Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1311 Longxiang Army Defeated
When the Longxiang Army of the Jie Kingdom left the camp and went west to the sliding platform, their speed was not too fast.

On the one hand, it is because the Longxiang Army is under too much logistical pressure when it is dispatched. A single man's armor can load dozens of carriages, plus the special matching horse materials needed for those horses. In addition to more than 3000 soldiers of the Longxiang Army, there were also more than 5000 servants, soldiers, and hundreds of carriages accompanying them, so the speed was naturally not fast enough.

Another point is that the main general, Shi Tao, was cautious and did not dare to advance too quickly.Although he showed pride and fearlessness in front of his elder brother Shi Xuan, he was still somewhat uneasy about Henan, which was active in the heart of the Jin people.Although the Longxiang army won the first battle, Shi Tao did not think that Jin Wangshi was vulnerable to a single blow.

The reason for this mentality is not that Shi Tao is more cautious or timid than his brothers, but that they have different growth experiences.

Shi Xuan and the other older princes of the Jie Kingdom all grew up in the days when the Jie Kingdom was flourishing and the elites of the Jie Kingdom were unrivaled in the north and south. .This kind of arrogant personality that has been cultivated over the years cannot be changed overnight.

Shi Tao's age is much younger than Shi Xuan and others. When he grows up and is qualified to participate in middle school affairs, the state of Jie is no longer the dominant country in previous years. All of them showed their vigilance and fear of the Jin people in the southern country.

Each era has its own story, and each era also has its own proud son who is far beyond the rest of the world. Although Shi Xuan and Shi Tao are brothers, the age gap in these few years belongs to two eras. Their experiences, experiences or feelings are all very different, which naturally leads to different views on affairs.

Shi Tao looked down on his elder brothers because of this. In his opinion, although these people were full of disdain for the southerners no matter what they said or did, they seemed arrogant and heroic, but they were just unwilling to admit it. The fact that the family situation and the national fortune are in decline is both powerless and full of unwillingness and cruelty.

"My Hu Yi's physique was lucky enough to steal the talisman during the revolution of heaven and earth, but it is not easy to use Hu Yi to rule China? Because it is fighting with the southerners, we need to be more careful in order to maintain the heaven's love. Like that stupid Liu, unable to judge the situation, blindly bullying the strong and acting fiercely, only knowing that the north and the south are still in the old situation, and they will surely perish due to violence, and cannot stand for a long time. This time I left the camp to fight alone, and I also wanted to avoid suffering with him! "

During the march, Shi Tao also chatted with his confidants in the army. He said that he didn't like Shi Xuan very much. He felt that he was mixed with that guy who didn't know the current affairs. Contribute later.

Leaving aside whether Shi Tao is more intelligent than his elder brother, at least right now, his cautiousness can be said to have temporarily saved his life.Because it was the third day he left the camp and traveled westward, and when he was halfway away from the sliding platform, there were traces of Jin cavalry on the road ahead.

Although Shi Tao didn't know that the Jin army he encountered was the Southern Fenwu army, but the scouts reported that the opponent's cavalry was strong and there was no shortage of horses, and even the armament ration was not inferior to their Longxiang army, so Shi Tao naturally I knew that this time I should have encountered a strong enemy.

He also secretly thought it was a fluke, because not long before, there were generals in the army who were impatient with such a slow march, and persuaded Shi Tao to give up the equipment and soldiers for the time being, and go up lightly, and first conquered with lightning speed. Sliding table, and then rest and wait for the follow-up.

But out of prudence, Shi Tao didn't obey, and as expected, he encountered a strong Jin army.If he had dared to underestimate the enemy and advance aggressively, he would probably lead the battalion and charge into the killing array of the southerners at this moment!
It has been two days since the Fenwu army arrived at the skating platform, and the main general Shen Yun was full of resentment. When the Jie army came south to attack the scorpion and succeeded, his army had just arrived at the chasm, and not long after that, he received a strict order from his second brother Shen Mu He rushed to the skating platform to stand by the military order.

Although the Fenwu Army is a strong army in Taiwan, it probably also faces the same troubles as the Jie Guolong Army, that is, if it wants to ensure complete combat effectiveness, ordnance rationing is inevitable.Unless it is just to seize the opportunity like the raid on Longshang a few years ago, it can only greatly reduce the ration of ordnance to increase the speed.

However, the Fenwu Army has another advantage that the Jie Kingdom Longxiang Army cannot match. The key fortresses will store some of the Fenwu Army's ordnance for replacement, unlike the Jie Kingdom's Longxiang Army, which has not even been able to make up a full staff.

