Chapter 65: The Bloody Plains

Zhao Yunyuan was in the northeast plain of the town, leading 2,000 Xuanjia elite soldiers and 3,000 Xuanjia militia to garrison this place, and there were 1,000 elite cavalry among the 2,000 Xuanjia elite soldiers, which was powerful. And because Zhao Yun is stationed here all the year round, he is very familiar with the surrounding terrain, and the field of vision on the plain is vast, without too much cover, although the five thousand Xuanjia soldiers are mighty, but in this vast plain, it looks like it is only a small pile.

The night was uneventful, and it was early in the morning. The horizon is white, and the morning sun peeks out. It seems that here, you can see the end of the world. The Liuqing River ends here, and the northeasternmost part of the plain, near the end, is not separated by the river, and if it is an attack, it will inevitably come from here, and the other side will not be able to build so many ships.

The Coalition Army's march on the Third Route Plain relied mainly on cavalry and spearmen, and from this point of view, the initiators of this invasion still had some brains. Since ancient times, spearmen and cavalry have only common sense among soldiers. As the first rays of the morning sun shot out, obliquely shining on the plain, the heavenly soldiers faintly appeared the figures of soldiers and horses.

The wind blew, the grass waves churned, and the waves spread out in circles, but I don't know when, the wind in the middle grassland stopped, as if blocked by trees.

"Woo~~~~"

"Woo~~~~"

The sound of the horn sounded, and all the Xuanjia soldiers were on alert, and before Zhao Yun could give the order, the formation was already complete. Five thousand male soldiers, lined up in a square formation, with a spear of condensed morale above their heads.

Hearing the horn from Zhao Yun's side, the combined army also fought back, making the sound of attack, and for a while, the soldiers were like a tide, attacking in the direction of Baitang Town, the spear in his hand was raised, exuding a cold glow.

The corners of Zhao Yun's mouth turned up slightly, it seemed that the other party was a leader who didn't like pre-war nonsense, which he appreciated. Tactical adjustments were made immediately, allowing the lancers to attack from the left flank and the archers to harass the attack on the right flank, and the 4,000 infantry, with elite soldiers as the point of their guns, divided into three lanes to tear the enemy apart.

Attacking the plains on this way is the only one in the coalition army with cavalry forces, named Mahua Village, the village elder Ma Huateng is from a world similar to the earth's civilization, where they are still in the era of cold weapons, he was leading a team of cavalry to fight the enemy country, and then came to this world inexplicably, at first he has been worried about what will happen to his country. Later, I figured it out, what can I do when the faint monarch is in power?

He began to vigorously develop his cavalry with the cavalry manual he had drawn in the early stage, after all, this was his old profession. It's a pity that luck has been good and bad, and the village has only been at level four after a year, but he is very confident in his cavalry, and the reason why he agreed to participate in this joint attack is mainly because he heard about what happened on the plain that day.

Five hundred iron riders rode on the wolf.

Of course, there is a more important reason, the lord of Zibo promised him, if this battle succeeds in destroying Baitang Town, then all the secrets about the cavalry of Baitang Town will belong to him, and he can also allow him to develop in the area of the Northeast Plain.

Tempt.

It was a naked temptation, a condition he had no way to refuse.

The two armies were getting closer and closer, and he saw Zhao Yun's thoughts, and said a good tactic in his heart. They attacked in a circle, maintaining a charge formation in formation, with 3,000 cavalry leading the way and 20,000 infantry as the handle. But Zhao Yun changed like this, and turned it into pieces, but grabbed his weakness.

"The cavalry retreated, and the spearmen stepped forward and dispersed."

His reaction was extremely fast, and in just ten words, he had already cracked Zhao Yun's scissor formation, if Zhao Yun continued to attack in this formation, the final result would be that the cavalry would be completely wiped out by the spearmen of the combined army.

"The spears retreated, the infantry stopped, the divine feather soldiers wound up, and the archers continued to harass the enemy."

Zhao Yun stopped the charge, the opponent was too numerous, and now the formation was restrained, it was not easy to change, the solution was to stop the advance and brake quietly. Sure enough, the opponent did not change the formation again, but he did not stop either.

"Prepare to go into attack range. Three hundred steps! ”

"Two hundred and fifty steps!"

"Two hundred steps!"

"Shoot the arrows! Clearing. ”

The three hundred Divine Feather Soldiers did not stop for a moment, their fingers kept pulling the trigger, and one after another crossbow arrows shot out of the Zhuge Repeater, twenty arrows for one person, and six thousand arrows for three hundred people. What's more, after Zhuge cleared the crossbow, the Shenyu soldiers took out their bows from behind them and shot out the arrows in the quiver one by one.

Three hundred! But a rain of arrows was shot.

"How is that possible?" Ma Huateng couldn't believe it, what kind of weapon was that, why could the other party shoot such a rain of arrows with so few archers. If your own country had such a weapon at the beginning, why worry about the country. Before he could finish his thoughts, another rain of arrows hit him on his right.

Archers!

There are actually archers, and he, who has been training cavalry all year round, naturally knows what the significance of archers is. How difficult it is to draw a bow and arrow while riding a horse, but with the handy weapons of the other party, it is much easier to train the archers.

Two rains of arrows fell in the middle of the marching procession, screaming and wailing. Even the chiefs of several second-tier villages died in this round of attacks. An army of 20,000 men was reduced to at least three or four thousand at the moment, and most of them were spearmen. Now there is a gap on the left and right, and if this continues, the gap will get bigger and bigger.

"All the troops are attacking!"

With a shout from Ma Huateng, the two thousand cavalry who had originally retreated to the rear of the army sped up and rushed to the front of the ranks, and there was also a long spear with condensed morale on their heads.

It's an elite team.

Zhao Yun raised the flag in his hand, and an order was issued.

The archers retreated, the spearmen turned to the right flank and advanced, and the spearmen stepped forward to meet the frontal attack.

"Kill!"

The two armies finally met each other in a short battle, some of the spearmen of Baitang Town met the cavalry of the upper coalition army, and some of them fought with their spearmen, the gap in the right flank was not blocked by the spearmen, and the Xuanjia cavalry was like a sharp blade piercing the enemy's heart, and the morale spear on the top of the head pierced directly into the core place and blew up.

Eventually, by the time the left flank of the opposing side penetrated, there were less than two hundred people left. But the opponent's casualties are definitely more than ten times, this is an elite soldier, although there are few people, but it can kill the enemy ten times!

But the frontal battlefield is not very optimistic, after all, it is just a militia that has not been trained for too long, under the impact of the other side, almost all of them were wiped out, and there were less than five hundred, but the cavalry of the combined army also suffered heavy casualties, and there were eight or nine out of ten. If you really want to calculate it, it can be said that they are equal to the change of life, and they lose a lot.

The task assigned by the lord was completed, and Zhao Yun waved the flag again.

The whole army retreats!

After all, the opponent's number has an absolute advantage, and plain warfare is different from jungle warfare, there is no place to ambush, what is fought is a tactic and number, and more than 10,000 enemies are destroyed with the strength of 5,000 people, which is already a classic battle. There were less than 800 Xuanjia soldiers, and only 100 of the 300 archers remained, but the archers were almost undamaged.

It can be said that this is the road with the most soldiers killed in White Sugar Town in this war. Fortunately, the Xuanjia soldiers fled quickly, and there were not many casualties in the enemy's pursuit.