Chapter 3 Ups and Downs (Part 7) The standard cavalry attack formation is multiple lines. There is a fixed distance between each line and each member of the same line. This way, it can better prevent the enemy from firing volleys of arrows in the charge.
At this time, the positions of the front row cavalry and the rear row cavalry should also be staggered to avoid accidental injuries caused by contact with the enemy and sudden decrease in speed. The soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp have not experienced strict military formation training, so naturally they cannot meet the movement standards.
Under the loud instructions of the officers, they had just reluctantly opened the distance between each other while galloping, and were already within a hundred steps of the rebels.
Fortunately, the rebels' training was even worse. A sparse arrow shot from the front, half of which missed the cavalry. The other half fell from the sky above the cavalry's heads, and most of them missed.
Only a few lucky arrows completed their mission, but their power was offset by breastplates and helmets, causing casualties like a tickled baby.
Seeing that the opponent's fighting power was so poor, the cavalry howled excitedly and loudly, "Ah-ah-ah", "Aw-aw-aw", they howled like wolves and worked hard under the urging of the war drums.
Although there were only more than 3,000 people moving forward, the momentum was as if the smoke and dust raised by the hooves of millions of horses covered the sky and blocked the sight of the rebels. The rebels on the opposite side were a little scared, and released the second wave of feather arrows with trembling hands.
The distance between the two sides was approaching, and the damage caused by this round of arrow rain was slightly greater, but the cavalry could no longer control their speed. They ignored the death of Pao Ze around them, banged their stirrups desperately, and squeezed the speed of their mounts to the limit.
Li Xu put away the horizontal sword, took the long spear from the hands of the soldiers, raised his arms, lowered his elbows, leveled the long spear, straightened it, and rushed towards the center of the enemy's formation with the speed of his horse. At the same time, he rushed to the first place.
The cavalrymen in the platoon made the same movements as the general. They raised their arms, lowered their elbows, leveled their long spears, slightly bowed their waists, and pointed the tips of their spears at the enemy's chest.
They stopped shouting and held their breath. Apart from the roar of horse hooves and the hiss of arrows, there was no other noise in their ears. This silence of death was more terrifying than the shouts just now. The rebels'
The position was loose. Some people couldn't stand the pressure on the battlefield and tried to escape. The generals ruthlessly enforced the military law. Several low-level officers yelled and killed those who retreated with steel knives, and used the tip of the knife to force their brothers to come forward to fight.
"Come up, meet up, level the spear, level the spear!" shouted a well-dressed rebel general. At the same time, he led his own soldiers forward to demonstrate to the brothers behind him in a dense infantry array.
It is indeed a good way to deal with cavalry attacks, but he can teach the rebels behind him combat skills, but it cannot improve their courage in a short time. Only less than fifty people followed, and the others actually tried to wait and see. This hesitation was fatal.
The forward composed of fifty people was instantly trampled to pieces by the cavalry. The soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp did not pause at all, and used inertia to crash into the enemy's main formation.
Li Xu felt a huge force coming from his arm. He saw an enemy soldier who was only protected by cloth armor being lifted to the tip of the pole. The force generated by the impact caused the pole to suddenly bend and turn into a bow shape, hitting the enemy at the tip of the pole.
The moment it was lifted off the ground, Changshan suddenly bounced straight up, and all the power of the buffer on the pole was released. The enemy soldier's body was thrown away, and a string of blood rain fell in mid-air.
Xuzi didn't even have time to adjust his posture. His long spear came into contact with another target. The sharp tip of the spear pierced the enemy like cutting tofu. The pole bent and bounced away, and another corpse flew into the air.
Then, his spear found the third man, stabbed him down, dragged him far away with the inertia of the horse, and then shook him off, leaving the unfinished life rolling and struggling on the muddy ground.
The power of the long horse spear was instantly exerted to its extreme against the infantry who had no armor and did not know how to form formations to protect themselves. Most of the cavalry around Asahi used hard spears, which did not have the buffering and storage power of the composite spear in the hands of the general.
Ability, but with the speed of the war horses, they still caused huge casualties to the enemy. The rebels' front army collapsed like an avalanche. Some people's bodies were actually penetrated by the hard pole, and their whole bodies were struggling like candied haws on the front of the pole.
