Chapter 274: Battle of Lake Tawakul (5)
Fighting a war is momentum, an army without momentum is like a toothless tiger in the general useless, this truth is applicable everywhere, Hersa may not be a peerless general, but this truth is still understood, seeing that the cavalry under his command was disrupted by a sudden rain of crossbow arrows from the Tang army, the morale of the army was frustrated, and his heart suddenly became anxious, he knew very well that if he could not revive the morale of the army at this time, then this battle would not have to be fought at all, Attacking the Tang Army's Baidao phalanx in this way is not much different from suicide, therefore, Hersa planned to play with his life, but seeing that Hersa straightened up his body on horseback, and ignored the messy feather arrows shot in the Tang Army's array, he flew the scimitar in his hand, and shouted: "Shule children, rush with this king, kill the thief!" Kill! ”
At this time, the stormtroop formation of the Shule people was less than fifty steps away from the Tang army array, and the formation that was chaotic by the crossbow of the god machine was too late to adjust, but under the encouragement of the heroic and fearless behavior of their own prince, the whole army still rushed towards the Tang army array without hesitation, although its momentum was not as strong as when it first launched the charge, but it was still not to be underestimated, but seeing thousands of war horses galloping, smoke and dust rolling, snowy scimitars raised like a forest, and the neighing of people and horses rendered a murderous aura that soared into the sky, What a hero?
Fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps, here it is, it's about to begin! Gao Heng, who is the deputy of the Baidao team of the infantry battalion, stands in the center of the team with a thick/long Baidao in his hand, his feet are slightly separated by a figure-of-eight, standing extremely steady, like a mountain standing on the ground, the momentum is like a rainbow, although his face is faint, not even expression, but the palms of his hands are already oozing sweat involuntarily, and his heartbeat is not competitively speeding up, although Gao Heng understands that nervousness is useless, but he still can't forcibly suppress the restlessness in his heart, without him, although Gao Heng has fought several battles, But it was the first time to participate in the battle as a swordsman, looking at the surging horse team, Gao Heng's heart trembled involuntarily, but he didn't dare to show the nervousness in his heart, without him, as the deputy of the team, he had the responsibility to set an example for the two hundred and fifty officers and soldiers of the team.
"Raise your sword!" Just when the stormtrooper formation of the Shule people was only about twenty steps away from the Tang army's array, Lin Chenghe, the infantry commander standing behind the Baidao team, shouted violently, and in an instant, more than 400 Baidaomen in the first row raised the extremely sharp Baidao high above their heads, ready to slash the blow of the blocker.
The horse team of the Shule people accelerated and accelerated, and the whole team had fallen into a state of madness, and dozens of forward horses quickly approached the Tang Army's Baidao queue, ten steps, five steps, three steps, arrived! The Shule cavalry exhaled almost at the same time, and the raised scimitars slashed down fiercely, trying to use the impact of the horses to break through the array of Tang Jun's swordsmen.
"Kill!" At the same time as the Shule cavalry raised their swords, a loud roar broke out in the Tang army's formation, and then the forest-like swords were cut down in turn, instantly cutting the speeding Shule cavalry company and horses into two miserable pieces, and the screams immediately rang out, and the blood mist spread out at the junction of the two armies.
Rush, rush! The Shule cavalry, which had fallen into a state of madness, was not intimidated by the tragic death of their own forwards, and still desperately launched an attack on the Tang army's array.
Kill, kill again! With the frantic charge of the Shule cavalry, the Tang army swordsmen also fell into complete madness, human life at this time is as worthless as mustard, the knife rises and falls, blood flies, in less than a pillar of incense, the Tang army swordsmen have fallen in front of the array of nearly a thousand Shule cavalry, layers of human and horse corpses are bloodily piled up, blood flows everywhere, everywhere is a dazzling scarlet.
Madness is the theme song of this time, the two sides are strangled together, with the passage of time, the Tang army swordsmen because of the sharp knife slashing, physical consumption is extremely fast, can no longer maintain the uniformity of the wall, and at this time, the Shule cavalry who fell into a state of madness Although they gradually lost the speed of the impact, they still launched a fierce impact forward regardless of it, and the casualties of the Tang army's swordsmen began to increase.
