Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 666
Nanjun, Jiangling.

When Wang Zhengbing approached the city, Wu Niu's troops on the other side also led their troops to Jinxiang in the east of Jiangling City. When they approached ten li, they stopped first to let the soldiers take a rest.

Without him, although Wu Niu is a reckless man, he also knows the importance of this battle.

You must know that when he took Chanling earlier, it was just an ordinary county, with only a few hundred guards in the city, but Wang Zheng dispatched five hundred third-tier iron cavalry to him. Why did he use a bull knife to kill chickens?The intention is obvious, it is to seek a victory!

The 5000-man army went deep into the enemy's rear alone. This attack was strange, but it was also extremely dangerous. If there was a slight mistake, the entire army would be wiped out. Especially at the beginning of the war, the two words "victory and defeat" were even more critical.Not only to win, but also to win beautifully. If you want to fight a small town, you have to grind and chirp. One is long nights and dreams, which will give the Jingzhou army more time to react and prepare. Two, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army.

So even though Chanling is a small city, Wang Zheng still decided to use his own Tianzhu camp to take action. The result was not only a victory in the first battle, but also a decisive one.

However, Jin Township's defense was far from being weak. Wu Niu knew that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. Before the big battle, he first summoned a dozen of his subordinates to make a pre-war mobilization.

He drew out his big knife, stabbed it on the ground, stood under the morning light, and said impassionedly: "Although I am a rough man, I can see that this surprise attack on Jiangling is really not an easy task!"

"Just think about it, there are nearly ten thousand defenders in Jiangling City alone, and it is surrounded by Dangyang, Huarong, Zhijiang, and Yidao. Xiangyang is also not far away, and these reinforcements will come to support at any time. But how many troops did the general bring together this time? Only five thousand cavalry! What is this called?

Having said that, Wu Niu paused, his eyelids twitched a few times, and then he held back the second half, "The Empress of the Lonely City!"

In fact, what he wanted to say was "Lonely hanging behind the enemy's rear", but although Wu Niu has not forgotten Wang Zheng's warning in the past few years, he has been studying hard and has left the stage of "illiteracy". There are still some deficiencies in citing scriptures, and he has the same problem as Wu Sheng, often using wrong idioms.

However, he was so serious about it, but it attracted a group of subordinates who didn't think so and clamored.

"What counts as being outnumbered? We fought from Zhao County to Yangzhou, did we encounter few people along the way?"

"That's right, what Brother Liu said is exactly that, our soldiers are all bears and tigers, and a dozen or ten is considered as small as one dozen. In this way, it is 5 horses!"

"Haha, it's extremely extreme."

Seeing that they had such a reaction, Wu Niu was stunned for a moment.

No, when the general held the swearing-in meeting before, they often emphasized the importance of the battle and the strength of the enemy, didn't they react like this?

What should I say next?
"What do you know, this is different from usual! Didn't I just say that this time it's the Empress of Guxuan City! Understand?"

It took a while for Wu Niu to come back to his senses. He stared at a group of dubs and shouted, "If you are so proud and underestimate the enemy, if you don't know how to be careful, you will definitely not be able to win this battle!"

"If you are defeated because of your pride and underestimating the enemy, it will not only be a disgrace to our heavenly army, but will also affect the general's plan. If you are ashamed of the general's great kindness, even if you are dead, you will not be eligible to enter the kingdom of heaven!"

All the generals present were from Qingzhou veterans. Not only did everyone belong to the system, but their feelings for Wang Zheng were also very different from those of other Xuzhou Army, Yangzhou Army and other trilogy. Generally speaking, everyone immediately looked solemn, "What the captain taught me is that we know we were wrong."

"That's right. The general once said that when a lion fights a rabbit, you must use your full strength. Brothers, you must not be careless in this battle."

"Yes, yes, you should be more cautious."

Wu Niu was very satisfied with their "knowing mistakes and correcting them". He nodded and said: "That's right. For this battle plan, it is the general's plan. I hope you will wait. Not only should you be careful, but also let the army Brother Zhong, it's all like this!"

"Be sure to tell them that although they won the first battle, the current situation is still very critical. If they lose the battle, if the shroud of horse leather falls down, it's okay. If they escape back, hey, they will definitely be insulted and ridiculed by others. We all It's Qingzhou's husband, a seven-foot man, how can he be ashamed like this?"

The other people Wu Niu was talking about were naturally Xuzhou Army, Yangzhou Army and other soldiers from different divisions of the same army. Not to mention, these words hit the nail on the head and hit the heart of the Tian Army!
These years of training on the battlefield, coupled with the influence of the system, Wang Zheng has given enough pensions. Regardless of the generals and soldiers in the Heavenly Army, they don’t have much fear of dying in battle. Stealing life", this is the so-called war of shame and teaching, seeking to kill the enemy.

Everyone immediately received the order in awe: "Here!"

