Chapter 2033 Impact

The fast South Vietnamese cavalry had sunk into the mud. The speed of the march slowed down suddenly, but it was still barely close to the phalanx of the Qin army. However, due to the sudden slowing of the horse's advance, the knight was picked down by the spear of the Qin army from a distance of about two zhang.

"Kill!" More South Vietnamese cavalry swarmed in. However, after being mired, the horses were unable to move, and the impact of the iron rider severely reduced their power. In addition, although the South Vietnamese cavalry was strong, they lacked one very important thing--- horse pedals! Most of the riders' footsteps are knotted with a straw rope, and the two feet step into it, and the center of gravity is not easy to grasp, so if you are not skilled in riding, it is easy to fall off the horse.

Taking advantage of the fact that the South Vietnamese cavalry was stuck in the mud, the crescent spears of the Qin army were like angry porcupines, and the two-meter-long spears kept piercing out, giving the enemy the greatest degree of assassination. Occasionally, a knight risked his life to break through to the soldiers, but before he could start slashing, he was stabbed by the spear from behind the phalanx. The horses that sat down were also slaughtered by spears piercing from the periphery.

From a distance, the cavalry of South Vietnam was like a raging tide, while the phalanx of the Qin army was like a solid seawall, no matter how the tide roared, it could never fail to cross the embankment!

Chen Sheng's eyes had been paying attention to the attack of the enemy's cavalry. Seeing that the dragon commanded this phalanx in an orderly manner, he was reassured. He also knew that the mud could only last for a while, and that when the enemy's cavalry had died enough, the mud would be filled with dead horses and the corpses of warriors. At that time, this quagmire will no longer have the effect of restraining the enemy.

However, Chen Sheng did not intend to let the right wing fight alone.

"It's almost time." Chen Sheng took a deep breath. The thousand cavalry behind him were already a little impatient, and their eyes were full of urgency.

"My lord, the signal from the black scales hasn't come back yet, so let's wait." This time, Li Zuoche was even calmer than Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng nodded. He had Black Scale lead 2,000 soldiers to lay an ambush below the enemy's crossing, and when the enemy left the crossing, he cut off the enemy's retreat in time. In addition, Chen Sheng also ordered the special combat team members to dive into the river and destroy all the enemy's water platoons, boats, and other means of crossing the river, so that the enemy army would not return.

"The vine armor army on the left flank has engaged the enemy's infantry army!" Li Zuoche squinted his eyes and saw that the Qin army had already met the enemy's left flank and launched an attack.

Chen Sheng nodded, looked at the enemy Chinese army that was pressing over, smiled coldly, and said, "The Chinese army also went to battle and wiped out their Chinese army together!" "Chen Sheng's left flank is a phalanx of three thousand wisteria armor troops, and on his right is a phalanx of four thousand spears. In addition to the 1,000 cavalry, the Chinese army had only 3,000 soldiers. The other side, including the cavalry, successfully crossed the river with more than 17,000 people. Except for the 1,000 tactics left behind at the ferry, the rest are all here. It is divided into three parts: left, middle and right. On average, there are more than 5,000 people. In terms of numbers, it is far superior to the Qin army.

Fortunately, victory or defeat on the battlefield is not determined by the number of fighters. More by the elite of the warriors and the skill of the commanders. Chen Sheng was obviously already a qualified commander. He saw that the enemy army was already unstable at this time because of the setback of the iron cavalry attack, so he dared to boldly attack.

But the war on the right began to change. After hundreds of dead and wounded horsemen, the mud of the swamp was finally filled. The cavalry of South Vietnam continued to advance on the corpses of their companions and horses, and many knights desperately broke into the Qin army's formation, causing a lot of trouble to the Qin army. At this time, Meng Heilong found that the cavalry had suffered heavy losses, and decisively let the infantry army in the rear advance, trying to use the infantry and cavalry to confuse the attack, and break the right flank of the Qin army in one fell swoop.

Seeing the infantry army in the rear, Meng Jiao also began to issue orders, asking the cavalry to retreat slowly, gather in formation, and prepare to bypass the rear of the Qin army, and attack the reinforcements advancing from behind, and destroy this Qin army in one fell swoop.

And at this moment, a bright red flashed in Chen Sheng's eyes. He waved his hand and said, "The cavalry obeys the order, all of them attack, attack the local cavalry, and after the defeat, chase and kill with all their might!" At the same time, Li Zuoche also said happily: "My lord, look, black smoke!" ”

Black smoke rose from the rear of enemy troops. Judging from the location, the black smoke came from not far from the ferry. This means that the army of the black scales has captured the ferry. Choked the retreat of the enemy troops.

"God help me!" Chen Sheng couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Hearing the order, the cavalry behind him neatly drew their sabers, and under the light of the morning sun, they emitted a sparkling cold light. The cavalrymen in rattan armor quickly launched an assault, the horse's hooves splashed a puff of smoke and dust, and the earth roared!

Seeing the touch of the Qin army's cavalry, Meng Jiao suddenly felt bad.

However, he was not afraid, waved the weapon in his hand, and ordered the cavalry to rush towards the Qin army with all his strength.

It was the first time since the establishment of the light cavalry in Fujian that it engaged the cavalry. Therefore, this battle is very important for this cavalry. According to Chen Sheng, the only way to deal with cavalry is cavalry. The flexibility and impact of the cavalry are beyond the reach of ordinary infantry troops, and even if the infantry army wins against cavalry, it can only be a defensive victory, but cannot expand the results of the battle. Therefore, only cavalry can truly and completely defeat another cavalry. This was Chen Sheng's original intention in forming cavalry. He has always believed that the role of forming a cavalry is far greater than that of a special combat team. Although the strength of the special operations team was strong, due to the limitations of the times, it was unable to play the role of defeating the enemy on a frontal battlefield.

"Throw the axe!" The leader of the cavalry, after visually measuring the distance, decisively gave the order. When Chen Sheng built this cavalry, except for the armor, the rest were built according to the specifications of the Qin State Guards. He had seen the heavy cavalry of the Qin army led by Hu Bugui, such a heavy cavalry, if it was put on the battlefield in front of him, five hundred knights would be enough to kill the two thousand cavalry of South Vietnam.

Of course, the Qin army guards were all warriors who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and their weapons and horses were the most sophisticated, so how could the cavalry of South Vietnam be their opponents. But such a cavalry, Chen Sheng is also difficult to imitate. Because with the national strength of Great Qin, Xianyang already has a hard time raising such a guard, and if his poor mountain and bad water Minzhong County can build such an iron horse, wouldn't it be against the sky.

However, under Chen Sheng's imitation, this rattan cavalry was also equipped with throwing axes, long and short bows and arrows, machetes and spears. Since the warriors are rattan armor, the carrying capacity of the mounts is reduced, and at the same time they are equipped with horse shoes, and the combat effectiveness of the rattan armor army is also amazing. Chen Sheng even had information that in time, he would definitely be able to train an iron cavalry that could rival the Qin army's guards.