Chapter 243: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
Li De'an thought very well, the reinforcements of the Jiaozhi Army used to carry out counter-encirclement by the infantry of the Western Army, and to blossom for the encircled Jiaozhi Army, coupled with the absolute superiority in the number of the Jiaozhi Army, the infantry of the Western Army could basically be taken. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info Only those cavalry are left to deal with, although it is impossible to destroy them all, but it is completely possible to defeat them.
But apparently Li De'an underestimated the speed of the impact of the cavalry of the Western Army.
Seeing that the Jiaozhi people sent 10,000 reinforcements to reinforce the soldiers of the former army of the Jiaozhi army, who were divided and surrounded, the cavalry of the Western Army was also ready to attack.
When Chen Dashan, the fierce general of the Jiaozhi Army who went to reinforce, took the 10,000 Jiaozhi troops who were ready to reinforce, lined up and began to rush towards the infantry of the Western Army, the cavalry of the Western Army had already started.
Chen Dashan originally thought that the middle army of their Jiaozhi Army was very close to the place where the infantry of the Western Army and the Jiaozhi Army were fighting, and they could easily rush over!
But when he led his troops to rush out, he found that the matter was far from being as easy as he imagined, because he found that the Western cavalry was rushing towards them at a terrifying speed.
Chen Dashan couldn't help but hurriedly asked his Jiaozhi soldiers to speed up and rush to the place where the infantry of the Western Army and the Jiaozhi Army were fighting at the fastest speed, because only when they started to engage with the infantry of the Western Army in a short battle, those Western cavalry could not attack them.
The cavalry of the Western Army obviously saw through Chen Dashan's plan, and naturally would not let them succeed.
The cavalry of the Western Army started from the hillside mountain, and it was easier to increase the speed, and soon they could reach the maximum speed, and they rushed directly to the middle ground between the front line of the Western infantry and the Jiaozhi Army and Chen Dashan's reinforcements, intending to intercept them directly.
For a moment, the contest became a battle to see who was faster.
Finally, it was the cavalry of the Western Army that was faster. They were intercepted before the reinforcements of the Cochin Army came into contact with the infantry of the Western Army.
So, the result was already predestined.
The 10,000 Jiaozhi troops were scattered and accelerated to charge, and they could not resist the impact of the Western cavalry at all.
In fact, even if this Cochin Army is ready to form a gun formation to resist horses, it may not be able to block the impact of nearly 5,000 cavalry of the Western Army, not to mention that these Cochin Army are originally stragglers.
Without any suspense, the cavalry of the Western Army easily rushed into the reinforcement of the 10,000 Jiaozhi Army, and the interspersed division began, accompanied by the slaughter of the Jiaozhi Army.
Don't say that it is 10,000 Cochin troops, that is, 100,000 Cochin troops, if they are in a state of scattered charge, without blocking the cavalry's tight gun formation, these 5,000 cavalry can easily crush and defeat them, let alone this 10,000 Cochin army.
Among the 5,000 cavalry of the Western Army, the first is still the armored cavalry of the vanguard army. In front of the vanguard armored cavalry armed to the teeth, the defense line of the Jiaozhi army was like paper paste, and it was easily interspersed by the vanguard armored cavalry, and it did not encounter the slightest obstruction at all. The vanguard army only needs to put the saber in his hand flat, and the horse rushes to kill in the reinforcements of the Cochin Army, and it is enough to pass all the way, and countless Cochin Army soldiers will naturally fall behind him.
The battle went on quickly, as there was no suspense about the outcome from the start, and it was a completely one-sided slaughter.
And the infantry of the Western Army, who originally formed the plum blossom array to surround the front army of the Jiaozhi Army, saw that the task of "luring the snake out of the hole" on their side was completed, and they also waved the blades in their hands more violently. With the afterburner of the Western Army's infantry, those besieged Jiaozhi troops felt the pressure increase sharply, and it was difficult to resist, and the speed at which they fell also accelerated a lot.
The power of the Western Army's infantry seen now is the true strength of the Western Army's infantry. Once the strong soldiers of the Western Army showed their true strength, they were terrifying.
Just now, he surrounded those soldiers in the front line of the Jiaozhi Army, and did not use all his strength to kill them quickly, but only carried out a limited attack, in order to lure the Jiaozhi Army out for reinforcements, so that the cavalry of the Western Army could crush them.
This is a plan set by his own commander.
Because if those Jiaozhi troops formed a formation in front of their own camp and waited for the Western cavalry to attack, the Western cavalry would definitely have to spend a lot of effort and pay a lot of casualties. And it must be much easier to lure those Cochin troops over and charge them as they charge.
However, the commander of the Jiaozhi Army did not seem to be stupid, and he also guarded against the cavalry of the Western Army, and did not bring all the follow-up troops up to strangle the infantry of the Western Army.
