Chapter 170: Zhao Erdonkey's stupid move

Under the shout of Zhang Baochang, he rushed out of the village gate with a one-armed waist knife, but he happened to see the group of people of the Xingtian Army outside who broke up the charge of the cavalry of the official army, and started their steps again, walking towards Zhuangzi, so he immediately stopped and shouted in surprise: "The Xingtian Army is mighty!" ”

And the more than 30 township soldiers who rushed out of Zhuangzi with him also stopped their steps, and in ecstasy, they followed Zhang Bao and shouted: "The Xingtian Army is mighty......

In the rapid drum beat of the marching drums, the more than 300 Xingtian army members, neatly moving their legs, in the case of maintaining the formation is not chaotic, striding towards Liujiabao, the official cavalry who suffered a loss, around their phalanx, made two more efforts, trying to prevent them from continuing to approach Liujiabao, but in the face of the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian army like a hedgehog, they were in a hurry but had no way to speak, as long as they approached the formation of the Xingtian army, The firecrackers on the four corners would immediately open fire on them, and after two attempts, they could almost find nothing but a dozen more corpses.

And seeing that someone in Zhuangzi rushed out to answer, they didn't dare to be arrogant and directly blocked between the Xingtian army and Liu Jiabao, for fear that Liu Jiabao would also be the same as this group of Xingtian army, there were a lot of birds, in that case, they were caught in the middle, didn't they find their own bad luck?

Therefore, after suffering two losses, the cavalry of this group of officers and soldiers did not dare to easily approach the formation of the Xingtian Army, and could only shout and curse from a distance outside the Xingtian Army formation, watching this group of thieves march quickly towards Liujiabao, but there was no way.

And Ma Liancheng led the troops to chase after him, but in his heart he scolded this Qian always who led the team for being a fool, and the two hundred cavalry couldn't stop more than 300 thieves, and they were beaten by the thieves so that they didn't dare to approach, so he sent people to ride horses to give orders to the group of cavalry, ordering them to stop this group of thieves at any cost, and they must not let this group of thieves escape into Zhuangzi.

After hearing this, the cavalry commander secretly scolded Ma Liancheng for ignoring their life and death, and obviously saw that the thief's firearms were sharp, but he also wanted them to die, but since Ma Liancheng had already given the order, he only had to obey the order, so he had to gather his soldiers again, went around to the right flank of the Xingtian army, and after shouting, he slapped his horse and rushed towards the Xingtian army.

However, this time they also learned a little smarter, instead of directly attacking the center of the formation, they chose a corner of the formation, intending to even if they paid some price, they also wanted to scatter the thieves and firecrackers on this corner, as long as they scattered their corners, then they would have the opportunity to break through from here and disrupt the formation of the entire Xingtian Army.

Among the remaining more than 100 officers and cavalry, there are dozens of experienced veterans, seeing that this is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and their cavalry is dealing with an infantry army with similar strength to them, if they can't beat the other party, they really have no face, after listening to their leader's orders, these dozens of veteran pawns led and screamed, began to wave their respective swords and guns, bit their teeth and began to follow the cavalry Qian Zong to speed up the horse, and lower the body as close to the horse's neck as possible, Lowering the surface of their bodies does make it a bit difficult for the Celestial Arms Shooters to target them.

As soon as he saw that the cavalry of the official army began to charge at them again, Zhao Erdonkey had to order a temporary halt to the march and order the phalanx to stop and fight.

Although the firecrackers at the two corners had been on the march just now, they were not idle, but were still on the march, still loading, and at this time they were ready to launch, and the rows of bird's guns were put down.

For a group of officers and soldiers lying on horseback, the musketeers did not aim at these officers and soldiers on horseback, but invariably aimed their guns at these war horses.

After all, the caliber of the bird gun of the Xingtian Army is very large, a few millimeters beyond the caliber of the ordinary bird gun, and the weight of the projectile has also increased a lot, at close range, it is completely possible to kill a horse, and after the official cavalry rushes closer, the fire gun on the two horns immediately began to crackle, only to see the war horse in front of the horse neighed together, and the horse's neck and chest erupted in a cloud of blood mist, one after another fell to the ground, and suddenly the formation of the official cavalry was disrupted again, The cavalry behind had to circle their horses to avoid the overturned horses in front.

And this time, this cavalry commander was also ruthless, and continued to urge his soldiers to attack the formation of the Xingtian Army, and rushed to about 20 steps of the Xingtian Army formation, desperately trying to break up a corner of the Xingtian Army's formation.

After Zhao Erdonkey saw it, he was also taken aback, and immediately ordered the firecrackers on this horn to withdraw into the phalanx, and at the same time ordered the spearmen to seal the gap.

