Chapter 101: Crane Wing Array
"Childe! It seems that the army of King Khan is about to fight a decisive battle with us, and you see that he has no sign of retreating at all! Cai Xu pointed to a dark figure on the grassland, and the wind and snow seemed to be lighter at this time.
Huo Ziyang gathered Yue Ziyun and the others at this time, and said: "Now there are only 340,000 people left in Wang Khan's army, although we only have 200,000, but our military rank is one order higher, and to a certain extent, this difference in strength is gone. So we're going to use a more aggressive offensive and defensive formation! ”
Huo Ziyang took out another leather scroll from his arms, this time it was painted with a pattern like a big bird spreading its wings, he pointed to the pattern and said: "This is the crane wing formation, which is a formation that is both offensive and defensive, and it is just right for our army to match the arms at the moment." ”
Huo Ziyang pointed to the body part of the big bird and said, "This is the crane body, Miss Qiyue, your 80,000 archers are at the rear of the main formation, providing long-range support!" Brother Xiao Xie's Golden Fire Cavalry is full of defensive power, and has three thousand seventh-order soldiers, and has strong assault ability, so it is perfect for it to be placed in the Crane Crown. Brother Ziyun's 130,000 lancers divided into two steps to occupy the wings on both sides, extending to the two wings, squeezing the enemy inward! ”
"In this way, it not only ensures the safety of the two wings of our army, but also gives full play to the strength of all arms, I don't know what you think?" Huo Ziyang spoke and acted resolutely, and the momentum of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers infected several veterans.
The previous heavy damage to the enemy army had already convinced them, and if they fought hard according to the usual battle, they were afraid that the loss of troops would be more than forty or fifty thousand.
"Ziyang is erudite and talented, but it makes us embarrassed." Yue Ziyun patted Huo Ziyang's shoulder and smiled, it could be seen that he really liked this rising star who was seven or eight years younger than him.
Huo Ziyang quickly told Qin Fan his thoughts, Qin Fan is now quite interested in the use of formations, which is much easier than blindly fighting hard.
The armies of the two sides stopped at a distance of one mile quite tacitly, and at this time the wind and snow had stopped, and the sky had a rare glimmer of sunshine.
"Array!"
Huo Ziyang continued to wave the flag according to the crane wing position, and mobilized more than 200,000 troops to various positions.
Half an hour later, when the two sides were in formation, Wang Khan sent all the shield cavalry to the front and sides to form a square formation. It seems that the other party has also seen that the main point of the crane wing array lies in the front and both sides, and the next thing to fight is to see who can penetrate the enemy's defense first.
Huo Ziyang held the tricolor flag in his hand and looked back at Qin Fan, as if seeking consent. Qin Fan looked at the sky, as long as he won this battle today, Mongolia would be left with Temujin and the Naiban tribe in the east.
Qin Fan nodded at Huo Ziyang, Huo Ziyang immediately turned around, slashed forward with the tricolor flag, and shouted: "The whole army charges!" ”
"Kill!"
"Rush!"
In an instant, a majestic roar sounded in the steppe, and thousands of soldiers rode their horses to kill Wang Khan's troops, and the vibration of countless horses' hooves made the whole earth tremble in the shouts.
The distance of five hundred meters, even if there is a mud and snow barrier, it will not affect the impact of the two armies at all, Wang Khan's army also moved after Qin Fan's troops launched a charge, and in an instant, it was pulled into three hundred meters.
The 80,000 archers at the rear of the formation took the lead in launching an attack with the range bonus of Qi Yue, and tens of thousands of arrows crossed the sky and hit the rear of Wang Khan's army.
Qi Yue's attack was guided by Huo Ziyang, and the enemy's front army was protected by shield cavalry, which had a limited lethal effect, but attacking the opponent's archers just played a dual role of killing and countering.
Hindered by Qi Yue's ultra-long-range attack, Wang Khan's archers had not yet exerted their strength, and the front armies of the two sides had already fought!
Xiao Xie's 10,000 golden fire cavalry opened the line, fearlessly colliding with the opponent's hundreds of thousands of shield warriors, and the 130,000 lancers on both sides began to shrink their wings at the first moment of the confrontation, like a black crane fluttering its wings.
"Drink!"
Xiao Xie pointed his sword at Huashan with a move, piercing the oncoming shield, and the blade split the throat of the sergeant hiding behind him in two through the shield, and then turned sideways to dodge several scimitars.
The seventh-order golden fire cavalry that followed followed slashed into the enemy formation together with Xiao Xie, like a sharp dagger stabbing towards Wang Khan's Chinese army.
The lancers led by Yue Ziyun pressed up and were strongly resisted by the shield cavalry, but with the rank advantage and the star dragon defense bonus, the defense of the lancers was basically the same as that of the shield cavalry, and the lethality of the lancers could be truly reflected at this time.
As soon as Batu died, the seventh- and eighth-order generals under Wang Khan were not Xiao Xie Yue Ziyun's opponents at all, and they took their lives within a few rounds.
After the golden fire cavalry drilled into the enemy formation, the central defense was empty, and Huo Ziyang immediately ordered 10,000 people on each side of the rear of the spear cavalry to close the mouth in the center to protect the archery cavalry array. With Qi Yue's accuracy bonus, the arrows of 80,000 archers were accurately delivered to the rear of the enemy army, while the enemy archers were busy dealing with the spear cavalry who flanked them.
In a quarter of an hour of engagement, Xiao Xie led more than 6,000 golden fire cavalry to break through the defense line of several shield war cavalry in a row and enter the spearman array.
"Repeater ready!"
Xiao Xie forced back several people with a sword, turned around and shouted, all the golden fire cavalry who attacked were extremely skilled in taking out automatic crossbows, just in the blink of an eye, thousands of crossbows from the Gongyi vein suddenly shot out tens of thousands of crossbow arrows coated with poison. The dense formation of Wang Khan's lancer troops had no way to retreat, and they ate these tens of thousands of poisonous arrows to the brim, and in this wave, they directly cleared all the obstacles in front of the local archers.
Thousands of lancers fell to the ground with arrows and died foaming at the mouth, as did the horses that were shot. Originally, the cavalry of the two armies fought, unless the enemy was outnumbered, and the purpose was not to kill the war horse, but it was inevitable under the random arrows.
"Haha! Brothers, come with me! ”
Facing the unprotected archers, Xiao Xie laughed wildly and rushed over.
The archers who were originally attacking the two wings suddenly found that the middle was breached, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly returned to defense, and countless arrows suddenly shot towards the golden fire cavalry.
Xiao Xie blocked left and right, shot down a lot of feather arrows, and the golden fire cavalry behind him rushed forward without stopping with heavy armor and helmets that protected their faces.
After sacrificing hundreds of seventh-order golden fire cavalry, most of the men and horses finally rushed into the archer cavalry formation, dancing wildly, and blood splattered ten steps!
Disrupted by the Golden Fire Cavalry, the pressure on the peripheral lancers suddenly decreased, and the offensive became more and more fierce, Huo Ziyang suddenly issued an order to the archers at this time, and the 80,000 army began to detour from both sides, causing greater pressure on the enemy's rear formation.