Chapter 74 Big Break
"Daid..." Hundreds of riders rushed out of the stagnant and began to accelerate.
Their speed was very fast and their impact was very strong, as if they wanted to directly break into the Liang army's spears regardless of casualties.
"Swoosh! Swoosh!" Ten thousand Liang troops lined up several small formations, and the right wing of the central army turned right together. The crossbow team bravely stepped forward a few steps, holding a scary big bow, and the armor-breaking heavy arrows flew out continuously, shooting down more than ten cavalry.
The Iron Cavalry turned and then rushed to the other side.
Shao Shude climbed a gentle slope and carefully observed the battlefield.
The battle of Xiangji Temple involuntarily emerged in my mind. In that battle, the Tang army led 4,000 elite Uighur soldiers, led by Pugu Huaien, and rode their horses back and attacked the Anshi rebels, and finally won.
But the Uighur cavalry waited from noon to You hour, and sat and watched the infantry arrays on both sides for several hours before they attacked decisively, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Can cavalry fight infantry, infantry line up, and cavalry do not attack from the front, and detour on the flanks and behind? At least the Uighurs think that they cannot win, and they must wait until the enemy infantry's physical strength, energy and morale are consumed for a long time before they can be sure. At the same time, it is also necessary to consider that the cavalry from Khotan and Dashi restrained the rebels' cavalry from the front, so that they have the chance to make a final decision.
Today, the Liang army's cavalry was about nothing, with about a hundred cavalry, and dozens of cavalry scouts and cavalry. Shao Shude didn't take it seriously yet, which helped him a lot.
The infantry on both sides had already begun to fight head-on, with swords and guns intersecting, and flesh and blood flying everywhere, and no one was willing to take a step back.
The cavalry of the Dingnan Army surrounded the left wing and wandered carefully, putting pressure on the enemy.
The enemy's infantry has very little advantage in terms of strength, and the cavalry is completely at a disadvantage. Over time, the mental pressure is not small.
"Swoosh! Swoosh!" Liang Jun, a fifty archers dispersed, walked a little further.
Hundreds of summer cavalry seized the opportunity and rushed over from the flank. The enemy's formation was like locusts, and cavalry kept falling off during the charge, but in the end they rushed into the archers who were fighting and retreating.
The war horse rushed past, and the saber brought out red blood, which looked so charming under the setting sun.
The fifty-man team was severely injured, with more than 30 people killed or injured in an instant. Seven or eight other people were knocked down by the cavalry who rushed over and shot back.
Who says martial arts is useless? It makes sense to shoot left and right during the archery assessment, shoot continuously, shoot horizontally, and shoot back points!
"I still lose money!" Shao Shude shook his head gently.
The cavalry of the Iron Cavalry Army were all elites of Lao Yu's battle formation. The archers of Liang's army who shot heavy arrows were probably not good at plagues. The arrows bite the flesh, but they still suffered a lot when they exchanged.
The cavalry kept harassing the enemy's flanks and behind them, forcing the Liang people to draw the team in the battle, and the entire formation almost turned into a hedgehog.
"The horse army has been fighting Erzhu on the eastern front, and Shi Pu has no reputation. I didn't expect it to be so difficult." Shao Shude smiled and said, "The more difficult it is, the more I want to eat you. Every time I destroy such an old yamen army, it will not only weaken the strength of Zhu thief, but also strengthen himself."
Yelikcheng looked at him intently, his young face full of eagerness to try.
"Stay!" Shao Shude laughed. After all, it was a young man. It should be the first time he had seen such a large-scale fierce battle. It was understandable that everyone came from this step.
"I still have to rely on protection!" Shao Shude blinked and joked.
He had five hundred personal soldiers around him, plus a thousand Iron Cavalrymen. If there were many cavalrymen and a fierce general rushed over, Shao Shude would have to end up in person. Anyway, he had already put strings on the arch and the arch.
Yelikcheng looked determined and said, "Even the last general will die before the king."
