Text Chapter 7 Pyrrhic Victory 1
Yu Hai's current situation seems to be worse than that of the European coalition army, the foot soldiers lack large shields, and there are few archers, especially the lack of armor, the small amount of armor that exists is mainly captured in previous battles, and many of them are still leather armor and cotton armor with weak defense, which are difficult to resist sharp arrows under the flying fire of the Yuan cavalry.
Wu Yan Gu shouted in a loud voice, "Raise your bow, shoot!" Raise your bow, shoot! Raise your bow, shoot! "Using the method of parallel chasing, before impacting Yu Hai's pawn, he actually shot three rounds in a row.
Nearly two hundred arrows were fired, and most of the dozens of foot soldiers deployed in front of Jiang Hai were shot down in an instant!
Yu Hai withdrew in the direction of the front team at the beginning, and after withdrawing about 300 steps, he had already gathered hundreds of foot soldiers, and when he saw that the Yuan cavalry was catching up, he hastily discharged the spearmen in formation. In front of the spearmen, a row of shield guards was set up for defense, a total of four or five layers were arranged, and at the same time, all the archers in the front team were urgently dispatched to come to support.
Liu Zhengfeng had already rushed to Yu Hai from the front team, and hurriedly placed some of the first batch of foot soldiers who rushed back to the right front to protect his flank.
With the addition of Liu Zhengfeng's team, Yu Hai already has more than 200 people around him who can be mobilized, and the follow-up footmen are also following up one after another. Yu Hai had a little bottom in his heart, and commanded the formation to slowly advance back, intending to advance to the chariot formation, relying on the chariot formation to maneuver with the Yuan cavalry.
Unexpectedly, Wu Yan Gu directly led the Yuan Cavalry to gallop to the top of the slope, galloping on the slope, the enemy and I were basically opposite, the Yuan Cavalry first shot a batch of arrows at the foot soldiers on this side, after three rounds of arrow rain, it suddenly shot down the first four layers of foot soldiers, but exposed himself and several nearby leaders who were commanding in the back.
Wu Yan Gu saw that the effect of the arrow rain was remarkable, and several of Yu Hai's leader-like figures were directly exposed in front of him, and now that the distance was close, his eyes lit up, he put away his bow, raised his knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”。
The Yuan Rider next to him echoed: "Kill, kill!" ”
The Yuan Cavalry kept accelerating, and they were skilled in equestrian skills with each other, and each of them constantly adjusted the distance between their horses in order to achieve the best charging effect. After the rain of arrows, the charging team gradually formed a sharp arrow, and the arrow pointed straight at the sea!
Wu Yan Gu was crazy, shouting loudly, the key to this battle is at this moment! Killing this big boss will definitely deal a fatal blow to this group of thieves! Only by killing him, Wuyan Gu's self-raid and the loss of the soldiers just now are meaningful, in the hands of Lord Qianhu, and even in the commander of Totok, not only can he not be held accountable for his own self-determination, but a great credit will definitely not be able to run! Maybe after this crackdown on bandits, it is possible for the official to be promoted to one level!
Now's your chance!
Wu Yangu's eyes were red.
Facing Yuan Qi, Yu Hai's heart was quite bottomless.
As soon as the Yuan cavalry appeared at the top of the slope, Yu Zhilong immediately made a decision, and immediately organized the middle convoy to form a temporary defensive line, in the face of the surprise attack of the Yuan cavalry, not only greatly reduced his own casualties, but also left the corpses of more than 30 cavalry, so that the opponent's strength to launch another assault was significantly weakened.
Now the direction of the Yuan cavalry's assault is itself, but unfortunately since the uprising, the troops have not faced a regular Yuan cavalry charge, how to effectively fight the Tartar cavalry, from top to bottom has little experience.
"Brothers, avenge your family, everyone fights with the Tatars!" Yu Hai waved his knife and loudly encouraged the soldiers around him, "Leader Li, immediately lead the team forward, replace the injured brother, the spearmen are gunners, Leader Liu leads the team to the right formation, personal soldiers, give me a drum." ”
"All archers, prepare! Concentrate on the Tatar who shoots the head! Liu Zhengfeng stood behind Yu Hai and ordered from the side.
The adjustment of the formation has not yet been completely over, Wu Yan Gu rushed to the front of the battle first, because more than a dozen spears were facing the war horse, Wu Yan Gu looked at the thinner part of the spear, pulled the spear with a knife, picked off the oncoming spear, the horse galloped, knocked several foot soldiers in front of him directly, slashed left and right, and put down several people. The follow-up Yuanqi continued to follow up and strive to widen the gap.
