Volume III Chapter 571
Yuan Cheng gasped, raised his head with difficulty, looked at Shao Lin's cold gaze, gritted his teeth and asked, "What about this handsome?" Shao Lin, if you want to kill, give Ben Shuai a happy ......"
"It's you who is looking for you!" Since Yuan Cheng was now only wearing a middle coat and barefoot, Shao Lin couldn't judge his identity. At this time, Yuan Cheng admitted it himself, Shao Lin also saved trouble, he took a step forward, raised his arm, and hit Yuan Cheng in the cheek is a heavy punch.
"Smack!"
The punch was so strong that it shattered the armor on Yuan Cheng's face, and the latter snorted, his eyes were glazed, and he immediately fell into a semi-comatose state.
Seeing that he had lost his ability to resist, Shao Lin pulled his steel arrow from Yuan Cheng and withdrew it into the quiver, and then, he lifted Yuan Cheng with one hand and strode towards the direction where Lin Haotian was.
Yuan Cheng's capture was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Under the front and rear attacks of the Jin army, the Red Army was already in chaos and out of order, and now the commander has become a prisoner of the Jin Army, and the Red Army has been defeated faster.
When the nearest two Red Army troops rushed over to reinforce them, Yuan Cheng's army of more than 200,000 troops had been scattered under the attack of more than 700,000 Jin troops.
When the commander of the second army heard that Yuan Cheng was captured, he was even more shocked, not only gave up the rescue, but led his own troops, did not return to their own camp, and retreated directly to the south of Chengdu.
Now that they want to run, the Jin army is not relenting, and Lin Haotian directly ordered the whole army to pursue, and it is necessary to defeat the main force of the Red Army.
The Red Army of the Three Routes, the Central Army supported by Jiankang, the Central Army supported by Tianyang, and the Central Army supported by Surabaya. A total of more than 600,000 people were chased out of 50 miles by the Jin army of more than 700,000 people.
In fact, the strength of the two sides was almost the same, the Red Army mainly lost in morale, and Yuan Cheng lost too quickly, which caught the other three armies off guard, and at the same time lost the fighting spirit to fight.
Seeing that the Jin army followed. If you don't give up, it seems that you will never give up if you don't chase after yourself.
The commanders of the Red Kingdom's three-way army, Wu Fu, Gaozong, and He Cong, discussed and felt that it was not a way to escape like this, and instead of being chased alive by the Jin army, it was better to fight to the death and fight to the death with the Jin army, maybe they could win this battle!
The analysis of the three of them is not unreasonable, the main force of the Jin army has come from a long journey, and the whole army must be exhausted. The Iron Lion Army has been trapped for more than ten days, and it stands to reason that it should be starved to the end of a strong crossbow, and if you think about it carefully, such a golden army is actually nothing to fear.
After Wu Fu, Gaozong, and He Cong discussed, they gathered their respective subordinates and lined up in the plain area fifty miles south of Chengdu to make a decisive battle with the Jin army.
Naturally, the Jin army would not be afraid of them, and the whole army should fight.
This time. It was no longer the Iron Lion Army that took the lead, but the Seventh Legion. The cavalry corps was in front, the infantry corps was behind, and the whole army set up a central breakthrough in front of the arrow.
They have cavalry on their side, and there are even more cavalry on the Red Army's side, and the Red Army on the three routes all have horse teams, and there are more than 100,000 people together.
Far away. Seeing that the Red Army on the opposite side sent cavalry to fight, Guan He, the commander of the Seventh Legion, sneered in his heart, looked back, and wondered in his heart, why didn't the Lord give the order to attack yet.
At this time. Lin Haotian was observing the formation of the Red Army, and saw that the Red Army was the same as his own, placing the cavalry in front of the formation, he secretly frowned, his own cavalry was not easy to come by, in case it was restrained by the light cavalry of the Red Country, the losses would be too heavy.
Lin Haotian knows that using cavalry to fight infantry has an absolute advantage, but cavalry fights cavalry, it is difficult to say who loses and who wins, not to mention the courage of the cavalry of the Red Kingdom, the world, whether the Seventh Army is the opponent of others, and now it is really two words!
Out of concern for the cavalry of the Red Kingdom, Lin Haotian did not give the order to attack for a long time. He had to think about it clearly, but Guan He couldn't wait, just when Lin Haotian was secretly pondering, Guan He's deputy general Shi Lexuan urged the horse to come, and when Lin Haotian approached, he intervened and saluted, saying: "The last general will see your lord! Your Excellency, General Guan sent the last general to ask, when will our army be able to fight?"
