimes, after slashing the target enemy, the blade is still castrated, and it can leave a long, deep and terrifying wound on the second enemy soldier, or the stump and broken arm fly around.
The Bai Yu cavalry behind Guan Yu also moved forward, slashing and stabbing with knives and guns, and with the impact of horsepower, they slaughtered like crazy.
The monks and soldiers are not skilled in martial arts, but they only rely on fighting for their lives without fear of death, and their tricks are only offensive but not defensive. This kind of fighting style made Guan Yu more and more comfortable to kill, saving a lot of effort, and he didn't have to knock open the enemy's parrying blade.
"These thieves are a bit like the Yellow Turban wrestlers who killed back then, and the Yellow Turban wrestlers are also such a life-for-life style of play, encountering real fierce generals with strong weapons and fast offensives, the combat power of the Yellow Turban wrestlers cannot be displayed, and they can only bully and bully the demoralized army."
Guan Yu was frantically rushing and killing, and there was still room in his mind to think a little. After knowing it in his heart, he naturally became more and more fluent and handy when killing.
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Zhen Rong in the Chinese military camp, when he saw this scene, his heart finally despaired.
"This Guan Yu is so brave? Why haven't the reinforcements from the left and right battalions come yet! Guan Yu has been attacking for a quarter of an hour! Quick, the rest of the monks will come with me, and they will break through the siege together and take refuge in the left camp! Leave it alone! β
After all, Zhenrong is a thief who has wandered through the three counties, and he still has the ability to save his life.
At this moment, he had decided to abandon all the burdensome militia and only break through and escape with his henchmen, and nothing else.
If Guan Yu really waited for Guan Yu to completely break through the camp gate and go to the camp to slash and kill indiscriminately, he might not be able to escape.
Just when Zhen Rong was preparing quickly and was about to slip away, he suddenly heard a shout from the side and back, getting closer and closer.
Zhen Rong didn't know the direction in a panic, but vaguely felt that it was coming from behind, and subconsciously shouted in surprise: "But have the reinforcements from the left battalion arrived?" Let the militia go straight up and resist it! All the monks and soldiers come with me! β
However, just a few seconds later, several grassroots officers with bloody faces crawled up to him, crying and instructing: "Bodhisattva, it's not good! The reinforcements from the left battalion haven't come yet, and it was Gan Ning who condescendingly killed from the north peak! β
Zhen Rong only felt that his head was "buzzing", and his eyes were dark, so he fainted out of breath.
Gan Ning, after seeing Guan Yu's whole army rushing to kill Liwei, he couldn't wait to go down the mountain to expand the results!
But being stirred up by Gan Ning, it is definitely impossible to escape to the left camp, Gan Ning stabbed a sharp knife into his left waist, and he would definitely run straight into Gan Ning who was captured.
"Turn around and flee to the right with me! Go to the right camp to board the warship and cross Peng Lize to break through! β
Zhen Rong originally didn't want to flee to the right camp, because the right or east side was a big lake, and the army was destined to be sent there, and only a few soldiers who had time to board the ship could escape, and the loss would definitely be greater than breaking through to the left land.
But at this point, it's good that you can survive, where can you take care of the loss.
However, even with the toss and delay of Zhenrong, how could the ordinary soldiers in the Chinese army camp not see the boss's haste at all and want to give up on them?
More and more soldiers directly collapsed, fled, and surrendered on their knees, Guan Yu had completely destroyed the monks who blocked the door, and then the iron cavalry broke through, entered the camp and rushed back and forth, and there was no hindrance at all.
After Guan Yu personally entered the camp, he just swept his eyes casually, and noticed that there was a large group of monks and soldiers running around a group of people on one side, and immediately realized that it was Zhenrong.
After all, Guan Yu had cavalry, and there were dozens of white soldiers who had always followed him closely and had not yet dispersed.
The guards and monks of the Rong Department fled on two legs, and before they could escape to the right camp, they were caught up by Guan Yu.
Those unfortunate routs who happened to be blocked between Guan Yu and Zhen Rong could only be killed directly in seconds, and then more and more rout soldiers realized this and fled to the left and right, avoiding the charging route of Guan Yu and Bai Yu's soldiers.
The Zhenrong army was like a wave, except for those monks who were stabbed to death in the back, there was no one to block the knife for Zhenrong.
"Death to the dog thief!" After Guan Yu killed dozens of monks and soldiers in a row, he chased after Zhen Rong, and there was a knife in the back of his head, and his head was sprayed by blood pressure from the neck and rushed up two feet, rolling out of the distance.
"Big brother!" There was another cry of grief from the front, and Guan Yu followed the sound before noticing that it was the receiving troops from the enemy's right battalion.
They had already approached Zhenrong's side with only a hundred steps left, and they were about to arrive, but the enemy general watched Zhenrong being beheaded in front of him.
Guan Yu's eyes narrowed, and with a move of the Qinglong Knife, the impact of the white soldiers was unabated, and they continued to sprint forward.
"Thief! If you call him big brother, go down and accompany him. Guan Yu killed more than a dozen monks and soldiers who were not long-eyed, rushed straight to the front of the Zheng Da, and also sent the last of the four brothers of the Zheng family on the road.
It's not that he was hacked to death in the back while fleeing, he was holding a weapon to face the enemy head-on, but it was useless.
It's nothing more than a first cut off the arm, and then a second cut off the head, that's all.
After the Zheng family was wiped out, the remaining monks and soldiers finally collapsed, and the militia surrendered on their knees.
A family is all about being neat and tidy.