Great Han Empire

Chapter 993 Chapter [-]
The second year of Yuanping in the Han Dynasty (AD 204), December.

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It's snowing in the West Sea.The heavy snow is endless, the snowfield is vast, the mountains are like jade, and the West Sea is ice-covered with jade, which is shining and dazzling under the reflection of the sun.

Under repeated attacks from the Qiang people, the Han army advanced slowly, and arrived at Datong Mountain in early December, more than 100 miles away from the Yegongniu River. At this time, the transportation of grain and grass for the Han army was extremely difficult, but the Xiliang people played an amazing With a strong force, 10,000+ civilians continued to send truckloads of food, grass and military equipment to the front line of the West Sea from the Longqi (qi) pass.The autumn harvest in October and the truce of the Wudu battlefield gave the imperial court a great sigh of relief. The civilians and food were available, and the imperial court immediately recruited more than 30 civilians in Guanzhong, Hedong and other places as quickly as possible. The grain, grass and military equipment in Chencang were rushed to Hehuang.

The Qiang people originally wanted to take advantage of the heavy snowfall and heavy resistance to slow down the advancing speed of the Han army, dragging the Han army on the snowy field of the West Sea, forcing the Han army to withdraw due to lack of food and grass, but more than half a month passed, and the Han army not only did not withdraw at all. On the contrary, they began to climb over the Datong Mountain in the northern part of the West Sea.

The heavy snow slowed down the progress of the Han army, and also hindered the assembly of the Qiang people. Many tribes were reluctant to rush to the Tianjun Prairie because of the fear and excuse that the road was difficult due to the heavy snow.Hong Ri was furious, and while sending people to discuss peace with the Han people, he also told the various tribes of the Qiang tribe that the Han people have already killed our homeland. If we can't work together, the family will be wiped out in the end.If we want to survive, we must fight bloody battles and drive the Han people out of the West Sea.We have no retreat, surrender is death, and death in battle is death. In order to defend the West Sea, we will fight to the end.

General Li Hong rejected the Qiang people's peace agreement, and he beheaded the Qiang people's envoy.The Han army had no way to retreat. If they retreated at this time, they would most likely be chased and killed by the Qiang people, and they would suffer heavy losses. As long as they continued to attack, they would go all the way to Tianjun Grassland.Make or break it.

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In the first month of December, the Han army reached the Yegongniu River, went up the river, and approached the Tianjun prairie.

Hong Ri assembled an army of [-] and faced it head-on.

On the day of the decisive battle, the sky was gray, the north wind was howling, the snow was flying heavily, and the battlefield was completely white.

Li Hong put the Northern Army's Yueqi Battalion and Infantry Battalion at the front, Yang Qiu's Xiliang Army in the middle, and the Tiger Ben Yulin Battalion of the Little Emperor and Jia Xu in the rear.General Qu Yi and General Zhenbei Yan Rou led the cavalry to the left and right flanks.Sixty thousand soldiers stood in the wind and snow, quietly waiting for the moment of attack.

The Qiang people lined up in rows of geese, ready to go.
The battlefield was very quiet, the silence was suffocating.

The battle flags of both sides danced wildly in the wind and snow, like a pack of wolves on a snowy field, howling thrillingly.

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Li Hong raised his whip, lightly patted the snowflakes on his long hair, then looked up at the tall banner, and slowly narrowed his eyes.

The Han battle flag was waving majesticly in mid-air, like a dragon about to take off into the sky, raising its head and roaring wildly.

The little emperor panted nervously, and the hot air from his mouth and nose turned into clouds of white mist.The long-awaited battle is about to begin, and the exciting moment is coming, the big man... the big man is invincible...

Li Xiu turned to look at the little emperor, and suddenly a charming smile appeared on his red face, "Why are you so nervous? It's not the first time you've been on the battlefield."

The little emperor gave Li Xiu a serious look, "I want to lead the army to charge, wait a minute, don't follow me, and hinder me from killing the enemy and making meritorious deeds."

Li Xiu was amused by his serious look, and hurriedly kicked the horse's belly, and retreated to Yan Ba's side, "Okay, listen to you, I will follow Brother Yan, so I won't delay your killing the enemy."

Li Hong waved his hand.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Hundreds of battle drums were beating at the same time, shaking the world in an instant.

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"Woooo..."

The Qiang people were dispatched, and Linghu rushed out of the formation with a large army like a flying arrow, roaring towards the left wing of the battlefield.

Thousands of horses are galloping, and suddenly the sky is full of snowflakes, which is very spectacular.

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Qu Yi sneered.

The Qiang people wanted to attack the left flank of the Han army, tearing a passage between the cavalry and the infantry army of the Han army, so as to break the formation of the Han army. Although this method was good, the Qiang people obviously underestimated the strength of the Han army. They thought that the Han army had arrived After the West Sea, the water and soil are not acclimatized, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as before.

