Chapter 211: The decisive battle west of Fenshui

This time, the Right Xian King presided over the overall situation, and arranged for the Left General King and the Right Dulu King, as well as a few remnant vassal infantry, a total of 10,000 people to stay behind.

He personally led an army of 60,000 and began to cross the Fenshui at the time of Chen. The 10,000 soldiers and horses of his command passed through the half-human deep shoal and pounced directly on the center of Xu Rong's large array.

After the right valley Liwang went ashore, he did not rest, followed closely in the footsteps of the right Xianwang, and directly waved his army to attack the front of Xu Rongjun.

In front of them was the 5,000 cavalry troops of the Tuntian Army, which operated horses and livestock all the year round, and most of them were from the Xiliang cavalry and herdsmen, and they were no less than the Huns in terms of horsemanship.

When King Youxian saw the cavalry of the other party, he laughed and said, "Putting the cavalry in the center is for attacking!" At present, we have seized the offensive, and their cavalry can only be beaten passively, and our army will win this battle! ”

"Victory! Win! ”

The morale of the Hun army was high, and the tens of thousands of cavalry in the middle two divisions no longer rode and shot entangled, and directly swarmed up. The momentum of the dense galloping of 10,000 horses shook the heavens and the earth, and the soldiers of the Xinxi Liang Army, who had experienced a hundred battles, were also hot in their mouths and sweaty in their hands.

The cavalry of the Tuntian army could not resist the onslaught of the other party, so they had to retreat quickly. Just behind the large formation of the infantry of the Tuntian Army, three wide passages were left for them to withdraw directly.

Seeing this, how could the king of the right valley Li watch the enemy cavalry flee, he directly led six thousand cavalry to chase and kill. These 6,000 cavalry kicked up countless dusts and directly crashed into the large array of more than 10,000 Tuntian troops.

The infantry of the Tuntian Army in array did not release arrows, but only used shield spears and rows of spears to block the charge of the Hun cavalry.

In an instant, shouts of killing rang out. The war horses that the Huns sat on were not willing to ram the infantry at all, and every time they rushed to the front of the battle, they unconsciously slowed down. Then the cavalry on the horses could only ride horizontally and gallop along the edge of the formation.

But rows of spears and spears kept beckoning to the passing cavalry. Every scattered and unarmoured cavalryman had to face three or four spears. They didn't have the martial arts of the Zuo Dulu King, and they were instantly put down in a row.

Even though some of the cavalry blindfolded their horses, they slammed into the pikemen regardless of life or death. They were also stabbed by the spear of the war horse, directly thrown out of a distance of several steps, fell dizzy and cracked, not to mention, and were instantly killed by the surrounding Tuntian army.

The light cavalry of the Huns could not charge the heavily formed heavy infantry phalanx at all, let alone scare them away.

More cavalry did not dare to rush into the big formation, so they could only follow the passage between the formations, and seemed to make a detour to the rear of the phalanx.

The further back you go in the passage, the more limited the thickness of the infantry phalanx becomes. Therefore, these Huns boldly continued to go deeper, because the phalanx had two wings and a back after all, and it was definitely easier to break through.

However, they did not notice that the further they went into the formation, the narrower the path was set aside. And if you don't shoot arrows in front of the big array, it doesn't mean that the people behind you don't shoot arrows.

When some of the cavalry slowed down and began to look left and right to observe the situation, batches of arrows directly brought them down.

Frightened, some people fled quickly, only to collide with those who came up from behind. Only those who do not skimp on horsepower and do not slow down at all, are not targeted and directly killed.

However, when they caught up with the retreating cavalry of the Tuntian Army, they were already far inferior to each other, and they were killed in a few strokes without increasing their strength.

It turned out that the 5,000 cavalry of the Tuntian Army in front of him were clearly defeated. They are simply luring the enemy at the touch of a button, and if they really fight, they can hold on to a stick of incense.

The right valley Li King completely fell into the prey, he couldn't beat it, and the way back was blocked by the soldiers and horses of the right sage king.

However, the soldiers and horses of the rest of the kings, including King Zuoxian, had already crossed the Fenshui. They did not stupidly squeeze into the center of the big formation, but spread out the formation and attacked Xu Rong's big formation from the north and south flanks.

The overall shape of Xu Rong's large array is a square, consisting of 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, and the infantry is currently in a dense formation, with the cavalry covering behind the infantry formation.

The Huns presented a huge crane wing array, with more than 10,000 people in the middle of the right Xian King and the right valley Li King, and 20,000 cavalry on each wing, attacking the large array from both ends of the north and south springs.

The formation of 20,000 cavalry far exceeded that of 20,000 infantry, and the formation of the cavalry was relatively scattered, so from a distance, the enemy forces in the north and south of the large array were much larger than in the middle, and there was still room to divide the troops and horses and make a detour to the back of the large array.

Under the command of Xu Rong and the lieutenants and military commanders of the Tuntian Army, a large number of archers behind the gun array quickly shot a dense rain of arrows, repelling wave after wave of cavalry.

The cavalry group killed and wounded by the rain of arrows could not approach the attack collectively for a while, so they had to put hidden arrows in circles around the periphery, or suddenly approached and threw out a wave of halberds and flying axes, causing a certain amount of damage.

The chaotic gallop of the cavalry kicked up endless dust, and it was winter, and the northwest wind was blowing on the battlefield. The Hun cavalry attacked from east to west, and the dust of their tens of thousands of war horses just obscured their own vision, which seriously affected the observation of the main kings of the Huns.

Therefore, although the Xiongnu army occupied the advantage of the situation, it was fighting on its own and could not be transformed into results.

However, Xu Rong saw it very clearly. He stroked his beard and ordered the liaison to inform the wings that it was time to move.

Huang Yu's 13th Brigade, Yang Feng's 12th Brigade, and Hu Chuquan and Liu Bao's subordinate Xiongnu troops have not yet entered the battle.

If you look at it from a farther perspective, Xu Rong's large array is like a protruding part of a fish scale array. This salient attracted a siege of up to 50,000 men, not only standing, but exposing the enemy's flank.

And this flank is handed over to the dignified ambush to attack, ensuring that it can be hit in place.

However, most of the Tuntian army did not engage in major battles this year. Under the terrifying sound of 50,000 cavalry, they became more and more frightened.

In fact, if you look at the exchange ratio, the heavy infantry phalanx of the Tuntian Army can play a three-to-one battle.

However, in front of these infantry is a huge group of cavalry, and in battle, it will feel that the opponent is close to infinite.

In addition, they killed several people from time to time, and the dust covering the sky covered the field of vision in the front row, which made the psychological state of some soldiers gradually tend to panic.

Xu Rong saw the situation, and now the left and right flanks should have launched an ambush, and victory would not be too long. But if the front of the big array can't bear it, then the previous efforts will be wasted.

Xu Rong observed the situation on the battlefield and thought that the large array had reached the limit of its bearing, and it was necessary to put it into reserve.

Xu Huang and the Yong Barbarian Battalion were not far away as a reserve, and after receiving the order, they spread their footsteps and went directly along the passage of the large array, killing the enemy in front.

There were enemy attacks in the three directions of the southeast, north and south of the large array, due to the greater pressure on the north and south flanks.

Xu Huang and the others did not supplement these two sides, but instead attacked the soldiers and horses of the Right Xian King and the Right Valley Li King, who were relatively far away and had weakened offensive.