Chapter 253: A River of Blood

"There is a north mountain on the left and a forest on the left to the north of Salmon Island, where soldiers and horses can be ambushed. Shouqian can lead our army's 800 cavalry to ambush here. Wait for the enemy to arrive, and let it go. Xuancheng led the Tiebi battalion to meet the enemy, only defeat but not victory, and he must introduce the Da Xie soldiers to the foot of the North Mountain. When defeated, don't retreat by yourself, but twist and turn, and lead to the foot of the north mountain. Huang Cheng led the engineer battalion to set up carts and throw artillery on the northern slope of the mountain, and the Tiebi battalion led the enemy troops to it. ”

"Shouqian's eight hundred cavalry, but when he saw the fire in Beishan, he immediately led a thousand cavalry out of the forest to cover and kill!"

In the dense forest, Liu Shouqian held a handscroll and recited softly. Turning his head to the several cavalry generals next to him, he said, "Did you hear clearly?" ”

Li Shugen, the head of the cavalry of the Black Bear Battalion, Zhao Dayou, the deputy general of the cavalry of the Blue Wolf Battalion, Li Qiusheng, the head of the cavalry of the Iron Spear Battalion, Wang Gui, the head of the cavalry of the Flying Eagle Battalion, and Li Bao, the head of the cavalry directly under the town general's mansion, all nodded.

In Shamen Town, there was originally one cavalry on each side of the war barracks, and there were 600 cavalry in the reconnaissance battalion. Since Li Jing and Qingnipu reached an agreement to trade war horses with divine fire, Shamen Town suddenly had thousands of war horses. After the last reorganization of the army and the expansion of the current eight battalions, the cavalry has also expanded to 1,000 people. Except for the two sailor battalions and the Tiebi battalion, which did not form a cavalry capital, the other four battalions have established a cavalry capital, plus the cavalry capital directly under the Zhenjiangfu directly under the command of Li Jing, and now there are 1,000 cavalry in the entire Shamen Town.

This 1,000 men were expanded on the basis of the original 600 horsemen, almost doubled. However, due to the new expansion, the old cavalry of each battalion is much less. On the contrary, the combat effectiveness is much weaker. This battle. Facing the joint attack of Da Xie Qi and Duli Town. Li Jing mobilized almost all the soldiers and horses on the island.

In order to play the role of cavalry, Li Jing did not use these treasures separately, but gathered them all together. Arrange an ambush in the North Mountain Forest, ready to play the role of a one-hit kill.

Liu Shouqian, the deputy general of the Green Wolf Battalion and the head of the cavalry, was appointed by Li Jing as the temporary cavalry chief of the assembled cavalry, responsible for the unified command of the five capitals and 1,000 cavalry.

"Grandma's, it's finally time for us to get out of the race. In the past, the other brothers in the town saw that we ate well and lived well every day, and they all said that we were just useless goods, silver-like wax spear heads. Even the last time I suppressed bandits. Every battalion in the town has been dispatched, and even our cavalry has never been out. Damn, if we continue like this, we will all be told that we will not be able to hold our heads up. This time, the opportunity was delivered to us, can we hold our heads up in front of the brothers in the town in the future, and prove that we are not just a cavalry that can eat and drink, not just a cavalry as the consumption of five infantry, we also have to prove that we have to be a cavalry to be the five of them. Liu Shouqian also held back his anger for a long time. Although he is now in addition to the general of the Green Wolf Battalion, he has also been promoted to the deputy tenth general of the Green Wolf Battalion.

Can take the cavalry of the green wolf battalion. But he has never led the cavalry to the battlefield, but he has provided good food and drink every day. The treatment of each cavalry was comparable to that of the other captains, which made the other brothers very jealous. I feel that the cavalry is just a group of bodhisattvas for offering, baby, and goods. No one saw the usual hard training, which was more arduous than the training of the other infantrymen. Not to mention the rest, the requirement that once you enter the cavalry camp, you first have to sleep with your own horses in a horse pen for three months is enough to make people miserable. Until now, all the cavalrymen were still asleep in the stables, because even the first batch of cavalry had not yet reached the three-month requirement.

"Now that Beishan is on fire, the order is passed down, and the opportunity for our cavalry has arrived. However, there is a chance to fight, but this time it is up to everyone whether we want to show our faces or butts in front of the whole army. Liu Shouqian said loudly.

"If anyone is cowardly, Lao Tzu will go back to pump his tendons, and after pumping, he will be responsible for shoveling the horse manure for January." Li Shugen is also from the old forbidden army, and he is still the village chief of Wang Li Village, and his relationship with Li Jing is also unusual. He is only under the command of Li Jing, who entered a few days later than Liu Shouqian, and the two are equal in martial arts, both are good at riding and archery, and they are good at using lances. The two were originally promoted to the head of the cavalry together, but the last time they were promoted to the deputy ten generals, Liu Shouqian was promoted to the deputy ten generals of the battalion as the head of the cavalry of the Green Wolf Battalion. He has the same qualifications, but the position of deputy ten generals of the Black Bear Battalion was taken away by Zhang Chengzong. It is said that the three of them used to be the head of Li Jing's family, and he was suppressed by Liu Shouqian before, but now the cavalry is assembled, and Liu Shouqian is the temporary cavalry commander, which makes him a little jealous.

