345 Fierce battles
Cheng Yanjin has experienced strong winds and waves, and he is a seasoned person, but in the chaos, he can't help but follow.
Although he expected that there would be an ambush ahead, he could not stop it under Wang Bodang's righteousness, which in itself was also the sad place of his situation.
He is the commander, but except for these Wagang people who can command the training of his subordinates, the rest of the Wagang generals do not obey him, because he is not the same as them.
Although Wagang is very powerful now, everyone is born as robbers, and of course no one will obey anyone. Righteousness, courage, and temper are all important here, and only military affairs can be ignored.
Many people still have the idea of rushing forward in the past, even Shan Xiongxin and Wang Bodang are no exception, which makes Cheng Yanjin feel a little sad in his heart, the strength exerted in this way is less than half of the expected strength, how can he win?
Urging the horse forward, Cheng Yanjin suddenly saw countless Sui soldiers rushing out of a valley, holding high the banner, and when the word 'Zhang' was written on it, Cheng Yanjin caught a glimpse of the word 'Zhang', his heart beat wildly, and he almost fainted.
He seemed to see Zhang Xutuo's army again, and at that moment he felt a heavy blow in the chest, no matter what, he was a Sui general, he was Zhang Xutuo's subordinate, and he had an inexplicable feeling for the Sui army in his heart. But he understood in an instant, this was Zhang Zhenzhou's army.
This really surprised him.
According to the news, Zhang Zhenzhou and Xiao Buyi were originally out of the army in two ways, but they were in one place at the moment, Xiao Buyi came to kill and lure the enemy, but Zhang Zhenzhou was responsible for laying a trap.
The two famous generals of the Eastern Capital concentrated their forces to attack themselves, and even Cheng Biting Jin was a little flattered. The feeling of pampering soon disappeared, and the heart was filled with panic for a moment.
With his own strength, coupled with the besieged Wang and Dan, although Cheng Yanjin still has more than 10,000 elite soldiers, he also has the idea of being invincible.
This is a trap, this is originally a trap to kill the Wagang army!
Xiao Buyi induced the Wagang Army to divide its troops into two ways, but he and Zhang Zhenzhou worked together to annihilate them all the way! What about Wei Gong's side, what is the situation? Is there still a trap, this Xiao Buyi is very cunning, and it is really difficult to guard against.
Of course, Cheng Yanjin didn't know that Li Mi didn't encounter the enemy at all, and Xiao Buyi deceived him in order to avoid the strong enemy first and annihilate the weak.
To attack or not to attack, Cheng Yanjin has fallen into a dilemma.
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Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin had already killed red eyes at this time, like trapped beasts in a cage.
Xiao Buyi fled without a fight, and it was refreshing for them to chase quickly, but they didn't know that they had unknowingly crossed a valley, and they didn't know that they had entered the other party's trap happily. The Beibi Mountains are continuous according to the Yellow River, which was originally the barrier of the eastern capital, but it has been extending through the direction of Yanshi to Luokou.
In the Beibi Mountains, there are several canyons that lead directly to the other side of the mountain, and on the north side of the mountain is the surging Yellow River.
These kings and Shan also knew, but when they swept through the quiet canyon, they didn't turn any thoughts, and they only had Xiao Buyi in their eyes.
Xiao Buyi has rarely been defeated once, this time they must take advantage of Xiao Buyi's defeat to attack him, and they will be ashamed!
With these two leaders in charge, the rest of the bandits did not dare to raise their doubts even if they had doubts.
But before their cavalry could pass the mouth of the canyon, they found that Xiao Buyi's iron cavalry in the distance had slowed down. This made them feel happy in their hearts, and then they felt uneasy.
Xiao Buyi's iron cavalry was instantly split by a giant axe, and the soldiers divided into two ways, one way detoured back to the plain on the side of the Wagang Army, and the other road was led by Xiao Buyi, who rushed over.
The iron rider changes extremely quickly, naturally and smoothly, and when it recoils, it raises high yellow dust. The rhythm is fast and the momentum is fierce, which makes the Wagang people secretly chill.
