The river embankment was lined with high-level defense areas for several miles, and densely packed Jizhou troops gathered on the embankment, overlooking the plain area below.
In fact, this place is not considered a river embankment, it is still two miles away from the river beach.
If you have observed both sides of some large rivers, you will find that there is not only a distance from the river beach to the river bank, but also a high vertical height up and down. The larger the river, the greater the height.
Gao Lan's camp is located on the slope bank on the right side of the boundary bridge, and the defense area here is still one mile away from the camp, which is an extremely vast slope.
Because it is above the slope and the area is relatively large, there are many areas to defend.
First there is the plain area on the west side, and then there is the river beach in the rear. If Zhang Liao does not plan to fight with him on the west side, the Qingzhou Army may come around from the river beach on the west side and attack from behind the Jizhou Army.
Therefore, Gao Lan had a certain reason for mobilizing all the archers from the east side back to the west side defense area. In addition to dealing with the enemy's main force, he also had to prevent being stolen.
But what he didn't know was that Zhang Liao did not immediately lead the army to attack at this time, but only started to move down the west slope.
On the far side of the slope, the positions of both sides were still about three kilometers apart. The boundless Qingzhou Army moved to the left like a black cloud. Their entire formation was spread out, making it look like there were countless ants in the wilderness.
The black spots are spreading.
If Gao Lan abandons his position at this time and directly leads his army to charge downward, Zhang Liao's army will not have time to make temporary adjustments to its formation, and there is a high possibility that the brave and capable Wan Sheng army will be defeated directly.
Unfortunately, Gao Lan did not observe the enemy's situation above the bank at this time. He judged that the enemy would attack from the west, so while ordering the archers in ambush on the east side to move to the west, his general flag also began to move to the west.
, perform position changes simultaneously.
Fighter planes are inherently fleeting. By the time Gao Lan ran to the west bank, Zhang Liao's army had already begun to prepare for formation below the west bank. The distance between the two sides was only two kilometers.
distance.
"Stand in line and pay attention to the formation. You have lined up eight hundred times and still can't remember it. Do you have no brains?"
"Everyone, remember, our Wansheng Army's formation has only one formation, and that is the triangular cone formation. All the commanders and commanders of each camp should come to the top of the formation and follow me forward!"
"Hurry up."
The distance of two kilometers seems very far, but tens of thousands of people can't form a formation in a short while, so even if they are far away, they must set up the formation in advance. Under the scolding and command of officers at all levels, Wan Sheng
The army acted quickly.
Zhang Liao doesn't know any other battle formations, or in other words, if he is asked to choose one battle formation to train soldiers every day, he will and will only choose one - the triangular awl formation!
This formation is extremely common in war, but it itself is the most effective and powerful attack formation.
Under the urging of the officers, the battlefield seemed to become extremely chaotic. There was a flurry of chaos, the sounds of soldiers running quickly, the shouts of officers, the collision of armors, and the friction of weapons.
, the crunching sound of iron pieces filled the entire battlefield.
Even the sand dunes under the low slope on the west side were splashed with a lot of dust because of the soldiers crossing. Standing on the slope, Yuan Jun only saw the Qingzhou Army running back and forth, bumping around like ants, but with a
A hint of orderliness.
The yellow dust mist gradually rose, and the Jizhou Army on the slope also began to deploy their defenses. All the spear and shield bearers and sword shield bearers came to the front, and the archers began to arrange formations at the rear.
Although the slope on the west side is shorter, it extends all the way to the east and still has a certain height, which gives it some advantages.
At this moment, Zhang Liao is at the front of the team. This is the fine tradition of Wan Shengjun.
When charging, the entire Wansheng Army will be arranged into five large square formations and ten small square formations. Each small square formation is composed of two pieces, arranged into a conical formation, and is led by the leader. Each large square formation
A combination of two small square formations, led by the Army Sima and the school lieutenant, finally formed a super cone formation, with Zhang Liao at the forefront.
