I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 247 Turning Like the Wind
After receiving Yuan Shu's instructions, Fan Li and Lian Da were a little confused, but they did not hesitate.

The orders of the commander on the battlefield must be obeyed. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, they must obey orders, otherwise they will be severely punished by military law.

If the people in the society still have criminal laws to rely on and murders must be preceded by trial, then killings in the army are not justified and the civil laws cannot be applied in the military camp.

Fan Li and Lian Da immediately ordered the entire army to attack. Each of them led a thousand cavalrymen to charge out from both sides of the camp, made a circle, and went around to the rear of the rebels, preparing to attack the rebels from the left and right sides, cut off their retreat, and shake their morale.

The tactics they adopted were relatively classic. That is, if the enemy army formed a battle formation, they would use classic cavalry and archery tactics, riding and shooting around the formation instead of charging directly into the formation. Only when the enemy army formation collapsed would they jump on their horses, wield their swords, and rush into the enemy group to start their unrivaled attack.

That's when the cavalry slaughtered the infantry in a bloody massacre.

As for the head-on confrontation between the armies, that is the job of the infantry.

After the cavalry attacked, Yuan Shu gave an order, the military flags waved, the drums roared, the camp gates were opened, and two thousand Han infantrymen marched out of the camp in neat rows, quickly forming four attack formations, with sword and shield soldiers in front and spearmen in the back, lined up in a row, and advanced in unison.

The remaining one thousand archers continued to shoot and suppress the rebels with a rain of arrows until the drums stopped beating.

The elite warriors that Yuan Shu had trained with a lot of money and various resources showed their value at this time.

Whether it is a neat queue or a quick formation, they are very familiar with it and very fast. When given an order, they immediately act according to the order without any delay, reflecting a very high level of organization and training.

These...are all money!
Yuan Shu vaguely remembered that when he first started military training, he and Lu Zhi studied the formations with military books. He also studied the mathematical principles of these formations, looking for faster and more scientific formation changing patterns from a mathematical perspective.

Then the officers were called over for training, where the principles of the formations were explained to them, the key points of changing formations, the commands and key points were explained to them.

They really broke it into pieces and mashed it up before feeding them, for fear that someone would have indigestion.

When the practice first started, both the members of the Yi Xin Society and the old farmers were all military novices. When they were shouted at to look left, at least one-third of them would look right, and it was normal for them to not be able to tell left from right.

They were asked to stand at attention or march in formation. Some of them fell down while standing. When they were walking, either the people in front blocked the people behind or the people behind bumped into the people in front. Soon there was a mess and everyone fell down.

They were asked to line up and do drills, and they would fall down together while running. There were many injured soldiers, some with sprained ankles, some being stepped on, and some with bloody heads. It was a horrible sight.

As for learning the command flags, drums and trumpets, all kinds of outrageous mistakes are commonplace.

Later in the training, Yuan Shu stopped talking to the trainees. Whatever he did, he conveyed it through flags, drums and trumpets.

If anyone made a mistake or misunderstood the meaning of the order, they would be stripped of their pants and spanked, making them scream in pain.

Yuan Shu spent a lot of money on food and medicine, and provided them with strict training and living expenses. He spent a lot of money and only then did he get a group of elite soldiers who obeyed his orders.

A truly elite army.

Now, this elite force is engaging in regular combat in the wild for the first time. Although the enemy they are facing is a group of mobs, it is still a real field battle.

After the army had finished forming its battle line, Yuan Shu, who was still standing on the lookout tower, conveyed the order to advance. The messenger waved the command flag, and the drums roared. The soldiers heard the commander's order to advance from the drums, and under the instructions of the front-line officers, they began to march to the beat of the drums.

After marching in place for a certain period of time, with a sudden change in the drumbeats, the four armies began to advance almost at the same time.

At the same time, they also shouted collectively, using uniform and deep shouts to show the majestic momentum of the army and to demonstrate to the enemy in front of them.

In the eyes of the mob opposite the Han army, the Han soldiers were like robots controlled by computer programming, approaching them with highly unified movements.

Shields carved with ghost faces blocked the bodies of the Han soldiers. Sharp spears flashing with cold light stretched out from them, slowly approaching without stopping.

What's even more terrible is that at this moment, the Han army's rain of arrows has not stopped, and wave after wave of arrows are still threatening the lives of the rebels. They are still fighting for shields, or simply using the bodies of their dead comrades to block the arrows.

