Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

The tactics of the Han army against Lu Xun's troops have been arranged, in order to prevent Zhu Ran from disturbing the army to encircle and suppress Lu Xun.Deng Ai waved the command flag again, and sent his last army to face Zhu Ran, buying time for the Han headquarters to defeat the Wu army.

Zhou Tai, who was on the left wing, received the military order issued by Deng Ai, and immediately shouted: "Order all the ministries to go forward and meet Zhu Ran."

"promise!"

A group of 8000 infantry from the left wing of the Han army greeted Zhu Ran and Zhuge Ke with [-] soldiers.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The wrestlers, naked to the waist, vigorously waved their drum hammers to beat the big cowhide drum, and suddenly the drums of the Han army were like thunder, encouraging people to forge ahead.

Zhou Hui, who penetrated behind the Wu people's side, did not waste any time, turned in one direction, and rushed towards the back of Lu Xun's right wing.

On the vast plain, Zhou Hui rode his horse and shouted in the wind: "Get close and shoot with a strong bow, and then ride vertically to break through the formation."

Regardless of whether the people behind him could hear clearly, Zhou Hui galloped out with his bow in hand.Thousands of heavy cavalry followed closely behind, and they also manipulated the horse with their legs like the leader Zhou Hun holding a heavy bow.

Although the maneuverability of the heavy cavalry is not as good as that of the light cavalry, it is difficult to use the kite flying method.But he is superior in his ability to penetrate defense, which is a combination of defense and assault.Therefore, the heavy cavalry can make full use of the sudden attack. They use the heavy armor on their bodies and the charge of the horses under their crotches to carry out close-range shooting, giving the enemy the greatest lethality and causing chaos before charging into the formation.

And Zhou Hui made such an arrangement, he led the heavy cavalry close and drew the bow to shoot.Hundreds of heavy armor-piercing arrows fired from the heavy bow shot at the most densely populated enemies in the shortest distance.

The armored soldiers of the Wu army fought in front, and the non-armored soldiers filled the line behind them. Due to the back attack of the Han cavalry, these non-armored soldiers faced the advance of the Han cavalry.

This part of the soldiers of the Wu army didn't even know about the advance and retreat of the Han cavalry. Only a small number of generals were aware of it, calling for the soldiers to fight back, and forming a chariot formation to face the Han cavalry.But all this happened so fast that they realized that just as they called for the soldiers to form an formation, Han Qi's strong bows and heavy arrows rushed towards them.

The soldiers of the Wu army who were facing the Han cavalry were shot by arrows one after another, and many fell to the ground, and the dense army formation could not help but become sparser.At this moment, Zhou Hui abandoned his bow and held his lance, and led thousands of heavy cavalry towards the sparse army formation caused by the arrows.

Zhu, who was guarding the right wing, was terrified according to the direction of the Han cavalry's attack, and immediately shouted at the headquarters: "Gather the elite quickly and resist the Han cavalry."

But it was too late. The soldiers on the back of Wu Jun's right wing were first confused by the back attack of the heavy cavalry, and then shot to death by the heavy bow, and they couldn't help feeling afraid.And facing the first few platoons in front of them, all of them are armored, armed with Zhangba horses, and their faces are covered with masks. Their legs and feet are already trembling, and their hearts are full of panic.

In a short time, the heavy cavalry of the Han army led by Zhou Hui entered the battle.

The soldiers of the Wu army, who were shorter than those fighting on foot, galloped towards the heavy cavalry of the upper Han army, and most of them turned around and fled in an instant.No matter how much Wu Jun's generals tried their best to form an formation and stand firm, they turned a deaf ear to them.

The remaining Wu army infantry couldn't even organize resistance, allowing the Han army's heavy cavalry to rampage.Someone was pierced by the flying horse lance, fell backwards, and was trampled into flesh by countless iron hooves following behind.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Wei, a general of the Wu army, was so passionate that he rode his horse and drew his spear to fight.

