Chapter 421: The Yellow Sparrow is behind
The heavy sound of horses' hooves accompanied by the fierce wind is getting closer and closer, and the corners of the clothes of many Longxiang battalion soldiers have been blown off, but the phalanx of tens of thousands of people is still calm at this time, and sometimes silence can also bring pressure to the enemy army, when the Jizhou cavalry found that the momentum of their rushing momentum did not make the other party's soldiers a little afraid, they clearly felt the silent pressure, and there were few opponents who could be so calm in such a scene!
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was only about 300 steps away from the wooden fence array, Xu Huang's right arm was raised high in the air and slashed down violently! "Put!" The archers behind him were in the last row and had already shot the arrows in their hands, and more than a thousand feathered arrows pierced into the onrushing cavalry like flying locusts, causing a burst of people to roll on their backs! While the archers in the back row released their arrows, the archers in the six rows in front of them all knelt down on one knee to make way for them! After the first round of arrow rain, the penultimate row of soldiers stood up and released arrows, followed by the penultimate row, and the whole process of releasing arrows was like the undulations of the waves and continued over and over again, sprinkling a puff of arrows to the enemy on the opposite side, and for a time the sound of people shouting and neighing horses sounded into a piece, and the cavalry formation was astringent.
The archers use the infantry army to fight against the cavalry, this set of serial arrow formation has also been practiced many times during the exercise, its biggest advantage is to be able to play the power of the arrow within the maximum killing distance of the bow and crossbow, of course, the cooperation is extremely critical, any link of negligence will make the arrow rain interlocking to be seriously affected. Today's hard-trained arrow array has made a successful start when it first enters the battlefield, and it has given the opponent a lot of damage.
However, the Jizhou cavalry is also the elite of a hundred battles, although many knights are shot by arrows, but their momentum is only delayed a little, they are extremely experienced, the enemy's arrow array in addition to giving them the biggest purpose is to disrupt their formation, at this time the best response is to strive to reduce the distance with the other party in the shortest possible time, once a little hesitation is accompanied by huge casualties, the impact of the opponent's solid formation always has to pay the price.
Seeing that his arrow rain only brought a small area of chaos to the enemy, and more cavalry rushed up quickly after a little adjustment, and fearlessly waved the blade in his hand to block the arrows like rain, Xu Huang nodded secretly in his heart, this is the performance that an elite cavalry should have! But this is not the time to praise the other party, the left arm waved again, a team of men and horses from the wings to block the place behind the wooden fence formation, this sergeant and pawn are paired in pairs, one of them put the shield and the ground to form a shield array, and the other person holds a spear and hands it out of the gap in the shield, the shield bearer kneels on one knee, and the horse steps are solid with the gun, so that this horse rejection array has become a solid defense line in an instant, which can restrain the momentum of the opponent's cavalry to a certain extent!
Originally, it was not uncommon in the army to reject horses like this, but the Youzhou army added him the detail of a well-made long shield, yes, the already effective formation appeared more stable, in addition to the distance between them and the wooden fence is also very particular, with the height of these wooden fences, the Jizhou cavalry can indeed jump through it when it is fully prepared, but such a barrier will make the cavalry formation appear a certain disjoint, and the posture of the soldiers of the horse rejection formation will not affect the arrows of the archers behind them, The short distance of 500 steps in front of him is incomparably long for the Jizhou cavalry, and such a battle array arrangement is by no means the work of Liu Yi or any of the generals, but the crystallization of collective wisdom and has practice as the basis, and it is also the biggest reason why Xu Huang dares to take risks.
Just this distance of 500 steps made the losses of the Jizhou cavalry no less than a thousand, and the two generals Yan Wen before the battle were all heartache, but at the moment there is no better way than to force the impact, the price has been paid, and it is natural to find a way to get rewarded. By this time several rows of archers were beginning to retreat as they fired their arrows to keep their distance from the opposing cavalry, and they had to be ready to turn at any time, as the outflanked cavalry began to approach rapidly.
