Lord of the House

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The counties on the east bank of the Han River and other northern Hubei areas are divided into two parts by the Dahong Mountains, which are under the jurisdiction of Suizhou and Shicheng.

Although Shicheng and Suizhou are only one hundred and fifty or sixty miles apart, that is the straight-line distance on the map.

It is often said that Daowangshan is a dead horse. If you want to avoid the Huaidong Army that has entered the northern foot of Dahongshan, Longzuishan and Heishigou, and intercepts the valley on the east bank of Hanshui, then you must climb over Dahongshan and Lulin. Mountains and Baiyun Mountains, go around to the northwest of Suizhou, and don't want to go around the mountains for five or six days.

Don't say that Meng Anchan led his troops to evacuated from Xiaonan in a hurry, the supplies he carried with him could last for three or four more days. Even if he went to the northwest of Suizhou in five or six days, who can be sure that the northwest of Suizhou to Zaoyang would be by then. Wouldn't the passage be completely blocked by the Huaidong Army?

The night was dark, and only a few stars radiated dim starlight in the sky, causing the surrounding hills and mountains to form a black border between the sky and the earth, and the cold wind whistled, blowing the turpentine torches swaying and swaying, reflecting them on the ground. The rudimentary map is indeterminate.

In addition to the first cavalry that did not obey the order to flee north to the Huaidong Army, Meng Anchan also dispatched a large number of horses to explore Huaidong's military deployment at the northern foot of Dahong Mountain...

At the northern foot of Dahong Mountain, there are three main hills spanning from east to west:

Longzui Mountain is next to the river valley on the east bank of the Han River. It is a long ridge that runs from southeast to northwest. Longzui Mountain is not very steep, and the main peak is only more than 100 feet high. Except for the valley near the Han River, Lingshan Mountain There are also many gaps in between for the cavalry to pass through.

It is said that Longzuishan is the best way for Meng Anchan to lead his troops to flee north, and it is also the shortest way to escape from Zaoyang and Fancheng to Xinye. However, the Huaidong Army entered Longzuishan in the afternoon to intercept the most troops. million people.

Although the troops had an advantage, but fleeing from the north of Huangpi, the morale of the army was unstable and morale was low. Meng Anchan had no confidence in whether he could cross Longzui Mountain under the blockade of the tens of thousands of Huaidong Army elites who were guarding against danger.

From Longzui Mountain to the east is Heishigou.

Although it is called Heishigou, it is a large mountain clustered with various peaks at the northern foot of Dahong Mountain. Although the peaks are not high and precipitous, the mountains stand steeply and there are countless deep ravines.

From Heishigou to the east, it is the most important land passage from the northern foot of Dahong Mountain to Zaoyang. will go further and further.

"The enemy general must think that our army is in chaos and will only take shortcuts to escape to Xinye, so he has deployed heavy troops on Longzuishan, waiting for my defeated troops to crash into them in a panic," Meng Anchan poked **** the map with her finger, firmly determined. Pointing between Heishigou and Queyu Ridge, he said, "Let's bypass Heishigou, take Tiesongxi and Pinglinbu!"

Although it takes 50 or 60 miles to travel to Pinglinbu, the Huaidong Army deployed less interception troops between Heishigou and Queyuling, and the valley road there is more suitable for cavalry groups to pass through. Compared with the infantry, the biggest advantage of the cavalry is not the charging ability of the cavalry, but the mobility of the cavalry, which gives the cavalry the initiative to choose the battlefield...

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The news brought back by the scouts made Luo Wenhu's heart heavy. Under the night, more and more enemy cavalry turned over from the Taiping Temple at the northern foot of Dahong Mountain, went around the south of Heishigou and headed east, obviously running towards them. Come here, to break through their defenses and flee north...

After nightfall, Luo Wenhu and Cao Peng crossed the Que tongue mountain and entered the eastern foot of Heishigou.

Tiesong Creek is the most important river between Heishigou and Queyuling. It originates from Queyuling and runs northward along the steep **** at the eastern foot of Heishigou. From Heishigou to the southwest of Zaoyang, it joins the Han River. The beach is two or three miles wide. However, the upper stream of Tiesong Creek that has just left Queyuling is much narrower. Especially after winter, the stream is thin and shallow. Under the faint starlight, the stream is only two or three feet wide and two or three feet deep. It is a large stream beach full of pebbles, hidden in the wormwood that can't belly belly.

