Chapter 505: Fire Pig Array (2)
When they approached a hundred paces, the Xian army stopped, and the big shield was erected on the spot.
"General, the Jinxuedi people are in formation!" Su Hong said quickly.
"They don't dare to attack, prepare for the fire pig to charge!"
"The last general obeys!"
More than 300 gaps were quickly opened in front of the formation, the pig cage was densely packed in the middle, the cage mouth was facing outward, the back half of the pig was poured with oil, the two sides were clamped to death by the big shield hand, and the soldier stood behind the cage with torches.
At the end of the day, the soldiers lit the fire pig, the cage opened at the same time, a tragic pig roar, hundreds of wild boars screamed out of the wooden cage, roared in the flames of bitter pain, rushed to the camp on the west bank of Jinxuedi, almost as expected, there was no rush to the Xian army.
"Hehe, the general is god, these wild boars are so fucking obedient, why didn't they hit us headlong?" Su Hong asked puzzled.
"The pig has long smelled the smell of water, and the first thing to do is to rush to the lake."
"I mean, how can these brutes be so obedient."
The fire pig and the fire ox formation were originally used to collide with the elephant herd, and the mammoth war elephant was not afraid of fire attacks, so these two tactics did not appear in the Central Plains before this, so the Jin Xuedi people had never seen the fire pig tactics, and the vassal states of the Central Plains had never seen the fire pigs.
The wild boar ran wildly with fire at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour, and it was a hundred steps away in the blink of an eye. At this time, Jin Xuedi didn't know why, and continued to wait until the fire pig approached, and it was too late.
The huge body instantly broke through the defense line, the sharp fangs pierced the flesh, and the burning wild boar was furious and abnormal, trampling and ramming all those who dared to block the Jinxuedi people's defense line, and the assassination and injury of the weapons could not make the wild boars feel greater pain, but even more angered the rough-skinned wild boars to fight back wildly, and ignited the camp baggage of the Jinxuedi people, causing a fire.
Seeing this tragic situation in the telescope, Sikong Nan was shocked:
"This tactic is so ferocious, if it is a thousand or ten thousand, no matter how many enemy troops can be crushed by it!"
"Yes, but the cost of 1,000,000 wild boars or domestic pigs is enormous. Therefore, the Jinxuedi people attacked our army's battle formation with war fangs, and the casualties were even more tragic than them! ”
"Does the general have a way to break it?" Sikong Nan asked.
"The war fang is not afraid of fire attacks, so the royal guests are often disturbed by loud noises, causing them to disarray themselves. In addition, you can also send out the dead soldiers, go around behind the battle fang, and use the axe to cut the retreating legs, or shoot the giant crossbow arrows to make them lose walking, and this array can be broken. ”
It is undoubtedly disastrous that war elephants are not afraid of fire attacks, because fire attacks are almost the cheapest means of dealing with war elephants, and their own casualties are minimal. When the fire attack cannot be effective, it is bound to be besieged by manpower. For hundreds of years, the Jinxuedi people invaded the Central Plains in the north, and the royal guests successively summarized some effective tactics to deal with the mammoth.
There is a kind of suona-like trumpet in the royal guest equipment, which blows with a sharp sound, and the mammoth hates the noise produced by this kind of trumpet the most, and is extremely frightened.
In addition, it is also possible to go around the mammoth and use a large axe to slash the mammoth's hind legs, incapacitating it, which is also the best way to eliminate the mammoth, but in either case, it must be approached by a human to be effective.
The Jinxuedi people often set up crossbowmen on the backs of war elephants, so the success rate is very low, and it often takes more than a dozen people, or even dozens of people, to solve a mammoth.
The fire pig was still frantically attacking the enemy formation, and the Jin Xuedi people were caught off guard by the chaos of the formation, and the casualties were not small. Seeing this, Bailiyan decisively ordered:
"Su Hong!"
"The last general!"
"Attack in full formation, long pole guns ready!"
