After defeating Hu Che'er's army, the Liang army's offensive against Liu Bei's main formation quickly slowed down. They gathered their troops and reorganized their formation, chasing the tail of the left wing of the merged army, and constantly tearing them apart with cavalry and bows and arrows.
Bite and slow down their march southward.
But Liu Bei still gave the order, blowing the horn for the entire army to attack, and used his general flag to guide the entire army to move south slowly. At the foot of the southernmost mountain, Xianbei's armor and riding equipment were also chasing the tail of the Liang army's right wing.
Yang Feng's Han and Siam tribes were completely defeated and fled into the mountains and forests. Only Zhang Ji's and Li Jue's tribes gathered together and were still resisting.
The horses of the Liang people have always been better than those of the Bing people, so when they first fought, Li Jue thought he could easily resist them, but unexpectedly the knights came.
His armored cavalry could only be three hundred, and his light cavalry could only be eight thousand. However, after several confrontations, Li Jue found that his horse power was quite inferior. The two armies were dealing with each other. Many of the horses in the army had slowed down, but the enemy cavalry still continued.
Walk as fast as flying.
It was almost time to retreat, but Li Jue had always been extremely proud of his bravery and regarded defeat on the battlefield as a great shame in his life. In the last battle of Guangcheng, he caused Dong Zhuo to have a life-and-death crisis because he let Han Dang rush into the battle.
After the war, he was greatly criticized by Dong Zhuo, but he was not punished after all. At this time, he harbored great hatred and was about to avenge his humiliation on the battlefield. How could he be willing to retreat? He actually held on to his disadvantage and fought against the Xianbei knights.
Fighting.
After a few rounds, most of the knights who were originally used as surprise soldiers were killed or injured, and two of Li Jue's knives were also broken. However, the Xianbei knights were also amazed and sighed to each other: "Are the Han people so unafraid of death?
?" At this time, his military officer Song Guo couldn't hold on anymore and stepped forward to persuade him: "Xiao Lieutenant, if we continue to fight, most of the soldiers will die in vain. It is better to slowly march north in formation and make peace with Jianwei."<
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How could Li Jue be so willing, but right here, the Xianbei knight fired another round of arrows, and before he could refute his words, one of the arrows hit Song Guo's throat. Song Guo took a few breaths, his face was extremely distorted, and he immediately fell to the ground.
Seeing is lifeless.
There was a commotion among the troops behind him. Even if Li Jue was unwilling to retreat, the people's support was unsustainable at this time, so he could only reluctantly return. But in this way, a gap was opened for the return route of the merging army, and Xu Huang and others were busy.
He led a thousand men forward and pursued Li Jue along his retreat route. While pursuing, he helped those who came forward and allowed the formations to return to their ranks.
For a time, there was chaos in the middle of the battlefield. The waiting formations were walking to the south, and Li Jue's waiting formations were heading to the north. The two formations were mixed together. There was me among you, you among me, and there were pursuers on both sides.
At the rear, just like this, there was no way to release arrows. Both sides held their long spears and knives high, slashing toward the edge of the formation while moving forward. As soon as the cavalry came in, the horse's legs were cut off by the knives.
If the infantry was not paying attention, the spear blade slit his throat. Bodies piled up on the battlefield. Broken blades and broken spear poles fell to the ground. The golden grassland was completely reduced to a millstone of flesh and blood.
But this was only limited to the central corner. The confrontation between the two armies was changed from north to south to east to west. Due to the obstruction of the north water and the south mountain, the width of the battlefield became extremely crowded, and a large number of troops were cut off behind the Chinese army. Neither Liu Bei nor Xu Rong saw helplessness.
After putting all the troops into the frontal fight, they unanimously made the decision to let the military formation continue to move, and constantly let all the troops take turns to fight in the formation, one in and one out, like two ouroboros, one snake bites the head
Holding another snake's tail, they circled each other without letting up, but they couldn't tell the winner.
Zhang Chang, who was beside Liu Bei, saw such a scene for the first time. Almost all of the soldiers withdrawing from the battlefield were injured, and many had broken hands and feet. The smell of blood and the sour smell of sweat mixed together, making him want to vomit.
There were even people dragging the mutilated bodies of their comrades, which made him even more unbearable. He asked Liu Bei directly: "In the expedition to the west, our army suffered casualties like passing through thorns. If we continue to fight like this, can our army really win?"
Liu Bei stared at the front where the fierce battle was going on. His hands were covered with sweat. Hearing his words, he couldn't help but angrily said: "Now that we have entered the battlefield, how can we win or lose? We can only sacrifice our lives! How can we do this now when we have no way out?
Are you thinking of retreating?"
Having said that, Liu Bei has successfully retracted the left wing and continues to fight like this in the middle section. The Liang people's cavalry cannot be used at all, and it can only turn into a battle of forces. After losing most of Baibo's troops, the Liang people are in a weak position in terms of military strength.
Disadvantage: If Xu Rong insists on fighting Liu Bei to the end, Liu Bei is confident that he will win in the end.
Xu Rong thought the same way. When he saw Liu Bei retracting his left wing, he immediately made a judgment in his mind that the chance of victory had been lost. Since he could not win, Xu Rong's next thought was how to remain undefeated. The biggest thing
The problem is that when the two armies are entangled, it is difficult to retreat. Once the retreat fails, it is very easy to cause a total collapse.
He thought for a moment and came up with an idea. He immediately called in Guo Si's troops who were slightly injured and asked him: "Now I need to make full use of my cavalry. Li Jue and Zhang Ji's troops have been completely lost. How many more do you have in the formation?" p>
Guo Si was confident and quickly replied: "When I brought them, there were ten thousand cavalry, but now less than a thousand have been lost. Among them, the iron cavalry is almost intact, and there are still three thousand."
