Baihu General Ellesu stopped his horse and held his bow across the saddle. The yellow-brown eyes in the deep eye sockets were like the eyes of poisonous snakes, staring coldly at the dense foot formation beside the river beach in the distance. When he saw that
Pieces of blue-black forged armor reflect the cold light under the weak winter sun, as if they merge into a clear lake.
As a veteran cavalry officer under Prince Ping Yanzong, he followed Prince Tu Ge of Ping Yan to conquer the north and south. In recent years, he was stationed in Bozhou and led his troops to raid south from time to time. He had many encounters with the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty in Huainan, but he never
They had never seen such well-equipped heavy armored infantry who could remain so calm in the face of the rain of arrows they had fired from the flanks before.
This further proves that the small group of people who suddenly broke into the Caochang River were the elites who broke through their blockade along the river from Beijing and Xiangxiang.
The blockade on the upper reaches of the river is as leaky as a woman's crotch. The Han army is really unreliable.
Ellesu cursed in his heart.
He also secretly speculated that this small group of troops appeared near Yuelong Village. It was just like Qianhu Zhuosu said. Jingxiang intended to strengthen the defense of Yuelong Village so that their subsequent reinforcements could come straight over and attack Yuelong Village.
Landing nearby?
??????????????????The troop transport ship departing from Nancai or Jingzhou chooses a day with suitable wind direction to go down the river. When the time comes, the sails are raised, and the boatmen and oarsmen row together.
Using oars, and driven by the river current, the ship's speed will reach extremely high speed.
The river surface in Jiangzhou, Chizhou and other places is three to five miles or even seven or eight miles wide, and their navy cannot completely block the river surface like building a city wall: the naval warships cannot be stationary at all times.
They were parked on the river in a row, and it was impossible to pull up such a long iron rope in a hurry.
Theoretically, as long as Beijing and Xiangxiang ignore casualties, they can send some of their troops directly to Jianye; however, if they want to land and establish a foothold, they must have a supporting foothold on the coast near Jianye.
Seeing this scene with his own eyes, Erlesu was more inclined to Qianhu Zhuosu's judgment.
On the river beach farther away, their warships were ferrying the infantry from the other side to the west bank. Currently, more than a hundred soldiers had boarded the river beach - there were no ready-made docks or ferries, and the river became shallower as it got closer to the river beach.
If the ship does not want to run aground, there is no way to rush directly to the river beach to pick up the infantry. The infantry needs to wade into shallow water to board the ship, and the speed will naturally not be fast.
However, this Beijing-Xiang army was completely silent at this time.
Obviously, it is impossible that this Beijing-Xiang army did not know the principle of attacking halfway across the river. They probably felt that the hundreds of infantry who had already landed could not satisfy their appetite, right?
Should we wait for more infantry to cross over to the west bank before attacking to eat them?
Ellesu couldn't help but feel a little impatient. This Jingxiang army was too calm and calm. He led his troops to shoot around, not to mention completely containing them and creating opportunities for the infantry to cross the river quickly. There was no way to cause disturbance.
So to what extent will the infantry reach the crossing point before the Beijing-Xiangang army will launch like thunder?
When nearly 400 Han troops crossed the Caochang River and formed a formation on the low-lying river beach, Ellesu finally saw the Beijing-Xiangxi army moving in front of him. Facing the side of the river beach, the formation was
Open like a portal.
"Haorui!"
Erlesu raised his iron spear and shouted loudly.
The position where the Han army crossed the river was not particularly good. The relatively open river beach was concave towards the west bank. In fact, it made it difficult for the Han army to cross the river and the flanks of the array to be protected by the navy - this was what Ellesu realized at this time.
, I thought that I had underestimated it at the beginning, and I should have ordered the Han army commander Yang Zexiong to choose a better crossing point.
But now that the matter has come to this, he cannot just sit back and watch the Han army that has crossed the river be easily eaten. The only way is to take advantage of the Beijing-Xiang army trying to attack the Han army on the river bank, launch a charge from this side, and destroy it in one fell swoop regardless of casualties.
Destroyed.
In this regard, Erlesu was still very confident. After all, although the armor of the Jingxiang Army was so exquisite that it was eye-catching, which was also an important reason for him to launch a decisive charge, it did not have the weapons used by the Jingxiang Army.
A quarter of the two hundred cavalry he brought over were wearing horse armor.
How many elite infantrymen, without the cover of war weapons, and seemingly few sharp spears, can withstand the charge of heavily armored cavalry head-on with only shields and long knives?
"Haorui (charge)!"
Hearing Ellesu's military order to charge, more than two hundred red cavalrymen all cheered.
While following Ellesu in the charge, the formations of the two hundred or so Red Hussars were also rapidly adjusting and changing, demonstrating the superb tactical qualities of the Red Hussars.
The armored heavy cavalry formed a denser cone-shaped formation in the center, like an indestructible sharp spear; the more numerous light cavalry armed with bows formed in a flying geese formation.
Separated from the two wings, they moved forward at a faster speed, and waves of denser arrows hit the infantry of the Beijing-Xiang Army, creating disturbances.
After the light armored cavalry fired a wave, not all of them dispersed towards the two wings like flowing clouds. Dozens of sturdy men rushed to the front and rear of the formation and dismounted directly, holding round shields and sabers, preparing to advance from the two wings in coordination with the heavy armored cavalry.
conflict.
