Chapter 536: The Battle of Wuzhangyuan (14)
Ge Congzhou's sneak attack failed to succeed, Yin Bo was saved with his life by his own guards, but the guard's shouting before he died attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers, Ge Congzhou's shameless actions also completely angered the soldiers under Yin Bo's command, almost in an instant, the defense line that separated Yin Bo from his subordinates was completely broken by the angry Feng family sergeants.
And the facts are far more than that, Ge Congzhou's approach is obviously that he took into account the entire battle situation, and the reason why he made a sneak attack is actually understandable. But after all, as a general of the first army, this practice will still arouse the disgust of many subordinates, how can ordinary soldiers think about it as much as Ge Congzhou, but simply think that this kind of sneak attack is too despicable and shameless.
The morale of the two sides was divided into high and low almost instantly, especially under the elimination of one and the other, the counteroffensive of Yin Bo's army suddenly intensified, and Ge Cong was also a little in a hurry on Monday, and only by relying on a large number of subordinates to tighten the defense line was able to avoid collapsing instantly.
But after all, the thousands of pikemen who came forward to help were affected by the lance cavalry regiment that rushed to the battlefield, and there were hundreds of people behind Zhao Maozi who were crazy and stabbed in the back, which also completely led to a reversal in Ge Congzhou's situation.
On the other hand, with the attraction of the winged cavalry regiment, Li Xiaofeng, who originally had to not only face the front but also take care of the flank pikemen attack, also had a sharp decrease in pressure, although he was facing the main cavalry of the pseudo-Qi, but Li Xiaofeng, who had no scruples, quickly reorganized a front line and threw himself into the charge again.
And the pikemen of the pseudo-Qi were originally facing Li Xiaofeng's subordinates who no longer had the advantage of charging, but in the blink of an eye, their flanks were about to be attacked by the charging of the winged cavalry regiment, and the advantage they had for a while completely turned into a disadvantage. If it was an ordinary cavalry charge, they could still try their best to fight after listing the pike, but they were facing the elite of the elite cavalry, the winged cavalry.
On the battlefield that was raging with battle, thousands of pikemen still lined up in rows according to conventional tactics, and greeted the arriving hussar regiment with a cold and glistening steel jungle.
But the winged cavalry regiment did not intend to confront them head-on, under the leadership of Mao Hao and Mao Xi, the rapidly charging winged cavalry regiment, when there was still a distance of about 100 meters from the opposite spear array, with Mao Hao and Mao Xi's orders, hundreds of cavalry in the front row hung their spears on the saddle at the same time, and at the same time picked up their different riding bows and crossbows.
In the face of the cavalry charge, although it is an elite winged cavalry regiment, it still has the strength to fight, but if it is faced with an overwhelming volley of bows and crossbows, it is simply just waiting for death.
In fact, the pikemen should have taken the initiative to attack, but at this time, the pikemen were not only facing the winged cavalry regiment in front of them, but also Li Xiaofeng's subordinates on the side of the battle formation, which was equivalent to being attacked on both sides.
In desperation, the general who led the troops made a decision with a sweaty head, completely gave up the attack on Li Xiaofeng's subordinates, contracted the defensive line, and prepared to move forward to attack the winged cavalry regiment in front of him. In the current situation, this decision is undoubtedly the right one, otherwise, once the hussar regiment breaks through the defense line and enters the battle formation to fight, then this spear array will be completely abandoned, not to mention that it wants to fight to the death with the hussar regiment.
But no matter what decision is made, it will not change the attack of the winged cavalry regiment in the end, as Mao Hao let go of the hard bow that was full of roundness, a sharp whistling sound sounded at the same time, the entire cavalry regiment all opened their bows and pulled the crossbow, but then it was not immediately launched, but the entire formation changed.
From a neat charging formation, it gradually transformed into a fan shape that was concave backwards during the run, and at the same time, the overall attack surface expanded several times, and after a short time, the hard bow in Mao Hao's hand made a crisp sound again.
"Boom!"
Immediately after, everyone in the first two rows of staggered people released the carved arrows, or pulled the triggers of their subordinates. For a moment, countless carved arrows suddenly flew up in the milky white wings behind the winged cavalry, and the white feathers at the end of the tail spun rapidly, as if they were wings flying from behind the winged cavalry. And the crossbow arrows fired by the Fubo crossbow were connected in a piece, flying straight towards the pseudo-Qi pikemen in front of them.
At this moment, in the face of the eagle arrows in the air and the crossbow arrows in front of him, the pseudo-Qi soldiers of the spear formation did not know how to block them, and they had a feeling of helplessness. It was only the next second, with the arrival of the crossbow arrows, accompanied by a clanging and even a sound of entering the flesh, the eagle arrows in the air seemed to be summoned, and suddenly stabbed down on the pikemen on the ground, smashing out patches of blood on one enemy after another.
Mao Hao, who was at the middle of the fan-shaped, bent down to lift the spear from the saddle, clamped the horse's belly with his legs and urged the pure white horse under the crotch, the tip of the spear reached the front, and his mouth stopped shouting: "Kill!" ”
The winged cavalry on both sides of the fan-shaped war did not exchange their weapons back for spears, but quickly picked up another arrow and crossbow from the side of the saddle, opened their bows and arrows, and put them into the crossbow groove while raising their feet to wind. Under a series of movements, the legs did not forget to continue to control the horse, and when there was only ten meters left from the spear array in front of him, the cavalry in the front row turned the horse's head, and under the threat of a shining spear blade, quickly turned the horse sideways, and stomped on the horse again, away from the spear formation.
It was obvious that the task of these winged cavalry was not to charge into battle, because after turning the direction along the front line of the pike, the crossbows in their hands aimed at the pikemen who were close to the square from the side, pulled the cold trigger, released the ruthless bowstring, and sent the stunned pseudo-Qi pikemen directly into heaven.
With the two elite horses scattered in front of the spear array, they soon arrived at the end of the spear array, which is also about to usher in their most important task this time, to both sides of the spear formation, to attack from the weakly defended side, and the main force led by Mao Hao in front of them, to carry out a three-sided encirclement and flanking attack, obviously wanting to defeat the spear formation in one fell swoop.
And more importantly, the 5,000 men and horses sent by Meixian and Qishan counties, because Li Xiaofeng led the army to encounter strong resistance, they couldn't advance half a step for a long time. It turned out that what everyone wanted was to follow Li Xiaofeng forward to kill the enemy and get merit, but seeing that the merit could only be obtained by the Feng family army in front, several generals gathered in the rear to discuss the way.
Although after a fierce quarrel all kinds of seemingly unreliable methods were rejected, but suddenly, a great battle merit was placed in front of them, and they followed the hussar regiment to attack the pike-infantry. Especially when several generals considered the elite of the hussar regiment, several people were surprisingly unanimous, and followed the pace to break through the phalanx of thousands of pikemen.
Anyway, Lin Feng asked them to fight before and didn't explain the specific task, then they were also happy, where there were low-hanging fruit, they would go to war, anyway, several of them also had self-knowledge, Lin Feng on the top of his head didn't intend to let them be the main army at all, he was just a simple helper, or a helper who could only bargain.