Chapter 3 Fighting for Hegemony (Part 8) Xuzi glanced around and immediately understood Qin Shubao’s intention. While he and Luo Shixin led the light armored cavalry to attack the enemy’s light cavalry, Dugu Lin also led all the armored cavalry.
He and three hundred light cavalry pounced on the enemy's infantry. Only the cavalry, which were armed to the teeth, could not tear apart the bandits wearing cloth armor as easily as in the past. The enemy entangled them in small scattered formations.
A small formation of six to eight people, with spearmen and shieldmen cooperating with each other, was like a string of rolling hedgehogs. Two hundred armored riders roared in and gnawed on the hedgehog.
The speed was soon exhausted. When the speed of the war horse became as fast as a person walking, the powerful attack power of the armored cavalry could no longer be exerted. The soldiers could only rely on their strong defense to fight the bandits, but in terms of numbers,
With an army nearly twenty times outnumbered by the enemy, their results were negligible.
The three hundred light cavalry behind the armored cavalry were temporarily commanded by Zhang Xutuo's eldest son, Zhang Yuanbei. However, Zhang Yuanbei's ability was obviously not half of his father's. The rogue bandits only separated a few infantry and entangled him. The three men under his command
Not only were Bai Qingqi unable to provide effective support to the armored cavalry, but they forced Dugu Lin to constantly allocate manpower to come to the rescue.
The armored cavalry side is in urgent need of support, and most of the light cavalry are still mixed with the enemy's light cavalry. "There is no time to delay any more!" Li Xu pushed away his visor, took a deep breath, and rode towards the enemy.
The nearest battle group rushed towards two Qijun elite soldiers who were working together to fight against a bandit leader. The three of them all wielded horizontal swords, but the two brothers from Qijun were far less skilled in swordsmanship than the other, so the two circled down.
They were all disappointed. Just as the third circle started, the leader of the bandits kicked his horse hard, and the horse suddenly jumped forward half a foot, causing him to rush into the inside of two county soldiers. Seeing the opportunity, the bandit turned around.
A diagonal slash, the blade struck an opponent's neck
"I'm dead!" The county soldier, who had no time to dodge the barrier, closed his eyes instinctively, but the expected pain did not come. A spear flying from the air pierced the lower abdomen of the bandit leader, and the huge inertia pushed him
His whole body was pushed off the war horse, "Ah..." The bandit leader screamed loudly, rolling on the ground with his hands covering his stomach, and swept a black knife close to the ground, ending his pain neatly.
"Thank you, General, for saving your life!" the frightened county soldier shouted in a trembling voice.
"Stop being wordy and follow me!" Li Xu shouted, leading two cavalrymen to rush towards another nearby battle group. There were three county soldiers fighting around a minion. The county soldiers had the absolute upper hand.
, but it was difficult to end the battle for a while. The black wind carried Xuzi and rushed in with the head of a county soldier's horse, "Get out of the way!" With a loud shout, Xuzi raised his hand, dropped his knife, and swept the young man off his mount.
"Follow us, line up!" Li Xu turned his horse's head and shouted at the three county soldiers who were still stunned. He didn't care about talking morally with the enemy at this moment. He needed more manpower, five county soldiers.
The horses following Xu Zi formed a small formation, shouting and pounced on the stalemate in the distance. Before everyone could rush to the place, a long spear suddenly rushed towards Li Xu's chest. Xu Zi twisted his body,
He dodged the opponent and didn't wait for the opponent to change his moves. He suddenly stretched out his left hand and grasped the rod firmly. He pulled hard and pulled the enemy towards him. The opponent refused to put down his weapon. He grabbed it with both hands and the two of them competed.
The wound on Li Xu's shoulder was bleeding profusely
"Stab him in the lower back!" Xuzi loudly pointed at two long sticks that quickly reached behind him and pierced into the opponent's weakness like poisonous snakes spitting messages. "Ah--!" The thief let out a beast-like howl, and loosened his breath.
He opened his sword and his body rolled off the horse. Two county soldiers ran past him quickly and cut his throat with their sharp sword blades.
Xu Zi threw the captured spear as a spear and stabbed a war horse running at high speed. The minion on the horse jumped into the air the moment the mount fell to the ground, and flew towards Li Xu's head like a kite.
, the two county soldiers raised their swords high, and stabbed the opponent's hand in the air. Like a fountain of blood, it fell all over Li Xu. He swept it with his hand, wiped his own blood and the enemy's blood away, and then continued without looking back.
forward
A monster with half of its body stained red with blood suddenly joined the battle group, swinging its sword like the wind, one at a time, killing two minions in a row. The bandits around them were startled, and involuntarily moved to both sides to avoid Asahi, rushing left and right.
, in an instant, the number of brothers around him expanded to more than twenty riders.