The personal soldiers all looked at him, and some people subconsciously held the equipment in their hands and were ready to fight to the death.
Of course, things haven't come to this point.
Wang Jingyu was very busy. He even left the central army command position and brought his personal soldiers to a wave of counterattacks, stabbing the front line that could not resist.
A iron gun was majestic and swept across the army. With Shao Shude's eyes, three little officers with flags on their backs were stabbed to death.
"A brave general is the same as Wang Yanzhang." Shao Shude commented.
Wang Yanzhang is a man who is very magical. Let him lead the army to fight. The winning rate is really not high. It seems that his ability as the head coach is not enough. But he can always lead people out of the siege or kill the enemy's pursuers when he is defeated, and he must come back with all his tails. When his status is low, he leads his troops to rush forward and defeats the enemy repeatedly. To put it bluntly, he is a general, not a general. It is actually not a good candidate to let him take charge of the main army of Houliang.
Another team of cavalry turned over and pressed over from the west bank of Caishui. They carried some war drums and beat directly behind the bandits, and hundreds of people shouted to kill each other.
After shouting, get on the horse again, go around to another place, and continue to do this.
The battlefield was very chaotic. The infantry fighting on both sides met with the opponent, and the casualties were difficult to distinguish, and the casualties were astonishingly large. But as time went by, the soldiers of the Liang army became more and more anxious and more panicked. At the critical moment, Wang Jinghua shouted loudly, and someone carried the banner to follow, put on heavy armor and fought in the battle, rushing forward continuously, inspiring morale.
The first formation of both sides had disintegrated, and the defeated soldiers slipped back from the passage between the formations, and the latter formation directly topped up and strangled together again.
Zhe Siyu was also anxious and directly led more than a thousand cavalry to wear armor and rushed towards the corner of the flank of the bandit formation.
The arrows flying towards us swept down many knights. They forced themselves to take casualties and pulled them horizontally, making a round of shots within the range of the bow.
After one round of shooting, the second wave of hundreds of riders arrived again. Then the third wave and the fourth wave.
There was almost no time interval between the fifth wave and the fourth wave. Taking advantage of the slightly chaotic opportunity of the enemy, he rushed over with a short spear.
Attack a corner!
This is also one of the cavalry tactics, which means that regardless of casualties, attack one corner of the enemy's military formation one after another. After opening the gap, the elite cavalry will be put into the gap and continue to expand the gap, and ultimately achieve the goal of chaos and collapse of the enemy.
"Sigh the Lvlu!" The whine of the war horses came one after another. The infantry in the first row of the horse army was seriously injured. The soldiers holding long axes in the back row stepped forward, cooperated with their robes, and used their strength to defeat the knights.
A knight's war horse was shot by an arrow and landed on the ground. At this time, he got up from the ground, picked up the spear on the ground, and rushed forward with all his might.
The two sides were in a mess and almost didn't care about anything. Only the enemies in front of them were facing each other, fighting with their lives.
More and more cavalrymen rushed over, and the enemy's archers were affected and could no longer shoot arrows. The cavalry on the periphery approached some, and the arrows were shot continuously. The Liang army, who were still armed, screamed and fell to the ground.
"The thief army is going to be defeated, kill!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Perhaps feeling the noise and chaos on the right wing of the Liang people's central army, the morale of the Feilong Army was greatly boosted, and he rushed forward with such a hint of courage.
Morale is rising and falling, and the people in Xia are in high spirits, and the people in Liang are inevitably declining. Wang Jinghuan will not change the disadvantage of his own few soldiers. The overall front continues to retreat and there is a tendency to collapse and collapse.
Fu Yanchao slowly walked around with more than 2,000 cavalry, shooting an arrow from time to time to aggravate the chaos of the enemy. A quarter of an hour later, he shouted loudly, pulled out the Chashan Sword, and said, "The thief is in chaos, follow me!"
More than two thousand riders slowly accelerated, divided into three batches, and directly inserted into a gap exposed by the Liangren.