At the foot of the North Mountain, there was already chaos at this time.

The fire borrows the wind, and the wind fuels the fire.

Under the attack of fireballs and divine fire, the hay laid out in advance by the logistics battalion at the foot of the North Mountain quickly burned. On all sides, there was fire. The wind is strong again, and the fire is getting fiercer. Da Xie people trampled on each other, and countless people died.

Feng Zhang was also hit by a fireball and burned to death on the spot, Feng Zhang was dead, and his handsome banner was quickly drowned in raging flames. As soon as the handsome flag fell, the darkness became even more chaotic. At this time, the drums and horns on the mountain were loud, and the sixteen heralds behind Li Jing had already ordered the drummers and trumpeters to give the order to attack.

Monk Xuancheng was originally the deputy general of the reconnaissance battalion, but this time the army was reorganized, the original auxiliary battalion was changed to the iron wall battalion, and the tenth general of the battalion, Wang Zhong, was reassigned to the ten generals of the iron spear battalion. Li Jing personally served as the ten generals of the Tiebi Battalion, and transferred Xuan Cheng to serve as the deputy ten generals, in fact, almost the ten generals of the Tiebi Battalion.

Previously, with Li Jing's strict order, he led the Tiebi Battalion from the Beishan Wharf to defeat but not win, and retreated all the way from the wharf. If it weren't for the fact that there were not many changes in the last reorganization of the Iron Wall Battalion, and the soldiers were all trained for a long time, the defeat just now almost became a real defeat. Feng Zhang's Da Xie Bing fought very fiercely, and almost bit them several times.

If you can't fight back after being beaten, you don't need to mention this suffocation. Rao is Xuancheng once recited scriptures on Shaomu Mountain, and the people who have practiced Buddhism are also suffocated, and their faces are swollen red.

At this time, when I heard the order to fight back, my heart was suddenly extremely happy. At this time, Feng Zhang's soldiers and horses had been ambushed and chaotic, how could he let go of this opportunity. At the next order, the herald rode around and gave the order loudly.

"Trapezoidal wedges. Charge straight into the enemy line! ”

The Iron Wall Camp turned out to be Sidu. Two hundred and fifty-six each. Each formed a long lance phalanx, with sixteen people in each direction. However, later, because of the establishment of five capitals, a new capital was added, and it became a five-capital with 1,280 people, which was the head of a battalion of more than 1,000 people like the iron gun battalion.

The Iron Wall Battalion attacked, each of which was a phalanx, two in the front and three in the back, and suddenly five of the five phalanxes immediately formed a trapezoidal phalanx.

"Beep. Beep, beep! ”

Instead of keeping the rhythm with the beat of the drums, the phalanx of the Iron Wall Battalion used an iron whistle. The establishment of the Iron Wall Battalion is different from that of the other battalions. The formation of squads, squadrons, and brigades is adopted. Sixty-four men were to be used as a squadron, one hundred and twenty-eight as a battalion, and two hundred and fifty as a battalion. There are also eight people in a team, a group of sixteen people, and a small team of thirty-two people. It is a two-two system.

When fighting, it is generally a phalanx of 16 people in depth. There are also a squadron of eight people in depth and sixty-four people to form a small phalanx. The core of the Iron Wall Battalion is the phalanx, and the squadron is the smallest phalanx. All of them are ordinary phalanxes, and the most standard phalanx is a battalion of 1,280 people in the five capital phalanxes. The Iron Wall Battalion never fought separately. They are quite strong when they are formed, but if they are separated, they are far worse than the other fancy battalions.

Amid the sound of the iron whistle, the long-trained battalion commander began to advance in a neat manner. The five are all five phalanxes, advancing in a trapezoidal formation, seemingly close, but separated by a certain distance in the middle.

A foot of eight feet and a foot of more than five meters long spread out, and the phalanx of the iron wall camp was like five hedgehogs with long thorns all over their bodies advancing.

The already chaotic Great Xie soldiers were no match for them at all, unable to stop their advance.

Lance, forward, lance, forward.

Rows after rows of sharp lances were pierced, and one by one the big Xie soldiers who were blocking the way were pierced. The rifle used in the Iron Wall Camp is specially made, a three-foot-long lance, made entirely of stainless steel, and the tip of the lance is a two-foot-long three-edged thorn. Such a lance is extremely expensive compared to the lance of a horse. The Armory Workshop built 2,000 of these rifles for the Iron Wall Battalion, which cost the equivalent of 10,000 ordinary spears.

It's worth the money, and the rolling advance of the Tiebi Camp at this moment proves the power of Li Jing's elite soldiers' precision weapons plan. In front of such a sharp and dense rifle triangular thorn, the armor on Da Xie Bing's body was as brittle as paper. The three-edged thorn, which has the two characteristics of armor-piercing and bloodletting, and the extra-long weapon that is eight feet long, is one foot longer than the ordinary eight-foot spear. Even if the Great Xie soldiers wanted to fight back, their spears were still far away from the soldiers of the Iron Wall Battalion, and they had already been stabbed into a hornet's nest by countless bayonets.

