Chapter 113: The Battle of Mincheng
In the early morning of the next day, three miles outside Mincheng, the camp of the Chengwu army, Zhao Qixuan was riding on a horse, and Xin Guiyan was seeing him off.
Xin Guiyan said: "Strategist, be careful when you go. β
Zhao Qixuan said "um" and said in a low voice: "Be careful, Hu Nianzhong, this guy is not easy to mess with." β
After speaking, he rode his horse and left, leading 150,000 soldiers and horses to various places in Zhuzhou to harvest the autumn grain in the Zhuzhou Plain.
Three days later, in the evening, Yuwenzhi gave Xin Guiyan's 10,000 cavalry to Mincheng under the leadership of the main general Guo Fu.
After a night's rest, Xin Guiyan began a tentative attack on Mincheng.
60,000 soldiers and horses, respectively from the west, north, east three gates to attack Mincheng, surrounded by three missing one, he personally sat in the north gate of the attack.
On the north gate of Mincheng, seeing that the situation was unfavorable to him, Hu Nianzhong frowned. He only has 180,000 in his hands, including 80,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry, and the infantry are all state-by-state soldiers, and their combat power is not as good as the Zhenbei Army, and they are scattered all over the country.
There are only 50,000 soldiers and horses in Mincheng, of which 20,000 are still cavalry, and they are not good at defending the city.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Huang Xing, the commander of the Hurricane Battalion, said: "General, I'll go and disperse them!"
Although it was a tentative attack, they could not lose, their strength was already inferior to the other side, and if they lost this battle, their morale would fall into a trough.
Hu Nianzhong said: "Go, bring the victory back." β
Huang Xing shouted loudly: "The last general will obey the order." With a fall, he hurried down the city tower and led the cavalry of the Wind Battalion to rush out of Mincheng.
Seeing that Huang Xing led the elite iron cavalry of the Zhenbei Army to join the battle strongly, Xin Guiyan also reacted quickly and did not let his position be chaotic.
Not only that, but he also commanded his foot soldiers to avoid Huang Xing's iron cavalry in an orderly manner, and at the same time, he also brought Daxuan's cavalry into the battlefield.
Seeing Xin Guiyan's cavalry dispatched, Huang Xing also stopped attacking the enemy's infantry formation, opened the distance, and prepared to fight with the enemy's cavalry.
They are all cavalry, and the difference in strength between the two sides is not big, the Zhenbei Army has 10,000 cavalry, and Daxuan is almost 10,000, and the gap between the two sides is not very big.
The big battle between the two cavalry did not make Huang Xing and Xin Guiyan wait long. After the infantry of both sides gave up enough space to storm the clearing, the battle of the most elite cavalry of the two countries began completely!
At the beginning of the war, Huang Xing led 20,000 Chinese troops to dig a formation, and 10,000 cavalry on the left and right flanks went around obliquely for half a circle, outflanking them from the left and right. This kind of posture makes people understand at a glance that this is a posture to outflank and annihilate the enemy's army! This made Guo Fu, the cavalry commander of the Great Xuan Dynasty, angry and angry.
The cavalry of your Feng Battalion is indeed an elite cavalry, and they are all the cavalry of the platoon in the Yan State cavalry, but Lao Tzu's cavalry is not made of paper, and he dares to look down on me.
Huang Xing, you wait for me!
However, whether his Guo Fu's cavalry is papier-mΓ’chΓ© or not, and it is not up to him to have the final say, it depends on whether he can block the attack of the soldiers of the Wind Battalion.
The two sides soon engaged in battle.
Kill! Kill!
The monstrous shouts of killing continued to spread around, and both cavalry teams were charging and fighting.
After a round of impact, Guo Fu suddenly found that his cavalry was really like paper paste in front of the other party. The cone-shaped assault formation led by the opposing commander, Liang Jingshu, was like a sharp knife, cutting deep into his heart.
Huang Xing's blood is boiling, this is his favorite combat mode, with him as the tip of the assault formation roared into the enemy formation, the spear in his hand stabbed, patted, picked, blocked, like a swimming dragon, two steps on his side, his personal soldiers held a shield in one hand, a knife in the other, carefully guarding him, preventing a cold knife and cold gun from calling him on, they wanted to kill the enemy while protecting the safety of the main general.
On the battlefield, the casualty probability of the pro-soldiers who are guarding the main general is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, of course, the soldiers who can be selected as pro-soldiers are not only good at horsemanship, but also martial arts can not be weak, so their combat power is a notch stronger than that of ordinary cavalry.
The spear was plunged into the enemy's chest, the spear pierced the enemy's flesh and bones, although it was said to be a fierce piercing, Huang Xing could easily withdraw the spear, when he withdrew the spear, the blood flew up with the spear withdrawn, and the blood splashed on his face, and with him pulling the spear back, the enemy also fell down the horse.
"The fire is mighty!"
Huang Xing shouted like thunder.
And the soldiers who accompanied the battle also responded in unison: "Fire leaves the regiment, mighty!"