But even so, it was not easy for the Fenwu Army to go from the chasm to the skating platform and to arrive in such a short period of time.What's more, the more convenient Dahe waterway is currently mainly used by the water army going west to the east of the river, so the Fenwu army can only travel day and night without saddle.

Shen Mu's urging order made Shen Yun think that Henan had already fought a lot of battles, but it was only after he got to the sliding platform that the troops in the same robes between Qing and Yan were still lined up with the old gods, and Shen Mu's feelings for Shen Mu were still in their hearts. The slander is inevitably worse.

After recuperating for two days on the sliding platform, and replenishing the equipment and replacing the war horses, Shen Yun was ordered to travel eastward, preparing to settle in the western region of Fengfen to wait for the battle.It can be seen that Shen Mu did not ignore the fatal flaw in his tactics of counterattacking Fenfen, and arranged the Fenwu Army in the western region of Fenfen in advance to resist the impact of defeating the Jie army.

But Shen Mu didn't expect that the Longxiang army, which could pose a great threat to the mechanical array he had set up, had left Fufen a few days earlier, making this counterattack a smooth one without any hindrance.

The North and South elite armies that were supposed to collide violently outside the Fufen camp were now encountering fate. They did not fight fiercely in Fufen, but they were about to start fighting on the riverside hundreds of miles away from Fufen.

The Fenwu Army has been in the army for a long time. After raising its prominence in Longyou, they have recuperated in Guanzhong for a long time. Now they are still hungry and thirsty for the battle. Moreover, they still have the advantage of fighting at home, so they have to be more proactive in their response.

Not long after the scouts reported back, Shen Yun was also a little surprised why he encountered a strong division of the Jie army here.He also thought that something happened to Fufen, so he immediately sent a thousand light cavalry to charge towards the enemy's formation.Whether the enemy is brave or not, let's take a bite first!
Shi Tao of the Longxiang Army of the Jie Kingdom, although he is a high-ranking captain, has very little experience in fighting battles and commanding battles alone. He is both apprehensive and excited at the moment. A battle to become famous in Henan can be said to be highly anticipated.

But before he had time to issue any instructions, he saw a column of smoke rising from the west road, and then the sound of horseshoes approaching from far to near, and soon there was no other noise in the countryside except the sound of thousands of horses galloping.

"Good come!"

Shi Tao straddled a war horse that had already been armored, and with a long lance under his arm, he ordered the heavily armored knights in the army to move closer to him and stepped out of the chariot formation. Wait for the enemy.

He didn't dare to underestimate the Jin army, but he definitely didn't lack the courage to fight, and he was proficient in bowing horses and fighting lions and tigers, otherwise he would not have won the love of the lord and would have given him the military power of the Taiwei's mansion !
Southerners are not good at riding in the wild, and there are no good breeds of horses. That was before.From the period of the Huainan Governor's Mansion, the general invested heavily in the construction of the cavalry and never slacked off. Later, through various border trades, he obtained excellent horse breeds from the four sides, Sichuan, Shu, Longshang, Hexi, Saibei, and even the base camp of the Jie Kingdom. In the past few years, horses from these places have been pouring into Zhongzhou through various channels.

And the knights of the Fenwu Army are the absolute elites who have been honed by the king's division for years of battles and selected from the best of the ministries. The quality of the soldiers may not be said to far exceed the elite soldiers of the Jie Kingdom, but there is absolutely no reason to be inferior!

Shi Tao's heavy cavalry had just assembled into formation, the rear line of chariots was still being tensely deployed, and the Jin army's light cavalry had already rushed to the front.Before the men and horses arrived, the front arrows arrived first, and the arrows whizzed over the wilderness and void, and roared towards the heavy cavalry of the Jie army arrayed in front of the camp, so there were continuous clanging sounds in the formation of the Jie army, sometimes mixed with There was the wailing sound of people and horses rushing to the ground.

Fenwu rode like the wind, and after a round of arrow rain splashed out, he did not stay in front of the formation for a moment. With a turn of the rein, he quickly bypassed the frontal battle formation, and circled to the flanks of the convoy that was still in formation, one after another. After shooting two rounds of arrow rain, he bypassed this place and ran backwards.

At this moment, Shi Tao's face in the cavalry formation was ashen-faced, he knew that he was short of a move after all, and lacked experience, so he made a mistake in the first battle against the enemy. The light riding of the wind restrains the spirit first.

Although heavy riders and horse armor, this round of rushing was endured, and the casualties were negligible, but there was a lot of commotion in the rear car formation, and they were seriously harassed by the Jin army's attack this time.

