Chapter 1343 Fierce Battle at the Water-breaking Fortress (1)
The Second Brigade of the 5th Central and North Division ran out of the gate and formed defensive formations on both sides; the Third Brigade ran out in marching formation, but they did not change their formation and rushed directly towards the enemy team.
Ruan Jizong rode his horse and ran to the windward and sunny place. Hundreds of knights quickly ran out of the team and lined up behind him.
"Heavy armored infantry!" Ding Cai raised his spear.
"Yes!" Five hundred warriors replied in unison.
"Hook formation!" Ding Cai pointed his gun straight ahead.
The front of the hook-shaped formation is a square formation, and the two wings are bent backwards into a hook shape to protect the flanks and rear.
Two hundred heavy armored infantry marched forward, passed Ding Cai, and formed a square formation across the center of the official road. Another three hundred heavy armored infantry were separated to the left and right, with 150 people on each side forming a hook formation.
Cui Tianwu came to stand behind Ding Cai carrying a military flag of the 151st Division.
Qianyou led fifty magicians to fly into the air and meet the magicians flying out of the fortress.
Ding Fen kept jumping and jumping. It turned out that the person in front of her was tall and blocked her sight. "What are you doing?" Lu Yingben was peeking at the clothes of the group of noble women behind him.
"I want to see what's going on ahead."
Lu Ying hugged Ding Fen and said: "Stop jumping, are you afraid that people won't be able to see your body skills? Now you are a noble lady, so you must behave elegantly."
"Giggle, giggle," Ruan Xingzhu from behind couldn't help but laugh, "There are also noble ladies who are heroic. The battle just started at the front, there is nothing interesting to see, and it is none of our business."
At this time, a woman who may be from the Bao family asked: "Aren't we going to run away? Why was there a fight in the front?"
Mrs. Liangchen replied: "If we want the enemy to chase us, we must hit them hard. If the beating hurts, they will not be willing to let us go."
Our own army collided with the heavy armored infantry. It was a head-on confrontation without any fancy tactics.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" soldiers from both sides shouted and waved their weapons, trying to greet each other as much as possible.
"Use the squad as a unit and attack!" Ruan Jizong rushed out with a spear in his hand.
The knights behind him formed more than ten cavalry formations and began to charge towards the flank of his own army.
"Huh? He has some fighting strength." He Tai found that the opponent was not as vulnerable as he thought, "No wonder he escaped from Hailin Prefecture. The third brigade is a bit tough. Someone, please send the order for the fourth and fifth brigade to attack as a whole."
He saw that the charge of the Third Brigade did not shake the enemy's square formation. When the enemy's cavalry arrived, the Third Brigade would definitely not be able to withstand it.
Now it is too late to make the Third Brigade retreat. Only by continuing to invest troops in the attack can we rescue the Third Brigade that is about to be defeated.
The hook-shaped formation withstood the attack of our own army, and the frontal phalanx gave full play to the power of long weapons, forcing our own army to close. The soldiers on both sides threw short targets, nets, iron thorns, etc. to harass the enemy in front.
Ding Cai commanded dozens of noble guards to rush out from the gaps in the formation, kill them in a circle around the front from left to right, and then return to the square formation.
Our own army was obviously more junior and had far less battlefield experience than Shaodian's army. The soldiers in the front could not move up, and the soldiers behind could not deploy in time. When the captain wanted to adjust the formation, Ruan Jizong led the cavalry to fight.
The second battalion of our own army tried to use bows and arrows to interfere with the cavalry, but it had no effect at all. The more than 100 people were at least shield-breaking knights and could ignore the archers a hundred meters away.
Ruan Jizong commanded the cavalry to charge at a weak position, not aiming to kill a large number of enemy troops, but only to disrupt the enemy's formation.
Boom, boom, boom, the dense drums on the fortress were mixed with the sound of cornets. After hearing this, the three captains shouted: "Everyone listen to the order, disperse into small groups, and try to avoid the cavalry!"
The combat effectiveness of Shaodian's army was beyond his imagination. The average combat effectiveness was at least one level higher than that of his subordinates, which meant that one of them could easily defeat ten of them. This gap could not be made up by fighting desperately.
Liangchen Shi Shiran sat down and said, "Let's get ready to run." The female knight jumped off her horse and helped the driver to turn the car around.
Ding Fen touched his waist, and Lu Ying asked in surprise: "Can you hide your bow in this outfit?"
"An archer cannot leave his bow without leaving his body." Ding Fen nodded.
"Then you don't leave your body while taking a shower?" Lu Ying's eyes flickered.
"Leave it aside, archers are not fools." Ding Fen looked at Lu Ying with disgust.
"Don't worry, prepare to take action after receiving the signal." Ruan Xingzhu stopped the two sisters.
"Yes." Lu Ying knelt down and tied her shoelaces tightly. Her weapons and equipment were in Ruan Xingzhu's space ring and could be taken out and replaced at any time.
The troops in the center of the battlefield dispersed into dozens of small groups and ran toward the fortress. Ruan Jizong commanded the cavalry to pursue them, while Ding Cai ordered the heavy armored infantry to change into a circular formation.
The fortress gate opened again, and a large number of troops came out in formation, including cavalry troops.
The Second Brigade still stayed in place to hold down the position, allowing the subsequent friendly forces to rush to the battlefield.
"Huh?" He Tai noticed that the back row of the Shaodian Army was moving.
