Chapter 375: Tiger Guard Phalanx
When the Tiger Guards led by Xu Chu killed Chang Xuan, Chang Xuan didn't take them seriously at all.
Although the number of Chang Xuan is not large, there are 1,000 elites, and there are 300 light cavalry among them.
And the other party's infantry rushing out of the mountains and forests, at a glance, is only four or five hundred people at most, and they may not even be able to catch up with half of their own, or even a single horse.
If you think about it with your toes, you can figure it out that it is impossible for such a pure infantry unit to defeat your own mixed cavalry and infantry at all.
Chang Xuan looked at the Jinling Tiger Guards who were rushing towards him with a slight sneering smile, then waved his hand to his cavalry lieutenant and whistled.
The cavalry captain understood, and as soon as he raised the war knife in his hand, he saw that the cavalry of the Taishan Army had beaten their horses and went out of battle, charging towards Xu Chu's Tiger Guards along the official road.
Xu Chu and the Tiger Guards, who were running, seemed to be prepared.
Xu Chu suddenly shouted angrily, and ordered the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army to stop their march.
On weekdays, Xu Chu, who was in charge of commanding the Tiger Guard, had discussed various tactics and tricks of cavalry and infantry with the potters many times.
Since the cavalry of the Western Han Dynasty began to be equipped with stirrups, the cavalry has fast speed and strong assault ability, especially the weight of the rider plus the horse, and the offensive in gravitational potential energy and gravitational acceleration is unmatched by ordinary infantry, and it is condescending, and the wide range of strikes is also an advantage of the cavalry.
However, there are advantages and disadvantages, and the potters believed that the infantry could still defeat the inferior cavalry under certain conditions.
The first is in terms of the choice of battlefields.
The battlefield of cavalry usually requires dry and open fields, but if it encounters muddy and wet land on rainy days, or jungles, swamps, hills, etc., cavalry cannot be useful.
At the beginning, the combined forces of Tao, Yuan, and Cao defeated the Xiliang Iron Cavalry at Hangu Pass, relying on the advantage of the weather.
Of course, the bow and crossbow array can also effectively kill the cavalry.
It's like Koji Yi's first ascending bow and crossbow array, defeating Saibei's light cavalry and white horse Yicong.
And if there are no these advantages, the pottery merchant and Xu Chu discuss and analyze, if you want the Jinling Tiger Guard to defeat some cavalry that is not so elite, you must use some relatively not too open terrain and a phalanx that can occupy an advantage.
It is not easy for cavalry to form a solid phalanx, and the defense of cavalry is also weak compared to a neat infantry phalanx.
Therefore, if you want to defeat the cavalry on a not very wide official road, it is not impossible to have a well-trained phalanx as a supplement, and you can even win more with less.
At present, the official road is mountainous on the east and west sides, and the plain of the official road is relatively not open enough, and if it is firmly defended, it may not be impossible to defeat the cavalry troops of Changfeng.
Xu Chu ordered the Tiger Guards behind him to urgently go into battle, and in a hurry, the Tiger Guards of the Jinling Tiger Guards stood in a square battle formation, the Tiger Guards on the front still used their usual spears, and the Tiger Guards on the flanks of the two sides put down their weapons, took down the bows and arrows they carried on their backs, and formed a half-moon on both sides, and the radius of movement was just enough to make the bow and arrows shoot to the center of the formation.
Although Chang Feng is fierce and cunning, but he is a real big old man, when he was young, he did not read two military books, the reason why he was able to mix into the position of one of the five thieves of Mount Tai is that he relies on real hard fighting, in theory and arrangement, it can be said that it is very inferior.
He didn't look at the strength of the enemy's formation, but blindly ordered those cavalry to raid the Jinling Tiger Guard's formation.
At this time, Zang Ba had already fainted on the ground, with more breath and less intake, in Chang Xuan's opinion, death was inevitable, this guy was now complacent, he didn't even bother to go up to Zang Ba to make a small mend knife.
At this moment, the 300 cavalry of the Changfeng army was already rushing straight towards the center of the Jinling Tiger Guard, in their opinion, as long as they broke through the enemy's Chinese army formation, this 500-strong infantry would no longer have any power to fight back.
