Chapter 177: Bloody Battle
Rushing out of the city of Suizhou were 2,000 party cavalry.
After rushing out of the city gate, because of the narrow environment, these cavalry had no way back, and could only rush forward one by one. If these two thousand cavalry can break up the infantry formation of the Zhenwu army, then the cavalry behind will naturally rush out in a steady stream.
But what if it can't be washed away?
Then these two thousand cavalry will all be killed, and there will be no chance of surrender. If 2,000 cavalry were killed and unable to form a breakthrough, the morale of the Suizhou army would naturally drop to freezing point, and the city gate would be closed again to defend the city.
However, the 50-meter-long stone bridge in front of the city gate across the Wuding River is really too pitted!
This is a mistake in design thinking.
The main enemies of Suizhou City are the warlords from all walks of life from the east, and the west is linked to the local area of the Dingyan Army, which is relatively safe, and this stone bridge is only used as a communication bridge. But this time, the Partial Zhenwu Army came from the west and came here along the winding river to seal the north gate!
Well, even if the Zhenwu army is coming towards the north gate, this stone bridge will still play a good defensive role for the north gate. But where did the Suizhou army think that people would hold back and not attack the city! When they put 5,000 infantry at your door, they are here to disgust you!
Zhenwu Jun hasn't taken out the big killer Lei Yin Gong Mother Stone yet!
didn't scold your ancestors for the eighteenth generation in front of the people of the city, it can be regarded as Li Yimin's face, and he is very polite to you! (Ahem, actually, there are still in the preparatory plan)
It was you, the Suizhou army, who looked down on the five thousand Zhenwu foot soldiers of others, and wanted to open the city gate and go out to fight back!
Then there is no way, you have to cross this stone bridge to get out of the north gate, even if your cavalry comes out of the south gate and wants to cross the north bank of the Wuding River, you still have to go back to this stone bridge.
Some people will ask, why is there so many tricks every time the Zhenwu Army fights, and the other party always has some very strange loopholes?
Do you think Zhao Sang happened to come here to set up a formation?
You must know that the difference between the Zhenwu Army and other armies is that there is a general staff, which used to be calculated by He Daxian alone, and later joined the staff of the original Shuozhou Army, Jia Zhang and several other civilian officials.
Since it is here to attack the city, how to attack, what is the defense of the opponent's city, and what weaknesses can be exploited, even if it is clear from the beginning, the siege plan has already been prepared, and even several sets of preparatory plans have been prepared!
Attacking such a big thing, where is it that idiots like Zhao Sang can lead the troops to fight by patting their heads! If you don't get it right, it's going to kill thousands of people inexplicably!
Zhao Sang was just here to carry out the order.
The first batch of 200 cavalry Suizhou cavalry rushed out, under the first batch of accurate arrow attacks of the Zhenwu army and the concentrated siege of 300 archers, they fell on the stone bridge, or fell into the river, or rolled everywhere on the bridge deck, and the whole stone bridge was soon stained red with blood.
The bridge deck was empty for more than ten seconds, and the second group of cavalrymen who rushed out behind also learned well, and the dozens of cavalrymen who started rushed out with a door panel on their shoulders!
But the archers of the Zhenwu Army are surrounded by three sides!
It was still a man on his back, rolling all over the ground, and then with a sore creak, the three eight-bull crossbows that had already been aimed at the city gate released the arrows of death, and the unstoppable rows of thick crossbow arrows shot from afar, shooting through and shooting down more than a hundred people at once, sweeping away the party cavalry on the stone bridge and in front of the city gate!
The blood of the party members began to come to their heads!
You can't shoot continuously with your eight-bull crossbow, but I can charge continuously!
Without any time to hesitate, the third group of more than 200 horsemen immediately rushed out, and more cavalry carrying the gate board rushed out!
The relentless rain of arrows from the archers of the Zhenwu Army continued to cover these unfortunate party cavalry, and in just a few seconds, hundreds of cavalry were defeated, but this time, more than fifty cavalry rushed across the stone bridge!
The fifty Suizhou cavalry, who were rushing at high speed, threw away the door panels in their hands as soon as they crossed the stone bridge, and the formation was also dispersed to avoid being covered by the rain of arrows of the Zhenwu army again.
However, the camp of the Zhenwu Army did not move at all! The archers also ignored these Suizhou cavalry rushing at high speed, and the dense rain of arrows was thrown out again, but the target was still the stone bridge!
