Chapter 175: Whose Hand Is the Deer Dead?
"Kill, capture Li Xiaogong alive, capture Li Shiji alive!"
With Yue Fei's order, the tens of thousands of elites of the Sui army who were originally dormant threw off their camouflage one after another, revealing their hideous weapons, like a mountain torrent bursting the embankment, with the sound of shouting and killing like the sky and the earth cracking, gushing out from the dense jungle.
Yue Yun, Wang Zhongsi, Shi Dakai, and He Yuanqing and Xu Qing, who were summoned by Yang Gao some time ago, commanded tens of thousands of elite horsemen to make a detour out of the dense forest, quickly adjusted their formation, and launched a charge against the Tang army from the front.
Rumble !!
Ten thousand horses galloped, and the iron hooves flew up, causing the earth to tremble under their feet. The roar of the angry waves continued to irritate the eardrums like thunder.
The Tang sergeants forcibly marched all night, and the soldiers were already exhausted, and suddenly they were attacked, and they were like headless flies, and they were in a mess like headless flies, and they were broken through from the center by the Sui army in an instant, and the long line was divided into two in an instant, and they couldn't care about each other!
"Brothers, kill!"
He Yuanqing and Xu Qing, who were newly promoted by Yue Fei, were eager to make meritorious contributions, each urging the war horse to lead the charge, and in just a few breaths, the two of them had already entered the Tang army.
"Ding Dong, it was detected that He Yuanqing had entered a state of bravery, with 4 force, 98 basic force, and the current force rose to 102."
"Ding Dong, Xu Qing was detected to have entered a state of struggle, force 3, basic force 95, and the current force has risen to 98."
The two generals rushed all the way like a devastating one, crushing the enemy who was blocking the way, killing the Tang sergeants and soldiers who were afraid of the wind, and scattered and fled as if they were hiding from the plague god.
Bian Xiang and Guo Xiaoke, the pioneers in the front of the Tang Army, were furious when they saw this scene, and they each rode forward, waving weapons in their hands, and pounced on the two of them murderously: "Sui Gouxiu is going to be rampant, can you dare to fight with me?" ”
"Ding Dong, it was detected that Bian Xiang had entered a state of martial arts, with 4 forces, 97 basic forces, and the current strength rose to 101."
"Ding Dong, Guo Xiaoke was detected to have entered a state of fighting, the force was 3, the basic force was 88, and the current force rose to 91."
"Ding Dong, Guo Xiaoke's four-dimensional ability has been detected, commander 86, force 88, intelligence 87, and politics 76."
He Yuanqing and Xu Qing glanced at each other, roared, and slapped their horses to meet them.
In the blink of an eye, the four generals rushed to each other's front, and did not answer, each catching and fighting.
He Yuanqing's pair of bright silver hammers danced like wheels spinning at high speed, rolling up thousands of feet of silver light, and enveloping Bian Xiang in an instant.
Bian Xiang's face was fearless, and a big axe in his hand made the tiger and tiger angry, and the left and right chops did not give He Yuanqing any opportunity to take advantage of.
He Yuanqing and Bian Xiang will meet their opponents in chess, and you have fought viciously for more than 20 rounds. But Guo Xiaoke on the other side is far from Xu Qing's opponent.
In just twenty rounds, Guo Xiaoke was already exhausted, the blood in his chest was tumbling like a river and a sea, and a mouthful of blood had poured up his throat and was suffocated by him alive.
After Xu Qing steadily gained the upper hand, he became more and more courageous, roaring like thunder, wielding a big knife like the wind, the cold light flickered, and the moves did not leave Guo Xiaoke's vital point.
Unconsciously, more than a dozen rounds passed, and Guo Xiaoke couldn't support it, so he hurriedly sold a flaw and fled.
"Where to go?"
When Xu Qing and Guo Xiaoke fought, they found that his martial arts were not as good as their own, so they expected that when he couldn't hold on for a while, he would look for an opportunity to retreat, so he made preparations early.
