Chapter 54: Blood Flows into a River!
One of the 400,000 troops sent by the East Pole Empire, 100,000 troops, after being destroyed all the way, finally met the main force of the Western Chu Dynasty.
After so many years of low-key development, the Western Chu Dynasty also had millions of soldiers and horses, including 150,000 cavalry.
Of the four armies sent by the Eastern Pole Empire, two of them were elite foot soldiers, one was an elite pikeman, and one was an elite cavalry soldier who immediately raised his whip to fight. At this time, the 150,000 cavalry of the Western Chu Dynasty were almost exhausted to fight against the elite cavalry of the Eastern Pole Empire from the Dragon Armor Divine Army.
The commander of the cavalry of the Eastern Pole Empire is a general from the third grade, who is about the age of not confused, and looks extremely stable.
At this time, he was talking to the lieutenant generals at a place where a military camp was stationed on a plain on the Western Chu frontier.
"We have 150,000 cavalry, the soldiers are divided into five roads, and the 30,000 cavalry are one formation, and the forward only needs to be the knife of the front with all the soldiers and horses, and then the two wings behind him use two cavalry phalanxes to press the formation. The fourth phalanx of cavalry circled the mountain to the north, and then plunged directly into a dagger from the enemy's flank, for a surprise army rather than cavalry. As for the last line of soldiers and horses, as reserve reinforcements, they can be surrounded from time to time to send reinforcements, after all, there are more cavalry troops on the opposite side than us, but they are not as strong as us. The cavalry general said confidently.
Many of the other lieutenants nodded when they heard this.
The general, who was at the age of meritorious service, looked at the blue sky that had just been brightened, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Now all the armies are ready, and the whole army will start to move in three quarters of an hour!"
"Yes!" the lieutenants clenched their fists and quickly rushed back to their camp to begin to prepare for the details.
Dozens of miles away, a big banner with the word "Chu" fluttered wantonly in the wind, there was a large temporary barracks under the banner, and in the center, there was a canvas barracks that looked almost the same as the appearance of the rest of the barracks. Outside the barracks stood several guards with piercing eyes, their faces facing forward, their postures firm.
"Ladies and gentlemen, if we want to win this battle, we must not be ambushed by the Middle Eastern Empire. As long as there is a slight difference, our 150,000 cavalry will be the end of the total annihilation. An old man in battle armor looked at the map in front of him, his eyes heavy.
This old man was the secretary of the previous military department, and he had already gone home to retire, but this time he volunteered to come to the front line, saying that he didn't want to die in the rear, and the man died on the battlefield since he died. The old man himself has a very good physical fitness, and he is also well versed in the Taoist health preservation technique, so he is now more than eighty years old, but he can still lift a sword and cross a horse, but he is finally old, and he is not as invincible as when he was young to spur a horse and gallop on the battlefield.
Now the old man has the title of "Admiral of Tiance" on his head, and his official position is a good product, and this title will only appear when the country is in turmoil.
"General, there is no obstacle between us and the cavalry of the Eastern Pole Empire, it is a peaceful place, that is to say, once a war starts, it will be a hard impact, either the enemy will die or I will die! How can we fight better?" a middle-aged general frowned and asked.
"But look here, there are hills and mountains. The old man moved his finger and pointed to the side of the place where the two armies were fighting, where there were several large mountains.
"But it's a bit far from us, and if we go around it from there, we can't march on a large scale with those little paths. The middle-aged general thought for a while and judged.
"It is true that it is impossible to march on a large scale, and more than 30,000 people will be blocked, but the use of troops must be odd and correct, first of all, we must be 'strange', we can send a 30,000-strong army of soldiers and horses to detour the road, and then send another 20,000 cavalry behind the 30,000 soldiers and horses. The old man said with a deep look.
"General, my subordinates are puzzled. Why send another 20,000 cavalry? A general in his thirties asked the old man with awe.
"Because the other party is the Eastern Pole Empire. If we can think of it, they can think of it too. The old man looked at the young man's awe-inspiring look and smiled helplessly, "Don't be nervous, I'm very kind." ”
Many generals in the barracks were slightly palpitating when they heard this, and the generals of their generation and even the generals of their father's generation had grown up listening to the story of the old man in front of them since they were children.
