Volume 8: Chapter 289 of "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains": The Battle of Umu (7)

On the battlefield with the roaring hooves, one cavalry after another staggered by, they spoke different languages and shouted "kill" loudly, relying on their own combat experience to make different swings and hands to try to kill each other with the weapons in their hands. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Below the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves was the sound of screams from time to time, a cavalryman fell from his horse with a knife, and he was greeted by the horse's hooves rolling by, and the corpse left on the ground did not show that it had once been a person, but a puddle of trampled flesh.

The horses that have lost their control will still follow the brigade and continue to rush forward, but it is precisely because of the loss of their masters that they did not react in a short period of time, and many ownerless horses crashed into the cavalry during the gallop, and the two colliding horses made the cavalry on horseback fall out with inertia, and the result was of course extremely miserable, which became part of the earth in the howl of fear.

Liao's head is blank now, and only his eyes may be constantly transmitting to his brain that there is an enemy cavalry galloping past, and he has not made a knife swing movement, but the war horse that goes out can still occasionally harvest the lives of enemy cavalry. His body swayed occasionally as the sword slashed through the enemy's body, and the blood that was constantly spilled gradually on his armor and face, and the oncoming wind did not make him much more sober on the battlefield, and the fact is that the soldiers on the battlefield could only leave behind the combat instincts that had been trained for many years, and they could not think about anything at all.

The equipment of the cavalry of the Leopard Army is much better than that of the Hun cavalry, especially the spear cavalry as a precursor to the war, the gap is not ordinarily large, not because of how thick and gorgeous the armor is. Rather, under the advanced concept, the squad tactics and the armor defense are designed more reasonably. And around the battlefield once against the charge and inevitably there were losses, the so-called killing of a thousand enemies and self-loss of eight hundred, don't expect to complete it without paying a little price. This is the reality that cold weapon warfare is even more brutal than modern warfare.

As the first batch of Leopard Army lancers to charge into battle, when they saw the vast prairie again, there were less than 600 people in the four full tuns, which means that in the short rush process, at least more than 400 robes fell on the battlefield forever, and fell on the battlefield where the cavalry rushed against each other was considered to be killed, and basically did not disperse.

Because the Leopard Army archers need to work hard to protect themselves from being killed in the process of charging into battle, their formation is relatively complete after rushing out of the battlefield where the enemy and the enemy are staggered. They still followed the lancers, as always. The two cavalrymen who rushed out of the formation first made a mobile detour on the edge of the battlefield, and in the process of detouring, they lined up again in formation and prepared for the battle.

The cold wind is blowing, and the battle on the battlefield is still going on. The Leopard Army's sword cavalry and Hun cavalry were intertwined, and soldiers on both sides were wielding their weapons vigorously, both trying to finish off the other before the opponent's living forces could join the battlefield.

Crazy West said to the Hun commander next to him: "Boyol Wanhu, reinforcements!" The brothers in front of us are running out of power! ”

Beaujol looked at the dust ahead. The warriors of their own side who kept falling off their horses in the blurred vision. There was no too superfluous expression on his face: "Show the warriors in the back how the Han cavalry fights, and it's not too late to reinforce them." "He outright refused reinforcements.

Crazy West twitched his cheeks, the ones in front of him who kept dying were the old bottoms he brought from Shuofang!

On the other hand, Ma Tan, who was far behind the battlefield, also rejected the suggestion of his troops to reinforce the front, believing that his knights could defeat the Huns without reinforcements, and that the war had just begun, and it was foolish to invest most of his troops now.

"Three thousand men from each side will fight fairly, and they will defeat the Hun cavalry, I believe this!"

The Leopard Saber cavalry fought fiercely. The Hun cavalry never lacked courage in battle, and two short-handed cavalry kept surging in the narrow field. They all try to seize the moment to knock out their opponents in the shortest amount of time.

Some strange things inevitably happen on the staggered battlefield, such as the sword cavalry of the leopard army wrapped up a group of Hun cavalry to kill, and in another place, the leopard saber cavalry was surrounded by the Hun cavalry and scrambled, the strength of the two warring armies was constantly consumed in the continuous encroachment on each other, and the screams were always the main theme of the battlefield, and a corpse that fell from the horse to the ground could not attract anyone's attention at all.

I don't know when the wind suddenly became stronger, the turf of the earth trampled by the horses' hooves was trampled and stirred, the sand on the surface was blown by the wind and easily drifted into the air to form a dust mist, the cavalry on both sides of the battle was full of the smell of mud, but they often did not notice this, and the soldiers during the battle always smelled only one smell, that is, the strong smell of blood!