Huang Xing led the 20,000 Chinese army like a sharp blade, stabbing into the heart of the enemy, and he continued to attack and kill in the dense battle formation of Daxuan. However, the two thousand horsemen on the left and right wings of the periphery adopted another tactic, continuous stabbing.
This tactic is actually from the hands of the shadow war, of course, this is still the battle method that dominated the world and was invincible in the previous life of the shadow war.
Huang Xing came to this tactic in order to get it, but he looked for the shadow battle every day, and it took more than two months to get it.
And this tactic is really powerful, allowing his Swift Wind Battalion to win in several cavalry battles.
And now, this tactic is also used on the body of the Great Xuan Cavalry, and the effect can be imagined. This time, not only was the battle formation of the Chinese army chiseled through by the wind wings, but even the periphery, Daxuan's iron cavalry also ended up with the Chinese army.
However, Guo Fu has nothing to do about this situation, he has abdominal problems inside, and the periphery is being peeled off layer by layer by the army of the Wind Battalion. The cavalry he was once proud of was now like an onion, peeled off layer by layer by the Wind Battalion.
Guo Fu felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart, and he sighed in his heart: This is the elite iron cavalry of the Zhenbei Army!
Watching the soldiers under his command being killed one by one by the people of the Swift Wind Battalion, he couldn't care about anything anymore.
"Breakout, breakout!"
Guo Fu's order to break through the siege caused the battle spirit of the Great Xuan Cavalry, which was already on the verge of collapse, to collapse violently, and the organized resistance suddenly disappeared, and the battlefield distributed in a radius of several miles suddenly became a mess.
Guo Fu was desperate and ordered a breakthrough, and the scene of Guo Fu choosing to break through was seen in Xin Guiyan's eyes, but he was almost killed by Guo Fu's anger.
He actually didn't have any high hopes for his cavalry, but he couldn't be so weak, he didn't do anything, he was defeated on all fronts, and, looking at this situation, Guo Fu's cavalry was completely wiped out, this is the 10,000 cavalry that Yu Wenzhi gave him, what a special thing, Yu Wenzhi is trying to trap me?
Xin Guiyan wanted to send troops to rescue Guo Fu, but he was really powerless, and he didn't have many troops in his hands.
Half of the 300,000 army was handed over to the military advisor Zhao Qixuan to go to various places in the state to harvest autumn grain, and he, today, just wanted to test Hu Nianzhong's troops, but he didn't expect this Guo Fu to be so useless.
When Huang Xing once again slaughtered from the enemy's army, he raised his eyes and looked around, and there was no place worthy of him to wield his army to pierce.
Raised his spear high, blood dripping from his armor and straddle his horse.
"Kill!"
With his order, the cavalry immediately behind him responded with a bang, divided into dozens of arrows, each squad as a group, and began to pursue the northern cavalry in an organized manner.
Huang Xing proudly raised his gun and stood in the center of the battlefield, more than a dozen guards around him were panting, huddled around him, and behind Jiang Kui, the whirlwind battalion flag was flying high, hunting and hunting
This battle lasted for an hour, the cavalry of the first battalion of Daxuan collapsed, and became the object of pursuit outside the not wide Mincheng, and on the battlefield outside the city, there were many corpses, and countless war horses that had lost their masters roamed the battlefield with a wail, or stood beside the master who had lost their lives, arching the master's body in vain, tearing the master's clothes, hoping that the master would get up from the ground.
And with the rout of the cavalry, Da Xuan's foot soldiers were completely exposed to the iron cavalry of the Zhenbei Army.
It is an immutable military law that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and in this battle, Huang Xing defeated Daxuan's elite iron cavalry.
"General, Daxuan cavalry, the whole army was annihilated, our army was seriously wounded more than 1,000 people, and more than 2,000 were lightly wounded, and there were ...... Nearly 800 brothers were killed in battle. β
An adjutant general trotted to Huang Xing, who was sitting on the ground, and reported the casualties of the army to Huang Xing.
Kill a thousand enemies, self-damage eight hundred, although he defeated, but Huang Xing was not happy at all, his heart was filled with a faint sadness, the ten thousand soldiers of the Wind Battalion, each one was like his brother, and every one less made him feel unforgettable pain.
"The wounded are treated quickly, and those who can still fight return to the team, the wounded are left behind, and they enter Mincheng to recuperate, and the war dead collect their nameplates, and when we win this war, let them return to their hometowns with honor. Huang Xing commanded.
Seeing that his cavalry had completely defeated Xin Guiyan's cavalry, Hu Nianzhong's frowning brows finally relaxed.
In fact, it is not difficult for him to defeat or severely damage the army of Xin Guiyan, he not only has cavalry in his hands, but also has elite infantry, plus the soldiers of the state capital, the strength is not less than 180,000, but the key to this war is no longer Mincheng, and Xin Guiyan is not only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under the city.
Just when Hu Nianzhong's brows stretched, a new round of killing also kicked off his brutal, ruthless, and prelude!
