Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Li Jue's scouts didn't know what the other party's whistling was for.Surrounded by the wilderness covered with two or three feet tall wormwood, it is impossible for any cavalry to hide in ambush. If there are infantry lying in the grass, it will not be of much use.

They didn't think too much about it now, they only knew that five more heads would be cut off with the saber in their hands, in exchange for their military exploits.

After a few breaths, the two parties were already very close, and the bloodthirsty eyes in the scouts' eyes suddenly became terrified.It turned out that they found five more fast-running black figures in the grass, attacking them silently.That speed is nearly twice as fast as their war horses.

A scout didn't know what happened, but saw a black shadow jumping up from the grass with windy air currents.Then the sharp and white fangs dug into his neck.

Five mountain dogs lying in the grass launched a sudden attack on these probing horses!

In the shadow of sword light and blood, a detective horse was beheaded.Four scouts were impaled in the head, chest or ribs.Two detective horses were bitten off by a mountain dog.Three other people were bitten by the mountain dog at the wrist, forearm, and calf, and couldn't break free. One of them was dragged off the horse.

The scout who had his calf bitten stabbed his saber into the mountain dog's body, but he still couldn't get him to let go.Then the knife flashed, and his head had been chopped off by the scout's steel knife.The other two were also eliminated by the scouts at almost the same time...

Chapter 061 The Blood-Red Morning Glow

"What! Junhou, you are going to fight Li Jue's bandit army outside the city!".

In the lobby of the Wuyang County Government Office, there was an exclamation.The voice was made by a high-status Xun family child.Not only he and a group of Xun's children, but also the generals of the Zhuyang Army including Dian Qing and Liao Hua were puzzled by Feng Yu's decision.

Feng Yu responded: "Not bad! We can only do this.".There was a sudden silence in the lobby.

For ordinary people without certain military knowledge, the intuitive cognition of this kind of offensive and defensive battles is generally that the defender has a strong city and does not rely on it. Isn't it a waste of a strong city to fight against the enemy outside the city?

In fact, a city is a fortification against the attacker for the defender.But at the same time, for the attacker, it may also be a cage that can surround the defender.Especially Wuyang, a city with a small area and few open doors.A small number of troops can block a few city gates to besiege the opponent in the city.

Therefore, whether to stick to the city or not requires a comprehensive judgment and decision based on quite a few conditions and considering many factors.Instead of simply responding with "four gates and one gate, relying on the city to defend" whenever an enemy army comes to attack the city.

This is common sense that generals and military advisers all know. How could the Xun family's children and generals in the current government office not know it.However, according to common sense in the art of war, it should be sticking to Wuyang City now, instead of going out of the city to fight the Xiliang Army in the wild.

According to the situation reported by the scouts, the 2 Xiliang infantry carried tens of thousands of captive cannon fodder soldiers, totaling at least [-].Two thousand of them are Xiliang cavalry.

The Zhuyang Army plus all the soldiers in Wuyang City have no more than 4000 soldiers, of which the Zhuyang Army's tiger and leopard cavalry plus the ordinary cavalry in Wuyang City are less than [-] cavalry.Even counting the men in Wuyang City, young and old, there are more than [-] men in total.

It can be seen from this that Li Jue's army has an absolute advantage in terms of military strength.In the field duel, the Zhuyang Yingchuan coalition forces have a very low chance of winning.But the whole army retreated into the city and held on with the fortified city.Although the city will be besieged by Li Jue's army, Li Jue's army came for the purpose of looting after all, and it is very possible that they will not be able to attack for a long time and withdraw from the siege.

This is why everyone can't understand Feng Yu's decision.Xun You seemed to understand Feng Yu's intentions, and explained to everyone on Feng Yu's behalf:

"Everyone, I agree with the king's decision. Now Wuyang City is an isolated city. Zhang Miao and Cao Cao in the north have to deal with Dong's bandits who are looting from several other routes. It is impossible to spare our troops to rescue us. As for Yuan Shu and Yuan Gonglu in Luyang Not to mention, if he is willing to rescue us, he will not let Li Jue's bandits cross the border."

