Chapter 986: Cavalry Hedge
On the way to Chengdu City, Li Dan and Zhitan, the generals of Liu Song's army, have always been very cautious, and they can't help but be afraid, and the cavalry of the 6,000 cadres and cavalry is hiding nearby, and they may come out at any time to give them the 11,000 Liu Song army.
Li Danhe and Zhitan had a total of 2,000 cavalry, but they did not think that these 2,000 cavalry could play a major role in the face of the 6,000 cavalry of the Qianjun, both of them were self-aware, and compared with the cavalry of the Qianjun, their 2,000 cavalry were not so much cavalry as infantry that could ride horses, and it was more suitable for them to engage the Qianjun cavalry head-on.
The horseback was very bumpy, and he felt very uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, he moved his body, looked at the soldiers in front of him, and found that the soldiers were very nervous along the way, and this tension made the soldiers very exhausted both physically and mentally.
At this time, the soldiers of Liu Songjun were already tired, and they turned their heads to look at the soldiers behind them, and the same was true.
"General Li, it can't go on like this, the soldiers are too nervous, I'm afraid that they will be mentally broken before they encounter the enemy, and once the enemy attackes, they may not be able to lift the slightest spirit!"
Li Shan sighed: "It turns out that you also found out, yes, now the soldiers are too nervous, but I can't think of any good way, there has been a fierce tiger hidden next to it, who can deal with it calmly?" ”
After thinking about it, he asked, "Why don't you ······ The two of us take turns cheering up the soldiers? ”
Li Shan shook his head, cheer up? You can't even play money! It is good to have money, but if you have money to spend it, the soldiers are afraid that they will not be able to raise their morale.
Today's plan can only be as persistent as possible, and hold on as long as you can.
At this moment, Li Shan even hoped that the cadres would appear earlier, and whether they died or lived depended on their fate, at least they didn't have to worry about being tortured anymore.
At this time, Zhi Tan felt as if he had overlooked something, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Li Shan saw his demeanor and asked, "What, what did you think of?" ”
Zhi Tan frowned and raised his hand: "Wait, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't think of ······"
Before he finished speaking, he turned his head and asked, "General Li, how long have we not received a report from the scouts?" ”
Li Dan's face changed when he heard this, "It's been more than an hour!" ”
According to the relevant regulations, during the march, every half hour, the scouts should report the reconnaissance situation, and even if they do not find anything, they must report that everything is normal, indicating that no enemy troops and anomalies have been found, and the generals can also make sure that the scouts are still safe and sound.
Under normal circumstances, the scouts do not dare to delay and not report, unless there is an accident, it may be affected by the weather, it may be that there is a problem with the war horse, but these situations are relatively rare and do not happen often.
Nine times out of ten, there is a problem with the scout who does not report when the time comes.
Li Shan immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to stop advancing, line up in place to defend in formation, and order the scout battalion to send other scouts to contact the people on the mission and reconnoiter the surroundings!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, before the order could be delivered, there was a faint rumbling sound on the right, and then the ground began to shake slightly.
"What's going on? Seems to be fighting? ”
"Fart, you see the sky is clear, how can it be a fight?"
"What are you, not a fight? Can't you even hear the fighting? ”
As the ground tremors became more and more obvious, more than one Song army felt it, almost all the Song generals felt it.
"It's not good, the ground moves, the ground moves, it's over, everyone run, the ground moves!"
For a while, the Song generals were in a panic, and some people had already begun to flee.
Li Dan's face changed greatly, and he immediately ordered: "The pro-guard forces enforce the law, but anyone who escapes without an order will be killed!" ”
"No!" A group of personal cavalry quickly dispatched, and they rode fast on horseback, and in no time they caught up with those who had fled, and one by one they were killed in the blink of an eye.
This greatly deterred the other people who still wanted to escape, and after running a distance, they saw that the escapees in front of them were cut off one after another, and the people who fled behind stopped, they hesitated for a moment, and retreated to their own team again and again.
Li Shan rode his horse and ordered loudly: "Listen to the general, this is not a ground movement, nor a fight, this is the cavalry of the cadre army, now listen to the general's order, all the infantry are lined up and ready to meet the enemy!" The cavalry obeyed the order, led by the general, and all went out to the right flank to intercept the enemy! ”
To Tan hugged Li Dan with a fist and promised: "Obey!" ”
To Tan immediately waved his hand: "The cavalry on both wings follow me!" ”
Not far from the left flank of the Song army is Yanyue Lake, and it is impossible for the Qianjun army to kill from Yanyue Lake, so the deployment of the cavalry on the left flank by the lake has no effect, so Li Dancai ordered to let Tan take all the cavalry to intercept the Qianjun, which is also to reserve enough time for him to assemble the infantry and arrange the formation.
As the ground shook more and more, the rumbling horses' hooves got closer and closer, and the momentum became more and more majestic, the Song army accelerated the speed of re-arranging the formation in a panic.
