The cavalry did move, but it was not the rushing camp led by Li Fusheng, but the two cavalry on both sides of the rushing camp, totaling more than 6,000 cavalry, began to accelerate.

For cavalry, the distance from the battlefield is extremely important, and if the horse wants to raise the speed, it must have enough distance for it to accelerate.

The cavalry that cannot rush is like a living target.

Later ancient war movies were in pursuit of the feeling of the picture, so there were often scenes of cavalry riding on horseback and drawing knives after a large-scale charge.

In fact, the most effective way to use cavalry is its speed and the terrifying charge it gives to it, generally speaking, if you can pull the troops out again after a collision, take a short rest, and then relaunch a new charge, and repeat it several times, this is the most correct way to open the cavalry.

Just like squeezing toothpaste, use every possible way to press out the last bit of toothpaste and brush your teeth again.

However, to be able to do this level, it must be an extremely high-quality cavalry unit, and a cavalry team that has no discipline or no organization, plus the quality of war horses and cavalry, may launch a charge, and then smash the wall with eggs, and scatter the flowers like this, and they can't get it back if they want to.

The quality of the Zhenbei Army, Zheng Fan has seen it personally, and he is really not worried about this at all, the cavalry on both sides moved, but the part of the Chinese army where Zheng Fan is staying did not move.

Zheng Shoubei is an adult, and he doesn't have to run in front of him with a horse lance like a child like Liang Cheng.

Therefore, Zheng Shoubei is here to carefully "take charge of the overall situation".

There were more than 3,000 cavalry on each side, and they stabbed directly at the front of the military formation.

This is the most "elite" of the three formations of this cadre army.

The ancestral army is famous for its military discipline and military formation, but as a newly rising army, they have already played their prestige and confidence.

however

In the face of this rolling iron hoof,

There was a panic in the hearts of every soldier.

pirates,

No matter how powerful the pirates are,

It's impossible to make such a cavalry battle!

"Spear, press!"

"Whew! Swish! Swish!!! ”

The spearmen in the front row crouched down, their spears raised diagonally upward, the rear end against the ground, and they used their flesh and blood to build thorns to block the charge of the iron cavalry in front of them.

The pikemen in the back row hold the spear between his right arm, and his left hand is responsible for fixing and orienting the spear, with the tip of the gun forward.

The dense tip of the spear was the shell of the military formation, a shell covered with spikes.

It's just that many of them are already shaking their hands and feet.

In the face of the cavalry charge and oppression, just like the future generations stand there in the face of motorcycles rushing towards you at full speed, who can not be afraid?

They are all human beings, they are all living people, who wants to die like this?

But they know that as the outermost existence of the military formation, the probability of surviving after a big battle is really very low.

Especially the pikemen in the front row, even if their spears can pierce the opponent's war horse, even if their spears can pick off the opponent's knights, but the terrifying inertia carried by the war horses can also knock them out.

In that state, every extra moment of survival is an extra moment of torture.

"Axeman!!"

"Whew! Swish! Swish! Swish! ”

The axemen began to take position, they were behind the shield soldiers, but after the charge took place, they would quickly break away from the protection of the shield and rush up, all they had to do was to go up and slash the cavalry after the spear robes in the front row had blocked the cavalry charge.

After the shield soldiers, there are archers and crossbowmen, in fact, the real military formation kill output is provided by them.

Although Zu Zhuming was born in Jiangmen, his Jiangmen is really a little too shabby, in the final analysis, the development of the ancestral family still depends on Zu Zhuming's personal ability, and at the same time, he has to thank the thousands of heads provided by the Southeast Sea Bandits in those years to help pave the way.

This is a person who is good at learning and studying war, when the official will was issued and the ancestral army was transferred to the north, Zu Zhuming was actually thinking about the way to ride on foot.

No, to be exact, for a hundred years, as long as there is still blood and dreams in the hearts of the Qianguo generals, they will sit in some nights, thinking about how to deal with the impact of the Yan cavalry.

The defeat a hundred years ago is an eternal pain in the hearts of the cadres, there are many people who are afraid of the Northern Expedition, but there are more people who look forward to the success of the Northern Expedition!

Zu Dongcheng sat on horseback, and one after another orders were issued through the heralds beside him.

The changes on the battlefield always happen in an instant, and the general is the brain of an army, and only through the command of the brain will the torso make corresponding movements.

However, sometimes there will be problems with this coordination, either because the general is too mediocre to make the right decisions in time, or the quality of the soldiers is not good, and no matter how talented a person is, if he is physically defective or disabled, it is difficult for you to let him do heavy work well.