Zhou Hui grinned ferociously, and swiped with his lance. In the blink of an eye, the sharp lance blades on both sides of the lance easily tore apart the armor on Zhu Wei's chest, and the shattered armor leaves flew away.Immediately afterwards, Zhou Hui changed the sweep to a thorn, and the cold tip pierced his chest, and blood gushed out from the wound, taking Zhu Wei's life.Zhu Wei and his armor fell off the horse, splashing billows of smoke and dust.

Behind Zhou Hui, the heavy cavalry of the Han army slashed and slashed with their knives, like the wheat harvested in autumn, invincible wherever they passed.The soldiers of the Wu army scattered and collapsed, driving the soldiers of the Wu army behind them, and even the generals of the Wu army who had just tried to resist fled.

Not only that, the flank of Wu Jun's right wing was also forcibly broken into by sharp soldiers sent by Deng Ai.

Su Gu, who was dressed in two layers of iron armor and held double maces, was like a behemoth in human form. He led the red armored guards to attack the Wu army's flank.

The infantry of the Han army in heavy armor jumped into the Wu army's line with sparse arrows, and hit the Wu army infantry with the weight of their own armor.Then, relying on his physical strength and armor, he started a close combat with Wu Jun's infantry.

Facing the soldiers of the Wu army in front of him, Su Gu brandished the iron mace in his hand and slammed the head of the Wu army in front of him. He heard the head of the Wu army scream, and the iron mace weighing more than ten catties hammered his chest. The sound of a broken sternum.The head of the village vomited blood and died of exhaustion.

Seeing this, Wu soldiers around couldn't help showing panic, and retreated slowly, not daring to confront Su Gu head-on.

And the extremely brave Chi Jiawei followed closely behind Su Gu, followed the breakthrough he opened, shouted words of morale encouragement, and rushed towards Wu Jun.

After a while, the Chijiawei, under the leadership of Su Gu, gradually broke through the Wu army's flank.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Han army who had already rushed through the front did not slow down the initial offensive intensity due to exhaustion. On the contrary, Zhou Hui and Su Gu launched a more violent attack.On the right wing led by Zhu Ju, except for Wu Zu who was confronting the Han army head-on, the rest of the troops were like crumbling branches caught in a strong wind.

Deng Ai's change of formation was only two quarters (half an hour) ago, and Zhou Hui and Su Gu's charge was only a dozen, twenty, and ten minutes ago.

Under the forward impact of heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, there were frontal Han infantry resisting the line, and the besieged Wu soldiers could not withstand the three-sided siege of the Han army.In an instant, the defense lines on the back and flanks of the right wing suddenly collapsed. Hundreds of rout soldiers fled from the front line.

Under the flag of the Wu army, Lu Xun learned of the battle on the right wing, his face changed drastically, and he shouted, "How did the cavalry of the Han army break into the back of our army? Where is Zhu Ran?"

The scout replied truthfully: "When our army pursued and approached, the Han cavalry passed by the two armies and went straight into our army's back. The battle is urgent now. General Zhu asked our troops to rush to the right army to stabilize the position and prevent the Han from breaking the formation. "

Being lightly tapped by the scouts, Lu Xun instantly realized that he was passing by.Wang Ping let the right wing pretend to be defeated, attracting himself to distance himself from Zhu Ran's troops. Wang Ping used his infantry to resist the strong attack of his elite soldiers, and took the opportunity to send soldiers and cavalry to intersperse, forming a partial attack with more attacks than few, thus disintegrating own right wing.

This also explained why I was able to fight against the Han army in front, but now I couldn't attack at all, and was strangled with the Han army infantry.

Lu Xun's guess was right. Wang Ping used the frontal infantry to resist the line, placing his bets on the heavy cavalry Qingjiawei and the heavy infantry Red Jiawei, and let the two most elite troops of the big Han attack the Wu people's right flank.

