Chapter 179: This is war

Although the three hundred Mandu banner cavalry rushed into the central army of the Sui army, the fierce cavalry lost its sharpness like a dragon stuck in a quagmire. In the dense lance array of the Sui army, the speed advantage of the light cavalry was gone. Once the cavalry could not rush up, the cavalry sitting high on horseback was not much different from the straw handle that the lanceman usually thorned during training.

Teller is brave enough, and his mace is heavy enough. From storming the Sui army array to dying in battle, he sent at least a dozen Sui army soldiers into the Netherworld. With his martial arts, he should have had even more dazzling results in the upcoming wars in the future. But...... He was so easily and simply swallowed up by the Sui people's military array.

He died of arrogance, and the strength of the enemy's army was not the main reason for killing him.

This was the first war between the two most powerful empires in the world in more than a hundred years, and the Mongol Yuan cavalry, which was sweeping the western world, had never encountered anyone who dared to resist them before. In other words...... The Mengyuan people were more unfamiliar with war than the Sui people. Wherever the Mengyuan cavalry went, no one dared not bow their heads. Although Thaler had killed many people before, it was a massacre, not a fight at all. For a long time, no one dared to resist, which made them develop a very arrogant and arrogant character.

In their opinion, those Sui people who did not even have war horses were like those weak tribes, as long as the cavalry rushed over, they would kneel and surrender. Thaler looked at the Sui people like a slave owner who was used to being obsessed with looking at a lowly and ugly slave. But there is no doubt that the Sui people are not the submissive shepherd slaves under his command.

Three hundred elite horsemen failed to rush into the Sui army ten paces.

The Mandu wolf in the distance frowned slightly, and his face gradually became solemn.

"There are no war horses...... The Sui people can also have such combat power. ”

He sighed lightly, then shook his head again: "Fortunately, the brave Taler and his three hundred cavalry used their lives to find out the tactics of the Sui army for me. Although he died, he still made a great achievement. You help me remember, and when I go back, I will kill two women from the Northern Liao Land and a cold horse to be martyred for Thal. ”

His own soldiers immediately responded.

"The weapons used by the Sui people are very long, if our cavalry can't fly like eagles, once they are entangled, they will become powerless to fight back, which is not good......"

After pondering for a while, Mandu Wolf ordered: "Zhena, Teli, the two of you each bring five hundred cavalry and attack the two wings of the Sui army respectively. Remember, do not rush into the enemy's formation, and lead the cavalry on their side like the wind. Then greet them with wolf tooth arrows, and let them appreciate the archery skills of our Mandu Banner warriors! ”

"Phew!"

Mandu Wolf's two subordinates, Zhena and Teli, led the order, and each rushed out of the array with five hundred cavalry.

Li Xiaozong looked at the enemies who had died in battle, and his expression was serious.

It seems that the first attack of the Mengyuan cavalry was cleanly defused. Three hundred fierce steppe light horsemen failed to rush into the army formation at ten paces. But Li Xiaozong also saw another thing, which made the worry in his heart heavier and heavier. Three hundred light horsemen stepped into formation, and being trapped to death by the lance array was what he expected. But...... The number of losses of the Sui army was not less than that of the Mengyuan people, and it can be seen from this that the Mengyuan cavalry had strong combat effectiveness.

The trapped cavalry can still fight out almost the same number of enemies.

"Twenty steps back!"

Li Xiaozong waved the command flag and commanded loudly.

As the horn sounded, the army formation of more than 2,000 people quickly retreated back twenty paces. In this way, the corpses left behind after the battle were let out, and these corpses could also play a role in blocking the enemy's cavalry charge. As soon as the army retreated, the cavalry of the Mandu banner on the opposite side attacked again. Two cavalry rushed over one on the left and one on the right, apparently to attack the two wings of the Sui army.

"Archer prepare!"

Li Xiaozong waved the order flag, and the archers who had retreated before moved forward again. The soldiers on both flanks quickly changed their formation, from a phalanx to a circle. The shieldmen and lancers were ready, and the moment the archers withdrew, they could quickly move forward.

