Chapter 14: In the Midst of the Rebellion (I)

The Anzhou army defeated the imperial court's Zhengnan army with thunder, but fell into the opponent's trap in the ensuing pursuit and was counterattacked, and the two sides fought together.

Yang Su, the head of the southern march, led two thousand cavalry under his command to rush into the Anzhou army formation and fight hard, the Anzhou army cavalry were all on the left flank (west flank) by the cavalry of the southern army, and now they are only facing the infantry in a scattered formation, and no one can stop them.

According to the plan formulated before the battle, most of the elite soldiers were ambushed behind the camp, and the cavalry leading the way was mostly old, weak, sick and inferior horses that could only pull carts, and the main cavalry gathered behind the hills on the west side of the battlefield to lay in ambush.

In order to prevent the Anzhou army from using something powerful between the two armies and causing the situation to collapse, this is a deceitful plan, which is to attract the Anzhou army to patronize and pursue the victory, and ambush it halfway when it is taken lightly.

If the Anzhou army has no amazing means, it is nothing to fight against its own side, and if the other side defeats its own central army formation, which is mainly based on conscripts, it will also have to chase and kill all the way, and it will be ambushed at that time.

In the unlikely event that the Anju army is incapable of fighting with its own conscripts and cannot be defeated in the dark, then in the afternoon the soldiers of their own side who have had lunch will go into battle to see how the other side can resist.

As a division of labor, Yang Su led the cavalry to cut into the formation from the west flank of the battlefield to disrupt the formation of the Anzhou army, and there were tens of thousands of cavalry to attack, even if the enemy army had 100,000 people, it was just a chicken and a dog.

"Yuwen Liang is really generous, and I don't know where he got this method." Yang Su looked at the Anzhou army marshal flag in the south and sneered, the task of attacking the Anzhou Chinese army was done by others, and he was only responsible for promoting the collapse of the Anzhou army.

Ask yourself, if you don't make a deceitful countermeasure, as soon as you come up, put the elite soldiers in front, then the few rounds of explosions just now will really collapse the whole army, so Yang Su is very interested in how the explosion was caused.

This is very similar to the 'Sui Guogong Robbery' incident that occurred in Chang'an City last March, when Yang Su heard the earth-shattering movement nearby and saw the black smoke rising from the ground.

That scene was very similar to what he had heard and seen on the battlefield today, and Yang Su naturally scoffed at the rumored 'Crossing Tribulation' theory, which he thought should be the effect of some kind of elixir.

In early April, the Emperor Tian Yuan was assassinated, and it is reported that thunder was heard around the scene, causing the nearby patrols to come to the rescue, and the Assassins took the opportunity to abscond without a trace.

It doesn't matter who the real culprit is behind the scenes, Yang Su doesn't care, anyway, he is not ready to be loyal to the world of the Yuwen family, so it has nothing to do with him whether the Great Zhou is finished or not, what he cares about is making meritorious contributions and enjoying the glory and wealth of the world.

If you can find out the secret recipe in the hands of the Anzhou army, concoct a lot of these things, and then sweep the world, what is the difficulty, the emperor does not do it, but the generations of nobles who are the same as the country can compete.

So he wants to defeat the Anzhou army here as another cornerstone of his soaring prosperity, last year in Xingzhou, he beheaded the Great Zhou clan, Xingzhou assassin Shi Yu Wenxuan, with this merit earned the title of Duke of Qinghe County.

Today, Yang Su wants to further earn the title of Duke of Guo with his military exploits, so all hope is on Yu Wenliang, the commander of the Anzhou Army and the Duke of Qiguo, he hopes that Yu Wenliang can resist the impact of his cavalry and escape.

Then he has the opportunity to hunt down Yu Wenliang in the chaos of the army, just like Yu Wenliang's cousin Yu Wenxuan who chased and killed him last year, and then crush the other party's hope of a Jedi counterattack with his own hands, and finally cut off his head.

During the charge, Yang Su saw that an Anzhou army general in front of him was organizing soldiers to form a formation, and without thinking too much, he bent his bow and arrows to shoot him, and the soldiers who were about to be organized lost their backbone and immediately collapsed.

The Anzhou Army's flank was a little flustered but did not collapse, and the task of the cavalry of the Zhengnan Army that broke into the formation was to create panic as much as possible to prevent the counterattack, and those Anzhou Army officers and soldiers who tried to gather soldiers were their primary targets.

The goal is to create an avalanche, to make a team collapse, then a building to collapse, and then an army to collapse, and those soldiers who flee behind will cause panic among the others, causing more and more people to run with them, and in the end, it will be like an avalanche that can no longer be stopped.

There were a lot of cavalry in the Northern Dynasty army, and this tactic was handy, so Yang Su led 3,000 cavalry to rush up in the Anzhou army formation, until a formation of soldiers appeared in front of them.

The scale of the military array is not large, but it is like a forest of spears, and Yang Su is very familiar with this situation: that is, the spear formation of the defenders of the Hexi camp of the Anzhou Army who resisted countless sieges yesterday afternoon and still stood firm.

The camp that could have been taken in the evening was delayed because of the other party's bravery, but it was delayed until the arrival of the main force of the Anzhou army, and there was no chance, and his five hundred elite troops were all killed on the spot in order to attack this spear array, but they all died on the spot before they could get close, Yang Su wanted to personally break through this spear array and cut off the head of its main general.

"Bypass the spear formation, don't get tangled with them!" Yang Su was not stunned, as soon as he saw the enemy, he went up with red eyes and tried his best, as the head of the march, he had more important things to do, and after the cavalry broke through the Anzhou army's large array, he had to run a suitable distance and then turn around and continue to charge.

