Chapter 90: The Mystery of Xu Rong
With Tong Yuan's order, three black smoke rushed straight into the sky, even Zhang Ji, who was dozens of miles away in Puban County, could see it.
Zhang Ji looked at the wolf smoke and couldn't help but think of what Xu Rong said at the battle preparation meeting a few days ago.
"I have been fighting for decades, and I am the best at cavalry and ambushes, both of which are the keys to our victory. You've just raised it, but you still need more experience......"
“…… The highest level of ambush is integrity! The cat can only catch trash fish, and the ambush I arranged is specifically to deal with the trump card! ……”
“…… Elite mounted cavalry is not just for frontal protrusions, but for ......"
A smile of admiration appeared on Zhang Ji's generous face, and he said to himself, "It's time for them to perform."
As the three wolf smoke rose into the air, two ambushes or roundabout troops appeared, Xu Huang led the Yong Barbarian Battalion to the southeast of Hu Caibu, and Xu Jian led three hundred and fifty mounted cavalry from the foot of Xiaoling Mountain.
Hu Cai led this large number of Baibo troops to pounce on Hu Lang'er and Huang Yu, and suddenly the left side of the formation slowed down sharply, and soldiers everywhere were shouting, "There are ambush soldiers!" ”
He hurriedly sent his cronies to stabilize the formation and probe in which direction the ambush was located.
Soon his subordinates reported that "there is enemy infantry in the left front, and there are enemy heavy cavalry on the side of the small ridge mountain in the left rear." ”
Hu Cai immediately reacted that he had fallen into an ambush. Before he could give orders, the front army suddenly shouted, and a soldier rushed over and shouted: "General Hu, all the enemy troops in front have been killed!" What to do? ”
When the Dreadnoughts saw the three puffs of wolf smoke, they all knew what it meant. Hu Lang'er's heavy cavalry originally took the initiative to retreat, but at this moment they turned around and reorganized, forming a wedge-shaped formation with the team as a unit, eager to try and prepare for the impact.
Xu Huang's Yong Barbarian Battalion had moved from the Chinese army to the east of Huang Yu's 13th Brigade half an hour earlier. Because there were only more than 300 soldiers and horses, and the position was covered by tall cavalry, it did not attract too much attention from the White Polish army in the fierce battle.
As for Xu Jian's mounted cavalry, they never showed up, and they only entered Xiaoling Mountain to stand by after the battle began. In this way, the dirt slope of Xiaozhi Mountain hides such a sharp knife that specializes in decapitation.
Huang Yu's 13th Brigade had also been waiting for a long time, and when they saw the signal, they immediately asked the crossbowmen to come out and stand at the front of the line. Huang Yu gave an order, and the 13th Brigade moved forward, the melee infantry was still tasked with defending Li Le's side, and the crossbowmen were attacking Hu Cai's troops.
The archers first struck the first round, five hundred armed with compound bows, and at a distance of one hundred and twenty paces they threw to cover the White Polish army. After only half an hour's rest, they could use the burst method. In just a few breaths, each person shot four or five arrows.
Three hundred crossbowmen continued to arrive, each carrying two loaded crossbows, aiming at those armed with knives, spears, or two-gear armor at a distance of eighty paces. Under the cover of five rounds of arrow rain and two rounds of crossbow sniping, the formation of the White Polish Army near the 13th Brigade no longer existed.
When Huang Yubu began to release arrows, Hu Lang'er led his 700 heavy cavalry to advance towards the Baibo army, and began to sprint when they got close to 100 paces.
The front of the White Polish Army was already chaotic due to the changes in the battlefield and the rain of arrows, and they had the courage to line up against the heavy cavalry when they had collapsed once, and when they saw the cavalry rushing over, they broke up on their own.
Not to mention Xu Huang's side, the brave barbarian battalion directly under the Third Army has not participated in the battle today. At this time, seeing that this dignified ambush was achieved according to the plan, they who undertook the key strike task were of course high-spirited and ran directly into the enemy position.
The Yong Barbarian Battalion pounced directly on the easternmost side of the White Polish Army and Hu Cai's Chinese army, most of them were strong men with swords and shields and heavy armor.
The exhausted and poorly equipped White Wave soldiers had been slaughtered by hundreds of men in a slight encounter, and their blades could barely inflict much damage.
Xu Huang even rode into the enemy formation, and swept the enemy in front of him with the help of an inertial hand axe, and several Baibo army soldiers and tun commanders were killed by him in one round. After the death of these most resolute leaders, a large number of Bai Bo troops surrendered on their knees with a small number of old soldiers who knew Xu Huang's prestige.
Hu Cai saw that the situation was not good, although there were still about 10,000 people on his side who had not lost control, but he knew that the situation was extremely critical. He shouted, "Brothers, hold on! There are a lot more of us, and there are many more of us! Hold on, brethren! ”
After shouting, the flanks and rear of Hu Caibu suddenly began to scream and disperse. He was so frightened that he hurriedly looked back, only to see a terrifying cavalry wearing fish scale armor and thick leather armor coming directly towards him.
The mounted cavalry led by Xu Jian has been with Xu Rong for many years, and has broken the personal guards of Xianbei Hu Cai, Xiliang Kingdom, Sun Jian and Cao Cao, etc., and it is easy to deal with the rear team and personal guards of Hu Cai of the Baibo Army.
The task of this mounted cavalry for many years was very clear: to break through the enemy's commander's guard and kill the commander as much as possible.
Behind Hu Cai's team, nearly 1,000 soldiers were hastily arrayed under the leadership of two hundred old thieves, and these old thieves fought in Jindi, knowing that under normal circumstances, cavalry would not dare to attack the larger number of infantry in formation.
This time, instead of letting the peasants stand in the front row and die and cause a rout, a row of shield-spear infantry stood in the front line to defend, and the others crowded behind to form a dense formation.
Xu Jian and the cavalry did not bypass the phalanx and throw arrows and halberds like most cavalry in this period. Instead, they continued to accelerate and focused their attention on the lance impact.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the mounted cavalry crashed into the enemy line.
Dozens of Bai Bo soldiers flew into the air and fell out, and some flew directly five or six zhang away, and fell heavily to the ground and shattered.
These mounted cavalry, including horses, cavalry, and armor from the Western Regions, weighed more than a ton in later generations, and crashed into them at a speed of thirty kilometers per hour faster than later generations.
How much human body would it take to resist the energy of such an impact?!
Some of them were hit head-on by their horses into their shields, and they were hit with a huge force, and although they were still crowded behind them and did not fly out, most of these people fell to the ground and vomited blood. They were bleeding from the terrible squeezing and impact of their lungs and abdomen, and they could only survive the last little moments of their lives with painful convulsions.
The worst are not those who fly up and fall to the ground and vomit blood together, but neither too little nor too much. They did not fly out, but they could not stop the mounted cavalry, but fell to the ground and were trampled by the horses' hooves.
The horse's hooves stepped on the head and trampled directly, and the stomp on the abdomen made the white wave soldier squirt out the heart and lung organs.
These are still lucky, although they are scary, but they don't have to be tortured anymore. The unhuman howls of those who were stepped on to their limbs made people think that this was a hell of a nose.