Three Kingdoms Eschatology

The "shield wall" reached the gap in the wall of the village, and some gun shield soldiers armed with long guns checked repeatedly, and found that there was no mechanism trap. Before the "shield wall", no barbarians came out to stop it.Hundreds of spear and shield soldiers who played the vanguard poured into the battalion very smoothly.Immediately afterwards, hundreds of Shu soldiers galloped in and searched around the camp.

Some barbarians guarding the camp used bamboo rafts to withdraw from the camp along the Tuoshui River as before, and floated towards Jiangyang at the mouth of the river.

But this time they didn't go so smoothly. Hundreds of Qingqi Feiyu galloped to the bank of Tuoshui, rode their horses and drew their bows, and shot arrows at them non-stop.These barbarians had no choice but to paddle desperately to the opposite bank of the Tuo River, but before they got out of the opponent's range, a large number of barbarians had been shot into the river with arrows, and the river was full of corpses.

"Such a big camp turned out to be an empty camp! Where did the barbarians go?" Yan Yan said a little nervously. The last experience left him with lingering fears, and he was afraid that it was another trick by the Nanban.

At this time, several barbarian prisoners were brought before them.Accompanied by an interpreter, Zhao Yun questioned him and found out that just a few days ago, the main force of the barbarian army in the battalion had been transferred away and headed south.It is impossible for these barbarian soldiers to know more about the situation.

"Zilong, should we continue marching towards Jiangyang now?" At this moment, Yan Yan was a little uncertain and asked Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun was silent for a while, and said resolutely: "No matter what the enemy's intentions are, I will stand still and continue to act according to the plan. The whole army will continue to advance and must reach Jiangyang City before sunset."

Chapter 195

Seeing that Zhao Yun insisted on marching into Jiangyang, Yan Yan said worriedly: "The Nanman are cunning, they are unlikely to give up such a big village for no reason. I am worried that they will repeat the last scene again."

At this time, Zhao Yun had dismounted from his horse.His personal soldiers have brought the map according to his instructions.Yan Yan and other generals also surrounded him.

Zhao Yun spread out the map and said to everyone: "The south of here is Jiangyang. The Tuojiang River and the Shujiang River meet here, and the two waterways form a relatively closed pocket. There are thirteen waterways at the narrowest point between the two waterways. miles wide."

Everyone looked at Zhao Yun in puzzlement, not knowing what he meant by saying this, and waiting for him to continue.

"So I concluded that there are three possibilities for the southern barbarians to withdraw their main force to the south. One is that they retreat to the south of the Shu River. The other is that they want to stick to Jiangyang. The third is that they have mobilized heavy troops and will close this pocket at any time to fight with us. Decisive battle. Regardless of the possibility, it is right for us to occupy Jiangyang."

Hearing what Zhao Yun said, Yan Yan was even more puzzled: "General Zilong, how do you know that this may be a pocket, and still drill into it?"

Zhao Yun said with a smile: "Because I also want to fight against them. The current situation. The quicker the fight, the better for us.

The barbarian army has only infantry and war elephants.Therefore, even if the barbarians blocked us at the narrowest point, they would need at least 4 to 4 horses.These [-] to [-] horses must be the elite of the barbarian army. Once they are wiped out and defeated, the barbarians will be seriously injured.And in such a large-scale battle, the barbarian king Meng Huo may appear.If we capture Meng Huo, it will be even more effective. "

When he said this, everyone's eyes lit up.However, some people worried: "But this barbarian army uses a small force to hold on to the fortified city, and at the same time seals the pockets. Then our army has been attacked! If this is the case, our more than 5000 soldiers and horses will face off against [-] to [-] barbarians. I can win."

"Our scouts have carefully inspected Jiangyang City yesterday. At this time, the defenses of Jiangyang City have already collapsed, and the temporary defenses built by the barbarian army are nothing to our army. We will be able to quickly capture Jiangyang City .”

After hearing Zhao Yun's answer, everyone thought about his powerful ballista, and no longer had any doubts about it.

Only Yan Yan was still worried: "But the barbarians who sealed their pockets will not fight with me. They just build fortifications and cut off our army's food and grass. What should I do?"

Zhao Yun's expression became solemn at this time, and he said: "So, the key to this battle is the fast word. As long as we move fast enough, the barbarian army has no time to build fortifications. They can only form a confrontation with us."

Seeing that everyone still had doubts, Zhao Yun gave everyone another reassurance: "Just in case, we are now sending an urgent letter to General Zhang Ren in Nan'an, asking him to allocate some troops to go down the river."

Only then did Yan Yan make up his mind and said to Zhao Yun, "Everything will be done according to what General Zilong said."

