"Raise your shield." Qu Tao hurriedly shouted.

"Keep your head down."

Those who have shields in the rebel army subconsciously raise their shields, and those who do not have shields bow their heads.

Arrows clanged and rained down on the rebels, some of them landing on their helmets with a sound like striking iron.

Ah, someone not far from Qu Tao's side let out a scream, it should have been shot by an arrow, and then more screams.

This wave was shot a lot of people.

The rumbling in the distance on the opposite side left quickly, and the officers and soldiers, like Zhu Gaoxu, came up and shot a wave and then changed direction, probably for fear of being shot by the rebel army's lunge.

The archers of Qu Tao's phalanx had already thrown all their bows and arrows, and when Qu Tao turned around, he saw a phalanx behind him, and he didn't know whose soldiers and horses it was, so they all got out of the way.

A large number of archers poured to the front.

"Put." A thousand households shouted.

"Crackling" The air was filled with the sound of bowstrings being pulled.

The rebel army counterattacked with a rain of arrows, and the opposite side was also overturned on their backs, and the officers and soldiers also screamed.

Qu Tao looked dark, because the Han King had many soldiers and horses, and the same was true in Jingjing.

Every time a rain of arrows passes, the officers and soldiers have to fall a large piece.

At this moment, a thousand households trotted over behind him: "General Qu, your casualties are relatively large, do you want to replace them." ”

It was the phalanx behind him.

Qu Tao looked left and right, his soldiers and horses were fighting hard in front of him, and he still had the upper hand overall, and the officers and soldiers were retreating step by step.

However, his phalanx had been bombarded by the opponent and shot by arrows, and the losses were indeed a bit large.

"We can fight again." Qu Tao said in a deep voice: "If you can't stand it, I will tell you." ”

"Whoa." Qianhu said respectfully.

"Onward." At this time, there was a general in front of him shouting loudly.

Wow, wow, wow, Qu Tao's phalanx strode forward, and the officers and troops retreated.

There is no way, most of Qu Tao's soldiers and horses have been trained in queues, are strictly disciplined, and their execution ability far exceeds that of the Ming army who have not been trained in queues.

When the officers and soldiers first rushed up, with a sharp spirit, after the two sides were deadlocked, the weaknesses of poor discipline and poor execution of the officers and troops came out.

The rebel army is well-trained, and the order is united.

If Qu Tao was in the front, he could clearly hear the various voices on the side of the rebel army in the battle.

"Poke."

"Forward, stop, stab, stab."

"Poke the plate."

"Poke."

"He who has an axe throws an axe."

"Throw."

"The sword and the shield hold the shield."

"Poke."

The sergeants here are like emotionless robots, and many of their actions are based on the orders of their superiors.

Let the stab will be stabbed, let the shield be raised, every time the officers and soldiers are repulsed, after pulling out the distance, the commanders will also order to throw the wave dark weapon.

Moreover, the front row of the rebel army was killed and fell, and the back row was immediately replaced, and the lineup was always intact.

Therefore, Qu Tao's phalanx seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, and the people behind him slowly made up for it, but the combat effectiveness did not decrease much.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers still have a difficult way of playing, rushing up as soon as they open the gap, and fall into a bitter battle if they can't open the gap.

At this time, the Ming army was actually fighting in groups, and there was basically no command when they rushed to the front, and it was difficult to implement the command in place.

The phalanx on the opposite side quickly couldn't stand it, and suddenly there was an exclamation, and the first phalanx of the official army collapsed in less than half an hour after fighting with Qu Tao's soldiers and horses.

But there were many officers and soldiers, and the second and third phalanxes rushed up one after another.

Qu Tao watched the official army change a phalanx, he assessed his phalanx, the first wave of battle losses should be less than 1,000 people, there are still more than 4,000 people on the field, and there is still combat effectiveness.

But to fight still to maintain physical strength, Qu Tao called a thousand households: "You go and talk to the phalanx behind, let them use arrows to help us press the official and military formation, and then prepare to replace us." ”

"Whoa"

The phalanx of Qu Tao is almost a microcosm of the entire battlefield.

The rebel army has the upper hand in all battlefields, and with the same number of soldiers and horses in the same phalanx, the official army is not the opponent of the rebel army at all.

Of course, if the number of officers and soldiers is large enough, the situation will also be a situation in which the rebel army will have the upper hand.

For example, the west wing of the rebel army more than two miles away from Qu Tao, and the east side of the official army.

The official army here gathered a large number of cavalry, this is the outermost circle of the official army and the rebel army, the activity space is relatively large, and there are about tens of thousands of cavalry on the east side of the official army rushing straight to the west flank of the rebel army.

The one in charge of defending here is Hong Zheng.

Zhu Gaoxu, who surrendered in the Jing Martyrdom, saw that his soldiers and horses were well-trained and very combative.

Hong Zheng is one of the three guards of the Han Dynasty, and he is the elite of the elite.

But this time the opponent was all cavalry rushing into formation, and as soon as the fight began, the black cavalry came up directly.

Seeing that the cavalry was charging fiercely, some infantry began to panic.

Hong Zheng suddenly raised his arms: "The King of Han has won a hundred battles, and he will win——"

The subordinates of "Victory" roared one after another, and the morale of the rebel army was greatly shaken.

In their shouts, Hong Zheng waved his hand violently.

"Hum" a rain of arrows flew through the air.

A large number of the officers and cavalry fell to the ground, but more cavalry continued to charge upward, and finally almost under the rain of arrows, boomed, and slammed into his infantry formation.

The scene was incomparably spectacular, the cavalry flooded like a tide, and it seemed that only an endless number of cavalry could be seen in front and behind.

