Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Battle of Huating (3)
Great Qi Yuan and December 18 of the thirteenth year.
In the early morning in the west of Huating, the Yong army and the Xirong army set up a position on a wide plain, which was the first field battle of the Yong army and the first time that the hussars fought as the main force since their establishment.
Guo Qi rode on the chasing wind and looked at the Xirong army formation a mile away, because Guo Qi annihilated three thousand elite cavalry, so that the cavalry in the hands of the ambush was lost, and now the seven thousand Xirong soldiers under the command of the ambush are all foot soldiers, but the Xirong army at this time is obviously not enough for seven thousand, only about five thousand.
"Lord, it seems that there is still a back hand left so far, and the Xirong army is only more than 5,000 people at most." Tang Bi said to Guo Qi.
"Where do you say these two thousand men have been laid out in ambush, are they in ambush, or are they guarding the camp?" Guo Qi asked Tang Bi.
"This ...... I don't know. ”
"This piece of terrain is open, it is unlikely that the Xirong army has ambushes, and the Xirong army is all foot soldiers, and our army is mainly cavalry, even if there are 2,000 ambush soldiers in ambush, they can't stop us."
"The lord is wise, and the last general understands."
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On the other side, he looked at Yongjun on the other side and said, "That's not right! The Yongjun army died more than 7,000 people, could it be said that the Yongjun army has such a small number of troops. ”
"General, this is absolutely impossible, the Yongjun must have hidden their main force of soldiers and horses, this is their bait." The adjutant general was convinced.
"Order, after defeating the enemy, no pursuit, violators of the order will be beheaded."
"No! The general is wise. ”
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"Brothers, this battle is about the life and death of my Yongzhou; For decades, the enemies before you have repeatedly invaded our land, killing our parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters; Even the land under our feet is now taken from us, and today we will kill them all, avenge the loss of our loved ones, take back the land that belongs to us, and exchange their heads for titles, riches, and women...... The Yongjun ...... mighty," Guo Qi said on his horse and gave an impassioned speech to all the soldiers of the Yongjun.
"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng ......"
"The Yongjun is mighty."
"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng ......"
"Tang Bi obeys orders."
"The end will be."
"Lead the 1st Cavalry Mansion to outflank the enemy from the left flank and cut off the enemy's rear route."
"The last general commands."
"The horse is obedient."
"Humble duty."
"Lead the Second Cavalry Palace, outflank the enemy from the right flank, and cut off the enemy's rear route."
"Commanded by humility."
"Liu Yanzong, Hou Ji, and Wei Ying obey orders,"
"Humble duty." The three replied.
"Led by Liu Yanzong's Fifth Cavalry Mansion, followed by the Third and Fourth Cavalry Mansions, they formed an arrow array to attack the enemy's large array from the front."
"Commanded by humility."
"Zhuo Yidao obeys orders."
"The end will be."
"After the cavalry opened the gap of the enemy, lead the heavily armored infantry to cover the kill."
"The last general commands."
Under Guo Qi's order to unify the army, everyone went to prepare separately, and the first to attack was Tang Bi and Ma Ying, who each led a cavalry mansion to outflank the Xirong army from the two wings, and began to consume the Xirong army with arrows.
And Guo Qi put on a battle helmet, picked up the Weilong long pole horse lance and stood in the military formation of the heavy cavalry, Guo Qi raised the horse lance and issued a military order: "The cavalry attack......
"Driving, driving, driving......"
"Rumble, Rumble, Boom......"
The speed of the charge of thousands of cavalry caused the earth to tremble, and the rumbling hooves of horses resounded in all directions like rolling red thunder; The arrow array formed by the heavy armored cavalry of the Fifth Cavalry Mansion rushed towards the Xirong Army's infantry formation like an arrow.
In the face of the cavalry charge, the Xirong soldiers were also very frightened, but after all, they were veterans of the battlefield, and many Xirong soldiers had seen this kind of scene, although they were very frightened, but they still held the big shield tightly and stood diagonally with the spear in their hands.
"Release the ......" After the heavy armored cavalry of the Yong army entered the range of the bow and crossbow, the crossbowmen of the Xirong army began to loosen the bowstring in their hands, and the dense arrows rose into the air and flew towards the Fifth Cavalry Mansion.
"Bell, bell, bell......"
The arrows of the Xijon army hit the armor of the heavy cavalry, and they were immediately bounced away, without the slightest damage to the knights and horses, although there were exceptions, and a few unlucky ones were shot in the eye or in the cracks in the armor, or were directly shot to death; However, they did not fall off their horses, but continued to charge.
The reason is very simple, because these heavy cavalrymen all tied themselves to the war horses with iron chains, which means that as long as the war horses are not directly shot, even if the rider dies, the war horses will continue to charge forward and kill the enemy.
At the same time as the crossbowmen of the Xirong army released arrows, the third and fourth cavalry palaces that followed behind the heavy armored cavalry also fired the first round of arrows, and the dense rain of arrows passed the heavy armored cavalry in front and flew directly into the military formation of the Xirong army.......
The bow used by the cavalry is much shorter than the bow used by the infantry, but who makes the quality of the Yongjun cavalry bow better than the quality of the Xirong army's infantry bow! Therefore, the range of the Yongjun cavalry bow is about the same as that of the Xirong army's infantry bow, and even has a slight advantage; Because this round of arrows is the heavy arrows used by the Yong army, which is far more powerful than the light arrows used by the Xirong army.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
Immediately followed by two rounds of arrow rain, which directly covered the front of the Xirong army, and there was a serious loophole in the front of the Xirong army, which was originally waiting for a serious loophole, and before the Xirong army had time to react, the heavy armored cavalry of the Yong army rushed into the military formation of the Xirong army.
There is no slashing action at all, all the knights of the heavy armored cavalry of the Yongjun army, all of them have their horse lances, as long as the Xirong army in front of the cavalry has only one way to die, and the heavy armored cavalry of the Yongjun army, in addition to the horse lance can kill, on both sides of the war horse, behind the horseman's stirrup, there are also two war knives tied, and the height difference is good just at the neck of the person, as long as it is crossed by the war knife, the head must be in a different place.
The place where the heavy armored cavalry passed could be said to be full of people, not to mention that behind the heavy armored cavalry, there were light cavalry from the two provinces responsible for expanding the results of the battle.
With just one charge, the front of the Xirong army's defensive array was broken, and the soldiers of the Xirong army, who were already afraid, began to run towards the Chinese army's large array, this run did not matter, because the situation happened too fast, and the Chinese army was not even able to react yet, so that the Chinese army's large array was scattered by the rout of the front formation, and the entire Xirong army fell into collapse.
The cavalry of the Yongjun army, which was originally an arrow array, immediately divided into three after rushing into the Xirong army's large array, forming three arrows, each composed of 400 heavy armored cavalry and 800 light cavalry, began to divide and surround the Xirong army, and knocked out the last trace of resistance of the Xirong army.
At the same time, Guo Qi led the central cavalry to continue to advance, and went straight to the Daxu that was still in ambush, when Guo Qi led his troops to kill the Daxu located in the middle of the Xirong Army, he didn't know where to run until now, and the Daxu that was still in wait was cut off by Guo Qi with a horse lance to sweep thousands of troops, and the last resistance belief that supported the Xirong Army collapsed, and when the war ended, it was already afternoon.
As soon as the battle was over, a fast horse galloped from the east.