Chapter 503 Dare to Move
"Youzhou cavalry rushed over!"
Yang Yin was most worried about this decisive battle.
He suffered a great loss in Aocang. The Youzhou general Gai Yan broke through his rear with only a few dozen cavalry. Now the three thousand cavalry will cause such a terrible result?
Now, Yuyang drums are coming again, Yang Yin is both afraid and happy.
It is probably natural that the Red Eyebrows mostly come from Haidai, Central Plains, and rarely have the experience of fighting with cavalry: the Huns and Wuhuan had never gone deep into the Central Plains. Three cavalrymen from the eight schools of the Northern Army went their separate ways because of the demise of the New Dynasty before they were sent to the eastern battlefield to suppress the Red Eyebrows.
Therefore, when the Red Eyebrow warriors faced the cavalry that formed a formation to charge towards them for the first time, they felt the roar of steel flooding the entire world, and their legs could not stop trembling with the earth. For several days, thousands of people were killed by Yuyang cavalry. Although there were not many injuries on the spot, the blow to morale was really too great.
But Yang Yin was also relieved that on this almost dangerous plain, the mobs of the Red Eyebrow Army had no way to take cavalry.
Unless they come to the door themselves!
"It's still the war between the Fan Guild." Yang Yin immediately asked someone to notify the people in the forest that once the Yuyang Riders attacked the east formation, they would immediately run over and try to get around behind it and cut off the retreat!
The red eyebrows have no chariots, no trenches, and deer antlers. They only have a cheap life. They use their lives to hold the thunder cavalry and give others time to encircle them.
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At the same time, Ma Yuan, who was on the hill, also stared at the Yuyang Tuqi's cavalry. Gai Yan ignored his smoke warning, and hundreds of knights left the troops and rushed towards the Chimei.
"Did Gai Juqing forget the appointment of the beacon smoke?" The lieutenants around Ma Yuan said so. The impression Gai Yan gave them was indeed careless, more "no matters" than Ma Yuan.
Ma Yuan said calmly: "Gai Yan is a man from the Yangyang outside the Great Wall. He has been watching the beacon tower grow up since he was a child. Even if it is a new product contract set by His Majesty, he is even more secure than I remember."
To put it nicely, Gai Yan is traveling towards Tiger Mountain even though he knows there is a tiger in the mountain!
To put it bluntly, as Ma Yuan's subordinate, he disobeyed the instructions issued by Ma Yuan...
Although Yuyang Tuqi is an elite, everyone is a brave man who dares to fight, Ma Yuan is very clear that once the cavalry takes advantage of the victory and is dragged into a hand-to-hand combat with too many enemies, their impact advantage will not be exerted. They often end up being defeated by infantry - this is the Taoist scripture written by the Fifth Reun, who repeatedly defeated Yu Lai She in the battle to whip the corpse. I hope the generals will not repeat the same mistake.
Although Gai Yan didn't have the opportunity to go to Chang'an to listen to the lectures of His Majesty the Emperor, as an old corpse, he didn't know this common sense, right?
There was smoke in their place, blocking their sight. Ma Yuan hurriedly climbed up another stone protruding from the hills. After seeing the formation of Yuyang's storm, he laughed out loud again.
"I just said that Gai Yan is not a brave but a stubborn person. Look, he is not using a cone formation, but a geese formation!"
As its name suggests, this formation is like a slanting geese flying by, with no depth at all. When used to attack the enemy formation, it is most likely that it will collapse first.
But Yuyang's sudden cavalry approached the Red Eyebrow Army like a flock of geese. When the distance reached nearly a hundred steps, it did not accelerate and charge as usual. Instead, it controlled the horse's speed. When it approached forty or fifty steps, the speed had already slowed down. It was directly stopped and did not aim - there was no need to aim! Because the enemy was huddling together, holding the long sharp branches and still moving!
Although Yuyang Tuqi is famous for its "Tu", it is often in the frontier and competes with the Huns and Wuhuan. How can the "shooting" technique be unproficient? Although it cannot be compared with Li Guang, who once served as the prefect of Youbeiping and shot tiger arrows into the big stone, and his cavalry is not as good as the Hu people, but he is quite skilled in shooting while sprinting on horseback.
And they saw them shoot arrows quickly and shoot arrows with the greatest strength. The flying arrows fell into the Red Eyebrow Army like hail. Although there were only a few hundred bows, they were enough to cause great harm to them.
Although Wang Mang, Green Forest and Liang Han rushed to be the transport captains of the Red Eyebrow Army, the captured armor was not repaired. After a few years, even the three elders were engaged in the armor. Most of them wore short-strikes, and faced the sharp arrows that broke through the air, they had almost no defense ability, so they had to carry wooden blocks that were removed from somewhere, and their defense was imagined. Many arrows penetrated the shields and nailed their hands to the door panels.
What Gai Yan bullies the Red Eyebrow Army lacks long-range shooting weapons!
