Overlord!

Chapter 175

The battle on the bank of Hongze has already been regarded as one of the most magnificent battles since the end of Han Dynasty. The victory or defeat of this battle will directly determine the ownership of the entire Huaiyou region.

General Ji Ling of the Yuan Army, Liu Kai, Liang Gang and others gathered more than ten thousand people and formed a formation along the lake to defend themselves against danger.

Because Sun Ce's iron cavalry plunged into the enemy's rear, cutting off Yuan Jun's return route, and completely cutting off Ji Ling's connection with Huainan, Yuan Jun had to stand against the water and fight to the death.

The Sun Liu coalition army also concentrated its forces here. Generals such as Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Chen Dao, and Mi Fang led tens of thousands of cavalry to attack the enemy's formation from three sides.

Sun Ce even directly led thousands of black armored cavalry to line up on the side of the battlefield, preparing to personally lead the armored dragon sparrow cavalry to attack the enemy's weak points and set the battlefield with one blow.

Tian Yu followed Sun Ce, watching his own Xuzhou army in front of him waving banners and flags, singing and striding forward, advancing in all directions, and he became more and more vigorous, and said: "Yuan Jun hastily arrayed with his back to the water. In the front, the elite cannot fight hard, but General Guan is invincible, and he will definitely disrupt the enemy's formation."

Right now it is the most classic hammer-and-anvil tactic, but this time the chopping board has become Hongze Lake, while Liu Bei, Guan Yu and other Xuzhou elite troops are using steel hammers. Every violent assault will squeeze the front space of Ji Ling's army. The phalanxes arranged at intervals were squeezed together. When the soldiers had no more space for the queue and had to close together densely, and even the spears couldn't turn their directions, they could only recognize mermaid flesh!An assault by cavalry will completely crush these irresistible enemy troops.

At this time, the bows and arrows of the two sides are difficult to open, and the only thing in the fight is hand-to-hand combat. The comparison is only the bravery of the three armies, and it all depends on the life of the soldiers!
At this moment, on the battlefield, General Xuzhou had the complete upper hand.

Liu Bei personally charged into the battle and led the elite soldiers to attack Liang Gang's troops on the right wing.This Emperor Zhao Lie finally showed his demeanor as a famous general at this moment.

Holding two swords in his hand, he slashed from left to right and slashed from right to left. He was very courageous, and the guards who followed him usually felt that he was generous and generous.Hundreds of soldiers, holding heavy halberds and spears, slashed straight and pierced without avoiding the sharpness, and they were invincible.The enemy did not dare to fight to the death.

On the battlefield, Liu Bei's bravery can be called a fierce general in the world.Its sharp blade was sharp and strong, and it was not alone, beheading more than [-] people with its hands.

And Guan Yu stepped forward even more, and thousands of people turned away!

He led his troops to attack Liu Kai's troops from the left wing, and Liu Kai's elite heavy armored Lujiang upper armor could not stop Guan Yu's soldiers at all.

He personally charged across the formation, went in and out of the siege, pulled out the flag and beheaded the generals, and was invincible.

Under the fierce offensive of Liu Bei and Guan Yu, it only took an hour for Yuan Jun's left and right wings to be completely driven under the Chinese army, making a mess.

At this time, Yuan Jun had no room to dispatch support.

Liu Bei sent an envoy, Sun Qian, to arrive in front of Sun Ce, and asked, "General Sun, my Sun and Liu Lianjun are working together to defeat the enemy. But this battle has been fought to the death by my Xuzhou generals. Could it be that the thousands of elite cavalry under General Sun's command Are you going to just sit on the sidelines like this? My lord sent me to ask when Marquis Wu will launch an offensive."

Sun Ce said unceremoniously: "Now is not the time for me to go to war. Please inform your lord that the central army and the main force of the right wing will be transferred to the left wing, and the troops will be concentrated to launch a fierce attack. When the opportunity is right, Gu will personally lead the battle." Iron cavalry, charge into battle, defeat the enemy with one blow!"

Faced with such a tough and determined Sun Ce, Sun Gan was at a loss for words for a while, and it was difficult to argue with him.He only felt that his bearing was insufficient, and he didn't have the undeniable determination to grasp the overall situation.

Just like now, Sun Ce's attitude is tough and resolute, and Sun Qian clearly feels the toughness of a general. No matter what he says, it is impossible to change Wu Hou's decision.

At this moment, Tian Yu opened his mouth and said to Sun Qian: "Marquis Wu is a man of great talents, and he has gathered all three armies to decide between the two Chens. He is invincible in contending for balance with the world. Why should Gongyou question Marquis Wu's decision? You only need to report the truth Mr. Liu will do."

Sun Gan gritted his teeth, bid farewell to Sun Ce immediately, and rode back quickly.

Liu Bei is also worthy of being a hero of the world. After Sun Qianhui reported it, without any delay, he decisively began to mobilize troops to strengthen the left wing.

And war is if we can form a local advantage on a broad battlefield, and a rigid defense will only lead to losing to a large-scale enemy.

