Chapter 1244. The battle is tug-of-war
There was a sentence in the history of the Cambridge Wars that the two great civilizations of freedom understood infantry drills: China and Europe!
The last battle of Edessa, the Great Min and the Eastern Roman Empire were a tough battle, the two sides changed their roles, repeatedly attacked each other's camps, as the inheritor of the Chinese civilization, the Great Min and the inheritor of the ancient Greek civilization, this time the small beach battle, but it really became a mutual contest between the two armies. To ▲▲△ to read a book ■.◆ ̄k ̄a ◆
The ancient Chinese saying has a half-crossing and attacking, which means that the army is the most vulnerable when crossing the river, and the battle is almost the same, the battle line is too short, and the troops invested each time are limited, and if you attack repeatedly, you will lose a lot of losses under the sniper of the Romans on the way to cross the sea every time, so Li Ye took a trick, anyway, the coastline is so long, the Romans can't take care of such a long front, and he took the lead in boarding hundreds of Arab light cavalry in the direction near Macedonia in advance.
When Lou Shide's vanguard army and the Romans fought fiercely to the extreme, these Arab light cavalry suddenly killed, on the one hand, they were attacked from behind, and on the other hand, the Arabs did leave a psychological shadow in the hearts of the Romans, and hundreds of Arab cavalry really played the role of surprise soldiers, and the Roman defenders were disorganized.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yexu ordered the whole army to force the crossing, the Romans were already in chaos, and quickly faced the superior strength of the Fujian army, and the Roman defenders were soon chaotic and scattered.
In the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, Caesar used a small but elite fourth line of troops, and suddenly attacked the flank of Pompey's army when his whole army and Pompey's army were strangled together, thus winning the Battle of Pharsalus, a key battle in the civil war.
The left and right Qianniuwei were originally crossing the sea den, the formation was messy, and when the Romans retreated, many of them beat the water dogs, ran too fast, and disconnected from the large team, and happened to meet the Roman defenders who came from the southeast corner to kill the neat queue. ▲△△ to read a book. 一 ̄k to a look 〈壹h 书u◇.书◇〈
The Romans are the best at using a strict military formation to deal with the brave but incomplete stragglers, many of the Fujian troops who caught up were wrapped in the Roman battle array like a man-eating flower, several large shields surrounded on all sides, blocking the attack with shields, and then using a sword or knife to assassinate the opponent on the side of the shield, but the Romans have always been good at it, and hundreds of Fujian troops have given their lives because of their recklessness in breaking into the military formation of the Romans advancing like a wall.
Fortunately, Li Yexu saw the opportunity quickly, urgently gathered the soldiers, and organized a battle formation as much as possible on the front line, but also fortunately, the Fujian army was well-trained, and although the matter was hasty, there were hundreds of people to form a shield wall.
Just such a thin shield blocked the strategic intention of the Romans to press over like a wall and press all the left and right Qianniuwei back into the sea to feed the fish.
Li Yexu is personally holding the sword, just now the Thracian soldier directly knocked over two or three soldiers in his formation with a jump, and the Roman long sword in his hand pierced into the chest of the right guard soldier who was being pressed by him, and before this fierce man stood up and continued to fight, Li Yexu's horizontal knife had been cut off on the head, and there was a crisp click, and the big head flew out.
The two Fujian soldiers held their shields and tried to block them, but the few Roman soldiers who poured in rushed in went down with their knives, and the brave soldiers were also flesh and blood, and in the blink of an eye, they were bloodied on the spot.
Fortunately, a brigade of the right Qianniuwei behind this kung fu gathered together again and came up, carrying a tiger's head and a round shield, shouting and going up, and forcibly gave the Romans who had broken into the town back.
Sun Ziyun: People are single-minded, the brave must not advance alone, and the cowardly must not retreat alone! It is said that this battle, the two military formations are tightly together, both the Fujian army and the Romans have to do their best to fight to the death, even the most timid people do not dare to retreat, they are desperately holding their shields high to block the swords and axes cut from all sides, while shouting to poke out the guy at hand, both sides are full of sharp weapons into the flesh popping sound, and people continue to fall softly in the formation, and then the people behind are squeezed to make up. One reads the book.◇ to k_a to read the book 〈hu―.
The blood splattered with each other stained the faces and shields of both sides red, not that there are people who are not timid and don't want to retreat, but there is no way to retreat here, a turn kung fu can make seven sharp blades stab the back into a sieve, really respond to Sun Tzu's words, the brave must not advance, the cowardly must not retreat.
At this time, it is completely tested by the quality of the army and the will to fight, at this time any strategic strategy is useless, maybe a person can drive the collapse of the entire front in panic, right Qianniuwei has been trained for a long time, almost every day in addition to eating, drinking and Lazar, what is done is the training of queue killing, the battle of Lebanon Mountain and the Yarmouk River has tempered their will, just beside Li Yexu, he can see more than a dozen soldiers forgetting to die and inputting their shields into the gap of the opponent's shield array, and several people are forced, He threw seven Romans over his shoulders to his side, and then turned around ferociously and stabbed them with three stabs.
