Chapter 876: Ten Miles of Corpses
When the horn of the Tang army's counterattack sounded over the battlefield, Yuangai Suwen almost fainted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Rest!"
The wind blew, and the clouds of gunpowder over the battlefield blew a lot, and most of the battlefield was finally revealed. Yuangai Suwen was on a small dirt slope only a few miles away from the battlefield, and he could see the battlefield in the distance.
Under the charge of 20,000 Goguryeo cavalry, especially when the 20,000 cavalry had already rushed into the Tang formation, the phalanxes of the Tang people were still intact.
If someone had told him that a group of Han Chinese peasants with only one spear could resist the charge of the Goguryeo cavalry in formation, he would first spit in the man's face, then kick him a few times, and then have someone drag him down and cut him down.
Dare to brag the Tang people in such a shameless way, this must be a traitor.
But now, this ridiculous fact is in front of his eyes.
So real.
Those white robes really blocked the impact of the Goguryeo cavalry, and their formation did not disperse.
He reached out and counted.
One, two, three, four, one of the four large phalanxes, one is not less, and then there are the three phalanx groups.
There were too many Goguryeo cavalry in the middle, but the white robes of the Tang army were too conspicuous, and they could still be recognized on the battlefield in a phalanx of hundreds of people.
One, two, three, three, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three・・・・・・・
He counted it a few times, four large phalanxes, twenty-four infantry phalanxes, and none of these twenty-eight arrays was missing.
That is to say, his 20,000 knights rushed into the Tang army formation and rushed for half a day, without even destroying a Tang army formation of 200 people.
It is not so much that they are stepping on the Tang army, it is better to say that they are already scurrying around in the Tang army like headless flies.
No matter where they rushed, the Tang army was hugging into a phalanx one by one. Countless spears were pointed at them, and it was as if they were in a jungle full of steel thorns, looking ahead, but not the back, the left, not the right.
The Goguryeo cavalry was actually light cavalry, and it would be fine if it was called an archer.
These people mainly use cavalry archery, and under normal circumstances, cavalry against infantry, even if the infantry forms a phalanx, it is only a target for cavalry.
These large and small infantry formations made the Goguryeo people find it extremely difficult to deal with.
They even regretted that they shouldn't have been happy too early, and they shouldn't have rushed into the labyrinth of countless Tang military formations.
They wanted to use bows and arrows to deal with these Tang troops, but in the Tang army's large array, between those phalanxes and phalanxes, it was not too wide, and when they rode on horses and fired arrows at the Tang army, they also had to withstand the counterattack of Tang army crossbowmen from all directions.
What's worse is that these despicable Tang people, they have been throwing those pimples that make loud noises and fire at them.
The power of the grenade is indeed not great, but the damage to the Goguryeo cavalry is very great, and those war horses are very afraid of the explosion of these grenades, and countless war horses are frightened.
After being frightened, the horses could not be controlled, some directly threw the knight off the horse, some ran around with the knight crazy, and even rushed into their own horses.
This makes matters worse.
And then there was something even worse, the white robes of those infantry formations, which turned out to be more than just a spear.
Not only would they throw grenades at the onrushing Goguryeo cavalry, but they would also hide behind their shields with spears and assassinate the oncoming enemy cavalry under the protection of the four-cornered crossbowmen.
It's not just assassinations, hell, their spears also breathe fire and make loud noises.
The large and small Tang army formations were like countless hedgehogs with sharp thorns squatting there, and the Goguryeo cavalry had no way to speak, and they were stabbed all over with blood.
Many cavalry grenades and muskets dismounted, were stabbed to death by spears, shot off their horses by the strong bows and crossbows of the Tang army, and hacked to death by those red-robed sword players who gathered together.
I have never fought such a humiliating battle.
By the time they had arrived, the Goguryeo cavalry had been running around like headless flies, and they didn't even know what they were going to do except for the constant running between the phalanxes.
Go shoot those Dons?
No kidding, dare to slow down and stop, and before they can shoot their bows, a bunch of grenades are thrown on all sides, and more bows and crossbows are being fired.
In the middle of the formation, each of them seemed to have to face countless Tang troops.
The Goguryeo people were frightened and timid.
And the Tang army, which still maintained the intact phalanxes in the large array, became more and more courageous.
Even those white-robed volunteers were even more crazy after seeing blood.
They did not run away, they did not panic, and the comrades around them and the strong phalanx in the distance were their best support.
Although Zhu Zhendong was injured in the crotch, he did not retreat.
All ten grenades had been thrown away, ten gunpowder cartridges had been used up, and even the two blood-stained gunpowder had been thrown out by him with different fuses.
The effect is also very good.
In front of him, it should be said that in front of their team, there were a bunch of Goguryeo people upside down, as well as their upside-down war horses.
After losing the powder cartridge, the pear flower spear reverted to an ordinary spear, but by this time, the spear was already stained with blood, and even slippery in its hold.
