Chapter 237: The bow is like a thunderbolt, and the arrow is like a meteor catching the moon
In the fields outside Yecheng that had already been harvested, the two large legions were facing each other.
Gao Huan's strength is much stronger than Yuwentai's, and the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized under his command make Yuwentai's eyes red with envy.
He beat each other with Yuwentai in Bishan, and Gao Huan brought an army of 200,000.
This is also the reason why Wang Xiao can sweep everywhere so easily. The local garrisons were all taken away.
After these years of consumption, there are as many as 150,000 or 60,000 people following Gao Huan at this time.
On the opposite side, Wang Xiao is obviously much less.
Wang Xiao used the caravan as a spy and learned early that Gao Huan had reconciled with Yuwentai and led the army north to Yecheng.
Although the strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf failed, for Wang Xiao, he had earned enough.
After calculating the distance between the two sides to Yecheng, he decisively left behind a large number of slow-moving foot soldiers, and personally rushed over with more than 40,000 cavalry.
Even if the strategy is used to the extreme, it will eventually be presented on the battlefield.
Gao Huan's soldiers were numerous, and they drove over like a landslide and tsunami. It gives people a very strong sense of oppression.
Wang Xiao didn't care about this. He's seen a lot of this kind of scene.
And these elite cavalry under his command followed him across the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, sweeping inside and outside the grassland, and rampaging all over the eastern part of the country. Of course, I will not be intimidated by this scene in front of me.
The army of more than 100,000 in front of them, in the eyes of these cavalrymen, is just a feats that can walk.
Wang Xiao adopts the military merit system, and if you have a victory on the battlefield, you can get corresponding rewards and treatment. Even family members will benefit from this.
These elite knights under his command are all carefully selected veterans.
He wears an iron helmet on his head and wears three layers of armor: body armor, thigh armor, and trap armor. Armed with a strong bow and a crossbow, a long soldier hangs on the hook of the horse, and a horizontal knife behind the horse.
It is compiled according to five people, ten people, one hundred people, one thousand people, and ten thousand people.
They are experienced, experienced, and cooperative.
Facing the overwhelming Gao Huan army, Wang Xiao constantly dispatched troops and horses to attack back and forth, looking for and testing the opponent's weaknesses.
These cavalrymen were all one man and three horses.
Mounted horses were used for marching, while pack horses were used to carry armor, weapons, rations, tents and other supplies. And those with heavy loads, strong impact, and good staying power are the war horses that are really used to go into battle.
These war horses are the best of the best, and most of them are high-headed horses selected from the Western Regions and other places. The load-carrying capacity was strong enough to support the heavily equipped cavalry to and fro.
The cavalry relied on the speed of their horses and constantly attacked Gao Huan's army. Especially when he rushed to the vicinity, it was a round of arrows and crossbow arrows, and then the tactic of deflecting away made Gao Huanjun feel even more difficult to resist.
Gao Huan was furious and ordered his general Peng Le to lead thousands of cavalry to resist the harassment.
Peng Le's cavalry also wore iron armor and had good combat effectiveness.
And they are extremely brave, even if there is a big difference in numbers, they dare not hesitate to charge directly into battle.
The cavalry that came and went on Wang Xiao's side was broken several teams one after another by Peng Le's department because of insufficient preparation.
Wang Xiao, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw this scene and immediately ordered, "Lead them over and shoot horses." ”
Peng Le is very brave, but his head is not very bright. In the face of the trap, he chased and killed without hesitation, and then fell into a heavy siege.
Under the rain of arrows, a large number of horses were shot, and the cavalry fell to the ground.
Immediately, the army assaulted, and the two back-and-forth charges directly wiped out Peng Le's department.
Gao Huan's side didn't even have time to rescue because of the slow speed of the footmen.
However, Peng Le also bought them time and completed the formation.
A large number of crossbowmen stepped forward to fire at the cavalry. It effectively curbed the impact and harassment of Wang Xiao's cavalry.
And all this, just appetizers.
Wang Xiao finally moved.
He personally took two 10,000 horsemen to look for a breakthrough around Gao Huan's big array.
When he determined the direction of the assault, the low sound of the bull's horn suddenly resounded through the four fields.
Numerous detachments of hundreds and thousands began to raid and harass Gao Huan's army from all directions, causing their formations to continue to loosen and cause confusion. At the same time, it also diluted the attention of the crossbowmen.
When there were signs of loosening at the junction between Gao Huan's subordinate captain Xingqing and Duan Shao's subordinates, Wang Xiao immediately dropped his armor and personally rushed over with two 10,000 horsemen.
The momentum of the thousands of troops charging was extremely amazing.
Duan Shao and Wei Xingqing made a mistake in their cooperation, and they failed to form a formation to block the loose formation at the first time.
By the time they finally reacted, the extremely fast cavalry group had already rushed in with a roar of trampling the earth.
Wang Xiao rode a real bloody horse, which was paid to him by caravans traveling to and from the Western Regions.
The weight of this BMW is extremely strong, not only can bear Wang Xiao who is wearing heavy armor, but even its body is hung with thick horse armor.
Wang Xiao, who was holding a spear, entered the battle and opened and closed. Wherever the spear swept, whether it was a heavy armorer with a shield and a sword, or a crossbowman wearing a half-armored armor, he was smashed straight out.
The two 10,000 horsemen formed a wedge-shaped formation, cutting through Gao Huanjun's formation like a fiery sharp knife.
Wang Xiao, who was covered in heavy armor all over his body and only showed two eyes, was like a god and demon descending. An iron spear in his hand flew up, breaking through the military formation of Gao Huanjun layer after layer.
