From the last moment of the noon meal to now it is close to the third quarter of the day, almost an hour and a half has passed.
The warm autumn sunshine shines on the earth, the sky is blue, and the fish-scale clouds seem to indicate that the weather conditions in the future will not be very good.
But no matter what, at least today is a nice day with crisp autumn air. It is suitable for an outing in the countryside, and it is also suitable for burying corpses, fighting and killing people.
Guan Yu's army was dispersed long ago because it charged too fiercely. Each department often divided into large groups or banqu units to chase Yuan's army who escaped, and also allocated some manpower to guard the prisoners.
Therefore, even if the vanguard army is included, there are less than 7,000 people following Guan Yu. Two thousand of them are the vanguard army of Guan Ping and Guan Hai, and they also separated some people to recruit the surrendered troops.
For the Qingzhou Army, they actually don't care about the number of soldiers. In ancient times, fighting relied not on the number of soldiers, but on the indomitable momentum.
Therefore, they value more elites who are not afraid of death and dare to fight tough battles.
It was just that they were in a narrow official road, and they were ambushed by the enemy. They were still at a disadvantage of nearly three times the number. For Guan Yu, this was definitely not good news.
The battle had just begun, but a series of casualties occurred due to a hail of arrows.
In fact, it was not that Guan Yu and Chen Mu were not vigilant. When they approached the ambush point nearby, they had already sent out soldiers to search for the enemy to see if they could find the enemy's hiding place.
But when Qin Yan and others were conducting investigations before, these places had been controlled and no one could approach them within a radius of several kilometers. Although the approximate location of the enemy was known through the captured cavalry, even if it could be determined, it was not that simple.
Because based on the calculation of four people standing per square meter, in the future, 7.4 billion people in the world will only need to occupy an area of less than 2,000 square kilometers. The surrounding three or four square kilometers of land will be more than enough to hide 20,000 people.
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Therefore, the Luoyang Army actually didn't know the specific position of the enemy's team, when they would come out, or how they would come out. They only knew that what they had to do now was to kill them all and bulldoze the enemy.
Cuiyun Mountain stretches for several kilometers, and there are dense jungles on both sides of the official road. The sudden attack did not disrupt the Luoyang Army's offensive rhythm. After a short period of chaos, everyone began to arrange in an orderly manner.
Teams of sword and shield bearers rushed to the front, blocking the entire official road. The densely packed soldiers lined up in a crowded queue, blocking the continuous rain of arrows from the wooden shields.
Yes, except for the shield bearers who lined up on the spot to deal with the cavalry, the shields of most sword and shield bearers were made of wood.
This is because the iron shield is too heavy and heavy. The role of the shield hand is for close combat. Carrying an iron shield of more than ten kilograms and a ring-shou knife, it is estimated that he will fall down from exhaustion after only a few cuts.
But even a wooden shield is more than enough to block arrows.
After several rounds of arrow rain, the wooden shield almost turned into a hedgehog. Except for a few unlucky ones, most of the soldiers barely received any damage and dropped their shields to prepare for battle.
Under the leadership of Yan Liang, Yuan Jun fought his way out of the ambush point. The mountains and plains were full of enemies. They came from the mountains and forests, from both sides of the road, from the bank of the creek to the west, or from the end of the road. They seemed to come from a steady stream.
Continuously.
Guan Hai stood at the front of the queue, looking at the enemies who were getting closer and closer. There was a hint of indifference in his solemn eyes. A battle of ten or twenty thousand people was nothing in the eyes of a veteran like him.
Because when he followed Zhang Jiao to fight everywhere, not to mention 10,000 or 20,000 people, even 200,000 people, as far as he could see, there were huge crowds of people fighting, so it was not like he had never experienced a war.
"Prepare!"
Guan Hai roared, then waved the military flag: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The thundering roar spread across the sky.
The armies of both sides collided together like two torrents. In an instant, they were on their backs and fought fiercely together.
The sounds of fighting, the banging of weapons, the grunting and hissing of people when swords and guns penetrate flesh... all kinds of sounds filled the entire battlefield.
"A gap has been opened on the right! Go to the two teams! Enter."
Guan Yu calmly directed the battle from the rear. The terrain was indeed narrow, so that the battle was no longer limited to the official road. The grass and woods on the left and right became areas for soldiers to fight.
