Chapter 125: The spear drives the flock forward
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Xiao Tianjian slowly overseers followed behind the rout, and the formation of the Xingtian Army was like a black torrent, overflowing over the corpses left by the villagers all over the ground, but the formation still did not disperse, and still maintained a neat formation, just grabbing the butts of the defeated villagers, driving them towards the large array that the officials and soldiers had just formed in the rear.
When he saw that the villagers had approached the official army formation, Xiao Tianjian sneered and said: "Someone came to give Wang Chengping an order, it's time for him to go out, let him lead his cavalry team, and let me go around from the left, don't let the defeated village warriors bypass the right side of the official army, so as to drive these routs and rush into their main formation!"
Then there was a letter cannon to inform Shi Ran, and let him lead the brothers of the scout team to kill from the right! As usual, drive out the defeated soldiers and rush their formations! As long as this plan is successful, the officers and troops will be defeated! Tackle them before dark! Speed up! Stick to the rout and kill it! ”
After the herald received the order, he immediately turned his horse and rushed out, and at the same time, three red letter cannons were raised in the army, basically similar to the role of signal flares in later generations, to inform Shi Ran, who was hiding behind the mound on the right flank, and ordered them to set off.
And the drumbeat in the army formation also began to become denser, and the Xingtian Army, which was slowly pressing forward, once again changed into a marching army, and the villagers who were chasing the rout in front of them strode and chased after the drumbeat.
Shi Ran led the horse and stood behind a mound more than a mile away from the battlefield, quietly watching the development of the situation on the battlefield, since the official army rushed over, he began to collect his scouts back, and was ordered to take these scouts to hide behind this big mound to rest, and listen to the next order given to them by Xiao Tianjian.
And the development of the battle situation made Shi Ran very comfortable, the straw bag performance of the official army and the poor organization of the Xiangyong, facing the Xingtian Army, it was a joke to defeat the Xingtian Army, and Xiao Tianjian also led the troops to prove the terrible strength of the Xingtian Army, just less than half an hour's effort, the two thousand Xiangyong were beaten to a pulp, roughly estimated, just this time, the number of Xiangyong killed is not below four hundred, basically it can be said that this batch of Xiangyong has been completely disabled, and then there is no need to worry about these Xiangyong.
At this time, he suddenly saw three red letter cannons suddenly rising from the Xingtian army formation, so he immediately understood that Xiao Tianjian was informing him that he could do it.
So he grabbed the reins of the horse, turned over and jumped onto the horse, drew the saber from his waist with one hand, and shouted at the hundred or so scouts behind him: "Brothers! The general has an order, so we will attack! Kill me with me! ”
These scouts have worked hard in the past two days, they have to constantly investigate the situation of the officers and soldiers, and they have to report the news between the two armies, and they have to fight with the officers and soldiers from time to time.
When they heard Shi Ran's roar, these scouts cheered, jumped on their horses, pulled out their weapons, waved and followed Shi Ran's roar, rushed out from behind the hill, and quickly rushed towards the right wing of the rout army down the slope.
Don't look at the team of only one hundred and ten people, but suddenly rushed out and startled the official army, and soon a herald galloped in front of Shi Ran, relaying Xiao Tianjian's order to Shi Ran, Shi Ran raised his saber to the sky, and shouted to Li Lingfeng, Situ Liang and other subordinates who followed him: "Brothers! Kill me with me! ”
More than 100 cavalry scouts immediately waved their weapons and shouted in unison, "Kill ......", and then grabbed the belly of their horses and killed them towards the right flank of the rout.
On the other side, Wang Chengping got Xiao Tianjian's order for him to lead his troops, so he laughed wildly and shouted to his brothers: "Brothers, what I said is good! The big boss hasn't forgotten us, follow me! After calling for it, he waved his spear in his hand, and immediately turned his horse around the main formation in front of him and rushed towards the front of the formation.
And the brothers behind him first shook their heads, when did Wang Chengping say this? But at this time, they were finally allowed to go into battle, and these impatient former horse thieves who had been waiting for a long time all let out a long roar in unison, and followed Wang Chengping to kill the general.
The appearance of these two groups of cavalry was like the Xingtian Army giving birth to two arms, swinging left and right at the same time, smashing heavily into the two wings of the rout.
Pity these villagers, how can two legs run more than four legs! After a short time, he was chased behind by the two cavalry of the Xingtian Army, and after the cavalry of the Xingtian Army caught up with them, they stabbed and slashed, and instantly killed and injured a lot of villagers, and this Wang Chengping and Shi Ran both read his original intention from Xiao Tianjian's order, and after each led his troops to catch up with these villagers, he blocked the two wings of the rout, so that the rout could not spread out to the two wings, as long as he found that someone was trying to escape from the crowd of the rout and fled to both sides, he immediately rode his horse to catch up, and killed him with a knife in his hand, Like a pack of wolves driving out a pack of frightened prey, it carried this rout, which was mainly composed of village warriors, and drove them to flee in one direction.
