Chapter 31: The Battle of Qingzhou (4)

In the early morning of the second day, Yu Dacheng sent someone to send news that the rebels had begun to attack the city, and there was no time to rest, and Liu Fan led the army to the battlefield again.

An hour later, Liu Fan waited for Yu Dacheng's troops to converge and began to march towards Qingzhou City, after the spies reported, Kong Youde's rebels began to attack the city in the early morning, the battle was extremely fierce, once in a state of anxiety, the rebels who could not attack for a long time even used two cannons, bombarded the city wall, fortunately the high walls of Qingzhou City were not captured.

Kong Youde's rebels were ten miles away, and after observation, Yu Dacheng decided to launch a surprise attack on the rebel army, hoping to force the rebels to divide their troops and reduce the pressure on Qingzhou City! This attack was spearheaded by Liu Fan's captive army, and once it broke through the rebel front, the whole army pressed on it, striving to inflict heavy losses on the rebels! Having decided on tactics, the army quickly moved towards the goal.

On the other side, Kong Youde was in the camp of the Chinese army, Kong Youde received a report from the spies, the official army was attacking in the rear, and Kong Youde was ready for Yu Dacheng's troops, and before the official army arrived, Kong Youde sent cavalry to cruise around the periphery, looking for an opportunity to give the enemy a fatal blow!

Liu Fan walked to the rear of the rebels less than five miles, suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, a large number of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods on the right side, and suddenly attacked to the right with lightning speed, Liu Fan saw this and quickly issued an order to form a gun formation, to defend against the suddenly arrived cavalry, and when the cavalry rushed to less than five hundred steps, he found that the target of the cavalry was not himself, but the guard army in his rear, but in such a short time Liu Fan had no time to support, so he had to watch nearly a thousand cavalry, quickly tear open the defense line of the guards, After the slaughter, the army fought against the guards, and the cavalry raised their sabers and slashed at the unsuspecting soldiers, and suddenly a scream sounded, and the soldiers began to scatter and flee, and only one charging guard's army was routed, killing and wounding hundreds of people. Chen on the left sometimes turned around and began to re-line the line, Liu Fan was helpless when he saw this, people were cavalry who wanted to go, and they could fight if they wanted, he was just a foot soldier, even if he was powerful, he couldn't catch up with people riding horses, and he couldn't divide his troops with five hundred people, Liu Fan instantly fell into a helplessness, thinking about it for a long time, Liu Fan gritted his teeth, he couldn't watch the friendly army being defeated like this, he had to do something, in an instant Liu Fan decided to use infantry to shock the cavalry, it didn't make sense that the Swiss phalanx could defeat the same number of heavy cavalry, You can't defeat these light cavalry after training yourself for so long. Liu Fan shouted, "Storm formation!" The soldiers quickly changed formations, divided into three small phalanxes under the leadership of their respective sentinels, and looked at the cavalry Liu Fan, who had already begun to charge, and immediately issued an order: "Ready!" "Wait until the cavalry is about to approach the guards" Charge! Liu Fan immediately issued an order, and the three small phalanxes immediately rushed towards the tail end of the cavalry in the shape of "Pin"! Due to the long-term training, Liu Fan's army approached the end of the cavalry in just a few breaths, and at this time, the vanguard of the cavalry had already rushed into the guard army to fight, "Flat gun!" Stab! Liu Fan issued an order: "Kill!" The soldier shouted and stabbed at the tail end of the hundreds of charging cavalry, and suddenly a cavalry was stabbed down, and the huge impact force made many of Liu Fan's soldiers caught off guard and were taken to the ground, fortunately, the gun was long and was not trampled under the horse by the galloping cavalry, otherwise Liu Fan would not have time to cry!