This is the run-in between the general and his own subordinates.

In the early years, in order to gain military power, the founding emperor of Qianguo transferred the elite of various armies to enrich the forbidden army when formulating national policies.

Once there is a war in the empire, the forbidden army will be pulled out of Beijing to quell the chaos.

It's just that Emperor Taizong's Northern Expedition buried the elite of the forbidden army in one fell swoop and turned into a "silver wave";

The second is to inherit the peaceful years, so that the forbidden army has been self-corroding.

Although there had been no large-scale war between Yan and Qian, the forbidden army of the Qianguo State had begun to degenerate to the extent that even the rebellion within the empire could not be quelled in peacetime.

Who would have expected that the more than 100,000 troops of the forbidden army would be attacked by wolf soldiers in the valley, which led to the collapse of the whole line at that time, so that the Tusi who were still watching the Tusi saw that the Qianguo army was so useless and immediately joined, which made the situation in the southwest completely erosive.

Whether it is the ancestral army or the Western army, in fact, they all stand up by stepping on the corpse of the forbidden army, and when the central army is unable to assume responsibility, it is inevitable that the local feudal towns will sit on the throne.

In the feudal town, naturally there will be no situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and do not know the soldiers.

Zu Dongcheng's palms were full of sweat,

He knows that

Whether his ancestral army can really stand up depends on this move!

Since the Yan army on the opposite side chose his own side as the breakthrough, then try it and see if you Yan people have this good tooth mouth!

"Beat the drums!"

Zu Dongcheng ordered.

"Knock knock knock!"

The sound of war drums came, and the ancestral army began to change formations following the drums.

Zu Dongcheng believes in his command ability, and he will never be worse than the Yan Manzi general on the opposite side.

But what he doesn't know is that

The Yan army on the opposite side,

It's ...... at all No one is in command.

At this time, the six thousand iron cavalry of the Northern Army of Zhenzhen, which rushed out from both wings, had already reached a certain distance, and all the knights began to draw their bows and arrows.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou! ”

The two wings rained down arrows,

The knights stretched their bows and arrows on their horses and clamped their legs on their horses, and their weights were balanced with those of the galloping horses.

The pikemen on the periphery of the army immediately suffered many casualties, and at the same time, almost unavoidably, the two flanks of the army began to be compressed.

People are afraid of death, when facing the charge of the cavalry before, everyone was already very afraid in their hearts, and now the arrows are coming, back a little, back a little more, this is instinct!

"Shoot the arrows!"

Zu Dongcheng gave an order, and the archers and crossbowmen in the army began to counterattack.

Instead of dodging the rain of arrows and retreating like the last time he tried to do so, the knights of the Zhenbei Army continued to move forward, and at the same time continued to draw their bows and arrows, because the distance was close enough that they didn't need to shoot anymore, and they could find their heads.

For a while, the death and wound rate of the ancestral army in the military formation began to increase rapidly, especially the pikemen on the periphery, they did not have the protection of shields, and the armor on their bodies was not very good at protecting them, so they could only be shot to the ground one by one like sculptures.

This is the cruelty of war, and it is also the ruthlessness of war, but this is also a matter of no way, if there is no pikemen on the periphery of the army to intercept, when facing the cavalry impact later, it will not be able to hold it at all.

It's just that the Zhenbei Army also began to suffer casualties, and one by one the cavalry was shot and fell off their horses, or the horses fell to the ground with arrows.

However, the knights of the two Zhenbei armies did not slow down, but continued to close the distance, while continuing to draw their bows and arrows.

This is changing lives, this is fighting for courage!

The knights, who had dismounted and were not dead, quickly gathered together and began to fire their arrows, not dazed or out of battle, but tried to cover their robes as much as possible.

Near, near, near,

It's close!

"Change formation!"

Zu Dongcheng ordered.

The shieldmen began to retreat, the axemen began to move forward, ready to meet the cavalry charge, and the bed crossbows in the middle of the formation began to aim.

The advantage of the bed crossbow is that it has a long range and great lethality, but the disadvantage is that it is very slow to wind.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ………”

Every shot of the bed crossbow was accompanied by a string of blood splatters.

however

What shocked Zu Dongcheng was that

The cavalry, which had already rushed into battle and pulled the distance, actually turned their horses' heads at the last moment.

This is a quick turn of the cavalry, this scene, very considering the coordination and discipline of the troops, but also considering the horsemanship of the cavalry, a little bit of bad control, there will be a situation where their own families collide together and then trigger a follow-up series of rear-end collisions, resulting in the troops being blocked there.