Although only 10,000 reinforcements from the Cochin Army were sent, no matter how small the flies were, they were still meat, so let's put them in the bowl first. Therefore, the cavalry of the Western Army did not hesitate to dispatch and strangle those Jiaozhi Army troops who came to reinforce them.
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Li De'an, who was standing on the opposite hillside watching the battlefield, couldn't help but turn blue when he saw that his Jiaozhi Army's front soldiers and the troops who went to reinforce were constantly slaughtered.
Li De'an watched those infantry of the Western Army descend the mountain one by one like fierce tigers, so powerful, he couldn't help but be a little frightened, this 10,000 Western Army could really surround and kill his own 20,000 Jiaozhi Army front army.
Li Dean couldn't help but scold Nong Zhigao for being a bastard at this time. This damn bastard said that the Western Army, like the Song Army in Lingnan, was a shooting team, and could only rely on bows and crossbows to kill the enemy; Say that once the Western Army is in close hands, it will immediately collapse and scatter in all directions. Nong Zhigao obviously lied to himself, does this have a truth?
When this battle is over, we must break Nong Zhigao's corpse into ten thousand pieces, and let them disappear completely along with his Nong clan, Li De'an thought through gritted teeth at this time.
However, Li De'an was angry, and he also knew that no matter how he planned to deal with Nong Zhigao's matter, it would be a matter for the future, and it was important to concentrate on dealing with the situation in front of him.
And the current situation is that Li De'an found that he was not only deceived by Nong Zhigao, but also found that he had fallen into the Western Army's strategy of "luring the snake out of the hole".
These Western infantry surrounded the front army of the Jiaozhi Army, but they didn't show their real strength to strangle them, in order to wait for their own reinforcements to go up, and send cavalry to rush and kill them, it's too fucking ruthless.
Of course, this simple strategy of the Western Army to "lure the snake out of the hole" was based on their strong combat power. If the infantry of the Western Army, with their strong strength, not only blocked the attack of the 20,000 Jiaozhi Army, but also counterattacked them, constantly interspersed and divided them, and surrounded them, this strategy would not have worked.
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Seeing that the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army on the battlefield in front of him fell one by one and decreased one by one, Li Dean couldn't help but let his subordinates ring the gong that made the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army retreat.
However, the current situation on the battlefield is not something that those Jiaozhi soldiers can withdraw if they want to, they must first avoid the killing of the Western Army.
Of course, it was not so easy for the Western Army to completely strangle twice as many of their Cochin soldiers.
Hearing the sound of the retreating gong, the reinforcements of the Jiaozhi Army, which were being slaughtered by the cavalry of the Western Army, withdrew first.
After all, the cavalry of the Western Army only divided and slaughtered them, and could not surround them, and they could withdraw at any time if they wanted to retreat. Of course, their retreat would definitely face the pursuit of the Western cavalry. Moreover, the cavalry of the Western Army all rode four-legged war horses, and if they wanted to escape the pursuit on two legs, they needed a lot of luck to do so.
As for the soldiers in the front line of the Jiaozhi Army who were surrounded by the infantry of the Western Army, they also struggled to get rid of the entanglement of the infantry of the Western Army and retreat to their own camp when they heard the sound of Mingjin withdrawing their troops.
However, the infantry soldiers of the Western Army formed a small plum blossom formation, which seemed to be quite empty, but it was difficult to rush out if they wanted to rush out. Because the spears in the hands of those pikemen are all big spears more than a foot long, covering a wide area, enough to seal the space between those plum blossom arrays.
Of course, even if the 10,000 infantry of the Western Army is strong, it is impossible to kill all the soldiers in the front line of the Jiaozhi Army. Although the plum blossom array of the Western Army's infantry was tightly coordinated and could prevent most of the Jiaozhi soldiers from rushing out, there were always some who were lucky enough to rush out. He didn't pay attention to the Western infantry who rushed out, and still maintained his own formation, really strangling the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army within his attack range.
As for those soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army who were lucky enough to break out of the encirclement of the infantry of the Western Army, if they want to run back to their own army, they still need to rush through the attack range of the Western cavalry, and they also have to have a process of nine deaths, which is not so easy.
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At this time, the soldiers of the reinforcements of the Jiaozhi Army had already run back to the main formation, and Li De'an asked the herald to give a loud order: Let those soldiers who had withdrawn from the line of fire gather on the side of the main formation, and could not enter the main formation, in case the cavalry of the Western Army took the opportunity to break the main formation of the Central Army of the Jiaozhi Army.
The withdrawn Jiaozhi troops were given orders and had to assemble next to the main formation of the Chinese army, and set up a formation under the command of some of the generals who had withdrawn. And Li De'an asked the Chinese army to maintain a tight gun formation in the main formation to prevent the Western army from rushing into battle.
