Chapter 412: Counter-Shock
Changed to ordinary military horses, in the face of the enemy's overwhelming military horses, I am afraid that I will be cowardly before fighting, and I will flee as far as I can.
In fact, this is how Gongsun Du imagined the cavalry led by Gongsun Zhan. Gongsun Du thinks that the people brought by Gongsun Chan are not enough for him to swallow in one bite.
It's a pity that he didn't know that in the heart of the new Han army, he didn't know that there was a word of fear at all. The invincible name of the New Han Army is not shouted, but the prestige that has been fought through countless bloody battles. The New Han Army has never been afraid of the enemy's outnumbered numbers.
In the hearts of the officers and men of the New Han Army, they only have the question of whether to fight or not.
What's more, the New Han Army, especially the cavalry army, has been instilling tactics on how they should do under various circumstances since it was formed. Like now, outside Liaoyang City, facing the vast and boundless plain, there are countless options for them to choose between war and flight. What about escaping, what about fighting, all kinds of tactics have taken root in the hearts of the soldiers.
Every cavalry member of the New Han Army knew in their hearts how they could save their lives and how they could strike at the enemy on such a battlefield.
Therefore, even if their commander Shi Ah is not really proficient in their cavalry tactics, as long as Shi Ah can clearly express the meaning of fighting or fleeing, they, every warrior, know what they should do.
In the pursuit, if you use the bows and arrows of the New Han Army to kill and injure the enemy more effectively than the enemy's superior strengths, how to surprise the enemy army, after the assault. And how to get out of the battle safely and distance yourself from the enemy. These have long been the battle orders that the cavalry of the New Han Army must keep in mind. Let them be in wartime. It can be like a conditioned reflex, cooperate with each other, and achieve the same order.
Therefore, when Shi A led the army to the middle of the road Gongsun Du cavalry rushed over. The superiority of the cavalry of the New Han Army and the strength of its combat power were completely revealed.
The cavalry of the New Han Army, each like a sharp knife, pierced the enemy's chest directly.
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves. It seems that the enemy forces simply failed to hinder them for a moment, rushing through, behind. The corpses of enemy cavalrymen who fell to the ground.
There is no way, the cavalry of the New Han Army, this white horse righteous servant, is so fierce.
Especially in Shi A and other brothers. A group of first-class masters are opening the way ahead. Everywhere you go, it's like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves. The cavalry of the New Han Army behind only needed to stab or slash out with a single shot or a knife in the high-speed rush to split the enemy soldiers blocking the road in front of them.
The Gongsun Du cavalry, which had thousands of men and horses all the way, was crushed by the cavalry of the New Han Army, and more than half of them were killed and wounded.
Not just rush to kill it all the way, among the pursuing enemy troops. Once Shi Ah senses his weak point, he will lead his army to charge and kill.
All of a sudden. Gongsun Du and the other soldiers defending the city on the city wall of Liaoyang were all a little dumbfounded, and they couldn't believe the battle situation on the grassland outside the city.
How can it be? Obviously, it is his own army that is chasing and killing the cavalry of the New Han Army, it is obviously his own military horses that occupy an absolute advantage, and it is obviously his own military horses, so he can destroy the men and horses of the New Han Army at once. However, the current situation seems to have turned around, and it seems that his army is being chased and killed by the 3,000 cavalry of others.
Seeing that outside the city, there were corpses of their own people poured everywhere, and the people on the city were all chilled. How can it be? How can it be? Could it be that the New Han army was so strong that with 3,000 men and horses, it dared to call out Cheng DΓΉ, who had tens of thousands of troops?
Hehe, what's so strange about three thousand versus tens of thousands?
The Modao Battalion, the battalion of the First Army of the New Han Army, if there is no threat of long-range killing, their tens of thousands of cavalry will rush over, and I am afraid that the soldiers of the Modao Battalion will really harvest their lives like mowing grass.
The cavalry of the current New Han Army, the white horse righteous servant, is strong, but the personal combat power of their soldiers is far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Modao Battalion.
But even so, the combat power of this white horse righteous soldier is far beyond these cavalry of Gongsun Du.
