Chapter 745: Ruthless Character

"Array! Array! ”

Stark roared hoarsely, snatching the flag and waving it back and forth. At the same time, Fu Zhengming also kept roaring to make his men gather. When encountering the enemy's elite light cavalry in the field, the best way for the infantry to defend the enemy is to line up and defend as soon as possible, and form a jungle-like barrier with spears and hard lances to ensure absolute thickness, so that the light cavalry will never dare to step into the formation easily, and once they rush in, the light cavalry will be more and more stuck in the quagmire.

In order to pursue the ultimate speed, the light cavalry armor is very light, and even feather arrows cannot be guarded, let alone sharp spears and hard lances. Therefore, once the infantry phalanx with sufficient thickness was broken, the cavalry, which was obviously higher on horseback, became a target for the infantry to practice assassination.

But when the infantry didn't have time to line up, the light cavalry swept by like a knife and ravaged the infantry piece by piece.

Fu Zhengming and Shi Dake are both people who have led the army for many years, even if they have little combat experience, they have read a lot of the art of war. They know what is the best situation and what is the worst situation, and now Fu Zhengming's rout army has just been assembled and is not in formation at all, so if they can't create the best situation, they must do their best not to become the worst situation.

"Archers! Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! ”

Fu Zhengming's voice was already hoarse, and the sound he made was like a broken bellows.

The soldiers of the Southern Yan Army, who had just experienced a panicked rout, wanted to assemble in the shortest possible time It was simply a fool's dream, and the archers began to fire arrows scattered to try to prevent the light cavalry of the Black Flag Army from breaking in, while Starke's subordinates, who had been lined up to defend before, were relatively better.

The phalanx of five thousand men was already thick enough to be nothing in front of the heavy cavalry, but in front of the light cavalry, this phalanx was like a large swamp.

But Stark's men and horses had no archers and could not stop the Black Banner Light Cavalry from approaching.

However, it was clear that the light cavalry of the Black Flag Army did not intend to break in directly.

Xiahou Baichuan looked at the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army who were obviously divided into two groups in front of him, and immediately determined where the target of the attack was. Shi Dake's 5,000 men and horses are not easy to gnaw, and Fu Zhengming's rout is when he is nervous and afraid, so he is naturally unwilling to let go.

Xiahou Baichuan pointed the horizontal knife in the direction of Fu Zhengming's banner and shouted: "Plunder!" ”

Immediately following his subordinates, the elite cavalry immediately divided into two teams and rolled towards Fu Zhengming's men and horses from two directions. When the cavalry was getting closer and closer, the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army all turned white. At this time, they realized that they had just escaped from the tiger's den and fell into Longtan.

"Shoot!"

Xiahou Baichuan ordered loudly, and the black banner embroidered with the Flying Lion Army immediately waved a few times. The elite knights who saw the military order immediately picked up their crossbows, and suddenly turned around about fifty paces away from the scattered formation of the Southern Yan army, changing from a straight rush to a sideways sweep. This requires extremely strong horse control skills, and if you rush forward for another ten steps, the war horse may not be able to deflect around, but crash headlong into the ranks of the Southern Yan Army.

The two cavalry drew a beautiful arc at the same time, as if a crescent moon rose on both sides of the Southern Yan team at the same time. This crescent moon is not only beautiful, but also murderous.

The sudden sound of the crossbow was like the sound of a rainstorm hitting the lotus leaves, and the dense short crossbows sprinkled straight into the ranks of the Southern Yan Army, and the outermost soldiers of the Southern Yan Army immediately fell down like a layer of rice that had been put down by a sickle, and the layer behind it also fell crookedly.

This kind of light cavalry tactics of grazing formations is simply an unsolvable nightmare for the infantry.

The two cavalry crossed over on the side of the Southern Yan army, like two long dragons flying around a large ball. The panicked soldiers of the Southern Yan Army watched the two cavalry cross over, and all their eyes were taken away by the two cavalry. But at the moment when the two crossed cavalry teams separated, as if a door had been opened, another group of cavalry crashed in from outside the open door!

