Chapter 328: Shield Array and Cavalry Charge
At this moment, there was another whistling, and another cannonball flew over, this time even the coachman and the mule smashed into meat sauce, and the bloody scene suddenly stunned everyone.
It was this opportunity that the attackers needed, and with a trumpet sound, as if by magic, a cavalry of 100 men suddenly rushed out, like a grain team to charge, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, the orange-red sunlight reflected the blood-red luster on the black chain mail, which was dazzling.
The Han soldiers who escorted the grain and grass did not expect to encounter the grain cut off in their own territory, some of them hurriedly wound the bow and crossbow, and some of them drew out their long knives to prepare to meet the enemy, but the oncoming cavalry did not open their bows and arrows, but raised the long pipes in their hands in unison, and the black hole made the Han soldiers feel a chill rising from the bottom of their hearts.
Bang! Bang!
A volley of firearms was fired, and most of the Han soldiers who were escorting grain and grass fell in a pool of blood, screaming miserably, only to see that the charging cavalry did not pause, and pulled out another firearm from his chest and directly held the fire.
After two volleys, most of the escort soldiers of more than 200 people fell, and the cavalrymen drew their sabers, shouted loudly, rushed into the grain carts, divided the grain teams lined up in a long snake formation, and began to strangle.
Seeing that the attacker had rushed to him, he immediately raised the crossbow in his hand, pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrow turned into an afterimage and nailed to the knight's chest.
But the expected scene of the arrow falling off the horse did not appear, the arrow was bounced off by the chain mail, the knight shook slightly, raised the bright saber, and in an instant, the last scene the escort officer saw was a cold neck, the whole world rotated rapidly, and finally saw his headless body fall down.
The one-sided battle lasted less than a quarter of an hour, a 50-cart and more than 200 grain convoys were completely annihilated, Niu Yi asked his subordinates to replenish the food, and then set it on fire.
The smoke raised by the grain team could be seen in the Han army camp dozens of miles away, and the same scene continued to appear in the rear of the Xiongnu and Han troops.
This is Yang Pingfan's first move, selecting brave and warlike men from the army, allocating the best war horses, and two firearms each, going deep behind the Han army and specifically attacking Liu Yuan's grain road.
In order to enhance combat effectiveness, each ranger unit was also equipped with a bronze cannon with a child and mother device, which was mounted on a carriage to strangle Liu Yuan's grain transport team with an absolutely superior force.
Liu Yuan's grain route was cut off, and he was so angry that he decided to use spears to make spears, and sent 10,000 elite Hun cavalry, led by his nephew Liu Yao, divided into ten thousand teams to clear the Jin army that had infiltrated his rear.
However, the commanders of the new army, represented by Niu Yi, were deeply aware of the essence of militia guerrilla warfare taught by Yang Pingfan, and they made use of their strengths and avoided their weaknesses, and did not go head-on with the Hun cavalry, but concentrated their superior forces to attack the small groups of rangers who left the large army, and it was better to cut off one finger than to hurt one of their fingers.
Most of the Huns lived in Bingzhou and Saiwai before, poor mountains and bad waters, bitter cold places, at first glance into the hinterland of the Central Plains, saw this world of flowers, was ready to move, at this time saw that their comrades were plotted, directly tore their faces, burned and looted in Liu Yuan's territory, and then killed the good and risked the merits, and sent to Liu Yuan The so-called Jin army's head was basketed after basket, but the grain team was still intercepted.
"What do you think you should do in the face of the Jin army cutting off my food route?"
Liu Yuan convened the generals and strategists in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss the countermeasures.
A handsome-faced middle-aged man said: "The Jin army that cut off my grain route is ghostly, vigorous and resolute, and even now, in the process of our army's clearance, we have not even been able to get a single living mouth or a corpse, which shows its elite."
"Oh, Lord Jin wants to say that the cavalry of the Jin army is so elite that our army can't match it?" Liu Yao, who was next to him, listened to the middle-aged man's words and asked in a strange manner.
The middle-aged man shot a cold star with a pair of eyes, and said in a deep voice: "No, such an elite cavalry, the number is definitely not much, but the Jin army sent it to cut off my grain route, coupled with the results of the scouts, the Jin army is only 50,000 horses, the two are right, the lower official thinks that the other party's commander's move is to cover up his lack of troops, and he can only force our army to retreat by sending elite troops to cut off my grain route." ”
Liu Yuan was silent and nodded, "What should I do?"
The middle-aged man did not hesitate at all, and said directly: "The lack of troops is the biggest weakness of the Jin army, our army divided troops to clear the enemy rangers, postponed the attack, and fell into the trap of the other party. ”
Liu Yuan suddenly brightened, "The order will go down, the foot soldiers will advance head-on, the left of the Xiongnu will feint to attack Luoyang, and the right will cover, and the Lone King will completely crush the Jin army." ”
The strategist known as Lord Jin arched his hand, "The king of Han is wise, and the minister still has a plan." ”
"Oh?"
"To the east, you can invoke the ...... of the First Army"
Liu Yuan listened to Jin Zhun's suggestion, and no longer bothered with the Jin army rangers who harassed him in the back, and the army pressed on Yang Pingfan's army, Liu Yao was appointed as the general of Jianwei, and took the Xiongnu headquarters out of the state to threaten Chang'an from the Liangzhou area.
