Chapter 19: The Battle of Xiongguan 8
The soldiers of the two countries of Yun and Chu were wearing white and black iron armor, and the two armies fought, and two iron streams of different colors converged.
The vanguard of the two armies of Yun and Chu are cavalry, but the momentum of the two armies is obviously different, the cavalry of Yun State is mainly light cavalry, moving like a strong wind, and the castration is also extremely violent, while the cavalry of Chu State is mainly heavy cavalry, and the men and horses are all wearing armor, although the action is slow, but the movement is like thunder, but it is like a wall slowly advancing.
Wang Yanchang stood on the wooden city tower to observe the situation, he did not charge with the army, the general needs to be in the middle of the dispatch, charging into battle is not what he should do, even if he is 10,000 enemies, do not kill 10,000 more, for three times the enemy army of his own, killing 10,000 more is also unrighteous in the overall situation, what he has to do is to make careful calculations and use the least number of people on his side to consume the enemy army.
The Yunchu cavalry contacted, and the Yunguo light cavalry collapsed at the touch of a touch, even though the Yunguo cavalry was more violent, but the heavy cavalry made up for this deficiency with its heavy iron armor and took the Yunguo cavalry off the horse one by one with the advantage of being covered in armor. Light riding against heavy riding is originally an egg hitting a stone.
Wang Yanchang is naturally not stupid, he will not lose the rare cavalry in vain, although the heavy cavalry blocked the impact of the light cavalry, but the formation was chaotic, the thunder department and the Divine Arrow Battalion immediately attacked, the huge iron ball directly bombarded the Iron Cavalry off the horse, and the special arrows of the Divine Arrow Battalion also pierced the unarmored neck of the heavy cavalry.
After the Chu army was arrayed, there was a loud bang, and the fire flickered.
"Such a huge catapult!" Zeng Wencheng exclaimed in horror. Zeng Wencheng has actually been following Wang Yanchang around, he, a scribe, is wearing Xuanjia today, carrying a sword and a gun, and he is also ready to do the consciousness of being a broken jade rather than a complete tile.
The ordinary catapult is only two or three zhang long, and the stones are only five hundred paces long, while the catapult behind the Chu State Formation is six zhang long, and when thrown, it is almost comparable to the city wall.
"This is the killing weapon used on the battlefield! I guess I can throw a thousand pounds of stones. Wang Yanchang was not particularly surprised.
"If this is used to siege the city, how many casualties will our army have." Zeng Wencheng sighed.
Huge stones fell from the sky, dozens of stones were wrapped in cowhides, poured butter, and had been ignited, most of the fire meteors smashed into the Yunguo infantry formation, and one of them flew towards the wooden city tower.
"General, let's go!" Zeng Wencheng shouted, just stepped forward, but was dragged back by Wang Yanchang, Wang Yanchang had already jumped up, the huge * with a beautiful arc was like a full moon, and the fire meteor was actually divided into two.
This time it's not a thousand pounds, this fire meteor can fly so far because it's just a solid wooden ball.
"Literati should do something that literati should do." Wang Yanchang put the knife back into its sheath with an expressionless face.
The soldiers of the Yun Kingdom suffered heavy casualties under this round of bombardment, and the Yun Kingdom lost its most advantageous weapon, the Xiongguan City Wall, and it was difficult to gain an advantage in a head-on confrontation.
The formation of the spearmen of the Chu State had slowly advanced over, and the infantry of the Yun State obviously did not have the combat effectiveness of the spearmen of the Chu State, and they were defeated and retreated.
"That's it." Wang Yanchang casually picked up the banner of the cloud country and the blue sky rolling clouds beside him and began to wave it.
The soldiers of the Yun Kingdom, who were retreating on both sides, invariably gave up their frontal opponents and began to outflank them. The soldiers of Yunguo, who were fighting the spearmen head-on, quickly retreated.
The authorities are confused, such an outflanking situation can be seen at a glance from a high place, and the spearmen of the Chu State who are in it are completely unaware of the danger coming.
Wu Dingfang also saw such a situation, and Wu Dingfang did not order to retreat, and threw a small yellow flag downstairs in his wooden city.
After the formation of the Chu army, it began to gradually introduce one after another storming vehicles, such siege equipment caused great trouble to the Yunguo army during the first siege, but the storming vehicles at this moment were different. The only sergeants on either side were the shield-wielding soldiers, and the two groups of soldiers who had been in charge of pushing the vehicles withdrew, but there were four tall horses pulling the storming carts in front of them.
The soldiers in the car whipped their horses forward, and the four horses began to exert force, and the charging cart also slowly accelerated.
"Stop the storming carts and destroy the wheels." Wang Yanchang gave orders at the head of the city. The soldiers behind him hurried forward to give orders.
At this time, the heavy cavalry of the Chu State had been exhausted, and there were few light cavalry left of the Yun State. But one of the cavalry of the Chu State rode out on horseback and galloped towards the gradually surrounded spearmen.
One man and one horse covered the whole body with iron armor, and even the neck was also protected by the high collar of the armor, after a fight, the horses did not lose their foot strength, galloped like thunder, and rushed into the Yunguo infantry without cavalry, which was really like chopping melons and vegetables.
There were about twenty or thirty such iron horses, like twenty or thirty arrows flying into the heart of the Cloud Kingdom.
"The gun breaks the formation," Zeng Wencheng exclaimed in a low voice. This tactic is very common on the battlefield, using your own elite to penetrate the enemy's formation, breaking the enemy's formation, and then using the large army to divide and encircle and annihilate.
"Pro-military camp, follow me into battle." Wang Yanchang lifted his robe and didn't go back downstairs.
At this time, there were not many soldiers left behind the Chu State Formation, and just now, Wuding Fang sent almost all the troops, each with its own dispatch.
"It's my turn." Wu Dingfang muttered to himself.
"General, the enemy's defeat has been revealed, there is no need to be in battle in person." The entourage of the soldiers behind him persuaded him.
"No, Fang Shan, you remember, whether you are a soldier or a general, one day you will have to go into battle in person and feel the pulse of the battlefield with your hands, and then you will be qualified to become a real famous general." Wu Dingfang lifted the corners of his robe, turned around and went downstairs, his back vaguely overlapping with Wang Yanchang's back.