Chapter 429: Caught in the Enemy's Territory
"Kill!"
"Die!" ,
"Heretics deserve to die!" ,
"Send them to hell!" Both sides shouted what they thought was the most vicious curse, brandishing broadswords and spears, and forcefully making a few bloody wounds or stabbing holes in each other's bodies.
All the time, people fall off their horses and get injured. Every moment, someone dies tragically. The whole battlefield, too, is like a meat grinder. At a speed visible to the naked eye, it rapidly consumes the lives of soldiers of various tribes.
Kalwan was in charge of the Chinese army. Except for Timur, who was still on his side, there were only a few messengers.
"It seems that the lost dog deliberately sent his soldiers and horses to death!" , Kalwan squinted his eyes and looked at the battle on the battlefield, and said coldly. Although the combat effectiveness of the surrendered army is the same as that of the tribal army, it is really half a catty. But there is a difference between a tribe from the mountains and a tribe from the plains.
Especially the will to fight, the mountain tribes are definitely higher than the plain tribes.
So after fighting for so long, the surrender army has completely inserted into the camp of the tribal army. And forced many tribal armies to flee in the wilderness.
But the prison guards behind them are not vegetarians. Therefore, many of the tribal troops who fled back were shot mercilessly by the prison army.
It's just that no matter how much you persecute it, the decline of the tribal army has been revealed. As a result, the entire front is getting closer and closer to the riverbank.
"Command the Ba'en Division, the Oud Division, and the Chahanna Division to face the battle." , Egnaqi used the claircopy he bought at a high price to observe the battle situation on the other side of the river, and ordered loudly.
Immediately, a messenger rode away and informed Egnazi of the latest order.
After a while, I saw that the surrendered army had rushed to the place where the tribal army had settled. Kalwan also ordered: "Pass the order." Three vassal phalanxes, all sorted. ”。 Vassalage refers to the surrender of an army. This is a special nickname to distinguish the apologists from the subjugation.
Seeing the messenger waving the small flag in his hand, the three immovable vassal phalanxes immediately rushed to the battlefield under the guidance of the general of the cathar army.
And the Delhi army is on its side. The three tribes named by Egnaqi have finally received orders from the messengers. When the surrendering army was about to rush forward, he took the initiative to rush out of the camp and slaughtered the surrendering army.
"Don't be afraid! Our people have come! Abu Rais, shaking off the blood stains on his spear, shouted loudly. Some soldiers who had palpitations immediately leaned towards him involuntarily.
Because the soldiers and horses of the former battalion were almost disabled, Abu Laith was also considered a bare-bones commander. Just in the midst of the surrender of the army, a commander with a high status is also needed to rush to the front line to boost morale. Abu Laith took the initiative to take on the task.
In fact, Kalwan refused at first! Because Abu Rais had shed enough blood on the battlefield. Especially when a battalion is about to be disabled, it is not good to send it to the front again.
Moreover, the injuries suffered by Abu Rais were not healed. Although it is not a fatal injury, in the battlefield of life and death, any inconspicuous small injury or flaw will kill you on the spot.
Therefore, after Ab Laice took the initiative to ask, Calwan thought about it for a while and wanted to refuse.
But Timur knew about Abu Lais's temperament and immediately helped him say a few words. At this point, Kalwan agreed to Abu Rais's request.
This also made Abu Lais's opinion of Timur even better.
When the army quickly converged on Abu Lais, the three tribal armies, more than 50,000 men and horses, also rushed to the front at once.
Under the advantage of troops, many single or unlarge-scale soldiers were extinguished by the tribal army as soon as possible. Only a surrendering army like Abu Lais's was able to withstand the first wave of the tribal army.
It's just that it's deep in the sea of tribal armies, and there are enemies on all sides. So the outermost soldiers, almost like dominoes, kept falling under the blades of the tribal army.
"Array! Array! ", shouted Abu Rais. In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the Apologists, Li Chengji handed over the more practical military formations in the ancient cold weapon period to the Apologists for drills.
In a situation like the one now, the best way to deal with it is to form a cone or a bucket. Among them, the cone formation is a spur formation with an inverted triangle and quickly breaks through to the periphery. The advantage is that you don't have to sit still. But the disadvantages are also obvious. That is, for the soldiers on the periphery, the mortality rate is very high.
Because as long as you fall behind, then you will only die in battle.
In the case of the iron bucket formation, it is surrounded by a circular iron bucket formation, which is strictly guarded.
Although the flexibility is poor, in terms of defense, it is the strongest.
And the current situation. Reinforcements are coming, and the bucket formation is undoubtedly the most suitable.
But Abu Reis overlooked a crucial factor.
That's what he is in command at the moment, and it's the surrender army that has not long been subdued. With the intention of making them cannon fodder, the leaders of the cathars did not teach them any useful military formations. Therefore, when Abu Lais shouted to form a formation, many soldiers were stunned for a while, and then they formed the most familiar phalanx in a panic.
Those were the few formations that the cathars had taught them. The original purpose was just to make them not so scattered when they attacked.
But what Abu Laiis didn't expect was that this array almost wiped out the entire army. Because of the pursuit of advantages and avoiding disadvantages, the soldiers instinctively ran inward.
As a result, under the pressure of the enemy, the troops who were still able to raise their weapons and work together immediately immediately disorganized themselves and greatly reduced their combat effectiveness.
The tribal army also took the opportunity to break through and directly entered the surrendering army.
So the army that was gathered together was immediately cut into several small pieces. It's only a matter of time before the distance falls.
Abu Laiz looked at it with some distress.
But on the battlefield, there is no time to remorse him. The commander of the tribal army, in particular, has noticed that Abu Lais's status is not low. So he led most of the men and horses and desperately killed him.
In the end, if he did not command the soldiers and horses of the former battalion for some time, his sense of identity with the commander of Abu Laiis was not as high as that of the soldiers of the former battalion. And because the number of the tribal army was so large, in a short time, the enemy generals had already killed him.
"Suffer death!" As he spoke, Nurguddin, the warrior of the Udbu tribe, snatched the spear from the hand of one of the surrenderers and threw it at Abu Lais.
You know, the distance between the two is only ten steps. So this projectile can definitely threaten Ab Lais.
But it's just a threat!
For Abu Rais has not been on the battlefield for a day or two. He is also very sensitive to dangerous reactions. So when the spear flew, it played a burst of spear sparks and swept the spear away.
A tribal soldier who was pressing down on the surrendering army and raising a broadsword. Suddenly he was hit in the head by a flying spear, and the soldiers of the army followed and counterattacked, and killed him.