Chapter 261: Heavy Blow
At this time, Shi Ziling's special attack division had indeed been gradually surrounded by Li Yuan's guards.
In order to clear the hook team in the opponent's formation first, Shi Ziling always insisted on letting five hundred martial arts masters form a storming arrow to lead the infantry battalion to advance steadily, and Li Yuan saw Shi Ziling's attempt, so he simply let the hook team as a bait to gradually introduce the special attack division's brigade into his own formation, and then use the advantage of troops to close the encirclement, preparing to trap them in the formation.
Although Shi Ziling saw Li Yuan's intentions, he still resolutely ordered his subordinates to clear the opponent's hook team first. However, before rushing into the enemy formation, he first divided the 15,000-strong special attack division into ten groups, each group was still composed of three echelons: arrow troops, infantry battalions and cavalry teams, and the ten groups of teams maintained a fixed distance between them to avoid losing their echoes with each other.
After entering Li Yuan's formation, the special attack division still took the hook team in the opponent's formation as the focus of culling, and after being besieged by the opponent's team, it set up an Optimus Prime defensive formation to shrink the defense. After repelling a wave of attacks from the opponent, the special attack team composed of martial arts masters continued to kill the opponent's hook team, and after being besieged by the opponent's team, it shrank into its own Optimus Prime defensive formation again.
Because the ten groups of people and horses in Shiziling can form a small-scale Optimus Prime formation alone, or they can be combined by two or three or four groups of people and horses to form a larger-scale Optimus Prime defensive formation, although they go deep into the enemy formation, they are always in a chaotic formation under the impact of the enemy army on all sides, and there are no major casualties.
With the cooperation of the infantry battalion, each special attack team has been patiently clearing the hook team in the opponent's formation, and by the way, the archers and shield players in the opponent's formation have also been killed and injured in large numbers, preparing for the strong impact of the special attack cavalry team in the future.
Shi Ziling sat on the tall BMW Black Rose and calmly observed the movements in the formation, and made various adjustment instructions in time with the magic voice outside the sky. His Outer Heaven Demon Voice had been cultivated to the highest level, and although the battlefield was chaotic and noisy, he could still ensure that his team could hear it clearly.
Relatively speaking, although Li Yuan is full of true yuan, his verbal instructions are far less penetrating and stable than Shi Ziling's extraterrestrial magic sound, and most of the time he can only command his subordinates according to specific order and banner language, and his reaction is naturally much slower.
However, Li Yuan was not in a hurry, although several hook scratching teams that were bait in front of him were subjected to the key clearance of the special attack division, he also secretly hid five hundred hook scratchers in the back formation as a backup. What's more, the 10,000 infantry of the special attack division had all entered the encirclement of Li Yuan's guards at this time, leaving only 5,000 special attack cavalry still outside the encirclement.
Li Yuan was confident that with the 20,000 infantry in the Guards Army against the 10,000 infantry of the special attack division falling in the encirclement, there were still 10,000 cavalry and 500 scratching hookers ready to deal with the charge of the special attack cavalry at any time, which should be foolproof.
The evolution of the battle situation was indeed as Li Yuan expected, in order to clear the hook team, Shi Ziling's special attack division boldly divided into ten groups and entered the formation of the guards, although they killed all these hook teams, but they also quickly fell into the encirclement of the guards. Li Yuan immediately ordered a siege, and the two sides immediately launched a major offensive and defensive battle.
Li Yuan's guards used the advantage of strength to press forward step by step, and Shi Ziling's special attack division used the Optimus Prime defensive formation to shrink the defense.
Li Yuan confidently commanded the Guards to gradually shrink the encirclement, expecting that no matter how strong the defensive ability of the special attack division was, it would still be trapped in his own formation after all, as long as the encirclement shrank to a certain extent, the spacing between the various grouping teams of the special attack division would inevitably be compressed and deformed, and the defensive formation of Optimus Prime would be self-defeating. At that time, even if Shi Ziling ordered the special attack cavalry team to charge, it was estimated that he would be weak.
Seeing that the encirclement of Li Yuan's guards was gradually shrinking, Shi Ziling was still not in a hurry, he was very confident in the defensive power of the Optimus Prime defensive formation, and was convinced that Li Yuan's guards would not be able to crush the formation of the special attack division in a short period of time. It wasn't until the hook team in his sight had been cleared that Shi Ziling picked up the Outer Heaven Demon Voice and shouted, "Ten groups of men and horses are ready to ...... Together......"
With Shi Ziling's order, the special attack divisions that were originally divided into ten groups quickly gathered and moved closer, and soon formed a complete lineup. Shi Ziling raised the Zhangba spear in his hand and waved it suddenly, shouting: "Rush ......."
Wei Hu, who had been wandering outside the encirclement, saw Shi Ziling waving the Zhangba spear in his hand, and immediately ordered the 5,000 special attack cavalry team to charge, and at the same time, the special attack division in the encirclement had regrouped in place and rushed forward following the place pointed by Shi Ziling's Zhangba spear.