As a commander, fighting on the battlefield is not Guan Yu's only advantage. In addition to his strong force value, he is also an excellent commander.
Don’t forget, in the Battle of Jingzhou, it was Guan Yu who led the Jingzhou army to flood Fancheng, which shocked China.
The gap on the right was quickly filled by new soldiers, and there were more soldiers in the rear who had not yet participated in the battle. In a battle like this, both sides were fighting not only for consumption, but also for who could have the courage to persevere.
The soldiers at the front of both sides fell like wheat, and the reserves at the back quickly came up to replace them, and a steady stream of troops were hedging.
Chen Mu is further away, and his black armor heavy cavalry will be the last resort.
However, the cruelty of the war still exceeded everyone's imagination. The warm autumn sunshine spread warmly on the earth, and the slow willow wind carried the rich smell of blood and the faint fragrance of wild flowers and wild grass, lingering faintly in everyone's nose.
On such a crisp autumn day, the air was indeed filled with the smell of blood and stirring dust. With the support of Yuan Jun's powerful troops, the Luoyang Army's casualties had reached a critical point.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Yan Liang took the lead and chopped down two Luoyang Army soldiers. He turned around and saw the soldiers all over the mountains and plains behind him. He then saw that the Luoyang Army had been retreating steadily after the attack of the army, and he couldn't help laughing proudly.
If you win at this time, then the previous defeat will be nothing. As long as you defeat Guan Yu, it is best to kill him, and the Luoyang army will soon be overturned.
But before he could be proud for too long, the sound of "dong dong dong" came from the distance, like hundreds of elephants running on the ground.
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People in the Han Dynasty were no strangers to elephants, because elephants still existed in Henan before the Song Dynasty.
From the Yin, Shang, Wu and Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yangyuan Basin in Hebei and the lower reaches of the Yellow River were the distribution areas of Asian elephants. At that time, many noble tombs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties contained ivory burial objects.
After the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, Asian elephants gradually moved south, probably between the Huaihe River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, that is, from Henan to Jiangsu.
"Jiang Biao Zhuan" also records the story of Sun Quan giving an elephant to Cao Cao, which is the origin of Cao Chong's nickname.
But it's not strange at all. Most of the soldiers have never seen this thing with their own eyes. Nowadays, elephants can only be found in Henan and other places. It would not be unusual for Yuan Shu to get more than a dozen elephants, but this is Yuan Shao's territory.
The coming elephant?
There were still a large number of Yuan troops in the rear who had not participated in the battle. After discovering that something was wrong, Cen Bi, who was in charge of the command, immediately sent people to conduct reconnaissance. After a while, the reconnaissance personnel came back with pale faces.
"what happened?"
Cen Bi asked.
The scout trembled and said: "Enemies, many enemies are coming from the north."
"What?"
Cen Bi was shocked: "How is this possible? That is the direction of Yecheng!"
"A villain dare not lie, it is absolutely true."
The scout responded quickly.
Cen Bi secretly thought something was wrong and immediately rectified his soldiers and prepared to face the enemy.
But before he could mobilize his soldiers, countless dense black spots appeared at the end of the road in the distance.
These soldiers seemed to be a unit. They lined up in neat steps and moved forward slowly. With every step they took, the ground trembled, like an earthquake.
Ju Yi was already good at training soldiers. Combined with Chen Mu's square formation, he trained soldiers every day. He practiced for a full year in just one formation.
Even in the cold winter months, the soldiers were forced to take off their clothes and march towards the river because of military orders. Before there was no military order to stop them, they had to go down even if they were walking towards the river.
For this reason, as many as a hundred soldiers were killed. Because most of these soldiers were unorganized and undisciplined Montenegrin troops, and there were many who disobeyed military orders.
However, they belong to the Montenegrin Army. After surrendering to the imperial court, they have no background and no foundation, so they can be easily manipulated. As long as they agree to allocate fields to them and win over their upper-level generals, there will be no rebellion.
Otherwise, if the Han Dynasty had replaced the Liangjiazi who were drafted in peacetime wars and used severe torture to train troops, I am afraid that it would have been a disaster long ago. Because in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, the court regarded Liangjiazi as elite soldiers, and Liangjiazi was the middle class.
Therefore, in order to train these Black Mountain troops who were from low-level untouchables and had been classified as rebels by the court, Ju Yi still put in a lot of effort, at least in terms of military appearance, they had already taken on a completely new look.
