Deng Chun led fifty cavalrymen and had already gone around to the upper reaches of the river to cross the river, to meet Guan Sheng's infantry back, or to look for opportunities to cover up the enemy.
These Xiang army cavalry and armor look very intimidating, and they all imitate the style of generals.
In fact, they are all cloth armor. They are made of coarse cloth and fine cloth as the lining, with patterns of armor plates drawn on the surface. They can protect against less powerful bows and arrows, and they also have some defense against hacking.
The horses they ride are all southwest ponies, which can climb hills well and have good endurance, but their load-bearing and explosive power are poor.
The river is several meters wide and can be swam across quickly.
Guan Sheng had already led the infantry to chase the barbarians three miles away from the village. From time to time, barbarians were caught up and hacked to death. The leader of the bandits, Ateng, was almost dragged away by two elite barbarians because he bled too much.
The soldiers who stayed in the mountain forest also carried the bodies of two comrades on their backs, supported the injured who had lost mobility, plundered some enemy armor, and hurriedly moved down the mountain towards the river.
Deng Chun saw that there were no enemies behind the soldiers, so he ran towards Guan Sheng at full speed.
"Guan Dutou, come back!" Deng Chun shouted.
“Woooooooo~~~”
The messenger blew the horn and waved the flag to signal Guan Sheng not to pursue further.
Guan Sheng was unwilling to do so because he was about to catch up with the leader of the thieves.
"Dong dong dong dong!"
Drums sounded in the barbarian village, and Bu Su's eldest son Su Ge led hundreds of barbarian soldiers out of the village to meet his younger brother A Teng.
Seeing this, Guan Sheng had no choice but to retreat and watched helplessly as the bandit leader escaped.
During this pursuit, the Yuanyang Formation was already in chaos. Especially the Wolf Hunter, dragging a long bamboo pole, was walking slowly in the forest and was already nearly a hundred meters behind.
Just when Guan Sheng retreated and reorganized his team, Su Ge personally led more than a hundred wild cavalry, bypassed Ateng's defeated troops, and rushed towards Guan Sheng.
"Array, array!" Guan Sheng shouted.
The messenger also blew the bamboo whistle, and the squad leaders waved their spears to gather the troops, with small triangular flags on the ends of their spears.
The two sides are on the verge of breaking out.
Ju Ming used a telescope to see clearly, and without waiting for all the flat cannons to be assembled, he ordered them to be fired at the low wall on the other side of the river.
Lizhou civilians and soldiers, as well as more than 500 barbarians who had surrendered along the way, crossed the river at five sections. They carried upturned boats to defend against bows and arrows, and turned the boats over when they reached the river. In fact, most of them were feints.
It's nothing more than attracting the enemy's attention so that the friendly forces on the other side can return safely.
Ju Ming only had about a hundred soldiers left in reserve.
"Puff puff puff!"
More than twenty flat cannons that had been assembled concentrated on firing stone projectiles at a section of the low wall.
How had the barbarian soldiers seen this? They were so frightened that they hid behind the low wall, and those who were timid just ran away.
The cavalry from both sides had already begun to shoot at each other. Deng Chun was not good at archery and was too lazy to use a bow and arrow, so he rushed over with his mace.
The mandarin duck formation was also reorganized, and Guan Sheng and the squad leaders started shooting arrows.
Su Ge only had more than a hundred barbarian cavalry under his command. Faced with the mandarin duck formation and the Han cavalry attack, he immediately chose to retreat temporarily because the infantry under his command had not yet reached the battlefield.
"kill!"
Deng Chun did not pursue the barbarian cavalry, but led the cavalry to circle the flanks and charge towards the hundreds of barbarian infantry.
Those hundreds of barbarians were just here to meet the friendly forces. Su Ge led the cavalry to pursue the enemy, and they could only follow them. As they ran, the formation was in chaos, and the barbarians leading the team could not restrain themselves at all.
