Chapter 465: The Iron Rider Era

Baqiao.

Yang Feng still underestimated the reaction speed of Cui Qianyou and others, and when he arrived with his army, the main force of the rebels had already begun to cross the river.

Cui Qianyou is very shrewd.

The fifty trebuchets began to bombard the city wall of Chang'an, he knew that it was impossible to hold it here, although Chang'an was not only an outer city, but even if it was to retreat to the imperial city, it was meaningless, it was nothing more than sooner or later, under the bombardment of this terrifying cannon, the walls of the imperial city had to collapse, since it could not be held, of course he had to run, and the sooner he ran, the better, if it weren't for the fact that there were still a lot of good things that had to be taken with him during this time, he would have run away, but at this time his army still arrived at Baqiao almost at the same time as Yang Feng.

Because it was just spring at this time, the Bahe River was still in the dry season, although his infantry and baggage vehicles had to take the Ba Bridge, but the cavalry could directly cross the river, at this time tens of thousands of rebels fleeing to the east were almost boundless in the countryside of the spring, and a few forwards had reached the east bank, and the empty river beach was wading through the shallow river with a group of cavalry.

"Lao Bai!"

Yang Feng roared.

"Jie Shuai!"

Bai Xiaode immediately stepped forward and saluted.

"You lead heavy cavalry to charge the enemy army on the west bank, don't go down to the river beach, the mud and sand can't support our heavy cavalry!"

Yang Feng said.

"Obey!"

Bai Xiaode agreed, and rode his horse straight to the mounted cavalry on the left flank.

The heavy cavalry under the camp of the three towns of the Western Regions includes the heavy cavalry brigade of the Hezhong Army, the brigade commander is Yang Xianzhong, the soldier and horse envoy of the river, the Hezhong Army has its own set of establishment, and the brigade camp sentry team has its own five levels, but they also have official positions in the imperial court, in addition to ten cavalry regiments of Anxi and Beiting, one regiment of two hundred people, each regiment is led by a captain, Yang Feng separately appointed Li Fei Yuanli of the Anxi Army to command the Anxi cavalry, and Yang Pre-commanded the Beiting cavalry of the Beiting general.

Just as Bai Xiaode rushed towards the heavy cavalry, Yang Feng's Chinese army was in a hurry, and the signal soldiers waved the signal flag in their hands.

Yang Xianzhong's three generals immediately got the order of the signal flag, they temporarily belonged to the command of Bai Xiaode, and then their eyes turned to the red background and white flag that went straight to the heavy cavalry brigade, and the red background and white flag above, the other signal flag continued to wave, issuing Bai Xiaode's order to the departments, Yang Xianzhong flag with white characters on a blue background, Li Fei Yuanli flag with white characters on a black background, and Yang Pre flag with black characters on a yellow background, the signal flag was also waved, and the cavalry of the galloping units quickly lined up. With the iron cavalry in the middle of the river, Anxi and Beiting cavalry are on the left and right, when Bai Xiaode's banner arrives at a high ground on the bank of the Bahe River, all the heavy cavalry completes the deployment, and with the signal flag under Bai Xiaode's banner, Yang Xianzhong, Li Fei Yuanli, and Yang Pre at the same time led the department to attack.

The rebel cavalry and infantry on the opposite side of them, who had not yet entered the river beach, were also in formation.

The latter also knew it was time to fight.

These rebels who withdrew from Chang'an were not the cannon fodder under them, they were all the elite of An Lushan's Fan Yang and Ping Lu armies, and they were no different from the Tang army in terms of equipment and tactics, and they included a large number of Xi and Khitan cavalry.

"Who's that?"

Yang Feng, who was leading the mounted infantry to cross the river and prepare to attack the enemy, looked at the enemy general commanding on a high ground on the west bank and said.

"Li Quy Ren!"

Ma Luan, who was beside him, said with a telescope.

"Command the infantry to cross the river and line up for me, and I'll capture this thief first!"

Yang Feng said.

"Uh, obey!"

Ma Lan hurriedly said.

In fact, if you really want to talk about the arrangement of this kind of cold weapons, Yang Feng is really not as good as him, the original history of the Tang Dynasty Fufeng County King, and then moved to the Chinese army, representing his red background and black flags and Jingxu side by side, at the same time, the signal soldiers waved the flag to inform the infantry generals that the commander would attack, and the Chinese army was commanded by Ma Lan instead, and then the signal flags of different colors of the generals waved at the same time.

This set of flag slogans is very useful.

Before the battle, each general has their own color to represent the identity, and their signal soldiers have a flag book, of course, these signal soldiers have to learn Chinese pinyin first, because Yang Feng's flag language is Chinese pinyin, but most of the common orders have fixed phrases, just memorize them directly, so the signal soldiers are also very valuable.

And each general gives the battalion commander or lieutenant under his command the flag language and then issues the second level of order, and the battalion commander and captain of the most basic unit only need to read the flag of the signal soldier next to his general.

This set of flag commands is common to all the departments of the three towns in the Western Regions, and it is also the first time that large-scale command has been played on the battlefield.

Apparently it works well.

