Volume 1 The country breaks the mountains and rivers in Chapter 28 The first battle of Xiao Pass
Outside Xiaoguan City, 6,000 Qin troops lined up in front of the moat outside the West City Gate, and the leading general wore black armor, with a white beard and black feathers on the black armor helmet fluttering in the wind.
I saw that his eyes were like torches, and he watched coldly as the Rongren cavalry in front of the formation launched a tidal attack, and this person was Fang Mingxin, the deputy general of Xiao Guan.
Fang Mingxin sat in the Chinese army, and he didn't panic when he looked at the Rong light cavalry that came in front of his formation, he was a veteran of the old battle, if he let these three or four thousand cavalry frighten his courage, how could he be worthy of his decades of military career.
I saw that he suddenly raised his hands, and the herald soldiers around him immediately raised their banners and waved them fiercely a few times, and the four thousand archers in the Qin army array raised the arrows in their hands and shot out.
For a while, like a dark cloud pressing down on the realm, four thousand sharp arrows fired at the middle of the Rong cavalry formation. After a few breaths, I saw the Rong cavalry soldiers who were coming at full speed overturned on their backs and fell down.
The middle of the charging Rong cavalry array suddenly stopped.
The fallen cavalry, the fallen horses constantly hindered the cavalry behind them at full speed, and the cavalry behind just wanted to bypass the obstacles in front of them, and saw a round of strong bows and arrows coming from the sky, and in an instant, people turned on their backs and fell again.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Rong cavalry bypassed the front and fell down, but the cavalry on both sides who were not attacked could not avoid it for a while, and they crowded together. The thunderous cavalry charge came to a halt.
In just a few breaths, the Rong cavalry had already lost at least a thousand people, but the cavalry at both ends of the army formation that had not been attacked still rushed to within a hundred steps in front of the Qin army.
Suddenly, the archers in the Qin army neatly put down their strong bows and quickly retreated.
Another 2,000 soldiers held their shields in one hand and shields on their chests, neatly and densely arranged in a dense formation of 500 paces wide and 10 paces thick.
The first four rows of soldiers squatted and tilted upward, and the last three rows of soldiers stood with Changge flat on the shoulders of the front row soldiers.
A series of actions like a cloud of peers. Obviously, these soldiers have undergone a long and rigorous training to be able to do such a thing.
A momentary change made the horses of the Rong cavalry who were rushing towards the Qin army's army subconsciously run to both sides.
But of course, the Rong cavalry would not return in vain, only to see that they immediately put down their maces, took arrows from their backs, and shot at the Qin soldiers.
These cavalrymen who could control arrows on their horses were all capable of arrows, and after a few moments, a large number of soldiers fell in the dense Changge array, even if they had shields to protect their chests, but they didn't seem to have much effect.
Seeing that their comrades-in-arms could only passively suffer death, but still stood still, the fighting spirit and perseverance shown by these Qin army commanders made the archery soldiers a little breathtaking.
Naturally, this situation will not last forever. Immediately, after the military formation of the Qin soldiers, there was a sudden sound of dense bowstrings.
Wherever the dark clouds of arrows that broke through the sky went, the Rong cavalry that was scattered on both sides of the Qin army's formation would fall.
A moment later, the Chinese army of the Rong people blew their horns, and the cavalry that had fought in front of them went away with the wind as if they were coming, leaving only corpses and mourning horses all the way.
Fang Mingxin knew that the tactics of the Rong people had always been like this, and they had also made the Qin soldiers suffer, and such a countermeasure was created by Fang Yuanheng, the difficulty was whether the Changge soldiers could withstand the pressure of the cavalry impact and not retreat, and whether they could withstand the bow and arrow shooting of the Rong cavalry
Not rupturing.
He knew that it was so difficult to train such a team of soldiers and horses, so that the soldiers that Quan Daqin could do so much were only 10,000, and this time. When he came to Xiaoguan, he led 3,000 of them.
After several battles in the past few days, these soldiers have also suffered nearly a thousand injuries, although they have also killed nearly 5,000 Rong cavalry, but it still makes Fang Mingxin feel distressed.
But for the sake of the general, how can he be cowardly because of this?
Immediately, he waved his hand again, and the herald behind him once again struggled to raise the flag, and six thousand more soldiers quickly crossed the moat behind the moat, and in less than two quarters of an hour the formation was complete.
Under the command of the Chinese army, he slowly walked towards the Rongren army formation.
The two armies were separated by 500 paces, and after the cavalry was defeated and retreated, the Rong people also knew that the Qin soldiers were about to counterattack, so they also sent an infantry army to form in front of the whole army.
500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, when the two armies were separated by 200 meters, both sides heard the military order at the same time, one side shot countless arrows behind the formation, one side shouted, and the whole army picked up Changge and rushed towards the other side.
The two armies intersected, the sound of fighting resounded in the sky, the Qin army's battle clothes were like ink, and the six thousand soldiers poured into the Rong army formation like a monstrous flood.
The infantry formation of the Rong people also had as many as seven or eight thousand people, although the array was a little loose after being impacted, but under the absolute superiority of individual force, they gradually stabilized their positions, and the sky and earth were dark when the two sides were killed, and the sun and moon were dark.
Half an hour later, Fang Mingxin saw that the few black Xuanwu battle flags on the battlefield in the distance were still standing on the battlefield, because each battle flag was surrounded by Qin soldiers to protect them, and they also guided other Qin soldiers to fight up and kill the enemy.
