Chapter 2 Spreading Wings (eight times) The hillside covered with wild flowers and green grass is now moistened with blood. Youzhou Qingqi, who finally successfully detoured back to the flank of the Boling Army, under the command of Marshal Luo Cheng, attacked the position held by Li Xu.
After launching a tidal wave of attacks and passing through the obstacles carefully laid out by their opponents, they started attacking directly without any adjustment. Like moths rushing to the flame, they ran into the long-awaited jungle one after another.
Life is as bright as a flower in spring, blooming in an instant, and then withering in an instant. The first fifty riders who rushed into the battle formation were pierced on the spot together with their mounts, and fell to the ground with a crash. However, the experienced soldiers of Boling were stunned by the enemy's attack.
Turning a blind eye to death, the soldiers in the first row remained in a half-crouched position, their swords slanting upward. The blood of the superior man and his horse flowed down the sword pole quickly, dyeing their hands and arms red. Some were crushed by the horses, and the gap was quickly filled.
Others who were not affected clenched their teeth tightly and remained motionless like stone sculptures.
The soldiers of the second row placed the long sticks flat on the shoulders of the soldiers of the first row, with the tip pointing forward, and the broken flesh and blood hanging from the tip. The soldiers of the third row placed the long sticks on the shoulders of the soldiers of the second row, with the sharp points pointing forward.
The row in front was two feet higher, and there was no chance of contact with the enemy yet. The cold blue light flashed
This is a standard infantry versus cavalry battle formation, like a steel hedgehog curling up its body, making it impossible for the enemy to attack. If the Youzhou cavalry has an acceleration distance of more than fifty steps, and with the inertia of the horses charging at high speed, they only need to
If you have the courage to sacrifice, it is not difficult to smash this formation into pieces. But Li Xu did not give the Youzhou people any chance. He has led the cavalry in combat all year round and knows better than anyone of his age the weaknesses of the light armored cavalry. Unlike the armored cavalry, which is armed to the teeth,
Even if the latter is walking slowly, it can trample the infantry blocking the road into meat. Speed is the life of the light armored cavalry. If the speed cannot be raised, the cavalry's attack power will be reduced by at least half. Coordination with Pao Ze when advancing at low speeds
In terms of mobility, they are far less agile than infantry
The splattered blood did not make Luo Cheng feel soft. Fan Zhongmou's flag fell down, Liu Dexin's flag fell down, and the Youzhou Army's handsome flag fell down. As the coach and every Youzhou disciple around him, he should know what that meant.
If they can't get to Li Xu in the shortest time and kill the cunning and despicable enemy coach, there will be no suspense about the outcome of this battle.
"Youzhou Tiger Ben!" Luo Cheng raised his palm with one hand, using honor to inspire the few morale in his subordinates' hearts.
"The world is invincible!" the cavalry responded loudly, with a slight tremor in the end. These two sentences were the slogans that their fathers often shouted when they went on expeditions. However, the first sentence used to be "The Great Sui Tiger Ben", but now the Great Sui Dynasty has become Youhu.
state
Our fathers once proudly said that when they shouted these two slogans, the entire eastern grassland would tremble. Regardless of the Turks, Khitans or Mohe people, those uncivilized herdsmen could only lie down and beg for mercy in front of the tiger cavalry.
No one dares to face the power of the Sui Dynasty, and no one dares to face the anger of the entire Central Plains. Today, these two slogans have been changed to two words and resounded across the battlefield. The person standing in front of the war horse is the same Sui Dynasty.
paoze
With 1,500 cavalry against more than 1,000 infantry, the Youzhou army had an absolute advantage in numbers. The second wave of desperate attacks soon began. More than 100 riders from Youzhou kicked the horse's belly and smashed its crotch.
The potential of the mount was squeezed to the limit. The poor horses twisted their necks, stared round their eyes, and hissed loudly. They are not human beings. They have no overall perspective and spirit of sacrifice. If they see the bushes in front of them while running at high speed, they cannot resist the inertia.
While taking small steps forward, even if they see a bunch of thorny thorns, they will choose to avoid it.
