The Taiping army was rushing wildly, endlessly, a soldier was pierced and fell to the ground, and the holy soldiers in the back row did not hesitate at all, stepping on the corpses of their companions, and continued to attack the blade wall

Behind the death squad, there were tens of thousands of Taiping crossbowmen, half-squatting on the ground, constantly shooting sharp arrows at Wei Ying. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the Wei side, the rainstorm crossbows were useless, so Li Guang commanded the archers of the ordinary marksman battalion to shoot at the enemy outside the camp in waves.

The dense rain of arrows in the air above the first line of the camp wall intertwined into a net of arrows, and the roaring sound of breaking the wind even covered up the sound of shouting and killing in the air.

The killing lasted for more than half an hour, and nearly 10,000 Taiping soldiers either died under the rain of arrows or were pierced under the blade wall, and a thick layer of corpses had been piled up in front of the camp fence.

On the Wei side, under the impact of the enemy, it also paid nearly 2,000 sacrifices.

The Taiping thieves were fanatical, and the soldiers of the Great Wei were also iron-blooded and resolute, one shield man was knocked over and hacked to death, and the other outer shield man immediately bravely filled the position, one gunner was killed by a sharp arrow, and the other gunman immediately held the blood-stained spear and went up without hesitation.

Blood splattered like raindrops along the line of the camp, staining the sky into a thick layer of blood mist.

The standoff continues.

A few hundred steps away, Hong Xiuquan's eyes were already deeply dissatisfied, and in anger, he crossed Yang Xiuqing and directly shouted: "Send the order to the King of the North, and order him to lead another 50,000 troops to suppress me." ”

As soon as this order came out, Yang Xiuqing's expression suddenly flashed with a little dissatisfaction, glanced at Hong Xiuquan, and secretly complained that he had overstepped his authority and gave orders on behalf of himself, the commander of the three armies.

It's just that at this juncture, although Yang Xiuqing is dissatisfied in his heart, he can't have a good seizure, so he can only let Hong Xiuquan go.

When the order was handed down, Xiao Chaogui, who had been in array for a long time, roared and rushed up, leading 50,000 Taiping troops to rush towards the Wei camp.

With 70,000 soldiers and horses, plus Xiao Chaogui's 50,000 soldiers and horses, the Taiping army has invested nearly 130,000 troops, leaving only the 40,000 Chinese troops under the command of Li Xiucheng and Wei Changhui.

Xiao Chaogui's 50,000-strong army pressed down, and the Taiping army was greatly strengthened for a while, and the intensity of the attack exploded.

On the first line of the camp wall, the two sides were originally separated by a camp fence, but as the Taiping army suffered more and more casualties, a thick layer of corpses gradually piled up outside the camp wall, and it was still increasing.

The follow-up Taiping soldiers stepped directly down the pile of corpses and condescendingly launched an attack on the Wei army inside the camp fence.

As a result, the Wei army gradually fell behind, and even if the potters sent Mu Guiying, Wei Chigong and other generals to the front line, it was difficult to turn the situation around.

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The sound of wood cracking has become more and more dense, and it seems that the entire camp wall will not be able to support it, and it will be directly overthrown by the crazy enemy.

Once the camp wall is knocked over, nearly twice as many Taiping troops will rush in like a tide, relying on their fanatical beast-like combat power, even if it is an elite like the Wei army, I am afraid that they will not be able to resist the pressure.

"Your Majesty, it seems that we underestimated the Taiping traitors, if we had known, we should have brought more soldiers and horses, not just 100,000 troops." Chang Yuchun around him, there is already a little jealousy between his eyebrows.

The potter sneered: "Mere traitors are just brainwashed war machines, and 100,000 soldiers and horses are enough to destroy them." ”

Chang Yuchun looked shocked, but said: "But Your Majesty, the camp wall is about to be unable to hold on, what should we do now?" ”

The potter took a light breath and said coldly: "The time has come, let's light the fire for me, it's time for Ma Mengqi to appear on the stage." ”

Ma Mengqi!

Chang Yuchun's eyes lit up, and then he suddenly remembered that all the generals had gathered, but only the general Ma Chao was not in the camp.

It turned out that the Son of Heaven had already made arrangements to use the cavalry under the command of Ma Chao as the killer weapon for tonight's decisive battle.

