Chapter 220: Cavalry Assault
The cavalry of the Zhenxi Army broke into the formation of the Nong army, like a tiger entering the flock of sheep, without encountering any effective resistance, and easily chiseled through the formation of the Nong army, and easily crossed out from the opposite side. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the past two days, the Nong army has been constantly fighting and provoking day and night, but the defenders on the pass only hold on, and they dare not go out of the pass to meet the enemy. They were not a regular army in the first place, and when they saw that the defenders did not dare to attack, they naturally slackened a little, and their vigilance was also a little lax. In addition, there are few horses in Lingnan, and there are few troops who are good at riding and fighting. Since the Nong army started its army, it has basically never encountered the cavalry of the Song army, and naturally it is not good at dealing with cavalry.
Therefore, when the wolf-like cavalry of the Zhenxi Army suddenly came out of the pass and quickly broke into the Nong army's formation to slash and slash and assault, the Nong army basically had no effective way to deal with them. In the face of the heavily armed cavalry of the Zhenxi Army, they felt unusually passive and helpless.
The cavalry team of the Zhenxi Army was like a sharp knife, and after easily cutting through the formation of the Nong army, it made a large arc circle not far away, and rushed over from the side of the Nong army again.
In this second charge, the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army still did not encounter strong resistance, and they still easily broke out of the loose formation of the Nong Army.
The infantry team against the cavalry team, in fact, as long as they break through and are disrupted and divide the formation, the infantry is basically doomed to the fate of defeat, which is nothing more than a matter of the degree of defeat.
The Zhenxi army broke into the Nong army's formation, and did not deliberately cut down those Nong soldiers, but just strangled and cleaned up the enemies who stood in their way. In fact, it is basically effortless to clean up the Nong army that is blocking their way, but those armored war horses gallop and easily crash into a large area of the Nong army. Although the armored cavalry of the Western Army was not as terrifying as those heavy cavalry, the enemy in front of them was basically broken when they hit it.
There is no need to slow down the horses so that they can slash and kill the enemies, and when the formation of the Nong army is completely broken, then it is time to reap the lives of the enemies. The tactics of the cavalry of the Western Army are generally to repeatedly attack the infantry formation, until the opponent's formation completely collapses, and they can defend to chase and slash the enemy.
Obviously, the loose defensive formation hastily formed by these Nong troops could not stop the wolf-like Zhenxi Army's iron cavalry rush.
As a result, after the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army dug through the formation of the Nong Army for the second time, the Nong Army began to scatter, and their formation was on the verge of collapse.
After the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army chiseled through the formation of the Nong Army, they did not stop at all, went around in a circle again, turned their horses' heads and rushed back.
This time, the hastily organized weak formation of the Nong army could no longer be supported.
In fact, it is not easy for them to hold on for so long under the iron cavalry of the Zhenxi Army. When the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army rushed in for the third time, the formation of the Nong army collapsed, which was a good record. You must know that these iron cavalry of the Zhenxi Army are the elites of the rest of their lives who are in the bitter cold land of the northwest all the year round, and often fight with the strong Western Xia cavalry, and they are all like soldiers and kings.
The first two charges have already smashed the formation of the Nong army, and at this time, seeing that the formation is about to collapse, the leaders of the Nong army are either killed, wounded, or separated from their own subordinates, and a few leaders who have not been injured want to stabilize the situation, but they find that they can't contain their men at all, so the rout is inevitable.
The discipline of the Nong army was not very strict, and seeing that the iron cavalry of the Western Army was galloping vertically and horizontally, and the blockers were invincible, they had already been frightened.
Fighting this kind of thing is a bloody and brave spirit, and the Nong army at this time is already close to collapse, and when I see that someone on my side begins to flee, this morale will be completely discharged! So the rest of the Nong's fleeing crowd was like a flood that had broken for thousands of miles, and could no longer stop, and they all ran desperately towards their own camp.
In the eyes of the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army, Nong Zhigao's grass-headed army, whose combat effectiveness is scum, can hold out for so long, which is already very good.
These cavalry of the Zhenxi Army originally didn't plan to kill many enemies at first, but they had the idea of testing the strength of the other party to weigh these nong soldiers.
But I didn't expect these Nong Zhigao troops to be defeated quickly, and at this time, if they were defeated, they would be defeated, and they could go back to the gate. However, when they saw that the fleeing Nong army did not scatter to the high places on the hillside, dense woods and other places where it was difficult for the cavalry to travel, but ran in one direction, that is, to their own big camp, this was completely the rhythm of delivering food, and the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army felt that it was really unreasonable not to cut and kill for a while, so they chased after them.
Those Nong soldiers are also stupid, they don't run to the dense forests on the hillside, but run along the road to their own camp, isn't this purely looking for their own death? It is estimated that they were defeated at this time, and they wanted to return to the camp as soon as possible to find safe shelter. But they probably forgot at this time, their two legs, the war horse that can run over four legs?
At that moment, the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army chased after the scattered Nong army and slashed away.
At this time, these scattered and fleeing Nong troops did not have the courage and consciousness to resist at all, and the cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army only needed to throw out their sabers, and another Nong army was cut down to the ground. Even if these armored cavalry of the Zhenxi Army did not deliberately cut and kill, they just trampled on their horses and ran over them all the way, and countless Nong troops fell in the dust.
Although Erlidi is not far at all, at this time, it has become a road that most of the Nong army will never be able to complete. The cavalry of the Zhenxi Army trampled all the way through, and soon turned the road into a bloody road.
The Nong army was chased and killed miserably, and then they realized this problem, and they ran like this, afraid that they would be killed before they could wait for their own camp. At that moment, the remaining Nong troops let out a loud cry one after another, scattered and fled, and took refuge in the difficult place of the war horses next to them.
The Zhenxi army saw that those Nong troops were scattered and fled, and it was not easy to chase and kill, so they couldn't help but put away the blades in their hands, and this slaughter feast was stopped.
At this time, the cavalry station of the Zhenxi Army pursued all the way and had already pursued and killed in front of the camp of Nong Zhigao's army.
Han Wu and Wang Dazhu are both violent, and they have been a little aggrieved by the battle of the Nong army in the past two days, and when they arrived in front of the camp of the Nong army, they couldn't help but want to take revenge. Whatever they wanted the Nong army to scold them, they would scold back.
The cavalry soldiers of the Zhenxi Army were also loud people, and Han Wu and Wang Dazhu immediately let them scold in front of the camp of the Nong Army.
Although they are all scolding wars, how high is the cultural level of the Han people! Although the soldiers of the Western Army are not cultural people, but close to Zhu Zhechi, their level of scolding is still many times higher than the level of those southern barbarians, which is not the same. Although he didn't have too many foul language, he belittled Nong Jun unlikely, and as for their emperor Nong Zhigao, he was naturally degraded to a clown who was crowned by a monkey.
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Nong Zhigao was in a good mood in the past two days, and the method of fighting he thought of made the Song army very happy, and they didn't dare to go out to face the battle at all, which greatly improved the morale of his army. In addition to the image of the warriors under him, the emperor of the Great Southern Kingdom, this newly established image of resourcefulness is also getting taller and taller, and he is not only a little smug.
When he heard the shouting and scolding outside the camp, his good mood suddenly disappeared, and this group of Song soldiers actually ran to his door to scold, and he really didn't know whether he was alive or dead. He couldn't help but get up and wanted to teach those Song soldiers a lesson.
When Nong Zhigao came to the wall of his large army camp, he knew that the 3,000 soldiers he sent to fight had been beaten away by the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army in front of him, and he couldn't help but jump even more violently.
However, although Nong Zhigao is angry, he is still very calm about the war! He looked at the majestic cavalry riding tall horses under the wall, and he really felt a little tricky. If there were so many tens of thousands of cavalry in the army of the Song army this time, it was estimated that he would have to take a break immediately.
There were few horses in the Lingnan area, and most of them were bantam horses that could not be ridden, and although there were 6,000 cavalry under Nong Zhi's master, they actually had little combat effectiveness.
In fact, in the final analysis, his cavalry was actually just some infantry on horseback, and their combat effectiveness was very low, and they could not be compared with regular cavalry. Cavalrymen cannot be called qualified cavalrymen without two or three years of training. Relying on these novice cavalry in their own hands to fight with the cavalry of the Song army, I am afraid that they will only have to deliver food.
Fortunately, Nong Zhigao also knows the Great Song Dynasty very well, he knows: The Great Song Dynasty is also very short of war horses, there are not many cavalry, and it is impossible to leave heavy troops to guard against the Liao people in the north and the Xia people in the west, it is impossible to bring all the cavalry to Lingnan, it is estimated that the cavalry in the western army going south cannot bring too much, and the cavalry under these walls is estimated to be the elite of the Song army.
Nong Zhigao heard that the cavalry of the Zhenxi Army were still scolding there, and felt that this lesson was necessary, but he was afraid that his cavalry would not be able to do it. If you go too much, even if you win, you can't reflect your prestige, and if you go less, you can't do it, but you still have to rely on your own secret weapon.