"Kill!" Ge Xia fiercely swung a knife, and split the oncoming Shule cavalry into two halves with the horse, but because of the huge physical exertion, the person was unable to make a correct response, although he took a step back to the side according to instinct, but he still could not avoid the collision of the fallen war horse, the right side of the body was hit, the center of gravity of the whole person was unstable, and he immediately stumbled backwards, and at this moment, another Shule cavalry rode his horse and killed him, and the snow bright scimitar slashed towards Ge Xia like lightning with the speed of the horse, At this time, Ge Xia didn't say anything about the knife, but he was powerless to hide, so he could only watch the scimitar of the enemy horse whistling towards his head, and suddenly opened his mouth in horror, but he was powerless to make even a trace of sound.
"Get out of the way!" Just when Ge Xia thought he was dead, he suddenly heard a loud roar in his ears, and then his body was hit by someone without knowing it, and he immediately rolled crookedly to the ground, and the blade of the enemy horse slashed through the tip of his nose dangerously and dangerously, and before Ge Xia recovered from his fright, he saw that Gao Heng, the deputy of the team, had already swung a fatal knife, and the huge Bai knife was slashed obliquely, cutting the cavalry that attacked Ge Xia in half.
"Deputy Gao, be careful!" Ge Xia had just recovered from the surprise of escaping death, and suddenly saw a Shule cavalry quickly killing behind Gao Heng, and couldn't help but shout loudly, but it was a pity that although he called in time, how could the Shule cavalry come too fast, so fast that even Gao Heng's skills had no time to react, but seeing the Shule cavalry's bright scimitar flashed down, slashing towards Gao Heng's neck like thunder.
Not good! As soon as Gao Heng heard the sharp knife whistle from behind, he already knew that something was wrong, and he didn't care about it, and the whole person tried his best to move forward, privately trying to avoid this fatal knife, but unfortunately he was still a step slow, although he avoided the bad luck of being cut off by a knife, but he couldn't avoid the fate of being hit by a knife on his back, Gao Heng felt that his vest was cold, a sharp pain hit, his eyes were black, and his strong body immediately fell to the ground, and blood rolled out like a spring, but in a moment, Gao Heng had been infiltrated into a bloody person.
"Ah, Deputy Gao!" Ge Xia saw that Gao Heng fell under the knife in order to save himself, and suddenly screamed sadly, his eyes were full of blood, he jumped up, and shouted: "Lao Tzu fought with you!" The Bai knife in his hand slammed down, and he didn't have a head and no brains to chop the Shule cavalry who had just cut down Gao Heng, and the strength under his anger was amazing, and he actually cut the Shule cavalry and the horse into two pieces, Wu felt puzzled, and the Bai knife in his hand danced wildly, chopping the already dead Shule cavalry and horses into meat paste like chopping wood, and the crazy posture was like a demon god descending to earth, making the people around, whether it was the Tang Army Bai swordsman or the Shule cavalry, all subconsciously avoided far away, In the fierce battle, a large open space was exposed on the battlefield.
"Ge, Ge Xia, you are here, what are you doing...... Gao Heng was awakened from a coma by a sharp pain, and when he saw that Ge Xia was slashing and chopping like crazy, he forced himself to stand up half-back, and asked in a hoarse voice, but he fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss.
"Deputy of the high team, it is the deputy of the high team!" Ge Xia was frantically slashing, suddenly heard Gao Heng's familiar voice, and immediately woke up from his madness, and when he saw Gao Heng lying down again, he hurriedly threw the knife in his hand to the ground, rushed over, hugged Gao Heng, and rushed towards his own rear regardless of it......
Under the courageous resistance of the Tang army's swordsmen, the momentum of the Shule cavalry's charge was contained, and the Shule cavalry, which had lost its horse speed, refused to retreat, relying on the condescending advantage of the war horse and the Tang army's swordsmen and the Tang army's shield swordsmen who came up to kill the generals in the back were strangled together, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate, and it was difficult for the two armies to distinguish the victory or defeat for a while in this area of the central battlefield, but the right wing of the Tang army at this time was in an extremely passive state.