The owner of the wailing long spear looked confused. He didn't know how to deal with this situation. He just gritted his teeth and used all his strength to straighten the body of the spear and lower it until the tip of the spear pierced the next target. The power of his palm could no longer control the length.
Can't stand it
In an instant, the fifth opponent fell. In front of Li Xu's horse was a middle-aged man of about forty years old, with a somewhat hunched back. He looked very much like his uncle Zhang Baosheng. When he saw Li Xu's horse charging towards him, he was so frightened that he lost his temper.
He took down the wooden stick in his hand, turned around and ran away in panic, but he didn't know how to dodge to the side. The sharp point of the stick pierced him from behind, pierced his chest, took his body and rushed forward for more than ten steps, and then pushed him away.
Thrown into the crowd far away
The horse was like an oolong that was not under the control of its owner, swallowing up all the lives in front of the horse. In an instant, Li Xu felt a little unbearable, but the shouts of killing on the battlefield soon made him sober. The enemy was five of his own.
Times, at the critical moment of life and death, there was no room for weak arms. He raised his arm upwards. He leveled the long branch again and allowed the cold light on the tip to take away a new life under the driving force of the war horse.
The enemy general beat the war drum and urged the left and right wings to close to the center. There were not many cavalry coming to charge. The rebel general was very lucky to have discovered this. He kept sending more men, increasing rewards, and even added his own
The personal guards and family generals were all sent forward.
"Surround them, surround them, they are too slow, too slow!" Yuan Wuben, the governor of Liyang County who only commanded more than 20 people half a year ago but now became the commander of 30,000 people, shouted at the top of his lungs, "Kill."
, kill, kill those who retreat!" The war drum in front of him was beaten like thunder. He saw the crowds surging in front of him, and the cowards were constantly being executed by his own soldiers, but the courage forced by the steel knife could not be maintained.
For a long time, when the boatmen and civilians discovered that the cavalry in the front were more ruthless in their killing methods than the war supervisors in the rear, they would often retreat faster than they could rush forward, forcing the formation of their own army to shrink and break.
to break at the feet of the Lord
"Yuan Sheng, Yuan Sheng!" Yuan Wuben heard that his voice had changed. Yuan Sheng was his nephew, young and brave. When he and his family were discussing whether to accept Yang Xuangan's invitation a few months ago, Yuan Sheng was the first
Someone jumped out and expressed that he wanted to establish some achievements in troubled times.
The back of his nephew Yuan Sheng appeared in his sight as expected. He took the servants of the Yuan family and more than twenty Liyang County government servants and rushed against the flow of people towards the enemy cavalry. One of the enemy cavalry was rushing too fast.
The horse's pole was drawn outward from the corpse, and Yuan Sheng chopped off the pole with his knife. In the next moment, Yuan Sheng slashed the opponent's horse off his horse again, and led his servants to rush towards the other enemy rider from the side.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Yuan Wuben yelled, and he banged the drum and hammer in his hand. The combat effectiveness of those cavalry was also not good? The speed of charging forward was obviously slower than before! After all, there were only a few people on his side.
After all, justice is in your own hands!
The cavalry of the Xiongwu Camp were blocked by the corpses of the rebels and had already rushed to the center of the enemy formation. The rebel flag was close at hand, but there were more and more rebels around. Some people were escaping, but they happened to stop in front of the horses and someone was going the opposite direction.
Killing, pushing and shoving, blocking all the gaps in the crowd like going to the market. The horses can no longer be used, and the speed of the horses has almost stopped. The cavalrymen drew their swords from their backs and chopped around randomly, their eyes were red with blood.
The war horse also neighed wildly, raised its front hooves high, and kicked directly at the neck of the person blocking the way. The person who was kicked let out a shrill scream, and his body fell on the back of his companion. However, his companion was completely unaware and was headless.
Bumping around like flies
Someone rushed towards Xu Zi with an axe, but Li Mengchang kicked him to the ground with his war horse. Before the man could get up, the horse's hind legs stepped on his waist again. The man spread his limbs like a crab in a steamer.
