Chapter 800 Chapter 797 Rookie: I really lost the team this time

Author: Middle-aged paper tiger

Chapter 800 Chapter 797 Rookie: I really lost the team this time

The stream is wide and shallow, so it is really inconvenient for infantry with heavy armor to cross the river, but it is convenient for cavalry!

Chen Tingxiao and his knights, who had been suppressed for more than ten days, completely released themselves and fully displayed their combat effectiveness.

This kind of fledgling recruit has a very big characteristic that I don't know whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage, that is, after winning a battle, it is easy to enter a state of madness.

For example, now, Chen Tingxiao personally killed the enemy general Hu Lunqian, and after using a thousand cavalry to defeat nearly ten thousand enemy cavalry, he dared to continue the pursuit.

In his opinion, it is only seven or eight miles to the right and left, so what does it matter!

Therefore, before Guo Guangyi led his army to the creek, he was immediately beaten on the head.

Before he could gather the defeated troops, he saw Chen Tingxiao's troops mixed in, driving the defeated troops in units of a hundred cavalry, like fish in the sea, causing waves of bloodshed throughout his army.

There was even a wave of cavalry rushing in front of him. The White Wolf Army, which regarded Guo Guangyi as their foundation, shot the man off his back.

In this scene, after a big victory, the crazy new recruits bursting with pride can fight, and a thousand cavalry will shuttle back and forth among the 40,000 cavalry to kill. Under normal circumstances, veteran oilmen really can't do such a thing.

Rushing from left to right, Chen Tingxiao killed countless thieves until the blood soaked the entire horse branch, which was extremely slippery to the touch and could no longer be used. Only then did he regain some consciousness, so he quickly ordered his followers to release fireworks.

Summon your cavalry to retreat.

All the soldiers rushed towards the direction of the fireworks soaring into the sky, but when Chen Tingxiao checked, there was still the second general named A who had not returned to the team.

The fourth general's general Yuhou's face was covered with blood. While bandaging the wound on his forehead, he said: "General Jia's head seems to be surrounded to the west. When the servants rushed over, I seemed to hear him roaring."

Chen Tingxiao looked around. At this time, the hot blood in his head had cooled down a bit, and all the soldiers had a look of retreat on their faces. After all, there were 40,000 people on the opposite side, all of them cavalry. They had finally managed to rush out.

Chen Tingxiao took the water bag handed to him by his personal attendant, washed the blood off the horse's head, and then raised his arms and shouted.

"How can I, a great athlete of Zhou Dynasty, not save my comrades when they see them in dire straits? If we don't save Generals A and 2 today, who will come to save us when we are trapped in a tight siege in the future?"

Hearing what Chen Tingxiao said, the right horse army was in Yuhou. Xiao's general Shi Shouxin rode his horse out and said with emotion: "What the commander said makes sense. We will return together when we come together. Shi Shouxin, my servant, will follow the commander to the death.

Even if you die in battle, you will never survive alone."

Shi Shouxin's agreement immediately boosted morale. After all, no one wants to be regarded as a greedy person who lives alone and is afraid of death.

Chen Tingxiao was overjoyed and immediately arranged for the injured to evacuate first. He personally selected 400 cavalrymen, hoisted the silver flag, and rushed towards the place where General A2 was surrounded.

General A2 was indeed surrounded, and it was particularly dangerous because after the others rushed out, Guo Guangyi, who felt humiliated, ordered the White Wolf Army to also join in besieging General A2.

Therefore, General Jia and Second General, led by General Jia Yuhou, fought hard to kill, but they could not get out because the enemy troops were getting more and more numerous.

However, these enemy cavalry did not expect that Chen Tingxiao had escaped from the trap and dared to rush back with four hundred cavalry. They were caught off guard and the beaten man fell over.

General A2 was almost desperate, but suddenly he saw the dazzling silver-white flag and heard the shouts of his comrades to kill, and his morale was immediately boosted. They both charged in the same direction, and unexpectedly fought their way out again when surrounded by thousands of riders.

A bloody road.

Although the enemy cavalry was caught off guard and their morale dropped a lot, there were so many people after all that they still wanted to pursue them in tandem.

Shi Shouxin shouted loudly and personally led 20 mounted sharpshooters. He distanced himself and stood on a small hill holding a strong bow.

