Chapter 424: The Power of Fan Cavalry
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The sound of horses' hooves rolled, and the yellow dust flew up all over the sky.
Wearing hair, leather jackets, and holding a horse bow, the cavalry of the Murod Xi tribe rode a war horse and slowly approached.
The grassland cavalry led by Ying Hefu has been ambushed in Yanmen County for more than ten days, just to wait for Liu Wuzhou to get into the trap. This time, Ying Hefu transferred all the elites in the clan, in addition to the 10,000 cavalry, there were also 3,500 Wansheng soldiers, this is Li Chongjiu's decision, it is necessary to annihilate Liu Wuzhou's entire army here.
The encirclement network presents a pocket-shaped, with Fanshi County in the south, and Yinghefu from the north, east and west, surrounded by Liu Wu and Zhou's army.
Yinghe Fu personally led 7,000 cavalry from the Xi tribe to cut off Liu Wuzhou's retreat from the north, Sun Erniang led the Wansheng army on the left, Yan Yelie led 3,000 cavalry, and the cavalry of the Murwei division was on the right, and Gao Chu also ordered all the 1,000 soldiers and soldiers in the city to line up behind the city gate, ready to go out of the city.
15,000 troops, while Liu Wuzhou had less than 6,000 men and horses, and of course there were hundreds of cavalry in the east and west of the city......
After five days of fierce fighting, Liu Wuzhou's soldiers were frustrated under the fortified city of Gao Chu, and their morale was frustrated, and they were surrounded by Li Chongjiu's army at this time. People with a little common sense in Liu Jun know that this busy city is a trap set by the Youzhou army a long time ago.
If the general army was changed, the camp would have been bombed or surrendered long ago, but Liu Wu and Zhou's troops were all brave warriors in the north, and many of them recruited Turks and Khitans on the grassland, and most of them were outlaws, so the army was condensed but not dispersed.
Liu Wuzhou, as a general, sat in the army and said with a sneer: "If you want my Liu Wuzhou's life, it's still far away." β
After that, Liu Wuzhou took off his fur hat. The leather coat was flicked, revealing a strong and powerful body. His arms carry a pair of iron arms made of brass. He touched the whiskers under his forehead and shouted, "Bring me my big axe!" The pro-soldiers presented Liu Wuzhou's flowering axe. This axe weighs eighty-one pounds, all made of iron, and those who are weak can not lift it, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy.
After taking the big axe, Liu Wuzhou turned over and got on his horse, and the soldiers on the left and right were all the sons he raised when he was a lieutenant under Wang Rengong, well-equipped, and all of them were brave and good at fighting.
Three hundred soldiers mounted their horses together. Liu Wuzhou rode his horse past the Chinese army, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "People are dead and birds are facing the sky, afraid of an egg, break through with Lao Tzu!" β
As soon as the words fell, the troops did not hesitate, and when they heard this, they picked up their weapons together, and those with war horses rode war horses, and those without war horses followed on foot. Liu Wuzhou mobilized people this time, and he had already planned to work hard.
The soldiers in the battalion joined the crowd from all sides. But the more than 300 wounded soldiers in the camp who could not walk were crying in pain and grief in the camp tent, and let their robes take themselves with them, but not others were ruthless. At this time, it is the time to break through, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, who can take others away.
Ying Hefu saw that the camp gate of Liu Wuzhou was wide open. The other party did not go towards the two wings, but directly rushed to his seven thousand cavalry. I couldn't help but be surprised.
After all, the other three roads are weaker, and only the side of Inghefu is the strongest. Liu Wuzhou chose to break through here, it seems that it is not a trapped beast fighting, but to take advantage of the death of the soldiers who are surrounded, to succeed in a battle, and to turn defeat into victory.
Sure enough, none of the heroes on one side is a fuel-efficient lamp.
Ying Hefu immediately shouted: "Sue the SΓΉ people, if Liu Wuzhou kills me, don't fight head-on, give way to the road, we can fight the flanks and tails." β
"The commander is afraid of what he will do, and we are outnumbered, so we will have a bull's horn against a sheep's horn to see whose head is hard."
Inghefer whipped his horsewhip and shouted, "What do you know, listen to me." β
Ying Hefu pointed with a horsewhip, and kept approaching Liu Wuzhou's wolf head and said: "You remember it for me, forget about the others, but keep an eye on Liu Wuzhou, the Khan said that he wants this person's head, otherwise I will take Youzhou." β
"Okay." After receiving the order, the subordinates gave the order to go down.
"Sons and daughters, kill Lao Tzu!"
Liu Wuzhou swung the big axe, and his subordinates also followed the legs of the horse's belly, and the cavalry in front no longer cared about the speed of the horse, so that the war horse let go of its four hooves and galloped.
Boom, the ground seemed to be sunken.
The horns of the impact continued to blow, echoing across the desolate plains, and the dust rose from the surface, which suddenly lowered the eyes of those behind. Liu Wuzhou's cavalry raised their long knives and flat-ended spears, and controlled their war horses to rush and pounce. Liu Wuzhou put on a frontal lineup, and wanted to break through and tear a hole directly in the front of the Yinghe Fu army.
Inghefer knew it in his heart, and immediately issued an order to retreat his Daxu to the rear, while the elite armored cavalry of the headquarters slowly retreated to the rear.
Liu Wu and Zhou's army seemed to see the rear of the enemy marshal, thinking that the enemy was afraid, and rushed more fiercely at the moment.
However, just as the Inghefu retreated, the archers of the Dexi tribe in the back room rose and fell like waves from both wings, and rushed to the front of the formation, until the front army stood still. Inhefer swung out in a phalanx of geese, and the bow and horseman spread diagonally to the wings.
