Chapter 52: Xiao Quai's Tactics

Asimu died, and a feathered arrow was stuck in his mouth, and the feather of the arrow went straight into his mouth, and the arrow pierced through the back of his head more than a foot long, and he died no more.

His eyes were wide open, and there was an expression of disbelief on his face, and he didn't bat a glance. He was guarded by fifty brave and skilled guards beside him, with four hundred of the most elite Khorasan religious warriors by his side, and he himself was the first brave general in the Arab Khorasan army, he could not have imagined that he would die so easily.

Not only did he not expect it, but the four hundred Khorasan religious warriors around him also did not expect it. They heard a sharp whistle of breaking through the air, and subconsciously raised their shields to block, but in fact it was too late at this time. Within two hundred paces, the Nine Stones' sky-shattering bow shot out with a full string, and the speed of the arrow was already about the same as a pistol bullet, exceeding the speed of sound, and by the time they heard the sound, the arrow had already hit the target.

When everyone was stunned and stunned, Asimu's body had already softened, and he was about to fall off the horse when he staggered. At this time, the guards and Khorasan religious warriors around him finally reacted, and their mouths let out a scream that only a wounded beast could have, and they went crazy and rushed towards the corpse of Asim.

Some distance away from the Khorasan warriors, before they knew what was happening, heard a (actually three) piercing scream, apparently the sound of bows and arrows breaking through the air. They were still wondering how there could be such a fast arrow, when they heard the general's guards in the middle shouting Asim's name like a madman.

When they turned their heads to look at it in a bit of a daze, they immediately saw that their commander, General Asim, had fallen from his mount crookedly, and by the light of the torch next to him, he could see that he had a feathered arrow in his mouth, and he was squirting blood.

General Asim is dead!

In the Great Food Army, there was a sudden chaos. The Lord will die, and all the people will be stunned. And in the middle of the military formation, the behavior of more than a dozen of Asimu's personal guards made the situation worse. When the cavalry rushed into battle, the speed of the war horse had been raised to the highest, and the knight who was caught in the middle could only move straight forward, and they forcibly changed direction at this time, causing chaos in the formation at once. Several guards finally held Asim's corpse and prevented Asimu from falling off his horse and being trampled into a pulp by the war horse behind him. But it also made the hedgehogs around Asimu a ball, and a large number of knights collided together, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

At this time, the 200-strong army of the Anxi Army had already rushed to them less than fifty paces. Seeing the chaos in the Great Food Army, all the Anxi soldiers were excited, and their faces turned red. Holding the reins or torches in one hand and the horse's lance and spear tightly in the other, he was engrossed in his gaze on a large cavalryman of his choice and sent the lance (spear) shaft away.

Rumble!

The two torrents of cavalry charging at full speed collided fiercely, and a series of scalp-tinging crashing sounds burst out, mingling with the sound of people shouting horses neighing, swords and guns penetrating flesh, and the blades of spears cutting through iron shields that made people's teeth sour. The Great Eclipse Cavalry was stabbed and fell off their horses one after another, and the torches in their hands fell like dumplings, and the flames were splashed everywhere.

The intense stimulation made the Anxi army fall into a state of madness, and each of them had red eyes, revealing a bloodthirsty light. As soon as the spear and lance stabbed at the target, he immediately took out his hand, drew the horizontal knife at his waist, and slashed at the nearest Great Eater.

Xiao Quzhi had already put away the sky-shaking bow, and took the lead, the first to crash into the military formation of the Great Food, the big gun circled and flew, flying up and down, covering himself tightly in front and back, left and right. Rushing hard, one person and one rider carved a passage about two zhang wide in the Great Food Army Array. None of the 400 cannibal cavalry could hold off his edge and block his step.

Xiao Qubing had already broken out of the formation, and after rushing forward for more than ten steps, he circled back the war horse and fought towards the chaotic war group again. At this time, the 200 Anxi army had already killed the 400 food army. The cavalry of both sides rushed head-on, the strength of the two sides was about the same, one side had high morale, one side had an advantage in numbers, it was difficult to say whether the victory or defeat was very good, no matter which side, even if it won, it was a miserable victory.

