Chapter 124: Heavy Ride
Zhang Hao's cavalry were all carefully selected and strong men, and they had undergone strict training, and their weapons were much better than those of the other party, which made the Goguryeo army frightened for a while.
But when manpower is insufficient, no matter how elite the soldiers are, they are also people, not machines, and they can't withstand the continuous onslaught of the enemy wave after wave after a long time.
Slowly there were casualties, and as time went on, the number of casualties increased, and later, due to the severe attrition, the light cavalry could no longer protect the archers in the middle.
I had no choice but to let the archers fill the vacancy, and the archers who made up to the periphery gave up their longbows, drew out the double halberds behind them, and fought with the enemy in one place.
"My lord, the soldiers are running out of arrows." Tai Shici leaned over to Zhang Hao and said loudly.
"Prepare to retreat, they shouldn't be able to catch up with them." Zhang Hao looked at the sky that was white with fish belly and said.
Glancing at the corpses of the soldiers who were left on this land and killed in battle, Zhang Hao gave the order to retreat to the soldiers around him, and the soldiers hurriedly waved the order flag.
When the remaining army saw Lingqi, they changed their formation again, and a cone-shaped formation with Zhang Hao as the tip formed again, but now their combat effectiveness was much worse than when they rushed in.
These soldiers fought with high intensity for half a night, and lost many soldiers, and the Goguryeo army seemed to see that they were going to retreat, and launched a more fierce attack, entangled Zhang Hao's army to the death.
Zhang Hao led the army to rush several times, but he couldn't rush out with the team, but he lost a lot of soldiers, even Zhang Hao, Zhao Yun and other generals were a little weak, not to mention those soldiers.
At this moment, there was a rumbling sound in the distance, and as far as the eye could see, a black line in the distance was approaching this side towards the rising sun, who else could it be if it wasn't Zhang Fei's Huwei Battalion.
It turned out that Zhang Fei was on the way back, and met the army of Gongsun Du who came to support, and after Gongsun Du received the news from Tong Fei, he left the county soldiers of each county and gathered all the county soldiers.
With a full 20,000 troops came to support, coincidentally, when Gongsun Du came out, he brought the heavy armor of the Huwei battalion.
After Zhang Fei met Gongsun Du, he did not stop at all, and after handing over the people of Goguryeo, he took the Huwei battalion to change into heavy armor and came to support Zhang Hao non-stop.
At this time, in the Huwei Battalion, everyone lined up in two rows, and pulled out a long battle line horizontally, rushing over as quickly as a torrent of steel.
Zhang Hao hurriedly ordered the team to shrink, the Huwei battalion was not a joke after changing into heavy armor, if the soldiers on his side were not killed by the enemy, and finally were accidentally injured by their own people, it would be a lot of fun.
But the Goguryeo army didn't know who was coming, so they actually divided part of it to form a defensive formation, and the rest continued to attack Zhang Hao and them, it seems that the Goguryeo people are determined to keep Zhang Hao.
The Huwei battalion soon came to the front, Tong Fei took the lead, rushed into the enemy formation, waved his spear again and again, and killed directly to Zhang Hao's side, guarding Zhang Hao's left and right.
Zhang Fei took the Huwei battalion to fall behind Tong Fei because he was wearing heavy armor, and Tong Fei had already rushed to Zhang Hao's side, and the Huwei battalion rushed to the front of the Goguryeo army.
When the soldiers of the Huwei battalion rushed to the front of the formation, the Goguryeo soldiers looked stupid all of a sudden, how could they have seen this kind of formation, whether it was a man or a horse, they were all wrapped in thick armor, how could they fight?
And the soldiers of the Huwei battalion, who didn't even bother to wave their weapons, rushed directly to the horse, which was really dead and dead, and the unlucky one was stepped on by the war horse and turned into meat sauce.
The equipment of a soldier of the Huwei battalion is two or three hundred catties, plus the weight of the soldiers and the war horse, as well as the inertia of the war horse running, even if it is just a rubbing, it will end up with broken bones and tendons.
The Goguryeo soldiers in front of them were instantly knocked into the air, and when the soldiers behind saw this scene, how could they dare to step forward, and ran backwards with a scream, even the soldiers who were still besieging Zhang Hao didn't care about Zhang Hao and them, and they ran away.
The Goguryeo soldiers around them fled one after another, and the pressure of Zhang Hao and the others disappeared in an instant, but they didn't dare to relax, they also turned their horses' heads, and ran diagonally to the side and rear with the Goguryeo army.
After the Huwei battalion changed into heavy armor, due to inertia, as long as it launched a charge, there was no way to stop, and the price paid for wearing thick armor was the loss of flexibility, even if it wanted to control the war horse to turn a corner, it was extremely difficult.
Even if an ally is in front of them, they will directly collide with it, not because they want to attack the friendly army, but because they can't control it at all.
Zhang Hao and the others are okay, all the cavalry are faster than the Huwei battalion, but most of those Goguryeo troops are infantry, even if the speed of the Huwei battalion is not as fast as the other cavalry, it is much faster than the two legs of the people.
It was a completely one-sided massacre, and the Goguryeo soldiers who were caught up died extremely tragically one by one, even if some of them were lucky, they survived in the gap between the horses.
I thought I was safe, but before I could catch my breath, I rushed up with 20,000 infantry troops, and it turned out that Gongsun Du's army had been following behind the Huwei battalion, but it was blocked by the Huwei battalion.
Those Goguryeo soldiers who were lucky enough to survive, seeing that the army in front of them were thoughtful, threw their weapons directly, knelt on the ground and surrendered, so that they could save their lives.
There are those who have hot brains and rush up wielding weapons, and they are directly hacked to death with random knives, and dozens of knives are cut over, and they are directly out of human form.
After chasing for a while, the Huwei battalion stopped, annihilating almost half of Goguryeo's army, and the number of people who could run out was less than half of what it was when it came.
It's not that Zhang Fei doesn't want to expand some of the results, but the restrictions of the heavy cavalry, the endurance is too poor, not only the horses can't stand it, but wearing such heavy armor, those soldiers can't stand it for a long time.
Now even if Zhang Fei and the others don't chase after them, those Goguryeo soldiers don't dare to stop, and they run forward desperately, hoping that their parents will give them two more legs.
After the soldiers of the Huwei battalion stopped, they took off the armor on their bodies and the armor on their horses, and sat on the ground and gulped for breath.
The logistics team that followed behind the army saw that the soldiers of the Huwei Battalion had taken off their armor, and quickly rushed forward to help them recover these armors, the cost of each armor here was extremely high, and the whole army was very precious to these armors.
"Lord, are you alright?"
"Lord, are you hurt?"
A group of generals gathered around Zhang Hao's side and asked nervously.
"I'm fine, Brother Shengji, continue the pursuit with the army, drive all the Goguryeo troops to the other side of the boiling water, and occupy all the cities on this side of the boiling water." Zhang Hao gasped and said, this high-intensity battle really tired him reluctantly.