Five hundred and ninetieth chapters the other side
Chapter 593
The army led by Hua Ling began to reorganize their formation when they were still five miles away from Su County. The Khitan fighting team was already approaching. After a rough inspection, Hua Ling found that there were not many Khitan people coming to fight. It seemed that there were only four thousand people.
Therefore, Hua Ling ordered the army to close their formation and move forward slowly in a phalanx.
Hualing only had 30,000 troops. The previous formation of 70,000 to 80,000 men was just to confuse the Khitans. First, it was to make the Khitans think that the Han army had exhausted all its strength and put pressure on the Khitans. Second, it was to provide cover.
The army led by Liu Ling personally attacked the Khitan camp from the flank. Although he did not intend to annihilate all the Khitan army in Su County, he still wanted to beat them up. The Central Plains lacked war horses, and hundreds of thousands of good Khitan horses were left alone without grabbing them.
This is a loss-making transaction.
"Huo Guang! Lead your battalion to form an array at the front. You have been preparing for so long. Don't embarrass me!"
Hua Ling ordered loudly.
There are more than 30,000 Han troops, only 3,000 cavalry, most of which are infantry. With such a lineup to face the nearly 40,000 cavalry troops coming from the Khitan people, you can imagine how difficult it is. Hua Ling's task is
Drag the Khitan rear group, and then wait for the prince himself to lead an army to attack the main force of the Khitan army from the side. As long as the main force of the Khitan army retreats, the Khitan troops remaining in the rear will immediately become chaotic.
"Remember! Even if you have to fight to the death, you have to resist me for at least an hour!"
Hua Ling shouted to Huo Guang's back.
Huo Guang turned around and said, "Don't worry, sir! Even if I fall, the Khitan cavalry can't rush over!"
Hua Ling nodded: "While you are still alive, don't be so anxious to report to the King of Hell!"
Huo Guang was slightly startled, and smiled warmly in his heart: "The King of Hell dare not accept me. Don't worry, sir!"
After Huo Guang led his troops and horses to attack, Hua Ling loudly ordered: "Li Qing! All the archers in your army are going to attack. Even the pyrotechnics are in your hands. Can Huo Guang's gun array be able to attack them?"
You have a heavy responsibility to withstand the impact of the Khitan cavalry!"
Li Qing cupped his fists and said, "Don't worry, sir, the general's men have been waiting for today!"
Hua Ling nodded and then ordered: "Cavalry, divide into two teams and move around to prevent the Khitans from attacking from the flanks!"
The Khitan people were all cavalry, and they came very quickly. Only then did the Han army's defensive formation form the shadow of the cavalry on the horizon. On the white snow, the cavalry stepped on the broken snow and stirred up a man-high white cloud.
The fog came along with the north wind, and the Khitan cavalry seemed to be a little faster than before. The gray-yellow leather armor of the Khitan people against the background of the snow was like a sandstorm rolling along the ground. Plains
In field battles, the Khitans had almost no opponents. Their cavalry was like the wind, often completing the assault before the enemy was ready.
The Han people in the Central Plains and the grassland peoples have a long history of war. In the war with the grassland peoples, the Han people also summed up a set of effective methods for infantry to fight against cavalry.
Among them, the most effective method is to use spearmen to form a close formation to deal with the cavalry attack.
Huo Guang's battalion has 10,000 soldiers. In addition to the 2,000 archers, regardless of the military type, everyone has two weapons in their hands today. Spears and short knives. And the spears in their hands are obviously for counterattack
It was specially made by the Khitan cavalry and was four meters long. The short sword was only less than two feet long, which was nearly half shorter than the standard horizontal sword of the Han Dynasty. This kind of short sword was the best weapon for close combat.
The rumble of horse hooves came from the north, as if there was a dull thunder in the sky. Under the command of the general, the large group of Khitan cavalry began to speed up about a mile away from the Han army. The Golden Horde General Yaculi took his own
The 15,000 troops of the headquarters were dragged behind, and the other two troops of 10,000 formed an offensive formation divided into four cones to support the front. Although the two men of the 10,000 troops were very angry with Yacuri's arrangement,
The gap in status and official position made them unable to resist orders.
"The Han people are right in front, trample them to death!"
The Khitan general on the left shouted loudly: "Let them have a taste of the scimitar!"
The Khitan wolf cavalry roared loudly, and howling like wolves came overwhelmingly. When they were still two hundred steps away, the snow foam crushed by the horses blown by the north wind had already begun to hit the faces of the Han soldiers.
, the cold feeling relieved the soldiers' nervous hearts a little. The wolves roaring in the wind were not scary, because the King of Han led them to chop off the wolf heads and kick them for fun more than once.
"Spearmen! Formation!"
When the Khitan's vanguard of two ten thousand troops was still 150 steps away from the Han army, Huo Guang gave a loud order. Thousands of Han army infantry spearmen were divided into five columns to form a thick embankment.
The first row of Han soldiers squatted down and raised their four-meter-long spears at an angle, with the gun shafts on the ground. They tucked the spears under their armpits and held the gun shafts tightly with both hands. The second row half squatted,
Put the spear on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, pointing upward diagonally. The third row bowed, and put the spear on the shoulders of the soldiers in the second row. In the fourth row, the soldiers squatted down again and pressed the spear pole.
On the ground. The same goes for the fifth row.
The infantry phalanx of the Han army was like a sharp jungle with slanting steel edges and was as stable as a mountain.
After a hundred steps, more and more snow stars flew over and hit my face, and I could even feel the ground shaking.
"Archer, diffuse, release!"