Originally, in the field battle, if there was no shield or obstacle, the Wagang cavalry had an innate advantage over the infantry, which made the Wagang cavalry inevitably rise to arrogance, but suddenly found that the opponent was faster, more fierce, and more ferocious than them, and their confidence was insufficient.
Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin were not afraid, seeing Xiao Buyi fighting back, it was exactly what they wanted, the two of them almost went hand in hand, clenched the weapons in their hands, bowed their bodies and galloped on their horses.
The brave of the two armies wins, at this time, there is absolutely no reason to retreat!
Both of them have the same goal, of course, it is Xiao Buyi, in their opinion, killing Xiao Buyi, the iron cavalry will be self-defeating. But Xiao Buyi's martial arts are strong, and whether they can kill them is one thing. The black-armored iron cavalry was skilled in the use of weapons, and if they used bows and arrows, they were afraid that they would inevitably suffer casualties.
Seeing Xiao Buyi and a horse in front, his face was vaguely visible, but the black-armored iron horsemen were holding the spear in their hands, without the slightest intention of pulling the bow, Wang and Shan were secretly happy in their hearts, Xiao Buyi went to attack the enemy, which was really unwise.
But they found in an instant that the strongest of the strong is even stronger, and the most chilling and sharpest weapon of the Black Armored Iron Rider is not a bow and arrow, not a long knife, but a spear in their hands!
Xiao Buyi waved the spear in his hand and shouted: "Spear!" ”
With a "whoosh" sound, the spear was like a shadow, crisscrossing the sky, and more than a thousand spears shot out at that moment, cutting through the air, screaming! The space for the battle between the two armies was instantly crowded, and even suffocated and breathless.
Xiao Buyi has already used the strongest move of the black-armored cavalry to hedge in close quarters, so he should ask for a move to defeat the enemy!
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The spears formed a dense net in the air, falling down with intertwined shadows, and inserted into the Wagang cavalry, and the Wagang army was terrified at that moment.
The iron cavalry rushed to kill, the gap between each other was not large, spears fell in the air, and there was no place for them to hide. Only the spear was heard into the flesh, and the neighing of pain continued, some people were nailed to the ground, some war horses fell into the dust, stirring up a long dust, and some war horses could not move forward, and they flew up in the air in a neighing, bringing out countless blood marks.
The Wagang cavalry was in chaos, they had been fighting for so long, and they had never seen an iron cavalry abandon a spear in such a hurry, and they didn't know that the spear was still of such use!
Uncle Wang was cold in his heart, and when he saw a spear coming at the head, he held a gun to block it.
After all, he has excellent martial arts, and the odds of surviving in the chaotic army are far better than others, and the spear is thrown with a heavy momentum, but he can resist as much as he can, but his subordinates are far from having such good luck as him, screaming again and again, and the sound of falling to the ground is endless. Shan Xiong Nobu's lance was unfolded, and two spears had already collapsed, and Wang Bodang was unabated, rushing towards Xiao Buyi on the left and right.
Their target is still Xiao Buyi, and the three of them are already quite close!
But when Wang Bodang saw Xiao Buyi suddenly take off his bow, his heart was cold, and his vigilance suddenly rose, and the person had already passed sideways, holding the horse's back and moving forward, this move was extremely dangerous, and the equestrian skills were also clever, only to hear the cold wind passing by his side. The long arrows kept coming, killing a Wagang bandit behind Wang Bodang!
The long arrows were blood-red, and they fell in the distance with a whistling edge......
A chill surged up on Wang Bodang's body, and he only felt that he had passed by the king of Hades.
Xiao Buyi was also very surprised, and secretly admired Wang Bodang's good skills, last time his target was Sun Changle, but this time the target was Wang Bodang!
Wang Bodang is loyal to Li Mi, and like Fang Xuanzao, he is Li Mi's right-hand man, if he can get rid of it, it should be a heavy blow to Li Mi.