Rolling, the iron wall camp straight all the way over, like a red-hot iron chisel inserted into a piece of butter, instantly melted and penetrated, unstoppable.

"Change formation! Phalanx No. 2! The herald shouted again in front of the battle.

The horn sounded along with the iron whistle, which sounded chaotic to outsiders, but the well-trained Iron Wall Battalion immediately understood the meaning.

The iron-walled battalion, which had been directly inserted into the middle of the Great Xie Army, suddenly changed, and the original trapezoidal wedge formation suddenly changed. The whole trapezoidal array has five phalanxes, two phalanxes on the left and right, and suddenly one neatly turns, the two phalanxes on the left begin to turn to the left, and the two on the right turn to the right. After the trapezoidal phalanx was wedged into the enemy formation, the four phalanxes began to expand to both sides, forcibly pushing away the enemy forces and completely dividing them. The last phalanx followed the passage that opened left and right, quickly platooning forward, and continued to impact forward.

The Great Xie soldiers were completely in chaos, they were first wedged in it, then propped up, and split in two. The phalanx in the back rushed forward again, and the Great Xie soldiers in front of them were separated again, and the entire Great Xie soldiers at the foot of the North Mountain were suddenly divided into three parts.

Compared with the black bear battalion, the green wolf battalion and other camp heads, the phalanx configuration of the iron wall battalion is easy to be broken by the cavalry and even most of the crossbowmen. The Tiebi Battalion has a fatal flaw, that is, they cannot be broken, once the formation is broken, once the enemy rushes into the formation, the soldiers of the Tiebi Battalion with a long lance in their hands will be finished. But because of this, they also have the strongest offensive power. As long as the formation is not broken, it will be difficult to stop in front of the dense ultra-long step lance phalanx.

In terms of the use of the Tiebi Battalion, Li Jing has already set the rules for use, that is, the Tiebi Battalion cannot take the lead. In the army sequence of Salmon Town, they would normally have to be blocked by other fancy battalions to block the enemy's attack, and after launching a counterattack, the Iron Wall battalion went out to break the formation, and then the cavalry chased and killed.

The Flower Battalion is the iron shield and sharp knife, responsible for blocking the impact and counterattacking, opening a gap. At this time, the phalanx of the Iron Wall Battalion can be wedged along the gap and divide the enemy formation. Then the cavalry will use the phalanx of the Iron Wall Camp as a cutting board, like a huge iron hammer, and continue to hammer and destroy the enemy troops who were squeezed in front of the Iron Wall Camp repeatedly.

This is the tactical core of Li Jing's establishment of the Iron Wall Battalion, which has their unique attack methods.

"Forward, forward!" The officers at all levels of the squadron of the squadron in the formation shouted, a brilliant victory was just around the corner, and this was a feat that they had established alone with the cooperation of the engineer battalion.

In the advancing phalanx of lances, the first five columns of lances were in direct contact with the enemy, and countless lances struck each other to form a wall of three-edged lances, harpoon-like attacks on the enemy and like manes, powerfully rebounding the attack of the mane. The men in the back and in the middle were not idle, and they raised their shields against the bows and arrows that came from them.

In such a sharp attack, in front of the infantry lance phalanx, almost every big Xie soldier became a target in short supply, and everyone had to face more than ten branches, or even dozens of long lances.

If it is said that when the Mo sword soldiers attacked, they were long knives like snow and advanced like a wall. In fact, when the long lance phalanx is impacting and advancing, the scene is even more spectacular, with rows of extra-long lances, advancing like a forest like a wall, and the real blocker is clothed.

Some of the officers who were still gathering soldiers everywhere and preparing to assemble in a formation were desperate to find that under the attack of the infantry phalanx in Shamen Town, the morale of the Great Xie soldiers was no longer there, and the morale of the army collapsed. Just as they were about to turn and flee, suddenly the ground shook slightly, and a thunderous rumble was heard, and a cavalry army drifted like a dark cloud.

The cavalrymen, with their spears in their hands, soared wildly and slaughtered straight over.

The wind blew, and the red tassels on the cavalry's iron helmets fluttered in the wind, and together with the long crimson cloaks on their shoulders, in the rolling iron stream, there was a shocking crimson in the rolling iron stream. Liu Shouqian led five capitals and a thousand cavalry back and forth, like a divine soldier descending from the sky. The horses rushed and trampled on the big Xie soldiers who ran and fled, and immediately the bowstring kept ringing, and one after another the big Xie soldiers fell.

The iron-walled battalion rolled forward, the cavalry repeatedly rushed and killed, and the little resistance in the hearts of the Da Xie soldiers was also suppressed, completely collapsed, and fled in all directions. At the foot of the North Mountain, corpses were all over the field, and blood flowed like a river. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )

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