Chapter 802: The Battle of Jingnan (Part II)
The two thousand cavalry of Jingnan collided heavily with the second and third waves of cavalry of the Liang army, and in an instant, I don't know how many people fell off their horses. One by one, the horses that had lost their owners broke away from the brigade with a wail, and ran aimlessly for a while, standing in the middle of the battlefield blankly.
The vision in front of Jing Nan's infantry suddenly widened, and the fighting cavalry chased after each other, and in an instant, they wrapped themselves in each other and headed towards both sides.
The next moment, the fourth wave of cavalry of the Liang army appeared in front of them.
The horse's hooves stomped heavily on the ground, the whole ground seemed to tremble, and on the horseback, the cavalrymen bowed down, and a spear poked out from in front of the horse's head, like a heavy hammer, and smashed it towards the Jingnan foot soldiers.
"Stand a shield, set up a gun!" The voice of the Jingnan officer's roar was a little out of tune.
"Arrows!"
The shield was suddenly erected, and a spear was put up, and the soldiers pressed their shoulders against their shields, and the pikemen stomped the tail of the gun into the dirt, and then closed their eyes.
Next, whether you can live or not, and who can live, can only be arranged by fate.
Dense crossbow arrows shot into the sky, then turned around and smashed into the rushing cavalry, and the cavalry fell from their horses like dumplings. But the cavalry at the front still slammed into the shield that had just been erected.
With a loud bang, the shield was torn apart, and the soldiers behind the shield were knocked up like a ball, flying towards the phalanx of foot soldiers behind, and at the same time, the cavalry who rushed into the army formation also broke their tendons and fractured, and fell to the ground one after another, along with their horses. At the moment of impact, I don't know how many horses and cavalry were stabbed into a sieve.
The first assault of the cavalry broke through the first layer of the Jingnan Army's military formation. For this situation, Ding Jian had already expected that at the moment when the military formation at the front was broken, the foot soldiers of the two phalanxes on the left and right shouted, and the entire formation dispersed, and then outflanked from the left and right, and was mixed with the cavalry that had lost its speed.
Countless spears stabbed densely, stabbing the Liang army off the horse, and at the same time, countless foot soldiers were assassinated on the spot by the condescending cavalry.
At the forefront were the private soldiers of the Ding clan and the Bai clan, their combat effectiveness was the strongest, and their will to fight was also the most resolute, even in the face of the impact of the high-headed horse, they never retreated, but did not hesitate to rush forward with their guns.
After the cavalry avoided the first spear and slashed at the one, more spears stabbed from different directions, stabbing not only men but also horses, until the cavalry in front of them was killed.
The battle situation ahead was somewhat unexpected by Dai Chao. On the two flanks of the battlefield, Jingnan's cavalry has completely fallen behind, and the battle between the two sides has turned into a chase battle, but the opponent is fighting to the death and not retreating, after looking at it for a while, Dai Chao has understood that these cavalry are not thinking about winning at all, they just want to drag their main cavalry. You chase, he escapes, you go, and he sticks up again.
The cavalry commander of the Liang army has obviously discovered the other party's intentions, for the use of cavalry, they are several grades higher than the opponent, soon, several pretended to leave the battlefield to support the central main battlefield of the decoy behavior has achieved great success, several more than 100 people Jingnan cavalry fooled, when they caught up again, the Liang cavalry instantly changed formation to be surrounded in the middle, after a fierce battle, these Jingnan cavalry were all killed on the battlefield.
At first, the cavalry on both sides was two thousand against two thousand, but slowly, the Jingnan cavalry has become less and less, when Dai Chao beat the war drums and commanded the foot soldiers to slowly press up, the cavalry battle has been one-sided, the Liang cavalry still has at least 1,500 cavalry left, and the Jingnan cavalry has lost half of it.
Dai Chao didn't care about the thousand cavalry who were stuck in the quagmire, the drums kept ringing, urging them to continue to move forward, continue to rush and kill, and continue to firmly contain Jingnan's foot soldiers in the ground, and his brigade of foot soldiers was slowly approaching in a concave shape, and the army formation of Jing Nan's army had become more and more scattered under the continuous impact of the cavalry, and when his main foot soldiers arrived, the overall situation was almost decided.
Losing this thousand cavalry, but in exchange for the total annihilation of the opponent's more than 10,000 main forces, Dai Chao felt that it was very cost-effective.
He still has the last thousand cavalry by his side, but he has no intention of throwing them into battle, no matter how far the battle goes, Dai Chao will habitually leave a force as the last reserve. This force will not be thrown into battle until the big picture is decided.
Either it doesn't come out, and as soon as it comes out, it's a battle situation where it's ten out of ten.
