Chapter 1239: First Battle: Zero Defeat vs Zero Defeat (4) [Two in One]
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"Liu Ji, Dai Hao, defend Qin Qi on the flanks!"
On the battlefield in the middle, Li Cang, the general of the Northern Yan Army, roared with all his strength and ordered his two Quhous to lead 2,000 soldiers to resist the flanks and resist the nearly 1,000 iron eagle cavalry led by Qin Yangquan Jun Yingbo himself.
Following Li Cang's order, the 5,000 Northern Yan Army infantry under his command quickly changed formations. The front column (facing west) remained stationary, while the rear column quickly moved north, thickening the defense line on the opposite flank.
Looking at the soldiers of Beiyan who were rapidly changing their formations in the distance, even Yangquan Jun Yingba couldn't help but admire a few words in his heart.
You must know that changing the formation at the moment before facing the enemy is a taboo for military strategists. If the soldiers have not practiced enough in daily life and have not a deep impression of their respective positions, it will easily cause confusion and disorder.
But the soldiers of the Northern Yan Army did not rush and led the enemy to change their formations in an orderly manner. What does this mean? This shows that this army's daily drills are extremely strict and frequent, so that the soldiers have already learned how to change their formations.
Keep it in mind.
"What a surprise. Does the Korean army actually have infantry that can match the Wei army (referring to the Shangshui Army, Yanling Army)?"
Narrowing his eyes, Yangquan Jun Yingba spurred his horse and shouted loudly: "General Wu Ji!"
Hearing Yangquan Jun's cry of victory, Wu Ji understood. He held the reins in his left hand and a long-handled sword in his right hand. He gradually leaned on the horse's back, clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and prepared to sprint.
At the same time, Yangquan Jun Yingbo and the nearly a thousand Iron Eagle Cavalry under his command also got ready to sprint.
"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow!"
On the northern flank of Li Cang's tribe of the Northern Yan Army, Quhou Liu Ji and Dai Mao each led an infantry phalanx of a thousand men, one on the left and one on the right.
When the oncoming nearly a thousand Iron Eagle Cavalry were about to enter the shooting range, Han General Liu Ji immediately ordered an attack.
"Swish"
About 1,500 Beiyan Army crossbowmen pulled the triggers of their hand crossbows at nearly a thousand Iron Eagle cavalry.
In an instant, nearly a thousand iron eagle cavalry led by Yangquan Jun Yingbo were on the only way to pass, and they were faintly enveloped by a rain of arrows.
This time, Yangquan Jun Yingbo did not play any tricks. After all, he had calculated the right time to let his nearly one thousand cavalry and the eight thousand Changge soldiers on the frontal battlefield launch an attack on the five thousand Northern Yan Army infantry square at the same time.
Under the rain of arrows, Yangquanjun Yingbao, Wei General Wuji, and nearly a thousand iron eagle cavalry behind them all used a small shield fixed on their left arm to block the upper edge of their faces, leaning forward,
The legs clamped the horse's belly, urging the horse to speed up again.
It has to be said that the cavalry's defense against arrows is very poor, especially when facing crossbows. The speed of the horse's sprint will reversely enhance the power of the enemy's crossbow, unless it is like Wei's heavy cavalry.
Heavy armored cavalry who are not afraid of flying arrows. Otherwise, the cavalry team is inherently weak when attacking crossbowmen. In many cases, most of the casualties will be lost before they even get close to the opponent. Of course, once the cavalry gets close, it will be the cavalry's turn to attack the crossbowmen.
It was a one-sided massacre.
Although the Iron Eagle Cavalry is equipped with thick bronze armor, it is still essentially a light cavalry. This resulted in nearly a thousand cavalry under Yangquan Jun Yingbo's command beginning to appear under the volleys of crossbowmen from the Northern Yan Army.
casualties.
In a burst of "puff, puff, puff", the small shields on the left arms of many iron eagle cavalry were easily shattered. The power of the Korean crossbow was not inferior to that of the Wei crossbow, and its crossbow arrows shot through many Qin crossbows.
