Chapter 600: Engulfed
In fact, half of the 2,800 infantry, in addition to the two spears in their hands, had spears of two zhang in their hands, and of the 1,500 men with slightly shorter spears, each of them had a shield and three short axes on their backs.
The cavalry was only an embellishment, and did not play a role in determining the outcome of the victory.
The length of the cross arrangement. The spearhead failed to make contact with the Xianbei cavalry rushing over at the first time.
Surround without fighting, just shooting, usually only a few rounds of shooting, and cracks will appear in the phalanx of pure infantry. And as soon as the dead are dead, fear arises, the cracks widen, and the cavalry of the brigade will charge directly.
However, today, after two charges, the whole 4,000 cavalry, at least 6,000 arrows were sprinkled like that, but the casualties of the other side were not large.
In the opposing formation, a short axe was thrown. The extremely heavy axe is not suitable for long-range attacks, but if you are surprised, you will always have an effect that you can't even imagine.
Things are getting a little tricky. Yanqing looked south and thought so.
This Northwest Army sent people back to ask for help, and he sent people out to pursue it with a cautious attitude, and if it could be intercepted, everything would be fine. If you can't cut it, it doesn't matter.
The 6,000 Beast Devouring Army, even the 20,000 Helou cavalry, is not an opponent, and the reinforcements with less than 30,000 light and heavy infantry cavalry are no essential difference to him whether the number is twice or three times or four times that of his own.
The cavalry that occupies the offensive initiative has always been the king of the battlefield, and if it is advantageous, it will be fought, and if it is unfavorable, it will be far away immediately, and Yanqing is not afraid that he will be eaten by Bao Yuan.
The flag officer came to report that after the two charges, about 100 enemy troops were killed and wounded, and more than 200 cavalry of the Tuoba Department were killed.
The power of the short axe was maximized by the Northwest Army, which saw the right time.
Hearing this number, Yanqing was a little stunned, and then looked at the middle-aged man on the side angrily, a little gloomy.
"Uncle Huang really doesn't know what that gun array is?"
As Tuoba Rui's half-brother and Tuoba Yanqing's own uncle, Uncle Xianbei shook his head and said quite solemnly: "I've never seen it." Back then, in the Jin Kingdom, I once watched a foreign record, saying that it was a powerful country in the extreme west, making good use of infantry, and it seemed that there was this kind of formation of several zhang spears, but the time was too long, and I couldn't remember the details. ”
"In other words, you still know!"
Yanqing roared angrily, and the whip thrown out was almost swept to the nose of the imperial uncle, and the crisp whip sound in the wind made the warriors around him a little surprised.
Prince Yanqing has always been crazy, but at least he will not be so rude on such an occasion.
You must know that the object of this whip is the current imperial uncle! Although he is not in charge of the army, he does not form a party, and he has no power, but he has a golden waist card given by the emperor, who can ignore it?
Yanqing can.
This man gave him happiness, and he thought he could give him hope, but he was disappointed. And then despair.
After that, Uncle Huang became an insignificant person, and the title of Uncle Huang became the same as the patriarch and general of so-and-so, and it no longer had any substantive meaning.
So Yanqing was able to "normalize" this imperial uncle.
There was no anger on the face of the imperial uncle, who was almost swept by the horsewhip, which made Yanqing even more contemptuous in his heart.
A man cannot be without power, without status, without money. When there are none, there can be dignity and shame. Of course, this is like a lamb to a jackal in front of the first three - vulnerable.
However, when a man has no dignity or shame, it makes no difference whether he lives or dies.
Yanqing may have hoped that Uncle Huang would be angry, but Uncle Huang didn't
If not, there will be no one.
The imperial uncle, who was known for his cultivation and good temper, said lightly: "If you can't do it, just withdraw." Look at the eagle in the sky, our interception should have failed. If you don't leave quickly, you will be entangled by the reinforced brigade of the Northwest Army, and it will be difficult to get out. ”
Yanqing instinctively wanted to be angry, but the next moment the horsewhip was raised again, he was silent.
Although Uncle Huang was incompetent, his words also hit the nail on the head.
It is impossible to be entangled by most of the Northwest Army, otherwise although you can get out at any time, the losses will definitely not be small.
Of course, this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that it was a loss and an exit at that time.
After the humiliation of the Iron Gate Pass that year, Yanqing could not tolerate another failure. Just like the previous expedition, several small vassals of the He Lou Department wanted to surrender, but he also pushed over without changing his face, and those who were higher than the ruts were all killed.
He's going to win and get out.
Yanqing fell into a situation where it needed to choose.
To go or to stay, to lose or to win?
More than 2,000 foot soldiers on the opposite side walked up again.
A mile and a half away from the camp behind him, he stopped.
Yanqing was completely enraged by this provocative move.
He took the initiative to fight with nearly 6,000 iron cavalry, only to be forced back by infantry less than half of his own number?
Shame!
Once Yanqing retreats today, not to mention that Qingshi will nail him to the shame pile of a complete negative loser in the future, even in the face of his father and the few stupid brothers, he will not be able to raise his head. When you return to the clan, you won't be scolded to death, despised to death?
He is the second prince of Tuoba Xianbei, how could he bear this infamy?