The horse was unabated, Xiao Buyi suddenly left the saddle, hooked the stirrup with one foot, and hung upside down in the air, moving forward like a paper harrier, fluttering...... Shan Xiongxin had already rubbed shoulders with Xiao Buyi, and in the sound of shouting, he struck with a lance!
Wang Bodang still felt that his equestrian skills were good, but at this moment, he saw Xiao Buyi's men and horses divided into two parts, dragged by a white horse as if walking in the sky, his head was only a few feet away from the ground, and he still held a bow and arrows in his hand, and his posture was elegant, and he only felt that he was riding on the back of a cow.
Xiao Buyi's arrow was shot at Shan Xiongxin, and the arrow shot out from under the horse's belly.
Shan Xiongxin was on Xiao Buyi's side, and suddenly lost Xiao Buyi's whereabouts in front of him, and the long lance was castrated unabated, so he was about to smash it, but he heard a loud sound of 'dang', and his wrist shook heavily. Xiao Buyi shot an arrow into the lance, and it was only a few inches away from the mouth of the tiger where he held the lance.
The long lance is heavy, and the sharp arrow is also strong, Xiao Buyi's arrow actually swung away a few inches of the long lance, and the moonlight hissed out vertically, and Shan Xiongxin passed by, Xiao Buyi came out of the knife!
Others were in the air, hanging upside down on their horses, but a knife slashed from the bottom up. The sunlight in the sky is not as dazzling as the knife light, and in the knife light, blood splashes everywhere!
Wang Bodang wanted to stab with a shot, but he could see that Xiao Buyi was slashed upside down, unmatched, and the moment of life and death stimulated extraordinary potential, he was holding the horse's belly, and suddenly rolled up, rolling to the other side of the horse's back, only to feel that his whole body was hot, and he had been stirred by blood.
Wang Bodang's war horse neighed sadly, and was split in half by this earth-shattering knife, and the momentum was endless, and the back half of his body flew out in the air, bringing out a rain of blood, boiling! Wang Bodang rolled to the ground and flipped forward, only to see the horse's hooves flying in front of him, and it seemed that he was about to be trampled to death by a chaotic horse, and secretly called for my life!
"Hold on!" Shan Xiongxin shouted, and immediately handed over the lance, Wang Bodang didn't care much, grabbed it, and his hands were dripping with blood from the lance. Shan Xiong's strength brought him to the horse, and the two of them rode together, but at the moment of life and death, they aroused their fierce spirit and fought forward.
Although Wang and Shan are not Xiao Buyi's opponents, they are also very fierce, and they actually rushed out of a bloody road, the ironclad cavalry did not besiege the two, the people passing by just waved their knives and slashed, and they did not stop, they flowed like water, and Xiao Buyi was at least ten zhang away from them at this time!
The three of them looked back, or panicked, or angry, or indifferent! As soon as his eyes were scattered, he was cut off by the tide of soldiers and horses in an instant......**
All the actions were earth-shattering, but they happened in a very fast time, Xiao Buyi couldn't assassinate him, and he regretted in his heart, but he was a leader, and he couldn't act rashly no matter what.
In the black armor iron cavalry, he is the leader, relying on strange, fast, sharp, fierce to win, this is not a single fight, he wants to lead the whole team forward, he wants to keep the team flowing, and at any time to maintain the next powerful attack!
Li Jing warned him that he must not act rashly, and that the two armies should face off against each other, focusing on destroying each other's vital forces, and these are the capital that he will have to run the world in the future, and it will take a long time to cultivate them, and when facing the enemy, he must minimize his losses, so that it will not take effort to replenish them.
How to minimize it, of course, is to fight while the enemy is not in a counterattack, and if you fight with the enemy, you must find a way to withdraw and wait for the second opportunity to sprint and attack.
For Li Jing's instructions, Xiao Buyi always kept it in mind.