Said that it was too late and that was fast, although after Zhao Erdonkey gave the order, the formation began to change, but it still did not catch up with the speed of the officers and soldiers cavalry, and suddenly a few horses crashed into a corner of the phalanx, only to hear a scream and angry scolding in the Xingtian Army array, more than a dozen firecrackers in the corner of the formation were knocked to the ground by the war horses, and some people were even directly knocked out, and instantly heard the sound of many people's bodies breaking bones, and the formation of the Xingtian Army at this time, finally began to appear wave-like chaos.

"Steady! Don't fuck it! Get back to your place! Stop them for Lao Tzu! Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhao Erdonkey immediately hissed and roared, and pressed the soldiers in the formation to stabilize the formation.

However, the trouble caused by the official cavalry to the Xingtian Army was limited to this, and after a few desperate guys rushed into a corner of the Xingtian Army's formation, they were also overturned to the ground in an instant, and the spears stabbed on both sides did not give them a chance at all, so they stabbed them into a sieve with men and horses.

However, this blow to Zhao Erdonkey's side was not small, the original neat phalanx, at this time there was a huge defect in one corner, the entire corner was chaotic, showing a collapsed shape, and it could no longer maintain the neat formation just now, and the fire hammer on this corner suffered heavy casualties, although the high-speed rushing war horse was stabbed to death on the spot, but it also affected the spear arrays on both sides, making this phalanx suddenly fall into the danger of collapse.

At this point, Zhao Erdonkey was also a little panicked, although he had fought a lot of battles with Xiao Tianjian in the past two years, like this, but it was the first time he encountered it, so he was sweating profusely while roaring the whole team, and at the same time saw that the officers and soldiers of the brigade were already very close to them, so he issued an order that almost made him regret it for the rest of his life, that is, to order the whole team to accelerate the retreat towards Liujiabao at the same time.

The phalanx, which was already in a semi-chaotic state, had to act at the same time, this was undoubtedly a very stupid decision, if Zhao Erdonkey did not give the order to speed up to Liujiabao, he would still have a chance to reassemble the chaotic phalanx, but it was this wrong order that almost wiped out their entire army.

At the same time as receiving the two orders, the drummer beat the marching drum again, and the soldiers in the formation were a little at a loss, after all, they had not faced such a dangerous situation, and at this time, a large number of officers and soldiers had already chased after them, so these Xingtian army members were a little flustered.

The more panicked, the worse things became, the more panicked the formation became, and people could no longer adjust their steps to each other, and accurately stepped on the drumbeat, so the phalanx became more chaotic at this time.

As soon as he saw that the phalanx of the Xingtian Army was becoming more and more chaotic, the general cavalry of the official army realized that the opportunity had come, and after gathering his subordinates, he once again chased and killed.

At this time, the formation of the Xingtian Army was already chaotic, and it was no longer possible to build a spear formation like a forest, but it was rushed by the official cavalry in the back, and the formation was completely chaotic.

Once the formation of the infantry army was disrupted, then in the face of the pursuit of the official cavalry, it became a one-sided cover-up, and the group of official cavalry who had been aggrieved for a long time immediately waved their knives one by one on their prancing horses like bullfights, fell behind the routed Xingtian army, and began to kill wantonly.

Suddenly, a large number of Xingtian army members fell in a pool of blood, Zhao Erdonkey also panicked at this time, he also understood at this time, he made a huge mistake just now, he should not have ordered a retreat before the formation was reorganized, which led to the collapse of the entire phalanx.

This reminded him of one thing that Xiao Tianjian had repeatedly told them, Xiao Tianjian repeatedly emphasized the importance of the battle formation to these generals at the beginning of the formation of the Xingtian Army, no matter under any circumstances, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army must ensure the integrity of the battle array, and there can be no chaos, even if there is chaos, the array must be restored as soon as possible, otherwise, no matter how strong the soldiers are, they can only be a group of rabble.

And it was precisely because of his panic that he forgot these Xiao Tianjian's repeated explanations to them, so that he caused the current catastrophe, so he was frightened, immediately stopped, grabbed the soldiers around him, and tried to reorganize the team, but once the soldiers were in chaos, coupled with someone covering up behind, it became an impossible task to reorganize the team.

So after Zhao Erdon's efforts failed several times, he was completely desperate, and he had to be coerced by the rout and desperately flee towards Liujiabao.

And at this time, that Zhang Baochang and more than 30 township soldiers looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, just now the brothers of the Xingtian Army were still fighting well, so that these officers and cavalry couldn't bite the hedgehog, but why did they collapse in an instant?