Chapter 292: Pengcheng is neutral
The cavalry led by Dai Yan dealt a devastating blow to the flanks of Zizhang's chariots, and crushed most of the infantry following behind the chariots, and the cavalry troops staggered with the chariots!
When the cavalry and the chariot soldiers disengaged, Dai Yan did not let them continue to advance, but took out two more Ming Di and commanded the cavalry that was divided into two and outflanked on both wings!
Soon, the two cavalry divided a specific route on their own, and by passing through a U-shaped route, they reversed the direction of travel! In a short period of time, the direction of travel of the entire cavalry changed by 180°!
And at such a moment, the chariot soldiers led by Zizhang were still marching along the same road. He turned his head to look, only to find that the cavalry team, which had been getting farther and farther away from him, had now begun to follow behind the chariot team, ready to attack him from behind!
Zizhang's heart was full of fear, and in his opinion, now he had completely become the prey in Ziyan's eyes! He thought about moving his troops quickly, but when he saw the huge gap in speed and agility between the chariots and the cavalry, he immediately abandoned the idea.
Stop the chariots and assemble against the cavalry? Maybe that's a better idea. However, if he adopts this method, then all his chariot troops will be lost here, and the battle will be completely lost!
He is not willing to lose, he must defeat Ziyan and win this war! He now has a very good prospect, and the monarch is willing to give him the title of Peng Chengjun, how can he stop here?
The more Zizhang thought about it, the more crazy he became, and then he saw the direction of his chariot soldiers, which was aimed at the Taoqiu infantry team! Since your victory is slim, let's completely break the shackles of the aristocratic duel and truly win it in the way of war!
So he began to order his soldiers not to stop, and to advance at full speed in the direction of the Taoqiu army, and be sure to crush the Taoqiu infantry in one fell swoop!
Even if the chariot unit is moving at full speed, it is still not as fast as the cavalry team. When the cavalry team attacked the chariots from behind, Dai Yan even deliberately controlled the speed of the march. He spotted the nearest chariot, grabbed the rifle in his hand, and stabbed at the nearest chariot!
At this time, the control of the chariot is completely controlled by the Emperor, and the left and right sides of the chariot can only turn their backs to the Emperor to deal with the attack of the cavalry from the rear! Seeing Dai Yan approaching, the left side of the car with a bow was an arrow towards Dai Yan!
The stability of the chariot is very poor, and the left and right sides of the chariot can only turn around to deal with the enemy in the rear, so they have no stable guardrail to rely on, and the arrows fired from the left side of the chariot are affected by this, and the accuracy is greatly low!
The arrow that was originally going to shoot at Dai Yan's face hit Dai Yan's body, but when the arrow was so close, when it hit Dai Yan's body, he could only hear a "ding" sound, and the arrow immediately bounced off!
Dai Yan personally went into battle, hoping to stimulate the blood of Taoqiu soldiers and cultivate their martial spirit, but this does not mean that he will let his life be threatened! Now on his body, in addition to his face that cannot be defended, he is wearing heavy steel plate armor all over his body! The arrows that were shot at his body by the left side of the car naturally couldn't hurt his body in the slightest!
In this way, he moved forward quickly, his spear intertwined with the spear in the right hand of the chariot. With the speed brought by the horse itself, Dai Yan struck hard at the spear on the right side of the chariot with the riding spear in his hand, and the right hand of the chariot, which was originally standing unsteadily on the chariot, was knocked to the ground in his hand!
Then, Dai Yan pressed the head of the gun down again, and aimed it at the right side of the car that had lost its weapon. The tip of the gun pierced into the opponent's body, and the barrel of the gun broke under the strong resistance!
The barrel of the gun was broken, not because the Taoqiu Arsenal was not skilled in manufacturing technology, but because Dai Yan specially designed this assassination-style riding gun! When the cavalry stabs the opponent on the horse, the penetration force is too strong, and if it is directly stabbed, the reaction force from the spear head can easily cause great damage to the human arm. And the cavalry spear that was broken after the stabbing can effectively protect the arm of the cavalry!