He quickly raised his binoculars and observed carefully, "Haha, someone has escaped! Seeing that our army has enough troops, they were scared! Send an order and sound the charge to have the 4th and 5th Brigades entangle the enemy. The 789th Brigade immediately formed a team and followed me out of the city to pursue.
enemy!"
As soon as the charge horn sounded on the fortress, the first person to run away was the Shaodian Army at the rear of the team. More than half of the team of more than a thousand people ran away in a roar.
Mrs. Liangchen stamped her feet and said, "Let's go!"
The female relatives in the middle of the team began to run away.
Ding Cai jumped on the horse, waved his hands, and shouted back: "Don't run! Don't run!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
Lu Ying said while running: "Brother Cai's play is really good! Sister Xingzhu, let's do some acceleration."
"It's not possible now. People can tell at a glance." Ruan Xingzhu was also running, but at a slower pace.
"Hey! Xiaohua, let's help her." Lu Ying had to slow down a little, and Ding Fen ran to the left and right, and the two of them supported Ruan Xingzhu and ran together.
Ruan Jizong reined in his horse, fired a beam of spear light into the sky, then turned the horse's head and ran slowly towards the flank of the heavy armored infantry.
When a cavalryman noticed the light of his spear, he immediately shouted to his companions, turned his horse's head in the same direction, and pursued Ruan Jizong.
After receiving the report from his subordinates, He Tai quickly ran out of the fortress gate, jumped on his horse, and carefully observed the enemy's situation.
"If there is enough chaos, they can only be called the troops in the front, but those behind can't be called an army at all."
In fact, what he said was absolutely correct. The "Shaodian Army" who first escaped were indeed not soldiers.
The only regular soldiers who came to Duanshui Fortress to challenge were the five hundred heavy armored infantry. The troops commanded by Ding Cai and Ruan Jizong were composed of guards from noble families, and the remaining soldiers were all nearby common people.
Hu Ruiming, the 151st Division, went to nearby villages and towns to capture a group of young men, forced them to change into military uniforms, and asked them to take a trip to Duanshui Fortress.
As soon as Liangchen's carriage turned around, it was a signal to let the people go.
Those common people did not dare to run away first, because the large force of the 16th Army Corps was ambushing behind them.
Ding Cai saw the cavalry troops running back, so he ordered: "Turn into a wild goose formation and retreat!"
Qianyou led his men back to the top of the ground troops to cover their escape.
"Infantry brothers, throw away the heavier weapons first." Ding Cai began to give instructions to those who had no experience in cheating defeat.
Throwing away part of the weight is not to run faster, but to be more flexible. The wild goose formation also has offensive power when retreating, and the weapons scattered on the ground are more like a real defeat.
Two hundred cavalry of our own army ran out of the fortress, but they did not dare to get too close to Shaodian's army. After all, their cavalry was more powerful, and the infantry had to form a battle formation before they dared to pursue it. The wild goose formation could stop fighting at any time and disperse. If the team runs up, they will die.
By the time the infantry of our own army lined up for battle, Shaodian's army was already 500 meters away. "Hurry up! Hurry up! There are women in the enemy's team. They can't run fast or far!" He Tai was a little anxious.
He didn't want the fat in his mouth to fly away like this.
The two armies, one chasing and the other fleeing, started a race on the official road.
The people at the front ran the fastest. They were ordinary people without any weight. When their lives were seriously threatened, they all used their strength to feed. Some of the smart ones simply ran to the south of the road and plunged in. In the water (river), because no one would go into the water to chase them.
The female relatives ran relatively slowly, but after the invisible female knights and female warriors came to help, their speed increased. Seeing that they were approaching Zhenshui Mountain, Ruan Xingzhu used group acceleration, and their speed became a little faster.
Our own army gradually caught up with Shaodian's army, which was behind them, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters...the distance kept getting shorter.
"Brothers, throw away the dry food and water you are carrying." Seeing that the time had come, Ding Cai ordered to throw away some things.
Dry food and water are life-saving things, and soldiers will not give up unless they have to.
He Tai swung his spear and lifted a water bag from the ground, and clear water spilled out from the hole.
"Hey, is this their ability to escape? As long as we chase them and don't let them have time to eat and drink, if they can escape, just write my last name upside down!" Although the enemy is accelerating, he is more assured. .
Running fast does not mean that you can run away. The final test of chasing the battlefield is perseverance. It depends on who can persevere to the end.
Ding Cai looked back from time to time to observe his own army's reaction.
"Oh, I took the bait. The enemy wants to play a protracted war. Boss Ruan! You go first!" He was very familiar with the pursuer's psychology.
"good!"
The cavalry on both sides of the wild goose formation accelerated and passed the infantry team. They ran to the female relatives. They dismounted and gave up their horses to the women who could not run.
In this way, the female relatives no longer hindered the speed of Duanhou's troops, and Ding Cai and others speeded up again.
Upon seeing this, He Tai immediately ordered: "The cavalry will catch up!"
Two hundred of his own cavalry sped up to catch up with the troops behind them. Ding Cai was well prepared, and with a few fearless knights and more than twenty shield-breaking knights, he turned back and struck out with a sword.
Nearly thirty rays of sword light concentrated their fire and instantly killed the dozen or so riders rushing in front.
The cavalrymen of our own army were so frightened that they quickly slowed down their horses.
"Whoa, let's chase! We can't let these guys run away." He Tai was furious. He didn't expect that this group of Shaodian soldiers would be so difficult to deal with.
If he calms down and thinks carefully at this time, he will definitely find the enemy's problem. This troop configuration is perfect for stopping pursuit!