Chapter 142: The First Defeat of Zhao Jun (I)

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Li Yanzhao put Feng Ding on the horseback, and he was about to leave when he suddenly heard a sound of breaking the sky beside him. Li Yanzhao turned his head lightly and saw that he was already shocked, and hurriedly lay his upper body on the horse's back, and at the same time protected Feng Ding, who was lying on the horse's back.

After a clanging noise, Li Yanzhao felt a faint pain in his ribs and back. He knew it was an enemy arrow, digging into places where his armor couldn't defend itself, or between the crevices of the armor. He struggled to sit up straight, and although he felt a dull ache in his side and in the two or three places on his back, it did not affect his movement much.

Li Yanzhao's own spear had already been used as a javelin that time. However, at this time, it is necessary to carry out the battle with his subordinates, and the spear is almost an indispensable weapon. Therefore, Li Yanzhao rode to a messy battlefield, stopped in front of a longxi cavalry who was in mourning, and then pulled out the spear that he had planted diagonally on the ground before he died.

The Hun cavalry, which was mostly numerous, seemed to have sensed the intention of the Liangzhou cavalry who had entered the battle, and they surrounded them one after another. The slightly loose formation at the time of the melee was closely combined at this time, and nearly a thousand Hun cavalry soldiers appeared densely packed in this not wide valley mouth.

However, it is precisely because of the narrowness of the valley that the strength advantage of the Hun cavalry can not be well played, and the Hun cavalry in the front line is basically the same as the number of Liangzhou cavalry. However, the valley is narrow, and neither side can gallop up and fight happily. Therefore, the expansion of the army in Liangzhou seemed to be in a hurry, and many people were not optimistic about the cavalry, but in this valley, the Hun cavalry was on par with the total number of Hun cavalry nearly twice as many as themselves.

The twenty or thirty Longxi cavalry who were in the encirclement with Feng Ding before were also mixed with the Liangzhou cavalry at this time, and they bravely raised their swords and guns to fight with the Xiongnu cavalry. They were dying, thinking there was no hope. However, the appearance of this Liangzhou cavalry allowed them to retreat from the siege and survive until now.

Therefore, the Longxi pawns and the Liangzhou pawns were mixed together, and the Hun cavalry soldiers were fighting with each other. If you don't look closely at the color of the clothes, it is really difficult to distinguish between Longxi and Liangzhou.

After Li Yanzhao wanted to rescue Feng Ding and his remnants, he led his subordinate cavalry to rush out of the formation again, breaking through the line of Zhao army's infantry at the valley mouth from behind, making it chaotic and disorderly. Then, on the one hand, it fought for the chance of survival for the remnants of Longxi who were surrounded and divided by the Zhao army, and on the other hand, it also created a fighter plane for the upcoming Liangzhou Chinese army.

At this time, after the Liangzhou cavalry rushed into the Zhao army's formation, although some of the infantry in front of them turned around to take precautions, in Li Yanzhao's eyes, these Zhao army's infantry soldiers had many flaws in their defense, and they were simply unbearable. Not to mention using his own cavalry to storm them and open a gap to disrupt their already not very tight formation.

It's just that these cavalry soldiers led by him at the moment were tightly entangled by the Hun cavalry and couldn't get out, let alone turn back to attack the formation of the opponent's infantry. While Li Yanzhao raised his gun to fight with the Hun cavalry around him, he was extremely anxious to think about these problems.

If you don't get rid of the entanglement of these Hun cavalry as soon as possible and disrupt the formation of the Zhao army's foot soldiers, then when your own Chinese army brigade arrives, you still need to fight with the Zhao army's foot soldiers outside the valley mouth before you can hope to defeat them. And in this way, those Longxi soldiers who were divided and surrounded by the Zhao army would have a greatly reduced chance of survival.

This kind of situation is really not what Li Yanzhao wants to see. These Longshang athletes are all fierce soldiers. Even today, after fleeing for thousands of miles, and running out of food, they still took up arms and fought until this time, facing an enemy army outnumbered them, and the situation was so dangerous and unfavorable that it still brought great casualties to the Zhao army.