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After the Han army recovered the ballista and stone bombs, they burned the camp to nothing, and then continued to rush southeast along the Tuoshui River.It only took them more than half an hour to rush to Jiangyang City, twenty miles away.

At this time in Jiangyang City, the barbarians had "repaired" the missing walls with bamboo and wood.In order to prevent the fire attack of the Han soldiers, the bottom of these "alternative city walls" protruded directly into the moat.

It's just that when the barbarians built these bamboo and wood walls, they hadn't seen the crossbows of Zhao Yun's army.

Zhao Jun's corps quickly set up an offensive formation, and the chariots loaded with ballistas were also properly arranged.But this time they fired more than stone bombs.

All the barbarians squatting at the head of Jiangyang City were pale. When they were still frightened by the power of the ballista balls, they discovered something even more terrifying. Fireballs flew towards Jiangyang City one by one.Like a flying fire meteor, it accurately hit those bamboo and wood structure walls.

After these "fireballs" hit the city wall, they shattered and cracked with a bang, and a huge flame burst out.The "city wall" made of wood and bamboo was instantly ignited.The barbarians thought that the Han army had cast magic.

In fact, these fireballs are clay pots filled with highly spirited wine.It was wrapped in sackcloth soaked in strong wine.Before firing from the ballista, it will be lit by a brazier placed at the exit of the ballista.After hitting the city wall, it shattered, and the alcohol splashed everywhere, as if the city wall was instantly ignited.

Some fireballs even penetrated through the openings smashed by stone bullets, ignited in the interlayer inside the "city wall", and some fell on the corridor.The entire "city wall" of Jiangyang City was on fire, and the barbarians on the top of the city had already fled in all directions.

Zhao Yun hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to stop firing "fire bombs", because the number of these fire bombs was limited, before the end of the war.It is unlikely that Han'an's luggage will be transported up again, so some must be reserved for the subsequent decisive battle.

The stone bullets from the ballista began to smash into the depths of Jiangyang City.The army formation composed of spear and shield soldiers lined up into a shield wall, stepped on the beat of drums, shouted passwords, and pressed towards the gap in the burned city wall.The barbarians in the city gathered behind the gap, firing their bows and arrows.

A barbarian soldier just pulled the bowstring away when he suddenly saw a black figure attacking, and then there was a crisp sound, his whole head disappeared in an instant, and was completely shattered by the stone bullets.

Before his headless body fell to the ground, the stone bullet fell on the calf of a barbarian again, and there was another crisp sound of bone breaking.The screams and wailing sounded one after another.

When the spear and shield soldiers marched near the moat, the heavy soldiers who followed behind carried the equipment components and quickly "covered" a section of the moat.It's just that these temporary bridges are only suitable for infantry to pass, and the weight of cavalry cannot bear it.

The spear and shield soldiers crossed the moat and entered the city stepping on the hot embers.A large number of barbarians rushed over to block them, only to hear an order from the spear and shield soldiers, hundreds of javelins and flying spears were thrown at the barbarians.

The vine armor on the brutes is almost useless.They all fell under the dense flying spears.The gun shield soldiers stepped on the corpses of the barbarians and continued to charge forward.

A large number of barbarians poured out from every corner of the city, besieging the spear and shield soldiers who broke into the city.The latter was forced to slow down and erect shield walls on all sides.The nearly foot-long spear kept stabbing outside the shield wall,

Although the barbarians were massacred, they continued to rush forward.Some people passed through the gap between the guns and approached the shield wall.In the end, the spear and shield soldiers were forced to throw away their spears and draw out the steel knives around their waists to fight with the barbarians.

Behind them, a large number of spear and shield soldiers poured in.In Jiangyang City, the sound of killing was already loud, and there was a melee.Zhao Yun sent all the infantry into battle.Even the heavy soldiers joined the battle group.

Half an hour later, the city gate was finally opened and the suspension bridge was lowered.Three teams of heavy cavalry under Zhao Yun's command galloped into Jiangyang City.

When the sun was about to set, dead bodies were everywhere in Jiangyang City, and the sound of fighting gradually faded away.Most of the [-] barbarians stationed in the city were wiped out, and a small part fled.The infantry of Zhao Yun's army also suffered heavy casualties.

Chapter 196

When the sun sinks into the horizon, it leaves the last red glow on the fields between the Tuojiang River and the Shujiang River.The bullhorn hummed, and the barbarian's unique wooden drum sounded repeatedly.

On the horizon in the northwest direction, countless black shadows of uneven height suddenly rise, extending from the northeast bank of the Shu River to the south bank of the Tuo River from time to time.

