Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1743 Luo Yang Falls in the Decisive Battle Part [-]
Pang Xi knew well that this battle was not easy to fight, so he didn't think too much about it. At this time, sometimes sacrifice represented a kind of victory.

On the battlefield, the more you think, the more you will get yourself into the quagmire.

Call it again.

This simple and direct approach may seem reckless, but it is often the most adaptable to all the variables on the battlefield.

"attack!"

Regardless of March 21 and [-], Pang Xi directly attacked with his army.

"kill!"

"kill!"

The charge of the Zhaoming cavalry with the main force gathered was so fierce that it seemed that no one or anything could stop their footsteps.

"Divide the troops left and right, continue to attack, penetrate their formation, tear their formation!"

Pang Xi's command ability is not weak.

As Liu Yanzhong's general at the time, Pang Xi's own ability was comparable to that of Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren was better at attacking, and he was better at defending.

But the best defense is often an offense.

His offensive commanding ability is no less than anyone else's. Even if there are two conditions, he can use one mind and two tasks to complete the commanding requirements.

"Array!"

"Up the shield!"

"Archer!"

When Wei Jun let them into the camp, he had an idea of ​​letting them in to fight, but Xia Houyuan's thinking was still too naive.

He underestimated the impact of the Ming army's cavalry. The fortifications were trampled by the Ming army's cavalry at the first time. Under the gate, the front battalion was quickly exposed to the attack of the Ming army.

However, Xia Houyuan's reaction was relatively fast, and he immediately judged that the defense of the camp was not enough to hold back the cavalry of the Ming army.

At this time, there is only real fighting with real swords and guns.

Boom boom boom! ! ! !

Under the repeated collisions, hand-to-hand combat was staged. Although the cavalry had an advantage in dealing with infantry, they were besieged by multiple forces, and it was difficult to exert absolute combat effectiveness.

This led to some intense battles.

This is no advantage for cavalry.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is charging. Once the momentum of charging is suppressed, the advantage of cavalry is also suppressed.

After a long and difficult battle, the cavalry will lose their vigor, and they will be besieged by two or three, and they will not care.

So at this time, Pang Xi had to find a way to break the deadlock: "Combine the left and right, form a cooperative battle formation among all battalions, and break through their defenses!"

Pang Xi had a good idea.

But Xia Houyuan, the general of the Wei army, was really not an ordinary general. He had already seen his reaction to Pang Xi. When the Ming army changed, the Wei army also changed.

When armies are fighting, the formations are staggered, and changing formations is sometimes a relatively dangerous thing, but generals who are confident enough in themselves dare to change formations before the battle.

Wei Jun's original battle formation suddenly became lingering. This is a more rogue style of play.

"hateful!"

Pang Xi stared and clenched his fists tightly. He really wanted to kill the thief and make a bloody way, but being entangled in such a net, he had no direction to break through.

At this moment, he had a special feeling that he had underestimated the general of Wei Jun.

"Boom boom boom!!!!"

The sound of war drums from the flanks.

Pang Xi knew that it was the camp of the Yan army.

If the main force of the Yan army came up and wanted to break through, the danger would be much more dangerous. At this time, you can't take too much risk.

He could only calm some of the anger in his heart.

"withdraw!"

Although Pang Ximing's retreat was only to break through the front battalion and some fortifications of the Wei army, his strategic goal had already been achieved.

"withdraw!"

"withdraw!"

The Zhaoming cavalry is an elite cavalry, and the military order is like a mountain. If the military order is issued, even if they go crazy, they will withdraw. This is the philosophy instilled by some instructors of the ideological and political department on weekdays.

So they blew over like a gust of wind, and in an instant they receded like ebbing sea water.

Because they are cavalry and they are fast, they leave quickly. Even if Wei Jun wants to keep them, there is no way to keep them.

"hateful!"

"If tigers and leopards ride here, they must not be allowed to be presumptuous!"

The generals of the Wei Army watched the main force of the Ming Army's cavalry withdraw, but they had no choice but to feel a little uncomfortable.

The Wei army also has elite cavalry, such as the tiger and leopard cavalry. Although the tiger and leopard cavalry fought a bit fiercely in the first battle, the foundation is still there, and now they have already recovered their combat effectiveness.

However, the tiger and leopard cavalry were standing by Cao Cao's side and had not received Xia Houyuan's order, so they had no cavalry reinforcements at all.