At this time, the Gongming formation changed again, the soldiers of the rear army came forward to put down the rejection array on both wings, and there were many soldiers behind them holding short guns, just waiting for the approach of the other party, this short gun was more powerful than the lethality of the arrow at close range, and it could also make up for the lack of the barrier of the wooden fence array in front to a certain extent, and the later scene also showed this, those strong javelins shot the Jizhou cavalry to the ground, which was not the same as the infantry charge, and the horses galloped in a hand but the hand landed on the ground is miserable.
However, fighting on such terrain, the advantage of cavalry is innate, and after paying a certain amount of casualties to the periphery of the horse rejection formation, the formation of the Long Xiang battalion also began to be rushed out of one gap after another by them, but under Xu Huang's calm command, more shield men and pikemen rushed forward to build a second or even third line of defense, which brought great obstacles to the enemy's advance.
Watching the cavalry under his command gradually strangled the enemy from three sides, the second general Yan Liangwen and Chou breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time, with the current situation, even if Xu Huang used his troops properly, it would be absolutely difficult to reverse the decline in the formation! The facts also proved their point of view, the casualties of the Jizhou cavalry were getting smaller and smaller, and with the follow-up killing, the strong defense line of the Longxiang battalion against horses became precarious, and the power of the archers was greatly weakened! This is by no means an unfavorable command of Gongming, it is already amazing for Yan Wen and the others to be able to inflict such a lot of damage on the other side and minimize its momentum, the advantage of cavalry in such a terrain is too great.
"Shiping, with the current situation, if the enemy army has no backhand, presumably Xu Gongming will be in a catastrophe." Wen Chou quietly observed the situation on the battlefield and then said to Yan Liang beside him.
"Hmph, this person's name as a general is not in vain, the Youzhou Army has such an ingenious formation, which is admirable, but his means have also been exhausted, what else can he do? However, we still need to lead the army and go all out, otherwise the casualties of our army will be incalculable, and pass on General Xiahou to let him attack with all his strength and defeat the enemy army in front of him in one fell swoop! After Yan Liang finished speaking, he danced the sword as soon as he urged the war horse under his crotch, and Wen Chou also followed closely, the brother's judgment of the timing can be described as accurate, and at this time, he was about to crush the opponent's round formation in one fell swoop, and he could take what he wanted.
The senior cadres above the city saw that General Yan Wener would attack in person, and Xiahou Yuan's tiger and leopard cavalry also increased their speed, and the excitement on their faces was difficult to hide, as long as they killed and injured in one fell swoop, even if Xu Gongming had the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, it would be difficult to save the defeat! At that moment, he wanted to order the soldiers to beat the war drums in the city to boost the morale of the cavalry under the city, but at this moment, things changed suddenly.
The east and northeast sides of Liyang City have been a burst of dust and smoke, the familiar earth trembling sounded again, the sound of horses' hooves pouring like a torrential rain gradually came from far and near, and two torrents appeared in Yuan Jun's sight at the same time, their soldiers were not referring to Liyang, but Yan Wen and Xu Huang were entangled with the strange soldiers of the Longxiang battalion, and almost at the same time Xu Huang shouted, the combat power of the Longxiang battalion soldiers instantly erupted like a tsunami, and they were not afraid of death to impact the opponent's powerful cavalry, Even at the expense of three or four foot soldiers in exchange for the life of a knight, in normal times such a move although the actual effect is no different from suicide, but in the current special situation, the actions of the Long Xiang battalion and the two pairs of cavalry gradually approaching have formed a clever cooperation, the infantry is naturally at a disadvantage when it meets the cavalry, but if the cavalry clashes one side of the momentum is amazing and the other side is loose in formation, the number of victories and defeats is not asked. Xu Huang did not hesitate to suffer heavy casualties under his command, but also to firmly attract the enemy army around, waiting for the variables of this moment.
Xiliang Camp! White Horse Camp! Yan Liangwen and Chou are no strangers to the two pairs of cavalry that rushed to attack, the two sides fought last time on the border of Youji, the other party's combat power is by no means below themselves, and at this time they also took advantage of the momentum, no wonder Xu Huang can still be so calm in the face of tens of thousands of cavalry, but it turns out that they have always wanted to be a praying mantis to catch cicadas, and the other party's response is the yellow finch behind!