As soon as they came within range of the half-moon bow and arrow, the archers of the Tiger Guards on either side of the crescent immediately began to shoot.
The Taishan army was attacked by the "rain of arrows", and the cavalry at the head fell first, but this was not a problem for the subsequent cavalry.
The cavalry that charged the formation was attacked by the opponent's crossbowmen, which was a normal means of response, as long as it resisted this wave of arrows and broke through the enemy's central military formation, the rest was a one-sided slaughter of the cavalry formation.
The cavalry of the Tarzan thieves was still desperate to make a fierce charge against the small central phalanx of the Tiger Guards, trying to quickly open a passage from the center.
Xu Chu abandoned the horse chopping knife and also held a spear, he stood at the forefront of the central formation, and used his performance to stabilize the morale of the Central Spear Tiger Guard.
"Kill!"
An angry roar roared out of Xu Chu's mouth.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
In response to Xu Chu's roar, countless spears stabbed forward in unison in the central formation, meeting the oncoming Taishan army cavalry formation.
The cavalry of the Tarzan thieves was sniped by the spear forest of the Tiger Guards, and the offensive was contained!
The cavalry in the front row was pierced like hedgehogs, blood splattered in the night sky, and the smell of blood that made people vomit filled the air, provoking people to vomit.
But before the cavalry in the front row of the Taishan army was stabbed to death, they had already begun to charge, although the distance was shorter, but there was also a certain gravitational potential energy, the cavalry and war horses that were stabbed to death could not stop at all, and even the men and horses smashed into the formation of the Tiger Guards, which also caused great damage to the soldiers of the Tiger Guards.
But even so, the soldiers of the Tiger Guard still gritted their teeth, followed one after another, and at the cost of many casualties, they stubbornly restrained the enemy's charge.
The cavalry that was contained, in the half-moon formation, was used as a live target by the archers on both sides, and suffered a heavy blow.
At this moment, the sky has begun to sprout and brighten, the night is dispelled by the sun, and the tragic situation of the cavalry of the Taishan Army is reflected in the eyes of Chang Feng with the thin light of the morning sun.
Chang Xuan's whole person was a little stupid.
Three hundred cavalry...... Against 500 foot soldiers, they were actually defeated?
Is there any reason for the fuck?
At this time, I saw that in the crowd of Taishan army and horse army, which had been in chaos and was resisted and defeated by the Tiger Guards, a big man with a spear suddenly came out of the crowd!
He was covered in blood, and he didn't know if it was his own or the enemy's, and his bearded face showed a horrified bloodthirsty expression.
The expression was like that of a wild beast.
And the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army behind him also followed one after another, and none of them fell, and after breaking through the formation of the Taishan thief cavalry, they rushed towards the rear of Chang Xuan.
The archers in the Changfeng army also hurriedly released their arrows, although they shot down some of the soldiers of the Tiger Guards, but they could not stop the momentum of the opponent's attack.
The distance between the two sides is not too far, which to a certain extent, makes up for the lack of motivation in the timing of the infantry charge.
In an instant, the two sides took over the battle.
In the Taishan army, a soldier held a war knife in his hand, howled loudly, and rushed towards Xu Chu head-on.
He was agile, jumped up and slashed Xu Chu's face with a knife.
Although his knife was fast, Xu Chu's movements were faster, and when his knife could be slashed at the top of Xu Chu's head, the tiger idiot didn't even have a weapon, and the first punch had hit him in the face.
Xu Chu is tall and big, and the potter praises him as a bear blind man on weekdays, his fist is the size of a sand bowl, and his own arm strength is already able to drag the double ox, at this moment, coupled with the momentum of rushing forward, its strength is not more than two hundred catties up.
I could only vaguely hear a crisp "click...... The face bones of the Taishan army were shattered by Xu Chu's punch!
His whole body was like a broken sack that had been thrown, flying upside down two feet away, and he fell to the ground with a "poof", his whole face was covered with blood, and his legs kicked a few times, and then there was no sound again.
Xu Chu threw away the spear that he used to assassinate the war horse, picked up the war knife of the Taishan army from the ground, licked the blood on the knife, and howled and led the tiger guards to continue to charge.
