My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 266 The Biao Biao Han Style
The wind was freezing at night on the grassland. The Xirong people, who were accustomed to this, hid in felt tents, let their horses gather together to keep warm, and blocked the wind vents along the way.

The discussion in the Khan's tent has also come to an end, and no better solution has been discussed. At the moment, it is decided to station in the grassland outside Yantang Pass and wait for the opportunity to let the other party take the initiative to seek a fight.

Wool carpets were laid, boots sewn from cowhide came and went, and the brazier set up reflected the tribal chiefs and captains in the tent toasting each other and eating lamb.

Xianyu sucked the grease from his fingers and stared at the flames in the brazier. From time to time, he asked Wei Luo Jingbin about the Xia King of Yan Kingdom.

"Whether the other party is cheating or is really on the way here, it already shows that the Xia King of Yan Kingdom has temporarily solved some conflicts in the Central Plains. It is really rare for a person with the number of ten to have such ability."

"Khan doesn't need to be praised like this. In my opinion, this man is so happy with his achievements and is so aggressive in military affairs. The Yan State is not rich to begin with. It has been fighting for years and the people have suffered. The Central Plains is the land of four wars. There is no benefit in taking the Central Plains at this time. , On the contrary, he will disperse his hundreds of war-fighting troops to defend all countries and bring about his own destruction."

Listening to the words of his Wei adviser, Xianyu bulged his big eyes, nodded heavily, and raised his silver bowl: "It makes sense."

While he was speaking, some soldiers from the royal tent came in, knelt on one knee on the ground, and reported: "Khan, according to reports from the scouts lurking outside, troops and horses at Yantang Pass are being mobilized."

Here, Xie Yuzai narrowed his eyes, Luo Jingbin stroked his beard and closed his eyes. Most of the commanders and captains in the tent stopped drinking and eating meat, and all looked at the bodyguard who was speaking.

Naturally, the Xirong people in the grassland were just like the surrounding countries in terms of information, and they all had special scouts. At this time, the army was stationed for rest, and scouts were arranged to monitor Yantang Pass. However, during the day, the other party's cavalry came for reinforcements, and the scouts did not dare to get too close, so they had to Monitoring from a distance, there are scouts almost every six or seven miles. If you can detect movement at this time, it means that the soldiers and horses in Yantang Pass have left the pass.

Just got out of seclusion like this?

What the hell is the other party planning at night?
Hearing that Yan State's troops and horses had been mobilized and even left the border, everyone in the tent instantly felt the pressure falling on their shoulders. Even though most of the commanders and captains of the Xianyu Department in the tent were commanders and generals who had fought many battles, He was about to face King Xia of Yan State, who had outstanding martial arts skills, and he was more or less in a state of anxiety.

"You think there's something wrong with choosing this time to come out?" Khan Xieyu put down his silver bowl and looked at the people in the tent.

He was able to raise an army to clear the emperor's side, defeat Yanjing in one battle, and then directly attack the Central Plains the next year, break through Luyang, and enter the Wei Palace. People who can achieve such a record will have to let others figure it out no matter what they do. Is there any deep meaning in it?

Waging war has been a major event since ancient times. Choosing to march in the dark and letting scouts see it, the first reaction of the Xirong generals in the tent was to attract the attention of their main force.

"Since they are coming, the Khan must not avoid the battle, otherwise the tribal warriors will think that the Khan is timid in fighting, which will affect the morale of the army." Luo Jingbin's voice was calm, as if he was confident, but in fact he wished that both sides would kill him and leave the fields littered with corpses.

On one side is the Xia King of Yan State who often defeats many with less, and on the other side is the Khan of the Grassland, with more than [-] cavalry.

For a moment, the heroes on both sides of the world and the grassland were all pawns on his chessboard.

"Dear warriors of Xirong, my staff is right. We were driven off the city wall that day. If we avoid the battle again, our tribesmen will think that the glory of the warriors of Xirong is no longer there."

Xian Yu stood up, his burly body standing like a hill in front of everyone: "Now we are in the grassland, this is the pasture and battlefield of our Xirong people! No matter it is night or day, the galloping horses will never stop! "

The captains and captains of each tribe in the tent dropped their wine bowls and meat-cutting knives, stood up one by one with their knees up, and pressed their fists against their chests.

"Khan, don't worry, our warriors will trample the bones of the Yan people under the horses' hooves!"

Xianyu nodded and softened his tone: "I like your rebellious look very much, but be careful. There are times when the eagle lands and the wolf gnashes its teeth. There are many people in Yan State, so try to cut them apart." , Defeat them on this grassland!”

