Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty
Chapter 292 0287 [A great victory]
Deng Chun led fifty cavalrymen, who had already gone around to the upper reaches of the river to cross the river, to meet Guan Sheng's infantry back, or to look for opportunities to cover up the enemy.
The armor of these Xiang army cavalry looks very intimidating, and they all imitate the style of generals.
In fact, they are all cloth armors. They use coarse cloth as the surface and fine cloth as the lining, and draw patterns on the surface. It can defend against less powerful bows and arrows, and has some defense against slashes.
The horses they ride are all southwest ponies, which can climb hills well and have good endurance, but they lack weight-bearing and explosive power.
The river was several meters wide and he could quickly swim across it.
Guan Sheng had already led his infantry to chase the barbarians three miles away from the village. From time to time, barbarians were overtaken and hacked to death. The leader of the thieves, Ateng, was almost dragged away by two elite barbarians because he bled too much.
The soldiers who stayed in the mountain forest also carried the bodies of two comrades on their backs, supported the injured who had lost mobility, plundered some enemy armor, and hurriedly moved down the mountain towards the river.
Deng Chun saw that there were no enemies behind the soldiers, so he ran towards Guan Sheng at full speed.
"Guan Dutou, come back!" Deng Chun shouted.
“Woooooooo~~~”
The messenger blew the horn and waved the flag to signal Guan Sheng not to pursue further.
Guan Sheng was unwilling to do so because he was about to catch up with the leader of the thief.
"Dong dong dong dong!"
Drums sounded in the barbarian village, and Bu Su's eldest son Su Ge led hundreds of barbarian soldiers out of the village to meet his younger brother A Teng.
Seeing this, Guan Sheng had no choice but to retreat and watched the leader of the thieves escape.
During this pursuit, the Yuanyang Formation was already in chaos. Especially the wolf follower, dragging a long bamboo pole, was walking slowly in the forest and was already nearly a hundred meters behind.
Just when Guan Sheng was retreating, Su Ge personally led more than a hundred wild cavalry, bypassing A Teng's defeated troops and rushing toward Guan Sheng.
"Array, array!" Guan Sheng shouted.
The messenger also blew the bamboo whistle, and the squad leaders waved their spears to gather the troops, with small triangular flags on the ends of their spears.
The two sides are on the verge of breaking out.
Ju Ming saw clearly with his telescope, and without waiting for all the flat cannons to be assembled, he ordered them to be fired at the low wall on the other side of the river.
Lizhou civilians and soldiers, as well as more than 500 barbarians recruited and surrendered along the way, crossed the river at five sections. They carried the upside-down boat to defend against bows and arrows, and turned the boat over when they reached the river. In fact, most of them were feint attacks. It's nothing more than attracting the enemy's attention so that the friendly forces on the other side can return safely.
Ju Ming only had about a hundred soldiers left in reserve.
"Puff puff puff!"
More than twenty flat artillery pieces that had been assembled concentrated on firing stone projectiles at a section of the low wall.
Where have the barbarian soldiers seen this? They were so frightened that they hid behind the low wall, and those who were timid just ran away.
The cavalry from both sides had already begun to shoot at each other. Deng Chun was not good at archery and was too lazy to use a bow and arrow, so he rushed over with his mace.
The mandarin duck formation was also reorganized, and Guan Sheng and the squad leaders started shooting arrows.
Su Ge only had more than a hundred barbarian cavalry under his command. Faced with the mandarin duck formation and the Han cavalry attack, he immediately chose to retreat temporarily because the infantry under his command had not yet reached the battlefield.
"kill!"
Deng Chun did not pursue the barbarian cavalry, but led the cavalry to circle the flanks and charge towards the hundreds of barbarian infantry.
Those hundreds of barbarians were just here to meet the friendly forces. Su Ge led the cavalry to pursue the enemy, and they could only follow along. During the run, the formation was chaotic, and the barbarian leading the team could not restrain himself at all.
