Chapter 37: The pacification of Liaodong is just around the corner
The arrow that shot Xian Yunu was of course done by Taishi Ci.
Since the moment Xianyunu attacked Zhou Tai with a cold arrow, Taishici realized that there were rebel archery masters nearby, so he focused on supporting this direction and tried to counterattack.
Taishici didn't know that this man was coming to attack the rebel general Xian Yunu, and he didn't expect to catch such a big fish.
But as Xian Yunu was caught in the arrow, the enemy troops around him were in chaos for a while, Taishici immediately realized keenly: I'm afraid he shot a ruthless character!
He immediately greeted the hundreds of soldiers in our village, and all shouted in unison, spreading false news that the enemy general was shot and killed, and hitting the morale of the rebels. For a moment, the chaos in the rebels became increasingly intensified, and it took a long time for the rebels to stabilize again.
But Dian Wei, who was slashing and slashing in the gap, also heard the shouts of friendly troops and saw the chaos of the enemy. He immediately became energetic and rushed towards Xian Yunu like a mad tiger.
For a moment, the Han army and the rebels actually made a move to attack and defend.
The Han army, which had been defending the gap, took advantage of the last wave of flat crossbow arrows to slid dozens of enemy soldiers at the gap, and took advantage of this gap to split nearly a hundred elite soldiers, followed Dian Wei's arrow and rushed forward, and took the position of Xianyunu being dismissed.
These hundred elite soldiers were all Danyang strong men, all equipped with axe shields or hammer shields, powerful and agile. Guan Yu also sent them to Dian Wei and Zhou Tai for this acting, in order to use as few soldiers as possible to form combat power that exceeded the enemy's expectations.
The Danyang soldiers' melee and melee advantages were fully utilized in this congested gap offensive and defensive battle.
Everyone looked like they were fearless and charged with their shields. When they were facing the enemy, they protected their body with their shields and jumped violently, and jumped with the gravitational force of their bodies with a sharp axe and a heavy hammer.
Those who fight with sabers and small log shields in the rebels are often smashed by hammers in an instant. Even elite soldiers wearing helmets are rammed on their foreheads by a heavy hammer with an axe. At a very least, they are concussed instantly, and at worst, they are directly spurted through plasma and brain flow.
The Han Dynasty metal helmets did not have the habit of lining the cushioning and could not resist violent blows from blunt objects. The rebel soldiers born in the northern border had never seen such a scene of infantry and melee, and were stunned at once.
The two or three layers of rebels were like rolling snow, and they all dispersed one after another. The distance between Dian Wei and Xian Yunu had been reduced by half quickly, approaching from thirty or forty steps to fifteen steps.
Xian Yunu just now rode on the horse again with the help of his personal guards. Because his cheek was cut by a bow and arrow, his head and face were covered with blood. He looked extremely creepy and was also very conspicuous under the light of the torch.
How could Dian Wei let the flesh on his mouth run away? He immediately asked several Danyang Axe Shield Warriors to temporarily help him withstand the pressure on both sides. He put the two iron halberds behind him, opened his bows left and right to pick out the hand halberds hanging on his belt, and flew out hard, shooting out three or four iron rebels protecting Xian Yunu in one go.
While throwing, he shouted: "Xianyunu is full of blood! Kill Xianyunu!"
Dian Wei had a total of ten hand halberds with him. Seeing that Xian Yunu was about to run away, he quickly threw all the remaining five handfuls at once.
Because most of the other soldiers fighting next to him were walking, they could not stop the hand halberd aiming towards the parabola at a high place.
The two hand halberds flew over a dozen steps away and flew into the air. One shot on Xianyunu's scale armor. Because the range was too far away, it was bounced away. But there were two other war horses that were not vested in Xianyunu, one shot on the horse's buttocks and the other shot on the hind leg.
The hand halberd that shot the war horse played a key role. The war horse stood up and neighed violently, trying to throw Xianyunu off. However, Xianyunu was a Xianbei general and had excellent riding skills. Even if he was injured, he still couldn't throw it away as if he was on the back of a horse.
But the hind leg of the war horse was shot by a halberd. This instinctive man immediately made the hind leg feel more and more painful, and he fell to the side with a bitter slut.
Even though Xian Yunu was very good at riding, he jumped to the side with all his strength the moment before the horse fell to the ground, avoiding being pressed by the war horse, but his left leg was still pressed obliquely under the horse's back, and a tibial fracture was made with a "knock".
Xian Yunu knew that he could not escape for the moment, so he drew out the iron sabre and round shield, preparing to fight Dian Wei to the end.
Although the tibia on the left leg is broken, anyone who has eaten chicken wings knows that there are two bones in the calf (among the wings). Only when the tibia is broken and the fibula is not broken, with the willpower of fighting to the death, although he cannot walk, he can barely support his body and stand.
Xian Yunu endured the great pain of the tip of the broken tibia piercing into the muscles, standing still, fighting to the death to defend.
The remaining rebel soldiers between him and Dian Wei were soon killed by Dian Wei like chopping melons and vegetables. The two approached within five steps, and Dian Wei rushed forward with two halberds.
Two "clang" sounds, Xian Yunu raised all his strength to block Dian Wei's two halberds. If he had not been a Xianbei warrior with a special reputation in Suli's troops, he would definitely not have been able to do this when his face and left leg were seriously injured.
But that's all!
