Chapter 540: The Battle of the Northern Desert (8)
Standing high and seeing far away, Shi Fangzhen saw Zheng Jun on the left and right sides fighting with the desert cavalry, the sword light and the shadow of the gun urged the flesh grinding disc to rotate, and someone screamed and fell to the ground every moment. In his dreams, he thought countless times that he personally held Ge to establish a meritorious career, but when the blood seemed to dye the sky red, and the screams overshadowed the drums, Shi Fangzhen's face became pale, and the imperial expedition was just a moment of blood bravery, and he was really on the battlefield, Shi Fangzhen didn't know if he could wield his sword and how long he could support it on the battlefield, and sighed in his heart, Gaozu's heroism was untraceable.
The desert cavalry directly opposite began to charge, and Wang Keming said in an anxious tone: "Long live, the enemy cavalry is approaching, and the fear of rushing into the dragon body, please long live." ”
Shi Fangzhen originally wanted to exude the aura of a king and overlord, talking and laughing on the battlefield, but the pungent smell of blood made him a little unbearable, so he got off the donkey and said: "I have too many scruples here, so I won't hinder you, so I'll go back to the camp." ”
Under the cover of the shield, Shi Fangzhen returned to the camp under the protection of a group of masters. The Zheng army dispatched 40,000 light cavalry, 60,000 infantry, and 80,000 horses in the large camp to defend, while the Moren Badu Department dispatched 40,000 horses, including the blue wolf cavalry, and the Badai and other departments dispatched a total of 60,000 people, and nearly 100,000 people rested in the rear camp, ready to enter the battlefield at any time.
Shi Fangzhen returned to the camp, a stand-in had already been prepared on the high platform, the shields were separated, and the bright yellow clothes entered everyone's sight again, and everything seemed to have not changed. What changed was Wang Keming's mood, a stone was finally moved, and his hands and feet became much easier. Seeing Mo Qi approaching, Wang Keming sneered at the corner of his mouth, today's battle will make Mo Ren hurt his muscles and bones, and he will not dare to go south easily.
The banner danced, and twenty winch crossbows shot crossbow arrows side by side, just now when the Badai Department charged, Mo Cai had already learned the power of crossbow arrows, heard the sound of strings, scattered to avoid crossbow arrows, although the momentum of the charge was stagnant, but the number of casualties was not much. Wang Keming said: "The winch crossbow is used to stabilise the enemy on the battlefield, and the effect is not good. ”
The records of these battlefields will be brought back to the Taiwei Mansion, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry for research, and the development of improved methods for the next campaign.
The crossbows were powerful, and the densely woven crossbow arrows put down a desert horseman.
"The repeater kills the enemy well, and the repeater should be aimed at the horse when fighting with the desert horse." The horse that was hit by the arrow on the battlefield fell to the ground, throwing the knight above far away, and the overlapping horses blocked the pace of the forward movement behind, and the desert horse fell into a panic.
Wang Keming looked at the battlefield and continued: "The firing interval of the repeater should be adjusted accordingly, and when the enemy cavalry is in chaos, you can use the bow and arrow to diffuse to enhance the results, and strive to delay the time for the enemy cavalry to charge the formation, so that the repeater has the opportunity to fire a second round." ”
Li Man took the blue wolf army to slowly follow the charging troops, the noisy sound in front of him did not affect the heat in Li Man's heart in the slightest, the yellow figure on the high platform three miles away was still there, this point was not too late for Emperor Zheng Ren to step down from the blue wolf cavalry to charge.
Calm down, and get closer, Li Man seems to see the whole steppe tribe and the big and small Khan kings bowing at his feet, Kunbo knelt down with fear and begged for mercy, and Emperor Zheng Ren was paralyzed under his feet in fright, maybe he could go to the dragon chair of the palace in Zheng Ren's capital to sit down.
After the crossbow was fired, the desert cavalry quickly adjusted its formation, and the war horse passed through the fallen horse corpse lightly, showing the desert man's clever riding skills.
