Volume 1 Troubled Times Chapter 180 Can't Retreat
Leading the cavalry of Bingzhou were Wuluo and Changwo, who were born in the Wu clan and were skilled in archers and horses since childhood. Chang Wo can be on par with Wuluo, which has to make Wang Rong amazed. After careful inquiry, I learned that Chang Wo was not a cavalry in his early years, but a foot soldier, or a front-line soldier known as "cannon fodder", that is, Wang Rong's first position.
As a frontier armorer, Chang Wo accidentally captured an excellent war horse during a battle with the Badbeard cavalry. Chang Wo is a person with high military value, a simple brain, and excessive generosity, and has made many friends in the army, including a sinicized Lou annoying. Chang Wo followed him to practice his riding skills for a year, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his riding skills also improved by leaps and bounds.
And Chang Wo later relied on his outstanding riding skills, step by step, and became the lieutenant of Yunzhong County. After the formation of the state army, Chang Wo took the initiative to find Wang Biao, saying that he was not interested in being a teacher at all, and just wanted to become a cavalry general.
Wang Rong thought about it carefully and agreed with his idea, but he did not withdraw his appointment to Chang Wo, and still let him be his teacher. Wang Rong's move made An Hao and Chang Wo return to their hearts, and Chang Wo, a simple-minded person, was even more grateful to Wang Rong.
Therefore, at this time, Chang Wo took the lead, and his body was half a horse in front of Wuluo, and the spear in his hand moved slightly, drawing small circles. His eyes stared at the opposite Ji army cavalry general, when the two horses were staggered, the ape arm shook, and the spear in his hand was as fast as lightning, like a poisonous snake, extremely tricky pierced into the throat of the opposite Ji army cavalry, the hard spear blade smashed the iron throat armor of the Ji army cavalry, and the spear blade penetrated through the throat and pierced through the back of his head.
Chang Wo did not stop, continued to rush forward, and killed the next target. The battle between the cavalry is the most testing, the horses are staggered at high speed, life and death can only be decided in an instant, and life and death can be decided in a millimeter, so that the elite cavalry who have experienced life and death are extremely terrifying.
The cavalry of the two colors collided violently, the weeds on the ground were crushed by the horses' hooves, and the sand and dust rolled up. Li Mubai was surprised by the combat power of the soldiers and soldiers of Bingzhou, standing in his position, he saw that on the battlefield, the Daijun cavalry located on the south side was defeated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and many cavalry did not even survive the first round of confrontation, or were overturned and dismounted, or directly stabbed to death.
Uluo and Changwo led the cavalry to the east side of the battlefield, then turned their horses' heads and drove their horses back quickly before the Daijun cavalry could recover from the losses of the first encounter.
Li Mubai looked at the situation on the battlefield, his face changed slightly, the reaction of the Yongjun cavalry was a little too fast, his Daijun cavalry had not yet completed the turn, and even if he completed the turn, he could not raise the speed of the horse. What is the difference between a cavalryman who has lost his speed and a lamb to the slaughter?
I saw that Wuluo and Chang Wo were holding up their blood-stained and somewhat slippery cavalry spears, and rushed into the Daijun cavalry that had not completely completed the turn and reorganized the formation. The scene of people turning over on their backs was staged again, and the huge casualties made the Daijun cavalry terrified, they were also veterans of the perennial war, but it was the first time they had seen a cavalry that was even more deadly than them.
The chief general of the Daijun cavalry had already died, and the deputy general could not bear the pressure, whipped the war horse under the seat with a horsewhip, and quickly ran towards the Ji army formation in the east. Seeing their generals doing this, the surrounding Daijun cavalry drove their horses to flee to the east side of the battlefield.
Li Mubai looked at the battle situation in front of him, his face was pale, and the anger in his tone made Li Xi feel cold: "Go, give me the head of the cavalry deputy general who took the lead in escaping back to show the public, I don't have such a general who is greedy for life and afraid of death!" ”
Li Xi's exhortation that had already reached his lips was immediately swallowed back, and the relationship between the deputy general who fled back was good, but Li Mubai wanted to kill this person, even the gods couldn't save him.
Soon, a long pole was erected, and a human head that was still dripping blood was tied to it, and the Ji sergeant suddenly felt awe-inspiring and took this battle seriously.
With the waving of Li Mubai's command flag in the middle, the Ji army's infantry phalanx did not stop, striding towards the middle of the battlefield. Wuluo and Changwo led the Bingzhou cavalry, and they did not dare to use their exhausted physical strength to attack the infantry formation that was waiting for them. The two men were forced to disperse with their cavalry and retreat from both sides of their formation.
The battlefield has become the world of foot soldiers again, Wang Rong stared at the long red line in front of him, and his heart gradually stabilized.
Wang Rong looked at the Ji army that was gradually approaching in the distance, took a deep breath, and ordered Wang Hao: "Order!" Left flank phalanx, forward! ”
The soldiers of the pro-guard capital quickly waved the flag, and they were located on the high ground so that the whole army could see the flag.
On the left flank was the first division of the old wolf and the old dog, with a thickness of fifty rows, arranged in several layers of spears, swords, shields, bows and crossbows.
And the left flank was just the beginning, and soon, with the issuance of the military order, the various phalanxes of the Yongjun army began to move forward in turn, the more they went to the right flank, the more they lagged behind, and the largest gap could reach about 100 paces, making the weak middle army and the right flank later to meet the enemy.
