Chapter 17 Meng Ping, Tu Shan, Liu Xin, King Lu, Li Decheng (4)
Seeing the changes in the Tang army's military formation, Liu Xin and Guo Tingwei changed color at the same time, the former grabbed the wooden fence tightly with both hands, and the latter had already exclaimed: "Crossbows, all crossbows!" Tang Thief ...... Tang thieves actually carried thousands of crossbows?! ”
Crossbows are no more expensive than bows, and the former is more expensive and not easy to make. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"What's the panic!" Liu Xin hid the shock in his heart, glanced at Guo Tingwei, and said in a cold tone, "The Hundred Battles Army has always been close to Li Congjing, and it is not incomprehensible that there are thousands of crossbows. However, since these thousands of crossbows have arrived here, it means that in the main formation in front of the mountain, the hundred battle army has no crossbows to rely on. ”
Guo Tingwei was already frightened, but when he heard this, he nodded again and again: "It must be so!" There is also this batch of hundred battle army, everyone wears several layers of armor, and it must have concentrated a large number of armor of the whole army, so in this way, the hundred battle army in front of the mountain is already fragile. ”
"That's it." Liu Xin said indifferently, looking calm, "The Tang thieves attacked my camp with all their might, as long as we can stabilize the camp, once I ambush and kill later, and rush into the Tang thief formation in front of the mountain, this battle will be decided!" ”
Guo Tingwei saw that Liu Xin was so sure, even though he faintly felt that there was something wrong in his heart, he also had a lot of confidence out of thin air at this time.
When he looked at the battle on the hillside again, Guo Tingwei gasped.
After the Wu soldiers came out of the battalion, the strong crossbows in the camp gradually stopped attacking, because the trajectory of the crossbow arrows was in a straight line, and when the former ran in front of the Tang army, they had to do so to avoid injuring their comrades. As for the wood, stone and other things, there are not many of them, and they are exhausted at this time, and even if there is a surplus, they cannot continue to throw them down the hillside.
The Tang army's military formation changed very quickly, when the crossbow-holding soldiers rushed from the rear to the two wings of the small formation, the soldiers in the front of the small formation also stopped, the big shield was in front, the copper wall was ironclad, and the spear stretched out from the gap in the shield, poking straight forward, like a hedgehog, and the general formation was impenetrable.
Such a military formation looks like an eagle with wings spread.
When the soldiers of the Wu army killed the Tang army, the change of the Tang army's military formation did not arouse their alarm in time, and when the Tang army's change was completed, the generals and colonels of the Wu army, when they realized that something was wrong, they were too close to the Tang army, and at this time, there was no choice but to kill them - if they turned around and ran back, not to mention that the military order and military law did not tolerate it, it was undoubtedly an opportunity for the Tang army to be slaughtered.
With the roar in the Tang army's formation, hundreds of crossbow arrows were parallel to the hillside, shooting out leisurely and heading straight for the Wu army's soldiers.
The distance is too close, the power of the horn bow crossbow and the arm open crossbow is too great, in the thrilling sound, the crossbow arrow quickly shot into the body of the Wu army soldiers, the sound of snorting is small, urgent, endless, the Wu army soldiers with crossbow arrows in the body fell one after another in response to the sound and fell down from the hillside.
The soldiers in the front row fell and rolled down, revealing the soldiers in the back row, and then the soldiers in the back row also fell and rolled down in the screams, revealing the soldiers in the back row. These Wu troops, like wheat being harvested, were brought down row after row.
The Wu army's military formation, which was originally killed in a phalanx, appeared many sunken gaps in the military formation as the rows of soldiers fell, like a row of teeth, and one less at every interval.
And the Wu army, which was not taken care of by the crossbow arrows, was naturally faced with the shield of the Tang army. Killing the enemy down the hillside, paying attention to the momentum of the charge, and the cavalry charging into battle has the same trick, and if you carry too many shields, blocking in front of you, it is inevitable to greatly hinder the action, and if you hold the shield slowly, the momentum will be weak.
