Chapter 12: The Great Breaking Karasuma
Led by Qiu Liju, the Karasuma cavalry roared loudly, and stretched out their right hand holding the sword and spear to one side, assuming the most common raptor pounce stance of the Karasuma light cavalry. This was a tactical way for them to emulate the Han army and no longer blindly use mounted archery. The sound of the call in their throats seemed to be like the song of the eagle owl, a bird of prey in the Northland! Under the light of the fire, the ring head knife glowed brightly.
He Bai was overjoyed in his heart, Qiu Liju was so big, and he was not welcome. The mouth shouted: "Wow! Let Hu Lu see the majesty of our white horse righteousness! ”
More than 200 white horses immediately responded loudly, everyone threw their bows, but they just drew their melee blades, so that the spears of the horses were in front, and the ones with the ring-headed knives were behind, and they also charged on their prancing horses, and they collided head-on with the Karasuma people with a shout!
Whether it is the Han army or the Karasuma army, at the moment when they are about to collide, the horse is about to go out of the outer circle. Light riding is not heavy riding, what is important is mobility, and the more you push inside, the more you can't show it. It's okay that the white horse is subordinate to the light cavalry with light armor, and the Karasuma cavalry is purely unarmored or leather armored light cavalry, and it must not be without mobility.
In the battle of rushing killing, it is necessary to force the opponent into a ball by walking the outer circle, and killing and injuring the opponent layer by layer is the most common light cavalry fighting technique. The weapons of the Karasuma people are not as sharp as those of the Han army, let alone the white horse army. At this time, it was divided into high, and the Karasuma army was a hardwood spear in the Yan Mountain, and when they rushed straight, they were powerful, turned around and stabbed obliquely, and the force was staggered, and they couldn't borrow horsepower, and they suddenly seemed slow and clumsy.
And the white horse is Gongsun Zhan's carefully armed guard light horse, the first knights are all using horse lances, one has to use horse lances, and there is no three or five years to build success. These lances are full of elasticity and maintain a forward stabbing posture, but when the lance is flicked, it is like a snake slashing towards the opponent. This blow not only has the sharpness of a spear, but also the effect of a whip. Only the nobles of the family can keep so many horses.
The two sides collided fiercely in the center of the battlefield, and the sound of people shouting and neighing, and the knights on both sides screamed and scolded angrily. However, the forward of the Karasuma people was almost swept away from their horses.
He Bai is at the forefront again, and it is best to use horse plastic when the cavalry charges, and the double iron whips are too short, which is a little inapplicable. So he carried a long plastic in his arm, and the lance in his hand was wheeled into a circle, like a long club. However, the head of the horse lance is long and large, and it is open on both sides, although it is a long stick method, but it is not bad. When touched, blood splattered in all directions, like a bloody work, killing everyone at the moment of Karasuma striker.
And the number of Karasuma troops has the absolute upper hand, and the horsepower of both sides has slowed down, and they are just circling in circles in the center of the battlefield. The Karasuma army behind them had already rushed up with swords and spears, slashing and stabbing indiscriminately. The place in the center of the battlefield was not large, and He Bai tried his best to mix Bai Ma Yicong with Qiu Liju's personal guards to fight together, so that other Karasuma cavalry could intervene in it.
Qiu Liju didn't seem to have any intention of calling his cavalry to come together to besiege and kill He Bai, and the shouts of the two sides were like thunder, killing each other constantly rushing up, and constantly falling off the horse, and for a while it was impossible to distinguish who was better and who was inferior.
He Bai participated in it, and only felt a little thrilling, and the white-knuckle battle was no more cruel than the artillery fire of later generations. But it was all the face-to-face scuffle between the two sides, and the killing was short and bloody, which made people even more passionate. From this, it can also be seen most intuitively what kind of martial arts the martial arts of the excellent army in the era of cold weapons have reached!
Compared with the later dynasties, the field combat capability of the Han army seems to be more powerful in terms of equipment, training, courage and tactics, and only the pre-Qin and later Tang dynasties can compare with it.
It's just that after hundreds of years of stability, most of the armies in the interior are not manipulative, and they have lost the glory of the Han army. However, the army in the border areas, such as the Youbeiping Army, which directly faced the northern Hulu, remained unchanged and was still as brave and good at fighting as it was back then.
In particular, the white horse righteous cavalry carefully selected by the white horse general Gongsun Zhan, even among the Three Kingdoms, is the most elite light cavalry unit. Now they are basically under their own command, and as the main general of the charge, he is not a bad breed, and he suddenly showed a higher combat effectiveness than the Karasuma cavalry.
It's just that such an advantage can't be too long-lasting. Seeing that the Han army was surrounding Qiu Liju with fewer strikes and more attacks, the more they fought, the stronger they became, and they all rushed over regardless of their orders. For a while, there were too many Karasuma cavalry, and there were archers on the flanks to support them, which made Hakuba very embarrassed.
He Bai had more than a dozen arrows hanging on his body at this time, because the arrows were bronze or bone arrows, although they were not completely pierced, but there were also arrows that cut the skin painfully. He Bai couldn't help but roar again and again, fighting desperately. However, the Karasuma cavalry gathered more and more on the battlefield, and it almost became a big pimple, and the people in front fell off their horses, and the people behind immediately made up for it, and the front and rear rushed towards the center.
Fu Xing and Chengzhang's martial arts are not good, they are only different from the ordinary white horse Yicong, if it were not for the support of other white horse Yicong, they would have fallen off the horse a long time ago. Fu Xing looked at He Bai, who was like a mad tiger in front of him, and while secretly speechless, he couldn't help but be angry by He Bai, whose brain was full of muscles. shouted in the rear: "Capture the thief and capture the king first......"
