Chapter 55: Five Thousand to Zero (I)

Zhang Liao chased a few steps, and Jia Xu saw that the army of the leader was pressing, so he asked Zhang Liao to return to the team. Zhang Liao could only reluctantly return to the team, although he won two victories, but he didn't even take a head, this military merit is really limited, and his heart is very depressed.

The leader looked at the time, he couldn't fight alone, no one on his side could beat Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, let's attack the whole army, look at the defense of the Han army, it won't be as brave as their generals, right?

He ordered 5,000 cavalry to attack the Han army first, under the command of a Xianbei commander. Among the five thousand cavalry, there were two thousand elite cavalry, and the others were old and weak, and slaves.

Jia Xu found that the Xianbei people had changed their fighting methods and began a full-scale attack, so he led the generals back to the camp and handed over the command of the battle to Gao Shun. Gao Shun ordered the state infantry, the rear team changed to the front team and withdrew to the battalion, and the 1st Infantry Brigade of the trapped camp stayed behind and broke the rear.

Xu Huang immediately ordered his first and second regiments to stay put, and the third regiment retreated to the back of the first and second regiments to line up, and the number of people was equal to each other.

Gao Shun was also very relieved to delegate the command of the field, commanded by Xu Huang and Fang Yue, this time it was the first actual battle of the large army trapped in the camp since the reorganization in Yunzhong, and it was just right to test the results of the reorganization and training.

After Xu Huang received Gao Shun's order, he did not panic at all, he calmly walked to the middle of each regiment, and there were several signal soldiers standing behind him, responsible for preparing to convey his order.

Xu Huang shouted loudly: "All regiments and battalions listen to the order, take the company as a unit, the first platoon of each company is in the front, the second platoon is in the middle, and the third platoon is at the end, and the horizontal line is lined up to meet the enemy. The first regiment is on the left, the second regiment is on the right, and the third regiment is in the middle. ”

The signal corps behind Xu Huang quickly ran towards the regiments and battalions, repeating Xu Huang's orders loudly. The regimental battalions that were close had already heard Xu Huang's order, and under the command of officers at all levels, all the soldiers and soldiers quickly began to move in accordance with the requirements of daily training.

Each regiment has nine companies, and each platoon has more than 30 people, so there are about 300 people on the front of a regiment, and then there is a gap of one person wide between each person, which is not densely arranged.

Each regiment was arranged in three horizontal rows in the order of one row, two rows, and three rows, and the first row of the three regiments was exactly lined up with the third row of the first regiment and the second regiment.

The Xianbei people didn't understand what the Han formations meant, they didn't practice any special formations, they simply lined up 5,000 people into five rows, and each row had an offensive formation of 1,000 people.

The first three rows are naturally the old and weak and the slaves, and the last two rows are the elite cavalry among the Xianbei people. The dress is different, the elites have simple iron armor protection, and there are also iron helmets, and the cannon fodder only has cloth armor or leather armor.

Kebi Neng looked at the cavalry who was fighting at the head of the head, and sneered secretly, "The head and the Budugen, you two fools, half cannon fodder and half elite, should you all be blind?" You have to spend some money, so that everyone wears the same iron armor, so obvious, and even if you are stupid, you can see it at a glance. ”

He was right, and Lian was still happily beating the drum to help the head of the leader. He saw that the fierce generals with the head of the Kui took turns to fight the Han generals, winning and losing, and they played normally.

But when he saw the five thousand cavalry in battle, his face became very ugly, and he knew that half of them were cannon fodder and half of them were elite, and then he looked at the army behind him, and it was really like this.

Helian naturally lost the interest in beating the drums, put on a brocade robe, and sat back on the throne in a huff. He also knew that the leader and Kebineng would definitely not work hard to deal with themselves, and he had long expected that this would be the case, but he wanted to see what these mixed vanguard iron cavalry would do with the Han army of equal numbers?

Five thousand Xianbei cavalry finally lined up in a long horizontal formation, under the leadership of the commander of the thousand, first slowly stepped forward, and then gradually accelerated, the formation was relatively open, and the spacing was not small.

Because they all knew the great power of the Han army's bows and crossbows, and their own horn bows had a limited range, and when they charged, they could only be beaten passively at the beginning, relying on the speed of their horses to quickly approach the Han army.

Xu Huang watched the Xianbei cavalry get closer and closer, and began to estimate the distance in his heart, and when he saw that the Xianbei people were about to rush to one hundred and twenty zhang, he began to order loudly: "All the longbowmen are ready, aim at the enemy's left and right flanks,"

The longbowmen in the three rows raised their longbows and drew the strings with arrows. The standard configuration of the trap camp is ten people per squad, including three shieldmen, three spearmen, and four crossbowmen.

It used to be two longbowmen and two strong crossbowmen, but now they have changed their crossbows and their hard crossbowmen have changed to longbows. In this way, each squad had four longbowmen, and three regiments were about a thousand longbowmen.

"Put!" With Xu Huang's order, a thousand longbowmen shot a thousand arrows. According to Xu Huang's order, he shot at the left and right wings of the Xianbei people.

The speed of the bow and arrow is slower than that of the crossbow arrow, and the distance is far away, leaving a little time for the Xianbei people to react and dodge. The cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Xianbei people saw that the bows and arrows of the Han army had fallen on top of their heads, but the middle was safe, and they spontaneously concentrated on the middle road at the moment.

Soon, the originally loose formation was driven together by the bows and arrows of the Han army, which was exactly what Xu Huang wanted to achieve.

At a distance of 100 zhang, the longbowmen fired a second wave of bows and arrows, once again driving the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Xianbei people to the center.

The leader who was watching the battle from behind had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart, but he really couldn't think of what the purpose of the Han army was doing this? In the previous encounter between the scouts of the two armies, the only two remaining living mouths did not give him a detailed battle report, so he did not know that the Han army had new weapons.

Xu Huang saw that the Xianbei cavalry was really driven together by the longbow, although the two waves of bows and arrows only brought down a few hundred Xianbei cavalry, but they still achieved the effect they wanted.

He decisively issued a new order, "All of them are available, change the crossbows, check the equipment, the first platoon is half squatting, and the second platoon and the third platoon are ready according to the training requirements." Once again, the heralds conveyed Xu Huang's new order.

The soldiers trapped in the camp took out their repeaters from their backs, and even the shield soldiers put down their shields and replaced them with repeaters. Originally, Xu Huang's first brigade was not equipped with so many crossbows, but before leaving, Xu Huang sent people to borrow the crossbows of the second brigade and the reserve brigade, and he was already prepared how to fight this battle.