Chapter 1: The Rising Sun Section 6
The number of Koye's troops also concentrated about 3,000 people with the arrival of large and small leaders. Koye was afraid of Murong Feng. Before the arrival of the large army, he was reluctant to take the initiative to attack, so he had been following Murong Feng's iron cavalry from a distance, not daring to get too close.
Today, the scout replied that Murong Feng's army had suddenly accelerated its march, and it seemed very panicked. Mu Ye immediately gathered several leaders and discussed whether to continue the pursuit at the original speed or speed up the pursuit.
"Xiaoshuai, Murong Feng probably found out that the king had personally arrived with the army, so he accelerated his escape." A thousand elders said, "Murong Feng only has more than a thousand people now, and his follow-up troops haven't had time to join him yet. If we catch up immediately, we will have an absolute advantage in numbers and can catch him off guard. killed Murong Feng, and Xiao Shuai's credit was great. ”
"Murong Feng has been fighting for decades, and he is scheming, so let's be cautious." Another Qianchang said.
"Murong Feng is already old, and he no longer has the courage he had back then." One of Koye's henchmen waved his hand and said, "Xiao Shuai, let's chase him and kill him." We want to let the Xianbei people know that the Tiger Tribe is not the only one who is the best at fighting. ”
This is the most inopportune time to say. Koye's face immediately became much more ugly. He swung the whip in his hand and slammed it the bushes by the side of the road.
"Xiao Shuai, no matter what Murong Feng says, there are only more than a thousand people. We attacked him with 3,000 men, not to mention total annihilation, a small victory is still absolutely certain. ”
Koye turned his back to his subordinates, bowed his head and calculated his gains and losses, and finally the idea of making meritorious contributions still prevailed.
"Full speed pursuit." Koye turned around abruptly and said categorically.
"Marshal, Koye's troops have all caught up." A scout sped in from the rear of the troops. The soldier did not dismount, but immediately turned his horse's head and galloped away.
"Marshal, Koye's troops are extremely fast and have reached Chatun."
"Marshal, the Koye troops are twenty miles away from our army."
"Marshal, the Koye troops have crossed Pingtun."
Scouts rode and galloped, and immediately sent a message to the soldiers: war was about to begin.
The soldiers became excited, everyone began to talk to each other, and the pace of the march increased significantly.
Murong Feng sat on the horse with a calm expression, and there was a faint hint of excitement in his eyes.
Li Hong rode a red horse, followed behind Murong Feng, and looked around nervously. It is the first time to participate in a big battle with a large army, and it would be a lie to say that you are not nervous. As the scouts ran around more and more frequently, Li Hong's muscles tensed, and he even had a little difficulty breathing.
"Take a deep breath...... Murong Feng heard his heavy breathing like pulling a windmill, turned around and said to him with a smile, "Taking a deep breath can relieve the tension in your heart." Li Hong scratched his head embarrassedly, took a few deep breaths, and then breathed much easier, but his heart was still beating desperately without obeying the call.
"Fighting a big war is not like fighting a small group of troops. The atmosphere is generally very tense before the big war because both sides have to prepare carefully, and the encounter battle, as you experienced a few days ago, is a hasty response, relying on the courage of each person and the cooperation of small groups, so it generally does not give you nervous time, and the battle has already begun. ”
Li Hong nodded. Murong Feng slowed down the horse and walked side by side with Li Hong. He saw that Li Hong was still very nervous, so he pointed around and said, "This place is called Mazuipo." You can see that the hill descends from this, which is flat and wide, which is especially suitable for the cavalry to accelerate when charging, and greatly increases the power of the cavalry when it is charged. Saying that, Murong Feng had already lined up and stood on the top of the hill. Li Hong followed him closely.
Both looked down the hill. At the bottom of the Mazui slope is a half-moon arc-shaped meadow, with a radius of three or four miles. At the top and waist of the Half Moon Arc are two wooded hills.
