Knock knock knock...... The earth-shattering drums sounded in the infantry formation of the Zhou army, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Ma Army who were fighting in the east and west of the battlefield, shouting and cheering, making the soldiers of the Han and Qiang tremble. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The forward front of the three armies, armed with guns and shields, began to advance slowly, stopping the whole team every 50 steps to ensure that the formation was tight, and the battalion took the initiative to attack step by step. In the Liangji battlefield, Zhuo Luo's horse army no longer has an advantage, once defeated and retreated, it will have a huge impact on the formation, and he has to take care of it at all times, and he must increase his troops if he is shaken on either side.

This is the same relative situation, Zhang Yue's horse army is not much, if it can't stop the other party, the defense of the infantry formation is weak, and if it is attacked, it will affect the stability of the Chinese army's main formation. Therefore, in history, the infantry formation was often divided into the front and back, the left, the center and the right, and the peripheral armies were actually consumed, and the most elite Chinese army was the key to the final victory.

Zhang Yue's formation is generally only divided into left, center, right and front armies, and there is no rear army, because the middle army takes into account the rear, and the terrain at this time is dependent on the water, so there is no need for it. Therefore, it is also very important to choose a suitable terrain layout.

As soon as he advanced a hundred steps, Zhuo Luo Zunli felt the pressure, and if he let the Zhou army approach, his horse army would not be able to increase its speed. The order was immediately issued, and 4,000 cavalry were transferred to attack the Zhou army, and the middle road was opened with 500 heavy cavalry, followed by 3,000 cavalry as the front army, and 10,000 infantry behind, but the formation could not be so strict as the Zhou army. He also has the last thousand horses in his hand to use as hole cards.

The heavy cavalry wearing ring lock armor ran like an iron wall, the horse's hooves made a muffled sound when they stepped on the ground, and the soft ring armor also made a burst of metal noise, and the momentum was very terrifying.

"Shooter forward! Prepare for the archers! Liu Wenbai was in the middle and rear positions of the front formation, standing on two large wooden boxes with high cushions to watch the enemy's command, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the enemy's heavy cavalry, and hurriedly sent heralds to inform the Chinese army to take contingency measures.

At the same time, five hundred armor-piercing cones, arranged in two horizontal rows, were ready to throw short spears. Another 500 bows and arrows were also lined up in two rows, and when the enemy began to charge the shield wall, they threw heavy piercing arrows.

The armor-piercing arrow is much heavier than ordinary arrows, the arrow is like a spear head, plus the arrow shaft, the weight of the whole arrow is almost two taels, and the range is only thirty or forty steps. Of course, arrows can be used for a variety of purposes.

The armor-piercing cones and new bows and arrows transferred from Huining were not equipped with many in the Changyi army, and there were only a few thousand in total. They were dressed in light calfskin and fine scale armor, equipped with a horizontal knife, a round shield with a light tiger head carving, and a spear and a bow and arrow, and a miscellaneous weight of sixty or seventy pounds.

Almost all regular soldiers are proficient in using various weapons such as knives, guns, bows, and crossbows, but they are a little longer. The first choice for those who wear sword and shield armbands is, of course, sword and shield hands, but in wartime, they will also be called gunners or archers, depending on the situation, and these items are the basics.

Other such as horse army, trebuchet, strong crossbow, and light soldier jumper, these technical arms need more professional training, and ordinary soldiers cannot replace them, which is to set up an independent battalion number. But the swords, guns and archers could not set up a fixed battalion, which would be too rigid and could not be flexible.

The archers do little damage to the heavy cavalry, but may not have time to withdraw, and the strong crossbow is too little equipped to form a concentration, and at present, only the armor penetration cone causes a lot of damage to the heavy cavalry.

