Chapter 958: What is the difference between cavalry and salted fish if they don't charge
October 15 of the fourth year of Gaia, Swordsman City.
The sun rises in the east, and the golden sunlight breaks through the white mist that permeates the southern outskirts of the basin, completely banishing the darkness and silence of the night. With the morning light, the barracks, which had been silent all night, gradually became noisy.
The fireheads of each battalion were the earliest, and before dawn, they began to make fires and cook food for the soldiers of the whole battalion.
Today's battle is extraordinary, in order to reward the three armies in advance and boost the morale of the whole army, Feng Qingyang, the lord of Swordsman City, is particularly bold, and specially ordered people to send fat pigs, fat sheep, chickens, ducks, fish and other poultry to each battalion, not to mention it, and even mountain delicacies, fish, shrimp, crabs, and fish.
It is reported that Swordsman City is already preparing for a celebration banquet in advance, with higher specifications and richer ingredients.
Hundreds of horsemen are also busy, who are busy feeding the horses and brushing their hair, striving to make the horses in the best condition to participate in this big battle.
Experienced veterans have also gotten up one after another, washed up, or went to the school to warm up, so that the body is in the best condition; Or wipe down the armor again and check the weapon.
Veterans know very well that a little more caution before the war will give them more hope of surviving on the battlefield, and they don't know how many good men will die on the battlefield in this war of the century.
By seven o'clock in the morning, the entire barracks had completely woken up.
After breakfast, the soldiers rushed to their respective school yards with the battalion as a unit, and then under the leadership of the captain, they drove out of the barracks one by one and lined up at the designated place in the wilderness.
One after another, the troops arrived at the battlefield in an orderly manner, forming a phalanx of 360,000 troops, which numbered hundreds of phalanxes, and spread out in turn along the east-west direction, stretching for hundreds of miles, with swords and guns lined up and flags waving. The length of the entire military array even exceeds the length of the city wall of the Swordsman City, which is spectacular.
On the left flank, the 150,000 Shu Han Praetorian Guards seemed to be in a strong formation, but it was the weakest force.
After the Emperor enters the Imperial City, the equipment of the Imperial Guard of the Imperial City will be automatically replaced with the equipment of the Emperor's dynasty. Therefore, the Shu Han Praetorian Guard was mainly cloth armor, and only officers could wear two-grade armor.
And even if it is a two-grade armor, it is far from the armor of the Tang Dynasty Mingguang Armor and the Song Dynasty Buren Armor, so today, when Gaia opens up the armor manufacturing technology, the armor of the Shu Han Praetorian Guard is a bit backward.
It is no wonder that Zhao Yun looked at the equipment of the rest of the coalition forces, his eyes were full of envy.
In the Chinese army, Wei Yan led the army of 60,000 swordsmen in the city and waited intently. If you look closely, you will find that this is the most tense force in the coalition formation, 50,000 of the 60,000 Swordsmen City army of Gaine was withdrawn from the front line, they have seen the fierceness of the Great Xia Army, and now they want to fight with the Great Xia Army again, how can they not be nervous.
The right flank was naturally 150,000 reinforcements, led by Lian Po himself.
This batch of reinforcements was drawn from the main city by Emperor Chen and others, all of them were from the Praetorian Guard, and their elite level was comparable to that of the Great Xia Longxiang Army, and they were by no means ordinary.
And this is also Lian Po's greatest confidence in winning this battle.
The weather is beautiful, and the rare absence of rain last night made Lian Po's heart excited, which is really a good sign.
After the army was assembled, Lian Po ordered the army to go south and slowly advance to the Great Xia Longxiang army at the foot of the mountain. Wherever the army passed, it was like locusts crossing the border, and not a single grass grew.
Every five miles of advance, Lian Po had to order the army to stop, reorganize the military formation, and make sure to ensure that the enemy army was intimidated with the most rigorous military formation, and that the enemy army would not be given any opportunity.
It took two hours to walk before I saw the Great Xia Longxiang Army from afar.
Lian Po stood on a purpose-built mobile command tower and observed the enemy's formation from afar.
The first thing that catches your eye is the unremarkable hills, on which yesterday were empty, and there are already shadows of troops stationed on them.
What made Lian quite even more shocked was that overnight, a P2 artillery was arranged on the top of the hill by Long Xiang's army, forming a ring, with no dead ends, guarded by heavy soldiers, condescending.
Lian Po knew very well that these hills were like battle bunkers, and if they were not removed, they would not be able to seek the enemy's main force to fight.
The formation of the Long Xiang army is also quite strange.
Facing the left flank of the coalition army was the right flank of the Long Xiang army, which was basically a cavalry unit.
The central army and the left flank of the Longxiang army were dominated by infantry phalanxes, and only 10,000 cavalry were deployed on the outermost part of the left flank as a countermeasure. In front of the formation were two rows of P2 guns, and behind the guns were crossbowmen.
"It's a defensive formation."
Lian Po frowned, this formation really didn't look like the combat style of the Great Xia Army.
Even so, it was ready to be fired. At a distance of 1,500 meters from the enemy, Lian Po asked the army to stop and take one last rest.
In an instant, the noise of the march gradually fell silent, and the whole wilderness became silent at once, except for the breathing of men and horses.
The officers and men of the coalition army were extremely nervous, and just like that, the atmosphere of the big war was strung together in an instant, making people's blood boil.
"Beat the drums!" Lian Po ordered.
