At this time, the wind was blowing rapidly toward the southeast, rolling up the snow on the ground, and the snow was flying like flakes, flying all over the sky. Even if the moonlight was bright, and you could see as far as you could see, it was only a hundred steps away. The formation of the Shu army was less than 100 meters away.
It is also several miles long, and the two ends cannot be distinguished in the snow. Five miles away, the Duanliu Plain is more like an isolated island in a snowy night, invisible in the vast wind. Only the soldiers of the Liang Army are advancing forward, because their armor is covered with paint.
It turns out to be black, but it stands out among the blinding white.
The Liang people rode horses in iron armor and held long swords as the front line. They galloped for hundreds of steps and approached the Shu army's left wing. At this time, the distance was extremely close. The current Liang army cavalry was squeezed by the Shu people's charging infantry, leaving no room for them to stretch out and fight.
In order to avoid wasting horsepower, Zhang Liao ordered the heavy cavalry in the front line to dismount and fight on foot, and then charge forward after the formation was stable.
Seeing someone from the Liang army dismounting, the Shu army immediately asked their troops to press forward. At the front of the strict formation were the Shu army's archers. They rushed forward one after another and took turns shooting arrows at the Liang people.
Facing the rain of arrows, Liang Ren did not immediately break into the enemy's formation. The Sima at the head raised his sword high and ordered his soldiers to stop. They stuck the long sword and sword in the snow, took off the bows they had carried along the way, and used them as a curved bow.
As the Liang people's temporary battle line gradually formed, their sharp arrows drifted along the wind towards the Shu army's formation.
Due to the blowing wind and snow, it was difficult for the Shu army's bows to be effective. When the bows were fired, it was as if they were caught in the rolling snow waves. Pretending to have thick armor, the damage caused was even less. Some people were also shot.
Those who missed the face or even the eyes were scattered on the ground, kneeling or huddled on the snow. But the Liang people had a favorable wind after all, and the arrows they fired caused greater damage to the Shu army. For a time, the arrow rain that the Shu people attacked was significantly weakened.
However, Liang Ren didn't bring many arrows, so he shot them all quickly.
The Liang people stopped to shoot arrows. On the one hand, they relied on the favorable wind to weaken the front of the Shu people. More importantly, they allowed the soldiers in thick armor to take a breather and regain some energy. They had been running around all day today, even if they were riding horses.
The famous Liang people couldn't help but feel a little tired. Now that they were wearing heavy armor and the snow was deep, it was even more strenuous.
The only advantage Liang Ren had was that the strong wind blew up the snow, making the battle formation difficult to distinguish. In this case, it was beneficial to the attacker. Just as the rain of arrows fired by Liang Ren disappeared, with a burst of shouting,
The Liang soldiers mounted their horses and drew their weapons and charged. The flying snow was still flying, and the roars of the Liang soldiers sounded as if they were coming slowly from a distance. When countless black-armored enemies with arrows stuck on their fronts and saddles suddenly jumped in
Before his eyes, it was too late for the Shu army archers to think about retreating. At this critical moment of life and death, most of the archers still performed extremely bravely. At the last moment when Liang Ren approached, many of them seized the opportunity to shoot the last arrow. Hesitantly
The distance was extremely close, and the armor-piercing arrows with slender tips immediately knocked the group of cool people in front of them to the ground.
Then it turned into a short massacre for the Liang people to vent their anger. The Liang people who entered the battle waved their swords, and the Shu archers who were crowded in front were unable to fight back. In a moment, they were all chopped down, and their red blood was soaked in the white snow.
The covered earth is like flowers rendered on white paper, and it also looks particularly conspicuous in the night.
The first force of the Liang army to attack was the elite Fuping army of the Liangzhou army, which was under the command of Wei Xu and Yan Cheng. Together with the Mengshi battalion commanded by Zhang Liao's own formation, there were more than 5,000 men in total. They were all elites in hundreds of battles. Especially the Mengshi camp.
The soldiers camp was built by Zhang Liao carefully selecting from the northern land. The soldiers among them were all strong, brave and good at fighting.