These formations are what they have trained countless times on weekdays. As soon as the commander's command flag moved, the soldiers almost didn't need to think about it, and they could subconsciously run to the position and complete the change of formation. The reason why the infantry of the Great Sui was able to win in countless foreign wars had a lot to do with their infinitely changing formations. Whether offensive or defensive, the Great Sui's army had many formations to use.

However, the second attack of the Mandu Banner cavalry made the Sui people suffer.

The enemy, there is no intention of stepping into battle at all.

A thousand cavalrymen swept past from the two wings of the military formation, about forty paces away from the military formation, and those Mandu banner cavalry who howled like wolves kept pouring wolf teeth and arrows into the Great Sui army formation while galloping. The steppe cavalry were skilled in arching horses, and they could easily control their horses with only their legs. Compared with the infantry bow of the Great Sui infantry, the cavalry bow of the steppe cavalry was closer in range and was made of boxwood, rather than composite materials like the Great Sui infantry bow.

Although the boxwood riding bow appears to be at least one size smaller than the Great Sui's infantry bow, it has a faster rate of fire. At a distance of seventy paces, if the arrows were fired at the same time, the time when the steppe cavalry fired three arrows, the Great Sui infantry who used the infantry bow fired a maximum of two arrows.

The cavalry swept from both sides of the army formation like a wind, and the Sui army on the periphery of the general formation was torn off layer by layer like a piece of flesh. Dense wolf's tooth arrows flew into the Sui army's array, and the archers of the Great Sui fell down with a wail. The Sui people who stood still became targets, but the archers of the Sui people had difficulty catching the enemy horses that were flying by.

Soon, the two cavalry swept past both sides of the military formation, and then crossed behind the Great Sui military formation, once again washing the Sui people's ranks with feathered arrows.

"General!"

A pro-soldier eagerly shouted to Li Xiaozong: "If this continues, it won't be long before our men will be shot down by all the cavalry of the Mandu Banner!" ”

Li Xiaozong's brows were tightly locked, and his lips were almost bitten.

On the other side, the Mandu wolf couldn't help laughing, and his eyes were full of pride: "Infantry vs. cavalry, as long as you don't make contact...... Li Xiaozong, why did you win? ”

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Less than a mile away from the Wolf Milk Mountain Canyon, Zhao Sen waved his hand weakly and issued a military order: "Kill from the flank, don't rescue Pan Mei again!" Charge towards the canyon, no matter what, you can't let the Mengyuan people block the canyon! ”

"Whoa!"

The soldiers shouted in response, and then changed formation in an attempt to evacuate the warband. Pan Mei was trapped too deeply, and the troops of Zhao Sen's folding battalion could not tear through the enemy's encirclement and rescue him. From the periphery, Pan Mei's team could not even be seen. Under such a heavy siege, Zhao Sen did not have the slightest confidence that his 1,202 soldiers would break through the layers of enemies.

Seeing that the Sui army on the periphery was trying to withdraw, the Meng Yuan people of the brigade urged the horses to separate from the team surrounding Pan Mei and chased after Zhao Sen.

"I--!"

Pan Mei, who was trapped in the middle, scolded angrily and took a mouthful of bloody smear. He looked at the enemy who was rushing forward like crazy in all directions, and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes. Although he had resentment in his heart when he withdrew, he still maintained the most basic qualities of a Great Sui general. His men and horses rushed to the canyon in a row, and when they were about to rush to the mouth of the canyon, they were surrounded by Mengyuan people who rushed up from all sides.

That's not a soldier!

When Pan Mei saw that there were countless herdsmen surrounding herdsmen, he didn't pay much attention to it. Among the herdsmen, he even saw women and half-grown children barely as tall as his shoulders. Such a group of people, even if there are many of them, what is there to be afraid of?

But as soon as the two sides came into contact, Pan Mei knew that she had made a big mistake.

Li Xiaozong reminded him before that the people on the grassland were fierce. Boys dare to climb on horseback at the age of four or five, and at the age of ten they can gallop and be skilled with bows and arrows. And those women with dark skin and strong bodies are no worse than men when wielding scimitars. They howled, and wolves surrounded them and devoured the Sui people layer by layer.