"That's enough," Xu Rong said happily: "There are still two thousand in our army. If the two armies merge, Anchou will not be able to retreat peacefully!"
So the soldiers changed their formations under the control of Xu Rong. The bugle sounded, and the fighting Liang Army infantry began to retreat slowly. A gap appeared between them, and five thousand heavy armored cavalry filed out of it and slowly walked into the battle line.
. However, the difference from before was that they held wooden poles. After entering the battle line, they immediately dismounted, set up wooden poles on the sides of the horses, and then set up powerful crossbows. Thousands of crossbows fired at the same time, and a rain of iron fell from the sky, repelling the merged army.
The first wave of offensive.
At the same time, the Liang army behind the battle line began to regroup. The northernmost flag was moved first. Liu Bei saw that it began to make an arc around the rear and slowly entered the mountains to the south. Only then did he react.
, Xu Rong is about to withdraw his troops! He hurriedly raised a flag and ordered the soldiers on the front line to launch a general attack.
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But just now Liangren changed the formation and quickly re-established a stable front. The soldiers tried to break the formation, but they were shot to pieces by Liangren's arrows. The soldiers tried to reflect back, but these
The Liang people all wore heavy armor, and many arrows hit their armor, pricking them like hedgehogs, but only a few could break through the armor.
Seeing that firing arrows was useless, the Xianbei knights were eager to try. Their leader Mo Ganxuzhan took the initiative to ask for a fight and said: "Since Liang Gou has given up the open space, why not let our armored cavalry charge twice to make him break the formation and run away!" p>
After receiving the order, the merging troops on the front line immediately made room for another 500 steps for the Xianbei knights to facilitate their galloping. Mo Ganxuzhan personally led the troops. The Xianbei knights pulled out the horses and covered their mounts in public.
He had full body armor, and he also wore a hood. The hood was affixed with cyan feathers that showed bravery. One feather represented a battle. Many of them had more than six feathers affixed to them. There were still traces of previous battles on the armor.
The new soldiers on the front line looked at the bloodstains and said: "The so-called iron army must be like this!"
After the three hundred armored knights were equipped, the big Moganxu screamed, and the knights immediately set off, galloping on the bloody field full of flesh and blood. The horses' hooves clattered without any dust. The knights in the forefront held up their long swords.
The sharp light is like a cold star, which makes people feel frightened.
The Liang people who faced the Xianbei knights were themselves heavy cavalry. They knew that arrows had little effect on them, so they simply stopped shooting arrows and instead used their spears to prepare for the attack.
At this time, they turned around and took the initiative to get out of the way of defense, allowing the Xianbei knights to smoothly enter the formation.
Before Moganxuzhan could be happy for a long time, another group of people came around. They took advantage of the small number of armored riders and the inconvenience of heavy armor to move, so they threw the tent high to cover these people. The Xianbei people lost sight of them.
When they were about to struggle, another group of Liang people gathered around and tied up the Xianbei people one by one with a few nooses. They dragged them off their horses, then pressed them up and stabbed their waists and necks repeatedly until their bodies were covered in the tent.
Lost the last bit of strength.
In this way, more than 80 armored knights were lost, and the leader was also killed in the battle. The remaining Xianbei knights were greatly frightened and could only flee back in embarrassment. The Liang people did not stop them, but just made strange noises of ridicule behind them, which made Xianbei
The knights were so ashamed that they did not dare to raise their heads to meet the Han people after returning to the formation.
After all this struggle, the Liang army withdrew several more formations, and even Xu Rong's flag began to move into the mountains. Chen Chong listened to Wu Yu's description of the battlefield situation, and sighed in his heart: "Xuande's intelligence is slightly inferior to Xu Rong's.
Once someone retreats, he should immediately pursue him. Now that the Liang people are riding heavily in the rear, they have formed an formation and can no longer stay."
Liu Bei also understood the situation at this time, but he was unwilling to do so. At least he planned to eat the heavy cavalry at the rear. But the heavy cavalry held on for nearly two hours. When it was their turn to retreat, they threw away their wooden posts and heavy cavalry.
A, in order, mounted the war horses that had been in a truce for half a day, and then fled towards the mountain trail at high speed. Xu Huang and others patted their horses and wanted to pursue them, but the Liang people had already occupied favorable terrain on the mountain and fired arrows to block their progress. Xu Huang did not know that they were there.
As for the arrangement in the mountain, the leading troops hesitated in front of the mountain for a long time. Finally, Liu Bei sent someone to give the order: retreat.
Liu Bei divided his troops into two groups. One group, led by Liu Xuan, crossed the Wan River to the north and stationed in Baitu City. The other group stayed in place to prevent the Liang army in the mountains from attacking back. After Liu Xuan's group finished crossing, he
Just then he led Yu Bu slowly eastward along the Yuan River. In Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang, there were still Bai Bo Yu Bu waiting for him to receive them.
When Chen Chong saw this, he said to the two young men beside him: "Go back. It won't be long before Xuande will pick me up and take me to Yuanyang."
Both Wu Yu and Tian Zhao were the same. Tian Zhao had a look of excitement on his face, obviously unable to control himself after seeing such a huge battle. Wu Yu frowned and thought. He walked a few steps and asked Chen Chong: "Your Majesty, this battle
Did our army win? Or did Liang’s army win? I really can’t figure it out."
Seeing his serious look, Chen Chong smiled encouragingly and said, "This battle has been full of twists and turns. It's normal that you can't understand it." He paused for a moment and gave his own evaluation: "The Liang army won with tactics, and our army won with strategy.
The negative is really between four and six."
But at this point, he wanted to touch his injured eye, but finally put down his hand, Taixi said: "Just looking at the overall situation, I have failed completely."