Chapter Eighty-Three: Cavalry, Charge!
With Wang Shaoyu's family members joining the battlefield, the Ming army's front was finally stabilized, and the family members were all loyal to Wang Shaoyu, and it was not soft to cut down deserters.
Between being hacked to death by the invading army and being hacked to death by Wang Shaoyu's family, the Ming army would rather die at the hands of the invading army, after all, he was killed as a deserter, and he was afraid that his family would still be implicated.
So the Ming army shouted desperately, rushing up desperately, wanting to break through the phalanx of the breaking army, and the reserve army also gritted their teeth to resist, they didn't dare to go, the eleventh smash was placed in the back, it was really broken, Li Yan was really not soft!
Li Yan looked at the situation on the battlefield with a grim expression, Wang Shaoyu is worthy of being a general, it is really rare to stabilize the morale of the army so quickly, and now it is difficult for him, Wang Shaoyu desperately let the troops unfold, so as to give full play to the advantage of numbers, and use human lives to go to the trap, it is undoubtedly a ruthless move, but it works.
The two wings are also starting to fight now, and the breaking troops on the two wings are not so tenacious, and as soon as the incense is burned, the formation begins to be chaotic, which makes Li Yan anxious for a while, but he still takes a deep breath and forces himself to calm down, don't mess up.
Da Da, a sound of horses' hooves came, Li Laiheng, who was covered in blood, rushed up on a war horse, and he didn't have time to get off the horse, so he directly reined in his horse and gritted his teeth and said: "Guanjun, the wings can't bear it, Zhang Hong has been injured, and now he is being carried down, and if it goes on like this, at most half a pillar of incense, the two wings will collapse!" ”
Li Laiheng was already desperate, he single-handedly rushed into the Ming army three times, was wounded in no less than eight places, and killed one person from a thousand households and two people from a hundred households in the Ming army, so that the Ming army avoided when he saw him, but it was still difficult to stabilize the decline of the army.
"How is Zhang Hong's injury?" Hearing that Zhang Hong was injured, Li Yan could also guess the tragedy of the battlefield, and asked about the injuries of his subordinates first with a twisted eyebrow.
"I was hit by a spear in the shoulder, I hurt my muscles and bones, and I can't fight anymore" Li Laiheng controlled the restless war horse and turned back.
"No matter what, the two wings can't collapse," Li Yan said categorically to Li Laiheng, "I still have fifteen personal guards here, you can bring them all, and stabilize the two wings for me at all costs!" ”
Li Laiheng looked at Li Yan's guards around him in embarrassment, fifteen people, he really didn't know what role it could play, but something was better than nothing, so he could only nod and arch his hand: "I will not disgrace my life!" ”
After speaking, he rushed down the hill with fifteen elite cavalry, Li Laiheng's fighting style was very tricky, he did not take the traditional flank attack, but directly charged at the place where Wang Shaoyu's banner was.
While charging, the tiger shouted: "Death to those who stand in my way!" ”
Li Laiheng was really brave, Wang Shaoyu also noticed the approaching danger, and hurriedly asked the deputy general Luo Dai to lead his troops to stop Li Laiheng, but Luo Dai's 500 people were stunned and were beaten through by Li Laiheng's 15 people.
I don't blame Luo Dai, in order to stop Li Laiheng, he had to adjust the formation, where is it so easy to change the formation on the battlefield, there was a lot of turmoil on the spot, Li Laiheng grasped the fighter, broke in directly, and picked Luo Dai's righteous son with one shot, and served as the general Luo Xingzong.
Luo Dai saw that Li Laiheng was so brave, even if he gave full play to the tradition of the Ming army, he slipped away! Even the entire Luo Bu collapsed.
Seeing that Luo Dai failed to block the attack, Wang Shaoyu was greatly annoyed, so he could only let the guards come to block Li Laiheng, and as soon as the guards left, the pressure on the front line decreased sharply, and the two wings were slightly stable.
Li Yan saw the opportunity, and with a fierce wave of the command staff, accompanied by the beat of the drum, the phalanx at the front of the pinzi array began to slowly retreat, gradually pulling the formation into an inverted pinzi.
This is Li Yan's established strategy, through the transformation of the character into the inverted character, so as to form a semi-encirclement situation, and face the enemy on three sides, so as to form an advantage.
The effect is naturally very good, the Ming army thought that the middle of the army was scattered, and once again squeezed into the middle, the battle line that was finally unfolded, once again formed a convex shape, and the army could be stabbed with spears from the front and side eyes at the same time, which greatly hit the Ming army.
Li Laiheng's side was a false shot, forcing back Wang Shaoyu's personal guards, and after buying time for the main force to change the formation, Li Laiheng took the cavalry and left, Wang Shaoyu had no cavalry, so he could only be furious on the spot and threatened to cut Luo Dai.
It's a pity that Luo Dai didn't wait for him to cut, he stumbled on the way to retreat, and was trampled to death by the chaotic soldiers.
Xie Yinglong's side is even more interesting, he was originally from Luo Dai's family, and he was not very close to Wang Shaoyu, and he had eaten Wang Shaoyu's hanging before, how could he work hard, the four Franc machines fired weakly, and the firecrackers also coped with things, and did not approach at all.
As a result, a few lead bullets even fell into the phalanx of the Ming army, killing five or six people on the spot, if it wasn't for Wang Shaoyu's family members who were involved again, I was afraid that the Ming army would also collapse.
The battle came to this point, both sides were fighting, who couldn't bear the morale of the fight first, there were also scattered soldiers on the side of the army, and they were all caught by Gao Yigong who supervised the battle for smashing, and after the slotting, they were forced to go up and fight hard.
