The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 82

Tian Feng looked at the enemy and said in a deep voice; "The Wuhuan army is about to launch an offensive, and Tadun's army is an all-out offensive army, giving full play to the flexibility and mobility of the cavalry. The usual methods are rushing and lure. These two methods of warfare can be used independently or combined with each other to assist each other. At this moment, his long-distance cavalry raids are divided into three groups, and the ones attacking from the front are a circular formation with defense in the middle of the attack. This is the habit of the grassland people. The formation of cavalry charging is not familiar to our army. But—" Tian Feng sneered: "This kind of move has to be hidden from others, but not from me. In fact, his real killing move is attacked from the two flanks respectively. The stormtroopers, these two sharp blades, can prevent us from being able to concentrate on dealing with attacks coming from a single direction."

I smacked my lips and said, "This kind of grassland tactics is indeed difficult to deal with. Our army's bow and arrow range is not as good as that of the other army. What's more, the opponent's cavalry is dozens of times that of our army."

Tian Feng showed a confident smile, and said: "The Wuhuan people have always focused on offense and not defense. They only use offense as defense, and never take defense as offense. First, they think that our coach is dead, and the group of dragons without a leader is already a mob. , not at all psychologically fortified, and secondly, they know very little about the tactics of the Han people. Even if they knew, they would feel that we have no one to command, so we can only flee desperately and cannot organize an effective attack. Under such circumstances, Things that are unique to the Han people, such as tripping horse ropes, trapping horse pits, and the three-edged barbed wire that the young master brought with the army, have come in handy.”

I laughed and said, "Zhang Xiu and Hu Cheer Zhou Cangchangxi's three-way cavalry are also ready. Don't let them fall into the horse trap we set up by ourselves and get caught in the rope." Tian Feng laughed loudly. "Don't worry, my lord. I have arranged them on the enemy's flanks. There are no traps in those two directions, and they can run freely. The trouble is that Zhang Xiu's road is facing the enemy head-on. There is only a small path that has been fixed in advance. There is no such thing as defensive pits, so you can pass through, and the cavalry may pass slowly, but it doesn't matter, the Tadun army is already in chaos at that time, and you can catch up if you slow down."

The sound of horns spread across the earth, and the sound of hooves blasted into the sky. Tens of thousands of cavalry in the enemy formation approached like a tidal wave in a circular formation.I have never seen this kind of formation in the Central Plains before. It is just like what Tian Feng said is most suitable for fighting on the vast grasslands that stretch as far as the eye can see. They are grassland peoples who survived thousands of years of fighting. crystallization of wisdom.

After the enemy's center camp advanced a thousand steps, the sound of the horn sounded again, and the [-] or so riders in the back bent out from the left and right wings, and circled outwards along the arc-shaped advancing route. When attacking, they would become wings that attacked from the left and right sides military.The three groups of enemy troops kept changing their speeds and cooperating with each other. The skill of tactics was amazing.

Tian Feng said: "Young master, today I personally experienced the mighty power of grassland cavalry and archery. Do you feel any emotion?"I said to Tian Feng: "Mr. Tian, ​​I have studied this very deeply. After returning to the Central Plains, I hope that I can try my best to put all these tactics and formations on the Black Dragon Knight. Then our Hebei Army will be successful." We are the most powerful offensive force in the Central Plains. We are different from the Wuhuan Huns. We know how to attack and defend. At that time, we will be able to cross the world and look down on anyone." Tian Feng's expression suddenly became solemn; Let's talk about the crisis. I hope that General Wen Chou can arrive tomorrow, otherwise, we will all die in a foreign land." I smiled and said; "Now is the time for Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin to come out."

Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin were ambushing on a low slope in the southeast at the moment. There were not many people, only about [-] people. Their mission was not to kill the enemy, but to set fire.This matter seems simple, but it is actually not easy, especially in this thick and humid spring season. Fortunately, Tian Feng and Guo Jia brought tung oil with the army when they went to the expedition.Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin, armed with the most powerful bows and arrows in the army, lit them up and prepared to shoot them out.As long as the rocket hits the tung oil that fell on the grass in advance, it will immediately catch fire, and then Hu Che'er Changxi Zhoucang, who is ambushing on the two wings, will lead his army out and attack the two outer wings of Wuhuan.Holding his breath, Zhu Ling watched the moving horseshoes of the Wuhuan soldiers for a moment. He was waiting until their center point reached the kerosene place, and then he would shoot a rocket to give him a bloom in the middle, and the enemy soldiers would be in chaos.Zhu Ling surrendered to Cao Cao a few years ago, and when he came back, many people gave him blank stares. He thought about running away, but thinking about how the second son treated him well, he never looked at him differently, and he fled back to Cao Cao. You can get some good looks.Or think about how to make meritorious service and revive your reputation.So this time he volunteered to carry out this dangerous mission.