The fourth batch of Suizhou cavalry in the city, who thought that they had broken through in front, poured out in large numbers again, but they were firmly covered by the rain of arrows of the Zhenwu Army!
These people don't have door panels to carry them, where are there so many door panels for them to resist!
The Suizhou cavalry rushing on the stone bridge fell or rolled off the bridge and fell into the river, and the river was dyed red! Appalling!
The third group of more than 50 horsemen who were lucky enough to cross the bridge were quickly defeated by the Zhenwu Army's fart soldiers, and only more than 20 horsemen really approached the Zhenwu Army's foot camp.
More than 20 horsemen, impacting the camp of 5,000 people?
It's not funny, it's a lot of courage to fight! More than twenty horsemen rushed over, and the momentum was still a little. In the Tang Dynasty, there was once a Tang general who led five cavalry and scattered the infantry formation of tens of thousands of people. There is indeed a precedent for this kind of thing in history!
It's just that the foot soldiers of the Zhenwu Army are different.
We have already introduced when we fought Fuzhou before, the archers of the Zhenwu Army are not allowed to allow the cavalry to approach the impact at will, and each archer has a heavy infantry by his side, and he also serves as a spearthrower!
The Suizhou cavalry had already heard about the war in Fuzhou, and this time they came over and deliberately dispersed, but they still kicked the iron plate!
The range of the spear thrower was not very far, probably only about sixty meters. If the opposing cavalry is in dense formation, then a volley will be fired at the longest range, killing the opposing cavalry in a dense manner. But if it's just a sporadic line of skirmishers, then don't worry, just let you go within 20 meters and then shoot, and by the time you throw the spear in your hand, you have already run within 10 meters!
For a spear thrower who has been specially trained for about five days, throwing a target the size of a cavalryman with a horse within 10 meters is basically 100%!
And even if you really make a mistake, there are other spear-throwers on both sides, and there are several rows of spear-throwers behind you!
The more than 20 Suizhou cavalry who rushed over were nailed to death one by one by more than 30 throwing spears without exception, and none of them survived!
The commander of the Dingyan army in Suizhou City probably gave a death order, and the cavalry poured out of the city gate in a steady stream, and a large number of archers of the Zhenwu Army were shot on the bridge, and the eight-bull crossbow was emptied every two minutes.
The cycle repeatedly, and it was never possible to break out of the stone bridge.
After the death of more than 1,000 cavalrymen, the morale of the Suizhou army finally collapsed, and no one dared to rush out anymore.
"Rubbing" on the ground, no matter whether you have anyone rushing out or not, Zhenwu Army's eight-bull crossbow finished loading, and it was fired again, and a row of crossbow arrows flew into the city gate, and it was another big chaos.
The gates were finally shut.
The gate of Suizhou is closed, so is the Zhenwu army now attacking the city?
Zhao Sang ordered a truce, then sorted out the battlefield, recovered some of the feather arrows and throwing spears, and finally notified Suizhou City to let them come out with a hundred or so people to clean up the corpses.
The foot soldiers of the Zhenwu army still arranged themselves in front of the city gate as if nothing happened, and when it was dark, they retreated a few miles back and camped to sleep.
The next morning, Zhao Sang still stepped forward with five thousand foot soldiers and lined up against the city gate!
We don't attack the city, we just block your city gate, you want to come out and pour the bucket? No way! Don't come out to pollute the environment, stay in the city and solve it yourself!
Defy? Then you come out and beat me!
Not to mention that the Zhenwu army on the side of Suizhou City blocked the city gate and formed a confrontation with the Suizhou army, Yinzhou outside the mountain, after a quiet day, the reinforcements from Xiazhou arrived.
There are 50,000 troops in Xiazhou, and this time in order to save Yinzhou, 20,000 cavalry were sent!
In addition, Yinzhou itself has 10,000 cavalry, and the current situation has become 30,000 cavalry of the Dingyan Army against 7,000 cavalry of the Zhenwu Army (including 2,000 Linzhou cavalry)!
The Yinzhou Army is also out of the city!
20,000 Xiazhou cavalry, 10,000 Yinzhou cavalry, and 7,000 Zhenwu cavalry were divided into three directions, facing each other in a triangle, and occupying a large grassland in black pressure!
On this sunny and icy afternoon, another decisive battle of tens of thousands of cavalry is about to start! (To be continued.) )