Chapter 419: Pine Forest Town (6)

The well-trained formations of the Great Sui soldiers are changeable, and the battle formations of the cavalry have more than 20 kinds of variations, such as wild goose feathers, cones, and sharp arrows. According to different battlefields and different battle situations, the battle-hardened generals will arrange the most suitable formation to defend against the enemy. At this time, the four thousand elite cavalry of Yanyunzhai were in the wilderness, and Li Xian ordered the cavalry to set up a basic multi-column phalanx, which was the basic formation of various formation changes.

If you change to heavy cavalry, this multi-column horizontal phalanx is also one of the sharpest attack formations. Light cavalry assault, mainly in cone-shaped, front-arrow and other formations. The heavy cavalry attacked, and with this phalanx forward neatly trampled forward the most domineering.

Li Xian has no heavy armored cavalry, with the current financial and material resources of Ju Yeze in Dongping County, it is already a little difficult to feed an army of nearly 100,000 people, and the heavy armored Mo swordsmen with a total of 4,000 men and horses under the command of Xiong Kuohai have already spent a lot of money, even though Li Xian envies the five thousand tiger heavy armor under Luo Yi, now he does not have enough money and food to build one. Speaking of which, Luo Yi's tiger armor only has 5,000 cavalry, but the size of the entire team is nearly 20,000!

Heavy armored cavalry, must be a very strong and burly person, the requirements for war horses are even stricter, how can ordinary horses, how can they carry a total weight of no less than 300 pounds of heavy armored soldiers to rush through? The heavy armor of the knight is thirty or forty catties, the full armor of the war horse is also dozens of catties, the strong cavalry is one hundred and seventy or eighty catties, plus the horse lance, horizontal knife, and other necessary equipment, the total number adds up, nearly three hundred catties heavy.

Each heavy cavalry has at least two servants, who are responsible for maintaining and wiping the armor and weapons of the heavy cavalry, and also taking good care of the horses. Therefore, each heavy cavalry must have at least one horse to carry the equipment. Coupled with the baggage logistics personnel, in this way, the total strength of 5,000 tigers is actually no less than 20,000, and the total number of war horses and horses is even more. And the most important thing is that the cost of the heavy armor of the cavalry and the full armor of the war horses and the military salary consumption of the soldiers are too high, so high that the entire Great Sui can only feed the five thousand tigers in Youzhou.

Aside from the high cost of heavy cavalry, Li Xian preferred the light cavalry to come and go like the wind.

After only waiting for about half an hour, the black army of Wagangzhai surged in the dust and smoke. The army of 60,000 is overwhelming, and there is no edge in sight at a glance, surging like a gray wave. Li Mi divided the 60,000 Chinese troops into the front and rear and the left and right middle five armies according to the marching practice of the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty. Zhang Qian, the general of the former army, Meng Rang, the general of the left army, Hu Donkey, the general of the right army, and Hao Xiaode, the general of the rear army. His confidant Zhang Liang led an army of 20,000 to respond.

Rushing to the front is the 5,000 men and horses of Zhang Qian, the general of the former army Mingwei, Zhang Qian's 5,000 people belong to the outer battalion soldiers and horses of Wagangzhai, and the original Wagangzhai soldiers and horses led by Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and others belong to the inner battalion soldiers and horses. In general, the combat power of the soldiers and horses of the inner battalion is much stronger than that of the soldiers and horses of the outer battalion.

Li Mi also wanted to firmly grasp the inner camp in his own hands, but although Shan Xiongxin and others seemed to respect him, they refused to let go of the soldiers and horses in their hands, but Zhai Rang still obeyed him, and repeatedly said that after defeating Dongping County, he retreated behind the scenes and handed over Wagangzhai to Li Mi to take charge.

Therefore, although Li Mi does not look down on the combat power of the soldiers and horses in the outer battalion, he now has to rely on Zhang Qian, Hu Donkey and others. Although the men and horses under these men are not good at fighting, they are outnumbered. If you count the soldiers and horses scattered in various places, the total strength of Wagangzhai is now no less than 200,000.

Garrisoned in Dongjun, plus Li Mi sent men and horses to attack Luokoucang, and there were also troops stationed in Baihua Valley along the way, so this time in the eastern expedition to Yanyun Village, Li Mi mobilized about half of the total troops, and 60,000 people Ma Zhai Rang personally led around Li Xian to attack the Xiongkuohai Department.

Zhang Qian led 5,000 soldiers and horses to rush forward, and suddenly saw a black city wall blocking the Yanyunzhai cavalry in front, he didn't dare to hold it up, and immediately ordered the team to stop, and he personally went to ask Li Mi for instructions.

He stopped before he stopped, thinking that the thousands of cavalry left behind by Yanyunzhai would never take the initiative to attack, but what surprised him was that what he thought was impossible to become possible.

Li Xian didn't wait for the front army of Wagangzhai to finish the formation, he glanced coldly at the other party's hastily coming army, there was not the slightest worry on his face, he pointed the black knife forward and said loudly: "Kill the past, and flatten the front army of Wagangzhai!" ”

"Whoa!"

Jingjia responded neatly, and then followed Li Xian's big black horse to slowly speed up.

Four thousand elite riders followed behind Li Xian and gradually increased their speed. The horse's hooves made a thunderous sound on the wilderness, and the former military horses of the Wagang Village rumbled against the ground.

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Zhang Qian was about to rush back to ask Li Mi for advice, when he suddenly saw the cavalry behind Yanyunzhai rushing over. He immediately sent his own soldiers to inform Li Mi and asked Li Mi to transfer troops to support.

