Chapter 555: There are mutual victories and defeats
Zhang Liao was not disappointed by the cavalry of those island countries, and they taught those cavalry a good lesson. They let those island cavalry who thought they were elite understand very well what the real elite looked like.
10,000 foot soldiers of the island country, in front of 3,000 wolf riders, but like a group of scattered bravery, where is there any elite soldier?
However, it is precisely because of the incompetence of the 10,000 foot soldiers that the bravery of the 3,000 wolf riders is demonstrated.
In the northern camp, those big Han soldiers were already in an extremely difficult predicament at this time. From the very beginning, they endured the bombardment of the artillery of the island nation's army. After that, it was attacked by an army of 30,000 island countries.
This is nothing, after all, 30,000 against 30,000 is normal. Everyone has the same number and has been bombarded by artillery, so everyone is not taking advantage.
However, there is a key to breaking the game, and that is the most elite summoning soldier of the Thousand Island Country. With the existence of those soldiers, the situation of Beiying is much more difficult.
After all, whether it is the tactical cooperation of those thousand soldiers or their own martial arts level, compared to ordinary soldiers, it is obviously not the same level of existence.
However, at this time, those soldiers of the big Han also understood that if they wanted to win this battle, they had to stick to the north camp. Only by holding on to the north camp can they give Zhang Liao enough time to win the battle.
If they lose this battle, it will not only be a problem that Beiying does not exist.
Therefore, even if they were killed by the elite soldiers of the 1,000 island countries, those soldiers of the big Han still blocked those gaps without fear of life and death.
But. And so it goes. Then their casualties have increased a lot. Arguably. Beiying has not fallen so far, and it is completely those big Han soldiers who are filling in with their lives. When it was useless for them to fill with their lives, that was when Beiying fell.
However, fortunately, Zhang Liao and they didn't let this happen.
Just when the soldiers of the North Camp felt that it was difficult to resist, Zhang Liao led the light cavalry, and instead of running towards the camp of the main army of the island country, he killed the soldiers of the island country who besieged the North Camp.
Seeing this, Oda Nobunaga not only felt that Zhang Liao was doing this too much. On the contrary, there is a feeling of brightness. If Zhang Liao wanted to take advantage of the situation to kill the main army of the island country at this time, then Zhang Liao would be greeted by a complete defeat.
After all, even if the cavalry has a great advantage over the upper infantry, it is difficult to erase this quantitative gap in the face of an infantry army that is ten or even twenty times its own that is already prepared, no matter how elite the light cavalry is. If Zhang Liao led the heavy armored cavalry, then there was still the possibility of giving it a try.
At this time, Oda Nobunaga felt that his eyes were bright, but the soldiers of the island country who besieged the northern camp were suffering.
Those wolf riders rushed around the soldiers of the island nation and killed them in a circle. Little by little, the thickness of the island army surrounding Beiying was erased, but it did not engage the island army head-on. Like a tornado. It's just slowly eating away at the army of the island country, and when I saw that the army was ready, I bypassed it over there, and only greeted with a bow.
All of a sudden, the army of the island nation, which had slowly gained the upper hand, fell into a two-sided attack.
This is not the main thing, after all, as long as Oda Nobunaga can organize his soldiers to form a larger encirclement at this time, the light cavalry led by Zhang Liao will fall into a counter-encirclement. Although this possibility is too small, although there are not many wolf riders, it is better to be fast enough and mobile enough.
But no matter what, as long as those island soldiers can hold on, Oda Nobunaga will be able to find a way to counteract.
It's just that, under the deterrence of the wolf cavalry led by Zhang Liao, except for the less than a thousand summoned island soldiers who still have the courage to fight again, the rest of the island soldiers have already been frightened at this time.
However, what kind of waves can the elite soldiers of the island country, who are less than 1,000, be besieged by nearly 30,000 desperate troops and 3,000 bloodthirsty wolf horsemen?
Oda Nobunaga's first siege was broken down by Zhang Liao with relative ease. At this time, the sun was already setting in the west, and it was impossible to capture the northern camp before sunset.
Although there are some regrets, Oda Nobunaga is not annoyed. He knew that the time that Toyotomi Hideyoshi bought him would definitely be more than one day.
Before the withdrawal of the troops, the artillery brought by the army of the island nation had also cooled down at this time. Under the orders of Oda Nobunaga, the cannons roared again. This time, those artillery pieces of the island nation finally did not have the same as the first time, just some useless dry roars.
The army of the island country has just been repulsed, and the soldiers in the northern camp are cheering together at this moment, for the joy of victory, but also for the joy of surviving.
When the shells fell among the soldiers in the north camp, it was these soldiers and fierce men who had been able to show their teeth fiercely towards the island army before, and they were also in a panic.
Especially the light cavalry led by Zhang Liao, after the horses under the crotches of those soldiers were stimulated by the loud sound of the cannonball explosion and the firelight, some of the horses still began to be uncontrollable at the moment, and they were scurrying around like crazy.
At this time, the damage caused by the horses scurrying around to the soldiers in the northern camp was definitely much greater than that of the artillery of the island country.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Liao couldn't bear it anymore, and he had to order those crazy horses to be killed. For a cavalryman, the horse under the crotch is not only their mount, but also their brother. Now, they're going to go after their brother.
Despite the unbearable, despite the heartache. But there was no way, they couldn't just watch these brothers who couldn't speak run wild in the north camp, and then trampled those brothers who could talk to death in the camp.
With tears in their eyes, the cavalry was reluctant to stab the scimitar that had been stretched out towards the enemy to the mount that had been accompanying them.
Looking at the panic in the northern camp, Oda Nobunaga's expression was as calm as ever. It can be said that except for the fact that there was artillery in the northern camp, he did not guess it, most of the time, the battle situation was under the control of Oda Nobunaga.
Of course, there is another point that Oda Nobunaga missed, or that Oda Nobunaga was careless.
He knew that there was a cavalry in the northern camp, and he also prepared for it, bringing all the five thousand elite cavalry from the island country. However, he didn't calculate that the elite in his eyes was like a recruit who had just touched the war horse in front of the wolf horse.
However, fortunately, the last artillery bombardment allowed the island army to save a little face.
After the island army withdrew, Zhang Liao asked people to count the losses. Of the 30,000 infantry soldiers in the northern camp, there were only more than 21,000 left at this time, and more than 2,000 of the soldiers lost were caused by shelling before the retreat of the island army.
And three thousand wolves ride, at this time there are more than two thousand four hundred left. However, at this time, there were only more than 1,700 of their war horses left. A large part of the war horses were killed by the wolf riders themselves. But there was no way, if they didn't make a move, then the loss of the infantry in the northern camp would be more than that.
Zhang Liao was also remorseful at this time, but he relaxed a little after the victory, but he was seized by the opponent, and he actually made the situation look like a mutual winner and loser.
At this moment, Zhang Liao's eyes were not only full of anger, but also a little more cautious. (To be continued.) )