The turning point was just when the battle was about to be engaged, the Great Eater was shot to death, the Great Eater army fell into chaos at once, and the four thousand Khorasan religious warriors were completely stunned and had no desire to fight. On the contrary, seeing that the Great Eclipse Army was in chaos, all the Great Eclipse soldiers were stupid, but the Anxi Army was like a stimulant, and their fighting spirit was soaring and fearless. Under the advantages of one another, the situation of the opponent in chess turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Many of the Great Eclipse Cavalry were killed by the Anxi cavalry before they could react, and some of the Great Eclipse cavalry tried to fight back with their own bravery, but without command, they could only fight on their own, and in front of the two hundred organized Anxi troops, the result could only be a mantis arm as a car.

The four hundred Great Eclipse Cavalry had already died, and the two hundred Anxi Army had less than two percent casualties, and the surviving Great Eclipse Cavalry began to rout, and the Anxi Cavalry was in hot pursuit. Xiao Quzhi shouted loudly: "Don't pursue, line up, follow me to break the next enemy formation!" ”

When the horn sounded, the Anxi cavalry, who had been beaten with chicken blood, still did not forget to obey the military order, and they immediately gave up the chase of the Great Food Defeat Army, and rushed to Xiao Quai, howling loudly: "The Great Food Dog is broken, Anxi Army, General Xiao, Wan Sheng!" ”

The Anxi Army and the Great Food Army, who were chasing on both wings of the Great Food Army Formation, also discovered the scene of the Great Food Army running and the Anxi Army cheering and celebrating in the sky.

The nine hundred cannibal cavalry who were chasing immediately wavered in a panic, and their eyes looked at the centurion who was leading the troops. The two centurions were as dazed as they were, and they couldn't figure out how the main formation of the Chinese army of four hundred people would collapse at the touch of a touch in the face of only half of the Anxi cavalry. You must know that the fifty guards around General Asimu are the elite of the elite, and they are all warriors who are one in a hundred. When attacking the Umayyads, these people fought in and out of the army one by one, and it was like a blessing from God.

Such a warrior was defeated in less than a moment! What kind of terrifying combat power do these Anxi troops have?

In an instant, the morale of the great eclipse cavalry chasing the enemy on both flanks also plummeted. That terrifying thought came to mind again: it must be divine punishment, we are riddled with sins, this is Hu Da's punishment for them!

Contrary to the fact that the morale of the Dashi chasing cavalry plummeted, the morale of the Anxi cavalry, who was responsible for luring the enemy, was greatly invigorated, and they looked at the two brigade commanders Bai Xiaode and Song Xiaoshan.

Bai Xiaode and Song Xiaoshan shouted hello in their hearts and immediately ordered an attack. As soon as the voice roared, the tooth triggers of three hundred single-bow crossbows were pulled at the same time as their left hands swung down. The Great Food Cavalry, who was still chasing the enemy behind, was caught off guard, and the two rows of cavalry in front were immediately shot through, blood splattered, and screams came and went.

Hundreds of cannibal cavalry were shot off their horses, and in an instant they were trampled into flesh by the galloping hooves of the horses behind. More than 10% of casualties at once were not enough to break this elite army in peacetime, but at this time it undoubtedly became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Losing their main general, the panicked Great Eclipse cavalry rushed to the ground, and they no longer pursued the Anxi army in front, but scattered and fled.

Seeing this, the Anxi cavalry immediately hung their single-bow crossbow on the saddle, drew a horizontal knife from their waists, and reflexively killed the large food cavalry that scattered and fled. A chase battle, an instant offensive and defensive change.

Farther away, the first wave of Anxi sentinels to lure the enemy were engaged in a struggle with the pursuing Great Eclipse cavalry. They were scattered very widely, and the Great Eater cavalry only pursued in one or two directions, and the Anxi sentinels, who were not pursued, immediately reduced their horse speed. Let go of the reins with both hands, pull the string, step on the ring in front of the crossbow with one foot, and immediately rewind it.

Like a flock of sparrows, when they are chased, they run away, when they are not chased, they hide and wind up, and when they are well wound, they look for the nearest big eater cavalry, and when they rush to a distance of sixty or seventy paces, they shoot their crossbow arrows. Relying on such an offensive method, in a short period of time, they had accumulated a lot, killing more than fifty Great Food Cavalry.

The Great Eclipse Cavalry was overwhelmed and furious, but there was no way to take these "sparrows" like the Anxi army, and their morale was consumed little by little. It won't be long before they will be worn to death by these Anxi military sentry horses.

When these enraged eaters cursed the Ansi army in the most vicious language, they suddenly saw a very miraculous scene: a large number of Khorasan religious warriors were fleeing, and the Ansi cavalry, which was smaller than them, was in hot pursuit!