The Wu army did not carry many shields, so it gave the Hundred Battles Army room to play, but in the end, there was also, when it collided with the Hundred Battles Army's spear shield array, the Wu Army used momentum to slam the shield with his body against the Hundred Battles Army's big shield. The advantage of the dive was immediately apparent, and the shield array of the Hundred Battles Army immediately fell back.
If you look at it like this, as long as you hit it a few more times, the shield array of the Hundred Battle Army will have to be shattered, and then the Wu army will be able to take advantage of the situation to attack.
However, the Hundred Battles Army had already taken precautions, and the shield bearer propped up the shield on the ground, the upper body used his shoulders to resist the shield body, the lower body used his heels against the bottom of the shield, and the hind feet were against each other with the armor soldiers behind him.
Wu Jun rushed down and hit the formation, of course the shield was not dragged on the ground, at this time after they collided with the formation, the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army saw the opportunity, the shield stretched out the hook sickle, pierced into the bottom of the Wu army's shield, and then hooked Wu Jun's heel and pulled back, only to hear a scream, Wu Jun who lost his foot held the shield hand, and immediately fell down.
When they fell, the shield naturally could not be stabilized, and the Hundred Battles Army was well-trained, so they naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, and the shield hand advanced with the shield against the shield, knocking the crooked Wu army's shield array away, and at the same time, the hook and sickle were below, and the spear was on the top, stabbing at the Wu army soldiers one after another.
Ordinary armor can prevent long-distance bows and arrows, and can prevent horizontal slashing, but it can definitely not prevent spear spurs. In the sound of fluttering, the spear slammed into the body of the Wu soldiers, and then pulled out violently, bringing out a large piece of blood, if there were barbs on the spear, in addition to bringing bloody flesh, it could also hook out the opponent's intestines.
Zhao Hongyin followed the shield hand forward, his feet slipped, and he almost fell, it turned out that he stepped on a section of intestines, and when he saw the yellow and white things squeezed out of the intestines in the blood, he held back his nausea, stabbed down with a horizontal knife, and stabbed Wu Jun to death who had not yet breathed.
Seeing that the military formation had already advanced a few steps, Zhao Hongyin's eyes were leisurely.
The soldiers holding the shield are all brave men with the back of the tiger and the bear's waist, otherwise, when the opponent collides with the momentum, they will not be able to stabilize their position at all, in the same way, the shield bearer of the Wu army, and the sergeant who should have been the first to kill after the big shield, must also be warriors.
Because the Hundred Battles Army had already prepared, when the Wu army came out, it changed its formation quickly, stabilized its position, counterattacked properly, and cooperated with each other with hook sickles, spears, and big shields, and soon entered the Wu army's formation, and the warriors in the Wu army bore the brunt of the killing and wounding.
"Open the shield! Kill it! Zhao Hongyin glanced at the military formation behind him, and after the crossbow soldiers were divided into two wings, the soldiers of the military formation behind him immediately rushed forward quickly, as if the body was connected with the head, the legs were connected, and the heels and legs were connected. The military formations with teams and capitals as units were connected and enriched with each other, and immediately changed to units of several hundred people. Seeing the opportunity, Zhao Hongyin immediately yelled.
At his command, the big shield opened sideways, and the spear and hook sickle rushed two steps quickly, stabbing the blade into the body of the Wu army's soldiers, and then, the spearman and the horizontal knife hand behind the hook and sickle hand quickly rushed forward and killed the Wu army in front of him.
The Wu army behind hurriedly counterattacked and rushed forward, and at this time, the horizontal knife hand did not love to fight, but took a step back, and the spearman and the hook and sickle hand rushed forward again, and the blade stabbed out fiercely, poking into the body of the Wu army soldiers who rushed up, and retreating with them low.
When the spear and the hook and sickle are long, when the blade is withdrawn and then attacked, there is a large gap period, and this is often the time when the opponent counterattacks and closes. Once a long soldier is close to a short soldier, he will completely lose the advantage of being an inch long and an inch strong, and he will be deceived and killed by a short soldier who is an inch short and an inch is dangerous.
The horizontal knife hand moved forward again, holding the knife and slashing the Wu army in front of him.
