At this time, the wind was blowing rapidly in the southeast direction, picking up the snow on the ground, and the flying snow was like catkins, flying all over the sky. Even if the moonlight is bright and clear, as far as the eye can see, there are only a hundred steps away. The Shu army formation was at least several miles long, and the two ends could not be distinguished in the snow. The Duanliu Plain five miles away is more like an isolated island in a snowy night, invisible in the vast wind. Only the Liang Army officers who were advancing forward stood out among the blinding white because their armor was all painted black.
The Liang people rode their horses in iron armor and held long swords as the front line. They galloped hundreds of steps and approached the left flank of the Shu army. At this time, the distance was extremely close. The current Liang Army cavalry was squeezed by the Shu charging infantry, and there was no room for them to stretch out and fight. In order to avoid wasting horsepower, Zhang Liao ordered the heavy cavalry in the front line to dismount and fight on foot first, and then charge forward after the formation was stabilized. .
Seeing someone from the Liang army dismounting, the Shu army immediately asked their troops to press forward. At the front of the strict formation were the Shu army's archers. They rushed forward one after another and took turns shooting arrows at the Liang people.
Facing the rain of arrows, Liang Ren did not immediately break into the enemy's formation. The Sima in charge raised his sword high and ordered his soldiers to stop. They stuck their long swords and swords in the snow, and took off the bows they had carried along the way. As a winding Liang people's temporary battle line gradually formed, their sharp arrows drifted along the wind toward the Shu army's formation.
Because of the wind and snow, it was difficult for the Shu army's bows to be effective. When they flew out, they felt like they were caught in the rolling snow waves. They pretended to be cold and thick armor, and the damage they could cause was even less. There were also some people who were shot in the face or even eyes by flying missiles. They were scattered on the ground, kneeling or huddled in the snow. But after all, the Liang people had a favorable wind, and the arrows they fired caused greater damage to the Shu army. For a time, the arrow rain that the Shu people attacked was significantly weakened. However, the Liang people did not bring many arrows, and they were all shot quickly.
The Liang people stopped to shoot arrows, not only relying on the favorable wind to weaken the Shu people's front, but more importantly, allowing the soldiers in thick armor to take a breather and regain some energy. After running around all day today, even Liang Ren, who is famous for riding horses, can't help but feel a little tired. Now that we were wearing heavy armor and the snow was deep, it was even more difficult.
The only advantage Liangren had was that the strong wind had blown up the snow, making the battle formation obscure and difficult to distinguish. In this case, it is beneficial to the attacker. Just as the rain of arrows fired by Liang Ren disappeared, with a burst of shouting, Liang Ren mounted their horses, drew their weapons and charged. The flying snow was still flying, and the roars of the Liang Army soldiers sounded as if they were coming slowly from a distance. When countless black-armored enemies with arrows on their fronts and pockets suddenly jumped into view, it was too late for the Shu army's archers to retreat. At this critical moment of life and death, most of the archers still performed extremely bravely. At the last moment when Liang Ren approached, many of them seized the opportunity to shoot the last arrow. The distance was extremely close, and the armor-piercing arrows with slender tips immediately shot the group of Liang people in front of them to the ground.
Then it turned into a short massacre for Ryoto to vent his anger. The Liang people who entered the battle waved their swords, and the Shu archers who were crowded in front were unable to fight back. They were all chopped down in an instant. The red blood soaked in the snow-covered ground, like flowers rendered on white paper. The flowers also stood out in the night.
The Liang Army's first assault was the elite Fuping Army of the Liangzhou Army, which was under the command of Wei Xu and Yan Cheng. Together with the Mengshi Battalion commanded by Zhang Liao's own formation, there were more than 5,000 men in total, all of whom were elites in hundreds of battles. Especially the Mengshi camp was built by Zhang Liao carefully selecting from the northern land. The officers and soldiers among them were all tall, strong, brave and good at fighting.
