Chapter 322: Weekly Bloody Battle
The news that the vanguard led by Da Xishun encountered the main Turkic force in Zhoupan quickly reached the ears of Da Xi Changru. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhen he heard the sergeant sent by Da Xishun to report to him say that the vanguard of 300 men first surrounded and annihilated the Turkic scout cavalry of forty or fifty cavalry, and then was surrounded by a large number of Turkic iron cavalry that came in the flood of iron cavalry, Da Xi Changru was faced with two choices: follow Yu Qingze's previous general order, once he encountered the Turkic brigade of iron cavalry, he should quickly withdraw to Honghua City; But at this time, if he ordered the withdrawal of the army, the vanguard of 300 people led by Da Xishun would inevitably be annihilated by the Turks in Zhoupan, how could he bear to see death and not save him?
"The scout listened to the order, and ordered Er to return to Honghua City as soon as possible, explain everything to the general, and ask the general to send rescue troops quickly." Da Xi Changru did not hesitate at all, and resolutely chose the latter, "The whole army lined up, followed me to Zhoupan, and fought with the Turks." ”
When Daxi Changru led more than 1,000 infantry troops to Zhoupan, he saw a small village surrounded by Turkic iron horsemen wearing leather armor, and only faintly heard the sound of shouting and killing from time to time from the villages and towns.
"Little Shunzi is good!" Da Xi Changru secretly praised, and ordered the whole army to form a phalanx, steadily advancing into the town, and striving to meet with Da Xi Shun's troops trapped in the town in the shortest possible time, and fight their way out of the encirclement.
More than 1,000 Sui troops armed with spears formed a large phalanx, and the spearheads were unanimous, and they rushed forward against the Turkic iron cavalry.
Fighting the cavalry army with the infantry army was an extremely unwise choice in the Cold Weapon War in the Middle Ages. However, fortunately, the terrain around Zhoupan, where the two armies met, was not very open, and the Turkic iron cavalry, which had always been known for surprise attacks, could not give full play to its advantages, giving Da Xi an opportunity to take advantage of in Confucianism. At the same time, once the infantry army led by Daxi Changru was armed with spears, once they formed a phalanx and steadily advanced forward, for a while, the Turkic iron cavalry who were accustomed to galloping up and down the Mobei grassland felt unable to deal with it.
The saber used by the Turkic iron cavalry and the spear in the hands of the Sui army were compared, and the advantage was lost, and if the bow and arrow were used to prevent the Sui army from advancing, and because there were cavalry troops on all sides, they were afraid that they would not be able to hurt the enemy and hurt their own people.
However, after the two Sui armies converged, it was not easy to rush out of the encirclement of the Turkic cavalry that was ten times or even a hundred times their own.
This Turkic iron cavalry is the main cavalry led by Shabalu Khan, and the number should be tens of thousands, even though the terrain in Zhoupan Town is not very spacious, which is not conducive to the surprise attack of the cavalry of the large army. However, after seeing that the Sui army that rushed into the town was only one or two thousand people, the general of the Turkic army immediately changed his offensive strategy, abandoned his war horse with several times the number of sergeants of the Sui army, and set up three encirclements around the Sui army one after another, and ordered tens of thousands of cavalry regiments to surround a small Zhoupan, in an attempt to use the numerical advantage to lay down an iron bucket array and annihilate Daxi Changru in the town.
Da Xi Shun rushed to kill in front, Da Xi Changru commanded in the center, and nearly 2,000 Sui troops formed a phalanx and rushed south several times one after another, but they were all stopped and retreated by the Turks. As the two armies held each other for a longer time, the casualties of the Sui army led by Daxi Changru also increased, while the Turkic men and horses against them did not decrease, but increased.
Seeing that if the fight continued like this, it would not last until it was dark, and the two thousand soldiers he brought out of Honghua City would die under the sword of the Turks, Daxi Changru decisively ordered: The whole army changed formations, formed four or five small phalanxes with 300 people, echoed each other, and rushed out with a large forest in the west of Zhoupan Town as the destination.
The Sui army suddenly broke into pieces, from a phalanx of thousands of people to a combat unit of two or three hundred people to form four or five small phalanxes, forming horns with each other, and went straight to the west to kill, catching the Turks off guard.
The thousands of Turkic soldiers who dismounted to form the first line of encirclement were about to change formation and re-encircle the Sui army, but unexpectedly, another Sui army formation with spears came up from behind them. The four or five small Sui army formations were only twenty or thirty meters apart, which not only caused the Turkic soldiers who surrounded them to lose the direction of their main attack, but also attacked and defended, making it difficult for the Turks to quickly divide them, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed for a time.
The good times didn't last long, after all, Daxi Changru's troops encountered the main cavalry of the Shabalu Khan tribe. When the four or five Sui military formations took advantage of the Turks' time to make tactical adjustments, broke through three encirclements one after another, and were about to enter the woods west of Zhoupan Town, they encountered the Turkic iron cavalry that formed the outer encirclement.
However, under the order of the Turkic generals of the unified army, thousands of Turkic iron horsemen armed with sabers rushed towards the Sui army's formation.
Da Xishun charged ahead, in the first phalanx, seeing the Turkic iron cavalry rushing towards his own formation, and was about to order his soldiers to solidify the formation to meet the enemy, but he had already seen that the formation had been broken by the iron hooves of the Turkic war horses, and the Turkic iron cavalry was like a vicious wolf rushing into the flock, waving a saber and cutting down the Sui soldiers to the ground. Where blood splattered one after another, dozens of Sui soldiers immediately fell under the sabers of the Turkic iron horsemen.
Da Xi Shun understands that behind him is the phalanx where Da Xi Changru is, once his phalanx is broken, then Da Xi Changru will directly face the crazy attack of the Turkic iron cavalry, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
In a hurry, Da Xishun couldn't care much more, snatched a spear from the hand of the sergeant next to him, and shouted angrily: "Brothers, rush into the woods with me." He stood up to the Turkic cavalry and rushed forward.
The Sui sergeants in Da Xishun's phalanx were inspired by the main general, and followed behind Da Xishun with their lives, and launched a counterattack against the Turkic iron cavalry that rushed head-on.
The battle was extremely fierce.
Only a quarter of an hour later, there was not much left of the Sui army sergeants around Da Xishun, and Da Xishun himself was also struggling to pick out four or five Turkic cavalry soldiers, with three knife wounds on his body, covered with blood, and prostrate on the ground, unable to fight again.
The Turkic Iron Cavalry continued to gallop past Da Xi Shun and rushed towards the phalanx where Da Xi Changru was not far behind him.
Da Xishun bloody, exerting his last strength, struggled to stand up, struggled to raise the spear in his hand, and stabbed at a Turkic cavalry who was speeding past him, but unexpectedly rushed from behind him and rode again, and the Turkic knight on the horse raised his sword and fell, cutting Da Xishun's head under the knife......