If you look closely, you can clearly see how different the combat effectiveness of the two sides is.
Shi A led the cavalry and once again rushed into the cavalry of Gongsun Du all the way.
Liang Yuan, he is not very old, after this winter, he is just twenty years old. However, he joined the army at the age of seventeen, and not long ago, he was transferred to this cavalry and became a member of the glorious White Horse Volunteers.
Of course, like him, who is not very old and can become a white horse servant, is not too many now. Those who were selected from the same faction as him were a dozen or so people about his age.
He is a veteran of the New Han Army, but he is a new recruit of this White Horse Righteous Servant.
Relatively speaking, his combat effectiveness, on the whole, is not too strong.
However, today, he has killed no less than ten Gongsun Du's cavalry.
He remembered very well that there were three of them that he had shot with arrows, and if it weren't for his poor archery skills, he was sure that he could have shot more. Well, the bows and arrows of the New Han Army are really easy to use, the strong bow is powerful, and the range is farther than the ordinary bow and arrow, in addition, each arrow is specially made, stainless steel arrows, light arrow feathers, and very standard unified arrows. The firing range is long, the penetration is strong, and, after aiming, the deviation is not large. As long as you shoot, regardless of whether the enemy soldier has armor or not, it can be strongly pierced.
The other seven people were killed by the novices one by one when he attacked the enemy formation with the group.
Now, a new soft rush has begun.
In the midst of the military formation, in the high-speed gallop of the war horse, Liang Yuan's eyes were just staring ahead, completely ignoring the people or things passing by him.
In fact, on the battlefield, there will be a lot of enemies, especially when the enemy and the enemy are tearing together, you will see that there are figures everywhere, there are shouts of killing everywhere, and there will be people everywhere who are desperately tearing and killing. In the process of tearing up, if you pay too much attention to the situation around you, then, the next moment, you may be killed.
The so-called eyes see six ways, ears listen to eight directions. This was originally needed, but when it came to the real battlefield. When tearing up, in the eyes, there can only be a front.
Liang Yuan firmly remembered this.
Ah screamed, out of the corner of Liang Yuan's eyes, he saw a figure fall off the horse, he didn't have time to see if it was an enemy soldier or his brother. Because, he sees straight ahead. An enemy cavalryman, holding a spear, stabbed with a hideous face.
Liang Yuan held it tightly in his hand. It is a horse chopping knife officially compiled by the New Han Army, and in practice, the horse chopping knife is shorter than the ordinary spear. In horse warfare, long weapons can indeed take advantage of some advantages.
The horses of both sides are charging at high speed. It's impossible to dodge.
But Liang Yuan's heart. There is no fear, there is only determination.
Bite!
His saber picked up, just picked up the spear that the other party stabbed, and then he was short, lying on the horse's back, and the saber took advantage of the trend to slash, and the two horses staggered. Liang Yuan knew that the enemy cavalry was finished.
But he won't look back. Because, in front of his eyes, another enemy cavalry appeared.
This enemy cavalryman, instead of attacking him, slashed to the side.
Liang Yuan didn't think about it, and directly slashed at the enemy soldier's knife, and directly swept his knife away, but the war horse staggered with him again, and he didn't have time to kill him. It's a bit regrettable, but he knows that he should have saved one of his brothers.
Fiercely, there were several enemy cavalry in front of him, Liang Yuan's eyes tightened, but he gritted his teeth and killed him fearlessly. In his eyes, there was only this enemy in front of him. For the rest, he didn't bother at all.
"Kill!" Liang Yuan roared angrily and slashed the cavalry in front of him with a knife, but the spears stabbed on both sides could not be blocked, and he already felt a pain in his ribs.
However, with a snort, his war horse rushed over again, and the spears pierced on both sides never pierced. Liang Yuan knew that it was the cavalry brother who charged with him, killing the other enemy horses.
In the eyes of the enemy soldiers, they will be horrified to see that these cavalry of the New Han Army are all crazy people, and they will not care about their own safety at all, and they can only move forward and kill all the enemies in front of them.
