When the main force of the four hundred cavalry of the Ye Ji family rushed up, the forward was already in a melee. The Yanzhou soldiers, the Fuzhou soldiers, and the Yeji soldiers were mixed together, and the people shouted and neighed, the swords and spears were shadowed, and from time to time there were blood flowers splashed out, wetting the loess and green grass in the valley. When Ye Jichuan sounded the horn to summon the main force to participate in the battle, even the patriarch of the Ye Ji family knew that this was by no means an excellent time for the follow-up troops to participate in the war.

The advantage of cavalry lies in speed, in the space of maneuver and in the lethal range of arrows. If you are engaged in an open area on the plains, your main cavalry can bypass the enemy's flanks and even attack the enemy from the flank or even the rear, forcing the enemy to fight separately. But now, in this narrow valley, although the cavalry's mobile advantage is not completely lost, it is absolutely impossible to diffuse in a roundabout way, and without repelling the frontal enemy, the main force of the enemy cannot break through behind the enemy at all.

It was only at this moment that Ye Jichuan faintly realized that the reason why the enemy commander chose this place as a battlefield to wait for him was because of the favorable terrain of this valley, which was not wide or narrow.

The enemy army is arrayed on the east side of the valley, although the front is only three or four hundred paces wide, but the valley is constricted to the east, getting narrower and narrower, which is not conducive to cavalry raiding, but it is conducive to the deployment and mobilization of the enemy's troops. When he thought of this, Ye Jichuan couldn't help but look back at the west with some palpitations, and the terrain there was the same. If your own side is forced to retreat, the mobility advantage of the cavalry is also not conducive to playing.

The enemy army has less than fifty cavalry, so he should not dare to take it out and fight with himself.

At this moment, the main force was used, although he knew that it was a tactic to add fuel, Ye Jichuan still had to do it. The forward line composed of 200 cavalry was almost unable to hold up under the blow of nearly 300 infantry of the enemy, and if the main force did not move forward. I'm afraid that the striker is about to collapse completely.

However, at this moment, the enemy and the enemy are mixed together, and the troops who come forward cannot use bows and arrows, but can only rush forward in hand-to-hand combat.

Moreover, the enemy and the enemy are mixed together. The cavalry could not charge. In this state, there is not much difference between riding a horse and walking up.

Once engaged, cavalry without armor protection could hardly bargain for the opponent's white-bladed infantry with good quality. Two hundred cavalry in the forward. Because of the length of the saber on the horse, dozens of people have to dismount and fight, and they must have a cat's waist on the horse to cut those monkey-like flexible folding soldiers, and these strong veterans can jump around the horse and threaten the soldiers on the horse at any time, these war horses without blindfolds often do not obey the threat of enemy weapons, and the cavalry is so depressed that they vomit blood.

Because the forward cavalry failed to achieve the goal of tearing apart the enemy's infantry line, so that the follow-up cavalry could only carry out an unfavorable attrition battle with the enemy after rushing up, Ye Jichuan originally thought of a good strategy. In front of the combined forces of Yanzhou and Fuzhou, he hit a nail that couldn't be harder.

Ye Jichuan was also considered to have made a quick decision, and the timing of his summoning the main force to attack was just right. A little later, the striker will be completely finished. At this point, Ye Jichuan finally canceled the plan to win the battle with minimal losses, preserve his strength, and launch a southward campaign to attack the county seat. If you can't win all, you must at least win a miserable victory, Ye Ji's family is not a Han court, and they can't afford to lose, as long as they lose one. Ye Jichuan's personal fate does not matter. The old and young people of the Ju clan were about to face the massacre of the Han people. It was a crisis of extinction of the dead race, and Ye Jichuan couldn't help but not work hard.

A crushing victory is better than a crushing defeat. That's what Ye Jichuan thinks.

Although after the disastrous victory, Ye Jichuan was ready to face the crusades and accusations of the nobles in the clan, but at this moment, he didn't care about these ......

The main force of 400 cavalry pressed up, and the battle situation suddenly changed, although the fighting spirit of the Han soldiers on the opposite side was still undiminished, but the offensive and defensive momentum in front of the battle suddenly changed hands. In the face of more and more Yeji's cavalry, the battle-hardened soldiers began to have some scalp tingling, and the two teams of Di Huaiwei's division in charge of the front fought and retreated greatly faster, and the casualty rate of the Han coalition army also began to rise.