"I heard that Jiangling is the rich city of Jingzhou, and Jin Township is its outer city. It is expected that there is a lot of money in its army," Wu Niu said again: "If you win this battle, you will get riches. To reward the soldiers, those who died in battle, their brothers and nephews will take over their positions; those who have wives and concubines at home will be buried with their wives and concubines; those who have old and young at home but no brothers, Xuzhou will take care of them! Double the compensation!"

After the shameful teaching battle, we must reward and encourage courage more, and then guarantee the affairs behind us. All the generals responded in unison: "The general is so merciful, how dare we refuse to die?"

The edict has been announced, the layout has been decided, and the soldiers have had enough rest, Wu Niu then marched.He took the lead, running at the front of the formation, without looking back, and raised the flag to issue an order: "If there are soldiers who come out later, behead!"

Thousands of horses attacked, and when they were traveling five miles, they suddenly encountered the outpost of the Jinxiang Army.

At this time, Jinxiang had actually received the news that the enemy was crossing the river. The guard of Jinxiang was a brave man. He was not surprised when he heard the enemy, but he was overjoyed. , intending to preemptively occupy a hill outside the city, and descend from a high place. If the enemy attacks the city, they can cooperate with the inside and outside, and attack from both sides.

It's just that what he never expected was that the enemy came so fast!
So at the dawn of dawn, also under the same unprepared circumstances, the two sides collided and had an encounter!

Not to mention that Wu Niu's men and horses are all third-tier soldiers with outstanding combat power, but regardless of the influence of the system, the Jinxiang army is all infantry. When encountering in the wild, they failed to occupy the favorable location in advance, so what? Could it be the opponent of Wu Niu's cavalry?
The captain of the Jinxiang Army hastily set up a flying geese formation. The so-called "geese flying formation" is shaped like a wild goose, and the two wings are very close to each other. It is most suitable for long-range offensives. Come to stop the charge of the cavalry of the sky army.

In the rain of arrows like locusts, Wu Niu didn't change his face, he didn't avoid or give way, he watched the formation on his horse for a while, thinking of Wang Zheng's heroic demeanor in the past, imitating his heart, he also smiled with his left and right: "Use this formation to welcome me. , the enemy will not know how to fight!"

"Brothers, this formation of geese is also good for shooting with bows and crossbows, but it spreads out too much, which makes it very difficult to move. All of us ride lightly, and advance and retreat like the wind. If you advance, you can hit the root directly; if you retreat, you can also But if he is out of the range of the arrow, no matter how strong his bow is, no matter how powerful his crossbow is, what can he do to me?"

Having said this, he drew his sword out of its sheath, his tongue burst into spring thunder, and he pointed at the sky and shouted: "Follow me to break through the formation and slay the generals!"

The flag was raised and fluttered in the wind. Wu Niu ordered 200 people to detour around the hill to prevent the Jinxiang army from taking the mountain again, and left another 200 people, thinking that the Chinese army would be in the rear and at the same time be the supervisor. In the end, he personally led 600 people to form a cone-shaped formation as the main force of the formation.

The conical formation, as the name suggests, means that the whole army is shaped like an arrow, and the brave generals are in front of it.This formation is most suitable for assaulting and breaking through the formation, especially when cavalry is used to form the formation, the effect is better.

Just as Wu Niu expected, six hundred light cavalry met the arrows like a stream of iron, and in an instant, they went straight through the enemy's formation. The 600 people were further divided into three teams, with 400 people as the backbone, turned around and attacked directly for the second time; the left and right were divided into [-] people to disturb the two wings of the Jiangling army.The horses trampled on them, and the swords and guns were raised simultaneously.For a moment, there was a lot of smoke and dust, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Where the cavalry passed, the trampled corpses fell to the ground
When the spear is raised, the assassination will accumulate blood and turn into dust,

The noise will shake the ground, the roar will swallow the sand, but in the effort of a cup of tea, the Jinxiang Army's geese formation has been broken, and the whole army has been defeated!

Nearly a thousand people discarded their helmets and armor, dragged their flags backwards, and fled to Tianjin in embarrassment. Fleeing first, no one listened to him at all.In desperation, he had no choice but to turn his horse's head and follow the crowd to defeat.

In Wu Niu's army formation, the drums were beating and the flags were waving repeatedly. The [-] cavalry who turned around to the side of the hill moved after hearing the sound, watched the flags and fought, and came out from the side and rear. Chopping melons and chopping vegetables is also like that, driving the defeated army in Jinxiang to kill more than once, only blood flowed into rivers, and corpses lay all over the field.

After the final battle, hundreds of people were beheaded, the captain of the enemy army was captured alive, and more than a hundred were captured. The army was checked, and the casualties were not even dozens.

Even for cavalry vs. infantry, such a loss ratio can be regarded as a brilliant victory. All the generals came to report the victory one after another, and asked for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners by the way.

Wu Niu couldn't write two words of Wu, and Wu Niu was not a kind person, so he said without hesitation: "Our army is deep behind the enemy's rear, and we don't have the energy to detain the prisoners. But if we let them go back to Jinxiang or Jiangling, wouldn't it be Are you asking for trouble? Except for the captain, all of them were chopped off!"

