Chapter 287 A strong army in the world is not invincible
Chapter 287 A strong army in the world is not invincible
Author: smug eyebrows and droopy eyes
Chapter 287 A strong army in the world is not invincible
In Yanjin County, inside the county office, Liu Jian stood in the middle, with a number of military academies from Jizhou standing below him on the left and right.
In the hall, under the gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes, Liu Jian slowly stood up and looked around at the crowd.
"Lord, there is a fire on the other side of Liyangdu. All the soldiers in the city have prepared an ambush. The boats from Yanjindu have also been launched, pretending to go to Liyangdu for rescue."
The speaker is Zhang He.
Liu Jian had always been reassured by Zhang He's abilities, so after he finished stating his arrangements, Liu Jian just nodded without saying much.
He cleared his throat.
All the military academies in Jizhou were looking intently, with straight bodies, heads held high and chests held high, waiting quietly for Liu Jian to speak.
Their eyes were all focused on Liu Jian at this moment.
Each of them knew in their hearts that on the following night, their lord would lead them to fight against the most famous and notorious Biao army in the Han Dynasty.
That powerful army that had almost no defeats.
Liu Jian looked at the dozen or so Jizhou heroes below and saw that they all looked at him with convinced eyes, and his heart suddenly felt hot.
Although there are only a dozen people standing in this hall, behind them, they all represent hundreds to thousands of men, who eventually gathered into an army of tens of thousands.
I don’t know since when, with one word or action, I can mobilize thousands or even tens of thousands of people to obey your orders. You can direct their direction, control their future, and control their life and death.
That feeling is enough to make every man in the world feel the fire in his chest and his whole body smooth!
Although people in the world have a saying that "it's always cold at high places", why are there still tens of thousands of people rushing to the highest place and crowding in?
On the mountain top, it is indeed very cold at high altitude, but it also has the broadest view and the best scenery.
Liu Jian took a deep breath and said to the crowd:
"In a time of great strife, the strong will become stronger, and the weak will perish."
"The Xiliang army fought with the Kwantung armies. They defeated Cao Cao first, and then Zhang Miao, Bao Xin, Qiao Mao, Liu Dai and others. These people either lost their entire army and fled far away, or they lost their troops and generals and stood firm."
"Today I avenge my brother, lead the troops away from Yecheng, and join the war in the Central Plains. The war is dangerous."
"Anyone who fights with the enemy and has soldiers march through a field of endless death without any regret or fear is doing so according to the orders!"
"Therefore, I will tell you frankly now: The Xiliang army is all strong, and this battle is dangerous!"
"However, you all also know that we have laid out a perfect plan and arranged the arrangements. We are just waiting for Niu Fu and other thieves to enter the urn."
"Everyone in the world knows that the Xiliang army is good at fighting, but they don't know that our Jizhou army is so brave! Although our combat power is not as good as that of them, we are better than our wits! If we combine wisdom and courage, we can be even better than them!"
"I believe that we will win this battle!"
"After this battle, everyone in the world should look at me, the warrior of Jizhou, with admiration!"
"My attack on Dong this time has personal grudges and family feuds, but it is also for national affairs! It is also for the peace of Hebei! Now I want to dispatch troops and horses to fight to the death with him! Are you willing to accompany me?"
The captains and commanders in the hall raised their hands and shouted loudly: "I am willing to fight to the death with the general!"
"I am willing to fight to the death with the general!"
"I am willing to fight to the death with the general!"
The firm voices of everyone resounded in the hall.
Looking at the determined faces of all the people, Liu Jian felt even more determined.
The strategy has been completely designed and the military morale is so available, this battle will definitely be a complete victory!
…
That night, Niu Fu's Xiliang soldiers suddenly launched a fierce attack on Yanjin County!
Outside the county town, a fire broke out, and the red flames illuminated half of the sky.
Under the city, people shouting, horses neighing, shouts of killing, and the sound of bows and arrows, it was a chaotic mess.
Under the light of the fire, you could clearly see countless rebels waving their weapons and swarming towards the county seat.
Niu Fu stood not far away, with his sword on his horse, looking at the county town not far away with a ferocious expression, and loudly said: "Set fire! Use the rams as well. The Jizhou army from Yanjin Crossing has gone to support Liyang.
There is no defense in this county, give me a hard beating!"
Along with Niu Fu's shouts, Xiliang soldiers continued to throw firewood in front of the Yanjin city wall, and then lit it with fire.
The fire immediately started burning under the low city head of Yanjin County.
Under the city gate, the Xiliang soldiers held the wooden sticks and kept banging on the gate. The Yanjin city gate seemed to be crumbling under the violent collisions one after another.
The impression given by Yanjin at this moment is that not many people are defending.
On the city wall, there was only the patter of arrows, and there seemed to be no one inside the city gate, just letting the Xiliang army ravage and destroy it with wooden sticks!