Xun You took a sip of the tea soup and continued: "So once surrounded by Li Jue, he will take the initiative and we will be passive. In the future, we can only hope that he can't bear his temper and withdraw from the siege. But in case He is able to hold back his temper, so what can he do if he stays around for such a long time?"

A disciple of the Xun family still didn't understand and said: "But Li Jue's bandit army is only here to plunder, and it is unlikely that he will stay here for a long time and besiege."

Feng Yu shook his head and said: "We can't take chances and pin our fate on the common sense of the enemy's decision. Our food is only enough for one and a half months, and the thief Li Jue only needs to besiege us for two months, and he will be able to fight without bloodshed." Kill us all.

He didn't even need all the soldiers and horses stationed here to do this.Once he builds the siege fortifications, he can seal us in the city with only a small amount of troops.

Of course, if Li Jue really did this, it seemed very boring. After spending so much time, he finally broke through the city, and all the food was eaten up, so he couldn't get anything.But still a certain sentence, you can't pin your fate, especially your own life and death, on the common sense of the enemy's decision. "

After hearing Feng Yu's grand speech, the people in the lobby of the government office began to whisper and discuss in low voices.Many people have nodded their heads in conviction, expressing their approval.Even Xun You's eyes lit up when he heard Feng Yu's last words, as if he had a lot of experience.

Everyone thought that Feng Yu had finished speaking, but Feng Yu put down his tea bowl and started to say again: "But, there is another more important reason for a decisive battle outside the city. It is for the common people who were coerced by Li Jue's bandit army to serve as cannon fodder."

When everyone heard this, their eyes turned to Feng Yu again.Feng Yu continued:

"If we rely on the city to hold on, Li Jue will drive these people to dig trenches and build fortifications, and will inevitably drive them to serve as siege cannon fodder and use their corpses to fill ravines and build platforms. In the end, most of them will die. And I If we fight against them outside the city, there is still some confidence in saving most of them."

The lobby became silent again.Many of the civilians who were captured and coerced by Li Jue's army were the children and trilogy of the Xun family.If Feng Yu can really rescue these people, then some relatives of the Xun clan in the hall may also be rescued.

I don't know who took the lead, bowed to Feng Yu in unison and kowtowed: "Junhou Gaoyi! In this battle, I promise to follow Junhou to kill the thief! Don't dare to disobey the order of Junhou!"

At this time, a personal scout came to Feng Yu and whispered a few words.Feng Yu said to everyone in the hall: "Everyone, Li Jue's army has camped forty miles to the east of Wuyang, and it is estimated that they will approach Wuyang City at noon tomorrow. That is, within an hour, we will have a decisive battle with it. Now, gentlemen, listen My military order..."

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In Wuyang City, those Yingchuan soldiers and young adults in the city had been gathered two days ago for short-term training.Their equipment is unified into a five-foot long spear.Some of the soldiers still had their original rationed weapons hanging from their waists.

For these spears, the Wuyang county government collected all the long and short spears in the city, and cut down a huge bamboo forest in the west of the city.After the gun head and spear blade were removed, they were uniformly installed on a five-foot bamboo pole.

Spearheads and spear blades are naturally not enough. Short swords, daggers and other short weapons that can be stabbed are also tied to the front of the bamboo pole to make up for it.Even so, the number of spears was still a few hundred short of five thousand, so he simply sharpened the front end of the bamboo pole to make up the number.

In an open space outside Wuyang City, piles of bonfires were burning, brightly lit.The Yingchuan Army, composed of [-] old soldiers and the young and strong, temporarily reorganized, did the last drill of the spear phalanx.They only need to do the simplest and most basic operations to meet Feng Yu's requirements.

