Chapter 832: Fighting the Male and Female (Part I)
Su Dingfang is hot-blooded and strong, and his martial arts are outstanding, and he has long been dissatisfied with the Chinese army, because two or three years ago, he led his troops north to attack Zhuo County, and was used by Luo Zhaoyun to scheming, fell into an ambush, lost his troops, lost face, and was almost impeached by hundreds of civil and military officials, ashamed of His Majesty and the princess of Xia State.
Now, finally confronting the Chinese army head-on, Su Dingfang feels that this is a great opportunity to wash away his shame, attack the Chinese army, establish his military exploits, and move the world.
"Attack!" Su Dingfang let out a long roar and ordered an attack on the enemy.
He commanded the vanguard cavalry to attack, a wave of 2,000 people, after the three waves passed, he personally led the cavalry behind to press, like a big wave, superimposed impact, with the glaive array as the mainstay, the attack force, and then 10,000 soldiers followed up.
Suddenly, ten thousand horses galloped, neighing, and the sound of hooves on the ground resonated.
With so many cavalry charging together, on the sandy and rocky ground of the wilderness, the advantage of the cavalry was brought into full play, and the momentum was enough to overwhelm the charge of tens of thousands of armor soldiers.
War horses have an irreplaceable important role in the cold weapon war, the speed and impact of the cavalry is incomparable to the infantry, if the strength of the two sides is equal, the cavalry can use the impact force, the infantry phalanx is scattered, and then cut and slaughtered, history has more than once recorded a small number of cavalry defeated hundreds of thousands of classic examples.
"Kill—"
The cavalry corps that rushed out was like an arrow off the string, and the morale of no return, was surging over.
"Bang Bang!"
The 30,000 Chinese infantry moved slowly, this was the rhythm before the big battle, walked twenty steps, and suddenly stopped, the pikemen in the first row squatted down, holding the spears at a forty-five degree angle upward, the second row was slightly tilted, and the next few rows of armor soldiers were also holding spears and pointing forward, forming a three-body forest robbery defense.
"Kill! Kill - "The three armies were thunderous, their morale was like a rainbow, and in the face of the cavalry charge, the Chinese army was not afraid at all.
The cavalry is getting closer and closer, the ground is still shaking violently, and when it rushes over, it must be the pressure of thunder, and the front-line soldiers who are the first to fight will definitely suffer heavy casualties, but these heavy-armored soldiers are all full of energy, passionate, and their young faces are full of determination.
"Archers prepare, release the arrows!" The Chinese general Liu Wujian commanded the archers, and when the enemy cavalry approached a stone's throw away, they began to attack from a distance.
In an instant, countless strong crossbow arrows poured out violently, covering the sky with a dense rain of arrows, all of which were steel-headed crossbow arrows, and even a small ballista in the rear, which was a batch of crossbow arrows recently developed and produced by the arsenal, which had a larger range and power than ordinary bows and arrows, and was also very convenient to carry.
"Puffy Pong—"
The sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air is particularly impressive, as the crossbow arrows fall intensively, the first wave of Xia cavalry in front of the charge was shot by crossbow arrows, wearing clothes and breaking armor, some knights were shot, brought out Zhang Xu Yuan, some even people with horses shot to the ground, people turned over on their backs, and the cavalry behind was not well manipulated and fell.
But the speed of the cavalry was very fast, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, although the Xia army suffered many casualties, the second wave of cavalry had already approached thirty paces of the Chinese army's formation, and it was about to fight.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
When the soldiers on both sides saw that they were about to fight, they all shouted loudly to inspire courage and move forward bravely!
Puff puff!
The cavalry rushed above the forest of guns, the war horse was pierced, the sound of piercing the bones and flesh resounded, and the painful horse's fart wailed and fell, and also hit the Chinese soldiers below, making a sound of fractures and tragic death, blood splattered, extremely bloody.
Su Dingfang came with cavalry and also rushed to the enemy formation, in his eyes, the time to break the Chinese army was coming.
Suddenly, the battle was fierce, bloody battles in all directions, and soared into the sky.
Qu Tutong ordered the cavalry on the flank to attack, and after Sheng Shiyan received the order, he led 5,000 cavalry to kill from the flank, and wanted to insert the enemy's cavalry formation diagonally to intercept the charging momentum of the Xia army and break the cavalry formation of the Xia army.
The entire battlefield was caught in a bloody battle, with stumps broken and waists, heads rolling, and blood spilled.
In the rear of the Xia army, Dou Jiande sat and watched, and saw that the cavalry had rushed into the front of the Chinese army, and nodded slightly, once the cavalry tore through the infantry defense, then the Xia army would be able to defeat this Chinese army formation.
"Your Majesty, the vanguard army has gained a slight upper hand." Gao Yaxian was the military affairs Sima of the march, and he also followed by and played the role of giving advice.
Dou Jiande nodded, feeling that it should not be a problem to defeat these forty or fifty thousand enemy troops this time: "I didn't expect that the commander of the Chinese army is Qu Tutong, this is the old general of the Great Sui, today's formation, decent, featureless, and not amazing, it's really better to be famous than to meet!" ”
"Yes, it's also an old general, so be conservative! However, even if Qu Tutong led the army, why would he give up the Tiger Prison Pass and march recklessly, could it be that the Dahua Imperial Court was too eager to advance? Gao Yaxian was talking to himself on the side, a little puzzled, it stands to reason that an old general like Qu Tutong is more stable, and he will not commit this kind of lonely army going deep and giving up the Xiongguan style of play.
"Whatever, this time, the Chinese army will be defeated." The few generals next to him didn't care about these details, and felt that this time the victory was very big.
A moment later, the cavalry and infantry led by Su Dingfang completely clashed with the Dahua Army.
Seeing that the vanguard army did not have an advantage in numbers, Dou Jiande immediately ordered Fan Yuan to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses of the left army to reinforce it.
At the same time, the 30,000 Chinese army also began to advance slowly, like a mountain of dignified and comprehensive pressure. Even Dou Jiande himself, armed with a gilded horse lance and fully armed, also had the idea of going into battle to kill.
On the cliff of the mountain col in the distance, Luo Zhaoyun held a rough monocular, looked down to observe the battle situation, saw the two armies clashing, glued together, nodded slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, when Dou Jiande's Chinese army also entered the range of ambush, he directly ordered and began to attack.
The next moment, a ringing arrow rushed into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, 5,000 cavalry rushed out of the col northeast of Niukou, led by Duan Zhixuan and Zhang Gongjin, two tiger generals, and rushed straight to Dou Jiande's Chinese army from the flank.
"Kill—"
Although the number of 5,000 cavalry is not much, they are all iron horses, armed with Mo knives, extremely sharp, and they are all elite soldiers.
When Dou Jiande saw the cavalry that suddenly appeared and killed from the flank of the Chinese army, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly transferred troops to intercept it.
Cao Zhan got the order, divided a part of the generals on the right, led the bow and arrow to shoot the cavalry, and then the infantry arranged the forest defense line, but the response was hasty, the formation was inevitably messy, and the blow to the morale of the ground was not small.
Suddenly, two ringing arrows rushed into the sky, and Cheng Zhijie and Luo Shixin led 5,000 cavalry to rush out of the embankment in the northwest riverbed, rolling in, dusty, and fierce.
The sudden appearance of two strange soldiers immediately disrupted Dou Jiande's deployment, making him faintly feel that the general situation was not a good sign, there were ambushes here, and he didn't expect that the initiative was no longer in the hands of Xia Jun.