Chapter 34: Iron Flow
The black iron stream flowed down from the White Bird Stream, like the scythe of death, cutting horizontally towards the Goryeo people's foot guard array south of the White Bird Mountain, and the roar of killing made people's blood boil when they heard it.
Lin Tie is not in the White Bird Fortress, it is Zhao Hu and Zhou Pu who are responsible for commanding the battle situation in the White Bird Fortress, and Lin Tie always stands on the wall of the Black Rock Mountain Camp, watching the battle situation in the distance.
Song Jia only felt that the wind was a little cold, holding her hands on her chest, and feeling that the clothes and armor stained with night dew were even more cold. She has rich flesh and bones, her figure is much taller than that of ordinary women, she wears a jacket inside and armor outside, she is not thin, and she stands beside Lin Lian, like a handsome guard. At this moment, she only felt the cruelty of the war, and she wanted to make her blood freeze quickly, and subconsciously leaned against Lin Tie's powerful arms to make herself feel better.
In addition to the six battalions of guards and 800 cavalry, Lin Jian also transferred 1,200 soldiers from the second water battalion ashore and temporarily organized them into two battalions of soldiers.
If the Goryeo people used part of their forces to contain the White Bird Fortress and pressed the army in front of the Black Stone Mountain, or simply ignored the White Bird Camp and sent troops from the south gate to attack the Black Rock Mountain, then Lin Bin's strategy of hiding troops would not be sold. The main force of Shiratori's Huaidong Army will be forced to enter the Creno Plains in advance under a very unfavorable situation and fight a decisive battle with the superior forces of the Goryeo.
This is just an assumption that the Goryeo people intended to fight in the Gyeno Plain, and they could not ignore the flanking attack formed by the Shiratori and the Black Rock Mountain, and they could not avoid falling into the trap of the forest. They couldn't have imagined that Lin Jian would deploy his troops in such an extreme way, and they couldn't blame them for being unscrupulous.
Only bystanders know that the combat power of the left wing soldiers of the Goryeo people is not as strong as that of the Huaidong soldiers.
Zhao Hu commanded the defenders to counterattack at Bainiao, and with only four battalions of soldiers, he wrapped five-sixths of the left flank of the Goryeo into the battlefield. And the Koreans have always been on guard against the sound of attacking the east and west, and have always deployed their elite troops on the right flank, staring at the side of Heiyan Mountain, but they don't know that there are less than 1,000 soldiers in Heiyan Mountain.
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On the black earth where the ice and snow melted, the terrain from the White Bird to the Creek Field is a shallow slope, and the closer you get to the Creno Plain, the more open the terrain becomes, and the two battalions of armor attack in a cone formation on the left and right flanks, and in the middle are 300 armor cavalry.
Hundreds of horsemen in a row, driving together, forming a dense assault formation with a width of more than 100 steps.
The drums of war as if tearing through the eardrums, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, each note seemed to trample on the heart.
Compared with the armor soldiers on the two wings, the three hundred armor cavalry that gradually unfolded as the terrain gradually opened up, which was even more shocking and terrifying. Men in black armor, horses in black armor, bright silver spears pointed diagonally in the air, galloping out in the depths of the deep night, countless horses covered with iron covers, like a torrent of steel, firm, slow and indestructible forward.
"Archery ......" the desperate roar of the Korean officer!
After fighting hard until now, their arms are weak, they have no strength to open their bows, and the arrows they shoot randomly are clanging to block the iron armor.
"Shield! Shield Formation! "The officer could already clearly feel the tremors of the army! Due to the pressure of the two wings, a certain buffer distance between the shield array and the main formation cannot be opened, and the establishment is scattered a lot, and it is difficult to assemble a shield array that can form a shield array with a width of more than 100 steps in such a short time, let alone another gun array after the shield array.
First of all, it was covered with a rain of arrows like locusts, "For Huaidong, for victory, the front armor is ridden, the spear is pressed forward, and the charge is charged!" ”
The armored cavalry in front obeyed the officer's order, pressed the cavalry spear under his armpit diagonally forward, began to speed up, and rushed forward, like a mountain smashed by a horizontal movement, and immediately smashed the shield array that the Goryeo hastily assembled, and with an indestructible sharpness, tore the front of the Goryeo infantry to shreds.
Behind the armor cavalry was the sword and shield auxiliaries, wearing light armor, quickly followed, and after the armor cavalry, they saw that the Goryeo soldiers who fell to the ground were not dead, and quickly made up for it.
The guards on both flanks marched forward with firm steps, replacing their comrades in robes who had been fighting hard for a long time.