These are more than a dozen groups of barbarians who crossed the Shu River and the Tuo River, a total of 3000 people, and pressed towards Jiangyang City.In fact, when they crossed the river, they were discovered by the scouts of Zhao Yun's army.What Zhao Yun expected was right. Meng Huo tried to pack the Han army into the pocket formed by the two rivers.

Among them, a barbarian army led by A Huinan arrived at the designated place, lit piles of bonfires, and then began to build a camp.Only half an hour passed.I heard the sound of horses galloping in the southeast direction.

The barbarians shouted and yelled, armed with swords and weapons one after another, crouched behind some repelling horses that had just been fastened, and looked vigilantly at the wilderness shrouded in night.It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.But the ground was still trembling, and the roar of the horseshoes was getting louder and louder.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ah!" Ah Hui, who was staring at the front, heard a scream from beside him. A barbarian holding a torch lay on his back, with an arrow on his head. Also thrown a few feet away.

"Quick! Put out the torches first! After getting on the scull shield, light the torches to form a formation!" Ah Huinan suddenly understood and shouted loudly.While he was speaking, hundreds of barbarians had been shot and killed by arrows.

The barbarians quickly extinguished the torches and doused the bonfire with water.The whole scene was immersed in darkness.But in this way, the barbarian army would not be able to build camps and fortifications and build horses.

The galloping sound of the herd of horses suddenly weakened, replaced by a little snorting and whistling, mixed with the sound of orders from the army.The opponent's war cavalry did not rush forward again.

But only a quarter of an hour later, Ah Huinan suddenly heard the sound of drums and trumpets, and then saw a "sea of ​​fire" composed of countless torches appearing in the southeast.It was the offensive formation formed by Zhao Yun's army, which was steadily pressing towards Ah Hui.

The veins on Ah Hui's forehead twitched. He didn't expect the other party to come so fast. If he let the other party break through from him, it would be difficult for him to explain to Meng Huo.

"Form an array to defend against the enemy!" Ah Hui murmured loudly, and at the same time he ordered his men to quickly report to the barbarian king Meng Huo.When Zhao Yun's army reached the distance of a hundred battles, it suddenly stopped.Ah Hui murmured a hanging heart and then let go of it a little.

At this time, the scull shields of the barbarians had already lined up a shield wall in front.The rest of the barbarians had already lit the torches again, and had finished setting up the army formation under the light of the fire.

The two sides faced each other in the dark like this. Under the threat of the opposing army, Ah Huinan could only maintain the formation of the army at all times, and dared not build the fortifications.

Another barbarian camp about a mile away.After Meng Huo assigned his soldiers to build the fortifications, he lay down on the straw mat to rest.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, a barbarian soldier came to report that Ahui's Nan tribe had been attacked, and the Han army seemed to be breaking through from him.

Hearing these words, Meng Huo's drowsiness disappeared completely. If the Han army escaped, all his painstaking efforts and arrangements would be in vain.He got up straight away, and immediately started dispatching troops to gather at Ah Hui's place.

Meng Huo worried that this was Zhao Yun's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain.Therefore, he did not dare to mobilize all the troops on the front line to Ah Huinan, but mobilized troops in a ratio of three to one from the rest of the barbarians.The rest of the troops are still stationed in place, building fortifications to strictly prevent the Han army from slipping out of their respective defense areas.

Zhao Yun stared at the bloodshot eyes, and watched vigilantly at the position of the hundreds of foreign barbarians, where the lights were brightly lit, people shouted elephants, and it was extremely noisy.The barbarians gathered more and more, but they were busy and not chaotic, maintaining their formation at all times.

The soldiers of the Liang army behind Zhao Yun were already squatting on the ground to rest. They gnawed a kind of sucrose, high-energy dry food made of honey, nuts and potato flour for supper, and chewed a kind of tea to refresh themselves.

The two sides kept their formation like this throughout the night. From ordinary soldiers to generals, everyone knew in their hearts that after dawn, there would be a bloody battle here.

Four hours later, a bright color finally appeared on the horizon.Zhao Yun looked beyond the hundred battles.I saw that in the hazy mist, there were all the black heads of barbarians, boundless, and it was impossible to estimate how many people there were.

There are also a large number of war elephants in the formation.Their taller bodies than the heavy cavalry of the Han army and their white fangs made both the Liang soldiers and the Shu soldiers in the Han army startled.

Zhao Yun knew that the number of barbarians and the war elephants made the soldiers feel a little afraid.So he rode his horse and walked slowly in front of the Han army's formation, speaking loudly to the soldiers and generals while walking.

