Chapter 149: Breaking the Formation
In fact, if the two armies fail to defeat the other side in a way that pushes them to wither and decay, they will eventually turn into a melee without military formation and order, and at this time, the military formation will be meaningless, and the strategists will be useless.
In the end, the only thing that determines victory or defeat is the strength of the two armies, the physical strength of the soldiers, and the morale of the soldiers.
And the strategist who gives advice is simply useless in this situation.
Even if he is a strategist with great resourcefulness, he is definitely not as useful as a small soldier at this time.
The two armies mixed together and fought hard, and the number of soldiers was staggeringly reduced. Whether it was the soldiers of the state or the Hu cavalry of the Yue clan, they were all red-eyed, and there was only one thought left in their hearts, that is, to kill all the people who were not from their own camp.
In front of the Xiliang army, Luo Zheng frowned.
In front of the state army, Lu Bu frowned.
For the commanders of the army, this is the last thing they want to see.
Once this happens, the commander will lose control of the situation.
In this case, even if Sun Wu was resurrected, there would be no way to separate the two cavalry.
At this moment, the situation of the battle suddenly took a turn for the better.
The Yue's cavalry on both wings of the Xiliang Army gradually lost their defeat under the hard work of the Bingzhou cavalry, and began to have cavalry fleeing to the defeat of the Chinese army.
"My lord, the Yue's cavalry has been defeated."
Zhao Yun's face changed, and he hurriedly urged him to step forward and said to Luo Zheng.
Luo Zheng saw it early, his eyes froze, and he said in a deep voice: "There is no vanity under the fame, and the name of the wolf rider is good at fighting." True to its name, these Yue's Hu cavalry were still in a short period of time and had no formal training. After all, it was inferior. ”
Li Meng hurriedly reminded: "Lord, the cavalry of the Yue clan has fled to this formation. ”
Xu Chu said loudly: "Lord, let the heavy armored iron cavalry attack!" ”
Zhao Yun also said in a loud voice: "Now that our army has been mixed with the Bingzhou cavalry, even if Lu Bu wants to withdraw his army, he will not be able to separate the two armies. As long as he defeated Lu Buzhong's army in one fell swoop, the cavalry on both wings of Bingzhou naturally collapsed without a fight. ”
Luo Zheng said 'um' and said in a deep voice: "Xu Chu listens to the order." ”
Xu Chu was in good spirits. hurriedly said loudly: "The last general! ”
Luo Zheng said sharply: "The speed of five hundred heavy armor iron cavalry attacked!" ”
"The last will obey."
Xu Chu suddenly received the order, and then slapped his horse and left.
And in front of the state army.
"Lord, the time is right!"
Zhang Liao watched the Xiliang army on both flanks retreat. Suddenly his spirits perked up, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said to Lu Bu: "Our army has killed the cavalry on both wings of the Xiliang Army, and we only need to rush the defeated and fleeing Xiliang cavalry to the Luo Zhengzhong Army." Our troops then covered up and killed. It will be possible to defeat the Luo Zheng Chinese army in one fell swoop, please give the order of the lord quickly, and the last general is willing to be the vanguard! ”
"The last general is willing to be a pioneer!"
Zang Ba, Hou Cheng and other generals also hurriedly urged them to step forward and ask for their lives loudly.
Lu Bu was radiant and energetic, and said loudly: "Okay, Luo Zheng'er is not self-sufficient, and he dares to drive the cavalry to win a decisive battle with this general." It's just self-inflicted. Pass on our military order to drive the defeated and fleeing Xiliang cavalry to the Luo Zheng Chinese army! ”
"Order."
There was a loud roar from the herald. Swift and flag-like military orders.
On the left and right flanks, Wei Xu and Cao Xing, who received the military order, immediately tried their best to gather the cavalry, copied from all sides, and tried their best to drive the defeated Yue's cavalry to the Luo Zheng Zhong Army, intending to use the defeated troops in the west to attack the main formation of the Luo Zheng Zhong Army.
However, at this time, the Xiliang army took the initiative to attack.
Lu Bu immediately laughed and said: "Luo Zheng's children's skills are poor, this is going to be a trapped beast!" ”
Zhang Liao's face changed, and he hurriedly said: "Lord, the Xiliang Army is about to fight against the water, and the three thousand Chinese troops of Luo Zheng are the old troops who followed him to conquer the Kanto, and they are the elite of the elite of the Xiliang cavalry, so you must guard against it!" ”
Lu Bu said awe-inspiringly: "Well, what Wen Yuan said is extremely true, but Luo Zheng has abandoned his two wings and led the Chinese army to take the initiative to attack, and he has no choice but to fight to the death." However, Luo Zhengxiao wanted to fight with General Ben to lose both, but he miscalculated. ”
Zhang Liao said excitedly: "Lord, please give the order to attack!" ”
Lu Bu said loudly: "Pass on my military order, and the whole army will attack!" ”
"Yes!"
A herald had already opened his voice and shouted, and the audience could hear it in an instant.
"And the sons of the state, follow a certain assault!"
Lu Bu suddenly shouted, and Fang Tian's halberd swung forward violently.
The two thousand wolf horsemen who were waiting in formation roared, and immediately drove the war horses to start running, and they were getting faster and faster.
The two armies were three hundred paces apart, and the cavalry increased the speed of the charge to the limit, a maximum of a hundred paces.
Lu Bu took the lead, and Fang Tian's halberd had already come to his hand, and there was a cold murder boiling in his eyes.
Behind him, two thousand iron horses rolled in, and the baby-red tassels swayed one after another, almost wanting to ride the wind.