Someone couldn't help but said: "General Duwei said before that the killing is unknown, and brother Lian Sheng was severely reprimanded by him for this. If we deal with it like this, what if the general knows?"

"The general also said that a general should not have the kindness of a woman!"

Wu Niu snorted coldly and said, "Our army is going deep alone, and we are surrounded by enemies on all sides. How can we talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality at this time?"

"Don't you forget that the general didn't ask us about the prisoners during the attack on Qianling before? What does this mean? The general is telling us that no matter whether we win or lose, we won't keep any prisoners when we meet the enemy! "

"So that's how it is." The man suddenly realized, and nodded again and again: "Why did the captain only leave the life of the enemy general?"

"One is to ask about the real situation of the city, and the other is to dampen the morale of the enemy army."

"Ask the facts, the villain understands. But how can you use this captain to lower the morale of the enemy army?"

Wu Niu snorted, smiled and didn't answer, but ordered the captain to be brought to the horse, and inquired carefully about the facts of Jinxiang. Self-knowledge speaks everything, and speaks endlessly.

Just like the previous information, there are more than [-] defenders in Jinxiang City, specifically [-] infantry and [-] cavalry. In addition to the [-] people who were just beheaded, there are more than [-] people.

In addition, Na Duwei also shared an extremely important piece of information. It turned out that the reason why the guard of Jinxiang dared to take the initiative to attack was because Guo Yong, the prefect of Nanjun, had issued a general order that they should not panic if they encountered the enemy. However, there are more than [-] troops, it is difficult to break through the city, and he has mobilized Dangyang's defenders to rush to help, and said that Hanshou's Wenpin army will come to the round soon.

"General, the villain has told me everything I know." After finishing speaking, the captain fell to his knees and kept begging for mercy: "Please spare my life."

Hearing about the enemy's reinforcement general, Wu Niu's complexion couldn't help changing slightly. Although he is no longer "Wu Xia Ameng", he has not yet reached home after all in nourishing his energy. A fierce light flashed, "The information you mentioned has some value. From this point of view, I can keep people under the sword."

The captain was overjoyed, and just about to thank him, he saw Wu Niu grinning at him ferociously, showing his white teeth, and his words changed abruptly: "However, since the two armies are fighting, the outcome will be decided. Since you have become a prisoner of our army, if you rely on Letting it go in vain, wouldn’t it chill the hearts of the soldiers? Let’s keep something as a reward.”

Immediately ordered to the left and right: "Cut off his nose, cut off his ears, and then let him return to the city."

The person who was talking to Wu Niu just now suddenly came to his senses, and praised: "It turns out that what the captain said about 'depressing the morale of the enemy' should be here."

Not only is it depressing the morale of the enemy, but this move can also anger the enemy. If he takes the initiative to attack again, it will be exactly what he wants, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Some of his own soldiers came forward, laid the captain on his back, held down his hands and feet, raised his knife and cut off his nose and ears.Feeling that he was not enough, he scratched his face a few more times, disfigured and ruined his appearance.Then he let go of his hand, pulled it up, kicked it a few times laughingly, and let him run away in embarrassment.

Wu Niu laughed, and then ordered: "The art of war says, you can be angry, but you can't let it go. Brothers, follow me and fight forward!"

But he said that the captain fled back to Jinxiang. At this time, Hao Ji, the guard of the city, was meeting with the generals in the barracks. Seeing his appearance, he couldn't help being surprised: "Captain Xu, you led thousands of troops out of the camp two hours ago. Why are you returning alone now? And your face. What happened?"

"Reporting to the county captain." The captain said shamefully: "The final general was ordered to go out to battle, and he met the yellow scarf bandits outside the hills, and he couldn't win the battle. The thief general Wu Niu was cruel, beheaded the prisoners, and cut off the general's nose. , ear, blatantly insulting, "

"The last general wanted to die, but he thought that if he died, no one would warn the county captain, so he endured the humiliation and escaped back as a report!"

"How many troops did the enemy army come? Why did they defeat a thousand of our army so easily?"

"About two thousand, all cavalry!"

In order to hide his own fault, the captain directly exaggerated the number of Wu Niu's department, and even said nonsense: "Not only that, they also ambushed near the hills in advance, and the general was caught off guard, so there was such a disastrous defeat. General Lai fought bravely, although he was defeated, he killed hundreds of elite enemies."

"So there are still more than 1000 cavalry?" Hao Ji asked again: "Where are they now?"

"I think it's already within ten miles outside the city."

　PS: Book friends who have played Three Kingdoms strategy games should be familiar with these military formations.

　　The most impressive thing about cowboys is the Three Kingdoms Heroes series.

　　Iron cavalry with bow and arrow formation, cavalry with wild goose formation, combined with some special skills, such as eight golden locks, enemy formations, etc., often complete almost lossless victory records.

　　
　
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