Chapter 31: The Liang Kingdom Kills the Array

Jizhou, the sound of fighting outside Yecheng shook the sky, and the young grandson continued to look at the heavy rain outside the window and was silent. He knew that his father was in the final battle against the enemy of life and death.

This is a big battle, and although Gongsun Xu is not old enough to go to the battlefield in person, he also knows that this is a real big battle. Father's enemy is Ma Yue, the world-famous Liang King, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing outside the city can even be transmitted into the city, which makes people's hearts palpitate.

Gongsun Xu clenched his mother's hand, he was a little afraid, but he was too afraid to say it.

Outside the city, the chaotic battlefield was littered with corpses, dark red blood stains and remnants of severed limbs were spread all over the ground, and the smell of blood drilled into the nose with the smell of dust stirred up by the rain, but no one had a chance to get bored, because no one knew if there would be a chance to smell it after today.

Facing the long shield circle array that Guan Yushui couldn't splash, Gongsun Zhan was helpless, and the same foot soldiers rushed up in a row to hit the big shield with their flesh and blood, but they were stabbed through the body by the spears pierced from the shield eye one by one. On the battlefield, the wails of the Jizhou soldiers and the piles of one-person-high corpses outside the circle array made people's hearts palpitate.

The edge of the heavy shield slammed down on the corpse, and the piercing bones broke with a crisp sound, and the Liangguo infantry once again took a step forward as ordered.

Guan Yu stood in the middle of the formation with his head held high, he had to keep advancing the formation, although the current situation was getting better and better for him, and it could be seen in a short period of time that Gongsun Chan had no chance of causing substantial damage to the shield array. The shield array circled twice, and as soon as a gap was made on the outside, the shield pawn behind the spear in his hand immediately rose to the top, while Ryokuni's powerful crossbow shot wave after wave around the round shield, accurately spilling on one enemy after another.

But Guan Yu knew the weakness of the shield array, once he gave up moving, Gongsun Chan was very likely to press the shield array in all directions with superior forces, once the surrounding enemy corpses were piled up at a high level, the enemy could use the height to cross the outer shield array, and shoot directly at the center of the large array with a crossbow ring, and then the cavalry they heavily protected would be like a vulnerable target, at the mercy of others.

Therefore, he must step on the corpse of the enemy army and constantly move, and only by moving can he ensure that his army always stands at the highest point of the battlefield and always suppresses the enemy army.

The horse was galloping at a high speed, and his mount was already running out of sweat, he thought. He didn't know if his mount was really sweating under the heavy armor, but he knew he was. The iron spear rested on the saddle, and with a slight exertion of his strong arm with a large bow, he drew the longbow to the fullest, aiming at a Montenegrin army carrying a large banner, and then shot out vigorously, and the arrow that quickly crossed the distance of thirty paces pierced through his chest, and the banner of Montenegro fell to the ground weakly. In the bump of the mount, Ma Chao raised his fist and made a gesture backwards, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten arrows flew out from behind him, each of which shot the nearby Montenegrin army over as if they had eyes.

In the wind, Ma Chao stretched out his hand to the quiver on the horse's hip sac behind his back, and most of the seventy-two arrows in the two bases had been shot empty. Grabbing his right hand, which had been a little sore from his bow, he switched the longbow to his right hand. It is estimated that the situation of the cavalry behind them will not be much better, and soon they should use the Liangguo Precision Forging Saber to teach these Black Mountain boys how to behave!

Most of the average rider can carry fifteen arrows, and when they miss, the muscles of the hands are usually sore. A knighted archer who has undergone a brutal training can carry twenty arrows, which is already considered an elite soldier, and even a standard foot archer can only carry twenty arrows, let alone riding on a horse.

However, as the knights of the Liang Kingdom, who are the strongest feudal lords in the world, they have to carry two base quivers, and shoot thirty-six arrows from each bow on the left and right, which is their standard for galloping.

Ma Chao was followed by more than 700 subordinates, and the formation they used was not a wedge-shaped formation that was good at charging, but a semi-circle of two people lined up in a row with horses, with Ma Chao as the vanguard, in which the crossbow and the archers ran together, always at a distance of thirty steps from the surrounding enemy troops, relying on the horse's fast bow strength to make the enemy all die on the road of attack.

The same as Ma Chao, it is the soldiers and horses under the command of Yan Xing, and there are more than ten of them on the battlefield, although there are always more unlucky subordinates who are stabbed off their horses by the enemy's spears, some are pierced by spears through the gaps in the armor, and some are dragged to death because their feet are mixed with the pedals and cannot fall off their horses. But for the Montenegrin army, the army of Liangguo was even more terrible than it was during the Battle of Weinan.

It's not that the Montenegrin army doesn't want to run, they can't compare to the Liangguo cavalry in terms of morale, and the current casualties are enough to make them retreat, but they can't retreat, they can only be trapped in the Liangguo cavalry formation in panic.

This is the cavalry tactics of the Liang Kingdom, riding around the enemy army in a circle, and shooting arrows at the enemy.

Zhang Yan stood between the mountain walls with his long knife in his grip tightly, looking at the military formation in the melee of tens of thousands of people from a distance, and he finally realized where the real gap between them and the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom was. Looking at the chaotic battlefield from his point of view, he wanted to laugh and smile bitterly. General Gongsun's Jizhou soldiers and horses formed a small army formation to attack the circular formation of Liangguo again and again, and although this had little effect, General Gongsun had obviously obtained the rules to win the enemy. The impact of the small military formation far exceeded the impact that a single person could give to the Liangguo Giant Shield Formation.