The reason why Feng Yu did not systematically train pikemen in the Zhuyang Army, but temporarily deployed Yingchuan soldiers as pikemen is simple - this is a manpower-intensive type of army, and it can only exert its power when there are many people.In addition, the advantages of this arm are limited by too many conditions.

At the head of the city, there were four thousand old and weak men under the leadership of the yamen servants, hurrying up to carry the last batch of rolling wood and stones, and making the last inspection of the city defense facilities.

Five hours later, the top of Wuyang City was once again covered with a layer of blood-red morning glow.Everyone in the city is ready to welcome this bloody day.

Chapter 062 Cannon Fodder

When the sun is one pole high.Against the light, silhouettes of densely packed people and banners appeared on the horizon to the east of Wuyang City.Overwhelming, boundless.

There was no movement up and down the Wuyang city wall, and the whole city was like a dead city.But at a place a hundred battles away from the east city gate, a huge army formation was already waiting here. The most striking thing in the army formation was the dense spears like a forest.

At the same time, the system's task prompt panel jumped out of Feng Yu's sight:

[Mission: Save Wuyang, mission content: Defeat Li Jue's Xiliang army who looted in the Yingchuan area, and solve the siege of Wuyang City.Mission rewards: ten thousand people containment card x1, general ministers containment purple card x1]

Li Jue listened to the report from the scouts ahead, squinted his eyes to look at Wuyang City two hundred battles away and the army formation a hundred battles away, and then ordered the whole army to stop advancing.

Through the military report, he knew that the Zhuyang army had come to support Wuyang.But he didn't expect that the weak Yingchuan Zhuyang coalition army would dare to line up outside the city to confront him.

With the lessons learned from Xu Rong's defeat at Daguguan Bamboo Forest last time, Li Jue did not dare to underestimate Feng Yu and Zhuyang Army.He needs to think carefully.

The two armies faced each other silently for a moment.During this period, Li Jue kept scanning and observing the opponent's army formation, calculating and deducing various possibilities after the confrontation in his mind.

What shocked him the most was the densely packed spears like forests and mountains.The "soldiers" holding long spears of Suo Xin, except for the two rows in the front with uniform uniforms and simple "half armor", the rear is full of people wearing various clothes and without armor.Obviously a mob.

Then Li Jue's eyes fell on a group of cavalry on the opponent's left flank.These cavalry mounts are tall and wear iron armor.The mounts even wore visors and bibs, clearly elite cavalry.However, Li Jue's expression turned to a sneer after a few breaths of surprise. Although these cavalry were good, they were too few in number.

When Li Jue was about to make an offensive deployment according to his own plan, a scout came galloping and reported to Li Jue:

"Report! General Qi, our army's outskirts scouted horses and found a large enemy team heading towards Fangcheng to the west, and escorting a large number of luggage. The team has about 2000 people, most of whom are auxiliary soldiers without weapons. , only a small number of soldiers."

With a thought, Li Jue thought: 【Could it be that the food and supplies in Wuyang City were transported away?If this is the case, it would be a waste of time for me to take down Wuyang].

He immediately issued an order: "Send my military order, and the cavalry will attack and chase the enemy's train." At this time, his eyes swept to the tigers and leopards in the opposite army, and he quickly added: "Send out more than a thousand cavalry You can just chase the opponent, you don’t need to dispatch all of them.”

After a while, there was a commotion from the right of Li Jue's army.People shouted and horses neighed, and amidst the roar of iron hooves, a large group of cavalry galloped away to the northwest.They wanted to bypass Wuyang City and pursue the luggage team fleeing west.

Immediately afterwards, there was a roar of horses and people on the left wing of the opposing army. In Feng Yu's army, nearly a thousand cavalry, including the elite tiger and leopard cavalry, also turned their horses and galloped towards the northwest.Seeing this scene, Li Jue concluded that the baggage was the food and materials transferred from Wuyang, at least they were very valuable things.

