Chapter 0401: To Each His Heart
The sound of whimpering horns echoed in the Huangshui River valley, and just when Zhang Yue was worried about the infantry of the left army that had just met the enemy, the enemy army again transferred 5,000 cavalry into two teams, one of about 2,000 cavalry rushed straight to the front of the right army, and the other rushed to the flank of the right army in a roundabout way. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Faced with such a situation, Bian Ji, who commanded the main force of the horse army of 5,000 horsemen, did not act rashly, just watched the enemy gallop past two hundred paces in front of the horse team he was stationed in, and then suddenly turned around and killed the right army.
The commander of the right army's infantry formation was Shang Huaqing, who quickly saw the enemy's intentions, and shouted an order, and the peripheral gun and shield arrays rattled, and the front line became tightly closed, like a big hedgehog shrunken.
Three thousand enemy horsemen galloped wildly, and soon approached seventy or eighty paces, and all of them shouted in unison and opened their bows and arrows, and threw them diagonally in front of them at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the sky darkened, and the dense rain of arrows crossed the front row of the gun and shield array, and fell into the rear infantry formation, and there were bursts of clanging noise, mixed with a muffled snort of pain.
"Ready!" Shang Huaqing shouted, and after the enemy shot a round of arrow rain, he quickly rushed to thirty or forty steps, and opened his bow and arrows again, but the war horse was running more than once, and instantly crossed more than ten steps, and at this moment, with Shang Huaqing holding a piercing cone, he suddenly stepped forward and threw it first, and the five hundred soldiers on standby behind followed the throw, and in the sound of the whirring wind, the black shadows flew into the sky, crossed the front line and fell into the enemy horse team that met them, and suddenly people shouted and neighed.
The loud snapping sound of the gun breaking was deafening, the front team of the enemy cavalry overturned, and the back continued to roll, and finally hit the big gun that stretched out from the shield wall, but the inertia did not stop, and the wave-like echelon surged forward layer by layer, hitting the shield wall with a loud bang, and the soldiers holding the shield were also extremely difficult at this time, retreating again and again, and the infantry began to show a zigzag depression with the continuous impact of the enemy cavalry.
At the same time, the right army was directly in front of Liu Wenbai in command, his frontal forces and equipment were much stronger, the enemy's 2,000 cavalry rushed to 145 paces to meet the first round of corner bow and crossbow fire, and then to 100 pace, 50 steps three rounds of strikes, almost lost more than one-third of the troops, and waited until twenty or thirty steps to meet the close-range projection of the armor cone, almost half of the casualties, rushed to the shield wall and broke a piece of rejecting the rifle and retreated.
At this time, Wen Fan could see that the front of the infantry formation of the right army of the Zhou army was equipped with a strong crossbow, but there was no on the side, and the three thousand horsemen continued to attack, but at this time, they were also reduced by thousands, and they were a little powerless.
Fifteen thousand cavalry were transferred back and forth, but nothing was achieved, Wen Fan couldn't help but shout angrily: "Summons the left army Yingchengsky!" Then transfer two thousand teams to attack the flank, and two two thousand teams to attack its front, and keep an eye on its horse army, you can launch an attack appropriately, and you can try to lure it away from the battlefield! Ordered Khambrang to maintain the offensive, and when the Longzhu Heicheng division arrived, the right army could flank him! ”
When the two heralds heard this, they immediately called and left, and went separately to the left and right. The left formation of the Fan army is the right army facing the Great Zhou, and Yingchengsky led 20,000 elite cavalry from the Qingtang headquarters in this battle, which is actually the main force.
The right army of Khambrang Wang had 15,000 cavalry, and he also left some troops to guard the lair of Shudun City, and left another 10,000 cavalry in Zongge City, and the other two balanced each other, and the three-legged strength of the arch to defend Zampu. However, a few days before and after the news of the loss of Kuozhou came to Khambrang Wang, which made Khambrang Wang worried, and only hoped to finish the fight as soon as possible.
