Chapter 613: The Dignified Teacher
The timeline goes back to the hour before Kuo Yi received the urgent report, that is, when the sky was just slightly bright.
The Zhang Liao army camp, thirty miles north of Yewang City, had just been attacked by Guan Yu personally led an army of 20,000.
Guan Yu knew very well that Zhang Liao was also a famous general who was cautious in knowing the military. More than half a year ago, Zhang Liao was able to sneak attack several counties in Hedong and almost cut off Guan Yu's way back. Such a military ability was unlikely to make a low-level mistake of not being able to patrol the night.
Therefore, to attack Zhang Liao, instead of pinning his hopes on the robbery camp where a small number of troops were fighting at night, it is better to have a decisive battle in a dignified manner.
After all, the night camp cannot use large troops, and when there are more people, it is easy to be confused and trampled on each other. This kind of battle that dispatches tens of thousands of troops must be fought in an environment where visibility is OK.
As for the marching of the fourth update, it is not difficult in comparison. It is enough to see it when fighting. Zhang Liao's camp is by the Danshui River. Guan Yu's troops can go on the fourth update without ignition, dragging them into a snake formation, and then listening to the sound of the river.
Listening to the sound of water and walking along the river is a skill that all highly organized troops in ancient times must master.
In addition, Guan Yu did not bring Zhuge Liang or Xu Huang in this battle. He personally led his troops to deal with Zhang Liao, but he also erected Xu Huang's flag in the army.
These arrangements were also what Zhuge Liang advised him. He thought it made sense, so he did it.
Zhang Liao's troops on the opposite side saw the dark Han soldiers rushing up in the dim morning light, and immediately warned them and asked the patrol troops to block the front line of the camp gate and village wall first. The remaining soldiers in the battalion also quickly stood up to prepare for the war.
Zhang Liao was rigorous in his military management. At least he was not directly rushed into the camp by Guan Yu, but he also lost the opportunity to rely on long-range firepower to weaken Guan Yu's waves first.
It only took two days for the reinforcements of the Yuan army, including Zhang Liao and Tuo Yi, to reach the camp around the Yewang. Zhang Liao still had to consider regaining his strength in the long-distance marching troops, so the time spent in these two days on building fortifications is estimated to be less than five or six hours.
Before, Zhang Liao didn't expect that Guan Yu would not be too late or too late. At this time, he launched an attack on the camp, and there was definitely some mentality that he was neglecting to prevent. After all, from Zhang Liao's inertial thinking, Guan Yu would attack him must have taken advantage of his lack of firm foothold. The probability of not hitting him when he first came, and the chance of hitting him later gradually decreased.
How could he think that Guan Yu's troops who chose Wen Chou would arrive in less than one day, so he finally took the opportunity to do this?
The camp only has a circle of wooden fences, and there is a gate that resists horses. It is easy to dig some rammed earth to use to bury the wooden fences. The location where the soil was dug up naturally formed a shallow ditch, which was only more than two feet deep, and it did not provide any additional defense.
The high-rise buildings in the battalion only have a few wooden urns, which play the role of observing the enemy situation, but there is not enough space to deploy crossbowmen in large quantities or even crossbows to exert firepower.
Therefore, Zhang Liao's defense battle is just a close-knit battle where the offense and defense are relatively fair.
"Roar into the camp and take Zhang Liao straight! Avenge the brothers in the Battle of Wenxi!" Guan Yu personally supervised the army, rode his horse and waved the Qinglong sword, urging the soldiers to move forward with all their might.
Although the Han army had not many more people than Zhang Liao, it was more well-equipped. There were two battalions of soldiers who were wearing iron armor and carrying long-handled and wide-blades and slashing horse swords. Guan Yu took a desperate bet and directly threw all the soldiers in the front line, and his momentum was invincible for a moment.
As early as the Northern Expedition three and a half years ago, the army of Liu Bei's army expanded five battalions, and the battalion that Gao Shun originally married, totaled six. A considerable part of the Northern Expedition was lost, and one or two thousand sets of forged steel armor equipment were lost, and the scale decreased.
However, because of the development of Liu Bei's camp's productivity, after the military base in Yizhou was operating stably, it could provide thousands of cavalry breastplate and several battalions of infantry full-body steel armor every year. Therefore, in recent years, the scale of Liu Bei's army's army's army's equipment has been expanding at the scale of two battalions each year.
It is now the end of 197. There are a total of ten battalions of 800 people, which are 8,000 people on the Hedong-Bingzhou front line on Guan Yu, and three battalions are directly assigned to the strategic reserve team behind Guanzhong.
However, the newly expanded camp of the camp is definitely far from reaching the battle quality and willpower of Gao Shun's veteran camp, but it only reaches the camp in terms of equipment and other hardware.
The two sides fought in a group of battles at the walls of the camp, with flesh and blood flying, broken limbs and broken arms. Zhang Liao's side's advantage of the large number of cavalrymen was not yet able to play out for the time being. However, the disadvantages of melee infantry equipment became increasingly obvious, and the soldiers gradually disappeared.
During the bloody fight, the ropes of the hook were thrown from the back row, either hooking the red-horned antlers, or dragging the wooden fences of the village walls. Behind each rope, dozens of Han soldiers worked together to tug the war and pull hard, pulling down the walls and fences of the village walls and collapsed, and more and more Han soldiers rushed into the camp.
Zhang Liao could only hold the front and let the cavalry gather, open the back door of the camp to prepare to take a detour and attack on the side.