To rush up to the opponent's cavalry to stop the forward charge until the Anzhou army is defeated, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, even if this spear array can fight a scale of more than a thousand people, it can still turn the tide.

A rain of arrows poured down on Yang Su and his cavalry, causing casualties despite the fact that the cavalry were all armoured.

"Can the opponent still have a large number of archers to cover when they are advancing in formation?" Yang Su muttered to himself, and then looked closely, but saw many carriages clustered in the spear array, and archers standing on them kept shooting arrows at him.

"I see, it's painstaking." Yang Su had a few arrows stuck in his body but smiled disapprovingly, the armor he was wearing was not so easy to be shot through, although the other party was a little annoying but there was no need to entangle.

Therefore, he still decided to bypass, because the cavalry under his command did not have time to fight the other side, and under his order, the cavalry divided into two groups, left and right, to bypass the spear formation in front of him.

Just when the cavalry of the Southern Army was divided into two groups to bypass the two wings of the spear array, the ballistae on the carriages in the formation began to frenzy, and the flame bombs they fired lit up the heads of the cavalry on the left and right flanks, and a fire instantly burned in the cavalry group.

The follow-up cavalry saw that their comrades in front of them were burning up with their horses and ran to the side, and some of the cavalry approached by the pikemen, only to be stabbed off their horses by the pikemen who took a few steps forward and shot them.

The cavalry continued to pass by both sides of the spear array, and many of them were shot down by the bows and arrows in the array, and the flames that exploded from time to time ignited the cavalry, and by the time they swept over the spear array to the wilderness and were about to turn around, they had lost nearly a hundred horses.

"Lord Lang, if these spear formations are left unchecked, if they are allowed to enter the military formation, I am afraid that they will take the opportunity to organize a formation of manpower, and then the battle will be stalemate," Yang Su's subordinate with a hideous scar on his face cautiously proposed.

"Hmm." Yang Su looked at the spear array, his eyes showed a cold light, just now he was bent on meritorious service, and he didn't want to entangle with the other party, and now it seems that it will not work if he doesn't solve it.

If the spear array is gathered, the Anzhou soldiers will gather more and more, and finally become a big lump, and even if their own army presses over, it will be difficult to win for a while.

The deceitful plan of their own side was implemented at the cost of losing more than half of their combat effectiveness, and the soldiers who had been distracted by the methods of the Anzhou army ran all the way and did not retract so quickly, and the results of organizing and putting into combat were not necessarily good.

The southern army is now counterattacking with 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, and the number of soldiers is not superior, so it is necessary to prevent the other party from forming a formation and re-gathering the soldiers, Yang Su looked at the rest of the cavalry in the Anzhou army's large array, gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Yang Liu, you lead eight hundred horsemen to attack around the spear array." Yang Su paused for a moment after speaking, "Don't let them advance, and don't let the rest of the soldiers move closer to them!" ”

"Order!" Scarface, known as Yang Liu, hesitated at all and ordered him to ride away to gather his subordinates.

"When the army arrives, we'll see how you can parry!" Yang Su looked at the spear formation with a hideous face, he thought that this spear formation was powerful, but in order to deal with the cavalry, he had to stop and form a formation honestly.

There are cavalry harassing them around, so they should always be on guard, don't want to move, as long as the other soldiers are dispersed, the spear formation will not be able to gather more people to prevent the situation from collapsing.

Yang Su led the remaining 1,000 cavalry to continue to attack the Anzhou army's large array, while Yang Liu led 800 cavalry and began to wander around the spear formation......

Yu Wenwen, who was standing on the chariot in the formation, took the clairvoyant mirror away from his front and immediately sneered: "The enemy cavalry divided a part and seems to want to entangle our army. ”

"They thought we could only hold on to the position." Fifth Brother Chen, the military master, disagreed when he heard this.

"Phalanx forward, continue to the west!"

The horn sounded, and then the trumpets sounded one after another in the formation, and the pikemen in the formation began to move westward, and the formation movement was a subject that the new army practiced every day on weekdays, so it was not only fast to move in actual combat, but also to maintain the formation.

The new army lined up in a hollow phalanx, so not only the archers, but also the long sword soldiers led by Yang Ji were also included in the formation, and the 300 cavalry led by Yuwen 15 stayed in the Hexi camp and stood by.

The enemy cavalry wandering around the periphery began to move after seeing the spear formation, and they rode their horses as if they were about to charge into battle, trying to force the phalanx in front of them to stop and defend, but at this time, the carriages in the new army formation began to change.

"Ballista ready!"

The auxiliaries on the carriages clustered in each phalanx have wound the torsional ballistas on the carts, which are specially built by Yuwen Wen to provide 'long-range output' as the army moves.

Compared with last year's ballista made of horsehair torsion springs, the torsion springs of these vehicle-mounted ballistae are made of animal tendons, so they are more powerful and of course more expensive.

"Decree Yuwen fifteen, the cavalry is ready to fight at any time." After Yuwen Wen gave the order, he looked at the flags in the formation and found that they were all hanging low, so he turned his head and asked, "It's always been a quiet wind?" ”

"Qi Qi commanded the army, and the last general has been observing that it is indeed a quiet wind." Xu Shao, the owner of the building, said on the side, he and Yuwen Wen were generally dressed all over their bodies, and they were also commensurate with each other's military positions.

This is the first time he has been on the battlefield in a big array, and as soon as he gets on the field, it is a 'big scene', looking at the crowd of people around him, countless fights resounding in the sky, Xu Shao couldn't help but boil his blood.

This is the Jin Ge Iron Horse, this is the place where the manly man makes great achievements!

Yuwen Wen saw that he looked excited, his breath was short, and he was excited, so he just smiled slightly, and then shouted: "Go to the armor bomb!" ”