Chapter Ninety-Four: The First Battle [Seeking Collections and Recommendations]
Yuwen 15 led the cavalry to wander in the wilderness, the mud splashed under the chaotic horses' hooves, and the cavalry cavalry that followed them one by one shot arrows with a bow in his hand.
It was the first time he led the troops to fight alone, although he had only three hundred cavalry under his command, but he was still enthusiastic, and the order given to him by Lang Lord Yuwenwen was to take a closer look at the bottom of the Baman army that attacked Yongyang City, and by the way, kill as many as many of the few cavalry of the Baman.
According to the experience of Professor Chi Shun, the public lieutenant of Angu County, Yuwen 15 and his subordinates estimated that the enemy army was about four or five thousand people, and the number of their own side was twice as many as their own according to the number of heads, but the cavalry on the other side was really pitiful, so few hundred, still scrawny and inferior horses.
Still according to the experience taught by Lord Lang's father-in-law, Yuwen Fifteen easily used a dozen horses to provoke those barbarian cavalry to rush over, and then everyone surrounded them and shot them over with an arrow, and when the other party knew that it was not good, he had already lost most of his half.
In four months, Yuwen Fifteen led his three hundred subordinates to practice archery and horses, although they could not be compared with the veterans of a hundred battles, but they could also look good, and this time they faced an opponent like a flower child.
He had already seen that the barbarians were ragged, and the weapons in their hands were also varied, and even some agricultural tools were indiscriminately filled, and most of them did not have armor, and many of them were even barefoot.
Tongbai Mountain, this is based on a series of collected information to determine the identity of the enemy, they live in Tongbai Mountain on weekdays, life is very difficult, ordinary civilians even have an iron pot to share, so the weapons and equipment are poor, and even a few horses are not unexpected.
Seeing that there was nothing to do, Yuwen 15 whistled and led the cavalry to retreat, and the Barbarian army also slowly moved in their direction, because a large number of troops appeared in the direction of Yuwen 15's retreat.
Ba Man went down the mountain to plunder the prefecture and county, intending to take the nearest Yingzhou Prefecture by surprise and directly attack Yongyang City, but they didn't expect that another army would appear, and now they are Yongyang City to the east and this army to the southeast, which can be said to be the enemy.
Yongyang City has been prepared, there is a city wall to rely on, and it is urgent to attack it, but the defenders are not much, and the barbarian chieftain has found out that most of the army in Yingzhou is stationed in Wusheng Pass in the east, Pingjing Pass in the north, and Loess Pass to defend the imperial army of the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion.
At this time, the defenders in the city were only about 2,000, so the chief left 1,000 people to defend the defenders of Yongyang City.
First take the army in front of you is obviously less than half of your own number of people, the opponent's cavalry is not very many, the infantry who came over in the formation are all spears, it seems that everyone is wearing two armor, so as long as you drown the opponent in hand-to-hand combat with the number of people, you can win, and then you can have armor to equip your own soldiers.
This is a great opportunity!
The chief thought so, and Yuwen Wen also thought so, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the large amount of experience in front of him, and the soldiers he had worked so hard to train finally met a bunch of fish belly and could brush copies to his heart's content.
The armor is zero, the cavalry is almost zero, the archers are a little annoying, but there are a lot of archers themselves, and there are dozens of crossbowmen in each phalanx, will Lao Tzu be afraid of you?
Therefore, Yuwen Wen, who led the troops out to practice, was ecstatic when he encountered the opening of the copy of 'Tongbai Mountain Ba Barbarian Attack', and his subordinates Chen Wudi, Yuwen Fifteen, Yang Ji and others were all eager to try.
It's just an opportunity to train soldiers, if you don't seize the opportunity at this time, will it be difficult to drag it out and not open it, and then when you see blood, you will play with tens of thousands of armored horsemen in the imperial court?
Everything went according to the plan: the three hundred auxiliaries, under the leadership of the lord Xu Shao, hid the carriage, wheelbarrow and the baggage loaded on it in a hidden place to guard, and the remaining two thousand two hundred men fought.
