Chapter 731: Rolling
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Guo Wei roared, and all 100 people charged bravely.
In the scuffle, he caught a glimpse of the new mount of Qiu Shengong, the leader of the Leopard Cavalry Army, who had just captured a horse, falling to the ground and dying, but he jumped away and escaped, and with a dance of his sword, a Huai army who wanted to take the opportunity to pick up the bargain was split in half. The new recruit under the command of Song Chengcai, who had just been added in Song Cheng, had just stabbed to death a Huai army with an eight-foot spear, and the first time he killed made him stunned for a moment, and at this moment, he was nailed to death by a Huai army officer on the spear. The leader of the team behind him roared angrily and threw the spear in his hand directly, and a shot was nailed into the chest of the Huai army officer, avenging his brother.
At this moment, a rain of arrows fell on their heads, and they did not know from which side the road was shot from. Guo Wei couldn't say for sure, but fortunately, the Qin army was wearing pot-shaped steel helmets and half-body armor, so this rain of arrows didn't hurt them much. Guo Wei raised his shield, and the Qin troops around him raised their round shields one after another to hide below, avoiding the rain of arrows.
Under the impact of a battalion of cavalry led by Qiu Shengong, the gaps in the Huai army's array became larger and larger, and finally became countless breaches after the last break.
The hedgehog gun array gradually collapsed, and the Huai army could not stop the fierce infantry and cavalry attack of the Qin army, and began to retreat one after another.
Guo Wei saw that a Huai army ran slower and broke away from the team, and turned around and rushed straight towards Qiu Shengong in frenzy. Before he could rush over, Guo Wei, who was in front of him, had already raised his sword and swung it, and the head of the knife like a battle axe hit the chest, penetrating the armor, leather, muscles, sternum, and intestines, killing him instantly.
The blade was stuck in the Huai soldier's chest. Several more Huai soldiers rushed over reflexively. Guo Wei took off a double-edged battle axe from his back. Swing it with your left hand. Split the swallowtail card of the Huai army at the front in half, and the man flew backwards.
The sword in his right hand was finally pulled out, Guo Wei's left hand was a battle axe, and his right hand was a sword, and they collided with each other, and they were covered in blood, making a terrifying shout.
At this time, Qiu Shengong changed another horse to kill, and those Huai soldiers immediately died under his sword.
On a high slope. Li Jing was far away from the entire battlefield, and under the morning mist, the dense Qinhuai and Huai armies fought on the front of the plain along the river for more than ten miles. However, it can be clearly seen that after the wave of the Huai army hit the front of the Qin army, it was already broken, and then rolled back. The formation was no longer sturdy and began to fall apart.
"Your Highness, do you want the cavalry to attack?" Liu Xun, the master of the Shengjie army, said beside him.
Let the cavalry attack, that is, let the black flag army and the feather cavalry army on the left flank attack. Li Jing couldn't help but think of the rumor in the army, once the Black Flag Army attacked. This means that there will be no variables in the battle.
However, the current situation can indeed dispatch heavy cavalry to deal a fatal blow to the Huai army that is about to be defeated.
Li Jing nodded. "Let Li Cunxiao lead the Black Flag heavy cavalry to attack, crush the enemy formation, and block the Huai army from trying to reorganize the formation. Let Wang Yanzhang wait. ”
"Woooooo The trumpet sounded hurriedly.
Li Jing's heralds galloped with the command flag on their backs, and quickly reached the left flank position to convey the latest battle orders.
"King Qin's military order, order Li Cunxiao to lead the Black Flag Army to attack immediately!"
Li Cunxiao, who was sitting on the ground with his eyes closed in heavy armor, immediately jumped up and was excited. "Black Flag Heavy Cavalry, get on your horse immediately!"
Wang Yanzhang carried two iron spears and strode over, "What about our feather cavalry?" ”
Li Cunxiao smiled and said: "Second brother, our Black Flag Army will go first, and when we defeat the Huai Army, you will come up and clean up the battlefield." ”
The herald cavalry said expressionlessly: "The king of Qin ordered General Wang to lead the feather cavalry to continue to stand by. After saying that, I went back to my life directly.
The other 3,000 light cavalry of the Black Flag Army were also on standby this time, and they worked together to help the heavy cavalry assemble their horse armors.