At the beginning, his first-death soldiers also followed the same rules and prohibitions. The only question was whether they could still meet the requirements in terms of actual combat.
It’s not like these Montenegrin troops haven’t seen blood. Many of them have fought hard battles with the imperial court, other Montenegrin troops, and various princes and warlords. But after forming an army, they have been in a state of training. Can they fight like the first to die?
Fame is still unknown.
Today is the time to test their training results.
"Shield up!"
Only thirty steps away from the enemy, Ju Yi ordered the soldiers in the front row to prepare for battle.
Almost as soon as he gave the order, the sword and shield wielder at the front raised the wooden shield in his hand, formed a neat team, and erected the shields at the front.
"shoot!"
Another hoarse command came out.
More than a thousand powerful crossbows were launched almost simultaneously, and overwhelming arrows fell like raindrops, shooting headlong at Yuan Jun who had not yet organized his military formation, and immediately killed thousands of Yuan Jun who had just organized in Cenbi.
"rush!"
With the last order, charge forward!
The soldiers in front are exactly what Ju Yi modeled after the soldiers who climbed up first. The soldiers who climbed up first were 1,800 soldiers. There were 800 soldiers with swords and shields in the front, and a thousand strong crossbowmen behind them.
The sword and shield bearer is responsible for protecting the crossbowmen. After the crossbowmen disrupt the enemy's formation with a volley of fire, the sword and shield bearer then goes up to kill them.
In an instant, the entire Yuan Army's backyard was in chaos. No one expected that a huge army would appear behind their home. The chaos swept through the entire Yuan Army formation and began to spread to the front line.
The battle of tens of thousands of people lasted for several miles. The Yuan army led by Yan Liang, who was farthest from the rear, did not even know that there was a crisis in the rear and was still fighting to the death.
Among the rebellious army, the Luoyang army was already at a disadvantage in numbers and was somewhat defeated. Many soldiers seemed to have turned into bloody men. After their strength was exhausted, they had to start to retreat. Corpses or body parts were scattered everywhere on the ground, and blood
Infected the entire earth.
No one went to clean up the battlefield. The corpses of his comrades and the corpses of the enemy were mixed together, and their faces could no longer be seen clearly. Even Guan Hai had several stains on his body. He was slashed with a knife on the right side of his face, and the blood stained his face.
The entire right side of the face was covered, and the two red flesh strips on the side of the wound were clearly visible.
By the time of the third quarter of the day, the war had lasted for more than an hour. The soldiers on both sides, both those who had been fighting and the generals who took the lead, were exhausted. Guan Yu had been sitting on his horse and directing the entire battle.
His orders almost never stopped, and wars were happening in all directions, including the groves to the east, the riverside to the west, the grasslands, fields, and vegetable gardens on both sides of the official road. Sometimes he would ask his personal guards to come over to help.
Sometimes people would rescue injured soldiers, and more often than not, they would constantly send fresh troops to fill the vacancies on the battlefield.
In the past, Chen Mu was responsible for coordinating the overall situation, but everyone will grow. Guan Yu has been fighting in the north and south for many years, and he has the ability to command. It is obviously inappropriate for him to be a general who charges into battle.
"Bring me my knife!"
At this moment, Guan Yu finally couldn't bear it anymore and prepared to take action himself.
Less than a hundred steps away from him, more than a thousand dead soldiers led by Yan Liang broke through numerous obstacles and almost reached him. If they did not fight at this time, they would have no choice but to withdraw their troops.
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Two Yuan soldiers sneak-attacked a Luoyang soldier and pushed him down on the downhill ground next to the official road. He was covered in mud. One of them was about to chop with a knife, but the silver blade swiped across him. His blood surged instantly, killing the two men.
kill.
The clawed yellow flying lightning passed through the crowd like a phantom. Yuan Jun and Luoyang Jun heard the sound of galloping horses and raised their heads to look. When they saw the green robe passing by, they quickly got out of the way.
For a moment, the difference between the two was clear, and even Yuan Jun did not dare to use his sword to stop him.
In the distance, Yan Liang, who was riding around on horseback and killing people, caught a glimpse of Guan Yu running toward him from afar, and shouted: "Well done."
After that, he rode his horse and charged.
Yuan's army has yet to win with nearly 20,000 troops, thanks to Guan Yu's continuous command and adjustment of defensive posture.
