My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 207 Three-line blitzkrieg

When the news of the war between the three states reached Luyang, five days had passed. It was almost June, the temperature was rising sharply, and scouts were everywhere in the plains and hills to the north of Nanwang County.

Occasionally, the scouts belonging to Yan and Wei could be seen chasing each other in the wilderness, and then reinforcements from both sides arrived and then left.

In the Wei military camp stationed more than 70 miles west of Nanwang County, the soldiers were lined up to set up camp. Lei Yunzhong was wearing Wei-style cloud-covering high-collar armor. This kind of armor protects the neck from being shot by cold arrows.

He glanced at the faint clouds in the sky. His general's flag left the military camp along with the banner with the word "Wei". Soon, the bodyguards brought the horse covered with leather armor. He turned over and galloped out of the camp gate.

Outside, a large number of infantry shields, spearmen, and archers were walking and gathering on the ground. A little further away, there were 8000 light cavalry from the three counties of Linzhou galloping. The mighty army totaled [-]. There were more than [-] people. If the army on the south bank had not been defeated, fled, or surrendered, the number of people under his command would have been even higher.

However, as the governor of Linzhou, he also had a 300-man armored cavalry. They wore face-covering iron helmets with a single feather, short-sleeved iron armor, and their arms and legs were made of iron armor and leather. The skirt was stitched, and as the military formation slowly advanced, the sun shone on the touching armor, reflecting pieces of cold metallic luster - Feilin Iron Cavalry.

The Wei State was located in the Central Plains, and there was an extreme shortage of war horses. The only one with large-scale cavalry was the Great Wei Xionghu, Emperor Zhao Chuanting, who was located in the Luyang Palace.

However, as the governor, the emperor still allocated him this 300-man heavy cavalry to show his trust.

As a wartime governor, Lei Yunzhong would naturally not disappoint the emperor. Since he appointed the military governor of Linzhou last year, he has been on guard against the Yan army building large ships on the north bank of the Hun River.

In early summer, the opponent came directly to kill him. Even if his warships and several battalions of soldiers and horses deployed on the south bank could not stop the opponent in the Hun River, they could still drag the Yan army for two days. However, the day before yesterday, from receiving the battle report to preparing to send troops Fight against powerful enemies that may come.

He was still shocked. From his perspective, it was reasonable for Beiren to be good at land and horse battles, but he was still so good at water battles. It was incredible when he thought about it.

You must know that the Hun River is not the kind of river that is more than ten feet wide. You can get there by boat without even using half a stick of incense.

However, the military information came too quickly and did not give him much time to think about this unreasonable situation. When receiving the military information, the Yan army that crossed the Hun River was extremely aggressive. After sweeping the south bank of the Hun River, he deployed his own After a series of fortifications and checkpoints, they rushed directly towards Nanwang County. According to the news reported by the scouts, the opponent only had [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

"Is this contempt for me?"

Lei Yunzhong was riding on horseback with 2 people in the front line. He kept sending and receiving messages and orders, and controlled the left and right wings several miles away, as well as the [-] front line ten miles away. There were his most powerful generals. and generals who can command great battles.

As his helmet tassel shook, he turned his gaze to the front. Two scouts came up from the side of the army and stopped aside.One of the scouts dismounted and ran up quickly: "Commander, the front line is only two miles away from the enemy. A contact battle should occur at this time."

"Two thousand, eight hundred people... really dare to fight against my 800-strong army?" Lei Yunzhong frowned, looked down at the note handed by the scout, then rushed his horse to a grassy slope in front, shouting as he walked Issued an order: "Call the left and right wings to advance slowly to encircle, and assist the front line to encircle and kill this Yan army."

A cavalry of 2000 people and an additional 800 people rushed towards them. No matter how fierce they were, wouldn't they be able to pull the Linzhou army of 8000 people together to prepare for the attack?Even if I win, it would be embarrassing to tell it.

Soon, the trumpet to convey the order sounded, and 5000 soldiers and horses on each side of the left and right wings crossed the mountains and ridges and ran across the wilderness to the front.

Just when the main force of Linzhou led by Lei Yunzhong rushed to the battlefield to block the enemy troops heading south, the rumble of horse hooves was already galloping across the wilderness heading south.

The terrain is flat, and the galloping cavalry move like thunder through the dust and smoke. They occasionally stop to rest and wait for a team of 800 people from behind to arrive. In fact, it is not 800 people. There are more than 200 auxiliary soldiers to assist.

The resting wolf rider sat on the ground drinking water and feeding the war horse water.On the mound on the side, Lu Bu, with an animal face and a ring of armor on his head, a golden crown and long feathers on his head, was holding a Fangtian painted halberd, looking at the approaching Wei army in the distance, a look of disdain flashing in his eyes.

