Chapter 131: The Scarlet Sun
(3,000 words, a big chapter, ask for subscription, ask for recommendation) Rao is so, the captain of the crossbow team is worthy of a battle-hardened warrior, and when he saw that the arrows fired by the side were not enough to block the enemy's charge, he decisively ordered the second crossbowman to fire arrows, and at the same time, he shouted at the first sergeant who had just retreated: "Abandon the bow and draw the sword, and cut off their horses' legs." With that, he took the lead in pulling out the short knife used for close combat defense, screamed strangely, and rushed head-on.
In less than a bowl of tea, the Tubo heavy cavalry that continued to rush rushed into the bow and crossbow team, like a vicious wolf entering the flock, and the sword light swept through the air one after another, and the bow and crossbow team of the Shenhe Army had no power to parry, and most of the sergeants died under the cloud-cutting sword of the Tubo heavy cavalry, and the Tubo people only paid the price of twenty or thirty riders.
The captain of the Mo Dao team who stood in front of Luo Yuanqi with a horizontal knife saw his old man die tragically under the sword of the Tubo heavy cavalry, and he couldn't help but be bloody, and he hit the top beam angrily, and he didn't care about listening to Luo Yuanqi's order, and waved the Mo knife in his hand, which was two feet long, and shouted: "Kill them all and avenge your brothers." ”
Five hundred Mo swordsmen were in a team of one hundred, arranged in five lines, keeping a distance of twenty paces between the lines, and waved the Mo swords in their hands to meet the Tubo heavy cavalry who were galloping.
Also known as the Heavy Infantry Army, the Modao Infantry Army is a powerful branch of the army that is specially designed to deal with enemy cavalry. Even the heavy cavalry of the Tubo Scorpion Army, which was known as invincible, encountered the Modao Army and immediately fell behind.
A long knife was waved, and the Tubo heavy cavalry, who had just entered the no-man's land, immediately turned over on their backs and fell down.
"The front army is stationed on horseback, and it is lined up to meet the enemy."
With a crisp order, the Tibetan heavy cavalry reined in their horses, and arranged them in two compartments in the shape of goose wings, among which one in front of the two behind, three war horses came, and a young general sat on a horse in front of him, none other than Nazha, the son of Nasimo.
Nazha led the 3,000 heavy cavalry of the Scorpion Army this time, and was tasked with breaking through the Xingsuchuan Pass and capturing Shanzhou. Unexpectedly, when he broke through the Xingsuchuan Pass earlier, he was subjected to the desperate resistance of the grandson army who was sent by Luo Yuanqi to guard the pass and act as cannon fodder. According to Naza's plan, he wanted to take the sand castle before it was dark and enter the city of Shanzhou, but he didn't know that the defenders of the pass would be defeated until the sky was about to darken. For Naza, who has always held himself in high esteem, this is simply an intolerable thing.
As soon as he saw that the charge of the enemy army was blocked by the charge, he immediately ordered his subordinates to stop the attack, and secretly ordered his 200 personal soldiers to dismount and hide in the formation, and then brought the two sharpshooters in the army to the front of the two armies.
"Dare to ask, which general led the army to be stationed here? Can you please come to me and answer me? Nazha shouted to Luo Yuanqi in an unskilled Chinese dialect.
Although Luo Yuanqi has never been in battle, he has not heard many people talk about it in peacetime, and when the two armies face each other, the first thing to compare is the ability and courage of the generals. Therefore, as soon as he saw the other general's appearance and invited him to fight, as soon as he lifted the reins of his horse, he wanted to go to the front of the battle and fight Naza alone.
"General, no." Seeing this, the captain of the jumping team beside Luo Yuanqi hurriedly stopped in front of Luo Yuanqi, "This Tubo army is different from the rebels under Wei Buquan, when the two armies face each other, they only judge the victory or defeat based on the strength of the whole army, and never pay attention to the individual contest between generals and generals, and the general must not fall for them." ”
Luo Yuanqi was afraid that he would not move forward, and he would lose his military spirit and morale, so he was about to order the captain to dodge, but he heard a loud answer from the captain of the Modao team in front of the battle: "Lao Tzu is the captain who leads the troops to garrison here, a thief and a barbarian, but he dares to step forward and compete with Lao Tzu for life and death." ”
Nazha saw that a burly captain with a long-pole Mo knife came out of the opponent's Mo Dao team, and whispered to the two sharpshooters behind him: "Shoot him down." ”
Before he could finish speaking, two sharp arrows shot out from behind Naza at the same time, flying straight towards the door of Captain Modao. Seeing that the other party had resorted to such despicable means, intending to plot against himself, the captain of the Mo Dao couldn't help but be furious, swung his knife and flew two feather arrows, and jumped forward, wanting to find Nazha for his life.
Nazar didn't wait for him to take a step, he had already swung his sword and slew straight at him. Captain Modao danced the Modao and slashed at the leg of Naza's mount first, but Naza couldn't dodge at all, and rushed over to meet him head-on, and actually put on a desperate posture. Seeing that if he cut off Naza's horse leg with a knife, his head was only afraid that he would be taken off by Naza's sword, so he hurriedly withdrew his sword, changed his attack to defense, and wanted to protect himself. However, Naza came too quickly, and before the Mo knife in the captain's hand could be withdrawn, Nazha rushed to his approach, raised his sword and slashed, only to hear a "poof", and a huge human head of the Mo Dao captain had already rolled down in front of Nazama.