The more sparse the opponent's protection is, the more confident Niu Fu will be.
At this moment, he felt that his tactics were correct.
Liu Jian had been deep in the county town, listening to the noise outside and squinting his eyes.
He originally wanted to go to the front line in person and command the soldiers to fight the enemy, but Zhang He, Zhao Yun, and Gao Lan desperately tried to persuade each other. They assured Liu Jian that they could defeat Niu Fu.
The three were even willing to issue a military order.
With the guarantee from the three of them, Liu Jian felt relieved and let them go ahead, but a military order was not necessary.
He believed in the ability and determination of his three generals.
Since they can guarantee themselves with their lives, they will definitely fulfill their promise even if they risk their lives.
Hebei heroes keep their word!
…
Suddenly, Liu Jian faintly felt the ground beneath his feet shaking slightly.
The city gate of Yanjin was knocked open with a "bang".
After the city gate was breached, a fully equipped Xiliang attacking army appeared at the back.
Those Xiliang soldiers were all covered with armor, holding swords or spears high, and with earth-shattering shouts of killing, they came towards Yanjin, which had been rushed away.
Liu Jian's eyes narrowed and he clenched his fists tightly.
On the city in front, feeling the trembling under his feet, Zhang He, who was in charge of commanding the front line, was suffocated for breath, and then he was ecstatic: "Finally here!"
"Come on, come on! This is your time to die!"
At the beginning, the enemy's attack from Yanjin City Gate was not strong, but then suddenly it turned into a swarm.
In the dark night, the Xiliang soldiers gathered into a black dragon under the light of the fire, rolling in smoke and dust, rushing like thunder, and poured into the hinterland of Yanjin crazily.
"kill!"
They shouted, as if they were carrying wind and electricity. This powerful momentum made even Zhang He and Gao Lan's hearts tremble.
They even had the illusion that what was rushing into the city was not an army, but a wave of ocean rising into the sky. There was nowhere to hide, and they could only be swept into the bottomless abyss.
I have never seen such ferocious troops with such murderous intent.
However, no matter how murderous you are, you can't kill anyone!
The other party finally fell into the trap.
"Ahhh!"
At this moment, the front leg of the soldier who was rushing at the front suddenly dropped, and then he fell into the pit with inertia.
"Hurrah!"
A trench that had been dug and hidden was finally breached by the Xiliang army!
The Liangzhou sergeants at the front, including their men and horses, fell into a pit where barbs had been inserted. The sharp wooden thorns pierced their bodies, and the pit was filled with dust...
"Boom, boom!"
Earth-shaking screams came from the trench.
But the Liangzhou sergeants behind them attacked too hard, and something happened to the front army. They wanted to stop, and their momentum was as high as the sky.
The soldiers who saw the pit wanted to stop, but the people behind them didn't give them a chance and pushed them into the pit in a hurry.
In an instant, screams, cries, curses, the neighing of war horses, and the clash of weapons all sounded together, like a "camp roar."
If you look at it from a higher place, the Xiliang soldiers are like overcooked dumplings in a pot of water at the moment. In that long pit, layers of horse bodies and human bodies are crowded together, entangled and pulled against each other.
, crowded and unable to be separated.
After a lot of effort, the soldiers at the rear finally stopped and were piled up and crowded in front and behind the city gate. More and more people gathered in one place.
"Fire the arrow!" Gao Lan shouted loudly from the top of the city.
The sound of the horn resounded throughout Yanjin County.
The infantry of the Qingzhou soldiers rushed out from the left and right sides and rushed towards the city gate from the side.
On the front of the pit, a dense group of spearmen were covering the front, and archers were behind, suddenly appearing not far from the pit.
There were also those who were ambushing in the houses in the county town, as well as the crossbowmen who had been hiding at the top of the city just now, all appeared one after another.
"Fire the arrow!"
"Fire the arrow!".
In this kind of ambush and encirclement situation, the enemies are all gathered together, and the most powerful offensive weapon is arrows.
Qingzhou has many trees, and although its bows and arrows are not as powerful as Jingyang's, they were among the best in the Han Dynasty.
As the soldiers advanced, they released a hail of death arrows.
In an instant, arrows fell like locusts and raindrops continuously on the enemy formation. The enemy soldiers in the front row were blocked by the pits and could not move their bodies. They were immediately pierced by crossbow arrows. They died, and their blood and flesh were splashed everywhere.
The rain of arrows covered the soldiers gathered together layer by layer.
On the city wall, the sergeants also began to cooperate with the soldiers in the city and fired arrows at the Xiliang soldiers gathered below the city.
Soon, in front of everyone's eyes, an "arrow field" grew under the city wall.
The Xiliang army is the strongest in the world. At the same time, they have a habit of strong personal heroism when fighting. The generals of Jizhou and Youzhou also have this habit. In other words, many generals in the north have this habit.
Many mid-level generals are accustomed to charging at the front.