He twitched and completely lost his ability to move. Li Mengchang led his horse and moved forward a few steps. He swung his sword quickly and cut off several arms. The owner dropped the weapon and covered the wound with his other hand.
Li Mengchang cried out heartbreakingly but did not understand mercy. He once again raised his sword against the injured and chopped down one, then another. The third person standing in front of him turned around and ran away, knocking down his own brother.
Staggering around
"Kill!" Cui Qian, a native of Boling, urged his war horse and ran in along the gap made by Li Mengchang. The horse's hooves knocked over three or four enemy soldiers, and they rushed forward more than ten feet. Suddenly there was no one around him.
The situation was dire. A few rebels who saw cheap prices came over with wooden sticks without thinking, but were separated one by one by Cui Qian with the back of a knife. Just when he was about to counterattack, a sharpened wooden stake was cold.
It pierced the buttocks of the war horse, and the pained animal neighed and raised its front hooves, knocking Cui Qian off the horse's back. The frightened horse rushed forward desperately, trampling over six or seven enemy soldiers, and was finally beaten by someone.
After stabbing the hurried rebels to death in the side, they tried to attack Cui Qian after dealing with the horses, but were swept out of the circle by a long black knife.
"Don't worry about the left and right, go straight forward!" Li Xu killed the enemy troops surrounding Cui Qian, turned around, and loudly ordered on horseback. The training time of the Xiongwu Camp was too short. Many brothers and disciples were brave, but
They didn't know how to seize the opportunities on the battlefield. If these people were all food guards who had been trained for more than a year, they would have given up on the enemy troops coming from left and right and attacked the rebel general. But the brothers in the Xiongwu Camp had put too many
The energy is wasted on hacking and killing, and the speed advantage brought by the mount is wasted.
The surrounding space could no longer allow Changsha to exert its power, so Asahi replaced his usual black scimitar. The black sword light rolled over the person's head, splashing blood one after another. "Follow me, don't be obsessed with fighting!" he shouted loudly.
Shouting, setting an example for everyone with actions, "The general has an order, don't be reluctant to fight, keep up, keep up!" The soldiers shouted in unison, raising the order to the maximum.
Cui Qian found another war horse and followed the general. Li Mengchang rushed in with a shout, and cut down the three enemy soldiers on the other side of Xu Zi's horse. They moved forward together, constantly widening the gap in front of them and falling into a melee.
The cavalry slowly found their backbone again, gathered up their formation, and continued to cut into the core of the enemy formation with Li Xu as the blade. There were still rebels coming from all directions, and they were chopped down to the ground in waves by the cavalry with their horizontal knives.
A group of enemy soldiers armed with horizontal swords fought against the flow of people. They were extremely fierce. They were all wearing armor, and the weapons in their hands were much better than others. They not only attacked the Sui army, but also attacked their own brothers. As long as someone ran across from them,
, they gave me a knife on the head.
The leader of this group was about the same age as Li Xu. He was very fair-looking and had so many blood scabs on his face, but he still had a gentle voice in his shout, "Relieve the people!" He rushed forward a few steps and used his sword to shine.
The horse that stopped Li Xu "do justice for heaven!" He declared righteously and sternly, and the sword was like a sword, and it was rolled towards Hei Feng's neck.
Li Xu used a black knife to block the fatal blow to the horse from the attacker. The next moment, he and the enemy general reached a place where the enemy's accomplices tried to help, but were blocked by Li Mengchang, Cui Qian and Xu Zi's personal soldiers.
Outside the circle, while everyone was fighting each other, the other rebels fled a dozen steps away.
Li Xu swung the knife and wiped it at the opponent's neck. The enemy general quickly retreated, stepped away from the blade, and stepped forward. He used the blade to find Xuzi's arm. Xuzi struck back with his backhand. The two swords touched each other solidly.
Bang!" Because the enemy general's horizontal sword was too thin, it was cut into two pieces by Asahi's black scimitar. One piece flew up into the air, and the other piece was held by its owner, who stared at it with disbelief.