Whether it is cavalry or infantry, whether it is the Hezhong Army or the Anxi Ting Army, they are all under the banner of those different background colors and word color combinations, and under the command of the flags waved by those signal soldiers, they began to form formations and launch attacks, as for their commanders, regardless of these idle things, Yang Dashuai's main use on the battlefield is not to command, and he is even inferior to Ma Luan These generals are playing with cold weapons, his role is to bring rhythm, and at the same time act as a violent breaker or break into battle to kill generals.

Like he's doing now.

Yang Dashuai, who didn't even hold a mace, held his special shield in one hand and a weighted Mo knife in the other, just like Carter on the alien battlefield, began to leapfrog on the battlefield of thousands of troops.

He loves this assault now.

It's fast, it's straightforward, and it's more powerful.

Under the dumbfounded gaze of the rebel soldiers below, he took off and landed in no more than two seconds and each jump at a speed of more than thirty meters, and rushed straight to Li Guiren, who was commanding on the high ground on the west bank, the silver armor and the red cloak behind him made him feel like a god of war in mid-air, and the rebel soldiers below were stupid, he couldn't think of attacking when he fell beside him, and watched him bounce up again immediately after he saw him, and even his target was stupid, Li Guiren used a three-view collapse expression under the banner of his Chinese army, looking at the silver reflection that was getting closer and closer.

And at this time, the mounted cavalry, whose morale was extremely high because of the great commander's might, also began to attack the rebels in front of them.

On the galloping horses, the horsemen with their horses leveled their horses, with bows and crossbows fired from the opposite side, let out a frantic roar behind the iron mask, and all the majestic Dawan and Arabian horses accelerated to their limits, and with their sturdy iron armor, they slammed into the jungle of spears and knives in front of them, and although they often cringed at the end, the drive of inertia still caused them to hit their targets with a cloud of sand and dust. Then in the neighing of the war horse and the impact of the broken armor of the spear, the most shocking scene of the cold weapon era was staged, in the fight between steel and flesh, the mounted cavalry perfectly interpreted their legend, relying on the speed of nearly 100 miles per hour and the weight of more than half a ton of people and war horses, coupled with the protection of two millimeters of cold forging armor, the iron cavalry in the river almost overwhelmed their opponents in an instant.

The torrent of steel swept forward.

This is a purely hard-fought contest of strength.

Although these rebels were also elite, the gap in strength could not be bridged, those horses that were a lot taller than the Mongolian horses they were used to, and most of the spears they defended against hit their chests, and their chests were the thickest iron armor, and those spears would be directly brushed aside, and then the galloping horses instantly crashed into them, knocked them away and then stepped under their hooves, and at the same time the horsemen on horseback in their hands would pierce the bodies of those who escaped with the force of impact.

Although the mounted cavalry would suffer some losses in this impact, it could not stop their overwhelming advance.

The rebel lines collapsed in an instant.

At the same time, the mounted cavalry on both wings also collided with the Khitan and Xi cavalry who were fighting, in such a hedge, the Tang army's mounted cavalry occupied an overwhelming advantage, stronger armor, better weapons, and more professional training, so that these pure soldiers crushed the nomadic cavalry of half soldiers and half people, and those horses more than four meters long instantly penetrated their bodies and picked them off their horses, while the spears in the hands of these cavalrymen were directly brushed on their polished heavy armor.

In fact, in the Eastern Battlefield of this era, the mounted cavalry was the master.

The set of the European knight era is all played by the oriental warriors of this era.

It's just that the poison of our Qing Dynasty has made people in later generations gradually forget about the human and horse equipment, holding more than four meters long, and the blade alone is more than half a meter long, and the battlefield is almost indistinguishable from those knights in the early days of the Anglo-French Hundred Years War seven hundred years later.

At this moment, both cavalry and infantry, the defense line of the rebels on the west bank was broken through at the moment of engagement, and then ......

They had no choice but to flee.

The unblocked mounted cavalry, basically what is left is pure crushing, those rebel soldiers who are also experienced in a hundred battles know very well that at the moment of breaking through the defensive line, their wisest choice is to flee as quickly as possible, and their rout makes the mounted cavalry of the impact completely become a torrent that sweeps everything, and all the rebels on the battlefield on the west bank, whether infantry or cavalry or those auxiliaries who transport looted goods, can only surrender or destroy in the face of this torrent.

They failed completely.

Of course, Li Guiren didn't have time to see how his men were defeated, because the silver figure like the god of war was falling from the sky, falling in front of him with a splash of sand.

Li Guiren looked at the man who seemed to be shining with light.

Then a silver arc of light streaked by.

Yang Feng, who held the shield in his hand, with a proud smile, kept his body leaning forward when swinging the knife, and the Mo knife in his hand, which was barely stained with blood, stretched out to the right, between him and Li Guiren, the four soldiers lowered their heads with astonishment at the same time, watching their upper and lower bodies suddenly separate, and then suddenly let out a terrible scream, and then fell to the ground, crawling helplessly with both hands, while continuing to let out heart-rending screams, their blood and internal organs continued to gush out as they crawled.

At the same time, the shield in Yang Feng's hand was raised at will, and the giant arrows shot by the two bed crossbows collided with the two-centimeter-thick wrought iron plate at the same time.

"Those who descend will not die!"

Yang Feng said with a majestic face.

Li Guiren's legs were weak, and he almost subconsciously knelt down and bowed his head to the ground.