Chapter 681: Macedonian Formation
Groups of Jianghuai troops had quickly disembarked and rushed onto the tidal flats on the south bank.
The heralds rode between the phalanxes on horseback and shouted: "Ready! ”
The Jianghuai infantry neatly erected the rifles in their hands, and the top of the phalanx was a cold flash of steel. The cavalry mounted their horses one after another, serving as a reserve for guarding and counter-attacking on both flanks, and rows of raised spears were as bright as snow, like a dazzling band of light, and the dust fell quietly on the warrior's helmet, and on his shoulder, accumulating a shallow patch.
The Jianghuai strong army is a soldier and horse created by Wang Shichong, they are not the most elite government army of the Great Sui, but at the end of the Sui Dynasty, they were more elite than the government army of the Great Sui. Their original name was just a county army organization formed by the local government to protect the territory and the people.
But as Wang Shichong led this army in Jianghuai and wiped out the rebel army all the way, even Yang Guang was moved, and personally ordered to pay the best armor weapons and equipment to the country, and also expanded the establishment of this army again and again, and finally Wang Shichong's soldiers and horses finally reached 100,000.
Jianghuai is less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible.
At the peak of the Jianghuai Army, they were known as the five strongest armies in the world together with Yang Guang's Praetorian Guard Xiaoguo Army, Zhang Xutuo's Eight Wind Battalion, Luo Yi's Youzhou Iron Cavalry, and Liaodong Po Military Camp. Today, Zhang Xutuo's Bafeng Battalion and Luo Yi's Youzhou Iron Cavalry have become Chen Kefu's soldiers and horses, plus the Liaodong Broken Military Camp, Chen Kefu has three of the five strong armies of the year.
Now the remaining two armies, Yang Guang's Xiaoguo army is still there, and during the Taiyuan dispute, Sima Dekan took this army and horses to vote for Yang Yin. However, after the siege of Yanmen, although the number of this army is still there, it is actually in name only, especially after voting for Yang Jun, Yang Jun has split all the remaining elites into the various troops and horses under his command.
However, the Jianghuai army went north to Qinwang, not only did not lose the slightest loss, but expanded the establishment, and the number of half of the army was expanded to 100,000 horses. Last time, Li Mi raided Wang Shichong in Luoyang, but the defeated people were all the men and horses of the former Eastern Capital, but Wang Shichong's real henchman Jianghuai Army did not suffer any losses.
Among the 100,000 soldiers and horses brought by Wang Xuanying this time, it was this Jianghuai force, which was known as one of the five strongest armies in the world. Half of them were the old troops who followed Wang Shichong to exterminate the rebel armies in Jianghuai.
In this old army, the Jianghuai Army can really be called a strong army because of the core force of the Jianghuai Army, the Jianghuai Platoon Army.
As the name suggests, this army is an infantry army that uses infantry lances. According to legend, this force was a tactic brought from the west by Wang Shichong, a native of the Western Regions. At this time, it was this platoon army that quickly deployed the array in front of the shore.
The thunderous hooves of the Wei cavalry came, and the ground shook slightly.
The black pressure of the enemy group is rapidly approaching, like waves, like a tsunami, the outline like a cloud head, is becoming clearer and clearer, the black pressure of the formation, holding a long sword and gun, and the thousands of horses' hooves splashed with dirt, flying all over the sky, that might, as if the whole army is stepping on a dark cloud, flying on the ground! It's like the Yellow River's embankment, and the rushing river water is rushing to the face.
"Hold your ground!" The heralds rushed to shout, "First row, raise the lance!" ”
The Jianghuai Platoon Army is worthy of being one of the five strongest armies in the world, but it did not panic at all in the face of the galloping cavalry in front of them.
"Hah! ~”
After a neat cheer, the morale of the Jianghuai army was obviously shocked.
The legend of the Jianghuai Platoon Army was originally an invincible infantry battle formation during the conquest of an empire in the western land, and later I don't know how Wang Shichong got this formation. When he formed the Jianghuai Army, he single-handedly formed a Jianghuai Platoon Army. …,
The biggest feature of the non-commissioned officers of the platoon is that the characters hold an infantry lance more than two zhang long, and the infantry lance more than two zhang long can be regarded as the longest infantry weapon of the Great Sui, which is longer than the cavalry's eight horse lances, and is much longer than the spears and spears of ordinary infantry.
In order to maintain the center of gravity of the weapon, the tail of each infantry lance is also equipped with a copper hammer, so that the infantry holding the lance in both hands can steadily hold the rifle to fight. The whole lance weighs fifteen pounds, and the lance is held in both hands.
In addition to being equipped with a super rifle, the platoon lancers are also equipped with the Wang clan's specialty, the Wang Clan's armor. It is said that this kind of clavicle bone is also a technology brought by the Wang family from the Western Regions, and the Wang family's Jianghuai army is equipped with this kind of armor. And like all the officers of the Jianghuai Army, the armor of the platoon soldiers all wore double armor. The double-layer armor wears soldiers, and the protective ability of the soldiers is amazing, but the weight is lighter than Chen Kefu's heavy infantry armor.