Ji Ling's army is facing exactly this situation. His army is congested and backed by Hong Ze, making it difficult to dispatch and even fight back.

After the Sun-Liu Allied Forces gathered more than [-] main forces on the left wing, even if Han Xin came to lead the army, he might not be able to resist Guan Yu, Sun Ce, Chen Dao, Tian Yu, Jiang Qin, Chen Wu, Yang Xiao, Cao Xing, Song Xian in a last stand Waiting for the siege of a large number of fierce generals in the world.

Liu Kai, who was in charge of defense here, was even more outstretched and difficult to resist.His subordinates have already suffered heavy losses, and now on the front line, there are only a few thousand troops left. From the beginning of the battle to the end of the day, these two thousand people are cold, hungry, and exhausted, but they have to resist Guan Yu. The sharp eight thousand allied forces stormed!

This is really too much to ask Liu Kai. After the sun-liu coalition army gathered troops to storm Liu Kai's troops, Liu Kai was completely defeated in only half an hour. He had to abandon the army and go, riding alone to the middle army where Ji Ling was.

As soon as the general left, the big banner was cut off by Guan Yu, and Liu Kai's troops finally collapsed completely. The densely packed broken soldiers fled to the Chinese army crying for their fathers and mothers, and violently disrupted the formation of the Chinese army.

Seeing this, Sun Ce immediately held up his long lance, and shouted at the iron cavalry behind him: "The iron cavalry is mighty, and cut down the flag of the general; all the soldiers follow me to sweep through the clouds, and defeat the enemy once!"

Thousands of iron cavalry shouted immediately, with momentum like a rainbow, the iron cavalry trampled out, the sound of rumbling hoofs was like thunder, thousands of cavalry swept across, and the earth shook mountains and mountains.

Followed by Liu Kai's troops on the left, the defeated troops directly concealed and charged into Ji Ling's army.

Yuan Jun's formation was disrupted by the rout, and it was too late to defend.

Equipped dragon sparrows rushed forward, rode their horses to charge, and drove straight in. They broke through more than ten enemy formations in an instant, and there were densely packed routs in front of them.

Sun Ce shouted and ordered: "Drive the enemy's rout, attack the complete enemy array, and use the method of rolling the bead curtain upside down to defeat the enemy in one battle!"

The ten cavalry formations immediately dispersed under the leadership of the fierce generals in the army, and charged left and right to drive away the rout.

Ji Ling was a veteran general in the army, so he could tell at a glance that Sun Ce's iron cavalry's tactics were to drive out the rout and attack the formation.

But seeing it doesn't mean he can defend himself!
More than ten cavalry drove the routs from all directions, and the dense routs crashed in terror, attacking the ten resistance phalanx that Ji Ling had finally assembled from all directions.

The front of the army formation could barely maintain, but the rear left was attacked by hundreds of rout troops, and the formation was a little messy. Jiang Qin immediately shouted in, and led more than a hundred dragon-sparrow cavalry to charge directly into the formation, throwing a messy The phalanx was flattened with one blow.

A large-scale rout immediately appeared behind Ji Ling's difficult-to-maintain front line. After all, they were raided from the rear by elite armored cavalry, and no apprentice army could resist.

The chaotic situation didn't wait for Ji Ling to regroup, and the cavalry from other directions immediately surrounded him. Under the assault of the armored cavalry, the elite of Ji Ling's thousands of descendants failed to resist even a quarter of an hour before completely collapsing.

Liu Bei watched Jiangdong's elite Xuanjia cavalry from behind, the red-robed Xuanjia cavalry, galloping on horseback, invincible, driving straight in, like a long knife piercing a bamboo, invincible.

With a shocked face, he sighed solemnly to Mi Zhu beside him: "Sun Lang is as powerful as a steel horse, and swallows thousands of miles with anger like a tiger. It's hard to compete with him on the battlefield."

Mi Zhu was also greatly affected. The results of the bloody battle of tens of thousands of soldiers in Xuzhou for nearly two hours were nothing compared to the fierce and swift offensive of Jiangdong Iron Cavalry.

It took only half an hour for the Jiangdong Xuanjia cavalry to crush the enemy's center and right wing.In front of the iron cavalry, the enemy's front line was like a chicken and a dog, invincible and disintegrated in all directions.The densely packed banners and spears couldn't resist even for a moment, and they were defeated when they met the enemy, and fell down a large area in an instant like cutting wheat.

If Yuan Jun is like this, it may be difficult for Xuzhou Army to resist.

At least Mi Zhu couldn't imagine how Xuzhou's army could resist the invincible iron cavalry in this situation.

We can only expect that this iron cavalry will recklessly attack their own strong bows and crossbows head-on, and reload the phalanx.

However, the leader of this iron cavalry is the top famous general in the world, and it is difficult for anyone in the world to compete with him.

