85, the siege of the chiseled platform (above)
"General, a large number of enemy troops have been found ahead!"
"General, the enemy has been spotted on the left side of the army!"
"General, the cavalry of the Huns appeared on the right flank!"
"General, I found an enemy cavalry approaching in the flank and rear!"
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For a time, many places found that the enemy was attacking the intelligence one after another, as if the enemy had been encountered in all directions, although the Hebei army at the location of the carved platform monument slowed down, but at this moment it still showed a state of surprise, and many soldiers at the bottom even appeared in a panic mood.
Yuan Jun Zhongjun.
Lu Xiang, who was sweating profusely and running back and forth, ordering all the troops to line up to meet the enemy, couldn't help but scream.
"Could it be that these Three Rivers soldiers fell from the sky, how could they suddenly appear here together."
"This is the enemy's ambush, it must be those birds before who are cheating, this is the witchcraft of the Xiliang soldiers!"
Lu Kuang also said with a frightened face, he really couldn't understand why the enemy ambushes from multiple directions on the battlefield could be dispatched at the same time in a short period of time, killing the Hebei soldiers and horses who were attacked on all sides by surprise.
Chun Yuqiong was also shocked in his heart at this moment, he didn't even hear the negative remarks of his generals, for a while, he could only rely on his instinct to order all the troops to hastily form a large formation to defend in order to deal with the enemy forces attacking from multiple directions.
"Stabilize the formation, don't mess up!"
"Quick, put the spear and the big canopy up, hurry!"
"Crossbowmen, crossbowmen, hurry up and take aim!"
"Take the wounded down!"
The orders of the Hebei army formation came and went, under the rain of arrows of the first wave of enemy light cavalry, some of the soldiers who had not had time to retreat into the formation suffered a lot of losses, and the baggage team in the rear was directly cut off by the opponent's cavalry, and when Chun Yuqiong hurriedly mobilized the crossbowmen to come forward to shoot, the enemy cavalry that came from all sides retreated like a tide, and was replaced by the iron-clad spear phalanx that the enemy army steadily advanced.
"Quick, give the order to let the Wuhuan rush cavalry assault, don't let the enemy's infantry phalanx press up."
Chun Yuqiong hoped to catch the enemy's cavalry retreat, and before the infantry phalanx pressed up, he would counterattack the enemy's offensive and give his own soldiers and horses more time to form a ring formation, so he urgently ordered that the Wuhuan cavalry, which had just retreated after encountering the enemy cavalry for a while, continue to fight.
The state that led the Wuhuan turf cavalry was engaged in the recruitment and obtained Chun Yuqiong's military order, although he was unwilling in his heart, he could only grit his teeth and insist, and led the Wuhuan men and horses who had not yet recovered their strength to go out again, divided into two torrents, pursued the retreating enemy cavalry, and went straight to the weak wings of the ironclad spear formation in front.
"Bell, bell, bell—"
Seeing the Wuhuan Tu cavalry in the Hebei Army returning and returning, the ironclad spear array of the Three Rivers Army also slowed down, and rushed out of the formation A group of lightly armed crossbowmen divided into two wings, like an eagle falcon spreading its wings, and the powerful crossbow arrows and thrown arrows flew like locusts, forcing the charging Wuhuan Tu cavalry to readjust its direction.
"Throw arrows and get ready to retreat!"
Seeing that the arrows of the enemy formation were gradually dense, the retreating cavalry began to gather back again, and did not dare to continue to order the Wuhuan Raid Cavalry to shoot and outflank the formation, and could only quickly retreat after throwing a round of arrows to disturb the enemy's infantry formation.
It's just that on the way to retreat, the Chinese army's order cavalry came again.
"Lead, the general has an order, it will take time for the army to form a formation, and the turks need to attack and harass the enemy formation again, and they cannot be quickly withdrawn!"
It's-
The three thousand Wuhuan cavalry under his command, acting as the vanguard of the army, has not had time to rotate and rest, and now to attack and harass the enemy's formation, it is inevitable that the cavalry of the other party will be bitten again, and the physical strength of his own men and horses will not be good in the future, but I am afraid that under the continuous struggle, there will be heavy losses.
But looking around, Chun Yuqiong now not only sent the Wuhuan cavalry out, but also the cavalry of other departments were assembled, led by other generals, to counterattack the enemy troops in other directions, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only lead the troops to continue to attack, so he had to re-pass the order, so that the Wuhuan cavalry turned around again and killed the enemy's iron-armored spear formation.
This time, the arrows encountered by the Wuhuan cavalry were undoubtedly much more dense than the last time, and after a round of arrow rain, the enemy's cavalry pounced fiercely and rushed into the formation of the Wuhuan cavalry scattered to avoid the arrow rain, further disrupting the formation of the Wuhuan cavalry, dividing and annihilating it.
