Chapter 149: Vanguard
Black smoke filled the sky, the river wind blew, and the fire crackled and burned along the big ships.
The Wei soldiers on the deck who were fighting the fire were shot by the arrows thrown from the fire, or their uniforms were set on fire by the fire, and they jumped off the side of the ship with a scream and fell into the water to plop.
Lu Bu put down the dragon tongue bow in his hand, inserted the bow sac on the horse's hip, looked at the big ships that were on fire in front of him, remembered this world, and heard the story that happened after his death, and suddenly laughed.
"Somebody, this is also a burning serial ship......
Hearing the movement of the Wei army coming to reinforce in the rear, with a smile, Lu Bu gritted his teeth and tilted his head slightly, "These soldiers and horses actually dare to come out." ”
He turned the horse's head, pulled up the Fang Tian painting halberd on the ground, and looked at the big banner with the word 'Wei' faintly erected in the distance, the grudges of the past couldn't help but appear in his heart, and his clenched teeth grinded out a 'squeak' screeching sound.
"Order, three thousand cavalry assemble, eat this group of Wei soldiers with me, it will be considered a good time to beat Cao Cao!"
Ling Qi was stunned for a moment, he didn't know who Cao Cao was, what enmity he had with his own general, or he ran out to blow the horn according to the order, and then shouted: "The general has an order, eat this group of Wei soldiers, and you should have fun beating Cao Cao!" ”
In the light of the sky and the firelight, on the long riverbank, three thousand war horses rushed up.
The startled dust filled the gray dust miasma, and the dense cavalry followed Lu Bu to advance violently, and from time to time the cavalry broke away, killing the snooping Wei light cavalry, chasing and fighting in the open field.
If you look at it from the perspective of the sky, on the field with Pingshang as the center and twenty miles to the southeast, when the roaring cavalry rushed towards the army formation of the Wei State, it gradually turned into a huge circle, and constantly consumed the outermost Wei State in the way of grinding and rotating, hundreds or thousands of military formations of the outermost Wei State.
A Wei army of 600 people found that they wanted to break through the encirclement of the movement, and they were unlucky to bump into a cavalry of more than 100 people led by Lu Bu, most of these cavalry were wearing the iron armor of the Yanshan Iron Cavalry, and followed Lu Bu directly to chisel through the opponent's array.
By the time the consciousness of the Wei army in other positions was in crisis, the moving cavalry formation had been reduced to two miles, and the Wei army of 6,000 had only more than 1,000 people left in this afternoon, while Lu Bu's side only injured more than 20 people and seriously injured seven, two of whom were shot in the forelimbs by the opponent's arrows on their horses and threw themselves to the ground and were seriously injured.
Soon, the final battle was over, and the field was littered with shocking corpses and ownerless horses. The surrendered Wei troops were led to the nearby woods, where they were cut off one by one by wolf riders, and then set fire to the woods and burned them alive.
This battle is not to be taken prisoner.
After quickly cleaning the battlefield, Lu Bu fed the horse with water, turned over again, "All scattered hunting, from south to north, sweep up, don't take prisoners, anyone who dares to call a soldier will be killed!" ”
It was dark and bright.
From the south to the north scattered three thousand cavalry in the forest, the plain frantically advanced, towards the Wei flag of the team to kill, after the encounter, immediately sent a signal, attracting nearby cavalry to rush to reinforcements, if the opponent is huge, the wolf cavalry soon all assembled, by Lu Bu led a thousand people to charge, two thousand cavalry periphery running and shooting, in the smashing of the opponent's resistance, two thousand cavalry also joined the ranks of the slaughter, impact the opponent's banner.
The Wei general looked at the general on the red horse, killed the generals rushing from all directions, and killed him directly, and the Wei general commanded his guards to meet him, and then he was chiseled, and after a while, his head was picked on the halberd.
On the seventh day of entering Fenzhou, the two armies of the north and south made contact.
Soon, Xiahou Yuan sent a message to Lu Bu on a fast horse, and then pulled up his troops and horses to the north, echoing Zhang Heyao in the southeast, interspersed with Guangjun City, the important place of the Wei army's grain.
Sensing the movement of the Yan army towards the Wei scouts, he rushed to Fenshui City, which was more than a hundred miles to the northeast.
On the afternoon of the eighth day, on the city wall swept by black smoke, the soldiers of Wei were retreating down the ladder, and Wang Hao, the general of Wei, angrily walked to the tent of the commander of the Chinese army and opened the curtain to enter.
"Boss, why did you withdraw your troops?! It's about to capture Fenshui! ”
"Hmph, self-deception, if you really want to take it down, the Fenshui City Tower should have changed its flag this morning!" Shi Jing beckoned him to sit down, and after a while, a few more generals entered the tent, and he slapped a letter on the desk, "This is the news sent by Guangjun, and the soldiers and horses of the Yan State suddenly turned around and forced towards Guangjun City. ”
There is a lot of grain there, and there are 10,000 soldiers and horses guarding it, and they are not afraid of the other party's 10,000 people attacking the city, but the generals read the content of the letter and were immediately shocked - there is another elite cavalry of the Yan Kingdom!
