Chapter 101 [Zhang Yan's counterattack]
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The short and thrilling battle between Ma Han and Lu Bu only happened in a corner of the long battlefield for more than ten miles, and no one paid attention to it. () The energy of tens of thousands of people was betting on the Yuan army's siege on the Black Mountain coalition.
The left and right wings of the coalition are Hu cavalry. The characteristic of Hu cavalry is to roam and shoot. If the close forces are connected, the Hu people's weapons and armor are not as good as the Yuan army's cavalry, and they are even less likely to charge in formations, which means they have a long attack. Whether it is to slaughter everyone or the Wuwan people, they are all masters of cavalry tactics, and such stupid things will not be done.
As soon as the Yuan army cavalry rushed, more than a thousand Hu cavalry immediately flew away, spreading into dozens of strands, running for dozens of steps, then turned around the horse's head to face the chasing Yuan cavalry, and there were arrows. The Yuan army lost dozens of cavalry, but they were able to approach the Hu cavalry. Before the Hu people urged the horse to escape, they intercepted the dozens of Hu cavalry that fell at the back tail, which was considered to be a return of the accounts. It was precisely because the Hu people lacked perfect saddle stirrup harnesses, and most of them were herders and lacked training to be able to shoot back the horse. Every time they shot, they had to turn around and stop the horse, so they were chased and killed by Yuan army. If they were like white wolf cavalry, their saddle stirrups were prepared, and they were trained and shot well, no matter how many Yuan army came, they would not be dead enough.
Hu Qili shot from a long time, Yuan Junli fought in close combat, and both sides chased each other, attacked and killed each other, stirring up smoke from both sides of the north and south Zhangshui River, and from time to time, a knight fell from the back of his horse.
The left and right wings of the coalition forces dispersed, directly exposing the Duliao Camp and Jizhou Army. The two armies suffered heavy losses in the fierce battle the day before yesterday, and their combat effectiveness took a sharp turn. Although Wubi Army added to supplement them, Wubi Army was also a fearful army. One was without combat effectiveness and the other was without morale. The whole weak teamed up and was rushed by Yuan's army, and the formation was dispersed in a few seconds.
Yishou took dozens of followers and fled in panic. As a result, he was targeted by Gao Lan and unfortunately hit the evil star Lu Bu, ending up with a different body and head.
During the melee, the main force of the Black Mountain Army did not suffer any major losses. Zhang Yan had more than ten years of military service and had rich experience. Most of his subordinates were brave men who followed him to fight in the north and south for many years, and he had seen no fewer dead people than living people. The left and right wings were defeated, and the central army did not shake. The Black Mountain Army resisted the Yuan army while preventing the defeated soldiers from colliding with the military formation.
On the other side, Geng Zhi, the general of Du Liao, had only five or six hundred men left, and was surrounded by two generals Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang, who were surrounded on a hill by Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang. Geng Zhi kept waving the flags to ask for help, but Zhang Yan's central army was two miles away, only to resist Yuan's army. However, he did not send a cavalry to rescue him.
At this time, all the officers and soldiers of the Liao camp were killed and injured, and the arrows were exhausted. They fought hard against several times the enemy, and the soldiers kept falling down with blood.
Geng Zhi sat on a stone, covered in smoke and dust, his beard and eyebrows were ashes, his eyes were covered with bloodshot, and he held the hilt tightly. He looked sad. Seeing that Zhang Yan was not saved by death, he couldn't help but feel discouraged and said to his left and right: "I have always heard that Zhang Feiyan is cunning and selfish. Today's affairs have proved his name. I have only a skill, but I don't know how to recognize people. If I had joined Mr. Yuan early, I would have become the cavalry commander."
When the soldiers under his command heard this, they were very discouraged.
The general was so discouraged that he could not fight this battle. Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang were all very happy to know that Geng Zhi was willing to surrender. This was a big fat fish! He immediately ordered the soldiers in front to retreat a hundred steps and let Geng Zhi over.
Geng Zhi took off his helmet, took off his sword, held it in his hands, and under the escort of the four entourages, he walked down the hill and towards the direction of the "Jiang" and "Lu" big flags.
As soon as Geng Zhi reached the bottom of the slope, a sudden sound of horse hooves, and a horse wing came as the wind. A long sword swept, and a crack! The blood light soared into the sky, and the big head flew up. The cavalryman who came out halfway stretched out a hand, grabbed the head bun falling from the air, and bowed to Jiang Qi with a horizontal knife, and Lu Weihuang bowed: "Cheng Rang, Cheng Rang." He laughed loudly and drove away like flying.
Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang were stunned. When they came back to their senses, the cavalry was already far away. The second general was furious and cursed: "Guo Yuan! The thief is abominable! He bullies too much! I'm going to sue you in front of the lord!"
Although the two generals were so angry that they were fainted, they knew that Guo Yuan was the nephew of Zhong Yao, a famous scholar in Yingchuan. He was from a prominent family and was highly valued by the lord. He was even more friendly with the third prince. He was not comparable to those of the poor generals. He came to the lord to complain, but he was afraid that he would be humiliated by himself. He had to swallow his anger.
Jiang Qi grabbed Lu Weihuang, who was about to cheat and fight, pointed at Zhang Yanzhongjun, and said, "Let this little thief go. We will attack the Black Mountain bandits together and make greater contributions."
Then Lu Weihuang went downstairs and threw his sword on the ground angrily, leading his army away.
Zhang Yan ignored the crisis of friendly forces and used the high ground to defend himself. Yuan's army attacked more than ten times, but returned in vain. After Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang joined, the pressure doubled. When the situation was critical, the commander Zhang Yan even personally urged the spear, clashed from the high ground, and killed more than ten generals. Although Zhang Yan fought in an infantry battle, he came and went like the wind, and his speed was not inferior to the galloping horses. Hundreds of Yuan's army could not intercept him.
