Chapter 129: A Gift for Han Fu
The position of the Jizhou vanguard army is on the plain, which is the most suitable place for cavalry to fight, it is impossible to escape, the only way is to hold on and wait for help, but it is still unknown whether the main army behind can get the news here.
"The pikemen were on the outermost, the shields were behind them, the archers were in the center, and the cavalry roamed around to harass. The enemy is menacing, and it is impossible to escape, and only by holding on and waiting for help can we survive. "The pioneer officer of the Jizhou Army is still so famous, and after a period of struggle, he chose to continue to fight to the end with the Le'an Army. Two legs can't outrun four legs, and if you only know how to escape, then you will only go to destruction faster.
Because of the length of the pike, pikemen are generally the nemesis of cavalry, and if they are against other cavalry, they may really be able to play a blocking role. However, the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army did not know that the cavalry of the Le'an Army was very different from other cavalry, and the cavalry regiment equipped with double horse shoes could become archers at any time, and there was no need to get close to attack the Jizhou Army. In this way, the layout of the Jizhou army has become a decoration that has no effect.
The ambush of the Jizhou vanguard army was one of the gifts that Fan Xiwen prepared for Han Fu, in order to make Han Fu satisfied with this gift, Fan Xiwen specially ordered the three regiments to greet the guests from afar on the Great Plains. The cavalry regiment has a high degree of mobility, so it has been hanging behind the Jizhou Pioneer Army, but the scouts of the Jizhou Pioneer Army did not find it.
The formation of the Jizhou army looks like a circle, which is also the most difficult defensive formation. Five hundred cavalry roamed on Chen's side, and the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army was not stupid enough to send these five hundred cavalry out to meet the 1,000 cavalry of the Le'an Army, didn't he take the initiative to send the troops up to the wolf? In addition, there were a thousand pikemen on the side of the cavalry onslaught, so the vanguard officer thought that the cavalry would not have to worry as long as he dragged Chen Zhi's foot soldiers out of battle. Therefore, the vanguard officer arranged the cavalry on Chen Zhi's side, the purpose was to drag Chen Zhi's foot soldiers from participating in the battle.
The Grenadiers only carry three Javelins at a time, and only five at most, and they have already thrown once before, and now they can also perform two rounds of strikes. Therefore, Chen Zhi planned to use the grenadiers to open the way first, and then use the lethality of the repeater crossbow to level the cavalry of the Jizhou army, as for the infantry of the Jizhou army, Chen Zhi did not plan to shoot, it was enough to have a cavalry regiment.
The Jizhou Army has the third regiment of Chen Zhi in front of it and the cavalry regiment in the rear, which can be said to have tigers in front and jackals in the back. The current Jizhou army is like a helpless girl, only watching the approach of a strong enemy.
The five hundred cavalry of the Jizhou army did not play any role in blocking, because they could not get close under the dense crossbow attack, and the formation was disrupted by the crossbows of the three regiments as soon as they made contact. The Jizhou cavalry wanted to rush over and scatter the crossbow troops of the three regiments, but the three regiments also had the existence of the cavalry's nemesis pikemen, and as soon as they rushed over to meet them, they were lined with sharp spear tips. As a result, the cavalry that was originally rushing to kill the enemy turned into sending it up and ramming the tip of someone else's spear, and suddenly suffered heavy losses.
The Jizhou cavalry had no power to fight back after a few hits of the three regiments, and at this time the vanguard officer of the Jizhou army finally felt scared, and the combat effectiveness of the Le'an army was really unimaginable. Not only the performance of the three regiments, but also the performance of the independent regiment made the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army feel desperate.
A thousand cavalry rushed directly towards the Jizhou army, which had already been in formation, like a whirlwind, but did not directly hit the enemy's spear tip like the Jizhou cavalry, but unexpectedly stopped a hundred paces in front of the Jizhou army, and then threw a round of javelins towards the Jizhou army. Time seemed to stand still, and the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army could not have imagined that the cavalry could throw javelins like infantry. Those Jizhou troops with spears didn't have the slightest thinking ability to watch the javelin pierce into their chests, only this round of blows, the Jizhou army looked like a circle, but it was actually a hedgehog formation, and a small gap suddenly appeared.
Of course, if someone is injured or killed, someone will naturally go up to take the previous position, and then a new hedgehog formation will appear.
The hedgehog formation is quite good for defense, but then it takes a certain amount of time to change the formation, and this formation is quite passive, it does not have the right to take the initiative to attack. At this time, the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army will regret his decision, because he also knows the unusual things about the Le'an cavalry.
The Le'an cavalry regiment stopped less than 100 steps away from the formation of the Jizhou army and no longer advanced, but divided into two parts and moved around, constantly circling the Jizhou army. The javelin is not thrown, and it is impossible for a horse to carry too much of something, and it is already the limit of a cavalry to make a throw, and even if the horse is loaded, it is not easy to take it.
