Chapter 78: Frontal Defeat
Yun Dingtian's arrow made the horse bandits behind him see it clearly, and the charging formation suddenly stopped, and someone shouted in horror: "Da Dang's arrow is at home!" ”
When the horse bandits who rushed in front heard this sound, the speed of the charge slowed down, and the horse bandits who stopped saw that the horse bandits behind them did not continue to charge, where did they still have the courage to continue charging?
After all, horse bandits are horse bandits, even if they have received some training and training, when the leader is injured and does not know whether he is alive or dead, he immediately falls into chaos, let alone charging at this moment, all the horse bandits stopped charging, and the horse bandits behind began to turn around and run.
When Zhao Ziliang saw that the horse bandits stopped charging, he knew that the horse bandits had lost their courage, so he immediately broke his strength, put away the horn bow, picked up the horse lance from the victory hook and shouted: "The enemy chief has been shot by me, the enemy has lost his courage, and all the soldiers are lined up in a positive goose-shaped formation, and they will rush to kill with me!" ”
Zhao Ziliang, Wei Meng, Huo Kan, Wang Can and others rode through the gap in the ranks and rushed forward, and the soldiers immediately echoed in unison: "Kill-"
The officers and men of the Tang Army immediately rushed forward after hearing the order, and quickly changed the formation in the process of moving the impact, the circular formation was separated from the middle and the tail, and then immediately expanded to the two wings, and in a blink of an eye, a herringbone formation of wild geese flying south was formed, if their own troops exceeded the opponent's strength, they could be lined up in a reverse goose-shaped formation at this time, and they could outflank the enemy from both wings when they rushed to kill, but at this time the enemy forces were more than their own, so they could only line up in a positive goose-shaped formation to disperse the enemy and chase along the way.
"Kill—"
"Kill—"
"Kill—"
The soldiers of the Tang Army roared in unison one after another, creating an extremely huge momentum, and a murderous aura rushed to their faces. The horse bandits, who had lost their courage, saw that the Tang army changed their formation in a blink of an eye, and they were so fierce that they turned around and ran away.
I don't know who shouted: "Run!" ”
These two words were like a straw that crushed the last psychological defense line of the horse bandits, and the horse bandits collapsed, and most of them turned around and ran towards the mountains and forests.
"Get out of the way!" Yun Dingtian, who was helped up by a few loyal little minions, broke free from their hands, picked up the saber from the ground and shouted: "Don't run, don't run at all, give me back!" ”
No one has obeyed Yun Dingtian's orders, not to mention bandits, even the army is defeated in this situation, and it is impossible to organize a formation to resist the Tang army's rush.
A horse bandit leader persuaded bitterly: "The big boss is not going to be, this group of Tang troops is too powerful, we are defeated, and the defeat is like a mountain!" At this time, it's better to get out quickly, stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood, and I'll come back to find the field in the future! Come on, a few of you will escort the big boss and go first, and the others will stay with me to block for a while."
Yun Dingtian was furious: "Run? Where to run? The reed road was blocked by ourselves, and then ran up the mountain? The Tang army is brave, as long as the mountain is surrounded, and then more troops are mobilized to come, we will either be killed or starved to death! As long as we can block the first wave of impact of the Tang Army, the brothers behind will definitely turn around again to help each other, and then we will have a chance to win! ”
Several bandit leaders glanced at each other, and knew that this was the only way at present, so they could only grit their teeth and say: "Okay, it's all up to the orders of the big boss!" ”
Under the organization of Yun Dingtian, fifty or sixty bandits were organized to line up in a formation to resist the impact of the Tang army, and the bandits who ran away from the back had already run to the mountains and forests, and the bandits who were running back in front and had not been killed by the Tang army saw that Yun Dingtian was not dead, and they also organized the bandits to form a formation, and suddenly their confidence in escaping greatly increased, and they accelerated their speed and ran over to join the military formation of Yun Dingtian's organization.
Zhao Ziliang picked up a few bandits in a row, and when he saw that Yun Dingtian could still organize bandits to resist in this situation, he was suddenly a little surprised in his heart, it seems that this Yun Dingtian really has some skills.
In addition to the bandit army formation organized by Yun Dingtian in front, the rest of the bandits were all killed by the Tang army, Zhao Ziliang pulled the horse to stop, raised the horse lance and shouted: "Fish scale array!" ”
When the soldiers of the Tang Army heard the order, they quickly changed from a state of charge to walking, and changed the formation as they walked, and soon converted the goose-shaped array into a fish scale formation, this fish scale formation was unhurried, and the soldiers approached the horse bandit army formation organized by Yun Dingtian with neat steps.
