Wei Yan was ready for battle, but in Guan Qiujian's view, these preparations did not pose much of a threat.
Because Wei Yan had a big problem with the configuration of his troops.
Wei Yan's military configuration is a typical top-heavy defensive configuration. The most forward part of the front army is the pikemen, and except for this part of the pikemen, whether on the flanks or the rear wing, the weapons in the hands of Wei Yan's soldiers are not pikemen. Ge is the ring-shou sword.
These soldiers are not equipped to resist the impact of cavalry.
And Wei Yan. Wei Yan actually knew the problem with his own strength and military configuration, but he had no choice.
In order to quickly catch up with the retreating Guo Huai Army, Wei Yan could not bring too much baggage. He could only reduce the load of his soldiers as much as possible, using the Huanshou Dao and Chang Ge as the conventional ordnance configuration.
If it weren't for the fact that Guo Huai's army also had a cavalry unit, Wei Yan wouldn't even let his soldiers carry long spears.
The spears of this era are often four to five meters long. This thing has no use at all in a chaotic battle. It is not as useful as the Huanshou Dao and Chang Ge.
Therefore, based on his actual situation, Wei Yan only asked the 500 soldiers of the front army to carry long spears. The purpose was to withstand the attack of Guo Huai's cavalry, seize the time when the cavalry readjusted their formation, and get close to Wei's central army as soon as possible, following The Wei army strangled together to prevent more soldiers from being scattered and killed by the cavalry.
But since then, there is actually a relatively big problem. If the Wei army's cavalry does not confront you directly, but chooses to take a detour and go around to the flank or rear of Wei Yan's army before launching an attack, Wei Yan's army may really have no defense. The ability of cavalry assault.
Guan Qiu Jian's ability is good. Although he is not particularly good at commanding cavalry, he can still see the enemy's military formation very clearly. If Guan Qiu Jian still chooses to run into this top-heavy defense, then he will It's stupid behavior.
Therefore, when the two armies were still two miles apart, Guanqiu Jian suddenly commanded the cavalry to bypass the Shu army's front spear formation and go to the Shu army's flank.
When Wei Yan saw the direction of the enemy's cavalry, he immediately understood the enemy's intentions. He had a headache, but Wei Yan had no choice.
On the one hand, Wei Yan could only quickly order the spear formation to move and start moving to the flanks. On the other hand, Wei Yan ordered Zhuge Qian to lead the remaining front troops to advance forward as quickly as possible in an effort to quickly strangle the Wei army.
As for himself, Wei Yan stayed behind and followed the spear formation to protect the flanks of the army.
Next, it’s time to grab time.
But in fact, Wei Yan also knew that he might not be able to steal Wei Jun's time.
After all, he is a cavalryman, and he can run much faster on four legs than on two legs.
But Guanqiu Jian's detour gave Wei Yan some opportunities. After all, when Guan Qiu Jian took a detour to the flank to launch an attack, he had to make a small circle to open up a distance of at least a mile, so that he could use it more conveniently. The impact of cavalry.
Therefore, Wei Yan felt that as long as he moved faster, he would have the opportunity to quickly move to the flank and block the impact of the enemy cavalry, even if he could not completely block it, it would be good to block part of it.
It's just that Wei Yan also somewhat underestimated Guan Qiujian's commanding ability.
Guanqiu Jian did take a detour, but he did not go around in a circle to increase the distance. Instead, he stayed fifty or sixty steps away from the flank of the Shu army's offensive formation, commanding the cavalry to use mounted fire to harass and drive away the enemy.
In addition to frontal assault, cavalry in these days also had a very effective way to deal with infantry, which was mounted shooting.
Of course, in this era when there are no bilateral stirrups, not every cavalry can do such a job as riding and shooting, and even if they can do it, the hit rate of riding and shooting these days is really impressive. Guanqiu Jian's hand There are only two thousand cavalry in the army, so it is impossible to replace quality with quantity.
Not every cavalryman can do mounted archery, but without requiring accuracy, the requirements for cavalrymen to shoot arrows into the Shu army camp fifty or sixty steps away are not high.
Guanqiu Jian's purpose was not to kill the enemy, but to harass the enemy, destroy the enemy's offensive formation, create chaos in the enemy, and thus undermine the enemy's morale.
After all, the cavalry is too fast, and the infantry can only be beaten passively when faced with cavalry shooting. What's more terrible is that in order to prepare for chaos, Wei Yan's army did not even have shield soldiers. Completely effective protection cannot be achieved.
Therefore, facing the cavalry cavalry that was only fifty or sixty steps away, Wei Yanjun's center and rear wing troops experienced quite a commotion.
At this time, Zhuge Qian had already obeyed Wei Yan's military order and was preparing to lead his army to advance quickly to strangle the Wei army. Wei Yan himself mobilized spearmen in the front army to return to defense. Only Wang Shuang was left in command of the middle army and the rear army. .
