Chapter 5 Return (Part 5) Looking at the Sui Qingqi who broke into his own formation on a familiar road, Li Zixiong was furious. He waved his command flag and sent the two thousand elite soldiers around him up. Just now, the formation was penetrated by the enemy. Then
It's because our brothers are rushing forward and are caught off guard. Now that everyone has stopped to engage in battle, we must return the favor no matter what.
But the enemy general was much smarter than he thought. Just when the teams dispersed to make way for the elite soldiers, the cavalry who rushed towards the center of the formation suddenly turned around and refused to contact the soldiers. Instead, they cut diagonally.
A perfect angle to kill the weakest point of the military formation
"Stop them, stop them!" Li Zixiong was so angry that his eyes were on fire, and he kept waving the flag to make the soldiers under his command remain loyal and brave. Knowing that they had lost their way to survive, they would rather die in battle than dodge the enemy's horses. But the strength of both sides, no, should
It is said that the difference in equipment is too great. Every time a galloping war horse is stopped, the rebel soldiers have to pay at least three to four lives, and the beast that fell while running will still rush forward for more than ten steps with huge inertia, pulling
More people were buried with themselves and their riders on horseback!
Are these the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty? Li Zixiong couldn't believe his eyes. In his memory, although the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were equipped with six pack horses for every ten people, they were just animals for pulling things and could not be used in battle formations.
Although the Twelve Guards all have specialized cavalry formations, they are expensive and slow-moving armored cavalry. Both humans and horses are tightly wrapped in armor, and their attack and defense capabilities are astonishing. However, they have never possessed the strength of the group in front of them.
The desperadoes also had a wind-like impact speed. Moreover, after last year's Liaodong battle, the armored cavalry had long been wiped out by the Goguryeo people on the south bank of the Mazhai River due to their slow retreat. As Li Zixiong knew, with the current national power of the Great Sui Dynasty,
It is no longer possible to re-create so many pieces of equipment! (Note 1) The only ones that can produce so many brave cavalry are the two border armies in Jixian and Xijiang. The mission of the border armies is to prevent the Turks from invading.
At this critical moment, Yang Guang couldn't bear to transfer the Huben cavalry from Jixian and the Xijiang Jingjia from Jincheng to the Central Plains!
This is not the armored cavalry of the Sui Dynasty. The armored cavalry of the Sui Dynasty would not adopt such despicable tactics! Li Zixiong painfully came to the conclusion that charging into the battle with light armor without uniforms was not a normal tactic. In previous battles,
Among them, only the brave general Xue An of the Liu Song Dynasty used this style of play. The Liu Song Dynasty has ended for more than 150 years. Today, this desperate tactic, which requires a high level of bravery and leadership ability, has been revived.
Appeared on the battlefield! (Note 2) The elite soldiers could not catch up, and ordinary soldiers could not stop them. In the blink of an eye, Li Xu led the brothers from the Xiongwu Camp and killed another one among the rebels. With the roaring
The sound of wind reaches the front of the enemy
"Spread the flag!" "Spread the flag!" Murong Luo, Li Mengchang and other soldiers shouted, unfolding the Sui war flags they picked up from behind the enemy's lines, and re-erecting them in front of the rebels.
The Left Army, the Sixth Regiment of the Front Army, the Tiger Wings of the Left Army, flags of all sizes were flaunting in front of the rebel formations. None of them belonged to the Xiongwu Camp, but because of the existence of the Xiongwu Camp, they were able to fly in the wind again.
"Can you still fight?" Li Xu glanced in the direction of the Chinese army, and then asked his brothers loudly
"Fight!" "Fight!" "Fight!" The horizontal swords and long swords danced into a steel jungle in the sun. I had the first experience of rushing into the battle formation. After the second confrontation, the brothers only lost two hundred.
There are many people, so everyone's morale is high. They can't wait to abandon the main force and wipe out the rebels alone.