The captives followed the tail end of the cavalry and slaughtered the cavalry caught in the chaos! Regardless of whether it is friendly or enemy, anyone who dares to stand in front of the gun array will be torn apart by the gunmen! Bursts of neat killing shouts came, and found that the hole was not goodSometimes, when he looked back, he saw that the cavalry behind him could not play at all due to being caught in the crowd, and the cavalry mobility could not be played at all, and the space of the war horse in the advance was narrow and could not turn around, and was being slaughtered by the gun array, Chen sometimes opened his eyes wide, he didn't think that Liu Fan dared to charge at the cavalry in the chaos, was he not afraid of being defeated by the chaotic army's impact on the formation? Before he had time to think, Kong sometimes knew he had to retreat! Otherwise, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry that loses mobility is not as good as the infantry in formation. Heart-rending roar: "Withdraw! Quickly getting rid of the enemy's entanglement, he jumped out of his horse, and the cavalry that followed immediately gathered at him, quickly formed a battle formation, killed the enemy in front of him, tore through the defense line and rushed out. Liu Fan ignored the cavalry that had already broken out of the encirclement, and concentrated on killing the single cavalry who was trapped in the encirclement and could not get out! Quickly end the battle so you can line up for possible revenge! Because he knew that in his current state, the cavalry on the opposite side only needed a small charge, and he was as defenseless as these guards!

Kong, who broke out of the encirclement and regrouped, sometimes looked left and right, and found that due to his carelessness and underestimation of the enemy, this time he was hit hard again, and there were only more than 500 people left, more than 400 people left! I was stuck in the battle and never came out again! Chan was sometimes grief-stricken and filled with deep remorse! Gritted his teeth and shouted, "Brothers! Rush with me again! Avenge the dead brothers!" After that, you have to slap your horse and rush forward! The lieutenant general next to him quickly grabbed him, "No, my lord!" Your Excellency, you see they're already in formation! If you rush over again, you will be sent to death! Chen sometimes heard the adjutant general's words and looked forward, and sure enough, Liu Fan had already given up chasing and killing the cavalry trapped in the formation, and formed a formation to defend on the periphery of the army! Gritted his teeth, he glanced at the broken army and said, "Let's go!" "Ride away.

When he returned to Daying, he knelt down in front of Kong Youde and cried bitterly, "Dashuai, I'm defeated!" Kong Youde asked expressionlessly, "Oh! How many casualties! Chen sometimes trembled and said, "There are five hundred left!" ”

Kong Youde kicked Chen Shi to the ground and shouted, "Five hundred! Five hundred! Do you know that we have only managed to raise a thousand people after so many years of hard work, and now you tell me that there are still 500 people left after defeating them! Then why are you still alive! Yes!? "Then pull out the sword on your body and slash it at the hole! Seeing this, the deputy general next to him hugged Kong Youde, "Handsome!" Sometimes I have been with you for so many years, and there is no credit and hard work! It's not too late to hear why he was defeated and then punished! ”

Hearing this, Kong Youde finally stopped his anger a little: "Tell me how you were defeated!" ”

Chen sometimes hurriedly got up and said, "Dashuai, this time I was still defeated by the guns of the broken army!" ”

"You have been with me for so many years, and you can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, how could you make such a mistake! Why do you provoke them even when you know that you have suffered a loss? Kong Youde asked angrily

"No! Handsome! I know they are not easy to mess with, this time I killed from the flank, and went directly towards Yu Dacheng's guards without caring about the gun array! The guards were so vulnerable that I crushed them with just one charge! Then I made the 2nd charge! Chen sometimes paused and looked at Kong Youde's face, and saw that his face was softened before continuing: "Just when I rushed into the enemy formation to start a fight, I didn't expect that the broken army actually gave up the formation and rushed up, at that time we were trapped in the formation and couldn't get out, we could only watch our brothers being killed!" After saying that, he fell to his knees and cried!

Kong Youde's face was solemn, and after thinking about it for a long time, he said slowly: "It's really not simple!" I have never seen this kind of tactics in the army for more than ten years, and it is really unheard of for the spearmen to dare to charge against the cavalry, who is the commander of this broken army? ”

"It's... We don't know either! The adjutant said with a sad face

"Then don't check it out!" Kong Youde yelled