At this moment in the battle, the forward area has been scattered with nearly 300 corpses and horse remains, large and small, including about 120 or 30 corpses of Yeji soldiers, among which the front is the most concentrated, just during the period when Di Huaiwei's two infantry teams fought and retreated, there were more than 50 Yeji cavalry under the iron spears of Yanzhou soldiers.

The damage to the Di Huaiwei Department is not small, so far twenty-one people have been injured and nine have been killed.

Although the iron armor named after the small leaves of the armor is not as strong as the protective power of the Mingguang armor, it is still very effective in effectively dispersing the enemy's attack and protecting the bones and veins of the soldiers. The so-called knife in the hands of some people is actually just a long piece of iron sharpened, and there is neither a handguard nor a leather or wooden handle in the handle position, so unless it accurately slashes and stabs the enemy's throat or carotid artery, it is difficult to cause fatal damage to the infantry of the Eighth Route Army equipped with fine scale armor.

The Eighth Route Army's box ambulance team had been shuttling in and out of the formation, carrying wounded soldiers to the rear on their backs or on their backs, and since the frontal defense had never collapsed, their movements were relatively safe.

But at this moment, the fresh force of the four hundred cavalry pressed up, and the two groups of infantry retreated greatly under the pressure of the frontal enemy, and gradually opened a gap about 100 steps wide between the two wings of the Zhejia soldiers, and this gap was filled by the Ye Ji cavalry in a blink of an eye, and the defense system of the front and the two wings was torn apart. Zhi Yuqing, who had been watching the battle situation coldly, took a deep breath, turned around and looked at the Eighth Route Army Yu Houke's lieutenant Rong who was standing behind him, and nodded lightly: "It's almost, blow the trumpet!" ”

Hearing this, the young staff officer took out a yellow bronze object from behind his back like a trick.

The appearance of this object is very peculiar, the front end is like an open flare, the rear end is twisted into a shape after being retracted, and the tail end is narrower than the thinnest Xiao.

This is an object that should never be present in this era.

Anyone from the time of the Li Cultural Revolution could easily recognize the origin of this object, which was once the distinctive symbol of an unusual army.

"Tick Tick Tick ......"

Reputedly. At that time, the veterans of a certain country who had experienced the blood and fire test of World War II on the 3,000-mile rivers and mountains would turn pale and tremble their legs as soon as they heard this voice and melody.

On this day, this voice sounded in the 10th century AD.

Ye Jibing on the battlefield had never heard this slightly harsh sound. They didn't know what was behind the sound. At the moment, the sound is just curiosity for them.

The next moment. Everything is different.

On both flanks, in the gap between Di Huaiwei's two infantry teams, three hundred soldiers wearing thin scale armor and holding wooden guns rushed out in a dense formation and roared.

The speed of their impact was not fast, but the impact distance of dozens of steps, those stunned Ye Ji soldiers with discolored faces even had time to shoot more than a dozen arrows.

However, the dozen or so hastily fired arrows were swallowed up by the torrent of infantry that swept in in a blink of an eye, and not a single member of the Zhijia army fell, and it was impossible to judge whether anyone was injured by the arrow. The horses of the Ye Ji family's cavalry screamed in panic and dodged in all directions, and were frightened by the shaky metal flash and the rolling momentum of the waves on the opposite side. No matter how much the owner pulls the reins, it is useless to drink.

The six teams of Fold soldiers, all dressed in armor, rushed into the battlefield from both flanks.

As soon as the two sides fought. Suddenly there was a rain of blood.

After all, the Yejijia cavalry was limited in the concentrated blockade of the two wings, and the more than fifty panicked cavalry almost collapsed at the touch of the heavily armed Zhijia infantry, and the twenty or so Zhijia soldiers who rushed in front almost pressed the weight and momentum of their whole bodies every time they poked out their wooden spears, and from a distance, several Yeji soldiers were even shocked and flew off the saddle.

Ye Ji's family is really too poor. Poor to the point that most cavalry could not even afford stirrups.

Observing the battle situation in the rear, Jiye Yoshikawa didn't have time to shout out the order. Dozens of Ye Ji soldiers had collapsed, and the gap between the two wings was once again occupied by the Zhejia soldiers. These iron-clad killing gods are pouring into the battlefield from these two gaps.

Once again, the tide was reversed.

Ye Jichuan gasped, although he didn't have time to make specific statistics, but at a cursory glance, the ironclad soldiers who appeared on the battlefield on the other side were already more than three hundred, and he understood what it meant. Among the dozen or so feudal towns in Guanzhong, no army has yet been able to possess so much iron armor. The equipment of the Yanzhou army on the opposite side has exceeded his imagination, and this is simply a highly asymmetrical war.