"The last general obeys!"
The long-pole gun is a temporary long-rod of more than two zhang long, with an extended spear made of a spear head, and the gunner is shrunk behind the big shield of the Tianpeng miners' battalion, and on both sides are the new pawns holding the shield and the long sword of the whole formation, and behind him are the crossbowmen, as well as hundreds of veterans of the Xian army.
6,000 people lined up and slowly approached the Jin Xuedi line, under the fire pig continued to rush wildly, the Jin Xuedi people's crossbowmen and feet were messy, and when the Xian army approached, a spear of more than two zhang long was set on the front row of big shields, and the front Jin Xuedi people stabbed past, during which the crossbowmen and arrows shot rapidly, and the long and short cooperated, and quickly rushed away from the front.
"General, they're regrouping the formation!" Su Hong said anxiously.
"Let me speed up, and be sure to cut off its north and south!"
"No!"
Bailiyan adjusted the large array and continued to assault the west coast, without giving the slightest respite. The Jin Xuedi people forcibly formed a formation and tried to counterattack, but they were defeated by the spear array.
"Su Hong, pass on my general, blow the first trumpet!"
"Obey the order, blow the first trumpet!"
When the battle horn sounded, Fang Liang's headquarters of 2,000 people hidden in the woods behind the big formation drove 300 war horses out together, and the war horses were connected by tripping horses and rushed into the enemy formation, and countless people fell to the ground under the surprise of Jin Xuedi.
"Brothers, kill me!"
"Kill, kill......"
Fang Liang raised his arms and shouted, the sound of the army killing was amazing, thousands of soldiers waved the weapons in their hands like a flood beast to pounce on the enemy formation, under the collision of horses, the Jin Xuedi people were already crushed, and when Fang Liang killed in front of him, he had no power to parry.
Honk......
At this time, there was another trumpet, and Bai Liyan pulled out a horizontal knife and shouted categorically:
"Disperse, kill, drive them into the water!"
With an order, the 6,000-strong array disintegrated on the spot and split into six, like a tiger descending from a mountain, unstoppable.
The Xian army took the initiative to launch an attack, causing chaos on the west bank, and the commander of the corps, Ettis, was unexpected, and quickly sent troops across the river to reinforce, trying to consolidate the bridgehead position and sweep all the nets, but he did not expect the speed of the west bank to rush and catch people off guard.
Under the rush of the Xian army, the west bank quickly collapsed and dispersed, and the routed troops panicked like a tide, rushing to flee to the pontoon bridge, and countless people fell into the water.
"Quick, get them into the water, quick!" Su Hong killed Yanhong and led the spear team to kill the Jinxuedi people on the southern flank.
Tian Peng brandished a double axe and went on a rampage, and when he reached the lake, he was dragged back by Bailiyan:
"Don't kill you!"
"What's the matter, these dog-like mothers, don't take advantage of this time to kill him more than ten or twenty, let alone when!"
"What if you fall into the water!"
"Why can his surname Hong be happy, we can't!"
"Fool, if you are planted in the water, who will catch you! Go, take all your men back for me, and swoop south to cut down the piles on the side of the pontoon! ”
Tian Peng only cares about fighting and has no brains, the miner battalion is equipped with the best armor and weapons, and Tian Peng himself is wearing thirty or forty catties of fish scale iron armor, and if he is not careful, he will not be able to catch it.
Most of the new Ding in Su Hong's department did not have armor, and even if they were planted in the water, as long as they knew how to water, most of them would not be able to drown.
The Jinxuedi auxiliaries are all equipped with armor, and if they fall into the water, they will die without a place to be buried. If you rush into the water, you will drown a lot, and you can defeat it without fighting at all.
This is sometimes a back-to-back battle, which is often not a good thing, and if it is not used correctly, it will suffer.
The routs rolled into the water one after another under the drive of the Xian army, and the pontoon bridge was crowded into a mess, and countless people fell into the water.