Despite Yuan's army's momentum, the Luoyang army was retreating steadily, but in terms of casualties, Yuan's army suffered greater losses, with almost four to five thousand dead and wounded, while the Luoyang army suffered less than half.
It was because Yan Liang had been leading people into the battle that he had fought against both Guan Ping and Guan Hai, and the wound on Guan Hai's right cheek was caused by him.
Guan Yu, on the other hand, has been directing operations from the rear, and from time to time sends people to seize positions and strengthen defense.
Without organization or discipline, they just rush and kill randomly.
The other one was organized and disciplined, and although the number was small, they were united together, which naturally made Yuan Jun's battle very difficult.
But now that Guan Yu is fighting in person and there is no one to command from the rear, it should be much easier to fight.
Yan Liang felt that as long as Guan Yu was held back, the battle would be won.
The two sides quickly passed each other with their horses, and after a close turn, they quickly turned their horses and fought fiercely together. In an instant, they had fought for seven or eight rounds.
Without Zhu Huang Feidian's charge and Guan Yu's powerful and heavy first three sword strikes, Yan Liang would not have been defeated so easily.
Dust was flying on both sides, and no one dared to approach within a few steps.
After a while, the fight between the two sides was in full swing.
Someone suddenly shouted: "We have lost, we have lost."
The sound was very small at first, but slowly, for some reason, it got louder and louder, coming like an overwhelming force.
"What failed?"
Many people were still confused about the situation and turned around to look around.
However, they saw that behind Yuan Jun, a large number of rebel troops continued to push forward. The originally small battlefield instantly became overcrowded, and countless people slipped and fell down the small slope on the right side of the official road because of too many people.
More Yuan Jun jumped off the small slope, burrowed into the dense thorns and basil bushes, and headed into Cuiyun Mountain. Or they headed toward the small river in the west, hoping to cross the river and escape.
Before Yuan Jun on the front line could recover and understand what was going on, they saw a terrifying scene——
Behind those rebel troops, countless Luoyang troops were rushing forward to kill them.
They shouted slogans and kept rushing forward.
The entire battlefield seemed to be filled with the Luoyang Army, whose troops had been routed by the Yuan Army in the rear and were already overflowing the mountains and plains!
"General, it's not good. We were attacked in the rear and our army was defeated."
Yuan Jun on the front line saw this scene and quickly shouted to Yan Liang.
Yan Liang heard the sound, sat on his horse and looked back, and saw that less than a mile away from them, countless Yuan Jun and the rushing Luoyang Army were mixed together, like a ball of meat paste, indistinguishable from each other.
Many people were running, and more were chasing behind. The entire front of Yuan's army had been scattered by the defeated troops in the rear, and it was no longer possible to form a strength advantage over Guan Yu's army.
"What?"
Seeing this scene, Yan Liang was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse.
Xun You made it very clear about his weakness: when the situation is not good, he is prone to panic.
It was this glance back that killed him.
How could Yan Liang have imagined that so many Luoyang troops would appear in his rear and defeat his rear? He was instantly panicked.
At this moment, I suddenly felt the wind blowing in my ears, and then the sound of a knife cutting into flesh.
"Pfft!"
Yan Liang's entire head flew high into the air, and blood splattered twenty feet high.
Until his death, he remained seated on the horse, still sitting from the neck down, with his head flying in the sky, but his face was still full of disbelief.
No one knew whether he couldn't believe he died like this, or whether he couldn't believe the collapse at his rear.
But his death brought a complete defeat.
"Failed, defeated!"
"surrender!"
"Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
The army was defeated like a mountain.
The battle that lasted for more than two hours ended quickly with the arrival of Ju Yijun and Yan Liang's death.
A large number of Yuan's troops dropped their weapons and knelt down like an overwhelming force.
More Yuan troops fled in all directions like messy sparks.
Guan Yu withdrew the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, looked at Yan Liang's body with squinted eyes, and said calmly: "Bury him and Na Wen Chou together."
"only!"
The personal guards were ordered to carry Yan Liang's body, but the horse stayed where it was without the owner's order.
Guan Hai looked at the moment of silence in the audience, suddenly raised the knife in his hand, and roared: "Big man, Wan Sheng!"
"Big man, ten thousand victories!"
All the Luoyang troops raised their swords and declared victory in the war.
In this battle, the Jizhou army suffered heavy losses, and its prosperity declined!