Li Wanqing's servants are strong soldiers and horses, all riding excellent war horses from Gansu and Ningxia, and their impact is amazing. Moreover, these servants with superb martial arts skills are all strong archers and horses. When the cavalry is halfway through the charge, they can also use their riding bows to fire at close range.
Arrow cover.
Within a very short distance, the antlers and side cards could not provide much protection. Bows and arrows rushed into the formation like a shower, and screams continued to come from the invading army's gunners.
Guo Junzhen frowned and immediately ordered the gunners to withdraw to the rear, and ordered the swordsmen, spearmen and other infantrymen who were used to resist the attack to move up to the front.
Among the officers and soldiers, the capable infantrymen who rushed in front of the cavalry used big axes to chop off the antlers, moved the fortifications, and cut a gap arbitrarily.
Li Wanqing's servants and cavalry immediately rushed in from the gap in the battle line. He rode on the horse and yelled and cursed, and followed the infantry into the invader's line. Li Wanqing's voice was like a tiger's roar, his beard was flaring, and his eyes were cracked.
, the prancing horse ran rampant and killed several brave soldiers of the invading army in one breath.
Guo Junzhen was not afraid of simple warriors, but seeing that Li Wanqing used his troops just right and tore apart a corner of the deer's antlers defense line, he immediately sent out the spearmen hiding behind the antlers to attack and attack, resisting the attack of the officers and soldiers.
However, because the right wing of the army's defense line was separated by some jungle, it was difficult to see clearly. Li Wanqing used the cover of the woods to detour an ambush force back to the flank. While Guo Junzhen counterattacked, the officer troops detoured to the flank.
, also suddenly rushed out, trying to cut off the intruders' front line.
Li Wanqing's horse and hands were as fast as lightning. In a short time, he used the outflanking troops to attack and almost completely defeated Guo Junzhen's troops.
The evolution of the battle situation suddenly deviated from Guo Junzhen's plan. He cursed in his heart how could he underestimate a veteran like "She Tuantian"? It was so stupid!
At this time, Guo Junzhen could choose to lead his troops to fight and retreat, and retreat to the vicinity of Ma Tou Mountain to join Zhang Hong's cavalry lurking there. However, in doing so, he would also lose the opportunity to severely damage Li Wanqing's officers and troops.
good chance.
With Guo Junzhen's adventurous character, he certainly would not choose to retreat.
The generals and soldiers from both sides rushed forward, and it turned into a melee. Between the two hills, at the gap between the antlers, the intruders and the official troops fell into a fierce hand-to-hand fight. Guo Junzhen led the soldiers
I fought my way into the battle group regardless of my own safety. Sometimes I forced you to take a few steps back, and sometimes you forced me to take a few steps back. Both sides were really matched against each other, and neither could win immediately.
The swordsmen of the invading army squeezed towards the center of the line from both wings. Behind the swordsmen was Guo Junzhen's most ferocious infantry. Everyone was armed with heavy weapons such as sabers, axes and sticks.
Rush out and slash.
However, the official army had a greater advantage in terms of total strength. Li Wanqing fought in the battle group himself, with blood flowing all over his halberd and sword, which blunted Tie Feng's blade. He also did not forget to mobilize the troops from the rear to continue to bypass the flanks.
The servants and cavalry also took advantage of the intersection between the two armies' infantry fronts and galloped out of the formation from the left. After adjusting their formation, they fought back again.
"Hook sickle!"
Guo Junzhen roared angrily, and some of the infantrymen who used hooks and sickles immediately gritted their teeth and braved the shocking charge of the cavalry, trying to hook the riders off the war horses with fearless courage.
But the official cavalry were not clay figures either. They either spread out to the two wings, or used their powerful impact to knock down the spearmen with spears, boring palladium, and thread guns.
The two sides collided into a ball on the flanks of the battle line, and blood spattered. The weak armor of the invading infantry could not withstand the spear points that penetrated the body like thunder. Many soldiers of the invading army were knocked over by the huge impact of the cavalry.