He immediately issued another military order, ordering the remaining Xiliang iron cavalry to also set off, catch up with the previous group of cavalry chasing the enemy's luggage, and act together with them.

At this time, Li Meng rode his horse and came to Li Jue, cupped his hands and remonstrated: "General, our cavalry has been transferred away, there is something wrong with it."

Li Jue sneered and said, "There is nothing to worry about. The opponent's cavalry has also left. We still have an absolute advantage in the remaining troops, and it is easy to push them down."

Seeing what he said, Li Meng couldn't say anything more, and asked Li Jue to fight again: "The last general asks to go out and fight against the opponent first."

Li Jue nodded, telling Li Meng to go out and kill the other party's spirit first.

Li Jue's army formation was separated like the surface of water being drawn by a big ship. Li Meng rode his horse to the formation of the two armies and began to shout.

"I am Li Meng from Liangzhou, so whoever dares to fight me..." Before he could say the word "war", he fell straight backwards, and fell on his back to the ground with a thud.

It wasn't until everyone saw a super long arrow stuck in his head that many Xiliang soldiers, including Li Jue, realized what was going on.

Li Meng was sniped with an arrow in front of the formation. His position was far away from the opponent's formation, which was beyond the range of ordinary bows and crossbows. The person who sniped him was naturally Dian Qing with a longbow.

After a while, Li Jue turned from fear to anger. He raised his hand and shouted: "Pass down my military order, and the whole army will attack. After breaking the city, slaughter the city for three days!".

Those cannon fodder civilians who were coerced by Li Jue, driven by the intimidation of Xiliang soldiers, pressed down on Wuyang City with numb expressions.Five battles behind them, there are Xiliang infantry with a well-groomed military appearance.

At this time, Feng Yu's side also started to move, but not the whole army moved forward.Instead, the Dianqingying phalanx on the right wing moved towards the upper right at two o'clock, with the obvious intention of turning around to the left wing of Li Jue's army formation.

It is impossible for Li Jue to let the cannon fodder intercept the Dianqing camp at this time, and these people who have not received the slightest military training cannot be flexibly mobilized.At most, they can only be like pawns on the chessboard who have not crossed the river, arching forward driven by swords and guns, in order to consume the opponent's arrows and physical strength.

Li Jue had no choice but to order a part of the Xiliang Army on the left to move to the left and move in the same direction as Dianqing, in order to prevent his attempt to turn back.

Amidst the thundering drums, the cannon fodder crowd was getting closer and closer to Feng Yu's army formation, and the Xiliang crossbowmen behind the cannon fodder began to shoot arrows.

Feng Yujun, several rows of long spears in front of the phalanx have been put down, and the spear blades flashing with cold light are densely hanging in the air.The spearmen in the rear shook their guns desperately, trying to knock down the arrows that were thrown.

Under the chaotic flying arrows, "cannon fodder" and spearmen continued to fall under the arrows.Several teams of archers from the Zhuyang Army also began to draw their bows and release arrows. The arrows passed over the heads of the pikemen and the cannon fodder, and continuously shot towards the Xiliang soldiers behind Li Jue's army.

Under the random arrows, the well-organized Xiliang army formation also began to appear slightly disordered, and to a certain extent suppressed the crossbowmen of the Xiliang army.

The "cannon fodder" stopped under the dense spear blades, no matter how threatened, intimidated, or even beheaded by the Xiliang soldiers sandwiched between them, they were unwilling to take another step forward.

Threats of death can force others to do dangerous things, but they cannot force others to do things that are 100% death-threatening.

The main forces of the central military formations of the two sides shot at each other separated by tens of thousands of "temporary soldiers" who were not soldiers...

Feng Yujun's right wing.The phalanx of the Dianqing battalion also confronted the Xiliang army who intercepted them.Shield walls were erected on all sides of the phalanx, and the archers in the formation accurately projected their arrows into the opposing army formation, continuously killing and wounding Xiliang soldiers.