More than 200 steps away, the 3,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry were also accelerating, ignoring the 3,000 Bingzhou Iron Cavalry that drove the defeated Yueshi Hu Cavalry from the flank and back, and rushed straight to Lu Bu's army, wanting to completely chisel through Lu Bu's army.
Almost everyone thinks that Luo Zheng is going to trap the beast and fight against the water.
Only Zhang Liao faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
There was a lot of noise on the battlefield, and no other sound could be heard except the thunderous sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing.
The two cavalry charged faster and faster, approaching at an alarming speed.
That's when it happened.
Luo Zheng suddenly raised his right arm and shouted, "Attack!" ”
Suddenly, five hundred cavalrymen and horses wrapped in black iron armor broke away from their main formation, quickly distanced themselves from the main formation of the main army, increased the speed of the charge to the limit, and rushed towards the Bingzhou cavalry, which had advanced within 100 paces.
In front of the five hundred cavalry formation, at the drill position of the triangular pyramid array, Xu Chu rode alone, riding his horse and galloping wildly.
Behind him, five hundred carefully selected dead soldiers rolled and followed, and there was crazy killing intent flashing in their eyes.
"Huh?"
In front of the state army, Lu Bu couldn't help but show doubts when he saw this strange scene, and wondered for a while, what is Luo Zheng'er going to do, should he want to rely on this mere five hundred cavalry. You just want to break the general's 2,000 iron cavalry, right?
However, it is too late to think about other issues at this time.
A hundred steps away is just a short time, where can you take care of anything else.
By this time. Only with the strength in his hands can he break Luo Zheng's 3,000 cavalry is serious.
In the back position on Lu Bu's left, Zhang Liao, who was urging the horse to gallop, was inexplicably a little uneasy.
However, the two armies were about to intersect, and there was no time to think about what the Xiliang Army was going to do.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Two thunderous shouts suddenly rushed into the sky, and the five hundred heavily armored iron cavalry finally crashed into the Bingzhou cavalry.
Beneath the iron helmet, in two walnut-sized holes. Xu Chuhu's eyes were round, his eyes showed the excitement of a hungry wolf when he saw a sheep, and the fire cloud knife raised high slashed down with the momentum of opening the mountain. Bumped into Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd.
While!
In the sound of Qingyue's gold and iron exchanges, the nearby cavalry instantly became deaf.
Lu Buhu drove for a while, only to feel a soreness in his arms, and couldn't help but be surprised. I finally saw clearly what this cavalry was so boring. It turned out that even people and war horses were wrapped under dark iron armor.
However, even the men and horses are covered with iron armor, at least more than 300 catties in weight, how can the war horses run with weights?
If it weren't for that, how could he have been shocked by a blow and his arms were sore.
You must know that the weight of the war horse has increased by hundreds of catties, and the inertia when running at high speed is not ordinarily large.
Even with Lu Bu's bravery, he couldn't help but suffer his loss. The arms that were slashed by Xu Chu were sore.
While Lu Bu was surprised, Xu Chu did not look back. Just rush forward and kill.
The five hundred heavily armored iron horses behind him were like a torrent of steel, rolling forward unstoppable.
Lu Bu fought bravely and swept away a few heavily armored cavalry, but he couldn't change the overall situation at all.
"Not good!"
Lu Bu deserved to be Lu Bu, and instantly thought of the terrifying nature of this tactic, and was immediately shocked.
Also shocked was Zhang Liao, after just seeing the strangeness of this cavalry, he had already thought of Luo Zheng's tactics in an instant, his face became extremely ugly, and he finally understood where his faint uneasiness came from.
The information backwardness of this era is far from the era of information explosion in later generations.
The number of times the heavy armored soldiers rode out of battle was not much, coupled with Luo Zheng's deliberate secrecy, no one in Liangzhou knew except for the Qianghu people who had seen the heavy armored cavalry, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others were the first time to see this kind of cavalry with people and war horses wrapped in black iron armor, and Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were proficient in cavalry tactics, but as soon as they exchanged troops, they instantly understood the power of this kind of cavalry.
Zhang Liao rose up bravely and swept several heavy armored cavalry off his horse.
However, the other generals and cavalrymen were not so brave, and the steel swords slashed on the iron armor, except for a flash of sparks, they couldn't hurt these monsters all wrapped in the iron armor.
The heavy cavalry was clumsy in their movements, and all they could do was to move forward and forward, and keep charging forward.
Except for Xu Chu, a fierce man with amazing divine power, no one can wear iron armor weighing more than 100 catties, and he can swing his sword freely when the war horse is galloping, and he is often slashed three times by the Bingzhou cavalry, and the heavy armored cavalry can only fight back.
However, the result is diametrically opposite.
Even if the Bingzhou cavalry slashed ten swords and eight swords, it was difficult to injure the heavily armored cavalry.
However, the heavy cavalry only needed a single sword to kill the cavalry.
This huge contrast gave the Bingzhou cavalry a great shock, and an inexplicable panic was spreading.
The unknown is the most terrifying, no one has ever seen this kind of cavalry wrapped in iron armor with men and horses.
After seeing the horror of the heavy armored cavalry, the soldiers panicked at first, they were not Lu Bu, they could still remain calm and calm in the face of this kind of steel cavalry that could not be cut no matter how they were cut.
Soon, five hundred heavily armored iron cavalry chiseled through Lu Bu's army formation and killed a pair of opponents.
The two thousand cavalry of the state were in chaos in an instant, and they could no longer maintain their formation, and they were completely in chaos.
Especially in the middle position, it is as if a big bloody hole has been drilled by a drill bit, which is extremely tragic.
However, at this moment, the 3,000 Xiliang cavalry that followed also followed. (To be continued......)