The fear of death failed to overcome the desire for victory in the end. The wailing war horse slowly approached the bushes. Big tears fell from the eyes of the poor beast at the moment when it was about to collide with the bushes. Most of them
The war horse struggled to raise its front hooves, and a small part of it tried to turn around. The result was almost the same as the direct charge instead of a diagonal scrape. The three-foot-long sharp edge easily pierced the skin and muscles of the war horse, causing their hooves to tremble in pain.
The warriors on horseback took the opportunity to take off their feet and jumped forward, shouting. They tried to jump over the bushes and attack from behind the enemy, but most of them fell down halfway and were directly stabbed to death by the tree branches.
As soon as the few lucky ones landed on the honeycomb, they were surrounded by Boling soldiers around them. Countless swords were slashed at them and they were cut into pieces.
Barely giving the soldiers time to grieve for the dead, the third wave of cavalry trotted to the core of the battlefield. Before jumping off their horses, they threw their long spears at their opponents, then pulled out the horizontal knives from their waists and slashed the former soldiers fiercely.
on mounts that are considered siblings
Dozens of Boling soldiers were shot and fell beside their companions. At the same time, the war horse that was slashed by its owner went crazy and neighed as it crashed into the formation. More than a dozen long spears stabbed a war horse at the same time, killing the horse.
He was killed on the spot, but the formation of the Boling Army also dented a small area backwards under the impact of the war horses, revealing a small gap.
The third wave of injured horses rushed in, followed closely by the fourth wave of horses. The Boling soldiers squatting in the front row had to move their bodies to avoid being crushed to death by the poor beasts. There were more and more flaws in the formation, and gradually became
The Youzhou people who risked their lives by crossing the huge crack rushed in directly from the crack, stabbing with their long spears, fighting for their lives.
In an instant, both sides suffered heavy losses. The skillful Boling soldiers relied on their group advantage to knock over the Youzhou people who broke into the army one by one. However, the crazy horses and the crazy Youzhou people often had to die before they died.
Pulling one or two opponents behind him not far away, Luo Cheng was still waving the battle flag, driving his brothers directly behind the death vortex formation. Li Xu held the black knife tightly, and his finger joints had already turned blue.
Boling soldiers from other positions on the frontal battlefield were coming quickly, but more than 300 Youzhou cavalry were already rushing along the hillside under the command of Luo Cheng. The Youzhou army did not expect to be able to defeat them with just more than 300 cavalry.
They defeated the thousands of Boling soldiers who came to win. They only planned to use the lives of more than 300 people to drag out one more stick of incense. It didn't need more time. Within one stick of incense, Luo Cheng's Youzhou cavalry and
The outcome of the battle between Li Xu's thousand Boling soldiers will definitely be determined. If the cavalry are defeated, the Youzhou army will be destroyed in this battle! If the infantry are killed and dispersed, Li Xu will never be able to face it with just one person.
Hundreds of cavalry surrounded him and killed him, turning the entire battle upside down.
Blood splattered and the horns sounded like tigers roaring and dragons roaring. Compared with the almost one-sided slaughter on the frontal battlefield before, the fighting on the local battlefield was even more brutal. The soldiers on both sides knew that the battle had reached a critical moment. They fought fiercely and would rather die than retreat.
Several Youzhou cavalrymen fell off their horses, and immediately swung their swords against the ground and swept across several long poles without dodging or dodging. After several breaths, a gap appeared in the position where the cavalrymen fell from their horses, which was already stained red with blood.
On the grass, the Youzhou people and the Boling people fell together, shoulder to shoulder, face to face.
In order to protect the battle formation from being dispersed, Wang Xuba rushed to the front line with his own soldiers. His skills were far better than ordinary soldiers. When he saw where the enemy troops had rushed out of the crack, he immediately rushed forward to fill his position.
A Youzhou cavalryman who had just stabbed his opponent over laughed wildly and threw the body off the horse. Before he could level the horse again, Wang Xuba rushed forward, swung his broadsword and swept him off the saddle.
"Kill! Let them remember it for a long time!" Wang Xuba, who was sprayed with blood as if he had just been fished out of the dyehouse, raised his sword and roared, rushing towards the next cavalryman who had just rushed into the battle formation.
The Youzhou man was startled, and quickly stabbed him in the chest with his sword. Wang Xu pulled out his wrist, raised it at an angle, and knocked the horse away with one knife. He stepped forward, and chopped the horse's raised front leg with another knife.