"Marshal, if we can ambush five hundred cavalry on each of those two hills, Koye's three thousand iron cavalry will definitely be wiped out." Li Hong pointed at the opposite hill with the horsewhip in his hand, and said to Murong Feng casually.
Murong Feng didn't make a sound, silently looking ahead.
Koye stopped his horse and looked at the horse's mouth slope in the distance. The scout just came to report that Murong Feng's troops had crossed Mazuipo, three miles away from the troops. After running hard for most of the day, he finally caught up with Murong Feng.
"Tell the ministries, speed up. Murong Feng is in front of him, and the opportunity to make a fortune is right in front of him. Koye excitedly said to the herald behind him:
Murong Feng, Iron Wolf, Gongsun Hu, and Black Leopard were at the front of the line. Behind them were ten convoys of a thousand people, each of whom a hundred people stood in a line on horseback, waiting to attack. The first three rows are the shooters, and the middle three rows are the spearmen. The last four rows are the main force of the charge, and the weapons are more miscellaneous, knives, swords, axes, and maces.
Li Hong was placed in the middle of the first row. The atmosphere on the battlefield was very tense and depressing, and he couldn't breathe. He followed the method taught by Murong Feng, took a deep breath, and then squirted out with his mouth. His bellows-like breath caught the attention of the warrior next to him. The soldier, who was probably a veteran, laughed silently at Li Hong. Li Hong was very embarrassed, and his face immediately turned red.
No one spoke up. Even the horses felt the impending battle, and one by one they held their heads high and pricked up their ears, ready to receive the orders of their masters.
In Murong Feng's field of vision, the army of the Tiger Tribe finally appeared. First the banner embroidered with the golden tiger's head, and then the knights who rushed out like a whirlwind, one, several, a group, and in the blink of an eye, a huge piece poured out of the sky.
The sound of the enemy's horses' hooves was like a small drum being beaten, which was faintly audible at first, and gradually became louder and louder, denser and denser, more and more deafening, and gradually the ground under his feet also shook violently, everything was like a flash flood, and the arrogant Grim Reaper came with the breath of death, which made people's hearts break.
Murong Feng was calm, and a smug smile even appeared on his face.
The horses of the troops began to shake their heads and tails, and became restless, their hooves staggered and sneezed, and some of the horses even rushed out of the queue half of their bodies.
Li Hong's violent heartbeat seemed to be slowly adapting to the suffocating atmosphere, his slightly trembling hands could already firmly grasp the reins of the horse, and his bellows-like breathing was already unconsciously normal. But his mind was already attracted by the overwhelming enemy cavalry under the hill, and he completely forgot that he was still nervous.
Murong Feng finally raised his right hand in everyone's expectation. The trumpeter who was caught in the first row immediately puffed out his cheeks and blew the horn that had been placed on his lips for a long time. The long horn of the charge resounded throughout Mazuipo for a while.
"Ho-ho, ho-ho......" The soldiers raised their weapons and let out an earth-shattering cry from their stuffy chests. All the warriors were enthusiastic for a while, and their fighting spirit was aroused by this deafening roar. Fear, panic, timidity, everything turned into a cloud of smoke in this moment.
Li Hong was infected by this atmosphere, and his body was full of infinite strength. He opened his eyes wide, blushed, and raised his sword with all his might, roaring hoarsely. For the first time, he felt that war had such a fascinating and seductive side.
"Kill, ......" Murong Feng raised his spear, rode on the white horse with his front legs raised and raised his head and neighed, looked back and gave a roar of attack to his subordinates, and then the white horse rushed out like the wind.
It wasn't until they heard the sound of the bull's horn that they realized that they had pursued the enemy. Although the enemy waited for work and took the lead in attacking to seize the opportunity, they had an absolute superiority in numbers, and this advantage was relatively not of decisive significance.
