Chapter 303: Hour of Emergency (Part II)

Su Lie is a Qin man and a veteran of dozens of battles, although his status in Lu Zhe's army is not too high, it is not low, and he has a decent riding skill.

Because he was anxious about Danyang's gains and losses, Su Lie arranged for 30,000 people to rush to support, but the marching speed of the infantry cavalry could not be consistent, so he took 2,000 cavalry to rush first, and about 30,000 infantry troops were appointed to He Yi to temporarily lead.

Ten miles of land is not far away for the cavalry, it takes five minutes to let go of the horsepower and hurry, and the northwest of Danyang happens to be a plain, and the two thousand cavalry are also close to less than two miles when they see the city of Danyang everywhere.

"General, please hold off and let the soldiers change their horses!" The cavalry commander rode his horse close to Su Lie and shouted loudly.

It's time to transfer, the war horse under the cavalry seat is no longer suitable for charging because of the urgency, and it is the most correct choice for them to change to a spare horse before the battle, and it is still dizzy to use the tired war horse to charge.

Su Lie was finally a little sane, and he personally blew the horn of the deputy's stop.

This cavalry army is not a cavalry in the real sense, and the time they were formed was about four months, and the original commander of the army was Xu Zhi, who was born as a flag bearer.

Due to the short period of time the army was formed, although it had been practicing and fighting, this cavalry army could not change horses in the middle of riding, so it had to stop and change horses.

Xiang Zhu, who was besieging Mei Kai's camp, knew that there was a Lu Zhe army coming from the northwest, so he naturally kept an eye on the movements of that Lu Zhe's army while attacking Mei Kai's camp.

The movement of the two thousand cavalry will not be small, and the Chu army has already discovered it when it is close to Danyang, Xiang Zhu felt a little pimple in his heart when he heard that a cavalry army was attacking, but he quickly reacted: "The offensive against the enemy's camp cannot be weak." Also, continue to pounce on the enemy who has not entered the camp, and be sure to force the defenders in the camp to open the camp gate. After saying this, he took with him the five thousand reserves that remained. He gathered 10,000 men very entangledly and led his army to prepare to stop the enemy's cavalry.

Outside the camp, the Chu army was moving again, and it seemed that Mei Kai also heard the familiar sound of the horn, and he shouted in high spirits: "Reinforcements are coming!" ”

Yes, the sound of the horn, the Chu army is a war drum, only the Qin army, the Zhao army, and the Lu Zhe army will use the horn as a tool to transmit military orders, and the Qin army in the south has become a member of Lu Zhe, and the Zhao army is impossible to come to the battle between the Lu Zhe army and the Chu army, it can only be accompanied by reinforcements.

Almost an hour and a half of fighting. The Danyang defenders have been pressed and beaten, and the current situation has nearly 1,000 people who are forced to fight outside the camp with their backs to the camp and are not allowed to enter the camp, it can be said that the morale of the Danyang defenders has been greatly affected, if there is no reinforcement to arrive, even if it may still be supported, but it is estimated that it will not be long.

Reinforcements arrived, although I don't know how many reinforcements there were, but the phrase "reinforcements are coming" is of great significance to the Danyang defenders who are trying their best to resist, which means that their resistance is not a dying struggle, but a meaningful fight.

"Kill!"

If it is said that the morale of Mei Kai's department was only sixty percent before. The increasingly clear sound of the horn poured into the ears of the soldiers in the fighting, and although the morale of the entire army did not dare to be said to have recovered to ten, it had at least risen to eighty.

The troops that have been desperately resisting must be tenacious, and some of the camps that were about to be broken through by the Chu army have been re-stabilized. And the more than 1,000 remnants of the communist commander in the camp behind them cheered when they heard the sound of the horn.

These soldiers who arrived at the camp but could not enter were originally worried and even a little angry, and they did not seem so attentive when they resisted the Chu army, after all, it was very demoralizing to arrive at the camp and not be allowed to enter. Now, they are still outside the camp. However, the idea of dying was a little hopeful because of the arrival of reinforcements, and the anger in my heart that the friendly troops in the camp did not open the camp gate seemed to be forgotten for the time being, and I was full of thoughts about blocking the enemy and waiting for the rescue of reinforcements. The combat power exerted is naturally different.

"Is the Lord's headquarters here, or is Su Lie's troops rushing over?" Mei Kai didn't know, but the situation that was originally a little irresistible was being reversed, and it was enough for him to have this situation.

At this moment, after Xiang Zhu took away 15,000 people, the Chu army besieging the camp became nearly 40,000 people, and the defenders inside and outside the camp added up to nearly 4,000 people.

Mei lost 6,000 men, and the 80,000 Chu troops brought by Xiang Zhu were nearly 60,000. From eight to one at the beginning to nine to one now, it can be said that Mei Kai paid the price of 4,000 men to kill at least 20,000 Chu troops.

In less than two hours of fighting, the two sides fought fiercely, so that Su Lie and the other cavalry saw dense beacon smoke before they got close, and when they got closer, they saw corpses all over the ground.

The sound of horses' hooves as a large number of cavalry charged, and when the horses' hooves rushed to the ground, there was even a feeling that the ground was shaking, and the ears of the horses' hooves and horns were constantly being blown halfway through the necklaces.

