Volume 3 The Beginning of Sorrow Chapter 112 Thirty Thousand Iron Armor Glaives Come
On the battlefield, what soldier fears the enemy the most?
It's a surprise soldier, a surprise soldier.
The four kings of the opposite sex of the Great Hua Kingdom, since the establishment of the dynasty, have all had their own armies: the arrow feather army of the Huangfu family of Youmin County, the red tassel army of the Baili family of Tianshuang County, the silver armor army of the Ram family of Cangsheng County, and the iron armor army of the Zhuge family of Limin County. These four royal armies are well-equipped, have strict training, and their combat strength is far from being comparable to that of ordinary city defenders and defense forces.
There were a total of 140,000 ironclad troops in Zhuge Wangfu, of which 40,000 were stationed in Huangzhou, ---, an important town in Limin County. The leader of the 40,000-strong Huangzhou garrison is Zhuge Teng's third son, Zhuge Xingchen's third uncle Zhuge Pingtai.
In the middle of the night on the 23rd, Zhuge Pingtai suddenly received a secret letter from his father's cronies, ordering him to quickly lead his troops to help Suzhou. The news that Shatuo had invaded the territory and had attacked Suzhou had already spread. Huangzhou is the nearest garrison in Suzhou, and Zhuge Pingtai has long been ready for war and ready to respond to the enemy at any time. After receiving a secret letter from his father, after a little preparation, he put on his armor and ordered his troops to get on his horse at dawn, and led 30,000 ironclad heavy horses to Suzhou in the southwest.
Suzhou and Lizhou are about 400 miles apart, and the heavy cavalry army is not as fast as the light cavalry, and they rest while traveling, and they have also arrived at the end of the day. Zhuge Pingtai knew that the army of Shatuo was not far from the city of Suzhou, and he did not dare to trade again, so he camped on the spot to rest and make food. He also sent scouts to visit intensively, and reported the slightest abnormality. At three o'clock, the scouts summoned the news, and the two sides had already started fighting, and Zhuge Pingtai ordered the march to help. At this time, the soldiers and horses rested and ate enough, their morale was high, and the momentum of the killing was huge, which made the Shatuo scouts startled when they saw it, and hurriedly sounded a warning.
Chihedan sent troops this time, and the Chinese army lined up with a four-door bottom formation, which was conducive to defense. This is the constant array where the Lord will be.
The forward battalion of Chidoha, due to the huge losses in the battle, almost all of the remaining more than 20,000 generals were wounded, and it was really difficult to shoulder the heavy task of attacking the fortifications, so they retreated to the left and formed a goose-shaped formation with the Chinese army, sweeping the formation from the side.
Azig's 55,000 troops were originally the right army, and their responsibility was to protect and outflank, but they were pushed up to the front at this time. In the past few days, Azig has been watching the battle from the sidelines, and he has seen that the Suzhou defenders are extremely fierce in individual combat, but they are not cooperating with each other.
Before the battle, Mei Siyuan found Xu Ding'an and said: "Our army is only more than 10,000, and even if the Shatuo army is damaged these days, there are still 1890,000 troops. The enemy is outnumbered, and according to the usual method of fighting, the most is to kill and wound more enemies, but there is no chance of victory. Today, the enemy army is attacking heavily, and if you want to finish the battle, the city of Suzhou will be destroyed!"
Xu Dingan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Old Xu, I feel that there is nothing I can do, what is the best plan for Master Mei?"
"There is only one way, you can't defeat the enemy, but you can retreat from the enemy!" Mei Siyuan replied
Xu Ding'an said happily: "Oh, tell me quickly!"
Mei Siyuan had already considered it as a whole, and this was Lang Sheng's words: "Attacking instead of defending, more than 5,000 cavalry soldiers put up a long snake formation, drove straight in, stormed the enemy's forward battalion, and disrupted its formation; If the order fails, the dragons will be leaderless, and it will be difficult to fight again, and Chihedan or Mingjin will withdraw their troops. ”
"This plan is wonderful!" Xu Dingan listened attentively, only to feel unbelievable, thinking about it, it was really feasible, but laughed and praised.
Azig also wanted to cut the Suzhou defenders into pieces, and then divide them and annihilate them, but he didn't expect his army to be divided by Xu Ding'an and Mei Siyuan first. Almost all of his troops were foot soldiers, and their actions were far less fast than the five thousand light cavalry in Suzhou, so they couldn't react at all. At this moment, Xu Dingan actually led more than 200 cavalry to the depths of the forward camp, which was only more than 100 zhang away from Azig.
The dust was billowing and the sound of horses stepping was deafening, and Chi Hedan began to feel that it was not good, and asked loudly: "Where are the scouts?
The scout centurion had reported before, and had already sounded the horn to warn, but Chi Hedan said that he didn't need to pay attention to it, and then he felt aggrieved and slipped down to explore the enemy.
Before the scout centurion could report, the formation of the Iron Armor Army had appeared in front of Chi Hedan's eyes: it was a huge heavy cavalry glaive formation!