The right flank of the Tang army is only 2,000 cavalry led by Chen Wu, although most of them are veterans of battle, but the enemy facing is the 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry led by Fu Yanyong, although its infantry is far behind the cavalry because of its heavy armor, but the cavalry alone is more than twice the Tang army. All that can be relied on is courage and experience, it is obvious that in this kind of hard-hitting cavalry hedging battle, both sides are not lacking in courage, whether they can do the order required to entangle the enemy's left flank Chen Wu is not completely sure in his heart, however, the order is an order, and it cannot be discounted at all, just at the same time as the Shule cavalry and the Tang army infantry started a fierce battle, Chen Wu's department has turned over on his horse, the whole army slowly accelerated, and began to charge, the target is directly aimed at the Fu Yanyong department that pounced on the general.
"Cloth Cone Formation!" Chen Wuyi, who rushed to the forefront of the whole army, waved the spear in his hand, shouted, and accelerated the speed of his horse, and the Tang Army cavalry, which was originally divided into three rows and slowly accelerated, immediately began to adjust the array, and the front and rear only ran a distance of less than 100 steps, and a tightly integrated conical assault formation was completed, showing the superb horse control skills and excellent tactical ability of the Tang Army cavalry.
Fu Yanyong went to Chang'an to study for many years when he was a prince, in addition to learning Han culture, he also dabbled in military knowledge, he is a Tang Tong, he knows the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and he really doesn't want to fight with the Tang Dynasty in his heart, and he is not very satisfied with his brother's move to get close to Tubo, hoping to attach the Tang Dynasty, but his brother is the king, and he is helpless, and because of the disagreement with his brother, he has been snubbed in the court, and basically belongs to the kind of people who stand aside, of course, as far as Wu Strategy is concerned, He is the first person in Khotan, for this reason, although Fu Jiaxiong did not wait to see him, but did not embarrass him much, just hung it on the empty name of a general and idle aside, but this time the news of the Yue King Li Zhen sent troops to Khotan, Fu Jiayong is a firm main battle faction, without him, in his opinion it is one thing to be attached, but it is another thing to be destroyed by someone, for the survival of Khotan, he Fu Jiayong will not hesitate to fight, At this time, seeing that Chen Wu's department had adjusted the extremely sharp conical attack array within only a hundred steps, Fu Yanyong suddenly gasped, and secretly sighed that there were no weak soldiers under the strong general, but unfortunately he had no concessions at this time - the Shule people had already fought hard with the Tang army, if their left flank could not defeat the Tang army as soon as possible, and the cavalry troops would come up, once the Shule people were defeated and retreated, they would be pursued by the Tang cavalry and outflanked, I was afraid that the entire Three Kingdoms alliance army would face a fiasco, can only be difficult to go up, but he did not plan to fight Chen Wu's troops to the death, but planned to use the advantage of his own strong forces to set a deadly trap for Chen Wu's troops.
"Pass the order, the infantry will be divided into two roads, the left and right, immediately set up a formation in the same place, wait for the general's order, Fu Kui, you will lead the two thousand cavalry of the headquarters to bypass from the right side, and when the commander's soldiers and horses are fighting with the enemy, attack the enemy from the right rear, and be sure to drive the enemy into the encirclement of our infantry group!" In the face of the fierce Tang cavalry, Fu Yanyong not only did not speed up to meet them, but suppressed the impulsive war horse and gave a battle order in a loud voice.
Fu Kui is the eldest son of Fu Yanyong, eighteen years old, a very strong martial arts, at this time I heard his father give a combat order, immediately replied loudly, a wave of the horse lance, led the cavalry of the headquarters out of the main cavalry cluster, ran away into the oblique stab, at the same time Fu Yanyong also began to accelerate, quickly rushed towards Chen Wu's department to kill, and the Khotanese heavy infantry about 100 steps away from the cavalry cluster stopped running wildly, divided into two phalanxes on the left and right, and began to set up.
The changes in the left flank of the Khotanese army can not be concealed from the observation of Li Zhenzhi standing on the top of the hill, as soon as the Khotanese army began to change formation, Li Zhen had already guessed the overall deployment of the other party, but Li Zhen did not take it to heart, and did not even order to blow the trumpet to inform Chen Wu's department, without him, as long as Khotan was entangled in the battle of the left flank, it was enough for Chen Wu's department to be entangled, as for the safety of Chen Wu's department Li Zhen was not too worried, for Chen Wu's combat power, Li Zhen had absolute confidence, for Li Zhen, the key at the moment is still in the central battlefield, Li Zhen is waiting, Waiting for the moment when the Shule cavalry was in a predicament, at that time, it was the time for the Tang army to launch a counteroffensive.