These chiefs and captains in the account are all famous warriors from his tribe or other tribes. They have followed him and their fathers to annex many tribes, and have sufficient combat experience.

"Haha, don't worry Khan, Baylor will command the tribal warriors to present the head of the Xia King of Yan Kingdom to you!"

"We may not be able to attack the city, but if we have to fight on horseback on the grassland, the Yan people will just wait to die!"

"Huzan will take back the shame of that day for Khan!"

Xie Yu was very satisfied with their condition. Although they cannot fight blindly, they still have enough momentum to go to the battlefield: "But you still have to be careful. The general of the Yan State who rushed out of the pass that day had superb equestrian skills and extremely rare archery skills. .”

Thinking of the general of the Yan State who was stationed on horseback and drawing his bow that day, wearing a red cloak with continuous armor, the look in his eyes from a distance on horseback, and the magic arrow that shot several miles with one arrow, when he thought about it at this time, he would feel a sense of aura coming from his body. A shuddering chill.

Seeing that all the tribal warriors under his command had stopped talking, he raised his hand and waved, telling everyone in the tent to go back and prepare.

"This time we have brought almost all the warriors from the Xianyu Department. We have enough troops. However, we cannot underestimate the King of Xia of Yan State. He can fight beautiful battles in the north and the Central Plains. There must be something we need to learn and Something to be wary of.”

"Yes!" The Xirong tribal generals in the tent were excitedly gearing up, their eyes showing fierceness.

Defeating the King of Xia of Yan State who had won consecutive battles from the north to the Central Plains, how else could he get such an honor?

Xieyu Khan finally had a smile on his face.

"Okay, my warriors, go and prepare... to trample the self-proclaimed invincible King Xia of Yan State under his horse!"

The night is like running water.

The stars in the sky converged their light at this moment, and on the dark grassland, only the dense and dull sound of horse hooves stretched on the ground.

12 cavalry, that is a huge and unimaginable scale, like countless torrents leaving the huge camp, extending to the east. Along the way, scouts kept sending messages to and from each cavalry team, keeping the news from each cavalry team normal. After all, it was night, for the cavalry Has great disadvantages.

The moment the huge torrent of cavalry advanced eastward, fighting suddenly broke out.

On the field below a grass hill more than 80 miles away from Yantang Pass, two thousand Xirong cavalry first encountered a battalion of two thousand Youyan soldiers and horses. With their shields raised high, arrows flew into the night sky and fell into their positions and were nailed to their shields. , or the ground.

In the layered infantry phalanx, there are also arrows for the opponent's cavalry to fight back. Under the leadership of the school captain and the cavalry supervisor, they do not get entangled with the opponent's cavalry. They keep the formation and the opponent's two thousand cavalry pulling each other, and the arrows are fired back. Start moving backwards.

Far and near.

On the front line more than ten miles from north to south, there are still several units of the Youyan Army that can encounter Xirong's vanguard cavalry. Since the formation of the Youyan Army, it has served as the main offensive force in several major battles in the Central Plains. Even if there are New recruits joined in, and the elite survivors of the prisoners were also organized into queues. Veterans led the new recruits. They were skilled in formation and tenacious in combat.

They relied on iron-wrapped shields to block the Xirong cavalry's cavalry fire in the dark night, and shot arrows at each other as they walked. If you look down from the sky, you will find that these Youyan troops are approaching a fixed point in tacit agreement.

It seems that he wants to attract the Xirong people there.

Over there, Anuhu's two thousand slave soldiers, Qin Qiong's three thousand Tang army, and Li Dian's five thousand county soldiers were all on standby.

Only one person could use [-] Youyan troops to attract the opponent's main force, and that was Jia Xu next to Su Chen.

"Zhongshu Ling, if the opponent's main force catches up and captures Zhang Yi's 2 men from behind, this battle will not have to be fought." Su Chen was riding on the back of a big black horse. The horse was anxiously sticking its tongue out, feeling a little uneasy. .

"The dark night chosen by the king is exactly what Xu thought. To defeat a hundred thousand cavalry, the king needs at least 30 troops and horses, and the king does not have any except the soldiers from all the counties in the Yan Kingdom!" His name is Jia! The old man Xu was also sitting on the horse. He had been fighting with swords and swords all his life, but he had not suffered any harm. He lived to the end of his life, and there were no scenes that could scare him.

"However, if you want to defeat, the night is the most convenient 'weapon'. The larger the army, the more obvious the disadvantages of fighting at night. For light cavalry, the power of arrows is greatly weakened, unless the Xirong barbarians have leaders like Wei Qing and Zhou Yafu. The power of the army.”

Su Chen stroked the mount's mane, looked at him and smiled: "What's next?"

