Chapter 136: The Decisive Battle (5)
On the left flank of the Xia army, the impact of Yu Linwei brought a series of chain reactions. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
First of all, the commander of the right flank of the Suyue coalition army was worried about being impacted, and ordered the soldiers to endure the artillery attack on the opposite side and shrink closer, and these soldiers did not have much quality at all, so it may be possible for them to charge, but the change of formation at this time is undoubtedly a disaster.
When the soldiers shrank back, the more than 600 people on the far right were about 100 paces away from the military formation next to them.
They panicked and tried to move back, but Yu Linwei, who had already regrouped, decisively spotted this fighter and drove his horses around their flanks and rear, so that the riders with unbroken spears were arranged in the first row, ready to charge directly.
The perfect formation is always immobile, and if it moves and the soldiers are not well trained, enough gaps will be exposed. In addition to learning to ride horses, these officers of the Yulin Guard only learned three things in the academy: distance measurement, estimating the speed of cavalry charges, and judging whether it was possible to break through the enemy's defenses.
Six hundred infantrymen were horrified to find their left flank empty, and the bastards did not alternately cover their own men to retreat first, but shrank back first.
Some wanted to flee back, while others knew what would happen if they leaked their backs on the plains to the opposing group of cavalry, and the only hope was to form a defensive formation and hold out until the shrinking comrades rescued them.
In the panic, the archers took three steps forward and pulled out the mulberry bows, and the spearmen behind them stood together as they had been trained, pinning their last hope on being able to withstand a wave of Yulinwei's onslaught, creating an anxious melee for the friendly forces behind them to support.
It's just that the friendly forces behind him are already too busy to take care of themselves.
The spearmen of the Xia army on the left flank, following the beat of drums and flutes, advanced slowly, stopping every twenty paces to wait for the musketeers to follow, and the distance between the two sides was already close to about two hundred and fifty paces.
The artillery followed the formation and advanced a little, entering the effective range of 300 paces, and the light artillery was quickly deployed, no longer using the angle adjustment, and it was enough to fire directly flat.
While the artillery was still deployed, the infantry continued to advance, this was a group of infantry who had been trained for seven years, and it was no longer the Xia army that needed to be reorganized to ensure that the formation was neat after walking twenty steps.
The sound of the infantry roaring forward and the ground trembled, and it looked like a moving wall, and the musketeers in those gaps had not fired a single shot, but the bows and arrows of the same opposite side could not shoot at them, not yet within the distance of the battle.
However, after the light artillery was quickly arranged, the distance of three hundred paces could smash the iron pellets into the military formation of the Suyue coalition army, and the black-clothed guards on the left flank advanced slowly, apparently preparing for a wave of impact.
In this situation, the six hundred men were like outcasts, not only counting on them to hold back the onslaught of the Yulin Guard, but also to continue to shrink before they completely collapsed, leaving a part of the force to guard the flank.
It will take time to mobilize archers, soldiers from the Chinese army, and redeploy the right flank. Now the archers and the extra 800 infantry are moving towards the right flank, because they have not been hit or shelled, the speed is okay, and the formation is quite neat, but it still takes time, and they do not fly directly over.
Woowoo......
A horn sounded, and Yu Linwei launched an attack again, and the archers of the six hundred foot soldiers chose to throw at a long distance, but the number was too small for the power of the projectile to be evident at all.
The whizzing arrows flew high and landed on the grass in a haphazard manner, wounding only four horses, and a hundred paces away the marksman might be able to pierce the yang, but the vast majority of archers might not be able to penetrate even the sheep.
The earth trembled as the ground shook as the archers could no longer withstand the shock of the cavalry onslaught after firing an arrow of fifty paces, and retreated towards the back of the spearmen.
Plain, dry, no mud, no deer, patchwork had to learn the Xia army model, four hundred spearmen who had not been trained to fight cavalry, and three hundred shock cavalry with stirrups who had been trained hard for a long time.
The result was obvious, the group did not survive the chaotic battle they expected, but were directly overwhelmed by a wave.
The horses that had been thrust at full speed could knock through the poorly trained soldiers with just their chests, and the foot soldiers no longer cared about any orders, even though they knew that it was easier to die if they ran backwards, but they still threw down their weapons and fled.
After the Yulin guards scattered the infantry, they continued their pursuit, trying to break through the right flank of the Sudake coalition directly from the flank. However, the rout of these six hundred men was not meaningless, and the time spent on them as outcasts completed the contraction and deployed the flank defense.
The infantry archers of the rear line of defense fired with feathered arrows, and the tighter and more numerous infantry in the rear gave them peace of mind, which somewhat suppressed the panic.
Even though the general of the Yulin Guard shouted and blew the horn to turn away from the battlefield, there were still more than forty overwhelmed Yulin Guard cavalry rushing headlong into the second line of defense.
These cavalry were all trained hard, and each of them cost several times the money and food of the infantry, which can be regarded as the elite and treasure of the entire Xia army.
General Yulin Weilang gritted his teeth, no longer bothered about the forty-odd and dizzy comrades, and took the remaining more than 200 people around the battlefield and fled far back.
More than 600 foot soldiers had already dispersed, and the stampede and the assassination of the cavalry, running around like headless flies, finally ran back to less than 100 in the rear formation.