After all, the Xianbei warrior was not good at sprinting and sprinting. After only two moves, one side of his shoulder was seriously injured by the iron halberd hook, pulling out a terrible wound that could be half a foot of flesh and flesh. The shield could no longer hold it and fell to the ground.
Dian Wei's third halberd went straight into the central palace and poked Xianyunu's heart, but because of the obstruction of the branches, he could not directly penetrate his back.
Dian Wei could only shake left and right, and then stabbed another halberd into Xianyunu's ribs. The two halberds were pulled away from both sides, and directly tearing Xianyunu's upper body in half. Only then did he pull back his two halberds.
After a few breaths of delay, Dian Wei was entangled with weapons and was stabbed by Xianyunu's personal soldiers who were crazy to fight back. However, Dian Wei didn't care at all. As the weapons were free, he quickly killed all those who injured him.
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The Xianbei people are worthy of being the most brave among the Hu people today. They are not afraid of the Han people's command chaos because the master general is killed.
Although the death of Xianyunu made them even more chaotic, most Xianbei people still fought on their own and kept killing with their combat instincts.
Only the Han soldiers in the rebel army showed obvious wavering and did not work hard. However, because the Han soldiers were all sent by Zhang Hao to Xian Yunu, and there were other grassroots generals in charge, and they did not collapse for the time being.
However, as long as they "do not work hard", it is enough.
The frontal melee lasted less than half an hour, and after both sides suffered heavy casualties, the Han army's cavalry reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, which came much faster than the rebels expected.
"Zhang Fei, a man from Yan, is here, the thief will die!"
Because Zhao Yun was also responsible for intercepting and killing the Liao Tunnel and the Xiangping enemy army, this time he led a large number of cavalry to carry out the mission of melee was handed over to Zhang Fei.
When Zhang Fei and his new force of two thousand cavalry secretly came from the north bank of the Liao River to intercept the rebels' camp and rob the troops, the rebels finally became completely panicked.
The four powerful generals of the Han army alone had already killed hundreds of rebel soldiers, and their fear had long reached the critical point.
At the same time, Liu Bei and Guan Yu also began to make trouble as planned in front of the Liao Tunnel Camp.
Guan Yu took two thousand cavalry to bypass the Liao Tunnel Fortress and crossed the river north from a land more than ten miles east of the Liao Tunnel Fortress. After crossing the river, he circled back to the Liao Tunnel Fortress. When approaching the enemy's position, he lied that Xian Yunu's robbery troops had returned:
"The Han army is prepared! The camp is not good, let us go back quickly!"
Although the rebels were not deceived, they could not clearly see the darkness before dawn. They could not identify whether Guan Yu was an enemy or a friend for a while. Although they did not open the door to appeal to thieves, they also missed the opportunity to reject the enemy in advance.
The Liao Tunnel Fortress was not a rigorous city, but a long trench and earthen wall pattern along the Liao River, with a corridor in the middle. After such simple fortifications were broken through one or two points in chaos by the enemy, they soon entered a melee.
At the same time, Liu Bei also led the main force of the Han army's infantry to launch a comprehensive attack.
The rebels had less than 15,000 troops, and they had to defend the riverside fortress of Liao Tun and Liao Tun County, which were divided into 8,000 people to rob the camp.
They had never expected that the Han army would have more than 15,000 troops left in front of the Han army, and Xiangping's thief was just performing, with only three or four thousand people.
In this way, the divided troops became thinner and thinner. After taking advantage of the chaos, the fortress along the river in Liao Tunnel was completely captured by the Han army overnight.
After the camp robbery troops were defeated by Zhang Fei, they fled back to the fortress along the Liaohe River. They found that they had changed hands. Many Han soldiers had to surrender immediately to save their lives. A very small number of dead men ran to Liaotun County again, and they were chased by Zhang Fei and Guan Yu along the way. The ones who escaped back were said to be 10 or 3.
In just one night, Xian Yunu died in battle, and Zhang Hao's troops also shrank by tens of thousands of people!
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"Thanks to Boya's trick, Zhang Hao couldn't help but come to the camp, but was taken advantage of by our army! Haha, this battle last night was really exciting!"
It was dawn that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took back their troops. In the captured Liao Tunnel Fortress, they met Liu Bei and Li Su. Everyone was joking and their morale was very high.
"Boya, what should we do next? Should we siege the city and attack Liaotun County? Or should the whole army directly take Xiangping?" Liu Bei asked with a relaxed expression.
Li Su smiled and said, "The overall situation has been decided, and it's OK. To be safe, we must first surround Liaotun County. Anyway, the Liaohe shipping is completely in the hands of our army. We divided the troops and issued an edict to determine the counties in the Liaohe Basin, and collected Liaoyang, Wangping, Houcheng and other counties. The remaining total enemy troops should be less than 10,000. If they are willing to leave the city and fight in the field, we will be unable to get it!"
At this point in the war, there is no strategy to use. Because the enemy has no spare energy to support each other, how can we talk about arriving around the site?
Therefore, the rest are two siege-death battles with little technical content.
That is not a scene where a strategist like Li Su can play.
To kill Zhang Chun, the rest are all "physical work".
"Just Bebery, divide his troops to capture the counties and then attack the city!" Liu Bei ordered with great enthusiasm.
In just ten days, the counties in the Liaohe River Basin issued an edict. In early July, the Liaotun County was captured, and more than 2,000 rebel soldiers surrendered. Zhang Hao committed suicide due to his defeat.
Chapter completed!