Deng Chun led fifty cavalrymen and rushed thirty steps away before hundreds of barbarian soldiers stopped one after another. Several barbarian generals commanded them to deal with the cavalry charge.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers were still in formation, but Deng Chun was already in front of them.
With one strike of his mace, the head of the barbarian in front of him was instantly beaten until his brains burst.
Like a knife slicing through tofu, the fifty Han cavalry charged into hundreds of barbarians and separated these scattered barbarians.
Seeing this, Suge could only become anxious. He led more than a hundred barbarian cavalry and retreated to the side of the mountain. He originally planned to cooperate with the infantry in fighting. But Deng Chun was on the side of the river, charging at his infantry frantically, and it was too late to intercept them.
Guan Sheng also led the Han soldiers to form a mandarin duck formation and charge. They chased them down from the middle of the mountain. They were extremely tired now, but their morale was very high because they had been winning battles.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers encountered fifty Han cavalry, and were defeated in a single encounter.
Even if it is elite infantry, if the formation is unstable and is attacked by cavalry, and the cavalry rushes into the team, no matter how well-trained they are, they will be defeated.
"withdraw!"
Seeing that it was difficult to reverse the defeat, Su Ge immediately led the cavalry back to the village. He could no longer care about the hundreds of barbarians. How many of them could escape depended on luck.
Buyu asked his youngest son to lead the troops to meet the cavalry, while he commanded the troops to block the main force of Han soldiers from crossing the river.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers were killed and fled in all directions. The smart ones ran wildly into the mountains and forests, and more than 200 of them fled into the mountains. The irrational ones only knew how to turn around and flee. Not only did they have to face the chasing troops behind them, but they also had to face friendly troops to support them.
of bows and arrows.
Ju Ming originally planned to attack again tomorrow, but this sudden unexpected situation allowed him to keenly seize the opportunity: "Beat the drums, and the whole army will cross the river!"
"Dong dong dong dong!"
The drums were beating loudly and the shouts of killing were loud. The Lizhou army, pretending to cross the river, rowed small boats and really started to attack.
Deng Chun pursued for a while and then retreated. There was a large group of barbarians in front to support him, and there were low walls and trenches in which the cavalry could easily get trapped.
Guan Sheng also gathered up his infantry and formed a formation to rest. They were extremely tired and had to slow down before continuing to fight.
The combined troops of the two men were less than 200, but they mobilized more than 1,000 enemy troops, thus exposing a defensive gap in the front of the bandit stronghold.
Suge led the cavalry back to the stronghold, but was immediately scolded by his father: "I asked you to go to rescue your brothers, how could you lead the troops to chase them out? Even if you chase them out, how can the cavalry and infantry be divided into two parts? Your cavalry is more
How could Duo hide at the foot of the mountain and let the Han cavalry find an opportunity to attack the infantry warriors?"
Suge was speechless, unable to find a reason to quibble.
He was only in his early twenties, and had no chance to participate in the previous battles against the Lianglin tribe. In recent years, he only followed the army to attack the remnants of the Lianglin tribe in the north. The enemy was often defeated by the infantry after a few charges, and the rest was just led by him.
The cavalry is just chasing and killing.
Now for actual combat, Su Ge's brains are not enough.
When it was time to be calm, he abandoned the infantry and rushed out. When it was time to be brave, he avoided the front of the Han cavalry and chose to hide between the infantry and the hillside.
After scolding his son for a while, Buyu began to blame his nephew Piao Li again.
That bastard left with eight hundred barbarian soldiers, saying he wanted to cross the river from the upper reaches and go around to the rear of the Han soldiers to rob the camp at night. Now he knows where he went.
The eight hundred barbarian soldiers who were taken away were the best of the best, and they were the personal soldiers of the Great Ghost Lord of the Hundred Barbarians!
Now we need elite defense, but the elite are no longer on the battlefield.
"Puff puff puff puff!"
