Xu Zi 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 and three hundred light cavalry to attack the enemy.
The infantry of the army. However, the armored 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 scattered small formations. It was a kind of spearman.
Cooperating with the sword and shield bearers, a small formation of six to eight people echoed each other, like a series of rolling hedgehogs. The two hundred armored riders whizzing in took a bite of the hedgehogs and were quickly consumed.
When the speed of the war horse became as fast as a person walking, the powerful attack power of the armored horse could no longer be exerted. The soldiers could only rely on their strong defense to tangle with the bandits, but when the number of enemies was greater than that of the enemy,
With the army nearly twenty times smaller, 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 abilities were obviously not half as good as his father's. The bandits only separated a few infantry and entangled him.
Not only were the three hundred light cavalry unable to provide effective support to the armored cavalry, but they forced Dugu Lin to constantly dedicate 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 longer!" Li Xu pushed away his visor, took a deep breath, and rode on.
He rushed towards the battle group closest to him. Two elite soldiers from Qijun 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.
After circling, everyone was disappointed. As soon as the third circling 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 the two county soldiers. Seeing the opportunity, this time
The thief whirled and slashed diagonally, and 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 his horse. "Ah..." The bandit leader screamed loudly, rolling on the ground with his hands covering his stomach. A black knife swept across the ground, neatly ending his pain.
"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 there. The county soldiers had already fought absolutely
They had the 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 down.
mount.
"Follow us, line up!" Li Xu shouted at the three county soldiers who were still stunned when he turned his horse's head. At this moment, he couldn't care about the moral principles with the enemy. He needed more manpower. Wu Ming
The county soldiers followed Xu Zi's horses to form a small formation, shouting and charging towards the stalemate in the distance. Before everyone could rush to the place, a long spear suddenly rushed towards Li Xu and went straight to Li Xu's chest. Xu Zi twisted
He adjusted his body and avoided the attack. Before the opponent could change his move, he suddenly stretched out his left hand and grasped the attack pole firmly. He pulled hard and pulled the enemy closer to him. The opponent refused to put down his weapon.
He snatched it back with both hands. The two struggled, and the wound on Li Xu's shoulder was bleeding profusely.
"Stab him in the lower back!" Xuzi pointed loudly. Two long sticks quickly reached out from behind him and pierced the opponent's soft ribs like poisonous snakes spitting messages. "Ah--!" The bandit let out a beast-like howl.
, let go of Changsha, and his body rolled off the horse. Two county soldiers quickly ran past him and cut his throat with their sharp swords.
Xu Zi threw the captured spear as a spear and stabbed a high-speed running horse. The minions on the horse jumped into the air the moment the mount fell to the ground and pounced on Li Xu's head like a kite.
When he fell, the two county commanders raised their arms high and stabbed the opponent's hand in the air. Blood fell all over Li Xu like a fountain. He swept it with his hand, wiping away his own blood and the enemy's blood. Then he didn't even look up.
Go back and keep moving forward.
A monster with half of its body stained red by blood suddenly joined the battle group, swinging its sword like the wind, one at a time, killing two minions in succession. The bandits around were frightened and involuntarily moved to both sides to avoid it. Xuzi rushed to the left
Rushing to the right, the number of brothers around him expanded to more than twenty riders in an instant.
"Complete the team, follow me!" Xuzi shouted, using himself as the blade and more than 20 cavalry as the blade, forming a small cavalry array, specifically targeting the stalemate between the enemy and us to attack. Although the enemy cavalry is well-trained, the number of cavalry is still small.
There was no advantage. After Asahi and his men broke up more than a dozen stalemate points one after another, the situation on the battlefield immediately reversed.
"Complete the team, complete the team!" The Jingqi who were following Li Xu saw the benefits and shouted together at the top of their lungs. The crowd became more and more compact, attacking more and less, specifically picking the weak ones. After counting, there were fifty more
Several people gathered beside Li Xu. Xuzi 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.
, pointing the blade 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 attacked Luo Shixin's opponent at the same time. The enemy general in red cloak had already been exhausted by Luo Shixin.
, was harassed by everyone, and his movements immediately dispersed. Seeing the opportunity, Luo Shixin stabbed the man in the thigh, hitting him right in the thigh.
"Ah!" The enemy general in the red cloak let out a scream, turned his horse and fled. Li Xu and Luo Shixin did not pursue them, they joined forces and attacked the bearded man who was fighting Qin Shubao. The beard had previously fought with Xu Zi.
After fighting hard once, his chest was injured. At the moment, Qin Shubao was exhausted and exhausted. Suddenly he heard the screams and the sound of horse hooves behind him, and he knew something was wrong. He took out several axes from behind the saddle, threw them around, and killed Li Xu.
The others' offensive was blocked for a while, and then 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, and they were not willing to let him run away like this. They immediately started chasing after him. In the blink of an eye, several cavalrymen had already caught up behind the red cloak, and Chang Shao drew a shadow directly behind them.
