Chapter 674: Victory in the First Battle (2)
In the wide plain outside the south gate of Changshu City, the first confrontation between the Song and Wu armies has begun.
The 300 cavalry of the Shandong Army faced ten times the enemy but did not have the slightest fear, even though the enemy was scattered, they still rushed left and right, looking for weaknesses and gaps everywhere, and engaged in skirmishes with the enemy's forward army.
Relying on the natural flexibility of the cavalry, coupled with the courage and decisiveness of Yue Fei and Lin Chong, they were always able to maintain an absolute advantage in battles with more outnumbered enemies, and while constantly attacking the opponent's defensive line, they had also killed two or three hundred Wu troops.
However, this casualty was obviously not a big problem for the well-armed Wu army, but it aroused their hatred, making them steal from all sides faster, and the layers of interception under the cloth became more and more thick.
The tiger and leopard ride is like a fish swimming in the water, it still looks nimble, but there are already large nets around it that are constantly shrinking, and once they are trapped somewhere, there is only one result waiting for these three hundred people.
After breaking through the enemy's first layer of defense again, only to find that two more teams of three or four hundred men were rushing in front of them, the cavalry team quickly turned around again and broke through from the other side before the enemy could close the siege. However, two arrows ahead, another army was already hurrying in.
As the battle progressed, the vanguard elite of the Wu army was already somewhat familiar with the law of advance and retreat of this cavalry, and actually began to have a certain prediction. Fortunately, the speed at which they blocked the way out was still not fast enough, and they still allowed the tiger and leopard riders to rush through quickly, and they could only pursue from the rear, but this has already made many people worried, worried that in the long run, they will really be trapped and die in the enemy's army.
Lin Chong, who was running at the front of the team, was even more keenly aware of the signs that the army was about to press up on the left and right flanks farther away, and his heart was even more uneasy, and he finally couldn't help but say to Yue Fei who was a little behind: "Pengju, the enemy army has almost cut off all our retreat routes, and if we don't think about other methods, I'm afraid it will be dangerous." ”
Yue Fei seemed quite calm at this time, his eyes looked left and right from time to time, and after raising his gun to knock a cold arrow flying from nowhere, he said loudly: "Brother Lin, don't be impatient, wait a minute." I think soon it's time for us to turn the tide of battle. ”
Could this turn the tide of the war? Do you want to defeat three thousand enemy troops with these three hundred cavalry alone? Lin Chong really couldn't figure it out, but he had a peaceful temperament after all, he didn't have a dispute with Yue Fei at this critical juncture, even if he was far higher than Yue Fei, a boy who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, regardless of age, seniority and identity.
As he spoke, the tiger and leopard cavalry once again encountered an enemy force that was intercepting horizontally. There was no room for dodge, and the whole army was screaming, and they rushed at the enemy who were equal in number. Lin Chong and Yue Fei took the lead, one shot and one spear flew up like two dragons out of the water, and they actually overturned more than a dozen enemy soldiers in one shot, and also picked up a general of the Wu army who was trying to fight hard into the air.
Just this time, it made the soldiers in front of them feel timid, and subconsciously flashed to the side, so that they could successfully kill and gain a short period of freedom.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry rushed out of the interception many times as if they had entered a no-man's land, and found that the military horses of the second battalion of Hongyu on both sides had the intention of attacking them, Liao Guang, who was in the rear and commanded the army to outflank and intercept, was really furious: "What are you all doing to eat?" Three thousand people were actually played around by three hundred? Zhang Zhong and Li Yi, you two will also lead the army to make up for me, this time we must trap them in the northwest direction, and we can't let them kill them again! ”
The last two soldiers and horses guarding on his side immediately received the order, and at this time, Liao Guang, the main general of the Wu army, was only left with a mere three hundred personal soldiers. If he couldn't control and annihilate this cavalry, I'm afraid he would have to lead his troops and horses to rush over and fight him.
And at this moment, Yue Fei, who had been distracted and paying attention to his movements, showed a determined smile: "It's time!" Brothers, the enemy is broken at this time, kill with me! As he spoke, he shook the reins suddenly, and suddenly controlled the war horse to cross an arc in place, turning the horse's head that was originally galloping towards the northwest to the south on the left, and then slammed the horse's belly, making the war horse gallop with all its might.
Hearing this, and then looking at the direction he turned, Lin Chong finally quickly understood, and in addition to admiration in his heart, the movements in his hands were also displayed like flowing water, and he quickly turned the horse's head, and galloped in that direction after Yue Fei. Although the other cavalrymen were inferior to the two generals in terms of riding skills, they were only a beat slower than them, and in just a few moments, the entire tiger and leopard cavalry had already turned its direction and rushed straight towards the south like arrows from the string.