So if you look at the entire Wan Sheng Army from across from Zhang Liao, you will see Zhang Liao standing at the front of the team. Behind him and on both wings are countless soldiers holding spears spread out diagonally, like a pyramid, roaring towards
The enemy rushes past.
And at the pass where everyone was still forming formation, the scouts sent by Zhang Liao earlier hurried back, almost without even looking at the location of the general's flag, they ran straight to the forefront of the army and found Zhang Liao's position.
"General."
The scout captain dismounted and saw Zhang Liao checking his equipment and tying the protective gear on his legs. He knelt down on one knee and reported: "There is new enemy information."
Zhang Liao raised his head and glanced at him: "What's going on?"
"It's just as the general expected."
The scout captain replied: "The enemy ambushed a large number of archers behind the east slope. We sneaked around from the right side and climbed to a small hillside. We saw the archers of the Jizhou Army moving west."
Zhang Liao nodded. Since the glass products have not yet reached the level of complete transparency, Chen Mu selected the best East China Sea crystal and asked the craftsmen to polish eight telescopes. The four brothers Liu, Guan, Zhang and Chen each had one in their hands, and the rest were distributed to
He had several generals, and Zhang Liao had one in his hands.
He had vaguely guessed that the enemy had an ambush on the east slope, so he gave the scout captain the telescope in his hand and asked him to take a long detour through the hills and undulating wilderness on the east side to investigate the high ground.
The situation on the ground.
As a result, the scout captain happened to see the scene where Gao Lan transferred all the archers behind the slope. Human heads with long bows in their hands and quivers on their backs appeared behind the slope. They were all detected by the scouts on the hill with binoculars.
.
This is undoubtedly very important news, because the archers have been transferred, which means that there are only a few watchtowers used for reconnaissance on the eastern slope, and there is almost no defensive capability.
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When Lieutenant General Wang Hu saw Zhang Liao's smile, his little mind turned around and he suddenly had some ideas.
Zhang Liao smiled and said: "Huzi, you are quite smart."
"The general will go where he wishes!"
Wang Hu was refreshed. This was a great job. If the raid was successful, he would be able to help the frontal troops defeat Gao Lan's army, which would be their first achievement!
However, Zhang Liao shook his head and said: "I have to do this. Wang Hu, you take my place as the cone head."
"General..."
Wang Hu still wanted to say something, but he had to fight for himself after all.
But Zhang Liao said: "I'm not afraid that you will take the credit, but this matter is of great importance. If we can't disrupt the enemy's flanks in one battle, the people who attack will not only be wiped out, but also may make this battle unwinnable."
, so I must go!”
"Okay, Yui!"
Wang Hu had no choice but to accept it. In fact, he also knew that risks and rewards were directly proportional. Although if the raid could succeed, it would definitely be the first success, but this time, it would also be a narrow escape.
Because the enemy also has a watchtower, although he cannot see as far as a telescope, he will still be seen if he gets close and cannot hide well.
At that time, you will only be a small force. Once discovered, you will immediately be surrounded by a large army.
On a frontal battlefield, tens of thousands of people versus tens of thousands of people. In a real fight, the risk is actually far less dangerous than a surprise attack with a small group of troops. Because the number of people is not much different, and we cooperate with each other, you have helpers and I have helpers, so there will be no danger.
There is a huge disparity in the number of people.
As for the sneak attack of a small force, if you lead a thousand people, you may have to face the siege of thousands of people. It is difficult for two fists to defeat four people. Even if it is not noticed by the watchtower, a thousand people can attack tens of thousands of people.
When an army rushes into battle, it is no different than risking death.
Therefore, after comparing the force gap between himself and the general, Wang Hu had no choice but to give up this task, no longer asked Zhang Liao to hand over this task to him, and honestly chose to lead the team in the formation.
Zhang Liao left behind his general flag and assigned tasks to several generals under his command. Then he led his personal guards and began to shuttle through the crowd to the back row of the formation.
He doesn't have many personal guards, only 500 of them. They are the best elite soldiers in the entire Wansheng Army. Each one of them can equal one to ten, and they are very powerful.