This is a tactic that the elite cavalry of the Black Flag Army has practiced countless times, and the movement of the two cavalry of Xiahou Baichuan before was just a trick, and when they swept the formation, they must have attracted the attention of all the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army, and at the moment when the two teams of men and horses crossed over, another cavalry that had been prepared for a long time rushed in.

Seamless matching.

Liu Xuri was a native of Jiaoyang County in the northeast of the Great Sui, and he was the captain of Liupin Guoyi during the first western expedition of the Great Sui. He experienced the darkest and most brutal war in the history of the Great Sui, and witnessed the tragic death of hundreds of thousands of elites in the northwest. In those more than 2,000 miles of grassland, the invincible elite infantry of the Great Sui were cut down one by one by the light cavalry of the steppe people, and they didn't even have the strength to fight back.

How many times, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

If the Great Sui army of the Western Expedition at that time had a strong cavalry, it would not have been defeated so tragically and directly.

He always thought that if he had the opportunity to become a cavalry general in the future, he would definitely bring his cavalry to let foreign enemies taste that kind of despair.

In the month after the defeat, he fled for his life in the east of the steppe, hiding in the low-lying grass with a hundred and ten brothers during the day but did not dare to sleep, and at night risked being attacked by wild beasts and discovered by wolf riders to the east. It took him a month before he escaped to the side of Wolf Milk Mountain.

But after arriving, he found that the northwest of the Great Sui was over.

Fortunately, the soldiers who survived the defeat gradually gained a foothold in Wolf Milk Mountain under the leadership of Yang Kai, the king of Xujun, and he was also promoted to the rank of Wupin general because of his military exploits. Later, he finally realized his dream.

He became a cavalry general!

Behind him, a pro-soldier held aloft a large banner. The black flag is embroidered with a red cheetah with ribbed wings, fierce and cold.

Flying Leopard Army!

"Roll over the enemy!"

Liu Xuri flattened the long lance in his hand to the front, and there was a frightening coldness in the voice that roared out.

Once again, he saw the infantry being ravaged by cavalry, only this time...... He became the one of them.

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"General, the cavalry has already swept up the rout and the responding Southern Yan army!"

The herald flew in and clenched his fists to report the battle.

Fang Xie nodded and ordered: "Let Liu Xuri and Xiahou fight according to the previous tactics and entangle the enemy army, but don't kill them all on the spot, force the Nanyan army to move towards Qingyuan City, and move the battlefield in the direction of Qingyuan City." Remember, don't break through the enemy's army so quickly, as long as the enemy's banner does not fall, the people in the city may send troops to meet again. It is to let the people and horses in Qingyuan City come out one by one, and they are all entangled! ”

"Whoa!"

The herald took the order and departed.

"Let the baggage battalion cross the river!"

Fang Xie waved his hand and ordered, at this time, there was nothing on the south bank of the Jinshui River that could threaten the baggage camp.

The auxiliaries and civilians assisted the soldiers of the baggage battalion to carry a large number of siege equipment and began to cross the river, and at this time the spliced pontoon bridges equipped by the Great Sui soldiers came in handy. Large siege equipment requires pontoon bridges of sufficient width to pass, and the spliced pontoon bridges of the Great Sui soldiers can fully withstand them.

The naked auxiliaries jumped into the river with ropes tied to their bodies, and then began to drive piles to fix the pontoons. Horse-drawn carriages pulled all sorts of unassembled equipment across the river, and for the first time in history, the Jinshui River was so busy. This was the first time in the nearly 200 years since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty that the army of the Central Plains crossed the Jinshui River and advanced further south.

It was as if the soldiers of the Great Sui had advanced into the south of the Yangtze River and the southwest, and they were unstoppable.

