The enemy cavalry rushed over. Facing Xu Huai, who was fighting on foot, Wang Ju and the others naturally had the advantage of being in a commanding position, but unfortunately the red warriors on horseback were all armed with short-handled scimitars.
As light cavalry, they mainly roamed on the flanks of the enemy and shot down the enemy with crossbows and superb archery skills.
Even if they want to engage the enemy, especially when attacking the infantry array from the front, the first thing they have to do is to knock away the obstacles formed by the infantry's shields and spears.
It is best to break up the infantry array, and then take advantage of the high-speed galloping of the war horses to penetrate the enemy formation. They can skillfully cut the opponent's neck with their blades, or slash the panicked opponent from the side.
If they cannot knock away the rock-solid array of infantry immediately, the normal choice is to quickly gather their troops and retreat, looking for new opportunities.
Even most of the time, the Red Husband's light cavalry would try their best to avoid directly attacking the infantry array from the front.
This in itself is a big taboo for them, and they cannot do it based on their talents.
When they attack the infantry formation, they mainly attack the oblique angle of the infantry formation.
This will form a very smooth wheel tactic, constantly attacking, impacting the front corners of the infantry array, and achieving the goal of constantly consuming the opponent and eventually causing it to collapse.
No matter how many changes there are in the formation of the light cavalry, the tactical principles are actually very simple.
However, Xu Huai and the others got out of the southeast wing, and only eleven people stood in front of the other remnants of the Western Army. No matter how cautious and experienced the Baihu general was, leading more than a hundred fine cavalry, how could he avoid their attacks?
Hundreds of generals wanted to devour these eleven people in one bite.
At this time, the bent soldiers in the hands of the red cavalry became their most fatal weakness.
If these captive cavalry were armed with spears, spears, horse spears and other long poles and long-handled weapons, no matter how brave Xu Huai and Wang Ju were, facing three to five or even seven or eight troops charging with their horses, they would face each other at the same time.
The chest, abdomen and other vital parts of the body were stabbed with spears and spears that were extremely powerful. How many of them dared to bear it with their flesh and blood?
Or do they have any confidence that they will be able to parry seven or eight incoming heavy spears in an instant?
The armor they wore could block arrows and slashes from swords, but it could not withstand sharp spear blades, spear blades, and heavy slashes from heavy-edged knives such as Mo Dao.
They were wearing armor, and at the same time they were destined to be unable to dodge and shoot flexibly. At this time, they could only use heavy shields and spear arrays to block the opponent's charge, slow down the opponent's charging momentum, and then go forward to fight. However, a denser formation was needed at this time.
Only eleven people are not enough.
Now the opponent is a light cavalry armed with short soldiers. At the moment when the horse is close to him, Xu Huai does not need to worry about the spears and spears coming at him. Of course, he can move from the starting position to the restraining position extremely calmly, and he will be able to ambush him without any mistakes.
The power of the python sword was fully unleashed, so that after killing the captive soldiers on horseback, there was still enough power left to deflect the momentum of the galloping war horse, causing it to hit the captive knights on the side.
Xu Huai and Wang Ju, one on the left and one on the right, killed the leading soldier and led the two horses to both sides. At this time, it was not the charging formation composed of more than a hundred soldiers that instantly killed Xu Huai and the others.
However, it was the cavalry formation itself that was torn apart by Xu Huai and Wang Ju.
Gap.
The cavalry, including man and horse, plus armor and objects hanging next to the saddle, weighed over a thousand kilograms. At the same time, they were engaged in battle at such a high speed. They were extremely powerful. Ordinary people would not even have the courage to stand in front of the horse.
Not necessarily.
It would not be surprising if the knight on horseback was killed at this time.
Even if only one soldier has enough courage to point a spear at the cavalry charging at high speed without giving way, he will have a chance to kill the man on horseback.
The leader of the formation always has the highest casualty ratio.
The problem is that the opponent not only kills people, but also deflects the high-speed sprinting war horses. What kind of terrifying power and precise combat skills is this?
You must know that such a fast horse impact, even if a strong man holds a large shield on his shoulders to resist, if he does not know the trick of releasing the force and just carries it hard, all the bones in the body may be smashed to pieces.
This was also the key for more than a hundred captives to dare to charge directly. They thought that these remnants of the Western Army could not form a tight formation in a hurry, and it would be easy to tear them apart.
But they didn't think that among these remnants, apart from Liu Yan and Chen Yuan, two well-known figures, there were actually two such brave and powerful generals hidden in the dark.
On the one hand, the direction of the forward charge was disturbed, on the other hand, they were shocked by the majestic figures of Xu Huai and Wang Ju, and the red cavalry behind them inevitably experienced some confusion at this time.
Some people took advantage of the situation and pulled the reins to the side to avoid colliding with the chaos in front. Others were happy to see the fierce general, thinking that they could obtain greater military exploits, and continued to charge forward with roars.
At the moment when the gap in the cavalry formation was torn open, Wang Xian snatched half of his body. The glinting gun blade swooped out from the depths of the grass like a poisonous snake. It plunged into the armpit of a prisoner and was instantly whipped.
go back.
