Chapter 9: Winning the Command (9)

With a "poof", Pan Mei used a riding gun to pick up an enemy general who turned around and fled from behind, and continued to move forward with the brigade.

The Caozhou cavalry, which was originally not very neat, had been smashed apart by Zhao Kuangyin's previous "head-on blow". Most of the soldiers in the team were also forcibly pushed halfway up the mountain from a position close to the ridge. This is a godsend for the experienced Cangzhou soldiers. There is almost no need for Pan Mei to remind him too loudly, everyone knows what they have to do!

Three full battalions, totaling 1,500 soldiers. Every 500 people spread out into a horizontal row, with each two rows separated by a distance of twenty paces. Row after row, down the hillside, like a wall. Five hundred obviously dangling riding spears are like five hundred sharp fangs!

"Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof!", "Poof......

"Ah......h......h

The low sound of the iron rider piercing into the flesh was intertwined with the screams and screams, which stimulated the roots of human hair to tingle. The Caozhou soldiers who didn't have time to complete the team were stabbed off their horses one by one by one with spears, like the remnants of snow in late spring encountering a sudden summer day, and there was no resistance at all.

Most of the Caozhou soldiers who fell off their horses were shot in the back. There were only three or five warriors who had tried to fight to the death. However, in front of the Cangzhou army advancing like a wall, their desperate behavior is as ridiculous as the praying mantis trying to block the carriage. No matter what kind of wonderful moves the weapon in his hand takes, he basically has no chance to meet the Cangzhou soldiers who rushed down. Everyone had to face at least three cavalry guns at the same time. Block one and dodge the second, but it is impossible to successfully avoid the third!

"Don't, don't panic, kill, go and kill the one in the middle for me!" The cavalry of the Caozhou army commanded Yang Xuan's heart twitched, and he ordered in a trembling voice while speeding up to pull the mount farther laterally!

"Woo...... "The faithful herald, who tried to blow the trumpet, made a sound as hoarse and difficult as the water under the ice.......

With such a dense cavalry formation, they had only seen it once four years ago when they followed Guo Wei to raise troops on the "Qingjun side". But that time, the Cangzhou army was their friendly army rather than an enemy, and the place to display their tactics was the school field rather than the battlefield field.

Although they were shocked by the neatness of the Cangzhou army's formation, they had never experienced its true power. With the passage of time, the impression in my memory gradually faded, and there was even a faint evaluation of "Cangzhou Army is useless" in my heart. And today, they really experienced what it means to be a boulder pressing an egg. Only then did I really understand that it was not someone else who was useless, but myself!

"Waste, all waste!" Seeing that the herald was so frightened that he couldn't even send the military order completely, the Caozhou cavalry commanded Yang Xuan to be furious. The splitter snatched a painting horn and blew it with his back to his own soldiers, "Woo woo, woo woo woo, woo woo - "

By now, he has no hope of turning defeat into victory. However, he had to send someone to block the three slowly pushing down the forest of spears, and buy himself enough time to retreat down the hill. Then find a way to get rid of the previous fierce general's obstruction and successfully evacuate the battlefield.

"Woo woo -" More horns alternated, with fear and despair. A large group of Caozhou cavalry, whose eyes were red from the sound of the horn, jumped off their horses one after another, and formed a neat circle with one of the commanders as the core. The tail of the riding spear poked the ground, and the tip of the spear pointed diagonally upward, just as tall and short as the neck of a war horse.

The circle formation has the least lethality, but the strongest ability to carry the blow. The spear is also the only way to deal with the cavalry. All of their choices were correct, and they showed enough bravery. However, they were unfortunate that today they encountered the Cangzhou army.

As early as four years ago, when fighting against the Northern Han and Khitan coalition forces, the Cangzhou cavalry had accumulated enough experience in dealing with infantry hard formations. In the past four years, after repeated improvements and tempering, a complete set of methods for breaking the enemy has been refined. I saw that in the process of pushing forward, Pan Mei suddenly handed over the riding gun to his left hand, and his right hand quickly pulled a belt from behind him, "Huh-", a flying axe half a foot wide and narrow, was thrown into the air by him.

"Huh-" Approaching the left and right sides of Pan Mei, hundreds of flying axes half a foot wide and narrow rose into the air at the same time. Hundreds of miserable arcs were drawn in the sunlight, and only the guns ran away. "Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Woo ......". In the blink of an eye, the spear circle formed by the Caozhou army sacrificed his life was cut to pieces.

"Kill!" After the axe was thrown, Pan Mei didn't look at the result at all. Again he was holding a gun in both hands, and his legs were gently pounding the stirrups. The war horse, which has been running in with him for more than three years, knows the mind of his master, and the frequency of the four hooves is slowly accelerating. Together with other warhorses in the neighborhood, accelerate forward along the hillside!

The round array of spears that had been chopped down by the throwing axe did not even bubble up before they were swallowed up by the spears that pushed through the wall like a wall. Several other groups of people who were about to step forward to fight the Caozhou soldiers suddenly lost their courage, jumped on horseback, and fled by seizing the road. However, before they could regain their speed, the spear of the Cangzhou army had already been pushed in, dozens of blood splattered up, and the war horse that had lost its owner fled down the hill with a mournful roar.

