Chapter 347: Signal

Without strict military orders, no matter how brave the warriors were, they would not want to die in vain, and the almost one-sided battle made the rear party cavalry already begin to retreat, and the iron harriers, who were fighting endlessly in front, fell into the quagmire of the heavy infantry of the Anxi army, unable to advance or retreat.

Wu Yingying was in the middle of the army, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and smiled at Guo Nian, the captain of the Ya Military Academy beside him: "It's a pity that the Tuoba clan has accumulated for a hundred years, and Cai Jiqian has made a desperate gamble on the iron harrier, but it has saved us a lot of trouble." With a wave of his hand, he ordered the crossbow battalion to step forward and shoot the Iron Harrier. After Xiao Jiu received the order, he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to use strong bows and crossbows, loaded with armor-piercing arrows, and shot them one by one behind the pikemen. Iron harriers all sit high on their horses and fight with the infantry underground, the target is extremely obvious, the bow battalion aims and fires without accidentally injuring friendly troops, although these party nobles have the best armor of this era, but they cannot resist the strong crossbow armor-piercing arrows fired at close range, most of the neck, chest, waist and abdomen are shot by multiple arrows, unwilling to fall off the horse.

"Kill!" "Kill!" Cai Jiqian's eyes were already red, he couldn't believe that there were really Han army foot soldiers who could use their flesh and blood to block the iron cavalry charge, and at this moment, looking around, they were all Anxi army sergeants wearing iron helmets like a tide, or holding spears or Mo knives, covering each other to stab the heavy armored cavalry off their horses. In fact, the number of heavy infantry of the Anxi army is not much more than the iron harriers who charge the formation and the retinue that closely follows them, but the foot soldiers are good at array, fighting side by side under the command of the grassroots ten-division commander and centurion, far better than the party people, although the number of heavy infantry and party cavalry of the Anxi army is not much different from the number of party cavalry on the entire battlefield, but in every part it is the Anxi army that has the advantage, and the party cavalry of the brigade is surrounded by the spearmen and knife men side by side in a small space, and they cannot run away at all. At this time, Xiao Jiu had already commanded three crossbow battalions to cross the area where the two armies were fighting, and cooperated with the Mo swordsmen in the front formation to block the party cavalry who were trying to rush into the formation to rescue their master.

After a short time, the Iron Harrier brought out by Cai Jiqian and nearly 10,000 elite tribal cavalry were powerless in front of the Anxi army. Iron Harrier only had more than 1,000 horsemen left on the horse, and under the siege of the Anxi army, hundreds of people gathered in a circle, relying on the strong armor on the men and horses, and struggled to support. Between the elite of the Iron Harriers and the brigade of Party Cavalry, the defense line organized by more than 10,000 Anxi Army spearmen, crossbowmen and Mo knife men is deadly separated.

"My lord, the sons and daughters of the tribe are all trapped in the formation, please urge the army to save them!" The patriarchs of several tribes saw that the iron harrier was trapped in the Han array, and couldn't help but beg Cai Jifeng together, Cai Jifeng's face was already extremely ugly, and he turned his head to look at Po Chaowu beside him, quite Chaowu avoided the eyes of several other patriarchs, including his father, and bowed his head and said: "You can order the crossbowmen to cover the tribal leaders and charge the battle again, and in addition, order the Yinzhou and Suizhou armies to attack the flank of the Anxi army." Cai Jifeng nodded and said in a deep voice: "That's it!"

With the issuance of the Chinese military order flag, the 5,000 Xiazhou crossbow army slowly stepped forward, and there were more than 2,000 Xiazhou army cavalry on the left and right to cover its flanks, while more than 10,000 tribal cavalry followed behind the crossbow array. Wu Yingying saw that Cai Jifeng had sent out his last combat strength, pointed at the five thousand Xiazhou crossbowmen who were in front of him with a horsewhip, and said to Ma Jing, the captain of the Longya Military Academy, sideways: "The Xiazhou crossbow is a sharp weapon to defend the city, and it is a great obstacle to the five states that I have determined that it is difficult, and you will lead the Longya Army and the Hussar Battalion of the Zhubu Army to charge from the side. "Ma Jing was originally a cavalry captain selected by the White Feather Army, and he had a deep grudge against the Tuoba clan, and when he heard this, he immediately urged the war horse and led more than 4,000 horsemen to rush out. These dragon tooth cavalry were detained by Wu Yingying, and the Chinese army had already held back some anger, and now that they had the opportunity to fight, they were like tigers out of the cage, stepping on the billowing smoke and dust, and went straight to the left flank of the crossbow array of the Naxia Zhou army.

The commander of the cavalry who was responsible for covering the left flank saw the Anxi army attacking, and he didn't know what was at stake, so he took his cavalry to meet him. The Dragon's Tooth Cavalry is the elite selected by each cavalry, and the warriors, horse lances, armor, and war horses are the most sophisticated. Before the two armies met, the Anxi army opened the way with hard bow cavalry as usual. Xiazhou cavalry specializes in rushing into battle, cavalry is far inferior to the Mobei barbarians, if it is against the nomadic tribes, it will also prevent cavalry and archery fighting, did not expect to fight with the Central Plains Han cavalry but encountered such a situation, when the cavalry that rushed to the formation was shot to more than 100 horsemen, even the commander Tuoba Chengping was also hit by an arrow in the left shoulder, and the back were lying on the horse to avoid the arrows. The good breed horses introduced by Qingtang rose up on all fours, and in an instant, the speed of the charge was increased, and the Xiazhou cavalry did not react, and the enemy on the opposite side had already been killed.