With the four phalanxes composed of four buildings as the backbone, 600 archers covered the advance of the phalanx, 100 long sword soldiers carried rattan cards with the Chinese army to advance as a firefighting team, and after the cavalry harassed the cavalry, they took back the formation and stood by to be the supervising team.
Yuwenwen was full of murderous spirit when he mobilized before the war: anyone who dared to run back as a deserter was immediately hacked to death or trampled to death with a horse, and after Lao Tzu went back, he would be made into jerky and hung on the head of Anlu City!
Now the phalanx soldiers list four phalanxes into a 'convex' shape to the east of the barbarian army slowly moved, the front, left, and right three buildings are the main force of the battle, and the middle one is the middle of the army, Yuwen Wen, the military lord Chen Wudi and other officers are among them.
The soldiers held two spears and marched in line to the beat of the drums, they were dressed in black uniforms, all dressed in two armors and wearing rattan helmets, their faces were a little nervous, but they kept the formation according to the drums of their respective phalanxes and the shouting and scolding of the team leaders.
After nearly five months of metamorphosis training, the soldiers reflexively obeyed the order of the drumbeat, walked slowly for 300 meters, and the formation was still good, and the archers on the left and right flanks quickly crossed the front formation and formed a formation.
The barbarian army on the opposite side was about to enter the range of bows and arrows, because there were almost no enemy cavalry, so the archers could not beware of cavalry assaults, and each building of 300 people stood in three rows, and then the recruits listened to the order of the lord of the building, and turned their heads to look at the archers one by one.
The archers were veterans invited by the county magistrate from the governor's office, and three of them were skilled in archery, and they were divided into the first row, drawing a colorful arrow, bending the bow and arrows, and then shooting them.
The sound of breaking the sky sounded, and a total of six colorful arrows on the left and right wings drew a graceful curve and fell into the barbarian crowd, stirring up six blood flowers, and the recruits opened their bows and arrows according to the angle and strength under the loud shouting and scolding of the archers.
Many people were still a little nervous for the first time, and the deformation of the action was not well controlled, and the three rows of archers still missed after a release of their arrows, but most of the feathered arrows fell into the group of barbarian archers who rushed up after the first round of arrow rain.
The barbarian archers' bows were obviously not good, and they had to get closer to release their arrows, which were shot down as soon as they came up, and they couldn't help but be a little flustered, and they slowed down one by one and retreated, but they were scolded by the leader of the overseer and continued to move forward.
As the saying goes, there are only three arrows in battle, which means that in the face of cavalry impact, the archers only have a short chance to release arrows, and now the recruits are full of foot soldiers, and the oppression is not very strong, so they are much calmer.
But there are still people whose hands tremble slightly, on weekdays, they bend their bows and shoot arrows, I don't know how much they have practiced, but after all, it is training, if they don't shoot well, they will be punished and eat whips, but they will not die, but now it is a real knife and a real gun battle, and there are few mistakes, and the pool will really die.
"What are you afraid of! Think about how much military pay is taken home every month, and the whole family eats and eats! The team members scolded the responsibility one after another, "Don't you want to put an arrow and shake the military salary?" ”
Listening to the reprimands of the team members, the panic of the recruits eased a little, and under the command of the archer, three rounds of arrows were released in succession, and the poor archers on the other side suffered heavy casualties before they could release two rounds of arrows.
Because the crossbowmen in the recruit phalanx also came forward to help, and each phalanx was lined up with sixteen horizontal and vertical people, that is, a total of two hundred and fifty-six people, and the remaining forty-four people, of course, could not be idle, according to the requirements of the battle, they came out with strong crossbows to cover.
The barbarian arrows did not even have armor, only more broken, and the barbarian archers were shot by feather arrows, so it was easy to get closer, and they were shot directly by the opponent's crossbow arrows in the gap, and they all played after several rounds.
After the archers finished shooting a round of arrows, the trumpets of the Chinese army sounded, and they retreated when they heard the sound, while the crossbowmen put on their crossbow arrows and prepared their strength to cover their comrades, and the second round of trumpets sounded, and the crossbowmen released their arrows, and shot the approaching brute foot soldiers over, and then turned and ran away.
