Chapter Seventy-Six: Who Wins and Who Loses
Both sides handed over the life and death contract, and Li Jing checked them one by one, the life and death contract was valid, and the battle was about to begin.
Empress Zhong was afraid that something would happen to Li Hongji, her heart was pounding, she was very worried, after all, it was a piece of meat that fell from her body, how could she not feel distressed? Li Lian was not so nervous, the Xuanjia Cavalry had already shown strong combat effectiveness, many veterans had been defeated, and Yang Lian was afraid that he would also fail, even if he was a little optimistic about Yang Lian.
The drums beat, the final battle was in full swing, the trumpets sounded, and the sad and passionate sound echoed in the school grounds.
Bian Ho rode on the war horse, staring at the place where the Shenwu Army was located from a distance, he had just taken over the Shenwu Army not long ago, Yang Lian had such a performance, although there was a great element of luck, but no matter what, it was good to enter the finals. Bian Hao didn't know the identity of the Xuanjia Cavalry, he only hoped that Yang Lian could win and have a long face for the Shenwu Army.
The drums beat three times, and the morale of the soldiers was aroused, and everyone held their chests high.
Li Hongji couldn't hold back for a long time, so he led his troops into the school field first. The armor on the Xuanjia rider glistened in the sunlight, and the soldiers walked out with a murderous spirit holding a spear with the head removed and wrapped in a white cloth. The sound of horses' hooves came out inhibitibly, shaking people's eardrums. The shock of this pure cavalry is enormous.
Yang Lian's face remained unchanged, he slowly raised the heavy wooden knife, and drew an arc in mid-air: "Brothers, are you afraid?" ”
Chen Tielang said: "Don't be afraid. ”
"This is our enemy, and in the future, we will meet more enemies, they will probably be better equipped and the number of cavalry will be larger. However, as warriors, we cannot back down, no matter how strong the enemy is. ”
"Brothers, pick up the blade in your hand and let them know who is the most powerful!" Yang Lian shouted.
Although the morale of the soldiers of the Shenwu Army is also high, compared to the Xuanjia Cavalry, the momentum of the foot soldiers is much worse. Especially Yang Lian's subordinates, there are archers, sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and a few cavalry, in Li Hongji's opinion, they are really a group of rabble.
Even if the archers could restrain the cavalry to a certain extent, Li Hongji had reason to believe that at most twenty or thirty casualties, he would be able to rush in front of the enemy. When the cavalry and the foot soldiers face each other, the cavalry can slaughter the foot soldiers without much effort. In particular, Yang Lian's troops were mostly archers, and this advantage was even more obvious.
The horses snorted, spewing hot air, and the horses' hooves kept scraping the ground. The Xuanjia cavalry was still in the same formation as it had been a few days before, with several heavy cavalry with strong protection in front, followed by a large number of light cavalry, all armed with bows and arrows and spears. The heavy cavalry, in particular, held extremely heavy blades - they wanted to use the powerful impact of the heavy cavalry to crush the enemy's formation in one fell swoop, thus opening a way for the light cavalry behind.
Seeing the murderous appearance of Xuanjia Rider, no one was optimistic about Yang Lian, including Bian Hao.
Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, felt that something was wrong, but the life and death contract had been signed, and there was no reason to regret it, not to mention that Li Jingsui knew Yang Lian's character, he would never give up, even if the winning rate was very low, even if he only had one breath.
"Surrender and die!" Li Hongji raised his arm, and the horse lance in his hand was raised high in the air, and the sound was like a bell, echoing in the school field.
Yang Lian also raised his long knife, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army gradually stepped forward, and in their hands, they were all holding something wrapped in white cloth, which was about four feet long, a round thing, and the width was the size of a palm. Many people were stunned when they saw it, the two armies were fighting, what was Yang Lian doing?
Both armies were in formation on the school ground, and the distance between them was more than 300 paces, and with the sound of gongs and drums, the two armies were fighting.
"Kill!" Li Hongji gave an order, and the Xuanjia Rider was like an arrow off the string, and suddenly shot out.
"Crossbowmen ready!" Yang Lian gave an order, and the crossbowmen pulled out the arrows that had been removed and wrapped in cloth, ready to stand by at any time.
The war horse neighed, the iron hooves were like thunder, at this moment, the ground trembled, and Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, frowned, Li Hongji is going to fight hard. This wave of iron cavalry rushed over, how could the foot soldiers resist? Even if you are not killed by the soldiers, you will be trampled to death by the horses.
Everyone is exclaiming, the Xuanjia Cavalry has shown its true strength, I am afraid that this battle has just begun, and the curtain will come to an end. In the box in the attic, Zhou Ye squinted his eyes and looked at the battlefield, Yang Lian was still calm, the long knife raised high had never fallen, and the Xuanjia horse in front of him did not have much impact on him.
Emperor Zhou E and the county lord of Huairou couldn't help but cover their mouths, and the Xuanjia rode over like this, and the flesh and blood couldn't stop it at all.
The speed of the iron cavalry is getting faster and faster, and the distance is getting closer and closer, when the distance between the two armies is only a hundred steps, Yang Lian shouted again: "Draw the bow!" ”
When the crossbowmen heard the command, they put their feathers on their bows and arrows, and quickly rounded the bowstrings.