With strips of cloth cut from the corpses of the Goguryeo cavalry wrapped around his hands and holding the gun to prevent it from slipping, he raised his foot and kicked the dead Goguryeo cavalry in front of him, retracting the spear that had pierced the Goguryeo people.
Spat at the corpse.
"The tenth!"
Half a day after the war, in the smoke of gunpowder, the smell of blood, and the endless shouts of killing, he was red-eyed, and he kept killing regardless of it.
Throwing grenades, muskets, spear stabbing.
In his eyes, these strange Goguryeo barbarians are no different from the pigs he killed when he used to kill pigs as butchers.
"Lao Tzu said, you must kill ten of them, and cut enough of ten Goguryeo barbarian dogs." He sighed, gasping for air.
The horn of the counterattack sounded, and the three thousand cavalry of the Tang army, which was wrapped around the flanks and flanks, finally came out.
The Goguryeo people began to flee in a panic.
Yes, they are on the run.
At this point, they were knocked unconscious.
More intense trumpets sounded.
A herald galloped across the front.
Leave a military order.
"The army will move forward and kill the eastern captives!"
Zhu Zhendong looked at the pile of corpses in front of him, quickly pulled out the horizontal knife inserted in his side, stepped forward, and cut the pants of the person he had just killed with a knife, and then found the thing and cut it with a knife. A knife was stabbed in the middle and a cowhide rope was pierced.
The cowhide cord, which was originally the standard for the government soldiers, was used to tie prisoners of war. But now, he was taken by Zhu Zhendong to tie up the chickens of the Goguryeo barbarians.
Exactly ten.
It's a very ugly string on it, but Zhu Zhendong looks at this string and laughs happily.
He knotted the two ends of the cowhide cord and made it into a chicken necklace, which hung directly around his neck.
The knife is sheathed and the spear is re-grasped.
"Let's go!" Zhu Tu shouted.
Zhu Tu's team of 50 people, fought for half a day, killed eight, and more than half of them were injured, including Zhu Zhendong, the team leader.
The dead and seriously wounded were left behind, and the rest continued to move forward with red eyes.
Everyone looked at the string of things on Lao Zhu's neck, and they couldn't help frowning, and the taste of the team leader was too heavy. I heard that in the past, when General Luo Shixinluo, the Duke of Tanguo, was fighting in his early years, he liked to cut off the enemy's ears and hang them on his neck, and his own team leader actually cut off other people's chickens and hung them on his neck.
"Team leader, what are you doing with this thing?"
Lao Zhu snorted, "Lao Tzu is injured below, and I don't know if it's useless, when the battle is over, Lao Tzu will set these things on the fire and roast them, make up for them, maybe I will keep my things." ”
"Roasted and eaten?" The questioning standard-bearer glanced at the string he was on, and finally couldn't help but turn his head to the side and vomit.
Lao Zhu hehe, turned his head to the seriously injured people who stayed behind and said, "A few of you, you will search the corpses of these Liao dogs in a while, pull off all the valuables, and don't let go of your clothes and shoes. ”
The standard-bearer had already vomited, and when he heard this, he felt a wave of nausea in his stomach, and another burst of vomiting.
"Team leader, please stop talking, disgusting!"
Yuan Gai Su's body was trembling.
The Don army began to counterattack, the cavalry was charging, and those infantry phalanxes actually began to move, they were moving forward. Although he didn't move fast, he was fighting back.
The Goguryeo cavalry was already on the run.
He didn't want to believe the facts in front of him, but that was the truth.
"Blow the horn, withdraw the troops!"
The horn of retreat sounded, and the Goguryeo cavalry finally lost the slightest desire to fight, and began to turn around and flee.
At this time, they just want to run as fast as they can and as far as they can.
"Teacher, the Goguryeo people are running away!"
Li Chao was holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and naturally he saw all this clearly.
"Let Wei Chigong pursue, but only for ten miles."
This battle was won, but Li Chao was not too blind.
Wei Chigong only had 3,000 cavalry, and all the rear were infantry.
Chasing ten miles is the limit, and no matter how far it goes, it will be completely open to the infantry. If Goguryeo reflexively struck a blow at that time, Yu Chigong would be outnumbered.
"It's a pity, if we have more cavalry, even if there are three thousand, we can always defeat and intercept all these people." Jung In-tae sighed.
"Let's take it when we see it, we can win this battle, and we rely on three points of luck."
This battle can be won, five points depend on the merits of this military formation, two points rely on the advantages of new weapons and firearms, and the remaining three points actually rely on luck.
Yuangai Suwen underestimated the enemy, coupled with the fact that the Goguryeo people did not know about the new weapon, and the morale of the soldiers was high, so this battle could achieve such a good result.
However, since he defeated 20,000 Goguryeo cavalry head-on, what else will Yuangai Suwen do to fight him next? Do they dare to fight again?
Yu Chigong led 3,000 horsemen to chase and fight all the way, and the Goguryeo fleeing cavalry was ambushed all over the place.
"Stop!"
Yu Chi Gongle stopped his horse and called his men to stop.
It's almost ten miles away, enough is enough.