Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 106 Meng Huo Captured
Mao Shi is exactly (five o'clock), the sun has not yet risen, and the sky is gray.

The rebel camp near Shimen and the Han army camp on the east side began to bury pots for cooking, and the continuous sound of bugles sounded in each camp, breaking the silent dawn.

Each other's scouts have stepped out of the camp gate and are heading towards the battle place. Their task is to find out whether there is an ambush or other battlefield information for the army.

Two quarters later, the Han army camp was extremely noisy. Thousands of Han army soldiers filed out from the gate of the camp, followed the banners at the forefront, forming fiery red queues, and finally gathered towards the army flags.In a short while, nearly [-] soldiers of the Han army marched forward in a dense formation under the military flag.

"Woo!" "Woo!" "Woo!"

The desolate horn sounded at the central army, and it spread to the whole army in a short time.

The curious Han soldiers looked in the direction of the Chinese army, and saw that the big banner representing Zhuge Liang was slowly moving forward.

Zhuge Liang was wearing a very rare light armor, covered with a fiery red war robe, standing heroically on the gorgeous frame, holding on to the wooden railing.Surrounded by sixty Huben Lang sent by Liu Chan, surrounded by Zhuge Liang's carriage.

Zhuge Liang divided the Han army into four armies, namely the front, rear, left, and right armies.

The former army was led by Wu Ban, who led two thousand elite soldiers of the Han army.

The left army was led by Deng Ai, with a thousand guards in red armor.

The right army was commanded by Fu Xun, leading the Han army with one thousand soldiers.

The Chinese army was commanded by Zhuge Liang himself, and there were 500 people including elite Han soldiers and armored soldiers.A total of 5500 Han troops marched out.

Amidst the rumbling drums, soldiers from both sides gathered into forests of spears and spears, with banners waving.However, compared with the strict and orderly formation of the Han army, the rebel army seemed a bit scattered, and except for some elite soldiers, the rest of the soldiers did not have uniform uniforms and weapons.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The thick sound of war drums sounded in front of the Han army's formation, and the expression of the barbarians in front of the formation changed.I saw hundreds of heavy infantry wearing double-layer heavy armor with almost no gaps suddenly pouring out of the Han army formation. This is the part of the Wu family's heavy armor that defeated Sun Huan's troops in the Battle of Yiling.

With the rapid sound of bugles, the rebels, under the leadership of more than a dozen strong warriors, stepped out of the army formation quickly, straightened their shields and directly crashed into the formation formed by the elite rebels.

Although the elite rebels are not afraid of life and death, the armor they are equipped with is only leather products, so how can they block the sharp halberds of the Han army.

But in the face of the heavy armored warriors of the Han army who were like crazy bison, countless bamboo spears pierced through the formation, but they could not stop the heavy armored warriors of the Han army at all.

The heavy-armored warrior held a shield in his left hand, and a ring-headed knife in his right, crashed into the rebel army formation, and raised the knife in his hand to harvest the lives of the rebel soldiers in front of him, setting off a bloodbath.

Their large shields and double-layer armor almost blocked most of the attacks, and only a small number of them were pierced through the armor by the rebel soldiers and died.

A barbarian soldier cut off a blood vessel in his body under the sharp blade of a heavily armored warrior, bleeding to death.The armor that he had carefully cared for was like brocade silk, easily torn apart by the sharp ring-head knife.

In an instant, the rebel formation, which was originally a straight line, was easily torn open by the heavily armored warriors, and other Han soldiers continued to expand it near the gap.The sharp army formations in the front of the rebel army were defeated one by one by Wu Ban's troops, and the collapse of the entire formation was imminent.

"Woo!" "Woo!" "Woo!" The desolate horn sounded in the middle of the rebel army.

In an emergency, Meng Huo ordered the central army to fight and hold their ground. The flag of the rebel army's central army was waving, and mixed with the sound of bugles, he stepped forward and ordered the soldiers to move forward to support the front army.At this time, the front of the rebel army, supported by the Chinese army, slowed down a little bit, and barely held a stalemate with Wu Ban's troops.