Zhang Liao followed Chen Chongli to fight against the Huns, and then went from Dingyuan to Luoyang. He was highly used by Dong Zhuo and participated in the Battle of Heqiao, the Battle of Shaanxi County, the Battle of Gaoling, and the Battle of Chang'an, not to mention later in Liangzhou, almost He must follow every battle and is known for his bravery and quick wit. Now that he has just turned thirty, he is already a famous general in Kansai.
Before taking the lead, Zhang Liao knew that this was a fierce battle that was rare in his life. Without the determination to die, there would be no chance of victory. So he had thought about the danger of dying in battle many times: either falling off his horse and dying, being surrounded, or being shot in the eyes. After this, his eyes showed a cruel and desperate spirit. When he walked to the front line, even the people around him couldn't help but look at him with fear.
Zhang Liao wears an iron bag on his head, a collar covering his neck, and a bright iron armor. He has an iron ring chainmail under his waist armor, reaching to his knees. He wears deerskin riding boots at his feet. His whole body is painted like a black tower. After clearing away the current archers, Zhang Liao immediately rode into the enemy formation and led his troops to fight with the Shu army's infantry formation. The Shu army did not know what was blocking them, but it was the most elite troops under Lu Bu's command. Facing the powerful enemy wearing heavy armor and fighting to the death, the formation was broken up one after another.
The Shu people couldn't resist, so they retreated and tried to reorganize their front. However, the Liang people regarded death as home, regardless of the missed arrows, and rushed forward blindly. They broke through the temporary defense line of the Shu people many times. In the end, most of the resisting Shu people were driven into the southern formation, and the Shu people were crowded. Together, they did not form a solid front.
Before Wei Xu entered the battle, he was shot in the mouth by a Shu man. His mouth was full of broken teeth. Fortunately, no vital parts were hurt. He spit out his broken teeth, held the bloody arrow shaft horizontally in his mouth, and went deep into the Shu people's formation to fight. During the siege, the Shu people were throwing swords and swords in chaos, the Liang people were fighting desperately, and the soldiers around Wei Xu gradually fell to death. In the end, only eight warriors were left. When they dispersed the Shu people who were still in front, they realized that they had gone deep behind the Shu army's formation.
Wei Xu secretly thought in his heart, the general asked us to squeeze the Shu army to the southeast. Now the Shu formation has been pierced by me, but I only have seven people. I wonder where General Wenyuan is next? How should I act? When he was hesitating, he saw a Shu general on a black horse, led by an entourage, withdrawing from the fighting formation. When Wei Xu saw this, he immediately rode towards the Shu general with a sword and killed him. When the attendant saw this, he hurriedly let go of the bridle and stabbed Wei Xu with the long silk in his hand.
Wei Xu cut off his spear with a slash of his knife, then forced him forward and stabbed him to the ground with the tip of the knife. People surrounded the white horse, pulled the man off the horse, and pinned him down on the snow. After asking him about his life, he learned that he was a Sima of the Shu army named Zhao Min, who was from Dianjiang. He asked him about the layout of the Shu army's formations, but he refused to tell him, so Wei Xu beheaded him and wrapped his head with cloth. , carried in hand.
They were about to return to the formation to kill Shun, but they found that Zhang Liao also led hundreds of people to fight out of the formation. The broadsword held by Zhang Liao was full of gaps. He took it off, dismounted from his horse, and sat on the snow to rest while leaning on a broken pole. When he saw Wei Xu, he said to him with a strange look on his face: "That shouldn't be the case. Although the Shu army has a good fighting spirit, I fought along the way and didn't meet any real elites. Could it be that they are all on the right wing?"
But after thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure it out. He put this doubt aside and sent an envoy to reply to Lu Bu, suggesting that he break through as planned.
Because the wind was blowing snowflakes, Lu Bu's location was not at a high place. He did not immediately see Liang Ren rush into the gap. He was still waiting anxiously for news from Zhang Liao in front.
