Xu Huai and the others were fighting in the fields on the north side of the relatively low-lying wooden bridge. They could only concentrate on killing the thieves and soldiers gathered within their sight, making it impossible for them to form an outflank and counterattack, and they were unable to do what Lu Xiong and Wang Wenchong did.
, Zhao Heng and others stood on the wall of the village and had a panoramic view of the entire battlefield.
The battlefield was 1,300 to 400 paces north of the village wall. Wang Wenchong, Zhao Heng and others could really feel how thrilling it was for Chushan's sudden cavalry to kill like fifty or sixty evil wolves rushing into a herd of sheep.
Zhao Hengyuan was originally a lieutenant of the Ma Army Division in front of the palace. He was dissatisfied with the court's ignorance in his early years. During the first Bianliang defensive battle, he saw the ministers of the court groveling and begging for surrender, even betraying the defenders who fought bloody battles.
General, he left the camp angrily and followed Wang Xun.
After Wang Zhen died of illness, he, his wife and children, together with Lu Xiong, escorted Wang Xuan back home with her coffin in hand.
Zhao Heng settled down in Ezhou. He would rather serve Wang Xuan than join the army. However, he was quite proud of leading troops in battle. In his free time, he would compete with Lu Xiong on martial arts and discuss marching.
Matters of war.
The scene in front of him made Zhao Heng, who boasted that he knew a lot about marching and fighting, have deep doubts about himself.
How can cavalry fight like this?
How can cavalry fight like this?
The Chushan cavalry marched in columns before meeting the enemy, and then changed into a wedge formation. When the formation was most dense, the soldiers were knee-to-knee. They wore more sophisticated armor with more comprehensive coverage. Most of them were holding long spears.
They carry spears and spears, and most of the horses are also covered in horse armor.
Even though the momentum of Chushan's assault cavalry charge was much more powerful and intense than Zhao Heng imagined, they were still a typical heavily armored cavalry.
The most common tactics used by armored cavalry mainly rely on huge impact to penetrate combat capabilities and deliver devastating blows to the enemy.
However, if the armored cavalry is too disadvantaged in terms of strength and does not have enough armored infantry or light cavalry to accompany it for combat, it will be unable to cut and penetrate when faced with an enemy infantry array that is arranged in formation and occupies a deep and vast battlefield.
It will be seriously insufficient.
Generally speaking, nearly a thousand bandit troops gave up blocking the entrance and exit of Shuangliu Village from the east and gathered in formation to the north of Shuangliu Village. In addition, there were another 1,600 to 700 bandit troops intact at the ferry crossing seven or eight miles away.
Zhao Heng thought that this small group of Chushan reinforcements should enter Shuangliu Village to meet them first.
Zhao Heng did not expect that Chushan Tuqi, after forcibly breaking through the bandit army's interception twice in a row, would still choose to launch another surprise attack on the superior bandit army that was waiting in the north of Shuangliuzhuang.
Zhao Heng did not expect that after the Chushan Cavalry boldly charged into the enemy formation, they did not dare to continue cutting into the depths of the enemy formation because of their huge numerical disadvantage.
Zhao Heng did not expect that the Chushan Cavalry only had such a small number of men and horses. In addition to using half of the armored cavalry to continuously penetrate and cut through the bandit formation, they also dared to separate the other half of the men and horses, abandoning long-handled spears and spears and replacing them with horizontal knives and crossbows.
Waiting for weapons, they used light cavalry tactics to fight among the thieves in the formation, fighting in a melee with the thieves.
Zhao Heng did not expect that the eight or nine hundred bandits that had just plunged them into despair would not be able to successfully organize a smooth outflank and counterattack from beginning to end.
During the first defensive battle of Bianliang, Xu Huai sneaked into Bianliang. Zhao Heng met Xu Huai at the side of Wang Zhen, who was seriously ill. At that time, Chushan had also become famous, and Xu Huai was surrounded by elites from all battles.
But it is far from being so incredible.
He looked at the neatly organized array of the bandits, which was like a huge piece of silk cloth embroidered with fish scale patterns. It was first torn apart by a pair of invisible giant hands, and then seemed to be engulfed by a prairie fire, turning into ashes and flying everywhere...
Everyone on the wall could hardly imagine that the rebel army was well prepared and had a huge advantage of more than ten times or nearly twenty times in strength, but it fell apart in the blink of an eye.