Even in such a desperate situation now, the superior infantry of the Zhao army had already surrounded the Longxi soldiers who were engaged with it, and divided it into several sections. Under the battle of their own, although these Longxi soldiers kept falling, they still fought endlessly under the command and encouragement of generals at all levels.

With the rapid beat of the drums, the main formation of the Liangzhou Chinese army in the rear was also gradually approaching. Seeing the Liangzhou army gradually approaching, the Longxi soldiers in the encirclement were even more encouraged. The generals in the various encirclements pointed to the direction of the approaching Liangzhou army and said loudly to the soldiers under them.

The news of the Liangzhou army's arrival soon spread to every corner of the encirclement with the shouts of their respective generals. From time to time, some Longxi soldiers turned their heads to look outside the encirclement, and when they saw the banner of the Liangzhou army, their hearts rekindled hope and fighting spirit.

On the other hand, the Zhao army, which had the advantage at this time, was still unable to annihilate the Longxi soldiers who were divided and surrounded because of the long-term battle, and the banner of the Liangzhou army in the rear was getting closer and closer, and the Zhao army was also shaken to varying degrees in the infantry formation.

Li Yanzhao looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart became more and more anxious. His original intention was to preserve the strength of some Longxi pawns. After all, it is not allowed to attack the Longxi region in the future, and the role that these Longxi pawns can play will far exceed that of ordinary Liangzhou soldiers.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yanzhao stabbed down a Hun cavalry in front of him, and then shouted: "Front row, kill!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the front row of horsemen had already followed the order, struggling to wave the swords and guns in their hands, and occasionally the Hun horsemen were cut off their horses or forced to retreat a little. However, many of the Guangwu cavalry were injured and fell from their horses, and in the blink of an eye, between the trampling of the horses' hooves, there was no sound.

Li Yanzhao looked at the horsemen in the team who were still getting along day and night, and in an instant, they had fallen off their horses and were lifeless, and his heart was even more angry. After observing the battlefield situation, Li Yanzhao finally shouted: "Liu Jiwu! Above! ”

After rushing into the formation before, a small part of the cavalry led by Li Yanzhao and Song Qing rushed towards Feng Ding in the encirclement and the remaining cavalry led by him, with the goal of opening the encirclement and rescuing Feng Ding's troops. The other brigade followed Song Qing and fought with the Hun cavalry outside the circle, in order to hold back the Xiongnu cavalry so that it could not support the encirclement attacked by Li Yanzhao's people.

And the other team of more than 100 cavalry led by Liu Jiwu wandered between the cavalry of the Xiongnu Zhao army and the infantry of the Zhao army. From time to time, he launched a wave of attacks on the loosely guarded Zhao army's foot soldiers, and killed many Zhao army foot soldiers along the edge of the Zhao army's front with a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, which made the Zhao army overwhelmed.

Or when he saw that a local battlefield on Song Qing's side was in decline, Liu Jiwu ordered one or two chiefs to bring people to support, and after reversing the disadvantage of that part, he immediately returned to his own phalanx and continued to encroach on the Zhao army's foot soldiers.

However, at this time, Li Yanzhao saw that he couldn't get out quickly, so he thought of Liu Jiwu, who had been following his instructions and had been fighting at the rear to consume the Zhao army's foot soldiers.

When Liu Jiwu heard Li Yanzhao's order, he immediately gave up the Zhao army's foot soldiers who were choked by him, and instead ordered his subordinates to turn into attack formations and come straight to Li Yanzhao's side.

Li Yanzhao and Song Qing were leading their subordinates of less than 100 people, and they were fighting inextricably with the Hun cavalry. At this time, whether it was them or the Hun cavalry who had been fighting hard for a long time, they were already showing a tired state at this time.

Liu Jiwu's support in accordance with the order can be said to be just right, with Liu Jiwu's new force with little physical strength and horsepower consumption, the situation quickly tilted towards the side of the Guangwu cavalry.

