While Liu Bei led the left army to attack the Liang army, Chen Chong also led the central army to slowly advance westward. There were about 40,000 cavalry in the entire army, and nearly 30,000 were handed over to Liu Bei. The remaining cavalry was left to Liu Bei.
The cavalry under Chen Chong was only 3,000 from Xu Huang's Taiping Army, so they moved more slowly.
Although the movement of the army was slow, the Liang people were all prepared and did not dare to relax. After all, no matter what, the soldiers and horses of the right army were the most powerful, with flags forming a sea and steps like the tide, like a huge foothill coming from the sky.
Every step raises huge clouds of smoke and dust on Longshou Plain. No one knows how heavy this foothill is until it hits people.
However, Chen Chong only advanced to the edge of Hongguyuan and Longshouyuan, and stopped here. His front formation formed a diagonal line, and when it was only five miles away from the left wing of the Liang army, it stopped like this.
He stopped, and then made a confrontational stance with him, completely ignoring that the left wing was already in a massacre.
The Liang army, which has not yet engaged in battle, is now faced with a choice: whether to ignore the eyeing merging troops in front of them and assist the fighting left wing, or to actively change their defense strategy and change their formation to attack Chen Chong's central army.
The battle line that was too broad could no longer be decided by one person, and more relied on the judgment of the frontline officers. In addition to Wang Fang and Jia Xu as preparations, the right wing departments of the Liang Army quickly made their own choices. They chose
Change the formation and attack Chen Chong's army directly in front of you.
During this period of formation change, the two armies on the left had already entered into an unprecedentedly brutal hand-to-hand battle.
Zhang Ji was disdainful when he saw that the Xiongnu troops had been sent to fight with him. He sneered at his subordinates and said: "Since Emperor Shizong repeatedly defeated the Xiongnu, I have never heard that the Hun dogs can be compared with the Han army. Now Liu Bei has sent the Huns to die. This is
Are you afraid that I won’t kill well enough?”
After that, Zhang Ji immediately ordered his cavalry to assemble, with Zhang Xiu as the leader, and charged the Huns cavalry. After giving the order, a whirlwind blew from the army, and the sound of horse hooves sounded. Zhang Xiu immediately led the army to attack from the right formation.
, I want to split the Hun cavalry in front of me into two.
But not long after the attack began, Zhang Ji discovered that the enemy's tactics were different from what he had imagined.
When Zhang Xiu led his troops to approach the Huns, he found that this group of Hun knights had no intention of facing the enemy head-on. Instead, they actively dispersed, stretching the already loose battle line even longer. There was often only one person standing for more than twenty steps.
This allowed Liang Qi to infiltrate into the Huns' formation as if nothing existed, but failed to fight any Hun knights.
Seeing that there were enough Liang knights entering the formation, these nomadic knights rode their horses to a place about an arrow's distance from Liang's army, stretched their bows and fired a round of arrows. Due to the spread of the formation, this round of arrows did not appear to be densely packed.
It was as if a gust of autumn wind blew through the forest shades, shaking down just a few fallen leaves, but when they hit Liangqi, they were not as light as fallen leaves. Knights kept getting hit by arrows in the rain of arrows. Although they were not fatal, they were enough to destroy their morale. See Charge
When the hand-to-hand fight failed, Liang Qi responded with arrows. However, due to the convenience of the light cavalry, the Hun knights came and went as fast as the wind. Therefore, the arrows fired by Liang Qi were greatly missed, and no one or two out of ten could hit the target.
It turned out that this Hun cavalry was different from the previous Hun cavalry. It was a new army reorganized by Qiequ Zhiyas after all the wars. Because it was trained in Hequ, it was named the Division of Hequ. The division of Hequ
The division's idea of building an army was to attack the slow with the fast, the heavy with the light, and charge the cavalry with a rain of arrows. This battle was the first battle of this new army. After the first battle, it was indeed very effective.
Zhang Xiu's charge was brave and he quickly rushed to the infantry that had joined the army to maintain the front line. However, more than a hundred of his subordinates had fallen from their horses due to arrow wounds. Some of the armored knights had no injuries, but had dozens of bullets stabbed into their bodies.
The arrow is like a hedgehog, which greatly affects the movement of the horse.
When Qu Zhiya saw Zhang Xiu at the forefront in trouble, he pointed at them and said: "These knights in iron armor must be warriors in the enemy army. When hunting, we should first shoot the beasts. In battle, we should shoot at the heads of thieves. Let's surround them first."
Kill!" After saying that, more than two hundred light cavalry surrounded them like magpies. The arrows were really flying like rain at this time. The black arrows were connected one after another and one after another. Zhang Xiu and others
I have never been hit by such a dense rain of arrows. Not to mention the arrows on the men and horses, even the grass on the ground was smashed by the arrow clusters.
The soldiers around Zhang Xiu suffered heavy casualties as a result, but this did not mean that they had no countermeasures. Years of experience in fighting had enabled them to see too many novel tactics. These armored knights dismounted one after another, and immediately used their vests as cover to quickly form a formation.
They continued to attack the infantry formation. Seeing them entangled and fighting in the rear formation, the surrounding cavalrymen were unable to fire their bows, so they could only turn to surround and kill the other Liang people.
But since Zhang Xiu had stabilized his position, Zhang Ji naturally made adjustments accordingly. He sent another three thousand knights to continue supporting Zhang Ji from the right formation, while he personally led most of the troops and slowly entered the formation from the left. He planned to attack slowly
The idea of moving fast and using foot to control the cavalry may seem foolish, but it is the result of Zhang Ji's careful consideration. In a very short period of time, he has seen some flaws in the tactics of the Hequ division.
