Chapter 128: Battle
In a large open field outside the fortified city, two armies were facing off nervously. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The army near the city was a little smaller, with only fifteen thousand men, while on the other side of them was a larger haphazard army, numbering about twenty thousand.
Qin Qiong stood on his horse, raised his eyes and looked at the princes and ministers of the Zhusi Kingdom at the head of the city, seeing that there was a trace of hope in the fear on their faces, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, when he set his eyes on the body of Izanagara, the king of the Zhusi Kingdom who had been awakened, Qin Qiong couldn't help frowning.
The expression on this guy's face was obviously jubilant, as if he had seen the scene of the Sui army being defeated and he being rescued.
The corners of his mouth were raised contemptuously, Qin Qiong looked at the other party's army, to be honest, the other party's army really didn't look like an army, there was no formation between the teams, and the configuration of the soldiers was also chaotic, in front of them was a large group of infantry, holding a bunch of spears made of improvised wood in their hands, and behind them were some archers, the number was scarce, and the position was awkward, the front was blocked by spearmen, and there were hundreds of bull riders in the back, this army had no cavalry, but there were hundreds of such bull riders.
Of course, cattle can lie down on people, but the speed of cattle is not as good as war horses, their size is too large, and the belly is much larger than that of war horses, obviously not suitable for riding, the most critical point is that the temper of cattle is much worse than that of horses, taming a horse itself requires a lot of strength, but in terms of difficulty, taming a cow is undoubtedly more difficult, and cattle are easy to rage when they see red things, fireworks, blood and flags on the field are easy to cause them to go crazy, once these cattle launch a madness, Then they will be completely partial to the enemy, and they will attack whoever they catch.
Due to so many shortcomings, the cow rarely appears on the battlefield, and there are not many records in the Chinese history books, the earliest of which is the Tiandan Fire Ox Formation in the Spring and Autumn Period, which used the fire ox to crush the Yan army without Le Yi and recover the Qi State.
And the Tiandan Fire Bull Formation did not send knights up, but used the momentum of the Fire Bull to impact the formation of the Yan Army, which was not comparable to these bull riders on the other side.
Behind these bull riders, there are a large number of soldiers armed with all kinds of miscellaneous weapons, their formation is very open, such a formation occupies a large open space of nearly three or four hundred zhang wide and nearly five hundred zhang long, although the enemy soldiers are poorly equipped and loosely formed, but they still look a little imposing, at least their morale is good, and they have not collapsed before the powerful murderous aura on their side.
Qin Qiong lifted the reins, the war horse slowly took a step, he raised the golden mace in his hand, ran back and forth in front of the army for a while, collided with the soldiers' weapons one by one, and glanced at his soldiers with sharp eyes, these are the elite soldiers who followed Zhang Xutuo to fight in the Central Plains, their movements are very standard, thousands of people are like one person.
"Who is the king of the world? Who is it! Qin Qiong raised her hammers and asked loudly.
"It's us!" He was answered by the almost furious shouts of the soldiers!
"Someone wants to challenge the dignity of our king, what should we do?" Qin Qiong's eyes widened angrily, and he asked loudly, his voice was very loud, and every one of the tens of thousands of soldiers could hear it clearly.
"Kill!" The soldiers were red-eyed, screaming, and the loud noise shook the eardrums, and the hundreds of cattle in the opposing array also looked a little restless and restless under this violent atmosphere.
"Kill them!" Qin Qiong shouted loudly.
"Kill them, kill them, kill them!"
The soldiers also shouted, and the violent murderous aura suddenly rose to the sky, and this army, which had been quiet and peaceful before, suddenly revealed its violent and killing side!
"Kill!" Qin Qiong took the lead, and followed closely by the neat and loud steps of the soldiers.
