Chapter 1411: Fire Horse Breaks the Formation
Remember [new] in one second! The Wei army was very fast. The distance between Gaoliu and Pingcheng was tens of miles, and one hundred thousand troops arrived in one day. After the army arrived at Pingcheng, they began to prepare for the attack in an orderly manner. At the same time, thousands of baggage vehicles had also been prepared. In preparation for the formation, tens of thousands of spearmen and crossbowmen were matched with the chariot formation. These were all prepared by Xu You for the Tang Army's cavalry.
However, what they did not expect was that the Tang army would react so quickly. The next morning, not long after the Wei army began to attack the city, tens of thousands of Tang army cavalry appeared in the Wei army's sight.
"How is it possible! No...impossible..." From the position of the Chinese army, standing on a high building cart, Yuan Shao, Xu You and the others had already seen tens of thousands of Tang army cavalry coming like a tide from a distance.
"Didn't you say there are only twenty or thirty thousand? How can there be so many cavalry? Can anyone tell me..." Yuan Shao roared hysterically as if he was crazy;
"Your Majesty, it's no longer time to pursue this matter. Your Majesty, please be prepared to evacuate." Xu You was the first to react and pulled Yuan Shao who was dancing on the car.
"Yes, retreat, hurry up, give the order to retreat..." Yuan Shao suddenly panicked, and when he heard the word "retreat" from Xu You, he immediately shouted;
"We can't retreat like this. At least we have to see if the chariot formation can block the Tang Army's cavalry. If it can't, we need to arrange several troops to take turns blocking the Tang Army's attack." Xu You looked at Yuan Shao, who was already incoherent, and fought again. cut him off.
After all, Yuan Shao had experienced a lot of battles. Although he was frightened by the tens of thousands of Tang Army cavalry, after several reminders from Xu You, he finally calmed down a little, at least not as panicked as before.
"Come here, order the chariot array to defend the enemy!" In fact, the chariot array has already been prepared for the formation. Now the Chinese army gives the order, and thousands of carts and baggage vehicles immediately begin to form the array, and the spearmen and crossbowmen also Under the command of the generals of each department, they gathered towards the inner circle of the chariot formation, preparing to inflict fatal damage to the Tang Army's cavalry.
Seeing that Yuan Shao had finally calmed down a little, Xu You reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, we still need to prepare for the worst." As he said that, Xu You pointed vaguely in the direction of Gaoliu to the east.
After his reminder, Yuan Shao also came to his senses: "Can't the car array also resist it?"
"Your Majesty, looking at the posture of the Tang army, they should have been prepared for a long time and were just waiting for us to arrive. Otherwise, Yanmen Pass would not have gathered so many cavalry. If there are really only 30,000 to 50,000 cavalry, these car formations may still have some effect. , but the current situation is obviously more than just a few cavalry. I estimate that the Tang army has no less than 70,000 to 80,000 cavalry..."
"Seven to eighty thousand... I regret not listening to Zi Yuan's words." Yuan Shao muttered in a low voice that only he and Xu You could hear. "But, there are nearly 100,000 soldiers here..."
Xu You understood what Yuan Shao meant: "The king's safety is related to the survival of the state of Wei. The king is fine.
Then Wei will be fine, and as for the one hundred thousand soldiers..."
Yuan Shao's expression only struggled for a moment, and then he was relieved: "Yi Ziyuan, what should I do?"
Xu You approached Yuan Shao, said this in his ear for a while, and then backed away.
"Rumble!..."
With the thundering sound of horse hooves, tens of thousands of cavalry are now rushing towards Pingcheng like a wave. Because Zhao Yun is the commander of an army, he does not lead the army at the front. The front is ten thousand led by Zhang Liao. Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and beside him were the Huyandu Cavalry and the Huns Cavalry from Bei.
"Report!" Zhao Yun was talking to Fazheng about the war arrangements. At this time, a messenger ran over from the direction of the front army.
"Report, general. General Zhang Liao ordered his subordinates to report that the Wei army seems to have formed a vehicle formation outside the city with baggage vehicles. Please make a decision, general."
