Chapter 184: Stealing Chickens Can't Be Done
When the troops of 6,000 men advanced in a tight array, the speed was slow.
At this time, the 6,000 people scattered into a straggler line and advanced, and without the constraints of a strict formation, the entire team suddenly moved faster.
"Kill, kill, kill"
Although scattered, the heavy infantry still killed in three steps, and on this battlefield, it seemed that the sound of this killing had added countless courage to them, and they continued to move forward with Mo knives in their hands.
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves came from behind, and Mao Yi gathered the cavalry in each formation, and did not entangle with the Khitan cavalry, but directly shouted, with 6,000 cavalry, gathered into a complete triangular charging formation. From the side of Li Shimin's infantry whizzed by, the last to arrive first.
Li Shimin saw that the cavalry had rushed to the front of them at once, and shouted loudly, "Speed up and take the catapult position." He was holding back his anger, and if the catapult position was broken by the cavalry, then they would not be in vain.
In the distance, Mogo not only had an ugly face at this time, but already had fear.
The Sui army had 60,000 soldiers and horses, and there were more than 30,000 soldiers in addition to the Goguryeo, while the Khitan cavalry he brought was only 13,000. It's just that he thinks that this valley passage is narrow, and they are also fighting ambush warfare and surprise warfare. In addition, there were tens of thousands of Goguryeo people in the Sui army, plus the more than 100 catapults he brought, he thought that such a group of soldiers and horses would definitely be able to defeat the Sui army in one battle.
Just like when they hit the grass valley, they first sent people to raid, constantly attacking, driving away, making it chaotic, and finally it was just a game of hunting. But now, everything was beyond his expectations.
The Goguryeo people were indeed in chaos, but they could not impact the formation of the Sui army at all. His cavalry was indeed elite and brave, but the Sui army had countless long-range bows and arrows. Moreover, this Sui army is not chaotic in the face of attacks, although it is divided into several departments, it can still use the banner to command each department like an arm.
Especially the raid was carried out by such a group, and his people not only failed to take the Sui army in the slightest. The fierce counterattack of the Sui army had already come, and five or six thousand cavalry plus five or six thousand well-equipped infantry had already rushed up.
He was left with only 500 cavalry to defend and 500 soldiers operating catapults.
He couldn't stop a blow from those people, and if this place was broken, all the catapults would be destroyed. When there is no threat of catapults, the formation of those Sui troops will not break.
As soon as he thought of this, he seemed to have thought of their end, and in the end, the Sui army was not good, but they crashed into the Sui army's net.
Mogo pursed his lips, his heart struggling violently, maybe it was time to retreat. It seems that the elders of the clan are right, the Sui army is indeed the lord of the Central Plains, not something they might provoke.
At present, the key is no longer how to defeat this Sui army and how rich the results and spoils of war are. It's about how he, as the young patriarch of the tribe, will find a way to bring these Khitan people back to the grassland.
Calling a few pro-soldiers, Mo Ge gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately send an order to the young patriarchs such as Abao Cave and Watai, and ask them to gather their soldiers and horses and rush to my side, quickly." This Sui team is too strong, we are not opponents, go for the best policy"
After speaking, he looked at the hundreds of people who were still manipulating the catapults, "Don't care about those catapults anymore, all get on the horses, and if the battle is unfavorable, all retreat in the direction of Fuyu City." "No matter how sharp the catapult is, it is useless now.
The Khitan soldiers dropped their catapults one after another, stepped on their horses one by one, and gathered together with the five hundred people in front of them, ready to fight.
Mao Yi's cavalry horses were fast, the Khitans had just assembled the 1,000 men and horses, and Mao Yi's 5,000 men had already arrived, and a round of crossbow arrows was fired at the Khitans one hundred and twenty steps away. …,
"Raise the Shield"
At this time, Mo Ge finally saw the face of the ultra-long-range arrows of the Sui army, and all the Sui cavalry were holding a black crossbow in their hands, and they had already begun to shoot more than a hundred steps away.
One by one, the Khitan cavalry picked up leather shields and wooden shields to block, but the crossbow arrows were faster than bows and arrows, and more ruthless, although the cavalry picked up the shields, but those Sui people were very cunning, no one shot knights, basically all aimed at the Khitan horses.
When it comes to cavalry, sometimes a knight's horse is more important than a knight's. The knight was a little wounded, and even if he lost his combat effectiveness, he could still run away with his horse. But if the horse is injured and the injury is relatively serious, then the cavalry who loses the horse is equivalent to having no legs, and basically cannot run out of the battlefield.
The black short crossbow arrows with a whistling sound were inserted into the body of the Khitan war horse, and the Khitan knights who were still immersed in the last shot were still immersed in the next moment, and the next moment they were very frightened to find that the war horse suddenly knelt on the ground with its front hooves and fell down. Several cavalrymen did not have time to pick up their horses and dismounted, and they were instantly crushed under their beloved horses. With a single bolt of crossbow arrows, hundreds of horses and dozens of Mogo's cavalry were killed.
