On December 24th, after a good meal, the Xianbei people formed a formation at the foot of Baishan Mountain. The team of 60,000 people was divided into five columns. They marched down the mountain at the same time. From north to south, they were arranged in this way: Zhidan
Moruo, Rilu recommended ministers, feasted on Liyou Guzuhou, Wu Lu returned to Dou Bin, deputy Fuluo went to Bin, while Tuoba Jiefen led 10,000 troops and stationed on Baishan Mountain to take charge of the overall situation.
The Han army was about to have a meal at this time, and smoke rose from the camp in Zhibi. It was approaching the end of the year, and all the troops were having dinner today. The soldiers were very happy. Suddenly, they saw Xianbei people coming from the mountains, and they couldn't help but be disappointed.
They could only put aside their meals and return to the barracks to take out their armor and weapons. At this time, the Han army thought that the Xianbei people were just repeating their old tricks and would probably retreat after trying for a while. However, they discovered this when the Xianbei people were only five miles away from Lujiao.
The next time was very different. The Xianbei people pressed in with their entire army, and they wanted to fight to the death here.
Army Sima Gu Yi saw Xianbei men and horses in the mountains, and the sand and gravel on the ground were jumping. He was very nervous, and hurriedly sent envoys to the commander's camp to report the situation, and then ordered the war drums to be beaten, and the drums were loud.
Er, the soldiers also consciously lined up behind the antlers, waiting for the Xianbei people's first round of charge.
After fighting in the past two months, both sides are familiar with each other's tactics. This time, Xianbei's forwards are no longer wearing armor and riding equipment, but are soldiers pushing wooden poles. They wrapped their boots with linen and stepped on the thin ground.
On the ice, they kept moving forward despite the rain of arrows from the Han army. The target was clearly some of the antlers of the Han army protruding from the hills.
But the Han army had also made preparations. After Xianbei's last raid, Gu Yi also felt that the defense here was weak, so he set up three watchtowers on the hills and dug two more trenches around the watchtowers and antlers. But the flaw was that
, he also did not expect that the Xianbei army would fight here. In terms of the decisive battle, these arrangements were obviously far from enough. These Xianbei soldiers in the forefront carried wooden pillars measuring one foot and two feet, and walked all the way to the trench. The Xianbei soldiers in the rear
The archers continued to shoot arrows from a distance, covering them as they set up wooden posts on the trench. The strength of the Han army and the Xianbei people here was very different. Even if they stabbed desperately with their spears, it only delayed for two quarters of an hour. Many Xianbei soldiers jumped into the trench.
Inside, they carried wooden poles and drove to the other side. After forming thirteen small bridges, the Xianbei army successfully poured into the antlers and fought hand-to-hand with the Han army.
Gu Yi looked at this scene from the watchtower of the Chinese army. He was extremely frightened in his heart. He looked around and thought: Have the soldiers who sent the order not come back yet? But what appeared in his eyes was an even more terrifying scene. To the west of Pingcheng, Han Dynasty
The army deployed 12,000 men in two formations, occupying a battle line about ten miles long. There were only four or five people within one foot. At this time, the Xianbei people were attacking across the board. Each Han army had to block an enemy four times their size.
In Gu Yi's view, the contrast between the enemy and ourselves is like a stream and a violent wave, but even if he wanted to ask for help from the nearby Linghuyuan Formation, Linghuyuan would have no reinforcements to send.
He commanded the army to hold off for two more moments, but the soldiers on the front line were ultimately unable to do what they wanted. More and more holes gradually appeared in the trenches, and the watchtowers on the hills could not hold up. After being captured by the Xianbei army, they were torn down.
The rolling logs were scattered on the ground. At this time, there was a rough sound of trumpets from behind, and the gates of Pingcheng were opened wide. Seeing that Tuoba Jiefen's reinforcements were effective, Bu Dugen immediately ordered all the tribesmen in the city who could fight to go out to fight.
, launched an attack on the back of Gu Yi's troops, but they had to cross the trench on the inside first, which gave Gu Yi the final time to react. Gu Yi had no choice. He immediately ordered the whole army to move closer to him with a flag.
Form a formation and allow the Xianbei army to break through the fortifications.