Xu Chu's astonishing punch landed right in Chang Xuan's eyes.
"Huh? W-What a monster this! ”
Chang Feng and several Tarzan thief attendants who were protecting him all gasped.
Killing someone with one punch, this bear-like strong man's strength is too terrifying.
I have heard for a long time that the fierce generals in the Xuzhou army are like clouds, and I saw them today...... The rumors are true.
The soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army were driven by Xu Chu, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the crowd was passionate.
"Kill him! Slay the enemy generals! ”
Two more soldiers of the Taishan thieves stabbed at Xu Chu with halberds.
Xu Chu sneered, stood calmly, his body was on one side, dodging the halberd of the person who rushed over first, and then, the hand that did not hold the spear suddenly stretched out, grabbed the root of his neck, and directly lifted him up from the ground.
The tiger idiot's eyes were full of coldness, and he grabbed the neck of the Tarzan soldier, and then threw it to the side with all his might.
There was a muffled sound, the soldier's head hit the ground solidly, blood splattered, his head twisted unnaturally to the side, his vertebrae had been broken, and he saw that he had more breath and less breath, and he couldn't live.
Before the other person could react, he was swept away by the war knife in Xu Chu's other hand, and the blade slashed into his waist hard, almost splitting him into two pieces.
Brute force has reached a terrifying point.
After killing these two people, Xu Chu continued to lead his troops forward as if he was fine, and the war knife in his hand was swept by the tiger he danced, and every blow had the power of breaking stones.
Another Taishan soldier secretly stepped forward, wanting to sneak attack Xu Chu behind when he was not paying attention.
Who knows that Xu Chu looks big and simple, but his reaction is extremely fast, which is the origin of his nickname "Tiger Idiot".
The Taishan army had just approached his back, and before he could make a move, Xu Chu returned his hand and pinched him by the throat.
With a slight force of his big hand, his throat was wrenched with a "click".
Blood blooms in the air like mist and dew, like a poignant flower, which is both beautiful and cold.
Xu Chu was holding a war knife in one hand and a dead man in the other, and the knife was thrown back and forth, bombarding the Taishan soldiers around him.
Now he is the god of war in his own eyes and the evil ghost in the eyes of his enemies.
Xu Chu's performance has no decisive impact on the situation on the battlefield, but it can greatly boost the morale of his own side.
And the morale of the Tiger Guards is the key to determining the outcome of the battle.
Seeing that the generals who took the lead were so fierce, the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army were like chicken blood, desperately attacking and killing the Taishan thieves, and for a time the Taishan army was in chaos, and the speed of the rout was so fast that it was staggering!
Chang Xuan's face turned green when he looked at it from behind.
I didn't expect that I would be defeated by the other party's 500 foot soldiers?
Especially the performance of the leading bear general, it is simply against the sky!
Seeing that Xu Chu was getting closer and closer, Chang Xuan didn't dare to stay any longer, he hurriedly turned around and went to find his war horse, and even climbed and dragged it reluctantly.
After getting on the war horse, Chang Xianfang wanted to escape, but suddenly remembered Zang Ba, who had fainted on the ground.
He looked back at the motionless body lying on the ground, thought about it for a while, and decided to go back and make up for it to prevent future troubles.
Chang Feng turned his horse back and came to Zang Ba's side, and was about to make a move, but there was a sudden chaos in front of him.
Xu Chu carried a knife in his left hand and a dead corpse in his right hand, and hurried towards Chang Feng with a howl.
Before Chang Feng could react, he saw Xu Chu jump and smash the dead body in his right hand like Chang Xuan.
The face of the dead body was pressed against Chang Xuan's face, and it was heavily pressed together...... Even, even the lips of the two people kissed.
Chang Xuan was slammed by Xu Chu with a dead man, flew out of the horse upside down, and was supported by several Taishan soldiers.
His entire face was smashed with blood, and even the first kiss was taken away by the dead body in Xu Chu's hands, and he was both angry and afraid.
Xu Chu didn't care about that, he held a knife in one hand and a dead man in the other, looked at Chang Xuan fiercely, and asked through gritted teeth, "Where is Zang Ba?" ”