There were constant collapses and fleeing backwards, and then they died under the attacks of the supervising cavalry and archers. There was death in front and behind, and there was nowhere to escape when they looked around.

This was a real Shura field, a real purgatory. As the Han army approached further, the rebels became more panicked.

They no longer dared to move forward. The group in the front had been completely controlled by the momentum of the Han army's orderly advance. Many of them stared blankly at the approaching Han army with dull expressions and staring eyes.

He didn't even notice when the rain of arrows from the Han army stopped.

However, this kind of daze has its limits. Seeing the Han army's ghost-faced shields advancing in front of them and the deadly spears flashing with cold light coming towards their foreheads, who can still stay still?

They no longer need shields, weapons, or the front line, and they don’t care whether the supervision team behind them can chop off their heads or not. None of this matters. What matters is escaping.

The rebels collapsed directly.

So at that moment when the advance drumbeats suddenly stopped and more intense drumbeats suddenly sounded, when the Han army spearmen thrust out their spears, the rebels collapsed faster than they expected.

He was dying and escaping at the same time, his body was pierced, and he dropped everything and ran away without a trace of nostalgia.

Almost no one waved weapons at the Han army and launched a counterattack. The shields of the Han army's swordsmen did not suffer many hits. The weapons in the hands of the rebels seemed to be fire sticks, which were either used for fighting or for swinging and slashing.

The Han soldiers' spears kept thrusting out, then retracting and thrusting out again. Basically, every thrust would achieve results, and every retracted spear would cause a pool of blood to burst out.

They seemed like tireless killing machines, repeating the same standard tactical moves accurately and stubbornly, with drumbeats and endless movements.

The rebels completely collapsed, and were defeated like a landslide. This did not even happen after the Han army launched the attack, but before the Han army launched the attack.

Only a very small number of people could still resist and fight back, while the vast majority were already fleeing for their lives.

It all happened so quickly that Cao Shao, who witnessed it all, was somewhat overwhelmed. He had no idea how the "elite army" he led collapsed under the attack of a small number of Han troops.

There were more people who fled than those who resisted on the front line. They seemed to be not afraid of their own supervision teams at all, but were terrified of the Han army like tigers. They only knew how to flee and nothing else.

Cao Shao ordered his men to beat drums desperately to cheer them on, but the drumbeats of the Han army were an encouragement for the Han soldiers to move forward, while the drumbeats on Cao Shao's side sounded like a call to flee for their lives. The louder and more intense the drumbeats, the more it sounded like a call for the rebel soldiers to flee faster.

"Fight back! Fight back! Why isn't anyone fighting back? Why aren't these idiots fighting back!"

Cao Shao could not hold it any longer, and even snatched the drumstick from the soldier next to him, stepped forward and beat the war drum hard, trying to motivate the soldiers to fight hard, imagining that this would change the situation.

But the results were obviously not very good.

Instead of changing the situation, he seemed to use the drum sounds to summon some unexpected visitors who came to him by surprise.

The Han cavalry attacked from both wings.

Two thousand cavalrymen of the Han army were divided into two groups. After a detour, they attacked directly from the rear of the left and right wings of the rebel formation and rushed directly towards where Cao Shao was.

At least Cao Shao had some military protection, but this fragile military formation did not bring Cao Shao any sense of security. The Han cavalry did not even have a real chance to charge or break the formation. These big soldiers collapsed on their own and fled in all directions. They did not dare to have any confrontation with the Han cavalry and were afraid of the enemy like a tiger.

Cao Shao was stunned. Looking at the chaotic central army formation, he was terrified and immediately ordered the cavalry team that served as the supervisory team to come back to protect him. However, because the battlefield was too chaotic and there were too many deserters, like a mudslide, the cavalry were scattered by the fleeing soldiers and could not be found at all.

Now, Cao Shao saw that the place where he was was becoming more and more unsafe, and that he was about to be surrounded and become a spoil of war by the Han cavalry. Finally, he gave up, ran to his warhorse, jumped on the horse, and galloped away under the protection of a dozen personal guards, rushing to the rear and escaping.

It has to be said that, at least in this decision, Cao Shao was right.

Because there were too many rebel soldiers and they collapsed too quickly, and the Han army's defense was not smooth, Cao Shao's escape was actually successful.

He successfully broke through the encirclement with a dozen personal guards, escaped at lightning speed, and moved in smoothly.

(End of this chapter)