The fish scale formation is a kind of offensive and defensive formation, the whole army is divided into five phalanxes in the southeast, northwest and northwest, Zhao Ziliang arranged this formation, in which the phalanx in the middle is all archers, and the other four phalanxes are pikemen in the front two rows, and the back is the sword and shield man, if the enemy strikes with a bow and arrow, the sword and shield man in the back row can immediately come forward and erect a shield for the spearman to resist the arrows.
Seeing that the Tang Army had changed its formation in such a short period of time, and the action orders were uniform, Yun Dingtian's face changed, and he knew that this time he had kicked the iron plate, this group of Tang Army was obviously well-trained, and it was the elite of the elite, and the commander Zhao Ziliang had the talent of a general, brave and resolute, and the command was calm and unhurried.
The soldiers of the Tang Army shook the ground with their neat steps, which made the horse bandits lined up in front of them all look like earth, and many of them were panicked, and the weapons in their hands trembled.
Yun Dingtian saw that his minions were all so frightened that they almost lost their fighting spirit, and he was immediately anxious, and he immediately shouted: "Don't be afraid, the Tang Army is also a human being, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that they won't die if they are cut by a knife and shot by an arrow, all cheer up Lao Tzu, the archers in the back, give me arrows!" ”
More than a dozen horse bandits armed with bows and arrows began to shoot arrows after hearing Yun Dingtian's words, and the sparse arrows flew down on the Tang army's shooting, so few arrows, the Tang soldiers didn't even bother to raise their shields to resist, and one after another the arrows were shot on the armor of the Tang soldiers and were bounced off the ground.
Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Chinese archers, eighty steps to prepare······ Shoot-".
"Whoosh ······"
The consequences of the gap in equipment are directly reflected, now the Tang army has more people than the horse bandits in front, and the density of arrows is also large, and after being hit by this wave of arrow rain, more than 40 people fell directly in the horse bandit army!
The first wave of arrows caused the bandits to lose almost half, how can this battle be fought? The horse bandits collapsed directly again, and even Yun Dingtian didn't expect that the Tang army would release arrows on the march, which was absolutely unthinkable before, because there was almost no accuracy in releasing arrows on the march, but the collective upward firing of the bow and arrow phalanx could bring casualties to the enemy, but the hit rate was smaller, but who let the horse bandits not only poorly equipped, but also lined up in a dense defensive formation?
"Run!" Another bandit was frightened and ran back with a shout, and the other horse bandits who were still alive could not withstand it, so they turned around and ran.
Yun Dingtian's face turned pale, he was unwilling to fail, and some fought to the death with Tang Jun, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, the horse bandits were horse bandits after all, and no matter how brave the horse bandits were, they couldn't compete with the army.
A few henchmen saw that their defeat was decided, and only a few people remained in place, where could they withstand the Tang Army's rush to kill? They immediately grabbed Yun Dingtian and turned around and ran.
This is the first time that Zhao Ziliang has commanded the army head-on and confronted the enemy, although the other party is not a real army, but the other side has nearly 500 people, he did not show the slightest panic, but calm, calm, quick to respond in the command of the battle, good at seizing the fighter.
Zhao Ziliang saw that the horse bandits had completely collapsed, and immediately pointed the horse lance forward: "Chase and kill in a reverse goose-shaped formation——"
The soldiers of the Tang Army immediately ran, and when they rushed forward to kill, they quickly switched into a reverse goose-shaped formation, and Zhao Ziliang, Wei Meng, Huo Kan, Wang Can and others rode their horses to quickly chase and kill.
Zhao Ziliang caught up with Yun Dingtian and others, shook the horse lance in his hand and picked up a few horse bandits who protected Yun Dingtian, and was about to stab Yun Dingtian in the back, Yun Dingtian seemed to feel something, and immediately turned around, and knocked Zhao Ziliang's horse lance with the war saber in his hand, but Zhao Ziliang reversed the horse lance, and the lance just swept Yun Dingtian's back, only to hear Yun Dingtian scream and fell to the ground.
The horse bandits who had no time to flee into the mountain were cut down to the ground by the Tang soldiers who caught up, and the Tang soldiers followed Zhao Ziliang and others to the foot of the mountain and stopped.
"Wang Can, tell someone to shout to the mountain, let all the horse bandits on the mountain come down and surrender, otherwise they will all be exterminated!" Zhao Ziliang said a word to Wang Can beside him, turned the horse's head to check the casualties.
"No!"