Seeing the countless pursuers in the distance, Shi Shouxin and his twenty cavalrymen calmly drew their bows. Each of them shot expertly, and countless pursuers fell in response.

In just ten breaths, Shi Shouxin and others ignored the soreness in their arms and quickly shot seven or eight arrows each. They killed the pursuers and knocked down hundreds of riders, scaring hundreds of riders in the distance into fear.

Come forward.

Although Shi Shouxin's arms were shaking due to exhaustion, he was in an extremely happy mood. He laughed three times before retreating with his twenty sharpshooters.

The pursuers behind me looked at each other. I don’t know who had the courage to urge the horses, but they actually caught up again.

But just after crossing the hill, I suddenly heard a loud shout, "You dare to come forward, you thief? Are you here to die?"

The pursuers looked up and saw that it was the terrifying Tang general holding a horse spear, rushing back with hundreds of cavalry.

They were trying their best to summon up the courage to pursue this time, but they could not withstand the counterattack that Chen Tingxiao had prepared long ago. Before they could join the formation, the cavalry dispersed in panic.

Chen Tingxiao led Baiqi to pursue them for several hundred steps, only to kill them all and turn them upside down. They collided with each other and many fell off their horses before returning.

Thanks to Chen Tingxiao's command, Hu Guang took the opportunity to order a thousand elite soldiers from Yao Yuanfu's command and Li Jixun to lead a thousand strong crossbowmen from the White Camp in front of the palace to cross the stream and form an array.

Hu Guang did this on purpose. He could have crossed 4,000 people, but he only managed to survive 2,000. This was a clear plan to stimulate Guo Guangyi to lead his cavalry to attack, and let them taste the power of crossbows.

Guo Guangyi had already been stimulated and was about to lose his mind. He commanded 40,000 cavalry, but was killed by more than 1,000 Zhou army cavalry back and forth in the formation, killing at least 2,000 of his people.

This is no longer a matter of face, but a matter of whether the morale of the military will collapse if we continue to kill like this.

At this moment, he saw that there were only one or two thousand Zhou troops crossing the stream, and he suddenly realized "keenly" that this was a good time to attack halfway across the river.

Guo Guangyi immediately ordered people to beat drums, personally selected 15,000 elite cavalry, and took 500 heavily armored White Wolf troops as the vanguard. He must eat these 2,000 Zhou troops to restore the morale of the army.

Yao Yuanfu and Li Jixun are both veterans, especially Yao Yuanfu. He has been fighting against the Khitans in Datong since he was fourteen years old. He is already fifty-six years old this year and has so much experience that even Guo Guangyi could break his head.

to the point where.

Seeing the fierceness of the enemy's cavalry, he said to Li Jixun: "Although the Hu cavalry of this generation are powerful, they are not as powerful as the Khitan, and there are many people to stop the divination.

How about we show weakness to them, wait until within a hundred steps, the enemy cavalry gathers together, and when they are very fast, then use powerful crossbows to fire, we will definitely be able to defeat them!"

Li Jixun was convinced, so he ordered his people to put up a large shield, but instead of using a forest of spears, he just hid 1,500 crossbowmen in a triple formation behind the shield.

Originally, when these thieves came riding in on horseback, I was a little worried.

Because they were beaten very embarrassingly just now. Although they were not beaten themselves, they could also see how embarrassing their colleagues were being beaten.

But when they saw it, Tang Er on the other side could only use a large shield to protect him, and he didn't even have a few spears. How could such an approach scare the war horses? There was a stream behind them. After an impact, they couldn't stand it at all.

There is no escape.

Thinking of this, the morale of the Hu knights was greatly boosted. They shouted and roared, and the originally scattered formation began to gather together.

Because everyone thought this was an opportunity to pinch the enemy, they naturally rushed forward. Many people even thought that as long as they rushed sixty steps and fired the first wave of arrows, the opponent would collapse.

"Bang!" A dazzling firework rushed into the air. Seventy steps later, Hu Qi's speed had already increased. Yao Yuanfu shouted, and the soldiers in the front row suddenly took off their big shields and smashed them with one thousand five hundred weapons.

Zhang Nu appeared in everyone's eyes instantly.

"Woah! Woah!" Two thousand warriors roared like apes at the same time. Their actions frightened the enemy's horses.

Then Yao Yuanfu waved the command flag violently, and fired 1,500 crossbows in three stages.

