Chapter 78 Yun Chang's Enthusiasm
The next day, Murong Gan really came to fight again. Huang Zhong went out and fought for more than 60 rounds. Murong Gan pretended to be defeated, but Huang Zhong did not chase him. Murong Gan turned to see Huang Zhong not chase him, and immediately killed him again. Huang Zhong fought with him and fought for another thirty rounds. He pretended to be defeated and left, but Huang Zhong did not chase him. He just looked at him with a smile.
Murong Gan knew that his plan was defeated, so he simply acted like a fake act to urge the horse to fight Huang Zhong, but saw Huang Zhong pulling the horse back and seeing that he was about to reach the gate. Huang Zhong picked up a bow and took an arrow, and suddenly turned around on the galloping horse and shot Murong Gan.
The arrow passed through the air like a meteor. Murong Gan heard the sound of the bowstring and hurriedly leaned over to avoid it, but where could he avoid it? The arrow was everywhere, hitting Murong Gan's shoulder, breaking the armor leaves, and inserting them under the collarbone. Murong Gan screamed and landed under the horse.
This incident happened suddenly. Liu He, who was watching the battle, was shocked. He woke up after a while and urgently ordered the army to go out of the camp to capture Murong Gan.
Tuoba Luye on the opposite side was also watching the battle. He reacted very quickly and immediately ordered the army to rescue him. The two sides fought in front of the camp. The Xianbei army desperately robbed Murong Gan and then retreated. Liu He led his troops to chase him for a while and returned with great victory.
When he returned to the fortress, Liu He praised Huang Zhong for shooting, but heard Huang Zhong say humbly: "I originally wanted to shoot that guy, but I didn't want that guy to be alert. I dodged for a while and shot only on his shoulder, which was not fatal. How dare I take credit?"
Liu He smiled and said, "Although it is not fatal, that guy has to keep him for at least one or two months."
As he was speaking, he suddenly heard a spy report: "The Xianbei Army was seriously injured and did not dare to be hostile to our army. Now he is leaving the camp."
Liu He was overjoyed when he heard this.
But Guan Yu said, "Since they retreat, why don't our army take this opportunity to pursue it?"
Liu He said: "Don't you hear that the enemy is not chasing? On the way to withdraw, you must set up an ambush, not chasing. First, send a post to pursue and inquire about the situation and make a decision. How about it?"
"No." Everyone agreed.
That night, Tuoba Luye saw that Liu He would not go out to pursue him, so he immediately changed his tactics--"Okay, the other party still refused to go out of the city to fight. It seems that he had made up his mind to defend the fortress. Sinan, you lead a thousand soldiers to plunder the surrounding countryside; Noasda, you lead a thousand soldiers to respond at any time, and I lead the remaining soldiers here to monitor the fortress."
"If you don't leave the city, I will go and grab things. If you go out of the city and fight with me, you will be really the only one who wants to." Tuoba Luye smiled.
The next day, the town pavilion near Zhongguan Fortress was filled with beacons and mourning, shrouded in a strong atmosphere of fear. Wherever the Xianbei army passed, thick smoke rolled, and villages disappeared in sparks. The already pitiful little property disappeared after the enemy soldiers. What made the people of Fuyuan even more disintegrated was that this time the enemy soldiers were not aimed at plundering the population, but to kill everyone they saw as the final result. Wherever the horse's hooves passed, there was no one else.
After one emergency report after another, he frowned, "What are they doing? Isn't the most important target of robbery for them all the time? Why don't there be any chickens and dogs left wherever they pass? It seems that we must send troops to stop them from killing randomly, otherwise if this continues, the Yang general will become a ghost realm."
"My lord, never." Huang Zhong waved his hands repeatedly: "My lord must know that it was the guy who wanted to lure our army into being unable to hold back and went out of the city to fight with him. Our army rashly sent aid, for fear that it was the other party's wishes."
Liu He said helplessly: "The military advisor has not arrived, so he can't watch him kill all the Yang."
At this time, Guan Yu slapped the table and said, "We will protect the people and maintain peace when we join the army! Lord, you are also well-read the way of the saints. Seeing the enemy's abuse of our people so much, how can you feel at ease? I decided that I will leave the city."
