When the dust settled, the damned man was too dead to die. No matter how depressed Liu Bei was, he couldn't go up and give Marquis Li Wen a touch up.
In a blink of an eye, he saw the general flag belonging to Marquis Li Wen still standing there. He thought about it, sighed, and stepped forward on horseback.
The guards around him fought bloody battles for him, removing all obstacles. Liu Bei easily reached the general flag, pulled out his sword, and cut off the general flag with one blow.
It can be regarded as giving myself some comfort.
Li Wenhou died. He was stabbed off his horse by Guan Yu with a spear. It is hard to say whether he was stabbed to death by the spear or was thrown off his horse. Anyway, he was dead.
Then his general flag was cut off by Liu Bei.
When Li Wenhou died, the Liangzhou rebels might not know.
But when his general fell, more people knew.
The news of Marquis Li Wen's death spread quickly. The Liangzhou rebel cavalry force collapsed, and the Han cavalry won a hearty victory.
Then the remaining Liangzhou cavalry began to flee completely. Liu Bei raised his arms and led his Han cavalry to pursue them. They followed the direction in which the Liangzhou cavalry fled and began to attack the rear of the Liangzhou rebels' main formation.
At this moment, the two main rebel forces led by Han Sui and Bian Zhang were entangled by the two Han armies of Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen respectively. They were fighting fiercely and could not move. They could not divide their troops to support the defeated battlefields.
Beigong Boyu's reserve team has dispatched all the cavalry to assist in the battle, and there is no remaining strength.
The two rebel armies of Guo Guo and Song Yang were surrounding the city where the Han army was defending in the rear to prevent the Han army from threatening their retreat.
They have no extra troops to deal with this emergency.
So in the face of the fierce and murderous Han cavalry, Beigong Boyu became timid.
He saw with his own eyes the destruction of Marquis Li Wen, and he saw the bravery and skill of the Han cavalry. They almost tore the cavalry of Marquis Li Wen into pieces head-on, which made Beigong Boyu frightened.
He could not see the possibility of reversing the situation. He was left with only infantry, some less elite Qiang infantry who lacked armor and were not good at forming formations.
How to fight this?
There's no need to fight!
If these cavalrymen surround him and keep him away from him, they will trap him to death sooner or later.
Do you expect Han Sui and Bian Zhang to save him?
It's better to hope that God will send down a thunder to kill them all!
hit what?
Run!
So he made up his mind, took a deep breath, turned his horse around without saying a word, and started to turn in.
If you want to survive a losing battle, you either have to stack up your armor thickly or turn in faster than others.
As long as you turn like the wind, no one can kill you on the battlefield.
Therefore, in a sense, transfer is also a skill that generals must learn.
Beigong Boyu felt that his armor was not thick enough, so he decisively chose to run away and turned in decisively under the protection of hundreds of his own cavalry.
As soon as he turned in, the remaining subordinates no longer wanted to stay here and die, so they all turned in with him. When the Han cavalry came after them, the rebels had already collapsed and turned in full force.
Liu Bei then commanded the Han cavalry to pursue in two directions.
He personally led the pursuit of Beigong Boyu all the way, surrounded the infantry of Beigong Boyu who was collapsing before they could run away, and used classic cavalry riding and shooting tactics to deal with them, letting them know the sharpness of the Han army. .
How to carry out encirclement tactics is something that every cavalry must understand. Infantry without military formations are just moving targets in the eyes of cavalry.
A more prudent cavalry commander will still follow the plan and use cavalry and archery tactics to reduce the number of infantry first. After the infantry is completely collapsed, he will draw his sword and ride his horse to kill the people.
I won’t talk much about the more violent cavalry commander who leads the charge. I don’t care about you. Let’s talk about it later!
Zhang Fei and Dong Huang are such generals. They have to take care of so many things, so they should rush first and then talk about it!
So they galloped on horseback and ran rampant among the rebels, smashing the Liangzhou rebels into pieces and turning them into lambs to be slaughtered.