"The cavalry also made a detour from Yunzhou and advanced east along the Hunhe River." Shi Jingzhong's face was heavy, and he planted a Yan country flag on the north bank of the Hunhe River, "The other party has taken a detour to the riverbank, and everyone should already know in their hearts that our retreat has been cut off, and the ferry over there is either destroyed or occupied by them." ”
He then moved the Yan State flag that represented Xiahou Yuan before and pushed it to the south of Guangjun City, "This Yan State soldiers and horses are going from south to north, obviously knowing that our army's ferry boat has been destroyed, and they have focused on Guangjun City, which is forcing our army to come back!" ”
"The land of grain can't be lost!" One of the generals patted his thigh and said in a deep voice.
The rest of the generals also nodded.
They crossed the river to the north, and almost all the income from the slaughter of the city was stored in Guangjun, if they lost gold and silver, and there was no grain, what would 50,000 people eat?
Especially when Fenshui City has not been conquered for a long time, once the soldiers know that there is no food in the army, not to mention that their morale is damaged, there is a very likely mutiny.
Shi Jingzhong also agreed with what he said, but he was not in a hurry to draw conclusions, but analyzed all the possibilities to them.
"If the whole army comes back to help, Fenshui City will have a chance to breathe, and if you want to conquer it again, I'm afraid there will be no chance. Second, if we divide our troops to help, we will definitely be ambushed on the way, and the Yan cavalry is waiting for us here! ”
He nodded in the middle of Guangjun and Fenshui, "If we give up Guangjun and storm Fenshui to occupy the city, we will be alone, and when the soldiers and horses of Fenzhou and Yunzhou come to help, we will be a mortal situation." ”
Adjutant General Jiang Zun nodded: "If you don't move, you will die, and if you move, there is still a glimmer of life." ”
Although the Wei army said that it had 70,000, in fact, in addition to Guangjun's 10,000 Wei soldiers, there were also sieges and villages, which were attacked by the previous Yan army, and now they only had about 30,000 in their hands, and the remaining 20,000 were all Fenzhou troops, and the siege lost thousands of people, but it was still a force to be reckoned with.
"These two Yan soldiers and horses are tough in battle, they are all elite soldiers, I can't divide the troops to attack them, give up Fenshui, the main force will return to Guangjun, concentrate the troops in one place, break through to the south, occupy the north bank of the Hunhe River and set up camp, and wait for the domestic assembly of big ships!"
Although it is a pity that it fell short, but to be able to save 50,000 soldiers and horses to go back, Shi Jingzhong can also be regarded as an indispensable contribution, not to mention the siege of the city, but also to demonstrate the prestige of the Wei army.
"As for the more than 10,000 troops in Fenzhou......"
He looked at the generals in the tent and said softly, "All of them will be killed." ”
At the end of June, in the second year of the opening of the Qian, in the north of Fenzhou.
Cloudy.
On the mottled bloodstained and scorched city wall, the tired soldiers looked at the camp standing in the distance and slowly withdrawing, and the guards who rushed to hear the news were pleasantly surprised, but also worried about whether the other party would be deceitful.
"Beware of the sudden return of the Wei army, step up the repair of the city wall, and rush to make the city defense equipment!"
In the voice, where he couldn't see, in the retreating Wei army, the Fenzhou troops received the order and were left on standby, and then let them disarm their weapons.
In addition, they were ordered to assemble at a location ten miles away, and many people felt uneasy at this time, but they were surrounded by soldiers and horses of the Wei State, escorting them, and if they escaped or left, once they were discovered, they would be shot directly.
More than 10,000 people were divided into eight teams, and there were people who resisted from time to time along the way, but the resistance was very small in front of the 4,000 Wei troops in the formation, and most of them were beheaded in public to set an example.
In the afternoon, more than 10,000 people came to the place, and they were digging pits in advance, and the Wei soldiers with bows and spears drove them away, shouted and scolded and pushed them into the pits one by one.
Under a gloomy sky.
Wei General Xu Yuanzhi stood on the piled up mound, watching with satisfaction as these soldiers walked into the dirt pit, and then, the warning arrow rose in the sky not far away.
He looked back to the south, where several Wei scouts rushed out of the woods in front of him in panic and rode towards him.
"Youyan ......"
Before one of the scouts could finish his voice, an arrow knocked him off his horse. The woods shook, and a torrent rushed out of the woods, rushing towards this side of the field.
Steel knife, leather shield, black armor, swallow flag, this is the standard configuration of the Xiliang army, thousands of people rushed to the Wei soldiers who were ready to fill the pit, one by one Wei soldiers panicked, and then were overturned by the shield, the rushing Xiliang soldiers ferociously made up for a knife, crossed the corpse and followed the torrent to continue to charge, and some people jumped down the pit, and cut the rope on the body of the soldier with a knife.
shouted: "Yan Guonan, kill the enemy!" ”
Xu Yuanzhi looked at the Yan State army pouring out like a tide, and his mind was a little confused, "Aren't they in Guangjun City?" ”
Then, he came to his senses and shouted, "Sound from east to west!" ”
He turned his horse and rushed down the mound with his personal guards, so that his soldiers held the banner high, and the soldiers under his command saw that the general flag was also rushing towards him, but the fighting torrent was not a confrontation between formations at all, a swarm of bees ran wildly, waved knives, and killed the Wei soldiers when they saw them, frantically devouring human lives and spreading and spreading.