A series of shouts finally reached He Bai's ears, and He Bai seemed to have just woken up from the fierce battle at this time. He Bai said secretly: I am not so blindly killing, how could I forget the task assigned by Gongsun Zhan.
He Bai looked up with red eyes, only to see Qiu Liju retreating to the rear of the big place, the rear of the Karasuma people, the sound of the horn sounded again and again, just urging the forward nails. The Karasuma cavalry was also ruthless at this time, either turning into a cold corpse and falling off their horses, or cursing their opponents to come forward and exchange spears for knives.
In the short battle, Bai Ma Yicong had already lost twenty or thirty horses, plus those who died in the previous battle, almost more than 100 horses. And the Karasuma people lost even more, almost three or four times as much. However, He Bai was not satisfied, remembering that Cao Cao's battle of White Wolf Mountain later, only 5,000 tigers and leopards rode and defeated more than 100,000 Karasuma cavalry. I'm really far behind him.
On the battlefield, there were human corpses and horse corpses everywhere, and the wounded soldiers of the lost horses on both sides were still scuffling each other in the blood and water. The land in the battlefield has turned red, mixed with dirt and dark red.
Looking at the white horse righteous servants who suffered almost one-third of the casualties, He Bai was heartbroken and remorseful, and he was incapable of being a deputy commander. If other cavalry generals had come to command the elite White Horse Servants, they would not have suffered such heavy casualties.
Suddenly, He Bai let out an earth-shattering roar, holding a lance in his right hand and a whip in his left hand, and a single horse without saying a word rushed towards Qiu Liju, who was a hundred steps away. He Bai's martial arts and courage really left a deep impression on the Karasuma people before, seeing that this Han army general who made the horse lance make him rush into battle like a big stick, he actually kept a distance from He Bai for a while, and did not dare to get too close, completely forgetting that behind him was Qiu Liju's rear formation.
Fu Xing saw the great urgency, and secretly scolded He Bai, the guy with a burned head, and shouted: "White horse righteousness, righteousness, life and death are the same!" The sky can be learned, and the white horse is the proof! Follow Deputy Commander He and assault! ”
The white horse followers, who were already a little tired, heard the oath slogan of the white horse as evidence, and He Bai, who was still rushing forward unrelentingly, suddenly the strength of the whole body seemed to rise again, and they responded loudly and howled to follow He Bai and charge forward frantically.
The Karasuma people were surprised and admired when they saw the white horse righteous servants who were still fighting despite their poverty, but they were more panicked, is this Han army riding a white horse still human? In the face of an army ten times their size, they not only charged, but also killed four or five hundred of them, and then launched a desperate charge again.
At this time, even Qiu Liju, who was behind the formation, was terrified, and he had fought hard with He Bai before, and almost didn't fall off the horse. At this time, I saw He Bai, who was covered in blood, clash again, and the cavalry under his command dodged away like waves. He Bai's vicious face was getting closer and closer, and the expression on his face was fierce like a ghost, Qiu Liju suddenly screamed miserably, and turned his horse away.
The Karasuma cavalry couldn't help but be stunned when they saw it, and the sudden escape of the main general made the morale of the whole army immediately plummet, and they hurriedly followed Qiu Liju and fled for their lives. He Bai was overjoyed, shouting that he led the troops to chase after him, and wantonly slaughtered Karasuma and defeated the horseman.
At this time, countless torches suddenly rose in the south and the west, and an army in the west quickly killed, and the leading general was Gongsun Zhan's worship brother Liu Weitai, Li Yizi, Le He and other generals, and the faces of Yan Gang and Yan Ji brothers also flashed in the firelight.
The other Wuhuan tribes didn't know what was going on, and when they saw that Qiu Liju's tribe was the first to flee, they thought that the reinforcements sent by other counties of the Han Dynasty had arrived, so they hurriedly allocated camps to withdraw their troops. After being pursued by the Youbeiping army dominated by Gongsun Zhan, it suddenly turned from a withdrawal to a major rout, and the Karasuma Turquoise cavalry was scattered everywhere.
He Bai was still in the lead at this time, rushing back and forth in the enemy formation with a whip in his hand, and when he saw a group of Karasuma Raiders, he led his troops to rush away, often rushing away, and there was no longer an army that dared to resist. It's just that in the dark, the vision is not clear, and Bai Ma Yi can't keep up. He Bai's army also rushed at this time, and there were fewer and fewer horses, and in the end there were less than ten horsemen left.
He Bai wanted to return to the army, but suddenly saw a group of dozens of horsemen and horses faintly in front of him, led by Qiu Liju. He Bai knew that he would become a Shan Yu of Wuhuan in the future, which would be a great danger to the Great Han. At this time, taking advantage of his illness and wanting his life, naturally he couldn't let him go.
He Bai was silent, led people to drive the war horse, and rushed quickly. Suddenly, a horse rushed from the right, the wind was whistling, and a big knife slashed at it, and He Bai hurriedly raised the lance to the shelf. However, the coming general is powerful, He Bai is not an opponent with one hand, and the horse lance suddenly flew out of his hand. He Bai hurriedly raised the iron whip in his left hand and held the big knife in his hand. Without waiting for He Bai to pull out the iron whip in his right hand to fight back, he suddenly heard the strong wind behind him, He Bai couldn't dodge, and was pierced through his chest by a sharp arrow.
He Bai was shocked, his throat surged, a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out, and he was knocked off the horse by the knife on the right side. His head hurt and he immediately fell unconscious.