"Hmph, it's just a trick. Such a childish trick, do you really think it can have much effect?" Fazheng heard this and chuckled;
Among the Tang army, in addition to Zhao Yun, who is a cavalry general, Zhang Liao is now added. Tian Yu, Huyandu, and Qubei are all the most familiar with cavalry tactics. However, Wei has few cavalry generals, so they were initially discussing At that time, Fa Zheng and the others had already speculated on the tactics Wei might use to resist the cavalry.
The car formation is one of them. However, Zhao Yun and the others have already discussed how to deal with the car formation.
When they heard that the Wei army really used chariot formations to fight against their own cavalry, the two of them looked at each other and smiled.
"Let's go and have a look." After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he lightly picked up the reins of his horse and headed towards the direction of the forward army.
"Drive!" Fazheng also caught the horse's belly and followed.
The two quickly arrived at Zhang Liao's army. At this time, Zhang Liao's army was less than a mile away from the Wei army's chariot formation. When they saw Zhao Yun and Fazheng arriving, they quickly turned around and saluted: "General, military advisor." !”
"General Zhang!" The two responded quickly.
"How?" Zhao Yun asked;
"General, please look, the Wei army has formed a vehicle formation, but they are only using ordinary baggage vehicles, but I don't know whether they are grain, grass or dirt." Zhang Liao stretched out his riding whip and pointed at the Wei army's position opposite.
"You will know if you try it!" Zhao Yun said: "Ask General Hu Yan and send people to shoot three rounds of rockets, aiming at the Wei army's vehicle formation."
Soon, Huyandu next to them sent out two thousand assault cavalry and rushed towards the Wei army's formation. When they reached a stone's throw away from them, two thousand rockets shot towards the Wei army's formation.
The Wei army's reaction was not slow, but dozens of baggage carts were still ignited by rockets, and the thick smoke made the Zhao generals' eyes light up. In fact, Xu You had already loaded nearly half of the baggage carts with mud. His original intention was to put these mud-loaded vehicles in a circle outside. First, the mud-loaded vehicles were heavier, and second, they were afraid of the Tang army's rockets.
However, man's plans are not as good as God's plans. There were too many Tang cavalry this time. In order to increase the defense range, they had to withdraw some baggage carts loaded with food and grass from them. In this way, it became the direction for the Tang army to break through.
"Order Hu Yandu and Qu Bei to lead the army to surround five rounds with rockets, and order the horses in the rear formation to be ready. The direction of the breakthrough can be placed in these places." As he said, Zhao Yun selected several directions for the breakthrough from the middle.
"General Zhang, after the battle horses break through the enemy's chariot formation, your Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry will be the first wave of cavalry to charge into the formation. After charging into the formation, do not stop, and directly attack Yuan Shao's central army."
"Yes!"
"Order, attack!"
In the central army of the Wei army, on the tower carriage, the Wei monarch and his ministers watched tens of thousands of Tang cavalrymen running back and forth outside their own chariot formation, tens of thousands of rockets whizzed in and fell into the chariot formation, and soon countless baggage was ignited by the rockets.
The sound of horse hooves soon came from afar, and Xu You looked up and saw tens of thousands of horses coming, but there was no knight on the back of the war horses. On the contrary, wisps of black smoke came out of the horses' tails.
"No, the Fire Bull Formation! No, the Fire Horse Formation!" Since Xu You had already thought of the chariot formation to stop the Tang cavalry, he must have thought of how the other side's altar would break his chariot formation. Unexpectedly, the other side had prepared the war horses to break the formation so quickly. It seems that his guess was correct. The Tang army was well prepared.
"Your Majesty, please change your clothes immediately and leave quickly! I am willing to command the troops here for you!" Xu You immediately suggested to Yuan Shao. He knew that it was impossible for the chariot formation to stop the Tang army. Now he could only let Yuan Shao withdraw safely to Gaoliu. As for the hundreds of thousands of troops, he could no longer care about so many.