Chapter 29: Battle

Along the right rib of the left battalion, Sun Zhuang rode the horse, even picked and beaten, overturned the thirteen flying contradictory cars, and rode with more than a dozen fine horses on his side, trampling on the right rib of the left battalion.

Seeing that the first few shield carts in front of him rushed diagonally to pinch him, at this time, the horse lost momentum and could not borrow strength, whether he could rush over was between the two, but Sun Zhuang was so excited that he shouted, and he was about to rush forward when he clamped the horse's belly.

Two of his cronies dismounted and held shields to protect his horse with knives, grabbed the reins of the horse to prevent Sun Zhuang from rushing forward, shouting: "Master Pole, I didn't rush up from behind, go diagonally......"

Sun Zhuang glanced back, only to know that he was excited to kill, except for the more than 20 horsemen who followed closely, the cavalry of the brigade behind were all interspersed with the oblique armor soldiers on both wings of the left battalion to block the outside, and they could not follow through the formation to kill in.

The left battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army only gave him and the Wu Yong who was close to him and a dozen people who were close to him to charge loosely, but the situation on the entire western side of the battlefield was not favorable to them.

Sun Zhuang had no choice but to pull out the horse's head, rush into the oblique, make the horse lance high, even pick and pull, cooperate with the left and right, and take the lead in opening a passage out of battle. The arrows swished and swished, dinging or falling in the middle of the armor, and there were also several arrows shot through the armor on the body, but the blood and qi were boiling, the flesh and blood were tight, and the bleeding was not serious, listening to the earth-shattering shouts to kill, the flesh and blood flew sideways in front of him, and Sun Zhuang did not feel the pain for the time being.

Sun Zhuang rushed out diagonally, pulled out his horse and attacked back in a roundabout way, wearing the cavalry of his headquarters to fight with the Jiangdong Left Army on the right side of the strong point, trying to open a gap from there, so that more cavalry would follow and rush in......

It's just that at this time, the cavalry does not have the speed advantage of charging into battle, and those who can overturn the shield car with guns and spears alone have the courage of a hundred people, in addition to Sun Pole, how many people can there be in the elite of the six hundred cavalry in the headquarters?

The left battalion strengthened the defense of Sun Zhuang's single person, in addition to using shield carts and high shields to restrict his movements, he also sent three or five good hands with long spears to dial his horse lance, the long spear was more than a zhang long, no shorter than Sun Zhuang on the horse to make the horse lance, the stainless steel spear head, the bamboo branch of the dense stubble spread, and Sun Zhuang's horse lance was entangled at every turn, and there were Mo knife brave soldiers to kill his cronies in front of the horse, so as to open the opening to kill the horse he stepped on.

Sun Zhuang barely rushed forward dozens of steps, and he also felt weak. From the time he charged, he had changed three horses, and he had put thin arrows in the thin armor on both sides of the horse, and a few more shots had penetrated through his thighs and then shot at the horse.

At this time, the miscellaneous soldiers who stepped back also rushed up to engage in the battle, but the array of the Jiangdong Left Army could not penetrate with the elite cavalry, and the miscellaneous soldiers with incomplete armor could not use their strength, Chen Hansan led more than 6,000 elite soldiers in his department to press the troops, Sun Zhuang Chen Hansan and his blind mother 10,000 times in his heart, and saw the array of the Jiangdong Left Army slowly and firmly pushing forward, he had no choice but to recycle......

Ning Zechen was waiting for Sun Zhuang's sharp spirit to be frustrated, rolled up the flag, and a group of soldiers preparing for battle rushed towards the flank of the wandering army's mixed infantry and cavalry.

Sun Zhuang had a good calculation before, he led the cavalry to attack forward, opened the gap, made the foot soldiers follow slowly, and followed in the gap opened by the cavalry at the right time, and completely disrupted and defeated the entire left battalion array of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Sun Zhuang didn't leave much room for himself in the plan.

The elite cavalry of his headquarters was frustrated in front of the Jiangdong Left Army, and failed to successfully open a large enough gap, so he could only fight in the superficial, and failed to adjust the follow-up foot soldiers in the rear column in time.

