Chapter 171: Secret Formation Responds to the Enemy
Du Lei cracked his mouth and asked, "Du Wei wants to capture Li Meng's Xiliang soldiers as much as possible?" Speaking of the two battles of Bishui Pass and Xingyang, our army also captured more than 500 Xiliang soldiers, and the lord sent dozens of professors to teach them the way of righteousness and goodness, will it really be effective? ”
Fu Xing smiled: "I don't know if it has any effect, anyway, I think the lord will be able to do it." Moreover, Li Meng's department has become a lone army, and there are coalition troops and horses on the front and right, as long as our army gives good surrender treatment, it will be able to be subdued by the Xiliang army. ”
Che Jing groaned: "The Xiliang Army has killed a lot of people in Chenliu, but I am afraid that Chen Liutaishou will not like it when he learns about it." ”
Fu Xing sneered and said: "Only 5,000 cavalry Xiliang army, I haven't seen Zhang Miao lead troops to counterattack for more than ten days, until our army is ready to encircle and suppress it, then he has the courage to lead the troops to come, where will he care about the life and death of the people." Therefore, even if our army surrendered the Xiliang soldiers, Zhang Miao did not dare to say anything. The order was given, Che Jing was in the front, Chu Hu was on the left, Guan Hai was on the right, and I led the army in the middle, and the whole army was dispatched to meet the enemy in a dense formation. ”
Du Lei hurriedly shouted: "Captain, what about my department? ”
Fu Xing said with a smile: "The martial arts blood cavalry has been transferred away by the lord, and the white horse Yicong cavalry has been injured and damaged by nearly 100 people, and there are only more than 400 cavalry left in your department, and they can no longer be used." You defend the camp first, and after our army drags the front of Li Meng's army, and Lieutenant Huang Han Shu breaks through the rear of Li Meng's army and encircles it, you will lead the troops to prepare for the pursuit. ”
Du Lei thought about it, there were few cavalry in the army, and the army had not really subdued the lord, and the lord was not easy to use, and the army needed to retain some combat power, so he accepted the order to defend the camp without mentioning it.
The Beihai soldiers rushed out with 4,000 men and horses, and quickly formed four phalanxes in front of the battalion. The 1,000 heavy infantry led by Che Jing was located in the front, and the 3,000 light infantry of Chu Hu, Guan Hai, and Fu Xing were located on both flanks and the central army, forming a quadrilateral shape, and Fu Xing and other generals were in the quadrilateral ring.
The front army array was fifty people in the horizontal plane, and the standing surface was less than forty paces. There are twenty people in the longitudinal area, less than thirty steps before and after. Everyone is dressed in fish scale iron armor, which is to come on the grounds that the Donglai soldiers are not in battle, holding a six-foot refined halberd, which can be stabbed, pecked and hooked.
The 2,000 light infantry arrays on the left and right flanks were forty men in the horizontal plane, less than thirty paces in the standing plane, and twenty-five men in the vertical plane, less than thirty paces in front and rear. Each man was dressed in cowhide armor, and some stood on the periphery with large wooden shields in their hands. Standing in the inner circle with a mixture of long and short weapons, everyone has a one-stone bow and a pot of thirty armor-piercing arrows. There are also 400 powerful rhubarb crossbows, which were obtained by the First Army from the Battle of Xingyang.
The Chinese army that was sentenced was similar to the previous army, but only half of the 500 men wore fish scale iron armor, but the weapons they held were different from many others, some were long and some were short, there were bows and crossbows, and there were even strange soldiers with wolf teeth. The 4,000-strong army really formed a dense and narrow square circle to defend the formation.
