Chapter 1343: Fierce Battle Broken Water Fortress (I)
The 2nd Brigade of the 5th Division of the Central and North China ran out of the gate and lined up defensive battle formations on both sides, while the 3rd Brigade ran out in marching columns, but they did not change their formation and rushed directly towards the enemy ranks.
Ruan Jizong rode his horse to the upwind and back, and hundreds of knights quickly ran out of the team, and lined up behind him one after another.
"Heavy infantry!" Ding Cai raised his spear.
"Yes!" replied in unison.
"Hook Formation!" Ding Cai waved his gun and pointed straight ahead.
The front of the hook formation is a phalanx, and the wings are bent backwards into a hook shape to protect the flanks and the rear.
Two hundred heavy armored infantry marched forward in unison, crossed Ding Cai, and formed a phalanx in the center of the official road, while the other three hundred heavy infantry were separated from the left and right, each with 150 people on both sides to form a hook formation.
Cui Tianwu carried a military flag of the 151st Division to Ding Cai and stood behind him.
Qianyou led fifty magicians into the air to meet the magicians flying out of the fortress.
Ding Fen jumped and jumped vigorously, it turned out that the person in front of her was tall, blocking her vision, "What are you doing?" Lu Yingben was peeking at the dress of the group of noble ladies behind him.
"I want to see what's up ahead. ”
Lu Ying hugged Ding Fen and said, "Don't jump, I'm afraid that people won't be able to see your style?" Now you are a noble lady, you must behave elegantly. ”
"Giggles," Ruan Xingzhu in the back couldn't help laughing, "The noble lady also has a heroic appearance." The battle has just begun, there is nothing to see, it's none of our business. ”
At this time, a woman who may have been from the Bao family asked, "Aren't we going to run away, why is there a fight in front of us?"
Liang Chen replied: "If you want the enemy to chase us, then you must hit them hard, and they will not be willing to let us go." ”
The collision between his own army and the heavy infantry was completely hard-hitting, and there were no fancy tactics.
"Kill, kill, kill!" the soldiers on both sides shouted and waved their weapons as they could.
"Take the squad as a unit, assault!" Ruan Jizong rushed out with a spear and a horse.
The knights behind him formed a dozen or so cavalry formations and began to charge at the flanks of their own army.
"Huh? He Mo found that the other party was not as vulnerable as he imagined, "No wonder they were able to escape from Hailin Prefecture, the three teams were a little choked." Someone came, and ordered the four brigades and the five brigades to attack as a team. ”
He saw that the charge of the three major teams did not shake the enemy's phalanx, and when the enemy's cavalry arrived, the three major teams would definitely not be able to resist.
Now it is too late to make the three major teams retreat, and only by continuing to invest troops in the attack can the three major teams that are about to be defeated be rescued.
The hook-shaped array withstood the attack of the own army, and the frontal phalanx gave full play to the power of its long weapons, forcing the own army to not get close; the soldiers on both sides threw short marks, nets, iron thorns, etc., to harass the enemy in front.
Ding Cai commanded dozens of guards of the aristocratic family, fought through the gap in the formation, went around the front from left to right, and then retreated behind the phalanx.
The army is obviously more tender, the battlefield experience is far less than the Shaodian army, the soldiers in front can't go up, the back can't be deployed in time, when the captain wants to adjust the formation, Ruan Jizong led the cavalry to kill.
The second brigade of our army tried to interfere with the cavalry with bows and arrows, but to no avail, and the more than 100 people were also shield breakers at the very least, and they could ignore the archers from a hundred meters away.
Ruan Jizong commanded the cavalry to pick a weak position to charge, not seeking to kill or injure a large number of enemy troops, but only to disrupt the enemy lineup.
Knock knock, knock, the dense drums on the fortress were mixed with the sound of cornet, and the three captains shouted when they heard it: "All listen to the order, disperse in small groups, and try to avoid the cavalry!"
The combat effectiveness of the Shaodian Army is beyond his imagination, and the average combat effectiveness is at least one level higher than that of his subordinates, which means that one person can easily fight ten, and this gap cannot be made up by fighting desperately.
Liang Chen's Shi Shiran sat down and said, "Let's get ready to run." The knight jumped off her horse and helped the coachman turn the wheel.
Ding Fen touched his waist, and Lu Ying asked in surprise, "You can hide a bow in this body?"
"The archer can't leave the bow. Ding Fen nodded.
"Then you can't leave your body when you take a bath?" Lu Ying's eyes stared.
"Aside from it, archers are not fools. Ding Fen looked at Lu Ying with disgust.
"Don't worry, get the signal and get ready to do it. Ruan Xingzhu stopped the two younger sisters.
"Hmm. Lu Ying squatted down and tied her shoelaces tightly, her weapon and equipment were in Ruan Xingzhu's space ring, which could be taken out and changed at any time.
The own army in the center of the battlefield was dispersed into dozens of small teams and ran in the direction of the fortress, Nguyen Jizong commanded the cavalry to chase after him, and Ding Cai ordered the heavy infantry to change to a circle formation.
The gates of the fortress opened again, and a large number of their own troops came out in formation, including cavalry units.
The second brigade remained in place and held its ground, allowing the friendly troops that came out to rush to the battlefield.
"Huh?" He Moss noticed that the back row of the Shaodian Army team moved.
