Chapter 859: Breaking the Formation
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After the cavalry of the Shence Army annihilated the two thousand enemy troops in the rear, they began to gather in formation, Wang Yuan sat on his horse with a long sword in his hand, and his body was covered with blood, and his golden armor was also full of blood and dirt. However, this is not Wang Yuan's blood, this is all the blood of the enemy. When interspersed with charges, Wang Yuan always took the lead in rushing to the forefront, which is also his consistent style. Encouraged by the commander, although facing several times more than his own number of places, the cavalry of the Shence Army was also fearless and ruthlessly crushed the opponent. At this point in the battle, nearly 5,000 enemies were annihilated, and the casualties of the cavalry of the Shence Army were less than 300, which is really incredible.
"Marshal, the remnants of the enemy have formed an infantry shield formation, should we charge?" Zhao Qing rushed over and asked in a loud voice.
Wang Yuan shouted: "I didn't need to attack, but there was not much time. The river must be defeated before it can be broken, so there is no need to think about it. Listen to my orders, form a cone-shaped charge array, immediately launch a charge, and teach the rebels to see what is the courage of the cavalry of my Tang Dynasty Shence Army, and what is an invincible charge. It is simply wishful thinking to resist with their shield and spear array. ”
"Yes!" The guards shouted in unison.
More than 1,500 cavalry quickly lined up, led by Wang Yuan, dozens of personal guards formed a charging arrow, and the rest of the cavalry slowly spread backwards like two wings. Wang Yuan was about to give the order to charge, but suddenly two horsemen galloped to his side, but it was Gongsun Lan and A Luo.
"Why are you here? Didn't you want to watch the battle from the rear? Wang Yuan frowned.
Gongsun Lan said lightly: "My body has recovered, how can I not be by your side in such a big war?" ”
Wang Yuan sighed: "I said, I won't let you get into danger again." It looks like it's going to break its promise again. ”
Gongsun Lan shook his head and said: "Life is the same life, and death is the same death, that's it." ”
Wang Yuan nodded slightly, turned his head and stretched out his hand to smile at A Luo: "Come, sit behind me, my horse is fast, and it is even happier to kill the enemy." ”
Ah Luo was overjoyed, jumped up and landed firmly behind Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan said in a deep voice: "Originally, I planned to rush into the enemy formation, but it was also a helpless move. But now that my cousin and Arlo are fighting with me, the three of us have the ability to outwit the enemy. Cousin, Ah Luo, we have to take a big risk today, are you afraid? ”
"Hmph, when have we ever been afraid?" Ah Luo said angrily.
Wang Yuan smiled: "It's okay not to be afraid, then let's play a big game, we have to cooperate closely to tear the opponent's defense line apart." ”
Gongsun Lan smiled: "You are scheming, we will listen to your arrangement." ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "What do you mean by being scheming? It's called resourcefulness. With your help, things are much easier. We'll be like this and this later. ”
Wang Yuan quickly explained a few words, and Gongsun Lan and A Luo both nodded again and again. At this moment, they didn't know if Wang Yuan's method was feasible, and they didn't have time to discuss the feasibility. But with their faith in Wang Yuan, they believe that Wang Yuan's method must be feasible.
Wang Yuan turned around and explained a few words to Zhao Qing, Tan and others, turned his head to look at the black and oppressive rebel formation in front of him, took a deep breath and slowly raised the long sword in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" ”
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The shouts of the cavalry of the guard battalion resounded in the night sky, and in the shouting, Wang Yuan urged the horses, and the big black horses neighed, raising their hooves and trotting. After a few moments, the black horse accelerated, charging towards the enemy formation like a black lightning bolt. On his side, Gongsun Lan's white horse followed closely, and more than a thousand horsemen rushed behind him like a frenzied tide, and the conical cavalry formation was like a sharp knife, stabbing fiercely towards the enemy formation.
Yuan Bin looked nervous and loudly ordered the soldiers and horses to fight, the archers took the lead, and a rain of arrows shot towards the rushing cavalry, the arrows fell, and a group of people turned on their backs. However, it is a pity that a large number of archers were annihilated in the battle just now, and now Yuan Bin only has eight or nine hundred archers in his hands, so the lethality is limited. After two rounds of arrows, the charging cavalry fell by more than two hundred, but it was not a big problem in the overall formation. The third round of arrows could no longer be fired, because the arrows of the cone formation had reached the front of the shield array, and the bows and arrows were useless at this time, and all that remained was a hand-to-hand combat without fancy fancy.
Wang Yuan's dark horse was swift and fast, and it only took a dozen breaths to charge to the front of the enemy formation from a distance of hundreds of steps. His mount threw out the following cavalry dozens of paces away. He was the first to reach the edge of the rebel formation, and it looked as if he were charging the enemy line single-handedly. When his horse rushed to the edge of the rebel formation, the rebel soldiers raised their shields in unison, and the three layers of shields overlapped to form a one-man high temporary shield wall, and behind them were the rebel soldiers who desperately lowered the shield wall. Between the gaps in the shield walls, countless spears stretched out like a forest, pointing diagonally at the sky. This is exactly the best means to deal with cavalry charges, shield walls plus guns. This formation can neutralize the first wave of the cavalry's most ferocious charge, hinder the cavalry's charge, and kill a large number of charging cavalry, which is the perfect defense system to restrain the cavalry charge.
