The long spear in Xu Huai's hand was specially made. In addition to the sharp long blade that was two feet and five inches long, in order to greatly increase the chopping and slashing power during horseback assault, the spear blade was connected to the pole.
The parts are also forged from solid fine iron and are two feet long.
The long spear has only the front blade and the collar weighs more than twenty kilograms.
This heavy weapon for horse fighting with an extra long handle and a center of gravity completely placed at the front requires not only the strength of the arms, but also extremely high requirements for martial arts and riding skills.
Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to maintain balance on a bumpy horseback without falling off, not to mention slashing and stabbing like a thunderstorm in the enemy formation.
When Xu Huai fought against masters, he would not trust Da to use such a heavy weapon. Sometimes he would even think that the handle of the horse's shaft was too long, so he needed to temporarily break the shaft and change the horse's shaft to a walking shaft for fighting, but the armored and heavy cavalry assembled.
Breaking through the enemy's formation with an assault, the iron collar has a different kind of power that can shock the enemy to death.
The thieves formed in Yu Chidao to intercept were quite well-trained. They had a dense shield array in the front line, and there were many archers who fired bows and arrows behind the cover of the shield array. However, the thieves all held soft bows and shot out sparsely.
The rain of arrows could not pose any threat to the heavily armored cavalry at all.
Su Mima is good at using the horizontal sword in battle. He is more advanced than Xu Huai when charging with his cavalry. When fighting the enemy, he swings the horizontal sword quickly. The swords are like lightning, and under the light of the swords, there are several long poles coming together.
The gun blades all snapped in response.
Xu Huai rode his horse forward and slashed several afterimages with his heavy sword. The three heavy shields in front of him suddenly shattered, revealing the faces of the thieves behind the shields who were as frightened as seeing the God of Death.
The heavy sword in Xu Huai's hand did not stop at all. He slashed left and right, slashed and slashed, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. He opened and closed the shield in front of him, tearing apart the shield formation in front of him like paper.
, which makes it easier for elite strikers to rush forward from the side and break into the thief formation.
Xu Huai still had the consciousness of being a coach and tore apart the current shield formation. Seeing that there were no particularly strong players in the intercepting bandit army in front of him, he stopped rushing forward to fight recklessly.
However, Xu Fang and Su Miao were brave and led various armored horses to charge into the enemy formation.
Especially Xu Zang, a spear was like a dragon soaring into the sea. Almost none of the thieves could parry his moves. The spear blade passed by with a cold light, causing bloody storms.
After the battle, the speed of the cavalry formation's advance will inevitably slow down.
Niu Er, who had previously had to put all his energy on the back of the horse and hold on to the front rail of the saddle for fear of being thrown off, had to arrange for two riders to be careful of arrows on his left and right, but Niu Er was at ease at this time.
Niu Er tightly grasped the crossbar on the front of the saddle with one hand and swung his hammer with the other. Hearing the broken bones and limbs mixed with miserable screams and wails, the blood in his chest was about to boil, making him
Unable to restrain himself, he roared like a wild beast.
At some point, everything on the left and right was empty.
Niu Er looked around blankly, and asked Xu Huai in great disappointment: "Is this going to kill them all?"
The Dongting Lake bandits roamed across the Jing Lake swamp, and were able to fight back and forth with local soldiers and horses. In the past two years, the soldiers' armor and equipment have also been improved, and their morale has risen, but the human heart is still fleshy after all.
The shield formation that the bandits thought was indestructible was as fragile as paper in front of the Chushan cavalry led by Xu Huai, and was easily torn apart. Seeing the soldiers around them fighting bravely like Xu Pang, Su Mi and others, it was like weeds being blown away by the wind.
How many people can still have the will to fight and not escape, even if they fall down without any resistance at all?
What's more, there is Wu Chihai leading elite archers on the flanks, galloping and shooting, and the harvesting speed is not half a minute slower than the armored cavalry's frontal piercing assault.
Of course, Xu Huai would not waste time on those thieves who fled for their lives in the surrounding fields. There were too few of them. Except for a dozen riders who used long hooks to pick up arrows scattered in the soft mud, he ordered the others to gather back quickly.
