At three o'clock on the afternoon of September 28, the first frontal battle of the Great War between the Later Zhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty began.

As early as when arranging the troops, the Zhou army realized the insidiousness of Lin Feng's position: the fortress was only less than 200 steps away from the trapping array, and the 5,000 armored cavalry had already taken up a small half, plus the reserved 50 steps of the sprint distance, 30,000 infantry could only squeeze tightly behind the battle formation, and the people lined up in an extremely crowded array. Other soldiers lined up along the riverbank, watching and cheering.

Later, Zhou Zheng took the initiative to ask Li Chongjin to serve as the cavalry commander, and kept looking sideways at the banner above the fortress, when he saw the military flag dancing, and heard the beating of the war drums, he immediately pulled the reins of the horse, and shouted wildly: "Sons, let the Southern Barbarians see the strength of the heroes in the Great Zhou Dynasty!" ”

With Li Chongjin's forward finger swinging of the knife, the thirty soldiers in the front row immediately put on their full body heavy armor, and with the help of the soldiers, they stepped on the tall horses with all the armor, roared in unison, slowly started, and rushed towards the trapping formation.

Fifty paces, only half the acceleration distance of a daily cavalry. In just a few ups and downs, the first row of horses rushed to the trap. At this time, the sporadic Shouzhou troops who were originally guarding the trapping formation whistled, and all of them withdrew from the trapping formation and stood outside the formation.

As soon as the cavalry entered the battle, it was immediately like a kitchen knife into the dough, falling into a dilemma where they could not enter or get out. The cavalrymen swung their long knives and slashed, but found that they could only cut off the debris on the wood, which did not move after being cut by the knife, and even if the heavily armored cavalry and the horses collided at the same time, the wood would only shake for a while and then return to its original state. Moreover, the northern entrances to the traps looked numerous, but as soon as the horses rushed in, they found that the passage ahead had either been railed over, turned into a small fork, or had been suddenly sealed.

One of the heavy cavalrymen looked at the railing in front of him, which did not seem to be high, and immediately raised the reins and jumped over. However, as soon as the horse's hooves touched the ground behind the railing, they immediately sank downward, and the hind hooves that could have jumped over also tripped over the railing, and the horse suddenly lost its balance and fell to the ground with a bang, completely blocking the passage!

Li Chongjin, who saw this scene in the rear, frowned slightly, and immediately ordered again, one hundred cavalry continued to charge the trapping formation, and another fifty cavalry were assigned to try to assault from both sides of the trapping formation.

A hundred unarmoured cavalry roared away, rushing straight to the fields on either side of the trapped.

The horses crossed the northern end of the trap, and the hooves of the horses flew over, driving a large mass of soft soil, but when they reached the middle of the trap, the horses in the front rows of the two groups of cavalry were almost simultaneously lowered, and the legs of the horses sank deep into the soft mud.

"Not good!" Li Chongjin, who was at the forefront of the cavalry, and Li Gu and the others above the fortress exhaled softly at the same time.

The galloping horse could not stop at all, and fell into the soft mud one after another. Seeing that the situation was not good, the cavalry in the rear immediately turned their horses' heads desperately and spread outward, but their fate was the same, and they fell into a deep soft mud, which suddenly rushed to the position of the horse's belly.

It turned out that the land on both sides of the trapping array had already been dug up and loosened by Lin Feng's people, and then water was brought in, turning it into an artificial swamp, and then paving it with thick dry soil, which became a natural barrier to block the advance of the Zhou army.

If the two sides are not connected, then you can only break through from the trapping formation! Li Chongjin's face was solemn, and he immediately ordered another hundred cavalry to attack the trapping formation in an all-out way.

No matter how strong the wood is, it can't withstand the continuous collision, and soon, some of the wood in the trapping array was broken one after another, and the farthest war horse has broken through more than ten meters, and it is about to go out of the battle.

At this time, the Shouzhou special soldiers who had withdrawn from the trapping formation moved, they first aimed at the cavalry in front of them and threw more than ten earth-shattering thunders, and at the same time as the explosion sounded and the whistle smoke rose, they burst into the formation like ghosts.

When the smoke cleared, the cavalry at the northern end of the trap and outside found that all the brothers in the south had fallen in a pool of blood, and many horses and soldiers had been blown to a bloody pulp, and five or six horses were frightened, and when they galloped in fright, they led the soldiers to crash into sharp stakes or fall into the trap.

Zhao Kuangyin, who was above the fortress, couldn't stand it anymore, turned to Li Gu and said: "Li Shuai, the cavalry is not suitable for attacking this kind of trapping formation, let me lead the tiger guards and elite soldiers to attack!" ”

Li Gu groaned slightly, nodded and agreed, but asked Zhao Kuangyin to report to Li Chongjin first.

Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand and set off with his brothers. However, when he squeezed through the infantry battle formation, squeezed through the cavalry, and mentioned this matter to Li Chongjin, Li Chongjin immediately became angry, and the horsewhip was slapped twice on the back of the horse's neck, and said angrily: "Our cavalry has not yet wielded its might!" What are you anxious about! ”

Turning around, Li Chongjin yelled at a personal guard: "Yang Chong, you go over to command, open the distance, and give me a continuous line of collisions!" Those who dare to disobey orders will be killed! ”

The lieutenant named Yang Chong immediately beat his horse and advanced, rushed over and continuously shouted at the cavalry not to crowd in front of the trapping formation anymore, and to the rear of the whole team to continuously attack.

Soon, these cavalry came back from the outside, formed a long formation of thirty men one after another, and began to rush forward with their horses. Ten meters behind, another group of cavalry began to rush forward in formation.

So, a very tragic scene appeared.

Rows of cavalry were like waves of Lang waves, one after another, rushing towards the reef of the trapped horse formation. The cavalry, which was at the peak of its speed, suddenly crashed into the piles that were deep in the ground, the horses that had fallen, and the horses that crashed into the road, and the men and horses immediately fell out of the stump, just as the waves shattered into splashing flowers, and the stakes began to loosen. But a second wave of impact followed, and the stakes finally couldn't stand it anymore and flew into the sky with the force of the impact. By the time of the sixth wave of collisions, the first heavy cavalry had begun to be added to the cavalry ranks, and the stakes flew into the sky faster!

Li Chongjin also fell into a state of excitement, waving his sword to urge all the cavalry to speed up the attack.

Just before the trapping array was about to be "demolished", the formation of the Shouzhou Army suddenly changed, and those special soldiers who watched the battle coldly withdrew back. The Chinese army divided a part of the soldiers, and they all erected large shields nearly one person high, stacked them in two layers, and moved towards the position of the horse formation.

"Look for death!" Li Chongjin sneered and immediately ordered the cavalry to start the whole team and continuously attack the shield array.

The current trapping array is basically only two or three meters of stumps and broken wood, which cannot stop the continuous impact of the cavalry at all. The neatly formed cavalry frantically beat their horses, trying to keep the formation intact and continue to charge.

When the front row of cavalry collided with the trapping knife formation at the rear of the most sluggish sword, the speed decreased, and it was only less than ten meters away from the Shouzhou army's shield array, those shield arrays suddenly dispersed!

The shield-wielding soldiers quickly turned and ran away from the back of the formation, to the sides, and behind them, a sparse and neat phalanx appeared. The team was full of strong men who were nearly seven feet tall, all of them were heavily armoured, and only a pair of eyes were exposed on their faces, and the most chilling thing was that they all dragged a long-handled broadsword in their right hands.

"Mo Dao Array!" Li Gu and the generals exclaimed in surprise at the same time, and couldn't help but tremble.