And Xiang Yong was frightened at this time, where can he take care of the east, west, north and south! One by one, they fled towards the rear with their heads bowed like bereaved dogs, and they were all people from the Xingtian Army on the left and right and in the rear, and only the front could be used for them to escape, so these people were almost desperate to flock towards the official army formation.
And this scene also fell in the eyes of Niu Tai, who was riding horses and watching the formation in the official army formation, Niu Tai looked at the more than 1,000 frightened townsmen who were defeated, and ran straight towards the soldier formation he had just laid down, and his face turned white with fright.
He didn't expect that the thief leader of the Xingtian Army would be so vicious, and he would use such a tactic to drive the rout soldiers on their side to rush his main formation, and for a while, almost Niu Tai's hands were numb, his lips trembled a little, and he realized that the big thing was not good, so he immediately roared: "Give me a quick shout to those villagers, so that they will immediately separate and bypass our big formation, and no one will rush to our formation!" Violators will be killed! Hurry up ......"
The generals in the official army formation also saw this scene, and they were all so frightened that they were in a hurry, everyone knew that in this case, if the rout of the village brave broke into their big array, what would be the consequence, the thief army followed behind these routs, as long as these rout soldiers crashed into their formation, then they would be disrupted by their deployment, and their big array would be scattered at once, such a battle was based on the formation, who could support the opponent's attack, who could disrupt the opponent's formation, Then who will be the winner?
And once the Xingtian Army succeeds, then this battle does not need to be fought to know that they are over, Xiang Yong must have been disabled, if they are disrupted again, then everything will be over.
So when they saw the villagers rushing towards them like a desperate person, without Niu Tai's orders, the soldiers and generals in the official army shouted in unison: "Hurry up and run to both sides, disperse quickly, don't come here!" You're welcome to come over again! ……”
And the standard-bearers in the army also waved their flags like crazy, and ordered these villagers to spread out on both sides, bypassing the main formation of the officers and troops and hiding behind the formation.
And the villagers also heard and saw the message conveyed to them in the official army array, but now behind their butts is the fierce Xingtian Army's large array, which is advancing towards them step by step, if they run a little slower, this life will be gone, they also want to spread out on both sides, bypassing the large formation of the official army, but there are also cavalry of the thief army blocking them on both sides, as long as they leave the crowd a little, they will be immediately killed by the cavalry of these thief army, so they don't want to, but can't, they can only be expelled like this, Crashed into the army formation like a swarm of headless flies.
Niu Tai saw that the rout was getting closer and closer to his formation, and he also saw what the cavalry of the Xingtian Army on both sides wanted to do, so he immediately shouted to his opponent in anger: "Quickly send an order to Wang Youtian to lead his troops and divide into two roads, and let me disperse the cavalry of the thief army and let the rout disperse!" ”
When Wang Youtian received the order, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately divided his cavalry into two, and with a roar, he shook the reins and urged the horses to kill out of a large formation, and rushed towards the cavalry of the Xingtian Army who were blocking the rout on both wings.
Wang Chengping saw a group of official cavalry rushing towards them, and immediately laughed wildly on horseback and shouted: "Brothers, it's time for us to show our skills and let the big boss see, don't fucking embarrass me!" Kill! ”
As soon as the words fell, his subordinates immediately gathered towards him, like this horse war, when they were horse thieves in the north, they had experienced a lot, but after arriving here, they had not fought so happily for a long time, and these old subordinates of Wang Chengping were basically after many years of elimination on the battlefield, the remaining group of elites, everyone can be said to be good at this, and their horse skills are not inferior even compared to the Mongols on the steppe, Coupled with their perennial collaborative work, they have long formed a strong tacit understanding, after listening to Wang Chengping's shout, they immediately knew what they should do, so they urged the horses together, while accelerating forward, while slowly gathering together, forming a very dense formation.
Don't look at the immediate battle, there is really a lot of attention to this, and it also requires the cavalry to cooperate with each other quite tacitly, and when facing the enemy, it also pays attention to a team formation.
So these more than 50 Wang Chengping's subordinates soon gathered together, forming an arrow-shaped formation, with Wang Chengping as the arrow, his elite men followed him on the left and right sides, a little back, covering his flanks, and only kept a distance between each other for a horse to cross, after galloping at high speed, it almost felt like they were close together.
In this way, Wang Chengping led his fifty or so subordinates, and actually ran into the official cavalry that was three times the number of them, and as they gradually increased their speed, the war horses gradually reached the fastest speed, and everyone leaned forward, their legs tightly clamped the saddle, their buttocks were slightly raised, and they always kept their bodies still, one by one, they were calm, and looked towards the officers and soldiers opposite.