Huang Xing's wind battalion, under the leadership of Huang Xing, was ready to attack the enemy's infantry formation, and the cavalry had an endless advantage over the infantry soldiers, and they were in the open field.
Xin Guiyan, the commander of the Chengwu Dynasty, used a short time to adjust his battle formation, there was no way, he didn't have enough time to get out of the battlefield, and he was not willing to fail like this.
He knew in his heart that there was still a battalion of elite infantry soldiers in the Zhenbei Army's fire regiment that had not yet been killed, which was an unstable factor. Although he is a veteran of the battlefield, he still hasn't been able to see why the Zhenbei Army, which has been retreating step by step, is so crazy today, crazy attacks, crazy killings!
Looking at the nearly 6,000 iron horsemen of the Wind Battalion who had already been killed, Xin Guiyan shouted in his heart: "Soldiers, Ben Shuai is sorry for you, I dare not ask for your forgiveness, but it is also common to fight for the country! You are warriors, born for war, come because of war, fight, let's go crazy!"
"Fight!"
Xin Guiyan didn't say anything, a battle word had already said the most resolute and firm decision in his heart.
"Fight!"
Although it is difficult for the foot soldiers to have a chance of winning against the cavalry, he will not give up like this, he has so many infantry in his hands, is he still afraid that a cavalry of less than 10,000 will not succeed?
Although he couldn't continue to invest more troops, he would never tolerate Hu Nianzhong's cavalry being so arrogant, even if he paid a heavy price.
"The Wind Battalion cones and rushes through the enemy formation!"
Here, Huang Xing shouted loudly when he was less than 100 meters away from the Great Qi Battle Formation, this was the most common and effective battle form for his Wind Battalion to break through the enemy's battle formation.
"Royal!"
The infantry formation of the Chengwu Dynasty, a general in the Chengwu formation did not panic when he looked at the iron cavalry that was already approaching six thousand, and he knew that he was a general who had been in battle for a long time.
He also has his own beliefs in his heart, and his handsome man is still watching him from behind.
"The first echelon, the spear is ready, the second echelon is ready for the spear, the third echelon is ready!" the cavalry was getting closer and closer, and at this moment, the general shouted at the army under his command, "First echelon, throw!"
In front of the general, all the fighters of the first echelon threw the spears in their hands with all their might.
"Second echelon shot!"
Immediately after the first echelon threw the spears in their hands, the general immediately called the second echelon to throw the spears in their hands. The second echelon also responded to the call. When the spears of the second echelon were thrown, the general called out to the third echelon.
The whole process took only a minute, and as the spears in the warriors' hands were thrown, they drew their broadswords from their waists.
"Brush ......"
Some of the spears that were thrown met the warriors of the Camp of the Wind, and some swept past them.
"Whoosh!"
A soft sound sounded in Huang Xing's ears, and he narrowly dodged the spear that roared towards him. The spear scurried past his ear, leaving only a soft thud and beads of sweat on his forehead.
"Kill ......"
It was impossible for the spears of the three echelons to stop Huang Xing's pace, and the sound of horses soon began to step into the great formation of Daqi's foot soldiers.
"Poof......
Countless Great Qi infantry soldiers were killed by the machines in the hands of the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army and fell to the ground, and many cavalry of the Zhenbei Army fell from their horses in the battle, and then were killed by the angry Great Qi soldiers.
Here, it's a meat grinder, no, everyone on the battlefield is a meat grinder, and the enemy and the enemy fight each other, either you fall or I die.
Perhaps, as everyone knows, this is not a war, this is nothing but a massacre. A massacre of soldiers belonging to the Zhenbei Army, originally this was not a massacre, no matter how bad the Chengwu Dynasty was, with more than twice the number of participants, it was entirely possible to fight with the Zhenbei Army, but it was a pity that their cavalry, the proud cavalry rushed into the wolves like a flock of sheep in front of other people's iron horses, and then was eaten by this group of wolves without even bones.
As a result, the cavalry that destroyed the whole army made them the target of the slaughter of the iron cavalry army of the Zhenbei Army.
"Retire. β
Looking at the situation that was completely suppressed, watching the soldiers under his command and his brothers fall one by one, Xin Guiyan's heart didn't know how painful it was. However, no matter how much pain there was, it couldn't stop the Zhenbei Army from slaughtering the soldiers of the Chengwu Dynasty, and the only thing they could do was to let them retreat first.
Xin Guiyan ordered the troops to retreat, although the Yan army was slaughtered, but when the Chengwu army retreated, there was no chaos and withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner.
"Report ...... General, the enemy army besieging the west gate and the east gate has retreated. β
Just as Hu Nianzhong was about to make a decision, a person suddenly came from above the city wall to report to him the latest situation of the other two city gates that had been attacked.
"It seems that Xin Guiyan is already planning to retire for the time being. β
Although he knew that it would be sooner or later, he couldn't help but be happy.
Xin Guiyan's tentative siege this time, a lot of losses, at present, the infantry at the north gate, have not been able to leave the battlefield, retreat is the best choice.