In the cavalry's rushing and striking, he was horrified to find that the enemy's cavalry was not inferior to the Wuhuan cavalry at all, and the spears, swords, bows and arrows, and bones in their hands were like sickles for harvesting crops.
"No, we have to retreat."
Although he charged together, he did not fall into the dangerous encirclement for a while, but when he saw his cavalry being killed by the fierce enemy cavalry in the battle, he felt as if he was dripping blood, and he was unwilling to watch the Wuhuan cavalry under his command suffer heavy losses.
"Woo-woo-"
The rapid horn sounded on the battlefield, and when the order to withdraw the troops was heard, those Wuhuan cavalry, who were desperately entangled with the enemy cavalry, turned around and accelerated one after another, threw off the enemy cavalry, and retreated to their own large array with the retreating banner.
When the Wuhuan cavalry with a lot of losses retreated to his own phalanx, this time the main general Chun Yuqiong did not strictly order the cavalry troops to delay the advance of the enemy's infantry phalanx, but ordered his own foot soldiers who hastily formed a ring formation to separate the reserved passage, allowing the cavalry who had been fighting for a while to retreat into the formation to rest and recuperate.
It's just that the heart of the draw only eased for a while and became heavy, and he saw that the other cavalry units that hastily assembled to fight, which were not as good as the elite cavalry of the Wuhuan Turf, suffered heavy losses, and many of the cavalry's horses were hit by multiple arrows in the chest and back of the horse, and they were already seriously injured and could no longer continue to drive, and their masters had to look at the dying and bleeding mount after dismounting, and endured the pain of swinging the knife to end its life, lest it continue to struggle and suffer.
Before the battle began, the cavalry on their side suffered heavy losses, and the counterattack force in the next battle was weakened to a great extent, and the enemy's cavalry was much stronger than the Hebei army expected.
How can this battle continue?
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"The enemy army has already lost half of it."
Seeing that the cavalry of the Hebei Army retreated to the enemy formation in embarrassment after throwing down the corpses of men and horses, Cao Yuan, who was standing on the chariot and holding the cart, sneered.
After the enemy's forward men and horses inadvertently opened the boxes with carrier pigeons in the army, the footsteps and directions of the Hebei Army Brigade were already exposed to the ambush waiting in front of their own soldiers and horses, and the enemy general Chun Yuqiong did not know that when his own armies were dispatched, he did not realize that his army had stepped into the ambush circle with one foot, and was still speeding up the march, and crashed into the trap.
It is precisely because of this that after the ambush was launched everywhere, the Hebei soldiers and horses who seemed to have encountered enemy attacks in all directions fell into chaos for a while, and soon suffered the first wave of attacks from their own light cavalry troops.
In order to buy time for the hastily assembled infantry formation, the enemy general Chun Yuqiong sent all the cavalry troops at hand at all costs to delay the speed of his own infantry phalanx.
At present, he can only hope that the elite infantry of Hebei can withstand the attack and win the battle.
However, how could he let him get his wish.
Cao Yuan has seen the ambush launched everywhere The iron-clad spear array is approaching the military formation of the Hebei Army, the crossbowmen on both sides are constantly firing arrows, with the shortening of the distance, the number of soldiers who have fallen gradually increases, and after reaching a distance of ten zhang, the rain of arrows has become sparse again, the strong crossbow arrows have disappeared, only the thrown arrows are still pouring, and the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense must endure casualties, using spears, halberds and many other long weapons, forming a dense formation, and began to attack the enemy at close range.
"Steady, steady, don't mess up, steady your position!"
"The back, hurry up, hurry, hurry!"
"Don't scatter, don't mess around!"
At the beginning of the close-range battle, the spears and halberds stabbed out by the infantry soldiers on both sides were like two forests, fighting densely, the soldiers in the front row fell one after another, and the soldiers in the back immediately went up, and the soldiers who fell to the ground had no chance to stand up again, regardless of casualties.
The fierce fighters did not have time to pay attention to them for a moment, and would only cross and even step over their bodies, and continue to fight forward until they themselves also fell.
In the same way, the moans and wails of the men and horses were completely overshadowed by the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter, and in the midst of this blood-pumping war drum, everyone exerted all their strength, like an angry red-eyed beast, and repeatedly stabbed the spear in his hand, puffing out his cheeks and shouting a deafening roar.
In this fierce battle, the tenacity of the Hebei elite soldiers was reflected, although they were in a hurry, but in the battle, they all gritted their teeth and persevered, and relied on each other with their comrades, desperately resisting the enemy phalanx advancing like a wall in front of them, so that the attacking enemy infantry soldiers had to pay a heavy price while advancing.