Chapter 31: Breaking the Deadlock
The cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army was as fast as the wind and cut through the blocking of more than 20,000 archers across the road in an instant, and lost most of the more than 20,000 archers. Compared with the loss of the archers, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army can be said to have suffered few losses, and the superb riding skills and brilliant results opened Li Zuoche's eyes.
Steady as Mount Tai, moving as a rabbit, quiet as a jackal, attacking like a tiger, this is Li Zuoche's evaluation of the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army.
If such an army is coupled with a fierce fighting style, then who else in this world can defeat? Such an army of the Nine Plains is simply an army that cannot be defeated, and the only way to defeat them is to kill them all.
Perhaps only when these brave and elite soldiers are dead, will they no longer resist and will not rush to kill again.
As early as after the left and right armies completely surrounded Meng Tian's tens of thousands of foot soldiers on all sides, the more than 300 chariots that were originally cruising on Meng Tian's left flank had all returned to Li Zuoche's Chinese army formation.
Such a large-scale melee chariot that intersected with the enemy and us could no longer play a role, but it was only appropriate to return to the front of the Chinese army to escort Li Zuoche.
These more than 300 chariots and the more than 200 chariots that originally returned to protect Li Zuoche and were not defeated by the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army added up to nearly 600 chariots. In addition to the more than 200 chariots of the 600 chariots that continued to guard Li Zuoche's side, the remaining 400 chariots met the Jiuyuan cavalry who rushed over when the Jiuyuan cavalry passed through the archers.
Nearly 400 chariots were driven by more than 50 chariots equipped with "flat spears" to form a broad charging formation with a width of more than 500 paces, and the remaining 350 chariots staggered to form a broad formation with a depth of more than 200 paces.
"Crossbow!" Liu Xin, who was galloping at the front, shouted.
In such a noisy battlefield, his chant was quickly drowned out like a mosquito's groan, but fortunately, the Jiuyuan Army was all well-trained elites, although he couldn't hear his voice, but when he saw Liu Xin's movements, he immediately understood what he meant.
The rest of the charging Jiuyuan cavalry raised their hands one after another, and after cutting through the defense of 20,000 archers, they had already loaded their small and powerful crossbows. This is the rule of the Jiuyuan cavalry, on the battlefield, the strong crossbow carried with you must be ready to fire at any time.
The strong crossbow is the most important weapon for all Great Qin cavalry when they are not equipped with the three cavalry artifacts.
The distance between the archers and Li Zuoche was nearly six hundred paces, and the Jiuyuan cavalry and Li Zuoche's chariot approached quickly.
Three hundred steps.
Two hundred steps.
"Boom!"
A crossbow arrow flew out of the strong crossbow in Liu Xin's hand first. Seeing this, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army who followed also pulled the trigger on their crossbows.
"Hum" The familiar melodious sound sounded from the Jiuyuan cavalry formation again.
Hearing this sound was pleasant to the Jiuyuan cavalry, and to the charioteers who had already suffered once, it was the sound of seduction. The galloping chariot had no shelter at all, and they could only curl up as much as they could, watching the crossbow arrows fly towards them, and then quickly burrow into their bodies in a sharp pain.
"Boom, boom, boom" series of loud bangs!
This series of loud noises was followed by a continuous loud noise, sawdust flying sideways, and the war horses neighing!
The nearly thirty or so heavy chariots in the center of the Jiuyuan cavalry rushed over were greeted the most, whether it was the war horse pulling the chauff or the chariot or the royal hand soldiers on the chariot, they suddenly turned into hedgehogs.
More than thirty times by the overturning of heavy chariots, causing the effect of the destruction of the surname.
The hundreds of chariots that had been following them all the time, except for the outermost chariots on both sides of the hundred, which had escaped by chance, the remaining large number of chariots that followed closely behind more than thirty chariots could not stop or turn at all, and crashed into the heavy chariots that overturned in front of them.
Originally, these heavy chariots were all sharp weapons against the Jiuyuan Army, but at this time, they became Li Zuoche's own charioteers.
The small light chariots simply couldn't shake these big guys, and they crashed into them one after another like dominoes, and the cars were destroyed! A few of them saw the opportunity quickly, and they didn't hit it because they were too fast and fell over.
A wave of crossbow arrows yielded brilliant results, causing more than 400 chariots to lose more than 300 times.
But the elite cavalry of the 809 Yuan Army did not have the slightest excitement and excitement, because at such a close distance, there was no time and opportunity to load the crossbow arrows again, and the rest was a real fight.
There are more than 200 chariots in front of Li Zuoche's Chinese army! There are also more than 100 chariots on both sides that have just escaped!
The chariot that overturned the ground had a great impact on the charge of the Jiuyuan army, but fortunately, the Jiuyuan cavalry was all superb in horsemanship, slightly turned the horse's head, and the road that was frightened away from the chariot on both sides turned into two strands that quickly passed through the chariot array, and went straight to Li Zuoche again.
If Li Zuoche was amazed by the Jiuyuan cavalry before, then now he is already a little frightened!
Looking at the more than 8,000 Great Qin cavalry who rushed over unscathed, he suddenly found that the more than 200 chariots in front of him probably couldn't stop these cavalry for long!
The facts confirmed his suspicion once again!