Captain Ma Jing with more than 100 good at making the big gun of the dragon tooth cavalry for the arrow of the whole army, but see the head of the spear white tassel point, every time is a flick and collect, the party cavalry that was picked by the big gun has fallen off the horse, except for a few strong martial arts people use big guns, the Anxi cavalry are all using a five-foot long horse lance, much longer than the spear and scimitar of the Xiazhou cavalry, stretched out in front of the enemy, wiped the neck, stabbed the chest and abdomen, wounded the horse, the Xiazhou cavalry is not like the iron harrier like the people and horses tightly tied together, often a face is stabbed off the horse, the huge impact force even took the cavalry off the saddle and fell to the ground, the Anxi cavalry crotch war horse neighing, the dragon tooth rider took advantage of the situation to pull out the horse lance from the Xiazhou cavalry who was pierced through. More than 2,000 cavalry cavalry blocked it, and even the speed of the dragon's tooth cavalry did not slow down much.

The five thousand crossbowmen who were protected by the Xiazhou army did not have time to change their formation, and they were broken into the flank by the dragon's tooth cavalry, and the blade of the horse lance swept the crossbowmen with thin armor, and the violent iron hooves suddenly rushed the originally neat Xiazhou crossbow array into a mess. The crossbowmen had no power to fight back in front of the iron cavalry that rushed to the front, but they retreated one after another, and the tribal cavalry behind refused to leave behind the iron harriers, who were still surrounded by the Anxi army, and desperately moved forward under the supervision of the leader. The Xiazhou crossbowmen were scurrying around between the two cavalry armies, and most of them discarded the strong crossbows that the Tuoba clan regarded as a secret treasure and dodged in all directions.

Cai Keyuan, Cai Keshun and others originally had no intention of fighting, but seeing that the main force of the Xiazhou Army had also been defeated, they fought their horses one after another, preparing to lead their headquarters to withdraw from the battlefield. After receiving an order from Cai Jifeng of the Chinese army to let the Yinzhou and Suizhou armies attack the two wings of the Anxi Army, Cai Keyuan sneered: "It's ridiculous, the Han people still have a large force of cavalry hiding in Lingzhou City and not showing up, now let's attack and kill his two wings, isn't it in vain?" Judging from the battle situation of the dragon tooth cavalry who defeated the Xiazhou cavalry in one fell swoop, the combat power of the cavalry brought by Wu Yingying is better than that of the hussars, and there is no suspense in this battle, all you have to do is to preserve the strength as much as possible. The Suizhou Army and the Lingzhou Army have always obeyed the orders of Cai Keyuan and Cai Keshun, and they did not care that there were still many Dingyan troops and Dangxiang troops who were still fighting with the Anxi Army, and they turned their horses' heads and withdrew from the battlefield on their own.

In the face of this situation of defeat, Cai Jifeng's face turned pale, the decisive battle of the original plan of equal strength was as unbearable as an egg hitting a stone, Cai Jiqian led the Iron Harrier to charge and the life and death were uncertain, but he couldn't wait any longer, sighed, and led the remaining Iron Harrier and the Xiazhou cavalry to pull back the horse.

Seeing that the party was loosening. The Anxi army immediately sent a signal to pursue, and more than 4,000 cavalry of the hussars and Tayan armies poured out of Weng City and pursued them in the direction of the retreat of the party army. Behind the cavalry was the Lian Rui army who was chasing after him on horseback. When the party was defeated, they scattered, and at this moment they each drove their war horses, and in a moment, only corpses and war horses that had lost their owners were left outside Lingzhou City.

Until the party army completely retreated, Wu Yingying ordered the foot soldiers to rest in place, but they were not allowed to disarm. The sword and shield men searched for wounded soldiers on the battlefield, and if they were only slightly wounded, they were sent to the city for treatment, and if they were seriously wounded, they gave him a ride. Until the evening, the three armies pursuing the enemy still did not return, so Wu Yingying ordered the Jiaorong army to take over the city defense, and the other armies held the camp. Before the battle, the strategy of chasing the enemy was decided, and the three armies of Hussars, Tayan, and Lianrui were to pursue all the way, hoping to capture the leaders of the Tuoba clan on the one hand, and forcing more party cavalry to fall behind. The Duhan army had already organized the steppe tribes along the way to attack and capture those who had fallen behind.

When it was getting late, Lin Hong sent someone to send a party leader over, "He claimed to be Cai Jiqian, hoping to see the lord and die again." Lin Hong explained. Wu Yingying glanced outside, the party was bald, his armor had been peeled off, he was only wearing a leather jacket inside, his skin was dark, and he looked almost the same as the ordinary party nobles in the Shengfan tribe, and he was kneeling outside the tent with his hands kneeling with his hands on his back, but his head was very stubbornly raised, and his eyes flashed like a wolf.

"Anyone who claims to be Cai Jiqian will be beheaded immediately, and the head will be given to the other captives for identification before returning to me. Although Wu Yingying was a little curious about why Cai Jiqian saw him, he still said firmly. The party members outside the tent were taken down, and he shouted loudly, not in Chinese, but in a language that Wu Yingying did not understand, and he looked at Xingu, who could understand many tribal languages. "It's not Mongolian, Dangxiangqiang, or Khitan," Xin Gu said, shaking his head, the expression on his face showed extreme disgust, he had no heart, and he didn't speak human words. It didn't take long for Cai Jiqian's shouting outside the tent to stop abruptly, and before long, his head was identified and presented.

"It will no longer be you who will leave your name in history, but me. Wu Yingying looked at the wide-eyed head on the tray, said in a deep voice, and waved his hand to let the sergeant hang this head to the public, to comfort the souls of more than 20,000 Han people who were killed by the party members.