The actions of the Beihai soldiers made Li Meng both happy and shocked. Li Meng muttered to himself: "The Beihai soldiers are in battle quickly, which can be described as a rare elite in the Kanto, but I am afraid that it will be difficult today." However, he will be rash and irritable, and will not be provoked by us, and will fight our cavalry with foot soldiers, and there will be another opportunity to take advantage of it. It's just that the enemy formation is narrow and heavy, shaped like a turtle, and the frontal charge is only fifty horsemen wide, how can our army break it. Song Guo was ordered to lead his troops to retreat 300 steps temporarily, induce the enemy generals to stay away from his camp and scatter their formations, and I will send troops to attack left and right. ”
After Song Guo received the order, he constantly sent a small number of cavalry to show off his might in front of the punishment array, and did his best to provoke him. Fu Xing smiled slightly, and guessed Xiliangjun's intentions. The army under his command has many new soldiers, and the formation should not be too thin, so as not to make the soldiers feel unsafe.
If all of them are replaced by the private soldiers of the He clan who have come from Changshan and have been training for more than a year, they will be in a scattered formation, and they will dare to use a small formation of mandarin ducks to engage in melee with the enemy. Now you can only fight the enemy with a heavy formation. Fu ordered the Chinese army's war drums to beat slowly, and after the whole army heard this, they rushed forward step by step according to the sound of the war drums.
After the army moved forward thirty or forty paces, it saw that the formation was somewhat uneven, and after a rush of war drums, two heavy blows were connected. The whole army stood still, and hurriedly lined up the whole team under the order of the leader of the team, but within dozens of breaths, the army formed a tight formation again. Then the drums of war beat again, and the army continued onward.
If it was like a few times, three hundred steps forward, the Northern Navy formation was not chaotic at all, and the Xiliang Army still couldn't find half a flaw in the Northern Navy. Li Meng, who was standing on the top of the hillock, couldn't wait any longer, fearing that the Northern Navy would wake up and retreat, so with a wave of his hand, two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry immediately poured out from behind the hillock and rushed towards the Northern Navy.
When the Beihai soldiers saw this, their hearts trembled, and when they saw the yellow dust rolling and the countless high-headed horses coming madly, they immediately had the idea of abandoning their weapons and turning around to flee for their lives. It's just that the officers around him are shouting loudly, and the people are being wrapped up in a tight formation, and they can't advance or retreat, where can they have the ability to escape. Goodbye to the chief general, the captain, and the old gods of the various departments seem to have been expected for a long time, and only then did they gradually settle down.
The Xiliang Army was supposed to take advantage of the charging power of the army to scare the Beihai soldiers, and then divided into front, left, and right sides with the Song Guobu cavalry to attack the Beihai soldiers. However, seeing the sudden and rapid change of the entire Beihai formation, the soldiers on the left and right wings quickly took the center as the axis, turned outward in a circle, and faced the rushing Xiliang army.
The soldiers in the formation made adjustments to the left and right, and the rhubarb crossbowmen with two hundred people on one wing were divided into two wings, left and right, divided into five columns, and all sat down on the side of the formation. Use your feet, arms, and waist strength to open the crossbow and put the arrow on it, and then raise the crossbow to aim the arrow forward.
The twenty-five columns of soldiers in the formation are in a small formation in five columns, with shields in the front, spears in the second two columns, and the last two columns raise their foot bows in their hands and prepare to stretch their bows at angles. One wing will have four lines of defense, and the last small formation will have four rows of dead soldiers on one wing. The last column was dozens of elite guards led by Sima himself, all waiting for the Xiliang army to charge.
Sima Xiang, the leading cavalry general on the left and right sides of the Xiliang Army, was ruthless in his heart, although the Beihai army formation was not chaotic, but he had to try it anyway, and he knew that it would not be broken with one blow like the Yuzhou soldiers. However, the formation of the Beihai soldiers was too narrow, with only more than 30 steps on the horizontal plane, and could only accommodate 20 cavalry to charge in turn. A thousand horsemen swarmed up, only colliding with each other to make a group, becoming the target of the Beihai soldiers.
Therefore, the Xiliang army wanted to rush into battle, but the enemy was not allowed to do so, so they could only order the two hundred horsemen in front of them to continue to break through the formation non-stop, and slowly lowered their speed to prepare for the follow-up charge. I saw that the two hundred cavalry Xiliang troops did not hesitate, bent their bodies slightly, held spears in their hands, and frantically hit their war horses, rushing towards the Northern Navy like wind and lightning.