Around the battle flag, the Rong people and the Qin people repeatedly fought and fought each other, and the warriors holding the battle flag were constantly buried under the accumulated corpses, and the battle flag rose higher and higher, higher and higher.
Finally, Fang Mingxin waved his hand again, this time the herald holding the military flag did not wave the flag in his hand again, but another person stood up and beat the war drum behind him.
"Knock, knock, knock".
The drums of war were beaten so violently that it seemed as if the ground was trembling, and the heart-wrenching sound could be heard on the battlefield hundreds of paces away.
In the middle military position behind the Rong people's formation, a knight on a horse with a beard on his face was a little dumbfounded, he didn't understand why the Qin soldiers did not send more men at this time, but they beat the drums, is there no more available soldiers?
He looked at the thousands of people who had just resisted his cavalry in the distance, still standing there, obviously there was a living force, why did he see the Qin soldiers who rushed up and not step forward to help the battle?
But he also saw the difference between those Qin soldiers and other Qin soldiers, and mixed feelings about their lack of participation in the war.
The good news is that if those soldiers join the battle, judging from the current situation, most of their soldiers will not be able to resist, and can only ask for help from friendly troops behind them and on the flanks, but obviously those Qin soldiers have no intention of participating in the battle.
The worry was that he couldn't see it, but he was always worried about when those Qin soldiers would give him a fatal blow.
As the commander of ten thousand people, he also crawled out of the pile of dead people, and he couldn't see that the battle in front of him had come to an end, and more than half of the Qin people had been injured, which also made him a little admired.
You must know that generally speaking, if one side of the melee between the two armies is declared defeated after two percent of the casualties, it will be a matter of how to retreat, but these Qin people have reached this level and can still stand upright, which is really an admirable army, which also allows him to understand why the extremely powerful Great Xia warriors have not been able to break through the Qin people's guards for more than 500 years.
Suddenly, a drum noise came, and a horseman beside him pointed to the north in horror and shouted: "Captain Xiyan Buge, look, cavalry, cavalry." ”
Brother Xiyan followed his hand and looked to the north, only to see a Xuanjia cavalry rushing from the north, and in his eyes, the black feathers on the helmets of those Xuanjia cavalry were clearly visible.
Brother Xiyan Buge seemed to can't believe his eyes, and muttered in his mouth: "The cavalry of the Qin people, the cavalry of the Qin people, where did the cavalry of the Qin people come from, why did you never meet the cavalry of the Qin people a few days ago." ”
"Captain Wan, find a way, they're going to kill you."
Under the exclamation of everyone around him, Brother Xiyan quickly said: "Let the cavalry rush forward and block the Qin cavalry."
"Go quickly, please Aru and Zhezhe Wanfu to move closer to our army formation, go quickly." At the end of the speech, Brother Xiyan almost shouted the order with a roar.
He knew he was going to be done.
The two 10,000-strong teams of Aru and Zhezhe were a thousand steps away from their own army, and in fact, they had also seen the sudden changes on the current battlefield, and they approached Xiyan Buge's side without waiting for Xiyan Buge's order to arrive.
They were originally to prevent the Qin people from attacking from the south, after all, the south gate and the east gate of Xiao Pass could also rush out of the Qin soldiers.
Only the north gate did not send a special team of 10,000 people, because the north side of Xiaoguan City is only built on the mountain, and the so-called north is not the city gate facing north, to be exact, it is still the west gate, but it is located north of the west gate.
But what you don't want is what you want.
Just as the 20,000-strong team was about to move closer to the 10,000-strong team of Xiyan Buge, an army of about 10,000 people appeared in the south, and the black oppressive army was very powerful, and it was the Qin army without guessing.
As a last resort, Zhezhe's 10,000-strong army had to turn from north to south again, facing the 10,000-strong array of Qin people in the south, but fortunately, after the Qin army appeared in everyone's field of vision, it only stood by the moat and did not go to the main battlefield.
A series of accidents reversed the situation on the main battlefield in an instant, and the Rong knights sent by Xiyan Buge to block the Qin cavalry were discouraged by the terrifying formation before they reached the Qin cavalry, and they turned their horses and fled back, and some fled from both sides of the Qin cavalry.
The remaining Rong cavalry who still had the courage to rush towards the Qin cavalry ranks shouted and rushed towards the Qin cavalry ranks, these cavalry who had fought in a hurry and had just experienced a crushing defeat were the opponents of the Qin cavalry who used a dense array to charge, and disappeared in the Qin cavalry formation like a mud cow entering the sea.
The speed of the cavalry of the Qin State was still the same, and Xi Yanbuge's idea of using the cavalry to delay the cavalry completely failed in less than a quarter of an hour.
The battlefield where the infantry of the two sides fought was five hundred paces in front of him, and one of the people led by Qin Caizhong put down Changge from the saddle, drew the sword at his waist and raised it high above the top, and pressed his body diagonally on the horse's back.
The warriors behind him immediately understood that this was the order to charge from the main general, so they put down the Changge in their hands one after another, drew their waist knives, and rushed forward in the same posture as the main general.
At the same time, the dense cavalry queue gradually separated into a looser formation, and 3,000 cavalry, as well as nearly 10,000 war horses, galloped towards the main battlefield.
The speeding cavalry came towards the main battlefield like thunder, and the infantry of the Rong people turned around and ran when they saw that they dared to fight again.
The infantry of the Qin State no longer had the strength to pursue, and after the opponent left in front of them, they stood in place in a daze, watching their cavalry rush through the crowd behind them, and the heads of the Rong people fell to the ground.