Chapter 18 Reverse Push
?Shi Wansui put down the strong bow in his hand and looked at the Anzhou Army's spear formation and sighed regretfully, then jumped off the wall. The arrow just now almost shot and killed the chief general of the enemy's spear formation.
"Shi Wansui, didn't you boast about shooting skills? "A team next to you was sneering, "Didn't you hit it?"
"The last general... has failed..." Shi Wansui said.
"waste!"
A burst of ridicule sounds around him came from the blue veins on Shi Wansui's left hand holding the strong bow, which was exposed and then disappeared. He kept smiling bitterly: "I'll make everyone laugh..."
"Shi Wansui, you are not a general now, but an ordinary soldier like us. Don't be the last general in the day!" The team was leaving a word and said nothing again.
The sound of the horn sounded by the Anzhou army opposite attracted everyone's attention, and they saw the Anzhou army begin to advance towards their own side.
"Stop them, the marshal will order those who dare to retreat to kill them!" The generals of the supervising formation shouted loudly. When they saw that their soldiers were obviously afraid of the Anzhou army's spear formation, they quickly put pressure on them.
"Hold on for a while, and the rebels in Anzhou will be finished when the cavalry breaks the formation!"
Shi Wansui put away the bow and arrow, pulled out his sword and looked at the approaching Anzhou army that was approaching ahead with full fighting spirit. He looked at the army flag in the spear formation and silently made up his mind: "I just dodged an arrow for you, and I will cut off your head with my own hands!"
‘Then you can get your title back with your military merits!’
In early June, Shi Wansui's official position was still a general and his title was Duke of Taiping County. However, the sudden change changed all this: the emperor's father-in-law Sima Xiaonan colluded with the "Pseudo Zhou" Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong attempted to launch a mutiny in Chang'an City to support the puppet Zhou army in the west attack on Luoyang.
The mutiny was still under planning and was destroyed by Prime Minister Yang Jian. This friend who had no connection with Shi Wansui but was closely related to him, General Erzhu Ji was trapped in.
Although the prime minister did not have direct evidence to prove that Shi Wansui was related to the rebellion incident, Shi Wansui was still deprived of his official position and was about to be sent to the border of the Western Regions as a garrison. It happened that the court appointed his old boss Liang Shiyan as the marshal of the South Expedition, and he came to his house and recommended himself as an ordinary soldier in the army to follow the army to make meritorious service.
Liang Shiyan knew that he was good at abilities, so he pleaded with Prime Minister Yang Jian to get a glimmer of opportunity, but this time he went south to suppress the rebellion. If he did not make any contribution, he would go to the border to drink the northwest wind.
Shi Wansui was unwilling to accept that he did not participate in the rebellion but lost his military position and title, so he thought about "resurrecting".
So during the fierce battle just now, he had to use the archery technique of passing through Yang to shoot the main general in the Anzhou Army's spear formation. Because there was no commanding heights here, there were crowds of people everywhere, so he finally told the team that he was asking a few comrades to build a human wall and then climbed up to take the opportunity to snipe the opponent's general.
But there was only a moment of chance. There were archers on the chariot accompanying the spear formation hiding behind the carriage and aiming around to shoot the birds on their own. Shi Wansui was very lucky as soon as he climbed up the wall, he saw several generals in the spear formation surrounding one in the middle.
The distance of one hundred steps was no problem for Shi Wansui. He aimed at the opponent without hesitation, but Pang Fangjian was pushed away by one of his side and failed.
When Shi Wansui was distracted, he heard a panic around him. He looked up and saw that it was a large crossbow on the chariot in the spear formation of the Anzhou Army. Many strange things were fired. The white mist was emitting bursts of white mist among the crowd on his own.
Then many soldiers of the Zhengnan Army who were shrouded in white mist fell down and rolled on the ground with pain, and the Anzhou army on the opposite side then beat drums and rushed forward to cover the attack.
Faced with the increasingly prosperous Anzhou Army, they could no longer support it, especially the long spear array that was advancing step by step, and now the other party is even more unstoppable to open the way with poisonous smoke.
The white mist quickly dissipated but had already wiped out most of the morale of the soldiers of the Southern Army. Under the cover of other comrades on both sides, An Zhu's spear formation stepped forward step by step with drum beats and stabbed anyone who dared to stop to the ground.
But this is not a reason to retreat under the supervision of the generals of the war. The soldiers of the Southern Army burst out with their last courage. The archers tried hard to pull the bow and the enemy archers on the chariot in the spear formation shot at the cost of one for one or even two for one.
More soldiers found shields to form a row to form a shield formation to meet the Anzhou army's spear formation. Behind them were comrades holding short soldiers, waiting to approach the spear formation and rushed forward to fight.