Deng Chun led fifty cavalrymen and rushed thirty steps away before hundreds of barbarians stopped one after another. Several barbarian generals commanded them to deal with the cavalry charge.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers were still in formation, but Deng Chun was already in front of them.
With one strike of his mace, the head of the barbarian in front of him was instantly beaten until his brains burst.
Like a knife cutting through tofu, the fifty Han cavalry charged into hundreds of barbarians and separated these scattered barbarians.
Seeing this, Suge could only become anxious. He led more than a hundred barbarian cavalry and retreated to the side of the mountain. He originally planned to cooperate with the infantry in fighting. But Deng Chun was on the side of the river, charging at his infantry frantically, and it was too late to intercept them.
Guan Sheng also led the Han troops to charge in a mandarin duck formation. They were chasing down from the middle of the mountain. They were extremely tired now, but their morale was very high because they had been winning battles.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers encountered fifty Han cavalry and were defeated in a single encounter.
Even if it is elite infantry, if the formation is unstable and is attacked by cavalry, and the cavalry rushes into the team, no matter how well-trained they are, they will be defeated.
"withdraw!"
Seeing that the defeat was irreversible, Suge immediately led the cavalry back to the village. He no longer cares about the hundreds of barbarian soldiers. How many of them can escape depends entirely on luck.
Buyu asked his youngest son to lead the troops to meet the cavalry, while he commanded the troops to block the main force of Han soldiers from crossing the river.
Hundreds of barbarian soldiers were killed and fled in all directions. The smart ones ran wildly towards the mountains and forests, and more than two hundred of them fled into the mountains. Those who lost their minds only knew how to turn around and flee. Not only did they have to face the chasing troops behind them, but they also had to face the bows and arrows of friendly troops.
Ju Ming originally planned to attack again tomorrow, but this sudden unexpected situation made him keenly seize the opportunity: "Beat the drums, and the whole army will cross the river!"
"Dong dong dong dong!"
The drums were beating loudly and the shouts of killing were loud. The Lizhou army, pretending to cross the river, rowed small boats and really started to attack.
Deng Chun pursued for a while and then retreated. There was a large group of barbarians in front to respond, and there were low walls and trenches in which the cavalry could easily get trapped.
Guan Sheng also restrained his infantry and formed a formation to rest. They were extremely tired and had to slow down before continuing to fight.
The combined troops of the two men were less than two hundred, but they mobilized more than a thousand enemy troops, thus exposing a defensive gap in the front of the bandit's stronghold.
Suge led the cavalry back to the stronghold, but was immediately scolded by his father: "I asked you to go to rescue your brothers, how could you lead the troops to chase them out? Even if you chase them out, how can the cavalry and infantry be divided into two parts? Your cavalry is more How could Duo hide at the foot of the mountain and let the Han cavalry find an opportunity to attack the infantry warriors?"
Suge was speechless, unable to find a reason to quibble.
He was only in his early twenties, and he had no chance to participate in the previous battle against the two forest barbarians. In recent years, he only followed the army to attack the remnants of the Lianglin tribe in the north. The enemy was often defeated by the infantry after a few charges, and the rest was just him leading the cavalry to pursue them.
Now for actual combat, Su Ge's brains are not enough.
When it was time to calm down, he abandoned the infantry and rushed out. When he should be brave, he avoided the front of the Han cavalry and chose to hide between the infantry and the hillside.
After scolding his son for a while, Buyu started to blame his nephew Piao Li again.
That bastard left with eight hundred barbarian soldiers, saying he wanted to cross the river from the upper reaches and go around to the rear of the Han soldiers to rob the camp at night. Now he knows where he went.
The eight hundred barbarian soldiers who were taken away were the best of the best, and they were the personal soldiers of the Great Ghost Lord of the Hundred Barbarian Capital!
Now we need elite defense, but the elite are no longer on the battlefield.
"Puff puff puff puff!"