The Beihai soldiers found that from a distance, the thousands of horses of the Xiliang army galloped, and the momentum rolling in was indeed terrifying. However, when I looked closer, there were only one or two hundred horsemen charging into battle. And the enemy in front of him was only more than 20 horses, although there were countless waves of cavalry charges after that, but after the two wings of forty big yellow crossbow arrows flew out, hundreds of sharp arrows in the formation were shot away, dozens of steps away from the Xiliang iron cavalry were all shot over, so that the Beihai soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, another wave of big yellow crossbow arrows and arrows stretched out and shot at the back edge, like locusts in the sky, looking at the thin body of Xiliang Tieqi and pounced fiercely. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is protected by fine armor, which can prevent the sharp arrows above the head, and it can't prevent the powerful rhubarb crossbow arrows from shooting. Sometimes, a single arrow can pierce through the front and rear horses, or a single arrow can kill a salvo of men and horses.
The two hundred fierce Xiliang Iron Cavalry were all shot in front of the formation by the powerful Yellow Crossbow Team and the Infantry Bow Team before they could get close to the distance of the already army. The strong smell of blood and the sea of corpses and blood in front of them made the Beihai soldiers excited, it turned out that the battle was so simple, there was no need to do it yourself, the vicious enemy was killed by the rain of arrows. The strong sense of interest made the Beihai soldiers fierce, and they hoped that the Xiliang Army would launch a strong cavalry assault again.
The Sima of the Xiliang Army on the left and right were all shocked by the scene in front of them, what is the situation? One left and one right 400 elite cavalry assault 2,000 light foot soldiers battle formation, unexpectedly wiped out without even touching the enemy's hair, this is still a brave man wearing fine armor and horse armor, so how can the two army Sima imagine.
If this is in Xiliang, it is extremely easy for four hundred elite horsemen to break through the military formation of two thousand foot soldiers. Even the Yuzhou soldiers half a month ago were just a charge before the whole army retreated, and they were massacred by the Xiliang army. Why is the North Navy so different?
It was a big yellow crossbow, and the two armies immediately thought of the reason, ordinary crossbow arrows and bows and arrows were definitely not as powerful, and it was impossible to give a major blow to the high-speed galloping elite horsemen. Only a rhubarb crossbow can shoot even a war horse wearing horse armor.
The eyes of the two armies were red with heartache, his breathing was rapid, and his blood-devouring eyes shone with a terrifying and fierce light. Although the two were far apart, they threw off the iron helmet on their heads at the same time. Pulling out the ring knife, he cut a deep blood hole on his cheek, and the blood gushed out instantly, and then he painted his cheek with his hand, cut off a piece of hair, and shouted with a bloody voice: "Revenge blood hatred." ”
Although the rhubarb crossbow is powerful, it is slow to reach the arrow, and the enemy has few crossbows, so it is impossible to continue to deal a major blow to most of the cavalry. Therefore, the two armies were ready to personally lead the troops to charge, and the whole army rushed up, even if they abandoned their horses and fought on foot, they also vowed to slaughter all the hateful Beihai soldiers in front of them, and they would not rest until they died.
However, a desolate horn sounded broke the revenge and blood hatred of the two army Sima, which was Li Meng's intention to order the two army Sima to retreat. Sima of the two armies was unwilling, and reluctantly glared at the Beihai Formation again, and then led the troops to run towards Song Guo's front.
Li Meng led his personal guards to the Song Guo army, and after the left and right departments arrived, he said with an ugly expression: "The chief general of the Northern Navy is also treacherous, knowing that foot soldiers are not as good as cavalry in field battles, and they actually arrange the formation of the army so densely, so that our army has no flaws to find, which is really hateful." Where is this the meaning of the infantry battle, it is obviously a stubborn defense. ”
Sima shouted sadly: "General, please allow me to lead the troops to rush forward again, I swear to die to break through the enemy army and break this northern navy, so as to avenge the blood hatred of the sons and daughters who died tragically." ”