Unlike the archers, who retreated to the back of the formation, the crossbowmen retreated to their respective phalanxes, and when they ran back to their own formation, the brutes behind them also approached and rushed to the front of the formation.
Seeing that he was about to engage the enemy, the chieftain was excited and ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet desperately, and he wanted to use his advantage to make his men crash into the spear formation and fight closely, and then the ants would bite and die, and everything would be over.
However, the momentum of the opposite phalanx was amazing, only to hear a trumpet sound, and after a burst of trumpets, an earth-shattering unison burst out, shouting: "Kill the enemy!" Then the spears that stood as densely packed as a forest were laid flat on his side.
Blood splashed, and the brute soldiers who rushed to the front were stabbed over by the two spears, and they had the flexibility to dodge the first wave of assassinations, and they were just about to get close to the barrel of the spear, but they were stabbed by the spears that followed.
The smell of blood spread, and the brute was shocked by the spear that stabbed at him and killed him again and again, but at the same time, it was the other party who was also shocked.
The recruits were stunned by the bloody scene in front of them, the living people struggled with twisted eyes under their guns, countless blood foams came to their faces and made people sick, and the desperate, sad, and resentful eyes of those enemies before they died shocked themselves.
As soon as people hesitate, their movements will be slow, their movements will be chaotic, their rhythm will be chaotic, and their coordination will be scattered, and the other party will stick up as soon as they are scattered.
For the barbarians, they are so poor in the mountains anyway that they will starve to death tomorrow, so this time they will go down the mountain to grab money, food, women, and everything, and they will earn it, and they will either be killed in the battle or stay in the mountains and starve to death.
So they have to fight, as long as they rush into the enemy phalanx, even if they bite with their teeth, smash with their fists, or kick them, they will have a chance to kill, and now the opportunity is in front of them, as long as they rush through the distance of five or six steps!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the spearmen were about to be approached by someone if they were about to get close to them due to their abnormal performance when they saw blood for the first time, Yu Wenwen ordered the Chinese army to call the shots and urge the generals of all sides to pull their subordinates back from the state of 'fainting blood'.
"you! It's not that when I got home, I found that my mother-in-law was stunned by stealing a man! ”
"Bastard, you can't stab anyone again, Lao Tzu whips one of you with a hundred lashes!"
"If you don't want to go back, you will stab me seriously if you run ten laps!"
"The monkey on the other side doesn't even have clothes, what are you shaking in armor!"
"I won't stab anyone in the future, how to 'stab' my mother-in-law!"
As the captains, team leaders, and team leaders everywhere scolded the recruits, they remembered the disgusting training intensity of the past five months, remembered the leather whip, remembered the round trip with broken legs, and remembered the gloomy little black house.
I also remembered bowls of rice, a hanging copper coin, and the expectant eyes of the old and young in the family waiting to carry the rice home.
Li Shimo, who was standing in the fourth row of the front formation, also came back to his senses, so when he saw a brute rushing to the front of the first row and about to swing his knife, he stabbed out the spear that was leaning on the shoulders of his compatriots in the front row, and hit the opponent with one blow.
'It's easy! Li Shimo thought so, he thought that he would be arranged in the first row of the phalanx as a 'substitute for the dead', but he never thought that he was not qualified enough, and those who could get to the first row were the best performing soldiers, and he was not qualified to stand in the first row as a soldier with average assassination skills.
Everyone gathered together to form a phalanx, and there were people in front and back, left and right, Li Shimo calmed down from the panic at the beginning, and with his comrades by his side, his heart was fixed, and it was natural to play when he was determined.
The same is true for others, who, after experiencing the initial discomfort, become more energetic and gradually no longer afraid of stabbing the living.
"A group of cowards can't hold their guns steadily after seeing blood, so they can refresh them with some fierce material!" Yu Wenwen looked at a group of rice buckets in the three phalanxes in the Chinese army, and almost gave the unarmored fish belly barbarian soldiers close to the formation, and his face was ruthless.