In addition to their excitement, they also had an extremely strong sense of unreality in their hearts:
Is everything happening in front of me real, not a dream?
Xu Pang and Su Miao each led a dozen armored cavalry along the ditch on the north side of Shuangliuzhuang, shooting and dispersing the thieves.
Xu Huaile stopped his horse on the wooden bridge north of Shuangliuzhuang, frowning slightly, looking at the bandits gathered in Judah in the direction of the ferry.
"Master Lu, Miss Xuan is here!"
Niu Er turned around and saw that the village gate had just opened at this time. He walked towards Lu Xiong and Wang Xuan triumphantly, waved the mace soaked in thick blood in his hand, and asked ostentatiously,
"Master Lu can see the level of Niu Er and I in killing enemies just now. What do you think?"
"You idiot, you just tortured and killed a few vegetable bandits, what do you have to show off?"
Xu Huai reached out and knocked Niu Er on the head, and bowed his hand to Lu Xiong.
"It's rare to have such a refreshing fight. I really want to drink some good wine to celebrate!" Niu Er shouted.
Over the years, the elites of Chushan have always been on the front line of guarding the captives. Even if the enemy forces surrendered, they were still elite soldiers and generals who could rule the roost for a while.
The thousands-mile attack on Taiyuan and the Battle of Ruying were even great victories that could be recorded in the history books. However, because the Chushan Army suffered huge casualties in these battles, it was difficult for most of the generals to achieve such great victories.
Get rid of a heavy heart.
But this time, not only were the fifty or sixty cavalry killed dozens of times, but the bandit army that was twenty or thirty times our own was routed, but only a few of them suffered minor injuries. Niu Er and the others could enjoy the joy of victory.
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What happened to Yaochai?
It’s fun to abuse food!
"This time I went to Jianye to see His Majesty, and I wanted to come over to pay homage to the King. Fortunately, I didn't encounter any delays on the way, otherwise it would have been too late!" Xu Huai told Lu Xiong with emotion that he arrived at Shuangliu Village in time.
Because of this, when I saw Wang Xuan wearing armor, with a sword tied to her waist, and her bright and beautiful face adding a lot of heroism, she smiled and said, "You are trying to imitate Wang Xiang and defend Shuangliu Village!"
"How can I be like my grandfather? You see, my palms are already sweaty!" Wang Xuan spread her white palms to Xu Huai and said with some embarrassment.
"Wang Wenchong met Xu Hou!"
Wang Wenchong led a group of disciples from Shuangliuzhuang to come forward to salute Xu Huai.
Dai Viet pays great attention to checks and balances on local officials. Therefore, the status of local officials such as military envoys and transshipment envoys is actually far worse than that of the former feudal officials. Only envoys such as Xuanfu envoys and Xuanfu envoys are not permanent.
Only those who take charge of local military and political affairs can be called frontier officials.
Although Xu Huai did not add the title of envoy, envoy of Xuanfu, etc., as a commander-in-chief of one party, with the title of Marquis of Jingsheng, his status was still higher than that of ordinary envoys of economic affairs and transportation.
Not to mention, Xu Huai saved the lives of more than a thousand people, young and old, in Shuangliu Village today.
Wang Wenchong led the crowd and performed the ceremony with great respect.
Wang Zhen was too upright as an official. When he was appointed to high positions such as Yushi Zhongcheng, he did not like the clan children to cling to him, let alone support the Wang family's children. Therefore, when he was demoted to Tangzhou, Wang Zhen was only accompanied by Lu Xiong.
Xu Huai was not very familiar with the Wang clan, so he just returned the courtesy politely.
At this time, the villagers guarding the village wall came to report that another group of people came from the direction of Hanchuan City to Shuangliu Village.
Lu Xiong said with emotion: "It should be Yin Yaozhi, the magistrate of Hanchuan County, who came to Shuangliuzhuang with sword archers for reinforcements!"
There were not many defenders in the city of Hanchuan. Yin Yaozhi stood still and watched Shuangliuzhuang being massacred by the rebel army. Wang Fan was still angry in his heart. Apart from giving him little shoes to wear, he could not punish Yin Yaozhi and other Hanchuan officials to death.
No help.
