Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 291 The Battle of Gaoping City ([-])
More than a dozen miles away from the first city of Gaoping, the Han and Wei armies lined up to fight, with loud horns and rumbling drums.

Dai Ling stood on the tower in the south of the city, looking at the battlefield, his heart was about to move, and he was ready to go to the battle to assist Da Sima Cao.

Dai Ling pressed his sword and muttered, "I'm going to attack to help out. I don't know what General Wei wants?"

Wei Ping was also a little moved, but with a conservative temperament, he still said: "General, wait until the scouts return to the city, and then determine the attack strategy to prevent Deng Ai from cheating!"

Dai Ling stared at the rear army's 'Deng' Yaqi, nodded slowly, and said: "Deng Ai has always been cunning, trying to stop our army with an army of less than a thousand, there must be tricks in it."

At this time, the scouts who were probing for information hurriedly ran from the corner of the city along the city ladder to Dai Ling not far away.

The scout knelt down on one knee and reported: "General Qi, according to the flag and formation of Deng Ai's troops, there are only about [-] elite troops, and there are no ambush troops around the enemy."

Dai Ling couldn't help being stunned.

He really didn't expect Deng Ai to be so arrogant that he dared to block him from going out of the city to rescue with [-] people in the rear.

Dai Ling and Wei Ping looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of joy in each other's eyes.

Dai Ling waved his hand, signaled the scouts to retreat, and said: "General Wei, I think it must be that the Da Sima's offensive is fierce, and the number of the Shu army is insufficient. They deceived us to go out of the city and failed in the battle. That's why Deng Ai was ordered to use seven hundred elite soldiers Intimidating our army. Jinling wants to attack to help out, but what does General Wei think?"

Wei Ping laughed loudly, patted the female wall, and said: "General Dai means peace. Deng Ai's seven hundred elites, we must not slack off, we need to use all our strength to defeat them."

"Send the order, the whole army goes out!" Dai Ling shouted with high spirits, waving his hands.

"promise!"

The first city of Gaoping was built on the mountain, with no city gates on the southeast and southeast sides, only the northwest two sides.The city is surrounded by black water in the west, which is considered dangerous.

Three thousand soldiers of the Wei army walked out slowly from the west gate, crossed the Wushui River, and headed straight to the south.

Dai Ling and Wei Ping almost tried their best to defeat Deng Ai, leaving only hundreds of old and weak Wei soldiers guarding the city.

If you look down from the air at this time, you can see that the [-] soldiers under Dai Ling's troops are like a sparrow that gradually spread its wings, soaring over the fields, constantly approaching Deng Ai's troops.

Hundreds of Wei cavalry were dispatched from the formation, approaching the two wings of Deng Ai's 700 people with a loose formation, billowing smoke and dust.

Deng Ai looked stern, looked at the tooth flags fluttering in the wind, and said in a deep voice: "Send orders, form a circle!"

"promise!"

The formation of the [-] sergeants changed, and they spread out like a plum blossom in full bloom. Before Wei Qi galloped halfway, the circular formation had already formed.

The spearmen in the front row put their [-]-foot-long spears on the giant shields, or protruded from the gaps between the shoulders of their teammates, forming a dense forest of spears.

The Yuan Rong crossbowmen gathered in a scale of a hundred people were either busy stepping on the crossbow arrows on their bodies, or inserting the arrowheads of the crossbow arrows on the ground in front of them.

At this time, the deployment of the formation was completed, and the billowing smoke and dust in front of them also arrived in front of the Han army.

Relying on the range of the crossbow, the crossbowman aimed and shot outwards, and there was a sound of '咻', and the approaching Wei Qi must have fallen to the ground.

Facing the tall shield and shooting cold arrows from time to time, Wei Qi didn't dare to approach. They could only stick to the range of the crossbow and shoot a round of arrows at the army formation, and then retreated after completing the task.

Su Gu in the formation spat, looked at the rain of arrows falling in front of the formation, and cursed: "You bastard, come close and shoot arrows!"

