Sixty-five Defeat (II)
After Chen Yichao received the order, he immediately got off the high platform, came to the Chinese army on the left, led two thousand cavalry, and attacked the Jiankang army on the left. Almost at the same time, two thousand cavalry were killed in the phalanx on the right.
Yang Yan had already seen the cavalry of the Lin'an Army in the formation, and finally took the initiative to attack and kill the formation. couldn't help but sneer: "Did you think of taking the initiative to fight until now?" It's just too late. But I finally made the right choice. It's also commendable! Then he immediately gave the order: "Sound the horn and let Liu Fuwu and Wei Jiao attack." ”
In the Jiankang army, the horn sounded. The cavalrymen who were running horses and shooting arrows in front of the Lin'an army heard the sound of the horn and immediately pulled out their horses and returned to the formation. Liu Fuwu and Wei Jiao each led 1,500 cavalry troops in armor, and fought left and right from the Song army's formation, and met the cavalry troops killed on the left and right sides of the Lin'an army.
Liu Fuwu took Tian Kai and Xue Kefeng, two generals, and led 1,500 armored cavalry troops, and happened to meet Chen Yichao.
Liu Fuwu smiled bitterly and said, "Yichao, aren't you awake yet?" Zhao Kai is in the middle of defeat, and you have no future if you follow him. Hurry up and ......."
Chen Yichao said: "Liu Fuwu, needless to say, King Deng treats me as a national soldier, I will repay me as a national soldier, although we are brothers, but now each is its master, don't show mercy to your subordinates, what ability you have, just use it." As he spoke, he raised his hand and stabbed Liu Fuwu head-on.
Liu Fuwu raised the spear with both arms, and with a "dang" sound, the two spear heads collided together, and said, "Okay, if you still don't understand, I'll use the spear in my hand to wake you up." After finishing speaking, his hands shook, the tip of the gun trembled, and immediately conjured up seven spear heads and stabbed Chen Yichao in the chest.
Chen Yichao also put his guns together, parrying with his guns, only listening to the sound of "dang, dang, dang......", and the two spears had hit seven times in a row in an instant.
They were originally brothers, and they had the same marksmanship, and when they were learning art in the same class, they usually competed and competed, and Chen Yichao's skills were superior. But now both of them have been teaching for several years, Liu Fuwu has been following Yang Yannan to fight in the north, born and died, and in actual combat, he has realized a lot of the essence of gunnery. Moreover, there are rare opponents such as Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru, Bi Zaiyu, Ling Xiang, etc., who are also very beneficial to practice guns. In contrast, Chen Yichao has been much less tempered in the past few years. At this time, Liu Fuwu's marksmanship is not below Chen Yichao, and his experience in battle, Ma Zhan's skills are even higher than Chen Yichao. But after all, the two of them are from the same school, and they can't bear to be a killer, so they are inseparable for a while.
Although the two commanders fought evenly for the time being, the difference between the soldiers under them was shown by scriptures. Although there are many recruits in the Jiankang Army's armored cavalry, most of them are selected from the light cavalry, and their quality is not much different. In comparison, the cavalry of the Lin'an army is too far behind in all aspects, and it is light cavalry against armored cavalry, which is not a battle on the surface in itself, so as soon as the two armies are connected, the soldiers on both sides cross each other, and almost all of them are soldiers of the Lin'an army.
Seeing that nearly half of his cavalry were killed and wounded, they were defeated and retreated, and more and more cavalry troops were besieged by the Jiankang army. On the other hand, the battle situation was similar, the Jiankang army, under the leadership of Wei Jiao, also defeated the Lin'an army, and could only flee in embarrassment.
Zong Tianxuan saw that the cavalry on both wings was defeated by the Jiankang army, and was about to increase his strength, when the horn in the Jiankang army formation sounded again, and the 10,000 cavalry troops on both wings of the Jiankang army had been dispatched by the whole army, divided into left and right sides, and came up in a roundabout way. At the same time, the 3,000 heavily armored hemp knife infantry in the middle of the Jiankang Army were lined up in five rows with 600 people, and the soldiers in each row held high the hemp knives in their hands and advanced towards the Lin'an army formation.
Although the pace of the Jiankang Army's advance was not fast, facing the sun, the blades flashing with cold light, sonorous sounds, and neat and heavy steps caused heavy pressure on the Lin'an Army. Even more terrifying was the row of huge monsters behind the heavily armored linen infantry. It brings a kind of indomitable momentum to the Lin'an army, as if it can destroy everything, which makes people feel frightened.
"This is the elephant army." and a trembling sound.
Although most of the soldiers of the Lin'an Army have never seen elephants, they are not unfamiliar with the word "Elephant Army", because they have long heard all kinds of mythical legends about the Elephant Army. Although there are various legends about the elephant army, they all have one thing in common, that is, the elephant army is a huge monster, so it is very easy to recognize, and it is easy to understand at a glance.
If it was before the battle, the Lin'an army might be able to avoid being strong and hold its ground, but now after the Jiankang army's bow and arrow strike, the morale plummeted, and the cavalry on both wings was defeated by the Jiankang army, which made the army unstable.