Immediately retreating and doing his best to keep this living force in the clan has become Ye Jichuan's wisest choice at the moment.

There is only one way to prevent the retreat from turning into a complete collapse.

Ye Jichuan swung his sword into the battlefield, and sent two heralds while attacking.

To transfer the frontal forces with less pressure to the two flanks, it is first necessary to contain the offensive of this new force rushing out from the two flanks, and only in this way can favorable conditions be created for the retreat.

The horn sounded on the battlefield again, and the more than 100 cavalry that were attacking the front of Di Huaiwei's department were mostly drawn to the two wings, and the pressure on Di Huaiwei was suddenly relaxed, and the retreat momentum was stopped.

At this moment, the number of wounded has reached twenty-eight, and the number of war dead has reached fourteen.

The remaining sixty or so people were sweating profusely at the moment, and after nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, these people had killed to the point of softness, and their bodies and hands were full of enemy blood, and some recruits couldn't help but vomit behind the veterans......

At this moment, the ticking of the military horn sounded again.

Di Huaiwei heard the sound, as if hearing the sound of heaven, he spread out to both sides with all his strength, and the queue of the original four rows became fourteen rows in a blink of an eye, flashing a gap more than ten steps wide in the middle line.

If such a gap appeared in the front a quarter of an hour ago, Ye Jichuan would be ecstatic and swing his army to attack, as long as he could tear through the frontal defense of the Eighth Route Army, the pattern of victory and defeat in this battle would be reversed.

However, at this moment, no matter what Ye Jichuan thought, he didn't have time to adjust his deployment. The main force of the Ye Ji family, which can still fight, is gathering from the middle line to the two flanks, and is trying its best to deal with the Fold soldiers rushing out from there, at least in a short time. This transfer is irreversible. What's more, Ye Jichuan had already led his own clan team into the battle, and at this moment, it was difficult for even him to give orders to the nobles who led the team in a short period of time.

Ye Jichuan understood that Di Huaiwei dodged such an opening, and the purpose was definitely not to let his cavalry kill from here.

At the same time that Di Huaiwei's right battalion was dodging away. The armor of the Jinghai Department had already been completed behind the battle, and the left battalion armor of the Jinghai Department rushed up from this gap.

The left battalion is the only infantry capital in the reorganized Yan'an regiment composed entirely of veterans. Among the 100 soldiers of the two infantry teams, the most junior soldiers were also soldiers who participated in the Battle of Yinzhou. After the reorganization, the Yan'an Regiment has two battalions on the left and right, and ten infantry battalions. Just the name of the left battalion is enough to show the status of these two infantry teams in the Yan'an regiment and even the Eighth Route Army.

At this moment on the battlefield, what clearly shows the difference between these hundred infantry and other brother troops, and what frightens Ye Jichuan the most, is the bird-hammer infantry armor worn by the soldiers of this army.

The spindle-shaped ground armor is made of fine iron quenching, the armor area is large, and the ability to resist slashing is extremely strong, and the inferior sabers in the hands of most Ye Jibing can't help this kind of armor at all. In the Eastern Armor of the Cold Weapon Era, this is the armor second only to the Mingguang Armor in terms of protective ability. Even the Shanwen armor draped on the bodies of many generals is inferior to it in terms of anti-stabbing and slashing.

This time, Li Wenge carried 500 sets of iron armor. Among them, there are 400 sets of fine scale armor and 100 sets of bird hammer armor.

Li Wenge was very generous, and since he sent troops with the Zhejia family, he did not hesitate to equip the Zhejia army with 300 sets of fine-scale armor. Regarding this move, Zhou Zhengyu, who has always regarded his belongings as quite expensive, once slandered a few words. Li Wenge blocked back the big brother's following words in one sentence: "We were in difficulty at the beginning. If there were no people who folded the fifty sets of infantry armor of Linggong, how could there be this army today? ”

To protect your allies on the battlefield is to protect yourself. On this issue, Li Wenge understands better than anyone else.

It is precisely because of Li Wengedi's attitude that Zhe Dehuang and other generals of the Zhe family have no opinion on Zhe Yuqing's arrangement for their own infantry without armor to show weakness to the enemy in front, although this is the most arduous errand. Before sending troops, Zhe Deyuan once repeatedly explained to these brothers on behalf of Zhi Congruan: "General Li didn't treat us as outsiders, and we can't let the children of the Zhe family see the jokes......"

Jing Hai was fully draped and rushed to the front of the capital.