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Lin Tie and they could see clearly from the watchtower, Sun Zhuang's infantry and cavalry of the Wandering People's Army were mixed together, forming a mixed array of three miles in length and two miles in width, and Ning Zechen sent a sentry to lead Zhang Jiheng to lead more than 100 people with Mo sword armor, licensed armor, and spear armor to beat over from the southwest corner of the Wandering People's Army array. Almost at the moment of engagement, the southwest corner of the Wandering Army array was shattered.

Under the prepared rush of the Jiangdong Left Army, the pressure of the Wandering People's Army's array spread rapidly from the southwest corner to the central area, and the spread of this pressure was as clear as the waves in the water of a stone falling into a lake, and the entire southwest corner of the Wandering People's Army was almost chaotic in between dozens of breaths!

Sun Zhuang is the pioneer of the exile camp, and the department is the elite of the exile army, and the Jiangdong Left Army is naturally also the elite, but if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you can't realize that there is still a hierarchy between the elite and the elite.

Sun Zhuangwu was brave, and the entire left battalion array of the Jiangdong Left Army almost had almost no of his three generals, so that the people on the watchtower were also boiling for him, and they were even reluctant to see him killed. He twice rushed into battle and overturned nearly 20 shield carts, killing or wounding more than 20 soldiers in front of him, and he stuck no less than ten sharp arrows in his body, and he was still in good spirits while riding on a horse. However, Sun Zhuang led a small number of elites to rush and fight, and the chaos caused to the left battalion of the Jiangdong Left Army was very limited, and the chaos caused by the pressure was almost terminated after only one or twenty steps, and it could not shake the position of the Jiangdong Left Army - the well-trained and excellent tactical cultivation of the Jiangdong Left Army and the grassroots military attachés were fully realized at this time.

Only Lin Jian trained the elite division to such an extreme that the invincible brave generals were also overshadowed.

In contrast, the flanks of the Wandering People's Army were hit violently, and the array of side corners was shattered, and in a short time, the chaos spread to the center of the formation, and it collapsed almost instantly, and there was really no suspense about winning or losing the battle.

Even if Chen Hansan still has 6,000 elites who do not move, there are only more than 1,000 armor soldiers in the left battalion in front of the village, and nearly 2,000 armor soldiers and nearly 1,000 cavalry soldiers are waiting for the opportunity to fight......

Liu Tingzhou was shocked: How did the elite soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army train? At least at the moment when Sun Zhuang led more than 600 cavalry to launch a fierce charge, the momentum was shocking, and Liu Tingzhou did not think that the left battalion in front of the village could withstand the impact.

I didn't expect it to be so easy not only to carry it, but also to be so easy.

Zhou Pu and others were not surprised.

At the beginning of the three or five months of its formation, the Jiangdong Left Army dared to carry it hard with the Dongyu cavalry in the field.

Although the Fengli battalion had just undergone a large-scale expansion more than a month ago, the equipment, soldiers, training, and number of military attachés at the grassroots level were better than at the beginning of the army, and they could not withstand the cavalry impact of the Wandering People's Army.

If there is a wandering army with three or five fierce generals like Sun Zhuang who lead a small number of elites to attack the left battalion array at the same time, there is a chance to break through the array here, but a brave general like Sun Zhuang is one out of ten thousand, who dares to expect to have three or five people at the same time to be used on a relatively narrow battlefield?

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Sun Zhuang was caught in the chaos of the army, and only dozens of elite cronies followed by him, but he was powerless to save the turmoil, and was forced to flee back with the reins in his hand.

Liu Tingzhou was excited, and he couldn't help but intervene in the battle with his white beard, and said: "Quickly send the cavalry, rush into the left oblique pocket to kill, make the chaotic soldiers even more chaotic, crowd the three divisions of Chen and Han, force them to retreat, and it is easy to kill one or two thousand heads......