The low slope where Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin were located was more than ten miles away from the camp, and the enemy would inevitably pass down the low slope when they marched.The bows and arrows they carry are the strongest in the army, and they can shoot six or seven hundred steps. This is captured from the Huns, and their own bows and arrows can't even shoot four hundred steps.In other words, the distance between the 150 men led by the two and Wuhuan's [-] cavalry was only six or seven hundred paces away, and fast horses could reach them in the blink of an eye.Although Tian Feng reserved a way of escape for them, it was still extremely dangerous.

The earth-shattering sound of horseshoes approached far away, and Zhu Ling said to Yuan Yin: "Old Yuan, what is blowing right now is the northeast wind. If we set fire to the north slope, the flames will not directly threaten us, but thick smoke will come rolling in." , and didn’t choke the brothers to death. What shall we do?”

Yuan Yin analyzed to him: "It doesn't matter, this is Mr. Tian's clever plan. He deliberately asked us to lie in ambush on the south slope. When the fire ignites and the smoke billows, it will surely cover the sky and block out the sun. It will be pitch black for miles around. We brothers just followed the thick smoke and fled back to the camp, otherwise we will be unable to escape." Zhu Ling said: "The Wuhuan soldiers should come after us." Yuan Yin said: "Don't say they can't see us clearly, even if they do. It's clear, if the cavalry is willing to smoke and fire, the horse will not come, right?"

Yuan Yin deliberately raised his voice and said, so that most of the soldiers could hear it, and everyone immediately regained their energy. Everyone said that Tian Feng was thoughtful.Zhu Ling also deeply admired, "It's reasonable, it's reasonable." Yuan Yin said suddenly: "Don't talk, come here."

The horn sounded again, and in front of the low slope, the cavalry phalanx, which was seven hundred steps away and a hundred feet wide, advanced in an orderly manner, with the thunder of war drums and the neighing of horses.Yuan Yin felt that his palms were sticky, it was cold sweat. More than 100 people are not afraid of facing such a powerful army. His reaction is normal.At the moment when the enemy vanguard passed down the short slope, Zhu Ling suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Fuck it, fight hard, let the arrow go." The arrow was ignited in the hands of Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin, and shot out first , the 150 brothers in the back, issued consecutively, and the unsuspecting Wuhuan soldiers on the side were shot down by arrows.They were so surprised that they couldn't think of ambushing soldiers behind here, because the place is too small, and 100 people will squeeze a few to death in the back. Who dares to bring 100 people to ambush an army of 100.They didn't know that these [-] people were not here to ambush, but to set fire.

The rocket pierced straight into the grass, and when it landed on the ground, there would be a loud bang, and then the flames would soar into the sky.The tender green grass is not easy to burn in the fire, but it raises thick smoke for tens of feet. The billowing smoke is like dozens of black dragons, rushing straight into the sky, and then blown by the northeast wind to the low slope where Yuan Yin and Zhu Ling are located. .The 150 cavalrymen on the prairie shouted and screamed at the same time, and the formation suddenly became chaotic, and the entire prairie seemed to be shaking due to various sounds.Thick smoke surrounds the low slope like haze, rising upwards, curling and scattering, concealing the sky and covering the ground.Zhu Ran yelled, "Go" and ran along the thick smoke first. They didn't have horses, mainly because they were afraid that their whereabouts would be exposed.Yuan Yin led [-] soldiers in the back, blocked his nose, squinted his eyes, held back tears, and ran along the black smoke.Many Wuhuan soldiers saw someone shooting arrows down the low slope while they were on fire, so they rushed over from all directions, full of hatred, gnashing their teeth, trying to strangle these scheming Han Chinese, but they rushed to the low slope. When I got down, I couldn't see anything anymore, and the black fog made people blind.The smoke inadvertently inhaled is enough to suffocate a person, and the horse is also suffocated.The cavalry who came after them picked up their horses and ran away without caring about the chasers.

The fire was intense, and suddenly, it dispersed the cavalry formation of the Wuhuan soldiers, but it did not cause much damage to them, because this place is not like the Central Plains, where the roads are rugged, the prairie is extremely wide, the terrain is flat, and the cavalry is fast, very fast. They all ran away, even so, and many people were thrown off their horses by the panic-stricken war horses, and they were thrown to death and trampled to death.