Hum, that's how it came about.
With a bang, Liang Yuan suddenly felt a light in front of him, and looked up, but he had already penetrated the enemy's formation, and saw that in front of him and around him, there were brothers who were covered in blood like him.
"Haha...... Phew! β
The cavalry of the New Han Army galloped away, and behind them, a bloody road was shocking.
The fierceness of the New Han Army is all-round, personal strength, weapons and equipment, and most importantly, mutual trust between the officers and men in the army. Only they trust each other, and when they kill the enemy on the battlefield, they dare to hand over their flanks and backs to their brothers, which is also the strong side of the New Han Army. In the ordinary army, does each of their soldiers dare to hand over their backs to others? And can he himself protect his brother's back without hesitation?
The soldiers of the New Han Army, they are like this, fighting one battle after another, winning victory after victory.
"Haha, brothers, let's charge again, this time, it's their infantry! Kill! β
In front, Liang Yuan couldn't see, but when he heard General Shi A's shout, he didn't hesitate for half a battle, and almost all the soldiers shouted, kill!
The 3,000 cavalry of the New Han Army, like a white dragon, actually circled back again, and with a bang, they directly entered the infantry army of Gongsun Du, who had more than 30,000 horses.
Too ferocious, too ferocious.
It was too unexpected.
All the soldiers of Gongsun Du, as well as Gongsun Du himself, he didn't expect that he would die, just these 3,000 cavalry of the New Han Army could kill him and make him in chaos.
They didn't think that their cavalry could not surround them, and they didn't think that it was their own cavalry that was chasing them, but they were counter-charged, killing them so that they lost their armor and killed them so that their blood flowed like rivers of corpses all over the field.
Three thousand cavalry, although the number is small, but when they slaughtered into Gongsun Duna's infantry outside the city, they were like wolves breaking into the flock, unstoppable.
"Kill!"
Shi A shouted, murderous aura burst out, blocking in front of him, the spearmen who hurriedly raised their spears to deploy the formation, under Shi A's murderous aura, were strangled in an instant, and their limbs were shattered.
In the dense army of Gongsun Dubu, Shi A was like entering a no-man's land, crushing all the way. Among them, there is also his senior brother, who is also mighty. The charging arrows of these 3,000 cavalry did not pause at all, and rushed directly from the formation.
"Damn! There is a kind of don't run, the thief in front of you, dare to fight with a certain one! β
At this time, a young general led a cavalry to kill from the city gate. Shouting at Shi Ah from afar.
Shi Ah turned his head and looked at it, and couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, this young general. It was actually Gongsun Kang, the son of Gongsun Du.
Shi A pretended to be Gongsun Zhan's personal soldier, and Gongsun Du's people didn't know who Shi A was, but Shi A recognized Gongsun Du's two sons.
Well, if Gongsun Du knew. Led the cavalry of the 3,000 New Han Army. The person who made a mess of his army was Wang Yue's eldest disciple Shi A, and he would never dare to let Gongsun Kang lead his army out of the city to participate in the battle.
Of course, the fact is that Gongsun Du did not send Gongsun Kang to lead the army out of the city to participate in the war. But Gongsun Kang was young and vigorous, and when he saw a mere 3,000 cavalry in the city, he actually caused so much damage to his own army, and dared to charge back, and dared to suddenly turn around and kill his infantry army, which made his Gongsun army chicken feathers and duck blood. Chickens and eggs are beating, he is really angry. If even a mere 3,000 enemy horsemen can't defeat it. How can they talk about fighting the world?
He looked carefully at the city wall for a while, and found that among the cavalry of the New Han Army, there was an enemy general who seemed to be particularly powerful, and it was all ordered by this enemy to rush left and right with the three thousand enemy horsemen. He thought that if he could stop this enemy general, then the three thousand cavalry would become headless snakes and would surely die.
You must know that Gongsun Du has two sons, Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong, and Gongsun Du, he still looks old and strong, but after all, he is old, and he can't say which day, he will kick his feet and it will be over. When the time comes, who will inherit the inheritance of Gongsun Du?