The 8,000 original cavalry and the last 200 or so cavalry are getting closer and closer, and the tragic situation of the more than 400 chariots in front is still vivid, so now the 200 chariots that are catching up do not dare to form an oppressive charge in a dense formation.
The reason is very simple, I am afraid that I will be rained with crossbow arrows by the Jiuyuan cavalry again!
The distance of each battle workshop was at least twenty paces, and the chariots following behind did not dare to urge the chariots with all their might, carefully maintaining the distance of the chariots in front, they had been bitten by snakes for ten years and were afraid of the well rope!
In fact, after breaking through the barrier of more than 400 chariots in front, Liu Xin's 8,000 cavalry had no time to put on crossbow arrows to give them a while while galloping, but Li Zuoche's chariot soldiers didn't know that the crossbow machine in front of Daqin had been seen by anyone!
Looking at the Jiuyuan Jingqi who rushed over like a black hurricane without hesitation, the guards around Li Zuoche turned pale one by one, and the drumming of the guards who originally replaced Li Zuoche was also suddenly chaotic.
"Lord Xiangguo, let's retreat." An older guard persuaded.
When Li Zuoche heard the words of the old guard, he withdrew his eyes from staring at the drumming guard, looked at the Jiuyuan cavalry and his charioteers who were about to collide, and then looked back at the huge encirclement of tens of thousands of Jiuyuan infantry soldiers surrounded by Meng Tian in the distance, his eyes flashed.
Now there are only more than 15,000 of Meng Tian's 30,000 Jiuyuan infantry left, and nearly half of them have been killed, but Li Zuoche's 100,000 infantry casualties are even more heavy, and at least more than 20,000 of the more than 100,000 infantry have been killed.
Among the 15,000 people killed in the Jiuyuan Army, nearly 10,000 people were lost by the cavalry raid and the subsequent dogfight plus the attack of the chariot, which means that for every Jiuyuan foot soldier killed, then Li Zuoche's foot soldiers had to kill four or even five foot soldiers.
Li Zuoche didn't know about this loss, but from the number of people he could see, he already vaguely felt the casualties of his 100,000 foot soldiers, and more importantly, although the encirclement still existed, his foot soldiers no longer had much will to fight.
Since the two armies started the war, it has been a fierce battle for more than an hour. Now that there are not many people in the direction of the advance of Meng Tian's army's infantry phalanx, there are not many people who dare to step forward to fight, and a large encirclement surrounds Meng Tian's infantry phalanx, and the whole retreats as a whole as Meng Tian's infantry phalanx advances.
Truly unstoppable!
Li Zuoche knew that if this continued, his encirclement would be broken through by Meng Tian sooner or later, and he didn't think that his more than 200 chariots would be able to stop the brave Jiuyuan Jingqi.
Is it refundable or not? This question made Li Zuoche also very entangled.
As soon as the Chinese army retreats, it is bound to deal a blow to the morale of the Zhao army, which has fallen to the freezing point; If they don't retreat, once the Jiuyuan cavalry breaks through the barrier of more than two hundred chariots, there will be no one who can stop them.
Li Zuoche had already ignored the more than 1,000 guards around him. And the archers and chariots that did not die before are still eating the dust splashed by the Jiuyuan cavalry on the way back to defense, and they can't dissolve the near fire.
Collect troops and change to fight again? A thought appeared in Li Zuoche's heart.
But at the moment, he can't help it!
Li Zuoche was entangled, but Meng Tian was not entangled, the Jiuyuan Army, which had never let himself down, still did not disappoint himself this time. Although he was in the center of the phalanx, he could still keenly feel that the speed of the infantry phalanx was accelerating.
Moreover, the shouting and killing voices around him were also significantly weaker, and the high morale of these foot soldiers who surrounded his army had been completely lost under this long battle. Meng Tian immediately thought of the reason.
"Beat the drums of war!"
"Knock knock!" The high-pitched sound of war drums suddenly sounded from the center of Meng Tian's infantry phalanx.
The war drums in Li Zuoche's army, which had just returned to normal, were frightened by this sudden high-pitched drum beat, and they were immediately suppressed.
The infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, who was already exhausted, heard the sound of the drum and suddenly their morale was great again, and the momentum of the rush and killing became fierce again, and the sword shadows of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army who suddenly broke out again flew one after another, and in less than ten breaths, they had completely torn a huge hole in the encirclement that had been blocked in front.
More than 10,000 Jiuyuan troops were like a black torrent breaking through the embankment, and they didn't fight with Li Zuoche's foot soldiers who reacted behind and wanted to encircle again, and rushed towards Li Zuoche's Chinese army as fast as a tide.
On the other side, more than 8,000 Jiuyuan elite horsemen had already collided with the scattered more than 200 chariots. At the moment of collision, the Jiuyuan cavalry, who rushed to the forefront, jumped up from their horses one after another, and took the lead in rushing into the chariot with the momentum of the war horse.
War horses scream, sawdust flying!
The soldiers on the chariot looked at the Jiuyuan cavalry that flew down with frightened eyes, the sword shadow flickered, and blood splashed!
The eight thousand nine primordial elite horses have swept through everything, and in a dozen breaths, they have already pierced through the chariot formation formed by more than two hundred chariots!
(To be continued)