Chapter Seventy-Four: Pre-Battle Military Exercise
Before and after returning to the formation, Lin Feng reached out and took a command flag from Zhou Chen's hand, walked forward more than ten meters again, and waved it vigorously towards Pan Zhigang, who had been waiting for a long time on the side, and then patted the horse back again, straightened his waist and sat on the back of the horse, and then did not move.
Just when Chen Jingxuan at the head of the city was puzzled, one of the three phalanxes of the Benlei Pioneer Regiment moved, first starting, and then began to accelerate slowly, which made Chen Jingxuan's heart suddenly tighten, and he hurriedly waved to everyone: "Quick!" Fast! Get ready to meet the enemy! ”
But what Chen Jingxuan didn't expect was that after running more than 100 meters in the direction of due north, the thousand-man cavalry regiment actually began to turn and run in the direction of due east, the speed became faster and faster, and the originally compact phalanx began to spread slowly, and the distance between the cavalry began to widen, both front and back, left and right.
Gradually, the commander of the leading army slowly moved from the front end to the middle and rear of the formation, and most of the cavalry commanders assembled in front and around, divided into several small phalanxes in the shape of fish scales, advancing according to the echelon configuration, and the front section was formed by dozens of elites of the whole team to form a small phalanx protruding.
When the first team just started to change the formation, the second team followed, the same rhythm, the same turn, but this time the formation changed differently.
The commander-in-chief general still slowly moved to the rear of the formation, and the cavalry began to assemble in the middle, and the front end was scattered and opened in the shape of an arrow, especially the two hundred cavalry at the back end of the "arrow", and at the same time they opened their hands and opened their bows and arrows to shoot arrows one after another on both sides.
The third team started at a similar time to the second team, and the initial movement was similar, but this time it gradually changed into a cone formation. The generals of the unified army are in the "cone" part at the front, and behind them are more than 100 brave and skilled soldiers, just from the galloping posture and sharp eyes of those people, you can understand that these people are one in a hundred elite people.
After running for several miles, the first team began to gradually change back to its original phalanx, and at the same time made a 180-degree turn, and after the formation was once again neat, it galloped back towards the place where it had just stopped. The same is true for the second and third teams.
Just this change of formation, not to mention Chen Jingxuan at the head of the city, even Lin Feng under the city was shocked, although he came up with this method of acting and training to deter the enemy, but he never thought that the Benlei Pioneer Regiment under Pan Zhigang still had this ability, and the formation was even changed to the point of doing whatever he wanted in the gallop of the cavalry.
Not to mention Chen Jingxuan at the head of the city, he was in a cold sweat while watching all this, and he was secretly glad that he was not too impulsive to order the battle, and he felt that it was a big failure for him to let the previous Mingwei general Jingji attack the camp.
After the Benlei Pioneer Regiment returned to its original place and stopped, there was a sound of horses' hooves from the side and rear of the 20,000 army, and even Chen Jingxuan on the head of the city could feel that the city wall was shaking, and when he looked at it, he saw the dust and smoke rolling up not far from the rear of the 20,000 army, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping at high speed.
As time passed, the eight thousand winged cavalry lined up for hundreds of meters slowly met Chen Jingxuan's eyes, especially when he saw the white wings behind those people sprinkled with a layer of pale gold by the golden sunlight, Chen Jingxuan himself felt that his body was trembling, and he seemed to be unable to stand his control at all. Sneaking a few glances to the sides, he found that his subordinates were the same, and several of them were staring at the hussar regiment in the distance below the city with their mouths wide open.
The white angel wings, with a layer of pale gold sprinkled by the sun on the surface, and then through the dim dust and smoke, it was like a golden-armored cavalry galloping in the smoke, just visually, it brought an unparalleled shock to Chen Jingxuan and the others.
"Kill!" Mao Hao, who rushed to the front row, suddenly shouted, and even compared the sound of rolling horses' hooves.
"Kill !!" The shouts of the eight thousand people in unison were deafening, as if the trembling of the ground was not caused by the stamping of the eight thousand war horses, but by the violent drinking of the eight thousand people.
"Arrows, arrows!! Stop them, quick! Chen Jingxuan at the head of the city was so shocked that he couldn't help standing in place and staggering, and then shouted to everyone with a panicked face: "The city is going to be attacked!" Quick, block them! ”
Looking at the devilish "angels" under the city, Chen Jingxuan could no longer calm down, or could no longer pretend to be unalarmed. But after all, the hussar regiment at this time was still a thousand meters away from the city, even if the arrow was released, who would have the strength to shoot it?
"Shoot an arrow!! Shoot the arrows!! Seeing that the soldiers around him stood at the battlement with bows and arrows and did not take a step closer, Chen Jingxuan shouted angrily again.
In desperation, the soldiers had no choice but to let go of the bowstring that had been full, and with the "buzzing" sound of the bowstring bouncing back, arrows gradually began to shoot out from the city. Even if it was condescending, the farthest was only nearly three hundred meters away, and most of the arrows landed two hundred meters away from the city wall.
Under the leadership of Mao Hao, the hussar regiment charged at full speed to a position of 500 meters before slowly slowing down, and after rushing forward for nearly 100 meters again, led by Mao Hao, another 180-degree turn turned back in the direction of the 20,000-strong army.
Looking at the winged cavalry regiment that was gradually moving away, Chen Jingxuan was paralyzed like a deflated ball, if it wasn't for the guards next to him to quickly hold him, I am afraid that it is very likely that he would have fallen to the head of the city in front of everyone. In fact, not only Chen Jingxuan is like this, but all his confidants and cronies are also similar, after all, if this battle is lost, none of them as the core figures will end well, after all, they are guilty of treason.
In contrast, those ordinary city guards are much better, for them, victory or defeat is only a matter of the upper class, they are just soldiers to eat food and get military salaries to support their families, even if they lose, the big deal is to surrender, after all, ** There is no bad habit of abusing and killing prisoners, and they have all heard in private that the military salary of the Feng family army is very rich, as long as they can become the official Feng family army, the military salary alone is enough to be one and a half times that of the ordinary soldiers, and it is not a lot of welfare and generous pensions.
After the Wings Regiment returned to the team, Mao Hao rushed to the front of the battle, with a sunny smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Big brother! What do you think? What is the momentum of my Celestial Legion? Wasn't it mighty just now? ”
"Of course! I've never seen a hussar regiment so mighty! Lin Feng was also very happy in his heart, sitting on the back of the horse and laughing, then raised his hand and pointed to the tall city wall in front of him, and laughed: "You say, how long can they last?" Also, do you think Chen Jingxuan will be scared to pee his pants? Ha ha.. ”
"I guess I've been paralyzed by fright!" Li Xiaofeng's face was also full of excitement, after all, seeing that his own strength was so strong, the joy in his heart was very difficult to hide. Looking back at the rest of the people, they were all full of excitement, without concealing it at all, or like themselves, it was difficult to hide this pride, this pride of being the strongest army of the Tang Dynasty, the Feng Family Army!