No matter what, Hanchuan City is much more important than Shuangliuzhuang. The Hanchuan defenders are not private soldiers of the royal family, and Yin Yaozhi is not a private official of the royal family.
If Yin Yaozhi could not defend Hanchuan City, but caused Hanchuan City to fall because of his rash actions to rescue Shuangliuzhuang, he would have been severely punished.
However, even though Xu Huai made most of the officials hate and reject him in the court, Yin Yaozhi and others did not dare to sit back and watch what happened to Xu Huai in Hanchuan.
Otherwise, who knows if Emperor Jianji would be furious and behead all of them?
Liu Qiong'er, Han Gui, Jiang Xie and others, under the protection of the armed guards of Lifengtang led by Xu Sheng, rushed to the gate of Hanchuan City. The county magistrate Yin Yaozhi weighed it again and again, and still gathered 200 sword archers to join forces with Lifengtang soldiers to attack Shuangliu.
Zhuang came with reinforcements.
However, the county captain's military officials were afraid of the enemy and were too timid to fight, so they were delayed a lot while leaving the city. When they saw Chushan's sudden cavalry attack one after another and defeat the intercepting bandits, they hurried to Shuangliuzhuang.
Xu Huai's status and identity were there, so he led his troops into Shuangliu Village first, leaving Wang Wenchong alone at the wooden bridge to wait for Yin Yaozhi to arrive with reinforcements.
However, the bandit army was so scared after being killed that they gathered up the defeated bandits and fled towards the ferry. Not to mention attacking Hanchuan City, they did not even dare to stay between Hanchuan City and Shuangliuzhuang anymore.
Not long after Xu Huai followed Lu Xiong and Wang Xuan to sit down in the lobby of the Wang family's old house, Wang Wenchong, Xu Sheng and others came accompanied by Hanchuan County Magistrate Yin Yaozhi and other local officials.
"Yin Yaozhi, the magistrate of Hanchuan County, has met Xu Hou! The lower official has sent envoys to Jiangxia to report, and also asked Xu Hou to go to Hanchuan to sit in town until the reinforcements arrive to destroy the lake bandits!"
Yin Yaozhi was over fifty years old. As a scholar who came from the imperial examination, he used to be full of prejudice against the people of Chushan. However, he stood at the top of the city and witnessed with his own eyes more than fifty elite cavalrymen of Chushan, led by Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai himself, killing three people.
Thousands of thieves abandoned their helmets and armor, became frightened when they heard the news, and were deeply shaken in their hearts.
He led some sword archers to Shuangliuzhuang and saw that in the soft fields on both sides of the road, there were corpses abandoned by the bandits. Most of the corpses were still bleeding. The water between them and the Tianlong ditch was chaotic and bloody.
In addition to being shocked, they were still grateful that the imperial court had such brave generals who could relieve the danger of Hanchuan City at a critical moment.
Standing in front of Xu Huai at this time, he did not dare to slack off at all.
"I stayed in Shuangliuzhuang so that the rebels would not dare to attack. Yin Langjun did not have to worry about the rebels daring to attack Hanchuan from Shuangliuzhuang. However, the rebels took advantage of the fact that the roads in all directions of Ezhou were blocked by floods in the flood season to launch a surprise attack.
The plot should not only be about Hanchuan." Xu Huai did not want to go to Hanchuan City and said to Yin Yaozhi, "Although I may be unfounded in worrying about everything, but just in case, I have ordered an emergency deployment of a thousand cavalry from Chushan to go south, and
Write a letter to Xianggong Wen to mobilize two thousand elite troops of Zuo Xiaosheng from Xiangyang to go south..."
"Marquis Xu guesses that the traitor army is plotting against Jiangxia?" Yin Yaozhi asked in shock.
"What we know now is too limited. It could be Jiangxia, Yuezhou, or Jingzhou, but the bandit army would never have been able to plot so carefully for Hanchuan alone," Xu Huai said.
The army's delusional plan to seize Hanchuan City caused Hanchuan City to fall into the hands of the enemy. At that time, Chushan and Xiangyang's reinforcements to Jiangxia and Yuehai would be blocked. However, Yin Langjun did not need to worry too much, as the rebel army was roaming across the lake.
There is nothing they can do in this swampy land. They want to attack the city and seize the stronghold, but they still lack some firepower..."