He changed his mind sharply, Dang Shi ordered the rear Qingqi to leave the camp, intending to use light to control light, to see who is better.But when the military order was issued, the enemy's second round of more than a thousand light cavalry re-entered like a roaring wave, and once again gave the Jie army a fierce slap, this time it caused even greater disturbances.

Shi Tao's face became even greener, he raised his visor on the horse's back, looked behind him, and roared angrily: "The rear is tightly packed, don't attack. Heavy cavalry follow me, charge the enemy's formation, and kill their camp!"

The Longxiang Army fed by the blood and human life of the Jie Kingdom is also an elite who is not afraid of death. Hearing the commander's order, the army formation immediately condensed again, and each of them held their horses tightly in the troops. The spears raised slightly, Like a stream of iron, rushing forward unstoppably!

At this moment, the third batch of rangers of the Jin army were also on the way to charge, and they were surprised to see the opponent's heavy cavalry rushing towards them. , showing a sense of embarrassment.Although they are both cavalry, no matter how brave the light cavalry is, it is an act of courting death to charge the heavy cavalry formation that has already charged.

Seeing that the rangers of the Jin army had to dodge and escape due to their power, a series of laughter rang out from the heavy cavalry of the Jie army who were charging, and the soldiers of the Jie army also became more motivated because of this, revealing a sense of battle. fierce arrogance.

The heavy cavalry of the Jie army did not turn to attack the Jin cavalry who had fled in the wild, but went straight to the enemy's front with unswerving determination.Of course, Qingqi was so agile that they couldn't catch up even if they wanted to.The Jin army's baggage was also inflexible in movement, and because too many light cavalry were sent to charge the formation, a basic camp prototype had not even been formed at this moment. Once encountered heavy cavalry charging, it was bound to collapse!
Shen Yun was greatly surprised by such a ferocious behavior of the Jie army. Although the Fenwu army fought at home, although the supply and supplies were not as large as the Jie army, they still had a lot of supplies.

He had played too heroically before, but at this time there were only thousands of soldiers of the Fenwu Army and more than 2000 auxiliary soldiers and laborers sent by the skateboard, as well as stacked on the carriage. vest.

The two armies have already been able to charge each other, and the distance is not too far away. Seeing that the Jie army is riding heavy horses, their momentum is getting stronger and stronger, and the distance is getting closer and closer. At this moment, it is almost impossible to set up a camp in place to resist the enemy court death.

So Shen Yun made a decisive decision and ordered the army to quickly retreat, and for a while there was another chaotic scene of people turning their backs on their backs.Even if the mobility of the heavy cavalry is not high, it is by no means capable of being thrown off by those heavy-duty vehicles, so the army has not retreated enough, and the heavy cavalry impact of the Jie army is about to arrive.

"Protect the people and horses, abandon the goods and go first!"

Shen Yun immediately gave the order, and at the same time, he split open the rope that was holding the goods in a nearby truck. After the rope broke, the truck rolled over with the sackcloth on it and fell to the ground. White rice grains.

Seeing this scene, the Jie soldiers became more excited, kept making strange noises, and were even more inconsiderate of horsepower. The heavy knights rushing to the front were desperately beating their horses, and they were faintly out of touch with the rear.

The soldiers of the Jin army fled and fell at the rear, after seeing the general's actions, they followed suit for a while, throwing all the goods on the carts on the way, and then abandoned these carts and accelerated to run forward.If he gave up the goods of more than a dozen carriages in the back road, he finally distanced himself from the Jie army.

Although the heavy trucks abandoned by the Jin people were captured by the Jie army, they completely interrupted the charge of the Jie army's heavy cavalry.These Jie army soldiers are brave and fearless in battle, and regard human life as worthless, but they are also particularly greedy for goods, especially these are supplies for the Jin army's first-class elite and powerful Fenwu army. It is far better than ordinary military goods!
So when they saw that they had gained something, all these fierce soldiers of the Jie army were all smiling. The Jie army who had reached the front line stopped immediately, and some even simply abandoned their weapons and got off their horses, reaching out to embrace the messy piles of goods on the ground Or fine armor.

It should be noted that the military law of their Longxiang Army is different from that of ordinary troops. In order to encourage them to fight with their lives, the Lord Shang Shihu authorized the soldiers of the Longxiang Army to keep most of what they seized in the battle, and they do not have to hand them over.

The reason why they fight bravely and are not afraid of death is nothing more than money, food and goods. Now that all kinds of things are in front of them, who has the mood to fight again.If these captures are not seized in advance, it will be cheaper for the troops in the rear, and they will continue to fight forward, and there will be fear of death in battle.At this moment, naturally everyone follows the truest choice in their hearts.