In the gap, some fell to the ground, some stood alone and fought, and some were running back. The surging cavalry rushed in, slashing and slashing and thorning, and Liang's army was either dead or injured. Those who escaped the cavalry's attack rushed straight back and collided with the enemy troops coming to reinforce, and they were in chaos.
The second wave of cavalry rushed to the scene and cut them in half at once.
Then there was a third wave, which penetrated diagonally, and fired a volley of bows and crossbows. The Liang army was in a big uproar and they all walked away.
The Feilong Army, which was fighting on the front line, became more and more braver, and the Liang army seemed to have reached a critical point. Suddenly, someone collapsed and turned around and fled. The despair inspired more people, and almost no one was willing to continue fighting, pushing their robes one by one, trying to escape.
A big collapse!
Wang Jingqi rushed out of the riot under the protection of his personal soldiers, but could not find the horse for a while and could only escape on foot.
He was already targeted by the cavalry. They wanted to catch the alive, and followed Wang Jinghua slowly, riding a bow and shooting. There were fewer and fewer personal soldiers around him until no one was left.
Wang Jinghua jumped into a carriage, looked back and almost shed tears. Tens of thousands of Bo, Ying'er was chased and killed by Xia soldiers, and was slashed and killed.
"I want to see Shao Shude!" Wang Jinghua threw away his iron spear and said loudly.
More than ten knights dismounted, rushed up, crushed him to the ground, and tied him up. One of them laughed jokingly, "I'll take you to see the king."
Wang Jinghua stopped struggling and was taken away obediently.
Shao Shude rode his horse down the gentle slope, took his eyes off the battlefield, and said strangely: "Why does General Wang want to see me?"
"Try a way out for the soldiers of the horse army." Wang Jingxu replied.
Shao Shude smiled and said, "I don't plan to kill prisoners, don't worry. Are you willing to surrender?"
"Subdued!" Wang Jingxu replied.
Shao Shude was stunned and asked subconsciously: "At the time of fighting, General Wang personally led the warriors to destroy our army's sharp edge several times and save the crisis several times. If it weren't for General Wang's bravery performance in this battle today, I would have probably won it long ago. Why did it be so straightforward? If I had known this, why would it have to..."
"My family is a general in Yingzhou. Since King Liang was the commander of Bian, he was the duty of fighting for him." Wang Jingqi replied: "Now he faced King Xia, and he was forced to surrender, and he has done his duty. King Xia can defeat me, either with great luck or great ability. I am convinced and I am willing to surrender."
Shao Shude smiled unconsciously after hearing this. This man said that surrender was so fresh and refined, and he was also a talent.
However, his bravery was indeed good. In the past, Huang Chao entered Bo Yingzhou, but he led the Yingzhou soldiers to fight for ten days and repelled. Later, Qin Zongquan came again, but he was still defeated by him. After retreating, he was unwilling to accept it, so he sent his generals to lead the army to attack. Wang Jingyi took the lead and clashed with the left and right, defeating the Cai bandits and fled.
"In the chaotic times, you have kept the peace in Yingzhou. You have not been poisoned by the crowd of people, the Cai thieves have also gathered refugees from far and near, and countless living people have been alive. With such a great virtue, you should not die." Shao Shude said: "Get up. In the future, you will still have wealth and honor to fight for me."
"Thank you for not killing the king." Wang Jingqi said happily.
The pursuit battle on the battlefield was about to end. The Xia army soldiers gradually stopped their hands and began to be captured and captured.
Shao Shude observed carefully just now that the Flying Dragon Army should have suffered more than 1,000 casualties in this battle. The Iron Cavalry and Dingnan Army also lost hundreds of cavalry, and the casualties were a little beyond expectations. However, it was worth it to wipe out 10,000 horsemen and obtain their supplies, grain and silk.
"King." Xie Tong followed carefully: "The magistrate of Fugou County is my old acquaintance, and it may be said that he is coming to surrender."
Chapter completed!