Chapter 276 You have to fight if you can't fight (one more)

Chen Ying started with more than 1,500 hook and sickle gunners in the second mansion led by the right guard of the East Palace, and in his eyes, the hook and sickle was his closest partner.

The two wings of the cavalry formation flying together, the blade array or the fish scale array, in Chen Ying's eyes, were all objects that could be crushed. However, the hook and sickle lancers are not without opponents, like Liu Heimin is now lined up in a dense spear formation, looking at the thickness of this spear array, there are at least more than 20,000 people. Using the Hook Sickle to charge the pikemen is a lose-lose game, although the Hook Sickle will definitely win in the end, but the Hook Sickle Lancers will also suffer heavy losses.

However, Liu Heimin played a trick. If you put the pikemen at the front, you can certainly reduce losses. However, Chen Ying is not a fool, the pikemen's melee ability, especially the ability to restrain cavalry charges, has a good power, but they have an Achilles' heel, they can only attack closely, and cannot shoot from a distance. If Liu Heimin dared to put the pikemen at the forefront, Chen Ying would definitely not hesitate to let the shooters come on the field, and tens of thousands of crossbowmen could definitely shoot these spears to the point of doubt.

In front, with sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen in the front, covering this phalanx of pikemen, Chen Yingdiao led the hook and sickle lancers to sweep towards the originally scattered Xia saber and shield soldiers and crossbows. Just like driving a flock of sheep, he drove the Xia army to rout and rushed towards the pikemen phalanx of the Xia army.

It's a bit of a feeling of attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son.

Since the Warring States period, cavalry has been able to restrain infantry to the death with its superiority in mobility. As early as the Changping War between Qin and Zhao, Bai Qi used 25,000 Qin cavalry to raid the back road of the 400,000 Zhao troops under the command of Zhao Kuo, and used 25,000 cavalry to block the return of 400,000 Zhao troops.

Crossbowmen and pikemen cooperate with each other, this is the nightmare of cavalry, especially the hook and sickle lancers, in order to pursue the power of impact, sacrifice cavalry shooting, so that kind of formation is Chen Ying's biggest headache. However, the pikemen of the Xia Army, who did not have the cover of crossbowmen, also became the meat in Chen Ying's eyes.

Countless Xia Army soldiers who were frightened to the point of being scattered, everyone turned pale with fright, and only hated their parents for having two legs less. They involuntarily ran towards the phalanx of their own musketers.

The legs of these Xia soldiers naturally can't outrun the four legs of the cavalry, but these Xia soldiers also understand that they don't need to run past the war horse, they only need to run past their own comrades.

Liu Heimin was also a ruthless person, and when he saw Chen Ying expelling his own rout troops to attack the pikeman phalanx, he immediately ordered: "Spread out left and right, quickly!" ”

The left and right flanks of the Xia army, the defensive line arranged with various baggage carts, although it could not be compared with the side chariots, could very well restrain the cavalry charge. These carts are not connected into one, but three or five carts, one in the east and one in the west, like dense mounds.

Infantry can take advantage of these chaotic gaps and move freely. However, the cavalry under Chen Ying had no choice, as the so-called faster the speed, the more difficult it was to turn the direction. The cavalry of the cavalry army could not move freely in the center of the chaotic convoy like a rout soldier.

The order was given, but the key was that Liu Heimin found that these routs did not follow his orders at all.

These frightened Xia army routs, like headless wings, running around, who can take care of Liu Heimin's orders!

In this case, these Xia army commanders who were armed with spears and spears were suddenly entangled. The swarming robe of his own robe is about to hit the spear array, is it a sting, or not a sting?

It is easy to assassinate, as soon as you use your waist and eyes and your hands up, you can stab the rout in front of you to death. But to kill the enemy, the soldiers of the Xia army naturally did not have a burden in their hearts, but they really couldn't kill their own robes.

However, these Xia army soldiers know very well that there is no room for women's benevolence on the battlefield, and once they let their robes rush the pikemen array, the Tang cavalry will definitely take advantage of this chaotic opportunity to directly sweep down.