Huang Zhong was shocked: "Hansheng, you can't be impulsive!"
Guan Yu shook his head: "Lord, Han Sheng, I think Tuoba Luye only left more than a thousand men under the city, but the other two groups of men left, obviously they expected that we would not dare to leave the city. Humph, I just couldn't do it as he wished. I brought two thousand men out of the city, and Han Sheng left more than 2,500 strong soldiers, and the young and strong civilians, and the princess guarded the city, he had no chance to take advantage of it. I chose one of them and attacked them, and used two thousand tribes to attack more than a thousand men. Although I dared to say that they won, I would not be defeated. At least I could stop the enemy from being so arrogant again."
"Chang Yun!" Huang Zhong also wanted to dissuade him.
But Guan Yu flatly stopped his words, "Hansheng, I know you are for my own good, but for the sake of the reputation of the lord, you cannot turn a blind eye to the people in such a disaster. Even if you wrap your body in a horse, I will go out of the city to fight. Otherwise, if you drag on this, our army's reputation will be over and morale will no longer exist. In this way, when the enemy soldiers attacked in the autumn, I am afraid that it will be unbearable to fight. Lord, morale can be boosted but not released!"
"Yunchang Chang Magnificent! I personally beat the drum for you!" Liu He decided to say.
After leaving the iron ore for more than ten miles, Guan Yu met a group of Xianbei troops with five or six hundred people.
Without Guan Yu's order, the cavalry rushed out first. The first contact between the two sides ended with Guan Yu's complete victory. It was short and fierce. After suddenly encountering two thousand soldiers in the anti-barrier camp, they did not have time to retreat. At that moment, most of them turned around and rushed, and the remaining few cavalry flew away.
This battle made Guan Yu happy but also became more vigilant. The elite level of these Murong troops exceeded his premonition. Once they found that they could not escape, they indeed abandoned the stolen property and covered their companions to escape and report the news. They knew they were lucky enough to kill him without hesitation. As long as they wanted to buy some time for their companions, this fighting will made Guan Yu admire him.
Guan Yu squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and waves of smoke rolled in: "The enemy's reinforcements have come to defeat the cavalry with their steps, and they have always been the strength of the Han army. Come on, let me meet the Murong Jingqi, which is famous in the grassland."
"Carry off the battlefield, transport the dead and wounded back to the fortress, and the remaining troops line up to prepare to face the enemy!" Guan Yu ordered sternly.
The two thousand Han troops acted quickly, worthy of being an old soldier who had been in battle. After a collision of weapons, the 1,500 infantry quickly formed a square formation of five 300 people. Each soldier was only more than a foot away to sway his arms to stab the spear in his hand. The spear of the soldiers in the back row reached out from the gap between the soldiers in the front row, and the five gun forests were formed instantly.
After the remaining more than 400 cavalry rushed just now, their horsepower was slightly exhausted. Now behind the infantry phalanx, the knights all jumped off the horse and restored their horsepower as much as possible.
The Xianbei army in the distance was extremely fast. Before the incense stick, it appeared in Guan Yu's vision. With a horn, the running torrent stopped. The cavalry dismounted together. Only dozens of knights were holding a silver-armored general and protruding for about a hundred steps, observing Guan Yu's formation.
The enemy general Noasda was also looking at the military formation opposite, looking at the five guns in front, two, and three, standing solemnly, with the tip of the gun shining with cold light slanted upwards, and couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder, with the advantages of our clan's iron cavalry, we have not been able to completely seize Youzhou for so many years. The Han Dynasty's technique of using steps to break the cavalry is indeed unique."
A general behind him smiled and said, "Chief, as long as we can rush in, drill through their formations, cause their chaos, and prevent them from being arranged in neat formations, then they are no different from pigs and sheep."
Noasda shook his head and said, "We have to pay a huge price to do this. The Han Dynasty is vast, has a large population, and has sufficient soldiers. It only takes about a year for them to become a qualified soldier, while our elite knights can grow up after ten or twenty years, and we cannot afford it."
The general sneered: "Although that said, today's great men are afraid that there are not many elite infantrymen in front of them!"
Noasda smiled and said, "That's true."
"Chief, do we want to fight? Or will we confront them like this?"
Chapter completed!