At this moment, Guo Xiaoke had just turned his war horse and ran out less than three or four steps, and Xu Qing had already pulled out a wolf's tooth arrow from the quiver with his backhand, and threw it out like a bidding gun, hitting the war horse under Guo Xiaoke's crotch.
The war horse was in pain and bumped around, and Guo Xiaoke hurriedly grabbed the reins to calm it down. But at this moment, Xu Qing had already caught up with his horse, and the war knife in his hand roared out. I only heard a scream, and in the blood splashing, Guo Xiaoke's head had already soared into the sky, and he fell to the ground without a head and weight.
"Ding Dong, Xu Qing was detected to kill Guo Xiaoke, and the host gained 9 soul points, and the current soul points have risen to 134."
Xu Qing slashed Guo Xiaoke with a knife, immediately turned the horse's head, slapped the horse and danced the knife and rushed to Bian Xiang to kill. Bian Xiang was immediately shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly swung his axe to attack He Yuanqing in a few moves, forcing He Yuanqing back, and then reined in and fled backwards.
"Brothers, kill!"
He Yuanqing retreated from Bian Xiang, Xu Qing killed Guo Xiaoke, the morale of the Sui army was greatly boosted, and under the leadership of Xu Qing and He Yuanqing, they rushed forward like a frenzy, the battle knife was slashed, the long lance stabbed, and countless Tang soldiers fell to the ground wailing, the heads were rolling, and the blood flowed like a river.
Under the crazy ravages of the Sui army's iron cavalry, the front of the Tang army completely fell into disintegration. Countless soldiers screamed and threw away their armor and weapons in their hands, and fled in all directions.
"Formation, pikemen form a formation to intercept the impact of the Sui cavalry!"
Seeing the collapse of the entire front army, Li Xiaogong's eyes were as if he was about to burst into flames, and he turned back to the general behind him, Xie Yingdeng, and said: "General Xie, you immediately lead five thousand pikemen to step forward to block the impact of the Sui cavalry, and you must not let them chisel through our formation in one fell swoop." In addition, tell the rout of the front army, order them to fight back, fight to the death with the Sui army, and those who dare to retreat will be killed! ”
Li Xiaogong is worthy of being the second largest general in the Li Tang clan in history, second only to Li Shimin, and he can see the key at a glance. Although there were tens of thousands of Sui infantry attacking frantically on both flanks of the Tang army, the most harmful to the Tang army was still the Sui cavalry that attacked from the front. The Tang army was exhausted from the journey overnight, and the sudden attack led to chaos. If the Sui army chiseled through the formation from the center all the way at this time, it would inevitably fall into the predicament of annihilation.
But as long as he can stop the first round of impact of the Sui cavalry, he can quickly stabilize the position and adjust the formation, and when the time comes, the battle on this wilderness, the strength of the Sui and Tang sides is almost the same, and it is still unknown who will die?
If you want to block the impact of cavalry in the wilderness, you can either use cavalry to counterattack, or use infantry to form a gun formation, of course, you can also use chariots to break the impact of cavalry. However, the chariot was eliminated as early as the Three Kingdoms period due to the appearance of stirrups, and it was not until the next few hundred years that it was discovered by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, and the new chariot battalion was established, which became an important tool for restraining cavalry.
In addition, before the outbreak of the Battle of Bashu, Li Yuan felt that the terrain of Bashu was precipitous, on the one hand, it was not conducive to large-scale cavalry battles at all, and on the other hand, even if the Sui army came to attack, it could be strictly defended with the help of geographical advantages, so he transferred all the cavalry troops of Bashu and assigned them all to Li Shimin's account to support him in capturing Luoyang.
Therefore, there are no formed cavalry units in Li Xiaogong's army of more than 50,000 now, so when he faces the monstrous impact of the Sui cavalry, the only choice is to raise his guns to block him.
Xie Yingdeng was also a smart man, and after a little thought, he understood everything, and immediately nodded to Li Xiaogong, leading thousands of infantry towards the Sui cavalry.
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