The tactics of the Hequ division are mainly hunting. They need to ensure a distance of one arrow and constantly harass the enemy. This requires extremely fast horse speed. To achieve this goal, the Huns all wore light armor. Once they got close,
If you don't have a body, you won't have much power to parry. Therefore, if you want to defeat the enemy, you have to start by how to get close.
Zhang Ji made a decision: He should respond to this kind of hunting-like tactics. Therefore, while the cavalry continued to maintain the battle line, he led the infantry to detour from the far left and march forward slowly and firmly.
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The master of Hequ repeated his old trick, stepping forward to throw a hail of arrows, and then retreated as soon as the shot was fired. However, the Liang soldiers in the front held their wooden posts high and let the arrows fly past their ears and heads: some hit their limbs, and some hit them.
On the chest, what's more, there are arrows that wiped off the ears, arrow clusters pierced the eyes, arrow feathers were buried in the skull, and blood mixed with different-looking pieces of meat fell on the dragon's head. But even so,
Zhang Ji was also unmoved. He kept urging his men, ignoring the fact that people around him were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. The army marched forward nearly three miles on their own flesh and blood, until they were within easy reach of Liu Bei's main force on the right.
Send the order and let the troops stabilize the front.
Qi Quzhiyasi was originally quite confused about Zhang Ji's response, but he didn't realize it until Zhang Ji was about to stop. Unknowingly, the Liang Army's infantry and the cavalry on the right flank formed a double-team.
Such force surrounded most of the Hequ troops in a semicircle.
Seeing that Zhang Ji had initially achieved his goal, the tight strings in his heart finally relaxed a little. He said to his generals: "If it is a hasty encounter in the field, the sky is huge, and these dogs are allowed to come and go, we will have no choice but to capture them without mercy."
, but now that the two armies are facing each other in a life-and-death battle, how can they be allowed to run as they please? Since they can neither retreat nor fall into our siege, it is time for them to be slaughtered by us."
After that, he personally beat the war drums accompanying the army. The drums beat like waves, and the infantry quickly moved to the right, like an iron wall lined up in a row, squeezing the knights who were shooting arrows in front of them to the right.
If you shoot an arrow, your side will immediately respond with bow and arrow.
But it was different from before. Every time there was a shooting, more Hun knights fell. After twenty rounds of shooting, the number of Huns who fell from their horses was about the same as that of Liang people. By the thirtieth round, the number of Huns who fell from their horses was about the same.
Because the people were not wearing armor, they had suffered more injuries than the Liang people. Horses without their owners could be seen everywhere. They stood there blankly, letting the Liang soldiers rush past them.
Moreover, Qu Zhiyasi was among the guards of a group of knights. Seeing this scene, he felt extremely guilty. As a commander, he only focused on besieging Zhang Xiu, but ignored Zhang Ji's movements, so that the hunter turned into a net.
At this time, Zhang Ji compressed his wings, just like a hunter tightening the mouth of a net to catch all the prey in the net. Many of the people who followed the army saw something was wrong and said to him: "Daqiequ, should we retreat to the rear first?"
, it’s not too late to reorganize the army and fight again.”
Liu Bao, the Xian King of Zuo, was on the side. When he heard this, he angrily said: "Our army has taken on the task of stopping the enemy from attacking first. How can we return after encountering setbacks? Zhengxi is heading south to attack hard, and Longshou is confronting the enemy's main force. We have retreated slightly.
, our army is in the predicament of not being able to respond to two troops. By doing this, isn’t it just that the safety of one unit is affecting the entire army?”
As soon as this statement came out, everyone did not dare to refute, but they still had to think of a way to defeat the enemy. Liu Bao had no idea, so he decided to let Qu Zhiyasi decide: "Although the left wing is infantry, the formation is deep and difficult to break.
Therefore, if you gather your elite troops to fight with the thief knights, break the enemy's right wing, and then surround them, you will have a chance of winning."
With the goal in mind, everyone immediately dispersed and gathered together the Hun knights who were shooting in all directions. Before the two wings of the Liang army were completely encircled, nearly a thousand knights united. After a while to adjust the formation, Liu Bao shot a dysprosium into the sky as a trumpet, and the sound
Like cloth suddenly torn apart, the knights galloped to the right like rabbits.
At this time, the right wing of the Liang army was led by Zhang Ji's brother-in-law, Zou Ming. He was leading the cavalry to wreak havoc among the infantry of the merged army, trying to rescue Zhang Xiu, who was heavily surrounded by the merged army. Just when the two met, they
Hearing the sharp whistle of Liu Bao's command, everyone turned their eyes and squinted, and then discovered that among the loose Hun knights, some of them had formed a cavalry formation at some unknown time and were galloping towards them.
This group of Huns all held three arrows in their fingers and one in their mouths, like wild men who were born with arrows in their bodies. When they entered the cavalry's range, their hands intertwined like lightning and flint, and the bowstring seemed to move, leaving some
Afterimages, a dense line of arrows rained down from the sky. But before the Liang army could react, they shot two more and three arrows. They only paused slightly when they replaced the arrows in their mouths, but before the Liang army counterattacked
, and also shot the fourth arrow.
No matter how thick the armor is, there is no reason why it will not be injured under the four-fold rain of arrows. The Liangqi facing them were all shot down almost in an instant, and a gap was immediately opened in the long battle line.<
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The Hun knights didn't give Liang Qi a chance to react. They dropped their bows and arrows, pulled out their only knives, shouted killing sounds, and ran into the wasteland after the arrows were flooded.