Wang Rong watched the distance getting closer and closer to the large array of the two armies, pressed the handle of the knife with a serious face, and stood there motionless like a sculpture.
After a while, there was a shout of killing in front of him, and the sky over the field was covered with black arrows, like a dark cloud covering the top, whistling and throwing into the opponent's formation.
Immediately after, shouts of killing resounded in the sky, and the large array on the left flank in the north began to meet the enemy. The shouts of killing were higher and higher, and the flags of various colors were intertwined and chaotic. Now Wang Rong on the high slope can only determine the position of his army by distinguishing the flag.
Opposite the left flank of the Bingzhou Army was the right wing of the Ji Army, and the sergeants of the Bingzhou Army swooped down on the right flank of the Ji Army like a wave, but the central army and the left flank of the two armies did not meet the enemy for a long time.
Wang Rong let the Bingzhou army advance in echelons, so that when the right flank began to fight, the distance between the Chinese army and the left flank was still hundreds of steps.
Li Mubai soon found out that the situation was not right, because there were too many soldiers on the right flank of the Bingzhou army, they were fighting with their own foot soldiers on the one hand, and outflanking them from the side, and there were a lot of soldiers in the Bingzhou army, and they were well-armored. The spear in the hand of the Ji army's infantry stabbed up, and it slid away directly, leaving only a white mark on it.
You can't kill or stab you, and the Ji army's foot soldiers have inexplicably fallen into a situation of fighting more with less, and Li Xi, who commanded the battle on the right flank, was stunned, what happened? How can there be so many merger troops here?
Li Xi watched the soldiers in front of him being cut down one after another, and the large formation was difficult to maintain, his face was mixed with anger and anger, and he roared angrily: "Go and ask the Chinese army for help!" ”
Li Mubai had already seen the situation on the right flank, he looked at the new Daijun cavalry commander, and said with a solemn face: "Quickly go to the right flank to support and defeat the Yong army!" ”
The commander of the cavalry of the Daijun hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The last general obeys the order!" ”
Li Mubai's idea was good, but he couldn't do it, because Wuluo and Chang Wo were like two-stirring sticks, with the remaining 8,000 Bingzhou cavalry, they appeared on the march route of the Daijun cavalry without interruption, and carried out extremely hateful attacks. By the time the Daijun cavalry arrived on the right flank, the right flank had already been unable to support and collapsed.
A large group of routs surrounded Li Xi, who kept shouting, fled frantically, even when they saw that the Daijun cavalry who came to support in front couldn't stop them from running away, and it also disrupted the formation of the Daijun cavalry.
Wuluo and Chang Wo saw such a good opportunity, of course, they couldn't let it go. They took out their bows and crossbows and scattered arrows to make the rout even more chaotic. They didn't dare rush up, the thick crowd would pile them to death.
At the same time, the foot soldiers close to the right flank noticed that the situation was not right and changed direction, trying to support the right flank to the north. The large formation, which was farther away, did not understand what was happening on the right flank for a short time, and continued to advance according to the order.
After about ten minutes, the Chinese armies of the two sides also began to make contact, and at this time, the Chinese troops of the Bingzhou army were weak and could not block the attack of the Ji army's infantry for a long time.
Wang Rong had already left Gaopo, but came to the third division, the third division of the three brigades, formed the middle army and the right wing, An Hao saw Wang Rong coming, his face was shocked, strode forward, stopped in front of Wang Rong, and said urgently: "General, this place is dangerous, you shouldn't come here!" ”
At this time, the battle situation between the Chinese army and the left flank was not optimistic, although the soldiers and soldiers of Bingzhou fought hard, but the number of Ji troops was too large, and the front was still forced to retreat slowly, and the reason why it did not collapse was precisely because Wang Rong and the guards came.
The guards joined the battlefield and instantly pressed back the fierce Ji army foot soldiers. Wang Mo was even more like a mad tiger, rushing left and right, with the long handle in his hand and the big knife with both hands ringing his head, I don't know how many armor of the Ji army's foot soldiers had been shattered, and there had been a slight gap on the blade surface.
Wang Rong grabbed An Hao, who was about to rush forward to kill, and said with a smile: "General An, don't worry, our army can't collapse." As he spoke, he casually plunged a flag into the soil, which was Wang Rong's flag.
After the banner was erected, the soldiers of the third division saw Wang Rong's general banner and their morale was greatly boosted. The Ji army in front of the Third Division immediately felt the pressure, and the entire line of the Bingzhou Army was soon much more stable.
Wang Rong watched the Ji army in the middle and south approaching step by step, and was nervous in his heart, An Hao personally led a group of personal soldiers to set up a shield in front of him to protect Wang Rong.
An Hao persuaded: "General, retreat, it's too dangerous here." ”
Wang Rong shook his head, pulled out the saber in his hand, and stared at the right flank of the army in the north, where the first and second divisions continued to encroach and outflank the right flank of the Ji army with absolute superiority in strength. Although the Bingzhou army defeated the Ji army, it did not achieve a decisive victory.
Seeing that Wang Rong was not moving, An Hao's face was anxious, and he stepped forward to pull him and wanted to retreat, but Wang Rong was still motionless. The war has come to this point, and Wang Rong understands very well that this is a matter of life and death.
The more difficult the moment, Wang Rong's banner is the spiritual pillar of the many soldiers of the Bingzhou Army who sacrificed their lives to fight in front of them, and they must not retreat.