Koye immediately shouted to the trumpeters beside him, "Charge." ”
A commander next to him immediately reminded him: "Xiao Shuai, our pursuit speed is too fast, and the formation has been chaotic, should we reorganize the formation first, and then fight a decisive battle with the enemy?" ”
"Three thousand of us will deal with him and one thousand, and we can trample him to death." Koye exclaimed excitedly, "Kill." ”
The slope of Mazuipo helped Murong Feng's cavalry accelerate to the limit in a very short time. The warriors shouted and rushed towards the enemy.
Li Hong looked at the enemy troops who were getting closer and closer, and his mind couldn't help but think of the torture that Koye had tortured him.
"Koye, Lao Tzu must kill you today." Thinking of the scars and astonishing pain all over his body, his hatred immediately filled his heart.
Suddenly, the horn sounded again.
The roar of the iron wolf came faintly from the left, "Arrow ......"
"Putting ......"
The sky was full of arrows and black oppression, like a black cloud before a storm, which made people tremble. The whistling of high-speed arrows tearing through the air was like the sneer of death. The breath of death suddenly hung over the empty horse's mouth slope.
The "poof" of arrows entering the body was drowned out by the roaring hooves of horses, and only the cruel scene of people turning over on their backs could be seen. If you fall off your horse at this speed, you will be seriously injured if you don't die. The most terrible thing is that the war horse was shot at the vital point, and even the people and horses suddenly flew out of control, often killing both men and horses, and then the soldiers who followed in order to avoid the range of arrows as soon as possible, generally galloped at the limit speed, trampled on the soldiers who were seriously injured or fell off the horse, which was absolutely unavoidable.
Koye's cavalry immediately fired back a round. However, due to their scattered formation, the arrows they shot were messy, and their power was greatly reduced.
The iron wolf was still shouting hoarsely, "Arrows ......"
Under the command of the shout, even Murong Feng, who was at the forefront, drew his bow and aimed at it according to the instructions.
"Putting ......"
The distance between the two sides is sixty paces. The trumpets were renewed.
Gongsun Hu, the black leopard roared loudly around the queue: "Spear ready ......"
The first three rows of archers suddenly spread out in loose formation, revealing a passage between each two. The three platoons of spearmen picked up the speed of their horses again, overtaking the archers and forming a spearmen to charge at the forefront.
Most of the archers gathered their bows and took out their weapons for battle. Only soldiers with excellent archery skills still use bows and arrows as their attack weapons.
The distance between the two sides is thirty paces. The trumpet sounded again.
The spearmen changed formations again, forming a diamond-shaped shock array. This array allows each soldier to face the enemy at the same time in the first place. This multiplies the lethality. But it has depth, and every soldier will be protected by his comrades on the left and right.
The spearmen rushed out with three-foot spears, and it would be very difficult for any enemy on horseback to dodge its hard blows.
The cavalry brought out by Koye this time were all ordinary soldiers, and spearmen like this were only equipped with the main force of the iron cavalry, so as soon as the two sides came into contact, Koye's soldiers suffered a big loss.
Looking at the soldiers who had been pierced by spears or being thrown or thrown away, and listening to the countless miserable cries in his ears, Koye's anger erupted uncontrollably like a splash of blood.
"Kill...... Kill ......," he shouted hoarsely, brandishing his long knife.
Koye is very powerful, and there is no triad under him.
The shouts of killing on the battlefield were earth-shattering, and there were soldiers everywhere who were fighting each other. Warriors on horseback galloped back and forth, soldiers with bows and arrows shot at each other, and warriors without horses fought in groups of three or five.
Murong Feng's spear had broken after killing four enemies, and he drew his sword and led a group of guards and iron horsemen to continue the fierce battle.
After losing more than a thousand people, Koye's iron cavalry finally withstood the fierce attack launched by Murong Feng. Gradually, the advantage of their numerical superiority gradually became apparent. After more than 1,000 Murong Feng's 1,000 horsemen fought tenaciously for more than half an hour, they slowly couldn't support it due to excessive personnel losses.