Chapter 57: The God of Heaven
The feeling of war and one-on-one fight is completely different.
Gao Xianda himself was in the battle formation, and ordinary infantry stabbed him, and basically would not hurt him much blood. Even if he was trapped in the middle and was concentrated on fire, he could instantly replenish his life to a healthy state.
And his mace was swung over and it was a life at once. So although these infantrymen knew the principle of capturing the king first, they did not dare to get too close after being shot by Gao Xianda in succession.
However, the soldiers commanded by Gao Xianda do not have such skills. They are just ordinary people. If they are stabbed off the horse, they will basically have no resistance and be shot. Because the enemy's infantry is quite experienced in dealing with cavalry, Gao Xianda can only watch the lives of his friends around him leave him one by one.
Gao Xianda has found that he still lacks in small-scale combat. He has led a team of five contractors to fight in teams, and has also studied the combat deployment of the group army in the camp.
But this is completely different from what it feels now.
Most contractors are humans, and the war in teams depends entirely on the ability and oppression relationship between each other.
When the strategic deployment of the group army, such as when conquering Sangjie Lama, Galdan and others, Gao Xianda was only responsible for dispatching troops and generals, and the specific battle was responsible for Zhou Peigong and others. For him, it was just some numbers.
But in fact, Gao Xianda did not have the experience of leading ordinary people in the front line to fight, nor did he personally feel the constant death of his companions. But now this feeling is very real, surrounded by flying flesh and blood and falling corpses. What's important is that these cavalry are all under Gao Xianda's subordinates, making Gao Xianda feel that he is responsible for protecting their lives. The death of each comrade deepens his anger.
When anger accumulates to a certain level, Gao Xianda feels like he is burning, his eyes are red, and he only has the instinct of fighting. Whenever he sees an enemy, he just wants to swing a mace and smash his opponents to pieces.
All the people who were hit by his iron rod were broken and their tendons were broken. Even those who were scratched by the wolf teeth on it immediately had a blood hole on their body.
The entire battlefield became a sea of blood, and Gao Xianda was the bloody war god among them.
Few people can see Gao Xianda alone without feeling afraid. As the main general and the heir of the lord, Gao Xianda did not crouch at the end for his own safety. Instead, he rushed to the front and became a banner of the Imakawa family.
I don’t know when, there was no enemy to fight in front of Gao Xianda. The morale of the Oda army was completely defeated by Gao Xianda. There were only deserters who fled loosely and deserters who formed small groups. Behind him was still a cavalry unit with a relatively neat army.
All the cavalry looked at Gao Xianda with a different look, and it was not said to be worship, fear or both. But without exception, they were full of confidence in their coach.
"Victory is right ahead!" Gao Xianda shouted, raised his mace and pointed to the fort with empty troops ahead.
"Hey, oh!" the cavalry behind him shouted.
After Shibata Katsuya was injured, under the protection of his elite soldiers, he had already retreated while fighting and fled back to the fort. The injury of the main general was the most harmful act, which was also the reason why the infantry was eventually defeated. But if Shibata Katsuya had been killed just now, the winner would have been decided long ago.
Only dozens of people were left who could escape back with him alive. At this time, the village gate was closed and he did not dare to come out.
Gao Xianda and his cavalry troops took a short rest in front of the village gate, sorted out the formation, and simply counted the number of people.
Overall, this trained cavalry unit is still more combat-effective than ordinary footlight infantry.
During the early melee, it may have been a one-to-two loss. In the later stage, when Shibata's army was defeated, the cavalry followed Gao Xianda to chase the scattered infantry. Their advantage was exerted, and the damage was smaller.
Even so, more than 100 people were killed in battle in this cavalry unit, and dozens of minor and serious wounded people were each. Less than 300 people could ensure combat effectiveness.
Fortunately, most of these 300 people were more experienced cavalrymen, including the cavalry captain, deputy captain, and several small captains, all the main management personnel were not injured.
When these elites first fought, they instinctively gathered around the main general Gao Xianda to protect him. However, because Gao Xianda's combat power was too brave, they were the safest.
"What should we do?" The cavalry captain asked Gao Xianda for strategy, "Will we continue to attack the city or set up camp here and make plans?"
"How are the morale of brothers?" Gao Xianda asked, who had changed his name to his subordinates without realizing it.
"This is the first time that brothers have seen a brave general like you. They all praise you as a god descending to earth. Now the morale is rising, but I have only been fighting for a day and I am a little tired." said the Cavalier Captain.
"We are tired, and the other party is even more tired than us." Gao Xianda said, "We don't attack when we are in high spirits. Do we have to wait until they have rested before attacking? I'm passing the order that the whole army is ready for battle! Tonight, we will have supper in this village!"
"Yes!" The cavalry captain hurried down and passed the order.
But it is not that simple to attack a village with complete defensive fortifications.
Although the village is not built with stone like a castle, it still has basic defense functions. The village wall is made of thick logs, which is more than 3 meters high. Although there are only dozens of people in the village, if they only stand on the wall and shoot arrows, it will be quite a headache.
Gao Xianda led a team of cavalry and didn't know how to attack the city.
So Gao Xianda asked the cavalry captain to select more than a dozen people with loud voices and shouted loudly under the village: "Stop the gun and don't kill them." He shot in a few documents to persuade them to surrender, indicating that the Imakawa family is magnanimous and surrendered, and those who surrender can live without any blame.
Shibata Katsue has strict military discipline. These dozens of people are his confidant elites. Although they are besieged, they still have no intention of surrender.
There were also several archers looking down from the city, wanting to find the position of the main general Gao Xianda and snipe him.
But this time Gao Xianda did not stand in front, but shot a sound-burning arrow and determined the position of the defending archers. When they showed up, they shot an arrow.
Although Gao Xianda's archery may not be very accurate and not very fast, the 28-power bow is due to its great strength and long range. It is equipped with a special armor-piercing arrow, and can also shoot to the enemy behind through the logs.
Chapter completed!