Boom, countless people fell to the ground at the scene, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

Many people were killed by the cavalry, and some cavalry fell to their deaths.

Usually the infantry formation is not strong enough, and the cavalry will easily tear the gap, just like the eight thousand cavalry of the Lord of the Rings in the movie rushed through the orc legion.

But after all, it was a movie, Zhu Gaoxu's step formation was very tight, and the other party charged fiercely, except for the big formation that was concave in, it was not torn apart.

I don't know who it is in the back of the "shooting", desperately shouting to shoot, and the archers behind keep throwing forward.

The scene was a bit chaotic, and many cavalry had already rushed into the formation, but they were temporarily unable to move forward and were entangled.

The officers and soldiers also threw at the side of the rebel army, and the front row of both sides was fighting, and the back row was shooting, both trying to defeat the other side first.

After a while, in the rear of the official cavalry, Zhu Ping was furious.

Zhu Ping is Zhu Neng's nephew, and this time he went out with his uncle to brush up on his military exploits.

"What are you doing in front, can't you rush up?" Zhu Ping scolded angrily at a commanding envoy.

The cavalry in front can't rush, and the cavalry behind can't keep up, so now there are a large number of cavalry hovering behind, and they are in a dilemma.

They want to go up and down, they want to retreat, and they are afraid that the gap will open in front of them for a while, and they will not be able to support in time.

Wait where you are, and be shot with a bow and arrow by the rebel army.

So it's very aggrieved.

The commander cried out: "I can't rush it, the rebel infantry is desperately blocking our cavalry with their bodies." ”

"Those people are crazy, not human."

"Their shields were quite large, and they stood on the ground like walls."

"Bastard." Zhu Ping was furious: "Rebels or not people? I don't believe that flesh and blood can block the cavalry charge, Jing Yan can't stop it, they can still block it, and give Lao Tzu to rush forward at all costs. ”

Zhu Ping, like his uncle Zhu Neng, fought in a difficult way, thinking that if he sent cavalry to charge, the infantry would be chaotic.

He ordered to rush again.

But at this time, there were already too many cavalry in front of them who had been shot off their horses, and the left flank of the battlefield was full of unmanned war horses wandering, and a large number of war horses that had lost cavalry were blocking the road, and it was impossible for the second wave to break out of the strength and momentum of the first wave.

This wave of cavalry was only halfway through when it was broken by the rain of arrows of the rebel army.

After rushing up, they still failed to break through the rebel army's infantry formation, and many cavalry had to dismount and fight, and the cavalry turned into infantry.

Zhu Ping's organization rushed several times in a row, unable to shake the formation of the rebel army, very frustrated, and even more incredible.

Just as he was about to give up, suddenly, there was a cheer not far away, and he saw a group of officers and cavalry coming out of that place, rumbling into the two infantry camps that were fighting, the other party seemed to be caught off guard, and the lineup of the rebel army suddenly became a little chaotic.

The morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly shaken, and the infantry and cavalry became even more frenzied, and suddenly, there was a scream in the rebel army's formation, and then the formation dispersed as if it had collapsed, and then the crowd scattered and fled, as if it had been broken.

Zhu Ping was overjoyed, it had been almost an hour since he arrived at the scene in the morning, and he finally broke down a phalanx of the rebel army.

The officers and soldiers immediately chased and killed from the heels.

——

Wang Zhong stood on the mountain and looked down the mountain.

When the officers and troops came up, the horizontal formation was only four or five miles, but now after a long fight, the formation is getting bigger and bigger, and the scene has spread out to more than ten miles.

Along the Taihe River on the east side, the soldiers and horses of the official army and the rebel army lined up in a line, almost surrounding the entire Taihe Mountain.

The rebel army is a bit similar to the southern army in the Battle of Jingnan, almost all of them are infantry troops in front, officers and soldiers use infantry and cavalry together, and there are firearms soldiers sandwiched between them.

But after this period of fighting, the rebel army steadily gained the upper hand, just because there were too many officers and troops, they were often defeated by a phalanx, and a new phalanx was immediately added to it.

He looked at the sky, and estimated that he had been fighting for almost two hours, and the soldiers were almost out of strength.

"Order, prepare to retreat, retreat to the mountain in an orderly manner."

"Woo-woo-—— woo-woo--" The sound of two long and two short horns immediately resounded on the side of the rebel army, and then, boom, the cannon sound also sounded in the rebel army.

But there were only three cannon shots, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side did not see the shells flying out, so no one should have paid attention to the artillery of the rebel army.

With the sound of trumpets and artillery, the rear row of the rebel army began to retreat.

The front row is no longer pressing, and it is retreating while fighting.

So on the huge battlefield, the rebel army could be seen slowly retreating.

The changes in the rebel army were immediately seen by Zhu Neng and them.

Xu Zhong noticed the abnormality for the first time: "The rebels should not be at a disadvantage and suddenly retreated?" ”

Driving, Xu Zhong quickly looked for Zhu Neng.

Zhu Nengzheng was holding back his mouth and wanted to praise the rebels, but when he finally saw the rebels retreating, he was overjoyed: "Quick, give orders, beat drums, and pursue." ”

"Cheng Guogong." Xu Zhong quickly found Zhu Neng: "The brothers have been fighting for a long time, why don't you take a rest for Mingjin?" ”

"What?" Zhu Neng was incredulous: "Don't you see that the rebels are not supporting and are retreating?" ”

Xu Zhong persuaded: "The rebels are not defeated, why are they retreating?" ”

"yes, why retreat? Yongkang Hou? Zhu Neng asked rhetorically.

Xu Zhong was speechless.

He didn't know why he would withdraw?

(End of chapter)