Chapter 239: Realization

Although the Tubo cavalry on the left flank was violent, it was obvious that there was no way to hold the defense line of the Modao battalion like a wall of knives, and the cavalry was like a tide beating on the coast, smashing wave after wave on the Modao battalion like a rock, although it caused a lot of pressure on the Modao fighters on the left flank, it could still support it in a short time. The party cavalry on the right flank is different, the Tuoba tribe has entered the Central Plains to fight since the time of the Wuhu Chaohua, and it is more of a way to deal with the strong formation of the infantry army, Yinzhou Thorn Shi Cai Ke saw that the army formation of Wu Yingxing's army has been squeezed into a form like a thin-shelled egg, as long as it breaks through the defense line of the two wings, it can disturb the crossbowmen and sword and shield hands in the formation, and then cover the front formation, and finally defeat all the Wu Yingxing's army, and finally make up his mind, concentrate three hundred iron harriers, divided into three teams, and constantly impact the Modao battalion on the right flank, while the other party cavalry keeps riding and shooting arrows into the Modao battalion, although most of the arrows can not penetrate the heavy armor of the Modao, but the heavy armor-piercing arrows smashed on the armor of the Mo swordsman, and there were some people with superb marksmanship, specifically aiming at the eye sockets, throats and other places that the helmet could not cover, and many Mo swordsmen died under this cold arrow.

Wu Yingying looked at the four thousand iron horsemen gathered behind the Song army's large array, and said in a deep voice: "The enemy still has the last trump card yet, and it will support it for a while." As he spoke, with the impact of the Yinzhou Party concentrated on three hundred iron harriers, the defense line of the right wing Modao battalion was finally broken through, and the iron harriers with tight armor poured into the formation like a torrent of steel, and the Mo knife hand in the back row immediately turned around and slashed towards the iron cavalry that broke into the defense line, desperately trying to plug the gap, but the party cavalry was too much, and the short gap opened by the iron harrier was under the advance of the cavalry, which became bigger and bigger, and the defense line of the right wing Modao battalion was torn in half, fortunately, the Modao was also a sharp weapon in the melee, and the Mo knife hand who was broken out of formation was still fighting hard and did not collapse。

Yeli Honors is one of the first few iron harriers to break through the Han Mo knife formation, it's not easy, his team rushed three times, three of the ten noble party nobles fell under the Mo knife, and finally tore a gap, the life and death of the prancing horse under the knife bush completely stimulated the ferocity of Yeli Honors, he almost deliberately let the heavily armored war horse iron hooves step on the corpse of the Han soldiers, urging the horse to go straight to the hedgehog gathered a group of crossbowmen, in front of the iron harriers wrapped in armor, these crossbowmen, and unarmed girls are no different。

Lu Zhongjie, the captain of the Lingbo battalion, stared closely at the enemy cavalry rushing madly from the gap, and shouted: "Brothers, draw your sword!" Behind him, the crossbowmen of the Lingbo battalion, the Bashan battalion, and the Wild Goose Shooting battalion all rose up to make well-built, hard-practiced, but almost never used on the battlefield in the self-defense short soldiers, plate axes, maces, and hemp knives, these various but incomparably heavy short soldiers, wielded in the hands of the powerful crossbowmen.

Before he could feel the pleasure of a blind, thinly armored foot soldier with a head and shoulders, his horse was struck on the head by a hammer, and at the same time he felt a pain in his waist, which was a sharp plate axe that cut through his armor. When Yeli Rongmin opened his eyes again, he saw the heavy footsteps of countless foot soldiers in one direction, and with a bang, an iron shoe stepped heavily on his head. The life-for-life style of the crossbowmen finally blocked the gap in the defensive line torn by the party iron harriers. Yinzhou Thorn Shi Cai Keyuan did not organize the heavy cavalry to break through again, but almost slacked off with light cavalry outside the right flank defense line to ride and shoot guerrilla, the battle just now almost damaged the general iron harrier, even if this battle can capture tens of thousands of prisoners, it is not worth the loss, not to mention the resolute situation of the Han army's resistance, it is difficult to say whether there are prisoners in this battle.

"In this battle, the bow and crossbow battalion should be the first to work. Wu Yingying looked at the crossbowmen who thought that their armor was thin and was knocked down by the enemy cavalry, but they were still desperately moving forward, and praised in a deep voice, his heart ached, these archers who drew their swords and the formation of the sword and shield battalion and the Modao battalion had been mixed together, and they withstood the roundabout flank attack of the enemy cavalry on both wings. He looked up and saw that under the sharp attack of the spearmen in the front formation, the Song saber and shield bearers and crossbowmen suffered equally heavy casualties, and the Han army's large array was still slowly moving forward. Compared with the Han army, the only regret of the forbidden army is that after the formation was broken, it lacked the ruthlessness of people to fight to the last pawn, and the courage of the sergeants to fight.

Before the rout, the casualty rate of the conscious winner and the conscious loser on the battlefield is not much different, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, most of the casualties occur after the collapse of the formation, for example, if the Han army front was torn apart by the iron harrier just now, if the crossbowmen in the middle fall into chaos, then what follows is likely to be a one-sided massacre. However, instead of retreating, the crossbow battalion organized a counterattack, so although the enemy cavalry that broke into the formation had a certain advantage in the battle damage exchange ratio, if they did not want to fill all their lives into the war meat grinder, they had no choice but to retreat and continue to seek a way to defeat the Han army at a relatively small cost.

Because of this, the so-called genius commanders are all masters of psychological warfare, and they will spare no effort to create panic among the enemy army, making them panic, making it difficult to carry out military orders, and finally falling into a state of collapse. It is precisely because the spirit of tenacity and courage of the whole army has been cultivated to the extreme that the Han army led by Wu Yingying dares to be confident, as long as there is the determination to fight to the end, all conspiracies and tricks will eventually be invisible under the brave killing of the sergeants.

"Once it is broken through by the Han army, it is more likely that a collapse will occur in the forbidden army. Dong Zunzhi, what are you waiting for?" Wu Yingying looked at the high general flag of the Great Song Lingzhou inspection on the opposite side and muttered. Even in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty when the forbidden army was in its heyday, the situation of defeat was endless in the history books, Wu Yingying believed that Dong Zunzhi, who was the general of the forbidden army, would not dare to gamble on the serious consequences of the collapse of the Chinese army.

Dong Zunzhi looked at the Han army that was almost surrounded by regiments with a complicated face, the two wings actually withstood the flank attack of the superior cavalry, and the well-trained spearmen in the front were still desperately moving forward. The towns in the northwest have paid special attention to the training of spearmen since the Qin period, but the formation is tight and sharp to the extent of the Wu Hero Han Army, which is really rare, with the elite of the Tongyuan and Hujie armies, desperately resisting, they are also killed and retreated, seeing that the front line is getting thinner and thinner, and those party items and Tubo people are still in vain beating horses to impact the Han army's increasingly consolidated flank defense line.