More than a thousand steps away, there were more than a hundred bandits formed in formation. Niu Er curled his lips in displeasure and said, "This band of bandits seems to be even worse! It's enough for Xu Tan and I to go forward and fight. Let everyone
Just rest your strength and escort Jieshuai all the way, it’s hard enough!”
"What nonsense, a lion still needs all his strength to fight a rabbit. How many battles have he won, and you are so satisfied?" Xu Huai glared at Niu Er, and said to Wu Chihai and Su Mi, "You two, each lead a team.
The cavalry of the team, get close, gallop and shoot, then defeat them!"
Xu Huai did not rely on the mobility of his war horses to quickly go around to Shuangliu Village to simply resist the bandits' attack on Shuangliu Village. He realized that the Dongting Lake bandits had so carefully lurked in northern Ezhou to launch a surprise attack that things were not as simple as they seemed.
However, even if he was determined to catch these bandits off guard so that they would not dare to launch deeper plots, he would not just go on a rampage without knowing how to change his tactics.
The second group of intercepted bandits were not only more hasty in their preparations, but were also frightened by the powerful piercing power of the Chushan Assault Cavalry.
Wu Chihai and Su Mung each led a dozen armored cavalry, approaching from the flanks with bows, crossing and galloping away. One after another, heavy arrows shot into the bandit formation from the gaps, spreading the bandit array. Xu Huaicai made Xu
He led a dozen armored cavalry to rush in, and defeated the second bandit army.
Seeing that both groups of troops were defeated without any resistance, with corpses lying scattered in the soft field, and blood flowing like rivers, the bandit army no longer dared to organize troops to intercept them in a hurry, so they all gathered in the direction of the ferry and assembled.
Surrounded by dozens of cavalry, Xu Huai continued to approach Shuangliu Village along the avenue.
The eight or nine hundred thieves who had previously attacked Shuangliu Village had now formed ten small square formations across the wooden bridge in Beizhai. The door panels that had been demolished and used to withstand crossbow fire from the village wall were now
They are all carried by strong thieves, which strengthens the density of the front-line shield array. This bandit army also has relatively ample time to adjust the array.
Xu Huai did not choose to enter Shuangliuzhuang through the Dongzhai Wooden Bridge in order to avoid danger, but instead advanced directly to the Beizhai Wooden Bridge.
"Jiang Ang, the dragon who has conquered the river, is here. Who is coming? Please tell me your name. Jiang Ang will not kill unknown people." Jiang Ang stood barefoot in front of the formation, carrying an iron rod, like half an iron tower, staring at the horses.
Xu Huai and others came.
"What do you mean by this idiot? Are you going to challenge one of us to a duel?" Xu Fang turned his head and asked Xu Huai in confusion.
In addition to the nearly a thousand thieves standing in formation in front of Shuangliu Village, there were a dozen elite thieves in armor beside Jiang Ang, holding swords and shields, staring nervously at him.
Xu Huai looked at Xu Zang, curled his lips and asked, "Are you going to challenge him to a duel?"
"It's just a thief, what's the point of being brave enough to win alone?" Xu Zan sneered.
Xu Zang is aggressive and aggressive by nature, but he is not stupid.
He used to serve as a general under Chen Zixiao, and he was not very disciplined. Chen Zixiao kicked him back to the vanguard army, and no one spoke for him. He was not even scolded by his father Xu Wuqi - Shouchun
Delivering the message was no merit, and he was punished by not being able to lead troops until now.
He saw Xu Huai's evil eyes. Did he mean to let him come forward to challenge the traitor general?
How could he easily fall into Xu Huai's trap and receive a reprimand for nothing?
Xu Tan learned the lesson, but Niu Er couldn't tell whether what Xu Huai said was true or ironic. He jumped off his horse and said, "I'll take this mace and blow open the brains of this thief grandson!"
Xu Huai was too lazy to pay attention to Niu Er. He grabbed Niu Er's shoulder with one hand and ordered to Wu Chihai, Xu Zang and Su Mi:
"When we move out, Fanlongjiang will inevitably retreat. Wuchihai, Xutan, you are responsible for leading him to bite his butt and trample on the bandit array. Su Mi and I will lead the troops and horses to gallop to resist the thieves on both sides.