Although 2,000 heavy cavalry may seem like a small number on these battlefields of more than 100,000 people, this is an ace army, and once it strikes, it will deliver a fatal blow.
Two thousand black horses, black armor, black robes, black armor, black helmets, black banners, black banner heavy cavalry, like mountains of steel.
A light breeze blows with a drizzle, and black flags flutter!
Li Cunxiao danced with an iron lance in his hand, the cowhide war drum behind him sounded like thunder, and the horn of the charge was rapid and long!
Two thousand heavily armed cavalry formed a sharp formation, with Li Cunxiao taking the lead, followed by his flag officer holding a black flag.
Two thousand black flag tigers descended the mountain, Jiaolong went out to sea, put down the iron armor under their covers, held the horse lance, with the sound of rumbling iron hooves, like a sharp sword, from the left flank straight to the front of the Huai army.
The wind is howling, the horses are neighing, and the earth is shaking under your feet.
The two thousand heavily armored cavalry ran faster and faster, and the last one was like an arrow from the string, and they rushed straight towards the Huai army unstoppably.
"Formation, stop them!" Gao Yu, who was trying to retreat and rearrange the formation and organize the charge again, saw the black cavalry full of slaughter, and his heart couldn't help but tremble. He saw it and thought that this cavalry should be Li Jing's baby pimple, the heavy cavalry Black Flag Army that was piled up with countless money. This cavalry rarely goes into battle, but with every sortie, it will finish off the opponent.
Why didn't he expect that Li Jing actually transferred the heavy cavalry to Huainan. Huainan was not suitable for cavalry combat, let alone heavy cavalry combat.
But here, however, is an open plain on the banks of the river.
Yu Gongchu, Yao Guili and other generals of the Huai Army also knew that the cavalry was fiercely impacted, not to mention that the other party was still heavy cavalry. At this time, no one dared to continue to retreat, facing the heavy cavalry, although they knew that the head-on confrontation was a life of death, but if they fled, they would only die faster. If the entire army formation is broken by heavy cavalry, there will be no room for resistance.
"Spear Formation"
"Shield"
The earth trembled at the feet, and the black banner was getting closer and closer!
The Huai army is worthy of being the troops brought up by Gao Biao in the north and south of the year, although many soldiers in this army are now recruited by Huainan, but most of the officers in it are veterans who follow Gao Biao. They have defeated the Dangxiang cavalry, defeated the Southern Barbarian army, defeated the grass thief army, and fought many battles of all kinds, although they were shocked at this time. But still under one order after another. Quickly line up on the spot.
Rows and rows of iron shields were erected. Countless spear tails plunged straight into the ground, spear tips shining with a cold glow pointing diagonally into the sky.
The Huai infantry knelt on the ground, squatted on one foot, and clenched the spear mark with both hands. Rows and rows of infantry raised their spears obliquely, and in the blink of an eye, the Huai army had lined up countless phalanxes of iron thorns.
Facing the ironclad cavalry, Gao Yu's scalp was numb. The heavy cavalry, which should have withdrawn from the stage of history a long time ago, spent money to pile up 2,000 cavalry. Speaking of which. Li Jing got this heavy equipment, spent countless money, selected the most elite cavalry, used the best war horses, and the best treatment, but there were only a handful of battles to fight. If it were in other feudal towns, who would raise such a seemingly imposing force, but rarely used with a high cost of performance?
There is no such heavy equipment in all the feudal towns in the world, and even if there is, it is only a few dozen or hundreds of horses. It will never be like Li Jing. Carrying a heavy suit of two thousand riders.
But at this time, when Li Jing's heavy equipment attacked. Gao Yu also had to admit that the attack of 2,000 heavy cavalry was even more effective than that of 10,000 or even 20,000 light cavalry.
Although the light cavalry was strong, the infantry was not invincible.
But as soon as the heavy cavalry came out, the current Huai army had no means of restraint. To deal with heavy cavalry, light cavalry should be the best opponent, movement to block heavy armor, fight endurance, use cavalry shooting, the first to hold up will be heavy cavalry.
But at the moment, although Gao Yu has a light cavalry, the number is too small, as long as the Qin army's heavy cavalry rushes straight to the infantry and ignores the light cavalry, he is still helpless. It was also a helpless move to line up a spear formation to deal with the light cavalry.