Xu Yuanzhi led the assembled subordinates to counterattack, and in an instant, he was diagonally opposite, without flashing a general flag, and a Yan general led the guards to rush towards this side.
"Shoot the arrow, quickly let Shi Shuai's side be vigilant, hurry! Stop him! ”
Then, as soon as he stopped speaking, he saw the generals of the Yan State who had been killed, killing and scattering a group of Wei soldiers who had not formed a formation, turning the reins, urging the war horse to drive the huge body of the horse almost obliquely to the ground to break through the defense line of Xu Yuanzhi's personal guards, and rush towards him with crazy iron hooves!
That Yan will swing away a long knife and roar!
"Thief general, Zhang Junyi is here-"
Xu Yuanzhi: "Ah! He drew his sword and went up to him—
……
'Boom' is the sound of wings flapping, and a flock of frightened birds soars into the sky.
The 30,000 Wei troops who were twenty miles away were hurrying back south, rushing to Guangjun City, stationing in the city, taking away grain and straw to stabilize the army's heart, and racing against time at any time.
The arrows rose from the southeast, and then the scouts ran wildly, and finally after half an hour, the news was delivered to Shi Jingzhong's hands.
A Yan army, from the southeast, extremely fierce, Xu Yuanzhi was killed by 4,000 people, and then this Yan army with more than 10,000 troops from Fenzhou came to kill here.
He had already considered everything that was almost possible, but the sudden appearance of the soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom made him unexpected.
"Medium Count...... Outside the city of Gwangjun...... There was no Yan army, they were always ...... Wait for me here! ”
Shi respected: "Ah! With a thud, he threw the note in his hand, and hurriedly summoned his generals, and at the same time ordered all the troops to line up in line with the commander's banner.
In a moment when the Wei army adjusted its divisions, the arrows rose into the air again in the northwest, and a cavalry advanced at high speed, directly attacking a battalion of soldiers and horses two miles west of the Wei army.
In an instant, the entire army formation of two thousand people was penetrated, and after Lu Bu led two thousand wolf cavalry to break through the defense line, he continued to pounce on the next Wei army without stopping!
At the same time, in front of the main force of the Wei army, Xiahou Yuan led 5,000 Xiliang soldiers to set up a formation, with 1,000 wolves riding on the side, and in the southeast, Zhang He's 5,000 Xiliang soldiers, with 10,000 Fenzhou troops, swept over.
Under the banner of the general who fluttered the word 'Xiahou', Xiahou Yuan sat on horseback, his eyes were like an eagle falcon, sharp and cold.
"If you attack the enemy, you will save it, and if you take it by surprise, you will use the way of soldiers!"
He looked at the sky and raised his hand: "Advance the herald, kill!" ”
Three forces of soldiers and horses, Lu Bu killed from the west; Zhang He cut into the battlefield from the southeast oblique angle; Xiahou Yuan's five thousand Xiliang soldiers directly met him with a frontal and tough attitude.
The distance is shortened by less than a mile!
……
Far away in Yanju in the north, the team returning to Yanzhou from the snow field has entered the Gyeonggi range.
Su Chen sat on horseback, frowning, looking through dozens of detailed information about the Wei army that had been sent recently, which made his eyes glow with murderous intent.
Two cities were slaughtered, nearly 80,000 civilians were killed, and countless more were wounded.
"Emperor of Wei...... It seems that you want to be honored as the first emperor. ”
In the midst of the muttering words, Su Chen threw a stack of information in his hand into the air and flew away, and then fell in his sight.
Gyeonggi has a clear sky, the sun is scorching, and the chirping of summer cicadas drowns out the hearing and vision, buzzing in the ears.....
Su Chen looked at the south on horseback, the blue sky, and the white clouds changed shape, as if he saw the picture of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.
In the hot and restless air, 'Xiliang' and 'Xiahou' are waving their flags.
Soldiers surged across the mountains, forests, and plains.
Fighting and shouting, the blade waved and rushed into the enemy line, a piece of flesh and blood burst, and the head rolled.
The surging cavalry, marching at high speed, tore through the arrays one by one, and countless shouting soldiers galloped, waved their swords, and killed into the crowd.
Countless arrows crisscrossed the sky.
Flames swept up huge waves in the wind, and black smoke filled the sky.
Three puffs of smoke and dust penetrated into the military formation of more than 10,000 people, and in a moment, the crimson figure approached the handsome banner!
……
Xiahou Yuan looked at the fallen banner of the word 'Wei' and spat on the ground.
"It's so ordinary, and I dare to call it Wei."
He tilted his head: "Write this sentence down, give it to a captive, and let it be brought back to their emperor to change the name of the country!" He said, "Otherwise, I will come and destroy the country." ”
(End of chapter)