And the rear military formation of the Jizhou Army, which is invisible to the people of Liangguo, is in full view of Zhang Yan. He clearly saw thousands of white horses with his eyes, although he couldn't see the uniforms of those people clearly, and even those white horses and white robes were just a bunch of white spots gathered into a wedge-shaped formation in Zhang Yan's eyes, but Zhang Yan knew that the center of those cavalry gathered together must be the world-famous General Gongsun, and the name of this army and horses was about to come out...... White Horse Righteousness!

The invincible cavalry that crisscrosses the secluded Ji, the foundation of General Gongsun's life, and the white horse is righteous!

Zhang Yan couldn't help but wonder, did General Baima still plan to lead this invincible army, and a fierce son would plunge into the shield array of the people of Liangguo like a stream flowing into a river?

The difference between them, in Zhang Yan's eyes, is the ability of all walks of life to fight alone, he can see clearly, at the foot of the mountain, Ma Yue's royal command flag is not displayed at all, that is to say, he did not command any soldiers and horses to fight, the dozen or so cavalry just rely on their respective generals to march with each other, but it is this kind of separate battle but converges into a whole, which makes Zhang Yan feel the fear that goes deep into the bone marrow.

Those cavalry did not understand each other, and the heavy troops of the Black Mountain Army would pass through the array, but the two teams of cavalry had never collided together. Zhang Yan could see that they were not more than ten formations, but small formations wrapped in large formations, and small formations formed large formations to complement each other. At the same time, Zhang Yan saw the evolution of the formation, each team of cavalry cut the entire Black Mountain Army formation into more than ten small queues according to its own trajectory, so as to encroach, and the cavalry on the left of the entire large array was moving to the right, and when it reached a node, it would turn around again and kill back, while the cavalry on the right was just the opposite.

The whole great array contains movement in stopping, and there is also a stop in movement.

Zhang Yan didn't know the way of heaven and man, but he knew that King Liang had a way to do this.

He had been staring at the formation for so long, his foot soldiers had been being killed, and the casualties inflicted by the Black Mountainegrin Ring Knife on the Liang cavalry were not even comparable to their pedals, but he saw the weakness of this formation, and perhaps he could rescue his men from this meat grinder-like formation. Although Ma Yue's formation locked the hope of the Black Mountain Army to escape, he also had a weakness, that is, he did not have the slightest control over the troops on the periphery, and he could not defend against the attack of a large number of cavalry...... And Zhang Yan, there happened to be a cavalry ambush in the foothills.

Zhang Yan waved the command flag and said to his subordinates: "Let the cavalry break through the gap, rush to that position, and release a way for the infantry to escape!" ”

Looking from afar, those white-horse cavalry in the distance launched an attack on the round shield array of Liang Guo at the same time without hesitation.

Zhang Yan sighed, said sorry to Gongsun Zan in her heart, and also felt sorry for herself.

I'm afraid that in the end of Zhang Yan's life, he will not be able to avenge Ma Yue's revenge for the Pao Ze brothers under Weinan City. As for Gongsun Zhan, he didn't feel so much guilt, he understood that Gongsun Chan led Bai Ma Yicong to charge the battle in person, maybe he could win if he dragged Ma Yue's elite for a while. He also knew that if he withdrew his subordinates, Gongsun Chan would also be defeated in one battle.

But he had to withdraw, and if he didn't, his remaining brothers would probably die. What kind of thing is a Montenegrin general who does not have Montenegrins?

The banner was unfurled, and a Black Mountain cavalry rushed out from the foothills, although the number was small enough, it was enough to disrupt the rhythm of the formation, and immediately made Ma Yue frightened, and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to wave the command flag and assign the army to change the formation.

It was just such a hesitant effort, and the Montenegrin cavalry made a gap in the Liangguo army, which suddenly made the morale of the Montenegrin army soar, and all of them poured out towards that gap.

Ma Yue understood, the Montenegrin army just wanted to run, Ma Yue didn't care, the Montenegrin army did not cause any casualties to them, so let them go, at the moment to drive the chariot, the battle flag was waving in the Liangguo cavalry abandoned the Montenegrin army, all towards the besieged Guan Yu to kill, from the outside to the interior to surround them.

And Gongsun Zhan's white horse soldiers just rushed into the thick shield array.

The white horse is unequaled, not an empty word on the lips, the carefully selected Youzhou white horse with an unparalleled impact instantly broke through the two layers of shield array, whether it is the spear or shield soldier in front of him, even if he is wearing thick iron armor, he can't escape the fate of being trampled into powder by the iron hooves of the white horse of Youzhou. The White Horse Army immediately broke through the gap, and then a large number of foot soldiers poured into the Liangguo army formation along the gap.

Guan Yu didn't panic, he saw that Ma Yue had already commanded the gap in front of the Liang King, and Ma Yue appeared in the rear to show that the Black Mountain Army had been defeated, although the time was a little longer than he thought, but this was enough, Gongsun Chan had been defeated!

When Bai Mayi, who was the leader, broke through the triple army formation and arrived in front of Guan Yu's car, the others couldn't see how Guan Yu was moving, and they saw a white light flashing, and the cavalry ran crookedly and took two steps, and it was already broken.

Guan Yu tilted his head, buckled the cyan carved big Jiao's hood, a green armor shining in the firelight, raised his hand to shake off the blood on the long knife, stood up and galloped out of the knife, and shouted loudly: "Daliang soldiers and horses listen to the order, kill all the enemy troops, Yecheng celebrates!" ”