An elite soldier of the Great Sui Right Guard of the Folding Battalion was surrounded by at least tens of thousands of herdsmen. And the herdsmen don't seem to have the slightest fear of death. Although they were very strong, they faced the well-trained elite soldiers of the Great Sui Right Guard. They could shoot arrows on horseback, but their killing skills could not be compared to those of the soldiers of the Great Sui. But even so, at the cost of killing two herdsmen or even three or four people to fight out a Great Sui soldier, none of them were frightened by blood and corpses.

"The enemy has divided his forces."

A sharp-eyed soldier shouted at the discovery in front of him, and he could make out the smoke rising from behind the herdsmen's ranks, a sign of the departure of the enemy's rear.

"Reinforcements are coming to our rescue!"

Pan Mei's eyes lit up, and then she pointed in that direction with a long lance: "Sharp Arrow Formation, kill it!" ”

The remaining five or six hundred Sui soldiers used Pan Mei as an arrow and killed the slightly weaker place in the siege formation. Pan Mei is now beginning to regret that she did not listen to Li Xiaozong, did not experience a real war, and could not gain all the knowledge of the enemy.

Li Xiaozong once said that those herdsmen are soldiers when they pick up scimitars. But Pan Mei didn't care at the time, in his opinion, the people are the people, and giving them knives is a bandit at most.

But now he understands that when a country is invaded by the enemy's army, the people can often burst out with the same combat power as the army, or even more crazy.

He could no longer remember how many people had been killed by his lance, including old people, women, and half-grown children. But he didn't feel the slightest bit unbearable in his heart, because this was the battlefield, and the enemy on the other side was on the other side. If you are soft because the other person is a child, then that child will not hesitate to cut a cutlass into your throat.

Why haven't you joined up with the outside yet?

Pan Mei stabbed to death a Mengyuan woman with a bloody face, a waist as thick as a bucket and an ugly face. When she fell, the expression on her face was particularly hideous. Pan Mei saw hatred in her eyes, and this hatred made his heart tighten.

If the rescuers outside are fighting inside, why haven't they seen their battle flags yet?

Pan Mei had a question in her heart, but she quickly found the answer.

That's it...... The people outside are not here to save themselves, their goal is to defend Qingxia, relatively speaking, their lives seem insignificant.

I can only rely on myself.

Pan Mei took a deep breath and knocked the oncoming herdsman off the horse with a lance. But just as he was riding his horse, his horse was cut off by two herdsmen. The war horse, which had lost its center of gravity, fell forward, and Pan Mei was thrown out fiercely. The lance in his hand flew out and could not be touched.

A herdsman saw the enemy's general fall from his horse and jumped off his horse with a roar. Holding the scimitar in both hands, he stabbed Pan Mei in the chest.

"Fuck off"

Pan Mei kicked the herdsman out of the way, then tried to pull out the horizontal knife that was pressing under him. But the horizontal knife was too long, and he lay on the ground and couldn't pull it out. At this moment, a herdsman riding by leaned over and slashed Pan Mei on the shoulder, who had just sat up.

Blood splashed violently, and inertia threw Pan Mei forward.

The herdsman jumped off his horse and rushed at Panmei with his scimitar. Pan Mei endured the pain and got up and pulled out the horizontal knife, stabbed the herdsman in the lower abdomen, and kicked it away with another kick: "Despicable barbarian, get out!" ”

He cursed, but his back was slashed open by an enemy. He fell again and was immediately crushed by the herdsmen. One, two, three...... Five or six herdsmen squeezed Pan Mei underneath like arhats. Countless fists slammed down, knives stabbed in again and again.

"Fuck off...... You ...... Cheap ...... Barbarians! ”

Staccato shouts came from below, and at last they were faintly inaudible.

By the time the herdsmen stood up, the dead enemy in front of them had been unrecognizable. Under the iron armor, viscous blood flowed out through the gaps in the armor.

The herdsmen were stunned for a moment, then pounced again, frantically pulling the iron armor off the dead body.

No one looked at those dead eyes, and no one paid attention to the unwilling expression.