The arrows shot from the opposite side hardly hurt the soldiers of the Dianqing Battalion.Because the Dianqing phalanx is an arrangement of two layers of spear-throwing gun shield soldiers sandwiching a layer of archers.The front and rear shield walls of the archer form an artificial trench. After shooting the arrow, they can crouch down and hide in the dead angle of the opponent's projectile.

Seeing this situation, the captain of the Xiliang military academy who commanded the army could only urge the army to approach the Dianqing phalanx as soon as possible, so as to get rid of this predicament.

Seeing such a battlefield situation, Li Jue suddenly became anxious, and a vicious thought came up.

Chapter 063

Li Jue gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "Pass down the general's order, infantry battalion A and battalion B charge forward with all their strength, don't care about the lives of the rebels!"

The so-called "Rebel People's Army" is the cannon fodder of the civilians he plundered.The intention of his military order is obvious, which is to let Xiliang soldiers use these cannon fodder as enemy troops to charge and kill.As a result, the cannon fodder fled in the direction of Feng Yu's army, breaking down Feng Yu's army.

The sound of the drums and horns of the Xiliang army became loud again, which was the signal for the whole army to charge.A forest of knives, mountains and spears suddenly appeared in the army formation, and the sound of killing and resonating caused by the soldiers advancing in unison was breathtaking.

But this sound effect was quickly overwhelmed by another, more shocking sound.The roar of thousands of galloping horses came from the right rear of the Xiliang Chinese Army, that is, from the north.

Li Jue turned his head to look, and suddenly his face turned pale with shock.Feng Yu's cavalry came back again!It did not go to guard the luggage that was moving westward.

Feng Yu commanded them with the help of the system, and only went around the area between Wuyang City and Wufeng Mountain. After getting out of the sight of the second batch of Xiliang cavalry, he returned to Wuyang.

And the second batch of Xiliang cavalry sent by Li Jue received the military order to catch up with the first batch of Xiliang cavalry and act together.Feng Yu's cavalry didn't take it seriously when they disappeared from their sight.Only when Feng Yu's cavalry strayed or ran to the front, they continued to bury their heads and galloped westward.

At this time, the left wing of the Xiliang Army also came into close contact with the Dianqing Camp.The latter threw spears at the opponent like a torrential rain.A sharp spear with huge kinetic energy is far more lethal than an arrow.

They pierced through the bodies and heads of Xiliang soldiers in no time.Some Xiliang infantry used their shields to block the spear guns, but the spear guns pierced through the shields and nailed their arms and shields together.Blood spattered everywhere, screams and howls continued.

After two rounds of spear throwing, the shield wall of the phalanx was pushed forward, and the spears continued to emerge from behind the shield wall, stabbing the Xiliang soldiers who were in a mess in front of the shield wall.

Seeing the situation of the battle between the two sides, Li Jue was anxious and angry.But the opponent's iron cavalry is close to our right wing, so we must make a decision immediately.

"Send my military order, the whole army retreats! The whole army retreats!" He screamed in pain, and after shouting, he pulled his horse and fled eastward first.With Li Jue's run, the situation immediately became one-sided.

Among the Xiliang army, some received his military orders, some discovered that the enemy cavalry was attacking from the flanks, some were under the full attack of the Dianqing camp, and some were ignorant of all this and continued to follow the previous military orders strike forward.After a while, they were in chaos.

Tiger and leopard cavalry and Yingchuan cavalry swept in.Under the iron hooves of spears and sabers, the right wing of the Xiliang Army collapsed in an instant.On the other side, the outstretched left wing also fled eastward under the attack of Dianqingying.As for the middle part, when Li Jue ran, they followed in a swarm and fled backwards.Those "volunteer militiamen" began to turn against and kill those Xiliang soldiers who supervised the battle against them without shouting from the other side.