Stabbing a rook to death, Dai Yan immediately controlled the horse's speed, so that it lagged behind the advanced speed of the chariot. Then, Dai Yan asked the horses to follow behind the chariot, drew the saber he carried with him, accelerated again, and slashed towards the emperor who was controlling the chariot!
The emperor was immediately frightened and did not dare to move, and when he didn't know how to respond, the saber had already been chopped off, and half of his body was split in half, and the scene immediately became extremely bloody!
As for the last car left, there is no need for Dai Yan to continue to pay attention. Without the Emperor, the entire chariot quickly lost control, and Che Zuo soon died in the loss of control of the chariot!
The cavalry who fought with Dai Yan basically attacked the chariots from behind in a similar way to Dai Yan. Cavalry and charioteers are only lethal when they move, and the speed and agility of cavalry exceed that of chariots, and once it becomes a catch-up mode, this war becomes a massacre!
Zizhang, who led the chariot soldiers into battle, can naturally realize the huge reversal on the battlefield today. Just as he continued to charge the chariot unit in the direction of the Taoqiu infantry in a desperate manner, another group of cavalry rushed out of the infantry ranks, realizing the danger. The leader of the general is none other than the cavalry captain Le Yi!
When Dai Yan used cavalry to fight Zizhang's chariots, he didn't use all his strength, leaving a thousand cavalry in the infantry formation. Seeing that Zizhang was about to break the rules of the nobles' challenge and was about to directly attack the infantry array, the cavalry who pressed the formation immediately began to rush out to block it!
Under the leadership of Le Yi, these cavalry also began to charge quickly, and they rushed towards the charging chariots in a circle in a diagonal manner!
Zizhang, who was standing on the chariot, saw the opposing cavalry rushing towards him, and immediately commanded the chariot to shoot at the cavalry to the left! For this kind of attack, Le Yi didn't pay attention to it at all, and continued to attack the other party!
Sure enough, very few of the arrows that hit the cavalry could inflict damage on the cavalry. Cavalry is the most valuable type of troops in the entire Taoqiu, and Dai Yan has invested a lot of money in them without hesitation! Although they don't have plate armor as protection like Dai Yan, every cavalry has whale armor or cowhide armor as a defense!
When he rushed in front of the chariot soldiers, Le Yi didn't think of engaging the other party head-on. Under his leadership, these frontal cavalrymen picked up thick wooden spears one by one, and the wooden spears in Le Yi's hands did not seek to kill, but directly stabbed them into the wheels of the chariot!
The follow-up cavalry all followed Le Yi's movements, and even if there were cavalry mistakes, the follow-up comrades immediately completed the task perfectly! After this frontal assault of the cavalry, the dozens of chariots that rushed to the front quickly lay on their stomachs because the wheels were stuck and could no longer move!
Seeing that the chariot in front stopped, the chariot that followed the stop was okay and did not suffer much damage. And some full-speed impact chariots can't stop quickly at all, they directly hit the body of the chariot lying in front of them, and immediately caused a serious rear-end collision, and the serious accident of the car crashing and overturning and killing people just happened!
Le Yi used this blockade of the cavalry to make it impossible for all the chariots under Zizhang to advance. After making such outstanding results, Le Yi had no interest in continuing to attack the chariots. He knew very well that this was a noble battle between his lord and Pengcheng Ling Zizhang, and all he could do was to prevent this battle from going out of scope, instead of personally ending up and meddling in this battle!
Dai Yan, who was chasing in the rear, was extremely satisfied when he saw Le Yi come forward and quickly separated. Zizhang's move just now was a very crazy and desperate move, Le Yi intercepted the opponent's crazy move and limited the scale of this battle, without participating in the battle between him and Zizhang, it was really a wise move!
When all the chariots could not move on, Dai Yan commanded the cavalry and began to circle around the chariots. All the chariots on the periphery, as well as the soldiers, were cut to pieces by the soldiers under Dai Yan's command!
Zizhang, who had suffered such a crushing defeat, was full of despair, and he couldn't imagine that the chariot team he had worked so hard to build would be so vulnerable to the cavalry team! In the face of this failure, with it dissipated, his ambition, his glory, his everything! He put down the sword in his hand in a daze, and just stood on the chariot in such a daze, even forgetting the command of the troops!