This time, he did not plan to bring too many people with him when he raided the enemy's rear. Because the enemy also set up many watchtowers and some scattered soldiers on the east highland. If there were too many people, it would be easy to expose the target, so he naturally traveled lightly.
A little is better.
The group of people went around the back of their house, using the waist-high weeds and basil in the wilderness, the high and low slopes, or the cover of forest trees to escape from their own military formation without anyone noticing.
Even the vast majority of soldiers don't know that their general has left, because the general's flag is still there, and ordinary soldiers pay more attention to the general's flag than to a specific person.
In fact, Zhang Liao had a great risk in leaving his flag behind. If several generals such as Wang Hu, who was the leader of the cone, were beheaded by the enemy, and the flag that Wan Shengjun regarded as life was taken away or chopped down by the enemy, for those who are accustomed to beheading,
For the Wansheng Army who captured the flag, it was a devastating blow.
By then, even if Zhang Liao wins on the flank battlefield, once he fails on the front battlefield, the consequences will be catastrophic.
However, before leaving, Zhang Liao had already ordered Wang Hu not to rush into action. After the formation was set up, he would first move slowly to the west slope. After his side launched a surprise attack first to disrupt the enemy's rear formation,
Then launch the attack from the front.
After making arrangements, Zhang Liao also quickly started to circle to the east. Almost all of the five hundred people were hunkering down, trying not to be seen by the enemies on the high slope. Fortunately, due to the desolation for too long, the river on the east side of the boundary bridge
The area was covered with weeds and trees, and the enemy's attention was almost entirely on the main force, so no one noticed them.
Soon the group came to the east slope. There were several hills near the slope. There were some watchtowers above. There was a small forest under the front hill. Zhang Liao waved his hand to the guards behind him: "Here are two thousand."
Follow me, people.”
Immediately, twenty personal guards followed. It was said to be hills, but in fact it was a hill twenty or thirty meters high. Zhang Liao emerged from the woods and took the lead and started running up the mountain. The personal guards behind him quickly followed.
There were people watching from below the watchtower on the hill. Originally, these soldiers had to observe the surroundings and be careful of any movement around them.
But because the Qingzhou Army moved to the west, everyone's attention was focused on that side. The Jizhou Army near the watchtower on the east side was also watching the battlefield there. They should have been on guard at the foot of the mountain and even prepared to light up smoke at any time.
The soldiers who sent the signal were all watching the show on top of the hill.
This is obviously a fatal error.
After a while, Zhang Liao easily eliminated the Jizhou soldiers in this small hill. Not to mention lighting up the smoke, not one of them even shouted out, they were all quietly assassinated.
Next, Zhang Liao followed the same example and cleared all the watchtowers on the surrounding hills before continuing to advance with his guards.
Soon the group of people came to the bottom of the slope. The steep slope was about 20 meters away from the bottom. However, it was not a vertical slope, but had a certain slope, about an angle of 50 degrees. People could completely lean forward or
Climb up using your hands and feet.
There were a large number of archers ambushed on the upper slope. If Zhang Liao chose to attack here, and the Qingzhou army was still climbing the slope, a shower of arrows or rolling stones and trees would come down, even if the entire army was not wiped out, it would not be far off.
Fortunately, Zhang Liao was alert and did not fall for the trap. The defenders on the slope were also not focused on the bottom of the slope. They were watching the Qingzhou Army in the southwest preparing to attack from a distance.
No one noticed that their outer watchtowers had been completely wiped out, and the gods of death had quietly come around them.
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Almost as soon as he climbed up the slope, Zhang Liao, who was rushing at the front, raised the sword in his hand.
Before the Jizhou army on the slope could react, several people were killed in an instant.
The remaining people quickly raised their weapons to resist.
However, there were not many defenders on the slope, less than a few hundred people in total. Wherever Zhang Liao's opponents were, dozens of them were quickly killed, and the others fled in panic.