The horse that lost its legs let out a shrill scream and fell forward, rolling and struggling. The Youzhou cavalry on the horse had no time to escape, and was tightly trapped by the stirrups, and was crushed by his own horse until he vomited blood. Wang Xuba watched.
Without even looking at his opponent, he led his own soldiers and rushed directly to the next gap. There, two Youzhou generals who had jumped off their mounts were attacking Fang Yannian, forcing Fang Changshi into a dangerous situation.
One of them heard the heavy footsteps and turned to face Wang Xuba. When he saw the blade as big as a door panel in the opponent's hand, he was startled and did not dare to confront the opponent with a weapon. He first dodged sideways, and then swung his sword across "
Damn your grandma!" Wang Xuba thrust his sword into the ground, blocked the sharp blade that was hitting his waist like a pillar, then jumped into the air with his legs, using the handle of the sword as the axis, he kicked in a spiral
This was not a move that should be done on the battlefield at all. He suddenly performed it, but it had an unexpected effect. The Youzhou general who was facing him could not avoid it, and his chest and lower abdomen were kicked directly with combat boots wrapped in pig iron, which directly broke his ribs.
, shaking the internal organs inside to pieces
"Ah——!" Youzhou general let out a scream, vomited blood and died. Wang Xuba fell to the ground with his feet and drew his sword to meet a horse spear thrust from the side. The wielder of the spear was very good at martial arts and missed a single blow.
Urging the horse forward, he tried to trample him to death with his hoofs. Wang Xuba quickly fled to the side, then turned around and slashed at the opponent diagonally, facing him with his spear. The two weapons collided without any fancy, making a crisp sound of gold and iron.
The two sides were evenly matched, but General Youzhou had an extra war horse, and he had the advantage of being condescending. In order to prevent this man from opening a wider gap in the general formation, Wang Xuba could not hide too far every time, and could only circle around the war horse to engage the opponent.
Dou's doing this caused his physical strength to drop sharply, and in the blink of an eye he was breathing heavily. His opponent grinned with teeth, and Chang Yan shook out a ball of silver flowers.
Just hearing the sound of "Ping!", the long spear that made Wang Xu panic suddenly stopped in mid-air. Then, the Youzhou general on the horse tilted his body and fell softly from his mount. An armor-piercing weapon flew out of thin air.
The awl was shot from above his eyebrows, half a foot into his brain. The dark black eagle feathers were covered with blood drops, and the droplets were dazzling.
Wang Xuba quickly turned around and saw Li Xu holding a horned bow and setting up the second feather arrow. Then, another Youzhou general who was fighting with Fang Yannian fell off his horse and was poked into a honeycomb by the swarming Changshan.
"Don't just focus on fighting, try your best to keep the queue orderly!" Looking at the direction of Wang Xuba, Li Xu shouted loudly through the crowd. His words reached Wang Xuba's ears and were almost inaudible, but Wang Xuba knew that
What was the general talking about? He pointed forward with the tip of his sword and led people to fill the next gap.
Although he tried his best, the Youzhou cavalry still formed breakthroughs in many places. Seeing that his infantry battle formation was on the verge of disintegration, Wang Xuba took out a horn from his waist and blew it. When he heard the sound of the horn, he was already charged.
The Boling soldiers in groups re-energized themselves and formed small formations on the spot under the command of the nearest low-level general to delay the enemy's advance to the maximum extent.
The two sides were comparing their speed. The Boling soldiers on the front battlefield were the first to kill and disperse the Youzhou interceptors. It was the Youzhou cavalry on the local battlefield that broke through the Boling soldiers' obstruction first and cut down Li Xu's flag. At a certain moment, Youzhou
The people almost reached their goal. They were less than ten steps away from where Li Xu was standing. But after a few breaths, they were killed again. Zhou Daniu, who came back, led his guards and forced them to flee.
"Poof!" The armor-piercing cone that flew quickly penetrated the sternum of the cavalry, pushing it directly onto the horse. Next week, Daniel quickly killed him. Taking advantage of the Youzhou cavalry who was closest to him to be stunned, he waved his horizontal sword and hit him directly.