Yang Lian didn't rush to shoot, the distance of a hundred steps is not short, although it is still within the range of the bow and arrow, but the power is greatly reduced, it can be described as the end of the strong crossbow, he needs to wait. The war horse continued to gallop wildly, and finally entered the range of fifty paces, and Yang Lian's raised arm slashed down: "Shoot!" ”
The crossbowmen were ordered to quickly throw the feathers of the arrows. After a graceful arc in the air, the arrow feather fell, and the cavalry raised its wooden shield to block the arrow feather. This was a little unfair to Yang Lian, because the arrow feathers were pulled out of the arrow clusters, and the power was greatly reduced, and the loss of the Xuanjia Rider was not large.
However, Yang Lian didn't care, the crossbowmen continued to shoot, and the Xuanjia cavalry still charged forward. The distance was finally only about thirty paces away from the Shenwu Army.
"Swordsmen and shieldmen, spearmen, up!" Yang Lian snorted.
The sword, shield, and spearmen quickly stepped forward, took out the white cloth wrapped, and quickly ripped off the white cloth, revealing its original appearance. It turned out to be a wooden stake the thickness of a palm, and each one was round and smooth, thick on one side and thin on the other, which looked very strange.
Li Hongji sneered, it turned out that he wanted to use logs to make it difficult for the war horse to move an inch, but Li Hongji believed that under the impact of the Xuanjia cavalry, the foot soldiers had no power to fight back. The Shenwu Army quickly moved, put the big head of the log on the small head, and soon formed a log more than ten feet long.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Shenwu Army pointed their small heads in front, several people carried logs, holding them firmly, and beside each soldier, there were also people holding shields in front of the soldiers. The speed of the soldiers of the Shenwu Army was very fast, and what seemed to be a series of complex movements was completed in an instant, and when the shield was raised, the arrow feathers of the Xuanjia Rider also arrived.
"Dangdang!" The arrow feather fell on the shield, and it had no effect at all, and the power of mounted archery was much worse than that of infantry archery. At the same time, the crossbowmen of the Shenwu Army threw another shot, although the damage to the Xuanjia Cavalry was not significant.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and Yang Lian narrowed his eyes. Li Hongji's eyes widened and he smiled, however, he couldn't laugh the next moment.
The impact of the Xuanjia cavalry was very strong, but the soldiers of the Shenwu Army clung to the log, and the war horse hit the log, letting out a mournful roar, breaking his legs and falling to the ground. The war horses in the front row fell, but the war horses in the back row couldn't stop, and continued to rush forward, after hitting the logs, most of them were knocked and broke their legs, and a few lucky ones rushed over, and were cut in the legs of the horses by the soldiers of the Shenwu Army with knives. The horse was in pain and almost threw the knight off.
At this time, the spearmen of the Shenwu Army stepped forward and stabbed the knight off his horse with one shot.
The battle situation was frozen at this moment, at least fifty war horses were broken off their front legs, fell to the ground and screamed, and the Xuanjia horseman, who was still menacing just now, instantly lost his fighting spirit. Seeing that the war horses in the front row were damaged, the war horses in the middle finally stopped, but the ones in the back row couldn't stop, knocking the knights in front to the ground, and the Xuanjia riders trampled on each other, and the casualties were not small.
At a glance, there were less than fifty soldiers on the Xuanjia cavalry and still on their horses.
"Shoot!" Yang Lian shouted again, and took advantage of the chaos of the Xuanjia cavalry to attack again, and the arrow feathers fell, and the unprepared knight was "hit by the arrow", and there were countless white spots on his body.
When Li Hongji saw this scene, he hated it so much, he couldn't have imagined that the invincible Xuanjia Rider would be frustrated, and it was in this way.
Zhou Ye narrowed his eyes, this battle turned out to be such a result, which he couldn't have imagined. This Yang Lian is interesting.
When Li Jingda saw this scene, he couldn't help but say, "But the moon array? ”
In that year, Liu Yu went on a northern expedition and fought with Wei, using 2,000 foot soldiers to break 30,000 enemy cavalry, which became a classic example of foot soldiers breaking cavalry. Although Yang Lian's method is not like the complete Moon Array, it has the same effect.
With Li Jingda's voice, Li Jingsui came back to his senses and said: "This battle is really exquisite, and this method can be used to fight against the Northern Dynasty in the future." ”
Empress Zhong had a complicated heart, on the one hand, she felt sorry for her son's loss, and on the other hand, she felt that her son was fine, which was a good thing after all.
Li Jing nodded, no matter who wins, his goal has been achieved, and he has a certain understanding of the combat ability of the forbidden army. It's just that the land south of the Yangtze River does not produce war horses, especially excellent war horses, and it seems that they may have to buy horses from the Khitans.
The county lord of Huairou was overjoyed, Yang Lian won, this is enough, as for the domineering Dongping Gong, she doesn't care.
Emperor Zhou E breathed a sigh of relief, this peaceful jade pendant had an effect after all, she was thinking about it, and suddenly covered her mouth with her hand. In the school field, the angry Li Hongji suddenly took out a three-stone hard bow, put an arrow feather on the bowstring, and shot it in the direction of Yang Lian.
Under the light of the setting sun, you can clearly see that the arrow feather has not removed the arrow cluster, this is an arrow feather that takes people's lives, once it hits the vital point, it will definitely die! Many people saw this scene, and Li Jing cried out in a lost voice: "Be careful." But no matter how loud his voice was, how could Yang Lian, who was more than two hundred steps away, hear it? What's more, there are mourning everywhere on the school ground, the war horses are screaming, and the soldiers are moaning.
The heart that the county lord of Huairou had just put down suddenly rose to her throat, her eyes widened, staring at the arrow feather flying fast in mid-air, eager to block the arrow feather. At this moment, she only hoped that Li Hongji's archery skills were inaccurate.