Seeing that the Han army had abandoned their fortifications, Tuoba Jiefen thought that this was a good opportunity to decide the outcome, so he wanted to press the last army up. He said to his son Tuoba Liwei, who had followed him in the first battle: "Your mother said you are
Son of Yinshan, I have always regarded you as the proud son who has strengthened our clan. This is your first battle. If you follow me, you may be criticized by the clan. This time when you charge into the battle, go to the most conspicuous place and let the tribes watch you kill the enemy.
You are so heroic." Tuoba Liwei was sixteen years old. He was very young and had a powerful figure. He was more courageous to express his opinions: "I look at the situation at this time. All the ministries have taken the initiative. If the war situation is allowed to develop, there will be no
Our troops can also achieve a complete victory, but the enemy still has eight formations that have not moved. How to change the formation is really unpredictable. It is better to wait for a while and see what the Han people will do next." Hearing this, Tuoba Jiefen was very surprised.
Surprised, he thought about it and felt that his son's opinion was quite reasonable, so he asked his men to stay on the mountain to observe the changes of the Han army.
When the Xianbei people came down the mountain, both Liu Bei and Chen Chong in the south of the city were standing on the watchtower. They could see the Xianbei people attacking like wolves from a distance, but he did not order the formations to move. Even when Gu Yi's envoy came to ask for help, General Zhonglang did not come to help.
, instead he said: "Let all the knights mount their horses first, and then wait a moment." No one understood the reason. When they saw the east gate of the city opening from the watchtower, and Bu Dugen led the crowd to fight out, Liu Bei did not go back again.
He ordered: "The formation can be broken." The soldiers in the formation quickly pushed earth into the trench, and soon a two-foot-wide road was rolled out in the trench. There were 10,000 knights in the army, and Liu Bei gave Zhang Fei four
Qian, let them set out from here to attack the base of Budu on the inside. Then Guan Yu was assigned six thousand knights, and asked him to go out from the north of the city to attack the Xianbei people at Baishan Mountain. The rest of the Han army moved out.
Chen Chong went to the north of the city and led Yang Feng, Guo Da, and Hu Cai's troops to attack the Xianbei people's right wing. Helian Fanmo, Qiqu Zhiyasi, and Liu Xuan's troops in the west of the city attacked the Xianbei people's left wing together with Liu Bei.
The Xianbei people had also made plans for this. If the remaining Han troops came to help, they would probably attack the left and right wings. After the main attackers, Rilu Tuichen, Banquet Liyou Guzhaohou, and Wuluhui Doubin, entered the formation.
, set up Moruo, deputy Fuluo and Qubin, to cover the two wings on the spot to delay the time. As long as the three main attacking units penetrated the Han formation and joined the Chanyu, they could drive away the defeated troops and completely complete the siege of the Han army.
Disperse.
But Shanyu encountered some problems. Bu Dugen led the city residents to rush to the front of the Han army's formation, but they were unable to rush through the inner trench. This was because the inner trench was two feet wider than the outer trench, and the soil dug by the trench was covered by the Han army.
They were piled in the formation, so the Han army could quickly push out the earthen trench, but Chanyu could only use a clumsy method, digging earth on one side to fill the trench. However, this was obviously too slow. Zhang Fei was trying to catch up with the time, so his subordinates were all injured.
Jia drove his horse, but Shanyu only waited for two-quarters of an hour before he saw Zhang Fei approaching quickly.
Zhang Fei's tribe was wearing light armor, and Shan Yu's tribe did not have much heavy armor. The greatest combat power was the five hundred armored riding equipment in front of him. Upon seeing this, Zhang Fei ordered: "Don't fight with the armored knights, we will kill the masses.
This battle is won." So they bypassed the armored cavalry and charged directly into the horseless Xianbei masses. The old men tried their best to shoot some bows and arrows, but they were rushed and trampled to death by the approaching Han army. The women tried to
The resistance of flesh and blood was no match for the sword, and the armored cavalry really couldn't catch up with the Han army's light cavalry. They could only watch Zhang Fei's men cutting in and out of the crowd, like a knife cutting through the fabric, and soon the foundation of his steps completely collapsed. Xin Chanyu was unwilling to return to the city and ordered his armored knights to take off their heavy armor. He looked at these knights and saw that their faces were filled with sweat and unwillingness. He sighed to himself and said: It would be better if Shuluo Yu Qi Guang was by his side.