Liu Heimin stood on the podium, condescending, and saw clearly. The soldiers of the Xia army rushed like wolves, at this time, the trebuchet troops that posed the greatest threat to Chen Ying had stopped, there was no way, now the cavalry of the Tang Army and the rout of the Xia Army have been mixed together, you have me, I have you.

These Xia soldiers were cut like wheat by the hooked sickle lancers, and they fell into a large area. Gao Yaxian said worriedly: "It's too fast, it's too fierce, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid the forward army of 30,000 won't last long!" ”

The battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, and at least 4,000 Xia soldiers were killed or wounded.

Liu Heimin gritted his teeth and roared, "I don't believe that their horses won't get tired." ”

At this time, there was no way to reverse the decline of the forward battalion, unless the cavalry under Chen Ying's command could be delayed.

Seeing that the Xiao cavalry army was rampage in front and killed the Xia army's generals and soldiers, the Tang army's left guard rate and Wei led the army, the shooting army and the Modao army slowly followed.

At this time, the most bitter was actually the soldiers of the Tang Army's Modao Army.

They were dressed in heavy armor and held heavy knives, and the speed at which the whole army could only move could be described as a turtle crawling. However, the soldiers of the Xia army were too defeated, and they used their strength to eat milk, and they couldn't catch up with the soldiers of the Xia army at all.

The battle had been more than a quarter of an hour, and the Mo knife soldiers had not yet drunk blood on their Mo knives.

Mo Jun rushed to Lieutenant Gao Feiyang and roared: "Hurry, hurry, hurry up, the Xiao cavalry is eating meat in front, why don't we have to get some soup to drink!" ”

Zhong Mo Daojun slammed his head and opened his thighs, running towards him with difficulty.

Finally, Gao Feiyang watched several Xia army rout.

Gao Feiyang shouted in ecstasy in his heart: "It's a good time!" As he spoke, the Modao Army formed a dense formation and slashed towards these Xia Army soldiers who ran in the wrong direction.

It's just that without waiting for Gao Feiyang and other Mo Dao Army soldiers to slash at these Xia Army routs, these routs without exception all knelt on the ground and raised their hands.

Gao Feiyang was dumbfounded, knowing that these Xia army soldiers had surrendered, it was impossible for him to kill them again, and killing prisoners was not considered a war feat. In desperation, Gao Feiyang only needs to open his thighs and continue to run forward.

But what made Gao Feiyang depressed was that as long as he caught up with the rout of the Xia army, these routs all raised their hands and surrendered.

Looking at his own troops, he either surrendered or was killed. Liu Heimin was so angry that his hair stood on end.

Little did he know, however, that this was just the beginning.

For Chen Ying, it's just an appetizer before a big meal.

"Woo Woo ......"

Finally, the soldiers of the Tang Army's shooting army caught up, they gasped, and they didn't care about aiming, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, and threw a rain of arrows into the Xia army's soldiers.

The sound of breaking the air that made people's ears tingle sounded, and the dense arrows like rain made the originally crumbling pikemen phalanx in the Xia army's army begin to loosen.

These arrows rained down not at those routed soldiers, but at the Xia army commanders who were waiting for them. The sharp arrows effortlessly pierced the armor of the Xia Army's pikemen, penetrating their bodies and quickly hollowing out the vitality on their bodies.

"How is this battle fought?" Gao Yaxian was extremely depressed, and the cavalry of the Tang army advanced like a wall, bulldozing all the soldiers who stood in front of them rudely and unreasonably. Whether brave or cowardly, in front of the hook and sickle cavalry of the Tang army, there is no difference.

Everywhere the hook and sickle passed, there were dead bodies everywhere.

After fighting for a long time, he couldn't gnaw a single hair of Chen Ying's army, and a random charge would take hundreds of lives, how else could this battle be fought?

At this time, the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Army have changed.

They became bloody men, and their horses became bloody horses.

As soon as Liu Heimin counted the number of people, he almost vomited blood.

In just half an hour, the Xia army was reduced by more than 10,000 people, and these soldiers were either killed or forced to surrender to the Tang army.

Liu Heimin's face was even darker at this time.

Chen Ying raised his whip and roared, "Keep attacking!" ”