Although Wen Fan is the commander, his headquarters has suffered huge losses since last year, and the actual strength brought by him is only 5,000 cavalry, and another 10,000 are left in Zongge City to guard Zampu Chikui, which is actually surveillance, so as to continue to control Zampu in his hands.
"Great Shang Theory! You see that the horse army on the right side of the Zhou army has not moved so far, will they realize something? "Wen Fan's headquarters of five thousand horsemen, led by Wen Qishi, was also watching the battle under the Chinese army at this time, and couldn't help asking.
"It should be! Wait and see......" Wen Fan said a little absent-mindedly, he was waiting for the news of his son Wen Naiqi's 7,000 horsemen on standby in Longzhu Heicheng, but it had been half an hour since the war started, and the troops had not yet arrived.
In addition, there are 10,000 horsemen sent yesterday evening, led by Zhuo Luo Zunli, lying in the Qizhu Valley forty miles northeast of the battlefield, the road is a little far, and it is not easy to walk, and it will not be able to catch up for a while, but because of this, it can avoid the ears and eyes of the scouts of the Zhou army.
At this moment, a small group of cavalry in the distance galloped along the river, and soon reached the rear to slow down the horse, but was stopped by the scouts on the perimeter. After a while, a horse came over to report that Wen Naiqi had led 7,000 horsemen to the riverbank twenty miles southeast of the battlefield, and was wading across the river from that shallow bay.
"It's time!" Wen Fan was overjoyed in his heart, but his face was silent, and he shouted loudly: "Order Khambrang to increase his forces and try to defeat the opponent's left army before Wen Naiwei arrives." ”
The large array of the Tibetan army began a series of movements, not only the Chinese army Zhang Yue saw it, but also Bian Ji, who had been watching the battle according to the soldiers, also understood, although someone in the Chinese army came to remind that there might be an ambush in the rear, but when the enemy army transferred another 1,000-man team, Bian Ji still sent 2,000 horsemen from the Changyi army Wang Quanbin and Jin Guangda to the formation, and quickly intercepted them.
Wang Quanbin was the deputy staff officer of the Second Brigade of the Changyi Army, and his ability to predict the battlefield was much stronger than that of ordinary officers, and he had long seen the enemy's intention to exhaust the infantry of his own right army.
One hundred and fifty steps to meet the enemy's horse team is a round of arrow rain, two rounds and a burst of armor cone will hurt half of the enemy, and then a hedge with superior forces, instantly kill through the enemy formation, when the kill back, the enemy army less than 500 cavalry fled in panic, Jin Guangda led the team to chase for a while, and saw that the back did not follow, and then turned around and followed the front team to kill more than 1,000 horsemen who were continuing to impact the side of the infantry formation.
These 3,000 cavalry have not been able to break through so far, and they can't support 2,000 casualties, and when they saw Wang Quanbin's horse army rushing over, they immediately turned around and ran, leaving behind the corpses of people and horses. But Wang Quanbin still chased after the horse for a while, and when he passed by the side of the infantry formation, he took advantage of the situation to supply the enemy cavalry who could not escape after being injured and rolled on the ground.
"The 5,000 horsemen are gone, this is our chance!" Winchish said with some pain that although the left army was Yingchengsky's men and horses, it lost nearly 5,000 horsemen, which was a great loss.
"Humph! Get ready for the general attack! Wen Fan snorted coldly, his face was gloomy like water, the three chieftains of Qingtang had their own thoughts, they were originally the strongest in their own strength, but without the support of the two departments of Tangchangqiang and Caohanqiang, under the advantages of one or the other, Yingchengsky and Khenbrang Wang were already a little disobedient to him, and they seemed to have not done their best.
And now, two teams of 4,000 cavalry attacked the infantry formation of the right army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and once again encountered the blockade of the strong crossbow and the armor-piercing cone, so they symbolically rushed to kill for a while, leaving behind the corpses of more than 1,000 cavalry and retreating, and even the rejecting rifle of the Zhou army's infantry did not break much. (To be continued.) )