Chapter 791: The Brave Wins When Narrow Roads Meet (Medium)
In the case of thousands of people fighting, the role of individual martial arts is extremely limited. The usual tricks and tricks are of no use in such a battle other than speeding you up to the Lord of Hades. The so-called indiscriminate punching to kill the master is this truth.
Those generals were more likely to survive the battle, not because they were more powerful than ordinary soldiers, but because they were much more protected than ordinary soldiers.
Just like Ge Cai, her combat effectiveness is indeed much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, but the more than a dozen Tang soldiers around her are always surrounded by her, which is the reason why she is invincible, she doesn't need to worry about attacks from other directions, she just needs to work hard to move forward.
In addition to the protection of these pro-soldiers, their own equipment is also one of the important reasons. The general's armor is far better than that of ordinary soldiers, and their weapons are sharper than those of soldiers. Many generals are holding their own tailor-made weapons, unlike ordinary soldiers, who have standard and large road goods in their hands.
For ordinary soldiers, in such a battle, death is inevitable, and life is luck. Anything other than relying on the power of the group will have no effect.
As long as the group wins, the possibility of survival is greatly increased.
Whether it is the Tang Army or the Xuanwu Army, they are all divisions of a hundred battles, even if the current Xuanwu Army is not their own army, but their grassroots officers are all from their own army, and a year's training has made them have a very high vision. However, their luck was not too good, if they could fight a few battles with other armies first, or they would be stronger than now, but they ran into the Tang army head-on.
The 5,000 Tang Army was not subordinate to a single unit, they were drawn from hundreds of thousands of Tang Army. More than a dozen guards of the Tang Dynasty can be found in this army of 5,000 people. Thanks to the Tang Army's code of conduct promulgated by Li Ze after gaining a firm foothold, whether it is from that guard, their passwords, habits, and combat modes are basically not much different.
The Tang Army, which had the upper hand in individual combat effectiveness, the ability to cooperate in group operations, and the equipment on its body, occupied an overwhelming advantage at the beginning of the battle. For both mature armies, once they are crushed, it will be even more difficult to regain the advantage.
As a veteran of the Xuanwu Army, Shen Yi naturally understands this truth.
If it weren't for the fact that he had 3,000 soldiers and the other party was only in his early 1,000s now, he would have had an advantage in numbers, and now he would have been defeated.
The neat queue earlier, after less than half an hour, has been frozen and disintegrated, not only himself, but also the Tang Army, the two vanguard armies have already been mixed together at this moment, you have me, I have you.
The only difference is that the composition of the Don Army is more reasonable. In each small regiment of the Tang army, there were pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and one or two crossbowmen.
Crossbowmen are the most painful for the Xuanwu Army. The first step crossbows inflicted heavy casualties on them, disrupting their formation, forcing Shen Yi to speed up the charge and allowing his opponent to gain the upper hand in one fell swoop by taking advantage of the local numerical advantage when the two armies were at the handover. Even now, those crossbowmen still caused huge casualties to his subordinates. They also had foot crossbows on their backs, but they had an extra crossbow in their hands.
They were surrounded in the middle by the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers of the Tang Army, who specially fired cold arrows.
Compared with the foot crossbow, the range of the hand crossbow is naturally much smaller, but at such a distance, the casualties caused are greater, and a crossbow arrow is basically reimbursed. Not to mention that he is only wearing leather armor, it is iron armor, and the probability of survival is not very good if he is shot at such a close range.
The opponent's equipment is too good. Those crossbowmen are fully equipped, but they are afraid that they will cost dozens of taels of silver, a foot crossbow, and a hand crossbow, these things, even if they are the Xuanwu army, they can't be equipped at all.
The opponent does not fight by bravery, they are smashing people with money.
This made Shen Yi feel extremely embarrassed.
If Li Ze could hear Shen Yi's heart at this time, he would definitely laugh happily. Li Ze's always believed and dreamed that he would take money to stone his enemies to death. He has been investing heavily in equipping his army, even if it makes him poor. Because he was convinced that his army, armed to the teeth, would surely bring back his investment tenfold and hundredfold.
Now in this world, only if you win on the battlefield, the investment can be recovered. No matter how much you invest, you can get it back. If you lose on the battlefield, no matter how little you invest, you will lose all your money.
Of course, everyone understands the truth, but not everyone can do it.
When even eating is a problem, what else is there to talk about?
Shen Yi knew that it would not work like this. If you can't turn the situation around, you will be destroyed sooner or later. And now, the only chance to turn the situation back is to take out the opponent's main general and cut off his flag.
He set his sights on Ge Cai.
Ge Cai also took a fancy to him.
