Chapter 173: The Foot Battle Begins
After waiting for half an hour, and did not see the attack of the Xiliang army, the three generals Che Jing, Guan Hai, and Chu Hu were all impatient, and they came to the Chinese army to ask about the punishment, and what the intention of the enemy general Li Meng was.
Fu Xing thought about it, now that there are no reinforcements from Li Meng everywhere, it is impossible for the enemy army to attack and harass the army. And Li Mengjun's dismount and did not come forward to fight, he must have been preparing something. Well, the army's rhubarb crossbow is extremely powerful, or Li Meng is preparing to deal with the rhubarb crossbow.
After thinking about the punishment, when he raised his eyes, he happened to see five hundred horsemen driving a hundred carts behind Li Meng's army. Fu Xing was stunned, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The preparation of the Xiliang army is completed, and it will use a thick cart to deal with our army's big yellow crossbow, our army's biggest killing weapon is useless, and the effect of bows and arrows on the enemy soldiers in full armor is not great, and our army needs to drag the enemy army in a short way." Three, I'm afraid this battle will not be easy. ”
The three generals nodded solemnly, and the combat power of the Xiliang soldiers was deeply understood after several battles before. Now the 3,000 armored Xiliang soldiers and the 4,000 armored soldiers of the already army are fighting on foot, and the advantage is definitely not in me. Fortunately, the army has help but the enemy has no support, and the victory and defeat are also decided. As long as the army dragged Li Meng's troops for half a day, victory would definitely belong to the army.
Che Jing laughed and said: "The lord has always complained that our army has not been able to go through high-intensity war training, and it is difficult to become a strong army. Isn't the current situation just right for me to train my troops? When they heard this, everyone laughed.
Fu Xing said with a smile, "The big battle is about to start, so you should quickly return to the battle and prepare." Che Jing, all members of your department are wearing armor and have strong combat power, so you need to take 30 steps forward to protrude to meet the enemy and share the pressure on the left and right wings. Your ministry has a great responsibility. ”
Che Jing replied: "Lieutenant Du rest assured, our troops will be able to hold back twice as many enemies, and the remaining 1,000 people will be handed over to the left and right wings, and please Guan Sima and Chu Sima to protect the rear road of our army, and don't let the enemy surround our troops." ”
Chu Hulang said with a smile: "But with my Chu Hu's breath, I will not let the Xiliang army surround the front, Che Sima can rest assured." ”
Guan Hai also smiled: "But in case, there is also my single ride to break through the front formation, Che Sima can rest assured." ”
The three generals bowed to each other and returned to their own camp without mentioning it. Besides, after Li Meng's army obtained 100 thickened and defended carts, he immediately began to arrange infantry battles. Each cart is pushed by four people, four people hold shields to protect, two people stand on the car to shoot arrows through holes, and each car enters side by side like a wall. Fifty chariots were divided into two formations, followed by two thousand sharps in armor and spears. Li Meng had no patience to engage people one after another, but decided to press the whole army and defeat the Beihai soldiers in one go.
"Snatch and snatch." The two armies were slowly approaching, first in the battle of bows and crossbows, and all the four hundred big yellow crossbow arrows were shot on the deck of the cart of the Xiliang army. Although it can break through the car armor, the kinetic energy is greatly reduced, and it can no longer hurt people.
"Whoosh." The bows and arrows of the Western Liang Army were fired, but the Northern Navy had to raise their shields to avoid it. Fortunately, Che Jing's front formation had advanced fifty paces forward, absorbing the bow and arrow strikes of the Xiliang army. Because of the iron armor ring, as long as the hook and small shield are used to cover each other's heads, the arrows of the Xiliang army will not hit Che Jing's front battle very much.
Therefore, the front of the two armies quickly collided together, and Che Jingbu resisted the cart with a spear, and overturned it one by one in one fell swoop, revealing the Xiliang soldiers behind the car. The fierce aura on the faces of the Xiliang soldiers shouted, and each raised his sword and spear and rushed towards the Beihai soldiers.