Li Jing's use of troops is like a god, but it lies in his accumulated experience, cool head, and resolute judgment; on the one hand, these are the accumulation of predecessors, and on the other hand, they are the correction and sorting out of the lessons and shortcomings after each march and battle.
Li Jing has already mastered the art of war, and he Xiao Buyi can only be said to be a fledgling person in the military field, and he can win only because he follows Li Jing's iron army military regulations, plus some of his own improvisation. But no matter how it changes, it can't easily break the marching routine.
In fact, he and Li Jing have rarely met, but they have always listened to Li Jing's guidance, whether it is the use of troops or the analysis of the general trend of the world, Li Jing thinks far more than many people, and does not let Li Mi at all. The Spring Silkworm Formation and the Nine Battalions Chain were all cohesive strategies that Li Jing had thought about carefully and had long considered for Xiao Buyi.
Although Xiao Buyi is alone in the Eastern Capital, he is by no means fighting alone, he has Li Jing and Xu Shiji's repeated analysis, so that he can formulate the most secure and sharp plan against the enemy.
Li Mi only regarded Xiao Buyi as a great enemy, but where did he ever think that he would not face Xiao Buyi alone.
The person was on the horse, and he couldn't turn around for the time being, Xiao Buyi was on the horse, and the surname Suo rushed straight to kill him. The blade is fully revealed, and where the knife is swung, there is no one under him!
The black-armored iron cavalry swept past the Wagang bandits, and the well-trained at this time showed that the Wagang people drove their horses to nowhere to go, but the black-armored iron cavalry could ride their horses and dodge in the gap, and kept killing the enemy.
By the time the two cavalry staggered past, the black-armored iron cavalry remained intact, but the Wagang people had already lost half of them.
Xiao Buyi rushed out with soldiers and horses, and the cavalry on the side charged again, the iron horses rumbled, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the Wagang people were already colorless, and their hands and feet trembled.
A large number of people does not necessarily mean that it is good, and at least the combat space is limited, and squeezing together cannot cause the maximum effective damage. The iron cavalry trained by Li Jing is good at it, and he is often accustomed to winning more with less, but he is mostly focused on creating chaos among the enemy and keeping himself sober.
Sometimes chaos can kill!
Even under this rapid impact, although the Wagang people were killed countless by the ironclad cavalry, they could be stopped by their accomplices, and there were not a few who died under the iron cavalry of their accomplices. The panic and fear expanded sharply, and the Wagang army was fighting separately, and they had no intention of resisting, only feeling that the mountains were full of Sui army's iron cavalry, and the sword was bright.
The black-armored iron cavalry entered again, and the Wagang army was dispersed. Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin saw that the general trend had gone, and they saw that they were far away from Cheng Biting Jinbu, and they were cut off by Sui soldiers in the middle, so they didn't dare to stay and fled in the wilderness!
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The ironclad cavalry and the infantry may seem different, but their formation is similar. Ten people are a fire, five fires are a team, the fire has a fire head, and the team has a captain. The three squadrons are one squadron, and the squadrons are combined into a brigade to maintain a mobile and flexible attack at any time.
This is extremely convenient, there is no need to beat the drum, just look at the flag and stare at the predecessors, Xiao Buyi divided two ways to attack the opponent, and the rest of the team was automatically supplemented by the captain to lead the attack, so that everyone has rules to follow, and the outline is open, which keeps it smooth.
The ironclad cavalry looks mysterious and invincible, but Xiao Buyi deeply understands that absolute obedience to orders is the soul of the ironclad cavalry. Such an iron army has already exerted the maximum strength of the soldiers.
The Iron Army attacks like a strong man who has accumulated the strength of his whole body and punches it out, without shrinking his hands and feet, but can exert 12% of his strength!
The horses, armor, machetes, spears, bows, arrows and shields of the ironclad cavalry are the most sophisticated equipment, but the most important thing is that the horsepower can hold up. All the war horses are one in a hundred, far stronger than ordinary horses in the grassland, which can withstand these equipment, otherwise it is just the blade equipment plus the strength of a person of a hundred catties, and the war horses that are already about to be pressed walk slowly, how can they charge into battle?
