Chapter 174: The Heavenly Ce Military Banner

Tie Liang stared at the Khitan army that was getting closer and closer, and smiled coldly, the iron spear in his hand was tightly attached to his armpit, and the long barrel of the spear stretched out with a hideous cold light. The charge of the heavy cavalry battalion rushed towards it with an indomitable momentum, as if the murderous and dead aura from hell made the Khitans who had just stopped fighting each other couldn't help but retreat.

"Wan Dan, if you don't want the Khitan people to never recover, let your subordinates act immediately according to my plan." At this time, Yelu Hanxiong no longer had the heart to fight with the pale Wandan beside him, and shouted loudly after glancing at the oncoming heavy cavalry battalion. At the same time, the guards around him quickly erected the Khitan royal flag, and the horn also kept conveying orders from the highest Khitan level, and all Khitans must completely abandon all prejudices to face this catastrophe.

"Chateaurou, act as the Great Khan orders at once." Banten was able to be the head of the Southern Tribal Alliance, and dared to openly compete with Yelu Hanxiong, so he naturally understood the threat of this enemy in front of him to the Khitans, and immediately gave orders to his subordinates after his face changed, and at the same time let his son Shateauru obey Yelu Hanxiong's orders.

In this way, a strange scene suddenly appeared on the battlefield of the Khitans, who were still fighting to the death for a quarter of an hour, and the next moment the two supreme commanders suddenly hurriedly conveyed the latest order, all of them stopped fighting and worked together to the outside world.

"The response was not bad, but unfortunately it was late." Chen Fan, who was in the rear, looked far away, saw Yelu Hanxiong's actions, smiled coldly, and the smoke and dust behind him suddenly rose, and Gao Siji's Shatuo cavalry corps rushed over quickly.

"General Gao, immediately lead the army to cut into the battlefield from the left flank, with the heavy cavalry battalion as the middle army, and break through the left flank defense line." Chen Fan saw Gao Siji leading the army to arrive, and immediately issued the latest military order, the Taxi grassland cavalry battalion on the left flank did not arrive on time, Chen Fan thought for a while and suddenly understood what Hu Xiaosi meant, and hurriedly arranged for Gao Siji to break through from the left flank and replace Tahi's position.

Gao Siji was not good at words as always, but he just bowed down and took the order and joined the battlefield with his Shatuo army. In this way, in a short period of time, Chen Fan and a huge force of 150,000 people were concentrated on the battlefield. It was a force that made Jerod Hanxiong and Banten despair. He and Wan Dan were exhausted, and the soldiers under him did not die and did not have much strength, at this time, they encountered these troops who were waiting for work, and the number of people had increased to more than 100,000 in a short period of time, how not to make the two of them frightened.

But the explosion that followed made the hearts of the two of them sink quickly to the bottom of the sea again. I saw that there was a sudden earth-shattering explosion on the battlefield, accompanied by thick pillars of smoke exploding in the assembly area of his army, and those Khitan soldiers who were near the center of the explosion scattered like scarecrows, in the face of this unknown force, their own army and clansmen had no power to fight back. And what's worse is that this explosion comes and goes, and there is no intention of stopping at all.

"Liu Yi's trick is not bad." Chen Fan heard the explosion as scheduled, smiled, and nodded at his chief of staff who fired the explosive pack first and did not launch the rocket.

Liu Yi is the first generation of full-time staff officers trained by the Tiance Army itself, the first person to graduate from the staff department of the Military Academy, and was directly brought to the Northern Front Group Army to serve as chief of staff after being favored by Chen Fan.

"Pro-Guard, carry the military flag of the Tiance Army to advance forward, meet with the chief of staff, and tell the officers and men of the whole army that the military flag is going, and it will move forward." Chen Fan said with a smile: "The war drum team gave me a non-stop urge to urge the war drums all the time, telling the soldiers on the front line to move forward and completely defeat the Khitans." Seeing that the sound of chaotic horses' hooves began to come from the right flank of the battlefield, Chen Fan also began to push the command platform forward.

On the right flank were two battalions of the Dangxiang cavalry of Tuoba Siji. Since the mixed plan of the General Staff has not yet begun, a single cavalry corps similar to this kind still exists, and in terms of cavalry, the advantage of the nomads is too obvious, which is also one of the reasons why Li Xuanqing decided to break up all the cavalry formations for mixed formation after careful consideration. However, in order to cooperate with the plan of national integration implemented by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the army decided to take the first step to take measures and start the mixed organization of the army, so as to truly break up and reorganize the army.

At this time, Chen Fan's command moved forward and the cavalry regiments on the field began to form a joint force, Hou Yong and Wu Huan accompanied the heavy cavalry battalion began to advance like a brute bull, although the speed was slow, but in front of the heavy cavalry battalion's invincible combat power, all obstacles in the way were crushed, and the entire battlefield was in a mess, and even the Tiance army's own cavalry was afraid of this practice of crushing the enemy without even slag.