Deliberately placing the Khitan cavalry closer, Li Qing ordered the archers to shoot. This was done to reduce the impact speed of the Khitan cavalry as much as possible. If the arrow is released too early, even if it is thrown two hundred steps away, it will be enough.
Kill the enemy, but then the Khitan people behind will have enough time to adjust their horses to prevent their horses from hitting the fallen Khitan cavalry, and then increase their speed to attack the Han army's phalanx. And if they kill a lot of people within a hundred steps
The Khitan cavalry at the front and the Khitan cavalry at the back had no time to get out of the way! At this time, the cavalry is at its fastest!
Buzz!
Thousands of feather arrows were shot out, and the white feathers complemented the remaining snow on the ground.
boom!
Dozens of repeating fire ballistas roared at the same time, pouring out tens of thousands of crossbow arrows. It was like an avalanche on the flat ground, and the dense arrows even blocked the sun's rays! The power of the repeating fire ballistas is self-evident.
, although the fire ballistas only had one chance to fire under the high-speed impact of the cavalry, but this time, it was enough to crush the enemy's courage. The overwhelming white feathers were denser than the broken snow blown up by the north wind!
The moment the feather arrows came into contact with the Khitan cavalry, the Khitan cavalry at the front fell down layer by layer like falling wheat being dropped by a wielded sickle. The arrows came pouring in, tearing the Khitan people apart like flesh.
A piece of the cavalry formation was violently torn off.
Within a hundred steps, almost no one of the Khitan charging cavalry was alive!
At least two thousand cavalrymen were shot to death by this round of feather arrows. The entire torrent of Khitan cavalrymen seemed to have hit an invisible boulder, shattering into pieces and creating huge waves. The peak of the torrent hit the invisible boulder and exploded.
A pile of human flesh and horse carcasses were found all over the place.
The desperate wails of war horses and the mournful cries of people before death merged into one, and the stormy waves crashed on the shore.
The cavalrymen and horses in front were shot into hedgehogs. The bodies covered with white feathers ran forward for a few steps and fell down. The cavalry behind them had not had time to dodge and lost the cover in front. Feathers and arrows followed them like a shadow.
His body fell apart, and in an instant, the cavalryman behind turned into another hedgehog. The cavalryman had already become a lifeless corpse before falling off the horse. After landing, he was quickly stepped into the snow by the random horse behind him.
The ground was churned red with mud.
Someone was lucky enough to survive being hit by an arrow, but his horse was shot to no good place. The horse fell to the ground and pinned one of his legs. He pulled it out with all his strength while looking back to see if anyone was there.
He hit him. As soon as he turned around, the horse's leg had already kicked him in the face! The impact of the horse running at full speed was so huge that the cavalryman's face was kicked and collapsed. His body suddenly leaned back,
Another horse leg hit the chest, and the leather armor and chest collapsed into a big pit. Soon, blood poured out along the cracks in the broken armor.
At a distance of one hundred steps, the archer can shoot at most three arrows. The fire ballista only has one chance to fire a volley, but with the charging speed of the Khitan Wolf Cavalry, it can reach it in about six breaths and one hundred steps.
The Khitan cavalry that was cut off became a little more scattered, and its speed also slowed down a little. Thousands of corpses did not stop the pace of the cavalry behind them, and the collision happened in the next second. If the dense arrows of the Han army were a piece of
The invisible boulder has already caused the Khitan cavalry formation to show signs of fragmentation. Then, the defensive formation that the Han army has formed is a tangible and solid embankment.
The Khitan wolf cavalry hitting the gun formation was like waves hitting the dam. In an instant, the sea of blood surged.
The cavalry at the front waved their scimitars in an attempt to kill the Han Chinese who were standing in front of them, but their scimitars were too short. The four-meter-long spear pierced their chests just as they waved their arms.
and lower abdomen. The war horse suffered a more severe blow than the cavalry. The huge impact broke the spear, but the broken spearhead penetrated deeply into the body of the war horse.
Countless cavalrymen fell down from their horses, and the dead ones lay straight on the ground. Those who were not dead were quickly stabbed into their hearts by Han soldiers with short knives.
The Khitan cavalry in front was stabbed to death, and those behind continued to rush up. The torrent shook the embankment, and almost all the Han soldiers in the first row died in the battle!
Under the command of Li Qing, the Han archers began to launch missiles to attack the Khitan cavalry behind them. Huo, with his red eyes, shouted loudly, encouraging the soldiers to resist the Khitan attack. Once the cavalry was stopped, they lost their speed.
The cavalry with superior speed can only become the target of the spearmen. As long as the Han army holds on, as long as the spear formation can hold on to the Khitan people, then the cavalry piling up behind will block the vanguard's retreat, and the Khitan people will be able to run away if they want.
No!
"Hold on! Brothers! As long as the Khitans can't get past your spear formation, they will die!"
"Third row, third row stand up, raise your spears!"
"Squat in the third row, lunge forward in the fourth row!"
"Li Qing! Ask your archers to shoot, and kill the Khitan people who rush in first!"
Li Qing responded loudly: "I'm doing it!"
call!
Hundreds of feather arrows were fired, knocking the Khitan wolf riders who rushed into the third row of gun array off their horses. The dense arrows were like fists, smashing and crushing the dozens of Khitan wolf riders at the front.
rotten.
At this moment, life disappears as fast as a meteor. I don’t know how much blood will be poured down on the flowers blooming on the roadside of Huangquan, making the flowers more delicate and beautiful as blood. Behind the Han army’s formation is the other side, and the flowers are blooming on the other side.
