Chapter Seventy-Seven: Killing the Quartet
Flipping the clouds, the horse lance in his hand was danced out of a spear flower, and a stream of bright red blood soared in the air, slowly falling, spraying out a blood mist with temperature.
A Turkic cavalryman happened to be pierced through the neck by the horse lance in Li Yuanji's hand, looking at the other party's bulging eyes, without any pity or fear.
With a fierce force of both hands, he picked up the Turkic cavalry, and then waved hard, a Turkic soldier was slightly stunned, and happened to be smashed off the horse by the corpse that flew over, and then, a Tang soldier stabbed the tip of the spear, and the head of the gun went straight into the opponent's chest, and the Tang soldier quickly pulled out the head of the gun, and no longer paid attention to the Turkic soldier.
"Hold on!" Easily overturning the two, Li Yuanji shouted towards the slightly scattered formation.
Although he had made preparations, Li Yuanji still did not accurately predict how much impact the cavalry galloping at high speed would have on the infantry.
Just by taking a look, about a third of the nearly 500 soldiers in the rear fell, and very few were really killed or injured by weapons, and more were directly knocked out by high-speed galloping war horses.
"Hold on!" The battlefield is very chaotic, acting as the rear army of the temporary Chinese army, at this moment has completely lost the command ability that the Chinese army should have, Xu Xiaosheng put down the order flag in his hand, raised the horizontal knife at his waist, viciously cut down the Turkic cavalry in front of him and dismounted, and then repeated Li Yuanji's order loudly, and followed Li Yuanji closely to ensure that he could always hear Li Yuanji's instructions clearly.
It is already impossible to send an order to the other two phalanxes, each of them is in a mess, and there are not a few enemy troops facing it, and there is no time to take care of the others, and it is impossible to respond at this time.
'Buzz ......'
The horse lance flew horizontally, and the dull and robust sound of breaking the air was heard immediately, and before they could react, the two Turkic cavalrymen were swept off their horses by Li Yuanji's shot, and even the sound of broken bones could be clearly heard.
In the blink of an eye, he overturned the four people around him, and Li Yuanji's performance also attracted the attention of the Turks.
But for a while, no one dared to approach, the force that Li Yuanji had shown before was really terrifying, desperate, no one was willing to die, they were more willing to fight those Tang soldiers, at least they could be evenly matched, right?
The Turkic generals who were attacking also seemed to realize the problem, and the cavalry was not used like this, so they hurriedly beckoned their cavalry to retreat, preparing for another round of charge.
"Bite them!" Li Yuanji, who did not exert his full strength, naturally observed this abnormal movement on the battlefield.
The biggest threat to cavalry is speed, and the previous battle situation has explained this explanation very well, if the Turks are allowed to charge a few more times, this battle will not be fought at all, and they can simply surrender.
Therefore, the Turks must not be allowed to leave easily.
With a loud shout, his legs were slammed hard, the crotch of the war horse was painful, and he quickly stepped forward, and caught up with a Turkic cavalryman in three or two steps, and the tip of the horse lance was picked, and the opponent was easily picked to the ground, and before the other party reacted, the crotch war horse stepped on it fiercely, and the Turkic cavalry spit out a mouthful of blood, and then lost consciousness.
His soldiers also launched fierce attacks on the nearby enemy troops, and the tragic scene caused by the previous cavalry charge was vivid, and no one wanted to experience it once, leaving these enemy troops who had already rushed into the formation, this was the only way.
"Demon, run, he's a demon!" One of the Turkic cavalrymen shouted loudly and derangedly, and then ran towards the rear desperately, leading the other Turks to rush towards the rear as well.
Li Yuanji, an almost terrifying general, can indeed form a terrifying deterrent to the enemy on the battlefield.
But the reason is the same, once Li Yuanji is killed, his morale will also plummet.
In the era of cold weapons, whether the troops are victorious or not, firstly, to see whether the troops are more elite than the other side, second, to see whether the generals are more capable of fighting than the opponent's generals, and third, to see whether the war advantage is on one's own side.
Li Yuanji's performance has obviously broken the psychological defense line of the Turks, and the kind of guy who can easily provoke one person and smash another person is obviously not something they can deal with.
Impulse did not defeat reason, although the order was given to bite the enemy, but when the pursuit red line was exceeded, Li Yuanji still withdrew without hesitation, the battlefield is not a place to compete in personal bravery, and Li Yuanji did not think that he needed to lose his life in this battle.
This wave of charging Tang troops brought nearly half of the casualties, but similarly, the Turkic cavalry on the opposite side also left more than half of their troops, and only less than 200 people were withdrawn.
There was no cheering, no sadness, not even any excessive noise to be heard from the position.
The soldiers put away their weapons, helped their lightly wounded comrades up, and then returned to their positions and rearranged their formations to meet the enemy.
Compared with the previous formation, the formation at this moment is full of half of the people, the formation is also a little thin, and the space is even larger, and there are loopholes everywhere.
Such a formation will definitely not be able to prevent the next wave of enemy charges.
The hedgehog array is not invincible, in addition to being able to crack it with mounted shooting, it can also be filled with human lives.
The formation of the Tang Army is not a complete hedgehog array, and the complete hedgehog array only has the ability to protect, and the ability to kill the enemy is not great, and now they can't put out a complete hedgehog array.
When the enemy did everything to fill the tactical shortcomings with human lives, the 200 or so men under his command could not resist at all.
In this regard, Li Yuanji has no choice, he has done everything he can do, and he has done his best to fight this battle, but the huge gap between the cavalry and the infantry is here, and he has no choice but to accept the test little by little.
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"Captain, it seems that the main formation is being besieged by enemy troops!" On the right side of the main formation, more than 300 Tang cavalry in tattered clothes and bloodstains looked at the main formation with frightened faces.
They had already received orders from the main front, but the troops were entangled by the Turks, and they could not break away at all for a while, and if they brought the enemy troops over, I am afraid that the casualties would be greater.
It was not easy for the Turkic cavalry to overturn them, and they planned to return to their own formation, but they did not expect that the enemy troops besieging their own formation would be more numerous than they encountered.
"It seems that the main formation has been raided by the enemy, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to block the second raid." Su Dingfang frowned and looked at the main formation in front of him, the battlefield situation was not optimistic, but he turned his head to look at the nearly three hundred soldiers around him, all of them were wounded, and even some could only reluctantly sit on their horses, unable to continue fighting at all.
Su Dingfang is also very difficult, but Datang can't fail at all in this battle, and he can't tolerate defeat, if he loses again, the whole situation will be really unfavorable to Datang.
"Brothers, the Turks have reached our doorstep, they are slaughtering our relatives, we have done our best, we have also paid a huge price in casualties, we are tired, what we need is rest, it is to recuperate, it is to replenish our troops." Su Dingfang told the truth, and then his voice changed: "But the war does not allow us to be tired, let alone allow us to rest, maybe we will all die in battle, but we can avoid more people from dying in the war, and the seriously injured will return to Chang'an, and those who can use weapons, we will dedicate our last strength to Datang together!" What we do today will be passed down to the world, admired and admired by generations of future generations! ”
Dragging his tired body, Su Dingfang raised the horse lance in his hand, and the lance pointed directly at the retreating Turkic cavalry.
"Rush!"