"The desert people have excellent riding skills, and after this battle, we should capture the people with excellent riding skills among the desert people, use them as a division to train light horses, avoid obstacles, and form a whole formation are all deficiencies of our army." Wang Keming stared at the two
Ten steps away, Mo Qi could already clearly see the beard on Mo Qi's face. Zheng Jun had already erected a shield wall, and spears were pointed forward from the gaps in the shields, waiting for the flesh to fly.
The bows and arrows of the desert people flew all over the sky, many of them shot towards the high platform, everyone knew that the Zheng Emperor in yellow clothes on the high platform, he could shoot him to death The greatest credit, most of the people standing next to the Zheng Emperor were the high-ranking officials and generals of the Zheng Dynasty, and there were countless rewards for any one of them.
The shield was erected in front of the stage, and the sound of "tuk tuk" was endless, Wang Keming shook his head and said to Zhao Wei beside him: "Third child, it's time for us to play." ”
got off the wooden platform and walked back, a hundred steps away from the shield, seeing the handsome coming, the shield parted the road, Wang Keming took Zhao Wei into the shield wall. There are 3,000 men and horses standing quietly within the shield wall, and these 3,000 men and horses give people the feeling that the horses are tall and steady, and the people are thin and small, and these horses are the confidence of Zheng Guo's Northern Expedition.
A glimmer of brilliance flashed in Wang Keming's eyes, and he commanded in a high-pitched voice: "Wear armor." ”
Countless auxiliaries came from the side, helping the soldiers to wear armor, the armor is all black iron fish scale armor, even the commander Wang Keming is no exception, the strange thing is that not only the soldiers are wearing armor, but even the horses are wearing armor. The curtain covers the front of the horse, revealing only two horse eyes, the neck of the chicken, the chest and the armor of the horse are intertwined, the fine armor covers the body of the horse tightly, only the four hooves of the running are exposed, and the lower edge is wrapped with a wide vermilion edge, decorated with colored patterns, which is gorgeous and will not cut the horse.
A pillar of incense kung fu, a murderous ironclad horse appeared in the array. Three thousand iron-armored horsemen, armed with steel spears, are like an iron fortress, even if they are motionless, they exude an irresistible murderous aura. These 3,000 ironclad cavalry took Zheng Guo's 20 years of treasury savings to barely make up, and it was also the confidence of Shi Fangzhen to never forget the Northern Expedition.
The sound of killing in front shook the sky, and the desert cavalry had already broken through the shield wall, and Zheng Jun's depth was open. Li Man looked at the frightened appearance of Emperor Zhengren on the wooden platform twenty zhang away, and felt a burst of happiness in his heart, saying that the imperial expedition was actually sent to the grassland.
Seeing the bow and arrows raining down on the high platform, Li Man commanded loudly: "Don't hurt Emperor Zhengren, catch him alive." "The living Emperor Zheng can ask Zheng Guo for countless benefits, and this man in bright yellow clothes is even more precious than a cornucopia.
The blue wolf cavalry was already close to the battlefield, and Li Man shouted: "Suppress on both sides and make way for the blue wolf army to charge." ”
Moqi listened to the order and pushed the Zheng army in front of the wooden platform to both sides, and gave the most core part to the blue wolf army. Seeing that Zheng Jun gradually lost his resistance like a girl who had stripped off her clothes, Li Man smirked and waved his machete, shouting: "Kill all the Zheng people, catch the Dog Emperor, and I will take everyone to the Central Plains to play." ”
The Blue Wolf Army let out a long roar of joy, like a sharp blade stabbing into the inside of Zheng Jun.
Just as the Blue Wolf Army was killing wantonly and gradually approaching the high platform, many people felt a slight tremor on the ground. Li Man reined in his horse, this tremor was ominous, Zheng Jun was only 40,000 light horses, nearly 30,000 appeared on the battlefield, how could the remaining 10,000 light horsemen have such momentum, and besides, this vibration was like something heavy moving, and the sound of light horses was not like this.
The master said that the Zheng people have the courage to go on the Northern Expedition, and there may be any basis for it, but this is the basis of the Zheng people, and they must be careful not to let the blue wolf ride and fold in it. Just as he was about to give the order to suspend the attack, a neat drum beat came from Zheng Jun's camp, Zheng Jun heard the drum sound and flashed to the left and right, and Li Man saw a black team appear fifty paces away.