On the front, Wang Ping divided the army into three parts in order to attract Lu Xun to attack and complete the task of resisting the front line.The first line is the old and weak pawns of the big Han. They are composed of barbarians, auxiliary soldiers and non-elite soldiers. They create false appearances to attract the Wu army to overwhelm them, and are responsible for the task of consuming the Wu army.Their equipment is relatively poor, except for basic armor and military uniforms, they are shields and spears.

The second line is the soldiers of the Wei army. They are basically the Wei soldiers who surrendered when the Han captured Jingzhou. They have been on the front line of the confrontation between Wei and Wu for a long time and have certain combat experience.After the front-line soldiers fought for a period of time, they would retreat in an organized way, and they would go up to fight with the Wu army.

The third line is the elite Han army. They are the most experienced and elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty. They basically participated in a large number of battles from the Northern Expedition to Longyou to the Central Plains for more than ten years.They have solid armor and sharp weapons, and they will not easily enter the battlefield. Once they enter the battlefield, they will cover the retreat of the troops, or a critical moment for a decisive attack.

Needless to say, the green armored heavy cavalry and the red armored heavy step, they are the three guards formed by Liu Chan. Among them, the old soldiers have slaves to farm, and they don't have to survive, they only need to fight.In short, they are the professional soldiers of the Han Dynasty, who lived by war.

With Wang Ping's collocation, he successfully created the illusion that the Han army was invincible in the early stage, but he was able to resist the Wu army's attack at a critical moment, attracting the Wu army to continue to press on and attack.In this way, he cut the battlefield and attacked his right wing with elite soldiers.

As for Wu Jun's heavy cavalry?Still at home, Lu Xun is ready to use it at a critical moment.Unexpectedly, Wang Ping was so decisive, and his sense of smell and judgment on the battlefield was so keen that he directly used it to cut the battlefield and complete a fatal blow.

While Lu Xun was still thinking about how to give the order, Wang Ping, who learned that the Wu pawns on the right were flanked, drew his long sword and shouted loudly: "The whole army will attack, let the old soldiers come forward."

"promise!"

"Wow!"

With the sound of the horns of the Han army, the Han soldiers on the third front stood up in unison, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they entered the battlefield through the passage between the army formations in an orderly manner.

When he heard the horn of the Han army, Lu Xun's face changed again. He had just guessed the next steps of the Han army through Wang Ping's perspective.

The Han army swallowed its right wing, then flanked the heavy cavalry on its right wing, and turned around to besiege Zhu Ran's army.After defeating Zhu Ran's army, heavy cavalry and heavy steps cut down the return of his own headquarters, forming an encirclement circle with the frontal Han infantry, and completing the task of completely annihilating himself.

In other words, the current situation of my army is extremely dangerous!
Lu Xun glanced at the right wing in the east, and saw that a large number of banners fell, the army was in chaos, and Wu soldiers were basically defeated across the board.

Lu Xun knew in his heart that if he wanted to withdraw, he must withdraw!Before the elite soldiers of the Han army can bite their own army, and the heavy cavalry and heavy steps have not defeated Zhu Ran, they must retreat.Otherwise, let the Han army bite your own army and complete the encirclement of yourself. Not only yourself but also the army basically have to explain everything here.

As Lu Xun said, Zhou Hun's troops, who had basically defeated the right wing of the Wu army, and Su Gu led the Chijiawei, chose to march to Zhu Ran's troops to support the [-] Han soldiers in Zhoutai.

As for why they did not storm Lu Xun's army down, the reason is not difficult to understand.Wu Jun's cavalry was not defeated, but was restrained by the Han cavalry, and it was not surprising that Zhu Ran and Zhuge Ke combined eight thousand elite troops to defeat Zhoutai after a long battle.After defeating Zhoutai, they will join the battle between Wang Ping and Lu Xun.

Therefore, it would be too difficult for Zhoutai to expect Wang Ping and Deng Ai to defeat Lu Xun head-on.

That is to say, in order to ensure the stability of the war, Wang Ping must let the Chijia and Qingjia armies support Zhoutai to defeat Zhu Ran, so as to avoid emergencies.

