Chapter 53: Engagement

The first contact battle between the two sides ended with the complete victory of Lu Dabing, short and fierce, dozens of Bai elites suddenly encountered two thousand soldiers of the Feng Battalion, did not have time to retreat, most of them turned back to kill, the remaining horses fled, Lu Dabing brought out of the city with his only five hundred cavalry, but these cavalry in riding and these Bai people who grew up on horseback have a great distance, they can't catch up, they can only turn around and kill dozens of Bai soldiers who have come back.

In this battle in Yixing, Lu Dabing was happy but also increased his vigilance, the elite of these Bai barbarians exceeded his premonition, once they found that they could not escape, they really abandoned the looted property, covered their companions to escape and report the news, and did not hesitate to kill them when they knew that they were not lucky, as long as they wanted to buy a little time for their companions. This will to fight made Lu Dabing feel terrible.

Dozens of barbarian soldiers were killed by the cavalry of the Fengfeng battalion several times back and forth, and no one survived, looking at the shocking battle loss ratio, Lu Dabing's little joy just disappeared, five hundred people surrounded and killed dozens of cavalry, and the battle loss ratio almost reached two to one, one of which was also chiseled through the formation by these dozens of barbarians, if it were not for their own infantry had already been deployed in the distance, these cavalry would have fled.

Squinting into the distance, puffs of smoke and dust billowed in, and barbarian reinforcements came. Lu Dabing was excited in his heart, cavalry, Lao Tzu is indeed not your opponent, but breaking the cavalry with foot has always been the strength of our Dingzhou army, come on, let me meet the famous Bai elite cavalry of the grassland.

"Clean up the battlefield, transport the dead and wounded back to the fortress, and the rest of the troops are arrayed and ready to meet the enemy! "Lu Dabing gave an awe-inspiring order.

After a collision of weapons, the 1,500 infantry quickly formed a phalanx of five or three hundred people, and each soldier was only a foot away from each other, so as to swing his arm and stab the spear in his hand, and the spears of the soldiers in the back row stretched out from the gap between the soldiers in the front row, and the five guns were formed in an instant. The remaining 400 or so cavalry had been slightly tired after the charge they had just made, and now they were behind the infantry phalanx, and the knights all jumped off their horses to recover as much as possible.

The barbarian horses in the distance were extremely fast, and before the time of the pillar incense, they had already appeared in the field of vision of Lu Dabing, with a horn, the torrent of wild galloping stopped, and the cavalry dismounted together, only dozens of knights hugged a silver-armored general and stood out about a hundred steps, observing the formation of Lu Dabing.

This silver-armored general was very familiar, and after only one glance, Lu Dabing recognized that this person was the one who planted the flag under the fortress. I couldn't help but feel a burst of anger in my heart, and I almost wanted to jump out of the horse and fight him again. The hand was raised and lowered, and finally he gritted his teeth and gave up this idea, now he is the commander of the army, not the Jianghu horseman. The other party is not a reckless man, unlike the barbarian generals in the past, he did not rush and kill at the beginning of the enemy, but he also knew how to save horsepower, and obviously regarded himself as an equal opponent, for such a person, he had to be careful.

Now he can only stand still, waiting for the enemy to attack, once he rushes to attack, the line will inevitably be loose in the march, that is fatal to the infantry, let the opponent's horses rush up and crash into the formation, his own infantry will become lambs.

When Lu Dabing was observing the barbarians, Noqia was also looking at the military formation opposite, looking at the five guns in the front two and the back three in a very orderly manner, standing solemnly, the tips of the spears shining with cold light slanted upward, and couldn't help sighing: "No wonder with the benefit of our clan's iron cavalry, for so many years, we have not been able to completely conquer Dingzhou, and Da Chu has indeed his uniqueness in breaking through the riding technique with steps."

A general behind him said with a smile: "Elder Qianfu, as long as we can rush in, chisel through their formation, cause their confusion, and make them unable to form a neat formation, then they will be no different from pigs and sheep."

Nokia shook his head and said: "To do this, we have to pay a great price, Dachu has a vast territory, a large population, and sufficient soldiers, they only need about a year for an infantry to become a qualified warrior, and our elite knights can only grow up after ten or twenty years, we can't afford to fight."

The general sneered: "That being said, but now Da Chu, I'm afraid it's rare to see such an elite foot soldier as in front of you!" "

Nokia smiled: "That's not bad, like the Xuanfeng battalion in front of me is composed of soldiers who have survived the last war, they have fought and seen blood, this kind of army is the most difficult, and the rest of the troops in Dingzhou are far inferior."

