Chapter 190 Taniguchi's First Battle
Han Daocheng ran back and forth, and the sun jumped over his head, and it was noon.
Li Fengxiao looked at the sky, gritted his teeth and ordered: "The team outside the valley came in, lined up north, blocking the Song cavalry. The rest of the people followed me to continue attacking the earth wall."
When the Song army saw the Jiaozhi army change formation again, another horn sounded. Gao Daquan and the second team of cavalry came slowly from a distance, everything was like Han Daocheng before.
This time, the Jiaozhi people ignored it and continued to approach the earth wall.
After this delay, the Song army's small stone cannons were finally set up, and the stone bullets fell into the Jiaozhi Army formation like raindrops, and the Jiaozhi Army formation quickly became scattered.
Li Fengxiao gritted his teeth and ordered the reorganization of the formation. Regardless of the casualties, he just rushed towards the earthen wall.
At this time, the Jiaozhi army rushed in from outside the valley again, bypassed its own military formation, and went all the way to the north, suppressed its position, and aimed at the Song army to attack with spears and crossbows.
If you don’t protect the flanks, you don’t need to fight the formations when they change. You can use your flesh and blood to resist the arrows and stone bullets of the Song army, and sooner or later you will stack all the corpses here.
Gao Daquan saw the movement of the Jiaozhi people opposite him, his face turned cold. He saw that it was almost a mile away, and asked the personal soldiers around him to set three fireworks behind him.
The sound of the fireworks was clearer than when the cannon was fired. When the Jiaozhi soldiers heard it, they were all instinctively surprised. Seeing that there was no accident, they calmed down again.
Li Fengxiao cursed: "Pretending to be a ghost, let's see what tricks there are to kill these people."
Gao Daquan took the cavalry to a mile or so in front of the Jiaozhi Formation, and then split it to both sides like Han Daocheng. When the Jiaozhi soldiers saw it, they laughed together. These Song people pretended to be magical, but they didn't have the eggs that were bloody in front of blood.
The cavalry brigade separated to both sides, but this time it did not retreat directly, but just hovered on both sides.
Just when the Jiaozhi soldiers were confused, they heard a few cannons, "dong, dong, dong" and the shells flew towards Gao Daquan's cavalry's move out of the gap.
When Li Fengxiao heard the sound of cannons, he secretly shouted in his heart. Using schools to control cavalry, it is crucial to have a strict formation. If the formation is scattered by the Song army with cannons, it will be difficult to stop the cavalry from rushing.
As the shells swept out, Gao Daquan shouted loudly and rushed towards the Jiaozhi Army formation with his horse.
Some elite cavalrymen in the forefront were covered with iron armor. Unless there was a hard crossbow in the Jiaozhi Army formation, it would be difficult to pose a threat to them. Especially the tall and tall ones, they had complete armor and had a strong strength. When the spear was picked in their hands, they would shake a blank space in the military formation. The cavalry behind them advanced one after another, and rushed straight to the south, and wanted to drill the Jiaozhi Army formation to penetrate.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Li Fengxiao had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw, and he brought the most elite central army to welcome Gao Daquan, who had already rushed into the army.
Gao Daquan had already set his sights on Li Fengxiao. Seeing that he brought people to welcome him, he also went forward to greet him.
Li Fengxiao was a native of Aizhou near Chameng. He was brave and was recruited by Li Gongyun to join the army and fought south and north, making countless military achievements. Especially when Li Foma ascended the throne, he suppressed the "Three Kings Rebellion". He took the lead in expressing his support for Li Foma with the imperial guards and killed King Wude, and from then on he reached the peak of his life.
Gao Daquan has strength. I heard that there is such a person in the Jiaozhi Army and I have always been determined to compete with the two. How could I miss this opportunity?
Xu Ping observed the battle situation on the mountain and said to Sang Yi: "The Jiaozhi army formation is in chaos. The sun is setting in the west. It seems that the winner is decided today. Li Fengxiao dares to fight and kill, but he doesn't think he has the courage to fight at night."
Sang Yi said: "Why, we are going to have a truce. Now we are at the upper hand. Why not take this opportunity to teach the Jiaozhi people a lesson so that they can know that they are worth it."
"If we continue to fight like this, we will attack the enemy's strengths with our shortcomings. We are unwise and powerful crossbows and stone cannons we have arranged in the valley. Once the two sides fight together, they will be useless. It would be better to pull it apart."
The two sides fought melee, swords and guns met, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, which seemed to make people's bloodlines clear, but in fact it was difficult for both sides to achieve overwhelming results. As soon as the war with cold weapons entered the stage of close combat, it was time to compare courage. Only by defeating the other party can we achieve decisive results.
Gao Daquan has only more than 2,000 cavalrymen, and they are originally harassing. This number of people cannot defeat the Jiaozhi army. These Jiaozhi elites are not that fragile.
With Xu Ping's military order, Han Daocheng attacked again. This time he neither shot a fake or helped Gao Daquan rush towards the Jiaozhi people, but just picked up his men and horses.
Li Fengxiao looked at the sun in the sky, then at the Song cavalry that was leaving, and then at the earth walls where arrows were flying and rocks were bombarded like rain. He sighed in his heart and ordered the withdrawal of troops helplessly.
Although he lost more than 2,000 lives in vain today and found nothing, Li Fengxiao was not discouraged. As long as he knew the arrangement of the Song army, he would always come up with a solution. How could his tens of thousands of elite soldiers be blocked by thousands of Song army soldiers? Only Chen Changji, who could not turn his mind, rushed towards the city, fell into the trap of the Song army, and ruined more than 10,000 people in one day.
On the top of the mountain, Xu Ping watched the Jiaozhi army slowly retreat to the valley entrance and said to Sang Yi: "In today's battle, we and Jiaozhi both knew each other's methods. The Jiaozhi people will definitely find a way when they go back. I guess they will still try their best to attack the earth wall. As long as they occupy a piece of earth wall, they will make the situation back."
Sang Yi smiled and said, "Talking about it, there are only 30,000 to 40,000 people in Jiaozhi. Today, both sides are testing each other and have not tried their best. By tomorrow, if the Jiaozhi people still attack like today, they will not be as relaxed as they are today. I will lead the wing army and the cavalry to kill him on the flanks, fighting for life and death."
Xu Ping looked at Jiaozhi territory on the south side of the mountain and sighed: "Yes, this battle must be decided quickly and cannot be delayed. It is mid-March, and the rainy season will be coming soon. There are still some sugarcane to be harvested and newly opened land to plant, so we cannot waste all our manpower here."
At this time, the rear army of Jiaozhi army had just retreated from the valley entrance, and the central army was slowly retreating out of the valley with the stone bombs dropped from the top of the mountain. The front army also broke off contact with the Song army in the valley.
"Lu Fang" Xu Ping saw the situation and turned around and shouted.
Lu Fang ran over from the side and agreed loudly.
Xu Ping said in a deep voice: "The people of Jiaozhi are about to retreat but not, it is the time. You immediately lead a thousand people to rush down the mountain, bury the gunpowder under the earth wall they built, and blow up the earth wall."
Lu Fang took the order and turned around.
Xu Ping had already ordered Lu Fang to prepare manpower and gunpowder, and he wanted to blow up the earth wall below, but there was no chance. At this time, the Jiaozhi army retreated, and the military order was not implemented. At the most chaotic time, they could not react after spending half an hour to bury gunpowder. To be continued.
Chapter completed!