Chapter 258: Harding Point

When he was still fighting back-to-back with Luo Lan in the sand, Wen Cheng didn't survive a minute before he was troubled by the cavalry spears that rushed one after another, Luo Lan had her own superb martial arts, but Wen Cheng could only dodge left and right with Ning Zhi, and the circuit was soon empty.

Suddenly, the world turned around, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had been dragged back to the Chinese army by General Fubo.

Then, he looked at the red and black pressure of the Eastern Han Army and was dumbfounded.

Liu Zhen, do you still have this magical summoning skill?!

It's Rune, you idiot! Liu Zhen glared at him, and neither of them dared to quarrel in the midst of being surrounded by stars.

At that time, it was very hot, and Chinese Cheng shivered like that, and the nervous feeling was still fresh in my memory. If it was a few months later, he would have raised his voice and commanded, but now he is still a high school student!

However, on the surface, he was not surprised at all, which surprised him himself.

The spearmen of the front army had already engaged the enemy's forward, but the enemy's heavy cavalry was not stupid, although the spears of the Han army were shorter than the knights' spears, but the knights who mistakenly thought that the enemy had hidden a section of the spear still chose to cut from the sides and instead attack the light cavalry on the flanks of our army.

It is worth mentioning that the preset tactics of the Crusaders were in vain, at this time the proportion of Anglo-Saxons was still very small, and the heavy cavalry of the Franks had infantry archers ready to shoot, but the targets when charging were only Wen Cheng and Su Meng, so the archers were not on board. This rhythm was out of order, and at this time, the enemy's several bow formations could not reach our army even if they spread the range of the team, so we had to follow the usual rules and wait for the knights to return before gathering the team.

As for the knights, their tactics were not to rush forward with a dead brain, but to rush back at the right time according to the judgment of the knight commander after penetrating an enemy formation, but unfortunately the two wings of the Han army did not give them a chance.

Return to the Han Army.

The next time was actually very embarrassing, Luo Lan was carried back by Zhu You as a child, Wen Cheng was still identifying more than 30 generals next to Liu Zhen one by one (Yuntai 28 generals plus Ma Yuan, Lai She, Wang Chang, Li Tong and other generals), at the same time, because she was mistaken for Liu Xiu, the long-lost excitement occupied Liu Zhen's heart, and she was embarrassed to say Oh, I'm just her sister.

But Chixiao suddenly vibrated with a buzz, driving her neutral voice to give orders, and some names couldn't even be reported by Liu Zhen herself.

The Empress spoke.

"Gongsun (Feng Yi), you take Jun Wen and Zi Yi to lead the left army to the west to contain the Knights Hospitaller, Jun Ran (Cen Peng), you and Zhong Xian, Boshan lead the right army and the Knights Templar to fight and then intersperse in the northeast direction, and then feint all the way back." She glanced at everyone and said, "The enemy is all heavy cavalry, do you understand?" ”

Time is our friend.

"No!" Six generals scattered from the left and right flanks.

The Empress looked back at her comrades with satisfaction, then looked at the golden boy in the center of the enemy line, and then she raised the red sky and made a gesture ready to charge.

Suddenly pointed to Wen Cheng.

"Let me see your talents, knight."

"Me?!" Wen Cheng pointed to himself.

You want me to command the army?! I'm still a high school student!

In fact, Liu Xiu is also very helpless, and he has been watching the performance of this stunned person for a long time, but he is still a little uneasy about handing over his real sister to him. Cultivating this knight is one thing, but more importantly, her possession at this moment is extremely energy-consuming, in order to leave the effect of Lune to the soldiers, she returned to the red sky in the next second.

Then there was the dumbfounded Liu Zhen, why would I raise my sword against this idiot!

Wen Cheng quickly regained his composure.

Well, it's all up to heaven!

He looked around with a vague memory, only to find that his side was at a great disadvantage.

To the east there is a hill several hundred meters high, followed by a cliff, and the pass in the north turns through the bay of the Hamam River to Lake Tiberias in the east. To the south, there are two outward-facing cliffs called Cape Harding, which protect the village below.

Saladin had achieved a great victory here, he scattered his legions into multiple raids, the main force was backed by the Hamam River and Lake Tiberias to control the water source, but he used the water source as a lure but set fire to the bushes in front of the battle, forcing the Crusaders to retreat to a cliff at Cape Hardin, and then closed the encirclement in the early morning of the fourth of July on the decisive battle, and the arrows of the crossbowmen were concentrated at the Crusader infantry. In the face of a severe shortage of water, the then king Guy ordered the infantry to concentrate in the center, with the intention of keeping the better-protected cavalry at bay against the enemy, but this inexplicable order threw the demoralized army into confusion, and the enemy repeatedly approached the mountain and died in a rain of arrows halfway up the mountain. In the gradually shrinking encirclement, the Crusaders concentrated heavy knights to break through. Saladin chose to leave a gap to let some of the knights go, and then re-encircled the encirclement, and the infantry saw that there was no hope of breaking through, so they threw down their weapons and surrendered.

