Chapter Twenty-Six: Winning in the Midst of Chaos
"Do you need a reason to kill?"
Ma Chao once asked his uncle, Ma Yue.
There are many things in this world that don't need a reason, but only killing, there must be a reason, many reasons.
Otherwise, it will be difficult for people to wash away the guilt in their hearts.
The entire battlefield was in chaos, and the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom were divided into two parts in the process of engagement, which was even more difficult for a group of soldiers and horses. Even if it is half a pillar of incense in the morning, the most elite men of Liangguo can still complete the formation in an instant, but the problem is that the two sides are fighting, and in a short period of time, it is the moment when the soldiers' minds are confused.
Even if he is the most elite professional soldier in the world, the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom are not exempt from vulgarity.
Even if Guan Yu is a veteran of the battle for a long time and a rare veteran general in the world, at this moment, he can't help but smash his fist at Daxu in anger.
Just the moment when the army formation was split, Guan Yu saw the crumbling of the forward front. The soldiers couldn't see what was going on, they didn't know that they were surrounded by enemy troops behind them, but it was better for them to know one thing than to let them know the reality of their own surroundment...... They only knew that nearly half of the robes had been withdrawn when the two armies were engaged!
If it weren't for the fact that they trusted their king, if it weren't for the fact that it was Ma Yue who led them from poverty and weakness to the rampant world at this moment, I am afraid that this battle would have been lost without fighting!
Fortunately, these men who are used to fighting still know that no matter what happens, King Liang will not harm his soldiers after all.
Guan Yu galloped his horse straight to the shield line in front, shouted and shouted to the soldiers to resist the enemy's attack, and commanded the cavalry on both wings to retreat back, and resisted the enemy's attack with strong heavy infantry spears and giant shields. Rushing to the front line at the same time as Guan Yu, as well as the former army captains Wang Shuang and Guan Ping, they all drove their horses and weapons to the front line of the battlefield to stabilize the morale of the army.
Guan Yu knew that this was a very difficult battle, and broke through the original assumptions of all their generals about this war. Tie the line with the heavy armor of the shield wall, and the five spears through the shield wall are pressed to the enemy step by step, so as to suppress them within the range that the bow and crossbow can threaten, supplemented by stone crushing cannons, and the heavy ballista will cause substantial damage, and the wounded soldiers will continue to exude fear, and when the fear accumulates enough to transform, it is the moment when the Liang King's armored army is powerful.
And now, the sudden attack from the black mountain thieves in the rear made Ma Yue decide to drive all the most deterrent gravel cannons and ballistas to the north, and draw half of the light cavalry on both wings and all the heavy cavalry...... For Guan Yu, the largest offensive force was intercepted, and most of the defensive force was left, and the entire military formation of the former army degenerated into a large crossbow formation in the Han Wu period.
"With the crossbow army formation to meet the heavy cavalry-based Jizhou military prince Sun Zhan, the king is really ...... Guan Mou" Guan Yu smiled bitterly without a trace, at this moment he didn't know the situation of the military array behind him, and immediately shouted: "The cavalry army with two wings is located in the formation, the crossbowmen form a phalanx, and the spears and spears form a two-layer circular formation!" ”
With Guan Yu giving orders, the entire large array changed in an instant, and the front line that was difficult to maintain was already too difficult, so it was not maintained, and more than 10,000 foot soldiers quickly retreated, leaving only one side of the foot soldiers to be closely connected with the enemy army with a big shield and charge like a tide.
The giant shield formation is a very strong formation, the Jizhou sergeant wearing the big armor is the strong army of the Gongsun family at a glance, one by one the first soldiers rushed on the battlefield, vowing to break through the formation of the soldiers and horses of the Liang State in an instant, but the heavy body and armor avoided the spear pierced out of the shield eye, but was blocked by the heavy shield, and then a negligence, it will be contracted in the shield eye and then stabbed out again The spear penetrates the majestic body, and the large plate armor that is connected into a piece is not afraid of slashing and axe, But he was only afraid of this spear with a one-foot blade like a long lance, and it was stabbed through in the blink of an eye.
Although heavy armor may not be able to pierce a spear at once, the problem is that there are three shield eyes in the two connected shields, which can be pierced with three spears, and behind the spear-wielding spearsmith there is a shield array designed to stabilize the center of gravity of these balanced spears, so that it doesn't take much effort to stab a second time.
Nowadays, the popular armor among the princes, most of them are the shocking ones of the soldiers and horses of the Liang State ten years ago, and then the little war profits left in the rolling battle array, which were regarded as treasures for a while.
But they didn't know that both heavy armor and tomahawks were inferior products limited by the low productivity and casting technology of the Liang Kingdom back then, and they were made in order to guard against the mainstream bows and crossbows and ring knives of the weapons of that year.
Pertinence is the reason why Liangguo created the illusion of strong soldiers and strong horses in the world back then.
And today's Liang country no longer pays attention to pertinence, and there are 10,000 armor and 10,000 armor in Liang country, and this 10,000 armor will be divided into several troops, specifically to deal with different enemies. Plate armor against swords and axes, chain mail against arrows, not to mention classification, many troops are armed with armor at the expense of mobility.