This old man was just a scholar from a poor family, and later because of the early death of his parents in the war, he joined the army in order to save his life. From a small pawn crawling all the way, staggering, until he climbed to the military department Shangshu, awarded the title of Zhuguo, and was awarded the hereditary marquis, it can be said that it is extremely noble. And the bitterness behind this brilliance is inexhaustible. What they were most afraid of when they were young was to listen to the growth story of this old man, because this old man was too cruel. For example, when the Western Chu Dynasty fought with neighboring countries, the generals of that dynasty were talented, the soldiers and horses were strong, and the national fortunes were prosperous, but the 200,000 iron cavalry led by this old man first leveled the country, and then trampled the cavalry of that dynasty to pieces. In the end, this old man killed 400,000 soldiers of the enemy army alive, which shook the entire Eastern Regions at that time, and the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howls could be heard within a radius of hundreds of miles from the pit killing site, which made people tremble and panic.
"They probably are about to move. Our 50,000 soldiers and horses will be ready to set off in a quarter of an hour, and begin to make a detour into the mountains, occupying the favorable terrain this morning, even if those soldiers and horses of their empire have to sneak up on the 'strange' once, we can also take the lead. The old man raised his hand and ordered.
"Yes!" two middle-aged generals turned to leave after receiving the order.
"It's a no-lose-to-win situation. The old man looked at the topographic map and sighed.
"Don't talk about the other soldiers and horses of the East Pole Empire, but this 100,000-strong forward cavalry army, I, Feng Tang, have stopped it!" said the old man named Feng Tang with a firm gaze.
Half an hour later, the two cavalry armies looked at each other from a distance.
The banner of the word "Chu" in black font and the banner of the character "Emperor" in golden font are both hunting in the wind.
Not counting the cavalry that made a detour, there were 100,000 cavalry soldiers in Western Chu and 70,000 cavalry soldiers in the Eastern Pole Empire.
If it is an ordinary war, it is impossible to have such a large-scale hard fight without brains, but these two dynasties have their own difficulties, one wants to resist the enemy on the frontier, and the other wants to crush the other party strongly and quickly, so there will be this kind of brainstorm with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on the battlefield at the same time. Fortunately, the plains here are not too small, enough for the generals of the two countries to line up their troops.
The nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses of the two armies were silent, including those war horses, all of whom stood with their heads held high at this time, no longer neighing. If a person were to stand at this distance of a thousand feet between the two armies and close his eyes, he might think that there was nothing around him but the sound of the wind. It is impossible to hear through the ears that there are nearly 200,000 horsemen and nearly 200,000 war horses around.
The leader of Xi Chu was a middle-aged general, the middle-aged man who had questioned him in the commander's camp before.
At the head of the Eastern Pole Empire was a young general, one of the right-hand men of the general from the third rank.
The two sides were speechless, and the 200,000 horsemen all took out a thick strip of black cloth and wrapped the black strip of cloth around the head of the war horse, covering the eyes of the war horse.
The two sides also began to ride their horses forward with the general led by the front of their respective phalanxes.
Speed, faster and faster. From the slow walking at the beginning to the fast walking later, and then to the galloping horses, the sound of the hooves of those war horses vibrated like the tide hitting the shore, and it was like thunder descending from the sky.
If you look down from the sky, you will see two dense black shadows moving.
The two horsemen are like two unstoppable river tides, and the first row of soldiers is like an endless tide line.
None of the horsemen shouted like some romance novels, shouting "Brothers, kill, brothers!", everyone was as silent as a tree, and the whole phalanx was like a forest without wind and birds.
The first ten rows of horsemen had expressions of death on their faces, because of the collision of this super large-scale cavalry, the front row of horsemen were simply killed by the two high-speed moving phalanxes. The real bloody battle was the cavalry after the tenth platoon.
It is getting closer and closer, and the distance of three miles is only more than a hundred zhang away after the horses on both sides raise their speeds.
The eyesighted horsemen in the front rows of both sides could even clearly see the enemy's face.
As you get closer, you can already see the sweat drops on the enemy's face and the eyes.
"Dragon Armor Formation, up!"
"Heavenly Hammer Formation, up!"
The main force of the empire and the troops of the Great Dynasty, each member is a second-rank or third-grade soldier, so the horsemen on both sides are cultivators who can use internal force.
Rumble!