"Ahh
"Ahh
"Ahh
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The soldiers began to move forward with neat steps, and as they walked, the sound of neat shouts resounded in the sky, and the princes and ministers of the Zhusi Kingdom on the city wall were so frightened that their legs and stomachs were weak, and they could barely stand on the wall, and their king, Izanaka, who had been full of confidence before, was now so frightened that he fainted again.
"Drive!"
Qin Qiong threw a whip at the war horse under his crotch, and after the war horse suffered pain, the speed was better than just now, and he quickly broke away from the infantry team and told him to rush forward.
And behind Qin Qiong, two thousand cavalry also followed, crossed the phalanx of infantry, and quickly followed their main general.
The distance between the two sides began to close rapidly, and there was a commotion in the other side's formation, followed by a few shouts, and then a sparse rain of arrows fell in the sky.
"Raise your shield!"
Qin Qiong shouted, picked up a small round shield of the cavalry, hunched his waist, and his body was tightly attached to the war horse, protecting his upper body and the head of the war horse.
The opponent's arrow rain was too scarce, and basically did not pose much threat to the cavalry, and at this time, the cavalry was less than a hundred steps away from the soldiers in the front row of the opponent, and the opponent's formation began to be confused.
Those who have not seen the reunion of the cavalry can hardly imagine that the violent atmosphere when the cavalry is charging at full speed, the atmosphere that sweeps the world and is unmatched, is the biggest blow to the morale of the enemy on the battlefield.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and the other party's formation has been panicked, but the thousands of spearmen in front of them are still holding the crude spears in their hands, their eyes are full of fear, but they have not retreated, and the cavalry is already close at hand, even if they want to retreat, it is already too late, when a group of cavalry rushing at full speed rushes, unless it is a frontal hard shock, blocking it, otherwise turning around and fleeing will only accelerate their own death.
This team of Japanese soldiers had never seen such a large-scale cavalry charge before, so they were not particularly afraid at the beginning, but after seeing the horror of the cavalry accelerating, the shock and fear in their hearts were also rising rapidly.
Rumble!
The raging cavalry crowd was like a choppy wave crashing on the reef, most of the Japanese soldiers in the first row had been knocked away in that moment's impact, and some were even smashed into pieces, and there were hundreds of casualties on the cavalry side, but before the first wave of charge was gone, the second wave of impact followed, and the soldiers in the second row of the Japanese army were obviously affected by the soldiers in the first row, and the resistance of the soldiers in this row was greatly reduced, and the formation of the Japanese army had begun to tear apart.
Qin Qiong jumped into the battle, waving his double mace non-stop, and all the soldiers he came into contact with flew out, and the golden double mace soon became red and dazzling, covered with sticky blood and a few pieces of minced meat from time to time.
And he himself is like a murderer, there is blood all over his body, even the mount is full of blood, the Japanese soldiers look at this bloody man who is like Shura, the soles of their feet are weak, and they dare not come forward to attack, and seeing their main general so brave, the Sui soldiers are all demoralized, the fight is more ferocious, the Japanese army is crushed when it touches, it is impossible to stop, and the army of 20,000 people has been defeated under the attack of 2,000 cavalry.
But defeating this army is not Qin Qiong's ultimate goal, his ultimate goal is to force this army down, or completely annihilate this army.
Therefore, he led the cavalry all the way forward, and soon had already chiseled through the formation of the Japanese army, and at this time, the infantry behind the Sui army had also caught up, the Japanese army was frightened, and the killed were defeated and retreated, and their formation had become chaotic under the impact of the previous cavalry, and at this time they were powerless to resist under the attack of the opposing infantry, and there was no way at all except to escape.
But the cavalry that had already cut through the formation of the Japanese army, but from the two wings came up, the two wings of the Japanese army was suddenly blocked the way, can only move closer to the middle, but after they leaned to the middle, the density suddenly came up, everyone crowded with each other, quarreled with each other, and the speed suddenly dropped sharply, and at this time Qin Qiong's with hundreds of cavalry suddenly killed from the middle, the Japanese soldiers looked at the gods of killing like gods, and suddenly became chaotic, and the infantry of the Sui army had been surrounded by cavalry from both wings at this time, A complete encirclement has been thoroughly traveled.