Among the Han people, I don't know if there is such a tradition, that is, parents, relatively speaking, generally have a special preference for their younger sons. This is really a bit of a basis. It should also be said that it is a problem of China's national conditions.
Often, the eldest sons and grandchildren of those great families generally carry the hopes of their families from birth. Regardless of whether they are excellent or not, in the minds of parents, they all think that the eldest son and grandchild should shoulder more responsibilities and bear more hopes, but they always feel that they have not done enough, not good enough, often a little bit of difference, they will be disappointed in it. Then, unconsciously, I will focus on the younger son, out of a loving psychology, many times, I will feel that it is much more pleasing to the eye to look at the younger son than to look at the eldest son.
Now, the situation of Gongsun Du and his two sons is almost like this, and it is more pleasing to the eye than the eldest son. Gongsun Kang can also feel his father's emotional bias. Therefore, Gongsun Kang always thinks about showing himself better in front of his father, so that his father can pass on the inheritance to him in the future.
Specifically, it is naturally difficult to say clearly, but Gongsun Kang at this moment is indeed this mentality, he thinks that as long as he leads the army out of the city to destroy the 3,000 New Han army cavalry, then his father will definitely look at himself differently and can see that he has the ability to inherit the foundation of the Gongsun family.
In this way, he resolutely led his cavalry out of the city, wanting to stop and kill the three thousand cavalry.
And when Shi A saw that it was Gongsun Kang, he immediately had a plan in his heart.
Now, after tearing up for so long, his army's war horse body has dropped badly, and after he planned to rush and kill the infantry of the Gongsun army, he led the army to flee away, get rid of the pursuit of the Gongsun army, find a place to rest, and then come to find Gongsun Du's bad luck. Of course, they also had to send people back to Shanhaiguan to report to Xi Zhicai and Zhao Yun about their envoy to Liaoyang.
However, Gongsun Kang led a cavalry army out of the city again, which may make it difficult for Shi A to get rid of the pursuers, and it is even possible that he will be caught up by them, so he is afraid that no one will be able to escape from his 3,000 men and horses.
So, Shi Ah decided to take a risk.
The idea is certain, Shi A said to the juniors and disciples on the left and right: "You lead our men and horses to break through, don't entangle with the Gongsun Army anymore, I will come when I go." β
Shi A's junior disciples listened to Shi A's words, and they never doubted Shi A's words and abilities.
Without saying a word, they led the army to continue to charge and kill, highlighting the encirclement of Gongsun Du. And Shi A, slapped the horse's head and killed Gongsun Kang directly.
"Are you calling me? Want to fight me? Do you dare? Is it worthy? Shi Ah said excitedly.
"Damn! Report the name, the general Gongsun Kang, never kill the nameless general! Seeing that this enemy general really dared to fight, Gongsun Kang immediately slapped his horse and danced his sword, and led the army to rush over.
"Haha! Am I a nobody? I'm afraid that if I say it, it will scare your dog's guts! Come, you can survive the three rendezvous under me, and I will tell you who I am! β
"Little general, we don't care about him, rush up and cut him with a knife!" Gongsun Kang's cavalry surged up with a hula and surrounded Shi Atuan.
"Humph! No guts bandits, don't dare to fight? Then I'm leaving, see if you can stop me!" Shi A glanced at Gongsun Kang with disdain, as if he wanted to rush out when their encirclement was not too tight.
"Who says I wouldn't dare? Come, kill! Gongsun Kang was so angry that he killed him directly.
"Haha, good time!" Seeing that Gongsun Kang was fooled, Shi Ah highlighted his own soldiers, and he didn't dare to delay time at the moment, so he also swung his sword to attack.
In the midst of the enemy's encirclement, his own cavalry had already rushed out with his brothers and sisters. Shi Ah will not joke with his own life.
Therefore, Shi Ah must defeat the enemy with one blow!
However, when the two horses intersected, Gongsun Kang actually really had some ability, and he attacked with a few knives, and he was quite powerful.
Shi A danced the sword, and with a few dings, blocked Gongsun Kang's attack, but the war horses of the two had already rushed through. (To be continued......)