Volume 2 Chapter 122, Destroying the Rock Country

Under the sudden attack of thunder in the clouds, Iwakuni's reaction was surprisingly slow.

On the morning of the third day, when Yun Zhongqin led the cavalry to the city of Yandong, the gate of this important town of Yanguo had not even had time to close.

Yun Zhong would not let go of this opportunity, and took the lead, brandishing the star spear straight to the city gate, and after twisting several Iwakuni soldiers who tried to organize him into pieces, he entered the city directly with a tidal wave of cavalry.

The 5,000 rock troops in the city only made a symbolic resistance, and after being hacked to death by the strong Ding Ling cavalry, more than 100 people, they all laid down their arms and surrendered, and the total number of Yunzhong troops entering the city at this time was less than 3,000.

"In this way, in less than ten days, the entire Iwakuni can be taken!" Tai Shi Ci said with a smile.

Yun Zhong gave him a blank look: "Even if that king of the rock country is really a pig, and a city is lost, and our troops are less than two days away from his capital, he will never be without reaction." ”

Zhou Yu asked, "Do you want to wait for Anguo's army to come along?"

Yunzhong shook his head: "The Anguo military horse is just used to take advantage of the situation, let's fight it ourselves." ”

After speaking, he began to dispatch troops.

"Big brother, Kumo, you two each bring two hundred light horsemen as scouts, and as soon as there is a movement of the Iwakuni army, report back immediately. Tai Shi Ci and Cuomo took the order and immediately walked out of the council room.

"Third brother, you lead two thousand, responsible for the frontal engagement, and Mathilde and Zhu Wu assist you. Sun Ce commanded.

"Li Cunxiao, Zhao Yun, Dong Ping, Li Dao, Zhang Xiu, the five of you, each with five hundred elite cavalry, together with me, as a two-wing army!"

"Yes!" the five horsemen commanded at the same time.

Yunzhong turned his head to Zhou Yu and said: "Fourth brother, the garrison of Yandong City will be handed over to you, let Zhang Ji stay to help you, and when the Kabal army arrives, you let him send troops to attack Yanbei City and cut off the connection between Yanguo and Kangguo." ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said, "Second brother don't worry, little brother understands!"

Diao Chan said lazily: "Sir, am I still in a group with you?"

Yunzhong nodded and said, "Follow behind me." ”

Diao Chan snickered and followed Yunzhong out of the council room.

At night, Yunzhong received a report from the scouts sent by Tai Shi Ci that Petissa, the king of Iwa, led a large army out of the city and killed in the direction of Iwadong City, with a total strength of about 10,000 people, including 2,000 cavalry.

Yun Zhong ordered the scouts to report back to Tai Shi Ci, continue to monitor the movements of the Iwakuni army, and at the same time, kill the scouts sent by the Iwakuni army as much as possible.

"Let the king of Iwakuni become deaf and blind, and become a turtle in an urn for us to slaughter. Yunzhong ordered.

The scout bowed and took the order.

One sleepless night, Yunzhong led the army to march forcibly, and at about three o'clock in the morning, he found a suitable mountain area as a battlefield, which could suppress the play of the Iwakuni hoplite phalanx.

Sun Ce led an infantry force composed of Enods and Rakshasas, set up camp on the hillside, set up antlers, and deployed more than 20 bed crossbows and more than 10 catapults according to the terrain.

Yun Zhong, Li Cunxiao and others led their cavalry and found an ambush site on the flank of Sun Ce's position.

After the pre-battle preparations were completed, it was already five or six o'clock in the morning, but in winter it was late in the morning, and the surroundings were still dark.

It wasn't until noon that the Iwakuni army arrived slowly, and the first thing to greet them was more than 300 Nord longbows.

The heavily armored Iwakuni hoplites did not suffer much damage under the attack of bows and arrows, only a few dozen people were killed and wounded by sharp arrows piercing the armor leaves, and soon, under the command of Petissa, the Iwakuni army discharged the world-famous Gronya phalanx, with light infantry armed with shields and short swords as the front, and heavy infantry armed with four-meter-long beech spears lined up in a dense formation as the main force.

Sun Ce led 2,000 infantry to form the Glaive Formation, one of the eight formations of the Shang army, and met the Yan Army formation like a scimitar.

At the edge of the scimitar, Mathilde with a two-handed sword and two hundred Nord sword and shield soldiers, newly recruited more than a thousand rakshasas and hundreds of Ding Zero horse cavalry were mixed to form a thick sword back.

The Rock Army of the Prison Guards climbed slowly up the hillside like a slow-moving turtle, the spears of thousands of beech spears shining in the sunlight like a forest of moving silver leaves.

The army of the Eight Thousand Rock Kingdom and the two thousand Loulan Restoration Army collided halfway up the mountain.

Mathilde roared in rage, slashing with her greatsword in both hands, and the shields of several of the Rock Army light infantry who fought against her were smashed to pieces like tissue paper, and a gap was torn open in the originally tight Rock Army formation.

Mathilde was like a god of killing, and in a short time, more than a dozen Iwakuni light infantry were killed, and the fierce Nord sword and shield soldiers swarmed in, killing the Iwakuni light infantry all over the field.

After the rout of more than 2,000 Iwakoku light infantry, the Loulan Restoration Army met their opponent, the well-armed and well-trained Iwakoku Heavy Infantry Corps.

The Yan army had the upper hand in terms of equipment and numbers, but the Loulan army had the advantage of a condescending geographical advantage, and at the same time, Sun Ce's commander Nord longbowmen threw at the top of the Yan army behind the antlers, although the opponent was extremely thickly armoured, but still caused a lot of trouble.

The cavalry of the Yan army was dispatched, and two thousand cavalry lined up in two columns and outflanked the flank of the Loulan army.

The heavy infantry phalanx faced the enemy head-on, and the cavalry flanked it, which was a tactic that the Iskander swept through hundreds of countries and was often undefeated, but today, this tactic has not worked.

Six teams of cavalry from Yunzhong slaughtered out of the woods, and the strong Ding Ling cavalry slaughtered the Iwakuni cavalry, which was only equipped with twelve darts and a short sword.

Most of the Iwakuni cavalry were quickly killed and wounded, and the rest were demoralized and fled from the battlefield.

The cavalry of the Loulan army outflanked the back of the heavy infantry phalanx of the Yan army.

The Iwakuni heavy infantry was still good in combat, and the head-on battle was not much worse than the fierce Nords and Rakshasas, but their four-meter beech spears were very inflexible to turn, and after being attacked from behind, it formed a huge disaster.

The outnumbered Iwa army was slaughtered unilaterally, and the heavy infantry threw away their armor and spears and fled in all directions, but the unarmored Iwa soldiers became the best targets for the longbowmen.

Four Thousand Rock soldiers were killed in battle, including their main general, King Petissa.