Luo Wenhu's troops formed an array between the upper reaches of Tiesong River and the cross slope. The defense line was three or five hundred paces wide, blocking the valley road entering Pinglin Port from the south. No matter how shallow the Tiesong River is after winter, the enemy cavalry can't pull the speed when wading through the river, which can effectively suppress the impact force of the enemy cavalry and provide a strong cover for the formation...

"Luo Xiucai, you are really lucky. You were able to win such a big battle as soon as you voted here. Maybe you will have a seat in the army in the future." Walking to Luo Wenhu's side, looking at the other side of the stream beach, there are dozens of shadows approaching, which should be the front of the enemy's horse. The guard soldiers and horses in Beitan also waited for the enemy to approach the horse, while Chen Daozi easily talked with Luo Wenhu about the upcoming battle.

Chen Daozi had the excitement when the war was coming, but Luo Wenhu still had deep worries.

If the main force of the enemy cavalry had to pass through Pinglinbu, there was no confidence in whether the three or four thousand soldiers and horses behind him and Chen Daozi's battalion of cavalry could completely block the gap.

Obviously, Sun Zhuang led his troops to join with Luo Wenhu, and would not deploy the main cavalry and infantry in front of Pinglinbu Gukou, which would not play a big role.

In addition to letting Chen Daozi lead a cavalry battalion to cover the flanks of Luo Wenhu's troops, Sun Zhuang led the third cavalry brigade, the main force of about 3,000 cavalry, to continue to move east of Queyuling before nightfall, breaking away from the reconnaissance of the enemy cavalry. Vision, lurking in the forest valley between the east of Quehui Mountain and Wangjiamiao Mountain.

Sun Zhuang's tactical intention was very clear. After waiting for the main force of the enemy's cavalry to attract the attention of the defenders before Tie Songxi, he unexpectedly led the main force of the cavalry to cover up from the side and back...

Although Sun Zhuang's tactics seem simple, effective tactics are usually not complicated.

The strategy used by Huaidong in the Battle of Jingxiang was nothing more than to lure the enemy to go deep, and use some of the troops to attract the main enemy troops on the east bank of the Han River to the east of Hubei defense line from the front. Luo Wenhu also felt that Sun Zhuang's tactics were simple but effective, but he was worried about whether he could take up the important task of absorbing the main force of the enemy's cavalry and blocking the enemy from Tie Songxi.

Luo Wenhu surrendered in Lishan, and he was still leading three thousand miscellaneous soldiers from the old army. After that, Cao Peng and Zhou Sheng selected Tian Su and other hundreds of people to serve as the army and the people. At this time, they were digging on the river beach behind. Horse shallow trenches, pits, and the creation of simple horse-rejecting and antlers,

There was no time to cut wood to build a fence, and more than 30 trucks also removed their wheels and filled them above the defense line. The carriage made of Atsugi can provide enough protection for the archers and crossbowmen, and it is not easy for the enemy to rush away after wading through the Tiesong Stream.

More than 30 bed crossbows made of fine iron stand in the gap formed by the carriage, peeping at the beach of Tiesongxi. This should be the most powerful weapon in Luo Wenhu's hands, but everything depends on the enemy cavalry from here. The determination of the side conflict in the past.

The bed crossbow can shoot at a distance of 400 steps, which can block the river beach on the other side of Tiesong River, but the enemy cavalry Tie Xin has to rush over from here, and the enemy cavalry sprints 400 steps away, only enough time to launch a round of bed crossbow here. ; After that, you have to use the armored infantry to carry it up to fight. Only by retreating the enemy cavalry from the stream beach can you call, and the bed crossbow will have a second round of firing opportunities...

Although Cao Zi'ang had added a lot of excellent armor and weapons, Luo Wenhu knew that an elite soldier who could face the charge of enemy cavalry and defend the ground calmly was not so easy to get.

How could the three thousand miscellaneous soldiers be reborn in just three or five days and become an elite division that is not afraid of tigers and wolves?

Luo Wenhu looked back at the soldiers who were sitting around the camp fire and resting in the distance. The expressions on their faces were excited, worried and fearful. Luo Wenhu was deeply worried: these three thousand miscellaneous soldiers can stop tens of thousands of soldiers. The charge of the enemy cavalry?

Chen Daozi was an upright brigade commander in the Huaidong army sequence, but the defense line of Tiesongxi North Beach was dominated by Luo Wenhu. Sun Zhuang still handed over the command of the battlefield to Luo Wenhu, and made Chen Daozi and Cao Peng assist him.