The east slope is quite far away from the west slope, a full two miles away. There are some Jizhou soldiers in the middle, but the number is not large.
The Jizhou soldiers in front were running, while Zhang Liao led his soldiers to chase after him.
Both sides chased and fled, then rushed towards the rear position of the Jizhou Army at the forefront.
The commotion here quickly attracted the attention of the Jizhou army in front. Some soldiers quickly reported to Gao Lan. Gao Lan quickly turned around and saw two to three thousand Jizhou soldiers walking down the slope on the rear bank.
run.
It turned out that Zhang Liao was chasing and killing all the way, like a snowball, driving down the Jizhou soldiers along the way. Since the rout had already taken shape, even if some soldiers wanted to resist, the defeated soldiers from his side were the first to come over.
As a result, Zhang Liao's five hundred men actually fled in all directions chasing two to three thousand Jizhou soldiers.
"what's the situation?"
Gao Lan was shocked when he saw this scene.
Someone shouted: "There must be Qingzhou troops coming from the slope on the east side of us."
"We can't let them come."
Gao Lan gritted his teeth and said: "They must be stopped. The supervisory team and the guards are coming with me."
After saying that, he turned the horse's head and started running up the slope.
The supervising team and his bodyguards totaled more than a thousand people. As the direction of the general's flag changed, they quickly moved behind him.
When Wang Hu and others at the bottom of the slope saw this, they immediately knew that Zhang Liao had succeeded, and shouted: "Behead the general and seize the flag, who else but me, Wan Shengjun, kill!"
"Wan Shengjun, kill!"
"kill!"
The shocking roar seemed to resound through the sky, and the voices of tens of thousands of people erupted in waves. Although they were not uniform, they still had an overwhelming momentum.
The next second, all Wansheng's troops began to rush up the slope. Yuan's army on the slope also immediately stood up and waited. After a while, the armies of both sides collided like two torrents, and in an instant, people fell on their backs.
Zhang Liao from the rear was also charging into the formation at this time. He did not ride a horse. He held a long sword in his right hand and a short sword in his left hand. He kept slashing and swiping from left to right, killing the defeated soldiers until they cried for their fathers and mothers and kept running away.
Gao Lan was worried that the enemy in the rear would attack his main formation in front, so he personally led the troops to rescue him in order to block this small force from his own formation.
Once the formation is broken up, it is a very terrible thing. Even if the number of enemies is not large, if the Thousand Miles Dike is destroyed in the ant nest, as long as a hole is torn, the entire army will collapse instantly like dominoes.
Of course Gao Lan did not allow this to happen. Even if there were his own defeated troops in front, he would raise his sword and shout: "Behead those who rush into the rear formation!"
Before he finished speaking, the fastest running soldier had already arrived in front of him.
Gao Lan raised his sword and killed several deserters.
The war supervisors and guards were not lenient at all. Facing their comrades, they raised their butcher knives one after another and quickly killed the deserters who rushed towards them. These people either ran to the river embankment behind, or simply jumped down the slope.
Scattered and fled.
The remaining people were caught in the middle and were quickly slaughtered by both sides. There were corpses everywhere on the ground. Before more casualties broke out in the forward positions, hundreds of people were killed and wounded in the rear.
After the defeated troops were killed and dispersed, Zhang Liao and Gao Lan were in close combat. Seeing the towering general's flag, Zhang Liao immediately became energetic and looked at Gao Lan with a solemn gaze.
Gao Lan had already rode his horse into the formation, cutting down two people. He seemed to be aware of it. He turned his head and saw a young general wearing chainmail looking at him. The two sides were about twenty feet away, and he seemed to be able to
See the murderous intent in the young general's eyes.
"This person should be the general leading the team. He is about thirty years old. He is at most a commander or a military commander. That young general like Zhang Liao sent to attack me secretly really insulted me, thinking that I was the Jizhou Army.
Is there no one? But it’s okay, if we kill this person, we can resolve this crisis in an instant.”
Gao Lan thought to himself.