To Tan hurriedly met with a mess of two thousand cavalry.
Three miles away, a large number of cavalry appeared, a column of smoke and dust soared into the sky, under the smoke and dust were countless shaking flags, a huge number of cavalry in the gallop process getting closer and closer, rushing to the face like Mount Tai pressed the top of the general momentum to Tan and the Song cavalry behind him all looked like earth.
The Song army was also a cavalry, but when they saw the dense formation of the cavalry of the dry army, the uniform pace of the horses running, and the unified undulating movements of the knights on horseback, the fear in their hearts arose.
The timely adjustment of the formation of the cavalry of the dry army during the high-speed march made the cavalry of the Tan and Song armies break out in cold sweat on their foreheads.
Zhao Junsheng rode his horse to the front, and the cavalry behind him quickly divided into six separate columns as he raised his hand and gestured, each column was separated by more than ten zhang, and each column had ten columns of cavalry, each column had a hundred cavalry.
Ten columns of cavalry in each column were so closely packed that not even a single horse could pass through them at lateral intervals, and the impact of such a dense formation was unimaginable.
The two thousand cavalry of the Song army under his command quickly experienced the terrifying impact of this dense cavalry formation.
"The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, kill me with me—" Zhi Tan shouted with his spear and rushed towards the cavalry of the Qianjun army in the first place.
Zhao Junsheng waved the spear in his hand, "I am invincible!" ”
"I'm invincible - kill!" The soldiers of the cadre army rushed behind Zhao Junsheng with spears and horses, and rushed towards the cavalry of the Song army.
Rushing forward, the formation of the Song cavalry ran away at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the cavalry of the dry army still maintained this tight formation under the high-speed sprint.
As the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the panic on the faces of the Song cavalry became more and more obvious, the more fearful, the more hesitant they were when they impacted, and the courage of the Song cavalry was a little bit until it was exhausted!
Without the courage to die, the battle of the Song cavalry was greatly reduced, and even the horses with them began to be afraid.
The cavalry of the cadre army held weapons, and their faces were hideous and murderous, which greatly frightened the cavalry of the Song army in front.
"Bang Bang Bang ······" The cavalry of the two sides finally collided, and the Song cavalry in a loose formation were knocked down one by one, and the war horse and the Song cavalry fell to the ground and were trampled by a large number of horse hooves, making countless terrible screams before the moment.
Many of the cavalry of the Song army were strung with spears by the cavalry of the cadre army, until they could no longer hold it, and they threw it away, drew their swords and continued to chop and fight.
The dense formation of the cavalry of the cadre army made the loose formation of the Song cavalry not spared when charging, such as the rapid advance of the wall, the Song cavalry who crashed into it were all down, and when the cavalry formation of the cadre army passed, there was no Song cavalry cavalry still riding on horseback behind them, and the ground was densely lying on the ground, and most of them had died on the spot, either killed or trampled by the horses' hooves, and the very few who were not dead were also injured to some extent.
Some of the remnants of the Liu Song cavalry on the edge of the battlefield had already been frightened by the terrifying attack power of the cadres and the corpses full of corpses, and they completely lost their courage and turned around and ran, even if someone put a knife on their necks, they would not stop even if they were afraid.
"No need to stop, continue to rush, follow me to break down their infantry formation, kill-" Zhao Junsheng, who was almost drenched in blood, held his spear and shouted, this is the time when morale is at its highest, the killing heart of the cavalry of the cadre army has just been mobilized and stimulated, if you don't take advantage of the fact that the infantry of the Liu Song army has not completely completed the deployment of the defensive formation at this time, it will cost them a huge price once their formation deployment is completed.
The scene of the Song cavalry being crushed by the cavalry of the dry army without even blocking it for a round was seen by Li Dan, and he was shocked and shouted to the infantry behind him: "Speed up the formation, hurry up and ······ quickly."
When Zhao Junsheng rushed to a mile away from the front of the Song army's infantry formation with his cavalry, the huge momentum pressure had already been laid, and Li Shan even felt that his heart was trembling and afraid, and he had already found that the faces of the soldiers had shown a look of horror.
"Hold steady, give Lao Tzu stability, whoever dares to run away and kill will not be forgiven!"
Li Shan raised his spear and shouted, and continued to order: "The pikemen in front of the formation, column-"
The three thousand pikemen formed a horizontal phalanx, and after receiving the order, they quickly crouched down and stuck their spears diagonally in front of them, and the vision of the three thousand crossbowmen in the middle behind them suddenly widened.
Zhao Junsheng, who was leading the team to sprint at high speed, raised his eyes and saw a dense spear formation in front of the Song army, what was behind the spear array? Is it an archer?
No, when Zhao Junsheng rode his horse and ran closer, he suddenly felt that the outline of the weapons held by the infantry of the Song Army was somewhat familiar, it was a crossbow array!