Liu Bei led his troops to pursue Beigong Boyu's general flag. He fired arrows while chasing, and killed a large number of Beigong Boyu's guards.
But it should not be said that the personal guards around Beigong Boyu were quite strong. Some of them were very good at equestrian skills and even had the ability to turn around and draw a bow, which also caused some trouble for the Han cavalry.
But these were all minor troubles. Beigong Boyu did not escape Liu Bei's pursuit in the end.
His turning speed was still too slow. At first glance, he didn't have any special training in turning skills. He was not a famous long-legged general. He was caught up by Liu Bei who was full of pursuit skills.
Under the fire of a large number of arrows, his speed continued to slow down and he was overtaken by the Han army.
In the end, all the personal guards around Liu Bei deliberately gave this credit to Liu Bei and made way for Liu Bei to charge with his spear.
Liu Bei was very excited. He charged forward with a spear and stabbed Beigong Boyu under the horse with one spear. Then he cut off his head and cut off the general's flag to show off his great martial arts.
Liu Bei's tone was quite satisfactory.
Beigong Boyu himself was dead, and the infantrymen abandoned by him naturally had no good end either.
The Han army's cavalry led by Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Sun Jian, Dong Huang, Dong Huang and six Xiahou repeatedly charged and killed them. The Han army's cavalry tried their best. In the end, all the infantry under Beigong Boyu's command collapsed. The dead could no longer die, and the living did not dare to continue to advance. , all dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for life.
The successive collapses of Li Wenhou's troops and Beigong Boyu's troops had a great impact on the overall Liangzhou rebels.
If Marquis Li Wen died in battle, forget it. If he died in battle due to lack of strength, he would still be considered a man.
But Han Sui and Bian Zhang never expected that Bei Gong Boyu would be a pig teammate. They ignored the still intact infantry regiment and their teammates who were fighting desperately, and just transferred to Rufeng!
So much so that Beigong Boyu's infantry immediately collapsed without buying them any time.
When Han Sui and Bian Zhang realized that their retreat was being threatened by Han cavalry, they did not even have much time to mobilize troops and horses to protect their retreat.
Because the Han army still has some remaining strength.
Zhang Wen witnessed the entire battle from a high place. He was overjoyed when he saw the Han cavalry, led by Liu Bei, fight bloody battles and win, defeating the armies of two enemy generals in a row.
He immediately ordered the entire reserve force to press forward to expand the victory. If he could block the rebels' escape route and block the rebels here, he would strive to completely wipe out the rebels and win them in one battle. He Zhang Maybe he can go back and become a lieutenant!
rush! rush! rush!
If it weren't for his age and lack of agility, Zhang Wen would have wanted to go into battle and fight in blood like Liu Bei.
So another group of Han cavalry was dispatched, heading straight for the rebels' retreat, preparing to join Liu Bei and block the rebels' escape. The main force of the rebels was tightly entangled by Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen. Unable to move, the situation is extremely critical.
As a result, at the most critical moment, 10,000 reinforcements sent by the kingdom arrived on the battlefield.
This support force was not originally part of the rebels' plan.
However, the kingdom that was besieging Chencang felt that Chencang was too difficult to defeat and could not gain credit or benefits, so it thought of sending troops to Meiyang to see if they could gain benefits by taking military merit. As a result, this sudden army became the rebels' A lifesaver.
Liu Bei was leading his cavalry in a large detour, preparing to cut off the rebels' retreat, surround them all and eat them all in one go. As a result, they ran into the kingdom's 10,000 cavalry troops and started an encounter on the spot.
Bian Zhang and Han Sui quickly learned of this situation, and immediately sent all available reserves up without hesitation. Together with the kingdom's troops, they wanted to flank Liu Bei, eat him, and ensure the safety of their retreat.
Liu Bei was in a very dangerous situation at that time. He had less than 2,000 cavalry around him, but he was surrounded by 20,000 troops. The situation was very dangerous.