The sergeants of the Mo Knife Team saw that the captain who led the team was plotted by the other party, and immediately blew up the nest, and they didn't care about the formation, they all waved the Mo knife and rushed towards Naza, everyone wanted to slash Nazha with a knife and avenge the captain.
Seeing this, Nazha raised the long sword in his hand into the air and shouted, "The Scorpion warriors go forward, destroy these Mo sword soldiers, and capture the sand castle." ”
Two hundred soldiers who were ambushed in the Tubo array came out when they heard the sound, with a rattan card in their left hand and a cloud scorpion short sword in their right hand, and rushed to the front of the Mo Dao Army in an instant, and started a close hand-to-hand fight with five hundred Mo Dao Army sergeants.
The Modao Army is built to restrain the enemy's cavalry, and its biggest advantage is that when the enemy's cavalry rushes head-on, without waiting for the opponent's weapons to reach them, they can exert the power of the Modao long pole to cut off the opponent's horse legs, and then subdue or kill the cavalry after they fall off the horse.
Nazha has been fighting with his father Nasimo for many years, and has repeatedly seen the strength of the Mo Sword Army against the cavalry of the Scorpion Army, and has also figured out a way to deal with the Mo Sword Army. That is, when fighting against the Mo Dao Army, he was not in a hurry to charge with cavalry, but to ambush a sufficient number of technical warriors in the cavalry team, and try his best to get close to the Mo Dao Army and engage in hand-to-hand combat with it, so that the advantages of the Mo Dao Army would be eliminated, and the combat power would inevitably be greatly reduced.
Although Nazha was only seventeen years old, he was recognized by the Tibetan government and the opposition as the number one fierce general who succeeded Nasimo and took charge of the Scorpion Army because of his courage and good fighting, and his wisdom and wisdom. At this moment, he was faced with hundreds of Mo Dao sergeants rushing towards him desperately, and he was not afraid, he jumped off his horse and rushed head-on, but when he saw his sword edge, several Mo Dao sergeants had already fallen in a pool of blood.
Luo Yuanqi, who was standing in the phalanx on horseback, was stunned by Naza's sudden burst of power and divine power, and was still hesitating whether to send cavalry to break the opponent's position, in order to recover the decline, and the situation on the battlefield had become irretrievable.
Hundreds of Modao sergeants were powerless to parry under the close combat of 200 Tubo technical warriors, and they all turned around and ran back to the already phalanx, mixing with the cavalry of the already side who were waiting in formation, making it difficult for the cavalry of the Shenhe Army to charge forward and contain the attack of the Tubo infantry army.
At this critical moment, the most important thing to be tested is the ability to control the situation of the battle for the generals and the courage to defeat the enemy. However, this General Luo Yuanqi made an incredible decision at this time: give up destroying the sand castle and withdraw the whole army to Shanzhou City.
If Luo Yuanqi and the Divine Crane Army under his command were not facing the heavy cavalry of Tubo, his decision would not be stupid. After all, when the Modao Army, which was the most able to restrain the opponent, was defeated, it was necessary to decisively abandon the fortress that was difficult to hold, and at least retain some military strength for the side, in order to find an opportunity to fight again in the future. However, when the surviving more than 2,000 sergeants obeyed Luo Yuanqi's orders and began to retreat, even Luo Yuanqi himself immediately realized that he had made a fatal mistake.
Although the 200 Tubo infantry troops who defeated the Modao team with hand-to-hand combat tactics were not enough to pursue and cover the retreating Shenhe army, for the more than 2,000 hoplites who were lined up behind them and were already eyeing the enemy, and were ready to avenge the revenge of the Modao team's one-blow attack, it was the best thing to pursue and cover the defeated enemy troops from behind.
As a result, the tragic scene that Luo Yuanqi didn't want to recall for many years appeared in the sand castle.
Although the cavalry of the Divine Crane Army was not sure to defeat the heavy cavalry of the Tibetans in peacetime, they would not be as sloppy as they were in the battle of destroying the sand castle. The two cavalry captains were still chaotic for their formation to be overwhelmed by the defeated and retreating Modao Army, and when they were shouting loudly to reorganize their team to meet the enemy, they suddenly received an order from Luo Yuanqi for the whole army to retreat. In the midst of the chaos, they couldn't get close to Luo Yuanqi quickly, and asked him to withdraw the military order, so they could only turn their horses and command their respective cavalry to retreat back in accordance with the general's order. At this moment, Nazha saw the favorable opportunity for the Crane army to be mixed with infantry and cavalry, and resolutely ordered the whole army to assault. More than 2,000 Tibetan hoplites roared like hungry wolves pounced on the flock
The mounts of the two teams of 1,000 cavalrymen of the Crane Army were blocked by the Modao sergeants, and they could not advance or retreat, and they were almost unable to make any effective resistance, and they all fell into the ghosts of the sword of the Tubo people
General Luo Yuanqi deserves to be thankful that he has always been accompanied by a hundred jumping warriors of the Divine Crane Army. In the blink of an eye, the two teams of cavalry on the side were completely annihilated, and the enemy was almost frantically covering the front, these 100 jumping warriors, under the leadership of their captain, risked their lives and fought to annihilate the more than 30 Tibetan soldiers who rushed first, forcing the enemy to suspend the momentum of pursuit, thus winning valuable time for Luo Yuanqi to finally get out.
The night shrouded the four fields, and it also covered all the blood. Luo Yuanqi, who was physically and mentally exhausted, led less than ten personal soldiers to station on a high post, looked at the direction of destroying the sand castle, gritted his teeth, and secretly swore: If you don't take revenge, I swear not to be a person! (To be continued.) )