204. Fight in battle
Quiet!
In this field, apart from the sound of the wind, there seemed to be only two heavy breaths left.
You don't move, I don't move!
There was a stalemate for nearly a stick of incense, and the soldiers on both sides tensed their nerves, waiting for the orders of their respective generals.
Liu Xiuli, who was in the center of the circle, was anxious in his heart, couldn't bear it, and shouted at the other side, "The one who entered the mother, the dead beggar Bai Lai caught up, but he didn't fight, what is the reason!?" Chen Mayu, you are a coward, you don't want to bite Lao Tzu Bird, but come here!"
When Chen Xiaokun heard this, his face was slightly gloomy, but he didn't pay attention to it, and only looked at Zhao Mengqi.
Zhao Mengqi originally rushed to the front, but Wu Qiong and Geng Zhi quickly chased after him, hid him behind him, and pressed him in the heavy guards when they lined up.
Xing Chong rushed to pursue, seeing the impermeable turtle formation of this rebel army, he couldn't help but make people feel a little embarrassed, Zhao Mengqi realized that he was impulsive again.
At that time, he saw that among the remnants of the rebels, there was a guy with a unique and sassy ornament on his hood, and guessed that it was probably Liu Xiuli, seeing that he wanted to run, so his brain was hot, and he chased after him regardless of it.
Brother was beaten by you for a long time, but in the end you wanted to pat your ass and leave, there is no such cheap thing.
Zhao Mengqi has never been a loser, but at this time, it is obviously not wise to attack the fortified formation, so he has to use the word "drag", after all, the weight of the heavily armored soldier is more than half, and the longer the time, the greater the physical strength.
Seeing that the other party had lost patience, I was afraid that it wouldn't last long, so Zhao Mengqi hurriedly thought hard about how to break the enemy, and asked softly, "Is the person talking to the other side Liu Xiuli?"
"Back to Your Highness, it's that guy."
After Chen Xiaokun answered, he was about to persuade King Yan to give up the pursuit and retreat to the city.
But Zhao Mengqi said, "Then you can't let go of this group of rebels."
"Your Highness, but the other side is ironclad, how can we break the formation? If we attack hard, we will have to pay at least three or five times the casualties, and if we make a slight mistake, we will be overturned by the other side."
In addition to the hard attack, Chen Xiaokun did not think of other safe tactics for the time being, and he should not take too much risk until the battlefield was a last resort.
While thinking about it, Zhao Mengqi's eyes wandered around, and suddenly saw an object not far behind him, his eyes lit up, and he had an idea, and quickly arranged it.
After listening to King Yan's instructions, Chen Xiaokun had a certain look in his eyes, cleared his throat, and shouted, "The surname Liu, are you stupid for me, you put up a turtle shell array, and you want me to hit it up, isn't it a dream, there is a kind of you don't want to be a turtle with a shrunken head, let the horse come over and face the last game in a dignified manner!"
"Hehehe, such a lame agitation method is useless to Liu, if you want to fight, hurry up and fight, if you don't dare to fight, get out of the house early." Liu Xiuli scolded back.
Chen Xiaokun continued to shout, "Didn't you fight Wu Jiang just to arrest His Royal Highness King Yan, he is in the formation at the moment, you can come and arrest him!"
"Chen Mayu, do you think I am a three-year-old child? Don't be verbose, if you have a kind of attack!" Where will Liu Xiuli believe.
"Do you really think I can't do anything with your turtle shell array? You wait for me." Chen Xiaokun saw that Liu Xiuli was not fooled, and immediately shouted, "Change formation, horizontal!"
With his order, more than a hundred people began to run, turning the phalanx into a three-person thick horizontal formation.
Although the part of Banzhi and Fenghua Army is elite, the two sides lack tacit understanding, and they look a little chaotic when they change formations.
The two armies are only five feet apart, and changing formations at this distance is a taboo for soldiers, as long as the enemy seizes this chaotic opportunity to launch a surprise attack, it can be defeated with a single blow.
But Liu Xiuli did not move, ignoring the flaws deliberately exposed by Chen Xiaokun.
He knows Chen Xiaokun very well, and knows that he has always been calm, although he is inferior to himself in military affairs, he is also a general, and he will never make such a low-level mistake, and now he obviously wants to seduce himself to take the initiative to attack.
Although the heavily armored soldiers are also very sharp in attacking, and there is a high probability of breaking up the opponent's formation after attacking, if there is no follow-up mobile force to follow up, they will not be able to achieve too many results, but will sharply consume the physical strength of their own armor.
The opposite side is more flexible than itself, and after spreading out, it can be
Walking by the nose of his own side, like walking a dog, exhausting himself to death.
The steppe people, especially the Mongols, often used this tactic against the infantry of the Central Plains army, but they rode horses and were more handy.
It took a lot of time, and after the horizontal formation became a horizontal formation, there was still no attack.
"Hehe, the carving insect trick also dares to get an axe, Chen Mayu, Chen Mayu, after so many years, not only has it not grown, but it has become more and more unbearable."
Liu Xiuli looked at the thirty-pace-long horizontal formation with disdain, unmoved, and still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.
In the process of changing the formation, Chen Xiaokun was worried in his heart, staring at every move of the circle array, and saw that they were indeed as Yan Wang expected, it was the turtle that ate the scales, and he was determined to respond to all changes without change, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
After holding the horizontal formation for a while, the command sounded again, and the two wings of the horizontal formation began to move forward, turning into a goose-shaped formation, faintly as if to encircle the circle.
Liu Xiuli still thinks that Chen Xiaokun is bluffing, just with his person, how can he surround himself, he can break through in any direction, it is not much more difficult than piercing a piece of paper.