Excited, Chang Yuchun said worriedly: "Your Majesty, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Hong thief, obviously guarding against our cavalry, but I am afraid that this time I will use cavalry to fail to win as before." ”

"What about being prepared?" The potter smiled proudly, "Yuchun, I will let you see the true strength of Xiliang Jinma Chao today." ”

Chang Yuchun saw that the potter was so confident, so he had to temporarily suppress his suspicions, and hurriedly ordered to light the fire.

Three piles of wolf smoke were lit, and the night sky was lit up by raging flames, and the four fields were clearly visible.

The wolf smoke and fire, the Wei army could see it, and in the south of the camp, Hong Xiuquan was a few hundred steps away, and they could naturally see it clearly.

"Tao Demon suddenly lit a trumpet fire, there must be some trick!" Yang Xiuqing's brows immediately froze, and she subconsciously became alert.

In his mind, he couldn't help but think of the fiasco on the east bank of Xiangshui that day, that time, the potter who had been prepared for a long time used the cavalry assault to kill him by surprise.

This time, the potters had already prepared, and Yang Xiuqing guessed that the potters were probably going to use the killer weapon of the cavalry again.

His nerves tensed immediately, and his gaze looked in the direction of the flank.

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, Yang Xiuqing saw that in the east direction, under the light of the fire, the dust rushed to the sky, rolling like a sandstorm, and swept from east to west.

In the rolling sandstorm, he saw countless ghosts, surging like a frenzy.

He felt that the ground under his feet was also beginning to tremble violently with the surging dust.

In the world, apart from the galloping cavalry, there is something else that can stir up such a movement of heaven and earth.

Yang Xiuqing's eyes burst out with a hint of unexpected sneer, and he muttered in his mouth: "Tao Demon, do you really want to repeat the old trick again......

Hong Xiuquan's eyes were also attracted, and the more than 40,000 Chinese Taiping soldiers, countless pairs of eyes, also looked towards the wild dust.

A moment later, countless iron horsemen, with the loud sound of the mountains collapsing, rushed out of the dust and crashed into the vision of the Taiping army.

It was tens of thousands of iron horsemen, like a torrent bursting the embankment, rushing with a mighty momentum.

Up and down the Taiping Army, except for Yang Xiuqing, who experienced that nightmare, up to Hong Xiuquan, down to the ordinary holy soldiers, they all gasped in an instant.

This was the first time in their lives that they witnessed the legendary Xiliang Iron Horse, the terrifying momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, even the fanatical Taiping believers, all trembled with their hearts.

"King Dong, the Tao Demon actually sent cavalry, what should we do?" Hong Xiuquan's face had changed, and he had no opinion, so he had to ask Yang Xiuqing for help.

Yang Xiuqing's face was proud, and he smiled confidently: "Don't worry, the king of heaven, with the previous battle, the minister has already prepared, and the Tao demon wants to repeat the old trick, so the minister will tell him to taste the pain of the cavalry being destroyed." ”

Before the words fell, Yang Xiuqing waved his hand and shouted: "Command the loyal king, rate the Chinese army to form a formation, and step forward to block the enemy cavalry!" ”

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In the Taiping Army, the horn sounded again, and the flag of the Chinese army waved like the wind.

Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, received the order and immediately led the 40,000 Chinese Taiping troops to form a formation to meet the direction of the Wei army's iron cavalry.

This large array of more than 40,000 people is completely different from the Taiping army that attacked the Wei camp, the front row is a thick shield array, the back row is a two-zhang long spear, and then there are nearly 5,000 crossbowmen.

Such a military formation is a typical infantry formation against cavalry, and it is a formation that Yang Xiuqing specially figured out to deal with the Wei cavalry after experiencing a previous defeat.

Under the command of Li Xiucheng, this behemoth array was horizontal in the direction of Wei Cai's impact, standing still like an iron wall.

Seeing that his army formed such a formation, Hong Xiuquan breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help laughing: "The East King is worthy of being the first genius of my Taiping Army, with this gun and shield array, the cavalry of the Wei Demon will be useless." ”

After receiving Hong Xiuquan's praise and praise, Yang Xiuqing's face was even more proud, and his confident eyes were like more than 10,000 iron horsemen of the Wei army, but they were just ants who came to die.

In the east direction, Ma Chao in the galloping, with a cold and arrogant gaze, had already seen the interception array of the Taiping Army.