Seeing the anger, Zhou Cangchangxi immediately mounted his horse on the flanks and shouted: "Kill, brothers, our chance to make meritorious service has come." The two thousand cavalry promised loudly.They got on their horses together, rushed out from the thick smoke, broke through a group of Wuhuan cavalry on the right wing who were not stable, and charged towards the center forward like a bamboo shoot.The two leading swords, Zhou Cang and Chang Xi, rolled like poisonous dragons, and they were invincible in blocking them. The invincible bravery infected all the subordinates who followed behind to fight desperately, all of them were unstoppable.The number is pitifully smaller than Wuhuan's flanking cavalry, but their strength is concentrated, and they are killed when Wuhuan's soldiers are in chaos and unable to shoot arrows. Then, under the cover of thick smoke, the Wuhuan's flanking soldiers thought that there were thousands of troops coming. , Everyone ran away in fright.Hu Che'er on the left flank almost started at the same time as Zhou Cang, and his team was even more arrogant, taking advantage of the moment when the Wuhuan soldiers were out of sight in the thick smoke, they shot arrows into the formation from a distance.The Wuhuan soldiers' cavalry and shooting were definitely much better than theirs, but only a few arrows were shot out, and some of them even hit their own people.Because the Wuhuan people are going south at this moment, and Hu Che'er is lying in ambush to the north, and the wind direction is northeast, blowing the thick smoke into the Wuhuan people.In this way, Hu Che'er can see them, but they cannot see Hu Che'er's commando.While shooting, Hu Che'er yelled, "Shoot a few more, or you won't be able to see them when you get close."

The shrill sound of the horn spread across the grassland, and the panicked enemies retreated in all directions as if they had received some kind of hint.This way of using the horn to command the battle is worth learning, sometimes it is more effective than the drums and arrows.

The fire spread intensified on the north and south slopes, and thick smoke was rising to cover the enemy's position. Tadun was afraid that our army would take advantage of the momentum to charge, and issued an order. The attacking troops retreated in all directions, and then regrouped five miles ahead to reassemble the encirclement. Bypassing the field of fire and continuing to march, due to the huge disparity in the number of troops, and the strong combat effectiveness of the Wuhuan soldiers with one against ten, although our army succeeded again and again, it still could not bring them a devastating blow. This small injury, yes To put it bluntly, it was just scabies, and it would take half an hour to recover.

Half an hour later, except for the cavalry on the two wings who were pinned down by Zhou Cang and Hu Che'er and could not move, the circular cavalry regiment of the Chinese army regrouped five miles away from our army camp. Like two roast chickens, they kept spitting and yelling loudly, and they didn't know who to scold. !Yes, who should be responsible for this account.Tian Feng and I were on the watchtower, seeing that Tadun quickly assembled the elite cavalry and was about to come to the camp to charge the battle, we were a little dumbfounded.I immediately got off the watchtower and said to Tian Feng: "I'm going to help Zhang Xiu charge. It's only a moment if I can fight for a while longer. I hope Wen Chou can come here soon." Without waiting for Tian Feng's answer, he got on his horse and took his gun, and came Zhang Xiu, who had been waiting in the Yuanmen for a long time.At this time, Zhu Ling and Yuan Yin's 150 soldiers just came back, everyone was full of smoke and fire, as black as if they had just drilled out of a chimney.I cupped my hands and said: "Brothers have worked hard, let's see what happened between me and General Zhang."

Zhu Ling was the first to be displeased: "Young master, that's no good. Even you have already killed the enemy. How can we stay behind and watch the fun? I'll go too." When he spoke, he kept spraying Black smoke came out, as if someone had lit a torch in his stomach.Yuan Yin said impassionedly: "I'll go too—" After finishing speaking, the two of them pulled their horses and climbed on their backs.The remaining 150 soldiers were infantry, which belonged to the heavily armed forces. Tian Feng put the infantry, which was less than [-], at the end of the field, and let them wait for work, relying on the steepness of the camp, to fight the final decisive battle with the Wuhuan soldiers.

The sound of the horn spread throughout the grassland, and Tadun's second charge was launched violently five miles away. The center team changed their tactics and dispersed under the command of the horn. , galloping to the left and right, two dark clouds pressed towards the gate of the camp.At high speed in the blink of an eye, nearly three to five hundred of the enemy's center forward staggered around, turning their backs on their backs.Some stumbled on the ropes, some fell into the horse pit, and some horses stepped on the barbed wire and jumped up in fright.Zhang Xiu and I held the cavalry in the wrong position, but the infantry on both sides shot arrows out of the camp, shooting all the enemy soldiers within range off their horses.Fifty horse traps, 180 bridle ropes, and three thousand barbed wire, stopped the fearless Wuhuan cavalry for nearly an hour. At the cost of three thousand hundreds of casualties, more than five hundred cavalry finally crossed the thunder pool. , to a safe distance.The rain of arrows could not stop the powerful cavalry from rushing into the village.