The steady advance of the Central Corps also forced Yelu Hanxiong to constantly send other troops to deal with this steel monster. In this way, the Shatuo cavalry corps, which had been on the left flank, began to take the lead in opening the situation, and Gao Siji's offensive of personally leading the charge made the direct troops of Yelu Hanxiong who came to deal with it unable to parry, and after basically exhausting their physical strength, this Khitan army was oppressed and retreated step by step, and gradually retreated towards the Chinese army.

But this ending obviously did not satisfy Gao Siji, and after handing over the front to Wu Si'er, he led his personal guards to directly and forcefully squeeze through the military formation of the Khitans on the left flank, and rushed into it. This completely disrupted the Khitan army on the left flank. Chen Fan and Liu Yi, who were far away from the command platform, discovered this change and asked the rocket troops who had been on standby to aim at the left flank, and five thousand rockets quickly rose into the air and roared towards the left flank.

This kind of rocket with a sharp whistling sound after the gunpowder blessing quickly swept across the battlefield, like a small spear-like arrow body after nailing through one after another Khitan soldiers, its gunpowder warhead wrapped in the arrow shaft also exploded suddenly, these explosions are not as earth-shattering as the explosive package, but its power is also not to be underestimated, five thousand concentrated in a radius of dozens of zhang to set off a huge smoke and dust, only to see that there is no living thing in the field that can stand after the explosion.

After quickly clearing a field, Us'er was also frightened into a cold sweat by the powerful lethality of his allies, but then commanded his troops to rush up from the open space. With his footsteps, the Shatuo cavalry behind him, who had managed to control the frightened war horse, followed his main general, and quickly cut off the Khitan cavalry on the left flank into two sections.

Gao Siji, who was in the enemy's pile, was taken aback by the movement of the artillery battalion just now, and after he reacted, he found that Wu Si'er had actually rushed to a place not far from him, and immediately took a deep breath and began to command the troops to disperse the Khitan troops that had pounced again.

At this time, the battlefield has basically been staggered, and the artillery battalion has begun to give up the projection of explosives packages, and changed to the fixed-point sniper mode of all crossbow arrows, Chen Fan nodded and smiled: "Tuoba Siji is also fast over there, with an old opponent advancing so fast, the party members are probably holding back a fire in their hearts." ”

"Dashuai, the hatred between the party and the Shatuo people cannot be alleviated in a day or two, and it is estimated that there are still many troublesome problems in the matter of mixed formation after the war." Liu Yi delegated the command of the artillery battalion to the captains of the major teams, walked to Chen Fan's side and said.

"Don't worry, the lord's side is already making preparations, this kind of thing must be communicated from the top, and the work below will be gradually straightened out. It is estimated that Tuoba Siji and Gao Siji have both explained, but we are in a hurry to run in the northern line. Chen Fan didn't care, and after saying a word, he said strangely: "What about Tahi's cavalry battalion?" Xiao Si doesn't really plan to surround the net on all sides, right? Leaking such a big hole in the left flank doesn't have the opposite effect, right? When the time comes, it will be bad for Yelu Hanxiong to think that there is an ambush, so he will fight it anyway. ”

"Don't worry, when the heavy cavalry battalion advances in front of Yelu Hanxiong, he can't help but think about retreating. Our four light cavalry are to keep the Khitans on the encirclement field, and Tahi will still have to shoulder the task of pursuit, so there will be no problem. Liu Yi knew Chen Fan's thoughts and said with a smile.

"Forget it, don't care about him, it's not a big problem to miss anyway, and we don't have the energy to go to Beijing for the time being, so let's leave it at that." Chen Fan shook his head indifferently and said to Liu Yi: "Let the war drum team increase its strength, boost morale, and don't give the opponent a chance to breathe." ”

The drumming of the war drum corps quickly became more and more rapid, and the drum beat frequently reminded all the soldiers of the Tiance Army and the meaning of the commander. Therefore, at the moment when the drum beat began to change, all the commanders on the front line let out an angry roar, leading all the soldiers under them to rush forward. At this moment, the bright yellow dragon flag of the Tiance Army fluttered high on the Youbei grassland, which also signaled the return of the Han army after losing control of Youbei for a hundred years. Chen Fan's will was quickly conveyed to all the soldiers of the Tiance Army through the sound of war drums. Suddenly, the shouting of killing changed everything, and the blood and morale in all the soldiers' bodies were mobilized, and they rushed forward with their main generals to kill. Yelu Hanxiong's hardly organized defense was forcibly broken through in an instant. The soldiers of the Tiance Army, who were beaten with chicken blood, didn't care about their casualties at all, and there was only one target in their eyes, that is, the Khitan royal court Daxu in the position of the opponent's Chinese army, rushed up to cut down this royal flag, and completely planted the banner of the Tiance Army on this land.