Tian Peng fell to the west bank of the pontoon bridge at this time, picked up the big axe in his hand, and swung an axe with the wooden stake nailed into the ground, and the rope was broken, and the whole pontoon bridge was like a drunken dragon falling upside down, and the rout on the bridge lost their balance under the surprise, and those who were planted in the water did not know how many.
At the next moment, Tian Peng was about to cut the bridge pile on the other side again, and the big axe had just been raised, and the accomplice on the side reminded:
"Brother Tian Peng, the leader asked us to cut only one side of the bridge pile, and cut both sides, this is against the military order!"
"Fuck it, cutting one is chopping, cutting two is also chopping, and after cutting these bitches, you can't get by raising one!"
After that, Tian Peng cut the rope on the other side with an axe, and the raft at the head of the bridge was immediately from the shore, and the remnants of the soldiers who were originally rushing to the pontoon bridge retreated completely.
"Idiot, pig!"
Playing the horizontal knife, Baili Yan killed the bridge pile, only to see Tian Peng pulling men and horses to fight in the chaos of the bridgehead, thousands of Jin Xuedi people cut off the way to retreat, and were compressed near the bridgehead to resist to the death, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate in an instant.
Tian Peng was pulled out of the chaotic army, and Baili Yan went up with two slaps!
"You idiot!"
Tian Peng was stunned for a moment, looked directly at Bailiyan in astonishment, and was also taken aback in his heart, and couldn't help but be annoyed:
"You hit me!"
"Pig, you're a pig, what are you going to do if you cut off one side of the bridge pile and cut off two!"
"Damn, Lao Tzu saw these thieves and grandsons run away, Lao Tzu is not happy!"
Tian Peng opened his mouth, Lao Tzu Lao Tzu, his heart was extremely angry, and Bai Liyan went up and slapped him twice:
"Idiot, stupid. Do you know that if these routs all go to the bridge, they will all drown in the water, and the reinforcements they cross the bridge will also drown in the water, and now you have cut off the bridge piles on both sides, not only can the rout soldiers on the west bank not go up the bridge, but they also have to resist desperately, do you know how many brothers we have to die to annihilate them.
Do you know that if you cut off the wooden stakes on both sides, the wooden rafts under the pontoon bridge will become their life-saving raft in the blink of an eye, and how many white-haired thieves will die less, do you know? ”
The anger in Tian Peng's heart was quickly annihilated under Bailiyan's hysterical abuse, and he was aggrieved like a child, covering the red palm prints on his face:
"I ......"
"What am I, don't withdraw your people from me yet, go quickly!"
"Oh......"
Bai Liyan's anger did not subside, and she couldn't bear the anger in her heart when she looked at the rout soldiers who escaped on the raft in the water.
Only cut the wooden stake on one side of the pontoon, and after the pontoon loses the tension on one side, it quickly disperses to one side and will not collapse immediately, and the rout quickly overturns into the water under surprise, and the pontoon bridge is limited by the cable on the other side, and still maintains the shape on the surface.
The rout on the west bank will continue to rush onto the pontoon bridge in a panic, even if the pontoon bridge will roll over at any time, but as long as you escape along the unbroken rope on the other side, you can still walk, even if you drown some unlucky people.
At that time, all the routs will catch up with the pontoon bridge, and then cut the rope of the bridge pile on the other side, and then people will pick up the rope and shake it left and right, and the rout on the pontoon bridge can lose their balance and plant into the lake, so that the enemy can be drowned without much effort.
Now that Tian Peng cut two ropes at the same time, the reinforcements of the Jinxuedi people who were crossing the river would quickly retreat to the east bank, and although the routed army planted in the lake drowned some people, more needles pierced, and climbed onto the raft spread out on the pontoon bridge to save their lives.
However, there are still three or four thousand defeated troops on the west bank, and I don't know how much strength and lives will be spent in order to annihilate these defeated troops.