What a tragedy! It's really a tragedy! The crossbows fired within sixty steps were indestructible. Hu Qi, who was charging, seemed to have hit an invisible iron curtain. Many people fell off their horses, and countless people fell off their horses.

And because they were eager to grab the credit, the formation that came up was too dense, as if they were deliberately sent up to receive crossbow arrows.

Each of the 1,500 crossbowmen in a triple formation fired two rounds, and a total of 3,000 crossbow arrows flew out. In such a dense formation of the enemy's cavalry, they killed at least a thousand of them.

Nearly ten percent was lost in a short period of time, so much so that a huge dent was created in the charging enemy cavalry formation.

On the battlefield, the horses were neighing miserably, and the people were moaning. The noise was so loud, but in the hearts of every horseman, there was a silence like death.

In the original river, a duel between tens of thousands of horsemen would often last for several days before the losses were so heavy, and then the battle would be over.

What frightened them even more was that many of the people rolling and screaming on the ground were wearing piece of armor or chain mail.

In the Central Plains, those who have armor are all heroes from the same village, let alone in the river. Those who can wear armor are Lord Burke from all over the country, and even Lord Iqta who owns fiefs and fiefs.

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These armors were the guarantee of their status and even their lives, because ordinary herders, whether they were Oghuz or Uighurs, or Sogdians and Persians under the rule of Saman Persia, did not have the ability to break armor.

Therefore, in the melee in Hezhong over the years, very few of the men with iron armor died. Most of those lying on their backs were herdsmen who went to the battlefield wrapped in sheepskin jackets with broken bows and wooden guns.

Therefore, at least hundreds of armored cavalry were shot to death at once. The heavy blow to these people's hearts was no less or even greater than that of thousands of armed herdsmen being shot to death.

But they fell into panic, but Yao Yuanfu didn't. He handed the command flag to Li Jixun, roared and took the lead in the battle, followed by two hundred tooth soldiers he selected from the Central Plains.

They were armed with long axes, large wooden poles, and heavy armor. They pounced on the thieves who were in chaos like wolves and tigers.

The thieves and cavalry had only just reacted now. No one dared to resist, and they all wanted to turn their horses around and retreat. But the more they tried to run away, the more chaotic they became.

Then there was a jaw-dropping scene on the battlefield. Yao Yuanfu and other two to three hundred people chased thousands of cavalry and killed them. None of the cavalry fought back. They even trampled on each other because they collided into a ball, and were killed by their own people.

, almost as many as those killed by Yao Yuanfu and others.

Hu Guang saw it on the east bank of the river and couldn't help but clapped his hands, "Yaogong is nearly sixty years old and is still so brave. It's really Lian Po who is still alive!"

After the compliment, Hu Guang waved his hand and said, "Zuo Zhang Shen Nu Camp, Zuo Hu Ben Guards followed a certain person to cross the river. That Guo thief is going to jump over the wall in a hurry!"

On the west bank of the river, Hu Guang once again guessed Guo Guangyi's next move. When he saw 15,000 cavalry rushing to kill the 2,000 infantry on the opposite side, and the killed people flipped on their backs, the soldiers' morale was shaken and seemed uneasy.

Among the 50,000 troops, Guo Guangyi himself only has 20,000, and half of them are armed herdsmen who came to make up the numbers. The other 20,000 are the 20,000 who were 'sponsored' by his prospective father-in-law, the Creek Ministry, and the remaining 10,000

They are mercenaries recruited from various places.

Now the White Wolf Army's casualties exceed 30%, and Guo Guangyi's strength has been greatly damaged. If he were an ordinary person, he would definitely want to escape, but Guo Guangyi would not, because he knew that he could not escape.

After being defeated like this, he couldn't even pay off the balance of the mercenaries, let alone what the Creeks thought of him. He might not be able to retreat to Talas City, and would either be killed by the mercenaries or murdered by the Creeks.

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Rather than being killed, it is better to incite the Creek tribe and mercenaries to die now. The more they die, the safer Guo Guangyi will be.

"Baishui City, Talas, and a certain family have all contributed. If necessary, it is not impossible to marry in. We still have more than 30,000 riders. As long as we work together, we will defeat the Tang army!"

Guo Guangyi offered a bait that the Creeks could not refuse. These two cities were what the Creeks wanted most, and the hundreds of thousands of people who annexed Guangyi were also what the Creeks wanted most.
To be continued...