"Complete the team, follow me!" Xuzi shouted, using himself as the blade and more than twenty cavalry as the blade, forming a small cavalry array, specifically picking out the stalemate between the enemy and us to attack the enemy cavalry. Although the enemy cavalry is well-trained, the number is not high.
After the advantageous dozens of stalemate points were broken up one after another by Asahi and others, the situation on the battlefield immediately reversed.
"Complete the team, complete the team!" Jingqi who was following Li Xu saw the benefits and shouted together at the top of their lungs. Everyone gathered more and more compactly, using more to defeat less, and after a few breaths, there were more than fifty people.
Xuzi gathered beside Li Xu and rolled back and forth with this small cavalry array, gradually regaining some of the initiative.
Dugu Lin's side was still retreating steadily. Zhang Yuanbei tried his best to protect his companion's flanks. At this moment, the number of reinforcements was too small to have any effect. Xu Zi clearly judged the situation at hand. He gritted his teeth and
The blade points behind Luo Shixin
More than fifty liberated cavalry followed Xuzi and rushed towards Luo Shixin, cutting down all the enemy cavalry around him. Then everyone shouted, and at the same time they attacked Luo Shixin's opponent. The enemy general in red cloak had been exhausted by Luo Shixin and was killed.
When everyone was harassed, they immediately moved to disperse. Luo Shixin saw an opportunity and stabbed him, hitting the leg right in the leg.
"Ah!" The enemy general in the red cloak let out a scream and fled. Li Xu and Luo Shixin did not catch up. They joined forces and rushed straight at the bearded man who was fighting Qin Shubao. The beard had previously fought hard with Xu Zi.
Once, his chest had been injured. Now he was exhausted by Qin Shubao. He suddenly heard the screams and the sound of horse hooves behind him. Knowing that something was wrong, he took out a few axes from behind the saddle and threw them around to defeat the offensive of Li Xu and others.
After blocking for a while, he turned his horse's head and led the remaining dozen or so riders to break away from the battle group.
The soldiers from the county had just let out a bad breath. They were not willing to let him escape like this. They immediately started chasing after him. In the blink of an eye, several cavalrymen had already caught up behind Hong Cloak.
This man had several large holes stabbed into his body. He rushed towards him with a beard and a beard. He half-turned his body and swung the long spear in his hand, knocking all three long spears that had been stabbed into the air.
"Brothers, don't chase the poor bandits!" Qin Shubao shouted
"Brothers, follow me to kill the thieves!" Li Xu added immediately, leading more than a hundred cavalry, turning towards the enemy infantry.
The armored cavalry on the other side had been forced by the enemy commander's weird formation and could not hold their line. At the critical moment, Asahi led the light cavalry to rush over from the side, firing random arrows. The enemy commander realized that his cavalry was defeated.
Without panic, he waved the command flag a few more times, and the advancing infantry changed formations again. One part continued to resist the armored cavalry led by Dugu Lin, and the other part changed direction, with the shield in front, the long spear in the middle, and the bow and arrow.
With their hands behind them, they actually lined up and pressed in front of the light cavalry.
"Brothers, shoot in a circle! Don't stop, speed up, speed up!" Seeing the enemy's change of formation, Li Xu immediately ordered the light cavalry to change their tactics. With him as the core, more than a hundred riders quickly passed in front of the enemy's formation and ran out.
After more than 150 steps, he turned his horse's head on the slope behind the enemy's army, and then took advantage of the mountain to charge towards the enemy's front line again.
"Brothers, take turns!" Luo Shixin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shouted wildly. In the blink of an eye, he also led more than a hundred light cavalry who came over and rushed towards the enemy array. He did not go to support Li Xu.
, but chose another angle, charging while bending the bow and releasing arrows
"Woo--Woo-Woo!" A shrill horn sound sounded from the enemy's commander's banner, and accompanied by a dense wave of arrows, the enemy's formation suddenly changed. The entire formation was divided into several petals like a plum blossom, and a team was slowly separated from the outermost part.
The sword and shield bearers, a group of spearmen, slanted forward to block Luo Shixin's horse head.
"Use hard crossbows to kill, dampen their energy and engage in a frontal battle with heavy armored infantry, disrupt their rhythm and use light cavalry to outflank them, cut off their retreat, and then charge forward with armored cavalry..." Qin Shubao clearly remembers Zhang Xu that day
Master Tuo's summary of the elite enemy generals from the Central Plains fighting against the Turkic wolf cavalry was not at the side of Master Zhang at first, but the enemy general's arrangement was exactly in line with what Master Zhang said about crossbow coverage, infantry engagement, and the outflanking of light cavalry just now.
This person responded to every move just right. What if this person still had a group of heavy armored cavalry? Qin Shubao felt a little cold and did not dare to waste the opportunity. He waved his hand and led all the light cavalry to join the battle group.
