Chapter 1106: Charging into Formation (continued)
More than 150 horsemen quickly reorganized the formation, and fifty horses carrying grain, grass and water pushed to the front as a barrier, and after giving an order, they began to slowly advance forward. After lunchtime, the team arrived in the north of Golden State. The black-pressed Jinzhou defenders had already lined up in a large horizontal formation, densely clogged on the mile-wide avenue between the mountain peaks and the city on the north side. It seems that the order was hastily arranged, and many soldiers and horses were rushing out of the city in a hurry.
"Damn, you don't have to be in this position to intercept us. We only have such a small number of people, which is too much to think of us. Tan Ping scolded.
"yes, it really gives us face. Dashuai, if we break through this time, will it be counted as one for a hundred? We're going to go down in history. Hahaha. Zhao Qing laughed.
Wang Yuan said coldly: "There is nothing to be proud of, these are all rabble, it is right to break through, if it is folded here, don't think about it in history, it is very possible to laugh and be generous." ”
All the guards laughed when they heard this. Xuanzong rolled his eyes in the middle of the team and said in his heart: At this time, you are still laughing here. I really don't know if Wang Yuan and these soldiers under him have a lack of brains. This Wang Yuan is also unreliable, he is in such a high position, but he still disregards his life. They are not afraid of death, but I am unlucky...... I knew it was like this......
"All ready, charge!"
Wang Yuan's loud shouting interrupted Xuanzong's thoughts. The guards holding him behind him urged the horses, and the war horse under his crotch rushed forward, and Xuanzong shook and almost fell off the horse. The guards in the rear hugged him like iron hoops, and Xuanzong stabilized his body, bent down and grabbed the horsehair tightly.
The war horse quickly increased its speed and quickly approached the front of the opponent's formation. The soldiers on the opposite side obviously didn't realize that the other party actually rushed over without saying a word. Several generals really discussed how to persuade the other side to surrender and how to besiege the opponent. But in the blink of an eye, the opponent had already launched a charge.
"Hurry, archers ready. Archers ready. One of the generals shouted.
Thousands of archers quickly began to draw their bows and arrows, ready to shoot. They had already received a secret order, even if the Emperor Taishang was held hostage for the other party, they did not have to let the other party escape because of the rat trap. Even if the emperor was killed by mistake, the court would never investigate the guilt. Because of this, the generals did not hesitate to give the order to prepare to shoot.
Three hundred steps! Two hundred steps! One hundred and fifty steps!
When the personal guard cavalry led by Wang Yuan was about to enter the range of arrows, an order sounded. All the Guards removed their hanging shields from the back of their saddles and put them in front of them. The war horse rushed into the range of the arrows with an indomitable momentum.
"Shoot!"
The bowstrings in the opponent's formation sounded sharply and buzzed incessantly. Thousands of feathered arrows flew like thousands of poisonous bees. Snort, puff, puff, ding, ding, dang, all kinds of sounds are endless. The power of the rain of thousands of arrows was not small, and almost the entire charging cavalry team was enveloped in it. The soldiers of the Shence Army crouched down, shielding their horses' heads and necks and their own bodies with shields, minimizing the area where the arrows were fired. Countless arrows were blocked by iron shields, clanging and jumping above the heads of the cavalry.
The fifty horses in front of him were uncontrolled, and almost every one of them was hit by arrows. But fortunately, the straw felt mat laid in advance resisted most of the damage of the arrows, although it was inserted into the body like a running porcupine, but there were not many real injuries. Seven or eight horses that rushed to the front were shot only in the chest and abdomen and in the head, and they fell neighing, and their inertia caused them to roll on the ground. The surrounding horses were frightened, and they ran faster and fiercer, and rushed wildly towards the enemy line.
There was also damage in the rear cavalry battle formation. Although measures have been taken to protect the horses, more than a dozen horses have been hit by arrows. It's just that the part of the arrow is in the position of the horse's hip and shoulder, but it will not make the war horse fall to the ground. On the contrary, because of the pain, these war horses charged even more frantically. The cavalry on horseback also had several arrows. The protection of the Mingguang armor is not bad, and the arrows hit the hard parts of the armor, although they will penetrate small holes, but they are not enough. Seeing blood but not death looks quite scary.