Seeing that it was Shi Lexuan, Lin Haotian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Shi Lexuan is not a golden man, but a red man, like Guan He, he was born as a bandit and has always been Guan He's right and left hand. As the saying goes, if one person gains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, Guan He became the commander of the Seventh Legion, and his bandit brothers were all reused by him, and Shi Lexuan was one of them.
Lin Haotian didn't have a very good impression of this person, but in order to win over Guan He, he turned a blind eye to his confidants and didn't ask too much.
He asked Shi Lexuan: "See, the Red Army has also sent cavalry to take the lead, are your Seventh Army sure of defeating the cavalry of the Red Kingdom?"
Hearing Lin Haotian's inquiry, Shi Lexuan's face suddenly showed disdain, and he said with a smile: "My lord, please rest assured, the Red Country Cavalry, others are afraid of it, but my Seventh Legion is not afraid, this time it is easy to break the enemy!"
Yo! This breath is big enough! During the first battle of Jinchi, he suffered a lot from the Red Cavalry, and it was surprising that the Seventh Army was so confident.
The corners of Lin Haotian's mouth were slightly raised, and he reminded slowly: "General Shi, do you understand that there is no joke in the army?"
"The last general understands that the last general's words are by no means child's play! If my Seventh Army can't defeat the cavalry of the Red Kingdom, the last general and even the whole army will come to see your lord!" Shi Lexuan said categorically.
"Is this a military order you made?" Lin Haotian narrowed his eyes and asked softly with a smile.
"Yes, sir!"
"Okay! Chuan Ben Shuai ordered, the whole army of the Seventh Army assaulted, be sure to take the Red Country cavalry for me!"
"The last general obeys!" Shi Lexuan arched his hand again on the horse, then turned the horse's head and returned to the formation.
He hurried back to Guan He, and when he saw that the latter was looking at him with inquiring eyes, he chuckled and said, "Your Excellency has already ordered my Seventh Legion to fight!"
"Say it earlier!" Guan He took a deep breath, cheered up, and muttered in a dissatisfied voice while taking off his Nine Turns Soul Breaking Knife from the Victory Hook: "After so long, the Red Army still thinks that we are afraid of them!"
Shi Lexuan leaned closer to Guan He and whispered, "I think the adults are scared of the Red Country cavalry." If it weren't for the fact that the last general had made a military order with the Lordship, and if the Red Cavalry was not defeated, he would have raised his head to see the Lord, and it is estimated that the Lordship might not have been willing to give the order to fight until now!"
"Oh?" Guan He grinned as well.
"General, the prestige of the Red Cavalry is too great, I see. Not only are the adults afraid of it, but the officers and men of the whole army are also afraid of it! This is a great opportunity for the general to perform meritorious service, as long as he defeats the cavalry of the Red Kingdom, my brothers of the Seventh Army will be superior to others wherever they go in the future. When he spoke, Shi Lexuan's face could not hide his excitement.
Guan He's eyes lit up, and he secretly said that it was reasonable! The Jin army had defeated the Red Army countless times, and the only one that had not been defeated was the Red Cavalry, if he had done this today. In the future, whoever it is, will have to look at him and the Seventh Legion differently.
Thinking of this, he shook the Nine Turns Soul Breaking Knife in his palm, raised his head and said, "Then what are you waiting for? Pass on my military order, all the brothers of the army, go to battle with me!"
"Obey!" Shi Lexuan agreed, and then conveyed Guan He's generals.
I saw the handsome flag on their side waving. The drummers in the army began to beat the drums of war in unison.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
The drums beat together, and the horses neighed. The horses in the army are also psychic. Hearing the sound of the drums, the war horse became extremely excited.
Amid the deafening sound of drums, the horses of the Seventh Legion began to advance in unison. At first, the war horse was a jog, but as the distance between them was pulled, the war horse changed from jogging to sprinting. The full-speed assault of 100,000 cavalry was so spectacular that it was as if it were overwhelming, and even miles away you could clearly feel the trembling of the ground and the dull roar.
Seeing the golden cavalry coming towards him, the dust rolled up was several meters high. As if blowing a hurricane of gold, the Red Cavalry involuntarily raised their hearts to their throats.
Normally, it is they who bring this strong sense of shock and oppression to the enemy, but now the situation is reversed.
