The further they walked, the more obvious the signs of collapse were. The soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit dropped their weapons and ran away in the direction of the enemy's attack. Cui Qianyou's Youyan elite followed them slowly, using their cutting tools to attack them. Maizi would usually cut them down, then step on them with his horse, trampling the corpses into piles of pulp.
At this moment, there is no suspense about the outcome of the war. In other words, from the moment when the two armies came into contact more than 20 days ago, there has been no suspense at all. The reason why Cui Qianyou retreated in stride was not because he was afraid of Fang Guan. The reason why he was famous was not because his supplies of food and grass were burned by the people. The reason why he spent so much effort to lead Fang Guan from the junction of Lingzhou and Qingzhou to Fangzhou step by step was to annihilate them all in one battle. The main force of the Tang army. Even though the small court of Lingwu had mountains and rivers to support it, it could not find enough soldiers to participate in the defense.
There is no doubt that he succeeded. Fang Guan, who had no military talent, was no less arrogant and stubborn than other officials of the Tang Dynasty. He was almost like a silly roe deer, adding grains of salt deliberately sprinkled by hunters on the ground. He ran headlong into the trap. After being defeated in front of the Huangdi Mausoleum, he had to run six or seven hundred miles if he wanted to escape back to Lingzhou. Even if Fang Guan was lucky enough to escape from the trap that Cui Qianyou had already laid in secret, there would still be people sitting on the wall watching along the way. The local armed forces couldn't wait to hand over the heads of Tang army soldiers to Cui Qianyou.
"Catch the nerds!" "Catch the nerds!" A Youzhou general wearing a captain's iron coat shouted loudly, leading his troops on a rampage. The surrounding Tang Army officers and soldiers did not dare to stop them and all moved out of the way. But there were too many of them. , the formation was too dense, and for a while, they were unable to completely escape. The iron-clad captain curled his lips, raised his hand, and dropped his knife, bringing with it a bloody light.
"Drill through, drill through! Once you drill through, go straight to arrest the nerd named Fang. Don't waste time on these people! We will have plenty of time to behead them later!" Another small group of Youyan cavalry roared past, shouting to their companions. A reminder. It doesn’t matter how much you kill the lamb under your feet. The real big fish is on the carriage not far away. Although he is a little stupid and stupid, he is still a prime minister.
"Punch through, penetrate through!" The surrounding Youyan cavalry responded loudly, abandoning the poor people waiting for death with their eyes closed, and continued to penetrate deep into the Tang army. They could hardly receive any decent interception, and the number of Tang soldiers at this moment became This is the biggest obstacle. Even if you cut a horse from behind with a knife, it will take a while. What's more, occasionally you will encounter one or two guys who are so scared that they don't even dare to turn around and run for their lives.
"Get out of the way! Anyone who stands in the way will die!" Captain Tie Yi knew that he could correct his mistakes, so he immediately adjusted his tactics and led his brothers to attack forward.
Seeing this, the Yuyang elites behind them all gave up harvesting heads and focused all their energy on drilling through the Tang army's formation. As a result, the surrounding Tang army was defeated even more embarrassingly. In order to clear the way for the enemy, they even did not hesitate to kill the enemy. His own paoze, who was running slowly, was pushed to the ground.
"These trash, weaklings!" The Iron-clad Captain urged his mount and disdainfully knocked over the back of a figure in front of him. Then he swung his knife diagonally and wiped off the other person's neck from behind. The sunlight in the sky dimmed instantly, Then it was blindingly bright. He suddenly raised his head and found that there were no Tang soldiers around. But not far ahead, there was a gray-bearded Tang general, holding a long pole and charging towards him on foot.
"Well done!" The captain in iron clothes was overjoyed and clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly. Although the general's head is not as valuable as Fang Shuden, it is certainly far more valuable than an ordinary soldier. Anyway, it is a matter of hunting rabbits, so there is no need to worry about too much delay.
Much effort.
The horse under his crotch hissed and accelerated suddenly. As if his body was flying, he hit the gray-bearded Tang Jiang from mid-air. Just when he was about to kick his front hoof into the gray-bearded Tang Jiang, the opponent suddenly dodged.
He managed to avoid the horse's hoof just before he was stepped on. Then he pushed his left arm forward and pressed his right arm down. Using the momentum of turning to dodge, he stabbed the horse in the belly.
"Dang!" The captain in iron clothes stretched out his arm and waved his sword, blocking the sword for his mount. Before he could straighten up, the second sword with gray beard had already stabbed him again. This time the target was his lower back, the sword.
The cold light and air on the ground were overwhelming. The Iron-clad Captain tilted his body to the side, out of the way of his vitals, and at the same time urged his mount to exert force again. With the skillful cooperation of man and horse, he dodged the fatal blow. However, he was struck by
Three wooden spears thrust from the side and front hit him at the same time, piercing his lower abdomen, thighs, and calves at the same time. The whole person was picked up from the saddle and raised high in the air.
"Ah..." The iron-clad captain dropped his sword and screamed loudly. His soldiers were so frightened that they rushed forward to snatch the general's body like crazy. The gray beard sneered slightly and raised the long spear in his hand.
He stabbed down, and in the blink of an eye, three people were stabbed and felled.
Losing the control of its master, the war horses whined and whirled back and forth. The Yuyang cavalry's offensive came to a sudden halt, and the enemy and ourselves were mixed together, fighting for their lives around the iron-clad captain's body.
"Plum Blossom Formation!" Gray Beard shouted, and quickly retreated among the several Tang troops who were rushing over. Together with everyone, they formed a standard plum blossom formation. Five spears and one long spear alternately attacked forward and covered each other alternately.