The archers raised their horses' bows and took control of their arrows. These archers were all battle-hardened warriors in the Murod Xi Division, and they followed Li Chongjiu into the Central Plains to fight every year. After countless blood and fires, these ordinary herdsmen are no longer what they used to be, and everyone can make a hard bow on horseback, and their riding skills are excellent. Most of them followed Yinghefu to Yanmen in the autumn this time, and went into battle again.
At this time, Liu Wuzhou's cavalry, with a bloody and brave spirit, suddenly broke through, approached closer, and accelerated one after another.
And the Fan Army archers did not show any panic, Huang Chen raised back and forth, and everyone's eyes and arrows were aimed at the Liu Army cavalry in front.
Burst!
The bowstring collapsed, the arrows came down from the sky, and after the front row of archers had finished riding, they turned their horses and left, and the second round of bows stepped forward, and another wave of arrows came forward, and then they hurriedly retreated backwards.
After the third and fourth rounds, the tactics of the Fan cavalry seemed to have been collapsing, scattered, chaotic retreat, chaotic, and no order, facing the front of Liu Wuzhou's cavalry front and arrow formation, the bow and cavalry of the Murod Xi Department were like a tide, retreating to the two wings, without the slightest intention of fighting hard.
However, the archers retreated slightly, and after the sharpness of the arrow formation passed, they returned again, harassing the flanks with bows and arrows repeatedly, and if Liu Wuzhou's cavalry came to chase, it was shè while retreating.
Liu Wuzhou's cavalry, in the midst of the impact, just felt that there were arrows that cut their heads and covered their faces at any time, and they chased after them, and the enemy troops scattered away, and when they retreated, the enemy cavalry seemed to stick up again. The cavalry of Liu Wuzhou's department only wanted to kill through the encirclement from the front, and where they had the heart to pursue the archers on both wings, they rushed forward in one go.
The arrows on both sides were against each other, Liu Wuzhou's light cavalry was still good, and he still had the strength to use the bow and arrows to whirl, but if it was a war horse in armor, it was covered by arrows and had no strength to fight back at all, and he couldn't catch up and escape.
Liu Wuzhou was angry at the moment and vomited blood, he was also an enemy of a hundred people in Mayi County, a big axe danced so tightly that water couldn't pour it, but when he got here, he couldn't swing an axe.
He and his sons rushed forward with their horses, but Li Chongjiu's arches were all high-quality Uzhumuqin horses, and they couldn't catch up. From beginning to end, Liu Wuzhou just saw the arrows on his head round after round, slashing his head and covering his face, and the iron armor on his body was already inserted with two arrows.
This can be regarded as a disadvantage and a pro, the disadvantage is that there is a heavy armor covering, ordinary arrows can't hurt themselves, but it's also because of the drag of heavy armor, and their war horses can't catch up.
"What kind of tactic is this, why haven't I seen it?" Liu Wuzhou was furious.
Liu Wuzhou didn't know that three years ago in Yi County, Song Jingang had already eaten this mangu gang tactic once, but at that time this tactic was far from being proficient, but now it has been honed for three years, and the bow and cavalry of the Murde Xi Department are even more different from what they used to be.
However, Mangu's tactics could not be maintained forever, Liu Wuzhou's cavalry continued to advance, the distance between the two armies was retracted, and the battle line was already in a staggered state.
Each other's cavalry also replaced each other's scimitars, spears and other hand-to-hand weapons, and fought each other on horseback.
The battle was in full swing, and the soldiers of both armies were constantly being chopped off their horses. Under the desperate efforts of Sergeant Liu, more than 200 cavalry were killed from the Ying Hefu army and broke out of the encirclement.
At this time, Sun Erniang's Wansheng army repelled the reinforcements of Liu Wuzhou's hundreds of cavalry, and outflanked from behind. Wan Shengjun is a standing army, and it is the trump card under Li Chongjiu.
Liu Wuzhou's cavalry only took care of their own conflict, but the foot soldiers were left behind, and the cavalry of the Wansheng Army, at the moment, met with the thousand township soldiers of Gao Chu out of the city, and ignored the infantry of Liu Jun, but chased the tail of Liu Jun's cavalry.
At this time, Ying Hefu also led the cavalry of his headquarters to kill Liu Wuzhou's Daxu, and everyone ignored the others, all the cavalry was towards Liu Wuzhou's wolf head, and they killed him fiercely, and he must not be let go and escape.
In the siege of the army, Liu Wuzhou waved his big axe, led Erlang to rush left and right, and killed everyone from people to horses was bloodstained, but he repelled wave after wave, and in the end of the battle, even his big axe collapsed, all of which just couldn't be killed, and the faces of the enemy cavalry were in front and behind.
The grassland cavalry was coming at his Chinese army, Liu Wuzhou couldn't go out, and finally ran out of strength, and led the remnants of the army to temporarily retreat on a hill.
Liu Wuzhou looked from the hill and saw his men and horses fighting on the battlefield all the way, some breaking through the encirclement, some being annihilated, and where his Daxu was located, it was like the eye of a typhoon, surrounded by enemy cavalry in the core one after another.
Under the hill, there are layers of corpses of people and war horses, which shows the fierceness of the battle.
"Li Chongjiu wants my life, it's so ruthless!" Liu Wuzhou took a breath, knowing that the general trend had gone, and when he rebelled, scene after scene passed in front of him, and in the end, he couldn't help but say that Lao Tzu's life was worth it.
Thinking of this, Liu Wuzhou's face was ruthless, and he said, "Sons and daughters will kill me for a while!" β
After saying that, Liu Wuzhou led the army down the mountain again, and the horns sounded one after another, and countless people and horses poured up from all sides.
Liu Wuzhou's wolf-headed Daxu, which was given by the Turkic Khan, finally fell a moment later. (To be continued......)