Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 946
The encirclement of Heluo by the Jin army gradually took shape, making the situation in Heluo increasingly severe.In particular, the opponent only besieged but did not attack, which made the Taobao army feel anxious.

If it continues like this, not to mention the Jin army's subsequent ferocious killing moves, I'm afraid that the Taobao army itself will be defeated without a fight like Liyang Shikan's army.

Therefore, the Peach Leopard Army has recently been thinking hard about how to make a counterattack. Even if they don't expect a complete victory, they must at least boost their morale.

But where to counterattack, it is really painstaking.Yique to the south is not the main force of the Jin army, but Yique itself is a river pass. After being trapped, it is difficult to repel the enemy and make a breakthrough without more than a few times the strength of the troops.Once so many troops are dispatched, it will be tantamount to abandoning Luoyang City, and will provide the Jin army with an empty door to attack Luoyang directly from the river.

The road at Shenyuan Pass is too rough and narrow, so it is more suitable for a surprise attack. Once the enemy is ready, it only needs to arrange a part of the troops to stand at the pass, and it is impossible to rush out between the narrow mountains and valleys.

The generals were more interested in breaking through to the north, passing through Mengjin and Xiaopingjin to Hebei, or wandering north and rushing into the outskirts of Taihang, or rushing back to Hebei from Hanoi with plenty of horsepower.

But when I think of the huge warships of the Jin army cruising on the Yellow River waterway, and look at their crude small boats and rafts, this kind of breakout is more like courting death.

And even if some of the sergeants were able to break through the barriers of the Jin army and the water army and successfully reach the opposite bank, once they left Heluo, a place of four besieged places, the soldiers would lose their restraint and flee in all directions.What's more, there are still thousands of cavalry from the Jin army in the land of Hanoi. How much they can escape in the end is really desperate.

After choosing and choosing, the only direction that can make an assault seems to be only one place in the tiger prison.Hulao's pass here is solid, which is convenient for increasing troops, and the terrain outside the pass is open and flat, which is convenient for cavalry to charge and attack.

Although not far from Hulao Pass is where the main force of the Jin army is gathered, it is because of this that the soldiers will inevitably feel negligent and underestimate the enemy, thinking that they will not be attacked.

Tao Bao didn't expect to be able to directly crush the Jin army that had just won the Liyang victory with the impact of thousands of cavalry, but as long as they could take advantage of the Jin army's slack and win the first battle, a small victory would be able to stabilize the situation to a great extent. Keeping the morale of the army is more conducive to the subsequent defense.

Due to the serious blockage of eyes and ears, Tao Bao didn't know that the Jin army was accepting a large number of captives and civilians in Hebei, but this did not prevent him from using the Jin army's logistics as an opportunity to reverse the battle situation.

The Jin army has nearly one hundred thousand troops from all walks of life. It is conceivable how heavy the logistical pressure will be.Once he wins a victory here at Hulao Pass, stabilizes the turbulent military spirit, and arouses the stubbornness of the soldiers, he may not be able to delay the war by relying on Heluo Tiandan.

As long as the waterways dry up in winter, it will be difficult for the Jin army to maintain such a large force. When it retreats, it will be a good opportunity to turn defense into offense.

In fact, Taobao also learned this tactic from Shen Weizhou.Just like in the Huaishang battle in the early years, Zhao Guo's army arrived at Huaishang aggressively, but was defeated by the Huainan army's water irrigation, and its morale was lost. Then the Huainan army guarded the Huai River line and delayed the war Go down and win big in the end.

The current season, including the topography of the Yellow River, determines that Taobao has no flood assistance.But the magical effect of the art of war is based on one mind, and there is really no need to stick to the similarities and differences in form.Although Taobao cannot borrow the power of heaven and earth, he has powerful cavalry.

He didn't expect to be able to achieve the brilliant results of the Huainan Army in Yingshui, as long as he could win a small victory, it would be of great significance to him.