Dai Yan, who was riding a horse on the periphery, saw Zizhang's handsome flag erected high, so he manipulated the horses under him, jumped into the chaotic team of chariots, and rushed towards the handsome flag!
Zizhang stood under the handsome banner, his eyes were blank, and he didn't even notice that Dai Yan rushed closer!
Dai Yan's speed was as fast as lightning, and he rushed straight to the vicinity of Zizhang, and Zizhang's subordinates rushed forward desperately, wanting to protect their lord! Dai Yan's confidence was greatly increased under this great victory, and the cavalry with him were also greatly excited, and soon slaughtered these remaining guards!
When Zizhang was left alone by his side, Dai Yan wanted to kill him directly on the spot, but remembering that this was a battle of nobles, his saber that slashed at Zizhang also stopped, just on Zizhang's shoulder!
The cold touch of the steel knife finally woke Zizhang up, and he looked at Dai Yan, with a lot of emotions in his eyes, as if there were many words, but he didn't say anything after all.
"Are you willing to surrender?" Dai Yan asked.
Zizhang didn't answer, but he accepted his fate and closed his eyes directly.
When Dai Yan saw the other party's actions, he didn't continue to move, but snatched the tall handsome flag behind him, grabbed this handsome flag and continued to move forward, and soon jumped out of this chariot team!
Seeing that his lord was so powerful, whether it was the cavalry who followed him into battle, or the Taoqiu infantry who could see the battlefield from a distance, they immediately boiled!
"The Lord is mighty! The Lord is mighty! "The whole battlefield is roaring like this!
Seeing such a scene, Dai Yan was also very excited. He picked up Zizhang's handsome flag, rushed to the front of the infantry array, directly unfolded the handsome flag, and then dropped it to the ground, and personally drove the horses under him to trample over the handsome flag!
The cavalry who followed him in battle also followed the example of this lord, trampled over the banner, and trampled the entire banner to pieces!
After accomplishing this feat, Dai Yan called all the cavalry back to the great array, and he gathered all the generals and said to them: "Everyone stand down, we have won this battle!" ”
A general immediately asked with a puzzled expression: "Lord, but the Pengcheng Order is still on the battlefield, we can completely defeat the opponent's army in one fell swoop and take Pengcheng on the verge of victory!" ”
Not only this general had such doubts, but the other generals also had doubts, and Dai Yan explained to them: "Zizhang has been defeated so completely now, he has lost the confidence to fight again. Even if he returns to Pengcheng, he will not pose any threat to us. Although he will not surrender directly to me now, he will no longer interfere in the great war between us and Suiyang, in that case, why should we continue to target him and continue to let the people of the Song Kingdom die in such senseless killings? ”
In Dai Yan's view, Zizhang's biggest ambition is nothing more than to seize Pengcheng and become the king of Pengcheng with the same status as him. And his ambition, the greatest confidence, comes from his carefully trained chariot team. Now that the elite soldiers he trained had been so completely defeated by the strong attack of his own cavalry, he should have completely lost all his ambition and all self-confidence to continue to become a feudal king. Without this ambition, he naturally would not interfere in the Song civil war anymore, and there was no need for him to entangle with him anymore!
Under Dai Yan's strong order, all the Taoqiu troops withdrew from this battlefield and returned to the Sixi camp.
And Zizhang, who remained on the battlefield, also helped the little remaining chariot soldier to support the lord who seemed to have lost his soul and returned to Pengcheng.
From the second day, the entire Pengcheng was completely closed, and it really looked like it would no longer interfere in the Song civil war. Even not long after, Dai Yan got information from Pengcheng: Pengcheng ordered Zizhang to say that he was sick and no longer managed Pengcheng's affairs!
And the nobles in Pengcheng all handed letters to Dai Yan one after another, telling Dai Yan their attitude: Song civil war, they do not hold any position, and they will not interfere in the slightest!
Peng Cheng's neutral attitude made Dai Yan very satisfied! In his opinion, Pengcheng is one of the three capitals of the Song Kingdom after all, and he is strong, and if he wants to completely take down this city by force, it must be a serious drain on his own strength! If you can save a little more of your own strength now, let's save more, maybe these forces will be the power that will determine the outcome in the future battle with Suiyang!