Chapter 052: Cavalry Charges Infantry
However, this advantage did not last long, and the enemy cavalry was too large to be stopped by a few hundred crossbowmen.
There is also the eldest general, Sun Ce, who took the lead, rushing steadily in front like a god of war, waving a rain of arrows for one after another comrades, splitting boulders, and Sun Ben's morale was not frustrated and revived!
Rushing forward regardless of losses, the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed to a hundred paces, fifty steps......
Finally, the poisonous smoke barrel on the spear came out of sparks, and the billowing smoke hit the cavalry of Sun Ben's army, and the hundred people who rushed to the front were shrouded in poisonous smoke, grabbed their throats and fell off their horses, and their deaths were extremely miserable.
However, people are not as good as the sky, and the south wind turned and blew away the smoke in front of the formation.
Sun Ce led the vanguard to rush out of the black smoke, raised his head to the sky and roared, rode his horse over the corpses of his companions, and slammed into the front military formation.
"Boom!"
Under the ferocious impact, the neck of the war horse was broken, and more than a dozen armored cavalrymen were strung on spears, like blood gourds.
The soldier behind the big shield also snorted violently, with severe pain in his chest, and even worse, several ribs were broken.
However, unexpectedly, no one was knocked out of the war horse in the flesh.
Li Cunxiao, who was in the center, pushed the shield without changing his face, and directly knocked the cavalry in front of him to the ground with his men and horses, and he was unharmed!
"Kill!"
However, Li Cunxiao was only one person after all, and the offensive of the 3,000 cavalry continued to increase, and more and more cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, and finally broke through the first column of 500 sword and shield men, and then they were even more indomitable, killing two rows of pikemen.
It's a pity that what awaits Sun Ce is not victory, but another row of cold blades.
The second group of 500 sword and shield men waited for work, and at this time rolled on the spot, desperately rushed to the horse, and slashed the horse's leg with a sword, creating time for his comrades to reorganize the formation.
Li Cunxiao's sharp eyes found that Sun Ce, who was killing all sides in the formation, suddenly his eyes were red, and he snatched a war horse and swung his spear.
Sun Ce was unguarded, and was almost forced to fall off the horse, and immediately tensed his spirit and fought against Li Cunxiao.
Without Sun Ce, a fierce general, Wei Xiaokuan commanded the crossbowmen to cover, and the foot soldiers finally reluctantly reorganized the formation.
The horses neighed miserably, and the knights on the horses were constantly thrown off, and were soon pierced by spears.
At the same time, the sword and shield bearers who met the enemy continued to be seriously injured and trampled into pulp by their horses.
The cavalry and foot soldiers were strangled together, turning the outside of Yancheng into a meat grinding ground.
The cavalry lost its command, and although it was brave, it gradually began to show confusion. Sun Ce was single-minded, and when he saw this, he was in a hurry and wanted to be distracted to command.
Li Cunxiao raised his eyebrows, and the steel gun in his hand slashed down.
"Ding!"
Sun Ce raised his gun to block it, and his mouth was numb, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart: "There are such fierce generals in Jingzhou!" I am Jiangdong Sun Ce, who is coming, report your name! ”
Li Cunxiao walked around the dragon with a gun, and fought back and forth with Sun Ce, and he also appreciated it in his heart, and replied with a laugh at the moment.
"Grandpa is under the command of the eldest prince of General Zhennan of the Han Dynasty, and Li Cunxiao is also!"
Li Cunxiao.
Sun Ce secretly remembered this name, and he couldn't be distracted to think about anything else.
Liu Qi saw it clearly on the city tower, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, there is filial piety, otherwise the shield array must not be easily broken by this tiger?" ”
Wei Xiaokuan wants to sit in the Chinese army, and he is not a fierce general who is famous for his martial arts.
If the infantry formation is broken through, the Yulin Army can only be used.
Fortunately, the situation was brought under control in time.
Sun Ben stood behind the charging army, and under the escort of three thousand foot soldiers, his face was very bad.
I thought they were all stragglers, and a charge could solve the problem, but I didn't expect it to be so fierce.
His 3,000 cavalry were entangled in a large array of foot soldiers, and they couldn't move at all!
He knew that Yancheng had such a strong army, how could he not bring 6,000 people to come over and wave!
However, there was no turning back from the bow, but fortunately, the enemy army did not seem to have a reserve, only the three hundred cavalry that was better than nothing.
And on his own side, there are still 3,000 foot soldiers waiting to work!
"Sun Fu, press on the foot soldiers!"
The cavalry is Sun Ben's family, and seeing that more than one-third of the casualties are about to occur, Sun Ben's heart is throbbing, and he immediately wants to use foot soldiers to replace the cavalry back.
Sun Fu knew this, and immediately waved his sword: "Foot pawn, on!" ”
Sun Ben's infantry configuration was typical of the late Han Dynasty warlords, with a large number of halberd soldiers and a small number of giant shield soldiers and sword players.
When moving, the Giant Shield Soldier is in front, the Halberd Soldier is behind, and the Knife Player is in ambush.
The crossbowmen among them all carried strong crossbows, which were intended to have a range advantage during the siege, but in the field, they became a burden.
Especially now, when the cavalry of several sides is mixed with the enemy, it is impossible to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and the crossbowmen are useless.
Sun Fu simply gave up the distance: "The bow and crossbow are holding the knife, keep up!" ”
The large array of foot soldiers moved slowly.
Around Sun Ben, there were only 1,000 soldiers left.
He also had a long heart, and found that the enemy still had a small force of cavalry that did not move, and he did not dare to really press the whole army.
It's just 300 cavalry, no matter how brave you are, it's no better to deal with a thousand people, right?
On the city tower, Liu Qi has been paying attention to the movements of Sun Ben's army, and at this time he found that the foot soldiers were moving, and he was overjoyed: "The order is to go sick, you can move!" ”
"Tell Zhang Hu, no matter what method he uses, give me the 2,000 foot soldiers of the enemy army to the death!"
"Let Xiaokuan pass the word to Cunxiao, at all costs, you must also leave Sun Ce in place for Lao Tzu, and you can't let him come back!"
"Summons the order to get sick, don't kill Sun Ben, you have to live! It's best to let him run away, and it's the best policy to return to Yuzhou alive! ”
Sun Ce, the tiger, can be caught alive is naturally very good, if you can't catch it, it's nothing, and it's a pity to die at most.
But if Sun Ce doesn't die, Sun Ben will never die.
Otherwise, wouldn't Sun Jian's old ministry all belong to Sun Ce?
This tiger was Yuan Shu who detained Sun Jian's old department and did not give him soldiers, so he hibernated for so many years, and finally recruited troops and horses to toss the gang in Jiangdong.
If he gets his father's elite old department, won't he kill all sides in the Central Plains?
That has to be a no-no!
Huo Qubing didn't know what was going on in his lord's mind, but since the lord had given orders, he obeyed the order.
"Sons, follow me into battle!"
I saw Huo Quzhi's overlord spear in his hand raised horizontally, kicked the horse's belly hard, the war horse was in pain, and galloped towards the battle array, and the 150 Yulin cavalry behind him roared to follow.
On the other side, Zhang Hu with 150 Lin cavalry also stuck to the flank of Sun Ben's infantry formation in an instant.
"Good fellow, it's finally moving!"
Sun Ben was overjoyed, thinking that Liu Qi finally had no choice but to use the last reserve army.
However, before he could give the order to press the last 1,000 people, he saw a young general in black armor and red robes leading more than a hundred cavalry in the same black armor, bypassing the neat infantry formation, and actually coming straight towards his Chinese army!