Yan Yan also shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Shu army: "Can you forget that the barbarians robbed your property and destroyed your house?"

Under the leadership of the generals, the soldiers of the Shu army responded loudly: "Don't forget!"

"Can you forget that the barbarians killed your parents?"

"Don't dare to forget!"

"Can you forget that the barbarians took your wives and children away?"

"Don't forget!"

"So, you should follow the old man today and kill all the barbarians! To avenge this!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The morale of the Han army was immediately mobilized, and everyone was gearing up, waiting for the upcoming decisive battle.

The sun rose a pole high, and the mist on the wilderness and wasteland cleared away.Amidst the sound of high-pitched drums and horns, the formation of the Han army, which was nearly two hundred battles wide, began to move forward.

Meng Huo, who sat on the tower of the war elephant, looked down at the entire battlefield, and immediately judged that his strength was more than double that of the opponent.The opponent was a heavy cavalry with iron men and iron horses, but this time he also assembled thousands of war elephants.

Thinking of this, Meng Huo looked at the war elephants on both sides of his mount again. These war elephants covered in bamboo armor gave him a lot of confidence.

"Give me the king's order, and the whole army will attack!" Meng Huo coldly ordered the barbarian soldiers at his feet.The sound of ox horns and wooden drums followed, and the huge barbarian army array moved forward slowly facing the Han army array.

When the distance between the two armies was seventy battles, the convoy of fifty carts behind the Han army stopped suddenly, and when the distance between the two armies was fifty battles, the two hundred archers also stopped.These archers are obviously not ordinary archers, the muscles on their arms are clearly visible, and their bows are five feet long.This is the longbowman trained by Liang Guoxin.

Accompanied by the sound of swishing, the longbowman's heavy arrows pierced through the rattan armor on the barbarian soldiers from time to time, shooting them right through each other.Even at the very front, with a muffled puff, a heavy arrow pierced through the bamboo oar shield, and the cluster of arrows pierced a barbarian's face, killing him on the spot.

Chapter 197

Meng Huo, who was on the elephant in the rear, was greatly surprised. He didn't believe that there was an arrow in the world that could shoot so far, and it was so powerful.In fact, the range of the longbow can reach a hundred battles. Liang Jun's longbowmen only started to shoot within fifty battles because the arrows were more powerful.

Just as Meng Huo was surprised by the heavy arrow of the longbowman, something that shocked him even more happened.Dozens of bowl-sized stone pills flew quickly towards the barbarian army formation. No matter what armor they were wearing or what shield they were holding, once they were hit by these stone pills, they would be in danger of being smashed to pieces.

Meng Huo saw with his own eyes that a stone ball pierced a big hole in the oar shield, and then hit the head of the barbarian behind the shield. After a burst of blood mist, the barbarian's head disappeared without a trace.

Meng Huo understood that the opponent had the advantage of attack distance, and the closer he was to the opponent, the more he could offset the opponent's advantage.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was only more than [-] battles.The barbarian army also poured arrows at the opponent like a shower.It's just a shield wall formed by several rows of gunmen and shieldmen from the Han army, which tightly protects the soldiers behind.The barbarian arrows, which included quite a few bamboo arrows, did little to help with this.

On the two wings of the Han army are the cavalry of Zhao Yun's army. The front row is the heavy cavalry, and the rear row is the light cavalry flying feathers and the Shu army cavalry.However, Meng Huo believed that even the tall heavy cavalry of the opponent would be courting death if he confronted his war elephant.

The infantry of the barbarian army used elephants as units to fight.Each war elephant is equipped with thirteen soldiers, and three are located in the saddle of the war elephant, namely the elephant slave, crossbowman and spearman.The remaining ten infantry clustered around the elephant to prevent the opponent's infantry from going around the elephant and attacking.

This is somewhat similar to the military formations of the Warring States Period in the Central Plains, except that elephants were used instead of chariots.

At this time, nearly a thousand battle elephants of the barbarian army began to run at an accelerated speed under the control of the elephant slaves.The barbarian soldiers at the front also dropped their oar shields, and all the barbarian soldiers ran after the elephants.The entire army formation was like a tide rushing towards the Han army.

Facing the menacing barbarian army, the Han army's formation was still as stable as a rock, without the slightest fluctuation.Even the cavalry on the two wings took small steps, walking at the same speed as the infantry in the center.

It's just that the longbowmen behind the formation suddenly accelerated their shooting speed.Before that, it was still firing one arrow every ten breaths, but now it has accelerated to one arrow every five breaths.