Today's cavalry is not a cavalry in the true sense of the word, and the tactics of war are far less flexible than those after the stirrup was invented, and the basic steps that can be done are three steps, charge, charge, and pierce. In addition, since there is no stirrup to borrow, many times it is time to dismount and fight on foot when you ride a horse to the battlefield.

Su Lie was yelling, in front of him were about three thousand Chu soldiers who saw a cavalry killing and fled in all directions, and behind him were two thousand cavalry who had already lifted their speed.

These 3,000 Chu soldiers were wounded soldiers who were slightly injured and left by Xiang Zhu to clean up the battlefield, they were originally happily picking up weapons on the battlefield, some Chu soldiers were picking up the armor of the dead in the Lu Zhe army, and some were jokingly concentrating the soldiers of the Lu Zhe army who were injured but did not die and failed to retreat with the army to gather and slaughter.

Lu Zhejun is rich, everyone has a black robe, and the guys in their hands are also sharp bronze weapons, not to mention that some of the soldiers even have armor on them. You must know that there are still a considerable part of the current Chu army that has no weapons, and the armor is only available to officers who are more than 100 people long. These things are a batch of treasures for the Chu army, which hastily raised troops and returned to the country not long ago.

The Chu soldiers who were so happy to pick it up had no formation, and they didn't even know that there would be a cavalry army to kill, so how could they resist? Their first instinct was to drop what they were holding and turn around and flee into the city.

"Kill! Kill! Rush over! ”

The horn was also sounding in the city, and Su Lie finally knew that there were still his own troops defending in the city. If it weren't for those horns, he would have seen the Chu army picking up the spoils of war and thought that Danyang's own friendly army had been wiped out, and shouting to kill and rush was just a kind of irrational revenge. And now, he is also shouting and shouting, but what he did was to rush to support.

"Woo woo woo ......"

"Woo woo woo ......"

The sound of the horn echoing from afar did not stop, Xiang Zhu no longer had a smile on his face, he was shouting loudly and the fifteen thousand people he brought over hurriedly discharged the dense crowding formation.

To deal with cavalry, either you have a strong arrow advantage, or you have a spearman holding a six-meter hand or a heavy infantry like Wei Wushu, or you can really only stand densely crowded, so as to stop the speed of the enemy cavalry.

Chu Bing, who was shouting and standing densely, was a little dazed, many people didn't know why, but some people listened to the rumbling horses' hooves.

"This, this, this...... Do you want people to use their bodies to block the charging cavalry? ”

Use people to block the cavalry galloping at high speed? Flesh and blood collide with a war horse, what is the difference between that and looking for death! Those Chu soldiers who reflected it were afraid, they were not so great as to die for the Chu State without regrets, nor were they noble enough to frown even if they died for victory. In the final analysis, it is just some small soldiers, many of them are still the leaders of Huiji County who have been recruited by force because of the urgent shortage of troops, and it is no problem to fight a tailwind battle with a winning momentum, but it is unwilling to squeeze and let the cavalry collide.

"Those who dare to push and shout are killed, and those who dare to run away are killed!" Xiang Zhu has never lacked decisiveness, and now it is difficult for him to organize an army of archers and arrows, and he has no spearmen, so if he does not need anyone to stop the cavalry, should he let the enemy army ride back and forth to wreak havoc?

Captain Weijiang didn't die, but his lower abdomen was severely injured, and if he didn't bleed more, he would probably be about to die. He and more than 300 wounded soldiers were roughly dragged upside down by the Chu soldiers before and after, and the Chu soldiers began to slaughter the wounded robes, and it was time when nearly fifty heads were cut off, when Su Lie's cavalry arrived.

The roaring hooves of the horses were rushing, and the weak Wei Jiang saw his cavalry catching up with the fleeing Chu soldiers and killing them with weapons with horses, "It's good to kill all the brutal guys who even tortured and killed prisoners of war." The corners of his mouth were bloodstained, and it seemed that his internal organs were also damaged, "If you get through, all the Chu army captives captured this time will be killed by the lord." ”

The robes next to Wei Jiang were also laughing, and the smile was very cruel, after all, the psychological trauma that they had been unable to resist just now when they watched their comrades being pulled out and tortured and killed was too severe.

Leaving a buffer distance, the crowding of the troops could hear the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, but the troops he brought with him were panicked because many soldiers who did not want to block the cavalry with their flesh and blood were running.

For the soldiers who pushed and fled, Xiang Zhu owed no mercy at all, and his order was to whoever dared to push and kill, and who dared to flee or kill, and told the soldiers under his command in blood that they might still be able to live if they obeyed the order, and if they refused to obey the order, they would die immediately.

How is it possible for a troop to be in a panic and be deterred in a short time by killing? Especially when the sound of rumbling horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, it is even more difficult to stabilize the troops.

Xiang Zhu began to grit his teeth, he was originally looking at the position in the center of the city, and when he turned his head, he happened to see Su Lie taking the lead, followed by more dense cavalry, and the troops under his command who should have been densely lined up were still panicking, and something seemed to be broken in his heart.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Su Lie actually only saw the Chu army in front of him, and he didn't notice that the Chu army was messing with himself at all, he roared: "Chisel through, kill-" (to be continued......