"Archers! Array! ”

Zhang Qian shouted loudly.

Although the men and horses under his command are not well-equipped, and they are far less well-trained than the soldiers and horses in the Wagang Village, they have also experienced countless battles, and they are still much stronger than the ordinary green forests and grass robbers. He thinks that the combat strength of the soldiers and horses under his command is at least much better than the peasant refugees who are cobbled together by the Black Society and the White Society.

He had the intention to perform in front of Li Mi, so he played a twelve-point spiritual command.

"Spearmen, line up after the three arrows!"

He rode his horse in front of the army and gave orders loudly.

"There are only a few thousand cavalry after the Yanyun Village is broken, and we have an army of 100,000!"

He loudly encouraged his soldiers: "Today is the day when Yanyunzhai is destroyed!" He has achieved great success, you all have the merit of the dragon, and the future is splendid! Who doesn't want to return home, a good man? Who doesn't want to be crowned a marquis?! Soldiers! Step on the white bones of the enemy and achieve your fame and future! ”

Zhang Qian has read books for several years and has also done first-hand articles, so he is far more elegant than Hu Donkey and others to boost morale, and he is not just monotonously shouting a few words like killing, rushing, etc. He also participated in the imperial examination of the imperial court, just because he had no money to give gifts, although the article was done well, and the four and six were quite neat, but they were far less beautiful than a bag of silver. He unexpectedly fell off the list, but the son of a wealthy family in the same village who did not learn and did not know how to do it, Zhang Qian was angry and followed his uncle to run to the north, which is undoubtedly self-depraved in the eyes of outsiders.

In the first year of the Great Cause, the imperial examination system was established, the status of literati was significantly improved, and the young men who studied in the county school were also respected by the people. Zhang Qian took the initiative to quit his studies and went to work as the most despised businessman, so you can imagine how strong the anger in his heart was at that time.

The social hierarchy of the Great Sui was the most despised by the merchants.

It's just that Zhang Qian's bad luck, the first time he went to Saibei, he brought some Shu brocade and tea bricks, and planned to exchange them for two inferior horses and then sold them for silver, who thought that it was just in time for the Great Sui to conquer Goguryeo, and the horses he bought were forcibly expropriated for military use, and a piece of meat was not given to him, Zhang Qian was also a fire, contacted a few people, killed that Facao that night, and then escaped into the barren mountains and grass for Kou, who would have thought that in just a few years, he became a green forest tycoon with tens of thousands of soldiers.

He has a little more knowledge than the leaders of ordinary rebel armies, and he has also read a few military books after falling into the grass, so he also has some experience in military training, especially thinking that the training method of the soldiers of the Great Sui Mansion is the best. It is precisely because he has read books that he knows that the world cannot be chaotic for a long time, and sooner or later there will be a time when they will meet for a long time, and the biggest point of this person is that he is self-aware, and he knows that he will never be able to achieve anything in the game of dominating the world, so he decided to find someone who can have great achievements to assist.

He was one of the many people in the Great Sui who firmly believed that Li Mi was the true Son of Heaven, so he firmly believed that he was on the right path.

Yanyunzhai's elite armored light cavalry had already reached two hundred steps away, Zhang Qian looked at those elite black-armored cavalry, and couldn't help but praise it heartily in his heart.

People say that Li Xian, the big boss of Yanyunzhai, is the best at using cavalry, and when he sees the formation today, he knows that these cavalry are real veterans of a hundred battles, and they must not be underestimated.

"Projectile!"

Zhang Qian shouted loudly.

With a buzz, a feathered arrow flew into the sky. Hundreds of archers released their bowstrings almost simultaneously, and the feathered arrows rose up into the air at first, and then accelerated down when they reached the top. Immediately after that, the dense feather arrows smashed into the cavalry queue of Yanyun Village like hail, and dozens of cavalry immediately fell off their horses.

Feathered arrows are much less damaging to cavalry than infantry. Horses galloping at high speed were often able to leave their arrows behind, and in the face of cavalry, archers were extremely hasty in firing their arrows. From entering the range to shooting the last arrow within reach, there is often only six or seven breaths.

In the second and third rounds, the arrows knocked out a hundred and ten cavalrymen, and the archers had to quickly retreat behind the formation.

"Gun array!"

Zhang Qian ordered loudly: "Go up!" ”

At this time, the cavalry of Yanyunzhai was less than fifty steps away from the military formation, and it was really too late to change the formation. With his order, more than a thousand spearmen rushed up, lined up in several rows of guns.

Seeing that the cavalry of Yanyunzhai was about to collide with the gun formation in another fifty steps, the big black horse in front suddenly turned to the side, and changed the direction abruptly, following the big black horse, thousands of cavalry actually completed a turn that seemed impossible to complete, and came out of a very beautiful big arc, turned a ninety-degree turn, and turned from facing the Wagangzhai military formation to rushing parallel to the military formation.

"Crossbow!"

Li Xian shouted, then took the lead in taking the repeater off, and pulled the machine bracket towards the spearman of Wagangzhai who had pulled closer to less than twenty paces away after the turn.

In an instant, the crossbow bolts came like a rainstorm.

The elite cavalry that slid parallel to the Wagangzhai army array poured out the crossbow arrows in the crossbow box to the fullest, and the density of the crossbow arrows was staggering, and in an instant, the three rows of spears fell down layer by layer like straw blown down by a strong wind. A spearman with almost no defense, this distance could not even run in the face of such a dense crossbow bolt.

In an instant, Zhang Qian's face changed, and his heart was heartbroken.