"First defeat the group of cavalry in front of you." Jia Xu's plain words had a sinister tone.At this point, more than two hours had passed since the fifth battalion Youyan soldiers and horses left. The sound of horse hooves and people's screams gradually began to sound in front of them, spreading towards this side. It seemed that they had reached the designated position. Ying Youyan's military formation suddenly launched a counterattack, and the archers continued to draw their bows and shoot flatly into the darkness.

On the left and right, there are one or two battalions of Youyan troops stationed four or five miles apart, forming a front line from south to north.

Along the way, there were almost no arrows left in the quivers of the Xirong cavalry who were constantly chasing and harassing them. The commander-in-chief named Bailer came to the front line in person and ordered the cavalry without arrows to rush towards the Yan army array.

For a time, there was already a fight on the front line.

The shouts of killing were like the rolling tide, the spears were stabbing like a forest, and pieces of flesh and blood were hanging out. The roars and screams of people, and the explosions of gold and iron, boiled violently in the crowd.

"The Xirong barbarians are killing the people in the north. How can you, your parents and your relatives at home, endure it any longer!"

Zhang Yi's voice resounded through the array. Facing the oncoming cavalry, You Yan's soldiers stabbed at the opponent frantically on a front line composed of a forest of spears.

The twenty-mile-long front line abandoned bows and arrows, and the Xirong light cavalry rushed towards them with spears and scimitars. What they encountered were countless iron spears piercing the flesh and blood, the war horses neighing, the screams of the Xirong people above, and some Xirong cavalry. They ran into the forest of guns desperately, and the heavy horse bodies and human corpses smashed the forest of guns around. Some were shot over by the archers of Youyan Army during the charge, and were immediately trampled by the tribesmen behind them. past.

In the middle of the 2000-man Youyan formation, more than 20 Youyan cavalry rained into the front array, and the front row was dented inward in an instant.

"Go up and level the line!" Zhang Yi rode on horseback, urging the horse to walk back and forth for a few steps under the banner, causing the horse to gallop and shout loudly.

The general shouted in line, and his subordinates rushed forward, picked up the shields on the ground and blocked the gap again. More and more Xirong cavalry rushed towards them——

After falling off their horses and smashing the front line, the surviving Xirong soldiers got up from the ground, grabbed their knives and rushed towards the gap, and were then pushed back by Youyan soldiers holding their shields.

The two sides attacked and defended at the first contact, pushing and slashing toward the opposite side frantically. On the cold windy grassland, there was a hell of blood gushing everywhere within sight.

The regular five hundred cavalry deployed by Youyan Army also had to join the battle at this time.

The total number of infantry and cavalry on both sides exceeded 3, and the twenty-mile line was filled with people fighting, cavalry rushing into the formation, and rangers wandering around.

Suddenly there was a horn sound, and on the west side of the battlefield, dozens of torches lit up. A large number of cavalry broke through the darkness and spread like a tide. The Huzan tribe replaced Bayler's cavalry and replaced the light cavalry without bows and arrows. , and another cavalry force that must drag the tribe wants to bypass the battlefield and attack the rear of the line.

Su Chen glanced at the news sent back by the scout and handed it to Jia Xu. Then he raised his hand. Qin Qiong only took an iron gun because he didn't have a horse, and led three thousand men under Zhang Yu to the right wing of the battlefield. .

This 3000-strong team was composed of soldiers surrendered from the State of Wei. Before leaving, a large number of bows and crossbows were deployed, and three supervisory cavalry were specially dispatched. After nearly two months of training and education, it was time for a formal inspection.

Less than half an hour after arriving at the right flank of the battlefield, fifteen miles away, the ground beneath our feet began to shake in the wilderness.

The [-] light cavalrymen of the Bituo Division pushed forward. Under the cover of the light cavalry on both sides with bows and arrows, the two thousand cavalrymen in the middle bravely prepared to break into the formation. With hoarse shouts, they rushed towards the front of the Tang army's array like raindrops. , facing them, in addition to a forest of spear formations suddenly stepping out, there were also crossbow bolts fired from bows and crossbows. Many Xirong cavalry were shot to death on their horses while they were charging, and then rolled over and fell to the ground.

The dead people were not conspicuous among the two thousand charging cavalry. What they encountered next was a dense formation of spears. The Xirong cavalry who rushed forward had their hard leather jackets pierced directly by the spear points, and their horses were pierced by spears. Entering, people stood up screaming and neighing. The Xirong Qingqi above, including their men and their horses, crashed into the dense mass of spears. Several spearheads penetrated into the flesh and blood, pierced out from the back, and stabbed the leather jackets on the back to pieces.