Leader Li is a hundred households, and he hurriedly filled the position with his subordinates, striving to keep the defensive formation intact. For a time, slashing and stabbing of knives and guns, the sound of weapons entering the flesh, the sound of blocking, the sound of horses' hooves, and the shouts and moans of both sides were loud. The foot soldiers fell one after another, and the originally tight blocking formation was quickly shattered by the impact of the Yuan cavalry, and Yu Hai's Chinese army flag began to waver. Some of the Yuan Riders also continued to fall off their horses under the counterattack.
Looking from the sky, it can be clearly seen that more than 60 yuan cavalry formed an unstoppable torrent, quickly breaking the opponent's infantry formation, blood, stumps and broken arms, corpses, weapons and so on scattered on this yellow earth.
Wu Yangu's first charge basically defeated Yu Hai's infantry array, but Yu Hai was the big leader after all, and there were many pro-soldiers around him, and there were also many small leaders. On weekdays, Yu Hai has a lot of kindness to everyone, and everyone is grateful, so they fight desperately to protect Yu Hai. Therefore, after Wu Yan Gu defeated the foot soldiers in the previous layers, the horse speed had to be reduced.
Wu Yangu looked at Yu Hai's position and knew that it was impossible to kill Yu Hai with just one charge, so he flicked his horse's head, and the leader walked around diagonally, intending to organize the formation in the nearby open space, raise the horse speed, and charge back again.
This time, the Yuan cavalry charge brought at least nearly sixty casualties to the rebel army, and the Yuan cavalry only lost seven or eight cavalry. The footmen who had just gathered around Yu Hai were suddenly reduced by nearly half. In addition to Yu Hai's side, there were a large number of foot soldiers and leaders, and the rest of the surviving foot soldiers were scattered around in groups of three or five by the impact, and it was difficult to gather and fight for a while.
Just when Wuyan Gu formed the team again and was preparing to charge for the second time, more than a dozen horsemen galloped from the chariot formation, and one person jumped on the horse with a gun, and carried a bow and a sword on his back, it was Yu Zhilong!
When the cavalry of Wuyan completely rushed through the car formation and began to chase and kill women and children, Yu Zhilong looked around, the numb-faced Ma Rulong's chest was injured and was bleeding, but fortunately, it was not serious, except for a wound that he had accidentally injured on his arm, the rest of the parts were unscathed.
Yu Zhilong cut a belt from the hem of his shirt and helped Ma Rulong bandage it roughly. Ma Rulong also helped Yu Zhilong wrap the knife wound on his left arm.
When the two were bandaging each other, a big man came next to him, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, broad shoulders and round waist, holding a spear in his hand, and said to the two: "Some, Cangzhou Ji Xiancheng is also a general flag of the current squadron, I saw this little brother commanding on the spot, deploying a vehicle formation to resist the enemy, quite a miraculous effect, and then seeing that the little brother jumped into the car to kill the enemy, regardless of his own life and death, he is really a good man!" Thumbs up.
Another man with a long sword and narrow shoulders came over and said, "This little brother is the wise general of our scout team, and the battle that ambushed Meng Lao Thief a few days ago was Yu Xiaoge's clever plan." I am Boshan Changzhi, now a flag deputy of the rear team, Su Jing hero, today with you and the enemy to the death, fortunately! ”
Yu Hai organized all the troops into the front and rear left, center and right teams, and there were scout teams, baggage teams, etc., and each team set up several flags and several sentinels, and the team had several thousand households and hundreds of households, and the number of each team was about 150 people, because the number was too small, in fact, the position of a thousand households was not worthy of the name. Each team has two to three general flags, each flag is about 50 people, and three to five small flags are set up according to the number of people, the head of the small flag is the head of the brand, each small flag is about ten people, and at the same time set up a personal guard and a herald.
Yu Zhilong saw that the two were angry, although there was blood on his body, but there were no serious injuries, just now in the process of blocking the Yuan Cai, although the time was very short, but the spirit of the two fighting bravely and skillful combat skills still left a deep impression on him, in the area they defended, the Yuan Cai left the most corpses, and there were many surviving soldiers in this team.
Yu Zhilong belongs to the scout team, and the contact with the rest of the teams is mostly the transmission of daily exploration news, so he is not familiar with these two, and he knows the one who calls himself Chang Zhi, mainly because Chang Zhi and Zhao Shi are more familiar, and the two talk from time to time in daily life, Chang Zhi learned from Zhao Shi that Yu Zhilong had offered several clever plans, and he couldn't help but admire Zhilong.
Yu Zhilong and Ma Mian hurriedly saluted the two of them and arched their hands.
"I've seen two heroes, and the younger brother is Yu Zhilong."
"I am Ma Yunlong of the scout team, known as Ma Yanyan."
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have just frustrated the arrogance of the other party, and have not hurt its roots, and now I don't know why the brigade of the Yuan Cavalry has not yet appeared, this group of Yuan Cavalry is impacting the big boss, the situation is urgent, I want to gather all the kings to rescue, I don't know what you think?" After observing the situation on the battlefield, Yu Zhilong asked eagerly.