What's going on? We lost?

Emotions are contagious, especially on the battlefield, when a large number of your own soldiers flee under enemy attack, and it is easy for the soldiers behind to flee with them without knowing the situation.

The defeat was like a mountain, and this theorem worked for the Great Eclipse soldiers as well, and they immediately joined the fleeing party. Gu Xiaojun and Li Ergou also reacted immediately, and with an order, they led more than a hundred Anxi sentinels, brandished their horse lances and horizontal knives, and began to chase and kill the Great Food Cavalry in turn.

As the day gradually brightened, the Anxi army spread by, and the Great Food Army fled in the wilderness, crushing for thousands of miles. When hundreds of Anxi troops clung to the Great Food Defeat Army and entered the Great Food Camp, the four thousand Great Food Pioneers were completely defeated.

I don't know how many religious warriors of the Great Eclipse Khorasan, who once thought they were invincible in the world, trembled and knelt on the ground to ask the Anxi army to surrender. A small number of extremely brave people were also full of liver and gall, and they broke through the deer barricades they had set up like crazy, and fled in the direction of Rob Butan. But not a single one dared to resist!

It was already full of light, Xiao Qubing accepted the surrender of the big cannibal, ordered the Anxi army to stop pursuing, divided half of the Anxi soldiers to escort the prisoners to the Anxi army camp, and ordered the army and people of the Eastern Cao State to clean up the battlefield, and the other half of the Anxi army began to inspect the battlefield and treat the wounded of the Anxi army.

An hour later, after the battlefield was cleared, the corpses of more than 2,000 Great Eclipse cavalry were piled up into a small mountain, and hundreds of seriously injured Great Eclipse wounded cut off their heads one by one in front of the Great Eclipse prisoners. At this time, Amir Jiang and Li Anping also returned with thousands of Anxi Army, Qarluq, and Dongcao coalition troops, and at the same time escorted back hundreds of Da Shi Defeated soldiers who fled to the direction of Rob Butana, and brought back thousands of Arab war horses (war horses that were frightened by rockets in front and ran away).

It turned out that before the two armies fought, General Xiao (Bei General) had expected a great victory, and he actually sent people to guard the road to the west early. Except for Gu Xiaojun, a few old guys who were not strange, all the eyes of everyone who looked at Xiao Quai's illness were full of admiration and admiration.

Especially the soldiers of the Eastern Cao Kingdom, they had never seen the Great Food Army defeat so badly. It turned out that the "victorious army" fell to the altar in their minds, and of course, it was the Anxi army that replaced it.

"It's miserable!" Afterwards, a Dongcao Minfu said to someone: "Didn't you see that the four thousand Great Eclipse Cavalry were killed by six hundred Anxi Heavenly Soldiers, and the corpses were piled up like a hill!" The wounded Great Eclipse cavalry was beheaded in front of the surrendered Great Eclipse captives, and they were so frightened that they were so frightened that they lay their heads on the ground and trembled all over! ”

"It's so relieving!" A Zhaowu nine surname, Dongcao soldier said: "These big dog eaters who have done all these evil things also have today!" Last year, they were slaughtering people everywhere, killing people and setting fires. One of my uncles, in the city of Shazhou, more than 40,000 people, was killed by this group of dog thieves more than 30,000. My uncle's family was also killed, including my three-year-old cousin. Unexpectedly, before it was a year, this group of big dog thieves was so bad that they got retribution! ”

"That's amazing!" An officer of Dongcao said: "I have never seen such a strong army!" Earlier, the Great Food Army had been boasting that 10,000 could beat us 100,000, but as a result, it ran into the Anxi army, first 600 were completely annihilated by 500, and the Anxi army only suffered 160 casualties; This time, the 4,000 Great Eclipse Strikers were completely annihilated by 650, and the casualties of the Anxi Army were less than 80. Looking at it this way, I think that 10,000 Anxi troops can fight at least 70,000 or 80,000. ”

Ignoring the discussions of the Dongcao people, at this time, Xiao Quzhi was organizing officers at all levels and some veterans to participate in the war to make a post-war summary. This operation was actually a tactical test by Xiao Quai, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good. It seems that with this set of tactics, coupled with the fact that after this battle, the Anxi Army and the Qarluq and Eastern Cao Army have established a very high prestige, and the soldiers no longer have doubts about their tactics. It is not very difficult to realize the idea of using 6,000 Anxi and Qarlu cavalry to contain tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.