Gao Yu knew that he had lost this time, and he was defeated. If I knew that today, I should have stayed in Huaiyin, fought against the raiding Qin army, and recaptured the camp.
It's just that it's too late now, and he is completely caught up in Li Jing's calculations step by step.
The hoplites were getting closer and closer, so close that they could already be seen holding their faces like tin cans. I couldn't see the other party's face, all I could see was the pitch-black full-body armor, and even the war horse was shrouded in iron armor. makes the entire cavalry look like a ghost rider from the underworld emerging from the Nine Shadows, which makes people shudder.
"Shoot the arrows!" Yu Gongchu roared loudly, and a horn sounded behind him.
Suddenly, the archers who were protected in the middle of the gun array opened their bows and arrows one by one, desperately firing arrows at the galloping black horsemen.
Arrows rained down, but the cavalry on the opposite side ignored it at all, and the rain of arrows fell on the heads of the hoplites, and there was a chaotic sound, most of them failed to break the armor, leaving a white mark on the armor and then slid to the ground, and a few drilled into the armor joint, but there was also a silk robe inside, and a rope iron armor, which could not penetrate the three layers of arrows at all.
In this way, the hoplites met the rain of arrows, and without half a minute of speed, they slammed straight into the infantry formation from the left side.
Although there were countless spear spikes in front of them, the hoplites were not afraid at all, and drove their horses straight into it.
When the steel plate and the iron spear collided, there was a screeching sound, and countless spears could not bear the weight of more than a thousand catties of heavy knights and even the armor of the horse, and they bent and broke one after another. Then the iron horse stepped directly into the infantry formation with an unstoppable momentum.
The heavy cavalry crashed into the formation with a huge impact, and the Huai infantry in the formation was trampled by the iron hooves of the heavy cavalry, and they were injured when they touched it, and they died when they stepped on it.
The heavy cavalry behind continued to rush over, like mountain peaks crashing into the upper formation.
Like a landslide, like a tsunami, like an earthquake, like the end of the world.
Although many hoplites were killed in battle under the resistance of countless spear forests, even if each hoplite died, they could directly destroy half of the phalanx.
Li Jing stood on the high slope and watched the steel hedgehog formations of the Huai army continue to crack and collapse under the impact of two thousand heavily armed cavalry. In such a field battle, especially in the ambush battle, the Huai army had no ditch, no deer feet, no thistles, no horses, no wall, no catapults, and heavy crossbows, so the heavy cavalry at this time was almost invincible.
Wounded when touched, killed when hit, 2,000 cavalry faced tens of thousands of Huai troops, just like going deep into a no-man's land, vigorously colliding and crushing.
Then one by one, the infantry formations wept, surrendered, and routed under their iron hooves
Li Jing watched quietly until the heavy cavalry had been impacting for half an hour, completely crushing the infantry formation of the Huai army, and after the Huai army began to break up and fled, he nodded with satisfaction, "The endurance of the heavy cavalry is almost exhausted, call them back, and send Wang Yanzhang to lead the feather cavalry and the black flag A total of 8,000 light cavalry to attack." ”
The heavy cavalry is like a heavy hammer, no matter how strong the phalanx is, it will not be able to withstand his hammer blows, and it will inevitably be broken. But the strength of the hoplites is the explosion, and what is lacking is the stamina. They can break the formation, but it is difficult to destroy the enemy. Heavy cavalry could not fight alone, and had to have light cavalry behind them to fight in relay, sweeping and pursuing the enemy.
"Huai Jun is nothing more than that." Liu Xun couldn't help but chuckle when he saw the Huai army retreating like a tide.
Li Jing smiled, to fight, hardware is very important, well-trained soldiers and sophisticated equipment are needed, but software is also very important, tactics are very important, it is not impossible to win more with less, and defeat the strong with weak. The foundation of the Huai army is still good, but in this battle, they lost in the battle of tactics and completely fell into Li Jing's calculations, how can they not be defeated?
"Commander of the waterman, you can close the net." Li Jing exhaled lightly, this battle, the victory is in hand.
At this time, the wind and rain stopped, and a rainbow appeared in the sky. (To be continued......)