He hurriedly raised his binoculars to take a closer look, "Haha, someone has escaped! Seeing that our army has sufficient strength, they are afraid! Giving the order, the charge horn is sounded to let the four or five brigades entangle the enemy, and the seventy-eighty-nine brigades will immediately form a whole team and follow me out of the city to pursue the enemy army!"
As soon as the charge horn sounded on the fortress, the first to run away was the Shaodian army at the rear of the team, and the original team of more than 1,000 people ran away in an uproar.
Liang Chen stomped his feet and said, "Let's go!"
The ladies in the middle of the line began to flee.
Ding Cai jumped on his horse, waved his hands, and shouted backwards, "Don't run!
Lu Ying said as she ran: "Brother Cai's play is really good! Sister Xingzhu, let's have an acceleration technique." ”
"Not now, people can see it at a glance. Ruan Xingzhu was also running, but at a slower pace.
"Hey, Xiaohua, let's help her. Lu Ying had to slow down a little, and ran with Ding Fen left and right, and the two ran together with Ruan Xingzhu.
Ruan Jizong reined in his horse, shot a spear into the sky, then turned his horse's head around and slowly ran towards the flank of the heavy infantry.
When a cavalryman found the spear, he immediately shouted at his companions, and also turned his horse's head and chased after Ruan Jizong.
After receiving a report from his subordinates, he hurriedly ran out of the fortress gate, jumped on horseback, and carefully observed the enemy's situation.
"If there is enough chaos, they are okay with the troops in front, and those in the back cannot be called armies at all. ”
In fact, what he said was not wrong at all, the "Shaodian Army" who fled first was indeed not a soldier.
The only regular soldiers who came to challenge the Broken Water Fortress were the 500 heavy infantry, and the troops commanded by Ding Cai and Ruan Jizong were composed of guards from noble families, and the rest of the soldiers were all nearby civilians.
Hu Rui ordered the 151st Division to arrest a group of young men and women in nearby villages and towns, forced them to change into military uniforms, and let them take a trip to the Broken Water Fortress.
As soon as Liang Chen's carriage turned its head, it was a signal to let the people go.
The people did not dare to run first, because the large forces of the Sixteenth Legion were in ambush behind.
Ding Cai saw that the cavalry troops had run back, so he ordered: "Turn the goose-shaped formation and retreat!"
Qianyou led the men back over the heads of the ground troops to cover the troops' escape.
"Infantry brothers, throw away the heavier weapons first. Ding Cai began to point out people who had no experience in cheating.
Throwing away some of the weight is not to run faster, but to be more agile, the goose formation is also offensive when retreating, and the weapons scattered all over the ground are more like real defeat.
There were 200 cavalry in his army who ran out of the fortress, but they didn't dare to get too close to the Shaodian army, after all, the cavalry of the people was more powerful, and the infantry had to form a battle formation before they dared to chase, and the goose-shaped formation could stop and fight at any time, and the scattered team would be sent to death if they ran up.
By the time the infantry of our own army had lined up in battle, the Shaodian army had already run to a distance of 500 meters, "Chase quickly! Chase quickly! There are female dependents in the enemy's ranks, and they can't run fast or far!"
He didn't want to eat the fat in his mouth, so he flew away.
The two armies chased and fled, and started a race on the official road.
The people at the front were the fastest, they were people who did not carry weights, and when their lives were seriously threatened, they all used their strength to feed. Some of them simply ran to the south of the road and plunged headlong into the broken water, because no one would go into the water to chase them.
The ladies were slower, but their speed increased when the female knights and samurai who were hidden in them came to their aid. Seeing that they were about to reach Zhenshui Mountain, Ruan Xingzhu used the group to speed up, and their speed was a little faster.
Our army gradually caught up with the broken Shaodian army, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters...... Distances are getting shorter.
"Brothers, throw away the dry food and water on your body. Ding Cai saw that the time had come, and ordered some things to be thrown away.
Dry food and water are life-saving things, and those who serve as soldiers will not give up until they have to.
He flicked his spear and picked up a water bladder from the ground, and clear water spilled out of the hole.
"Hehe, is this their ability to escape? as long as we chase after them and don't let them have time to eat and drink, if they can escape, we will write my surname upside down!" Although the enemy was speeding up, he was more relieved.
Running fast does not mean running off, and the pursuit of the battle road is ultimately a matter of perseverance, depending on who can persevere to the end.
Ding Cai looked back from time to time to observe the reaction of his own army.
"Yo, take the bait, the enemy wants to play a protracted war. Boss Ruan, you go first!" he was familiar with the psychology of his pursuers.
"Good!"
The cavalry on both flanks of the geese formation accelerated, passing over the ranks of the infantry. Running to the women's dependents, they rolled over and dismounted, giving up their horses to the women who couldn't run.
In this way, the female dependents no longer slowed down the speed of the broken troops, and Ding Cai and the others accelerated their speed again.
Seeing this, Hemoss immediately ordered: "The cavalry catches up!"
The cavalry of the two hundred own army accelerated to catch up with the broken rear troops, and Ding Cai had already prepared, and returned with a few fearless knights and more than twenty shield-breaking knights to slash a sword.
Nearly thirty sword rays gathered fire in one round, and immediately killed the dozen or so horsemen who rushed to the front.
Their cavalry was so frightened that they slowed down their horses.
"Wow, chase! Can't let these guys go. "Hemo is furious, I didn't expect this team of young soldiers to be so difficult.
At this time, if he calms down and thinks about it, he will definitely be able to find the enemy's problem, this troop configuration is too suitable to stop the pursuit!