Liao's thinking gradually became clearer, he knew that he was still gasping for air, and the feeling of gasping for breath was so good, at least it proved that he was still alive!

Most of the cavalry of the Leopard Army who rushed out of the battle formation were checking the equipment on their bodies, and they were also checking the wounds on their bodies between the gallops of the brigade, and the left side was the main strike position of the enemy cavalry because of the different directions, the armor of the left arm had collapsed, the cuirass on the left chest was missing, and the robe on the left chest was pulled open, and the mouth was constantly bleeding out, and the left thigh was not protected by the armor skirt, and a wound was clearly visible, and the entire left leg had been dyed red.

Bandaging? No! Now is not the time to do that......

The loud trumpets sounded unsurprisingly, the lancers and archers made directional adjustments, and more than 1,300 cavalry of the Leopard Army began to change formations at the rhythm of the horns: the lancers were still at the forefront of the formation, they became the forerunners of the cone-shaped formation, and pointed out their swords without the cavalry guns; The archers were once again following the lancers who had lost their spears, and their duty was still to shoot arrows, constantly shooting arrows into the relatively crowded areas of the enemy army!

Galloping, galloping, the distance between the battlefields in Liao's eyes was shrinking, and he once again lost the ability to think alone, and there was only one sentence in his mind: "Kill more enemies!" ”

The battlefield is always getting more and more chaotic, although it is only less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, the main arms of the two armies are inevitably mixed up, and this undoubtedly makes the cruelty of the battlefield fully reflected, at this time there is no so-called battle formation, and it is no longer the senior commanders of the army who decide the victory, but the reaction of the basic officers between the battlefields.

The tool used by the Han army to transmit military orders was the horn, not to mention the Xiongnu army, and the nomads had no precedent for using war drums to transmit military orders.

The horns of the two armies are staggered, and the military orders transmitted by the horns of different rhythms are naturally different, and who has time to distract themselves on the battlefield to distinguish which horn sound belongs to whom? In this way, the chaos on the battlefield was once again exacerbated, and in the end, both sides simply did not blow it.

At this time, the professional training and instinctive combat style came to the fore......

The Leopards have the habit of forming squads for training, and this habit will be retained forever. At this time, after a short period of confusion, the leopard saber cavalry in the battlefield finally assembled in small parts, and the assembled swordsmen cavalry were composed of ten cavalry as a team, and five teams converged into a basic combat formation.

Before the lancers and archers rejoined the battlefield, the sword cavalry finally compressed part of the Hun cavalry within a certain range, so that the team composed of more than 1,300 lancers and archers on their side could take advantage of the speed of the charge to kill and injure the Hun cavalry as much as possible.

Under the cover of the lancers, the archers continued to cruise and shoot the Hun cavalry, which made the morale of the Huns' cavalry plummet, and no one could stand the way in which others could hit themselves and they could not hit the enemy. Some of the Hun cavalry, which had been shot in large numbers, collapsed first, and they tried to withdraw from the battlefield, and this small effect evolved into the Hun cavalry participating in the battle as a whole on the verge of collapse after several occurrences.

Madness watched as his descendants continued to fall into the collapse of their horses, and he glanced at the expressionless Beaujol next to him with a vicious look, secretly hating that one day he would take revenge.

To tell the truth, Beyol really deliberately did not reinforce the meaning, the Hun army and the Han army had combat experience is only a few, most of the Hun cavalry do not know the combat method of the Han cavalry, of course they need to use their eyes to receive some information, so that the necessary pay has become the key, in the later battles can effectively reduce casualties, increase the probability of victory.

"Crazy West, let your cavalry prepare to retreat! My warriors will avenge them! ”

Crazy West knew that he hadn't yet gained a firm foothold in the Right Valley Liwang Court, and he didn't show the hatred in his heart on his face: "Okay. Fu ordered to the descendants next to him: "Blow the trumpet and let our brothers retreat!" ”

'Woo-woo-'

The Hun cavalry, which was on the verge of collapse, heard the signal to retreat and did not hesitate to turn their horses' heads and prepare to flee for their lives......

Ma Tan was now concerned about the Hun army in the rear of the battle, and when he saw that the Huns had galloped out about 3,000 cavalry, he said to himself: "Why don't they go together?" ”

The head of the person who can participate in politics in the upper part is definitely more flexible, and he suppressed and said: "Lord Captain, do your subordinates think that the Huns are training with us?" ”

. (To be continued) (To be continued.) )