The Koreans were obviously not prepared for the deployment of armored cavalry in the White Bird Fortress, and even if there was a deployment of armored cavalry before the battle, it was also a dizziness for the counterattack that lasted until this time.
Leave the heavy task of breaking the formation to the armored cavalry who concentrated on the middle lane to break through, and the armor array on both wings is more to use strong bows and crossbows to shoot the rain of death formed by waves of dense iron cluster long arrows into the center of the Goryeo infantry array.
The Koreans were not completely desperate, they did not break up the six thousand troops on the left flank, and within a radius of two or three miles, they still had more than 5,000 fresh troops, six dense 1,000-man phalanxes, and they did not collapse, but they still had the strength to fight.
It's just a team of six thousand people, except for one in the east, the other five thousand teams are too tight because of the battle just now, and they are impermeable, like a solid iron stone, and there is no buffer depth in the middle.
Infantry confrontation, or infantry confrontation against cavalry, pay attention to dense formations, but they must be flexible, there must be buffer depth between arrays, spearmen, shield bearers, and crossbowmen must be layered in formation, and they must be able to support each other, rather than being crowded together like iron stones, and even it is difficult to breathe.
In this case, the light was dim, and it was really impossible to imagine what would happen if the frontal foot soldiers failed to withstand the impact of the armored cavalry and were defeated backwards!
Zhen Feng's guards desperately beat their horses over, shouting around the rear flank of the phalanx. It was too late to transfer troops from the right flank, and only by hoping that the officers on the left flank would keep their senses, lead their troops, and separate themselves from the cramped phalanx to form more elastic small phalanxes, it would be possible to avoid a complete collapse.
It's a pity that the movement of the Koreans was too slow, and the shield array and spear array in the front column were trampled and disabled, and the first column of armored cavalry was divided into two columns, interspersed and cut into the two wings.
The second column of armored cavalry began to sprint at a faster speed, in the light of the stars and moon, as if it were a moving hill, and as if it was a ghost of death. The dense formation of the Goryeo foot soldiers, even the sturdy and tough trunks, were torn apart and pecked layer after layer under the strong impact of the armored cavalry.
"Go back, go back!" The overseer team raised their swords and slashed the fleeing rebels, and they couldn't let them rush over, but the armored cavalry of the Huaidong Army was in front, the horse's hooves were treadling, the earth trembled, and the officers of the overseer team also trembled with their hands and weak feet, and couldn't help but run away!
Seeing that the second group of armored cavalry was divided into two columns and cut into two wings after the impact weakened, the deputy commander of the Haiyang County Soldiers and Horses Division, thinking that there was still a chance, roared at his commander Zheng Xin, asking him to personally lead the team to rush forward: "Don't care about anything, just rush forward." This side is too dense, and it is about to collapse, so let more generals rush forward, and the formation can be pulled apart. Whether it is an enemy, a grass tree or a stone, as long as it is in the way, destroy it, so as to avoid destruction! ”
It's just that the hope of the prime minister of power flickered in the air like a meteor for a very short time, and then it was extinguished by the armored cavalry that rushed up in the third column.
The first thousand-man team, under the continuous rush of the three armored horses, was like a forcibly pecked tree trunk, revealing delicious insects. The minister of power and more than a dozen personal guards, before they had time to pounce on the armored cavalry of the Huaidong army for the final battle, they broke up their own troops, and the minister of power died under the oblique stab of a cavalry spear.
Hundreds of routed soldiers were no longer well-trained, and there was no officer organization to gather them, and in the dim night, they only subconsciously fled for their lives in the opposite direction from which the Huaidong armor cavalry and armor soldiers were killed. The chain reaction caused by the rout was uncontrollable, and the five thousand troops crowded into the battlefield on the edge of Shiratori and Keinohara almost collapsed like an avalanche in the blink of an eye......
"The woodpecker's beak is as hard as a chisel, its tongue is long and retractable, and its claws are like iron hooks.
Zhou Pu untied the saber, grabbed it in his hand, thought about the woodpecker's insectivorous tactics that Lin Jian said, and ordered in a deep voice: "Untie the crossbow, take the knife, and get on the horse." He will personally lead 500 armored light cavalry, armed with war swords, through the rout of the Goryeo army, and directly attack the Chinese army camp tent on the east bank of the Bak Luo River - 500 armored light cavalry is the long tongue that the woodpecker can stretch freely.
In order to pursue the swiftness of the wind and cut and tear the Goryeo people to pieces, Zhou Pu ordered all the cavalry to follow him to remove the crossbows and fight only with the swords.