Seeing that the Wagang army was scattered, Xiao Buyi did not launch a third attack, and ordered a team of cavalry to kill the remaining bandits, but he led the cavalry to disperse to the left flank of the Sui army's infantry, waiting for an opportunity to attack.
At this time, the Sui army had already resisted the two onslaughts of the Wagang army......
The Sui army resisted in a phalanx, but Xiao Buyi was staring at the side of the horse, looking for the weakness of Cheng Bitingjin's infantry, ready to lead the cavalry to attack at any time, and give Cheng Bitingjin's Wagang army a fatal blow!
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When Cheng Yanjin saw that the Wagang cavalry was surrounded, he made the decision to attack as soon as possible. He was the commander of this march, and he was directly responsible for this failure.
He led 20,000 troops, 4,000 cavalry, and more than 10,000 infantry, and the infantry was still unscathed, but the cavalry had already been damaged.
Full of helplessness and anger, Cheng Yanjin was not washed away by defeat, he tried to turn defeat into victory. The flags were waving, the war drums were rhythmically sounding, and Cheng Yanjin had already ordered the soldiers to storm the enemy formation, trying to rescue the trapped Wagang army.
But Zhang Zhenzhou is by no means a wasted person, he may not be as brave as Zhang Xutuo, or maybe not as famous as Yang Yichen, but he is at least a veteran of the Great Sui and has extremely rich combat experience.
Sometimes experience is victory!
Cheng Biting Jin Lie phalanx attacked, but Zhang Zhenzhou let the soldiers fight in an arc formation, this formation only evolved from the Glaive formation, and the main defensive position was adopted.
The phalanx has the strongest attack power, but the arc array is mainly defensive. It's just that there is no fixed method, and the offense and defense still depend on improvisation.
The difference between a good general and a mediocre general is that one knows how to wait for an opportunity to change, judges the strength of the enemy's position in his chest, and avoids the strong, while the other always sticks to the soldier's book and knows that it is a pit and has to jump.
Zhang Zhen was experienced in a hundred battles, and made the most correct judgment at the first time, cut off the connection between the infantry and cavalry of the Wagang Army, and let the cavalry led by Xiao Buyi kill the Wagang cavalry with all their might.
Zhang Zhenzhou dispatched troops faster than Cheng Yanjin, and an endless stream of Sui soldiers rushed out of the valley, obeyed the order, and quickly formed a formation, waiting for the arrival of the enemy. When Cheng Yanjin led his troops to kill, the defense was already impregnable.
Not only that, Zhang Zhenzhou also paid close attention to the movements of Xiao Buyi's cavalry and was ready to provide support at any time, but soon Zhang Zhenzhou found that he didn't need to do anything more, Xiao Buyi's cavalry had already formed a one-sided slaughter of the Wagang cavalry, and he didn't need to disrupt the rhythm of the black armored iron cavalry.
For the cavalry that seemed to fall from the sky, Zhang Zhenzhou was also stunned, and he was shocked from the bottom of his heart when he saw the impact of these iron cavalry.
The sheer number of cavalry, the essence of combat preparation, and the ruthlessness of the impact are rare, which also makes Zhang Zhenzhou's evaluation of Xiao Buyi a higher level.
In every battle, Xiao Buyi's weight in Zhang Zhenzhou was one point heavier, and now he has clearly realized that only Xiao Buyi can save the Eastern Capital. He is old, discouraged, more than a day, he will be more desperate for the Great Sui, at this time, Pei Mingcui persuaded first, and Lu Chu invited him to go out of the mountain, his heart moved slightly, but he knew that the rotten Great Sui was not something he could carry alone, he could go out of the mountain, and more importantly, he could not bear the suffering of the people of Dongdu.
Old, old, what else has not been experienced, what can not be seen?
A few ups and downs, watching the falling flowers, many things are in Zhang Zhenzhou's opinion, but they are already falling and blooming.
