Chapter 470 Head-on attack, surrounded on three sides
Author: Playing with Basilisk
Chapter 470 Head-on attack, surrounded on three sides
Thousands of war horses appeared at the end of the road like a tide, and Dai Ling let out a shrill cry.
The vanguard team hurriedly tried to position itself on the plain on the left.
The road was narrow, with mountains and forests on their right, so they could only run to the left, but the cavalry was already galloping forward, rushing into the crowd like arrows.
The cavalry cannot charge into the formation, which means that they cannot charge into the formation that has been formed. However, Cao's army was now scattered and had no time to form a formation, so the Han army could easily break through their formation and rush into it like a chisel.
"kill!"
Following the roar of spring thunder, Cao Jun heard the sound of galloping horses in front and behind, far and near.
The Han army's light cavalry all used spears this time. If Cao's army formed a formation, the Han army's light cavalry would definitely suffer heavy losses, but now it is Cao's army that suffers.
They saw that before Cao Jun’s shields were raised and their spears were pointed at the oncoming Han army, the Han army’s horses penetrated Cao Jun’s formation. The sharp spears easily tore their bodies apart, causing them to fall on their backs.
, fell to the ground.
After the cavalry rushed into the formation, the infantry behind them quickly followed, with rustling footsteps and shouts of fighting.
Hundreds of crossbowmen suddenly emerged from the forest on the right. There was a series of dense and rapid trembling sounds of bow strings and crossbow arms, and hundreds of arrows and crossbows were smashed towards their heads and faces.
Immediately afterwards, the infantry finally arrived. Countless Han troops jumped out from the gullies in the grass under the shadow of the trees on both sides of the road ahead. They rushed over with shouts and shouts. They shot arrows, slashed and stabbed with spears. In the blink of an eye, Cao Jun fell to the ground.
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Cao Jun was bewildered and was chopped down by dozens of soldiers. Only then did he remember to form a formation to resist. Several small officers shouted desperately to gather the troops, and Dai Ling kept shouting and commanding.
His vanguard flag was in the center of the formation, and he ordered the soldiers to rally to him immediately, hoping that the Han army's offensive would not be so fierce.
But unfortunately, he obviously thought too much. Shen Chen personally commanded the rear, standing on a high place, constantly dispatching troops and generals. Jiang Wei emerged from a rock on the hillside, condescending, and Cao Jun's vanguard was not far away.
About a hundred steps.
He bent his bow and nocked an arrow, aiming his deep gaze at Dai Ling on horseback, and then suddenly let go of the arrow in his hand. Although the distance was a hundred steps, falling from a high place was much faster than a hundred steps on the ground.
Then he saw the arrow making a brilliant arc in the air, like a bright meteor, and hit Dai Ling's neck on the right side.
Dai Ling only felt a coldness on his neck, and then a warm feeling surged up. He stretched out his hand to touch with difficulty, and a black shadow appeared in front of his eyes. Then he rolled his eyes and fell from the horse. He was killed by Jiang Wei in the distance.
Kill with one arrow.
Cao Jun was still trying to regroup, but Han troops were everywhere. Where could they leave a chance?
But at this time, their general had already lost his life, and the military flag was snatched away by the Han army in the chaos. The mountains and plains were filled with people from all directions, and they didn’t know how many people were coming from the other side. They could only hear shouts of killing from behind and behind, and swords and guns from the left and right.
The shadow, and no one knew who it was, howled in despair, and immediately exploded.
The men and horses who originally wanted to gather were suddenly dispersed. Cao Jun's vanguard army consisted of less than 4,000 people. The first 1,000 people were attacked and quickly collapsed. Then, like a landslide, they began to run back desperately.
This run tired out the soldiers of Cao Cao behind them. They originally wanted to assemble following the whistles and gongs and drums of officers at all levels, but they were dispersed by the front army.
In addition, these Han troops were extremely brave. They shouted and responded, intercepting in front and behind, and immediately cut Cao's army into several sections. The head and tail could not look at each other.
All of a sudden, there were shouts of killing, scoldings, greetings, screams, and the sound of iron weapons clashing from all directions on the road that was a hundred steps long. Cao Jun wearing black leather armor fell everywhere along the road, and his skin turned upside down.
The hat rolled around on the ground.
"what happened?"
Cao Zhen, who was resting in the front army formation, immediately heard the situation in the distance.
Cao's army was divided into three armies: front, middle and rear, with a formation stretching for more than ten miles.
The last one is the baggage troops, with the Chinese army as the main force and the front army as about more than 10,000 people. The entire position belongs to the standard three-service model.
In front of the front army, a vanguard army is needed to explore the way. When Cao Jun is resting, the perimeter is not without measures.
At this moment, the vanguard army was about one mile to less than two miles away from his front army. Far ahead, he could see the forest at the end of the winding road, and Cao's soldiers were retreating in panic.