However, this is not unfortunate.
The really unlucky Iron Eagle Cavalry was shot directly through the armor by the powerful crossbow of the Northern Yan Army, and fell off the horse on the spot.
Amidst the sound of horses barking, one after another Iron Eagle Cavalry was hit by crossbow bolts while galloping, and fell to the ground; some even injured Tongze behind him, and killed him.
The horse stumbled under his crotch.
However, even though casualties occurred one after another, the sprint speed of nearly a thousand Iron Eagle Cavalry did not slow down at all. They almost pressed their bodies flat on the back of the horse, tightly clamping the horse's belly, trying to use the horse under their crotch as a weapon.
The shield of arrows seems to be a disregard for the companions of the mount, but in fact, it is the standard posture of the cavalry to defend against a volley of crossbows.
Under the volley of 1,500 Northern Yan Army crossbowmen, about 70% of the iron eagle cavalry charging in the front group were hit in the chest and abdomen by crossbow bolts, or their bestiality was revealed, and the horses' eyes turned red and they were desperately heading towards
They rush forward, or fall to the ground with a whimper, and even the owner on horseback is thrown to the ground.
Finally, these nearly a thousand Iron Eagle Cavalry rushed through the rain of arrows.
When Yangquan Jun stood up straight and looked behind him, he discovered that the volley just now had reduced the number of Iron Eagle Cavalry behind him by nearly half.
"Four hundred cavalry casualties...?"
The fleeting sadness in Yangquan Jun Yingbo's eyes was immediately replaced by a look of determination.
Of course, the number of casualties of these "four hundred cavalry" is just a rough estimate. After all, among the "casualties", some horses were killed, but the knights were lucky enough to escape the Qin cavalry. As long as they were given a horse, these
The fallen Iron Eagle Cavalry can go into battle again to kill the enemy.
But for the time being, those straggler iron eagle cavalry can no longer keep up with Yangquan Jun Yingbo's cavalry.
Closer, closer.
Due to the rapid closing of the distance, Yangquan Jun Yingbo had already seen the hedgehog-like spear array of Beiyan soldiers on the opposite side.
Yes, the Beiyan Army is a Korean infantry regiment that has been fighting with Donghu in Beiyan all year round. The "infantry anti-cavalry weapon" they use is a spear that is more than ten feet long.
The spears of the Northern Yan Army all use high-quality bamboo as the shaft and a sharp fine iron head. They have strong lethality, but are not too heavy.
The Northern Yan Army's "Gun Wall Square Formation" is a formation that the Donghu cavalry has not broken through so far!
Similarly, it is also the confidence in the hearts of Liu Ji, Dai Mao and other soldiers of the Northern Yan Army!
"...Come on, Qin Qi!"
Quhou Liuji drew his sharp sword, pointed the blade at the oncoming Iron Eagle Cavalry, and roared with all his strength: "Get ready to deal with it! ... "Vend"!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Korean soldiers in the front row stepped sideways and steady their steps, while the Beiyan soldiers in the back row took a step forward, making the spear formation more than double the density.
Those unevenly gleaming spearheads made even Yangquan Jun Yingbo feel a little bit of fear in his heart.
He had never encountered infantry that brought him such oppression.
"Your Majesty, please stop here!"
Among the iron eagle cavalry, Yangquan Jun Yingbao's personal guard stretched out his hand to grab the reins of his master, while another guard shouted and charged into the battle on Yangquan Jun Yingbao's behalf: "Destroy them!"
In an instant, the hundreds of iron eagle cavalry in the front group, without slowing down at all, ran into the spear formation of the Beiyan army. They only heard people shouting and neighing. Most of the hundreds of iron eagle cavalry were actually killed by those
A ten-foot-long spear pierced the body.
"Hua'er(die)......"
Yangquan Jun Yingba opened his eyes wide and his eyes were about to split.
Because among the iron eagle cavalry whose bodies were pierced by those spears on the spot, there was the bodyguard who had just charged in his place.