"If you dare to disobey your fate, you will do what you want!" Ji Xiancheng and Chang Zhi bowed in response, and then the two immediately gathered their surviving subordinates and gathered about 30 people. Yu Zhilong ordered him to gather the war horses in front of him, mainly the war horses left after the death of the Yuan cavalry, but there were only more than ten horses available for a while, and then more than ten soldiers with better riding skills were selected, and after collecting bows and arrows, Yu Zhilong and Ma Mian, Ji Xiancheng, and Chang Zhi got on their horses one after another, and rushed to Yu Hai with all their subordinates.
When Yu Zhilong led everyone to the vicinity of Yu Hai, Wu Yangu led the team to kill back.
Wu Yan Gu drank the order to open the bow and take the arrow, so the skill was repeated, and when the distance was close to the enemy's foot soldiers, an order was given, "Shoot!" Shoot! He aimed at Yu Hai under the banner of the Chinese army and shot two arrows in a row.
In the first round of charge just now, several small leaders who led the team were killed, and Liu Zhengfeng and Li led the infantry to line up in three rows, with spearmen in front, holding a few shields to defend, trying to slow down the Yuan cavalry. But under the blow of these two rounds of arrows, the first few rows of foot soldiers were basically shot down a lot.
Yu Hai's pawn formation is about to collapse again!
The hearts of the leaders were about to be broken like Yu Hai, there was no strict shield defense formation, no strong bow to shoot, their own foot soldiers stood in the field, let the Tartars shoot wildly, even the steely man could not withstand the pressure of this death. Nearly half of the more than 20 archers who were originally behind the team were killed or injured under the arrows of the Yuan cavalry, and the remaining arrows were sparse and poor, so they could not threaten the Yuan cavalry at all.
Seeing the hesitant and timid looks of his subordinates, Yu Hai knew that he couldn't let him be beaten like this. Yu raised his waist knife, looked around the left and right, and shouted: "Brothers, if you are a man, you will kill Tatar with me!" After speaking, he led the few remaining guards to stride towards Wuyan Gu, and one of the guards held high the banner and followed closely behind him. When everyone saw that the big boss was taking the lead, their morale was aroused again, and they shouted and coaxed one after another, and rushed forward.
Yu Zhilong took the lead, more than a dozen horsemen bit the tail of the Yuan cavalry, Yu Zhilong, Ji Xiancheng and others first opened their bows and arrows, aiming at the rearmost Yuan cavalry to shoot.
Yu Zhilong and Ma Face because of equestrian skills, good archery skills, and clever people were assigned to the scout team, Ma Face saw that Ji Xiancheng and Chang Zhi's arrows hit the two Yuan Riders behind respectively, and the two Yuan Riders shook on the horse, and finally fell off the horse, but although they and Yu Zhilong's arrows hit the target, they were not fatal, and the Yuan Cavalry continued to charge regardless of the arrow wound. Ma Yan nodded at these two in admiration, he didn't expect their archery skills to be so good!
After shooting a few rounds of arrows, Wuyan bones wielded a scimitar and staggered with the head-on killing Yu Hai, for a time people shouted horse neighing, blood spattered limbs, with fast horses, Wuyan bones slashed left and right, after the Yuan cavalry, the flying foot soldiers scattered around, after this round of charge, more than 40 corpses were left on the ground, of which there were only six Yuan Cavalry!
Yu Hai was stabbed under the ribs with a deep wound, which was left by Yuan Qi's spear, and he was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder, fortunately Yu Hai's personal guards resisted desperately, Yuan Qi didn't have time to stab deeply, and Yu Hai used a knife in time to pluck it, and finally saved his life.
"Big Boss!" Liu Zhengfeng's eyes were red, let Guo Yuanqi dodge, dodged over, helped Yu Hai, and looked at his wound worriedly.
"It's okay! Silence! Yu Hai pushed his hand away and covered the wound under his ribs, "Brothers, everyone move closer to me, Leader Li, you guys go and collect the bows and arrows of the Tatars and stand behind me!" Leader Li hurriedly responded, and led five or six people to collect the bows and arrows on the corpse of the Yuan cavalry, and the few surviving archers quickly merged with them, lined up behind Yu Hai, and the Yuan cavalry charged just now to kill this group of archers in all parts, and they were terrified. These archers had no other weapons except the bows and arrows in their hands, and the Yuan cavalry rushed and could only flee in all directions.
Most of Yu Hai's bows are not the kind of strong bows of the official army, so the string force is weak, and it is not easy to penetrate the armor. With the powerful bow of the captured Yuan Cavalry, the damage rate can be greatly increased.
Yu Hai pieced together the defense line again at the fastest speed, and now there were nearly a hundred soldiers gathered around him, and some of the members of the front team in the distance were still coming with all their strength under the leadership of Yu Shichang, but there was still some distance, and it was too late to enter the battle for a while.