But the heavy cavalry charge, a large part of its lethality comes from the unstoppable and powerful inertia, so how can it stop as soon as it says stop!

So after the soldiers in the front line were greedy for goods and stomped their feet, the knights who didn't know where they were going in the back road continued to charge forward, and soon, the front and back piled up and collided violently.There was even no need for the Jin people to return to kill and kill. Some Jie soldiers who had stopped rashly in the front were directly knocked out by the iron lumps rushing in from the back!

Shi Tao was in the middle of the team, and he was faced with extremely violent forward and backward rush. If the guards on the side hadn't been quick to support him, he might have been knocked off his horse by the force of the front and rear clapping.

Just as he sat down on the horse, he said angrily, "Why did the front line stop?"

Without waiting for others to answer, after seeing the messy scene in front of him, he already understood most of it, and was even more anxious in his heart. He glanced at the Jin army formation that was still retreating inside and outside, and was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

His face suddenly sank, he raised his arm, and the spear directly pierced through the body of a soldier who dismounted and looted the goods in the front line, and roared fiercely: "The Jin army's relics are less than half, and there are still strong enemies waiting in the front line." Kill, whoever is greedy for goods and forgets to fight is so greedy!"

As he spoke, he raised his arms suddenly, and the soldier's body was thrown far away.Seeing this scene, the surrounding Longxiang soldiers felt awe-inspiring for a moment, and then got on their horses one after another, rearranged the army formation again, and continued to charge forward.

Leaving aside the reason that the swells and declines, heavy cavalry charging is the most physically consuming method of warfare, because the Jie army's charge this time has a completely different arrogance from the previous one.

Especially when some of the Jie troops discovered that the Jin army's rangers who had been dispersed had wandered back and picked up the luggage that they had no time to sort out, they couldn't help but feel even more heartbroken, as if their money had been stolen.Although he was too timid to leave the battle formation without authorization, the indomitable momentum could never be brought up again.

The Jin army is still constantly discarding goods and luggage. As the team gradually loses weight, it can barely maintain a delicate balance with the pursuit of the Jie army.

Of course, with the power of the Jie army's heavy cavalry, even if there are reasons for its failure, it is not impossible to use full horsepower to outflank the Jin army. Take the initiative to give up part of the baggage.In this way, as long as they pursue closely, the Jin army will take the initiative to give up all their luggage, so why do they have to chase up and fight?
Although the Jin army retreated in a hurry, there were still thousands of them. It was really urgent, and they might not fight back.Even if they can't beat them, who can guarantee that they will win a complete victory?If a few people were killed by the Jin army, no matter who died accidentally, they would be extremely aggrieved.Simply keep a tacit agreement on this, and they can all save their lives and share the heavy cargo left over from this journey.

It's not that Shi Tao couldn't see the Jin army's strategy to disturb the Jie army's morale, but even if he could see this temptation of human greed, he couldn't crack it.Because right now he has to grit his teeth and emphasize the military order over and over again, and he is going to chase and kill the Jin army who is almost at the end of the way ahead, and he will do it all!
The Fenwu Army has rich combat experience, and there is no need for the commander's strict supervision and command on the battlefield, so they can naturally cooperate skillfully.The few light cavalry that attacked the Jie camp before have spontaneously gathered in the countryside and returned to the battlefield. When they saw that the general Shen Yun was leading the enemy's heavy cavalry away like walking a dog, they were not in a hurry to help, but only sent out a few hundred cavalry Arrows and harassment along the way to destroy the increasingly loose formation of the Jie army.

As for the other part of the cavalry, they rushed directly to the formation of the Jie army that had already completed their camp.After so many years of confrontational warfare, it should be said that the country of Jie is also absorbing the excellent experience of the Jin army. For example, the formation of military vehicles in front of us is quite similar to the Queyue vehicle formation frequently used by the Jin army in its early years.

It can also be seen from this that Shihu came south aggressively back then, and after a big defeat in Huai Shang, he did not gain nothing, and it can be regarded as gaining wisdom through suffering.

Although this imitation chariot formation is a bit nondescript, the chariots are not as good as the chariots of the Jin army for both offense and defense. The most important thing is that there is no water army on the river to cooperate with the attack. , it is difficult to break directly without paying big casualties.

However, the Jin army did not intend to break through the chariot formation at all, but just wandered outside the chariot formation to prevent the Jie army in the battalion from rushing out to reinforce another battlefield.

However, the efforts made by the Jie army here were very fierce. There were cavalry trying to rush out constantly, and relying on the situation of the Jin army's supply and supplies, they tried to drive back these intruding Jin army rangers with a violent rain of arrows. But several efforts were in vain.

