When the cavalry charges the shield array, the first higher requirement is the morale and training of the infantry, whether it is elite or not.

Obviously, in the face of a large-scale cavalry charge, just the posture put on is not something that ordinary people can stand still calmly.

But those who can stand a shield formation in the face of the cavalry and do not retreat can definitely be called elite.

However, the shield array was often unable to defeat the cavalry charge, not because it could not be carried by it, but because of the cavalry's mobility. In the face of the shield wall, the choice of the cavalry is often not to stupidly bump up, but to bypass the two sides and look for opportunities again, with excellent mobility, find flaws and gather to attack, and they can win at the lowest cost.

However, it was obviously impossible at the moment, because of the poor archery skills shown by Li Xiuning's army before, the confident Western Regions Alliance Army did not think that this army would cause them any trouble.

When he found that the other party quickly formed a shield formation, and the super-long spears were densely aimed at his own side, even if he panicked, he didn't have time to react more, and it seemed that there were still dozens of steps away, but the cavalry army that had completely increased his speed, how could he say stop?

Not long ago, Li Xiuning led his troops to face the Turkic charge, and he also acted in accordance with this, when the Turks rushed to move, they were almost there, and they retreated sharply, revealing spears that were obliquely inserted into the ground, and at this time the Turkic cavalry was too late to stop, so they could only watch and crash up.

Therefore, it is very important to grasp the timing of this time.

Because once the cavalry is given time to react, even if it can't be stopped, it can change direction and separate the two sides, or how to say that the cavalry is disgusting, in addition to a powerful charge, it is the most disgusting mobility. This is to make the cavalry of the people's family feel free, and it is really a headache when the number is not superior.

"Throw a spear!" Qin Liangyu was a little excited, although everything was arranged, she was useless except for shouting the last order, but she couldn't stand the first time to really go to the battlefield.

Inside the shield wall, the remaining 3,000 people held short spears, ran in a few steps, and the short spears spun violently and trembled and shot out. This is the old skill of Zhou Shaoyu's army, although it is not the army of Chenghuizhou, it can also be used.

Perhaps throwing a short spear still requires hard practice and requires a lot of skill, but in any case, it is far easier than getting started with a bow and arrow, and in the face of a charging cavalry, throwing a short spear is more lethal than a bow and arrow, especially if the soldiers are not very good at bows and arrows.

Of course, an existence like Qin Liangyu, who is good at riding and shooting, naturally will not also take a short spear to throw, in the end, he has never practiced, but in the face of dense cavalry, one shot is accurate.

Just before the cavalry was about to hit the shield wall, hundreds of cavalry themselves or war horses were injured and fell to the ground, such an 'emergency stop', of course, the impact on the cavalry behind is not small, although it is not a dense charge, as long as the distance between the front and rear is fast enough, it is enough to slightly change the defense line to avoid falling comrades, but the speed will inevitably weaken.

Similarly, as a creature, the war horse also has the instinct to avoid disaster, in the face of dense and sharp spears, no creature will want to rush straight up, instinctively will dodge, no matter how there is a slowing down move.

Although the Western Regions Alliance Army is also a cavalry, it is not comparable with the Turks, at least, under the suppression of Zhenxi Mansion before, there has not been a large-scale war in the entire Western Regions for many years, whether it is a man or a war horse, it is not an elite, the reason why Zhenxi Mansion can fight is defeated and retreated, to put it bluntly, in addition to occupying a numerical advantage, it has to be thanks to the Turks.

Under the double deceleration, the charging strength of the war horse was naturally reduced a lot, and at the moment when the war horse collided with the shield, the soldiers who were originally extremely nervous and prepared a great posture to meet the huge collision unexpectedly discovered, as if, it is not so exaggerated?

The first Western Regions war horse with a mournful roar, although it was extremely lucky not to be stabbed by a spear, but it was equipped with a shield wall under the run, and the degree of discomfort can be imagined, as for the Western Regions soldiers on the horse, under the shock, as for the flying from the horse, a 360-degree free fall snapped directly down the shield wall, and before he could react, he was directly hacked to death by several long knives.

The war horses neighed, the people turned over on their backs, and the war horses hit the spears and then hit the shield wall.

However, the soldiers behind the shield wall were much more relaxed, they didn't have to do anything else at all, they just needed to hold the shield to the death, and it was not difficult to have the support of thick wooden sticks, after all, the cavalry charge they faced was not at full speed in the end.