A Wu Jun was agile, saw Tang Jun rushing out with a horizontal knife, and took the lead in slashing at Tang Jun, but before he could show joy, Tang Jun's horizontal knife stabbed into his body, this Wu Jun spit blood, held the opponent's horizontal knife with both hands, and his eyes fell on the place where he dropped the knife, there was no blood gushing out there, and there was only a trace on the armor, he was unwilling, dazed, and finally died weakly.
The spearmen of the Wu army rushed out with a shout, and the shield bearer stepped forward again, relying on his own strength, blocking the long soldiers of the Wu army with his shield, and constantly retreating with the other party. Then, his spear and hook and sickle were killed again.
Wu Jun originally rushed down with momentum, originally thinking that the momentum would be like a bamboo, killing the Tang army back, forcing the other party to turn around and flee, and then chase them down the mountain and harvest their lives behind them. But they never thought that the battle was far from what they expected, the battle situation was very different, and now they were killed and retreated step by step after being blocked from attacking.
The soldiers on the hillside, once they no longer have the momentum of diving, will themselves open wide and full of flaws. The soldiers under the hillside, they only need to be short to attack their lower plate, they will be in big trouble, not to mention that at this time, the hundred battle army still has a big shield to protect themselves, and the tactics are so orderly and sharp, how can the Wu army be able to exert and resist?
What is elite, and how much is the difference between elite and non-elite?
Soldiers who have not killed people are called elite, and if they are not troops that have experienced war, they are all called elite.
The real elite, in addition to daring to fight, must also be able to fight, but also to be able to fight.
To be able to fight means to be well-equipped; Battle refers to the way of being proficient in fighting in battle formations.
From this point of view, elite as a measure has no upper limit. Because on the road to excellence, the details that can be improved can never be improved, and this is an endless road. The world is so big that there is no most elite army, only more elite troops.
The real elite division, when it comes to the battlefield, is a huge killing machine, cold-blooded, ruthless, cruel, and unstoppable.
Such an army is not needed in the first place, and it cannot be many. If you can get 100,000 people, in the era of cold weapons, it will be enough to sweep the world.
Zhao Hongyin killed the stubborn enemy in front of him, and just stood on a protruding stone, he glanced left and right. As a general, he must always pay close attention to the situation on the battlefield.
The army arrays on the left and right, although there were also Wu troops who broke through the shield array and entered the formation, after all, there were not many, and the general trend of hundreds of battle armies was still in the stage of attacking. And those who break through the shield array and enter the formation of the Hundred Battles Army will not be long after being counterattacked by the Hundred Battles Army.
If the counterattack of the military formation is unfavorable, the capital and commander in the military formation will lead the elite and personal soldiers to kill and forcibly stifle the offensive momentum of the Wu army. If the commander and commander are killed in battle, but fail to defeat the opponent, and the left and right army formations, they will divide the brave men and give support.
even cut off the Wu army's military formation, surrounded the hard-to-gnaw bones in the middle, and ate them step by step.
The battle array is subtle, and the subtlety is endless.
Previously, when the crossbow wielding of the Hundred Battles Army crippled the Wu Army's formation, there were many casualties, that is, some shields, and the Wu Army did not dare to face the crossbow soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army in the end, and after paying a heavy price, there was no Wu Army in front of the Hundred Battles Army's crossbow - the Wu Army behind them rushed to both sides.
By this time, a small number of crossbowmen were still holding their crossbows, and most of them had collected their crossbows, drew their horizontal knives, and ran up the hillside. Wu Jun saw that the Hundred Battles Army had collected the crossbow, and hurriedly came out to meet the battle, and after being shot by many more crossbows and crossbows in the army formation, he hurriedly avoided it.
If this is the case repeatedly, the two are close to each other.
Eventually, the battlefield turned into outright hand-to-hand combat.
The time of hand-to-hand combat is not long, but it is not short.
The Wu army was defeated and retreated step by step, and the army of the hundred battles advanced step by step. The further the battle went, the faster the army of the Hundred Battles advanced.
There was no large flat land on Tu Mountain, and the only way for the Wu army to retreat was the barracks.
Finally, the shouting and killing on the battlefield suddenly shook, and under the order of the war drums, the whole army of the Hundred Battles Army fought frantically, advancing like a tide, and the Wu army did not hear the military order, but had to retreat in defeat.