However, although Saladin became famous for these two battles, he suffered a lot in the later battles with the more cunning Richard the Lionheart, and such a thing would have happened to Saladin, and perhaps also to the victorious Han army.

In addition to the slightly weaker forces, the disadvantage of our army lies in four points.

First, the positions were reversed, the wise Baldwin IV chose to line up north of Cape Harding with his back to the Hamam River, while our side fell directly below Cape Harding and was sandwiched between two cliffs, so the enemy squeezed us into the vantage point of the slaughter at Cape Harding. This is also why Liu Xiuhui ordered the left and right wings to separate at the first time.

Second, the enemies are all heavily armoured, and they are in the state of Heroic Spirit Crystal, so their tolerance to high temperatures and water shortages is much higher than that of ordinary people.

Third, Baldwin personally sat in charge, and his morale was greatly boosted.

The fourth is also the most fatal.

Sister Xiu is so dumb, leaving Liu Zhen with an embarrassed face, how can this be good?!

Fortunately, the rest of the generals are all capable of fighting well, so ......

Wen Cheng did not let go of this opportunity of trial and error and decided to command it himself.

He walked to the nearby high ground, spent five minutes quietly looking around the battlefield situation on the left and right flanks, motionless, and then listened to the familiar General Fubo introduce the generals, Taifu Deng Yu was arranging the nearby precautions and rushed to come, Wu Han was also by his side, and a dozen generals with lower official positions led a soldier and horse to disperse under Deng Yu's arrangement. It stands to reason that they are more or less generals who command tens of thousands of troops, and the situation of leading hundreds of soldiers at this time is also quite interesting.

The spearmen of the front army had engaged the second wave of the enemy's cavalry. The length of our guns has been spotted by the enemy. In the scuffle, Baldwin waved his hand, and Humphrey led nearly 2,000 archers in a horizontal formation to approach the arrow curtain.

The spearmen of the two colonels of the front army were about to break up, but Wen Cheng remained calm. Liu really wanted to charge his horse and was held down by him.

If he said that he was excited, Wen Cheng would not lose to anyone, but while watching the engagement between the front army and the enemy light cavalry, he felt the subtle changes in morale one after another and the clumsy use of troops by the generals and enemy generals of the front army.

At this moment, the former army general is Lang Xie Taishou Chen Jun, he handed over the command to Shanggu Taishou Wangba, and then rode to the Chinese army in the rain of arrows, and Ren Guang asked for a light cavalry of more than a dozen people, all of them were replaced with one-handed crossbows and charged diagonally, successfully attracting the attention of most of the enemy's archers, while riding while scattering crossbow arrows, after two serpentine maneuvers, he did not choose to rush into the bow formation, but killed a horse gun and drilled into the enemy's light cavalry rear column, brushed along the edge of the enemy formation, after the crossbow arrows were released, Chen Jun pulled out an iron rod, Swinging at the heavy armor that had lost its speed advantage, the medieval knights who fought vomited blood.

Chen Jun's light crossbow cavalry team succeeded in making the enemy's arrow rain ineffective, and he easily shuttled through the gaps in the battlefield to disrupt the enemy's position, and the morale of the two school's gun formations was greatly boosted, and the front line resumed fierce dog-tooth fighting.

But Wen Cheng was distressed, and he motioned to Deng Yu, who deliberately asked Du Mao to pull him back.

Fortunately, everywhere was in a situation that was not considered a crisis, Liu Zhen looked at the calm eyes of Wen Cheng and the generals, and had no choice but to follow the battle with the idea of holding back the charge.

But the weakness of our position was certain, for the two wings were temporarily out of contact, and the infantry could not withstand several rounds of cavalry charges under such a short frontage between the two mountain passes, while Baldwin's bow formation was restored to order and began to fire volleys again.

The tide of the war is gradually turning unfavorable.

At this time, Wen Chengqiang endured his impulsiveness and nervousness, while checking the map drawn by Deng Yu's temporary climbing, while chewing a chocolate bar, Liu Zhen also took out the biscuits from his bag and handed them to the generals, and then looked at them without pretending to understand.

Wen Cheng suddenly raised his head, and looked at Ma Yuan, Deng Yu, and Wu Han, and had an idea.