There was no trace of jealousy on his face, on the contrary, a fierce smile burned on Yingwu's face, and he snorted coldly: "Hong thief, you want to give me a great merit so much, my Ma Chao will accept it unceremoniously, today, let you see the true strength of my Xiliang Iron Horse!" ”

In the midst of wild laughter, Ma Chao made a move with a silver spear, and ordered the whole army to press on and hit the enemy head-on.

In the cavalry formation, the fierce horn sounded again.

With Ma Chao's order, the 10,000 iron cavalry divisions that were originally galloping like a tide suddenly slowed down their advance and formed more than ten cavalry phalanxes, large and small, like fortresses moving large and small, towards the enemy's infantry formation.

In the shield array, the loyal king Li Xiucheng held the sword in his hand, with a high-spirited and confident face, and was ready to use a great feats to defeat the cavalry of the Wei army to add a few more words for himself among the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The sky is about to brighten, the east hair is faintly white, and the whole picture of the Wei army's cavalry array has been seen.

It's just that, looking at Ma Chao's peculiar cavalry corps, Li Xiucheng frowned slightly, a trace of doubt appeared in his eyes, and secretly thought: "This cavalry of Wei seems to be a little unusual......"

In Li Xiucheng's vision, the cavalry of the Wei State is indeed very different, and it is completely different from any cavalry in the world.

The 10,000-strong cavalry did not take advantage of the speed advantage of the cavalry to attack his infantry formation from the front, but formed a formation like infantry, advancing slowly.

What surprised Li Xiucheng was that the knights of the Wei army, all holding large shields nearly one person high, formed a dense array with each other, forming a dense shield array, like a tortoise shell.

"What kind of cavalry is this? How can cavalry form a shield array? Li Xiucheng's expression has changed, and he said in surprise.

Li Xiucheng was surprised, and the Central Military Department, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, also had their faces changed, and there was a strong suspicion.

"King Dong, the cavalry I heard about is not like this, shouldn't they charge like a raging wind, how can they form a shield formation like foot soldiers?" Hong Xiuquan looked at Yang Xiuqing in disbelief and blankness.

"Wei Demon's cavalry, it is indeed a little ......" Yang Xiuqing was also full of suspicion, squeaking and not knowing how to explain.

The dignified East King was still at a loss, not to mention the 40,000 holy soldiers of the Taiping Army, who had already made up their minds to die, holding high shields and spears, ready to deal with the frontal impact of the Wei army's iron cavalry, and pierced the Wei cavalry that rushed up into meat skewers.

They never expected that the Wei army's iron cavalry did not launch a frontal attack as their Eastern King had said in advance, but actually formed a tortoiseshell formation with a large shield and slowly approached them.

The Taiping army was dumbfounded, and looked at each other for a while, a little out of proportion.

When the Taiping army was surprised, the tortoiseshell cavalry array under the command of Ma Chao was like a huge moving fortress, calmly advancing forward, and soon entered the range of the enemy's crossbowmen.

"No matter how much, even if you form a shield array, how can you resist the attack of my strong bow and crossbow." Li Xiucheng took a deep breath, calmed down his shocked mood, raised his sword and shouted: "Crossbowman, shoot Wei Demon!" ”

The order was passed down, and behind the infantry formation, nearly 5,000 crossbowmen released the crossbow machine.

The sound of breaking the sky rose to the sky, and 7,000 crossbow arrows that could pierce iron armor rose into the air and shot overwhelmingly towards the Wei army's tortoiseshell array.

Crossbow arrows have always been a sharp weapon to restrain cavalry, the Qin army used heavy crossbows to kill the Huns far away, Yuan Shao used the first crossbowman, broke Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteous servant.

The 7,000 crossbowmen in Li Xiucheng's array, all of them are obsessed with the world's strongest crossbows, but Yang Xiuqing specially equipped the whole army in order to guard against the Wei army's iron cavalry.

Looking at the countless crossbow arrows rising into the air in the infantry formation of his own army, blasting towards the Wei army's cavalry array like raindrops, Yang Xiuqing's originally surprised face raised a sarcastic sneer, and snorted coldly in his mouth: "Even if you are unusual, you are still a cavalry, as long as you are a cavalry, you will not want to escape the shooting of this king's strong crossbow!" ”

In front of Yang Xiuqing's eyes, it seemed that the big shield of the Wei cavalry was shot through, hundreds of cavalry were nailed down under their horses, and 10,000 cavalry collapsed in the blink of an eye......

In the next moment, Yang Xiuqing's face was confident and proud, but it froze in a moment of astonishment.