A knight with an arrow stuck in his back ran to Cao Zhen vomiting blood and reported to him: "Captain, the Han army is setting up an ambush in front."
Before he finished speaking, he fell from his horse and fell to the ground.
Cao Zhen roared: "Assemble!"
"Beep beep beep!"
A sharp whistle sounded quickly, and the former soldiers gathered one after another.
In fact, the soldiers were already rushing here at this time. The well-trained Cao Jun took action almost as soon as he heard the movement in front.
However, the shouts of killing heard in front made Cao Zhen very anxious. After glancing around and seeing his general Dong Bi, he shouted: "Dong Bi, you immediately bring a thousand men to rush for reinforcements. You must not let the vanguard army collapse."
"only!"
After Dong Bi accepted the order, he shouted, and immediately Cao's soldiers all around him moved closer to him.
Then more than a thousand soldiers of Cao's army followed Dong Bi all the way forward.
The road is winding and rugged, not a smooth road. Less than a hundred steps ahead there is a curve, making it impossible to see the road ahead clearly.
Fortunately, although the plain area on the left is densely forested, it can be bypassed and passable.
In order to prevent the army in front from collapsing and rolling him back, Dong Bi led his men and horses past the trees on the left, shouting, and got into the grove.
Unexpectedly, after walking less than a mile, a sudden killing cry rang out in the forest. Deng Ai had already calculated that the enemy did not dare to take the main road for fear that the vanguard army would collapse and roll back. Instead, he chose the woods on the left, so he was there early.
Ambush among them.
Hundreds of Han soldiers suddenly emerged from the bushes, holding bows and crossbows and jumping towards Cao Jun. Although nearly half of them were blocked by the dense trees and vines in the forest, they also shot and killed dozens of Cao Jun.
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Immediately afterwards, the Han army dropped the crossbows in their hands, waved the Huanshou sword in their hands, howled like a wild wolf from their mouths, and rushed towards Cao Jun, who had just been stunned by the shot and had not yet reacted.
In an instant, Cao Zhen's vanguard and those who came to support were in a hard fight, but only a quarter of an hour later, Cao Zhen had already assembled his troops.
This time, he did not rashly order the soldiers to run in pursuit, but chose to move forward steadily, asking the soldiers to line up in formation, stand up the spears in their hands, and then start to move forward in an orderly manner.
I have to say that Cao Zhen does have something, and his level is not too bad.
Because at this time, the vanguard army of more than 3,000 and less than 4,000 people had been defeated and collapsed. After holding on for less than twenty minutes, it began to completely collapse backwards.
If another general had rushed over at this time, he would have run into the vanguard army that was being driven into defeat by the Han army, causing the entire army to roll back.
But Cao Zhen assembled a formation, with rows of spearmen at the front, pointing their sharp spears at his rolled-up soldiers.
So when the defeated Cao army turned around and fled less than a mile, they were frightened to death.
The sharp spear was aimed at them!
"retreat!"
Cao Zhen was sitting on horseback. When he saw the collapsed vanguard soldiers rushing toward the military formation, he roared: "If you don't want to die, move away left and right!"
"If you don't want to die, move away left and right!"
"If you don't want to die, move away left and right!"
"If you don't want to die, move away left and right!"
After Cao Zhen shouted, the Cao troops in front also began to roar in unison.
The voice was neat and loud, resounding throughout the entire battlefield.
Cao Jun, who retreated, was stunned for a moment, but then quickly realized that he had no choice but to dig into the mountains and plains as he was blocked at both ends.
The rear crossbowmen and cavalry were constantly chasing and killing. Although many Cao soldiers fell at the feet of the Han army, they never collided with the main formation.
After a while, the Cao army in the middle ran to death and was scattered in large areas, while the main force of the front army, a total of 8,000 people, had assembled and slowly rushed towards the Han army who was fighting on the battlefield.
Seeing that they were about to meet each other soon, Shen Chen, who was watching from the top of the mountain in the distance, immediately shouted: "Ming Jin!"
“Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!”
The loud sound of the copper clang was quickly transmitted to the entire battlefield. The Han soldiers then barely made any pause except for carrying the bodies of their fallen comrades in orange-red clothes, and ran back without hesitation.
The cavalrymen also turned their horses' heads and galloped northwards. In an instant, they distanced themselves from the main force of Cao Zhen's headquarters, and then walked away without giving them a chance to pursue.
"General!"
Dong Bi came back from a bloody battle, with some colorful decorations on his body, and reported to Cao Zhen: "Dai Ling died in the battle."
"Take stock of the losses."
Cao Zhen said this without any emotion in his eyes. If Dai Ling hadn't died in the battle, he would have really wanted to kill him.