So far, Li De'an already knows in his heart that he will not be able to win today's battle. He planned to wait for all the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army who could be withdrawn to retreat, assemble in a formation and retreat into the camp, and the tight gun formation of the Chinese army's main formation needed to be cut off for them to stop the Western cavalry from charging and killing.
Li De'an regrets it now, why didn't he fight behind his back at the gate of his own camp? He chose this hillside, although it was not far from the gate of the camp, but it would always be a little troublesome to withdraw. If this gun formation moves, I am afraid that it will definitely not be timed and tight there, and I am afraid that it will give those Western cavalry a chance to attack.
Li Dean now wants to return safely to the camp first, and then he can feel a lot more at ease with the protection of the camp wall. According to the words of the village, Li De'an felt that it was possible for them to hold the Jiaozhi Army, if it was a field battle, I am afraid it would be difficult to defeat this Western Army, damn it, this is not that the Jiaozhi Army is useless, it is really the combat power of this Western Army in the field is too perverted.
The cavalry of the Western Army did not rush to attack the main formation of the Chinese army of the Cochin Army, but scattered in all directions, rushing back and forth, strangling the soldiers of the Cochin Army who were retreating.
It wasn't until they strangled back and forth that the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army who were running slowly were almost strangled that the cavalry of the Western Army began to regroup, preparing to storm the main formation of the Central Army of the Jiaozhi Army and completely end the battle.
The infantry of the Western Army basically strangled the soldiers in the front line of the Jiaozhi Army in the encirclement, and at this time they also began to prepare for the cavalry of the Western Army to break down the main formation of the Chinese army of the Jiaozhi Army, and then go to cover the situation.
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At this time, the soldiers of the Jiaozhi Army under Li De'an, those who could be collected back had already been brought back, and those who could not come back could not come back at all, and it was time to retreat into the camp.
However, when Li De'an was about to order those Jiaozhi troops to withdraw to the camp before the change, he saw that the cavalry of the Western Army was already preparing to attack their Chinese army, and he was not in a hurry to retreat back to the camp at the moment.
If you retreat at this time, it will give the Western Army a chance to attack. And at this time, they set up a formation on this small hillside to face the battle, but they have quite an advantage. For a while, the terrain in front of them was a little rugged, the second was that they were at a high place, and the speed of the horses would definitely drop when the western army rushed up, and the second was that the standing formation was more stable against the cavalry attack.
When Li De'an arrived, he hoped that the Western cavalry would attack them first, because he had an advantage in arranging the formation here at this time, and he felt that the thickness of the spear formation composed of these soldiers under his command was also enough, which was just enough to frustrate the spirit of the Western cavalry. After repelling the first round of attacks by the Western cavalry, it is more secure to take the opportunity to withdraw to the camp.
Therefore, Li De'an ordered the soldiers of the withdrawn Jiaozhi Army to also form a phalanx to guard the left flank of the main formation of the Jiaozhi Army. The Jiaozhi army was in full formation, waiting for the onslaught of the cavalry of the Western Army.
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Although the cavalry of the Western Army saw that the Jiaozhi Army formed a thick gun formation, they still fearlessly began to speed up their horses and rushed towards the main formation of the Chinese army of the Jiaozhi Army.
Although the cavalry of the Western Army rushed down, there was only the vanguard army led by Yang Wenguang. However, most of the cavalry led by Ma Jinhu did not rush down.
Li De'an watched the cavalry of more than 1,000 people from the four battalions of the vanguard army rushing over, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, with the thickness of the gun array laid by the Jiaozhi army's main formation, even if all the 5,000 cavalry of the Western Army rushed over together, they might not be able to break away, what could these more than 1,000 people do.
In fact, there is no good way for ordinary cavalry to deal with this kind of thick gun formation, and they can often only rely on hitting those gun formations by force, but the bodies of war horses and knights fill in and open the way. It also takes great courage for the cavalry to gallop their horses to hit the tips of the opponent's dense spears, thinking that this is basically going to die. Only by constantly ramming the bodies of the knights and horses in front of them into the opponent's spear array can the way be opened for the cavalry comrades behind. This is actually a brutal duel between the strong impact of the cavalry and the thick gun formation of the infantry.
If it is a heavy cavalry, the impact is much stronger, and at the same time, the heavy armor on their knights and horses can better protect the lives of knights and horses, and the heavy cavalry can lose a lot of their own lives against these gun formations.
However, although the armored cavalry of the vanguard army of the Western Army is also fully armed and all the men and horses are wearing armor, the leather armor on those war horses obviously cannot be compared with the iron armor of the heavy cavalry. Even if the more than 1,000 cavalry of this vanguard army are exhausted, they may not be able to break through the dense gun formation of the Jiaozhi army.
Li Dean couldn't understand why the Western Army only sent more than 1,000 vanguard troops to charge the battle, this was simply sending them to death!
However, although Li De'an didn't understand, he liked this move of the Western Army cavalry very much, since you came to die, this king will fulfill you......