Doing so can of course maximize the morale of his soldiers and stimulate their greatest fighting spirit, but it is also the easiest way to cause damage to the leader.
As for the current Xiliang army, many other Sima and Qujun marquis-level figures have rushed into or under the city along with the large group of troops, and have entered the shooting range of the Jizhou army.
Once the leader is injured, all the troops will be in chaos, and it is easy for them to suffer from command failure and cause the army to collapse.
But even so, the Xiliang Army can actually launch a certain degree of counterattack. The number of soldiers currently trapped in and under the city is probably thousands. Although the number is large, they have lost their formation and exposed their weaknesses to the enemy.
In front of the weapon, their counterattack became a joke, only making a small splash, and then was drowned by the rain of arrows.
After the arrow rain stopped, the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the Jizhou Army rushed forward. According to the instructions in advance, the spearmen first concentrated in front of the pit and stabbed the Xiliang soldiers in the pit!
Blood splattered everywhere, and painful screams came from the pit.
Many Liangzhou soldiers who climbed out of the pit let out their last wails like wild animals and then fell asleep in the pit forever.
And then, a young general riding a white horse led the crowd and rushed over from the front!
And with the arrival of this general, the morale of the Jizhou Army suddenly improved!
It's Zhao Yun!
With the arrival of Zhao Yun, the battle situation immediately took a new turn.
Zhao Yun led the Baimen Army to resist the Xiliang soldiers' attack in front of the main gate.
The rest of the Jizhou soldiers flanked them from the left and right, gradually compressing the battlefield towards the city gate, allowing the Xiliang soldiers to pass through the city gate and continuously enter the city to fight with their own side, but they could not flood in in large numbers.
It is not easy to achieve this kind of battle situation.
After all, as long as one point is breached by the enemy, the battle situation in the entire city will immediately expand.
In this battlefield, the most difficult ones are naturally the white soldiers - they are on the front and the pressure is the greatest.
But luckily they have Zhao Yun in charge!
As the commander-in-chief of the Baili Army, Zhao Yun's brave performance greatly inspired the morale of the soldiers. His spear flew in his hand like a bolt of lightning at an astonishing speed. The Xiliang soldiers in front of him even looked at his face.
If you can't see it, you will be killed directly by him.
Such martial arts are truly like those of heavenly beings.
Not only the Bailian Army, but also the Qingzhou Army on both sides had their morale greatly increased because of Zhao Yun's heroic performance.
Zhao Yun saw a Xiliang cavalryman who was charging from the front stabbed to death with a spear, and shouted loudly:
"rise!"
Then, he saw his spear thrusting the opponent's body into the fighting horse and holding it high in the air.
Blood dripped down in mid-air, flowing on Zhao Yun's face, body, and horse.
Zhao Yun looked around and said loudly: "My sons! My lord has devised a clever plan to lead to such a battle!"
"The advantage now lies with our army. Their formation has collapsed and chaos has emerged. If we fail to win now, I, the Son of Hebei, will be humiliated for a hundred years! Moreover, behind us is the Yellow River. If we are defeated today, they will be able to cross the river.
Attack my hometown!"
"This is the time God has given us to make great achievements. If we don't fight to the death now, when will we wait?!"
After hearing Zhao Yun's words, the Baijie soldiers behind him and the Qingzhou soldiers nearby were greatly motivated to fight, and their eyes became extremely determined.
Seeing the Xiliang soldiers rushing towards them, the Hebei soldiers tightened their weapons one after another.
"Contribution! Contribution! Contribution!"
The shouts of thousands of people rang out at the Yanjin City Gate, which was enough to shake the sky!
The sound shot straight into the sky, and the sky, which was now red with fire, seemed to start to drift because of their shouts.
The soldiers on top of the city were even more affected by the shouts. Their blood was boiling and they shot arrows outside the city faster!
"What a great Zhao Zilong! A true hero!"
Gao Lan threw his long bow to the side, drew his sword, turned around and walked down the city.
Zhang He was shocked when he saw this: "What are you going to do?"
Gao Lan laughed loudly and said: "You command here, I will go down to the city to fight side by side with Zhao Zilong! How can he be better than the three armies in such a grand occasion? Hahaha, good luck!"
"kill!"
After saying that, Gao Lan rushed towards the city with his blood boiling.
Zhang He looked at his back and shook his head with a wry smile.
Despite his expression, he suddenly felt a sense of loss in his heart.
He also wanted to rush down with Gao Lan and fight the enemy in front of the battle with Zhao Yun.
However, Zhang He couldn't do that.
The generals fighting in front of the battle line have their missions.
And Zhang He, who is responsible for taking charge of the overall situation here, also has his own tasks.
Thinking of this, Zhang He turned his head and looked outside the city. The heat in his eyes instantly calmed down. He began to calmly give orders, ordering people to continue sending signals to all armies to control the overall situation on the battlefield.