By the time his eyes suddenly opened up, and there were no more enemy soldiers blocking him, he had already directly killed the military formation.
The originally dense Gao Huan army formation was directly cut into two pieces.
When Wang Xiao took two 10,000 horsemen around and came back to kill, Gao Huan's army completely collapsed.
The infantry in the era of cold weapons faced the cavalry field battle, and the victory rate was indeed not high.
Gao Huan, who had an experienced escape experience, did not beat his chest and was annoyed when the army collapsed.
When the soldiers and horses are exhausted, they can recruit again, and saving their lives is the most important thing.
Gao Huan led a group of henchmen and soldiers to ride their horses towards Yecheng not far away. As long as he can get behind the strong city walls, no matter how powerful the cavalry is, he will not be able to take him.
His reaction was quick, but his flag bearer was a little stupid. When he fled, he still held a big flag, for fear that others would not know where the position of the main general was.
What's even more unfortunate is that this banner moving towards Yecheng was seen by Wang Xiao.
There was nothing to hesitate about, Wang Xiao directly led people to chase and kill.
In Gao Huan's opinion, Wang Xiao is doing useless work. After all, everyone was riding horses, and he was obviously closer to Yecheng.
But the sweaty BMW under Wang Xiao's crotch was extremely fast, and it ran like a bolt of lightning. It didn't take much effort to quickly get closer.
With a bow and arrows, a series of arrows roared out. The pro-soldiers who were blocking Gao Huan's back fell one after another.
Gao Huan, who felt that something was wrong, turned his head to look and suddenly became angry.
Flag-waving bastard, it's you who lure people over.
He instructed the guards around him to turn their heads to block Wang Xiao, but Wang Xiao, who was holding a bow and arrow in his hand, was a super-god-like existence on the battlefield.
Wang Xiao's strong physical fitness and staying power made him fire dozens of arrows in a row without the slightest sign of not being able to pull the bow.
At this time, Gao Huan was already very close to the gate of Yecheng, and even the defenders at the head of the city saw his handsome banner and gradually opened the city gate. Even behind the city gates, there were already a large number of armor soldiers holding shields ready to take cover.
At this time, only the flag bearer was left by Gao Huan's side.
Seeing that he could rush into the city gate in a few more breaths, Wang Xiao, who was chasing behind, took out a heavy iron arrow and pulled the five-stone strong bow in his hand into a full moon.
The bow is like a thunderbolt, and the arrow is like a meteor catching the moon.
When Gao Huan rode his horse and rushed into the city gate, the armor soldiers around him held shields to protect him. The sharp arrow roared, passing directly between the two giant shields, and slammed into the heavy armor of Gao Huan's vest.
The huge impact directly knocked Gao Huan off the horse.
Even if he was wearing three layers of heavy armor, he couldn't stop the powerful iron arrow from passing through his body.
Gao Huan, who was lying on the ground, tried to open his mouth, wanting to say something. But in the end, I couldn't say anything.
Gao Huan, a strong man who was once only one step away from dominating the world, fell in the city gate cave of Yecheng.
As the core figure of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Gao Huan's death also meant the collapse of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
Wang Xiao repaired in Yecheng, the capital of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, for more than a month, and wantonly harvested grain, grass, materials and other loot.
The autumn harvest had just passed not long ago, and the grain in the granaries of the entire Yecheng and the families with a large amount of land had been piled up.
Now these have become Wang Xiao's.
Wang Xiao recruited too many soldiers and horses along the way. Even if it's always limiting the scale. But it still can't avoid reaching the scale of hundreds of thousands.
If he wants to feed such a huge army, the only thing Wang Xiao can rely on is the capture and looting of the gate valve family.
As for the root causes of these troubles in the world, he has never thought about peaceful coexistence for a long time.
Extinguishing the gate valve and recovering the land and wealth is a plan that Wang Xiao has already set.
He abolished Emperor Xiaojing's Yuan Shanjian, marking the complete collapse of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
Soldiers and horses were sent to Shandong and Jianghuai to receive the city. After that, Wang Xiao took the many infantry soldiers and cart cannon fodder who had caught up, and crossed the Yellow River towards Luoyang City.
He is ready to continue the current momentum and clean up Yuwentai.
Unexpectedly, Yuwentai was very shrewd and returned to Chang'an City with soldiers and horses early.
The soldiers under Wang Xiao's command felt that the harvest this time was already very rich, and they all wanted to go home one by one.
But he was unmoved, and still insisted on forcing the army to break the Tiger Prison Pass, and rushed directly into the pass towards Chang'an City.
Yu Wentai, who had already learned how Gao Huan was defeated, did not go to fight with Wang Xiao in the field after careful consideration, but shrank his troops and materials to garrison Chang'an City.
His plan was that now that the autumn harvest had passed, Wang Xiao's supply line was long. Moreover, the rebellions of the old departments of Gao Huan and the gate valve families in various parts of the Eastern Wei Dynasty rose one after another. It was impossible for Wang Xiao to stay in Guanzhong for too long.
Yuwentai underestimated Wang Xiao's toughness and persistence, and also overestimated Wang Xiao's importance to all parts of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
In Wang Xiao's view, breaking Chang'an City and completely ending the country of the Xianbei people is far more important than grabbing land and materials.
When the first heavy snow fell over Chang'an City, Wang Xiao led a huge army of hundreds of thousands of people and pushed countless vehicles full of food and supplies to the outside of Chang'an City.
Either don't do it or never do it.
Since the fight has begun, it is necessary to knock all the opponents to the ground in one go.
A tragic siege battle is about to begin. chaptererror();
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