The newcomer, who was not good at words, was dressed in a dark blue military uniform, covered with a bird's hammer armor, and held a wooden gun in his hand, which was almost identical to an ordinary soldier except for the two concentric triangular armbands on his forearms, which represented the rank and rank.

When Jing Hai rushed to the front of the formation, the dozens of Ye Ji cavalry who were attacking Di Huaiwei's department head-on had not yet reacted.

Different from the soldiers of the folded family, when the armor was reunited, there was no other movement except for the sound of miscellaneous footsteps and the sound of shaking and colliding armor leaves, all the soldiers pursed their lips tightly and did not say a word, the wartime three slashing laws of the Eighth Route Army have made these veterans who have been in the army for a long time form a habit, so although there is no supervising team with a flat machete behind them at this time, the two teams of soldiers still instinctively remain silent.

Jing Hai rushed forward, possessed and dodged the saber that a Ye Ji family cavalry bent over on the opposite side, the wooden spear hit horizontally, his left fist was empty, and the right hand holding the bottom pole was forced, and the sharpened blade of the spear accurately pierced into the waist eye of this young cavalryman.

Immediately, he drew his hand back almost without pause, and drew the blade of his spear without any stickiness, ignoring the saber that another Yeji cavalryman on the right side of his body slashed at his shoulder and arm.

Jing Hai, who had participated in almost all of Li Wenge's military operations for more than a year, had already honed his calm and unusually smooth movements, and his movements were agile and flexible, until he completely pulled out the wooden spear, and the screams of the stabbed cavalryman came out, his body shook twice, and he fell down immediately.

The saber on the right side that slashed at him was only half cut and hurriedly retracted, barely holding a wooden spear stabbed from behind Jing Hai, but the cavalryman's horse was stabbed in the neck by another wooden spear, screamed and jumped up, and turned the cavalry off his back and threw it at the feet of several Wudu infantrymen.

The armor that rushed out from the middle line was like a sharp steel knife, cutting into the Ye Ji family soldiers, who were already slightly weak in strength. However, in just a few moments, more than a dozen Ye Ji family soldiers had fallen off their horses screaming, and the central front was suddenly in chaos.

Ye Jichuan did not hesitate to make the last line of efforts at this moment, he shouted while riding his horse towards Jing Hai and leading the forward of the Dijia Capital. He was followed by more than 30 soldiers of his own clan. Now the situation on the battlefield is chaotic. There are many enemies and friends, and any command flags are superfluous at this time. The headquarters of the commander is the firefighting team, and the most direct and effective way to deal with this kind of crisis that may endanger the entire front line is to rush to the front line to personally plug the gap.

When Jing Hai pulled out the wooden spear in his hand from the body of the fourth enemy, suddenly his eyes were bright, he looked around in amazement, only to find that dozens of enemy troops in the central region had been assassinated by the soldiers of the Jiadu in just a few breaths, and at this moment there were corpses of people and horses everywhere, and there were still standing around in addition to the enemy's wounded or uninjured war horses. Only his own subordinates remained.

At this moment, the infantry of both teams had rushed out of the gap vacated by Di Huaiwei and were spreading out in all directions......

That's when it happened. Jing Hai saw Ye Jichuan who was rushing from the north side with a shout.

Facing this small group of more than 30 cavalry that were almost in a line, Jing Hai almost didn't think about it, while shouting loudly the name of the right team, Zhengniu Tieshan, while waving his right arm and making a gesture of outflanking with his palm.

In fact, his gesture was completely superfluous, seeing that the enemy army who came to fight the fire pulled out such a long line because of the full-speed impact, Niu Tieshan, who was spreading a formation in the north, had already rushed over desperately with the three infantry that had been hastily assembled around him. Even Di Huaiwei, who was supposed to be taking a breather and recuperating in the back, sent twenty veterans who barely had the physical strength to move towards Ye Jichuan's flank.

Speak every day. Month after month, daily training and learning are tirelessly instilled. Now, under the command of Li Wenge, even a small commander and army commander have formed a conditioned reflex to attack the enemy's flank at all costs on the battlefield.

For the esoteric and difficult military concepts in Sun Tzu's Art of War, it is difficult for these people who do not know a single word to fully comprehend them. But for the simple and intuitive truth that we must find ways to hit the side when fighting the enemy, even those recruits who have just joined the army can figure it out, not to mention those veterans who have experienced the baptism of the battlefield.

Striking the flanks, a simple but absolutely profound and effective tactical concept.