The two formations of hedges, the personal combat power of the Xiliang soldiers' skilled combat skills instantly prevailed, the swords and spears were raised at the same time, and the shields and swords were used together, killing the first column of the Beihai soldiers to retreat again and again, as long as there was a lone person, they were immediately divided by the crazy Xiliang soldiers. The Xiliang soldiers did not line up in dense battle columns, and the soldiers who did not engage with the enemy behind the formation took the initiative to detour to the flank of the Beihai Army formation to attack.
However, the military formation of the Beihai Corps gradually changed from square to circular, and with the support of the second and third Liego halberds, the first Liego halberders finally stood firm. Although there was a suspicion of being semi-surrounded, when the thicker and heavier military formation made people feel more at ease, they began to gradually attack the Xiliang soldiers.
After just a few rounds, the Beihai soldiers were pleasantly surprised to find that the Xiliang soldiers paid too much attention to their personal combat skills, and preferred to highlight and slash indiscriminately with individual soldiers, fighting for their lives. Their support for their comrades-in-arms is almost zero, and unless they are friends of the township party, they sit back and watch life and death.
There are wounded soldiers who are injured and fall to the ground, and they also trample on them regardless of it, and after hearing the wailing of irritable people, they are more likely to hack the wounded soldiers to death with a backhand, so as not to disturb the morale of the army. The cold-blooded feelings of the Xiliang soldiers made people shudder, and the difference shook the already fragile military heart of the Beihai soldiers.
Although the Beihai soldiers are not familiar with their combat skills, they gather in a pile after the formation, and even if they miss, they have their comrades to parry and defend, and the first column of soldiers does not need to think much, they just need to try their best to assassinate and kill.
There is no need to worry about injuries, the comrades who have fallen to the ground are pulled to the back and handed over to the guards of the army to bandage, and the seriously injured are personally treated by medical officers. Even if they were killed in battle, there was also Beihai to pay the martyrs' pension money, so that the family and children could have no worries about food and clothing without labor.
The combination of various factors immediately made the fighting spirit of the Beihai soldiers tenacious. In addition to being hit by the fierce Xiliang soldiers at the beginning, they retreated again and again, and after gaining a firm foothold, they could already counterattack. Even the leather armor on the left and right flanks was lightly infancied, and they were defended by dense spears and halberds, blocking the fierce attack of the Xiliang soldiers who were holding their own iron armor.
The Chinese army's sentence exhaled deeply, it seems that although the army is a new soldier, its combat effectiveness is not bad, and it can't help but be happy from the initial worry to the current face. Moreover, the battle of the infantry in formation should have been a slow confrontation process, and I didn't want Li Meng to be pressed by the whole army. The Xiliang soldiers are fierce, and they are afraid that the foot soldiers under their command will not be able to stop the Xiliang soldiers.
Because foot combat is the most taboo in the chaos of the initial confrontation, as long as you persist in the chaos and casualties of the initial confrontation, the next thing is to look at the tenacity and willpower of the soldiers on both sides. It will be interesting to see who can withstand the most casualties, who has fine control over the soldiers, who can accurately observe the enemy's flaws, and finally whose reserves are strong enough and support is in place.
Although the tactics of Li Meng's whole army were strong, when the Beihai soldiers blocked it, Li Meng, who did not have the slightest reserve, would enter the direction of defeat.
The stability of the two wings ensures that the front and back roads are not lost. And the Che Jing Department in the front also started a counterattack against the Xiliang soldiers at this time. The secret array gradually expanded from a small size, and the battle area between the two sides became wider and wider, and the cooperation of the Beihai soldiers taught the Xiliang soldiers a good lesson, what is called two fists are difficult to defeat four hands. Even if there is strong armor to protect oneself, it can't stop the spear and halberd of the North Sea soldiers.
Li Meng couldn't help but be anxious when he saw it, he didn't want the front of the Beihai soldiers to be so tenacious, and the two armies were almost two quarters (24 minutes) of fighting, and he didn't collapse, but saw that he fought back bravely. Standing behind the formation, he looked left and right, and when he saw that the strength was the same, but all the elite soldiers in armor could not break through the enemy's unarmored soldiers, he couldn't help but be furious, and said:
"Order the false Sima on the left and right flanks to immediately transfer to the army if they can break through the enemy's two flanks within a moment. If it can't be broken, cut it immediately. ”
The left and right wings were missing the two men of the army Sima Song Guo and Du Hu, and the fake Sima on the two wings was pleasantly surprised after hearing the news. The commander of the first army is the largest actual commander of the army, and the captain rarely cares about the affairs of other armies when he is not in wartime. Therefore, as long as he reaches the level of Junma, he will immediately become the small army leader in the Xiliang Army, and he will still be the small army leader with actual power. At this level, it means that you can enter Dong Zhuo's eyes. If you behave well, even the captain and lieutenant general will not be a problem.
