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Chapter 701: The Harvest Season (1)

Xiong Dehai's Hailing battalion traveled day and night, rushing to the Xiaoai River, Jiang Heiniu and Buyangu's troops, who were originally transported to the Xiaoai River behind him, had suddenly turned around in the middle of the road and raided the Tiger Pavilion, and at this time, Song Kaige's more than 20,000 Tiger Pavilion defenders had been wiped out in the second discharge of the Xiaoai River, and some of them had become wandering spirits in the water in the surging flood. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Even Song Kaige himself died because of his anger.

Most of the main forces of the Hailing battalion are from the original Hailing salt workers, over the years with the death of the war, retirement, the original first batch of soldiers has not much left, but the skeleton of the entire army is still based on the original group of people to build, the first batch of people to join the Hailing battalion are still left in the barracks basically have become officers, and then the soldiers recruited are mostly the children of salt workers, this army still retains the characteristics of the original army, each soldier is tall and strong, the strength is outstanding, and the individual combat ability is extremely strong.

The surging waters of the Xiaoai River have also boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Hailing Battalion, and even if the roads under their feet are muddy, it will not affect the soldiers' urgency to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions.

"Brothers, hurry up, the Yizhou battalion is about to launch a final attack on the enemy, if we are slow, we will not even be able to drink a sip of soup." Xiong Dehai laughed as he rode his horse. With Song Kaige's Tiger Pavilion defenders, Li Feng, who had been holding back for these days, would inevitably launch a fatal blow to Ben Kuan's department, completely scatter and defeat it, and reopen the passage between Yaqueling and Qinzhou.

Xiong Dehai expected it well, and after the surging waters of the Xiaoai River surged through it for the second time, Li Feng's Yizhou battalion launched an attack on the Benkuan headquarters in front.

These days of stalemate, so that Ben Kuan has time to build a camp, relying on the camp, Ben Kuan led 8,000 soldiers according to the battalion array, chariots in front, forming the first line of defense, and then spearmen, shield hands, archers, in turn, and in the battalion, it is to lay trebuchets and other long-range strike weapons as support, and the Yizhou battalion These days, although Ben Kuan is unable to launch a counterattack, but for the defensive position, he is full of confidence, and the Yizhou battalion has fought more than a dozen, and it is not necessarily how powerful it is. On both flanks of the formation, he deployed his only 2,000 cavalry to support the main formation at any time.

From a military point of view, there is no problem with his arrangement.

Li Feng has been sullen these days, since he led the troops to fight, most of the battles he fought were the kind of scene of rushing and killing, like this kind of grinding and grinding, half-truths and half-truths made him angry, these days, no progress has been made, but every attack has to lose a lot of brothers, sometimes it is clear that he is going to make a breakthrough, but he has to pretend to be unable to withdraw, which makes his temper extraordinarily big these days, plus he is concerned about the safety of Li Qing on Yaque Ridge, and he is worried about two intestines, His face was obviously haggard, and he looked a lot more vicious with his unkempt beard after more than ten days of unkemptness.

Looking at Ben Kuan's department waiting on the other side, Li Feng laughed and said: "I can finally have a happy fight today, mom, I'm suffocating me these days, brothers, defeat Ben Kuan, let's go to Yaqueling for dinner today." ”

The surrounding cavalry burst out laughing in unison.

In order to avoid the blow of the trebuchet in the camp, on the front of the battlefield that is up to a thousand meters wide, the first group of cavalry who launched an attack scattered, there was no fixed formation, everyone just desperately destroyed the war horses, rushed forward, once the trebuchet was installed, their striking surface was fixed, as long as this line of life and death was crossed, these trebuchets were completely useless. Of course, if the opponent has enough trebuchets, ballistas and other long-range weapons, arranged into an echelon of attack surfaces, this line of life and death can be extended as much as possible, increasing the casualties of the attacker, but the opposite side of the Ben Kuan Department obviously does not have these conditions, so on the battlefield between the two sides, from the thousandth step to the seventh or eight hundred steps to follow, is the most dangerous, beyond this distance, it will enter the dead end of the trebuchet, and the distance of two or three hundred steps, for the war horse sprinting at full speed, is only two or three breaths of time.

Life and death, sometimes the gap is so short.

The attackers roared, but the defenders were silent, the Central Plains departments lacked experience in fighting large-scale cavalry, but after these days of attacking and defending with the opponent, even the most ordinary warriors knew that the only hope for the foot soldiers to compete with the cavalry was to maintain a tight formation, delay the opponent's speed, and then drown it with a sea of people, once the cavalry opened the passage, or the formation was scattered, the battle between the infantry and the cavalry would become a massacre. All the soldiers unconsciously huddled tighter, and clinging to the bodies of their companions gave them the courage to give him.

Nearly two thousand war horses launched a charge at the same time, four hooves flying, stepping on the ground trembled slightly, some soldiers looked focused, staring at the opponent's charging formation, some of their faces were pale, biting their lips, and their hands trembled slightly, although they had fought more than a dozen battles with these cavalry, but the huge power of each opponent's charge, still made people can't help but be afraid.