Xuanzong shrank behind the shield in fear, almost vomiting blood in fright. Hearing a scream from someone beside him, Xuanzong listened to Zhang Dequan's voice, and hurriedly looked through the gap in the shield, and happened to see Zhang De rolling off the horse with a few arrows stuck in his body, which frightened Xuanzong to cry while screaming.
Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan rode in front of Xuanzong's horse, and the sword in Gongsun Lan's hand flashed like a silver screen, constantly striking the arrows that shot diagonally. She didn't have to lift a shield at all. All the arrows that fell into the range of her side were shot down by her with a long sword, ensuring the safety of Wang Yuan beside her and Xuanzong behind her.
Just a stone's throw away, the cavalry charge was just a few breaths away. The opposing archers had only time to shoot two rounds before the charging cavalry was already in the forefront.
"Gun array! Gun array! ”
The generals shouted hoarsely. The soldiers in the front row quickly raised their spears and aimed the heads of their spears at the rushing cavalry, forming a line of spear defense. This is exactly the classic means of infantry against cavalry charges. The pikemen form a formation in front of the formation, and use the power of the cavalry charge to make them charge into the spear formation themselves, so that their first attack stops in front of the formation. Once the first wave of attacks is stopped, the onslaught of the cavalry behind will slow down, and you will be surrounded and trembling by the infantry. In recent years, this method of warfare has become so widely known that any general knows how to do it.
"Fence on both sides." The order was given again. When the flag waved, the Golden State infantry on the left and right flanks on both sides began to shout and run. It was like two huge arms hugging each other. At this time, the situation was like Wang Yuan's more than 100 cavalry, like a flat boat, in the midst of the sea of people who were surrendering to the black pressure, and were about to be besieged and swallowed by a sea of tens of thousands of people. Everyone knows that this situation is already in a desperate situation.
However, what happens next will make everyone's eyes roll off and their jaws fall off. The remaining twenty or so unridden horses rushed into the spear formation, withstanding the first wave of damage. In an instant, the cavalry in the rear charged, and in the face of the dense soldiers in front, the cavalry of the Shence Army raised their hands, and one by one the hands emitting green smoke flew into the crowd.
"Boom, boom, boom." Violent explosions rang out, mud and waves flew and flesh and blood flew sideways. The dense frontal formation of the enemy army was blasted open by more than a dozen hands in an instant. In the choking smoke and dust, Tan Ping and Zhao Qing rushed into the gap first.
There was not a single person standing on the ground, and the infantry with spears in formation had been blown up. The gun array has long since collapsed. The entire contingent of guards cavalry was like a sharp knife stuck in the enemy's ranks.
The knife flashed, and the flesh and blood splattered. Tan Ping, Zhao Qing and dozens of cavalry opened the way ahead with an indomitable momentum. The cavalry of the Shence Army on both sides of the rear threw their hands at the enemy troops rushing to the side and rear, breaking their tendons and breaking them and screaming for a long time. The barbarians in the middle began to shoot their opponents with bows and crossbows.
These more than 100 rides are like a meat grinder with a blade all over its body, rolling into the flesh and blood. In the land they passed through, the ground was full of stumps and broken arms, and the land was full of flesh and blood. This means of destroying the enemy, this ability to kill with thunder, is not something that these soldiers, who are mostly composed of new recruits, can stop.
The dozens of Mo knives in front of him were invincible, and the dozens of Mo knives on both sides were enough to make the opponents who dared to approach cut down as if they were cut wheat. Hand ** bombarded indiscriminately dozens of paces away, emptying the approaching enemy troops from time to time. The indiscriminate shooting of crossbow arrows in the middle of the team continued to harvest lives. The whole cavalry team was like a lion rushing into a flock, with sharp teeth and claws, and ran amok.
In a short tea time after receiving the enemy, the cavalry team of the Shence Army rushed into the enemy formation for more than 100 steps. Continuously break through the spear and sword formations, and penetrate the mixed formation of infantry and archers in the rear. In a short period of time, they frantically harvested the lives of thousands of enemy soldiers.
