Section 384 Changing formations and holding each other
Since this style is named "swallow", it will not leave any way out for those who have strayed into the battle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
If there is no way out, there is no way out.
Those Tibetan golden horsemen who rushed into the Khitan flank formation were stunned, only to see all kinds of spears, halberds and tripping horses beckoning to them from all directions. The one who chops the horse, the stabbing man who stabs, the severed head that cuts off the head.
Screams came and went.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the golden horsemen who remained outside the formation hurriedly turned their horses and fled. At this moment, dense arrows shot out from the Khitan flanks, hitting the backs of these Tibetan deserters, and the arrows fell one after another. By the time the golden horsemen fled back to their home camp, there were no more than two out of ten.
When the 100,000 Khitan soldiers saw their initial victory, they immediately cheered and shook the sky, "The Great Khan is mighty, the Great Khan is mighty!"
Liu Yu sat alone in the watchtower of the Chinese army, surrounded by eight guards of the Khan King holding shields, guarding against cold arrows that could be fired from a distance at any time. He picked up the teacup from the desk beside him, took a sip, and let out a heavy sigh.
How could the real Golden Rider be wiped out so easily?
The only explanation is that this Golden Knights are fake!
The cunning Tubo Lao Wang sent these people just to test his own reality, and 20,000 people were just a drop in the bucket for the Tubo army. With such a slight price, the old king of Tubo learned of the first change of his "Great Flying Eagle Array", which can be described as cunning and cunning.
Sure enough, as he expected, these Tubo people immediately launched a second round of attacks after finding out the reality of the Great Flying Eagle Array. They first fired a volley of archers, and the rain of arrows came overwhelmingly towards the Khitan army. Seeing this, the eight Khitan soldiers raised their shields one after another, but despite this, there were still hundreds of casualties among the arrows, so the position was slightly loosened.
A group of Tibetan cavalry took advantage of the chaos to launch a charge, and in just a moment they had rushed to the front of the Khitan army. They swung their heavy iron mallets and smashed them into the Khitan shield that was blocking in front of the formation. Most of these shields in the hands of Khitan soldiers were made of pine wood, and the texture was loose, which was acceptable for guarding against ordinary bows and arrows, but they were not enough to deal with such cavalry holding long iron mallets.
Under the fierce hammer attack of these Tibetan iron hammer cavalry, the wooden shields blocked in front of the Khitan army were broken hundreds of sides one after another, and these Tibetan iron hammer cavalry poured into the Khitan people's main formation from the gap like a flood of broken embankments, and began their unscrupulous killing.
In desperation, the Khitan generals sent people to the Khan's chariot to ask the Khan to issue a new edict, and these requests were finally conveyed by the Khan's personal guards who were in charge of receiving them to Liu Yu, who was observing the enemy situation on the watchtower.
Liu Yu pondered for a moment, "The Chinese army continued to hold on, and the men and horses on both wings stepped forward bravely. Those who flee from the battle and passively slack off the battle will be dealt with by military law. ”
This edict of his is another variation of the Great Flying Eagle Array, the nest.
After receiving this edict from the Khan, the soldiers on both wings of the Khitan army fought bravely forward, surrounded from both sides to the middle battlefield, and the formation was like an "eagle's nest".
Once again, the situation turned in favor of the Khitans, and became very unfavorable to the Tibetans.
Those Tibetan iron hammer cavalry gradually could not resist the pressure from the left, front and right sides at the same time, and began to retreat. Those former Khitan soldiers who had been struggling to support them, after receiving the support of the men and horses on both wings, began to launch a counterattack. They used dexterous sabers and spears several zhang long to engage in fierce battles with the heavily armed Tibetan iron hammer cavalry.
Although the iron mallets in the hands of these bulky Tibetan iron mallet cavalry were considered sharp weapons when smashing shields and killing, the spears and sabers used to ward off the Khitans were very cumbersome. Spears and spears continued to pierce from the corners and dismount the horses. Then a pile of sabers poured up, slicing the heads of these men off their torsos one by one.
Just when everyone thought that the Tibetans would be defeated again, the commander of the Tibetan army actually did the opposite and chose to increase the troops again. A steady stream of Tibetan cavalry rushed out of the formation, constantly attacking the Khitan soldiers and horses who outflanked the front from both sides. The Khitan left and right armies, who were responsible for outflanking the two wings, could not withstand the huge pressure on the oncoming face, and their positions could not help but retreat, completely losing the encirclement of the Tubo.
On the battlefield, the Tibetans once again had the upper hand.
Standing on top of the watchtower, Liu Yu clearly saw an endless stream of Tibetans swarming from the distant horizon. Although he had never met the commander of the other army, the old king of Tubo, he knew very well the purpose of this person - this person wanted to force the Khitan army to retreat step by step, until it was forced into the black water in the rear, what a ruthless means!
At this moment, a powerful arrow grazed his face, leaving a blood mark, nailed to the wooden pillar beside him, buzzing, startling the eyes of the eight Khan king's guards who were guarding the side.
Judging from the direction of the tail of the arrow, the arrow should have been shot from the Tibetan army. A letter was tied to the end of the arrow and wrapped in oiled paper. Liu Yu untied the letter, opened it, and the content of the letter was as follows:
"Born of heaven and earth, placed by the sun and the moon, Wei Shengdelong, His Royal Highness Yongdeng, the king of the Tubo Kingdom and the Western Regions, told the Khitan Xiaoxiao: In the past, the Han general Han Xin fought against the water and won the land of Yan Zhao, and now there are Khitan bandits who want to follow the example of the east, resist in vain on the shore of Heize, and even laugh at the world. If you want to save your family and survive, you will surrender as soon as possible. When the million-strong army of Tubo is swept away, the eight Khitan tribes will have no horses, horses, cattle and sheep!"
Liu Yu did not tear up the arrogant and threatening letter, but gently placed the letter paper on the case in front of him. He touched the scars left by the arrow on the side of his face, and asked with a smile to the eight Khan king's guards who were guarding the side: "How do you say that those Tubo people know that I want to learn from Han Xin to fight against the water?"
Several of the Khan's personal guards looked at each other, and finally someone replied: "General Liu's back to Kurosawa is arranged, and his intention is very obvious, he wants the soldiers of the army to fall into the place of nine deaths, and they must be killed. Not only the Tibetan people think so, but I'm afraid even our people think so. ”
"You mean, everyone thinks so?" asked Liu Yu with a smile.
"I'm afraid so. The Khan's guard replied cautiously.
Liu Yu laughed and passed down the third military order, and the formation of the big flying eagle turned from a "nest" to a "feather".
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Several groups of soldiers rushed out of the formation carrying heavy huge shields, and unlike before, this time the fragile pine shields were replaced by heavy cast-iron shields.
Three thousand cast-iron shields blocked the way of the Tibetan people's charge, and the shield-wielding soldiers all put their whole body weight on the iron shield. Behind them, 100,000 Khitan soldiers dismounted one after another, and these shield-wielding soldiers shoulder-to-shoulder, forming a huge joint force.