The commander personally came to the battle formation, rushed left and right, and overthrew the army to kill the enemy, which made the Black Mountain Army's morale high and its combat power doubled.
Seeing that the thieves were difficult to break through, and were tired of fighting for a long time, the soldiers of the Yuan army took advantage of the opportunity of Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang's new forces to withdraw some of them to rest. Many Yuan soldiers ran to a place hundreds of steps away from the Central Army of Heishan to unload their armor and rest in order to restore the strength of the people and horses. Some people took out dry food and water, and pointed at the high ground while eating and drinking, with disdain.
Just as Yuan Jun thought he was sure to win and his morale was relaxed, the ground suddenly trembled slightly. The soldiers looked around in confusion. The sharp-eyed man found that there were some smoke and dust rising slightly by the forest several miles away. The veterans with rich battle formations couldn't help but fight a cold war. This was the elite cavalry with a rank of men and horses approaching secretly. Fortunately, the sun had not yet come down the mountain. If the dusk was in full swing, they would probably not even have time to organize their resistance.
The loud shouts sounded one after another in the crowd, and the Yuan army soldiers stood up one after another. For a moment, the quiet dusk immediately became noisy and restless, and the sound of metal and iron clashing sounded. The cavalry seemed to have noticed that they were discovered by the enemy, and they let go of their horse speed and rushed towards the here. Not long after, the layers of flags of the cavalry came into the eyes of the Yuan army soldiers. Someone counted these flags and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. According to the density of the flag and the people, the number of thieves was no less than three thousand.
This elite thunder cavalry was led by Sun Qing, the commander of the Black Mountain Army.
Zhang Yan has always kept this killer weapon in order to take advantage of the chaos and take the opportunity to go around Yuan Shao's central army to launch a surprise attack. The plan is very beautiful, but Yuan Shao took the initiative and took advantage of the help of the celestial wind to defeat the Black Mountain coalition. If this reserve team is not used, Zhang Yan might have left his life first. In desperation, he had to turn the ambush into a rescue force and slaughter the banner of rescuing Sun Qing.
Sun Qing was a powerful general who had followed Zhang Yan for more than ten years. After receiving the order, he did not attack immediately. He had seen that the central army was in a moderate manner, and Yuan's army could not do anything for a moment. Not only did he want to save the master, but he also wanted to teach Yuan's army a profound lesson. Finally, the opportunity came, Yuan's army was relaxed and the soldiers were unprepared, which was a good time to launch an assault.
Yuan's army was still in a hurry, and the Black Mountain Iron Cavalry was already roaring into the crowd. It was pitiful that many soldiers who had fought old wars were rushed to the ground before they could form formations to resist. Many Yuan's soldiers rolled under the surging iron hooves; some people just grabbed the weapons beside them, and were pierced by the speeding Black Mountain cavalry; some even shouted loudly, trying to stop the retreating companions, suddenly flying ropes from nearby and trapped him... almost one-sidedly massacre. At this time, these veterans who had killed countless people were like a group of lambs waiting to die, running around in the shadows of the cavalry.
Seeing this good opportunity, Zhang Yan on the high ground would not let him go. He immediately ordered the entire army to fight back, attacking together from the head to the end, and defeating the Yuan army, who was still energetic just moment ago.
The cavalry commander Jiang Qi wanted to win a great achievement, but he was attacked from the front and back. Especially the enemy in front of him was Zhang Yan's guard, and he was the first to be hit. The followers around him were killed and injured under the assault of the enemy cavalry, and he was trapped in the chaos and could not advance or retreat.
In a critical moment, Jiang Qi had to give up command and led more than ten cavalry to kill the crowded Yuan army infantry, whipping the knife and whipping, and breaking out a bloody path - the bloody path of his own people. He quickly ran to the mound not far away. When he ran to a high place, he got off the horse and formed a formation, either held a stair bow and shot hard, or held a square shield to block the scattered arrow, or held a spear to force his retreat to attack the Black Mountain scattered soldiers. When the defensive situation was certain, Jiang Qi asked the tree to recognize the flag, and at the same time sent a fast horse to inquire with a nearby friendly army.
The Black Mountain Army took turns to lift its horses down from the high ground in the north, and attacked the Yuan army, which was still resisting. They were like sharp sickles to cut towards the enemy formation until the enemy collapsed. Then they flew around and encircled, drove out the enemy, and tried to use these defeated soldiers to break out of the enemy formation further south. In this way, the Black Mountain Army smashed the Yuan army's north one by one, and pulled the defense line they had finally built in a critical state until they were defeated.
In this assault, in addition to the troops of the cavalry commander Jiang Qi, there were also soldiers led by the generals of the cavalry commander Yin Kui, the military commander Zhang Nan, Jiao Chu, Lu Weihuang and other military generals. These military men who were quite famous in the army were still showing off their power in the battle formation not long ago, and at this moment they were like dogs of a family. In this situation, even if they turned around and resisted stubbornly, they would only have one or two enemies, and had little impact on the war.
The situation on the battlefield reversed, the attack and defense of the hostile sides were reversed, the military formations of all parties were intertwined, and from time to time there were torrents of iron cavalry rolling by the crowd, and many people lost their lives when they came and went like wind and iron hooves trampled.
After hundreds of battles, the Black Mountain Army fought back after a bloody battle. At the critical moment, can Yuan’s army turn the tide as hard as it was during the Jieqiao War?
On the watchtower, Tian Feng, Qian Zhao, Zhang He, Gao Gan and other civil and military generals all advised Yuan Shao to retreat to Xia Quyang to avoid the enemy's attack.
Chapter completed!