The two armies fought fiercely and were entangled. The Han army relied on its excellent armor and tight military formation;For a while, there was a brutal tug of war with the Han army, but time did not stop, but continued to pass.

Zhuge Liang stood on the frame, holding the wooden fence tightly, with a blank expression on his face, looking at the battle situation from a distance, seeing Meng Huo's Chinese army mobilizing to support the front, he said lightly: "Wave the flag, order Bozhan (Ma Dai character) to lead the Qiang cavalry into the battle." , and cooperate with Shizai to defeat the enemy's right army."

Under Zhuge Liang's order, the herald waved the flag.The sound of horseshoes in the formation of the Chinese army shook, and a bright red "horse" tooth flag jumped out of the formation first.

Ma Dai has a pocket on his head, wearing a crimson bright armor, and holding a lance in his hand to drive the horse galloping.

Ma Dai turned his horse around, held his horse high, and shouted hoarsely: "Wan Sheng!"

The Han cavalry behind them shouted in unison: "Wan Sheng!"

Ma Dai turned his horse's head, leaned on the horse's body, rode the horse forward quickly, and circled to the northwest corner of the enemy's right army formation.

Behind him, more than two hundred armored cavalry from the Han army followed closely behind Ma Dai, leaning on their saddles and leaping on their horses, holding long spears, driving their horses out of battle.

"Three teams cut corners (note ①)." Ma Dai shouted, and more than two hundred Han army armors behind him quickly divided into three teams, and Ma Dai led the first team directly.

When Ma Dai reached two hundred paces in the enemy's line, he suddenly increased his horse's speed and turned into a galloping charge.

Ma Dai led hundreds of Han cavalry to gallop on horseback, and the armored cavalry of the Han army, like a sharp blade, plunged obliquely into the corners of the rebels who were fighting Deng Ai.

Although there were only a hundred armored cavalry, the horse's hooves landed like thunder rolling in the sky, and its momentum was like a raging sea wave.

"Thorn!" When galloping to the corner of the array.Ma Dai shouted angrily.Jiaqi, led by Ma Dai, stabbed to the right with a horse lance in his hand. The horse assisted the lance, and the lance borrowed horsepower.

The rebel soldiers who survived were terrified.When the second and third teams of Han cavalry galloped past and continued to cut corners, the rebel soldiers did not dare to resist any more, and fled in all directions, causing the entire formation to fall into considerable chaos.

Seeing this, Ma Dai, who had returned to the original place, drew out the ring-sword with a "squeaky" sound, assembled again, and charged.

The three teams assembled, using Ma Dai as the awl head, and smashed hard at the corner of the enemy's formation that was in chaos.In an instant, the Han cavalry pierced into the enemy's formation like Mount Tai, and the Han cavalry holding a ring-headed knife, under the horsepower, hacked and killed the fleeing soldiers, with stumps flying and blood splattered for several steps.

The cavalry sharply entered the enemy's formation along the northwest corner, and went straight ahead, piercing through the entire formation and exiting northeast.

Deng Ai led the red armor army to press on, which became the last straw that crushed the camel's camel. The right formation collapsed directly, and chaos broke out.

Deng Ai didn't care about the fleeing rebel soldiers, and immediately led the Red Armor Army to cooperate with the Wu squad to pinch the Chinese army.

The collapse of the right army of the rebel army is like a chain reaction. First, the middle army of the rebel army who was in an anxious battle with Wu Ban, and then the left army, spread to the whole army, like dominoes being toppled.

Under this panic, soldiers continued to throw away their armor and armor, and even grassroots officers began to flee in all directions.

Faced with such a battle situation for the first time, Meng Huo was at a loss for a moment. After following his Meng You's advice, when he was about to flee south, he was captured by Ma Dai's two hundred cavalry.
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① One of the most famous tactics of cavalry trapping is the corner-cutting tactic. They charge obliquely along the corner of the formation. It can be vividly called "peeling potatoes"

(The next two chapters will be later!)
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