At this time, there were probably more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers in the middle, but at this time, this army had no will to fight for safety, and the morale had been reduced to the lowest point.
The cavalry of the Sui army began to retreat slowly, the encirclement of the infantry gradually tightened, and the seven thousand soldiers holding huge shields slowly advanced, with sharp spears between the shields, forcing the rushing Japanese soldiers to retreat, and the five thousand pikemen who followed the shield soldiers closely followed the pace of the shield soldiers to advance, and the spears continued to assassinate the enemy through the gaps between the shields, and behind the pikemen, a thousand archers kept bending their bows and arrows, shooting towards the crowd inside.
In the middle of this layer of shields, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were squeezed together, the soldiers pushed each other, but found that the space around them was getting smaller and smaller, and gradually even the foothold was gone, the arrows that continued to fall from the air were almost indispensable, each arrow could hit an enemy, there were a large number of casualties between the Japanese army, some of the peripheral soldiers angrily rushed to the huge shield wall, but under the threat of a forest of spears, they did not dare to approach at all, even if they were close, they could not survive at all, Directly stabbed to death by the gunman behind the shield.
On the city wall, the breath of the princes and ministers of the Zhusi Kingdom has become stagnant at this time, this army that they have high hopes for was defeated so quickly, this battle lasted less than an hour, but at this time, no matter who it is, they can clearly analyze which is superior and inferior on the battlefield, although the other party's army is not large, but it is obviously stronger.
At this time, the Japanese army did not have the saying of tactics and tactics, and the soldiers fought completely by the bravery of the generals and workers, relying on the blood of that moment, and this kind of tacticless fighting was very powerful when fighting a tailwind battle, but it was almost useless in the headwind war, but fortunately, they usually fought with themselves, everyone had no tactical tactics, and they barely lined up their formation, and fought violently, who had more people, whose people were brave, who could basically win, and today's battle, However, they encountered the Sui army, which was brave in battle, at the same time well-disciplined and extremely high-quality, and the command and dispatch of the Sui army and the well-trained soldiers did not give them a chance to display their bravery.
The violent cavalry charge directly crushed the momentum of the Japanese army from the front, and then the close cooperation of the infantry of the Sui army completely forced them to a dead end.
At this time, these ministers of Zhusi Country have not recovered from the shock just now, and they no longer have the idea of counting on this Japanese army to defeat the Sui army before, and they are only shocked in their hearts, shocked by the strong combat effectiveness of the Sui army, and shocked that the difference in strength between the enemy and us is so obvious, this is an army of 20,000 people, the entire Japanese country, there are not many countries that can come up with so many troops, and such a large army, in front of the Sui people, it was defeated like chopping melons and vegetables, If they had landed not on the island of Kyushu, but on the main island of the Wa Kingdom, would Kyoto have fallen at this time?
The fighting on the battlefield is still continuing, the encirclement of the Sui army has been reduced to a range of less than fifty zhang by fifty zhang, in this only 20,000 square meters, more than 15,000 enemy soldiers are crowded, and the shield wall of the Sui army is still approaching forward, and the archers of the Sui army are still shooting and killing the Japanese soldiers in this encirclement, so that the Japanese soldiers inside are always in a state of chaos, so that they have no way to concentrate on impacting the shield wall in one place.
Looking at this one-sided slaughter with almost no suspense, Qin Qiong was no longer interested in watching it, he was going to capture this group of people, but after fighting for a long time, he found that the other party did not have the consciousness of surrendering, and the soldiers who had fallen behind before were caught up and actually chose to resist, and no one chose to surrender, which made him feel a little puzzled, I don't know if these soldiers are by nature, or they are too afraid of them, so that they dare not surrender to the Sui army.
But it didn't matter, after this battle, his army could move on to the next country. (To be continued.) )