In the face of such a fierce opponent, who would dare to step forward to stop them, and who would dare to approach them. Rushing forward is not bravery, but stupidity. Because there is no possibility of survival at all. If you take a step forward, you will become a dead body on the ground. Especially the soldiers who were recently forced to join the army were even more incontinent, with feces and urine in their crotch.
In the face of this situation, although the leading generals of Golden State were also frightened, they could not tolerate just letting their opponents cross their own formation. Hu Peng, the leading general of Jinzhou, scolded hoarsely on the high platform next to him. He had recently been promoted to guard the Golden State, and he was looking forward to the future. I was going to make great achievements today, but I didn't expect the enemy's small force to be so strong. How could he tolerate this situation, the 40,000 army was really escaped by more than 100 people, and he himself would have survived.
"Stop them, rush, kill. Fuck, do you want to die? All the cowards will be beheaded. Give Lao Tzu a rush. Qian Zhongding, Li Yanliang, do you fucking want to lose your head? Bring someone to stop them for me. Otherwise, Lao Tzu will cut you down. Hu Peng shouted and cursed.
Qian Zhongding and Li Yanliang had no choice but to urge the soldiers to intercept the opponent. The two slashed and killed more than a dozen timid soldiers in a row, forcing the soldiers to rush forward in a swarm.
Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan rushed on the left side of the team, and there was no need to protect Xuanzong in the middle of the team at this moment, so the two of them rode together on the left side to kill. Seeing that the enemy troops who had already retreated were swarming again, and the two of them brandished their weapons and killed more than a dozen people in a row but did not see the other party retreating, Wang Yuan couldn't help frowning.
The purpose is just to break out of the enemy formation, not to kill all the opponent's soldiers and horses. 40,000 enemy troops are standing and killing more than 100 people. Besides, Wang Yuan didn't want to kill these soldiers indiscriminately. These people all looked frightened, and some of them were young people with immature faces, and they really couldn't do anything. These are all people who have been forced to join the army, and Wang Yuan is absolutely unwilling to kill them unless he has to.
"Cousin, help me kill those generals. If they don't die, I'm afraid it will take a lot of work. Wang Yuan shouted in a deep voice.
"Good!" Gongsun Lan agreed cleanly, and her body suddenly jumped up from the horse's back, and her toes flew into the air with the saddle.
Wang Yuan shouted, "Just wait for me." ”
"I don't need you to help me." Gongsun Lan's voice came, and her body was already a few feet away, her body fell to the ground, and she jumped up again with a soldier's helmet on her toes, like a bird hovering over the dense soldiers.
When Wang Yuan smacked his tongue and praised, Gongsun Lan's figure had already jumped on the head of Li Yanliang, the enemy general who was shouting and urging the soldiers to rush and kill thirty zhang away. Li Yanliang saw it clearly, let out a loud shout, and the spear in his hand stabbed towards Gongsun Lan in the sky. The silver snake in Gongsun Lan's hand danced, clanging and ringing. Li Yanliang only felt that his hand was fluttering, a spear had been cut into several pieces, and he only held a two-foot-long gun handle in his hand.
Gongsun Lan's body fell, and a silver light swept through Li Yanliang's throat, and when Gongsun Lan's body jumped up in mid-air again, the blood in Li Yanliang's throat erupted, and the body fell off the horse.
Gongsun Lan's figure had already pounced on Qian Zhongding, another enemy general not far away. Qian Zhongding is a smart man, and when he saw Gongsun Lan kill Li Yanliang with a raise of his hand, he knew that he was definitely not an opponent. So while shouting and ordering the soldiers to come forward to stop them, they rode their horses backwards and fled.
Gongsun Lan would not give him a chance to escape. He landed on top of a soldier's head, reached out and snatched a spear that was stabbed at him, and threw it with his hand. The spear flew towards Qian Zhongding's chest, Qian Zhongding's eyes were quick, and he rolled the saddle and got off the horse to hide on the side of the war horse. Hearing the sound of 'poof', Qian Zhongding's war horse let out a mournful neigh, and the spear was slanted into the horse's back.
