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Witnessing the sudden change of formation of the rebels, Wang Junlin's expression condensed. While he was alert, he could not help but secretly sigh at Yang Su's control over the army on the battlefield.
You know, when tens of thousands of troops are rushing to kill, when the two armies are less than twenty steps away, they suddenly change their formations without warning and change their attack targets. This is not easy in itself. It is normal for the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, but Most of the rebels were rogues who had not been systematically trained. Even if Yang Su had temporarily trained these days, reaching this level was definitely not a method that ordinary generals could possess.
Moreover, Yang Su was certainly very good at this move. The Far East Army was flanked by cavalry. If the cavalry had not launched a charge, they would have been surrounded and entangled in the same place by infantry several times the number of the enemy. They would have completely lost the advantage of the cavalry and lost even one-fifth of their combat strength. Can't even perform.
However, the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army is always more than just cavalry. In other words, if you want to become a cavalry, you must first become a qualified infantryman.
Yuchi Jingde was slightly surprised when he saw that the enemy had set their main target on him. At the same time, although he felt regretful that he could not lead his men to charge wantonly on the battlefield, his face was full of ferocity and killing intent.
"Still grenade!"
"Quick crossbow throw!"
"Dismount and form a formation."
Yuchi Jingde issued three orders as quickly as possible.
After the first order, hundreds of grenades were fired, killing and injuring thousands of rebels at the front, causing the momentum of the rebels behind to stall instinctively.
When the grenade fight came, the Tiger Battalion's cavalry took the opportunity to fire their crossbows, killing thousands more of the rebels.
With two rounds of long-range attacks to block the enemy, enough time was bought for the Tiger Battalion to dismount and prepare for infantry combat.
The horses were led and the formations were arranged in a tense and orderly manner. While tens of thousands of people were rushing suddenly in such a small space, not many people collided.
"How are soldiers like this trained?" Yang Su witnessed the reaction of the cavalry on both wings of the Far Eastern Army. His face was so horrified that the whole city couldn't help himself, and he could no longer maintain his composure.
Of course, he already knew that the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army was equally powerful in infantry combat, but he deliberately arranged to be twenty steps away from the center of the Far Eastern Army before suddenly dedicating two-thirds of his troops to charge at the cavalry. Under normal circumstances, no cavalry army would You may have time to dismount and fight on foot. You must know that dismounting is easy, but pulling tens of thousands of horses behind and then setting up the formation is definitely not something that can be completed in a short time. Moreover, according to Yang Su's calculation, the Far Eastern Army cavalry was preparing for the formation. On the way, his troops rushed forward, and it was the moment of disarray.
However, Yang Su had experienced countless battles in his life on the battlefield and had seen countless powerful armies, but he had never thought that an army could control these subtleties to such an extent.
"Although the old thief Yang Su is powerful, he doesn't know the horror of the formation training of later generations of professional armies." Wang Junlin did not watch the scene where Yuchi Jingde commanded the Tiger Battalion to successfully change formations, but stared at Yang Su's movements with a telescope. As soon as he moved, the change in the latter's face naturally fell into his eyes.
The rebel soldiers who rushed in front of the Far Eastern Army cavalry found that their opponent's response was completely different from what they had expected. While they were equally horrified and awe-inspiring in their hearts, they were unable to get off the horse and could only continue to rush forward, and at this time The sequelae of Yang Su's temporary formation change were also reflected - their battle formation seemed a bit scattered.
Even if the rebels' strict battle formations collided with the Far Eastern Army's spear battle formations, it would be difficult to match them. What's more, their battle formations were scattered at this time, and it was almost a one-sided massacre from the beginning.
At the front line of the central army of the two armies, Yang Su arranged one-third of his elite troops to deal with the infantry battle formation of the Far East Army's central army's spear battalion. Since there was no temporary change of formation, it was much better than the two wings. At least the rebels died.
Even with ten people, one or two Far Eastern Army soldiers could be killed.
More than 100,000 troops are fighting on the battlefield. The sound of drums and horns can no longer control the army too much. The people who can control the army at this time are mainly grassroots officers. Therefore, at this time, gold and iron are clashing and shouting to kill,
Screams have long replaced the sound of drums and horns and become the main theme on the battlefield.
In a matter of ten breaths, three to four thousand people fell down at the first contact. Perhaps influenced by the decisive and desperate slogans of the rebels before, the rebels behaved quite bravely and died one layer after another.
More rebels stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to rush towards the spear battle formation in front of them like hedgehogs in the dense forest, like moths rushing to the flames.
How could Yang Su not be prepared for the powerful spear battle formation of the Far Eastern Army? He had collected a large number of shields in the cities under his control these days. Almost everyone in his army had a shield in his hand, especially one in every ten people.
He held a large iron shield to withstand the sharpness of the Far Eastern Army's spears.
It has to be said that Yang Su's method was very effective. The rebel infantry used small shields and huge shields against their spears, pushing each other hard, and taking the opportunity to poke out their swords from behind the shields to slash. The Far Eastern Army soldiers were caught off guard.
As a result, many people were killed and injured.
But because of the existence of two cheaters, Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu, the Far East Army's tactics and training methods, as well as its armor and weapons, have already far exceeded anyone's imagination in this era. Even Yang Su would have seen it with his own eyes.
From what I saw, I never imagined that the Far Eastern Army's spears were so sharp.
The thick wooden shield held by the rebels was not blocked for a few times, but it was pierced or cracked directly. This is definitely not something that ordinary spears of this era can do. This is only a treasure that some aristocratic families spent a lot of money and took two or three years to build.
What a young man can do can now be done by any soldier in the Far Eastern Army with a spear in his hand.
Therefore, when the shields in the hands of the rebels were unable to block the Far Eastern Army's spears, the rebels' casualties accelerated again.
Some of the rebel soldiers were stabbed by spears one after another, screaming and dying on the spot. But more people were half dead, clutching their stomachs in vain, rolling and moaning in a pool of blood, it was so miserable.
The weapons and armor of the Far Eastern Army were so superior that they could pierce through almost anything they encountered. There was almost nothing among the rebels that could scratch their edge. Soon, the Far Eastern Army had the absolute upper hand. Wang Junlin gave an order and the war drums started to pierce.
Amidst the sound, the three lines on the left, right and center advanced in unison, leaving corpses everywhere they passed.
Wang Junlin was about to command the Far Eastern Army to completely defeat the rebels. Suddenly, thousands of rebel soldiers wearing cloth armor rushed forward with determination and ferocity. They did not use their weapons to injure the enemy or resist the spears, but
He used his hands to desperately hug the legs of the Far Eastern Army soldiers in front of him. They were either dead or injured, but his arms actually hugged the legs of the Far Eastern Army soldiers tightly, blocking the Far Eastern Army's push.
"Taking out three or four thousand dead soldiers at once is such a big deal!" Wang Junlin also looked condensed when he saw this scene.
But then he sighed secretly, and he could see at a glance that these three or four thousand dead soldiers were not soldiers who had been trained for a long time, but rogue bandits, or even refugees.
These dead soldiers were obviously the kind of people who had been forced to live no longer by the imperial court or local officials. Maybe many of them had their relatives or even their whole families killed by people from the government, so they were easily integrated by Yang Su.