Chapter 156: The Great War of the Song and Tang Dynasties (Part II)
Zhao Kuangyin gave an order, Jing Si, who was already eager to try in the front army, raised the knife in his hand, clamped his legs on the belly of the horse, and roared "kill", urging the horse out like a meteor catching the moon, and tens of thousands of iron horsemen behind him also roared and galloped out.
Dadada!!
The war horses galloped with their hooves raised, the sound of the horses shook the earth, the two cavalry armies trampled into dust, and the war horses sprinted at high speed, and they collided with each other in an instant.
Bang bang bang!!
Tens of thousands of cavalry of the Tang and Song armies collided violently, making a deafening loud noise. The cavalry in the front row of the two armies were knocked into the sky by the powerful impact force, and before they landed, they were already stabbed by the long lance in the hands of the cavalry in the back row.
"Kill!"
In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, tens of thousands of cavalry were intertwined, their spears waving like the wind, and the blood swaying like rain. The neighing of war horses, the clashing of weapons, the terrible screams of soldiers, and all kinds of sounds were intertwined, endless, and piercing.
"Death to those who stand in my way!"
Jing Si, the general of the Song army, galloped on horseback, and the war knife in his hand slashed horizontally and vertically, and the blade passed, and blood splashed everywhere, which frightened the cavalry of the Tang army to scatter and flee as if hiding from the plague god.
"Hahaha, guts rat, who dares to fight me?"
Seeing that the cavalry of the Tang Army was afraid of their own strength, they avoided it one after another. Jing Si couldn't help but laugh proudly, licked his somewhat dry lips, and continued to slash into the crowd, slashing and slashing everywhere.
Seeing this, Li Siyuan was furious, and brandished the long lance in his hand to kill Jing Si, who was wantonly slashing and killing his subordinates, "The thief will be rampant, look at me Li Siyuan to come and take your head!" ”
"Ding Dong, the system detected that Li Siyuan has entered a state of bravery, force +5, base force 98, and the current force has risen to 103."
"Ding Dong, Li Siyuan's four-dimensional ability has been detected, commander 94, force 98, intelligence 86, and politics 89."
When Jing Si saw Li Siyuan coming to kill with a lance, the corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, and he shouted violently, his body roared out like an arrow from the string, and the war knife in his hand slashed away with the power of the mountain and the tsunami.
"Ding Dong, Jing Si has been detected to have entered a state of bravery, force +7, base force 100, and the current force has risen to 107."
Yang Gao, who was in the early dynasty, suddenly heard the prompt sound of the system, smiled slightly, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that Zhao Kuangyin raised troops to go south to fight Li Tang, and if you fight well, the harder you fight, the happier I am!" ”
Clang!
A loud bang came, and the war horse under Li Siyuan's crotch let out a cry of "sighing", and staggered back two steps, Li Siyuan also felt a tingle in the tiger's mouth, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised: "Hiss! This Song will have a lot of strength! ”
"You're stabbing me!"
Jing Si forced Li Siyuan back with one move, roared angrily, and swung the second knife without giving Li Siyuan a chance to react.
Li Siyuan's mouth was still in pain, where did he dare to take Jing Si's second knife, he dodged this knife sideways, and stabbed Jing Si's chest with a backhand.
Jing Si snorted disdainfully, and the war knife in his hand swung out, quickly crashing into Li Siyuan's horse lance.
The two generals each wielded their weapons and fought together, Jing Si was strong in martial arts, and he wielded a big sword in his hand, and his moves could not leave Li Siyuan's vital point.
But Li Siyuan is not an idle person, the first collision was shocked by Jing Si numb, knowing that Jing Si's strength is far better than his own, so he wielded the horse lance and kept fighting, never colliding with Jing Si head-on. Although it has a slight advantage, it has not yet reached the point of defeat.
Although Jing Si had the upper hand against Li Siyuan, the cavalry led by him was defeated by the Tang cavalry and suffered heavy losses. Of course, this also makes sense. As Li Keyong said, the Song army was defeated three times in three battles, and its morale was low, and it was impossible for Zhao Kuangyin to change in an instant.
Zhao Kuangyin also saw the disadvantage of the Song army's cavalry in a head-on battle, and quickly sent reinforcements to Jing Si, "Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng listen to the order, and you two will each lead five thousand light cavalry to cut in from both sides, disrupt the Tang army's military formation, and aid Jing Si." ”
"The last general obeys!"
The two generals each clenched their fists and led 5,000 light horsemen out of the formation, outflanking from both sides, trying to harass Li Siyuan's troops from the flanks and support Jing Si.
Li Ke saw Zhao Kuangyin's intentions at a glance, and without blinking his eyelids, he ordered: "Order, the crossbowmen on the left and right flanks will go out of battle, and the bows and arrows will attack the cavalry of the Song army." ”
The two wings of the Tang army each rushed out with 3,000 archers, and the cavalry of the Song army galloping in the distance was a fierce shot. Although Zhao Kuangyin has a strong command ability, but after all, he started as a bandit, and the equipment of his soldiers and horses cannot be compared with the Tang army at all.
However, in the face of such a dense rain of arrows, it is impossible for everyone in the cavalry of the Song army to be a fierce general with high martial arts, and from time to time a cavalry is shot to the ground by sharp arrows, and the screams are endless.
The Tang army's crossbowmen shot five or six waves of arrows one after another, shooting the cavalry of the Song army who wanted to outflank Li Siyuan from both flanks to the point that the horses were overturned, and the formation was in chaos.
Seeing this, Li Keyong ordered again: "Order the archers to stop shooting, and the sword and axe men to go out of battle." ”
At the sound of an order, two thousand sword and axe men suddenly rushed out on both sides of the Tang army, wearing heavy armor and holding a big axe, and rushed to the ranks of the light cavalry of the Song army.
The horseman, whose leg had been cut off, lost his support at once, and fell headlong forward, falling dizzy. Lying on the ground, before he could react, he was cut into a blur of flesh and blood by several sharp axes.
"Quick, kill them, quick!"
A roar erupted from among the Song cavalry, and almost all of them angrily brandished their lances and stabbed down. But these axemen were carefully selected from tens of thousands of troops, and they were very agile in their movements. Often, the cavalryman's lance had just been stabbed in the air, and the next moment his horse's leg was cut off, and he fell to the ground and was hacked to death with an axe.
In just a quarter of an hour, the cavalry of the Song army lost more than 3,000 horsemen, while the loss of Tang saber and axe men was only six or seven hundred. Everywhere there were war horses that had their front hooves cut off, lying on the ground rolling around and neighing in pain, and blood infected the whole land.
"Withdraw, withdraw!"
The wounded and fallen war horses not only caused chaos in the cavalry formation of the Song army, but also blocked the way to continue advancing. Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng saw that they couldn't do anything, and if they continued to fight, they would only end up in the annihilation of the whole army, so they immediately waved their spears and led the remnants of the cavalry to retreat.
Zhao Kuangyin saw Cao Bin and Chen Yucheng, who had returned from a fiasco, and saw that the Jing Si Division, who was fighting head-on, also began to retreat, and there was a nameless fire in his heart, and he turned his head and shouted: "The order is beaten, and the whole army will attack!" ”
Knock knock knock!!
The fierce drum sound shook the sky, Zhao Kuangyin held his unique weapon, the dragon stick, and charged first, and the more than 60,000 troops behind him held blades and charged forward with loud shouts.
Li Keyong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Zhao Kuangyin go into battle in person, and immediately shouted: "Order the whole army to attack and capture Zhao Kuangyin alive!" ”