Qian Zhongding took a long breath and secretly praised his wit, but fortunately he used his mount as a shield. He got up and wanted to leave, but suddenly found that he couldn't move. Next, a heart-rending pain invaded his mind, and Qian Zhongding screamed miserably, looking down at the sore spot. But he saw the spear peeking out of the horse's belly, and it was stuck in his waist. A stream of blood was gushing out, and the entire waist and ribs were transparent. He and the war horse beside him were strung together by this spear. Qian Zhongding's mouth opened wide in shock, and in the scream, blood gushed out of his mouth, his head tilted, he collapsed to the ground, and his soul returned to heaven.
Gongsun Lan's figure did not stop, and after the spear was marked, he didn't even look at Qian Zhongding, his toes were on the top of a soldier's head, and his body flew out diagonally. After a few vertical leaps, he reached dozens of steps away, and went straight to Hu Peng, the leading general of the enemy army commanded on the high platform.
Hu Peng had already seen the situation of Gongsun Lan killing his two generals in a row, and when he saw Gongsun Lan rushing towards him, he shouted anxiously: "Stop him, stop him." Arrows, arrows. ”
More than 100 guards gathered around the high platform slashed into the air with sharp blades in their hands, preventing Gongsun Lan from having a place to stay. At the same time, dozens of archers raised their bows to the sky and shot arrows at Gongsun Lan's figure in the air. Gongsun Lan was in mid-air, the long sword in her hand danced like a flower, and the arrows close to her fell one after another. But when the body fell, a silver blade danced below, and there was no place to stand. Gongsun Lan was in danger, with a coquettish sound, his body flipped over, his head and feet flew down, and the long sword in his hand flashed a huge circle of light, but when he heard the explosion of ping-pong, more than a dozen steel knives scattered at the foothold. More than a dozen soldiers screamed and flown away, killed or wounded.
"Mo Shang Fei Fancy!" Wang Yuan, who was on horseback in the distance, muttered.
That is one of Gongsun Lan's killer moves, Mo Shang Fei Fan. It's just that Gongsun Lan is no longer like before, she does her best to kill one move, and although she is invincible in killing the enemy, she also consumes her own strength. Now she has learned to control the power and scope of her moves. Therefore, this style of Mo Shang Flying Flower only killed and injured all the enemy soldiers within a certain range of the foothold. Otherwise, with this kind of killing move, the group of people around her would probably suffer, but then she would also use too much strength to continue killing the enemy general.
The soldiers around were stunned, where had these people seen such a magic skill, where had they seen such a powerful skill. When they were stunned, Gongsun Lan's figure had already soared into the sky, and after the strength of a tall soldier's head was borrowed, Gongsun Lan swooped straight above the platform like a flying swallow. Hu Peng on the high platform held a long knife and shouted, and the long knife was raised above his head and slashed towards Gongsun Lan, who rushed up to the edge of the high platform. Gongsun Lan's toes were on the side wall of the high platform, and when her body flew out diagonally, she stabbed out with a backhand sword, and her body fell straight down, and the rabbit jumped away like a falcon.
The soldiers around the platform didn't know what was happening, but soon, the rain of blood pouring down from their heads made them understand everything. It turned out that the other party had pierced Hu Peng's throat the moment he flew away from the high platform. Hu Peng's knife slashed at the log on the edge of the high platform, and his body was still standing on the edge of the high platform, and his mouth let out a roar of rage. But every roar he let the blood rush from his throat spurt faster. The next moment, amid the exclamations of the soldiers, Hu Peng's sturdy body fell from his head and feet, and he fell to the ground and did not move.
Wang Yuan stabbed you diagonally with his horse and killed more than 20 steps, Gongsun Lan jumped from the crowd and jumped on horseback, Wang Yuan turned his horse and swirled, and rushed back into the cavalry formation.
"Well done, the army of ten thousand people takes the head of the enemy general from it, like probing the bag and taking the ear. The cousin is mighty and domineering. Wang Yuan laughed.
Gongsun Lan smiled without saying a word, and jumped back on his horse.
The Lord will be slain, and the two lieutenants of the two armies will be slain, and in the midst of all hosts, under the noses of all. In this case, what morale and courage are there to come forward and fight? The recruits, who were already timid, would not step forward to fight hard at all. Although there were still generals shouting and urging from afar, the soldiers who were engaged in the battle in front of them only waved their swords and waved their flags and shouted, but no one dared to really step forward.
In this case, ride