Wang Xian's strength was not as strong as that of his father and Xu Huai, and he could not move the 60-pound iron spear, but the wooden spear in his hand was as agile as a swimming dragon.
The sword in Xu Huai's hand struck out with sharp rays of light, making the enemy cavalry dare not come within a foot of him. He glanced at Niu Yashan who wanted to give up his shield for an axe, and cursed: "Niu Er, you piece of shit!
If you dare to give up your shield for a sword, be careful that I will punish you with military law!"
"I don't want to play with this broken shield, it's not easy to play at all!" Niu Er saw Xu Huai, Wang Ju and Wang Xian coming forward to kill. Yan Xiaoyi, the grandson, could also use his agility to move in and out from the flank.
, giving the enemy cavalry a chill from time to time, but he could only watch the show with a broken shield, so angry that he almost cried.
Xu Huai shouted at him: "You are a turtle, holding an iron shield with both hands, knocking the soldiers off their horses, smashing their faces to pieces, it would be better to split them with an axe!"
They had only eleven people in the front, and they had to withstand the charge of more than a hundred captives. They had to organize the remaining soldiers behind to muster the courage to engage the enemy from the flanks and reduce the pressure here. How could Xu Huai dare to let General Niu return at this juncture?
Replace your shield with a long-handled ax and charge into the enemy formation to get rid of the waves?
Xu Huai then ordered Yan Xiaoyi, "Yan Xiaoyi, keep an eye on this bitch Niu Er. If he doesn't obey, use a mallet to knock this grandson unconscious! Save him from having to kill him."
As long as Niu Er has the opportunity to be in front of the enemy, it doesn't matter whether he has an ax or a shield in his hand.
The iron shield in his hand is made of a chest-high wooden plate covering a whole piece of forged armor, and weighs fifty or sixty kilograms.
Ordinary generals would have to carry such a large shield on their backs and support it on a wooden frame as a shield on the battlefield. Only a man with the power of Niu Er could raise it with one hand and charge into battle.
Others either held wooden shields covered with cooked cowhide, or carried large shields with all their strength and advanced from left to right.
However, Niu Er was very strong, but holding a shield in his left hand and a short sword in his right hand, it was difficult for him to engage in battle with the soldiers who were high on horseback.
Now Xu Huai forbade him to use the long-handled ax he carried behind him, but allowed him to use the iron shield to kill the enemy. Niu Er immediately threw away the dagger in his right hand, grabbed his position from the gap between Xu Huai and Wang Xian, and used the iron shield as a
The heavy weapon hit a prisoner on the head.
The soldier was also unlucky. If the sword was coming at him, he could have used his scimitar and round shield to block it. But seeing the iron shield coming towards his head, he hurriedly raised his round shield to block it with great strength.
The shock was heard, and half of his body was involuntarily knocked away.
Xu Huai's sword was as fast as a meteor, drawing an arc of cold light in mid-air, and the next moment he chopped off the soldier's left arm at the same level as his shoulder.
"This head is mine!" Niu Er shouted angrily when he saw Xu Huai snatching his head.
"You're half!" Xu Huai shouted angrily, "Just hit like this, knocking the soldiers on horseback sideways, creating opportunities for the left and right to kill them with one blow. The soldiers' swords are fierce, so you use your shield.
Every time I help you kill an enemy, half of your head will be counted!"
"Then that's pretty much it!" Niu Er exclaimed with satisfaction.
When more than a hundred soldiers on the left wing launched an extremely decisive attack on Xu Huai's side, Liu Yan's heart was hanging.
He knew very well that he, Chen Yuan and the remaining soldiers could deal with the two groups of horsemen for two hours. The most important thing was that the two groups of horsemen wanted to kill their heads without any damage.
This is also the regular tactic used by the Red Husbands to deal with weak prey on the grasslands.
Liu Yan also knew very well in his heart that if Lu Qi really did not care about casualties, the remaining soldiers led by him and Chen Yuan would be exhausted and panicked, and they might not be able to withstand an attack from the other side.
When more than a hundred soldiers rode towards Xu Huai and the others and rushed towards them, Liu Yan and Chen Yuan were ready to go over and receive reinforcements. In any case, even if they gave up on surrounding the hundreds of soldiers on Shupo Hill, they could not
Seeing that Xu Huai and the others were in danger was directly related to whether they had a chance to evacuate through Shuozhou.
But they didn't expect that Xu Huai only used the ten elites around him to take the lead, like an extremely sharp and majestic sword, killing the captives ten times his own to pieces.
Although they didn't take Xu Huai's bravery seriously, they had heard of it before.
So when they saw Xu Huai cutting people and horses bloody with his sword at every turn, the shock in their hearts was not that great. But the question was, why was the middle-aged man next to Xu Huai, who was looking at the taciturn man, so ferocious with his spear?
"Isn't that General Wang?"
Wang Ju had burns on his face. During the previous meeting, even if someone around Liu Yan saw him and thought he looked familiar, they would not be able to recognize him. After all, everyone believed that Wang Ju had died in a fire in Jingzhou Prison more than ten years ago.
However, it was extremely rare in this world to be able to kill such a powerful person with an iron gun. How could a veteran from Jingyuan, especially Jingzhou, not be suspicious at this moment?