"Even if you toss, I'll lose if I move!"
When the goose-shaped array was formed, another tea time had passed, and the circular array looked like it was not moving, Chen Xiaokun ordered it to change back to a horizontal formation, and just after the formation, it began to shrink into a square formation.
"Hehe, bells and whistles, tired of you maids!" Liu Xiuli was complacent.
But just when the square array was ready, he suddenly saw two crossbow carts on each wing of the phalanx, and the sharp edges of the thick crossbow arrows were flashing with cold light, aiming at his side.
Into the damn pickled chaos, Chen Mayu is playing tricks again!
With a pang in his heart, Liu Xiuli shrugged with cold hairs all over his body, "Muxian! Charge with all your might!"
The elite is really the elite, as soon as Liu Xiuli's order was exported, the circular array immediately transformed, and after two or three breaths, it turned into a conical formation.
But the four arrows of one gun and three swords and arrows sent out by the ballista had already roared, and they crossed into the iron guard array, and the shield armor was shattered, and the sound of miserable howls was endless.
An iron guard in front of Liu Xiuli was pierced through his chest diagonally by a crossbow arrow, and blood burst out, splashing Liu Xiuli's head and face.
"Ah! Chen Mayu, you are a sinister villain, Lao Tzu will cut you with a thousand knives! Rush with me!"
At this time, he didn't think about anything else, and the only thought in his mind was to kill Chen Xiaokun.
Facing the realm of mortality, more than twenty iron guards burst out of their full potential, wielding big axes, iron maces, and bone hammers, and followed Liu Xiuli to charge with all his might.
"Royal!"
The order sounded in the middle of the defenders' formation, and the spearmen in the front row immediately slammed the tail of their guns to the ground, and then sat down on the ground with the barrels of their guns between them, the tips of their guns pointing obliquely forward.
The sword and shield men in the second and third rows also crouched down on their knees at the same time, revealing the crossbowmen behind them.
"Shoot!"
More than 50 crossbow arrows were fired into the charging group of guards, and many "hedgehogs" were nailed out in an instant, but only two guards fell.
Subsequently, two feather arrows pierced the air and pierced the iron guard running in front, one of which was in the middle of the iron guard's face door, passed through the small hole in the face armor, and was deeply submerged in the eye socket, and the other shot was Liu Xiuli, who was also facing him, but he seemed to sense the danger, and instantly lowered his head, and the feather arrow shot at his smooth hood, and was bounced away and jumped away.
The archers were Chang Geng and Xiahou Ji, both of whom used a strong bow with five buckets of bow power with one stone, but unfortunately Chang Geng's arrow failed to make a contribution.
"Hehe, it's a pity." Xiahou Ji chuckled.
Although it was not explicitly stated, the two of them obviously had the intention of competing.
Chang Geng's eyes shrank, but he didn't answer, threw the bow in his hand, picked up a hemp knife, and walked to the side, obviously wanting to use the shame of a snow failure in close combat.
Xiahou Ji raised his eyebrows, also dropped his bow and arrows, and carried a standard short-handled axe, which also flashed to the side.
In just five feet, the Iron Guard had already rushed to the front of the formation, and the first man was holding a round shield, as if ignoring the sharp spear.
At the moment of contact, the man was short, pointed his round shield at the head of the gun, lifted it up, and crashed into it, smashing the mace in his hand and hitting the gunman's pocket.
The skull was not broken, but it could not block the heavy blow, and the spearman's head was concussed, his skull was cracked, and at the same time, his neck bone was broken, and his neck was crooked and the account was instantaneous.
In the East Asian battlefields of this era, no matter which side it is, it has a very high armor rate, so melee weapons basically abandon sharp swords and use blunt weapons as the mainstream.
After the brave guard had dealt with the spearmen, he continued to ram forward, raised his shield, met the axe raised high by a sword and shield man, and slammed his shield with his body, and with brute force he hit the sword and shield soldier behind him.
The Iron Guard stepped on the fallen bodies of the two, regardless of their life or death, but continued to advance without delay.
As a leader, his task is to move forward, forward, and forward.
It was only after he broke into the formation that he found that there was no one in front of him, so he didn't allow much thought, and continued to advance to create space for his comrades behind him.
After running four or five steps, he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and after losing his balance, the huge inertia and his own weight of nearly three hundred catties made him fall to the ground.
Liu Xiuli followed behind the iron guard, and also burst into the formation through the gap he had knocked out.
Liu Xiuli naturally also discovered the abnormality in the array, and quickly swept his eyes, only to see that this was actually a hollow array, and the alarm bell in his heart was loud.
But he didn't dare to stop, let alone turn back, so he could only raise his attention to avoid the tripping ropes on the ground and rush to the bottom of the formation.
Because it was a hollow formation, the three platoons of soldiers could not withstand the impact of the heavily armored soldiers at all, and the gap was torn wider and wider in a breath or two, and more than a dozen iron guards all broke through.
But the dense tripwires in the formation tripped five or six more guards, and the rest had to slow down in order to dodge.
"Flanking!"
On both sides of the hollow array, the soldiers who originally shot crossbows had replaced their axes and hammers in their hands, and pounced on the guards from both sides at the same time.
Whether it is down or running, as long as it touches, it doesn't matter if you smash it with your weapon.
The iron guard also fought back, relying on the protection of his own heavy armor and shield, and carried all kinds of weapons that smashed over, blocking those who could be blocked, and letting him if he couldn't, just swinging his weapons and smashing them in the opponent's vital places.
In this small space, the soldiers on both sides were entangled together, all fighting for their lives, bloody and tragic!