"How dare you... also want to block... and win Master Bo?!"
Under the astonished gazes of the nearby Northern Yan soldiers, the tall Qin man named Hua Er opened his frightening eyes and advanced instead of retreating, letting the barrels of several spears penetrate his chest.
He swung his sword and slashed down one of the Beiyan soldiers who was stunned.
Subconsciously, the Beiyan soldier raised the spear in his hand in an attempt to resist, but Hua Yi cut off the bamboo shaft of the spear with a sword and cut off half of his head.
"Plop."
The body fell to the ground, and red and white filth flowed all over the ground.
With another strike of his sword, Hua'i killed another Korean soldier who was frightened and inexplicable.
Looking at this Qin soldier whose chest was penetrated, panting like an ox, as if he would fall to the ground at any time, the nearby Beiyan soldiers felt their scalps numb. The soldiers of Qin were far worse than they imagined.
Even scarier!
"He is at the end of his tether, kill him!"
Not far away, Liu Ji, Quhou of the Northern Yan Army, shouted in a deep voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, a Northern Yan army chief abandoned the broken spear in his hand, pulled out his sharp sword, and slashed at Hua Er's head, preparing to chop off the head of this brave Qin man.
At this moment, a horse was seen crashing into the spear formation of Beiyan soldiers. On horseback, a Wei general stepped over the human wall, and the long-handled sword in his hand swept past with a swipe.
The commander of the Northern Yan army cut him off in the middle.
"I can't just watch you waiting to bully others."
Shaking off the blood on his sword, Wei General and Shang Shui Army General Wu Ji said calmly.
"What?!"
The nearby Beiyan soldiers were shocked. They never expected that someone actually crossed their spear wall formation.
Immediately, the Beiyan soldiers in the rear team stabbed Wu Ji with their spears. However, Wu Ji dodged left and right, waving the long-handled sword in his hand, waving the rim in a circle, and the North Yan sword around him was
The Yan army was injured one after another, but they managed to tear open a gap with their own strength.
Although it was just a gap, it was enough for the Iron Eagle Cavalry outside the gun wall formation. I saw Yangquan Jun Yingbo struggling to break away from his guards, with a sharp sword in his hand, and a famous Iron Eagle Cavalry rushed into the gap.
The gap makes this originally insignificant gap wider and wider.
"hateful!"
Liu Ji, the Marquis of Qu of the Northern Yan Army, gritted his teeth and glared at Wu Ji who was killing people in the distance. He raised his finger and pointed at Wu Ji and shouted: "Surround and kill this man!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Ji seemed to have heard Liu Ji's cry and turned around to look over. The look in his eyes was like that of a ferocious beast seeing its prey, which made Liu Ji shudder.
At this time, a personal guard of Yangquan Jun Yingbo came to Wu Ji, got off his horse and shouted: "General Wu Ji, please get on your horse!"
"Thank you!"
Wu Ji got on his horse, brandished the long-handled sword in his hand, and went straight towards Naquhou Liuji.
Seeing this, dozens of iron eagle cavalry followed suit. After all, they had received instructions from Yang Quan Jun Ying Bo before the war and knew that General Wu Ji was the number one general under Wei Gongzi Run.
It has to be said that the number one general of the Shang Shui Army was really brave. He rode alone to attack Liuji, the Marquis of Nagqu. No one could stop him along the way. However, when he saw the swords flying and the blood flashing, all the soldiers of the Northern Yan army retreated one after another.
, some had their arms cut off, and some had their heads crushed, it was so miserable.
Seeing this fierce general coming straight towards him from a distance, Quhou Liuji screamed in his heart that something was wrong. He knew that he was no match for the opponent, but he could not abandon his soldiers and run away. He could only grit his teeth and order his soldiers to resist Wu Ji.
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However, in just a short tea time, Wu Ji led hundreds of iron eagle cavalry and still reached Liu Ji.
