Chapter 176: The Battle of Yizhou (II)

When there was no large number of cavalry in the Central Plains, if you wanted to deal with cavalry, you only had bows and crossbows. The Song used a strong crossbow to contend with Liaoxia, Jin, and even Mongolia.

Of course, Zou Yu doesn't have that many crossbows, and he is not as good as Song crossbows, but he has something elseโ€”โ€”โ€” chariot!

The chariot is also a great weapon against the cavalry, but the cavalry is flexible, so the chariot also needs to cooperate with the cavalry.

Thirteen years of great cause, golden autumn October! The weather in the north has begun to cool down in the morning and evening!

Zou Yu's army is out of the camp! Yi Nan also led the army out, of course, the first to act was always the scout, and the scouts on both sides began to reconnoiter whether there were ambushes within a radius of dozens of miles.

Still a kilometer away, Zou Yu's army stopped, and the spear and shield soldiers stepped forward and laid down dozens of phalanxes!

One hundred and ten thousand troops, of course, it is impossible to squeeze together, the left wing is Xue Wanshu 10,000 elites, and the right wing is Xue Wanshu 10,000 elites! The two teams of them were slightly ahead, and in the middle were 10,000 elites led by Wei Chi Jingde!

In the gap between the three 10,000 teams, there are another 20,000 people, and then behind is Zou Yu's main formation, if you look at it from a high altitude, it is one big and five small, six large phalanxes.

The shield in front is like a wall, and the spear is like a forest! Behind Yi Nan's invisible, there were many foot soldiers, carrying wooden stakes as tall as a person, smashing them into the ground behind the shields, and the horses that had been made were also carried and placed behind the shield wall.

Of course, Yi Nan would not give Zou Yu too much time to set up the formation, he rushed to a small hillside to observe Zou Yu's formation, and his subordinates were naturally preparing for battle!

Xue Yantuo people fought on a large scale, also in units of 1,000 people, after the whole army, Yi Nan immediately ordered an attack, 30,000 cavalry, straight to the left, center and right three phalanxes.

Ten thousand horses galloped, that was the earth shook the mountains, Xue Yantuo's cavalry was just jogging at first, and when they entered the kilometer, they accelerated sharply, and charged forward with a strange scream.

Zou Yu stood on a nearly ten-meter-high arrow tower and saw it clearly, but he didn't command, because he believed that Xue Wanshu and the others were enough to deal with it, and Xue Yantuo's cavalry couldn't stupidly rush straight to the phalanx.

As expected, the cavalry on the left and right sides had already begun to deviate from the front, galloping diagonally, and then drawing their bows and arrows to throw at the phalanx. As for the cavalry in the middle, the same was true, flicking their tails in front of the formation, throwing arrows.

Being able to set up the formation in advance naturally prevents this, and many simple wooden planks are densely lifted diagonally.

"Chop chop!" A dense sound sounded, like rain hitting plantains, the sound was not small, but there was no way to do banana leaves.

After Xue Yantuo's cavalry fired, the cavalry on both sides went around backwards, trying to find out the weak points.

It's just that when they just ran a distance, they found that the front was full of rejection horses, and there was no way, so they had to deviate slightly, turn around and run back, of course, on the way back, they would still throw two rounds.

"Humph! You want to lure me to attack! Yi Nan snorted coldly.

"Go! Bring all the slaves up and let them charge! Tell them to let them go as long as they survive! Yi Nan commanded coldly.

"Yes!"

Taking the lead with slaves or captives to wear down opponents is a common and effective method. The Xue Yantuo tribe has no shortage of war horses, and the slaves are to help herd the horses, of course, they can also ride, driven by the Xue Yantuo cavalry, at least two thousand people, riding horses, appeared on the battlefield.

More than 2,000 people, under the threat of bows and arrows, whipped their horses and charged at the straight end of Zou Yu's left flank.

Seeing this group of knights holding wooden sticks and riding all kinds of horses rushing over, Xue Wanshu immediately understood Xue Yantuo's plan, and immediately ordered loudly: "Resist!" These are trash fish! Be sure to resist! โ€

"Bang bang bang!" The horses kept hitting the shields and spears, and for a while, the horses roared and neighed, and many death squads died in the guns.

Of course, they were not useless, with the strong strength of the horses, they still broke a lot of gaps, at least Yi Nan could see that some had already rushed into a hundred or twenty meters.

"Woo! Woo! "Two trombones! Xue Yantuo's cavalry followed closely and launched an attack on the left flank, and the other 20,000 cavalry were also ready to move, wanting to wait for Zou Yu to show his flaws.

Seeing Xue Yantuo's cavalry dispatched, Xue Wanshu finally smiled and waved the order flag again!

As soon as the command flag waved, the herald immediately shouted the order: "Archers prepare!" The first line, the second line retreats! โ€

At the order, the soldiers in front of him, regardless of it, turned around and ran.

Of course, there is no need to worry that they will scatter their own people, because there are already fences and horses behind them, and they will only advance along the left passage.

"Brush, brush!" The archers fired arrows at the cavalry.

Xue Yantuo's cavalry, braving the rain of arrows, rushed over, crossed the line of slaves, only to find that in front of them was actually a fence and a horse rejection, and they could not rush through at all. But at this time, it was too late, so I had to rush forward.

"Poof! Poof! "The long stake was pierced on the horse, and the cavalry was thrown off the horse. If you are lucky, you will be dizzy and dizzy, and if you are unlucky, you will be rejected, and the light one will break his head and bleed, and the heavy one will die on the spot.

Of course, they did not do useless work, temporary fences and horse rejections, after all, were not so strong, and some were picked up by the cavalry with weapons, and after thousands of dead and wounded, they still opened the gap.

Xue Yantuo roared excitedly, waved his weapon and rushed forward, and the happy energy made Yi Nan in the distance hear.

Yi Nan's face, which had been tense, finally showed a smile, and ordered again, the rear cavalry, all pressed up, ready to chase and kill at any time!

Following the rout, it is the fastest and best to destroy the complete formation, but Yi Nan was happy too early, because the last thing Zou Yu lacked was to reject the horse, although the production was rough, the number was enough. Under the command of Xue Wanshu, the passage had already been formed with the rejection of the horse, and if the cavalry wanted to attack the soldiers, they needed to knock away the rejection horse, or move the rejection horse, but looking at the spear and shield soldiers behind the rejection horse, the cavalry wisely chose another way โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” rushed forward along the passage.

Rushing along the passage, even if you can't kill the enemy, at least you can rush out, that's what some cavalrymen think, of course, most of them still move with the epidemic.

The formation arranged by Zou Yu belonged to the outer square and the inner circle, and those cavalry rushed out dozens of meters, and finally did not see the rejection of the horse, but the shield wall formed by two wooden shields.

Looking at the shield wall, the cavalry was very puzzled, because the shield wall with a width of more than ten meters was no threat to them, since there was no threat, of course they continued to move forward, after all, behind the shield walls on both sides, there must be danger.