The battlefield is so cruel that there is no room for a woman's kindness......
At this moment, behind Wang Shaoyu's side, a cavalry unit slowly emerged in a wedge-shaped formation, looking at the big banners of the word "Wang" and the word "Chuang" fluttering in the wind, Li Yan finally breathed a long sigh of relief, his victory and defeat were here!
When Wang Xueli arrived, it was really ingenious, and now the Chuang army and the Ming army are fighting for their last breath, and obviously, Wang Xueli's arrival has completely lost the suspense of this war.
"Sons! Make a contribution, just today! Wang Xueli is also a veteran of a hundred battles, and he saw the current situation clearly in an instant, drew his sword, and snorted at the cavalry behind him.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The cavalry shouted frantically, now this situation is their gluttonous feast, Wang Shaoyu is so confident that he doesn't leave a little behind, except for Xie Yinglong, who is alone and left behind, all the others are pressed up, isn't this a godsend?
"Rush!" Wang Xueli didn't care about Xie Yinglong's department at all, pointed his waist knife at Wang Shaoyu's soldiers who were fighting hard, and shouted.
The two hundred cavalry quickly rushed towards the two armies of Ming Chuang who were fighting fiercely in a wedge formation, and Wang Shaoyu had no way to stop the offensive of the cavalry at this moment......
There is no suspense in the ending, Wang Xueli's cavalry stepped on every stubborn Ming army like a steamroller, in fact, there were few stubborn resistance, when the cavalry charged, Wang Shaoyu's troops were completely dispersed.
According to Li Yan's adaptation of the cavalry, Wang Xueli's cavalry was equipped with "cavalry spears", although riding spears on the Chinese battlefield is not an uncommon thing, but it is the first time that a cavalry unit is clearly defined as "shock cavalry", at least in the invasion of the army.
With the help of horsepower, even the slightest touch of the cavalry spear was enough to pierce the strongest scale armor or cloth armor of the Ming army.
Wang Shaoyu reacted quickly, and he knew that it was all over as soon as the cavalry charged, although he didn't understand where Li Yan's cavalry came out in the end, and thought that Li Zicheng's army had arrived, so he didn't dare to resist when he thought of it, and fled towards Luoyang City with his personal entourage.
And the rest of the Ming army was miserable, the cavalry drove the Ming army to run on the plain, so that they could assassinate and slash, Wang Xueli's cavalry had a clear division of labor, a team of fifty people, cut the Ming army into several small pieces, chased and killed respectively, and when they encountered those who wanted to resist, they would go up with three or five together, and kill them.
By the end of the battle, the mountains were covered with the corpses of the Ming army, and the severed heads were piled up into a hill.
In this battle, the breaking army killed more than 1,200 levels, captured more than 1,000 prisoners, captured 25 war horses, 137 pairs of armor, four Franc machines (discarded by Xie Yinglong), and the rest of the swords, guns, shields and halberds in thousands.
The losses on the side of the invasion army were not small, Zhang Hong was wounded, Huang Jun was seriously injured, Li Laiheng and Hao Yongzhong were all slightly injured, more than 430 people were killed, including 300 elites, and more than 500 people were wounded, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a miserable victory.
Wang Shaoyu's family didn't have time to withdraw, and was killed by Wang Xueli More than 50 people, so more than 30 people were besieged, but these family members have excellent armor and high will to fight, and the army can't help them for a while, and they are still deadlocked, Gao Yigong wants to recruit them, but these people are unwilling to live or die.
After Li Yan learned the news, he immediately made a decision to ask them to be hammered, and with all his loyalty, he carried over the four seized Franc machines, loaded them with buckshot and sent a few rounds towards the thirty families.
That's how the cannon duel, it's a pity that the good armor is now in pieces......
"I really didn't expect this battle to be won" Gao Yigong led the war horse and followed Li Yan to inspect the battlefield full of bones.
Li Yan nodded quietly and said, "General Wang Shaoyu, despise us and others, but as long as he does not underestimate the enemy and sends scouts to carefully investigate, this battle must not be so defeated." ”
"Yes, in this way, the Ming army is not so easy to fight, especially these families, all of them are well-equipped, they are not afraid of death, if there are 3,000 people, even if they are kings, they will not be pleased" Gao Yigong said with emotion.
"Are you blaming me for killing those family members?" Li Yan turned his head and glanced at Gao Yigong.
"No, no, I don't mean that," Gao Yigong hurriedly explained.
"These people are all house slaves, they are very loyal to the master's family, it takes a lot of effort to recover, now our military situation is urgent, there is no time to do these things, if you keep it, and you are afraid of changes, so you have to do this" Li Yan calmly said the reason why he had to kill those sons.
Although Gao Yigong still regretted those elites, he also knew that what Li Yan said was reasonable, so he could only nod silently.
"Lao Li, although we won this time, the loss was too great, although Wang Shaoyu was defeated, but the defenders of Luoyang are still afraid that there are still no less than four thousand, even if it is enough to go out of the city to fight in the field, how can we attack the city?" Gao Yigong frowned and said what he was most worried about.
Li Yan smiled disdainfully and said, "The Fu Domain is in the city, and after this battle, the Ming army will not dare to leave the city for a single step...... As for the siege, when did I say I was going to siege the city? ”
Hearing this, Gao Yigong was stunned, and looked at Li Yan in astonishment.
Li Yan didn't look at him, his eyes looked straight in the direction of Luoyang City, and the next thing was Gu Fuguang's problem......