Dozens of Pingyi cannons have been assembled. In order to avoid accidentally injuring the friendly troops crossing the river, they are all projected towards the center of the barbarian village.
Since they were all light-weight returning artillery pieces, they did not cause much damage. They had been launched for a long time before, and even the low wall was not destroyed. However, the psychological pressure on the barbarians was extremely great and it has caused widespread panic.
The previous attempts to persuade them to surrender worked. The enemy troops who were from the Lianglin barbarians were usually oppressed by the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians. Before the war, their ghost masters were transferred away and dispersed among the Qiongbu Sichuan soldiers.
At this moment, they saw Han soldiers crossing the river, and stone bullets were flying overhead. Their ghost master was still not around, so these barbarian soldiers from the Lianglin tribe just gave up their fight. They abandoned their positions and some even threw away their weapons. More and more people turned around and fled.
Li Bao crouched on the boat, holding up his shield to block the scattered arrows, while the folk behind him were rowing desperately.
The river channel is several meters wide and reaches the shore in a blink of an eye.
Li Bao threw away his shield, raised his spear and rushed forward, crossing the narrow ditch and jumping out of the low wall. The soldiers of the Lianglin Department who were defending here have fled, and the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians are being urgently transferred to fill their positions.
Li Bao turned over and climbed up the low wall and was hit by two arrows in an instant.
He ignored the pain and stabbed one person to death with his gun. Then he went to kill the defenders on the nearby low wall, and even managed to create a gap by himself, allowing his soldiers to climb up the low wall calmly.
More and more soldiers were crossing the river, and even the barbarians who surrendered along the way were all charged and killed under the leadership of the Ghost Lord.
For example, the Great Ghost Lord Qu Mang who was the first to surrender was the nephew of Ju Meng, the Great Ghost Lord of Baimandu, and the nephew of Bu Su, the Great Ghost Lord of this village. He originally planned to act by ear and rebel again at the critical moment, but now he led his troops to charge forward because he felt that the Han soldiers would definitely win.
That kind of machine that can throw stones is too scary, and there are 100,000 Han soldiers coming from behind, and the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians cannot stop them.
"Change into a small three-talented formation and attack the stronghold!"
Guan Sheng only rested for a few minutes. Hearing the lively fighting on the frontal battlefield, he also began to organize an attack from the side.
"Qu Mang, why did you vote for the Han people?" a little ghost leader shouted.
Qi Mang had already led his troops to attack the low wall. The people they met face to face were actually acquaintances. The soldiers on both sides also knew each other and stopped fighting in a very tacit understanding.
Qu Mang said: "The Han soldiers still have an army of 100,000. If you surrender quickly, there will definitely be a reward! You are just a small ghost master now. If you help the Han people in the war, you can become a big ghost master."
The little ghost master didn't think much, then turned his spearhead and attacked the friendly troops in the nearby position, shouting at the top of his lungs: "Kill Busu, kill Busu!"
The friendly troops defected, and the nearby barbarians were instantly defeated.
Li Bao also took advantage of the defensive gap and had already led his troops to rush through the low wall.
Busu personally led an elite reserve team to come to the rescue. A stone bullet fell and killed one person on the spot. The stone bullet rolled and injured two more people.
Stones continued to fall to the ground in the center of the village, and most of them hit the buildings. Not many barbarians were killed, but a large number of houses were destroyed.
Barbarians fear ghosts and gods, and they will sacrifice ghosts for divination when encountering important matters.
Facing an incomprehensible phenomenon at this moment, they thought that the ghosts and gods were angry, and the Han people were blessed by the ghosts and gods. Everyone was frightened and hesitated after receiving the order. Even Bu Su's personal soldiers began to flee sporadically after one of them was stoned to death.
The Ghost Lord, who was born as a barbarian in Lianglin, was forced to be separated from his tribe before.
At this moment, they were looking for an opportunity to leave the battlefield, gather together the tribesmen who had already fled, and after gathering hundreds of people, they suddenly ran to attack the bunker in the center of the village.