Due to the need to concentrate more bows and crossbows on the front to prevent the charge of the enemy cavalry, the two wings became very weak. Chen Daozi led the cavalry mainly to cover the flanks and repeatedly attacked from the two wings to weaken the enemy's cavalry against the frontal line of defense. impact strength.

As more and more enemy cavalry outposts entered the south bank of Tiesongxi after the early morning, Luo Wenhu knew that this battle was unavoidable, so he and Chen Daozi and Cao Peng retreated from Xitan to the back of the line of defense.

Tian Su, who was brought up to act as a strongman, watched Zhou Sheng come back with Luo Wenhu and the others, and bravely went up to meet him, and asked, "If we prisoners can kill the enemy in front of the battle, can we be rewarded as well as the Huaidong Army? ?"

For poor men like Tian Su, who have worked hard for generations, land is their lifelong pursuit and dream; for them, a life without land is worthless.

"Who is he?" Chen Daozi looked at the strong man standing in front of the horse, and there was no fear in his eyes. He was a man and asked who he was.

Cao Peng told Chen Daozi the origin of Tian Su. Chen Daozi nodded and asked Tian Su, "What kind of weapon do you use well?"

"Makes a big knife."

"Give him a Mo Dao and a collar of heavy armor," Chen Daozi said simply, "Luo Xiucai doesn't want you, you just come with me."

"I don't lack swords and armor here," Luo Wenhu hurried to get people down, and said to Tian Su, "You can ask again, who else is willing to enter the front line to kill the enemy, and they will be treated as Huaidong's pawns. Those who have committed wrongs will be punished, and they will be rewarded for meritorious deeds. However, you all have to think clearly about it. If you go forward and kill the enemy, those who retreat without order will be killed without mercy." Since Chen Daozi and Cao Peng allowed the prisoners to go into battle to kill the enemy In the battle for merit, he was eager to put a brave soldier like Tian Su into the front line, why would he be willing to let Chen Daozi kidnap him?

Tian Su and the others were selected from among the prisoners to serve as civilian soldiers. At this time, they would dig shallow trenches, sink pits, build horses, deer antlers, and repair weapons. However, when the war came, they would retreat behind the defense line and ask for help. Much safer than a soldier.

Hearing what Luo Wenhu said, Tian Su trotted back to the captive camp, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred people came running after Tian Su, clamoring for battle, Tian Lao said the reasoning was crude and crude, but loudly said: "A poor life, If you starve to death in a ravine and don’t eat wild dogs, it’s better to go into battle to kill the enemy, fight for your life to earn a piece of rewarding land, maybe even marry a wife and **** it ten times or eight times!”

"Grandma, don't be afraid of death," Chen Daozi laughed heartily, and said to Cao Peng, "I think these people will be handed over to you, and I will give you more than a hundred soldiers. If there is a hole in the defense line, you will be responsible for removing it. They were sent to fill the leaks..."

Chen Daozi formed a team of more than 100 prisoners who wanted to fight for their lives, and then transferred more than 100 elites from his subordinates to Cao Peng to form a team of elite soldiers. Luo Wenhu did not refuse, knowing that this arrangement was the most suitable. At the same time, Luo Wenhu handed over Zhou Sheng's department to Cao Peng's command to strengthen Cao Peng's vanguard strength. Seeing that Tian Su was quite prestige among the prisoners, he immediately appointed Tian Su as the leader of the team-seeing that the prisoners were all in battle. Luo Wenhu's fears were relieved by the courage of beheading the enemy and fighting for his exploits. He was very proud, pointed his horsewhip at the old department beside him, and scolded with a smile, "You sons of turtle eggs, don't let Laozi become a bear at a critical time! "

There was no shortage of more than a hundred swords and armor. To use Tian Su and the others as vanguard soldiers who filled the gap, Cao Peng asked them all to wear armor and carry Mo swords and spears. The elites are also wearing heavy armor, holding a saber or a sword, and they also specially sent Tian Su a collar of scale armor, a collar of leather armor, a horse-chopping sword, and a standard body-protecting saber.

When the enemy cavalry rushes in from the gap and wants to tear the defense line, the vanguard rushes up to block the gap. The heavy armor and the Mo Dao are the most advantageous killing weapons, but the more important thing is to have the courage to face the impact of the enemy cavalry and not give in .

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In the cold mist in the early morning of the 24th, the morning light had not yet fully spread out. In the dim light, Bai Di came to the north bank by riding the creek to test the defense line, and the battle of Tiesongxi began.