As soon as this remark came out, the red-armored guards burst into laughter, and the originally dignified atmosphere dissipated a little.

Dai Ling also got the latest battle report. The soldiers under Deng Ai's command were indeed the elite of the Shu army. They all wore crimson armor or maybe red armor guards. It did not arouse the vigilance of Dai Ling and others.

There are not many crossbowmen, but the crossbow is a heavy crossbow and each crossbowman has outstanding shooting skills, very elite.

Han and Wei have fought for many years, and they know a lot about the elite troops of both sides. Among them, the Han army is most famous for its Sanjiawei and Wudang Flying Army.

The white-armored guards are characterized by foot combat, their morale is high, they are not afraid of life and death, they fight for a long time, and they are good at close combat against cavalry;But once in a long battle, the red armored guards are not as durable as the white armored guards.

However, these were only known to the upper echelons of the Han army, Wei general Dai Ling did not know, he only knew that the Chijiawei fought bravely, which was beyond the reach of ordinary elites.

Wei Ping suggested: "General Dai, the red armored guards are brave and good at fighting, and now they form a round formation. If they cannot be defeated directly, the Shu army may come to help, and our army will miss the opportunity."

Holding the horse, Dai Lin pondered and said: "What General Wei said is also what I think. Our army is numerous, the Shu army is elite, and the enemy has support. We can't fight for a long time. We should break it all at once, otherwise the morale will be broken. Exhaustion is hard to fight for long."

Wei Ping asked for the battle, saying: "General Dai leads the infantry to meet the enemy head-on, and Ping please lead the cavalry to directly fall into the formation and break the Shu formation."

Dai Ling nodded, knowing that Wei Ping was good at cavalry, and said: "As General Wei said, brother Wei will press forward, and Ling will be behind."

The majestic horn sounded across the field, Wei Ping led the cavalry to re-arrange, and said some morale-enhancing words.

Deng Ai saw Wei Qi from a distance, and in order to appease the hearts of the soldiers in the formation, he patrolled the front line with his sword, and said: "When Wei Qi is trapped in the formation, don't be in a hurry. Put it closer to forty steps, and the soldiers of Yuan Rong can show up and open their crossbows."

The Yuan Rong soldier who was ambushing beside the red armor guard nodded slightly, but did not dare to make a sound.

When Deng Ai was inspecting the army formation, he heard a rush of horns and increasingly loud drums. Through the gap, he saw Wei Qi riding his horse forward slowly, followed by Wei Zu.

After half a sound, the three hundred Wei could not move, and made an astonishing movement. Thousands of horseshoes slammed on the ground, kicking up smoke and dust, bringing up countless weeds and broken leaves, and the momentum was terrifying.

Dong Jun, the captain of Yuanrong School, clenched his crossbow tightly and said in a deep voice, "Listen to my orders, and don't move without authorization!"

As the Wei cavalry team got closer and closer, the people in the Han army formation couldn't help but increase their breathing; as the sound of horseshoes stamping on the ground was deafening, the Han army formation became more and more quiet.

Deng Ai took a deep breath of foul air, and watched the [-]-yuan soldiers who were ambushing behind the shield breathe out.

The [-]-yuan soldier is the trump card of the Han army. He pretends to be a banner with [-] soldiers and puts a large shield on the outside to confuse the Wei army. The [-]-yuan soldier sticks close to the shield and does not dare to show his head, waiting for Wei Qi to approach. shoot.

When Wei Qi quickly walked to two hundred steps, the previous hundred or so Han army crossbowmen began to shoot.

Wei Ping saw that there were not many crossbow arrows, so he couldn't help being overjoyed, and he didn't try to test it. He called on everyone to speed up the horses, and the trot directly turned into a trot sprint.

At the last [-] steps, seeing that the number of crossbow bolts remained unchanged, the leader Wei Qi silently changed his trot to a charge.

At forty steps, the situation suddenly changed!
(End of this chapter)