Wang Bin's cavalry swept in front of the enemy formation, and in the smoke and dust, the infantry formations in front of the two armies were only dozens of steps apart.

On the battlefield, the sound of artillery was loud, the officers and soldiers stood still, and the bowl-mouth guns erected in the rear like a spittoon made a loud noise; Cast-iron cannonballs are thrown along with arrows. In front of the Han army were crossbowmen, who also began to attack with flat fire dozens of paces away.

The huge noise on the west bank of the river shook the earth, and between the firing of artillery and arrows, countless screams and shouts filled the air. The ground was even more smoky, as if a haze was shrouded and a storm was coming.

The trees and houses in the distance were also shrouded in smoke and became looming.

The distance between the nearest place of the two armies was fifty or sixty paces, and the bowl mouth gun behind the official army formation could only be projectile, otherwise the iron pellet would easily fall out of the horn-like muzzle; The solid cannonball fell into the formation of the Han king's army and smashed a pit. The bow and arrow thrown from behind the battle are farther away, and the lethality is far less than that of a strong bow and hard crossbow that is fired at close range.

After a while, when the first few rows of sergeants of the Han Wang's army with crossbowmen, mountain opening guns, and bronze fire guns gradually approached, the various phalanxes of the officers and troops finally began to waver, and they were adjusting their formations......

Not long ago, the cavalry of the Han army launched an attack that appeared to be a charge. In front of the official army, there were several large phalanxes lined up in a very dense formation, about two or three thousand people, and set up camp to resist the enemy. In this formation, the first few rows were mainly pikemen, spear and shield men, and people also approached very close to form a dense queue in order to deal with the cavalry attack.

But after the infantry battalion of the Han Dynasty Army arrived, the dense camp of the official army was very unfavorable! The firearms, bows and crossbows in front of the Han army will carry out long-range strikes against the official and military camps.

The frontal firepower of the officers and troops was much inferior to the layout of the Han army; They didn't dare to rush over quickly to fight, otherwise it would be difficult to advance quickly with such a dense formation, and it would be easy to fall apart in confusion.

So the officers and troops began to split the formations of the various hundred households and prepare to counterattack.

At this moment, a voice in the Han Wang's army shouted, "Kill!" ”

All of a sudden, the shouts were louder! The musketeers and archers in front of the Han army retreated between the gaps in the phalanx, and the melee infantry attacked the officers and troops in a horizontal formation. The two armies soon engaged in short-handed combat, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

The frightened shouts and lung-splitting screams echoed in the air, and people from a hundred paces away could feel the tragedy and smell the faint smell of savage blood!

The two armies fought fiercely for a while, the officers and troops began to retreat, and the formations showed signs of loosening, and the rout seemed irreversible!

But in the woods and rivers to the east, groups of officers and infantry were advancing westward. The official army sent the Quan Yong Brigade to reinforce the middle battlefield.

Wang Bin led the three-charge cavalry, which had run to the left flank of the army, between the phalanx of the front battalion and the second batch of middle battalion infantry formations in the rear array. He was in no hurry to send out cavalry again to pursue the defeated enemy front camp.

For behind the slope in the distance were woods and small streams, which were not conducive to the movement of cavalry. What's more, the enemy's Quanyong team is advancing, and the enemy troops who have just been mobilized have not yet entered the battlefield; The firearms of the Quanyong team must be well filled and prepared, and the people's physical strength has not been lost, and the formation is rigorous and neat. It will not be so easy to attack them in the woods at this time.

Wang Bin now believes that Chen Zhen, who led the infantry battalion, should let the front battalion retreat one after another, reorganize the men and horses, and then face the enemy in front of the Quan Yong team.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Han Wang army in front of them to stop pursuing.

The most important thing is that Wang Bin found that the official army did not send any cavalry! Where are their cavalry?

Wang Bin looked into the distance on all sides, and finally on the other side of the small river in the northeast, he saw some cavalry moving north. The main force of Wu Gao's army was marching in the southeast direction, but the cavalry moved in the opposite direction, and Wang Bin suddenly had some bad feelings.

At this moment, the personal soldiers came to report: "Governor of the king, our scouts have found a large force of enemy cavalry five or six miles to the southwest, and they are marching north!" ”

Wang Bin's heart suddenly "popped"!

At this moment, Wang Bin suddenly realized.

Although this place is surrounded by paddy fields on both sides, it is difficult to march a large army for a while; The weather was also good, the line of sight was open, and any movement of enemy troops was difficult to hide...... But the cavalry could outflank the Han army's rear flank from a farther away place, taking advantage of the short-term speed and speed!

Wu Gao has an advantage, there are many soldiers, even if he only uses cavalry, his strength is not inferior to Wang Bin's forward cavalry.

Wang Bin was suddenly full of remorse, how could he not have thought of the possibility of such a simple deployment in advance? Mainly because Wu Gao was quite calm, and there was no movement at all before the war!

"Immediately send an order to Chen Zhen and retreat to the north of the woods!" Wang Bin said to the generals beside him.

The general said: "Wang Dudu, it's too dangerous to retreat before the battle!" ”

Wang Bin didn't like to hesitate, and immediately decided categorically: "We have just won for a while, our morale is very high, and the main force has not yet participated in the battle, so it is too late to retreat!" Tell Chen Zhen to stabilize the battalions and retreat slowly. The officers and soldiers pursued, and the elite soldiers cooperated with the cavalry of the generals to counterattack! ”

"Order!"