At this moment, the west side of the formation was like a door opening. Xu Pan and Jiang Ang each held Mo Dao and led their troops out. Looking at the approaching armored heavy cavalry, they refused to retreat. Two violent sword lights went straight towards the wrapped man almost at the same time.
Only two horse heads with big sunken eyes were exposed from the armor.
Generals Xu Pang and Jiang Ang each had several warriors on their side. They held heavy shields to resist the impact of the war horses, so as to prevent the dying and restless war horses from slightly blocking the thundering swords of Xu Pang and Jiang Ang.
The charge speed of the armored heavy cavalry cannot be too fast, but at the moment of a head-on battle, whether its momentum can be directly contained will be the key to a complete victory.
The elite vanguard can use more dense spears to intercept, but the generals are not fools and will lead their armored heavy cavalry directly into the spear formation without knowing how to avoid it.
In small-scale infantry and cavalry engagements, the cavalry always has room for maneuver that the infantry cannot match.
You have to lure them into running into them yourself.
One is the psychology of using enemy cavalry to protect his infantry from landing on the river beach, and the other is the inability to deploy threats that seem too powerful on the flanks.
Erlesu was not at the forefront during the battle. He watched the three armored cavalry in front of him. At the moment of the battle, even the man and the horse were chopped to pieces, and his eyelids jumped. But at this time, he had nothing to do.
To retreat, cheer up and stab forward with your iron spear.
"Give me this thief!" Xu Tan shouted at Jiang Ang, fearing that he would snatch away what seemed to be his only strong bone. His body twisted like an angry step bow, staggering the thrust of the iron spear.
However, he used a more violent sword to chop off Elesu's head.
Ellesu blocked the attack with his spear horizontally. He was frightened and knew that he would have no problem blocking two or three such chops, but he was completely unsure whether he could withstand three or five blows.
Who the hell are you, why are you so fierce? Erlesu was still frightened, but he saw a bright light floating in front of his eyes, which made his heart frightened a hundred times, and almost suffocated him, but it was a cluster of arrows that made almost no sound.
, before he noticed it, it was already in front of his face.
Xu Tan turned around angrily, only to see Xu Huai standing in the formation holding a bow, glaring over and yelling: "Fighting is not a competition! Focus on killing the enemy!"
Originally, the combined attack of Xu Tang and Jiang Ang could kill these hundreds of generals immediately, but Xu Tang wanted to give these hundreds of generals some dignity; Xu Huai of course did not allow it.
The more than fifty armored and heavy cavalry of the Red Husbands quickly disintegrated under the violent sword light; at the same time, more than sixty dismounted soldiers who were fighting on foot were defeated, almost without any resistance.
One hundred thirty or forty captives fled away in fear. After a while, they looked back in shock. More than seventy corpses, including Ellesu, the general of one hundred households, fell in a pool of blood, while their opponents were almost unscathed.
Who are these fuckers!
The horses of the Red Guards have been trained to be extremely docile, and they are not afraid of the noise and fierceness of the battlefield. The knights on the horses fell down, and the horses stood there in a daze.
Of course more horses were killed or injured.
Jiang Ang cursed and yelled: "You idiots, can you be gentler? There are not many horses left that can be ridden!"
The space of the five tortoise-shell warships is too limited, and it is impossible to bring war horses that would occupy a large space.
In Dai Viet, war horses are the most scarce resource.
For example, Yuelong Army Village will not lack ordinary soldiers and armor, but it can have three or five horses. Basically, they are old military officers who brought back from the camp with their great face, those whose muscles and bones are aging and can no longer go to the battlefield.
horse.
Therefore, after arriving in Jianye, if you want to obtain war horses in the early stage, you can only capture them from the enemy.
The problem is that the enemy cavalry is so mobile, how can it be easily captured?
More than seventy enemies were killed in one fell swoop, and most of the horses fell into a pool of blood. Even though they were not completely dead, their injuries were too severe to be used for riding.
"Seize thirty or fifty more war horses, just like Mr. Long, you can get a horse to ride on!" Xu Teng teased Jiang Ang and said with a smile.
Jiang Ang has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He is good at swords, halberds, spears and sticks, and his martial prowess is extraordinary. However, he only got the opportunity to ride a horse after joining Beijing and Xiangxiang. Even if he practiced riding hard, his fighting ability on horseback was still limited.
Severely weakened.
He himself prefers to fight on foot.
The first batch of captured war horses was extremely limited, and it was decided which group of people should be put on horseback first.
Seeing that Wu Chihai had asked people to gather less than thirty war horses, Jiang Ang curled his lips, walked to Xu Huai with Xu Zang, looked at the more than 400 surrendered Han infantry formed on the river beach, and asked
Said: "Kill or not?"
"Leave it to the men and horses in Yuelong Village to practice!" Xu Huai said.
The terrain of the river beach is still a bit complicated. Even the soft silt is frozen solid, but it is uneven and there are bays on the left and right. Twenty or thirty enemy warships, large and small, are on the left and right, and there are crossbows and even crossbows on the enemy ships.
And cover the flanks.
At this juncture, the troops around him still have to minimize casualties. The next attack on the surrendered Han troops on the river beach can wait until a large number of troops from Yuelong Village are dispatched before encircling and killing them. They are now
Responsible for staring and biting them to death at close range, so that the enemy soldiers who have landed on the shore will not dare to turn around and board the ship...