Zhang Liao followed Chen Chongli to fight against the Huns, and then went from Dingyuan to Luoyang. He was highly used by Dong Zhuo and participated in the Battle of Heqiao, the Battle of Shaanxi County, the Battle of Gaoling, and the Battle of Chang'an, not to mention the subsequent battles in Liangzhou, almost
He must follow every battle and is known for his bravery and quick wit. He has just turned thirty now, but he is already a famous general in Kansai.
Before heading into the battle, Zhang Liao knew that this was a fierce battle that was rare in his life. Without the determination to die, there would be no chance of victory. Therefore, he had thought about the danger of dying in battle many times: either falling off his horse and dying, or being surrounded.
Or he would be shot in the eyes by Chuan. After this, his eyes revealed a cruel and desperate spirit. When he walked to the front line, even the cool people around him couldn't help but look at him with fear.
Zhang Liao wears an iron bag on his head, a collar covering his neck, and a bright iron armor. He has an iron ring chainmail under his waist armor and goes to his knees. He wears deerskin riding boots on his feet. His whole body is painted like a black tower. Clean up the current
After the archers, Zhang Liao immediately rode his horse into the enemy formation and led his troops to fight with the Shu army's infantry formation. The Shu army did not know what was blocking them, but they were the most elite troops under Lu Bu's command. Facing the powerful enemy who was wearing heavy armor and fighting to the death, the formation was blocked.
Continuous attacks are scattered.
The Shu people couldn't resist, so they retreated and tried to reorganize their front. However, the Liang people regarded death as if they were going home. Regardless of the arrow missing, they rushed forward blindly. They broke through the temporary defense line of the Shu people many times and finally defeated most of the resistance.
All the Shu people rushed to the formation in the south. The Shu people were crowded together and did not form a stable battle line.
Before Wei Xu entered the battle, he was shot in the mouth by a Shu man. His mouth was full of broken teeth, but fortunately no vital parts were hurt. He spit out the broken teeth, held the bloody arrow shaft horizontally in his mouth, and penetrated deep into the Shu man's formation.
Fighting. In the tight siege, the Shu people fought with their swords and swords, the Liang people fought desperately, and the soldiers around Wei Xu gradually fell to death. In the end, only eight warriors were left. When they dispersed the Shu people who were still in front, they realized that they had penetrated deep into the Shu people.
After the military formation.
Wei Xu secretly thought, the general asked us to squeeze the Shu army to the southeast. Now the Shu formation has been pierced by me, but I only have seven people. I don’t know where General Wenyuan is next? What should I do? I am hesitating.
At that time, he saw a Shu general riding a black horse, led by a follower, withdrawing from the fighting formation. Upon seeing this, Wei Xu immediately rode towards the Shu general with a sword. When the follower saw it, he hurriedly let go of the bridle and pulled the horse.
The sword in his hand stabbed at Wei Xu.
Wei Xu slashed his sword across the pole, cut off his spear pole, forced him forward and stabbed him to the ground with the tip of the knife. People surrounded the white horse, pulled the man off the horse, and pinned him on the snow. They asked him about his life and learned that
A Sima of the Shu Army named Zhao Min, who was from Dianjiang, asked him about the layout of the Shu Army's formations, but he refused to tell him, so Wei Xu beheaded him, wrapped his head with a cloth, and carried it in his hand.<
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They were preparing to return to the formation to kill Shun, but they found that Zhang Liao also led hundreds of people to fight out of the formation. The sword held by Zhang Liao had many gaps. He took off the sword and dismounted, holding a broken sword.
He sat on the snow to rest. When he saw Wei Xu, he said to him with a strange look on his face: "That shouldn't be the case. Although the Shu army has a good fighting spirit, I fought along the way and didn't meet any real elites. Could it be that they all
On the right wing?"
But after thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure it out, so he put this doubt aside and sent an envoy to reply to Lu Bu, suggesting that he break through as planned.
