Chapter 191 Yan Yan is surrounded
At noon, there was already smoke in a newly built Nanman village on the bank of the Tuojiang River. The women set up a fire pit and started cooking.
Outside the village, the southern barbarians were still driving cattle, horses, livestock, and slaves to reclaim the land on the land that had just been burned. Many of these slaves were newly captured Han people.
In the distance, the sound of trumpets suddenly sounded, followed by the sound of earth tremors and the sound of horses galloping. The barbarians in the fields panicked and threw their whips and drove the cattle, horses and slaves to hide in the village. In the distance, thousands of warriors were rushing under the leadership of a gray-bearded veteran.
This person was Yan Yan. Zhao Yun could not stand him so he had to promise to defend Han'an for him and let him lead four thousand Shu army infantry and cavalry to attack the barbarian tribes south of Han'an.
When Yan Yan rushed to the front of the camp with his cavalry, his three thousand infantry were still advancing in the rear in the form of a marching force. Most of the barbarians had already hidden behind the walls of bamboo. However, there were still a few barbarians who were reluctant to leave cattle, horses and slaves, and did not hide in the camp in time. They were killed by Yan Yan's cavalry with one knife.
When Yan Yan approached the village, the arrows poured down towards his troops like heavy rain, most of which were bamboo arrows. Although these bamboo arrows could not penetrate the armor of the Shu army, the war horses could not bear the pain caused by the bamboo arrows. One after another, one roared and neighed. Many Shu army riders were caught off guard.
Yan Yan pointed at the village with a spear in his hand and shouted loudly: "Go to the dead soldiers first, get on!" More than fifty cavalry rode out of the cavalry formation and rushed towards the village with the rain of arrows.
When they rushed to only five or six battles away from the village wall, more than 30 people were caught. The remaining dozen cavalry threw out a kind of hook and grabbed the top of the bamboo village wall, and then rode their horses in the opposite direction.
Just a sound of "hulala", the wall of the village that lasted thirty or forty wars was neatly pulled to the ground. The Shu army rode their horses and rushed into the gap.
Suddenly, Yan Yan saw the cavalry in front sank into the ground. He was shocked and realized it. While strangling his horse desperately, he warned loudly: "Be careful, boys! There are traps on both sides of the village wall!"
Before he finished speaking, several people had already sunk in front of him, and screams came. The Shu army soldiers who fell into the horse pit were pierced by bamboo sticks at the bottom of the pit. At this time, the rain of arrows in the village was densely shot towards the gap. A large number of Shu cavalry soldiers were caught in arrows and fell to the ground.
Yan Yan knew that using cavalry to attack the Nanman camp would inevitably suffer heavy losses, so he had to order the troops to withdraw and take the remaining nine hundred cavalry to turn around and meet the infantry behind.
Half an hour later, the three thousand infantrymen of Yan Yan's army finally arrived. Without saying a word, they surrounded the barbarian small village on all sides. Just waited for Yan Yan to give orders, and launched a full-scale attack.
At this time, a barbarian leader with two beards in the village was standing safely on the watchtower, looking at the Shu army soldiers outside the village. He couldn't help but sneer and said in his heart: "You will be beautiful later."
It turned out that this barbarian village was originally the bait of the handsome man Ah Huinan. It was deliberately set up to be less than 60 miles away from Han'an, waiting for Yan Yan to attack.
Yan Yan glared at the small village in front of him, which was at most two thousand people. He thought that his five thousand elite Shu army could not go down in one go. If he couldn't fight, he wouldn't have to fight anymore.
"Transfer our military orders, with swords, shields and hands in front, cavalry halls, and the whole army attacked!" Yan Yan shouted loudly.
Following his order, the drums and whistles of Shu army were loudly heard. Three thousand infantrymen attacked and killed the small villages of the Southern Barbarians from three sides. When they approached, the two sides began to project arrows at each other.
There are many rockets among the arrows of the Shu army. These rockets cross the sky like flying fire meteors, igniting the thatched huts in the village. You can see the flames rising in the village and the black smoke rising from the sky.
The swords and shields of the Shu army held their shields and held their swords to protect the spearmen and spearmen to advance steadily. When the spearmen approached the wall of the village, they used spears from time to time to check whether there were traps hidden underground.
The sword and shield soldiers finally passed through the gap in the village wall that had been broken before and chopped against the barbarians in the village. The spear soldiers used small flags to mark the path they protruded out.
A sword and shield soldier who was rushing to the front blocked the shield with a shield. The barbarian's bamboo pole iron spear was stabbed on the shield. Before he could withdraw the gun, the sword and shield had already rushed to the front and cut into the barbarian's neck with one knife.
Before the barbarian soldier fell to the ground, two more bamboo spears stabbed at the sword and shield soldier, and immediately pierced two gun holes. The sword and shield soldier of the Shu army endured the severe pain, slashed the sword and slashed hard, and cut off the spear heads of the two bamboo spears at the same time, and then collapsed to the ground.
Another sword and shield behind him rushed up. Two barbarians holding broken guns were panicked, throwing away the "bamboo pole" in their hands, turning back and running back. Unexpectedly, the other party rushed up with one step, slashing one by one, and slashing the blade into their backs, bringing them to the ground.
More barbarians rushed up with swords and guns, but at this time there was a burst of rapid horse hooves. Yan Yan personally led the cavalry into the village. The riders held the Fengshou steel sword in their hands, and under Yan Yan's leadership, they rushed around in the village.
Yan Yan flew up and down in his hand, stabbing left and right. All the barbarians near his mount were shot and fell to the ground. The Shu army cavalry who rushed into the camp followed him to chop and kill with the horse's power, cutting off enemy heads and broken limbs.
The Nanman Village suddenly screamed and wailed, and the fire became more and more fierce. The sound of a ox horn suddenly sounded, and the barbarian soldiers who were still fighting stubbornly retreated to the Tuo River.
They dragged out the bamboo raft hidden in the grass by the river, pushed into the Tuo River, and floated downstream. Only some women were left in the village, and these women didn't matter to them, and they could still plunder again in the future.
Yan Yan led the Shu soldiers to search and clean up the village, and after confirming that the remaining barbarians had been killed, he was about to order the evacuation of the village. He suddenly heard the sound of oxen horns coming from all sides, followed by a shout like a tsunami.
Yan Yan was shocked and climbed a tower that was about to collapse. He looked out of the village. The village was surrounded by black heads. There were at least 20,000 barbarian soldiers. He felt a sank in his heart, knowing that he had fallen into someone else's trap.
Although this place is a plain, except for the wilderness facing the north, which is covered with artemisia and grass, the other two sides are rich in vegetation and forests. Ah Huilan ambushed more than 20,000 people here.
At this time, the more than 20,000 people surrounded the village. The barbarians in the north had already prepared a large number of bamboo horses to resist horses, quickly spliced them together, and built a long line of defense between the Tuo River and the jungle.
Yan Yan then calmed down and ordered: "Quickly put out the fire in the village and repair the village wall. Infantry lined up at the gap in the village wall! Quickly send troops to Han'an for help!"
The soldiers of the Shu army moved in response and became busy. The Suoxin Barbarians also made their own arrangements and did not launch an attack immediately.
Chapter completed!