The Red Eyebrow was shot several times by white arrows. Seeing that the enemy had no intention of charging, they finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out howled. They hoped to fight with the enemy, entangle them, and pull the knights off on their horses, but the Yuyang Raider Cavalry did not give them any chance to fight.
The thunder cavalry was not willing to fight. After a golden sound, they immediately turned around and retreated. Gaiyan specially picked the direction of flat terrain and did not obstruct the terrain, and soon threw the pursuers far away. There were even those who could hijackers turned around and fired their bows, shooting several people to death.
Chimei could only stop, and those who were chasing too hard soon discovered that they were out of touch with the large army and were surrounded by two cruising Yuyang rushing cavalry. They rushed back and forth with their horse speed, and beat them to pieces...
When the remaining Red Eyebrow Army arrived, there were only a bunch of casualties on their own.
Yang Yin couldn't help but pull the ambush out of the forest and wanted to surround the Yuyang cavalry, slowly suppress their advance and retreat space, and see where the cavalry went!
But after a wave of Hu flute whistling, the Yuyang Rider began to walk around in the cavalry team, making the Red Eyebrow Army feel lonely.
Similar situations continued to happen in the moment afterwards: Yuyang rode a horse closer, shot several waves of arrows, rushed in front of the Red Eyebrow touching him, and indulged in evacuation.
Taking advantage of the maneuverability, the enemy will disperse when it disperse, and the enemy will gather when it aggregate. Never give the Red Eyebrow a chance to surround yourself, so that you will be invincible first in tactical terms.
This is the difference between the Yuyang Tuqi and the newly established "Bingzhou Military Cavalry". I heard that Xiao Geng would rush to the point where he was indecisive, but the Youzhou Tuqi rarely had horse armor and heavy armor, and was even more mobile, making him play around with red eyebrows.
But this is also a helpless move. If you follow Gai Yan's temperament, you should use the cavalry to break through the enemy's formation at the moment. As long as you make an impulse, no matter how many people are, you will drive straight in and break the siege in one fell swoop. This will make you feel happy!
But the remaining reason and the thick smoke ignited by Ma Yuan made Gai Yan suppress the impulse, so he could only use this extremely boring tactic to toss the Red Eyebrow Army.
He looked back north from time to time. After Gai Yannan came to rescue Ma Yuan, Fan Chong's main Red Eyebrow army had given up going north and turned to the south, but it should be half an hour before he could arrive.
As long as the Ma reinforcements come out, Gai Yan doesn't have to play with the Red Eyebrow, but will smash it hard at the group of mobs like a hammer, allowing them to see the real thunder!
"Ma Guowei, although there are many Red Eyebrows, I have restrained at least 20,000 people. Now his army is anxious and I am restrained and exhausted. It is a good time to break through. Why don't you go out? You are the anvil, and I will make a hammer to defeat Red Eyebrows together!"
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"Far or near, more or less, gather or disperse, or come out or disappear, come like falling from the sky, and go like thunder. This is the "Crow Soldier Star Formation" of Yuyang's Raid Cavalry. I have never encountered a strong enemy, and often end the battle with one charge. Today I finally see it. It's so satisfying, it's so satisfying."
Ma Yuanben was worried about the courage of Gai Yan's husband, so he put Yuyang riding here. When he saw that they had played hide-and-seek games with the Red Eyebrow Army, he felt relieved.
The fishing cavalry was like a geese walking on a crow soldier, flapping its wings, scratching the red-eyed giant's face with injuries. The giant was so angry that the "giant" was wielding the knife and axe in his hand, but he could not hurt a single feather.
It seems calm, but in fact it has great risks: if there is a mistake between different cavalry teams, if the Red Eyebrow Army rushed faster and the encirclement was larger, it may cause the rushing cavalry to go back and forth. As the horses gradually became tired, the evacuation speed became slower and slower, and even a small team of cavalry was surrounded by Red Eyebrow and all the members were killed in battle.
And Gaiyan did not retreat! He also exposed his position and ignited the torch to signal the attack on the plain.
Of course Ma Yuan knew what Gai Yan meant.
"Juqing is here, it is not his Majesty's order, but to help me break through as soon as possible."
Seeing Gai Yan taking advantage of his life to take risks, Ma Yuan was quite moved.
But he didn't dare to move!
First of all, Ma Yuan could see that Fan Chong's army, who had traveled north, had turned around and moved south, perhaps because they were worried that the people who stayed here would not be the opponents of Ma Yuan and Gai Yan... They only had half an hour to spread out, and the risk was too great.
Secondly, Gai Yan is loyal and brave, but he doesn't understand Ma Yuan's thoughts at all. Even if he cooperates properly with Gai Yan and escapes, his undefeated body of Ma Yuan is broken. Can a "breakout battle" be restored? Without Ma Yuan's restraint, Chimei will likely leave Heji and continue to harm other prefectures and counties in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains will never have peace.
"No, only by annihilation of all the Red Eyebrows between Heji can we be worthy of the soldiers who died in the war!"