For a time, more and more people gathered in front of the Anzhou army's spear formation, and the soldiers were waiting for a big explosion to break through the other party's spear formation with their flesh and blood.
Just as the two sides were about to contact, the long spear formation broke out first: more than a dozen soldiers of Anzhou soldiers with big arms and round waists and two armored armor walked out of the queue. They pulled off the rope from the clay pot in their hands and immediately threw it into the middle of the army crowd of the war.
More than ten flames rose in the crowd, and a sea of fire appeared in the place where both sides fought. Among the spreading fire of burning, countless people were on fire and wailing and fleeing everywhere, and then ignited others. The soldiers of the Zhengnan Army who were gathering formations were instantly swallowed by the spreading fire.
Not far away, Liang Shiyan, the Marshal of the Nanxing Army who was surrounded by troops, stared at the fire in amazement. The remaining soldiers of the Anzhou Army who had been surrounded and the Nanxing Army who were surrounded were also silently watching the sky-sky fire.
Even the soldiers on both wings of the Anzhou Army's spear formation were stunned to watch this. In terms of the fire alone, this was not as good as the fire that cut off the Anzhou Army in the camp, but there were many more people burying in the sea of fire.
Because the soldiers of the South Expedition Army were gathering formations to prepare for the long-term spear formation, they had reached a crowd of people, and I don’t know how many people turned into ashes if the fire continued.
The fire gradually faded, and a disgusting smell came towards me. Countless people couldn't control their dry retardation when they looked at the tragic situation in front of them.
"Do you want to eat human flesh?" Yuwen Wen looked at the disgusting scene in front of him and expressionless. Xu Shao and Chen Wudi beside him looked at him with pale faces and shook their heads.
As the culprit who caused such a tragic situation, Yu Wen Wen had no regrets at all, he used all the turbulent bombs, he had no regrets to take thousands of lives with such cruel means, and he had no regrets to face a personal coke in front of him.
The cold arrow that almost succeeded in the formation woke him up, making him wake up from the worry of gains and losses. Yuwen Wen remembered Zhao Wang Yuwen Zhao, who failed to assassinate Yang Jian in Chang'an City due to the worry of gains and losses.
Before I got the prey, I thought about how to eat it. I don’t have the qualification to think about it!
If the Anzhou army is defeated in this battle, it will be over. The imperial army will advance southwards all the way south by the officials of An, Xiang and Huang who used to greet people with a smile, sooner or later will turn against each other. Everyone else can surrender, but Yu Wenliang, Yu Wenming, Yu Wen and his son cannot surrender.
At the end of February last year, where did the courage to die with the foolish king Yuwen Yun in the hall? Where did the courage to die with the vain emperor in Beijiangzhou in May? Where did the courage to die with Yang Jian on the streets of Chang'an in August?
I can't let go after making a few small amounts of money. Could it be that I have to wait for my family to die and my wife to become a plaything for others before regretting it?
Yuwen Wen was extremely disgusted with his previous anxiety and losses, so he decided to do his best: "Beat the drum, and the whole army attacked."
"Kill those who do not surrender, kill those who dare to resist, kill all those who stand in front of the army!"
The drum beat sounded, and the spear formation moved in response. The spear soldiers slowly advanced with the drum beat. The soldiers of the Zhengnan Army who were blocking the gun formation were mercilessly stabbed to the ground.
The soldiers of the Southern Army fought with this airtight spear formation just now, and were first knocked down by the weird white mist, and then burned by the terrifying arson method. Now the other party pushed it straight over and they could no longer resist it.
Whether the court wins or loses, it has nothing to do with them. No matter who is in power, he has to rely on the soldiers to work hard. What should he do if he dies meaninglessly in the family?
The spear formation broke through and blocked the advance and led the soldiers of the Anzhou army on both wings. The entire front was only at the beginning and was stagnant from the Southern Conquest Army, and then it made a full breakthrough with the lead in advance.
The defeat was like a mountain of defeat, and the generals supervising the formation could no longer stop the soldiers from fleeing. Under the pressure of the Anzhou army, they turned around and ran north.
The command generals of the command center, Liang Shiyan, were hoarsely at the top of his lungs to stop the decline. He couldn't figure out what kind of experts in the Anzhou army could provide so many means.
In order to prevent the opponent's possible powerful armament, he and the general managers set up a plan to defeat the deception. At first, everything went smoothly and the chasers of the Anzhou Army and the cavalry on their right wing were unable to stop the Anzhou Army's pursuit vanguard and the cavalry on their right wing.
The 20,000 cavalry invested then began to carry out the second step: beheading and disrupting the Anzhou army's formation. With 10,000 cavalry, they entangled the left-wing cavalry of the Anzhou army, and then another elite cavalry rushed into the Anzhou army's formation and turned upside down. Then, two thousand cavalry directly attacked the Anzhou Central Army and killed the enemy's commander Yu Wenliang.