Although the Fenwu Army no longer has the advantage in long-range strikes, their tenacity is astonishing.

One of the knights of the Jie army rushed out of the car formation while shooting fiercely. After avoiding a few rounds of arrow rain, the soldiers of the Fenwu army saw that the knights of the Jie army were about to rush out of the blocking range set by them. Nearly a hundred soldiers were not afraid of death, united as one, did not avoid the front arrow, and rushed directly into the Jie army's line of battle!
Under the violent collision, hundreds of Jie soldiers along the way were directly smashed to pieces, and the scattered cavalry were directly killed by the Fenwu soldiers who surrounded them!

And after this attempt, the Jie army in the car formation finally settled down, or they no longer have enough strength to launch another futile breakout like before.

There were more than 600 Longxiang troops, and Shi Tao took away more than 2000 heavy armored cavalry, and more than [-] people who stayed behind, consumed more than a thousand lives in repeated breakouts. There are hundreds of Jin people, but on the battlefield at this moment, the Jin army has locked in an advantage.

As for the thousands of servants and pawns in the chariot formation, they were all terrified by the brutal fighting outside the chariot formation at the moment, and they were swaying like malaria. The pawn's opponent is more likely to flee directly!
"Fenwu Army, this is, this is the Fenwu Army of the Southerners!"

In the army formation, an enemy general finally realized belatedly, and remembered the banner of this Jin army, and after he said this, the surrounding area was dead silent.These fierce soldiers of the Jie Kingdom, all of them had their eyes above the top in previous years. They felt that they were the fateful enemy of the Southern Fenwu Army. military.

But now, the dream has come into reality, but it is too tragic for them to accept.In several rushes, apart from shooting arrows to cause some casualties to the Jin army, they couldn't even exchange lives for lives in real hand-to-hand combat.

And the results of nearly a hundred knights of the Fenwu Army not dodging the front arrows, blocking the enemy with their lives, and finally getting hundreds of Longxiang soldiers slaughtered are also deeply engraved in their minds. The so-called fierce soldiers, after all, can't turn a blind eye to their own lives as they treat the lives of others. At this moment, they have been completely gutted, and they dare not get out of the car formation lightly!
As for Shi Tao, who attacked the Jin army formation, he was also in a difficult situation at the moment. Although under their pursuit all the way, most of the southerners' luggage had been lost, only a few thousand were left to flee, and the price they paid for the Jie army was men and horses. They were all exhausted, and some horses even fell down to death during the pursuit!

It turned out that they had been dragged by the Jin army for more than ten miles without knowing it.However, the Jin army's seemingly hasty escape all the way was a process of constant burden reduction. They left behind the luggage that the Jie army had no time to pick up, but squeezed out their physical strength little by little until they were completely exhausted.

So is this battle won or lost?

In the end, the Jin army only kept three carts of goods, and these three carts were all armored vehicles.After noticing that the pace of the Jie army in the rear was slowing down, Shen Yun still did not stop, and retreated for a few miles again, seeing that the hundreds of soldiers and rangers who followed all the way also caught up, and began to shoot the Jie army with a few arrows The army formation, and the Jie army still did not overreact.

It wasn't until this time that Shen Yun stopped and asked people to pick out hundreds of war horses that were deliberately maintained and still have long physical strength, put on horses with the soldiers, hundreds of heavy cavalry and three hundred rangers on each wing, and turned back to kill the Jie army.Although walking the dog along the way was hard work, the Jin army did not dress neatly before and became an advantage afterwards. Even if there is consumption, it can still maintain a battle.

"Soldiers, follow me for another kill!"

Shi Tao knew that this battle was inevitable, so he cheered up, summoned up his little physical strength, and shouted hoarsely to the surroundings, but there were only a few who responded, and some soldiers even took off their armor in order to lose weight Throwing it to the ground, revealing a tired face and gasping for breath.

Shen Yun came back aggressively, and when he saw an enemy general leading a dozen or so soldiers behind him, he dared to leave the formation and charged out. However, the war horse couldn't bear the huge impact, its knees limp and fell to the ground, and even the knight general rolled to the ground.

Without any hesitation, Shen Yun jumped on his horse and stabbed the knight to the ground, then he continued to charge forward majesticly, and when he saw that the Jie soldiers gathered together in fear, he shouted: "Who is the general of the enemy formation?" ? Take off your armor quickly and surrender, or you can avoid death..."

Speaking of this, he realized that all the Jie soldiers were all looking at the man who was stabbed to death by his horse before, and he looked back suspiciously, and then his face became ugly.

　A big chapter, more late, sorry sorry. . .

　　
　
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