He couldn't control the soldiers, causing the army to collapse and collapse. Damn it!
The losses were quickly counted. The vanguard army of more than 3,000 and less than 4,000 was lost by nearly half. Dong Bi's soldiers who went to rescue also suffered about one-third casualties. Overall, the casualties were less than 2,000, about 1,780.
appearance.
For Cao Zhen, who currently controls about 50,000 of the main force of Cao's army, such losses are obviously within an acceptable range.
But I just feel uncomfortable.
Even though he didn't do that badly, he was still ambushed, which made Cao Zhen feel very unhappy.
But no matter how unhappy you are, there is nothing you can do about it.
He had to take the road from Lei Shou Mountain to get to Pu Ban. Now that Pu Ban was surrounded, Xu Huang didn't know what the situation was like there. Worrying about the situation there made Cao Zhen anxious.
After about half an hour, after cleaning up the battlefield, Cao Jun continued to set off.
This time, Cao Zhen's scouts were fully deployed. Occasionally, they could hear the cries of birds in the forest, and birds passing by from time to time. Cao Zhen's scouts also saw the flickering figures of people in the forest.
"Captain."
Leping, another general on the side, said to Cao Zhen: "I heard that there are many Bashu people in Liu Bei's army. These people climb mountains and ridges as if they were on the ground, and they are used to talking in the language of birds. Maybe they have been monitoring our actions in the forest before.
, use the language of birds to inform the Han troops in the rear, and wait until we are resting to launch a sudden attack."
"Well."
Cao Zhen nodded in agreement and said: "Order the scouts to investigate in the direction where the birds are singing."
"only!"
Leping immediately went to convey the military order.
Soon the scouts were wandering in the mountains and forests in small groups, shooting arrows in the direction of the singing birds from time to time.
The mountains are densely forested. If we wait until the scouts have searched every place before moving forward, they will not be able to reach Puban until many years and months. This is why it is easy to set up ambushes in mountainous areas.
But now that we know how the Han army communicates, we don't need to go into the woods to find out whether the Han army exists. We only need dozens of crossbow arrows to shoot in that direction, even if we can't kill the Han army hiding inside and sending signals.
, can also scare the opponent to death and run away.
Sure enough, after this method was adopted, the road ahead was unobstructed, and the army walked for more than ten miles. At the end of the road ahead, a Han army camp appeared.
The camp stood beside the road, and they even dug a ditch from the left bank of the Yellow River to form a canal to protect the camp.
And not only along the road, but also along the Yellow River and above the mountains and forests on the right, there are some large and small camps. At first glance, there is one large camp, and there must be seven or eight small and medium camps in total, blocking the entire road.
Don't let Cao Jun pass by at all.
In addition to the camp, the surrounding ditches, horse traps, horse traps, iron caltrops, etc. are all available. When Shen Chen surrounded Puban, he sent a general and 3,000 men to occupy the Leishou Mountain fortress.
road.
When he was sure that he would personally defend the camp, he brought another 7,000 people over and hurriedly built a new camp overnight, dug ditches, and built fortifications to stop Cao's army.
In less than twenty days, he built a copper wall and an iron wall, as if he wanted Cao's army to encounter a bloody encounter in Lei Shou Mountain.
Seeing this scene, Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and was so angry that he almost squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.
"Instruct the three armies to set up camp where they are!"
They had no siege equipment, so it was obviously unreliable to force a surprise attack. Moreover, they were ambushed again today, and they lost some troops and their morale was slightly low. Therefore, it was obviously not a good time to attack at this time.
Soon the soldiers of Cao's army began to set up camp on the spot, cutting down the trees in the mountain forest on the right, and building a camp on the vast plain near the bank of the Yellow River on the left.
In the distance, Shen Chen stood on a high oar in the camp, watching the opponent stop, and said to Jiang Wei and Deng Ai beside him: "This head-on blow must have given Cao Zhen a little headache, but it's just a small headache now.
Victory must not be taken lightly."
"only!"
Jiang Wei and Deng Ai surrendered.
Then Deng Ai said: "Captain Commander, Cao's army has established a stronghold near the water. If we launch a surprise attack with water troops, wouldn't it be better if we can attack their rear camp and burn their food and grass?"
"not that simple."
Shen Chen looked at the main force led by Cao Zhen in the distance, covering the soldiers who were camping in the rear, and said: "Cao Zhen is not an ordinary person. He would not have thought that we have a fleet. If my prediction is correct, he should have
As for the arrangement, the best way now is to cover it from three sides."
"Cover on three sides?"
Jiang Wei asked in confusion: "Grand Governor, besides Ma Dai, do we have any extra troops?"
Shen Chen smiled and pointed to the north behind him: "Don't forget, there is also General Pang!"
On Pound's side, he launched a surprise attack on Pi's family, and the results are about to come out.