I sneered; "Soldiers, are you afraid that we are outnumbered and outnumbered?" Zhang Xiu hissed, "I'm afraid there will be a fart, but it's not the same as death. We have to fight to the death and persist until the death of General Wen Chou tomorrow The brigade of cavalry will arrive soon." Zhang Xiu knew the worries in the soldiers' hearts and encouraged their morale.At this moment, Zhang Xiu and I have less than 4 cavalry under our command, but we have to deal with those coming from the front. Wuhuan has more than [-] cavalry, which is indeed frightening.Zhang Xiu said impassionedly: "Brothers, the enemy soldiers, let alone kill the enemy. Kill." Sitting on the black horse, he rushed out like lightning.I remembered what Hanxian Emperor Liu Xie once said to me, and said loudly: "Everyone cherishes oneself, and hope to meet each other with wealth and honor in the future." After saying that, he shot out of the gate, according to Tian Feng's plan in advance Route, cover and kill the past.The cavalry behind them, like the winding tail of a dragon, followed suit.

Outside the camp, there were already corpses strewn across the field and blood flowing into rivers.Thousands of cavalry from Wuhuan pressed forward and shot arrows at our cavalry. Arrows flew like locusts. Within the charging distance of less than ten miles, soldiers around me were killed and injured countless times, and brothers left me from time to time.But they still went forward without fear.Two Wuhuan cavalrymen, one on the left and one on the right, swung their knives at me, and I swung my spear across them, one in the neck and the other in the head, and the two of them were thrown backwards, knocking the other cavalry who rushed up.An enemy I kicked spurted blood.The light of the knife flashed, and I looked towards my door. I flashed to the right, and the tip of the gun was sent into his heart along with the trend, and a transparent blood hole was dug in his chest.The man fell off the horse in response.My horse, gradually followed the soldiers into the enemy's line, and immediately felt as if he was trapped in the vast ocean, unable to extricate himself, from all directions except the enemy or the enemy, almost reaching the level of killing and cutting at sight the point.There is no way, at this time, even if you kill one of your own people, you can only say sorry brother.

Every blink of an eye, there may be five to six slashes in front of you. You push this one, stab the other one, seal the third knife and the fourth knife, but you can't stop the fifth knife.In less than a while, my arms and legs were already covered with scars.The screams around me were endless, as soon as my soldiers fell off their horses, they would be chopped into meat paste.Zhang Xiu has been fighting a few feet in front of me, and he has been wounded in many places.The cavalry formation of the Wuhuan soldiers was like an endless iron cage, which was impenetrable.

A Hu knife cut across Zhang Xiu's arm. Although protected by the armor and blocked by the iron scales, it still caused a burst of blood to splatter.I looked up, and there was already a twilight of morning light above my head, and a faint yellow color appeared in the east, and it seemed that the sky was about to dawn.My heart was dark for a while, it seemed that Wen Chou's cavalry could not come.My hand could no longer hold the gun, and the veins on the back of my hand were exposed one by one. Suddenly, I was stabbed in the shoulder behind me. The cut was not very deep, but for me at this moment, it was already a fatal wound. .The numbness of my wrist made my strength become lighter and weaker, the speed of the gun became slower and slower, and there were more and more minor and major injuries on my body.Behind Zhang Xiu, a Wuhuan soldier bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot him in the neck, but I rushed over and stabbed him off the horse before he shot.Zhang Xiu looked back in his busy schedule, and said with a smirk, "My lord, you are dying, who are you thinking about now?" I smiled wryly, "Who are you thinking about?" Loudly said: "I miss my Rong'er. He is my wife." I sadly said: "Me too, I am thinking about my wife too." Zhen Mi, farewell.

At dawn, I raised my head, and my gaze quickly swept across the prairie, and then I returned to the scorched hills and the sea of ​​corpses everywhere. Zhang Xiu and I, including the few remaining soldiers I could see, were all dead. When we were on the verge of dying, everyone was exhausted, and with a lot of blood loss, they all began to feel dizzy and exhausted. The battle on the two wings in the distance was also coming to an end. Although I couldn't see the figures of Hu Che'er and Zhou Cang, I could tell from the sound , Our army has no more troops to consume.Wuhuan soldiers rushed up from all directions and began to encircle the formation. For the final blow, Ta Dun personally suppressed the formation. He wanted to use the most elite personal soldiers to end the offensive and defensive battle that lasted all night.Tian Feng was hesitating whether to send the 1 heavy infantry, or he was waiting.His strategy is to seek victory in danger. If Wen Chou arrives, our army will win a complete victory. If not, even if he pushes the [-] people up, he will not be able to win.No matter, let's save the second son first.Tian Feng raised his hand slowly, and was about to put it down.Suddenly, hoofbeats sounded from the northeast, and the ground shook.As the horns roared, [-] new cavalry troops rushed down from the northeast high slope.Everyone galloped on the horse like a frightened wild beast, leading a general, shouting loudly in the distance; It's coming.If you don't come again, our brother will say goodbye forever.

(End of this chapter)