Chapter Ninety-Three: Destroying the Withered and Decaying
The cold air of the early morning condensed into fine dew drops on the iron armor, and as it approached the late autumn, the Yin time in the northwest was the time when the cold dew was at its peak and the cold was the worst, and the mouths and noses of the war horses and soldiers spewed out a hot mist.
The 10,000 Bingzhou troops lined up ten miles on the west bank of the Dan River, and the bright red helmets were particularly eye-catching in the sea of black armor of the Bingzhou army.
Gao Shun stood in the middle army, hunting and hunting, Shaoqing, he slowly pulled out his sword, and made a move against the wind: "Attack!" ”
Knock knock knock!
The drumsticks slammed into the drum surface, and the state army rumbled to the enemy formation to the rhythm of the drums, and the smoke and dust stirred up covered the sky and the sun, and the sky and the earth were filled with surging murderous aura.
Facing the menacing merger army, the Montenegrin army couldn't help but clench the swords and guns in their hands, leaning forward slightly, just waiting for the order of the main general.
Zhang Yan drew his saber and pointed at the battle formation of the state army: "Kill!" ”
The fierce drumbeat sounded in the middle of the Montenegrin army, and the 30,000 Montenegrin army let out a tsunami-like cry like a black torrent.
Zhang Baicai, who was waiting on the left flank, immediately drew his battle knife, and the troops behind him followed suit, and a loud whistle rose from the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Montenegrin Army let out a shout, and in four echelons, it penetrated directly into the left rib of the state army, trying to separate the infantry from the Chinese army.
After several battles, Zhang Yan had basically figured out the tactics of the Bingzhou army, the two wings were pressed by crossbowmen, the sword and shield hands were in front, the sword and spearmen were in the rear, and the Chinese army was guarded by cavalry.
The cavalry was the most important of these four arms, followed by the crossbowmen, who could separate the infantry as long as they could hold the crossbowmen for time.
In order to be able to hold back the crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army, Zhang Yan then used cavalry as four echelons, two echelons were responsible for attracting the archers of the Bingzhou army, and the other two echelons were responsible for dividing the infantry of the Bingzhou army.
He was right to think so, and he was right to do so, but it was a pity that he met Gao Shun.
At this time, the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves shook the cold in all directions, as if a violent flood was rushing towards the infantry of the opposite side of the state army.
"Defend against the enemy!" Gao Shun jumped into the Zhongjun building car and waved the order flag in his hand.
"Kill!" The infantry of the Bingzhou Army shouted in unison, and then was as silent as the sea, as if the thousand-year-old boulder that had risen resolutely in the sea, calmly facing the impact of the tide.
Soon, the cavalry of the first echelon of the Montenegrin Army had charged to a hundred steps in front of the infantry phalanx of the Bingzhou Army, and the heavy gasping of the soldiers of the Bingzhou Army could almost be heard.
"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the battle formation of the state army burst open, and thousands of soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding Pu swords poured out from inside, facing the rolling iron horses, they brandished Pu swords to meet them.
The two armies collided in the eyes of tens of thousands of people, and in the face of the forest of horse legs, this heavily armed and state army ignored it and slashed at the horse legs.
The wails of the horses came and went, and the horses that had lost their legs collapsed to the ground, throwing the soldiers on horseback far away, and breaking their bones.
A Montenegrin cavalryman struggled to get up, and suddenly a burst of self-talk sounded in his ears: "First cut the horse's legs, then cut the people's necks." ”
He hurriedly turned around, only to see a soldier raised his sword and slashed at his head, the cold light flashed, blood splashed on his neck, and the head flew away from his body and fell to the ground.