This was their chance. They were forced to surrender to Qiongbu Sichuan Man and suffered discrimination and suppression for several years. Now that the Han soldiers are coming, they only need to fight back to become truly independent and free.
Busu was already at a loss. Many low walls on the front were breached, and the sides were also under attack. The empty bunker behind him was attacked by Erwu Chai.
There were hundreds of elite reserve troops beside Bu Su, who panicked and ordered: "Retreat to the mountains!"
Hundreds of the most elite barbarian soldiers just ran away. Livestock, food, women and children... were all ignored and ran into the mountains in a swarm.
Those rebellious Lilin Barbarians did not dare to intercept, fearing that they would fight tooth and nail with the elite men of Bu Su.
Buyu fled with his son at full speed. He planned to hide in the mountains and gather warriors from small tribes in the mountains. No matter how he could gather one or two thousand troops again. When Ju Meng's large army arrives, they can join forces to counterattack.
Even if they fail, they can still find an opportunity to escape, take the elite to the southeast, and seize the territory and population of those small tribes.
The barbarians of all tribes respect their strength. As long as they still have elite soldiers, they have plenty of opportunities to make a comeback.
Bu Su's elite main force fled, immediately triggering a complete collapse.
Deng Chun led his cavalry into the stronghold, ignoring those who knelt down and surrendered, and only pursued those who were still running away. If he caught up, he would hit them with an iron mace.
"The battle is settled!" Yu Wenchang smiled with his hands behind his hands.
Ju Ming said: "There are too many barbarians who have defected, and this battle will be too easy."
Clean up the battlefield and calculate battle losses and gains.
Eight Xiang soldiers and Xiang soldiers were killed, 4 were seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
22 civilians were killed, 1 was seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
Among the barbarian soldiers who returned along the way, 9 were killed, 3 were seriously injured, and nearly 100 were slightly injured.
The main casualties came from enemy bows and arrows. The armor of the Han soldiers was really bad.
In this battle, 552 barbarians were killed, more than 800 barbarians defected before the battle, and more than 4,000 barbarians (including old, weak, women and children) were captured, and many barbarians fled into the mountains.
The intensity of the battle was actually not high. Most of the barbarians who were killed were hacked to death while escaping.
A large amount of grain was piled in several bunkers in the village, and this was the biggest harvest.
"Prefect, county magistrate, we have captured a thief chieftain. I heard he is Buyu's son." Yu Dian, commander of the Xiang army, escorted A Teng, who was covered in blood.
Yu Dian is a native of Lizhou and is in his forties. He was seconded to fight rebellions in other places before, and he fought extremely bravely in this battle.
Yu Wenchang nodded in approval: "The general fought bravely, and I heard that he also made military exploits when he defeated the Lunan Yi. After this battle, I will definitely ask for credit for the general."
"Thank you, Prefect!" Yu Dian was happy.
He was first transferred to Luzhou to quell the rebellion, and then to Maozhou. He made many meritorious deeds but received nothing. His credit was all robbed of him.
He hasn't been dealt with yet, so why does he have no background to back him up?
Zhu Ming said: "Brother Quan Ke arranged for the civilian men to carry the baggage and move all the military supplies of the camp to the village. I went into the village to receive the prisoners, selected some young and strong barbarians, and let the ghost leaders who rebelled lead the troops. In this way, our army's strength can be greatly increase."
"Then we will divide the work and cooperate." Yuwen Chang said with a smile.
Ju Meng's son Piao Li was still detouring with eight hundred elite troops.
Afraid of being discovered by the Han army, he crossed the river several miles upstream and had to go around the mountains to get to the back of the Han army's camp after nightfall.
Liao Li could never have guessed in his wildest dreams that Busu's village would actually be breached by his detour.
Even if you do nothing, send the old, weak, women and children into the mountains, and only let the elite garrison the bunker, you can still hold on for several days!
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