This man stabbed several large holes in 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 were 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 general's weird formation to lose their position. At the critical moment, Xuzi led the light cavalry and rushed over from the side, firing random arrows. The enemy general noticed that his cavalry
Defeated, there was no need to panic. The flag in his hand was waved a few more times, and the marching infantry changed their formations again. Some continued to resist the armored cavalry led by Dugu Lin, while the other part changed direction, with their shields in front and long spears.
In the middle, with the archers 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.
After running 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 directly behind the enemy's formation.
"Brothers, take turns!" Luo Shixin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shouted wildly. In the blink of an eye, he led more than a hundred light cavalry who came over and rushed towards the enemy formation. He did not go to support
Li Xu instead chose another angle, charging while bending his bow and releasing arrows.
"Woo--Woo-Woo!" A shrill horn sound sounded from the enemy commander's flag, accompanied by a dense wave of arrows, and the enemy formation suddenly changed. The entire formation was divided into several petals like a plum blossom, and the outermost part slowly branched out.
A team of sword and shield bearers and a team of spearmen stepped forward obliquely to block Luo Shixin's horse head.
"Use hard crossbows to kill and weaken their spirit. Use heavy armored infantry to engage in frontal combat to disrupt their rhythm. Use light cavalry to outflank them on both wings and cut off their retreat. Then charge forward with armored cavalry..." Qin Shubao clearly remembers
On that day, Master Zhang Xutuo summarized the essence of using the elites of the Central Plains to fight against the Turkic wolf cavalry. The enemy general was not around to listen to Master Zhang at first, but the enemy general's arrangement was exactly what Master Zhang said. The crossbows were covered, the infantry engaged, and the
The light cavalry outflank just now, this person responded to every move just right. What if this person still has a group of heavy armored cavalry? Qin Shubao felt a little cold in his heart. Not daring to waste the opportunity, he waved his hand and led all the light cavalry to join him.
Battle group.
Three groups of light-armored cavalry ran back and forth around the enemy formation in three directions, constantly shooting cold arrows into the enemy ranks. Although the accuracy was not good, it really played a role in harassing the enemy. The enemy generals kept issuing orders, using archers and
The infantry fought. Qin Shubao and others learned well 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, ordering Dugu Lin and Zhang Yuanbei to lead their men.
The brother disengages from the opponent.
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 four thousand infantrymen turned neatly at an angle as if they shared one body. Some were in the vanguard, others on the flanks, and those behind were behind to guard and slow down.
It slowly climbed up 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 just changed directions and there was more grass under their feet.
More than 800 corpses.
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 fell. Although everyone almost succeeded in annihilating the enemy's cavalry, they also killed more than 300 rogues.
The number of infantry was also much higher than its own losses. However, based on careful calculation based on the comparison of combat effectiveness, 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 part with his capital, sighed and said
: "They still have more than 4,000 people, and we only have less than 700. If we continue to fight hard, we may not have a good chance of winning. It's better to confront each other here and wait for reinforcements from the infantry camp to arrive before making 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. During today's fight, he was injured and vomited blood first. Although he later managed to kill his opponent with the help of Li Xu and others, the injury on the enemy general was obviously not fatal. He was beaten by the bearded man.
After walking around the edge of the battlefield, the guards now returned to the bandits.
"If I'm not wrong, the red robe is Shan Xiongxin, the commander of the Wagang Army cavalry. 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, it's
The Qijun fathers scrapped their fortunes and sold iron to get it together, I would rather admit defeat and retreat than let them fight the enemy head-on again!"
"Wagang Jun, is that beard Cheng Zhijie (Note 4)?" 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. He was more concerned about the enemy general than Cheng Zhijie and Shan Xiongxin. Judging from his face from a distance, he should be less than two years old.
10. So young, yet so experienced in military service. From now on, on the battlefield in Henan, this person will probably be a powerful enemy for everyone.
"Then why don't they use their own banner?" Zhang Yuanbei asked with a blushing face. His behavior just hindered 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 has a small number of soldiers, and there has been little movement in the past few years. But today it seems that the sharpness of its troops is beyond the reach of any bandit!"
Qin Shubao stroked his beard with his hand, and the ravine on his brow looked deeper than the cracks in the earth. He urgently needed to think of a strategy that could drive away the enemy army with a slight loss in numbers. The enemy general is as cunning as a fox. If he is defeated by this
If someone takes the lead, the consequences will be disastrous.
Suddenly, the attentive Qin Shubao discovered 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. He saw Li Xu staring closely at Xu Zi.
The ground's face was as green as the red clouds on a snowy day.
"It's too late today, and the Wagang army is suspicious again. Let's evacuate the dangerous area first and join the infantry behind. Tomorrow, we will find a way to block the exit here and catch turtles in the jar!" Qin Shubao trembled in his heart for no reason, and Qin Shubao quickly gave orders. (Unfinished)