The generals of the Red Cavalry shouted one after another, commanding their subordinates to attack and meet the battle.
In a short time, the Red Army camp was also full of drums, horses neighed, and the cavalry phalanx of more than 100,000 people charged forward in unison.
At that time, the cavalry tactics of the Red Kingdom were the most mature among the countries, and the changes were the most, seeing the menacing golden cavalry on the opposite side, the Red Cavalry quickly split into three horse teams in the process of facing the battle.
The horse team in the middle remained unchanged and continued to engage the Golden Cavalry head-on, while the other two horse teams scattered on both sides, preparing to circle the sides of the Seventh Army and attack from the flanks.
Guan He was able to calm down, respond to all changes with the same change, and move forward in the same state.
The hoplites differed from the light cavalry in that they did not have high mobility, and when facing the light cavalry, they mainly broke through in the center, and as for the attacks on the flanks, they were mainly defensive. If the heavy cavalry is also like the light cavalry, the troops are divided into multiple ways to fight separately, it is equivalent to being led by the nose of the light cavalry, and at the end of the battle has to lose in their own low mobility.
Guan He knew very well what his strengths and weaknesses were, so when he saw the Red Cavalry on the opposite side adopting the tactics of dividing troops, he was not moved at all.
Soon, the cavalry of the two armies was less than a hundred paces apart, and this was within the range of the Red Cavalry. The red cavalry took the lead in attacking, and the archers in the camp twisted their bows and arrows one after another, looked at the Jin army opposite, and shot their arrows out of the sky in unison.
The power of the cavalry arrow array is also very terrifying, the power of the arrow is fused with the inertia of the war horse when it sprints, and an arrow is often infinitely powerful.
If they had touched ordinary infantry or cavalry, the other side might have suffered a big loss, but this time they were encountering heavy cavalry, 'monsters' made of steel fused, and the arrow array of the Red Cavalry had lost its previous power.
Countless arrows fell into the lineup of the golden cavalry, and a clanging sound was heard in the ear chakra, but as far as the eye could see, there was not even a single head that fell from the horse. Such a strange scene made the faces of the red cavalry on the opposite side change greatly.
The generals in the army suppressed the panic and fear in their hearts, and shouted repeatedly: "Shoot the arrows! Keep releasing the arrows!"
Under the repeated urging of the red generals, the archers used all their strength to eat milk when pulling the strings, and the dense pressure of the arrow array was like a raging storm, constantly soaring from the top of the red cavalry to the air, and then smashed into the camp of the golden cavalry from the air.
However, the effect of the next arrow array was similar to that of the first round of arrow formation, and it could not break through the thick armor of the heavy cavalry at all. In a burst of crisp sounds, the arrows that hit the heavy cavalry and horses bounced off and landed.
The arrow array of the Red Cavalry was only four rounds, and the soldiers of both sides had already come into contact. The cavalry of both sides collided head-on, and some of the soldiers could still stagger past, but some of the soldiers were solid and collided together.
At this time, the strength of the war horse comes into play. When the two horses collided with each other, it was often the Red Cavalry who rolled to the ground with their horses and fell into a ball, while the golden cavalry on the other side, the war horse was only shocked back a few steps, kicked the hooves, shook the head, and then continued to charge forward.
The Red Cavalry had never encountered such a formidable opponent as the hoplites, and their arrows could not hurt the opponent. You can't knock each other down when you collide, even if you stab each other with a spear or spear, you can't hurt the other party at all, this is a monster with steel and iron bones!
They had no way to take the Golden Cavalry, and they couldn't come up with a way to crack it, but the Golden Cavalry didn't give in to them. The hoplites took up long steel spears and mercilessly pierced the armor and bodies of the Red Cavalry in the chaos of the battlefield. The screams of the red cavalry were endless, and the red soldiers who turned over and fell from their horses were like dumplings.
On the battlefield. The corpses of the Red Cavalry were everywhere, and the earth had been stained red with blood.
Just when the Red Cavalry was on the verge of collapse and the situation was about to collapse, two other cavalry teams arrived and launched a fierce attack from both flanks of the Seventh Legion.
The Seventh Legion was extremely fast, and the soldiers on both wings turned their horses' heads one after another. List defensive positions against the attacking Red Cavalry.
The battle between the two sides on both flanks was similar to the confrontation between the front army, and the red cavalry still had no way to use the heavy armor of the golden cavalry, and they couldn't hurt the other party, but the other side could easily hurt themselves. How can such a battle be fought?