So as early as two days ago, Taobao secretly sent more troops to Hulaoguan City, only waiting for the enemy to relax a little, and immediately ordered to attack.He remembered that Guo Song, the enemy's commander opposite Hulao, was the defender of Yingkou in the Huai Shang battle in the early years, and now he used the opponent's means to impose on the opponent's head again!

Sure enough, after Taobao arrived at Hulao, he found that the enemy camp on the opposite side was quite lax. He didn't realize that Hulao Pass would have the possibility of an external attack and counterattack.There were even some scattered Xiangyong who crossed the front and rushed to the vicinity of Hulaoguan City, wandering and clamoring, showing their madness.

In order to maximize the effect of the surprise attack, Tao Bao not only strictly ordered the soldiers not to attack, but also took down the flags on the wall one by one.

Sure enough, the enemy army behaved more and more arrogantly, and even took the initiative to flatten the many fortifications that had been set up to prevent the cavalry from attacking and charging, as if they planned to directly attack the city.

"In this battle, the future of tens of thousands of soldiers depends on their lives. They are only allowed to succeed, not to fail!"

Taobao is now too old to be brave enough to lead the charge, but he stood in front of the city gate and personally sent the [-] cavalry soldiers who were in charge of the attack out of the city, encouraging him loudly.

The three thousand knights were all carefully selected elites in the army, both in riding and martial arts, and they were all equipped with bows and knives. Once they rushed out of the city, the suffocation of being weak for the past few days was also tilted away, and they went straight to the enemy. The army line rushes forward!

The front stretched for several miles, and it was difficult to gallop because of the large number of fortifications set up before.Although there are still many remaining at this moment, with the invincible army blocking the formation behind, the mere obstacles are not enough to stop these elite knights, and they quickly rode over these remaining defenses.

At this time, the Huainan army on the opposite side was already in chaos, and the camps were filled with figures fleeing from the camp, and the camp directly in front of them was already empty.

Seeing this scene, the cavalry officers and soldiers rushing out of Hulaoguan couldn't help laughing wildly, and they even whipped their horses and rushed towards the enemy camp, directly rushed into the empty camp gate, and overturned the abandoned tents.

They also kept in mind that the mission of this attack was aimed at creating greater turmoil and chaos, so they turned a blind eye to the abandoned weapons and supplies in the camp, directly set fire to the camp, and then rushed to the four camps!

At this time, Guo Song saw the enemy trampling and galloping wantonly in the camp, and his face became more gloomy for a while.The enemy army is coming so fast, it can be seen that they must have been preparing for a long time.Although he decisively abandoned the middle camp, thereby gaining a short period of time to regroup the army and use the original camp to limit the enemy's charge, but the current situation is still not optimistic.

If he can't cause heavy damage to the enemy troops attacking this way and let them go, then he will be guilty of neglecting this moment!
"Keep the stronghold and fight to the death without retreating!"

Guo Song wandered among several side camps, ordered the drums and horns to strictly guard the remaining camps, and at the same time ordered to set fire to those abandoned camps.Fortunately, when he set up the camp before, he fully considered fire prevention. The distance between the camps was not small, and he also prepared more sand and soil to prevent the fire from spreading outward.

Soon, thick smoke billowed from the abandoned camps.Seeing this scene, Guo Song breathed a sigh of relief. At least after the thick smoke rose, the camp behind Xingyang would be alert.

But that's not enough!
"The battalion supervisor follows me and cuts off the enemy's retreat!"

Guo Song yelled loudly, grabbed the long-handled saber with both hands, and led hundreds of brave soldiers who supervised the formation, rushed out from the side of the camp, and rushed straight to the border mound outside the camp.

At this time, the enemy soldiers who rushed into the camp also gradually realized that something was wrong. When they rushed out of the camp, they were indeed invincible, almost unobstructed, and set fire everywhere, creating a huge scene.But the problem was that it was too smooth, almost no enemy soldiers were encountered, and all they saw were dead objects, as if the opponent had voluntarily abandoned the camp as a trap, rather than being scattered by their impact.