But after all, the right thousand Niu Wei is in a warehouse formation, and this is under the city of Constantinople, and the Roman legions are also angry.
And the Byzantine army also hired a lot of barbarian Rus' who migrated from the steppes of South Russia, these people are indeed strong, holding two-handed axes really to break the formation, every time the Roman army suddenly cracked, more than a dozen Rus barbarians who rushed up with big axes were fiercely chopped down, and the iron-clad tiger head round shield could be chopped into several pieces by them, and then the Min army on the back was brutally hacked to death by the heavy axe.
Seeing that the Romans under his command were slaughtered in a mess, and in some places the dead were piled up half a person high, but the dead were all soldiers brought out by himself, Li Yexu couldn't help but blush, and turned around and shouted angrily.
"Lao Sheng, you son of a bitch, waiting to die! Don't hurry up yet! ”
In such a half a day, Li Yexu's right Qianniuwei was killed and injured heavily, Sheng Lianshan's left Qianniuwei was still rubbing the whole team behind, no wonder Li Yexu was on fire, Sheng Lianshan's command position was not far from Li Yexu, listening to his murderous roar, Sheng Lianshan's bearded face suddenly grinned.
"Brother Li, just take a look!"
As he was talking, Sheng Lianshan's formation was finally almost arranged, and more than 2,000 people on both sides ran to both sides in the shouts of their respective lieutenant generals, shouting in the queue of running drills on weekdays, and it was actually to attack the weak flanks of the Roman army formation, and more than 1,000 Zuowu guard sword and shield hands quickly ran behind Li Yexu's department, dozens of shields formed a slope, spit twice in their hands, and led hundreds of sturdy northwestern men who took off their helmets and only tied a red satin on their foreheads to make a starting action together.
Seeing this scene, Li Yexu's cold sweat was dripping down, and as soon as he stretched out his hand and yelled, Sheng Lianshan had already led his subordinates to roar, strode and ran, stepping on the human body made of shields, and jumping fiercely towards the dense Roman army formation opposite.
The four Roman army formations were still trying their best to crowd forward, hoping to completely crush the thin Fujian army with the formation, and hundreds of Fujian soldiers with double swords fell from the sky like big birds, and these Romans were stunned, but after a while, they tasted what hell it was.
Like hundreds of dancers, hundreds of men first copied down the Romans with two knives, hacked the Romans at the foothold, and then spun up, and the two knives danced like the two water sleeves of a dancer, and spun and danced a dance of death.
Forgetting the threat of death, he completely gave up the defense, and the two-handed broadsword just slashed back and forth, the heavy blade often slashed the shield with the first knife, and the second knife was at the throat of the Romans, and a hideous wound was torn open in the chest, hundreds of people were like hundreds of meat grinders, and the Roman army facing them was swept away in a big chaos, and the back to them was even more useless, and often before they turned around, they were hacked to death on the spot by the sharp blade behind them.
Suddenly, the Roman army formation, which was squeezing forward like a bulldozer, was in chaos.
Especially with Sheng Lianshan is the most ferocious, his Sheng family swordsmanship is completely in the three hundred years of chaos in the chaotic times of the battle array swordsmanship, every time shouting, the knife to, the shield is broken, but the slash is cut to the muscles and bones, just like the Ding Ding ox.
He was falling into a group of Rus' mercenaries, and in a few breaths, four or five barbarians of the southern Russian steppe, as strong as oxen, died at his knife.
Later, when the human body of the Min saber and shield hand dispersed again, wow wow roared, a large number of Zuo Qianniuwei sergeants merged into the military formation, Li Yexu suddenly realized, no wonder Zuo Qianniuwei, who usually doesn't want to die in a battle, is so slow today, they are carrying all the long weapons.
Since ancient times, there are many swordsmen in the southern army, but the heroes in the north are particularly bold, especially good at using spears and halberds, more than three or four meters long rifle lance across the crowd on the Roman soldiers, killed, more than half a meter long spear blade can bring up a large piece of blood every time, heavy spear hammer smashed to the head of the defenseless Romans, even if there is a helmet defense, immediately smashed a neck and a broken brain, died on the spot.
A large number of people died at the front, and the formation was disturbed behind them, and the Roman army, which had been aggressively moving forward, was finally forced to stop, and was pressed backwards in a hurry.
Worried about the safety of Sheng Lianshan and obtaining the command of Zuo Qianniuwei, Li Yexu also hissed and tried his best to order the army formation to move forward, watching the Roman defenders slowly collapse in chaos again, and the heavy infantry on both sides had already retreated, as if victory was in sight.
But at this moment, the Romans once again sounded a loud trumpet, and the Roman defenders who had just retreated actually put together their military formations and pounced again.
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Li Yexu almost didn't drop the command knife on the ground......