Dozens of Pingyi cannons have been assembled. In order to avoid accidentally injuring the friendly troops crossing the river, they are all projected towards the center of the barbarian village.
Since they were all light-weight returning artillery pieces, they did not cause much damage. Even the low wall was not destroyed after being launched for a long time. However, it brought great psychological pressure to the barbarians and caused widespread panic.
The previous attempts to persuade them to surrender worked. The enemy troops who were from the Lianglin barbarians were usually oppressed by the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians. Before the war, their ghost masters were transferred away and dispersed among the Qiongbu Sichuan soldiers.
At this moment, when they saw Han soldiers crossing the river, stone bullets were flying overhead, and their ghost master was still not around, these barbarian soldiers from the Lianglin tribe simply gave up their positions. They abandoned their positions and some even threw away their weapons. More and more people turned around and ran away. .
Li Bao crouched on the boat, holding up his shield to block the scattered arrows, while the folk behind him were rowing desperately.
The river channel is several meters wide and reaches the shore in a blink of an eye.
Li Bao threw away his shield, raised his spear and rushed forward, crossing the narrow ditch and jumping out of the low wall. The soldiers from the Lianglin Department who were defending here had already fled, and the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians were urgently mobilized to take up their positions.
Li Bao turned over and climbed up the low wall and was hit by two arrows in an instant.
Ignoring the pain, he stabbed one person to death with his gun. Then he went to kill the defenders on the nearby low wall, and even managed to create a gap by himself, allowing his soldiers to climb up the low wall calmly.
More and more soldiers were crossing the river, and even the barbarians who had surrendered along the way were all charged and killed under the leadership of the Ghost Lord.
For example, the Great Ghost Lord Qi Mang who was the first to surrender was the nephew of the Great Ghost Lord Ju Meng of Baimandu and the nephew of Bu Su, the Great Ghost Lord of this village. He originally planned to act according to the situation and rebel again at the critical moment. Now, But he led the troops to charge forward, because he felt that the Han soldiers would definitely win.
That kind of machine that can throw stones is too scary, and there are 100,000 Han soldiers coming from behind, and the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians cannot stop them.
"Change into a small three-talent formation and attack the stronghold!"
Guan Sheng only rested for a few minutes. Hearing the lively fighting on the frontal battlefield, he also began to organize an attack from the side.
"Qu Mang, why did you vote for the Han people?" a little ghost master shouted.
Qi Mang had already led his troops to attack the low wall. The people they met face to face were actually acquaintances. The soldiers on both sides also knew each other, and they stopped fighting in a very tacit understanding.
Qu Mang said: "The Han soldiers still have an army of 100,000. If you surrender quickly, you will definitely be rewarded! You are just a small ghost master now. If you help the Han people in the war, you can become a big ghost master."
The little ghost master didn't think much, then turned his spear and attacked the friendly troops in the nearby position, shouting at the top of his lungs: "Kill Busu, kill Busu!"
The friendly troops defected, and the nearby barbarians were instantly routed.
Li Bao also took advantage of the defensive gap and had already led his troops to rush through the low wall.
Busu personally led an elite reserve team to come to the rescue. A stone bullet fell and killed one person on the spot. The stone bullet rolled and injured two more people.
Stones continued to fall to the ground in the center of the village, and most of them hit the buildings. Not many barbarians were killed, but a large number of houses were damaged.
Barbarians fear ghosts and gods, and they will sacrifice ghosts for divination when encountering important matters.
Faced with an incomprehensible phenomenon at this moment, they thought that the ghosts and gods were angry, and the Han people were blessed by the ghosts and gods. Everyone was frightened, but they hesitated after receiving orders. Even Busu's soldiers, after one of them was stoned to death,
Sporadic retreats began to occur.
The Ghost Lord, who was born as a barbarian in Lianglin, was forced to be separated from his tribe before.