When they rushed to kill, the generals in the city woke up like a dream, and shouted excitedly: "Good tactics!" It turned out that they had the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and all the previous things were just to continuously attract the enemy army, scatter around, and then only wait for the enemy's army to be empty, and then raid and kill the general! ”
Some people admired the change of their comrades below, and then glanced at Sun Tu with admiration. Just now, when everyone was worried about the situation of the tiger and leopard riding, the family had already seen the key, so they could be as stable as Mount Tai and did not see any panic.
Sun Tu's face was also full of red light at this time, and after nodding lightly to express his praise for Yue Fei and their grasp of the opportunity, he quickly turned back: "Give Dong Ping an order to prepare to send troops out of the city to respond." If what I expected, after killing the enemy generals and defeating the enemy vanguard, the Haw Par Riders will enter the city from the west! ”
The soldiers behind him hurriedly answered the order loudly and hurriedly ran to give the order. At the same time, the war under the city has begun to change again-
Because the Wu army took it for granted that the Song cavalry would only flee, they threw more troops on the east and west sides of the north, but there was a rare emptiness in the south facing them, and only two armies of more than 300 people were still in their way.
This is not an obstacle at all for the tiger and leopard rider, who has already pushed the speed of the horse to the limit and is ready to strike with all his might. With just one surprise kill, these two teams were scattered in all directions, thus completely exposing their own Chinese army to the tiger and leopard cavalry, and they were only a hundred steps away.
"Kill!" With a roar from everyone, the entire cavalry rushed up like a whirlwind, and in the blink of an eye, it had come to the Chinese army. At this time, Liao Guangfang was shocked, and hurriedly ordered someone to step forward to stop him, and ordered the surrounding military horses to quickly return to help.
At the same time, the nearly 10,000 troops of the two battalions of Hongzhou, who had been ordered to attack before, had also quickly killed from both wings. However, because of the distance, it will take at least a cup of tea for their outflanking to really take shape, but it is obviously impossible for the tiger and leopard rider to give them so much time.
At this time, the tiger and leopard cavalry finally showed his sharpest fangs, and also revealed the real horror of the cavalry to the infantry. Therefore, the cavalry can always stabilize the foot soldier on the battlefield, not only by his flexible mobility or speed, but also by the great impact and destructive power generated by its speed advantage.
In the case of rushing to kill with all his strength, the tiger and leopard rode like a swordfish flying into the air, not only easily tearing the fishing net, but also culling the fisherman - Liao Guang with the most ferocious posture.
Liao Guang was now only left with only 300 personal soldiers in front of him, and seeing the enemy cavalry flying in, they did not dare to retreat, and they all gathered to meet each other, in a vain attempt to stop the full force of the tiger and leopard cavalry.
But obviously, they underestimated the powerful impact of the cavalry, and their formation had not yet had time to be fully formed, and the cavalry had already arrived. Even dozens of archers had barely wound their arrows, and before they could draw their bows, their swords and spears were already whistling and slashing.
It was a weapon that stabbed with the tremendous momentum of the galloping horse, and its speed and strength were greater than they had imagined. As soon as the dozens of soldiers in front of them raised their weapons, they were quickly terminated by the spears and knives, and they fell to the ground screaming.
When this bloody scene was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, those pro-soldiers in the rear couldn't help but be afraid. I don't know which one started first, and with a surprise shout, he turned around and ran, thus affecting more people, and the defensive formation that had just been hastily gathered also collapsed in the blink of an eye.
Liao Guang couldn't believe his eyes, you must know that as a pioneer general, his personal soldiers are also the first-class soldiers in the Wu army, and they can't even resist the cavalry of the Song army for a moment? This made him feel terrified in his heart, but at this time there was nowhere to escape, so he could only shout, raise the knife in his hand, and brazenly meet the enemy who was already close at hand.
Yue Fei was the one who rushed to the front of the team, and he had already stared at Liao Guang, the enemy's commander, and at that moment he let out a low roar, once again clamped the horse's belly, controlling the war horse to move forward at full speed, and the spear in his hand shook out several spear sparks during this period, enveloping the opponent's vital points in it.
At this critical juncture, Liao Guang also had no reservations, and showed all his skills, and a long knife was danced by him like a wheel, guarding it without leaking, and he actually blocked the shadow of the spear in the sky that Yue Fei attacked. It's just that after no less than a hundred collisions, his arms and tiger mouth and other places have been sore, and his body has also withdrawn a few feet, obviously he has completely fallen behind in this face.
Fortunately, with this quick knife, he finally blocked Yue Fei's most fierce attack, and once the momentum was exhausted, Yue Fei could only control the horse to go sideways, and he could not launch a second wave of attacks against it for a while, which made him feel greatly relieved in addition to being frightened.
But Liao Guang couldn't be happy for long, because just when he thought he could find a chance to escape, another horse galloped from behind, and Lin Chong actually followed Yue Fei and rode his horse to attack, and the spear in his hand was like thunder under his roar, and it went straight to Liao Guang's chest!