From the point of view of the enemy cavalry fleeing to the north, the passage to Xinye can be torn open only after the blockade north of Tiesongxi is torn apart. How can we not fight hard at this time?

The enemy generals headed by Meng Anchan were even more aware of the meaning of the battle in front of them: the Huaidong Army really launched on the northern front, and it only took two or three days to form a perfect blockade on the front lines of Fancheng and Zaoyang. ; After Tiesongxi, there must be a big gap that can make them flee directly to Xinye. If they are blocked in the south of Tiesongxi and stagnate, and the Huaidong Army's 20,000 to 30,000 elites near Suizhou are called west to fill the gap, or the main force of the Huaidong Army in Huangpi catches up, then they will put their wings on the ground. It's hard to fly.

If you want to flee north, you must seize the opportunity in front of you. Even if half of your troops are exhausted, you can at least escape to Xinye with nearly 10,000 elites, which is countless times better than annihilating them in the hinterland of Jingxiang.

Each of the leading cavalry generals picked out their personal guard cavalry, and formed a supervising team to be pressed behind the attacking horses.

Although Meng Anchan, who fled north, was mainly led by light cavalry, in order to break the Huaidong Army's interception after Tiesongxi, it was not a problem to gather hundreds of iron armored cavalry.

In addition to the iron-clad cavalry, looking at the defensive line established by the Huaidong Army overnight after Tiesongxi, Meng Anchan even ordered two or three thousand soldiers to dismount and fight with swords, shields and strong bows, mixing with light cavalry and iron-clad cavalry. Instead of simply using light cavalry to attack the Huaidong Army's infantry defense formation, they formed a charge formation to cross the Tiesong River.

Although a single roar of the bed crossbow could open a gap for the rushing enemy soldiers, the dense enemy soldiers were like an ant colony, and they were also going crazy to tear the Tiesongxi defense formation and tore open the gap for fleeing north.

When the enemy soldiers rushed up, they knew that they couldn't step back and called the Huaidong Army's bed crossbow to have a chance to fire again, but they stood in front of the defense line, guarded on the north bank of the river beach, and fought closely behind the defense line without taking a step back. The heavy armored cavalry used the depth of the stream step less than 200 steps to repeatedly pull up the horse speed to attack the defense line. The horse's belly and buttocks were stabbed with blood by the spurs, and it screamed and screamed in the early morning mist, making people's blood boil...

The rudimentary defense line quickly opened the gap for the heavy armored cavalry of the enemy soldiers one by one, and more enemy cavalry and enemy soldiers rushed in through the gap in the rain of arrows.

What Luo Wenhu was worried about has also come true. Although many excellent soldiers have been replenished, and although the Huaidong Army's reward orders have stimulated morale, but after all, they are under-trained miscellaneous soldiers.

Poor physical strength is on the one hand, and inexperience is even more fatal. Luo Wenhu's soldiers rarely see a tough enemy who will brave the rain of arrows. The courage to flee, but I don't know that they should retreat in time at this time, and call the spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and heavy armored swordsmen to make up for melee combat. They should shoot more fierce arrows at the back of the battle. enemy.

Lack of adequate training, it is difficult to form close cooperation when fighting, and under a single attack by the enemy soldiers, the defense line is in jeopardy... However, the morale of the generals is still preserved, and the martial arts are not defeated. Although the defense line has opened a gap, Zhou Sheng, Tian Su brought the light soldiers of the armored soldiers head-on to fight the enemy soldiers who burst in from the gap.

The enemy soldiers that rushed in at the front were mostly light cavalry. They put down their bows and wielded machetes. They wanted to attack through the gap. They wanted to take advantage of the chaos to defeat the Huaidong Army behind the defense line. Eastern warrior.

Luo Wenhu and Chen Daozi used Tian Su and Zhou Sheng as their vanguard soldiers, and they all wore heavy armor; although the cavalry machetes that rushed in were sharp, they were not strong enough to split the fine iron helmets and heavy armor made by Huaidong. The Mo knife and the saber are heavy weapons. A standard large saber weighs more than 15 to 20 pounds. It is cast in fine iron and its armor-piercing ability is far beyond that of the enemy's light scimitar.

Lin Bing made a cavalry battalion, and made it clear that the mission of the battlefield was to cover the flanks, and to fight against the enemy's formation was to attack the flanks and cover up the rear, so as to play the advantages of light cavalry, and avoid shortages, so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy. At the same time, Lin Bie equips the light cavalry with a small amount of heavy armor and heavy weapons, so that the light cavalry can dismount or tear apart the enemy line with iron armor when they have to break through the enemy line.