Don't look at the Tang Army's dominance, in fact, Ge Cai is bleeding in his heart now! Because her losses are not small, although the opponent was suppressed to the death, but did not collapse, and was still in a deadlock, and every moment of stalemate would bring casualties to the Tang army, and every time an old brother fell, Ge Cai was angry.
She also wants to take out the opponent's vanguard and completely crush her opponent.
The two tacitly approached each other quickly with the assistance of each other's own soldiers.
The two generals collided with each other.
The two of their own soldiers also began to fight each other.
Shen Yi didn't expect that the other party was a woman, until he got closer and fought each other, he saw clearly, he thought that the opponent was a tall and burly fat man, but he never expected that it was actually a female fat man.
This made the humiliation in his heart even worse.
I actually lost to a woman.
Ge Cai didn't have so many ideas, in his eyes, the guy opposite was not much different from the wooden stake he usually used when he practiced knives.
"Die!" Holding his own frequented horizontal knife in both hands, Ge Caili slashed Huashan and slashed it hard.
Shen Yi also roared angrily, the shield in his left hand was raised, and the long knife in his right hand slashed diagonally.
With a bang, Shen Yi's left hand suddenly lost consciousness, the shield was slashed back by the opponent's knife, his body leaned back, and in a hurry, he withdrew the knife in his right hand and put it behind the shield in his left hand, which unloaded the power of the opponent's knife.
He looked in horror at the dominatrix in front of him, who was a head taller than him and half as wide.
"Die!" Ge Cai put away the knife, raised the knife, and slashed again.
This time Shen Yi had experience, crossed the sword and shield, and used all his strength to push back.
There was another loud bang, Shen Yi took a step back, half of his body felt numb, and his eyes were already showing fear.
Both of them were surrounded by people. At this time, you can't make any moves, and any body movement is in vain, if you want to lie down to the side, as soon as you move your feet, you will be blocked by others, then it is called fatal!
So at this time, the two are competing more in strength.
One force will drop ten.
"Die!" Ge Cai's shrill roar was once again accompanied by a whistling horizontal knife.
She only seemed to shout those two words.
Shen Yi's shield was cut out with a large crack, and both arms were a little weak. Blocking three knives in a row, he was already very clear that the fat woman in front of him, who was at least more than two hundred pounds, had much more strength than himself. Let her slash a few more times, and she will have to be split in half by this dominatrix.
After blocking the opponent's knife again, Shen Yi suddenly knelt down with a thud.
He knelt down, naturally, not to surrender.
He threw away the long knife in his hand, which seemed to be in the way at the moment, and held the shield in his left hand, but with his right hand, he pulled out a dagger from the leggings and stabbed Ge Cai in the chest and abdomen.
His response greatly surprised Ge Cai's expectations, the horizontal knife made her old and unable to turn around, at this moment, the only thing she could do was to turn sideways slightly.
The dagger collided with the armor, making an unpleasant grinding sound.
The dagger pierced through the armor.
The smile on Shen Yi's face had not yet bloomed, and there was already a whistling sound in his ears. A fist the size of a bowl came from the left, slamming the leaf guard of his helmet and then on his face.
He heard the sound of bones breaking.
He was swept away like a piece of garbage.
The throat is fishy, and the blood is spurting wildly.
He finally saw his dagger stuck in Ge Cai's belly, and judging by the extent to which the dagger had not entered, this dominatrix would not survive.
My heart is wide, and my eyes are dark.
"Save General Shen, save General Shen!"
Shen Yi's luck was good, when he was swept out by Ge Cai's fist, after rolling on the ground for a while, he actually landed right next to his subordinates, and these people dragged Shen Yi, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, turned around and ran backwards.
The forward of the Xuanwu Army finally collapsed.
Because Shen Yi fell, where is the other party's main general.
Although with a dagger stuck in his belly.
"Array!" Ge Cai raised his horizontal knife high and shouted loudly.
There was no rush to chase the defeated enemy in front of her, because she saw the enemy commander on the opposite side, and the cavalry had already begun to accelerate.
"Shields, guns, crossbows!"
A barrage of orders was given.
The Tang troops everywhere immediately gave up the low-hanging fruit in front of them, and instead gathered in the direction where Ge Cai was, and in a few breaths, Ge Cai's military order had been completed.
Behind him, the horse's hooves were obtained, and Ren Xiaonian led two hundred cavalry to meet them.
Ge Cai turned his face to look at the left and right wings, Liu Yuan and Qin Scar were still mixed with the other two enemies and did not distinguish the winner or loser.
"My mother is better than you!" Ge Cai laughed, looked down at the dagger that was still stuck in the armor of his belly, felt very painful, and finally didn't dare to reach out and pull it out.