Seeing that the enemy's horse team was running faster and faster, bringing up the dust in the sky and gradually approaching thirty steps, Liu Wenbai pressed the long-handled Miao knife on his waist and shouted: "Release!" ”

The front row of armor-piercing awls raised their short guns in unison, took two steps forward and exerted force, and at the same time threw their short guns forward and upward. There was a whirring sound of breaking through the air, and the armor-piercing cone made of fine iron flew over the shield wall in front of it in a fan-shaped plane, and fell into the head of the approaching enemy cone.

The sound of people shouting and neighing horses sounded, and Liu Wenbai stood at a high place in the rear and saw from a distance that the enemy's heavy cavalry twenty or thirty paces in front of the shield gun overturned and trampled on each other, and blood flowed all over the ground. However, the back continued to surge forward, and the back row of armor-piercing cones took turns to throw forward, dealing them a heavy blow.

The continuous and dense, rapid throwing of three rounds of 750 armor-piercing cones made the enemy's heavy cavalry almost disappear, and the few lucky ones who were lucky enough to avoid hitting the shield wall and rejecting the horse guns were basically settled, and the corpses of men and horses rolled to the ground, piled up like a mountain of meat. The horse team behind naturally avoided the obstacle and rushed through both sides, originally concentrated a little and divided into two halves, so that it was weak.

Then the front row just collided with the horse gun formation, which was basically difficult to survive, and the rear row was rained down in the air, and the heavy arrows that were fired non-stop caused a lot of casualties. But the speed of the horse team was raised, and it couldn't stop at all, and it surged forward and not only rushed into the horse pistol, but also delivered food for consumption.

After all, the erected gun shield array was not rooted, and under the repeated collision, it was constantly filled with soldiers and big guns, but it was still inevitable to retreat step by step, showing a wave-like invaginal arc, which gave hope to the attacking enemy horsemen.

However, once the horse team's charge is blocked, the speed of the follow-up horse team will naturally slow down, and after each echelon of the charge, the speed and strength will naturally weaken, and the surviving ones in the front row will go back to the rear to follow up, and the number will be reduced and reduced.

The front of the Zhou army was also twisted and turned, and the Chinese army transferred 1,000 troops to fill it, and finally maintained the front, the wounded soldiers were dragged away, and the combat strength of the front was gradually reduced. Seeing that the front was crumbling and there were no more troops to fill, the enemy lost more than half of its troops, leaving behind a bloody and smelly corpse, and finally retreated.

The front was finally stabilized, Zhang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the battlefield from afar, and found that the west Liang Zhongjia Yebe finally broke the enemy's right flank and began to attack the Chinese army that Zhuo Luo Zun Li, which had to retreat to the enemy on all fronts. On the left side of the northeast, Du Yanhui, Shang Huaqing and more than 4,000 cavalry of the Xiongwu Army also achieved an overwhelming advantage and were about to complete the pinching attack.

And the left and right sides of the infantry formation also maintained the battle line, but like the front formation, some staggered, I am afraid that one more round of charge will not be able to stop. Riding on foot, no long-range strike weapons or too passive.

"Not good! Zhuo Luo Zunli is running away! Ordered Du Yanhui to be ready to divide his troops to pursue at any time. The infantry army quickly formed a team on the left and right sides and the front formation, and after a minute, the whole army advanced forward, launched a general attack, and defeated its infantry army! Zhang Yue stood on the command platform with large wooden boxes stacked and scanned the battlefield, full of disdain for the chaotic formation of the Qiang infantry.

The soldiers ran back and forth between the military formations, quickly conveying the military order that the battle formation was too narrow to ride horses. If you use the flag language, it depends on whether it is a plain terrain, and there is no need for an army of more than 50,000 people. Moreover, the flag language cannot convey complex military orders, if hundreds of thousands of troops rely more on experienced officers, so that each army can react alone and form a joint force.

Two or three hundred paces away, Zhuo Luo Zunli stood in his own formation and did not move, but the infantry 10,000 rushed forward in a chaotic manner, seemingly to attack, but in fact, he wanted to complete the break, so as to cover the remnants of the cavalry from the entanglement of the Zhou army and shook his head. With such a chaotic infantry, I am afraid that Zhuo Luo Zunli also knew that it would be difficult to resist his own infantry formation, but he still brought the infantry and let them attack, and the intention to escape was very obvious.