This battle also reached a climax in an instant, and the motivated Tiance army soldiers pressed the Khitan army forward, Yelu Hanxiong could no longer maintain calm at this time, and began to mobilize his elite troops, intending to completely break away and retreat in the direction of Shangjing. Yelu Hanxiong's movements naturally couldn't hide the Wan Dan beside him, and at the moment of Yelu Hanxiong's movements, the steppe hero also started his own movements, but he was obviously much more difficult to retreat than Yelu Hanxiong, and Shateauru was entangled by Tuoba Siji on the right flank, and he had no chance to get out. Speaking of Chateaurou, he also felt that his right-wing corps of more than 70,000 people was defeated by the opponent's 20,000 people, and his soldiers did not have the physical strength to compete with these party members who were also descendants of steppe nomads, and they were gradually separated from the brigade and concentrated towards the rear of the right wing.

In view of this, Banten simply took the last elite of his Chinese army and headed directly towards Chateauroux, trying to rely on the merger of the two forces to open the gap. It's just that he did this, and directly exposed Yelu Hanxiong's back in front of the heavy cavalry battalion. Faced with this excellent opportunity, how could Tie Liang of the Chinese army give up, so before Chen Fan's order came, he and Hou Yong and Wu Huan took the first step, abandoned Wandan, and went straight to Yelu Hanxiong.

The sudden change in the battlefield situation also made Chen Fan begin to decisively adjust his deployment, transferring Wu Huan, who was originally acting with the heavy cavalry battalion, and joining forces with Tuoba Siji to encircle and annihilate the Bandan Group, and leaving Tieliang and Hou Yong to join Gao Siji to encircle and annihilate the Yelu Hanxiong Group. In this way, the whole battlefield began to divide into two parts, and the connection between the two was severed as the two strands gradually separated.

"Chief of Staff, let the artillery battalion move forward immediately to support the two groups on the left and right. The guards will follow me on the horse, let's go north and find Tahi, don't really kill Yelu Hanxiong. After Chen Fan gave the final order, he took his guards and headed north.

When Chen Fan took action, Hu Xiaosi and Taxi were looking at the edge of the battlefield, and they also noticed the changes in the battlefield, but compared with the excited Taxi, Hu Xiaosi was a little annoyed and said: "If I had known that this would be the case, I wouldn't have withdrawn from Zhongjing's arrangement." Recently, I didn't work well, I first miscalculated the situation of the battle between Yelu Hanxiong and Bandan, and this time I miscalculated the combat effectiveness of our own army, which is really a tragedy. ”

After Hu Xiaosi muttered this, he summoned the Xuanying Guard personnel around him and began to redeploy, and quickly rushed to the secret stronghold of Xuanyingwei outside Zhongjing City, and began to arrange for people to re-enter Zhongjing City.

After doing this, Tahi smiled beside him: "I said Tahi Khan, don't really kill later, let's keep Yelu Hanxiong as a gunman." ”

"You've said it all three times, okay? Really when I'm old? Tahi glanced at Hu Xiaosi with disdain and said, "Don't worry, I'm not old enough to delay the lord's important affairs, and I promise to let Yelu Hanxiong return to his lair smoothly." ”

"Come on, I've become a mother-in-law." Hu Xiaosi was about to speak, but suddenly found that Chen Fan was coming in his direction with the personal guards, and hurriedly stood up to greet him, and said with a smile: "Look, it's not me who is my mother-in-law's mouth, even your handsome man is here." ”

"Dashuai, why are you here?" Chen Fan's arrival made Tahi hurriedly come over to salute, and said a little embarrassed: "Let the big marshal come over in person, Tahi's sin." ”

"Okay, don't say much politely, I also know your knot, anyway, there is a chance for revenge, don't rush at this time." Chen Fan waved his hand and said: "Immediately let the cavalry battalion get ready, Yelu Hanxiong has already concentrated all the elite troops and started to attack Hou Yong and Gao Siji's defense line, it is estimated that the loopholes you left behind will be discovered soon, so you should prepare immediately." When the time comes, Gao Siji will intercept the second half of them, and the forward will let go, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of troops will be let go, and your steppe cavalry battalion will be responsible for the pursuit. Chen Fan glanced at Tahi and said, "Lightly attack, leave enough manpower for Yelu Hanxiong to fight back against the people of Muwei." The Northern Wastelands are not what we can set foot in right now. ”

"Please rest assured, Tahi promises to complete the task." Tahi solemnly took over the task, got on his horse and hurried to find his troops.

"Our mission is complete, let's go, go and join the army." Chen Fan pulled Hu Xiaosi on the horse and walked towards Gao Siji's direction. At this time, the battlefield in the northern part of the world had reached its final moment, and everyone knew this, and began to muster all the courage to carry out the orders of their respective commanders.