There is even a heavy armor guard in the Liangguo armament, which is nicknamed the 'can opener' by Ma Yue, which is specially equipped with terrifying heavy armor-piercing weapons such as the meteor hammer...... The butterfly effect caused by Ma Yue's Liangguo armor not only caused the almost invincible plate armor to appear in the land of the Central Plains prematurely, but also made the armored cavalry appear thirty or fifty years in advance, and it was prematurely perfected for hundreds of years.
It is precisely because of this that although the situation of Guan Yu's former army is not optimistic, although the ring formation surrounded by the big shield under the impact again and again seems to be shaky, there is no risk of immediate collapse after all. As long as the shield line was not broken by the fearless footsteps of the Jizhou army in a moment, Guan Yu would be able to show his skills to change the formation when the circle formation was formed.
Those foot soldiers with bows and crossbows in their hands were like Guan Yu's arms, changing formations again and again, and throwing deadly arrows on the heads of the enemy's weak points again and again.
The round formation is the best defensive front.
Guan Yu is fighting more and more easily in the front army, like Ma Sanye on the rear battlefield with thousands of steps, but it is not so easy.
There were very few cavalry in the Montenegrin army, not to mention that this kind of brave knight Ma Yue, who was not afraid of death, wore armor and spears and charged dozens of paces away, was simply unheard of.
The horses' hooves danced with spears, and soldiers continued to roar everywhere, and the entire rear army completely disrupted the formation of the Liangguo army with the enemy's torrential charge. The Liangguo sergeant who initially faced the Montenegrin army was the Liangwang armor under Ma Yue who used his name as the banner, and it was the stupidest way to attack the infantry with cavalry, even if it was the strongest Liangwang armor in the world, even if it was the Black Mountain bandit with the worst uniform.
The best choice for cavalry is to break through the enemy formation with more and less charges, but in the face of countless Black Mountain bandits on all sides, Ma Yue will definitely not sacrifice the most elite sergeants indiscriminately, let alone give up the fifty gravel cannons that have been planted on the ground!
He made the right choice, turning the heavy cavalry back to his side, and responding with 5,000 foot soldiers armed with heavy crossbow stone cannons, and using stone cannons to deter the enemy. The elite army of more than 10,000 horses was divided into 20 squads, led by Qu Chang, and the enemy army was strangled in a row. This can only lead to one result, in order to keep the elite, Ma Yue responded to the Montenegrin army with the most primitive command method...... Plunging the entire battlefield into a state of chaos where we don't distinguish between friend and foe.
The mobilization of soldiers and horses is not easy, let alone at such a moment. The Montenegrin army successfully pushed the elite of the Liang Kingdom to the same military quality as them.
At that position less than ten steps away from Ma Yue's royal frame, the desperate charging Black Mountain cavalry even made Ma Yue see clearly the crazy desire in his eyes, which was beyond the desire of life and death, Ma Yue seemed to cast a pair of crazy eyes to see the appearance of once struggling at the bottom of the food chain.
If you kill yourself, you will be a war achievement!
"Bang!"
However, it was only ten steps, and just when the eyes of the Black Mountain cavalry were about to be ignited by the fire of crazy desire, they rushed out of a black horse with oblique stabs, and the skilled Liangguo sergeant on the horse chose to save his commander in the simplest way.
The crisp sound of fractures sounded on the battlefield like bursting beans, and there was no need to see it at all, the horse's hard skull hit the weak neck, and the equally strong sternum collided, and the spikes on the riding armor of the Liang Kingdom War pierced deeply into the Black Mountain knight on horseback, and the Liang King's armored horse was also thrown high in the air, planted more than ten steps away with heavy armor, and the weight of more than three hundred catties almost smashed a pit on the ground.
And the Black Mountain knight who tried to capture the king had already been pressed to the ground by the heavy horse corpse, and the sharp thorns of the horse armor on the king of Liang pierced into the weak abdomen, opening a big mouth, and the intestines flowed out, and the mouth continued to swallow blood foam, and a pair of eyes were unwilling to stare in the direction of Ma Yue.
Ma Yue would have ignored the hatred of the dying people for him, but any enemy whose name he did not know would not make him feel any guilt, it was nothing more than a battle and a battle, there must always be life, and someone must die. He didn't even cross the sword again, he had long since stopped using the sword, and he hadn't even pulled out the general's sword forged by the master swordsmith of the iron-making division at his waist, and the enemy was already ten paces closer.
Above his royal chariot stood four heralds with banners, and at the feet of the heralds were four armored men who were half-kneeling with crossbows and constantly shooting, and under the chariot stood even more warriors in armor, and within three hundred paces were all wandering riders, and Ma Yue would not worry about his safety at all.
He believed that even if cold arrows were fired from all sides, the attendants beside him would stop him, and all he needed was to rely on the four command flags to fight this battle.
In fact, there is not much he needs to do in this war, just in the direction not far in front of him, Ma Chao alone organized two captains and ten Qu Commanders to gallop in the enemy formation, while commanding the army to rush left and right. On the other side, Yan Xing commanded the other half of his soldiers and horses like arms, trampled by the hooves of the horses that came and went, ramming against any enemy who dared to appear in front of them.
The entire army formation maintained twenty small army formations under the great chaos, thus forming a different kind of large formation.
Every officer above the commander of the Liangguo Soldiers and Horses has been studying in the Liangzhou Academy for more than half a year, about the military formation, about the royal majesty.
In fact, it has always been the Montenegrin Army itself that is chaotic. The people of Liangguo are just leading them into the big array of victory in the chaos.