Seeing this, Quhou Liuji had no choice but to retreat. He grabbed a spear from his bodyguard and waited for Wu Ji to kill him.
Ten steps, five steps, two steps...
Two war horses passed by each other, and a strange depression appeared in Quhou Liuji's abdomen, and he fell to the ground with a thud.
"Damn it! This guy is no ordinary general..."
When he was dying, Quhou Liuji used his last strength and struggled to look at the enemy general who killed him, but saw that the other general casually shook off the blood on the long-handled sword in his hand and looked around, as if looking for the next one.
prey.
The commanding general was killed. It stands to reason that these thousand Beiyan Army infantry would collapse on the spot. However, it turns out that Quhou Liuji's death in battle only caused a blow to the morale of these one thousand Beiyan Army soldiers.
Soon, a supervisor under the command of Quhou Liuji took over the command and continued to encircle these hundreds of iron eagle cavalry.
At this time, another Quhou named Dai Mao also led a thousand Northern Yan troops under his command to attack from the side.
Immediately, Yangquan Jun defeated hundreds of iron eagle cavalry under his command, as if he was in a mire and swamp, sinking step by step.
Even the Donghu cavalry failed to break through the gun wall formation. It was indeed not so easy to break through.
"A surprise attack is a must, not a fight!"
Yangquan Jun Yingbo made a prompt decision and ordered his left and right guards to raise the general's flag high, gathered the iron eagle cavalry, and launched a surprise attack in the direction of the three thousand Northern Yan Army crossbowmen.
He has realized how powerful the infantry of the Northern Yan Army is. If he continues to struggle with them, he and his four to five hundred iron eagle cavalry may be completely overwhelmed by these Korean soldiers.
"Someone will open the way!"
Wu Ji returned to Yangquan Jun Ying Bo and became the sharp spear of this cavalry.
Unfortunately, the Northern Yan Army was more elite than the Handan Army. Although the gun wall defense line was breached, the following soldiers quickly built a defense line again, making the Iron Eagle Cavalry who thought they could easily slaughter them feel extremely uncomfortable.
"This is not the way to go..."
Swinging his sword to kill a Beiyan soldier who tried to sneak attack him, Yangquan Jun Yingba looked around, suddenly pointed at the battlefield in front and said: "General Wu Ji, go there!"
The "there" he was talking about was the frontal battlefield where Li Cang, the general of the Northern Yan Army, personally led 2,000 Northern Yan Army infantry to resist the 8,000 Qin State Chief Ge soldiers.
It has to be said that after seeing the situation on the battlefield, even Yangquan Jun Yingbo was inexplicably shocked: only two thousand soldiers of the Northern Yan Army blocked the eight thousand long-armed soldiers of the Qin Army!
Although Changge Bing can only be regarded as the lowest cannon fodder among the regular army of the Qin State, he is not so weak, right?
Or is it that the Northern Yan army is too powerful?
Yes, the infantry of the Beiyan Army is very powerful, and it is probably not an exaggeration to call it the "Korean First Army".
Just a moment ago, Li Cang, the general of the Northern Yan Army, led more than 2,000 infantrymen and blocked 8,000 Qin Chang Ge soldiers with just two 1,000-man infantry phalanxes.
What's even more incredible is that with two thousand against eight thousand, the soldiers of Li Cang's tribe in the Northern Yan Army on the front battlefield were still able to gain the upper hand.
"'V'!"
A soldier named Beiyan pulled back his spear.
""rise"!"
A Northern Xinjiang soldier once again thrust the spear in his hand forward.
"'V'!"
""rise"!"
"'V'!"
""rise"!"
Under the command of General Li Cang of the Northern Yan Army, Quhou "Gouhui" was seen shouting slogans loudly, commanding the soldiers of the Northern Yan Army under his command, and massacred the Changge soldiers of Qin in an orderly manner.
Whenever the soldiers in the front group of the Northern Yan Army suffered casualties or fell down, the soldiers in the rear group would quickly step in to fill the gap.
