Volume 4: Iron General Huo Xiaotian Chapter 109: Defeat in the first battle
According to his order, the thousand elite cavalry divided into three ways and rushed upwards together, directly forming a so-called crushing posture. Among them, a sentry was divided from the left and right flanks, and rushed up to directly entangle with the two cavalry teams of the opposing party, dragging them as much as possible.
The remaining 800 men and horses all swarmed up and launched a step-by-step onslaught directly to the opponent's middle ironclad infantry phalanx. Strive to disperse them in the shortest possible time, and then divide and encircle each of them to annihilate.
On the whole, Hu Yu just said one sentence, that is, "strive to disrupt the other party in one fell swoop in the shortest possible time, and directly nip their formation in the bud!" ”
It's just that this is also strange, the Yungu cottage of the people, there is still no big specific change, and it is still as silent as just now.
Not only that, but the Huo Xiaotian brothers actually retreated straight to the drawbridge at the first gate, as if they were going to watch the enemy sweep on a high platform there.
In this way, they really don't plan to fight in person this time.
Sure enough, after Hu Yu and his men and horses were ready, they saw that in the middle and rear of the infantry phalanx in the middle of the Yungu cottage, a flag bearer holding a colorful small flag suddenly appeared.
No need to ask, this must be the commanding standard-bearer that Huo Xiaotian just said, that is to say, as long as Hu Yu and their people can take down this flag-bearer, it will be the real victory or defeat.
At this moment, just listening to Hu Yu's order, this thousand elite horsemen rushed over in an instant.
It was too late, and the two sentry cavalry on the left and right flanks, under the leadership of their sentinels, directly rushed to their respective targets. As soon as they rushed up so violently, the ironclad elite horsemen of the other party were also unequivocal, and immediately urged the war horses under their crotch to meet them.
It's just that Hu Yu, who was soon commanding in the center of the back, discovered that something was not quite right.
It turned out that the ironclad elite cavalry on both sides of the house did not all rush up, but only divided about one-third of the men and horses, that is, six ten-person squads to meet the enemy.
And the rest of the men and horses, not only did not continue to step forward to engage the battle, but went straight to the flank and rear of their own Chinese infantry phalanx, and moved quickly at a very fast speed.
However, it is just those ironclad elite riders who have just taken the initiative to catch up, and the total number of people is only one-third of the other party. However, their actual combat effectiveness was directly and vividly revealed as soon as they came up.
Let's put it this way, it was just this first round of rushing and killing, and the elite cavalry commandos on Hu Yu's two wings directly suffered heavy losses. There were almost forty or fifty soldiers, and in just this one round, they were already "glorious sacrifices" on their backs.
And at this time, when I looked at the ironclad elite riders of other people, I found that they were unscathed at all, which was too incredible.
However, these soldiers on the front line can't say anything, so they can only grit their teeth secretly.
Dare to love, the other party's armor is too exquisite, and there are even no traces of flaws at all.
In this way, it is very easy for people to hurt themselves, but it is too difficult for them to hurt each other.
In addition, just as Du Leng was worried about earlier, these ironclad elite riders also have considerable internal skills, which are by no means comparable to ordinary soldiers.
Of course, if this is only three or five people with martial arts, it really won't play a big role in a real large-scale melee. However, if everyone is a kung fu master, then it can only be a different matter.
Because, once this family has formed the so-called joint force, their combat effectiveness will increase as a whole, and even directly reach the so-called "crushing" phenomenon.
It is estimated that this is still due to the premise that "only the winner is divided, not life and death", otherwise Hu Yu and their so-called elite horses would have been in an uproar.
This good guy, his own knives and guns can't hurt anyone at all, but other people's knives and guns are solid to greet his own "vital point".
The most terrible thing is that every move of these ironclad elite riders in Yungu Cottage contains extremely strong internal strength. As soon as the soldiers here were touched by others, they were directly hit and fell off their horses, and they had no power to parry at all.
At this time, he turned his head and looked at the infantry phalanx in the middle, and the situation on their side was not much better. Not to mention the ideal expected effect at the beginning, it didn't even shake the first line of defense at all.
It turned out that at the moment when Li Cheng, who was personally leading the charge, just rushed in front of the opponent's formation, he completed the so-called formation change in an instant at an incredible speed.
It's just that I don't know if people are deliberately hiding all their strength, or if it's something else. I saw that they didn't directly lay it down as soon as they came up, the so-called Qimen Bagua Formation.
Although their eighteen "ironclad chariots" completed the assembly and combination in an instant, they were directly arranged into two horizontal phalanxes in front and back, and did not set up the imaginary Qimen gossip formation.
Of course, it was not until this time that everyone really saw the "ironclad chariot" of the Yungu cottage. Dare to love, from a distance, it really looks like an impregnable chariot fortress.
It's just that these ironclad chariots are not really towed by war horses, but there are four wide auxiliary "wheels" faintly visible underneath.
The most amazing thing is that whether these ironclad chariots are seen from a distance or when they are carefully watched closely, people can't see any obvious traces of artificial splicing, as if this was originally a perfect mechanical whole.
Each of these individual "ironclad chariots" is more than three meters wide, more than six meters long, and about two meters high. There are a number of so-called "shooting holes" of different sizes on each side, which can be sniped with a bow at a distance, and directly stabbed with a spear when it is close.
What's especially powerful is that these "ironclad chariots" of theirs are really worthy of their name, and their thick ironclad protection is not afraid of ordinary crossbow attacks at all.
As for those close-range sword and gun attacks, they don't pose any so-called threat to others, because the iron armor around it is not only indestructible, but also the slightest flaw and gap can't be seen at all.
In addition, the ability of this ironclad chariot to resist attacks and shocks is also far beyond everyone's early predictions. This is not to mention a simple one-man and one-rider single impact, and even five or six horses rushing forward together will not have much effect.
What's even more interesting is that once this ironclad chariot is subjected to a particularly huge impact from outside, they can even make various subtle transformations of maneuverability and flexibility in an instant, in order to achieve the corresponding cushioning treatment.
In this way, the two hundred elite cavalry of the first echelon in front of him rushed forward, although Li Cheng personally led the team, but it did not achieve any expected results.
The most incredible thing for Li Cheng and them was that when their first echelon was still close to three hundred meters away, they were attacked by the opponent's sharp arrows.
Moreover, this kind of attack power of others is still very strong, far beyond the strength and accuracy of ordinary archers at that time, and the lethality is extremely strong.
In this way, the arrows fired by their ironclad chariot should not be fired by simple arm strength, but are most likely fired by that kind of special mechanical bow and crossbow.
Fortunately, as Huo Xiaotian said earlier, these arrows of theirs have really been specially treated. Otherwise, with this round of strong crossbow arrow rain alone, it is estimated that Li Cheng's two hundred elite horsemen will really be left.
However, even so, after Li Cheng and the others really rushed to the front, more than half of them were damaged, and there were not even seventy or eighty people left of the two hundred elite horses.