In fact, there is also a long shield with its own support, and its role is naturally mainly used to fight with cavalry, but the large volume means that the cost is also large, and there will not be much in the entire beam of this thing, and Li Xiuning naturally has no more in his hands, and after thinking about it, he can only use a homemade thick wooden stick instead.

Originally, the soldiers were quite puzzled, after all, it was not so easy to carry such a big thick wooden stick, they just thought it was to increase weight-bearing exercises, but now, they finally saw the benefits.

Thinking that when his own general was still in the annexation of the state, let them prepare in advance, could it be said that the general had already made this decision at that time?

In fact, even Li Xiuning was very surprised, it was true, it was true that the Western Regions Army was not as good as the Turkic Army, but the cavalry was cavalry, even if Li Xiuning was optimistic, he didn't dare to think too well, he never thought that not only did his command perform well, but the Western Regions Army also performed relatively well, and the reason why he rushed over was because he couldn't stop, after the front rows fell, the Western Regions Army behind didn't have the courage to rush into battle at all, and they all reined in or wanted to stop or change direction.

As a result, either the horse is too ruthless, the emergency stop is too fast, and even the people and horses fall down by themselves, or they still can't stop rushing to the front of the formation.

Originally, Li Xiuning was still prepared to kill and injure some soldiers, but until now, he has not been rushed out of a gap, which is very unexpected. In fact, as long as the first few waves of cavalry were blocked, it would be easy to be behind, because there was already a row in front of the shield wall, which was an obstacle.

It's not that there are no dead and wounded, but compared to the number of dead and injured on the other side, this number is almost negligible.

Li Xiuning couldn't help but touch her smooth chin, looked up at the sky, of course Li Xiuning was confident in her ability to lead the army to fight, but sometimes, it was indeed smooth over, just imagine what a crisis she fell into when she was still in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and she was once hunted down and killed.

In the end, a team of seventy or eighty thousand was pulled up very quickly.

And after arriving at Daliang, there have been a lot of battles of all sizes, and they have basically ended in big victories, but the problem is that some battles that Li Xiuning feels will definitely have a lot of casualties will still be a big victory!

Although there is such a thing as a war, the right time, place and people and any messy factors may cause different results, but if this is always the case, even Li Xiuning is a little suspicious that something is covering her, otherwise it has been so smooth?

Really, I occasionally want to have a few evenly matched battles, and it's always so crushing, and it's very boring.

Well, you win!

Looking at the side of the Western Regions Army, it is also thanks to the fact that this group of people is not elite, and it is a variety of contemptuous attitudes, and the formation distance of the charge is larger, and after losing half of the men and horses, the cavalry that is far away behind also stops.

The general of the vanguard army of the Western Regions was shocked and angry, he lost 5,000 men and horses this time, how to explain when he turned around? Especially, when the opponent is only 10,000 foot soldiers!

Mo saw that there were only 10,000 under his command, but it was composed of more than a dozen small countries, and he was only a temporary general, because his identity was a prince of the Western Regions with a fairly good strength.

But so what, if you lose the lives of so many people in a small country all of a sudden, how can you be held accountable, this is definitely a major blow to your own prestige, how can you fight for the crown prince when you go back?

Fortunately, there is still a chance, 5,000 against 10,000, I am a cavalry, it's not that I don't have to fight, as long as I don't rush over head-on.

In a short time, the 5,000 men and horses were divided into two, and galloped around the left and right sides, obviously intending to attack by bypassing the front to find a flaw. This is also the most normal choice for cavalry when facing a shield array.

However......

Li Xiuning raised his hand to cover his small mouth and yawned lazily, and then said very casually: "Order Qiu Mingyuan, change the formation." ”

Ha, who looks down on whom is this?

After a while, the originally fan-shaped shield array immediately began to change, and a thousand shield hands who were originally ready to fill in the leak also joined it, with the number of people as a unit, each assembled, a total of twelve teams, and formed a circular shield array to protect Li Xiuning's place in the middle.

It is true that there is some distance between each small circular shield array, enough for the cavalry of the Western Regions to rush forward, but, dare to charge? Aren't you afraid that there will be no return?

It's easy to rush in, you can go in, and the people's circular shield array only needs to change slightly, and they can directly wrap dumplings in the direction of the side-by-side direction.