At this moment, they were looking for an opportunity to leave the battlefield, gather up the tribesmen who had already fled, and after gathering hundreds of people, they suddenly ran to attack the bunker in the center of the village.
This was their chance. They had been forced to surrender to the Qiongbu Sichuan Barbarians for several years, and had been subjected to discrimination and suppression. Now that the Han soldiers were coming, they only needed to fight back and gain true independence and freedom.
Busu was already at a loss. Many low walls on the front were broken through, and the sides were also facing attacks. The empty bunker behind them was attacked by the 25th Army.
There were hundreds of elite reserve troops beside Busu, and he panicked and ordered: "Retreat to the mountains!"
Hundreds of the most elite barbarian soldiers just ran away. Livestock, food, women and children... were all ignored and ran into the mountains in a swarm.
Those rebellious Liolin barbarians did not dare to intercept them, fearing that they would fight tooth and nail with the elite men of Busu.
Buyu fled with his son at full speed. He planned to hide in the mountains and gather warriors from small tribes in the mountains. He could gather one or two thousand troops again. When Ju Meng's large army arrived, they could join forces to counterattack.
Even if they fail, they can still find an opportunity to escape and take the elite to the southeast to seize the territory and population of those small tribes.
The barbarians of all tribes respect their strength. As long as they still have elite soldiers, they have every opportunity to make a comeback.
Busu's elite main force fled, immediately triggering a complete collapse.
Deng Chun led his cavalry into the stronghold, ignoring those who knelt and surrendered, and only pursued those who were still running away. If he caught up, he would hit them with an iron mace.
"The battle is settled!" Yu Wenchang smiled with his hands behind his hands.
Ju Ming said: "There are too many barbarians who have defected, and this battle will be too easy."
Clean up the battlefield and calculate battle losses and gains.
Eight Xiang soldiers and Xiang soldiers were killed, 4 were seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
22 civilians were killed, 1 was seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
Among the barbarian soldiers who returned along the way, 9 were killed, 3 were seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
The main casualties came from enemy bows and arrows. The armor of the Han soldiers was really bad.
In this battle, 552 barbarians were killed, more than 800 barbarians defected before the battle, and more than 4,000 barbarians (including old, weak, women and children) were captured, and many barbarians fled into the mountains.
The intensity of the battle was actually not high. Most of the barbarians who were killed were hacked to death while escaping.
A large amount of grain is piled in several bunkers in the village, and this is the biggest harvest.
"Prefect, county magistrate, we have captured a thief chieftain. I heard he is Buyu's son." Yu Dian, commander of the Xiang army, escorted A Teng, who was covered in blood.
Yu Dian was a native of Lizhou, already in his forties. He had been seconded to suppress rebellions in other places, and he fought extremely bravely in this battle.
Yu Wenchang nodded in approval: "The general fought bravely, and I heard that he also made military exploits when he defeated the Lunan Yi. After this battle, I will definitely ask for credit for the general."
"Thank you, Governor!" Yu Dian was happy.
He was first transferred to Luzhou to quell the rebellion, and then to Maozhou. He made many meritorious deeds but received nothing. His credit was all robbed of him.
He hasn't been dealt with yet, so why does he have no background to back him up?
Zhu Ming said: "Brother Quan Ke arranged for the civilians to carry the baggage and move all the military supplies of the camp to the village. I went into the village to receive the prisoners, selected some young and strong barbarians, and let the ghost leaders who rebelled to lead the troops. In this way, our army can be strong
greatly increase."
"Then we will divide the work and cooperate." Yuwen Chang said with a smile.
Ju Meng's son Piao Li, leading eight hundred elite soldiers, is still making a detour.
He was afraid of being discovered by the Han army, so he crossed the river several miles upstream and had to go around the mountains to get to the back of the Han army's camp after nightfall.
Piao Li could never have guessed that Busu's village would actually be breached by his detour.
Even if you do nothing, send the old, weak, women and children into the mountains, and only let the elite garrison the bunker, you can still hold on for several days!
