Chapter 580: There is no danger
Just a hedge, Shi Ping's cavalry lost almost 2,000 people, this is still their advantage of sufficient horsepower and morale, and Ling Hu them, this time the loss is relatively large, they were originally heavy cavalry, have been accustomed to the inherent combat style, almost all of them habitually avoid frontal collisions when fighting, regardless of the slashing on their sides, the result is that there is no protection of heavy armor, many people because of such a mistake for life, blood splashed on the spot.
When Ling Hu rushed through the opponent's torrent covered in injuries, behind him, in addition to the corpses, there were less than 3,000 remnants left, and almost all of them were injured, what made him even more annoyed was that after this battle, the war horse under him had also reached the limit, and now he could only move forward by inertia, once he lost his speed, he would no longer be able to move forward, and the enemy in front of him had already reorganized his formation at this time, and the best opportunity had been missed, even if they killed it now, they couldn't get any bargain.
Ling Hu had no choice, he could only continue to charge, rushing forward at any cost, as long as he could rush into the enemy formation in front of the cavalry before the second charge behind him, he would have a chance to capture the opponent's main general alive. Ling Hu rushed forward desperately, Yuan Fang, who had completed the whole team, was not stupid, now they had given up the war horses, and used those horses that could no longer walk as a wall to block the direction of Ling Hu's advance, while Yuan Fang was escorted by a thousand female soldiers and fled to the woods not far ahead, and the remaining more than 4,000 elites formed a defensive circle formation to form a second line of defense to buy more time for Yuan Fang, the boss.
Yuan Fang originally wanted to stay and fight with everyone, but he couldn't resist Xia Yi's daughters, and he couldn't resist the requests of other officers to escape alone. In fact, this is not entirely correct, Yuan Fang did not escape from his stomach, he had another purpose in entering the woods, but there were still many captured war horses.
Soon, Ling Hu had already broken through the first line of defense, and just when he was about to storm the second line of defense, Shi Ping killed again, this time, Shi Ping chose to attack from the left side of the enemy, mercilessly cutting off the enemy's waist, and then the cavalry behind continued to eat away at the remnants of the enemy army, and killed half of it at once.
At this time, Ling Hu, who was at the front, had already rushed to the front of the second line of defense, and was not afraid to face the infantry's iron shields, spears and crossbow arrows, and jumped up in the first place and slammed into it.
Bang bang, the two soldiers holding iron shields in front couldn't withstand such a collision and fell on their backs, but they did not completely lose their combat effectiveness, while their bodies flew upside down, the two of them threw out their right hand swords and threw them at Ling Hu, and then, they were knocked away again by the enemy soldiers who came after.
Although the Taiji Legion is a temporary mixed legion, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, because they are all the elite of the elite, and the second line of defense formed by them is unbreakable, blocking the impact of the enemy army to the death.
The infantry who lost their horses was actually very difficult to block the cavalry, however, the opponent was blocked twice in a row, and while suffering heavy losses, he also lost most of the impact power, plus almost everyone on the other side was wounded, and the soldiers of the Taiji Legion were in a new battle, and their morale was booming, and after only losing some soldiers at the front, they completely blocked the enemy cavalry in the array.
Losing the war horse, deep encirclement, Ling Hu's department was in danger, at this time, Shi Ping led people to kill, and then, Yuan Fang, who changed his horse, also came with a thousand female guards, more than 10,000 people against more than 2,000 remnants of the soldiers were like chopping melons and vegetables, and the battle ended quickly.
In fact, even if Ling Hu's heavy cavalry has no heavy armor and no war horses, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, the main reason why they gave up resistance so quickly was that Ling Hu died in battle, and they didn't want to die in vain because the dragons were leaderless, and finally chose to throw themselves in, otherwise they would have to pay a lot of price if they wanted to annihilate them Yuan Fang.
Ling Hu was the first to hang up when he hit the second line of defense, who let him rush to the front, and he was also the main general, of course the soldiers would not let go of this golden opportunity, the nearby pikemen crossbows were almost all aimed at this unlucky ghost for the first time, first five or six spears pierced the chest of the war horse, and then more than a dozen crossbow arrows were nailed to Ling Hu's body, poor guy, he didn't kill any enemy before he hung up like this.
In fact, if it had been before, so many spears and crossbow arrows were nothing to Ling Hu, but he forgot that he was not wearing heavy armor today, and the war horse was even more defenseless, although the leather armor on his body had good defensive power, it could not withstand such a close shot of crossbow arrows.
At the end of the battle, Yuan Fang and his entourage changed their horses, leaving two thousand cavalry to clean up the battlefield and take care of the prisoners of war, and took the rest of the men and horses straight to the hilly area to the south to gallop to help Yuqing.
In the battle just now, Yuan Fang's Taiji Legion lost less than five hundred, Shi Ping's cavalry lost almost three thousand, and left two thousand people to clean up the battlefield, at this time, Yuan Fang and Shi Ping together had almost 10,000 cavalry, plus Yuqing's 4,000 men and horses, it was not difficult to deal with Pang Ying's 10,000 horsepower exhausted light cavalry, now it depends on whether Yuqing can hold out until Yuan Fang arrives.
Galloping all the way, far away, a cavalry force was coming, the speed of the other party was not very fast, Yuan Fang's heart became nervous, and when Yuan Fang saw the military flag of the Ningyuan Empire on the opposite side, his heart sank, and a bad premonition struck.
Just when Yuan Fang was extremely worried and became a little flustered, Ye Qingru, who was also worried, pointed to a small hillside not far behind Pang Ying's people and said in surprise: "It's Sister Yuqing, Sister Yuqing is there." ”
Yuan Fang looked in the direction pointed by Ye Qingru, only to see a striking military flag fluttering in the wind on the hill, that military flag Yuan Fang was very familiar with, very familiar, it was Yuqing's general flag, seeing the familiar figure under the flag, Yuan Fang secretly wiped the corners of his eyes, laughed wildly, pointed to the enemy cavalry on the opposite side who was turning the direction and preparing to flee and said loudly: "Kill me." ”
The horn of the charge sounded, and the cavalry at the front adjusted its direction and continued to accelerate, the cavalry spears in their hands were only aimed at the enemy on the opposite side, and there was an irresistible strong fighting spirit in their eyes.
War horses are indispensable for cavalry, and horsepower is the most important thing, Pang Ying's mood at this time is complicated, he followed Yuqing around here, at first it was nothing, just thought that the other party was panicked, but after a long time Pang Ying felt that something was wrong, the other party was obviously here in circles to delay time, thinking about this, Pang Ying began to worry about Ling Hu who was chasing Yuan Fang, and gave up chasing Yuqing at the moment, but rushed to the direction of Ling Hu's pursuit, planning to join Ling Hu first, in this way, they nearly 20,000 cavalry, Even if the other party was ambushed, he would not suffer too much loss, so he turned around and went straight to Wanmuling.