As soon as Li Yuan saw that the special attack division was beginning to assemble, and knew that Shiziling was about to form the strongest formation to launch a charge, he hurriedly ordered the five hundred hook team hidden behind the formation to get ready, and at the same time ordered the guards to further shrink the encirclement, hoping to continue to squeeze the infantry battalion of the special attack division in the encirclement.
However, to Li Yuan's surprise, the direction in which Shi Ziling's special attack division led the team to break through was not towards the side of Longma Road to join the reinforcements, but rushed towards the direction of Black Dragon City. At the same time, Wei Hu's special attack cavalry team was rushing head-on in the direction of the breakthrough of the Shiziling infantry battalion, and the special attack cavalry and the infantry battalion were facing inside and outward at the same time, making it difficult for the guards on their attack line to parry for a while.
Li Yuan was surprised, Shi Ziling's special attack division did not join forces with his own reinforcements without too many casualties, but instead ran back in the direction of Black Dragon City, did Shi Ziling not have the confidence to win this battle, but was ready to go back to defense?
But at this moment, he can't speculate more, Li Yuanzhi said that the impact of the Dao Special Attack Division was too huge, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to trap them again, so he hurriedly waved his flag to open a gap in the encirclement, allowing the Special Attack Division to rush out of the encirclement, and then ordered the 10,000 cavalry that had been gathering momentum for a long time to follow and chase them.
It's a pity that although Li Yuan's flag language is good, it is far less direct than Shi Ziling's Outer Heaven Demon Sound, and at this time, the two sides suddenly made a big move, and suddenly showed the rapid advantage of the special attack division in scheduling.
Without waiting for the encirclement of the Guards to be completely withdrawn, the special attack divisions had already hedged up one mile and one mile away, and the Guards in this direction could not react in time, and were soon rushed into chaos by the special attack divisions attacking from both sides, and by the time Li Yuan's order to withdraw the encirclement was fully delivered, the Guards had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
Shi Ziling's infantry battalion skillfully split into two after breaking through the encirclement of the Guards, and forced them to both sides, just letting Wei Hu's 5,000 special attack cavalry team pass, and then quickly combined and turned around under the command of Shi Ziling's outer demon sound, and followed the special attack cavalry team back into Li Yuan's formation.
At this time, the 10,000 guards cavalry sent by Li Yuan had already arrived, and the special attack cavalry team was not afraid and rushed forward to kill them.
The frontal charge of the cavalry against the cavalry is the impact of each other, although Li Yuan's cavalry of the Guards is also very good, but it is obviously weaker than the special attack cavalry team of Shiziling.
The 5,000 special attack cavalry team was all equipped with a long spear that was conducive to long-range attacks and a special long knife that was good for close slashing, and they were in a row of five people, and the distance between them was extremely clever, which was just enough to give full play to the advantages of the blades they held, and immediately gained the upper hand in a head-to-head confrontation.
Although Li Yuan's Guards Cavalry was twice as numerous in number, the numerical superiority was not so important in the frontal rapid charge battle, and it was at a disadvantage from the armament to the formation arrangement to the speed and impact, and the result of the head-to-head confrontation could be imagined, and soon there were large casualties under the impact of the special attack cavalry.
When the two sides finished a round of charges, Shi Ziling's special attack cavalry only lost four or five hundred people, and Li Yuan's guards cavalry team lost nearly three thousand people on the spot, and what was even worse was that the infantry battalion of the special attack division that followed again gave these guards cavalry a heavy blow, all the infantry battalions of the special attack division were equipped with special hook and sickle guns, which Shi Ziling specially asked Elder Dian to design and find someone to customize, although there was not much power in the infantry battle, but once it encountered the cavalry, it showed a better destructiveness than the hook team.
Li Yuan's Guards Cavalry finally survived the frontal charge of the special attack cavalry, but immediately fell into the relentless blocking of the hook and sickle of the opponent's infantry battalion.
The special hook on the hook sickle about seven feet long is extremely sharp, which is extremely lethal to the horses of the cavalry, and the horse's hooves can be broken with a slight pull.
Shi Ziling's infantry battalion was well-trained, and immediately stepped forward to cover the horses of the opposing cavalry after knocking them down, killing the fallen cavalry like chopping melons and vegetables.
When they hurried forward to block the charge of the special attack cavalry, Shi Ziling had already issued a new order, so that the special attack cavalry team after the charge did not take advantage of the situation to kill the enemy formation, but according to Shi Ziling's magic sound command, they divided into two and went around in a circle and then turned back, and launched a second charge against Li Yuan's retreating guards.
The reason why Shi Ziling was arranged like this was not only to consider that there might be a hook team hidden in Li Yuan's array, but also to annihilate the 10,000 cavalry in the opponent's formation as soon as possible. Since both sides are cavalry teams, they can rush and kill without scruples, and they can show the strengths of the special attack cavalry team in the charge and attack.
Li Yuan's group of guards cavalry had already collapsed after being intercepted by the hook and sickle guns of the infantry battalion, and the remaining some of them immediately turned their horses and ran away when they saw the opportunity.