The moment he heard the sound of the enemy's breathing, the two huge phalanx of horsemen finally collided like two rushing rivers.
The internal force of the two large arrays stirred up ripples, and the cavalry in the first few rows of both sides instantly turned on their backs, and many of them were trampled to death by the enemy's or their own horses' hooves, and some of the old pawns reacted quickly after falling off their horses, lifted their spears, seized the last moment of their lives, and picked off the enemy in front of their faces. Then both sides were trampled into a pulp.
Cavalry often used spears or spears, and then equipped with a sword and a sword at the waist, fully equipped, suitable for various situations, immediately for the elite cavalry, under the horse for the elite infantry. This is also the reason why there are few cavalry, and why it is much more difficult to raise than foot soldiers.
And among the cavalry strokes, there are also some crossbowmen, which are even more precious, these crossbowmen are generally in the rear of the phalanx, and while the front army and the middle army are attacking, their crossbowmen are looking for opportunities to shoot the enemy with crossbows in the back.
These crossbowmen, all of whom are men of their own age, are at the peak of their physical strength in life.
"Poof!"
The front army, as soon as the two sides met each other, they lost hundreds of lives here. Then the speed of the attack slowed down because of the death of the hundreds, and then the two armies mixed together and fought on horseback. This will require the immediate combat effectiveness of both sides.
At this time, the endurance of the horses, the physical strength of the soldiers, the quality of the weapons, and the comprehensive realm cultivation of all the members have all become the factors that determine the victory or defeat.
Phew!
A cavalry of the Western Chu Dynasty jumped up, jumped directly onto the back of a cavalry of the Eastern Pole Empire, took out the knife at his waist and wiped it on the neck of the imperial cavalry, and the blood sprayed out directly.
Burst!
Before he could put away his sword, beside him, an Imperial knight threw a spear with red eyes and forcefully through his chest, and he dismounted weakly.
While!
While!
Poof!
The sound of swords and spears colliding together was incessant, mixed with the sound of flesh being cut and bleeding from time to time, and the sound of many horsemen scolding each other before they died.
Among them, there are many mixed horsemen in the middle and third grade of the rivers and lakes masters continue to harvest the lives of the enemy horsemen, if this is the case, the nearby enemy masters will directly kill, or dozens of horsemen together to fight the enemy's masters of the rivers and lakes, those monks are not gods after all, after killing twenty or thirty or forty or fifty enemy horsemen, the internal force is exhausted and the enemy is poked by the enemy with a random gun and sword.
Those crossbowmen also find those masters to shoot from time to time, and if they can't kill them directly, they can also interfere with those monks in the rivers and lakes.
There are no 10,000 enemies in the battlefield, and even if there are, they will die quickly, so no matter how strong one person's strength is, it is impossible to decide the war between the two great dynasties.
In the past, there was a master of the rivers and lakes at the peak of the eight grades who insisted on showing his skills on the battlefield and participated in the battle of the two great dynasties.
The master was indeed fierce, and at the beginning he single-handedly killed thousands of elite cavalry, but in the end he found that the enemies around him were killing more and more, and by the time he wanted to break through, it was too late. Tens of thousands of enemies surrounded him, and then he died of exhaustion, and finally his battle was 13,569 for 13,569.
He made it to 10,000 enemies, but he still died after all.
On the large battlefield, there are giant crossbows that specialize in dealing with monks of the upper third-grade realm, there are middle-third-grade monks who hide their pawns, and there are military generals who are incomparably powerful and comparable to the peak realm of the eighth-rank realm, so a single master of the rivers and lakes can affect some of the battlefields, but they can't change the direction of the entire battlefield.
At this time, in that big mountain, two "strange soldiers" met, both of them were 30,000 soldiers and horses, and as soon as the two sides touched, they directly collided together and began to fight.
The strength of the cavalry of Western Chu is still a little weaker than that of the Eastern Pole Empire, but when these 30,000 people are retreating, another 20,000 cavalry of Western Chu are entering the battlefield and sending carbon in the snow.
Just when one of the Western Chu cavalry soldiers could be "strange", five thousand imperial cavalry soldiers were killed in the mountain road opposite, and it seemed that the opposite side also expected it and prepared in advance.
There were more soldiers and horses in Western Chu, and the empire was stronger, and the two sides were completely wried together.
In this way, the blood flowed into a river.