There were even cases where the whole person was knocked away or had his hand bones broken. However, the situation of Li Wanqing and other servant cavalry was not optimistic. After the momentum of their attack weakened, many people were immediately dragged off their horses by hooks and sickles, or
They fell to the ground directly, or were trampled to pieces by horses' hooves, while the rest were hacked to death by the swordsmen who followed up with the intruders.
Li Wanqing took a long breath, and he was also dragged off his horse by the spearmen of the intruders. But Li Wanqing was so brave that he immediately used the body of his war horse to cover himself. The moon halberd in his hand kept flying, and he killed several more insurgents in the blink of an eye.
Infantry. After he saw that the cavalry attack was blocked by the hook-and-scythe gunmen deployed by Guo Junzhen, he immediately screamed strangely and led a group of elite cavalry around him who were trapped in the formation and dismounted to fight on foot and sprinted forward desperately.
"The imperial court does not regard us as thieves and supports us with taxes from the world. Today is the time to use your life!"
Li Wanqing was stabbed in the shoulder by a spear, but it failed to penetrate. He didn't care. He took a big step forward and split the spearman's head in half with his moon halberd.
The servants around Li Wanqing who dismounted and fought on foot also shouted, "The general has raised us richly with beautiful concubines and fine wine, who dares to rush forward without dying!" The fighting power of this group of rebels should not be underestimated as they surrendered their troops and generals.
Under their leadership, they almost completely defeated the invading infantry from the front.
At this time, Guo Junzhen had an idea. He also used those woods to hide in the woods during the melee. He took off his armor and exposed underwear of different colors. Then he made them suddenly rush out and join forces.
Shouting "Reinforcements with soldiers! Reinforcements with soldiers!" gave Li Wanqing the illusion that reinforcements from the intruders had arrived, and slightly delayed the offensive of the army for a while.
Guo Junzhen believed that it would be beneficial for him to continue to use up the force. Based on the fighting situation between the two sides in the battle group, he concluded that Li Wanqing no longer had any reserve troops in his hands.
In this case, as long as Zhang Hong's three wall cavalry attack in time, they will surely achieve huge gains.
"coming!"
A guard next to Guo Junzhen looked at the yellow smoke in the distance and exclaimed. From between the hills, the intruder cavalry in red, white and black smocks were caught in the yellow dust, like a whirlwind
Swept over.
This cavalry seized the large gaps in Li Wanqing's formation caused by the melee, rushed directly between the officers and soldiers, and slashed and killed. The infantry was first confused, and then the cavalry was affected, affecting the entire line.
Although Guojunzhen's infantry had suffered heavy casualties, with as many as one or two hundred casualties, once victory came, this group of troops would become a very terrifying and irresistible force.
The infantry followed the cavalry in an all-out counterattack. Although Li Wanqing tried his best to organize the officers and soldiers to fight and retreat. However, under the attack of Guo Junzhen and Zhang Hong, the organized and orderly retreat of the officers and soldiers soon collapsed, and chaos ensued.
, fighting for their lives, trampling on each other.
Li Wanqing beheaded several defeated troops in succession, but still could not stop the terrible situation of total collapse. He had no choice but to no longer care about the lives of his soldiers, and had no time to think about the prestige of famous generals, the questioning of the emperor, etc., and took dozens of relatives with him.
The soldiers fled.
Upon seeing this, Guo Junzhen quickly ordered the soldiers to beat gongs and asked Zhang Hong to withdraw his troops and not continue to pursue Li Wanqing. After all, Li Wanqing had a stronger force behind him, Liu Guoneng. If Liu Guoneng was sitting in the rear, then
If you pursue recklessly, you will suffer heavy losses.
Although the infantry suffered relatively large casualties, Guo Junzhen estimated that the number of casualties and fleeing troops on Li Wanqing's side should be several times that of the invading army, with at least 500 people lost.
"Huh... there are not many defenders in Yuzhou City. As long as we block Li Wanqing, Liu Rukui and Li Hao will take Yuzhou effortlessly."