But now all failed. The first attack on the central army was a thousand cavalry led by his leader Liang Mo. Liang Shiyan saw from a distance that they had already attacked the Central Army Commander in a desperate attack but there was no movement.
Then there were a thousand cavalrymen on the left side of the Jingzhou General Tu Wanxu. Before they rushed to the central army, they were inexplicably blocked by a burst of white mist and then disintegrated.
The marching general Yang Su and others led thousands of cavalry into the formation and stirred around. The effect was pretty good just now, but the situation has changed since the Hexi Camp defenders were dispatched.
They gathered the panicked soldiers together. The Anzhou Army formation, which was about to collapse, has now stabilized again. The spear formation went north and tried to support the surrounded Anzhou Army soldiers.
During the march, the cavalry of the long spear formation kept harassing and attempting to force the other party to stop. As a result, the things fired by the large crossbow on the chariot accompanying it were created to create a large amount of white fog, causing the cavalry to lose hundreds of people without any intention of fighting.
They marched along the way to gather a large number of soldiers to accompany them. The pressure on their own cavalry increased greatly and was slowly forced out of the Anzhou Army formation. After the long spear formation approached here, not only did they gather soldiers who were distracted by the fire and their own dead soldiers, but they also beat the ambush and suffered heavy casualties in one fell swoop.
"Yuwen Liang, how many methods do you have not used?" Liang Shiyan muttered unwillingly at the blurry Anzhou military commander flag in the distance. He was unwilling to be defeated by Yu Wen Liang, a mediocre man with ordinary martial arts.
If there were no such white fog and the endless arson methods, how could he face such a situation? Although it seems that the two sides are hard to distinguish, as a veteran Liang Shiyan knew that he was defeated.
The trick of deception is to win in a dangerous situation. Now that we have used up all our means but failed to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, then there is nothing we can do about the next counterattack, because the opponent should have reinforcements from Xiangzhou.
The two sides fight together and their side cannot win or retreat. If the opponent's reinforcements are thrown into battle, they will definitely lose.
The marching general Yang Su led the cavalry to rush left and right in the Anzhou army formation but was gradually squeezed out of the periphery by the generals. Seeing that the Anzhou army formation gradually stabilized, he couldn't help but become impatient.
Looking back at the north, I saw that my ambush was already defeated, and the culprit was the square spear formation.
"If I had known this, I should have made a decision just now!" Yang Su murmured to himself gritted his teeth. The cavalry led by his troops, Yang Liu, failed to harass the spear formation, and the other party went north to support the Anzhou army and was ambushed soldiers.
Yesterday it was this spear array that caused me to suffer heavy losses. I never thought that this spear array would ruin a good thing today!
Yang Su had noticed the banner raised by this team, and the word "Yuwen" on it was clearly visible that there were only three people in the Anzhou rebels: Yuwen Liang and his eldest son Yu Wenming and his second son Yu Wenwen.
He knew that the Anzhou general manager Yu Wenliang was in charge of the central army, so the spear formation should be Yu Wenming, and one of Yu Wenwen was led by Yu Wenming. In theory, Yu Wenming, who was appointed as the governor of Xiangzhou, should not be here, so it should be that Yu Wenwen, who was not in a state of chaos, was in the formation.
Yuwen Wen was stranded in Chang'an from the end of July to mid-October last year. Yang Su heard rumors that this person was always in a day and was full of food and drink, and was both unrestrained and unrestrained, but his mind was not in a hurry to make trouble. It was hard to believe that this waste was leading the way.
"General Manager, General Manager!" A cavalry shouted to Yang Su in panic, "The reinforcements from Anzhou have arrived!"
When Yang Su heard this, he looked up and saw a large area of dust rising from the left wing of the Anzhou Army. It was a common sight when the cavalry ran in groups. He just hesitated for a moment and then issued an order: "The whole army retreated!"
"But retreat without receiving the order of the marshal, and then the military law..." Some cavalry reminded carefully that retreating without authorization without obeying the order is a serious crime.
"If you have anything, I will take it with you!" Yang Su made a quick decision. A qualified general must make a decision when the situation is clear. There is no need to wait until he loses a lot before regretting it.
The opponent's reinforcements have arrived and his side will definitely be defeated. He believes that it is meaningless to stay on the battlefield and continue fighting when his side will definitely lose. Since he is defeated, he must keep the elite troops as much as possible, especially the cavalry.
At Yang Su's order, the cavalry left the battlefield and turned their horses and galloped northward. At this time, the trumpet of retreat sounded at the Central Military Office of the Southern Army. It seemed that the marching marshal Liang Shiyan also had the same idea as Yang Su.
Chapter completed!