It's not that Meng Anchan didn't know these truths, but if he fled north from Huangpi, should he be fully and fully prepared? When he took over the battle, he incorporated the armored elites and the heavy armored cavalry who dismounted and fought because he had considered the shortcomings of the cavalry rushing into the formation. The light and fast light cavalry was not ordered to force the breach.

Meng Anchan thought that as long as they fought fast enough and fiercely enough, they would be able to seize the Huaidong Army's shortcomings before suppressing them, and tear the Huaidong Army's defense line to shreds in one fell swoop.

The sharp Mo Dao slashed down, and the huge horse's head snapped in half with one slash, sending flesh and blood flying. The heavy slash of the slasher.

Tian Su excelled in martial arts and led the team in the Suizhou army. There were forty or fifty men under his command. Even so, he could not afford a pair of iron armor and a good knife in the Suizhou army. At this time, he wore scale armor on the inside and leather armor on the outside, and he was not afraid of enemy arrows within ten steps. At this time, a spear stabbed and stabbed on his chest. Tian Su only felt chest pain and stuffy. Although the armor was pierced, the blade of the spear was blocked by the scaled armor inside. Tian Su backhanded and split half of the head of the enemy soldier. He became murderous and shouted: "Tell your mother to stab me!" The blood of the dead surged like a spring.

Once the defense line has stabilized its position, the enemy soldiers advancing through the gap will appear weak and without the cover of bows and crossbows. In addition to the Huaidong heavy armored soldiers who prevent them from continuing to advance, it is Huaidong who has come back to his senses. The pawns struck down their flanks.

Due to Zhou Sheng, Tian Su and other heavy armored soldiers, the situation of the gap in the defense line was quickly reversed. Nearly 200 enemy cavalry who rushed in were killed and defeated. It was almost in the blink of an eye. The precarious line of defense was stabilized.

At this time, Chen Daozi also led the cavalry to attack from the two flanks, killing the enemy soldiers on the two flanks under the stream beach, giving Luo Wenhu a chance to win a counterattack in front of the defense line-a truly effective defense depends on whether he has the ability to fight back from the defense line. It all depends on whether the counterattack is strong enough and whether it can effectively weaken the ability of the enemy to continue to attack.

Although Luo Wenhu's counterattack was somewhat messy, it was still full of courage, and Chen Daozi led his cavalry to cut in from both wings to cover, and Zhou Sheng and Tian Su led two teams of fierce soldiers like tigers down the beach~www. wuxiaspot.com~ The counterattack, which looked a bit chaotic, also smashed the enemy soldiers who entered the North Shore to pieces.

Before the enemy generals sent a new assault force to the south bank, Luo Wenhu commanded the counter-attacking soldiers to retreat to the defense line in time, and the crossbow was reloaded...

The first time was always flustered and difficult. After the first time, Luo Wenhu and his generals watched the corpse of the enemy on the stream beach, and their minds did not have the anxiety and fear before the war. But so!

This is especially true for ordinary soldiers. Once they are involved in the **** slaughter, the first fear and panic will be suppressed, and the rest may be insensitivity in the face of death; or the pursuit of the thrill of killing, or the strong desire for victory in the heart. Desires make people fearless.

The mist dissipated, and the sun rose to the corner of the mulberry tree. Meng Anchan had a headache not only because the Huaidong Army defense line on the north bank of Tiesong River could not be torn open over and over again, and told him to lose his troops and lose his generals. What was even more troublesome was the Huaidong army on the front line of Longzuishan. The Eastern Army intercepted the main force of the soldiers and horses, and left the defense line firmly at dawn, and set off to the southeast - depending on the frame, they were going to attack their rear wing at the southern foot of Heishigou.

Without taking Longzui Mountain to Xinye, Meng Anchan led his troops to cross Taiping Mountain at night, bypassing the southern foot of Heishigou, and attacking Pinglinbu from the west foot of Heishigou. Another Huaidong army was called to go around the southern foot of Heishigou, and Meng Anchan would face the attack of the Huaidong army, which was obviously not what Meng Anchan hoped to see.

Meng Anchan could only divide his troops to suppress the speed of the Huaidong Army of Longzui Mountain, which was advancing south to attack them, so as to buy more time to tear apart the Tiesongxi defense line. Meng Anchan did not expect that on their left flank, in In the depths of the forest valley on the first line of Wangmiao Mountain in the east, the main force of the third brigade of the Cavalry Battalion led by Sun Zhuang has shown his fangs... My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter