Chapter 22: The Fierce Battle

Trust is a good thing, but many people don't.

Yun Lang has, he is sure that Huo Qubing will not sell him for two hundred war horses.

Huo Qu's illness is also going to be there, and he is sure that Yun Lang will definitely not use the stupid way of returning two hundred war horses to cut off Su Liang's ambition to dig people.

In such a situation, the only one who is unlucky in the end can only be Su Liang.

There are twelve captains in the Xiliu battalion, and there are twelve military horses under each captain, if Su Liang, who is the deputy general of the Xiliu battalion, is willing, he can have twenty-four Simas.

The Son of Heaven also led the Xiliu Battalion, this is a norm, since Zhou Yafu did not allow Emperor Wen's chariots and horses to enter the Xiliu Camp in the middle of the night, Xiliu, Thorn Gate, and the three military camps guarding the important places in Gyeonggi have very few generals who can serve for more than two consecutive years.

Since Liu Che became an adult, the main generals of these three places have been led by the emperor, and the person who really leads the army is the deputy general.

Su Liang is a real high-ranking and powerful person.

Yun Lang didn't know if the emperor who was far away in the capital was paying homage to his ancestors with the Liu clan under the leadership of Zongzheng, whether he was happy, he only knew that the cold Su Liang was using the trebuchet sent by Huo Qubing to violently bombard the thunderous walled city.

Under the bombardment of 500 catties of boulders, the city wall was like a fragile eggshell, the tall walled city, the thick tree trunks were smashed one by one, and the guards at the head of the city were smashed by the boulders.

The gate of the tall military village creaked and screamed, and fell to the ground with a bang, and without waiting for the jurisdiction to lead the Hu cavalry to charge, a cavalry rushed out of the military wall, and under the cover of feather arrows, they only took a breath to kill into the group of armor soldiers who were ready to attack the walled city.

The cavalry who couldn't charge up faced the armor soldiers who stood firm, it was a way to kill themselves, and the cavalry of Lei was naturally not like this, they had already fallen to the ground at the gate of the walled city, and the cavalry had already started to charge from the farthest part of the walled city, and the city gate fell to the ground, and the cavalry assaulted!

The tall horse slammed into the chest of the unprepared warrior in a hurry, and the warrior fell backwards with blood spurting, and before he could get up again, he was trampled to death by the horse's hooves.

The long spear in the cavalryman's hand was caught under their ribs, and the weapon pierced or pushed into the body of the armorer, and the long wooden pole quickly bent, and then broke and sawdust flew everywhere.

As soon as the cavalryman who had discarded the long blade drew his long knife and long sword, he found that his war horse had rushed out of the enemy formation.

The only thing the soldiers who died in battle did was to slow down the speed of the enemy's horses, and the cavalrymen used round shields to block their chests, only revealing a pair of blood-red eyes from the top of the round shield, and desperately bumped the horse's belly with a stirrup, as long as the war horse ran again, they could destroy the trebuchet that was still firing stone projectiles.

Su Liang waved his hand indifferently, and immediately, countless crossbow arrows were fired at the back of the trebuchet.

First of all, the unlucky ones were the war horses with relatively large targets, and the several war horses led by them, together with the knights on their backs, were all shot into hedgehogs by the dense crossbow arrows, and they didn't even scream, and even the people and horses fell to the ground, and there was no sound.

A long group of spearmen stepped out of the formation, holding their spears diagonally, and under the shouts of the chiefs, they marched in a neat step, and approached the cavalry who had little room for manoeuvre.

Overhead, the crossbow arrows were still pouring like a torrent of arrows, and the cavalry who had just rushed out circled anxiously in the rain of arrows, and the knights at the head simply threw away the round shields full of crossbow arrows, and with a loud roar, they swooped down on the back of their scarred horses and into the spearmen's array.

There were quite a few cavalrymen doing so, and if they could not quickly defeat the pikemen, before their reinforcements arrived, the five hundred cavalry who rushed out would be killed with crossbow arrows.

A dozen spearmen carried the corpses of the cavalrymen who had pounced on their spears, and with a shout, the corpses were pushed back, and the spears were withdrawn, and the spearmen in the second row had already passed the spearmen in the first row, and once again raised their spears diagonally and surrounded the cavalry who were rushing to the left and right.

As the encirclement grew smaller, some agile jumpers stepped on the knees of the last row of spearmen and jumped onto the shoulders of the spearmen in the front row, and as the spearmen shook their shoulders vigorously, the jumpers in light armor and short knives in round shields pounced on the cavalry in the battle formation like apes.

They were as light as swallows, leaping like flies on the back of the cavalry's horses, and the short knives in their hands constantly harvested the lives of the cavalrymen.

There were also jumpers who slipped off their horses, and before they could hit the ground, they swung their short knives in mid-air and slashed them at the legs of their horses, and then curled up in a ball and fastened their bodies with a round shield, allowing their horses or soldiers to trample on the round shields.

Su Liang's attacks continued, wave after wave, and the number of cavalry, which was not small, was less than ten cavalrymen who could ride on the back of a war horse after receiving three waves of attacks in a company.

The chief of the trilogy roared: "Scatter!" ”

The jumping soldiers who were originally slashing around the cavalry rolled away on both sides as soon as possible, and the spearmen quickly turned into a cone-shaped formation, protecting their faces with their arms.

After a rapid bang, a dense array of feather arrows was shot from the opposite side, and although the jumping soldiers who had not had time to leave the shooting surface had a round shield, it was not enough to protect the whole body, as long as the part exposed to the shield was all filled with feather arrows, and some screamed, and the body was crooked, and immediately more feather arrows fell on his body, and those light leather armor were like a piece of paper in front of the arrows.

A row of tall armor soldiers holding tower shields strode from the depths of the military village, a person-high giant shield in their hands as if carrying a lamp grass, the four-foot-long sword of chopping horses poked straight out, and the jurisdiction of the jurisdiction who had just broken into the military village shouted: "Iron pocket!" He pulled the reins of the war horse and dodged to both sides.

Su Liang sneered, waved his hand again, and Yun Lang saw that the unreliable trebuchet he had made began to rotate the extension arm again......

The boulder falls in the iron circle, the iron circle is miserable, the round boulder is constantly tumbling in the iron circle, often a round stone bullet is thrown in, it will roll out a straight channel in the iron circle.

Yun Lang, Cao Xiang, Li Kang, and a group of cavalry captains and young soldiers looked sweaty, and they lacked actual combat experience, and finally felt the strength of the Han army at close range, as well as the changeability of the princely army.

Huo Quzhi sighed and said: "The danger of the border village is especially here, and we still need to practice more."

In just a short period of time, the "cloud array" used for shooting, the "Win Wei" array used to encircle the enemy's army, the "Closing Sui" array used for surprise attacks, and the "sealing" array used to face the mountains and tombs all appeared.

All this, it can be seen that when the two armies face each other, the attack and defense must be at the same pace, advance and retreat together, and blindly rush into the opponent's formation with a single soldier or a single horseman, which will only bring about its own destruction.

A well-trained contingent must carry out orders and prohibitions, be able to hear the drums, call out the troops, and be dispatched and received by flags and horns.

In order to keep one's battle formation intact and undisturbed before the start of the war, in addition to the strict military discipline of one's own army, it is also necessary to guard against the onslaught of the enemy, and use all the means imaginable to protect oneself and kill and wound the enemy's troops, so that there is a possibility of victory. ”

Among the four brothers, Huo Qubing has the highest military literacy, and the other three are still dazzled, Huo Qubing can already accurately point out the main points of this battle.

The trebuchet is not an artillery, its killing function is an efficient thing, Yun Lang has seen more than once that some of the boulders thrown by Su Liang ordered were not killed by the Tiedou Army in the army of the vassal states, but by his own people.

Among them is the once invincible jurisdiction, a boulder that deviated from the track, smashed on the wall, and then bounced back, and smashed heavily on the jurisdiction that was hiding on the edge of the walled wall.

The impact at the front was all Hu Qi's three parts, and it could be seen that Su Liang did not regard these Hu people as his robes.

The cavalry, the armor soldiers, fought in the rain of arrows, whether it was the princes' army or the Han army, they all indiscriminately threw feather arrows to the demarcation of the battlefield, in this area, as long as they were not armor soldiers, there was no hope of survival.

Yun Lang looked at the chaotic battlefield, inhaled cool air like a toothache, and saw that Zhi Jie was stoned to death by a boulder, so he yelled at Huo Quai: "We must wear iron armor in the whole army!" ”

(Please pay attention to the official account of 孑 and not 2, the character map on display today is - everyone's friend Cheng Chumo)"