However, Wang Shuangzhen was not a general known for his commanding ability. If he had such a brain, he would not appear in the Han army's camp.
Another thing is that Wang Shuang is a newcomer, and his mind is not yet stable.
He had chosen to surrender in order to save his life, but now he was facing his "old master" in less than half a month. Wang Shuang himself did not have much desire to fight.
In this way, Wang Shuang, who was helpless and in an ostrich mentality, did not make effective adjustments and commands to the central and rear armies at all, which resulted in the central and rear armies being in chaos. They did not know whether to take the initiative to attack the enemy or whether to take the initiative to attack the enemy. Take the time to retreat.
This gave Guanqiu Jian the opportunity to ride and shoot all the way to the rear of Wei Yanjun.
In the end, Wei Yan realized that something was wrong, and quickly issued a military order to the entire army to ignore the enemy cavalry and advance quickly, and then he stabilized his position a little.
As for Wang Shuang, although Wei Yan was also angry, the current battlefield situation was very critical, and Wei Yan really had no intention of competing with Wang Shuang.
After this battle is over and everyone can go back alive, we can settle accounts with this idiot.
Of course, if no one can go back, there is no need to settle accounts.
The situation on the battlefield today is already a little bad.
Wei Yan really didn't expect Guan Qiujian's commanding ability to be so good. When they fought against him before, he didn't realize that this guy had such skills. For a while, Wei Yan really couldn't rush to the rear army immediately. Therefore, we can only do our best to get the soldiers to advance forward as quickly as possible before the Wei army launches a second raid.
But Guanqiu Jian really didn't intend to give Wei Yan too much time.
Guanqiu Jian, who had already detoured to the rear of Wei Yanjun, reorganized his army one mile behind Wei Yanjun, changed from cavalry and shooting mode to assault mode, and prepared to launch an attack on Wei Yanjun's rear flank.
This time there is no cavalry shooting, it is just a pure cavalry raid.
At this time, Wei Yan, with a spear formation of 500 men, had just arrived at the central army and had no time to reach the rear army's position.
There are about 2,000 soldiers in the rear army. If they are attacked by 2,000 cavalry, Wei Yan really cannot afford to lose.
What Wei Yan was most afraid of was that after Guan Qiu Jian defeated the two thousand infantry, he directly drove the infantry to flee in the direction of Wei Yan. Facing such a chaotic army, it was impossible for Wei Yan's spear formation to stand up. Naturally, It was impossible to temporarily stop Guanqiu Jian's cavalry.
Under such circumstances, it would be difficult to complete his own raid mission, let alone mobilize Guo Huai's former army for reinforcements.
Maybe he will be surrounded by enemy troops and eventually die on the battlefield.
Death on the battlefield is not scary. What Wei Yan is really afraid of is that he died on the battlefield but has no value and cannot hold back the Wei army.
So Wei Yan is really anxious. He hopes that the rear army can now have a reliable commander who can command the soldiers to stick to the spot and buy himself some time. But it is a pity that the rear army now only has a reckless commander. The husband and the king are both here.
Can you expect a commander like Wang Shuang to buy yourself much time? !
As long as he had this ability, there would not have been chaos in the middle and rear armies. Eh? ! what's the situation? !
Just when Wei Yan was anxious and helpless, he suddenly discovered that his rear army had gathered together at this time, and began to actively move forward to attack the Wei army! ! !
Wei Yan is so angry. What on earth is this bastard Wang Shuang doing? !
Let two thousand infantry take the initiative to attack two thousand cavalry. Is this because you think you won't die quickly enough? !
Or is it that when Wang Shuang saw that the situation on the battlefield was not right, he was ready to defect on the battlefield and surrender to Guanqiu Jian? !
But this doesn’t make sense.
If he wanted to defect on the battlefield and surrender, he, the more stupid Wang Shuang, should have asked the soldiers to put down their weapons and kneel down to surrender. The smarter one, shouldn't he have taken the initiative to launch an attack on his side? !
Why take the initiative to gather the troops and launch a counterattack in the direction of the Wei cavalry's attack? !
Could it be that Wang Shuang really had the courage to use this suicidal attack to buy time for himself and Zhuge Qian? !
Wei Yan really couldn't understand what Wang Shuang was doing, but in this case, if Wei Yan could no longer effectively control the rear army that had rushed out, it would be better to form an array on the spot.
Let's list the defensive formations first. After a while, the rear army was defeated and I was so shocked that I couldn't even list the defensive formations.
No matter what, Wei Yan's main purpose was to buy some time for the more than 4,000 middle and front troops led by Zhuge Qian, so that they could successfully fight with the Wei army.
As for the rear army, Wei Yan had given up hope.
(End of chapter)