Heh, Uncle Huang is too simple. Success or failure depends on the time? Don't want to be famous before and after?
Pedantic.
In this pedantic ideological struggle, which I don't know who it was, Yanqing didn't take much time to make a decision.
War!
There is a saying among the people of the Central Plains that they would rather die standing than live on their knees.
His son on the grassland, since he is a proud son who wants to go south to herd horses and kick the rivers, where will there be a retreat?
Not to mention the word defeat.
So Yanqing glanced at the imperial uncle lightly and said, "Kill." ”
The meadow, which had been trampled out of countless horseshoe prints, was once again ravaged.
Then the trumpeter beside Xie Feng blew out a burst of syllables, and the drums of the camp behind him changed.
Taking the initiative to meet the enemy, Yanqing, who was immediately like a javelin on the hillside, had a gloomy face.
If this Northwest Army didn't have more than 3,000 Mo swordsmen hidden in the camp, it must be crazy.
Is it stalling for time, or is there another conspiracy?
Yanqing didn't dare to jump to conclusions, some things have no other content, just try it and know.
So 3,000 cavalry collided with 3,000 infantry.
In terms of combat strength alone, 3,000 cavalry can definitely be used as one as ten, and it is not impossible to break through 30,000 infantry. Therefore, in this round of charge, it is destined that some people will fall under the spears of two zhang, but it will be necessary to cut through the infantry phalanx that is not very thick and not well strewn enough, which may be a matter of a charge.
The cavalry spread out after the charge covered the area, much larger than the infantry. War horses plus cavalry plus armor, thousands of pounds of weight, rushed down from the slightly steep collar, care can be exerted to the extreme.
A commander of a thousand was on a galloping horse, looking at those cold spearheads, and there was no fear in his heart, but calm.
After breaking through the enemy formation, he thought about where to turn his head in order to control the speed of his horse to the greatest extent, and then turn, and would not let the soldiers behind rush into the camp of the Northwest Army, let alone let the last man rush into the river.
The drumbeat of the Northwest Army changed again, and then the formation.
It seems that the man with the short spear pushed to the back?
Rise~~
The first war horse was pierced into a sieve, and the first soldier of the Northwest Army who stabbed the war horse, after putting the spear on the ground, his hands did not have time to let go, and the impact of the war horse turned into a lonely spear The barrel of the gun exploded instantly, and the next moment, the Northwest Army soldier was pierced in the chest and abdomen by fragments.
When the war horses collided one after another at a speed that could not be measured by the naked eye, the entire phalanx was constantly compressed.
Over time, when people on both sides broke away from the opposing camp, the intersection was full of blood red.
The commander controlled the speed and rhythm well, and then thousands of cavalry divided into left and right, circled in front of the northwest barracks, sprinkled a batch of arrows, and then left in a circle.
This distance is controlled perfectly, there is a way to increase one point is excessive, subtract one point is missing, change a general, I am afraid that it is not possible to grasp the distance as accurately as this.
The commander was delighted, he felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime charge. Of course, he succeeded, and he succeeded so perfectly. Perfect in every detail.
"At least 20% of the loss, as long as you do it again, they are finished"
Yanqing looked at the southern sky, and there was no smoke and dust there.
There's still plenty of time.
So when the more than 2,000 cavalry who had charged into battle returned, Yanqing made a bold move and 4,000 cavalry charged.
Uncle Huang frowned and wanted to say something to stop him, but Yanqing had already rushed out first.
No one noticed that Xie Feng was in the middle of the battle, and he took a hundred steps back. And when the cavalry of the Tuoba Department returned to the formation, the adjustment of the entire phalanx made them retreat by sixty or seventy steps.
They were actually less than a mile away from the large camp behind them.
The distance between the Northwest Army and the Tuoba Iron Cavalry has actually increased.
However, this did not delay the time it took for even three or five cavalry charges.
And so, once again, when the men were completely intertwined, in addition to blood, there were also broken limbs, bodies thrown high, and heads rolling to the ground.
Neither man nor horse, when they begin to fall, have no way to live.
In this encounter, the formation of the Northwest Army was even more "loose", and the four thousand cavalry easily passed through the entire battlefield.
And then they just couldn't stop.
Uncle Huang, who was far away on the hillside, finally changed his face for the first time.
That's horror.
"Not good!"
He shouted, haha, a little surprised, but didn't say anything.
Like haha, everyone who was very close to this imperial uncle failed to understand what the imperial uncle's obscure words meant.
After two breaths, everyone understood.
The cavalry, which could not be stopped, crashed into the camp of the Northwest Army.
In fact, this kind of camp built up of scattered tents has no guardrails, no gates, no tower arrows, and is completely open.
It's as if the big girl is saying, come on, I don't have the ability to resist.
Yanqing was horrified. And then want to die.
Crashed into the camp of the enemy troops.
In this way, he always felt that there was a problem.
The next moment, the question came.
An explosion rang out.
The light of the fire buried the entire camp in an instant.
The huge tremor, the sound of incalculable damage to the eardrum, shook the water of the Huzha River by more than three feet.
The Kuroshio entered the white camp, and then the sea of fire engulfed everything.
(PS: This chapter is very hilarious.) Good night~~)