Because the wind was blowing snowflakes, Lu Bu's location was not at a high place. He did not immediately see Liang Ren rush through the gap. He was still waiting anxiously for news from Zhang Liao ahead.
But in the formation of the Shu army, the situation was different. Liu Fan temporarily built a high platform in the formation, and observed the battlefield situation from the platform. Although the night was bright and dark, and there was snow and fog drifting, it felt obscure.
, but he can still clearly see the current anxious situation on the Liang Army front.
The center and right wing of the Shu army did not move, and neither did the curved left wing of the Liang army. The left wing of the Shu army, due to the full force of the Liang people, collapsed towards the rear and east. The large army with yellow flags and yellow armor originally
On the left wing of the formation, a torrent of black armor was embedded, which had almost cut off the left arm of the Shu army. Especially the Shu army, which was isolated to the southeast, the infantry were mixed together and retreated steadily under the fierce attack of the Liang people.
This makes the collapse tend to gradually expand.
But Liu Fan's face was not panicked. He formed a formation to treat each other here, so he was naturally well prepared, but he did not use his long right wing to outflank the Liang people. He remained cautious about this.
Consideration, because once the attack is launched across the entire front, and the Liang army who is watching the battle on Wei Yuan then outflanks them, the situation on the battlefield will be difficult to predict.
Now that he saw Liang Jun opening a gap on his left wing, Liu Fan's intention towards Lu Bu was completely clear. If he really allowed him to outflank his formation, the situation might indeed take a turn for the worse. However, he already had a strategy to deal with it.
It was not yet time to make complete preparations, so he thought for a moment and called a young general who was sitting next to him to rest. It was Gan Ning.
In a slow and calm tone, Liu Fan pointed out to him the dangers faced by the left wing and the main formation. Then he said to him: "It will still take some time for Gong Heng to be in position. You will lead all the cavalry under your command.
You must delay time and don't let the rebel army expand its breach. Are you confident?" He also asked: "Did you get hurt in the previous challenge with the enemy general?"
Gan Ning smiled calmly and said: "I was not injured. Although the man took away my spear, I took the opportunity to stab him. If we can fight again this time, I am afraid he will not be able to defeat me."
After Gan Ning responded to the order, he immediately summoned all the mobile knights waiting in front of the formation, about two thousand in total. Since the confrontation with Lu Bu, the knights had been waiting in armor, so there was almost no time to delay. As soon as Gan Ning came out of the formation,
These knights followed and rushed out, immediately rushing towards the collapsed left wing in the southwest.
Just when the Shu people mobilized their cavalry, trying to counterattack the Liang people who entered the battle and fill the gap. Lu Bu, who had been waiting for news in the Liang army's formation, finally received the news from Zhang Liao's messenger. Hearing that the front attack
The soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, and had already broken through the left wing of the Shu people. Lu Bu stood up from his seated Mazha.
Seeing the general standing up, the knights who had been sitting in the snow to rest all stood up one after another, staring at their lord, waiting for him to give orders.
Lu Bu stretched out his hand and asked the slave to hand the Zhongxing sword he was carrying to his hand. He pulled the sword out of its sheath. Under the moonlight, the sword's blade showed bursts of cold light, and several pieces were blown up by the wind.
The remaining snow falls on the sword, and you can see the two characters "Zhongxing" engraved on it in small seal script. These two characters were written and engraved on it by the late emperor himself.
Lu Bu's face was solemn, but he was praying secretly in his heart: "This sword was made by the late emperor and given by your majesty. It has been with me in the battle for six years. Finally, today is the decisive battle. I hope that this time I can also wish me success!"
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The second tong drum was played in the Liang army formation. This was the signal for General Lu Bu to command the motorized cavalry to charge into the Shu army's breach. What he didn't know was that Gan Ning, covered in brocade bells, was leading the Shu army's motorized cavalry to charge into the formation.
The Liang Army's heavy cavalry. Both sides have only a few thousand troops, but whoever arrives first and seizes the gap will most likely determine the fate of the soldiers on both sides in this battle.