Even Mogo's horse was shot through the neck by an arrow and fell to the ground with a bang. After riding on the war horse of a personal soldier, Mogo couldn't wait for the arrival of them in the Abao Cave at this time, and roared, "Break through to the north"
It's just that this breakthrough was shouted a little late, and the cavalry of Mogo had been defending in an array before, and if they wanted to break through and charge at this time, they had to start accelerating. It's just that they have just trotted for a while, and before their speed can be added, the cavalry who rushed like wolves have already roared, and a sharp spear glows with cold light, and it has already blocked in front of them.
There was no shouting, no killing, just the cold eyes of the Sui riders.
The Sui cavalry didn't even bother to use the most customary tactics of constantly galloping around the enemy formation and riding and shooting, and directly charged at the more than 1,000 Khitan cavalry. One by one, the Sui cavalry rushed through with their cavalry spears, stabbing out the cavalry spears, and some did not even pull back the cavalry spears that pierced into the enemy's body, but just pulled out the horizontal knives at their waists and slashed at the Khitan cavalry.
Everywhere there were soldiers and horses, everywhere there was armor, everywhere there were swords and spears. The riding and archery skills that the Khitans were most proud of couldn't be taken out at all, less than a thousand people, pressed and beaten by more than 6,000 cavalry, like two stabbing swords, attacking each other with a sharp edge. It's a pity that the sword of the Sui army is obviously of high-quality material and extremely strong, and it has killed many Khitan cavalry along the way, while the sword of the Khitan people is a half-finished product, and when it is stabbed past, the sword is broken inch by inch.
Mo Ge rode on the war horse, looking at the Khitan knights who kept falling in front of him, as well as the Sui horsemen who were constantly rushing into the formation and killing four million in the rear, his heart suddenly fell to the bottom.
Defeated, it's not that his knights are not brave, it's not that his knights are poor in riding and archery. The defeat was only due to the fact that the number was too small and the Sui army was too many. If it weren't his 13,000 men who came today, but the 30,000 people that the entire Khitan had gathered earlier, today's battle could not guarantee that the Sui army would be completely annihilated, but at least it would be victorious.
Mogo's own soldiers grabbed his horse and shouted, "Young Patriarch, we can't do it, let's go."
"Let's go? My men are all here, how do I get there? ”
"Young patriarch, disperse and break through, if you don't leave, everyone won't be able to leave. Let the brethren stand for you here for a while, you run first."
After saying that, the soldier stabbed the buttocks of the war horse, took the bent horse, and the painful war horse ran desperately to the side of the battlefield. Mogo glanced back, and his own army of one hundred men, half of them were divided to follow him to the north, so that half of the men and some cavalry, about a hundred people, set up a defensive formation in the same place. …,
It's just that the defensive array of more than 100 people is useless at all, and Mao Yi's cavalry broke through the last hundred or so cavalry. Mao Yi did not stop, the entire army and horses were divided into two, all the way to the south and all the way to the north, respectively rushed to control the two mountain passes in the valley, and obeyed the order of the general Chen Kefu, not to surround and annihilate these Khitan dogs who dared to ambush them
The Liao people's position outside the dense forest suddenly became quiet again.
It's just that there was a position of thousands of horsemen just now, and now there are only dead horses left, as well as many Khitan cavalry corpses, and many of the still alive cavalry are completely out of formation, and they are scattered.
It's just that the cavalrymen who rushed past and were lucky not to die hadn't yet figured out which way to rush next, but suddenly found that in front of them, the ironclad infantry had already rushed closer.
"Change formation, straggler formation into strange knife formation"
Several shouts came from the Sui infantry, and then the Sui infantry moved closer to the middle, and yelled at a killing word every once in a while, and yelled at a killing word every other moment.
The shouts of killing became more and more uniform, but the ironclad infantry of the Sui army, which was originally scattered, quickly assembled and gradually became a strict infantry phalanx. The long knives reflected the weak sunlight in the sky, reflecting the pale faces of the Khitan cavalry.
Li Shimin held a Mo knife in his hand and shouted, "The whole army will assault, kill them all, and leave no one behind."
"Kill, kill, kill"
A roar came out, and the entire phalanx infantry marched forward with neat steps, and in a short moment, they collided with hundreds of Khitan horsemen who were rushing head-on.
If the infantry is scattered, the infantry will only be trampled and killed
But if the infantry against the cavalry, especially the heavy infantry such as Li Shimin now, is assembled into a strict phalanx, and the Jiemo sword formation is against the hundreds of light cavalry who have broken through the formation and have not yet had time to reorganize the array, it is a massacre, a one-sided slaughter, a one-sided ......slaughter.