Cavalry is a trump card on the battlefield of cold weapons, because they come and go like the wind, you can't catch up, you can't fight, but you are often attacked by them.

This is also the reason why some nomads on the border have been rampant for many years. They can run without a trace as soon as they let their horses loose on the prairie.

"General Xiahou, are you okay?" The main force of the Yan army had already left, but they could only watch helplessly as the Ming army cavalry retreated.

"fine!"

Xia Houyuan had a gloomy face, facing the anxious Gongsun Du, he sighed: "We want to attack, we must deal with this group of cavalry!"

"Ok!"

Gongsun Du also nodded, and said in a low voice: "I used to have elite cavalry in the Liaodong Army, but it is easy for people to go south, but it is not easy for horses to go south. My elite cavalry stayed in Jicheng!"

Without cavalry, it is very worthy of cavalry.

Xia Houyuan paced back and forth, pondered for a while, and then said: "If we can't deal with this group of cavalry in one day, we don't want to attack the city with peace of mind. The most fearful moment is when our attack is the most critical moment. The flanks attacked us. With the cavalry's attack capability, even our defense deployed in advance may not be able to stop it. When the offensive formation is exposed within the attack range of their cavalry, we will face huge battle losses. "

He is well aware of the power of the cavalry on the battlefield. Under the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry, even if there are [-] soldiers in formation, they may not be able to stop it.

If they can't stop them, once they are attacking the city, the formation will be stretched vertically and horizontally, and the vertical exposure will be under the attack range of the cavalry, then they will be defeated in an all-round way.

"Actually, there is no way to deal with cavalry!" Gongsun Du said suddenly: "We used to use infantry to deal with Karasuma cavalry in Liaodong!"

"General Gongsun, please speak!" Xia Houyuan suddenly regained his spirits.

"Infantry versus cavalry, the greatest hope is to control the situation. As long as we can guide them into a formation that is not conducive to the performance of cavalry, we can hope to defeat them!"

Gongsun Du said in a low voice.

He thought for a while, and said: "In the current situation, we have two choices, or I will be on the list and defend them to the death, and your Wei army will attack. Since they attack with cavalry, there are not many troops in the city, but there is hope that they can break through." city!"

"But the risk is great!"

Xia Houyuan smiled wryly: "It's not that I look down on your Liaodong soldiers, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's cavalry is obvious to all. I have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses here. With the advantage of the home field, I have arranged a lot of fortifications in the battalion, and none of them can be suppressed." To stop their attack, you line up in front of the battle, even if the formation is solid, you may not be able to stop their attack. Once they break through the defense and our army fails to return in time, then our army will be fully exposed to their attack. Under the sight of the attack, it will be very difficult for our army not to be defeated on all fronts by then!"

"Ha ha!"

Gongsun Du smiled bitterly.

What Liu Yi said in the camp was correct, that is, Wei Jun did not dare to hand over his back to the Liaodong Army. This is not distrust, but people's hearts.

Although Wei Jun and Yan Jun are allies, they are also on guard against each other.

Even at this very moment.

Xia Houyuan said so much, but he wanted to go up first, so as to give Wei Jun time to set up the formation calmly, but this is also impossible, he can't use the life of Liaodong Erlang to make arrangements for Xia Houyuan.

"Then we can only choose the second option!"

Gongsun Du quickly collected his thoughts, and said softly: "He is staring at us, we will do what they wish, first join hands to eliminate this group of cavalry, and then attack the city!"

"How to solve it!"

"Withdraw for three miles and use a wider battlefield to deal with their cavalry attack. As long as we can force them into our formation, we will have a chance to strangle them!"

Gongsun Du said: "After all, our siege equipment, including large bed crossbows and archers, is enough to trap them from a long distance, and take them away slowly!"

Xia Houyuan thought about it, and now he has no good way to attack the city, but he dare not fight in such a dangerous situation.

After all, he didn't have too many difficulties in attacking Luoyang City now, and there was no need to expose himself to the attack of the Ming army's cavalry for the sake of a few days earlier.

As long as they withdraw a little bit, they can exchange space for the combat disadvantage of the Ming cavalry.

Cavalry has high demands on the terrain.

This point can become a shortcoming of the cavalry of the Ming army, and it is also an advantage for them. If they can make use of it, they may be able to wipe out this cavalry.

"it is good!"

Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth and said: "Our two armies will be separated and withdraw three miles away to form a new camp. In addition, our troops will extend from the north to the south, and we will make an offensive move towards the north and south gates of Luoyang City, forcing The main force of the cavalry of the Ming army intercepted them and forced them into the battlefield!"

The cavalry of the Ming army wanted to attack them outside the city, so as to cover the defense of Luoyang City. How could there be such a good thing.

As long as they can force the Ming army cavalry back, or even disperse the Ming army cavalry, then the Ming army cavalry will not be able to stop the attack on Luoyang City.

After the two main generals combined, they quickly made a decision, and then the order was passed on, and the soldiers quickly moved.

..............................

The Zhaoming cavalry army withdrew from the battlefield and assembled on a hillside more than ten miles south of Luoyang.

"How about the battle damage?"

Pang Xi jumped off his horse, took off his helmet, and revealed a somewhat delicate face.

He is a Confucian general.

Although he has martial arts, he is full of Confucianism.

"The battle damage is about three hundred!"

The lieutenant general said in a low voice: "Although the enemy has been killed close to a thousand times, three times the enemy, but because they attacked their camp, they were always restrained by their home court advantage, so they paid such a large number of casualties!"

"If the fight continues like this, our Zhaoming Cavalry Army may not be able to walk out of Luoyang alive!"

Pang Xi sighed.

This battle was a bit dangerous, but in order to protect Xu Shu, he had no other choice.

"General, the allied forces of the Wei Army and the Yan Army have withdrawn from under the east gate, and they will camp three or four miles away!"

The scouts rushed to report.

"it is good!"

Pang Xi's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face: "After all, they were still stunned by my surprise attack in this battle. At this time, it is in my favor to suspend the attack on Luoyang City!"

The reason why he took the risk to attack this battle was to use pressure to force the allied forces of the Wei Army and the Yan Army to withdraw from the east gate and suspend the attack on Luoyang City.

"However, after they withdrew from the east city gate, they extended their forces towards the north and south, intending to launch an attack on the north and south city gates!"

The scout continued.

"Damn!"

Pang Xi quickly realized: "They're not stupid, they're trying to force me to take the initiative to attack, and they're going to drag me to death right here!"

He pondered for a moment.

The reaction of Wei Jun and Yan Jun was actually within their expectations. Originally, their cavalry could not stop their attack on the city wall.

At this time, the bet is a message asymmetry.

He bet that Wei Jun and Yan Jun didn't know anything about the news in the city, didn't know that Xu Shu was going to run away, and thought that Luoyang City was always there.

What's more, they didn't know that Xu Shu had mobilized all his troops, even if there were some defenders on the city wall, they were the illusion of defense formed by the young and strong wearing the battle armor of the Ming army.

In other words, if they did not estimate the harassment and attack of their own cavalry at this time, and were not afraid of being broken through by their own cavalry during the attack, then they would have a chance to directly break through the east gate of Luoyang City and drive straight in.

But Xia Houyuan chose to withdraw from the east gate, which means that the Ming army's play was a success.

"All ministries obey orders!"

"exist!"

"The first battalion, go south, and stop the south gate of the Wei army approaching!"

"promise!"

"Second Battalion, go north, stop all soldiers and horses attacking the north gate!"

"promise!"

"The rest of the battalions will follow the guerrilla attack of the Wei Army and Yan Army that I launched for the second time. Remember, we are cavalry. If you can't beat them, run away. Don't get caught up in entanglements with them!"

Pang Xi emphasized: "We will only fight for three days. After three days, if there is no need to report, we will withdraw immediately and gather at the sunset pavilion in the western suburbs!"

He thought for a while, then remembered Xu Shu's reminder, and said one more sentence, "Also, no matter what the situation is, you are not allowed to continue entering the city!"

At this time, when entering the city, they will be blocked in the city. Once blocked, they will not be able to get out. The cavalry still has fighting power in the suburbs, but in the city it is equivalent to binding hands and feet.

"promise!"

The generals surrendered.

"Rest for an hour, and then continue to fight!"

Pang Xi's eyes were firm.

"Yes!"

The generals quickly began to replenish their physical strength, closed their eyes and rested their minds, replenishing their energy and spirit.

"Xu Yuanzhi, I can help you in only three days. I hope you can do what you should do within three days!"

Pang Xi looked at Luoyang City and said secretly in his heart.

He knew how risky Xu Shu's idea was.

But things have come to this point, this may be the best way, as to whether it will be successful or not, it depends on a bit of luck.

(End of this chapter)