The Youzhou rider who slashed the opponent's thigh and witnessed the tragic death of his companion had to guard against the cold arrows coming from nowhere, while dealing with Zhou Daniu's attack. In a hurry, several guards took the opportunity to rush to the side of the horse and push it out of the saddle with their long spears.
The ownerless horses fled quickly, and Zhou Daniu and others quickly recovered into a small square formation. They cooperated with each other to block the next wave of enemy troops rushing towards Li Xu. The leading enemy general swung his sword straight at Zhou Daniu, trying to capture the thief first and capture the king first.
At the moment when the two were about to come into contact, Zhou Daniu, who was the core of the military formation, suddenly and disappointingly jumped away from him.
"Poof!" There was another sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh. General Youzhou looked shocked when he saw his mount jumping up high, and his neck was pierced by a stream of arrows at some point, giving him no chance to figure out what happened.
, Zhou Daniu also jumped up high, and swung his sword across the Youzhou general who had lost coordination with the war horse. He watched helplessly as a sharp horizontal knife slashed across his waist and abdomen, then instinctively dropped the weapon, reached out to cover the wound, and the war horse.
At the same time, he fell into a pool of blood, rolling and struggling.
"Bah!" Da Niu, who had succeeded in the attack, spat contemptuously and rushed towards the next enemy with his sword. A Youzhou soldier's weapon attacked him from the side, but Zhou Daniu didn't care about his weak spot.
The Youzhou soldier who ran within the opponent's attack range was immediately clamped by two soldiers, then received an arrow in the throat, fell off his horse and died.
Different from Wang Xuba's mission, Zhou Daniu was not responsible for maintaining the integrity of the military formation. He led more than a hundred soldiers to rotate around the commander's flag in some weird way. If someone could look down from the air, they would clearly see that Zhou Daniu
The trajectory of the other people's movement is half an arc, and Li Xu's location is exactly the center of the half arc. Anyone who tries to penetrate within this half arc will be besieged immediately or die from a random blade.
below, or killed by a "stray arrow"
This method of combat is extremely intimidating. Several Youzhou warriors who broke through the formation were killed near the Boling Army's handsome flag. After three consecutive attacks were thwarted, the Youzhou soldiers gradually became fearful of Zhou Daniu's location.
They cannot see the overall situation of the battlefield, and it is difficult to distinguish where the cold arrows come from. They are even more afraid that the next person to die in confusion will be them.
Li Xu put an armor-piercing awl on the bowstring and shot it at the enemy farther away. The Youzhou Army still retains the armor system of the Sui Dynasty, so he can easily distinguish which one is an officer from the enemy.
In just a few breaths of ordinary soldiers, at least three brigade leaders and two brigade leaders died under his hands. The already chaotic Youzhou Army became even more chaotic. Many soldiers were fighting almost entirely based on a sense of honor.
, while fighting with the Boling Army, he kept watching the surrounding situation.
The heavy armored infantry led by Zhang Jiang were still fighting hard against the Youzhou people who were responsible for blocking him. However, due to the dual impact of numbers and morale, the Youzhou side had already collapsed. The generals leading the team kept sounding horns and calling for help from Luo Cheng.
And their coach Luo Cheng has already sent out most of his own soldiers, and can no longer allocate any force to provide support for his subordinate Pao Ze.
The last force he could invest was Luo Cheng himself and a dozen personal guards. But he didn't want to waste his last physical strength and blood on the ordinary soldiers of Boling Army. His opponent was not far away, commanding Boling.
The army is massacring Youzhou people
Yes, it can only be regarded as a massacre. This battle cannot be regarded as a battle at all. The situation has developed to this point. Luo Cheng has already understood that he lost, and that he lost unjustly, but it is clear that he has lost.
He can understand all the formations and changes adopted by the opponent today and can think of ways to solve them, including the half-arc that is currently hiding behind the battle group and constantly rotating around Li Xu's position. He can clearly remember it in the military book.
However, understanding and being able to exert its power like one's own arm are two completely different things. The Youzhou infantry under his command cannot reach the level of training of the Boling infantry, and he does not have as much killing experience as Li.
This is a completely asymmetric war in terms of combat experience. Compared with the experienced Boling infantry, the Youzhou infantry