What Liu Tingzhou said was not bad, but Lin Jian didn't listen to him, and sent someone to give an order to Ning Zechen, who was in command in front of the village: "Make the left battalion in front of the village close to the front of the formation, and constantly press the west road Liukou to continue to retreat, and those who resist will be crushed, but they must not be scattered to pursue and kill; Make the right battalion in front of the village advance side by side, oppress Chen Han's three divisions, and leave three or four hundred steps between the left and right battalions......" Then he said to Zhou Pu, "You lead the cavalry battalion out, and after following the left and right battalions, you can't find a chance to fight!" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Pu wiped the mustache next to his cheeks, and asked Sui Hu to take his long knife and go down to the watchtower to lead the cavalry camp into battle.

Except for one battalion of armor soldiers who were left as the last reserve, there were four battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry on the shore who slowly but surely pressed forward.

When he came to Huai'an, Lin Jian brought a battalion of cavalry over, 600 regular soldiers, 400 auxiliary soldiers, a total of 1,000 people.

The four hundred auxiliaries were actually soldiers.

Horses are easy to get, war horses are hard to find, and the expansion of the cavalry battalion into two battalions in a short period of time is already the limit of Lin Binding's stay in Chongzhou.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness or development potential of the cavalry battalion, Lin Jian was super-proportionally assigned to the cavalry battalion as auxiliary soldiers.

He also picked out excellent war horses weighing more than 700 catties, put on armor, and made them into heavy horses.

The impact of the heavy cavalry is extremely strong, but there are also obvious shortcomings, one is that the distance of the rush is not long, and the ability to continue fighting is limited, and the other is that the momentum is blocked, and the armored cavalry with heavy armor is easy to give the enemy three or five light soldiers to cooperate with the entanglement.

When attacking the enemy's strong position, the effect of heavy cavalry is obvious, but the heavy cavalry cultivated at high cost is easy to consume, which becomes a headache and hesitation before marshalling heavy cavalry. Lin Tie finally decided to incorporate light armor sword and shield soldiers who could keep up with the impact of the heavy cavalry in a short period of time in the heavy cavalry queue to strengthen the lag ability of the heavy cavalry queue.

One sentry heavy cavalry was incorporated into two sentry light armor shield soldiers, and this formation was also the first time to pull on the battlefield to test the effect.

The cavalry battalion led by Zhou Pu from the wooden fence wall was actually a sentry heavy cavalry, two sentry light armored cavalry, and two sentry light armored sword and shield soldiers. The light armor sword and shield soldiers and the heavy cavalry are mixed, slow in the center, the formation is heavy, the light armor rides away the two wings of the heavy cavalry, the formation is light, and they follow the left and right battalion armor soldiers in front of them to advance forward, from the gap left in the middle, peep at the three divisions of Chen Han, and prepare to launch a deadly attack when they seize the opportunity.

Chen Hansan was also in a position at this time.

Chen Hansan did not lead his troops to fight after Sun Zhuang, and saw that Sun Zhuang's troops were defeated, and the chaotic army was coming, and there was even the possibility of disturbing the enemy's western flank. If he immediately led his troops to turn around and walk back, the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army would definitely stand out and cover it, and there was still a large gap in the east for the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army to charge directly into the depth.

Chen Hansan secretly scolded Sun Zhuang, these five and three reckless men, and when they fled, they also knew to give up the empty crotch in the east. Otherwise, with Sun Zhuang's chaotic army covering behind him, blocking the pursuers of the Jiangdong Left Army, and there was still a safe distance of two or three miles, Chen Hansan would have already spread his feet and turned his head to return to the camp in the south of Shuyang.

There is a big gap in the east, and it is not easy for Chen Hansan to leave. If he held his position, when Sun Zhuang's chaotic army retreated from the west, the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army would come over to entangle him - Chen Hansan did not have the determination to fight to the death with the Jiangdong Left Army here, and finally had to let his infantry retreat first, and he personally led two thousand cavalry to the rear.

Chen Hansan led the cavalry to the east and retreated slightly, spreading along the west bank of the Shushui River, and first suppressed the pace of the Jiangdong Left Army's advance, so that his infantry could pull out a safe enough distance from the pursuers here.