Wu Ke roared and swung his sword to cut off one of the Liang cavalrymen in front of him. The leader of the Tang Army's internal guards in Jingnan also became part of the Jingnan cavalry at this moment with more than 100 internal guards he had assembled. What needs to be done, they have almost done it, and now Jingnan needs warriors, and they are here.
Compared with other Jingnan cavalry, their team of more than 100 people, the combat effectiveness is obviously more than a large section, more than 100 cavalry always gather together tightly at any time, although these people are engaged in the work of the internal guard, but before entering the internal guard, they are all brave men on the battlefield, adhering to the consistent fighting style of the Tang cavalry.
After slashing at the enemy, regardless of whether it caused damage to the enemy or not, he immediately rode away, leaving the opponent behind his comrades. One knife, two knives, three knives, and eventually one knife will hack the enemy to death.
Their distinctiveness immediately attracted the attention of the Liang army, and more Liang cavalry surrounded them.
"Die!" A Liang officer with a mace struck Wu Ke with a heavy stick. Wu Ke blocked the horizontal knife, and when there was a loud noise, the long knife in his hand was immediately twisted into a twist, Wu Ke snorted, and his arms first had a sharp pain, and then almost lost his senses. Before his opponent's second stick could be knocked down, he had already saddled forward and galloped forward.
The second soldier jumped on his horse and slashed at the mace-wielding Liang officer.
When the knife was blocked, the mace swept, and the Tang soldier was knocked out.
The third guard flew up from his horse, and before his opponent's mace could be withdrawn, he jumped up from his horse, jumped on the officer's horse's head, and hugged the officer with both hands open.
The fourth guard arrived, and without the slightest hesitation, the spear in his hand stabbed out fiercely, and this shot, with the help of galloping horsepower, first pierced through the chest and abdomen of the previous guard, and then into the chest and abdomen of this officer.
The officer of the Liang army screamed miserably, trying to get rid of the Tang army who was already dead, but even if he died, this person still held his body firmly, and when the fifth internal guard swept past them, the war horse waved, and the cold light flickered, and both heads flew up at the same time. With a pop, the two corpses, still entangled, fell off their horses.
The Liang army that surrounded them was stunned at this moment.
They had never seen such a tragic style of play. In order to kill his opponent, he did not hesitate to kill his companions as well.
Such a method of fighting is also rare among the regular cavalry of the Tang Army, but for the internal guards, it is commonplace, in order to achieve the goal, unscrupulous means, everyone, must sacrifice for the overall situation. In the process of carrying out tasks in the past, I don't know how many companions were willing to die in order to complete the task.
Although there are only more than 100 people in this team, after continuous killing, it has been reduced by one-third, but their bravery, but like a catfish in a pond, muddy the water.
This allowed Wu Ke to gather several scattered and disorganized Jingnan cavalry in a short period of time, so that nearly 300 Jingnan cavalry were collected behind him.
But the team was much more assembled, and the disadvantages were immediately revealed, and the Jingnan cavalry was completely out of step with their fighting methods.
They were surrounded by more Liang cavalry.
The infantry of the Liang army finally arrived on the battlefield.
Bai Minzhong glanced back at Ding Ci on the city wall, waved his fist at him, then raised his right hand high, and roared: "The whole army is attacking!" ”
said that the whole army was attacking, but in fact, at this moment, by Bai Minzhong's side, only the last 2,000 reserves remained. By being the first to put in the last reserves, I am showing my opponent that I have done my best to make a last-ditch effort.
Dai Chao was unmoved, even if Bai Minzhong had already personally participated in the battle, even if the battle between the two sides had entered a white-hot stage in the middle of the battlefield now, he still had no intention of investing in the last thousand cavalry. Very simply, what he expects is not to get a decisive victory here, the attacks launched by He Zhang and Cai Quan at the east and west gates are his greatest hope, when the Jingnan army concentrates all the elite main forces here to fight to the death with him, above the east and west, it will inevitably be weak.
"General Cai reported that the enemy army blocked the West City Gate, and our army could only attack the city."
"General He reported that the Jingnan Army blocked the East City Gate!"
Military newspapers from two attack directions continued to converge on Dai Chao. The opponent actually blocked the city gate, but it made Dai Chao a little surprised, it seems that the other party has no intention of abandoning the city and fleeing, this battle may have to stalemate for a while.
Trapped beasts, always have to jump for a while.
When a dog is in a hurry, it will also bite.
"Pass my order, after breaking the city, don't seal the knife for three days!" Dai Chao said expressionlessly.
Jingnan is rich, and Jiangling City is the essence of the entire Jingnan Festival Town, and this order immediately made the entire Liang army excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
They are not more generous than the Tang army with military salaries and resettlement and pension policies, more often than not, they rely on the looting after the victory, in Shannan Dongdao, they have tasted the sweetness, and Jiangling is much richer than Shannan Dongdao, maybe after this battle, they will not worry about this life.