Chapter 129: Tactics and Formations
Everyone on the battlefield belongs to Iwakuraden, was born on the same land, and they can be called fathers and fellow villagers to each other.
However, they fought to the death for different allegiances, shedding their own blood.
The fifty elite horsemen led by Dai Xiaolou were like a whirlwind, killing in front of Deng Aihou's army.
The power of the "assault" of the tactics is maintained, and every soldier is like a war ghost falling from the sky, exuding a frost-white brilliance, rolling up dust and sand and roaring, sweeping in.
Under Dai Xiaolou's central urging, the battle qi exuded by their bodies was closely linked together by the tactics, as if they were one, and at this moment, each of them could be ten or even a hundred enemies.
Deng Aihou did not dare to directly rush the tactics.
Because this is a battlefield, the tactics have an obvious suppressive effect on the combat effectiveness of the masters!
Because of this, the masters chose to stand firmly in the formation, relying on their own cultivation to launch the battle method, and few people rode alone to rush into the formation.
Leading dozens of horsemen to assault thousands of troops, and single-riding assault thousands of people, the former and the latter are really not the same level of difficulty. For a general with the same ability, the fewer soldiers he leads, the more condensed the tactics and the power of the formation.
Therefore, Dai Xiaolou only led fifty cavalry to break into formation, which is almost the minimum number of people who can launch cavalry tactics, but the power of tactics has been condensed to the extreme!
Several archers could not retreat in time, and could not retreat into the infantry formation in time, only to see an invisible huge force, surging like a tide, and then covered with white brilliance.
Before these archers could touch the galloping horses' hooves, they were crushed into pulp by this invisible force, and blood splattered!
After that, it was the sound of the horse's hooves trampling on the flesh and bones, and the sharp sound of tearing, which made people feel sore.
In the face of the brave attack of Dai Xiaolou's fifty elite cavalry, Deng Aihou's army seemed to be stunned, and no one seemed to be able to react, seeing that these fifty people were about to surge into the thousands of troops!
In history, it is not uncommon for dozens of cavalry to scatter thousands of troops and horses and defeat a strong enemy. As long as after the first round of cavalry charges, the rear army takes advantage of the confusion of the enemy's position and pursues it, it is likely to win more with less.
However, if Deng Aihou was really unprepared, he would not have the courage to attack his father Deng Rong's residence.
I saw Hua Zongdai leading a hundred black-armored guards to come out!
Their movements were uniform, and they were all wearing the same style of inky black armor, only the equipment was different, fifty people were holding steel spears, and another fifty were holding huge shields more than one meter high, with short knives hanging from their waists.
Their gazes were not sharp, but as deep as water, just like the inky black armor on their bodies, but they showed a uniform majesty.
A faint evil aura emanated from their bodies.
Not every warrior has killed someone, but this group of black-armored guards must have had the blood of a living person on their hands!
They were the ace warriors under the command of Deng Aihou, led by the chief military advisor Hua Zongdai and the prince Deng Sanshi.
The black-armored guards shouted in unison and strode forward.
Their pace was not very fast, but in an instant, they formed a horizontal formation in front of the main formation, iron shields raised high, spears interspersed between iron shields.
The cavalry team wearing Xiaolou wore helmets and horses in armor, but their movements were not slow at all, but they were as fast as lightning, like a torrent of steel, condescending and surging.
But the black-armored guards under Hua Zongdai were all fearless, their eyes were cold and cold, and they looked ahead intently.
Shield, like a mountain.
Guns, such as forests.
The spears in the hands of the cavalrymen collided violently with the spears and shields held by the guards!
The power of the tactics of battle, like heavenly punishment, covered the sky with white light, making the entire horizontal team tremble.
The cavalry did not rush up at the same time, but formed a triangular formation, like a swordfish swimming angrily, in groups of three or five, like the scales of a swordfish.
This is a miniature fish scale array, and its direct attack power is extremely strong.
Wu Feng couldn't help but wonder if Hua Zongdai only arranged the black-armored guards in two rows of shield soldiers and spearmen. However, if you have a few more rows, you can't stop all the cavalry.
After all, the number of Black Armor Guards is only a hundred. And the point of the defense of the infantry team is precisely the close placement.
However, Deng Aihou, who had already led the archers to retreat to the formation, suddenly burst out with a momentum like a mountain and a sea.
It was not like the battle method was launched, and there was an overwhelming brilliance surging out, but in the dark, there seemed to be a strange vein, combining the entire formation together.
Only then did Wu Feng notice that in the entire formation, although the elite guards in front of him were rampant, they were slightly protruding towards the enemy, and when they were impacted, they could sink in and the formation would not collapse.
The infantry in the center and on both sides, although poorly trained, were also in good shape, and the rows were in good order, ready to fill in if the front of them collapsed. The whole formation is outside and inside, except for the rear because it is impossible to be attacked, which is very sparse, and there are corridors for the advance and retreat of troops on the left and right sides, it is a highly symmetrical structure!
This is the Fang Yuan Formation with the strongest defense!
The formation of the square circle is dense and lacks variety, and if it is crushed by the enemy, it is easier to trample on each other, but the superb defense makes it difficult for the enemy to crush it.
Deng Aihou has been guarding against the assault of his father's elite cavalry, so he has been prepared for a long time.