Chen Wu is a veteran under Li Zhen's account, he has participated in all the wars launched by Li Zhen, and he has long been experienced in a hundred battles, although the change of formation of the Khotanese army is secret, but it can't hide Chen Wu's observation, although because the line of sight is blocked, it is impossible to see the dispatch of the Khotanese infantry, however, when the Khotanese cavalry is divided, Chen Wu guessed the general intention of the other party, frowned quickly, raised the steel gun in his hand, and ordered loudly: "The whole army is there, turn to the right, kill!" ”
The Tang army deserved to be a strong army, as soon as Chen Wu's voice fell, the whole army, under the leadership of Chen Wu, drew a beautiful arc within a mere fifty paces of footsteps, and adjusted the array of straight forward to kill to the right, and its conical arrow was just aimed at the department of Fu Kui who was rushing wildly. Obviously, the Tang Army's change of formation was completely unexpected by Fu Kui, but Fu Kui was not worried, he was brave and brave, and roared without retreating: "Follow me and kill the Tang thief!" He led his two thousand cavalry to meet Chen Wu's troops fiercely and killed them.
At this time, the speed of the horses on both sides has increased to the fastest, and the distance between them has shortened sharply, and the distance of less than a hundred steps is just a blink of an eye, and soon, the elite cavalry of both sides will collide head-on!
Chen Wu is an arrow, he is at the forefront of the cavalry array, and Fu Kui, as the main general, is also unwilling to be unwilling, and he is also at the forefront of the cavalry, both of them regard each other as the target of killing, and the eyes of both sides have locked on each other from a long distance, and when they get close, the two of them exhale almost at the same time, and raise their guns at the same time, each stabbing out a shot with all their might. Fu Kui's horse lance took a lot advantage in length, compared to the point steel gun used by Chen Wu, it was nearly two feet long, at this time, both sides fired at the same time, since Fu Kui's horse lance arrived first, it had broken through the distance of space in an instant, and stabbed Chen Wu in the chest.
"Hah!" Seeing that Fu Kui's gun had arrived, Chen Wu did not panic because of this, he roared, raised his hands one by one, and the point steel gun in his hand picked up like a dragon raising its head, and met the body of Fu Kui's stabbing general, but when he heard a loud "pop", the two guns collided violently together, bursting out with a burst of dazzling sparks, and these two guns were all made of steel!
Chen Wu is the second only to Li Zhen in the Anxi Tang Army, the steel gun he used weighs sixteen pounds, only slightly lighter than the bright silver gun used by Li Zhen, it is already a heavy weapon in the army, and it is rarely encountered on the battlefield to compete with the opponent, this time a shot was shot, I thought that I could successfully break the enemy's horse lance, and then kill the enemy, so as to achieve the purpose of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, but I didn't expect that under the double robbery, I couldn't take down the opponent, and the horror in my heart can be imagined, but at this moment it is on the battlefield, But he couldn't allow Chen Wu to think too much, seeing that a shot failed to control the enemy, Chen Wu roared, his wrist flicked, and he took back the swinging point steel gun, and then sent it suddenly, and a shot stabbed at Fu Kui who had rushed to his side like lightning.
Fu Kui has always been conceited and infinite, very few people can catch him a shot, this attack, I was expecting to be able to compete with Li Zhen's rumored gun god, but I never thought that there was such a strong man as Chen Wu in the Tang Army, the previous shot Fu Kui was already attacking with all his strength, not only failed to take down Chen Wu, but he was shocked to the point that he was numb, and then saw Chen Wu kill with another shot without pause, his heart suddenly became empty, and he didn't dare to make a hard connection again, kicked the horse's belly, and rushed into the oblique stab, which was regarded as avoiding the shot that Chen Wu chased and killed, But at this time, the Tang Army's cone formation had already killed the generals, although Fu Kui escaped Chen Wu's pursuit, but crashed into the Tang Army's cone formation, and had to drop the horse lance in his hand that was too long to operate flexibly, and pulled out the scimitar on his waist to desperately resist the impact of the Tang Army's team, did not wait for the Tang army to kill through the Fu Kui Division, and immediately waved the army towards Chen Wu's department to cover the past, as far as the battlefield situation at this time is concerned, Chen Wu's department was immediately in a dilemma that could be attacked from front to back......
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