"Commander, are we going to fight? Or do you want to confront them like this? "

Nokia smiled: "Fight, of course you have to fight, don't how can you hold them back?" Isn't it just for this moment that King Zuo made a plan? We don't want to win, but we want to drag them here, and the longer it drags on, the better it will be for the King of the Left Sect."

The general behind him said dissatisfiedly: "My lord, we are gnawing bones here, but where is the king of the left school eating and drinking spicy food, it is really breathtaking, there are only more than 1,000 people left in the Fuyuan fortress, and the king of the left school has nearly 10,000 people, and it is not enough to be captured."

Nuo Qia Yang is a whip, "Bastard, the king of the left school is very good at this strategy, so that we can seize Fuyuan at the smallest cost, there is a lot of ordnance and grain in the fortress of Fuyuan, which is a great supplement to us, the king of the left school sent us, it is a trust in us, and only we can bite out this Lu soldier, do you think that the king of the left school did not send his son because of selfishness, if it is Wanyan Jitai here, I am afraid that he has already waved his troops to attack, it will be a defeat."

The general who was whipped endured the pain, "Yes, Master Qianfu, I was wrong."

Nokia said coldly: "You remember, An Gu no longer exists, Wanyan Bulu is now the king of the left school of my Bai clan, and my Bai clan is both prosperous and lost, what kind of person is the king of the left school, how can he not understand such a simple truth, let me hear this kind of nonsense again, I cut off your head."

"All on board! After teaching the general, Huo Di turned around, the mace in his hand was raised high, and more than a thousand elites behind him shouted, and at the same time turned over and got on the horse.

"Fu Lin, you make the first wave of tentative attacks, remember, reducing casualties is our goal, but we must also let the other side understand our determination to fight to the death."

"Yes, Master Qian." The one who was whipped was blessed with an evil fire in his belly, and he wanted to burn this fire on the other party.

"Yo drink! With a strange scream, Fu Lin rode out, and behind him, hundreds of cavalry roared out.

Knock knock! Seeing the barbarian attack, the middle army of Lu Dabing sounded a rhythmic drum, with the sound of the drum, the soldiers in the first row of the first two phalanxes stretched out their spears, the tips of the guns pointed upwards, and the tail of the guns was deeply rooted in the soil behind them, and the soldiers in the second row stretched out their feet to press the tail of the guns, and the guns themselves poked out, and the same was true for the back rows. The nine-foot-long spears all stretched out, and the two phalanxes at this time suddenly turned into two hedgehogs.

After the two hundred cavalry led by Fulin jumped out of their own formation, they quickly flew away, in the long-term confrontation with the Dingzhou army, they knew that the Dingzhou army had a strong crossbow carried with the army, as long as two soldiers could be pulled away, the range reached 1,000 steps, the cavalry can effectively form a kill, when they rushed in front of the other party, this crossbow can shoot up to five rounds, if the formation is too dense, it becomes a live target, but as long as the formation is dispersed, this crossbow is not easy to aim, the hit rate is not high, and casualties can be effectively avoided.

There was a sharp whistling sound in the air, and sure enough, it was this powerful crossbow. But obviously, there are not many such strong crossbows in the army of Lu Dabing, listening to the whistling sound in the air, Fu Lin's heart is relieved, but there are only twenty or thirty strong crossbows, and they are not a threat to themselves.

The soldier nimbly steered his horse, avoided the crossbow, and swooped straight into the enemy's line. When there was still a distance of 100 troops, the Bai soldiers drew their bows and shot arrows, and hundreds of arrows were shot at the opponent's dense military formation with a whistling. In terms of archery, the Dingzhou army naturally cannot be compared with these elites of the Bai nationality who grew up right away and shot arrows from a young age, not to mention that the Dingzhou army is in a dense formation, and there is no need to aim at all.

The soldiers of the Xuanfeng battalion were unmoved, seeing the rain of arrows in the sky, they just bowed their heads to protect the front door, the formation did not loosen in the slightest, there was a clanging sound, countless arrows poured down, shooting on the iron armor of everyone, some slid away, some hung on the soldiers, only a very few unfortunate guys were shot by arrows at the seams of the iron armor on their bodies, bleeding.

In the first round of confrontation, the shooting of both sides was in vain, the Dingzhou army had few strong crossbows and a low hit rate, and the arrows of the Bai clan shot quite accurately, but they were helpless against the steel monster covered in armor like the Xuanfeng battalion. Some of the soldiers of the Selective Battalion were covered with arrows, like a hedgehog, but they did not affect him in the slightest.