A thousand steps, nine hundred steps, a rumbling sound was made, and within the barracks, trebuchets began to whistle, firing scattered gravel to increase the striking surface. The sky was full of gravel, falling with a whistling sound, although the cavalry formation was very scattered, but there were still many people who were hit by the gravel, screaming and falling off the horse, the cavalry charged, falling off the horse was basically a dead end, and the teammates who charged behind did not care about whether they could step on the comrades in front of them, nor could they take care of it, they lay on the horse, reducing their area as much as possible, and the spurs on their feet kept knocking on the horse's belly, constantly destroying the horse to accelerate.

Eight hundred steps, seven hundred steps, six hundred steps, people kept falling off their horses, but more people crossed this line of life and death in an instant, and once they entered the dead end of trebuchets and ballistas, the knight on the horse immediately straightened up, lifted the iron bone with iron chains on the side of the saddle, and danced in the air like a windmill with the help of horsepower.

A crash sounded, this is the eight bull crossbow firing, with a unique chirp, the eight bull crossbow arrows across the battlefield, whether it is a warrior in armor or a strong war horse, it will be pierced in an instant.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, the closer it gets.

The soldiers' hands were dripping with sweat and unusually slippery.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps.

There was a humming sound, and after the array, the archers began to release their arrows, and when they reached the highest point, they turned around and pounced on the charging cavalry.

Compared with the damage caused by trebuchets and eight-bull crossbows, the damage caused by the feather arrows shot by the archers of Benkuan's department is extremely low, which is mainly due to the fact that the armor equipped by the Dingzhou cavalry is solid and strong, as long as it is not too lucky, hitting the vital point, the impact of these feather arrows on the warriors is extremely low, you can even see a cavalry holding more than a dozen feather arrows in pieces, but still alive and vigorously destroying the horse forward.

Fifty paces, the spearmen shouted at the officer's loud command, and at the same time raised their spears forward, and raised their spears forward, ready for battle.

With a strange roar, the first group of cavalry who rushed up violently threw out the spinning iron bone in their hands, and the ten-pound iron bone flew towards the spearman with a long tail with a roar. The spear was desperately stirring in the air, trying to pick Tie Guduo out, but after the Yizhou battalion cavalry crossed the line of life and death, the scattered formation merged into several long dragons in an instant, and more than a dozen horsemen charged side by side, which made Tie Guduo's attack almost in the same position every time. The one in front had just flown off, and the one behind had already received the hammer, and the spear danced, revealing the flaw, and from time to time iron bones fell from the gap, and the crisp sound of bone cracking sounded, and people kept screaming and falling to the ground.

The iron chain dragged by the iron bone is even more difficult to deal with, and if you are not careful, the iron chain sweeps in, and if you hit the face door, the face bone will be shattered immediately.

The cavalry in front threw the iron bones in their hands, pulled the reins of their horses, galloped along the edge of the chariot formation, circled around an arc, and returned to the tail of the attacking line. The latter immediately followed, the iron bones in their hands roared out, and from a distance, in front of the wide military formation, there seemed to be several huge cavalry whirlpools, constantly circulating.

Iron bones smashed the military formation out of a blank for a while, the chariots were staggered, and some were even smashed by the blows, when all the attackers threw out the iron bones of the city, the front of the military formation was full of holes.

"Burst!" The commanders of the first assaults did not hesitate to give the order to charge.

The cavalrymen drew their bayonet guns, bowed down, and accelerated to the front of the mutilated position.

The drums rumbled in the defensive formation, and everyone knew that the most critical time had come.

The charging formation of the Yizhou battalion was quite strange, unlike the other cavalry of the Dingzhou army who tried their best to kill the enemy formation when they broke the foot defense, when they rushed into about ten meters, they immediately turned around, and desperately killed the generals from a place dozens of meters away from the entry point, and the latter ones were also handled in turn, which made their battle with the infantry soldiers like peeling an onion, thinning the military formation layer by layer.

Li Feng stood under the banner, stared at the battlefield opposite, and said, "Second Yang, the attack begins!" ”

The second wave of 2,000 cavalry shouted, and the prancing horses rushed out.

Ben Kuan stood on the high platform of the camp, his face was extremely heavy, this time the opponent's attack was completely different from the previous ten days, some time ago, once the opponent encountered a strong counterattack, he would choose to withdraw the troops, but today, until now, there is no intention of retreating, the cavalry on both sides of his own side has been put into it, threatening the flanks of the attackers, but Li Feng does not seem to see them, let them gather on both sides, and the main force is still regardless of the central breakthrough, seeing that his army formation is being thinner and thinner, Although the opponent's losses are also large, their own losses are much more serious in comparison.

What happened that made the opponent suddenly and desperately start attacking him? Is it that the reinforcements of the Tiger Pavilion are coming to support him, so that the opponent can only desperately try to break his defense?

Looking in the direction of the Huting defenders, Ben Kuan prayed for reinforcements, and he clearly knew that if he continued to fight like this, it was a question whether his troops could hold out until dark.