But in the formation of the Shu army, the situation is different. Liu Fan temporarily built a high platform in the formation and observed the battlefield situation from the platform. Although the night was dark and bright, and there was drifting snow and fog, which made it very obscure, he could still clearly see the current anxious situation of the Liang army's front.
The center and right wing of the Shu army did not move, and neither did the curved left wing of the Liang army. The left wing of the Shu people was attacked by the full force of the Liang people and collapsed towards the rear and east. The left wing of the large formation of yellow flags and yellow armor was embedded with a torrent of black armor, which almost cut off the left arm of the Shu army. Especially the Shu army, which was isolated to the southeast, had their infantry mixed together and retreated steadily under the fierce attack of the Liang people, which made the defeat tend to gradually expand.
But Liu Fan didn't look panicked. He formed a formation to treat each other here, so he had naturally made relevant preparations, but he did not use his long right wing to outflank Liang Ren. He still considered this more cautiously, because once the attack was launched across the entire front, and the Liang army who was watching the battle on Wei Yuan subsequently outflanked them, the situation on the battlefield would be difficult to predict.
Now seeing Liang Jun opening a gap on his left wing, Liu Fan's intention towards Lu Bu was completely clear. If he was really allowed to outflank his own formation, the situation might indeed take a turn for the worse. However, he had already had a strategy to deal with it, but it was not yet time to make complete preparations, so he thought for a moment and called a young general who was sitting next to him to rest, it was Gan Ning.
Liu Fan pointed out to him the dangers faced by the left wing and the formation in a slow and calm tone. Then he said to him: "It will still take some time for Gong Heng to be in position. You will lead all the cavalry under your command. You must delay the time and don't let the rebel army expand its breach. Are you confident?" He asked again: "Previously. You challenged the enemy general, were you ever injured?"
Gan Ning smiled calmly and said: "I was not injured. Although the man took away my spear, I took the opportunity to stab him. If we can fight again this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to defeat me."
After Gan Ning responded to the order, he immediately summoned all the mobile knights on standby in front of the formation, a total of more than 2,000 riders. Since the confrontation with Lu Bu, the knights had been waiting in armor, so there was almost no time to delay. As soon as Gan Ning came out of the battle, these knights followed him and immediately rushed towards the collapsed left wing to the southwest.
Just as the Shu people dispatched mobile cavalry, they tried to counterattack the Liang people who entered the battle and fill the gap. Lu Bu, who had been waiting for news in the Liang army formation, finally received the news from Zhang Liao's messenger. Hearing that the forward troops had fought bravely to kill the enemy and had broken through the left wing of the Shu people, Lu Bu stood up from his seated Mazha.
Seeing the general getting up, the knights who were sitting in the snow all stood up one after another, staring at their lord, waiting for him to give orders.
Lu Bu stretched out his hand and ordered his slave to hand the Zhongxing Sword to his hand. He pulled the sword out of its sheath. Under the moonlight, the sword's blade showed bursts of cold light, and several pieces were blown up by the wind. The remaining snow falls on the sword, and you can see the two characters "Zhongxing" in small seals engraved on it. These two characters were written and engraved by the late emperor himself.
Lu Bu's face was solemn, but he was praying secretly in his heart: "This sword was made by the late emperor and given by your majesty. It has been with me in the battle for six years. Finally, today is the decisive battle. I hope that this time I can also wish me success!" "
The second tong drum was beaten in the Liang army formation. This was the signal for General Lu Bu to command the motorized cavalry to charge into the Shu army's breach. What he didn't know was that Gan Ning, covered in brocade bells, was leading the Shu army's motorized cavalry to charge into the formation. Liang Jun's heavy cavalry. The military strength of both sides is only a few thousand, but whoever arrives first and seizes the gap will likely determine the fate of the soldiers on both sides in this battle.