But Xiao Buyi's iron cavalry was agitated, but it collided with his long-buried pride, looking at the iron cavalry, Zhang Zhenzhou also thought of the high spirits of the year, and defeated a Ryukyu country with only a few thousand iron troops!
Calmly commanding the soldiers to counterattack, a rare smile appeared on Zhang Zhenzhou's face, and he stood on the hill like a cow, giving commands, and coping with every impact of the Wagang army.
The Sui army held its position to the death, the infantry clashed, and the hand-to-hand combat generally lasted until the end, and when it came, it was the time to fight perseverance and sharpen courage. But when they clashed, the Sui army used shields, bows and arrows, and hard crossbows to form the first layer of defense. Feather arrows are flying, the sky is full of sneering, and the Wagang army is also holding shields on the left and right, and grabbing with their right hands, like an iron wall surrounded by a shield is moving.
Many of them fell from the arrows, but more soldiers were added to the queue in front of them and marched forward brazenly.
At this time, everyone forgot about life and death, just listening to the sound of drums in their ears, there were only enemies in front of them, killing them, killing them was their only purpose.
The two finally collided together, setting off a monstrous wave. Broken knives and guns, corpses and flags outline a tragic picture. The general waved, with the will of war as the pen, with blood as the ink, the arc array rippled, like the blue waves on the water. The phalanx is like a giant axe opening a mountain...... After the Wagang Army launched two charges one after another, Cheng Yanjin ordered the withdrawal of the army, not because the skills were inferior, because there was no rescue target.
In the course of these two charges, the Wagang cavalry here has been completely lost.
Nearly 4,000 cavalrymen were killed in this pit, and Cheng Yanjin felt a chill in his heart, more helpless. But there are still a lot of disobedience in helplessness, the cavalry would not have been so defeated, but they did not obey the order, so what could the general do?
After the order to retreat was issued, the phalanx slowly retreated, and the order was orderly, but Zhang Zhenzhou ordered the soldiers to approach and not attack.
Cheng Yanjin sighed secretly, the plan to lure the enemy has been seen through by Zhang Zhenzhou, this Zhang Zhenzhou really deserves his reputation. It turned out that although Cheng Yanjin was withdrawing the army, it was not chaotic, and there were already archers and crossbowmen hidden on both wings, ready to make up for the attack at any time, as long as Zhang Zhenzhou mobilized troops to follow, fell into his ambush circle, Guan Bao let the Sui soldiers return.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhenzhou was experienced and was not in a hurry to attack, but slowly looked at his flaws.
Zhang Zhenzhou saw from afar that although the soldiers led by Cheng Yanjin were not chaotic, he nodded secretly, and said in his heart that the three tiger leaders under Zhang Xutuo's account were worthy of their reputation, just looking at the retreat and ambush, hiding needles in the cotton, and the command ability alone was far superior to the five tigers of Wagang.
Bing Yuanzhen is also one of the five tigers of Wagang, but when he blocked the Sui soldiers in the eastern capital, although he tried his best to block it, it was just the courage of the horseman. It's not difficult to ride a horse, but this leader has to be tempered a lot.
Since there was no flaw in the Wagang army, Zhang Zhenzhou didn't want to attack, and he disdained the kind of thing of killing 1,000 enemies and damaging 800 to himself. If that were the case, none of the thousands of soldiers who had been in the Ryukyu Kingdom would have been able to return alive. Taking advantage of the weakness and attacking the weak and avoiding the strong is the way to use troops.
At present, the Sui army has won and its morale has been greatly boosted, but it is obviously quite difficult to completely annihilate the opponent. He wanted to ask Xiao Buyi's opinion, but when he saw him, he immediately stood up, not moving at all, and already understood that Xiao Buyi was still waiting.
Thinking of what Xiao Buyi said, Zhang Zhenzhou sighed slightly, this son has set up a plan to send troops, and he knows what Xiao Buyi is waiting for, he is waiting for Li Mi!
Could it be that they will inevitably make another decision?
(To be continued)