The two wings were overjoyed, but they were also a little distressed when they saw the battle situation on the two wings. The Beihai soldiers were tenacious and invincible, and they didn't have to rely on their physical strength for two moments, and they didn't have to worry about fighting for another moment. It seems that it is necessary to send heavy troops to break the formation.
At the same time, the two of them summoned fifty tall and fierce warriors in the army. He personally led the three-layer iron armor and held a long-handled sharp axe weighing 20 pounds, preparing to break through the military formation of the Beihai soldiers. When these fifty people appeared in two columns in front of the left and right flanks of the Beihai soldiers, the Beihai soldiers couldn't help but gasp, how to deal with such a heavily armored enemy army.
The first column of spearmen tentatively stabbed their spears forward, only to see a flash of fire, and the Xiliang heavy armor soldiers were safe and sound. Before the Beihai soldiers could react from their fear, the long-handled sharp axe had already slashed fiercely, and the axe broke the spear, and then took a step forward and the head was rolling.
The two wings of the Xiliang soldiers only sent a hundred heavily armored warriors to kill more than 300 Beihai soldiers in just ten steps forward, and their own losses were only three or five people.
Seeing that the Xiliang soldiers were strong in their armor, they gradually suppressed and broke through the left and right flanks. Fu Xing immediately issued an order, and the left and right wings each sent 200 armor-clad He private soldiers to come forward to support, and carried out a mandarin duck skirmish battle outside the formation, specifically to deal with the three-layer heavy armored warriors of the Xiliang soldiers.
Guan Hai and Chu Hu, who were anxiously preparing to fight in person, were a little relieved and stared at the Xiliang soldiers with dead eyes. I saw that the various groups of He's private soldiers were in a mandarin duck formation, a total of 20 small formations, interspersed with strangulation on the left and right, and the local line was formed with fewer enemies and more, and soon killed and dispersed the other Xiliang soldiers who were ready to encircle, help the two wings to re-array, clean up the army's heart, and personally face the heavy armored warriors of Xiliang.
The two teams stared at each other viciously, but the charge and fight of both sides just now consumed a lot of strength, and they were in the time of returning at this time. In the end, there were many private soldiers of the He family, and the force was faster, and the twenty small formations immediately rushed towards the Xiliang heavy armored warriors.
The Xiliang heavy-armored warriors held their own armor and axes, although the number was small, they were not afraid at all, and they swung their axes with pride. When the invincible sharp axe slashed at the strange wolf's tooth, he couldn't break it in two, but was escaped by the bamboo wolf's tooth whisk using its own elasticity.
Without waiting for the Xiliang heavy armor warrior to retract the sharp axe, the wolf tooth swept its head and face, and the spearman stabbed its legs and feet, boring the palladium soldier or hooking it to the ground, and the short soldier took out the small sharp axe behind his back and slashed it at his head and neck. It fully shows the subtlety of the cooperation of the Mandarin Duck team, but in just a few minutes, fifty Xiliang heavy armored warriors were swept away by the Mandarin Duck small array, and there were headless heavy armored corpses everywhere.
The left and right wings of the Xiliang soldiers were terrified, and these fifty people were headed by the fake Sima, who were the bravest and most skilled people in the army. was so easily slaughtered, and the Beihai soldiers who came later were so fierce that the morale of the Xiliang soldiers suddenly plummeted.
In addition, the fake Sima who was responsible for the command also died with the heavy armor soldiers, and the Xiliang soldiers on both wings had to fight in all directions, without cooperation, and were pressed again by the light armor Beihai soldiers who came back to their senses. There was no obvious victory or defeat in the front formation, but the two wings began to divide the victory and defeat.