The generals of the Western Regions led their cavalry around this large formation again and again, knowing that as long as they rushed in, they could quickly confront the small number of Chinese troops without shields, and if they could quickly kill the local generals, the battle would be won.

However, he did not dare!

It feels like seeing a stunning beauty, which seems to be at your fingertips, but people stay in the thorn bushes with deadly toxins, and if you don't get the beauty, you will hang up first.

In the face of such a battle formation, unless the number of people under his command is enough to directly break it with force, he will never dare to rush with the remaining 5,000 men and horses under his command.

"Withdraw to the battalion." The generals of the Western Regions gritted their teeth and made a difficult decision. If you can't find the field, you will be held accountable, but at least you won't die. In the absence of more options, the loss of five thousand and the total annihilation of the army, of course, do not need to be considered.

"Just withdraw?" Qin Liangyu, who had returned to Li Xiuning's side, was all disappointed.

"Or else? It shows that other people's generals are not stupid, I don't think you didn't see it, but you were disappointed and had no battle to fight. Li Xiuning said with a smile.

But isn't it, what did she do? I gave an order to throw a spear, shot some arrows, and then what? Nope! It doesn't even feel like there's anything to be done, and that's the end of it.

"Huh? The Western Regions Army now has only 5,000 dead defenders of the camp, looking at its scale, this camp can be described as simple, if the group rises up to attack, it will be wiped out in one fell swoop! Qin Liangyu immediately proposed.

This is true, the Western Regions Army never thought that the army of Zhenxi Mansion would attack it, it was called a rotten camp built by the building, it felt like it was just for a circle of wooden fences, and it was also a very unstable kind, anyway, people were sleeping in tents, so naturally they were not accidental.

"Of course we have to fight, but it's not for us to fight." Li Xiuning looked at the darkening sky and said, "We are here to help people, not to attract hatred, besides, why can't they eat enough, and we have to go hungry to continue?" ”

was said by Li Xiuning, Qin Liangyu also had some understanding.

What does the army of Zhenxi Mansion look like today? It's not that they can't fight, in fact, they are all good players, but they can't stand it and lose their military spirit and morale.

But here's the question, even though it's true, who hasn't had a bit of a complicated psychology? Well, we have been beaten and retreated, and as soon as you come, you will win a great victory, and destroy 10,000 people at an almost negligible cost, is this to set off our incompetence?

That's it, don't even drink a mouthful of soup?

But the reverse is different, for the generals of Zhenxi Mansion, they urgently need to lead their soldiers to win a battle and regain their lost confidence.

At present, there are only 5,000 men and horses to defend a camp with little defense, and there is no reason why Zhenxi Mansion can't win, no matter how the Western Regions Army is not strong because of the lack of war, not to mention that defending the camp means that the war horses have lost their effectiveness.

In this case, Li Xiuning took the initiative to let the army of Zhenxi Mansion attack, which is equivalent to gaining a favor and winning the favor of Zhenxi Mansion, there has never been a rule that Zhenxi Mansion has taken refuge in Xiao Auntie, and it can no longer switch to No, even if it can't achieve such an effect, it can win favor and even get the support of part of Zhenxi Mansion, which is already excellent.

In the face of Li Xiuning's kindness, of course the 10,000 Zhenxifu troops guarding the pass would not refuse, and the general of the Jiang family showed gratitude, and without saying a word, he led his troops to set off, striving for a quick victory.

And Zhou Zaixing, who led the 5,000 new army but did not have the opportunity to appear in the end, also followed, and did not need the new army to go directly to the battlefield to kill the enemy, just clean up the battlefield and make up a knife or something, which can be regarded as a way to familiarize yourself with the battlefield as soon as possible.

Facts have proved that the army of Zhenxi Mansion is not unable to fight, it is completely shadowed by the Turkic cavalry, and now in the face of the Western Regions army that is stubbornly defending the camp, it is impossible to fight quickly, and the sky has not completely darkened, and the battle has been completely ended, and a large number of materials have been captured. However, these were all sent to Li Xiuning as gifts.

In this way, on the first day of Li Xiuning's arrival at the Yongzhou front, he not only won a big victory, but also successfully won the favor of the soldiers of the West Mansion of Ten Thousand Towns, and the soldiers under his command got along very happily, and they were all curious about how the soldiers under Li Xiuning's command could face the cavalry charge without taking half a step back.

(End of chapter)