"Okay, let's divide our troops into three groups this time. We won't fight on the way. Let's see who can rush behind the enemy's formation the fastest!" Li Xu smiled and loudly ordered the enemy's formation to change. He saw that the only ones who could block the cavalry head-on were those
The rebel elite Asahi, who was protected by armor and held a rifle, didn't want his brothers to fight against the enemy's elite. His main task was to stop and divide the enemy's forces, consume the enemy's vitality, and buy time for the main force. So, he simply used
The goal is to penetrate the enemy's formation, not to do more killings as the ability.
"Okay, I'll take the left path!" Murong Luo Chishan laughed and trotted his horse in half an arc. As he ran, he shouted to his brothers: "Follow me, all the right-wing regiments of the Knight Cavalry Army!"
"Promise!" More than a thousand cavalrymen agreed at the same time. They mobilized their horses and followed Murong Luo towards the enemy's left flank.
"Left wing of the heroic cavalry, follow me!" Li Mengchang shouted wildly, then took the lead and rushed towards the enemy's right wing. More than a thousand cavalry followed him, raising smoke and dust that covered the sky.
"The rest of the regiments, follow me and kill behind them!" The black knife in Li Xu's hand pointed forward again at the center of the enemy's formation. The elite rebels had just followed everyone's horses in a small circle, and were now at their own home.
Adjust the direction to the left of the center. Right now, there is a breakthrough point near Li Zixiong's Chinese army.
Three lines of cavalry rolled up three lines of smoke and pounced on the rebels again. "They are coming back again!" Frightened shouts rang out from the enemy formation. Although they were determined to die, the fact that they were pierced through the formation twice by their opponents had already
The enemy has cast a huge shadow in everyone's heart. The enemy is coming again. Can everyone stop it for the third time? Countless pairs of eyes look at Li Zixiong. Countless people are trembling and their faces are gray, but they still hold tightly to the wooden sticks and bamboo sticks in their hands.
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"Brothers, have you forgotten why you rebelled?" Li Zixiong raised his horse and shouted loudly. The chance of victory or defeat was only in the blink of an eye. When the enemy broke through his ranks for the second time, Li Zixiong understood the purpose of today's battle.
In the end, he no longer had the chance to drive the rebel troops to attack Yu Wenshu's main formation, but the shouts of killing coming from the official army's main formation were decreasing. Looking around, the brothers who were tasked with blocking the main force of the enemy army could no longer be seen.
The flags came into view, and they were all khaki uniforms of the officers and soldiers.
"Don't go to Liaodong, don't go to Liaodong!" The soldiers around him shouted in unison, and the generals burst into tears. These more than 60,000 brothers under his command are actually the last elite in the hands of General Yang Xuangan. Everyone's defeat today means that this time
The complete failure of the cause of justice meant that God did not want to destroy the Sui Dynasty, so a crazy young general was sent out at the critical moment, allowing the tyrant and his court to continue to survive. However, everyone must continue to fight, because this battle is no longer about success or failure.
, but about the honor of being a general
"I would rather die in Henan than go to Liaodong, I would rather die in Henan than go to Liaodong!" The shouts became louder and louder, and the sad and tragic rebel soldiers with thin armor and crude weapons moved their legs, gritted their teeth, and faced the roaring enemy.
One person on the coming war horse was picked up by the horse, and another one rushed forward. Two people were knocked down by the war horse, and two more people rushed forward.
Since there is no way to survive, why should they fear death?
"I'm coming!" A rebel general brandished a long sword, led more than a hundred soldiers, separated the crowd, and rushed towards Li Xu
"Brothers, kill one to earn money, kill two to earn one!" A general who was a bandit held his ax high and ran around shouting.
"Rumble, rumble!" The sound of war drums is like thunder, shaking people's scalps.
"Woo-wu-wu" the horn sounds shrill and song-like, sending chills down people's spines
Two teams with the same face, the same uniform, and the same language are fighting together. They may not know each other, they may be neighbors, or they may have grown up together. For different goals, under different flags, facing each other.
Standing, raised the weapon in his hand
The progress of the third assault was not as smooth as expected. As the commander-in-chief, Li Xu clearly felt that the resistance in the front was increasing. The rebels who had lost their way to survive were desperate. They would rather be trampled by horses' hooves than risk their lives to defeat the enemy.