Ma Yuan believed that the fifth reunion had enough tacit understanding with him and would bring the army over, making this battlefield suddenly show an amazing battle pattern: there is me in the enemy, and there is an enemy in me, interlaced layer by layer, twisted into a ball.
So, when the generals and the captains asked for a breakthrough again, Ma Yuan still refused.
"Let the soldiers wait for the battle to wait for the battle, and wait for His Majesty's army to arrive on the battlefield, and then ignite the clutch smoke and let Gai Yan retreat."
"I'm sorry, Juqing."
Ma Yuan murmured in his heart:
"My anvil."
"Only Boyu can hammer it!"
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Unlike Ma Yuan, who moved Gai Yan's loyalty and courage, on the other side of the battlefield, Zhang Zong, the general who likes to follow rules in everything, has cursed all the eight generations of Gai Yan's ancestors.
"It's true that it's a swallow man. Unfamiliar wild horses can only stick their hooves!"
Since the Battle of Hebei, the forces of the Youzhou clan have joined the Wei State, which are divided into the "Shanggu Clan" of the Geng family and the "Yuyang Clan" led by Wu Han.
The generals and officials of the Shanggu Group were fine, but after Lao Geng was invited to be the "Taifu" in the court, Jing Dan took over.
The Yuyang system problem was a big deal. Although Wu Han was in Longyou, he was famous for his thorns. The Yuyang Tuqi was also very famous. When fighting in Jizhou, it was common for him to be poor in military discipline and refuse to be obedient. Fortunately, he handed it over to Ma Yuan and was punished and obedient.
But now Zhang Zong realized that it was not that Yuyang Chuqi was tamed and honest, but that Gai Yan was watching people take food!
It was agreed that the infantry and cavalry would cooperate and lead the Red Eyebrow Army to move north together to win the opportunity for the army to surround. Although this was Zhang Zong's on-site performance and not the emperor's order, he was a miscellaneous general at least, and Gai Yan was just a small general and should obey.
Unexpectedly, the man surnamed Gai made his own decisions and went south at the last minute!
Zhang Zong was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat, not because he was worried about Gai Yan: Yuyang Rising Cavalry was trapped in the army of more than 100,000 Red Eyebrows, and the entire army was wiped out. That was a trivial matter. Friends died if they died, which is not a pity.
But if the Chimei leaves and no longer fights the Emperor, then Gai Yan will be very guilty!
"After this battle, I must write a letter to impeach, so that Gai Yan can't even do the general!"
The night came and left, and many things happened that night: Fan Chong had stopped chasing Zhang Zong, but turned around to join the rear army, and launched a new round of attack on the trapped Ma Yuan, hoping to pull out the nail before the war.
Zhang Zong also asked the soldiers to follow Chimei, just like a wolf lying on the tail, hoping to bite a piece of meat. The Sanhe soldiers went back and forth between more than ten miles north and south, and could not get too far away to let Chimei leave Heji, nor could they get too close to them and be attacked at night. But once Chimei sent troops to chase them, they would immediately withdraw without any delay.
On the other side, Gai Yan saw that Ma Yuan was still as moving as a mountain, retreated in disappointment, but he did not come back to meet with Zhang Zong. He only formed his own division. He lit a torch at night and continued to send strong men, Ma Yan, and Crow soldiers to restrain the Red Eyebrow troops for Ma Yuan.
Until the rising sun rose and the Wei army fought in blood, Chimei threw down thousands of corpses, but still failed to break through the chariot.
Ma Yuan's troops and Yuyang's cavalry were also exhausted. If Fan Chong attacked for another night, they would not know if they could survive the next night.
The weather is good today. When the morning glow dissipated, Ma Yuan, who insisted on beating the drums on the hill, was sleeping with his drums and suddenly opened his eyes, but saw under the light red clouds in the north, slanting smoke rose.
He rubbed his eyes off and looked at it again. It was not the smoke from the Red Eyebrow Army or the Sanhe Army or the Yuyang Chuqi, but the thick smoke from the accumulated firewood used to report the news!
Gai Yan, who had almost never got off the saddle all night, also saw those signals, one, two, three...five paths, each representing a division, at least 50,000 people approached the battlefield!
As for Zhang Zong who was further north, he opened his eyes and had not sleepy for two nights, and he saw not only Yanzhu, but also a unique command logo in the Wei army.
It seemed as if big birds rose from the various divisions and brigades, with different colors, but they were connected to the ground with wires. The people who controlled them were riding on the military carriage.
I don’t know if it was the wooden kite that the Huang royal family liked to fly gave the emperor the inspiration, or if the Fifth Reun had a preference for flying kites in later generations. Kites of different colors became a signal for the large army to communicate and fight when the weather was good.
The highest and most eye-catching thing at the moment is a colorful giant eagle soaring in the sky, riding on the gentle morning breeze of spring, rising very high!
Fifty feet? No, at least hundreds of feet tall! It seems that the clouds can reach!
Zhang Zong smiled. He knew who was under the kite.
"Here you come!"
Come stepping on colorful auspicious clouds!
Chapter completed!