Deng Aihou retreated to the Chinese army, just as his feet were connected to the formation eye, echoing the fighting spirit of all the soldiers, and the power of this formation was fed back to the black-armored guards under Hua Zongdai who were on the front line of defense!
Condescendingly, the cavalry attack has a great advantage, and Dai Xiaolou launched a tactic from the beginning, and the power can be called terrifying.
However, under the blessing of the Fang Yuan Array, the black armor guards seemed to have turned into a steel city wall, and responded to the onslaught of enemy cavalry with their flesh and blood!
The sound of weapons striking is endless, like the roar of a bell chime, echoing between the mountains and rivers.
The black-armored guards wielded their shields and spears and fought back bravely, gradually dissolving the impact of the vast sea of cavalry.
In the process of attacking, the guards retreated slightly to defuse the momentum of the cavalry, but the formation was not chaotic at all, but it changed from protruding outwards to concave inside, and it was still a long horizontal row.
Six or seven of the guards vomited blood, were knocked out of the way, and fell behind the formation, either dead or wounded.
The horizontal platoon was torn apart, but the seemingly disorderly infantry in the rear had already formed a second team under the command of Deng Aihou, armed with swords and guns to meet the cavalry that broke through.
There are only a few people who have broken through, and there is no need to mobilize the most elite black-armored guards, ordinary infantry warriors can resist it. The samurai were in groups of two or three, besieging the cavalry.
The cavalry, which had consumed most of its strength by the assault on the black-armored guards, was no longer so ferocious, and was surrounded by the infantry in the rear, one by one it was difficult to resist, and they were cut off by the hooves of their horses, fell into the dust, and cut them into a pulp with swords and guns.
The bloody smell of blood gushed out, diffused in the air, and hit everyone's nostrils.
But this is not a battlefield where you die or I die, everyone's battle spirit is condensed, and the intention of death is permeated in the military array. Among soldiers, there is certainly a fear of death, but more of a desire to kill, an expectation of rewards.
The fighting spirit is originally accumulated with the blood of the enemy!
More cavalry failed to break through the black-armored guards and had to turn their horses back quickly. There were also people who couldn't react, and they were stabbed in the heart by the spear thrown out by the black armor guard.
The power of the tactics has been consumed in this impact.
Unless Dai Xiaolou can lead all the cavalry to break through the first formation, completely defeat the black armor guard line, and then attack the newly formed front with the power of the company, and directly smash the Chinese army. Otherwise, as long as the Black Armor Guard could hold off most of the cavalry, he wouldn't have any chance.
Fifty horsemen is too little after all. Dai Xiaolou's cultivation is not as good as Hua Zongdai, who leads the black-armored guards.
These fifty horsemen are like brothers and sisters, and their hearts are connected. Deng Aihou shot one of them with an arrow before, which not only failed to hit their spirit, but also aroused their hatred of the same enemy, which greatly increased their fighting spirit, so Dai Xiaolou immediately made a decision and launched a "surprise" of tactics.
It's just that the effect of the tactics passed quickly, but Dai Xiaolou's round of raids failed, and he also lost six or seven cavalrymen.
In war, the master is still very important. Only by cultivating enough people can they launch extremely powerful tactics, otherwise, no matter how well they are trained, the tactics may last too short and the follow-up will be weak, and they will not be able to break the enemy's formation.
Deng Aihou immediately made a decision and ordered the archers who had retreated to the formation to launch a volley against this group of cavalry!
When the cavalry charged, it was downhill, but when it returned to the castle, it was uphill, and there was a big difference in speed, so the shooting rate at this time was undoubtedly much higher.
The arrows and feathers were swaying, the sound of the sound of the beetle pierced the blue sky, and in the cold wind howling, one after another cavalry let out a terrible neigh, and fell off their horses. There were also horses that were hit by arrows, and their hooves fell downward, and then their legs were broken by the huge inertia, and the blood was surging, and the riders were also wrapped in heavy iron armor, rolling down the dust and drowsy.
Although the centaurs are heavily armoured, it is the scale armor that prevails today rather than the plate armor, and the layered layers of armor can defuse the powerful impact force, stronger than the protection against stabbing and blows, but weaker than the arrow defense, but can be pierced through the gap by the bow and arrow.
Of course, the knights are also equipped with heart goggles to protect their chests, but when the knights rush, they generally neglect to launch their true qi to protect themselves, and at the end of the battle, their strength is even more declining, and the true qi attached to the arrow can surge out as long as it stabs the abdomen and other parts, stirring the internal organs into pieces, causing death.
When Dai Xiaolou's fifty horsemen returned to the castle, there were less than thirty people, and seven or eight others had been wounded by arrows.
The infantry that was supposed to attack with them had to retreat back to the castle in a daze.
Deng Aihou shouted: "Everyone is playing very well. Defeat the enemy's spirit and win the first victory! We will wave our troops and take this city!"
Although there were not many captures this time, Dai Xiaolou's elite cavalry was the trump card in Deng Rong's hands, and more than half of the kills were enough to frustrate the enemy.
At this time, news came that Deng Aihou's son Deng Sanshi also successfully repelled the assault in the direction of another city gate, although the fight was a little miserable, and he was almost overwhelmed by the line, but in the end, at the cost of losing more than 30 people, he still drove the enemy back.
Since ancient times, it was the most difficult to attack the city, Deng Sanshi was only sixteen years old, and he could have this performance, which can indeed be regarded as a certain level, and it is no wonder that Deng Aihou attaches so much importance to this son