But Zhang Yue was not worried that Zhuo Luo Zunli would escape, and he also presupposed: Liu Xinfa ambushed all the way, and at this time, as long as the enemy army was disrupted, the victory was decided. A minute passed quickly, the front army began to move forward first, and the left and right sides also advanced, facing the enemy's infantry formation, no longer need to form a gun and shield formation, and it is no problem to disperse the battle according to the battalion level.

Zhang Yue's Chinese army did not move, leaving a regiment, plus 500 cavalry from the barracks of the Ya family, standing by to watch the battle. At this time, there was an earth-shaking cry from the west direction, and the horse team of Zhuo Luo Zunli's right army finally collapsed, and the front army that had just arrived with reinforcements had just arrived, and there was chaos.

"Withdraw! Go to Minzhou! "Chinese New Year's Eve, the bearded Zhuo Luo Zunli let out an unwilling roar, and led a thousand horses to hurriedly turn around and flee. After escaping two miles away, the morale of the left army plummeted, and they fled in a northwesterly direction.

Du Yanhui and Shang Huaqing immediately chased after them, and gradually moved away from the battlefield as the enemy cavalry gradually moved away. Liang Zhongjia Yebu fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and his horsepower was exhausted, so he did not stop and chase and kill, but led the remaining more than 3,000 horsemen to rush directly to the Qiang infantry army, chopping melons and chopping vegetables and slaughtering one-sidedly.

The 10,000 Qiang infantry collapsed in an instant, throwing away their weapons one after another, some crying and surrendering on their knees, and more scattered and fled, trampling on each other, and suffering countless casualties at one time.

The battle ended quickly, and before you knew it, the sky was dark, and night was quietly falling, enveloping the battlefield of wolves.

On the one hand, Zhang Yue sent people to collect the war horses and routs that had fled everywhere, and on the other hand, he ordered the soldiers to light torches and clean up the battlefield. In addition, the 3rd Brigade and 5th Regiment, which had not participated in the battle with the Chinese army, were sent into the county town to clean the barracks and prepare hot water and dinner.

That night, more than 10,000 Han soldiers were busy until midnight, cleaned up the battlefield, and drove to the city of Yanxian to count the number of people and capture, and the battle was beheaded, including more than 15,000 people with mending knives, of which a small half was the last infantry.

The next day, Liu Xinfa and Du Yanhui and others led their troops back victoriously, chasing and killing along the road, plus ambushing Zhuo Luo Zunli who fled in the Longma Valley, beheading more than 4,000 levels, plus the previous frontal battlefield, a total of nearly 10,000 excellent Hequ war horses were captured.

As for the weapons and armor, there are only a small number of ring lock armor and Qingtang iron armor, which are only a thousand sets, scimitar leather armor or something, I am afraid that even the local township soldiers can't look down on it.

On the 20th, Sun Yanshou sent people to the south to deliver the good news of the capture of Mizhou. Xuan Chongwen also reported the victory, and had taken Di Dao with Shi Chenghong's department, and attacked one east and one north, and captured Hezhou.

On the 23rd, the armies were fully rested and regained their combat strength. Zhang Yue and Zhang Jianxiong discussed a little, and led the three brigades led by Du Yanhui and Liu Wenbai, with a total of 7,500 troops from Liu Xinfa's Chengzhou army, to take Minzhou and Taozhou south, and planned for Sun Yanshou to march west to Diezhou.

At this point, the first phase of the Hehuang Campaign was completed, and the results were gratifying, and the next step was to restore the governance of the prefecture and county, establish an advance base, and prepare for the subsequent capture of Shanzhou Qinghai, the old land of Tuguhun north of Jishi Mountain, and the land of Songpanqiang adjacent to Shuzhong in the south. (To be continued.) )