All the civil and military personnel in Xuzhou have witnessed Wuhou's superb command in this battle. It can be said that the offensive arrangement of this battle, the choice of ambush, and the bold and decisive, can be said to be tied to the hands of Wuhou.

Even if the Xuzhou generals are commanded, they may not be able to display the combat power of the generals like Wu Hou, especially the cooperation of Guan Yu's attack and ambush. , enough to have a miraculous effect of twice the size.

In the end, they decisively mobilized the elites of each department, concentrated their forces, and stormed the left wing, even launching a four-to-one offensive!Eight thousand attacking two thousand, this is simply unimaginable to ordinary people, this is the situation that two armies of comparable size can have in a decisive battle.

You must know that both sides have about [-] people on foot, but the Sun-Liu coalition army has been suppressing Yuan Jun's siege, and it seems that the Sun-Liu coalition army has more than [-] people.

Thinking of the possibility of competing with such a famous general in the future, Mi Zhu's scalp became numb and his gallbladder cracked.

He had no confidence in being able to confront a peerless general like Wu Hou. After hearing Liu Bei's emotion that it was also difficult to compete with him, he had no choice but to comfort him: "The envoy still has General Guan under his command. With General Guan as the general of Xionghu, The enemy of ten thousand people, as long as the commander is elite, he will be indestructible and invincible. Even the Marquis of Wu must avoid his sharp edge."

Thinking of Guan Yu, Liu Bei regained his confidence. It is true that his general Guan Yu is invincible in the world.

All that is missing is a solid rear, a well-trained army.As long as the cities in the rear are no longer attacked by surprise and the morale of the army is stable, it will be difficult for Yuan Shu and Sun Ce to destroy their army head-on.

And this stable rear, create by yourself!

Liu Bei wanted to provide Guan Yu with stable logistical supplies, and the capture of this battle was crucial.

Sun and Liu's allied forces concentrated their forces and besieged Ji Ling from all sides. In the first battle, Yuan Jun's generals Ji Ling and Liu Kai were beheaded. , was driven into Hongze, where thousands of people fell into the water and died.

In this day's battle, Yuan's [-] troops were even more defeated. More than [-] people were beheaded and surrendered before Chen, and all vehicles, boats and other military supplies were lost.

Except for Wu Jing, the former governor of the army and the prefect of Guangling, who was the first to break through the encirclement and retreated to Huai Ling County to collect thousands of defeated soldiers, the other main forces of Yuan Shu's [-] army were all killed in the first battle.

This is not the [-] army of mobs, but the [-] soldiers of Yuan Shu's most elite lineage, which is the most important pillar for him to dominate Huainan and compete for Xuzhou.

Not to mention the armor and equipment of these 3 people, just to supply the [-] troops, crossing states and counties, and attacking cities, the logistics that Yuan Shu needs to prepare is a huge amount of wealth.

The Sun Liu coalition army found more than 12 ziggurats in the Jiling barracks. If these ziggurats were filled with grain and grass, they could transport [-] shi!
To provide food and grass for the [-] army, it is indeed necessary to have a logistics supply capability of this scale.

The soldiers under Yuan Shu's command were very poor, but he himself was not poor at all.In order to provide food for Pei Xiang Shu Shao, he sent over 20 shi of military food.In order to bribe Lu Bu to attack Liu Bei, he even promised [-] shi of military rations.

It's just that Yuan Shu, who is so rich, has more than [-] shi of grain in Jiling camp, all of which belonged to the Sun Liu coalition army in this battle.

In addition to food and grass, the coalition forces also captured more than [-] war horses, more than [-] pack horses and more than [-] cattle and sheep on the battlefield.

As well as tens of thousands of heavy spears in the camp, more than [-] pairs of strong bows and crossbows, more than [-] arrows, more than [-] rattan shields and oar shields, and tens of thousands of bow strings.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of chisels, hammers, saddles, and bags, and countless military tents and flags.

There are thousands of sets of heavy armor alone, and thousands of second-grade armor and leather armor.

The most orderly one was the navy camp. It was difficult for their ships to get out, so the whole camp surrendered. The coalition forces harvested more than [-] tank ships and more than [-] warships in World War I.

With so much wealth, the Sun Liu coalition can be said to have gained weight in the first battle.

Under Liu Bei's command, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, who were responsible for counting the captured prisoners, almost had red eyes.

All these seizures are the most urgently needed things for my lord!

Thousands of captives can expand the size of their own army, and [-] shi of grain and grass will be included in the account, which will completely solve the hunger of the army.When the time is poor, it will rely on this to revive.The protagonist will also shock the Central Plains, and the situation will turn prosperous.

And there are more important horses and military tents among them. It can be said that with these two items, Xuzhou can quickly form a troop of 2 people and cavalry of 1000 people.

You know, Xuzhou has been in war for many years, and refugees are everywhere, so there is no shortage of recruits.

And once a cavalry of this size is pulled up, Lu Bu is absolutely hard to resist.

Therefore, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang wanted to keep everything they saw, and they really didn't want to give Jiangdong a share.

(End of this chapter)