Three groups of light armored cavalry ran back and forth around the enemy formation in three directions, constantly firing cold arrows into the enemy ranks. Although the accuracy was not very accurate, it really played a role in harassing the enemy generals. The enemy generals kept issuing orders to fight with archers and infantry.
However, Qin Shubao and others learned to be good and never stopped to confront the opponent. After several rounds of cavalry shooting, the enemy's arrogance was slightly weakened. Qin Shubao got the opportunity and quickly waved the flag, causing Dugu Lin and Zhang Yuanbei to lead their brothers and break away from the opponent.
touch
Seeing that the armored cavalry in front of them were withdrawing, the enemy general once again ordered his subordinates to change their formations. The more than 4,000 infantrymen turned neatly at an angle as if they shared one body. Some were in the vanguard, others on the flanks, and the others behind them were on guard, slowly.
The ground pressed against the high slope where the county soldiers' elite cavalry originally stood.
Qin Shubao also waved his command flag and gathered all the cavalry on the slope on the other side of the mountain road. The enemy and we began to confront each other across a mountain road again. The situation was almost the same as before the battle. They only changed directions and there were 800 more people on the grass under their feet.
remaining bodies
After a fierce battle, more than 300 of Qin Shubao's 900 light cavalry were lost, and more than 60 of the 200 armored cavalry were killed. Although everyone succeeded in wiping out all the enemy cavalry, they also killed many rogue infantry.
The number of people was also much higher than his own loss, but based on careful calculation based on the comparison of combat power, it was equivalent to a big loss. Luo Shixin was so angry that he wanted to go forward and fight his opponent immediately. Qin Shubao was reluctant to give up his capital. He sighed and said: "They still have
There are more than 4,000 people, and we only have less than 700. If we continue to fight head-on, we may not have much chance of winning, so why don’t we just confront each other here and wait for reinforcements from the infantry battalion to arrive before we make plans!"
"Second brother Qin has the ambition of others. When have our elite soldiers in Qi County ever been afraid of others? The worst is, I will fight to the death with them today! Grandma, look at that guy in the red robe. He is not dead. He actually dares to yell at us.
Luo Shixin spat out blood and shouted that he was injured in today's fight and vomited blood first. Although he later managed to retaliate with the help of Li Xu and others, the enemy general's injuries were obviously not fatal and were protected by his beard.
After walking around the edge of the battlefield, he now returned to the bandit group.
"If I'm not wrong, the red robe is Shan Xiongxin, the commander of the cavalry of the Wagang Army. It won't be a shame if you fight him to a draw today." Qin Shubao glanced at Luo Shixin and said, "As for our thousand cavalry, they are the elders of Qi County."
They were scraped together, and I would rather admit defeat and retreat than let them fight head-on with the enemy again!"
"Wagang Jun, is that beard Cheng Zhijie (Note 1)?" Dugu Lin secretly took a breath of air and asked in a voice that only a few people could hear.
"That's right, the weapons and skills are similar." Qin Shubao nodded and responded that he was more concerned about the enemy general than Cheng Zhijie and Shan Dazhi. From a distance, judging from his face, he should be less than twenty years old.
, but he is so experienced in using soldiers that in the future on the battlefield in Henan, this person will probably be a strong enemy for everyone.
"Then why don't they use their own banner?" Zhang Yuanbei asked with a blushing face. His behavior just delayed everyone. Although Qin Shubao didn't make any accusations, the young man felt very ashamed.
"Perhaps they don't want to reveal their strength too early. As far as I know, the Wagang army is small in number and has been quiet in recent years. But today it seems that the sharpness of its troops is beyond the reach of any rogue bandit!" Qin Shubao used his strength.
Twisting his beard, the ravine on his brow looked deeper than the cracks in the earth. He urgently needed to come up with a strategy that could drive away the enemy army with a slight loss in numbers. The enemy general was as cunning as a fox. If he took the lead, there would be consequences.
unimaginable
Suddenly, the attentive Qin Shubao realized that Li Xu had not spoken since the enemy and we separated. "Does he have a strategy to defeat the enemy?" Qin Shubao turned his head and looked at Xu Zi, only to see Li Xu staring at the ground.
His face is as green as the red clouds on a snowy day
Note 1: Cheng Zhijie’s skills and weapons can be found in the official history books. He is by no means the lucky man with only three axes in the novel. He came from a noble family (his great-grandfather was named Cheng Xing, who was Sima of Yanzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and his ancestor was named Cheng Zhe).
, was the Sima of Jinzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty. His father's name was Cheng Lou, who was the great Zhongzheng of Jizhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty. He was good at using long spears and once rescued Pei Xingyan (Pei Yuanqing in the commentary) from an army of ten thousand horses. According to historical records, the enemy used the spears to pierce his body.
, Cheng Zhijie hugged Pei Xingyan, and stabbed the enemy general, who fell off his horse, frightening the rest of the people who did not dare to pursue them. The two were finally able to escape.
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