Wang Yuan's black horse was as fast as lightning, and when it seemed that he was about to crash directly into the gun forest shield wall, he only heard Wang Yuan shout, and his legs slammed into the horse's belly and lifted the reins in his left hand. The big black horse hissed and jumped into the air, as if it had given birth to a pair of winged Pegasus, and flew over a distance of several feet, leaping over the shield wall more than one person high. With a thud, it fell into the rebel formation behind the shield.
It's like a boulder falling into the water, and it suddenly stirs up a huge splash. The black horse landed and knocked several enemy soldiers below. The horses' iron hooves crushed the breastbones of two soldiers who could not dodge, and the terrifying sound of Kerala sounded. Wang Yuan on the horse didn't wait for the war horse to completely land, and the broken army sword in his hand had already swung a shining arc. At the moment when the horse's hooves crushed the bones of the enemy soldiers, the heads of the two stunned soldiers on his side had already flown into the air.
"Aro, shoot the shield spearman." Wang Yuan shook the reins and turned the black horse to the east, while shouting loudly.
With a scream, the crossbow that had already been in her hand shot out one after another, and three or four rebel soldiers who were close at hand were desperately holding shields against spears and fell down. Without human support, the shield array composed of three shields in the rear collapsed, revealing a narrow gap. Although this is only a gap, it proves that Wang Yuan's method is effective. To break through the shield wall and spear, you must first kill the soldier with the shield and spear.
There was a loud bang from the outside of the shield wall, and it was the white horse ridden by Gongsun Lan, who was a little slower, galloping towards him. But the white horse obviously crossed the shield wall as easily as Wang Yuan's black horse, and it rushed to the front before it could stop, and directly crashed into the gunfire, and its huge body immediately slammed into the shield wall. The forest of spears had already neutralized part of the impact, and the desperate resistance of the shield-wielding soldiers had also neutralized the subsequent impact, so the shield array was not overwhelmed by the corpse of the white horse, which was the solidity of this shield and spear array.
Gongsun Lan's body had already jumped up in mid-air the moment the white horse collided with the gun, and her body flew over the shield wall like a big bird with a forward momentum, making a light turn on the heads of the soldiers who were looking up, and then swooping down.
"Kill him, kill him." The rebel soldiers made a noise, and seven or eight soldiers rushed towards the place where Gongsun Lan landed, and they wanted to pick up a bargain after Gongsun Lan landed. However, the long sword in Gongsun Lan's hand in mid-air flickered, killing three people in an instant. Kill two more people after the body hits the ground. The other two were so frightened that they turned around and fled.
"Get on the horse. Sister Gongsun. Arojiao exclaimed.
Gongsun Lan jumped up, her toes lightly touched the helmet of a fleeing soldier, and she jumped on the back of a galloping black horse.
Wang Yuan shouted in a deep voice: "Kill people along the inside of the shield array, and kill a gap." ”
The two daughters agreed in unison, Wang Yuan rode his horse and ran wildly along the inside of the shield wall gun array, and Gongsun Lan's long sword Ruhong began to kill in an extremely exaggerated way. The sword light brought out a white light like a practice, and the sword on the blade of the sword snorted, sneering. As far as the sword light came, the soldiers screamed and fell over, and there was no one to join them. Ah Luo was also unambiguous, and fired the crossbow in his hand continuously, shooting many people. Wang Yuan was not idle, breaking the sword and slashing horizontally and vertically, killing flesh and blood. The three of them and one horse seemed to advance through the jungle, opening up a bloody passage. The focus of the trio is on these shieldmen, and for each shield or pikeman killed, a shield and spear fall to the ground. The speed of the three of them was too fast, so wherever Wang Yuan's war horse went, the shield wall spear forest collapsed like dominoes, because most of the soldiers holding these shields and spears were killed. When the person is killed, the shield wall and the gun forest will naturally collapse. This is Wang Yuan's biggest adventure today. The artist is bold, and Wang Yuan wants to destroy the enemy's defense in this way of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle and reduce the loss of his own soldiers and horses.
The distance of the three of them was only about twenty steps, but it was enough. More than half of the more than 100 rebel soldiers within 20 steps were killed, causing a gap in the defensive formation within 20 steps to be torn alive. And this opening was also the offensive channel for the cavalry of the brigade charging from the rear.
Before the rebels could make any amends, the Shence Army's personal guard cavalry had already charged like thunder, and they stabbed through this gap like a sharp knife, piercing the vital point of the rebel formation. In an instant, the rebels' defensive formation collapsed.
Yuan Bin watched in amazement as all this happened in front of him, what he never expected was that the shield and spear defense system, which could have caused a lot of damage and blocked the impact of cavalry, was easily broken through by the other party in this way.
Although he was terrified in his heart, Yuan Bin still admired the courage of his opponent. In the face of such a solid defense system, how many people can think of such an ingenious way of attacking? Even if they could think of it, who would dare to do that? Rushing into the enemy line single-handedly, killing people and destroying the formation is just a matter of mouth, but who dares to do that? Who can do that? However, there were such brave people in Wang Yuan's army, and their martial arts skills were outstanding, so they actually let them do it.
Skilled martial arts masters may play a small role in the melee of the armies, but they are like the tip of an extremely sharp blade, and they are not to be cut casually. With the sharp tip of this blade, you can penetrate the soft underbelly of a powerful opponent and have an unexpected effect, as shown by everything in front of you. This is just like the sports competitions of later generations, although most of the time it is about teamwork, but the star players can make or break the victory at a critical time with a flash of inspiration.
Wang Yuan's strategy was undoubtedly correct, after Gongsun Lan joined, he did not have to make the soldiers pay the price to attack the enemy's shield and spear formation, but chose the most suitable method to break the formation.