Chapter 538 The First Battle in Hebei

"Commander, no!"

Yang Feng was shocked when he heard that Zhang Yan was preparing to fight a decisive battle with the Liangzhou Army. He hurriedly hugged Zhang Yan and said urgently: "No, Commander, the Liangzhou Army was originally preparing to fight with the Jizhou Army. I How can our army fight a decisive battle with the Liangzhou army? Isn’t this just a fight between giant clams and a fisherman’s gain?”

"Get away!"

Zhang Yan glared at Yang Feng fiercely, and the sharp cold light reflected on the sharp blade of the sword in his hand, which frightened Yang Feng and hurriedly stepped aside, fearing that Zhang Yan would slash himself with the knife in anger.

"Liu Ye insulted me by dressing up as a woman, how can I swallow this!" Zhang Yan said angrily: "Assemble an army for me, and today I will dampen Liu Yuqing's spirit!"

Seeing Zhang Yan's angry look, Yang Feng guessed that he wouldn't listen to the advice at this moment, so he had to sigh and said to himself: The commander is really angry this time, but he has nothing to do with the Liangzhou army. Fight. Alas!

And the other side.

The Army Sima who had just gone to the Black Mountain Bandit Army to deliver women's clothing looked excited and galloped all the way back to the Liangzhou Army camp. He got off his horse, half-knelt on the ground in front of Liu Ye, and reported: "General! Zhang Yan has been captured. Angered, determined to fight with all our strength."

"Okay." Liu Ye's expression was relatively calm: "In that case, our army will defeat Zhang Yan in one fell swoop and sweep across Hebei."

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the three Zhang Jiao brothers raised their troops in Hebei. Zhang Jiao was originally from Julu County, and the headquarters of the Yellow Turban Army was located in Guangzong. Lu Zhi was ordered by the imperial court to lead his army in the Northern Expedition. In fact, his military strength was limited. The reason why he was able to suppress the Yellow Turban Army step by step was because of the help of military forces from all over Hebei. In fact, the Hebei region was very separatist, and there was a precedent.

Therefore, later Huangfu Song went north to quell the rebellion, and his advisers advised Huangfu Song to sit in Yecheng and form a self-contained area. Hebei was actually a region that broke away from the rule of the Han Dynasty relatively early.

Liu Ye's intention to lead the Northern Expedition this time was not to end like the conquest of Yuan Shu, but to completely pacify Hebei. Not only did he want to eliminate Yuan Shao, but he also wanted to remove the thorn in Zhang Yan's side.

"General, Zhang Yan really has a lot of troops under his command." Guo Jia looked at the formation of the Black Mountain Army opposite him from a distance and said.

Liu Ye looked around and saw that the Montenegrin Army on the opposite side had about 100,000 troops. They were divided into five large formations, each with about 20,000 people. One hundred thousand people can imagine that the momentum is huge and the flags are flying. Looking up from a distance, it really feels like it is invincible.

Jia Xu sneered disdainfully: "Zhang Yan claims to have millions of people in Montenegro, but he has suffered heavy losses in recent years. The 100,000 troops now deployed are of mixed quality and have backward equipment. Not to mention my 50,000 troops, even 20,000 are enough to defeat them. Of."

Liu Ye nodded to express his agreement with Jia Xu's idea. At this time, a horse galloped in front of the formation. It was the former army Xu Huang who was patrolling the tent.

"General, General Xu is asking for instructions, do you want to launch an attack to break the enemy's strength?" Tan Shao reported.

"Launch an attack?" Guo Jia asked doubtfully: "Now the distance between our army's forward and the Montenegrin army is more than 300 steps. Is it too far to launch a fierce attack at this distance? Otherwise, our army will wait until the Montenegrin bandits get closer. Attack?"

However, Liu Ye shook his head and directly ordered the detective: "I agree, order Gongming to launch a fierce attack immediately."

After that, Liu Ye explained to Guo Jia: "Feng Xiao, don't worry. What Gong Ming is best at is attacking suddenly. You can just watch and watch."

Guo Jia said noncommittally: "Okay, Jia will wait and see."

Liangzhou Army, forward.

Under a large banner with the character "Xu", Xu Huang, draped all over his body, looked like an iron man, holding a mountain-breaking ax and staring sharply at the Black Mountain Army on the opposite side.

"General! The general agrees with the forward attack plan."

After hearing the report from the detective sentry, Xu Huang's eyes became sharper and he raised his axe.

"Urge the front camp to obey orders! Charge forward 400 steps to disrupt the enemy's formation and create favorable opportunities for our main attack."

Under Xu Huang's order, the 20,000 forward troops received the order and opened up a passage like a wave splitting. Only an elite force of about 3,000 people was seen slowly arrayed out.

This troop is wearing light armor, but they hold a bamboo shield as high as one person in their hands, and sharp steel knives with thirty tempers in their hands. The whole person is very lightly dressed, but the bamboo shield and steel knife in their hands provide good protection. offensive and defensive capabilities.

This "Fengfeng Battalion" unit was carefully built by Xu Huang. Xu Huang's best tactic is to drive in from a long distance, but ordinary infantry cannot bear the heavy task. Although heavy infantry has good ability to break formations, it cannot Unable to fight for a long time, after a long period of exploration, Xu Huang compiled such an army based on light infantry.

"kill!"

The sound of war drums and horns in Xu Huang's front army sounded at the same time, building momentum for the attack of the front camp. The three thousand warriors of the front camp roared in unison, and the shouts of death merged with the sound of drums and trumpets, creating a huge momentum. .

"Huh?" Lei Gong, the young commander of the Black Mountain bandits' former army who was supervising the battle, couldn't help but sneered when he saw this scene: "The distance between the enemy and our armies was more than 300 steps, but the Liangzhou army overestimated its capabilities and launched a charge. When they rushed over, they were gone. If you don’t have enough strength, our army will take the opportunity to kill them like slaughtering pigs and dogs.”

However, soon, Lei Gong's contemptuous smile gradually became serious, and he stared in disbelief at the three thousand soldiers of the Urgent Battalion who continued to charge.

"Why? After charging such a long distance, the enemy's strength is still so strong?" Lei Gong asked puzzled.

Generally speaking, before the two armies engage in battle, they advance on foot and wait until they are a hundred steps away before launching a charge. This is because the physical exertion of short-distance stormtroopers is very huge, especially for soldiers wearing armor.

Seeing the enemy gradually approaching within a hundred steps, Lei Gong panicked and hurriedly ordered: "Archers, listen to the order and shoot!"

The archers among the Black Mountain thieves prepared in a hurry, but after all, there were a lot of them. Thousands of arrows shot out from the Black Mountain army formation at once, and then swung down from the sky, covering the front camp. among.

However, when these arrows were shot down, Ji Fengying raised the bamboo shield in his hand. The arrows bounced off the bamboo shield, causing very few casualties.

Lei Gong was naturally unwilling to give in and hurriedly ordered the archers to fire again. However, only three shots were fired before the battle, and after three rounds of arrow rain, the damage to the Jiefeng camp was less than a hundred people, and most of them were injured, with very few dead.

At this moment, after a three-hundred-step charge, the three thousand elite soldiers of the Jifeng Battalion finally arrived in front of the Black Mountain Bandits' forward.

"kill!"

Without saying a word, Ji Fengying rushed into the enemy's army and quickly opened up the situation.