Coupled with the three hundred light cavalry that were scattered before, this was a considerable result, but it was only a partial victory, and it did not have enough impact on the entire battle situation, which proved that these cavalry were not the decisive force of the Xia army, but unfortunately Su Yue did not judge it.
The dazed Yulin guards held their spears and crouched on their horses, pressing their heads low to prevent them from being shot by the feathered arrows. They knew that they had no way out, and that turning would become a target for archers, and they could only meditate in their hearts about the results they wanted.
More than forty people were shot to death, three were killed, five horses were killed, and Yu Linwei, who landed on the ground, drew his bronze sword and followed the cavalry comrades in front of him to rush into the enemy formation.
It's a senseless impact, but the effect is not meaningless.
The decisive assault of more than thirty people was squeezed into the dense infantry, only two people rushed out, and the rest were all trapped in the enemy, wielding bronze swords for the last resistance.
The two men who rushed out were covered in blood, with several wounds on their legs, and perhaps with a feathered arrow stuck in their arms.
They glanced back at their comrades who were still fighting, and the two of them looked at each other, without looking back, clamping the blood-soaked slimy spear shaft, and screaming: "Feather Forest orphan, impact!" ”
The two horses were tired, or perhaps afraid, and the master had never stabbed himself with the iron thorns in his shoes, but this time he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, so he raised his hooves and rushed towards the far away place where the Ayatake coalition army was standing.
The two of them are orphans in the true sense of the word, because they know who their father is, and their parents came to Onozawa as fugitive slaves, and they live in Onozawa with them who were destined to be slaves by birth.
From Ji Bai to Onozawa to teach them to use herbs, to Ji Xia to Onozawa to teach them to count and change sugar to eat, to riots, to be human, have a surname and a name, and his father followed Ji Xia's expedition to Dongyi and died. They have experienced hardships, so they understand better what Xia Guo is, and what hatred is and what love is, not only the honor that is constantly repeated in textbooks, but also the love and hatred in their hearts.
For the wings of the country, the country in their eyes is not illusory, nor is it the country of a certain surname, but their own country that is worth their lives.
Two men, two horses, two spears.
In this way, he rushed towards the unreachable Daxu, and was shot halfway by a feather arrow, bleeding and motionless.
Su Yue and the others looked at the two people who were already dead in the distance, and everyone on the side was terrified, these two people couldn't rush to their side at all, but this kind of momentum had never been seen before.
No one wanted to speak, these two people were still far away from Daxu, but it was like a sharp sword inserted into the hearts of these people, extremely depressed.
After a long time, Su Yue laughed and broke the dullness, and said with a smile: "If the Xia soldiers are like this, then there is no need to fight this battle." The elite of the Xia army, all on my right, Ji Xia's defeat has been decided! ”
Su Yue was very cautious, this was a battle to the death that would determine the outcome of both sides, and he was pinching his uneasy heart. The Xia army was basically undefeated in the previous battles, even if the first few times were the number of people in the field, even if the number of field soldiers was insufficient, they were instigated or learned from the turtle to refuse to defend or fled to fight other people's garrisons in empty places, but at least on the whole, the combat power of the Xia army was still very intimidating.
Because Su Yue wanted to rely on the right flank to resist the impact of Chen Jian's main force, and wait until the chaos was confirmed to be unable to support, and then use those chariots to attack.
Now throw the chariot to the right flank to attack the black-clothed guard Yu Linwei, the two sides must be a chaotic battle, meaningless - just like these seemingly terrifying Yu Linwei, the decisive force in the chaotic battle cannot turn the tide of the battle but only achieves a small victory, then it is considered a defeat.
In Su Yue's view, there is no doubt that the main force of the Xia army is concentrated on the left flank, but the movement of the left flank is too slow, and the dullness of the Xia army can be seen at a glance here.
If the Xia army had attacked on the left flank when Su Yue had hesitated before, Su Yue felt that the collapse of his right flank was inevitable, because no one expected that the cavalry of the Xia army would have such a strong impact at that time.
But the sluggish left flank of the Xia army did not seize the opportunity, but attacked slowly.
Even if Yu Linwei defeated seven or eight hundred people, what was the point? Neither did he completely collapse his right flank, nor did he cause a shock on the whole line, but left enough time for himself to press the more archers and infantry to the right flank, making the Xia army's vain attempt to attack the left and defend the right meaningless.
Su Yue felt that this was nothing, if he took out elite chariots and warriors, he could also defeat the Xia army's foot soldiers with one ten, but if he couldn't cause the collapse of the whole front, what was the use of a partial victory? He can throw away a thousand people as an outcast, as long as the front is stable, the number is still superior, these thousand people in exchange for the stability of the right flank and enough time to change the formation, from this point of view, Yu Linwei has been defeated.
"Now the main forces of the Xia army are on the left flank, the middle army and the right army must be empty, once the right army engages, the left flank can not break us in one fell swoop, when the Xia army falls into a bitter battle, the chariot and the warriors attack, Ji Xia can only be defeated on the whole line. He wanted to concentrate on Yulin and the black-clothed two guards to defeat our right wing first, but now it seems that he can't break through! ”
"Herald! The left army attacked, the right army stubbornly defended the archers and refused to shoot, and the Chinese chariots and warriors prepared to break the Xia army in one fell swoop! ”