Since he has the advantage in troops, Lian Po naturally wants to overwhelm the other party in momentum.
"Boom! Boom! Knock knock! ”
The sound of war drums broke the silence of the wilderness, further stimulating the blood in the bodies of the Allied soldiers, mobilizing their emotions, and heating up their entire bodies, ready to tear apart the enemy on the opposite side.
The strange thing is that the Long Xiang army on the opposite side is still silent.
There were no shouts, no war drums, and the army of more than 200,000 people was as silent as stagnant water, standing silently on the field. When this silence condenses into a momentum, it is enough to make people's hearts chill.
The entire Longxiang army is as immobile as a mountain, like a great wall of steel.
The faces of the soldiers of the army of Swordsman City trembled slightly, as if they remembered something terrifying. Bad memories immediately flooded into my mind, breeding a hint of fear.
The Long Xiang army on the opposite side is a group of man-eating devils.
Wei Yan saw it, his brows tightened, but there was no solution, at this time, saying anything would only be counterproductive, it was better not to say anything.
The drums of war became more and more rapid, pushing the soldiers' emotions to a peak step by step. The long knife is unsheathed, the bow and arrow are in hand, the spear is in hand, and the eyes are fixed on the front, ready to rush out at any moment.
Armageddon is just around the corner.
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At this time, the position of the Long Xiang army was surprisingly calm.
The arrangements that should be made have been arranged yesterday, and what the soldiers have to do is to recuperate, silently accumulate strength, and wait for the enemy to kill and give the opponent a fatal blow.
Chen Gong stood on a high ground, holding a talisman in his hand, staring at the battlefield.
This talisman is naturally the [Stop Fighting Talisman], and its function is to prohibit the Praetorian Guards of any royal city from participating in the lord war, which lasts for a week.
Ouyang Shuo couldn't go to the front line in person and couldn't grasp the timing of its use, so he handed over this talisman to Chen Gong and authorized Chen Gong to use it flexibly according to the battlefield situation.
This is the key to the success or failure of this battle.
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With a "brush", Lian Po pulled out the sword at his waist and said in a deep voice: "Attack!" The herald waved the flag in his hand and gave the order for the whole army to attack.
"Kill !!!"
The coalition army, which has long been ready to attack, is like a wild horse that has escaped, like a flood that bursts its embankment, carrying a murderous aura that rushes to the sky, and it will go out with a bang, and it is unstoppable.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
On the hill at the front, artillery opened fire one after another, opening the prelude to the war.
In an instant, the hills were surrounded by the coalition forces, and a large number of soldiers tried to rush to the top of the mountain, destroy the artillery, and make the first contribution of this battle.
"Raise your shield!"
Each hill is guarded by a full brigade of Longxiang soldiers, sword and shield soldiers in front, crossbowmen in the back, condescending, and artillery cooperation, taking advantage of the time and place.
Although the coalition forces were full of momentum, they could not take such a mountain for a while.
The morale that had just been gathered was stagnant.
When the coalition generals saw this, their faces were ugly, and they gritted their teeth and sent wave after wave of soldiers up, making sure to capture one mountain after another in the shortest possible time.
For a time, the sound of killing shook the sky, and artillery fire rang out in unison.
Under the stubborn defense of the Long Xiang army, soon, at the foot of each mountain, piles of corpses of coalition troops were piled up. The latecomers had to step on the corpses of their companions and attack the mountains.
At the same time, the large army braved the artillery fire and continued to rush towards the position of the Longxiang army.
1,000,000,900,800......
Soon, the coalition soldiers who rushed to the front could already see the faces of the opposite Long Xiang army, and before they could see clearly, they were greeted by another deadly cannonballs.
Two rows of artillery, fired in this way, combined with crossbowmen, formed the first wave of long-range strikes.
The coalition forces that rushed to the front were immediately bombed, and they were overturned on their backs and collapsed. Because it was a rapid charge, the troops who followed up could not dodge at all, and could only rush through.
Countless dead and wounded, immediately trampled on the meat sauce, not human. Among them were the wounded and fallen soldiers, who did not wait for help, but waited for the merciless trampling of their companions.
This is war, without any mercy.
600 meters, 500 meters, 400 meters......
The two sides are getting closer and closer, and a close-range fight is just around the corner.
The coalition soldiers suddenly became excited again, they had withstood the baptism of enemy artillery, and after paying a heavy price, they finally rushed to the front of the enemy line.
Then came their moment of revenge.
Thinking of this, some blood-devouring soldiers unconsciously licked their chapped lips, and their dark eyes began to glow with a trace of blood red, which was weird.
Zhao Yun was also excited, he personally led the cavalry troops to charge at the front, just to teach the Great Xia army a hard lesson, so that they could see the power of the Shu Han army.
Although the armor is not superior, Zhao Yun is still full of confidence.
It's just that the further he goes, a trace of doubt unconsciously flashes in Zhao Yun's eyes. If it is said that the infantry of Great Xia is waiting for the battle, and it is still said that it is the past to defend and attack, but the cavalry troops arranged on the side of the Shu army in Great Xia are all the same.
Cavalry does not charge? It's no different from rubbish.
In the face of the high-speed charging cavalry of the Shu army, the motionless Daxia cavalry was a live target, at their mercy. Zhao Yun really didn't believe that the other party would make such a low-level mistake.
Seeing that, the Shu army was about to rush to the front.