Lu Xun raised his hand to stop Wu Jun's generals from discussing, and said in a deep voice, "Now that the right wing is defeated, our army must not love to fight. I order the whole army to fight and retreat."

"What!" The generals looked at the Han army formation in front of them, and they were full of reluctance. In their eyes, perhaps with a little effort, the Han army could be defeated.How could they be willing to withdraw their troops now just because the right-wing army was defeated.

Lu Xun didn't say much, but said seriously: "The Han army's feigning defeat is just Wang Ping's strategy. Now that the right wing is broken, it is better to leave quickly, otherwise we will be attacked by the Han cavalry, and our Chinese army may not be able to hold on! Order the army to retreat slowly. , the cavalry is for protection, and you must not love to fight."

"No!" Everyone responded in a low voice.

After Lu Xun gave the order, he looked a little haggard, and he couldn't help swinging his body on the horse's back a few times, relying on his legs to clamp the stirrups so as not to fall.

The battle of Zhijiang this time is related to whether Soochow can solve the immediate predicament.If he lost to Wang Ping or failed to defeat Wang Ping, it basically meant that Wu could not break the game, and he would lose Jingchu, and even Jiaozhou would not belong to Soochow.

Once the big Han captures Jingnan and occupies Jiaozhou, it will only be a matter of time before Soochow is destroyed.But if he fights against the big man now, the army in his hand is gone, and the great Wu will also be destroyed now.

Seeing Lu Xun's dazed expression, General Gu Tan reminded him, "General, please retreat with the army."

Returning to his senses, Lu Xun nodded, turned his horse's head and headed south, and said in a low mood: "Order the cavalry to be behind, cover the retreat of the army, and the general's troops will try to rescue them as much as possible."

"promise!"

"General Wei, the Wu army has retreated!"

Liu Min found out that Wu Jun abandoned the surrounded right wing, and the rest of the army retreated slowly, and reported to Wang Ping immediately.

Looking at Lu Xun's army, Wang Ping threw away his whip in dissatisfaction. He looked up to the sky and sighed: "Lu Xun is decisive, and he knows how to beat the latter. What a pity that the Wu army has not been completely wiped out!"

In this battle, even though Wang Ping was overloaded, he used his tactical micromanagement to collapse the Wu army's offensive and defeated Lu Xun.In his eyes, if he can encircle and wipe out Lu Xun here, and then go south to break through Xiaoting and welcome the Han navy down the river, there is a high probability that he will have the hope of destroying Wu.

Now that he has missed the achievement of destroying Wu, how can he be happy.

Wang Ping restrained his emotions in time and shouted loudly: "We can't completely annihilate Lu Xun today, but we must also defeat the Wu army. Order the whole army to chase and kill the Wu army, but we must make the army tight and prevent the Wu people from counterattacking our army."

"promise!"

With the defeat of the Wu army, the Han army pursued them across the board.Fortunately, Wu Jun had cavalry pawns in his hands, so he was able to ensure that the army could retreat and that the whole army would not be defeated.

But how can it be easy to retreat, Zhu Ran's troops were besieged and killed by the Han army, although he showed the demeanor of a fierce general of Wu, he took the lead and strangled with the Han army, extremely brave.However, his army was bitten by the Han army. Under the siege, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and the remnants were rescued by Ma Xian's heavy cavalry.

As for Zhuge Ke, he is very cunning.Although he marched with Zhu Ran in the same army, he was close to the agate water and was not caught in the siege.After Lu Xun issued the order to withdraw his troops, Zhuge Ke's troops relied on Agate Water to fight and retreat, leaving Zhu Ran's troops to fight against him.

Lu Xun was defeated by Wang Ping, and led his army to retreat southward, preparing to go to the Xiaoting camp, and then discuss the strategy of retreating from the Han.But on the way to withdraw the troops, he got a shocking news that the Xiaoting camp in Jiangbei was captured by Liu Chan's main force!

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