Qu Yi raised his halberd across the ground, bringing up a cloud of white snow, "Decree to all the ministries, fight and retreat, bring the enemy in, bring in..."

Pang De and Ma Chao each led their troops and separated from the left and right, allowing the Qiang people to come in unimpeded.As soon as the Qiang people killed to the end, they collided head-on with Wei Jun and Nie Xiao who were waiting in full battle, and the two sides fought bloody.

Tens of thousands of horses fought together, and the sound of killing was loud.

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The horn sounded again, and Tietou rushed out of the formation with the army, and once again charged towards the left flank of the Han army.

Qu Yi was a little surprised.The Qiang people have identified the left wing, and seem to insist on breaking through from this side.He hastily ordered Pound and Ma Chao to turn around and fight to block the enemy's follow-up attacking troops.

Half of the Han army turned around and left, allowing the Qiang people in the formation to quickly break through the Han cavalry blockade and directly kill the Xiliang army in the middle.

Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Cheng Yin, Liang Xing and other Xiliang generals could not hold back for a long time. Seeing the Qiang people roaring towards them, they repeatedly ordered the warlord to attack wildly.

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There was chaos on the battlefield on the left flank.

Li Hong frowned slightly, then turned to Fu Gan and said, "Order General Yushi to dismantle the front army, let Qin Yi and Chen Wei lead the Yueqi Battalion to cut across the left-wing battlefield, block the retreat of the Qiang people, and surround the Qiang people."

Fu Gan was taken aback, "General, didn't the Qiang people just attack when the former army dismantled the formation?"

"Tell General Yan Rou, pay attention to protecting the front army, prevent the frontal attack of the Qiang people, wait for the opportunity to set a trap on the right-wing battlefield, lure the main force of the Qiang people to attack my right wing, and bring all the Qiang people into the battlefield." Li Hong waved his hand vigorously, "Quick, order..."

Fu Gan was dumbfounded.

Now the left wing is being attacked by two groups of enemy troops. Pang De and Ma Chao's troops were caught in the middle. Although they blocked the second group of enemy troops, they failed to cooperate with Wei Jun and Nie Xiao to encircle the first group of enemy troops. As a result, the first batch of enemy troops successfully broke through Nie Xiao's blockade and stormed the Xiliang army in the middle of the road.This move caught the Han army by surprise, and the solid formation in the middle began to shake immediately.

At this time, if the former army is allowed to dismantle the formation and fully cooperate with Pound and Ma Chao to encircle the second batch of attacking enemy troops, then the entire central formation will disappear, and the left, middle and right battlefields will immediately become one, and the battle will soon be lost. Control, this is tantamount to throwing away the initiative on the battlefield, and this is exactly the purpose of the Qiang people's continuous attack on the left wing of the army. They just want to break through the middle, cause chaos on the battlefield, and then launch a fatal blow.

Fu Gan still wanted to dissuade him, but seeing Li Hong staring at him murderously, he didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly gave the order.

"Let's tell General Qu Yi again, let the Qiang people attack the Xiliang army, let the Xiliang army drag the Qiang people in the middle, and then order Wei Jun and Nie Xiao's troops to outflank the Qiang people's left and right flanks and surround the Qiang cavalry. "

"Order the two generals Jiang Wu and Lei Zi to approach the middle battlefield and make a gesture to rescue the Xiliang army."

Without saying a word, Jiang Ji rode away.

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The drums of war were like thunder, the flags were flying, and the armies on the battlefield were moving rapidly, and the battle situation quickly changed astonishingly.

The former army of the Han army suddenly dismantled.The two generals Qin Yi and Chen Wei commanded the Yueqi Battalion of the Northern Army to rush towards the left-wing battlefield, blocking Tietou's retreat.Tietou is commanding Qiangqi and Pang De's and Ma Chao's army to fight to the death at this moment, trying his best to help Linghu's army attack Hanzhong Middle Road, never expecting that the Han army would destroy the battle formation.

In front of Tietou were the iron cavalry of Pang De and Ma Chao, and behind them were the infantry army of Qin Yi and Chen Wei. He and the five thousand Qiang cavalry were quickly surrounded.

At the same time, Linghu's Qiang riders became more courageous as they fought more and more bravely. They tore through the front formation of the Xiliang Army and charged frantically. However, the Xiliang Army seemed unable to hold it back, and retreated step by step on the snow field where corpses were all over the field. , but the Qiang people ignored the iron cavalry of Wei Jun and Nie Xiao. Some of the two armies clung to them, and some of them quietly inserted in from their left and right wings, like two sharp swords, one on the left and the other on the left. The right side penetrated into their waists and held them tightly.

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The rainbow sun looked up to the sky and screamed.

In the area of ​​Xihai, no one is an opponent of the Qiang people. Even the invincible Li Hong fell into a desperate situation of defeat in a short period of time.The center of the Han army collapsed. Under the fierce attack of the Qiang people, the left wing of the Han army couldn't support it, so they had to draw a large army from the center to support it.