A Qiang soldier "supervising the battle" among them seemed unaware of the reversal of the situation. While cursing, he slashed at the immobilized "volunteer army" with the back of his knife.Suddenly a sharpened wooden stick came over, although it didn't pierce his armor, it knocked him to the ground.

He yelled and cursed: "It's against you!" A carp stood up straight, and slashed at the opponent with a knife, almost cutting the opponent in half diagonally.Unexpectedly, he was shot again in the crook of his leg.Kneeling on the ground, a shovel hit him on the back of the head, and then a shovel chopped towards his neck.

Qiang Bing's head was cut off several times without being cut off, and was held and twisted several times by a man before he ripped off his head.The disheveled head was thrown high into the air...

Feng Yu rode his horse and rushed out, leading the tiger and leopard cavalry and the Yingchuan cavalry to gallop wildly, chasing and beheading the Xiliang infantry.Where the horse galloped past, there was a rain of blood, corpses, heads and severed limbs that fell all the way.

The infantry of the Zhuyang Army also cleaned up the mess behind them, beheading those Xiliang soldiers who were alone.Only the spearmen organized by Yingchuan soldiers and civilians remained unmoved.

At this time, Li Jue's brigade was completely defeated.

But Li Jue, who was running away, was still thinking about it with fantasies - if his two thousand Xiliang iron cavalry could wipe out the enemy's supply team and seize their supplies, he would be able to gather another two thousand rout troops.Then this battle is not only not a defeat, but even a small victory.

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Two groups of Xiliang iron cavalry who were chasing the enemy's luggage have joined forces.With the help of the surrounding horses, they have found each other's traces.I was chasing down the fresh ruts.

After chasing and chasing, they came to the hilly area of ​​Wufeng Mountain.On the left side of the long-abandoned road under the horseshoe, there is an earth cliff, and on the right is a small river that almost runs along with the earth cliff.The earth cliff is about three or four miles long and three or four miles high, while the small river is about ten miles wide.

Suddenly, they found two corpses lying on the edge of the small river. One person's upper body was soaked in the river water, and streams of blood emerged from his head, dyeing the clear river water bright red.

When he opened the two corpses, he was surprised to find that they were the two scouts from our side.The wound was horrible.In fact, these two scouts were killed by scouts from the Zhuyang Army, and both were bitten by mountain dogs during the fight.

However, the general of the Xiliang iron cavalry made a wrong judgment. He thought that the two men were killed by members of the opponent's supply team, which proved that the opponent was close at hand.He immediately ordered all the riders to speed up and catch up.

Sure enough, after they had traveled another two miles, they saw the enemy's convoy parked in the middle of the road from afar.Everyone was overjoyed, drew out their sabers, straightened their lances, and galloped towards the opponent with a loud yell.

When they approached, the opponent had already formed a relatively neat line, six or seven rows deep, across the narrow area fifty rows wide between the earth cliff and the small river.On those empty hands, a five-foot long spear appeared out of thin air.It was these spears that loaded the baggage carts.

The Xiliang iron cavalry had a tinge of fear on their expressions, but they continued to rush towards each other non-stop, until the opponent's forest-like spears fell to the ground, and then they all tightened the reins and told the horses to stop.They wouldn't be so stupid as to bang into that spear-bladed wall.

But they didn't hit the spear blades, but a batch of spear blades were flying towards them.Liao Hua gave an order, and the spear-throwing shield soldiers behind the pikemen threw short spears with the speed of their run-up.

A puff of blood mist rose, people shouted and screamed, horses neighed and people howled.The Xiliang cavalry who were unable to advance suffered heavy casualties.Having suffered such a tragic blow, they had only one choice, which was to turn their horses around and retreat.

But after they rode their horses back to the original road for hundreds of meters, they were desperate.Behind them, another similar spear army appeared between the earth cliff and the small river, blocking their retreat.

Amidst the unhurried voice of passwords, the two gun forests, one behind the other, slowly pressed towards them.