Such a tight line of defense caused Qin's Changge soldiers to retreat steadily.
Seeing the fighting postures of Beiyan soldiers from a distance, Wu Ji had some doubts in his eyes.
Because this way of fighting made him feel inexplicably familiar, his Shang Shui Army... no, his infantry of the Wei State adopted this kind of closely linked tactics. Hundreds of soldiers moved in unison, attacking and defending at the same time.
Let the enemy soldiers not have the opportunity to counterattack.
"You actually secretly learned how we, the great Wei Dynasty, train our soldiers..."
Wu Ji couldn't help but feel angry.
Of course, this kind of anger is actually unnecessary. After all, Wei's infantry is so powerful that South Korea is the only one secretly imitating it. What's more, isn't Wei also secretly imitating South Korea's cavalry training methods in an attempt to form an army?
The cavalry?
It is a common thing for countries to steal each other's lessons and learn from each other.
In fact, Wu Ji was not the only one to notice this situation. In the Wei army's main formation, Zhao Hongrun, the commander-in-chief of the Qin and Wei coalition forces, also noticed the strength of Li Cang's troops in the Northern Yan army and frowned deeply.
"It's so similar..." he murmured to himself.
He originally thought that the 8,000 Qin Changge soldiers would not only easily defeat the 2,000 Northern Yan soldiers personally commanded by Li Cang, but they would at least cause heavy casualties to the latter. However, he did not expect that the 8,000 Qin Changge soldiers would at least cause heavy casualties to the Northern Yan army general Li Cang.
The soldiers were defeated by two thousand Northern Yan soldiers.
When did South Korea develop such a powerful infantry?
What surprised Zhao Hongrun even more was that the fighting style of the Beiyan Army was very similar to that of the Wei infantry. This could not be described as just stealing from them, but as if they had learned the charm.
"Feng Ting!"
Zhao Hongrun called in a deep voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, among the cavalry behind him, a Korean general and former Shangdang guard Feng Ting came forward on a war horse. He raised his hands and clasped his fists and asked respectfully: "His Royal Highness, King Su, what are your orders?"
I saw Zhao Hongrun raising his hand and pointing to the battlefield to the north, frowning and asking: "The Beiyan Army in South Korea is the infantry trained by Beiyan Shou Leyi. I remember correctly, right?"
"Indeed." Feng Ting nodded.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun frowned and asked, "Le Yi, do you know how we, the great Wei Dynasty, train our infantry?"
Feng Ting chuckled when he heard this, and then realized that he was being disrespectful to His Highness King Su in front of him, so he immediately stopped his smile and said respectfully: "Your Highness King Su, the guardian of Beiyan Leyi, his ancestors were originally from Wei, and it is said that they were still from the Wei state.
...Well, he is a general of the Wei Dynasty, so he naturally understands the method of training infantry in the Wei Dynasty."
Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Feng Ting in surprise and asked, "Seriously? Ancestor Le Yi is actually a general of our great Wei Dynasty?"
"It's absolutely true." Feng Ting nodded and said.
"No wonder……"
Zhao Hongrun murmured to himself that he had just felt that the Beiyan army under Beiyan Shou Leyi was very similar to the infantry of his Wei state. He did not expect that the other party used the same method of training the infantry of their Wei state, so of course they were similar.
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After thinking for a while, Zhao Hongrun asked in confusion: "Since Le Yi understands the method of training infantry in Wei Dynasty, why is the Handan army so weak? Could it be that Le Yi is hiding something secret?"
"Haha." Feng Ting laughed twice and explained: "Your Highness King Su, as far as I know, Le Yi's ancestor once served as the city guard of Shangdang County, and was buried in Shangdang after his death. From then on, Le Yi
The Le Yi family settled down in that area. Later, when Han and Wei fought wars, the city where the Le Yi family lived became part of South Korea... As far as I know, after the Le Yi family was forced to surrender to South Korea at first, they did not receive any attention.