This is when the Chinese army of the Jiankang Army advanced to a distance of only about 300 steps from the Lin'an Army, the bed crossbows on the backs of the 100 war elephants in the first row were launched, and the crossbow guns as strong as arms whistled and shot at the Lin'an Army. Chariots, shields, armor and other objects were not willing to strike in the face of the powerful force of the crossbow guns, and at once a large line of soldiers was radiated.
As the Jiankang Army continued to advance, half of the elephant's back crossbows were changed to fire thunderbolts. As a result, a huge roar sounded in the front army of the Lin'an Army, and often after a thunderbolt exploded, together with the iron pieces that flew out, within a radius of two or three zhang, almost no one was spared. Countless soldiers screamed and fell, while the other soldiers did not dare to fight anymore and retreated one after another, and even Liu Bao could not contain it. The front army of the Lin'an Army immediately collapsed.
At this time, on both flanks, the cavalry that had been reinforced had just come out, but they were immediately scattered by their own defeated army, and before they could fight, they had to retreat with them. And the armored cavalry of the Jiankang army chased the defeated army of the Lin'an army and killed it until it reached the edge of the Lin'an army's array.
But when the cavalry of the Lin'an army retreated to their own array, they found that they were originally used to block the impact of the enemy's cavalry, but at this time they became a roadblock to prevent their escape, so some cavalry were stabbed to death by the horses or the sharp vertebrae on the chariot, and some were killed by the Jiankang army that chased from behind, and sometimes desperately rammed into the chariot, hoping to break a gap and escape into the formation. Since the two sides were in a scuffle at the edge of the array behind the Lin'an army, the archers hiding in the formation did not dare to release their arrows, so as not to injure their own troops by mistake.
At this time, the cavalry on both wings of the Jiankang Army also killed, under the command of Gao Zhen and Zhang Shiyan, the commanders of the two wings, some soldiers shot with bows and arrows, and the other part of the soldiers threw out the hook rope, lassoed the chariot, and then pulled back together, not long after, the Lin'an Army's hard-built defense line opened several big gaps, the cavalry of the Jiankang Army have entered the formation, chasing and killing the soldiers of the Lin'an Army, seeing that the left and right phalanxes of the Lin'an Army are about to be unable to keep.
On the command platform, Zhao Kai was at a loss. And looking at the self-designed and proud "Wanquan Pingrong Great Array" to go through the chaos, the five phalanxes were broken by the Jiankang Army at once, Zong Tianxuan was so anxious that his head was full of pollution, and he hurriedly stroked on the command platform, and kept shouting: "Ah, ah, you must resist the enemy, resist the enemy." ”
At this time, Chen Yichao retreated to the Chinese army, stepped on the general's platform, and said to Zong Tianxuan: "Mr. Zong, we can't stand it anymore, let's use the Chinese army quickly, and there is also a rear army, use it all, maybe we can save the situation, otherwise, we will be defeated." ”
Zong Tianxuan nodded hurriedly and said, "Chen Yichao, you go down immediately and lead the Chinese army to save the front army, I immediately sent an order to Shao Hongyuan of the rear army and asked him to divide his troops to save the left and right armies." ”
Chen Yichao hurriedly walked down the podium. Zong Tianxuan ordered two disciples of the Tianji Palace to go to the rear army to pass the order, asking Shao Hongyuan to immediately send troops to the rescue. After a while, I saw Liu Bao's crooked armor and dozens of people kicking the command platform, and said to Zong Tianxuan: "Mr. Zong, we can't resist it, retreat quickly, if you don't retreat, it's too late." ”
Zong Tianxuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "Why retreat, I ordered the Chinese army to attack, and then ordered the rear army to fight, which can completely save the defeat." ”
Liu Bao said disdainfully: "The front army, the left army, and the right army are all finished, what's the use of adding the middle army and the rear army, if we don't retreat, when Yang Yan surrounds the Chinese army, we won't be able to run." Then he turned to Zhao Kai and said: "Your Majesty, run quickly, if you don't run, I'm afraid you will be caught by Yang Yan." ”
Zong Tianxuan was shocked and angry, and said sharply: "Liu Bao, if you dare to shake the heart of the army, I order you to immediately go down to the clouds and fight to the death to repel the enemy army." ”
Liu Bao smiled contemptuously and said: "Zong Tianxuan, it was because of your incompetence that you set up such a useless big array that our army was defeated, and now you want to stop the emperor from retreating, do you want to give the emperor to the enemy?" ”
Zong Tianxuan was speechless by Liu Bao's words. At this moment, a disciple of the Heavenly Machine Palace hurriedly stepped onto the command platform and said loudly: "Senior Brother, it's not good, Shao Hongyuan refuses to send troops, and he has to flee with his men and horses." ”
Zong Tianxuan was shocked, hurriedly looked back, and sure enough, he saw that the rear formation was retreating. Zong Tianxuan was angry and pointed at the audience and scolded: "Shao Hongyuan, you unrighteous villain, look at how I clean you up." ”
At this moment, another disciple of the Heavenly Machine Palace stepped onto the command platform and said, "Senior Brother, something is wrong, Lin'an Yijing has been lost. ”
When Zong Tianxuan heard this, he only felt a "buzz" in his head, his eyes were dark for a while, his heart was hot, and he spit out a handful of blood with "wow", and there was only one thought left in his consciousness: It's all over now.