"I'll give you half a stick of incense to rest!"

He turned back to face the group of men who were sitting next to their horses. These were the cavalry he had brought with him from Ding'an during the northern expedition to the south. He had regarded them as his Bingzhou cavalry back then.

"Don't worry, General, half a stick of incense is enough!"

"Stop talking, rest for a while, and you can chop more!"

In the continuous chatting, laughing and cursing among the string control wolf riders, they did not pay attention to the Wei front line that was slowly advancing in front. At this time, the troops on foot behind them finally caught up.

"You guys should also rest!" Gao Shun, dressed in iron armor and with a majestic face, ordered the soldiers trapped behind him. Then he dragged his cloak to the mound and stood next to Lu Bu. Together they looked at the black line spreading in the distance, his eyes revealing. He felt a little hot: "The King of Xia said that this is a war to destroy a country. Marquis Wen and I have never destroyed a country. Thinking about it, I feel a little excited."

Glancing at Gao Shun, a smile gradually appeared on Lu Bu's face. He took off his water bag and took a sip, then threw it to Gao Shun. "At that time, a certain family only wanted to stand out and strive to be invincible. Now, if I do it again, I will fight for eternity." Leave your name!"

"Haha, this is the flying general Shun saw in Bingzhou!"

Gao Shun stuffed the water bag and handed it back with a smile, "That's still the old rule. By the way, Erlang falls into the battle and Marquis Wen defeats the enemy! But, can't we wait for Wen Yuan?"

"There are still more battles ahead. He is the commander-in-chief of the Bingzhou Army now, so just stay in the back. I also left a thousand cavalry for him, haha!" Lu Bu glanced at the blue sky and white clouds, pulled out the Fangtian Painted Halberd from the ground, and said, He tilted his head: "Brother... follow up!"

The mighty figure turned around and climbed onto the horse's back. Under the mound, a group of wolf riders got up and mounted.Lu Bu pinched the horse's belly. Amidst the neighing of the flying red cloud horse, he turned back to look at the energetic wolf cavalry and shouted: "Let the soldiers and horses of Wei Kingdom in the Central Plains see what a cavalry is!"

Gao Shun rode down the mound, raised his palms with excitement, and then made a fist.

Carrying crossbows and iron shields, and almost armed to the teeth, the armored camp dragged its heavy body up from the ground, quickly assembled into a dense array, and pushed forward.

As the two armies approached, there was no need for scouts.

Nearly a mile away, the armies of both sides had entered their respective fields of vision, and a dark line had spread. When the distance was quickly closed, Gao Shun turned over and dismounted, slapped the horse on the butt, and let the horse gallop towards the rear. Go, he took the spear handed over by the bodyguard, grabbed the iron shield in his hand, and walked behind the trapped camp.

"The ambition to trap the enemy!" he roared at the top of his lungs.

800 people plus more than 200 auxiliary soldiers turned their bows and set arrows. Looking at the enemy army that was less than [-] feet in front, they all shouted: "Death or life-" The next second, they entered the place of one arrow, The long bows with arrows raised up to the sky one after another, and the strings were released with a bang. Eight hundred arrows flew across the sky towards the tens of thousands of people coming forward, splashing some blood at the same time.

"Yu!" Gao Shun's voice shouted.

The tight formation folded their bows and turned over their shields, and quickly joined together to block the rain of arrows coming back from the shields. The sound of metal nails pierced outside the formation.

When the sound subsided, Gao Shun shot and crushed the arrow stuck in his shield. 800 people formed a formation with him as the center and continued to advance towards the Linzhou Wei army's front line.

The galloping string-controlling wolf cavalry was wandering to the left and right sides of the battlefield. The spear in his hand was hung on the side of the horse, and he took out the longbow with his backhand. For neighboring countries like Wei State that lacked war horses and had dense and huge formations, they had too much power. Much experience.

The general with an array of tens of thousands of people on the opposite side issued a serious order, sending two battalions of 4000 people to meet the array of hundreds of people on the opposite side. At the same time, the soldiers on the left and right wings pointed their bows at the sky in their hands, guarding against wandering. Northern cavalry on both sides.

At the moment when the two battalions of 4000 men from the trapped camp and the Wei army joined the battle, the leader of the Wei army also issued an order to force back the opponent's cavalry!
Whoosh whoosh—

Arrows were thrown into the sky from both wings of the main force, like locusts, flying across the sky.

Linzhou general Chen Jun, who was in the center of the military formation, had a bad feeling in his heart.