The so-called "Glaive Array" can also be called "Crescent Array". When attacking the enemy, the formation of the whole army is arc-shaped, shaped like a crescent, with two sides in front and concave in the middle, especially good at attacking the enemy's flank. The moon rings on both sides of the formation are thick and round, just to resist the enemy's envelope. The recess of the tooth moon in the middle of the formation seems to be the weakest, but in fact it is the place where the main general is located, and it is often the most powerful, but it is actually dangerous.
Unfortunately, the Suzhou reinforcements are on the flank of the Shatuo Army, which is above the art of war; the reinforcements are heavy cavalry, with strong impact and extremely fast movement, which is the most suitable place for this "Glaive Array".
Seeing this, Chi Hedan's face couldn't help but be shocked: "Actually, it's not a suspicious tactic? How can this reinforcement be so fierce?" A flash flashed in his mind, and he suddenly shouted, "It's not good, it's the ironclad army of Zhuge Wangfu!"
At this time, the other five generals under Chi Hedan's tent had already noticed this change, and they couldn't help but be annoyed.
"Porujisan, your left army is facing the enemy head-on, Chidoha, your forward battalion is outflanking! you must stop them!" Chihedan ordered loudly. Polujisan and Chidoha received the order and hurriedly led more than 50,000 generals to meet them.
Although the rest of the defenders were fighting, Azig had been paying attention to the enemy situation on the left, and saw the dust in the distance for miles, the sound of hooves rumbling, and his heart was faintly uneasy.
Xu Ding'an and Mei Siyuan also knew that reinforcements were coming, and they forgot their injuries for a while, and rushed forward with an awe-inspiring fighting spirit. "Zhang Hanzi, kill that enemy general with Lao Tzu!" Xu Ding'an licked the blood from his mouth, pointed at Azig and shouted.
At this time, Xu Dingan led Zhang Donghai and more than 100 others to the position of the enemy's forward battalion leader, and he was only thirty or forty zhang away from Azig. Zhang Donghai listened to Xu Ding'an's words, spun the gun in his hand, and shouted: "Brothers, kill with me, and make a way for the general to kill!"
What is madness? Don't die, no matter the gun and halberd, just go forward and kill. More than 30 horsemen, suicidally killed Azig, using the body of a horse and a human body to open a bloody path.
Xu Ding'an saw these thirty people, slowly fell, tears left to wash the blood, and said with a smile: "Okay, Hanzi!" Yan Bi jumped off the horse and rushed over with the corpses of these thirty or so people.
"Block him, block me..." Azig saw Xu Ding'an coming, his face was shocked, and he hurriedly waved left and right to resist, but only half of his words were spoken, and he couldn't speak again. Xu Ding'an ran a long lance through his throat, his eyes widened, frightened, but he felt that the vitality in his body was sucked away, and he no longer had any strength, so he fell down unwillingly...
"Ahh Fortunately, more than a hundred horsemen came behind him and protected him in the middle.
Polujisan and Chidoha are both famous generals of the Shatuo Kingdom, and as soon as the troops of the Ironclad Army are engaged today, there is a faint sense of fear. With infantry against heavy cavalry, it was originally psychologically at an absolute disadvantage, not to mention the huge "Glaive Array" formation set up by this ironclad army, which made the more than 50,000 Shatuo troops mistakenly think that this support army was actually more than their own. Moreover, the Shatuo army was originally the attacker, and it did not prepare defenses such as antler wood, thistle terrestris, horse traps, and horse rejection piles in advance, so it was completely impossible to stop the offensive of the ironclad army in advance.
If you are cowardly before you fight, you will be defeated before you fight.
30,000 people killed 50,000 people, but the scene was like 300,000 people killing 50,000 people.
"Tajim, you lead the army to outflank the right flank!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Chi Hedan hurriedly sent another general under his command, Tajim, to outflank the ironclad army from the right. At this time, four of the six generals under his account had been dispatched, and the remaining two were the left and right generals of the Chinese army, and they must not be sent again. Tajimu was his last hope.
Tajim led 20,000 men out of the camp and went to the right.
The scout came to report that the enemy camp had sent 20,000 troops and was rushing to the right. At this time, he had already adjusted the formation, and was in a situation of encirclement, the enemy was encircled from the right flank, and he could only loosen the gap and lead the troops to defend.
"Oooo
The wind, the wind has not stopped today. At this time, it was blowing towards the army of Tajim.
In front of him, more than 800 cavalry lined up and stood still, and Tajimu thought to himself: "This person is coming to stop me, is he underestimating me, or is he looking down on himself?"
Mei Yuanchen felt the wind, a smile appeared on his face, and he sighed lightly: "God bless Suzhou!" When the enemy was getting closer and closer, he suddenly said loudly: "Put lime!"
Riding on the orders of the people, he picked up the big bag containing tung oil before, opened the hoop and threw it together, and the lime powder in the sky blew towards the 20,000 Shatuo army.