This kind of tactic, Zheng Fan has seen before, when Liang Cheng led the troops, he took his own barbarian cavalry to fly kites, and basically solved the escort of a convoy without any casualties.

In the outer area where the cavalry on both flanks turned, hundreds of cavalry on each side did not choose to follow the turn of the large army, but chose to directly attack the opponent's military formation.

Because the troops need space to turn, their departure can free up the space they need for their robes, plus the distance is already very close, at this time to stop the horse's head will soon be shot into a hedgehog.

Therefore, it is better to directly use this horse speed that has been mentioned to the extreme and hit it directly!

"Poof! Burst! Burst! Burst! ”

One by one, the horses were pierced by spears, and a knight was overturned, but their men and their horses still smashed into the army formation of the ancestral army with a strong inertia.

The two wings were directly knocked out of two large gaps.

"Hiss........."

"Hiss........."

Two puffs of cold air, almost at the same time.

One, it's Zheng Fan.

Seeing so many elite knights smashed up like this, Zheng Shoubei felt distressed, how much money did it cost to arm them, how much energy and cost did it take to cultivate them.

Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, this sentence, at this time, has been the most cold and cruel interpretation.

The other one was issued by Zhong Mao, this way of directly smashing the army formation with cavalry, he couldn't stand it, and these cavalry were really not afraid of death!

That's really ...... It's horrible.

No one wants to fight a bunch of crazy people who are not afraid of death.

The cavalry on both wings made a detour back,

Some of the cavalry who charged into the formation had already rushed into the army formation and began to slash, and some fell off their horses and continued to fight with their sabers.

At the same time, the two cavalry divisions on the east and west sides also began to mobilize, and they almost seamlessly connected with the pressure exerted by the cavalry on the two flanks of the ancestral army.

When the cavalry on both flanks retreated in a roundabout way, the two cavalry on the east and west sides began to draw their bows and arrows to suppress them.

Everything is very well handled.

Because they are too familiar with each other, this is the fundamental reason why Li Fusheng can relax and sit in the camp!

At the back, the two cavalry units responsible for cutting off the retreat of the cadres also began to press, putting pressure on the army formations on the east and west sides of the cadre army, forcing these two army formations to be unable to support and echo the army formation in front of the ancestral army.

Zheng Fan suddenly felt like a pack of wolves driving away the wolves.

Because the most elite and sturdy military formation at the front, under the sweep of the two groups of cavalry, the formation has begun to be flattened, and there is confusion in many places.

This kind of chaos can be seen even by a war novice like Zheng Fan.

First, this is due to the excellent riding and archery skills of the Zhenbei army, even on horseback, the lethality of their bows and arrows is not inferior to the crossbowmen of the cadre army standing on the ground in the army formation, and even to a certain extent, they are still victorious!

Liang Cheng once talked to Zheng Fan about the cavalry charge, and Liang Cheng said that even after the advent of muskets and artillery in modern times, when the infantry faced a large-scale cavalry charge, if the formation was not stable, it would be difficult for the firepower formed by muskets and artillery to disperse the cavalry.

What's more, this era is still an absolute era of cold weapons, and the kind of picture of arrows being fired and the cavalry in front falling down as if they were lining up to be shot is almost impossible to happen.

Second, it was the knights who took the initiative to rush into the formation, and their impact was like two big stones smashing on the turtle shell of the Qianren army array, which seriously hindered the operation of the Qianren army array.

These knights, not only do they know how to work hard right away, but they still know how to cooperate in foot combat after falling off their horses and turning over, and they often rise in groups or in groups, even if they are the sword and axe hands composed of the strongest men in the ancestral army, when facing them, under the same number, they are completely suppressed, and they can only rely on the number of people to pile up, and this side needs to concentrate more strength and other aspects will naturally be weak.

In addition, after the blows from the east and west sides came one after another, the military formation of the ancestral army was like a piece of kraft candy, which was repeatedly bitten and pulled, cracks, and gaps, and was pulled out at once.

Zu Dongcheng never expected that the ancestral army that he was proud of, and the military array that he was proud of, would be as fragile as the lanterns sold on the streets of the capital on the Shangyuan Festival in front of this Zhenbei army.

gap

It's so big.

In fact, no matter how much they look down on the Yan people verbally, they will even say that the Yan people's Zhenbei Army Iron Cavalry is blown out of the world.

But neither the local generals nor the ministers in the court really dared to look down on the Yan people's combat power.