The moment he had a premonition, the Yan cavalry running on both sides of the battlefield suddenly turned in an arc, and dense arrows fell on the open ground. Only a few wolves fell behind and failed to seize the opportunity to turn. The rider was hit by several arrows and fell down.

Lu Bu glanced back at the cavalry following him, and raised his hand while galloping. In the middle of the battlefield, Gao Shun's camp used defense as offense and advanced inch by inch. The four thousand Wei soldiers who came up to meet them could not stop them at all.

Not long after, a cold light spread out from the two thousand wolf riders who were evading on both sides of the battlefield. It was the arrows reflecting the skylight that were caught on the bowstring.

A voice screamed at the top of its lungs: "Shoot!"

When the first sound of strings sounded in the hands of a person, the sound of trembling bowstrings followed immediately, forming a large sound.Dense black shadows flew into the sky from both sides and fell towards the main force of the Wei army.

"kill!"

When Gao Shun, who was approaching the Wei army's center formation, saw the rain of arrows falling, the Babai camp suddenly lowered its iron shield, threw out the spear in his hand, stabbed the surrounding Wei army soldiers over, pulled out the blade, and followed the general to pounce on the opponent's center. Array!

Half a stick of incense, Linzhou's front line of 1 troops was overthrown in an instant, and they were scattered in all directions. Among the corpses on the ground, the defeated soldiers fled towards the front line like crazy.

……

In the wilderness behind, [-] troops were still marching.

"Why do I feel like my eyelids keep twitching..." Linzhou Governor Lei Yunzhong whispered to his confidants. Not far away, the sound of war horses neighed.

sigh -

He stopped talking and turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. A scout was riding a horse and running wildly. His face was full of shock. He was too anxious while running and fell directly from the horse. Then he was helped by someone and he raised his head with difficulty. , swallowed his saliva, and said in an extremely weak voice: "... Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the front line has been defeated, General Chen was killed in the rebel army, and the defeated troops are rushing towards us!"

"What?!" Lei Yunzhong almost yelled, causing the surrounding generals and soldiers to turn their heads and look at him, "1 people... Chen Jun, how did you manage to easily defeat a [-]-person army with reinforcements from both wings?" Where are the people?". "

Due to the unequal information, he did not know that the war he had expected in his heart had been reversed. More than ten miles away, the two reinforcements of 5000 people he sent had no time to encircle the enemy. The soldiers, with overwhelming murderous intent, passed directly through the gap between the two soldiers and horses, and rushed straight towards Lei Yunzhong's [-]-strong formation.

He hadn't recovered from the huge amount of news. The defeated troops, cavalry, and infantry of Yan State were sweeping towards this direction in a crazy manner, and then crashed into each other!
He didn't even have time to prepare the Feilin Heavy Cavalry.

In the hot summer, at the Wei army camp outside Nanwang County, the enlisted civilians escorted the grain and fodder to the front. Halfway through, they noticed something strange. As they went further north, they gradually saw the figures of their own soldiers, panicking. They ran away from the grain team, and then there were more and more such figures.

I also saw these soldiers stop, form a team, assemble, and fight north again.However, in less than a cup of tea, the defeated soldiers spread like a tide, and dense figures were running wildly, fleeing in embarrassment, and behind them were the Northland cavalry galloping on horseback.

Half an hour later, the Yan State army all over the mountains and plains besieged Nanwang County. They captured it in half a day, and the entire Linzhou fell into the terror of the army.

When Guan Yu and Zhang Liao received Su Chen's Wang Ling, it was already early June, and the war had already burned half of Linzhou. After knowing that Wang Ling was going to quickly attack Luyang, the two armies readjusted their deployment and followed the path laid out by Taiping Road. Entered Ganzhou without stopping.

On this day, three groups of soldiers and horses, more than [-] people, without any hesitation, thrust into the capital of Wei from three directions with the conqueror's butcher's knife.

On the ninth day of June, the Youyan Army and Xiliang Army alternately crossed the middle route and defeated Wang Longen, the governor of Shangzhou who tried to block the attack. Seven thousand people were beheaded and more than 2 people were captured. Yichang County of Shangzhou surrendered.

Almost at the same time, the Western Route Army captured Chendu County four days ago. Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He led the Qingzhou soldiers and pushed all the way to Yangcheng, the first city in Fengzhou adjacent to Chendu County.

The war reports from various states were rushed for eight hundred miles, and snowflakes were passed into Luyang by fast horses like flying snow.

In the court hall, Wei Emperor Zhao Chuanting was discussing with the ministers the deployment of troops and generals. The originally harmonious atmosphere was instantly broken.

This quick blitz method caused an uproar among the officials who heard the report.

The entire court was shocked.

(End of this chapter)