Rubbing his eyes, Li Man saw clearly, it was an ironclad army,
The knight on the horse was in black armor and iron spear, and the horses under the seat were also wearing horse armor, as if they were wrapped in iron armor, and the trembling sound of the ground was the tremor made by this iron armored horse when it ran.
Mo Lian He is the centurion of the blue wolf ride, he is full of contempt for Zheng Qi, in his eyes Zheng Qi is like a child who has just learned to ride a horse, such a level actually dares to go to the grassland to die, it is really ridiculous. The strange Zheng Qi appeared in front of him, and Mo Lian He sneered that no matter what the hell the Zheng people had, they couldn't hide the fact that they were incompetent.
Regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, Mo Lian A waved the saber in his hand and slashed at Zheng Qi in front of him, with a "ding" sound, the saber shook the spear and landed on Zheng Ren's left arm, Mo Lian A sneered in his heart, this person's arm could not be saved. The saber drew a string of sparks on the iron armor, and Zheng Qi withdrew his arm as if nothing happened, and did not fight back, but slammed straight into Mo Lian'a.
The two horses collided together, and Morian felt himself rise into the air and fall heavily to the ground, and the horse neighed in pain and fell to the ground. Before he could turn over and leap to his feet, the horse's hooves stomped heavily on him, and in a moment the horse's hooves were trampled into flesh by the constant rush of horses' hooves.
The blue wolf rider was hit by the ironclad horseman, like a raging wave being smashed by the reef, and in a few moments, hundreds of the blue wolf riders had fallen under the spears and charges. Li Man's eyes were split, his heart was like a knife, every blue wolf ride was his heart's flesh, and he roared: "Retreat, retreat." ”
The blue wolf rode back like a tide. Fortunately, the speed of the ironclad cavalry is not fast, and the war horses with the soldiers wearing horse armor can only trot forward, invincible along the road, Wang Keming's heart is extremely free, three thousand ironclad across the desert, who can stop it.
As the ironclad cavalry advanced and the desert cavalry withdrew from the battlefield like a tide, Zheng Jun adjusted the formation and followed behind the ironclad cavalry to kill forward.
Li Man ran back into the formation, gasping and said to Qu Zhi: "Master, you guessed it, the Zheng people have a cavalry wearing horse armor, and they can't resist the rampage, what should I do?" ”
Qu looked at the ironclad rider who was slowly approaching fifty paces away, and exclaimed: "Equipped to ride, Zheng Guo actually got the armored horse out." Fast, quickly retreat to a high place, the weight of the equipment riding is too heavy, it is difficult to go uphill, go quickly. ”
The banner of the blue wolf rode backwards, and the tribes such as Badai and Saman did not know why, why they had to withdraw because they had the upper hand just now, and there were desert cavalry galloping to reinforce or see what was going on, and they were swept into powder in the torrent of ironclad horses, and the tide rushed towards the camp of the desert people.
The camp was full of warriors who controlled the strings, and when they saw the retreating clansmen in front of them, they didn't know what was happening, and in a moment, the ironclad cavalry rushed over, the improvised defense was knocked open, the tent was trampled down, and the defeat was irretrievable.
Killed thirty miles in one go, the victory has been locked, Wang Keming felt that the war horse was no longer bearable, and ordered the iron armor to ride off the horse to rest, and there were auxiliary soldiers who rushed to unload the armor of the war horse, many horse legs were trembling, Wang Keming sighed in his heart, many horses can no longer go to the battlefield.
Zhao Wei wiped his sweat excitedly, and said with a smile: "Big brother, this ironclad horse is really invincible, let's just kill it directly to the royal court." ”
"One thing descends one thing, the ironclad cavalry is on the town at the beginning of the town and the desert people are not on guard, and next time maybe the opponent will think of a way to restrain them." Wang Keming took off his helmet and put it in his hand, looked at the light horse in the distance and was still chasing the desert people, and said softly: "This time we have seized tens of thousands of war horses from the desert people, and our military strength has increased greatly. ”
In this battle, the Zheng army defeated 200,000 desert cavalry, killed and wounded more than 40,000 people, including more than 1,000 blue wolf troops, captured more than 17,000 desert people, and countless cattle and sheep, and won a great victory. ()
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