The dismantled rams and stone-throwing carts were pulled across the river by the wagons, and the number of wagons was not enough to be carried by men, and the ranks grew larger and stronger, and a large number of infantry gathered on the north bank marched towards the south bank in an orderly manner under the command of the generals of the battalions. After a brief assembly on the south bank, the procession began to march, and the ranks marching side by side on a plain looked so majestic.

Fang Xie urged the white lion to run up a high slope, and he couldn't help but feel a little agitated as he watched his team advance. This was the first time since the formation of the Black Flag Army that it launched an active attack on the foreign enemy, and if the attack of the Black Flag Army light cavalry against the barbarians on the grassland was mainly based on military training, then this time it was an unhindered invasion.

That big city called Qingyuan is a test stone for the Black Flag Army!

Xiahou Baichuan and Liu Xuri's cavalry slashed the Southern Yan army one by one, and the already messy Southern Yan array was divided into countless small pieces, and hundreds of people fought in groups of hundreds of soldiers of the Southern Yan Army, and everyone was desperate in their hearts. They watched as the cavalry swept past in groups, and then cut down their comrades in the distance one by one.

The back was handed over to the enemy, and there was only one result.

"Gotta slow down the team!"

Xiahou Baichuan urged the horse to find Liu Xuri: "If you continue to kill like this, it won't take long for the Nanyan people to completely collapse, the general's strategy is to lure more Nanyan troops out of the city to rescue, and wipe out the enemy's main force outside the city, our speed must slow down!" ”

Liu Xuri nodded and loudly ordered the herald to blow the horn to reorganize the offensive, cutting back and forth to clamping in the four outer clamps. For a while, there was no cavalry charging in front of them, and the remnants of the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army subconsciously ran towards the crowded place, and soon regrouped together, they just felt that the crowded place might be safer.

Stark gritted his teeth and pulled out the bolt from his shoulder, and looked around as the cavalry galloping back and forth outside the group drove his team closer together.

"Something is wrong!"

He endured the pain and found Fu Zhengming: "Second master, I see that this situation is wrong!" Just now, the cavalry of the Black Flag Army has already cut our team apart, and it won't take half an hour to swallow all of our people, but why is this why the cavalry of the Black Flag Army is surrounding us again, they are deliberately letting us regroup! ”

Although Fu Zhengming was not injured, his face was even more ugly than Shi Dake, he glanced at the city less than two miles away, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily: "Fang Xie is using us as bait...... The eldest brother continued to send troops to the rescue...... They didn't take advantage of the situation to defeat us in one go, in order to trick more people out of the city. ”

An indescribable fear flashed in Starke's eyes, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat: "If the city lord sends troops to rescue, they will take the opportunity to surround more people." Fang Jie, that devil is going to fight us outside the city...... But if the city lord doesn't send someone to save ......"

He glanced at Fu Zhengming and found that the other party's eyes looking in the direction of Qingyuan City were full of fear and pain.

Qingyuan City, Fu Zhengnan, who was standing on the city wall, felt the same pain in his heart, and he subconsciously covered his chest, trying to relieve the pain in this way. But this pain is not an external injury at all, how can it be stopped?

"City Lord! What to do! ”

A general's face turned pale and asked: "If you don't send troops to save the second master, it will be dangerous!" ”

"Send troops?"

Fu Zhengnan shook his head slowly: "If you send troops again, you will be swallowed by Fang Xie in one breath...... Second Brother...... It's the eldest brother who is sorry for you, and when you reunite below in the future, the eldest brother will kowtow to you and admit your mistakes! ”

He raised his head sharply and shouted in a terrible voice: "Close all the gates!" Whoever dares to lead troops out of the city will be killed! Block the north, east, and west gates, leaving only the south gate! ”

On high slopes

No more rescuers came out of Qingyuan City, Fang Jiefang sighed slightly under his clairvoyance: "Fu Zhengnan...... He's a ruthless character. ”