There is no need for an order, this is already the consensus of this army from top to bottom.

Almost taking a few breaths, Ye Jichuan's cavalry had already rushed in front of Jing Hai; At the same time, Ye Jichuan was horrified to find that a large number of infantry wearing bird hammer armor appeared on his flank.

This was an inexplicable discovery that shocked Ye Yoshikawa......

From childhood to adulthood, as the head of a clan, Ye Jichuan has done a lot of fighting, killing, and killing.

No army has ever seen such a speed of reaction.

If it is a large army engagement, it is normal for thousands of enemy troops to appear on their flanks, because a general who can command thousands of people is undoubtedly of sufficient level.

Even in a battle like today, it is not surprising that an army of several hundred men appeared on his flank, after all, judging by the layout of the enemy, the enemy general is an expert in the art of war.

But it always takes time from the order to the movement of the troops in place.

Discovering the enemy's situation, analyzing the enemy's situation, making judgments, issuing orders, and conveying orders to the troops, and the troops beginning to move and moving in place are basically not to be omitted as a normal mode of warfare.

From the time he led his troops to kill them to the appearance of these enemy troops on his flank, there were only more than ten breaths in total. The microscopic movement of the scale of more than a dozen people and dozens of people has been so fast and accurate, what kind of army is this?

On the other hand, those veterans who fought separately in front of the cavalry, it is difficult to say that the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers has not been contacted, but the flexibility of their battlefield response has obviously widened the gap.

Ye Jichuan held his saber high and slashed at Jing Hai's head in a trance.

This soulless knife naturally could not pose any threat to Jing Hai, an enemy infantry on the side pierced the horse's belly with a shot, and the staggering and jumping war horse deflected Ye Jichuan with a knife, and the saber slashed through the space of a foot away from Jing Hai, and swept the air solidly.

Then the war horse neighed, walked a few more steps crookedly, and slowly softened.

Several wooden spears stabbed at the same time, almost piercing a personal soldier who pounced on Ye Jichuan into a sieve.

The blood of this pro-soldier sprayed Ye Jichuan's head and face, and a spear pierced too deeply, passing through the waist and abdomen of this soldier, and drilling a small hole in Ye Jichuan's thigh.

Several of his own soldiers rushed forward like desperate, two of them blocked Jing Hai and the Jiadu infantry around him, and the other three grabbed Ye Jichuan out of the drag and dragged him, and helped him to the vacated mount of the soldier who had just jumped off the horse to block the gun for Ye Jichuan.

By the time Ye Jichuan sat on the horse's back, the two soldiers who were blocking Jing Hai had already fallen off the horse with a long scream.

Ye Jichuan forcibly endured the pain to calm his mind, and looked at the battle situation around him in shock.

There are two things that make Ye Jichuan feel desperate.

These cutting-edge infantry who rushed forward were not only quick to react, but also extremely cooperative, and almost every Ye Ji soldier had to deal with two to three or four wooden spears stabbing from different directions.

Until now, as far as his eyes could see, he had not found a single corpse wearing the Bird's Hammer Armor.

The Di Huaiwei troops in the back have re-arrayed and are slowly moving forward.

The cavalry on both flanks had been completely dispersed by the enemy's ironclad infantry, and some troops on the west were turning their horses and fleeing towards the west side of the valley.

The crowds of their own troops on the battlefield are becoming smaller and smaller, and the few remaining regiments are gradually being torn apart by the enemy.

Ye Jichuan shouted irritably, at this time, only eight of the more than thirty pro-soldiers around him were still barely fighting against Jinghaibu, and there was no hope of victory in this battle.

Ye Jichuan still refuses to give up, not because his mind is resolute to the point of being unshakable, but because he has no choice.

Either win the battle or die on the battlefield, leaving the fate of the clan to the successor patriarch.

However, at the moment, things are completely out of his control.

Everywhere on the battlefield, the cavalry of the Ye Ji family began to turn around and flee westward, and the defeat of the Ye Ji family was completed.

It was a real defeat.

The enemy army has collapsed......

Zhen Yuqing rubbed his hands lightly, clenched his fists and calculated silently. In today's battle, in this valley, the Ye Ji family threw down more than 400 corpses, and the courage of this clan soldier has been completely destroyed by this battle......

He smiled lightly and said, "Here's Zhang Guizhi's matter - blowing the trumpet!" ”

Just in the sound of people shouting and neighing, in the sound of the exchange of blades, Ye Jichuan heard in despair that the ticking devil's horn sounded through the valley for the third time!