Only by defeating the Chinese army camp tent on the east bank of the Baekna River, sweeping along the east bank of the Baekla River, and driving the rout to the right flank, can the Goryeo soldiers on the Xiye Plain be completely annihilated! Completely crush the will of the Koreans to resist!
Seeing the left wing disintegrating like an avalanche, Zhen Feng's heart was like a knife, he didn't have time to feel heartache, he had to build a barrier between the left wing and the Chinese army camp tent to prevent the rout from rushing to this side. The right wing is still intact, and it can only keep the 5,000-man team on the right wing from being impacted, and it may not have no chance to turn defeat into victory.
When the five hundred armored light horsemen held the swords that were shining under the moon and rushed out of the rout, Zhen Feng's last hope was also shattered.
Zhen Feng surrounded the guards and fled to the right wing array, and hundreds of soldiers and horses in the entire Chinese army tent fled to the right wing in panic, and no one had the intention of staying to intercept the Huaidong cavalry who was rushing on a moonlit night.
Zhou Pu naturally led the cavalry to bite the Chinese army of the Goryeo people, driving them to the right flank while killing, and he had the intention to crush the right wing array by the way!
At this time, the Koreans had a thousand-strong team from the west bank, and the formation was not in order, and the people were panicked. When crossing the river, the sound of the rushing horses' hooves was as dense as a storm, and the array of horses' heads surging seemed to sweep through the pouring torrent.
This was supposed to be the last opportunity that the Koreans could seize, but Zhou Pu did not expect that a team of 1,000 people would cross the river at this time. If this thousand-man team directly rushed to kill the flank of the 500 light cavalry in Huaidong, the 500 light cavalry with no defense would definitely be in chaos and suffer heavy casualties, so naturally there would be no spare strength to chase the Chinese army of the Goryeo people, and there would be no spare strength to chase and kill Zhen Feng.
It is a pity that the outpost of this thousand-man team that had just crossed the river and appeared on the east bank swept the flank of the Huaidong Army's cavalry, like a puff of fallen leaves blown by the wind, and collapsed instantly......
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Qin Zitan saw that the Goryeo people were gone, and when the Huaidong army had no time to take care of the west bank, he and Azig fled to the west of Pucheng surrounded by 500 Donghu warriors.
"What should I do?" Azig rode the horse closely behind Qin Zitan, Qin Zitan's riding skills were poor, he was also afraid that Qin Zitan would fall off the horse, and said, "When we were leaving, I was specially instructed to come over and listen to Mr. Qin's opinion!" ”
"......" Qin Zitan pulled the reins, looked at Azig, and looked at his eyes under the moon, Azig is still young, and he can't learn to hide any mood in front of a character like Qin Zitan. Qin Zitan saw through his thoughts at a glance and asked, "Go?" ”
Azig said, "What does Mr. Qin think? ”
"If you don't leave now, when will you stay?" Qin Zitan said, "Take the path to North Beach!" Pointing to the northeast corner of the city, he called the two servants to his side and said, "Go, go to the front and lead the way!" ”
Of course, Azig did not have the intention of living and dying with Zhen Feng, the governor of Haiyang County, and giving martyrdom to the Goryeo people, but he didn't expect that Qin Zitan would have left a back hand a long time ago, and even sent someone to explore the path leading from the East Gate to Beitan clearly.
Azig thought to himself: It's really treacherous, so he asked him to open this mouth, and wanted to escape to Haiyang County to have a mouth.
Although the north beach of Seogwipo City is straight along the coastline, and there are very few reefs, bays, streams, shoals, and other terrain that can be used as cover, and almost all of them are within the strike range of the Jinghai camp, the Goryeo naval army cannot be stationed along the coast of Seogwipo North Beach on a large scale, but it is not impossible to hide even a few ships.
No matter how bad it is, a few boats are dragged to the beach, and the warships of the Jinghai battalion will not be able to hit it.
Zhen Feng was sealed on the east bank of the Baekla River, and the collapse of the right wing was a matter of time, and the number of Goryeo soldiers who could return to Seogwipo City would not exceed 4,000. These 4,000 people were leaderless, and it was impossible to resist the siege of the Huaidong army.
It can be seen that the Huaidong Army also drew the soldiers of the water battalion ashore to strengthen the combat strength on the shore, and at this time, the Jinghai naval camp had limited blockade of the sea area north of Xiguipu City. At this time, if you don't seize the boat and escape, there will be no more chances to escape, and of course Qin Zitan will not be ambiguous.