Actual combat is the best test of the arms of each other, although the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry are both cavalry, but the difference in combat power between the two is too great, to say that the real can restrain the light cavalry, that is only the heavy cavalry, as for the restraint of the heavy cavalry of the troops, it also depends on the infantry, of course, the premise is that the infantry needs to adopt the correct tactics.
The Chinese army could not resist the advance of the golden cavalry, and was defeated again and again, and the red cavalry of the two wings of the assault could not tear through the outer defense line of the golden cavalry, and could not constitute a substantial threat, in the following engagement, the battlefield completely became a one-sided situation, a large number of red troops died tragically under the iron hooves of the seventh army, and more than 100,000 red cavalry lost more than half of the battle in less than an hour.
At this point in the battle, not only was the Red Cavalry in a panic, the soldiers were beaten to the point that they had no masters, and the commanders of the Red Army of the Three Routes, who were watching the battle in the back, were also panicked, and they even couldn't figure out what kind of troops the Jin State used.
If they were cavalry, how could they be so powerful, even men and horses were wearing such heavy armor, how could war horses still be able to run? If they were not cavalry, then what were they? They were obviously horses!
He Cong, the commander of the Tianyang Army, was the first to shake his head, and his voice trembled and muttered: "We can't fight! This battle can't be fought any longer, and if we continue to fight, our cavalry will be wiped out!"
At this time, not only were the Red Cavalry dizzy by the heavy cavalry of the Jin State, but even the three commanders of the Red Army, Wu Fu, Gao Zong, and He Cong, were also lacking in confidence and lost the fighting spirit to fight again.
The three of them got together to make a plan, and they all thought that their side would lose this battle, and instead of fighting to annihilate the whole army in the end, it was better to preserve their strength, temporarily withdraw from Zeping County, and wait for the future to regroup, and then fight with the Jin army for a long time.
They reached a consensus and each ordered their army to continue to retreat south, but this time their retreat already had a goal, that is, Haowan County.
The battlefield in front was still fighting, but the three commanders gave the order to retreat in the back, so that the Red Cavalry was defeated faster. Fortunately, the mobility of the Red Cavalry is unique in the world, they can't beat the heavy cavalry, but they can definitely run.
The Red Cavalry, who were struggling to support on the battlefield, heard the sound of gold in the rear, and were relieved, and fled in a rout, they could easily get rid of the pursuit of the Seventh Legion, but the infantry of the Red Country could not do this.
Seeing the Red Cavalry rout and fleeing, Guan He, the commander of the Seventh Army, became more confident and led his subordinates to pursue and kill regardless of the situation.
The Red Cavalry ran faster than a rabbit, like a whirlwind, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, and Guan He poured out his anger on the Red Infantry. He took the lead in rushing into the camp of the Red Country infantry, and the Nine Turns Soul Breaking Knife was swung out, cutting people when he saw them, and slashing people whenever he saw them, and within three meters of him, he could hardly find a complete corpse.
Guan He was brave, and the heavy cavalry under his command was not ambiguous, and people urged their horses to rush into the crowd of the Red Army, without using spears, just a walk, and countless Red Army soldiers were killed and injured, trampled to death and wounded.
The infantry camp of the poor Red Country, shattered by the sudden slaughter of the Seventh Legion, has no formation to speak of, and has lost the strength to resist, and now people only want to escape from this nightmare battlefield as soon as possible.
The front only the strength of the seventh army and one army, the army of more than 600,000 people in the red country was defeated, Lin Haotian in the rear saw this, he was overjoyed, he jumped out of the carriage directly, ran to the war horse next to the car, grabbed a big flag of the Jin country, and while urging the horse to gallop forward, he shouted: "All the soldiers of the army, rush to kill the enemy formation——"
"Wow-"
With Lin Haotian's order, the First Army, the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army, and the Iron Lion Army of the Jin Kingdom moved forward together, and the current situation was to beat the water dogs, and no one wanted to miss this opportunity to perform meritorious service.
The soldiers below threw off their legs and rushed forward like crazy, and many of them threw off their armor in order to lighten the burden on their bodies and make themselves run faster.
The crazy scene of the Jin army chasing and killing the enemy can be completely described as 'throwing the armor and removing the armor', running along, throwing the armor aside, and the people who know the inside story know that they are chasing and killing the enemy, if they don't know the inside story, I am afraid that they can think that the Jin army is defeated and is fleeing for their lives! (To be continued......)