Otherwise, there would not be a situation where soldiers and horses from all walks of life rushed north, and Captain Yang could continue to sit in the position of the governor of the three sides after proposing a strategy to avoid the war.

Everyone, in fact, is still honest.

Zu Dongcheng and Zhong Mao also listened to their parents talk about the Yan people on weekdays, and when they talked about the Yan people, they would definitely naturally talk about the Zhenbei Army of the Yan people.

The elders, in fact, have paid enough attention to this Zhenbei army, thinking that if this Zhenbei cavalry, which claims to be 300,000, really wants to encounter it on the battlefield, it will really be a headache.

But the situation in front of us,

Is it really just a headache?

It was not until this time that the two young people of the ancestral family and the Zhong family really realized how terrifying this iron cavalry of the Zhenbei Army was.

This army has been fighting with barbarians in the desert for a hundred years, and their former opponents, but the barbarians, are the kind of terrible people who are excellent cavalry as long as they are adults!

But that's it, I was still knocked out of my bones little by little by the Zhenbei Army, and I lost my temper.

How are dry people compared to barbarians?

Zu Dongcheng brandished his long knife and rode his horse straight forward, while Zhong Mao immediately shouted:

"Brother Dongcheng, you have to stay and command!"

"Once the front battle is broken, we will all be finished!"

The tripartite character formation, everyone knows that the front formation is the strongest, and this is not just a simple matter of the two military formations behind being broken that will cause the two military formations behind to lose their barrier cover.

Once the front formation is broken, first, the soldiers in the front will be defeated, and their own family members will impact their own people's military formation, and the second is that the two military formations in the back will also be broken when they see that the strongest front formation will be disheartened in an instant.

And then

A rout,

And so it began......

In this world, many things are unfair.

The same is true of the battle between the cavalry and the infantry, the cavalry feels that it is not good to gnaw this bone, and it is extremely easy to taste it and then retreat, and your infantry will not be able to chase it anyway.

And once the infantry is defeated, if you want to escape, can you escape on four legs?

In other words, once the front is broken, it means that the 30,000 army will be wiped out here!

Zhong Mao lifted his horse lance and said:

"Brother Dongcheng, I'll go with you!"

At this time, the cavalry on both wings, which had previously detoured, began to charge again, and at the same time, the cavalry on both sides finished their work and made a detour backwards.

This feeling is like four iron hammers, repeatedly striking at the cadre army's formation.

At the same time, the cavalry under Han Lao Wu was confined to the military formations on the east and west sides of the rear, especially the forbidden army phalanx, even after revealing the hidden bed crossbow and chariot, the impact of the knights of the Zhenbei Army who were not afraid of death still showed a tendency to collapse.

At this moment, Han Lao Wu couldn't do it even if he wanted to turn his horse's head to support the front military formation, first, the three thousand cavalry under his command were actually entangled by hundreds of cavalry on the other side, and they couldn't pull it out at all, and second, once his cavalry withdrew, the forbidden army here would definitely blow up the nest directly!

Straight sissy thief,

These swallows, how can they be so violent!

………

In front of the military formation,

The rushing camp, which had formed an early formation but had not been dispatched, began to speed up with the horse of the main general Li Fusheng.

This real cavalry, this thousand-pole horselance, the elite of this real elite, is finally ready to join the battlefield!

War is to kill people, no, Li Fusheng knows this.

During the previous period, the cavalry of various divisions had actually suffered a lot of casualties.

But it's all a must, and it's definitely going to happen.

It's just that this kind of casualties, it won't be too many, because it won't last forever.

As long as the front of this cadre army is defeated,

The tens of thousands of cadres left on the remaining battlefield will be scattered, like lambs running around in a panic, they will no longer have attack power and lethality, and will be easily harvested by their sons and daughters on the way to run.

Everything before was actually foreshadowing, and now, the time has come!

Li Fusheng raised his horse,

Behind him, the thousand horsemen made the same action together,

subsequently

Li Fusheng's horse lance moves,

The next moment,

Thousands of horse lances are raised,

Li Fusheng's eyes were red, like a hungry wolf, he couldn't wait!

"Give them one last shudder!"

Li Fusheng shouted:

"Breaking the Formation!"

Thousands of horsemen behind him shouted in unison:

"There is death and no life!"

forthwith

The whole army is speeding up,

Like thunder rushing forward from the ground,

ultimately

The knights of the Thousand Chong camp, under the personal leadership of their chief soldier,

crashed into the already crumbling cadre army formation.

"Boom!"

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