In addition to the double armor, the platoon soldiers, who focused on protection, were also equipped with a round shield with a diameter of two feet. Wear a belt around your neck and fasten your shield to your left arm when fighting. In addition to this, each platoon soldier is equipped with a horizontal knife.
In terms of equipment, the Wang family's platoon is a combination of heavy infantry and pikemen. And if Chen Kefu saw the phalanx of Jianghuai soldiers at this time, he would definitely exclaim, why did Wang Shichong actually set up a Macedonian infantry phalanx in the Sui Dynasty!
With the order of the herald, the Jianghuai platoon has quickly spread out the formation.
The array of Jianghuai platoon soldiers and the infantry array of the Wei army are very convinced, the same depth of sixteen people, one platoon of the array of two hundred and fifty-six people. There was a large gap between the soldiers, with the first 4 to 6 rows of soldiers in the front of the phalanx pointing their heads forward, the back rows of soldiers placing their lances on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of them to tilt the long lances, and some of them putting their rifles perpendicular to the ground. The first three and the last one in each column were in key positions, so brave and skilled soldiers were selected.
The soldiers in the front line of the Jianghuai platoon have leveled the long lance and are ready to meet the enemy.
Wang Xuanying, the commander of the Jianghuai army, had also landed on the south bank, and under the escort of the surrounding guards, Wang Xuanying raised his long sword and shouted loudly, "My Jianghuai warriors, just now King Chen's sailors have opened our eyes, and now, it is the turn of our Jianghuai warriors to prove us." Speaking of excitement, Wang Xuanying was already roaring, "Jianghuai warriors, although my father has left, the Jianghuai army he founded is still the strongest force in the world, and today, we are going to repay the blood debt from Li Mi, who participated in the conspiracy to kill my father." We will use the lance in our hand and the sword in our hand to give them a tooth for a tooth, and blood for a blood! ”
"Avenge the king! For the honor of the Jianghuai Army, war, war, war! The Jianghuai army, which had already unfolded the array, struck the shield in their hands again and again with the horizontal knives in their hands, making a deafening noise.
"Hold your ground!" The herald gave the order again.
The soldiers who obeyed the order nailed their feet to the ground even more firmly, holding the lance tightly, and everyone's hearts were pounding.
The Jianghuai army crisscrossed the north and south, and so far there has been no opponent. The last time Li Mi defeated those wastes in the Eastern Capital, he thought that he had defeated their Jianghuai army, and they would never accept such a thing, and today, they will defeat Li Mi, a traitor, in front of another strong army.
"Platoon infantry formations advance! Cavalry flanks escort forward! The herald gave the order again.
More than 30,000 elite Jianghuai platoons and soldiers who went ashore first lined up in a neat array and advanced steadily. In the orders of the heralds one by one, and the display of the command flags, the platoon soldiers advanced and unfolded the sharpest formation of the platoon soldiers according to the military order, attacking the array in an oblique plane. …,
The 30,000 Jianghuai troops advanced in a neat array, forming a trapezoidal slope.
One after another the lances were lowered to the flat ends, and the whole huge diagonal surface was like a hedgehog with a bayonet spear unfurled, and their sturdy armor and shields were like a turtle.
The Wei army was pressing at an incredibly high speed with all kinds of weapons that kept whistling over their heads!
In the blink of an eye, get closer! You can see it, the cloud-like banners, the dense swords and guns, the hideous faces of the cavalry, the white gas spewed out of the nostrils of the horses, the soldiers and horses galloping forward, like a storm, like a raging hurricane, swept in a dense formation, thousands of surging!
A huge shout suddenly burst into the sky, drowning the entire battlefield: "Long live King Wei!" The Wei soldiers roared wildly: "Kill! This is exactly the battle cry of the Wei army's charge!
The earth is cracking, the sky is falling!
The Wei army's charge was full of the style of the peasant rebels, and when they attacked, they were righteous and courageous, scrambling to be the first, and they followed one after another. While screaming, the Wei army came straight at the point with swords and guns.
As an official army that was not from the government army and exterminated the most righteous troops, the Jianghuai army was born to be a mortal enemy of the righteous army. From the first day they were formed, they were clearly informed that their enemy was the peasant army. The peasant army that died at their hands was innumerable.
From a small group of 35,000 bandits to 50,000,000 rebels from all walks of life. Don't say that Li Mi, the tens of thousands of people who are anti-thieves, is Liu Yuanjin, who was annihilated and killed by them at the beginning, and once called himself the Son of Heaven.
The Wei army was like a landslide and a tsunami, and with an indomitable galloping momentum, they rushed straight towards the array of the Jianghuai army. There were so many soldiers and horses in the 60,000 people that the mile-long front was full of densely packed charging Wei troops.
Li Mi stood on the high Dongguan Ridge, and even thought that victory was in his hands, he put down the clairvoyant mirror, and said to Shen Luoyan with a smile, "The morale of our army is like a macro and the offensive is like a tide, who in this world can stop such a fierce offensive?" Not to mention these Jianghuai troops on the south bank with the banner of the king, even if Chen Kefu personally went into battle, it is estimated that he will not be able to stop this thunderous blow. Left and right, give me warm wine, and prepare to celebrate General Wang's achievements! ”
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