This 3000-man army did not have an advantage in terms of numbers. It took a short time to form an army, and the formation was not coordinated and fast.

In the end, the mighty Bi Tuo tribe cavalry tore through the formation and rushed in through the gap in the array. In just over 20 breaths, there were only a few cavalry rushing towards Yan Guo's central formation.

After running for several miles, they faintly saw what seemed to be a king's flag standing in front of them. The Xirong cavalry excitedly raised their weapons and galloped wildly on their horses. Before they could get closer, Li Xuanba, who was coming towards them, swung his hammer and captured both men and horses. ground.

"Haha... just this, it's not enough for me to hit." Li Xuanba carried two hammers and patrolled around Wang Qi, glancing around from time to time, "Why don't you kill a few more and come in!"

To the west, beyond the fighting lines, he looked to the west, where dense scouts were constantly moving between the lines and in the wilderness, and the Khan's banner was standing thirty miles away.

In the biting night wind, he was riding on horseback, watching the news coming one after another. Next to him were two commanders of ten thousand cavalry, and Luo Jingbin.

"Twenty thousand people forcibly pinned the warriors of my tribe there. The army of King Xia of Yan State is indeed not simple. I heard that there are four more armies like this. If he expands the number, I may not Dare to confront him easily."

This sentence was said to Luo Jingbin. It seemed that the diagonal riding was not going to be smooth from the beginning. The Bile tribe sent nearly [-] cavalry but was blocked by the opponent. Now the army that must be dragged forward was sent to replace the attack. , was also firmly nailed in place by the opponent.

As the war progressed, messages continued to be sent back from the front. Xianyu Khan, who was sitting on horseback, had a bad look on his face, "And the Yan people's cavalry has not appeared yet. Do you think they are behind us?" ?”

"Khan, no need to guess, the other party must have made a surprise attack from behind."

The old man got off the horse with a smile and moved his legs on the ground: "I have used this trick many times!"

Such tactics of outflanking were indeed not uncommon. However, the Yan cavalry in his words were more than 30 miles directly behind his king's flag.

In the dark night, the rising and falling figures stretched into a vast area, and the iron hooves almost shook the earth.

Faintly, amid the sound of galloping horses' hooves, the advancing figures began to separate.

Nearly twenty miles away, at the front of two long cavalry dragons, a young general riding a maroon horse, wearing a red military uniform and crotch armor, with a high and firm voice, drew out his sword.

"Follow me to charge—"

Looking down from the night sky, two groups of running cavalry looked like two giant arms, separated on the left and right, and hugging each other forward.

Xirong formed a rear formation to prevent being outflanked. Xianyu had already deployed nearly two cavalry here, and there were also more than [-] light cavalry arrayed on the left and right.

Guarding this place are Ye Shali and Kui Dannu, the chief commanders of the two tribes. They are both chief commanders, but their strengths are different. The former has ten thousand cavalry, while the latter has eight thousand.

Tribal strength has always spoken in the grassland, and the two of them were naturally led by Yesha Li. He asked Quedannu to immediately lead his eight thousand cavalry to stop the two enemy cavalry.

However, he didn't know where they could intercept the cavalry who were charging ahead. Quidannu reluctantly led his tribe's light cavalry over and started shooting at the opponent without even drawing his bow. The cavalry on the opposite side burst directly through the darkness, crashing into each other like ramming chariots.

Quidanu only shouted twice before a young general rushed towards him and cut off his right arm with a sword. His handsome face stained with blood, in the middle of the fight, he raised his sword and pointed forward, shouting: "Kill!"

——Seal the wolf and live in Xu!
The White Horse Yi Cong and the String Controlling Wolf Cavalry were running fiercely at this moment, with murderous intent and no one dared to stop them. The Kuedannu Tribe who came forward was instantly embraced by the enemy like an iron fist. Their formations were scattered and some were directly knocked over. , trampled to pulp by horse hooves.

The cloak was flying, and Lu Bu waved his halberd. The air wave from the halberd's blade could knock someone off his horse. His eyes were faintly bloodshot, and he was like a ball of flames heading straight into the opposing cavalry formation.

——The unparalleled flying general!
On the parallel side, white horses and white robes galloped wildly. Zhao Yun held a green sword in one hand and a gentian gun in the other. He gritted his teeth and roared: "Kill!"

——Seven in and seven out!
The rushing cavalry formation of Xirong's rear formation tore two huge holes, and the towering banner in the distance was faintly visible. The two Yan Kingdom cavalry were like two wild dragons in the night, crossing the grassland and embracing in the direction of the banner. go.

Upon hearing the news, Xie Yu Khan broke out in a cold sweat.

"Where are the cavalry behind me?!"

(End of this chapter)