Being targeted by some Koreans, the Le family moved northward. By the time of the generation of Le Yi's biological father "Le Shu", the Le family had withered away, and only Le Shu was under the command of Zhuang Gong Han Geng... Later
Leshu was killed by the Donghu people, and the Leyi family was fortunate enough to be saved by Duke Zhuang Han Geng and promoted to captain. Therefore, Leyi regarded Duke Zhuang as his benefactor..."
After listening to Feng Ting's explanation, Zhao Hongrun realized something: it turned out that Le Yi was only loyal to Duke Zhuang Han Geng. Maybe the ten tycoons of Beiyuan didn't care much about the prosperity and decline of Korea.
"I didn't expect that there was actually a "Wei Army" hidden among the Korean army..."
After making a joke, Zhao Hongrun looked at the battlefield in the middle.
On the battlefield in the middle, I saw that the 40,000 merchant navy troops under his command were divided into four phalanxes of 10,000 people, with infantry in front and crossbowmen in the back. They formed a "field" shape, marching in neat steps, slowly heading towards the opposite north.
The Yan army (Ji Kuo Department) pressed forward.
It has to be said that the slow advance of these 40,000 merchant navy troops doubled the pressure on the Korean army. I don't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at this army that seemed to be a torrent.
Regardless of the slow pace of the Shang Shui Army's advance, this is to put pressure on the Korean Army. After all, fear comes from waiting for the destined fate. When something bad is about to happen, during the period of waiting for it to happen,
It's the most torturous.
Just like the Beiyan Army (Ji Kuo Department) on the opposite side at the moment, they knew that the Shang Shui Army was about to launch an attack on them, but seeing the Shang Shui Army approaching in an orderly manner, the pressure in their hearts more than doubled.
Suddenly, Qin Shaojun raised his hand and pointed to the left wing (south) of the Han army, and whispered: "Ji Run, the Han army's cavalry has moved..."
"Finally I can't hold it any longer... Yanmen Keeper Li Mu."
Zhao Hongrun looked towards the distant south, and saw that in the south, accompanied by a loud roar like thunder, the Yanmen cavalry finally took action and circled southward.
"Send an order to General Wang Ling on the right wing to attack and resist the Yanmen cavalry." Zhao Hongrun said calmly.
Seeing the messengers riding away, Qin Shaojun frowned slightly and said: "Master Wang Ling's four thousand shield soldiers and nearly ten thousand tattooed men alone may not be able to stop the Korean cavalry coming from the south... Tsk, then
I'm afraid there are seven or eight thousand cavalry, right?"
"..." Zhao Hongrun glanced at the Yanmen cavalry far away in the south and said nothing.
At this moment, the 40,000 merchant navy troops on the central battlefield suddenly accelerated their speed. The originally neat and orderly phalanx suddenly turned into two torrents and turned into two sharp spears, one left and one right towards the north on the middle battlefield.
The Yan army (Ji Kuo Department) killed him.
Forty thousand merchant navy troops pressed in, and the powerful pressure was simply suffocating.
Even Ji Kuo, the general of the Northern Yan Army who had never suffered a defeat, could not help but hold his breath at this time, with a solemn face.
He originally thought that the 40,000 merchant navy troops would attack in batches, but unexpectedly, the other side moved in full force, as if they were going to turn into a torrent and completely engulf the Northern Yan army in their middle.
Suddenly, the 40,000 merchant navy troops were divided into two and attacked the left and right wings of the Han army respectively. On the middle battlefield, Ji Kuo, the general of the Northern Yan Army, was dumbfounded when he looked at the empty central battlefield.
"Should... we take action?"
Ji Kuo looked at the left and right wings, feeling at a loss.
"What?! You actually attacked the two wings?"
Even Beiyan Shou Leyi showed a shocked expression when he saw this sudden turn of events.
At this time, the Han Army's right wing, the Handan Army, had not yet repelled the five thousand Iron Eagle Cavalry, while on the left wing, Yanmen Guardsman Li Mu had just sent out thousands of cavalry, and the defense force was greatly reduced...