Wang Bin stretched out his hand and touched the dust and soot on his face, then turned his head and said: "General Li, you immediately lead the right charge (one rush of 400 horsemen), go to the northwest, and see the opportunity to block the enemy's horse team!" Then he pointed into the distance, and said, "The woods to the north, follow the road south of the woods, and go west." ”

A military general hugged his fists and said: "Order!" ”

After a while, a green pennant among the centaurs was the first to leave the place.

At this moment, Wang Bin found that on the left flank in the northeast, some enemy cavalry on the other side of the river were wading across the river! On the other side of the river was a large area of rice fields after harvesting, and the ridges between the paddy fields were just narrow roads.

Wang Bin guessed that the enemy cavalry on the left flank wanted to pass through the rice fields and come to the left rear of the Han army...... Otherwise, what would they do by crossing the river from there?

So Wang Bin immediately transferred the cavalry to the left to charge two hundred households, led the cavalry to the northeast, and used the rice fields to block the enemy cavalry!

The cavalry from all over the place rushed to the designated battlefield one after another, and the sound of horses' hooves around them "rumbled ......" for a while.

At this time, the enemy infantry battalion in the south really began to pursue, and their front battalion formed several bold columns, running in line to chase the retreating Han army.

"Cavalry generals, it's time for us to get on!" Wang Bin lifted the spear and shouted.

The army shouted, and the horsemen everywhere began to move one after another. Wang Bin's personal soldiers with red pennants were in front of the center, and everyone gradually jogged.

Several enemy columns had halted their advance and were lining up on the spot, shouts and shouts were heard from afar. At the edge of the woods by the river, a group of enemy cavalry gradually appeared in the depths of the dust mist.

Wang Bin ordered two horizontal cavalry to rush to the left, and went straight to the enemy's forward infantry to attack and harass. He personally led the Red Banner Horse Team in the middle and rushed straight to the direction of the enemy cavalry.

"Cao You|Mother!" Wang Bin roared angrily, carrying a spear and pointing directly at the enemy cavalry. Between a large field of crops and barren grass on the edge of the rice field, the war horses were raging, and the sound of "rumbling" horses' hooves and shouts of killing was loud, and the sound of shaking the earth rose again.

The strings sounded densely, and black shadows swished in the dust. After a while, the two cavalry rushed together, the neighing, screaming and metal crashing sound resounded all over the field, and even some of the horses couldn't hide their speed and couldn't avoid the opponent, and they collided violently with a "bang".

Streams of cavalry rushed in a roundabout way, and the land seemed to be a tornado, and large puffs of dust flew like a whirlpool.

Wang Bin led his troops to rush back and forth, and found that a phalanx of the forward infantry battalion of the officers and troops over there had collapsed, and the other phalanxes of the temporary formations were also a bit chaotic. However, the cavalry of the Han army on that side was not large, and they could only take care of chasing and killing the routs scattered nearby.

To the south, more enemy infantry battalions were slowly marching up. The enemy cavalry that was killed twice by Wang Bin just now was not many; The enemy cavalry did not come up again at this time, and was turning around one after another, retreating between the woods by the river and the infantry camp behind the enemy.

Seeing this, Wang Bin shouted: "Mingjin, the cavalry has withdrawn!" ”

The clanging bronze vessel rang in a rhythm of three and five tones for a while, and Wang Bin's personal red flag was also moving northward, and the horse teams everywhere gradually followed.

On both sides of the official road, many bowls, shells and vehicles of the Han army were discarded, and some wounded sergeants did not have time to take them away, and the ground was in a mess. The formations are retreating to the official road between the rice fields......

On the edge of a large rice field in the northeast, two hundred cavalry of the Han Dynasty army had dismounted. They formed a long horizontal formation, and took bows and arrows and aimed at the enemy cavalry on the rice fields and ridges.

The string "crackling" was messy and dense, and the sound never stopped.

Some of the enemy horsemen were squeezed into the water, the hooves of the horses trudged through the mud of the paddy fields, and the horses neighed in all directions. From time to time, the enemy cavalry was shot with bows and arrows, screaming and falling off their horses and falling into the water.

Cavalry is not easy to borrow on horseback, and the range and accuracy of bows and arrows are not as good as those of people standing on the ground. The officers and soldiers also jumped off their horses and returned fire with bows and arrows, but the officers and soldiers suffered a great loss by shooting the horizontal column of the Han army on the shore with a narrow column on the field; Because the column was at the same range, it had to suffer double fire from both sides of the front.

The rebels in the paddy fields could not gather, they were stuck in the mud and moved slowly, and the men and horses struggled with muddy water.

It didn't take long for the cavalry to retreat from the north.

…… Wang Bin's troops temporarily withstood the counterattack of the official army, and when the infantry phalanx retreated from the vicinity of the official road to the north side of the large rice fields, it had already avoided the catastrophe in front of them. However, once the main cavalry of the Southern Route official army is completed, the battalions of Wang Bin's main infantry will definitely be surrounded and cannot be moved.

The lone soldier of the Han Dynasty's army was pressed to this place. If Wu Gao will mobilize more people to come immediately, the destruction of Wang Bin's department is only a matter of time!

No matter how brave a person is, he is always flesh and blood. Now Wang Bin has racked his brains to protect himself, whether more than 10,000 people can survive or not can only rely on the enemy's decision.