Fortunately, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun led their cavalry to attack one after another, and the reinforcements sent by Zhang Wen arrived in time. The two sides fought indiscriminately, and finally rescued Liu Bei from the chaotic battlefield.
The sudden reinforcements from the rebels disrupted Zhang Wen's deployment.
Zhang Wen did not have time to send more reinforcements to help Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's troops were exhausted after successively defeating Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu. They were at the end of their efforts and failed to continue to win. Therefore, the plan to block the rebels' retreat failed. .
Despite this, the threat to the rebels' retreat had shaken the rebels' morale. The rebels could no longer fight this battle. Han Sui and Bian Zhang unanimously chose to withdraw their troops.
Seeing that the rebels were shaken, Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen were unwilling to let them go. They bit them and refused to let go. The main rebel force's intention to move in did not go well, and they were about to be bitten by the Han army. Die here.
When the battle was getting dark, there was sudden lightning and thunder, and heavy rain fell from the sky. The downpour made the battlefield muddy and slippery. The rain and fog filled the battlefield, and the mobility of the cavalry and the vision of the crossbowmen were restricted.
Although Liu Bei still wanted to launch a second attack and fight the rebels in the rain, the reality was that neither the rebels nor the Han army could continue to fight.
The sky soon became so dark that it was impossible to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and it was meaningless to continue fighting. Zhang Wen was also very unwilling, but had no choice but to order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and watched helplessly as the rebels left the battlefield and fled in panic.
Although this battle failed to achieve a complete victory due to unforeseen complications at the last moment, it is an indisputable fact that the Han army defeated the Liangzhou rebels in a head-on battle.
All military generals have made meritorious deeds, among which Liu Bei and Liu Bei's general Guan Yu have made the greatest contributions.
Regardless of selfishness or justice, Zhang Wen ranked Liu Bei as the first contributor to this great victory in Meiyang, and he won the unanimous approval of all the generals in the army.
Important generals including Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen all agreed that Liu Bei deserved his first victory.
The daughter of a daughter personally committed danger and took the lead in killing the enemy in blood. He killed one enemy general in the middle of the army and cut two general flags. He led the army to defeat two enemy armies in succession, creating a major opportunity for the main force to defeat the main force of the Liangzhou rebels head-on. , and then almost cut off the rebels' retreat to achieve full success.
Liu Bei's soldiers beheaded more than two thousand rebels alone, and killed several times as many enemies.
Liu Bei's subordinate general Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang were also extremely brave and achieved one of the two greatest military exploits of this victory. He stabbed the enemy general Li Wenhou off his horse in the midst of a large army on the battlefield.
They have all made great contributions.
After this battle, no one would doubt Liu Bei's bravery and courage. No matter how arrogant the generals were, they all had a little more respect when facing Liu Bei and admired his bravery and courage.
Guan Yu also fulfilled his promise. He happily lifted Li Wenhou's head and placed it in front of Liu Bei, his face full of anticipation.
He was expecting Liu Bei to praise him.
Liu Bei suppressed the strange emotions in his heart, laughed, stepped forward and hugged Guan Yu fiercely.
"Yun Chang is brave and brave. Today I have seen it. In the midst of thousands of troops, the enemy will be stabbed off his horse. Who is the warrior of ancient and modern times better than Yun Chang?"
Liu Bei's hug made Guan Yu enjoy it very much, and also made the surrounding subordinates quite envious.
Especially Zhang Fei, his eyes were red with envy.
On the spot, he said at the top of his lungs that he had killed many thieves and generals, but none of them were as high-level. Next time, he would kill a high-level general, stabbing more than a dozen transparent holes in his body, and then behead him. The head was presented to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei laughed loudly, patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder, and encouraged him.
But the hug Zhang Fei longed for was gone.
A hug from a boss is not something you just get.
Liu Xuande, the warmest man among men, said this.
(End of chapter)