"Poof!" Li Xu's scimitar directly cut off the enemy general's neck. Then, he heard the sound of the war drums around him suddenly stopped. He raised his head and saw that more than a hundred steps away, the enemy general who had been beating the drums threw away
He picked up the drum hammer, took out the decorative sword from his waist, and rushed towards him with a loud shout.
"Sheng'er!" Yuan Wuben cried bitterly. His nephew died at the hands of the devil who held a black sword, rode a black horse, and was covered in black armor. He could not accept the result of the battle. Sheng'er was only seventeen years old.
It was the next generation of the Yuan family who wanted him to take revenge, kill the black-armored general with his own hands, cut his body into thousands of pieces, file his bones and spread the ashes.
"Sir!" Several servants rushed forward and hugged Yuan Wuben's waist. "Sir, let's retreat before the team collapses!" The loyal butler cried and advised that this battle cannot be won. The enemy's army
Too cruel. The people who were forcibly recruited by my master and the boatmen who were making a living on the Yongji Canal were no match for them. They were suddenly hit just now. Everyone had no time to escape, so they could barely block the enemy's offensive. Now the young nephew is dead in the battle.
There are no more generals in the army. Who dares to step forward and stroke the enemy general’s tiger beard?
"Withdraw? Do you mean to return to the city?" Yuan Wuben asked angrily. After defeating the battle of defeating thousands of people with 30,000 soldiers, how could he have the face to return to Liyang? But the answer he heard was an affirmative voice, "
Yes, back to the city, Liyang City is high and the pond is deep. Let's hold on and wait for help!" The housekeepers and nursing staff nodded in agreement with the master's wise decision.
"Your Majesty, the order is sent to the rear army..." Yuan Wuben slowly regained his senses and shouted loudly. He wanted to calmly shout, "The rear army becomes the front army, fight and retreat!" Before the order was finished, he listened.
There were fierce shouts of killing coming from behind.
"Kill, don't leave Yuanwuben!" Yuwen Shiji led more than 2,000 brothers and attacked Yuanwuben's Chinese army from behind. He finally completed the tactical detour and arrived behind the rebels in time in order to create more opportunities for the enemy.
In the great chaos, he left more than 500 war horses in the distance, driven by more than 20 brothers, galloping back and forth.
"He called me Brother Shiji!" Yuwen Shiji's heart was warmed by friendship, so warm that he felt so comfortable that he called people by their names instead of calling them by their cousins. In the eyes of the children of the aristocratic family, this was a very impolite behavior.
In order to express their protest, the person who calls him often does not hesitate to break off relations with the disrespectful person. But Yuwen Shiji feels that Xuzi calls him "Brother Shiji", which makes people feel more comfortable than calling him "Renren" or Yuwen Jianjun politely.
Yu Wenshiji knew that he had melted into this group of soldiers and ruffians, just like milk into water. Although these people were from humble backgrounds, short-sighted, and had countless bad habits, among this group of soldiers and ruffians, he felt that he
Like a dragon submerged in water, free and comfortable, able to cause a stir at any time
He completely defeated the resistance of the rebels with the blood of his horse's hooves. Yang Xuangan launched a hasty revolt. The main force of troops was originally made up of boatmen and civilians. Although the team at this moment had expanded to 300,000, the people and soldiers who came from the agreement
However, thieves who fished in troubled waters accounted for the majority of the team. In order to capture Luoyang as soon as possible, Yang Xuangan followed Wei Fusi's suggestion and transferred all the capable fighters to the south of the Yellow River, so at this time he stayed in Liyang to guard the home base of the rebels.
is the weakest fighting force among the rebels.
The confidence of these people had been cut off by more than half by Li Xu and his men, and they were rushed from behind by Yu Wenshi and his men. They immediately lost the courage to continue fighting. The smoke and dust from behind made them not know how many officers and soldiers came, so
Most of the people dropped their swords and spears in despair and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands. A few who were more courageous spread their legs and fled in all directions. They did not expect to escape the horses, but only wanted to run faster than their companions.
They didn't care whether they could find food in the wilderness they had ruined or what fate awaited them.
The servant brought the war horse to Yuan Wuben and asked him to mount the horse and escape. Yuan Wuben stepped his boots into the stirrups and tried hard, but his feet slipped out. He again