"Boom, boom!" Five hundred horses continued to run down the hillside. Five hundred cavalry spears lined up in a horizontal line and continued to advance downward. Wherever you go, there won't be a single enemy left who can stand up. From a distance, it looks like a huge ploughshare, ploughing out a field of flesh and blood on the verdant hillside.

"Woo woo ——, woo!" The sound of the horn stopped abruptly, and the Caozhou heralds who were ordered to blow the horn to urge the battle turned their mounts one after another and fled.

Can't stop it, it's impossible to stop it. The first forest of guns pushed down the hillside alone was enough to bulldoze all the Caozhou troops. And after the first gun, there is a second, a third. Farther away, on the ridge, a fourth one emerged!

"Dangchang!", "Dangchang!", "Dangchang!", the sound of weapons falling to the ground rose alternately. Dozens of Caozhou soldiers who were lucky enough not to block the road in front of the gun forest stared blankly at the bloody ridges not far away, allowing the weapons to slip from their hands, but they didn't notice it.

It's horrible, it's horrible. Even if they have been in battle for a long time, they never thought that death would be so terrifying, so desperate!

They started with eight battalions, and although they were not fully staffed, they had a total strength of no less than 3,000. But in less than half a pillar of incense, more than a thousand of them had been killed in their former robes!

"The second echelon and the third echelon, pull out horizontally!" Pan Mei, who was leading the Cangzhou soldiers to move forward, suddenly sighed and raised a command flag, swinging left and right.

He had no interest in slaughtering the courageously exhausted Caozhou army. However, he must destroy as much of the enemy's living forces as possible. According to the information that the scouts had previously sacrificed their lives to find out, there were still 7,000 foot soldiers in the Caozhou army who were hurrying in. He had to seal the win before the main team arrived!

"Didi, Didi, Didi......" The unique copper flute of the Cangzhou army sounded, spreading the order throughout the battlefield. After the first gun, the other two battalions of cavalry, who had not even drunk a mouthful of "soup" until now, immediately adjusted their direction. Slow down the horse during the run and move the team steadily from sideways to diagonal. Then, under the leadership of two battalion-level commanders, Tao Deshan and Pan Yu, one left and one right, caught up with Pan Mei's team from behind, and connected with the first gun forest to form a huge arc.

Behind the arc, Chai Rong led a battalion of Cangzhou cavalry just unfolded a formation on the mountain beam. Realizing that the overall situation was decided, he shook his head and closed his eyes tiredly.

He didn't want to shed the blood of the Great Zhou soldiers, but at this moment, he couldn't tolerate the slightest bit of a woman's kindness. Between the total annihilation of the Caozhou army and the risk of his own brothers, he could only choose the latter.

"Boom, boom, boom!" the horse's hooves hit the ground, and the smoke and dust it brought up blurred Chai Rong's vision.

Dozens of frightened Caozhou soldiers quickly disappeared near the arc, leaving behind a place of broken flesh and blood. More Caozhou soldiers let out a scream from their mouths, as if they had woken up from a nightmare, turned their mounts, and rushed towards the bottom of the mountain.

"Driving, driving, driving......" The fastest runner was Yang Xuan, the commander of the cavalry of the Caozhou Army. As early as when he blew the trumpet himself, he had no hope of victory in his heart. With the time that his brothers exchanged their lives for their lives, he has now fled to the foot of the mountain, and relied on the protection of his cronies to successfully break through Zhao Kuangyin's interception.

"The situation of the enemy army must be reported to the Jiedu envoy in time!" While desperately hitting the stirrups with his feet, Yang Xuan made excuses for his abandonment of the army and his escape. "The enemy army is extremely ferocious, and it must not be defeated in the field! Hurry up and find favorable terrain to form a formation, and then use spears, shields, bows and arrows to cooperate with each other, so as to avoid the main army from repeating the mistakes of the vanguard cavalry! If it is possible, you might as well avoid the Feng Ying of Chai Rong Kid first, and then lead the army to follow slowly, looking for fighters! People and land are both alive and the army is thin, and sooner or later the surname Chai will show his flaws!"

Thinking that he finally had a moment to wash away his shame today, the fear in Yang Xuan's heart decreased slightly. Raising his left hand, he wiped the cold sweat from his face vigorously while turning his head to look left and right.

He wanted to see how many of his cronies were as lucky as he was to get out of the battlefield. If possible, it would be best for him to unify his voice with his cronies before reporting to Yang Wensheng, the envoy of Caozhou Jiedu.

The surrounding figures are sparse, and together they are less than two slaps. And as if they were all frightened, they were pulling the reins of the war horse tightly, and their bodies were shaking like chaff. "Go, if you don't leave, you ......won't come" Suddenly his conscience found, Yang Xuan opened his throat and reminded loudly. Half of the words were shouted, and the other half of the rest disappeared without a trace.

Looking over his cronies, he saw a cavalry squad, outflanking from the side of the mound. One of the first generals rode his horse and speared, blocking everyone's way, "Surrender and avoid death!"