In fact, the purpose of the cavalry regiment is also very simple, that is, to open a gap in the formation of the Jizhou army. So the next battle was like flying a kite, the cavalry regiment drove the horse forward with a bow and arrow, and then threw it out when it was within range, and then rode the horse to rotate a distance to avoid the archers of the Jizhou army.
After such repeated repetitions, the Jizhou army, which armed itself like a hedgehog, was beaten without any temper at all. The archers were arranged in the middle by the vanguard officer of the Jizhou army, and the bows and arrows of the cavalry regiment could shoot at the Jizhou army, but the bows and arrows of the Jizhou army could not hurt half of the cavalry regiment, and they could only stare dryly in the middle of the formation.
The 1,000 Le'an army infantry in front of them wiped out the 500 cavalry of the Jizhou army with three rounds of attacks, but they did not intend to continue to attack the Jizhou army, but stopped and made a wait-and-see posture.
At this moment, the vanguard officer of the Jizhou Army finally understood that waiting was a pain, thousands of people were immobilized on the plain by a thousand cavalry, and it would be good if they were given a one-time pleasure. But these cavalrymen actually used the tactics of flying kites to entangle the Jizhou army, they couldn't fight again, they ran and ran, and the vanguard officer of the Jizhou army directly numbed his claws, and almost didn't have the same nervous breakdown as the defenders of Anguo County.
The Le'an cavalry regiment was eating away at the pikemen of the Jizhou army little by little, knowing that the entire hedgehog shell was all pried open, and then he picked up the horse chopping knife in his hand and rushed into the Jizhou army formation. Without the threat of the long spear tips of the pikemen, the cavalry regiment could launch a charge without any scruples, and the cavalry regiment with excellent riding skills entered the Jizhou army formation in one fell swoop, and directly took the position of the vanguard officer of the Jizhou army.
At this time, Chen Zhi, who was in front of the Jizhou Army, suddenly had a thought, the cavalry regiment's kite-flying tactics just now did not reflect the strength of combat effectiveness, so Chen Zhi decided to personally test it to see how strong the combat effectiveness of the cavalry regiment was. So the commander of the third regiment, under the greeting of Chen Zhi, followed Chen Zhi into the Jizhou army, and the Jizhou army was immediately attacked from the front and back.
Chen Zhi led the army to break in, and soon set off a bloody storm, and the screams kept remembering. Although the number of the Jizhou army is more than that of the Le'an army, the Jizhou army has lost to the Le'an army in momentum, and the combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. In addition, they were flanked from the front and back, and the Jizhou army did not resist the sharp attack, and many people abandoned their weapons and fled.
The formation of the Jizhou army soon collapsed, so that the Le'an army could expand the fruits of victory. The fierce attacks, the endless attack patterns, and the more than 1,000 Le'an new troops who were ordered to observe behind them were dazzled, which strengthened their sincerity.
In the end, under the strong pursuit of the cavalry regiment, all the soldiers of the Jizhou army who fled were annihilated, and those who surrendered on the battlefield became prisoners of the Le'an army. It took half an hour to wipe out the 5,000 Jizhou vanguard army, although this hour was a bit long, but Gao Lan, a famous general in Hebei, was not able to lead the army to support. By the time Gao Ran arrived with the people, he was left with nothing but a mess and countless discarded weapons and armor.
There was not a single corpse of the Le'an Army in the entire battlefield, and it should have been taken back by the Le'an Army. This is the idea of Gao Ran and the Jizhou army, wishful thinking, the Le'an army did not die at all in this battle, but dozens of people were seriously injured.
The most stimulating thing is that the corpses of the soldiers killed in the Jizhou Army were all visited by the Le'an Army, and then there was a sentence written on the front, which was a gift to the Jizhou Thorn History.
Gao Ran stood at the front of the army and faced the corpses of the soldiers killed in the Jizhou Army who were put together by the Le'an Army, Gao Ran clenched the horse whip in his hand, and after half a ring, Gao Ran shouted loudly to the sky: "Fan Xiwen is too deceitful, if you don't destroy you, you will not be a man." ”
Looking at this scene, Tian Feng couldn't help but want to step forward to dissuade Gao Ran from calming down, but thinking about Gao Lan's attitude towards himself before, Tian Feng stopped talking again. Tian Feng is not a saint, Gao Ran's attitude towards Tian Feng, Tian Feng has all in mind. The top priority is to go back to Wei County and suggest to the assassin Shi to change the general, after all, this is an army of 50,000, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.
The annihilation of the vanguard army was a fatal blow to the Jizhou army, and the entire army fell into a state of depression, showing a negative side whether it was marching or doing other things. In particular, the "spectacular" scene of the corpses of the deceased of the vanguard army being placed together by the Le'an army greatly stimulated their nerves, and many soldiers would dream of this kind of scene when they were dreaming, and then shout loudly, which woke them up from the dream.
The commander did not listen to the dissuasion of his subordinates and made the soldiers tired, and the vanguard army suffered a fatal blow and the whole army was annihilated. The face of every Jizhou sergeant was gloomy, and the victorious attitude before setting off was long gone.
Regardless of whether such an army can win or not, it is a blessing to be able to go back or not.