Yang Pingfan knew that his plan had been discovered, so he ordered Niu Yi and others to retreat, and asked Zu Yi to go to Chang'an as a commander to protect the safety of Chang'an.
At the same time, Liu Yuan's son, Liu Cong, the right virtuous king of the Huns, quickly outflanked the Hun cavalry and launched a tentative attack from the flank.
The new army of the Jin army was mostly foot soldiers, few cavalry, at this time quickly formed a formation, the shields were stacked layer by layer, Liu Cong camped ten miles away, and let his general Wang Mi lead the Hun cavalry to charge.
The Hun cavalry howled loudly, approached quickly, the bows and arrows in their hands were raised high, and the rain of arrows thrown, the black pressure fell towards the Jin army like a swarm of stinging wasps.
There was a loud bang, the sound of a bow and arrow piercing a shield, and a scream from time to time, a shot from a bow that had pierced through the gap.
The small banners shouted loudly to cheer up the shield soldiers, and through the gaps, they could see that the Hun cavalry had approached the front of the formation, and hurriedly passed the news to the commander.
Yang Pingfan got the news, there was only one word, wait!
The Hun cavalry threw three rounds of arrow rain, and the casualties caused to the Jin army could almost be flickered, and the shield array stood still, but before the shield soldiers could celebrate, when the cavalry charged to about fifty paces, in the frightened eyes of the Jin soldiers, they neatly drew out the spears they carried from their backs, raised them high, and threw them hard.
The speed given by the high-speed charging war horse, coupled with the power of the pitcher, made the speed of the spear at this distance almost reach the power of the city crossbow, which was the lore means of the cavalry to break the shield turtle formation.
The spear smashed on the shield array with a breathtaking momentum, and immediately smashed the shield, nailed the shield hand to the ground, and most of the shield bearers in the front row fell, and in the chaos, the Hun cavalry crossed a short distance, took the war horse, and hit the shield array.
The impact of the high-speed charging war horses instantly broke the front rows of shield soldiers, and the bright swords, heavy maces, and centurion and thousand-sized horse lances set off a bloody storm in the crowd, and the shield soldiers in the front three rows were killed in less than a quarter of an hour.
"Steady, resist the shield, even if you die, you must stare at the enemy to death, you are not allowed to turn back, spearman, hurry up!"
The small flags roared hoarsely, the shield hand behind desperately forward, resisting the shield to the death, the spearman held the spear, a shout, stabbed out from the gap in the shield, and immediately stabbed the Hun cavalry in front of him, one after another in the shout, the spear went in and out, and stabbed the Hun cavalry who smashed the shield one by one.
The follow-up Hun cavalry was like a stormy wave, smashing on the reef composed of shields in waves, under such an impact, the shield array gradually tilted, and the follow-up cavalry shouted loudly, along the road of their companions, and rushed to the inclined shield.
The Jin soldiers, who were struggling to support behind the shield, let out a wail under the sudden impact, and were crushed to the point that their tendons were broken and fractured, and they fell down with blood spurting from their mouths.
Waves of Hun cavalry used this method to rush into the shield array, and many cavalry directly fell behind the shield array with men and horses, but before they could start killing, they were stabbed into hedgehogs by the spearmen who surrounded them.
The Hun cavalry who had been pierced out of dozens of blood holes fell to the ground with their horses, and the whole world quickly darkened, just before he lost consciousness, he saw countless people in front of him quickly stepping forward with long pipes, and in the crowd, there were many blue-gray big pipes, and the black pipes were like the big mouths of monsters......
The shield soldiers desperately blocked the charge of the Hun cavalry, gathered a large number of cavalry in front of the formation, dense, Liu Cong boarded a nearby mound, seeing that the opponent's shield array began to loosen, his heart was overjoyed, originally the Han King gave him a request to feint, now it seems that the other party can't even stop this, maybe it can ......
"Tell Wang Mi, continue to charge, be sure to defeat the Jin army, I want that flag-"
Liu Cong raised his whip and pointed at the handsome flag of the Jin army flying high.
Wang Mi, the commander of the former army, received the order, and was a little puzzled, and said to the envoy, "The order given to us by the King of Han is a feint, is the Right Xian King going to change the order without authorization and let us serve as the main attack?"
The envoy said, "King Youxian said that the turtle shell of the Jin army can't withstand the impact of our sons, and it can be taken without the main attack of King Han." ”
Wang Mi looked at the gradually loosening shield array of the Jin army, and only hesitated in his heart, although it was against the order of the king of Han to change the feint attack into the main attack, but it was a matter of time before the king of Han called the emperor, and if he wanted to get more rewards at that time, he had to look at the merits, and in front of him was a credit - the movement speed of the Hun cavalry was fast, as long as the shield array was broken and the heart of the Jin army was directly inserted, the victory or defeat would ......
Thinking of this, Wang Mi was determined, and with an order, the horn was blown, and the remaining cavalry, as a reserve, gathered one after another to launch a final onslaught on the right flank of the Jin army.