When advancing, we must defeat the traitors in front of us in one go without any hesitation..."
The eight or nine hundred thieves in front of Shuangliu Village were divided into formations. The formations were well organized, and the men and horses were far above them. They occupied a radius of three or four miles in front of Shuangliu Village, and there was a certain amount of room for advancement, retreat, and change.
The fact that Jiang Ang, the Dragon Conqueror, can arrange his troops in such a way means that he is not a simple reckless general.
Xu Huai's biggest taboo at this time was that the fifty or sixty cavalry behind him would fall into the enemy formation and lose ground.
At that time, the thieves defeated by them in the formation can escape to the outside through the many gaps in the square formation without causing a big chaos. However, the thieves with tight formations on the outside can move forward separately, outflank their flanks and rear, and supplement them with
With crossbows, it is hard to say that Xu Huai would not suffer heavy casualties.
However, Fanlongjiang Jiang Ang was not honest enough to supervise the battle in the rear formation, and actually ran to the front of the formation to lure him. This provided conditions for them to bite Fanlongjiang Jiang Ang's butt and trample on the thief formation.
Seeing Xu Huai replace the long spear in his hand with a Zheshi walking bow and tie the quiver to his shoulder, Niu Erweng shouted: "Are you kidding me again?"
Seeing Niu Er about to get on his horse, Xu Huai said: "You lead a small group of troops and fight on foot on my left and right! All wounded soldiers will be killed!"
In a large range, the assault cavalry attacks the thieves who are ten times their own size. The core of the troops must be as fast as a fire starting a prairie fire, killing quickly with speed, and killing indiscriminately. However, the entire assault cavalry array still needs a support to turn the world around.
, the supporting center of gravity that rushes forward and backward, and at the same time prevents the rout of the bandit army from running around in their relatively loose array.
"If you want to fight, then fight. If you don't want to fight grandpa, let's go and snatch the little ladies from the Wang family to sleep!" Jiang Ang of Fanlongjiang saw that the situation was not right. He dragged the iron rod and cursed to retreat into the formation. However, at this moment, Chushan suddenly
The cavalry was launched again, with Wu Chihai and Xu Dang taking the lead, rushing towards the bandits like a double-headed poisonous dragon.
Xu Huai's horse was slightly behind. When the bandit formation opened to accommodate Fanlongjiang Jiang Ang and dozens of elites from his direct lineage, Xu Huai stepped on the horse stirrup and stood up, holding his walking bow horizontally, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and tied the arrow to his shoulder.
The feather arrows in the bag were taken out one by one and shot towards the bandits.
Hearing the trampling sound of horse hooves behind them as fast as a storm, Jiang Ang and the armored thieves around him could no longer suppress the panic in their hearts. As they accelerated their retreat into the formation, there were holes everywhere in the opening of the formation.
Su Mung and others also held crossbows and shot them, and the arrows rained like locusts. In the blink of an eye, eleven or two thieves were hit by arrows when the formation opened. It was difficult to close the shield formation in the rush and panic.
In Wuchihai, Xu Pang took advantage of the opportunity and followed Jiang Ang and others from the gap to rush in. A barrage of spear shadows and thorns were like an overwhelming force, tearing down all obstacles.
In Wuchihai, Xu Zang only killed the enemy in front of him, making sure to bite the figure of Jiang Ang, the river-turning dragon, and quickly attack the depths of the bandit army.
When Wu Chihai and Xu Pan encountered obstacles, or Jiang Ang, the overcoming dragon, turned around and fought with his elite, more armored cavalry rushed forward from the side to assassinate them, quickly cutting through them layer by layer.
Xu Huai and Su Miao were slightly behind. They mainly used their bows and crossbows to kill the panicked enemies on both wings, aggravating the chaos and preventing the thieves on both wings from outflanking them in an orderly manner.
Niu Er held a shield in one hand and brandished an iron mace in the other, advancing and retreating close to Xu Huai. When he saw a lone thief nearby, he used his iron mace to open his head. In the blink of an eye, his heavy armor was stained again.
