Chapter 25: Fierce Battle
The military order is like a mountain, even if the vanguard soldiers of the Xianbei Department have no fighting spirit at this time, they can only charge hard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Zai had only 2,000 cavalry, all placed on the two flanks of the military formation, led by Zhang Liao and Liu De respectively.
Although Budugen was angry, he would not give the order, tens of thousands of cavalry charged at the same time, and he divided the whole army into several divisions, one by one to charge.
The first part of the 5,000 cavalry just broke into the battle formation, and the second part immediately launched an offensive, one after another, like a stormy wave, endlessly, overwhelming.
If it was in the wilderness, the cavalry rushed over, Zhang Zai naturally did not dare to resist, but now the distance between the two armies is only a few hundred zhang, and the speed of the cavalry galloping cannot reach the peak.
Battlefield command is not what Zhang Zai is good at, and this matter is handed over to Xue Rengui to do.
Command the infantry to change the formation, taking the tun as a unit, and change the formation into small circles, with the sword and shield hands on the outside and the pikemen on the inside.
There were a total of 60 sword and shield bearers in each tun, forming three circles inside and outside, and everyone in the circle was tightly pressed against each other to slow down the impact of the cavalry, and the remaining 40 people held spears and scattered behind the sword and shield hands.
He had been silently calculating the distance in his heart, and when the Xianbei cavalry was one hundred and twenty zhang away from the battle array, and was about to enter the range of the archers at this time, Xue Rengui immediately ordered: "Archers, three consecutive shots, throws." ”
In the past few days, in order to be able to unify command in battle, the defenders of Biansai have conducted joint training with Zhang Zai's troops, and they can also understand Xue Rengui's command words.
So, according to Xue Rengui's order, they all carried out three rounds of covering shooting in front.
"Whoosh ......"
Feathered arrows fall from mid-air, and under the action of gravity, the lethality is even stronger.
"Ah......h
After three rounds of arrow rain. The cavalry who charged forward were like wheat harvested by man, and they were shot and fell from their horses, and many of their horses were shot by arrows, and they fell to the ground with the cavalry, and soon they were silent, because they were trampled by the cavalry behind them, and died in agony.
"The archers shoot freely, and the sword and shield men hold their shields." Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, Xue Rengui finally gave the order.
Finally entered the firing range, and the Xianbei cavalry who were still charging were not to be outdone, and took out their bows and arrows, the range of the cavalry bows they used was shorter, but they were light.
Riding and shooting is their housekeeping skill, and some Xianbei people who are not afraid of death sit on their horses and start shooting at the Han army.
The fighters in the front row were protected by shields, and there were still a few unlucky ones who were shot by arrows.
The Xianbei cavalry was about to rush to the front of the battle, and Xue Rengui's next order followed.
"Set up a gun, and line up to resist the horse formation."
In an instant, the Han army was surrounded by shields in formation, a pole several meters long Ge and spears stretched out from the shield array, the tail pole was fixed on the ground, or fixed on the ground in front of the shield of the shield hand, the rejection of horses was lined up, like a hedgehog, and a spear was the thorn on the hedgehog's body.
Finally, in full view, the two teams collided.
Among the 8,000 infantry led by Zhang Zai, nearly 5,000 were sword and shield bearers, and the 5,000 people were divided into several lines of defense, one by one on the road in front of the cavalry, between the circles, leaving only a small road, desperately blocking in front of the Xianbei cavalry, and the 8,000 people were like a flesh and blood city wall.
The cavalry charging in front had already arrived in front of the formation, and instinctively wanted to stretch out their weapons to pull away the long ges or spears in front of them, but the horses were fast, and they didn't have time to swing their weapons, and even the men and horses were strung on the spears.
And a warrior who narrowly escapes, or who dodges with his horsemanship, may not be able to easily dodge the next spear that stretches out.
The wailing of people and the neighing of horses became the main theme of the battlefield.
However, the warriors with guns are not comfortable, the cavalry impact is not small, the inertia is also large, although the spear has a support point, but it is still easy to hold unsteadily, and there are even a lot of spears, after piercing two or three people, under the huge impact force, directly broken.
That's it, relying on the flesh and blood of the sword and shield hand, he forcibly lowered the speed of the Xianbei cavalry.
After the first round of charges, the formation of the Han army was somewhat scattered, there were many soldiers from Tun, their formation was directly scattered, many were trampled to death by horses, and then the survivors were cut down by cavalry.
Of course, the price paid by the Xianbei cavalry was to lose speed and stop in the battle formation of the Han army.
"Cavalry strangulation on both flanks."
At this time, the Xianbei cavalry, which lost its speed, faced the Han cavalry, almost had no power to fight back, and were slaughtered by the cavalry led by Zhang Liao one by one.
Thousands of Han troops formed a formation, like a reef by the sea, standing tenaciously on the battlefield under the impact of waves of cavalry.
What is going on on the battlefield now is a war of attrition, and the comparison is that the side can hold on.
In the battle circle, Budugen has increased to 20,000 troops, and after the split round of impact, the defense line of the outer circle was torn apart, and the speed of the cavalry that lost its speed was limited after all, so it fell into the battle formation of the Han army and was slowly consumed.
Bu Dugen saw it in his eyes, and he was very anxious, such a price was too heavy, and he was a little unbearable.
The Xianbei tribe is not like the Central Plains, their group, all the clansmen are only 300,000, and there are only 100,000 people who control the strings, and they have to guard against their fellow tribesmen and the Xiongnu to rob the grassland with abundant water and grass they occupy.
In the grassland, everything is for survival, and every year there will be people of the same clan, for a piece of grassland, and they will fight.
He directly brought out 30,000 warriors on this trip, in addition to the 3,000 lost in the past few days, there are more than 27,000 people, and then the Han people will be consumed, even if the Han army is defeated, the loss is still too great.
Not only Budugen was anxious, but Zhang Zai was also, in order to be able to maintain the formation, he put the two thousand elite infantry he brought at the forefront, directly facing the wave of Xianbei's impact, and now, the defensive circle of the two thousand infantry is not much still holding on.
The battle situation is stalemate, the casualties on both sides are getting bigger and bigger, Xianbei can't attack for a long time, and the morale is not much, but now it is falling again and again, and finally Budugen can only withdraw his troops.
Zhang Zai was also relieved, he couldn't help but directly order the troops to be withdrawn.
Back to the fortress, the casualties were counted, close to two thousand killed, three thousand seriously wounded, and countless minor wounded.
Seeing this number, Rao is everyone was mentally prepared, but they still gasped.
This was the first battle, and a third of the casualties were directly lost, which was also too tragic.
The number of troops in his hands has shrunk sharply, and he no longer has the capital to fight with Xianbei, so he can only hold on to the fortress next.
In the Xianbei battalion, Bu Dugen, who received the casualty data, finally looked better, killed 2,000 people, annihilated 3,000 Han troops, and finally regained a city.
Next, as long as you avoid fighting generals, just lead your troops to fight.