Unfortunately, Guan Yu is also a famous general in the world. He is very sensitive to the battlefield. While urging the supervising attack, he kept squinting his eyes and carefully observing the situation on the battlefield. When he saw the shadows and the sound of the horses behind the camp, he realized that Zhang Liao was going to let the cavalry attack in a roundabout way.
Guan Yu seized the opportunity and shouted loudly: "Zhang Liao is going to run away! He wants to save the cavalry of the rear army and retreat first! Death is at this moment! Don't let him run away!"
Zhang Liao was personally leading the cavalry to go around the back. The one in the camp helped supervise the front infantry to cut off the front line was his deputy general Hao Meng. In order not to shake the morale of the army, Zhang Liao did not even move his own flag. He just quietly led the cavalry team to open the back door and detour, which seemed that he was still advancing and retreating with the infantry blocking the door on the front line.
Unexpectedly, he was shouted out by Guan Yu, which immediately made Zhang Liao complain. But he was also on the string. At this time, he could not give up the tactical actions that had been half performed, and it was not easy to shout for clarification in person. No one could hear the chaos on the battlefield clearly.
The countless infantry soldiers fighting to the front line suddenly heard the Han soldiers on the opposite side shouting in unison Zhang Liao ran away. His heart must have been quite shaken, and a few people couldn't help but look back.
It didn't matter when it seemed that it was not important, and the morale became more and more ventilated. Who knew if Zhang Liao really couldn't beat him and was about to run away. As soon as the people's hearts dispersed, a small number of infantry soldiers from Shangdang retreated in a cowardly manner, which directly broke the balance on the front line.
Some of the Han army's soldiers were like sharp swords and fangs, and their clamp attacks pierced into the Zhangliao front, drilling through several weak positions, cutting off Zhangliao's infantry formation.
Zhang Liao was anxious and ordered the cavalry that he had finally assembled: "It's too late to detour further, and rushed directly to the left corner of the Guan Yu front! Let the infantry led by Hao Meng in the camp be at ease, knowing that we have not abandoned them!"
Zhang Liao's tactical actions were not done well, nor did he deviate to the established position, but he had no choice. Because the ever-changing array weak time window on the battlefield was accurately caught by Guan Yu, and at this time, he was not clear about his determination, which was the end of the collapse of the morale of the entire army.
"The left-wing gun formation is facing the enemy! All the cavalry are detouring to the left. After the gun formation fights with Zhang Liao, then go left to attack Zhang Liao's flank!"
Guan Yu had obviously thought of various battlefield possibilities. Because Zhang Liao was "forced to open business", he insisted on his tactical moves to the end in advance, which was obviously a situation among the multiple plans he had envisioned.
Therefore, Guan Yu made the most correct response just right, without any fancy, he was a purely dignified teacher.
The spearmen equipped with heavy pyramid guns with sharp tips that are very difficult to break, holding guns in both hands, without shields, and are ready to stand on the left wing of the front line.
A few of them had forged steel breastplates, while other parts were equipped with leather armor and spearmen standing in the front row, while light armored spearmen who did not even have forged steel breastplates stood in the back row.
The Bingzhou cavalry on the opposite side is also considered the elite of the world. The strong Liangzhou cavalry's assault ferocity and the flexible cavalry of Youzhou cavalry are led by famous cavalry generals like Zhang Liao, and the combat effectiveness is second only to Lu Bu's personal leadership.
The Bingzhou cavalry chose to charge and catch the enemy one by one and first blindly shoot several arrows quickly before suppressing the enemy's front, and then took advantage of the enemy's scattered formation and was shot from the chaos, and they seized the gap in defense and plunged in.
However, Guan Yu's soldiers were very well-trained, and most of the spearmen were calmly facing the arrow rain with armor. Although the formation was very dense, Zhang Liao's Bingzhou cavalry was mostly caught without aiming at the arrow rain that was shot randomly. However, with the protection of steel breastplate and steel helmet, as long as it does not shoot to the face, hands, and forearms, most other positions can be without injuries.
Of course, although the kinetic energy of riding a bow is weak, it cannot be generalized, because the lethality power of a bow and arrow is very correlated with the range. During the flight, the bow and arrow will stall faster due to air resistance, and the kinetic energy will drop very quickly.
If it is an arrow that has just left the string, even if it is shot with a cavalry bow, as long as there are steel cone arrow clusters, it can still penetrate heavy armor. But specifically, the way of fighting in the Bingzhou thunder cavalry is fighting, they often rush to the front of the enemy and start shooting arrows for thirty or forty steps, and shoot the last arrow when they rush in front of them a few steps away, which can shoot a total of three or four arrows.
With the penetration power of Zhang Liao's army's cavalry bow, the two or three arrows in front are basically tickling. The last arrow that touches the face within the last ten steps is expected to break the heavy armor.
"Guan Yu's spearman formation can actually not hold a shield, hold such a super long spear in both hands? And without a shield, my thunder cavalry took over three or four waves of arrows and rains in front of the enemy. In the first few rounds, there were no chaos. In the last round, many soldiers screamed and fell to the ground?" The moment Zhang Liao saw the situation on the battlefield clearly, his pupils shrank violently, and his heart was slightly chilling.
Is this Guan Yu’s real strength? During the Battle of Hedong in the first half of the year, he was facing Guan Yu who was exhausted from fighting for a long time and was incomplete in equipment?!
Zhang Liao didn't have time to think too much, the bloody reality had already told him the answer. The Bingzhou thunder cavalry was unable to disrupt the enemy's formation in the few rounds of face-to-face shooting before the charge. The cavalry crashed into the four-pyramid super spear without chaotic formations, and the result was imagined.
Chapter completed!