After cutting off the head of the Black Mountain Army, the soldier cut off the horse's leg in the smoke and dust, and kept chanting: "Cut the horse's leg first, and then cut the neck." ”
Zhang Yan looked at it strangely: "What's going on?" ”
A blood-stained soldier rushed to Zhang Yan from the horse's corpse, covered with knife edges, bubbling with blood: "Qu Shuai, this officer and army are covered with two layers of armor, and our knives can't cut in." ”
After the soldier finished speaking, he fell to the ground and convulsed twice, vomiting blood and dying.
"Two-layer battle armor ......" Zhang Yan watched the slow-moving but infinitely powerful Hezhou army slashing and slashing in the cavalry formation, and suddenly felt a sadness in his heart.
Maybe I shouldn't have attacked the party.
Liu Shi immediately hugged his fists and said: "Qu Shuai, the arrow is on the string, I have to send it." ”
This is the only chance for the Montenegrin army to break through, if they don't defeat the officers and troops in front of them, they have only one result, that is, the total annihilation.
"Rush, step on the corpse and rush up!" Seeing that Zhang Yan was unmoved, Liu Shi immediately crossed the maggot and ordered the Montenegrin army to attack on all fronts, trying to defeat the frontal defender in one fell swoop.
Another group of Montenegrin cavalry launched a frantic onslaught, the horses' hooves trampled on the corpses of their comrades and horses, and some soldiers who were still panting on the ground were trampled to death before they could avoid the horses' hooves.
Most of the casualties of the Xiandeng dead of the Merge State Army had already been killed, and Gao Shun saw this, and replaced the red order flag with a yellow order flag.
When the drum wrestler saw Gao Shun change the flag, he immediately beat the war drums, and the drum beat twice and three times.
Suddenly, the infantry of the Bingzhou army seemed to be blocked by the embankment of the riverbed, rushing in all directions, gradually dividing into five directions, connecting the southeast, northwest, and five sides.
Several four-wheeled carts were pushed out of these phalanxes, behind which three rows of soldiers were covered, two rows of soldiers in front and behind them carried a bow and crossbow on their shoulders, and a third row of soldiers carried spears and were responsible for loading.
"Open!" A loud shout rang out in the center of the phalanx.
The soldier pulled the trigger, and in an instant, spears like meteors rained out, and the cavalry charged so fast that there was no way to dodge, and row after row was shot down by spears.
The dense spears converged into a heavy black cloud, which pressed heavily over the cavalry's heads, like guillotines falling from the sky, sweeping away a terrifying bloody rain.
Most of the cavalry of the Montenegrin army were killed and wounded in an instant, and before the remaining horsemen could rush to the front of the infantry phalanx, a pair of horse legs were cut off by a sudden knife and axe hand in the formation, and the war horses swooped down with a wail.
The cavalry of the Montenegrin Army was thrown away by the momentum, some fell on the corpse heaps on the periphery, and some fell in the middle of the formation, and were cut into meat skewers by the Bingzhou army.
Just when the cavalry of the Montenegrin Army was completely annihilated, its infantry had rushed to the front, Gao Shun changed the flag again, and the drum beat changed abruptly again.
The infantry of the Bingzhou Army changed their formation again, turning into eight phalanxes, and looking down from a high altitude, the entire battle formation was closely connected like a spider's web, and it was constantly changing, and then it became bigger and bigger.
"Boom!" More than 20,000 Montenegrin troops rushed into the military formation of Bingzhou, and at first they were slashed and killed on all sides according to their swords, but slowly they were like mulberry leaves that had been eaten, and they were divided and outflanked little by little.
The formation of the Bingzhou army changed too quickly, as if Zhou Xingchen, Fuxi gossip, and the knives, guns, axes and axes thrown from the formation, like dormant hidden weapons, killing the Montenegrin army in the formation could not touch the north and south, and could not break through the east and west.
"Withdraw!" Zhang Yan was terrified in vain, and he trembled and ordered.
"Withdraw!" He howled in almost pain.
A big battle was thrilling, it started quickly and ended very slowly, and Liu Shi watched the few soldiers flee the battlefield, and his heart was shocked and frightened.