The intensity of the attack doubled instantly. All rebel soldiers found by the Plum Blossom Formation, whether cavalry or infantry, were killed together.
"Like me, form a plum blossom formation. When the enemy can't speed up, tie them into meat skewers!" Seeing that his counterattack method was effective, Gray Beard immediately promoted it to the people around him.
"The general has an order, everyone spreads out, forms a plum-blossom spear formation, and attacks forward!" The surrounding guards shouted in unison, passing on the grey-bearded order to more people.
"The general has an order, use the Plum Blossom Spear Formation to defeat the enemy!!" The surrounding soldiers organized the formation according to their usual training while spreading the experience of Gray Beard further.
Lu Chongben, Zhang Jun, Wu Mian, Han Huizu and other former Hexi Army generals were already experienced. After hearing Wang Sili's order, after thinking about it for a moment, they realized that this method was feasible. They organized their brothers around them and went against the enemy to kill them.
From the direction they came, they launched a counterattack with a small infantry formation.
The situation turned from overwhelming momentum to difficulty in an instant. The rebel soldiers were obviously unable to adapt. Several Yuyang generals who were eager to make achievements almost ran into the oncoming plum blossom spear formation. In the blink of an eye, they were stabbed four or five times.
There was a big hole, and blood spurted out from the wound.
The general died, and if the bodyguards could not retrieve his body, they would be beheaded in public. A group of Yuyang elites immediately turned red-eyed and rushed forward regardless of the fact that the horses had lost their speed advantage. One person's bravery cannot match
The six people cooperated carefully, and in a blink of an eye, the swords flew, the horses fell, and the Yuyang elite on the horse was lifted into the air, and blood and internal organs were scattered all over the ground.
"Die, die, die like a man!" Wang Sili roared loudly, leading the brothers to continue pushing forward. In just a few forty seconds, a whole team of Yuyang elites became the dead souls of their guns. They followed closely.
Then, they rushed towards the next team, killing the enemy wantonly before they could find a way to deal with it.
Another small group of cavalry disappeared among the spears. A huge support point appeared in the collapsed Tang army array. Around this support point, thousands of soldiers who were determined to die gathered one after another, gradually turning the support point into an isolated island.
, and the isolated islands merged into a piece of land, a moving steel jungle.
Behind the jungle, countless soldiers of the Tang Army who were escaping for their lives suddenly discovered that in fact, the enemy did not have three heads and six arms. A knife in the neck would cause the head to fall off, and a gun in the lower abdomen would cause the intestines to pierce. The Five Directions and Twenty-Eight Constellations Formation failed to be obtained.
God takes care of them, but they may be able to save themselves.
Some people who were looking to escape hesitated and stopped. In the blink of an eye, more escapees gritted their teeth and turned around to gather in the steel jungle. Mr. Wang, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, was already dying, so why would I want to die?
Fight hard, kill one to earn enough money, kill two to earn one.
When people are no longer afraid of death, nothing in the world can destroy their will. Facing the suddenly powerful Tang army, the Yuyang elites are at a loss. Like a group of hungry wolves rushing into the sheep,
I thought I could have a good meal, but unexpectedly, the sheep suddenly showed their teeth and turned into a group of hunting dogs.
"Hang on, hang on. Don't let them distance themselves."
"First stab the horse, then stab the man! The sword is too short to take advantage of us!"
In the Tang army, the veterans from Hexi gave full play to their role as seeds. While leading the team to counterattack the enemy, they loudly taught their experience in dealing with cavalry to the people around them. Donggong Liu led the soldiers who gathered from various places and gathered in Lingwu. Originally,
He had received a certain amount of fighting training. Now that he had received guidance from an "expert", his courage immediately increased, and he actually fully utilized what he had learned at White Horse Castle.
At this time, the rebels were a bit overwhelmed. The team that originally tried to break through the Tang army's obstruction and go directly to capture Fang Da Shuden alive had to change its goal and turned back to support its own army. The team that was originally responsible for capturing prisoners and harvesting the heads of the dead and injured
The auxiliary soldiers also had to stop committing evil and carefully guard against the Tang army's counterattack. Some cavalrymen who witnessed their general being stabbed alive even secretly turned their horses' heads. When they realized that the situation was not good, they immediately rode away.
The situation on the central battlefield changed from a one-sided massacre to a stalemate between the two sides. The Yuyang cavalry who were blocked in the attack rushed forward again and again, but were stabbed back again and again by Wang Sili and others with rifles and spears. The battle ended at the end of the battle.
In the fierce scene, the corpses of people and horses lay all over the ground. Blood flowed into a river and spread in all directions, dyeing the autumn wilderness scarlet.
Cui Qianyou quickly discovered something was wrong.
He only invested 6,000 cavalry on the two wings of the battlefield, but he had already completely defeated the 20,000 Tang troops. In the center of the battlefield, he put 15,000 Yuyang elites and 7,000 ordinary infantry, but they were defeated by more than 30,000 soldiers.
Tang's light armored infantry has been hard-pressed until now. Moreover, these more than 30,000 Tang army infantry have not entered the battlefield at the same time.
"There's something weird!" He jumped on the saddle, stood up on his legs and looked carefully. Soon, he understood the reason. "Who is that person? The one with the gray beard, he looks familiar?!"
"It's Wang Sili, the commander-in-chief of your defeated general. You saw him during the Battle of Tongguan!" The soldier next to him had a very good memory. He also stood on the saddle and looked at the center of the battlefield and quickly gave an answer.