Especially when they continued to attack the other camps, they soon encountered strong resistance, and arrows rained down like rain.They themselves have to be distracted from riding the horse, and it is difficult to draw the bow to fight back with all their strength.

"Withdraw from the camp and attack again!"

The generals' orders sounded in the messy camp. In fact, the cavalry was not suitable for charging the camp, but the problem was that they charged too fast, and the Huainan army had no time to form a field battle outside the camp.What's more, there are several empty camps in front of them. If they can't get through the camps, then what is the significance of this attack?

And this is exactly the reason why Guo Song voluntarily gave up the middle camp. It is not suitable for cavalry to rush into the camp, and that is when each other maintains a certain level of combat effectiveness.The Huainan Army responded hastily this time, and the soldiers of the headquarters mainly concentrated in the central camps.

The surrounding battalions are the garrisons of the village braves who came to join the army. Those village braves themselves are not well organized and fight on their own. If they respond to the enemy in a hurry, they will only become more chaotic. It is inevitable to flee the camp.

If the enemy launched an attack from the frontier camp, they would be able to directly throw these brave men from the frontier camp into chaos, flee inward, and then smash the middle camp where the headquarters of the Huainan Army was located, thus shaking the entire camp.Even if Guo Song had the heart to resist, it would be difficult for him to do anything when the whole army was in chaos.

This kind of flexibility in the face of battle is the quality of a general.Although there were more ordnance gathered in the middle battalion, Guo Song still gave up without hesitation in order to ensure the integrity of the defense line.And those brave men in the border camp were expelled from the camp by the Huainan Army long ago, creating an illusion that the camp defense was completely shaken.

As for the enemy general who is about to fight, he was firstly fascinated by the empty battalion, and secondly, he believed too much in his own impact and wanted to hit a center to blossom, but ended up in a predicament of being surrounded by all directions.When the army realized that something was wrong and wanted to withdraw, the previous aura no longer existed, and it was difficult for the army formation to maintain its original integrity and impact.

"kill!"

Seeing dozens of enemy knights rushing out of the smoky barracks in a mess, Guo Song suddenly slashed down obliquely with a saber in his hand.
Hundreds of guarding soldiers each held sharp blades, and with Guo Song as the center, they condensed into a solid wall of iron blades, roaring and beheading all the enemy knights rushing out wrapped in thick smoke!

After killing or injuring dozens of people, the enemy retreated one after another and rushed out from other directions. After realizing that there were few soldiers on this side, they charged back with a grinning grin.

The soldiers of the Huainan army saw that the enemy army was gradually encircling. Even though the formation was changed from a square wall to an inner circle and an outer circle, the soldiers on the periphery were still slashing with their knives bravely. Once a soldier from one side was killed and ambushed Corpses, there are soldiers in the middle quickly stepping to fill the gap in the circular formation.

Guo Song saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and the circle gradually shrank. He bit his teeth to wipe off the blood on his face, and resolutely stepped forward with a knife into the outer circle.He doesn't hate that half of his life's fame was ruined here, but he deeply hates that he was fascinated by the nostalgia for a while, which caused the lives of his soldiers to be wasted!

"Guo Song is here, who can kill me!"

He roared and beheaded an enemy knight charging forward, looking like a mad tiger, hoping to target himself and attract more enemy troops to the nearby area, so that the surrounding Huainan soldiers could surround and kill more enemy troops here .

"Don't worry, Marquis Guo, I have been waiting for the bandit army for a long time under the order of the governor!"

Amidst the chaotic fighting, a large number of soldiers of the Jin army suddenly poured out from the flanks of the battlefield. Xuzhou general Xu Ning, surrounded by his own trilogy, held a strong bow and drew the string left and right, shouting loudly and rushed straight to the most tragic place of the fighting.

On the wider battlefield, the rangers of the Jin army pierced through the large battlefield outside the city of Hulaoguan, and several lines of swords, shields, and crossbows came out in all directions, enclosing the enemy troops that rushed out all the way. !

(End of this chapter)