In the blink of an eye, two more wounds were added to Xuzi's body. Although they were not serious, the pain was so painful that her eyes turned black.
A row of spears appeared not far away, and it was Li Zixiong who came up with his own soldiers. Xu Zi did not dare to risk being trapped in the enemy's formation, so he turned his horse diagonally and Zhang Xiu followed him, waving the command flag high.
More than a thousand brothers turned again, cutting a bloody arc diagonally
At the edge of the arc, brothers were constantly being stabbed off their horses by enemy soldiers, and enemy soldiers were constantly being trampled over by war horses and carried away by long swords. "Speed up, speed up, don't be obsessed with fighting!" Asahi waved the scimitar vigorously, shouting like a wolf howling.
He brushed against Li Zixiong's army and rushed over. In his ears, the arrows hissed.
Most of the brothers successfully broke through the enemy's obstruction. Only a few dozen people at the end of the team were intercepted, like a few pebbles thrown into the sea. They were quickly overwhelmed by the rebels. The enemy's queue could no longer be called a queue. They were in
They fight on their own, and in order to kill an enemy, they do not hesitate to squeeze their own team into a pot of porridge.
"They lost!" Li Xu confirmed in his heart, clamped the horse's belly tightly, knocked over the last few interceptors around him, and rushed to the designated end point.
"Woo--Woo-Woo" the loud horn sound sounded from behind. With the joy of victory, Asahi stood under the banner of the right guard and looked back. She saw a familiar banner appearing on the other side of the enemy's formation. It did not belong to the rebels.
, it was Yu Wenshiji from the Xiongwu Camp who was slowly pushing towards the rebel line with his other brothers. At the same time, there were tens of thousands of defeated soldiers who had recovered from the shock.
After being intercepted by the feather arrows of the Xiongwu Camp, the defeated soldiers were very angry. They tried to fight the blockers at first, but soon they found that it was safer behind them than in front. The pressure from behind disappeared, and they suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Amidst the shouts and curses from officers at all levels, I turned around and immediately saw a shocking scene. Less than five thousand cavalry rushed towards the rebels who they feared like ghosts and gods, pierced the opponent's queue, and reared up again behind the enemy.
The general's flag that everyone discarded
Then, the cavalry pierced each other through again, set up flags in front of the formation, and then killed the rebels like tigers.
"That's the flag of our Marquis Youwu!" someone exclaimed.
"You are from the right guard, we are from the right guard." Some people recognized their own flags and were so ashamed that they felt ashamed. After the fear in their hearts was slowly replaced by shame, everyone regained their courage.
The main force of the Xiongwu Camp would not sit back and watch their brothers and others fight desperately. After stopping the rout of the rebel troops, they immediately moved forward to press on You Wuhou. Some of the defeated troops of the Youyu Guards blushed and took the initiative to join the counterattack sequence. As time went by, they joined in
More and more soldiers were counterattacking, and finally they formed a torrent of steel directly in front of the rebels.
The rebel soldiers were still brave and brave, and they still risked their lives, but the outcome of the battle would not be changed by the bravery and determination of a few individuals. Further away, the Sui left wing and the central army slowly pressed over and surrounded them.
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Note 1: Armored cavalry were heavy cavalry in the heyday of the Sui Dynasty. Both men and horses were covered with iron armor. According to archaeological discoveries, a complete iron suit weighs about 40 to 50 kilograms. Specially made heavy armor can weigh up to 100 kilograms. Due to the cost, Due to their high cost and poor mobility, they gave way to light cavalry.
Note 2: A classic battle example of light cavalry, the battle between the Liu Song Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty in Shaanxi. Facing the tight formation of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xue Andu "took off his armor, took off his armor, only wore a Jiangna double shirt, and his horse also took off its armor, and galloped When you enter the bandit formation, you roar with fierce energy and move forward in an indomitable way. Anyone who takes the lead will kill the bandit with an angry sword and attack them with a pinched shot. If you count four like this, every time you enter, you will be invincible."