Hongri immediately ordered that the main force of the army launch an attack from the front, completely destroying the middle of the Han army.

At this time, the situation of the battle changed again.

The iron cavalry on the right wing of the Han army moved. While some of the cavalry had entered the frontal battlefield in the middle, the other part of the main cavalry also began to move to the battlefield in the middle. Obviously, Linghu, who was deeply trapped in the formation, was not only not besieged, but instead played a huge role. As a result, it caused a fatal threat to the Han army, forcing Li Hong to call in reinforcements to rescue him again, but this time, Li Hong made an extremely poor mistake. In order to save the left-wing battlefield, he had already destroyed himself. A solid formation, and now they want to self-destruct the right wing's protective formation.Once the main force of the right-wing iron cavalry enters the center or the left-wing battlefield, what will he do to protect the safety of the army's flanks?

Li Hong was knocked down by Xi Hai's spell, and he was doomed.Hong Ri trembled with excitement, raised his knife and shouted, "Kill, kill, attack the enemy's right wing, kill the leopard..."

With [-] Qiang cavalry, Hong Ri rushed to the right flank of the Han army like a mountain, and he even threw all his reserve troops on it.This is a battle without suspense, and the defeat of the Han army is imminent.

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Looking at the Qiang cavalry roaring towards the front like a tide, and at the huge snow fog rising into the sky, Li Hong roared loudly.

"Beating the drum, beating the drum... a fight to the death, a fight to the death..."

All the Qiang cavalry entered the battlefield, and Li Hong's goal was achieved. He wanted to wipe out all the Qiang cavalry, and he wanted to use 15 Han troops to wipe out all the Qiang cavalry. You can get 15 years to recuperate. With these [-] years, the big man has enough strength to forge Xijiang into a strong fortress.

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Ji Feng led the most powerful Hu Qiying to kill him.

Jiang Wu and Lei Zi commanded the army to attack Qiang cavalry overwhelmingly from the flanks of the middle battlefield.

Yan Rou and Mustafa charged in quickly.

Chen Jian led the soldiers of the infantry battalion to follow closely behind the iron cavalry, and cut across the battlefield, blocking the retreat of the Qiang people.

Hong Ri was unafraid, he had [-] cavalry, he had enough strength and enough time to break through the vulnerable encirclement of the Han army.

The two sides fell into a deadly battle, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

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On the snowfield with a radius of several miles, nearly [-] troops from both sides were entangled together.Arrows screamed in the wind and snow, stumps and arms wailed in the air, blood stained the white earth, and the sound of killing horrified the beautiful West Sea.

The Han army was fighting hard, fighting hard to the death in the three encirclement circles.

An army of [-] cavalry led by Pang De, Ma Chao, and Qin Yi surrounded Iron Head's [-] Qiang cavalry.Qu Yi, Wei Jun, Nie Xiao and Yang Qiu's [-] cavalry army surrounded Linghu's [-] Qiang cavalry.Yan Rou, Jiang Wu, Lei Zi, Ji Feng, Mustafa, and Chen Jian's [-] cavalry trapped Hongri's [-] Qiang cavalry.

On these three battlefields, the key to determining the outcome of this battle is whether Pang De's army can wipe out the iron-headed Qiang cavalry in the shortest time.

"General, use the Huben Yulin camp." Xie Wu urged his horse to run to Li Hong's side, and shouted, "Let me support General Pound, solve one first, and then we can control the overall situation."

Li Hong shook his head, "Give hope to the Qiang people, give them the hope of turning defeat into victory, so that they will not break through and stay on the battlefield to fight. The more Qiang people die, the greater the possibility of their entire army being wiped out. "

"But our people..." Jie Wu gritted his teeth in pain, "General, please, if this fight continues, how many people will we have left?"

"Even if the whole army is wiped out, I will not hesitate." Li Hong looked resolute and resolute.

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"Order the ministries to kill, kill them all at all costs..."

Pang De was hoarse, holding his bloody saber, galloping his horse, roaring like thunder.

The generals of the Han army risked their lives and fought bloody battles.Under the command of Tietou, the Qiang people struggled to break through.

Chen Wei fell, and the enemy's spear pierced his chest.Before he died, he cut off his opponent's head with a single knife, and the shield in his hand broke the leg of a galloping horse.The horse rushed into the crowd and knocked three Northern soldiers into the air.

Ba Jin was hit to death by a war horse, holding a bloody head tightly in his hands.The mute was extremely sad and angry, rushed up to kill the enemy soldiers, and then ran back with the eight-jin dead body. He wanted to save his brother's bones and buried his brother with his own hands, but he was shot by a burst of arrows. He staggered a few steps and fell to the ground.The hunchback raised his shield high and stood beside the bodies of the two brothers, preventing them from being trampled by the enemy's horses.

A group of Qiang cavalry roared past.The hunchback was pierced by the spear, and he fell on his back. He fell on the shield, and the shield covered the two brothers.

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(End of this chapter)