But his expression remained unchanged, and he only said to his followers: "How can a man die amidst the cries of a woman? Let us bathe in blood together." The knights were all encouraged by these words, holding their knives and raising their arms and shouting, and then followed Shan Yu.
He went to fight Zhang Fei. However, these knights had been wearing heavy armor for a long time and were quite tired. In the end, they failed to change the situation of the battle and were all killed by the Han army. Bu Dugen faced Zhang Fei, but his strength was not strong and he was killed by the Han army.
The knife collided with the snake spear four or five times, and his arm became numb and unconscious, and then his throat was stabbed by the snake spear.
The remnants of the Xianbei troops in the city were completely eliminated by Zhang Fei. The Xianbei people were fighting in the Han army formation and saw all this. They didn't know that Shanyu was dead, but they just talked about how they would fight next if they could not get support from the city.
?The Xianbei commanders did not file a record. They could only send an order saying that as long as the Han army in front of them was defeated, they would always be victorious. However, Gu Yi and Linghu Yuan gathered together and used the cramped terrain of the military camp to fight against the Xianbei army.
Although they were losing ground, they could not be eaten after all.
At this time, the reinforcements of the Han army on both wings also arrived. Tuoba Jiefen saw that he was being flanked and could no longer wait and see on the mountain. He immediately decided to go down the mountain to reinforce the right wing, intending to defeat the weaker Chen Chong's troops first. This was really a trick.
Wrong choice, because they failed to notice Guan Yu. Guan Yu's troops came out from the north of the city lightly, and then made a big circle to the shade of the mountain. They hid their bodies and walked quickly towards Baishan Mountain. However, they chose this road too far.
, although they acted at the same time as Zhang Fei, he did not occupy Baishan Mountain until nearly an hour after Tuoba Jiefen came down the mountain. At this time, the two armies had been fighting for a long time, and many soldiers were tired. Gu Yi and Linghu, who had been fighting for the longest time,
The two departments of Yuan are on the verge of collapse.
Calculating the time, the two armies fought for nearly four hours, from noon to dusk, and the daylight was almost gone. At this time, Guan Yu ran down from the Baishan Mountain and ordered the soldiers to hold their torches high, illuminating the dark green outside his armor.
The Han soldiers who were fighting hard saw Guan Yu entering the battlefield and shouted and howled excitedly. However, when the Xianbei people suddenly saw an unknown number of cavalry appearing behind them, their courage was gone. Tuoba Jiefen and Wu Luhui
Dou Bin sighed and asked, "Do they actually have reinforcements?" So they all gave up fighting, ignoring the soldiers who continued to fight on the front line, and scattered and ran as hard as they could to the east.
The Han army was tired from fighting and did not continue to pursue them. The battle formations from all directions continued to encircle the Xianbei soldiers who were unable to escape. They killed them for a while, but the Xianbei people resisted for a while, and then no one wanted to take action anymore.
A young commander among the Xianbei people asked to surrender, so the Han army stopped and notified Liu Bei. Liu Bei readily agreed and ordered them to put down their weapons and armor and settle in the original Han army camp.
On the other side, Zhang Fei had already entered Pingcheng. When the people in the city learned that Shan Yu had died in the battle, they also asked for surrender. The only request was to allow them to bury Shan Yu. Zhang Fei was unwilling to allow it, so he killed in the city for another hour, etc.
When Chen Chong learned the news, he urgently ordered Wei Yan to stop Zhang Fei. After sorting out Bu Dugen's remains, he returned the body to the Xianbei people, and they surrendered as promised.
As a result, the three-month battle of Pingcheng finally came to an end. The Xianbei people fought hard for nearly two generations before they were able to suppress the Han army. However, they were destroyed by Liu Bei and Chen Chong in the battle of Monan, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, and Daijun.
All the Xianbei tribes were shocked. But where they would go was not what Chen Chong and Liu Bei cared about. On the third day after the city was broken, the Han army recovered news, and Chen Chong learned that the world situation had been turned upside down.
At this time, everyone was having a meal. Liu Bei was reading Zhang Yang's letter and chewing the freshly baked Hu biscuits. After handing the letter to Guan Yu, he frowned and asked Chen Chong, "What are you planning to do?"