The Guangwu cavalry who got the new force was very excited, and Liu Jiwu cut in from the left flank of the Xiongnu cavalry, which was the blind spot of the cavalry's melee weapons, so Liu Jiwu's surprise attack went very smoothly.

As the Hun cavalry on the left wing and in the front row fell to the ground one after another, under the hard fighting, the Liangzhou cavalry almost cleared out a no-man's land. Of course, correspondingly, the Liangzhou cavalry also paid a lot of price for this.

Seeing that a group of Hun cavalry in the front row had been cleared, the rest did not dare to move forward, and the rear team did not have time to fill the gap in it, Li Yanzhao shouted and ordered his subordinates, turned the horse's head, and charged Liu Zhao's soldiers behind him.

After a long period of hard training, he has already honed the exquisite equestrian skills of the Guangwu cavalry, as well as the tacit understanding of mutual coordination. With Li Yanzhao's order, more than two hundred horsemen turned their horses' heads one after another, and then, while slowly speeding up, they shot several waves of arrows neatly behind them. These arrows rained down with the Huns' usual chirping sounds, which made a non-stop and terrible whining sound as they flew through the air.

It was these waves of arrows that won precious time for the Guangwu cavalry to break away from the entanglement of Liu Zhao's cavalry. In these twenty breaths, the Guangwu cavalry raised the speed of their horses one after another, and then the rear team changed to the front team, and under the leadership of the front general, they each lined up in several assault cone formations, and then slammed into the Zhao army's infantry team.

The small part of the infantry soldiers divided by the Zhao army to guard and block, although there were also many infantry soldiers armed with guns and halberds, mainly used to deal with cavalry, but they still could not stop the thunderous attack of the Guangwu cavalry. Under the powerful impact of the Guangwu cavalry, these scattered Zhao army foot soldiers collapsed one after another in an instant.

After breaking through these few blocking forces of the Zhao army, Li Yanzhao's eyes showed the tender and juicy backs of the Zhao army's foot soldiers. In ancient battles, no matter how strong an army was in front, even if it was heavy infantry wearing iron armor, holding extra-long spears and spears, and marching in formation like hedgehogs, if attacked from behind by cavalry, the result was fatal.

Not to mention these improvised Zhao Jun foot soldiers in front of him. When the Guangwu cavalry slammed into their backs without slowing down, many of them were turned into corpses by the spears and swords that had been stabbed from behind.

However, as the impact of Li Yanzhao's troops deepened, the speed of the horses gradually decreased, and the more disciplined Han infantry in the back row of the phalanx had already reacted, and they organized themselves one after another, forming a relatively tight formation, and pressing towards these Guangwu cavalrymen who had slowed down their horse speed.

Seeing this situation, Li Yanzhao hurriedly led Cao Jian's team of men and horses around him, rushed towards the weak point he had chosen, and shouted to call his subordinates to follow.

The position chosen by Li Yanzhao is the combination between the sword and shield infantry of the squadron and the spear infantry of the rear team. The two parts have their own jurisdictions, and there have been some problems with coordination. However, this kind of problem just provided an excellent opportunity for Li Yanzhao, who was good at capturing fighters.

Li Yanzhao took the lead, the silver spear in his hand flew left and right, and with these elite cavalry under Cao Jian, it didn't take much effort to break through this weakness of the Zhao army's infantry formation, and then more than 200 cavalry under his command followed closely and came out through the formation!

Li Yanzhao, who rushed out of the Zhao army's array, saw the Liangzhou army led by Han Ning, and at this time, with the rapid drumbeat, it was already less than a hundred steps in front of the valley mouth.

And with the impact of Li Yanzhao's troops, although it did not bring huge casualties enough to the Zhao army's infantry to collapse, but the attack in the back brought the shock to the Zhao soldiers' soldiers was immeasurable, because of this, the Zhao army's infantry shrunk the front, and also made the Longxi soldiers who were divided and surrounded get a precious respite.

Looking at the main force of the Liangzhou Chinese army led by Han Ning, who was gradually approaching, Li Yanzhao finally breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at Feng Ding, who was still in a coma on horseback, and knew in his heart that in this battle, the victory of the Liangzhou army was decided!