Zhang Liao is two years younger than Chen Mu. He is just 30 years old this year. He looks extremely young and does not have the demeanor of a battlefield general at all.
But few people in the world know that since the fifth year of Zhongping, that is, in 188 AD, Ding Yuan recruited the 19-year-old Zhang Liao into the army. This young general has been on the battlefield for 11 years, which is better than what many veteran generals have experienced.
There will be more wars, and he can be said to be a veteran on the battlefield.
Therefore, it was obviously a huge mistake for Gao Lan to judge Zhang Liao's position and military force by his appearance.
At the same time, Zhang Liao had also discarded the dagger in his hand and gripped the long knife tightly. His knife was specially made, nine feet long and weighing twelve kilograms. Although it was not as heavy as the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, it was
It is characterized by its thinness and extremely sharpness.
Many people don't know that the Heng Dao and Mo Dao of the Tang Dynasty were inherited from the Huanshou Dao of the Han Dynasty. The star-shaped Huanshou Dao is somewhat similar to the Watermelon Dao of later generations, except that it is longer in length.
Zhang Liao's knife is similar to the Mo Dao. The blade is extremely thin and the blade is extremely sharp. It can cut a horse in half!
Gao Lan saw the young general abandoning his dagger and holding a knife with both hands, looking at him with sharp eyes. He suddenly felt that he had been insulted. In a rage, he held his long knife in his hand, clamped the horse's belly, and turned toward Zhang Liao.
Come and kill.
Zhang Liao took a deep breath and still maintained the gesture of holding the knife with both hands.
The blade is thin but sharp.
But if the material is not good, cutting it with a knife may cause it to break in two.
Just like a Japanese sword, it looks sharp, but it is very easy to cut it. If you just cut a stone, it will immediately become two pieces.
So Zhang Liao was betting that the material of his sword would be much stronger than the armor worn by the enemy general.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He knew that the person coming must be Gao Lan. Gao Lan's force was not weak. It would not be easy to defeat him in a short time, so he came up with a strange move.
Got it!
Dong Dong Dong Dong!
The clatter of horse hoofs was like a war drum, constantly beating Zhang Liao's heart.
But at this moment, he was extremely calm, with a deathly silence in his indifferent eyes, staring at the galloping horse.
"Not hiding?"
Gao Lan was also staring at Zhang Liao. When he saw that he was not dodging, he suddenly laughed ferociously: "Then I'll knock you away!"
Generally speaking, when infantrymen deal with the charging cavalry, they usually dodge the charging horses, then dodge sideways before attacking, or poke the enemy off the horse, or find a way to disable the enemy's horse first.
So Gao Lan was still judging where Zhang Liao would hide, and then he would be able to take action. Unexpectedly, the enemy seemed to be stunned and motionless, so he began to ridicule in his heart.
The young general is indeed unreliable. At such a critical moment, he can still be in a daze.
Since the enemy had no intention of evading, and Gao Lan's knife would not be far enough if he stabbed it from the front, he simply held the weapon in his right hand and raised it high, preparing to wait until Zhang Liao was knocked away and immediately use lightning speed to cover his ears.
Last hit.
The distance between the two sides got closer and closer, and soon it was less than three feet away.
Almost at this moment, Zhang Liao's eyes suddenly changed. He raised the sword in his hands with both hands. He jumped into the air and collapsed more than four feet high. He aimed the sword at Gao Lan and struck down his horse's head, shouting angrily:
"die!"
Poof!
The next second, it seemed as if blood rained down from the sky, and all the blood from the horses' bodies splashed out, turning everyone around them into bloody men.
The most horrifying thing was that people saw the charging horses come to an abrupt halt.
I don’t know why, but after a roar, the horses and people seemed to explode and were cut into two halves. The two halves fell to one side and fell to the ground with a crash. The blood gathered into a river, soaking Zhang Liao in the center like
He is as terrifying as a god and a demon!
Zhang Liao.
He actually hacked Gao Lan to death, including his man and his horse!