An elephant slave was scrambling to adjust the direction of the war elephant when a heavy arrow struck and shot his head right through.The overturned corpses fell from the elephants and were trampled into meat loaves by the war elephants.The other two panicked, not knowing how to handle the elephant.Let the elephant run wildly under you.

The bamboo armor on the other elephant was pierced by a heavy arrow. Although it failed to penetrate the elephant's body, it pierced its skin.The war elephant whined in pain and began to lose control.Xiangnu tried his best to calm down his emotions.

A stone bullet just hit a war elephant on the forehead, and the war elephant fell to one side with its limbs stiff before it even had time to scream.A barbarian next to the elephant couldn't dodge in time, and was crushed under the several-ton elephant. His five internal organs were immediately crushed, and he spit out a mouthful of blood and died.The three people on the elephant were also thrown into a coma.

With the heavy arrows of the Han army, stone bullets continued to hit.The barbarian army formation began to appear chaotic.However, Meng Huo was still full of confidence. Although his army formation was a bit chaotic, they were still advancing on the whole.And there are only twenty battles away from the Han army.As long as they cross the distance of the last twenty battles, no matter what the Han army resists, they will be crushed by their own war elephants.

At this critical moment, a row of "fireballs" suddenly struck and smashed into the barbarian army without any mistakes.In an instant, a puff of flames soared into the sky.In addition to the catapults firing fireballs, the two hundred longbowmen also began to use rockets to "meet" the barbarian formation.

It is late autumn now, and although the wilderness in the south is different from that in the north, the shrubs and plants are somewhat dry.In a short time, the fire was burning in one pile on the battlefield and in another pile on the west.

Almost at the same moment, more than a dozen black shadows rushed over from the grass like arrows, scurrying about in the barbarian army formation.

These are a dozen cheetahs brought by Zhao Yun's army scouts.Although they cannot cause substantial damage to war elephants, they can also scare the opponent enough.The barbarians were terrified of the cheetahs and avoided them one after another.

Agni, big cats are the fear factor that elephants have buried in their genes, passed on from generation to generation.It is impossible for elephants to lose their fear of them because they were tamed by humans.The elephants were frightened and began to lose control.Some started to stand still, and some simply turned around and fled backwards.

No matter how hard the slaves on the elephant's back tried, they couldn't change the result. They stabbed the war elephant with the tools used to tame the elephant, trying to control them, which made the elephant even more frightened.Accelerate and run backwards.Many barbarians were caught off guard and were overrun and trampled by the elephants, and died immediately.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhao Yun issued the military order for the cavalry to charge.The iron cavalry on the two wings rolled out, hiding and killing the barbarian army.The gleaming horses of the heavy cavalry stand upright, and the light cavalry behind them draw their bows and shoot arrows.The tortoise shell array of spear and shield soldiers in the middle also accelerated forward.

The ballista continued to fire shells deep into the barbarian formation.The longbowman also showed no intention of stopping.Many arrows shot at the war elephant's unarmored buttocks, making them run wildly.

By this time, most of the war elephants were out of control.Even if some war elephants are not frightened, they are infected by the emotions of other war elephants.

All of this happened within half an hour of a cup of tea, and before Meng Huo could react, the entire barbarian army formation was in chaos and on the verge of collapse.Although Meng Huo was at the back of the formation, the war elephants beneath him seemed to be getting restless.

At this time, the heavy cavalry of the Han army had plunged into the formation of the barbarian army. Ma Li picked up the bodies, the iron cavalry knocked down the figures, and the swords cut off heads.The heavy arrows of longbowmen and the arrows of Qingqi Feiyu whizzed through the air.The whole battlefield was full of killing sounds.

The few unfazed war elephants, surrounded by several barbarians, tried to meet the heavy cavalry.With the sound of "puff", the barbarian infantry around the elephant were knocked into the air by the cavalry, and when they fell, they were trampled into the soil by the elephant's palm and iron hoof.

The war elephant waved its tusks and swung its proboscis.The archers on the elephants fired arrows, and the spearmen stabbed down with their spears.But it didn't have the slightest effect on the heavy cavalry passing by them at high speed.On the contrary, several horse spears pierced through the bamboo armor on the elephant and penetrated into the elephant's body.

The war elephant screamed and fell to the ground.The barbarians on the elephant's back were thrown out, and then smashed into a puddle of flesh by the speeding heavy cavalry.

At this time, the barbarian army was like a flood that broke the embankment, fleeing backward in an orderly manner.Meng Huo's war elephant was also among them.Wherever they passed they left dead bodies everywhere.The Han army followed closely behind.In addition to cavalry, infantry such as gun shield soldiers and heavy soldiers, they no longer care about the formation, and quickly run up to chase and defeat the enemy...