"What?" Chen Jin exclaimed, and pulled his feet out like a whirlwind. When he rushed outside the gate, he looked around and saw that the messenger had already walked far.
He turned around in disappointment, but saw that no one was following the tent of the Central Army. Some of them were circulating something, some were whispering, while Lu Yao took out the newly drawn map of the battlefield and was discussing something with Ding Miao.
"This... what's going on? Is there a new situation?" Chen Jin looked at Murong Long City hesitantly, and his feet couldn't move as if they were rooted. After a long time, he finally decided to go back to the Central Army's tent to inquire.
Half an hour later.
In the western part of Dai County, the sound of wind passing by in Pingshu County gradually seemed solemn. The ground was shaking slightly, alarming groups of earth rats and others, and fleeing with chirping. Under the towering mountains, countless spears and halberds rose like forests, and two huge military formations gradually moved closer.
Under the smoke and dust, Liu Xiace rode forward and felt excited.
The feathered edict came from the north, and the horse climbed the high dike. He drove over the Xiongnu and looked at the Xianbei on the left - men and men should be like this!
Liu Xiaqing couldn't help but hold the long spear in his hand tightly and murmured: "Brother Zi, Brother Zi, today is your chance to become famous!"
As the horse galloped, the enemy became closer and closer, and its troops became clearer. The number of Changshan bandits was more than 5,000. They were like the Jin army, with one cavalry as the first formation and attacked quickly. The main force was divided into five parts, extending northward to connect with the mountains of Baiyangyu, and on the right side, they slowly advanced with the river beach of Qiyishui.
Liu Xia clearly saw that the vanguard cavalry formation set the banner of the vanguard, which was the word "Yang". The troops were about 600, which was several times more powerful than their own. At this moment, the distance between the two sides was about five miles, and they would be in a fight in a flash.
Just now, Hu Liuniang analyzed the enemy situation and introduced the famous bandits among the Changshan bandits one by one. The Changshan bandits were a bandit group dominated by Xianbei and Hu, but there were also Han leaders, such as the enemy general Yang Feixiang in front of him. Yang Feixiang, Hao Guo, Tujili, Zheerda, Guen and others were also powerful bandits among the Changshan bandits, and their reputation was above the other four.
This man is even the second most powerful general in Changshan's army after Murong Long City. He has at least three or five hundred lives. He is really like mowing grass. If it weren't for this, when the Hu clan coalition of Daijun tried to attack the Jin army with the Luochuan thieves a few days ago, the Qu general would not have been all bowed like a sheep and recommended him as the leader.
Liu Xia didn't care about that. In today's war, he was appointed as the commander of the cavalry to confront the enemy's formation first. It was the time when his blood was rising. Not to mention the nickname of Flying Elephant, even a real elephant was rushing towards him, and Liu Xia was still dismantled as an advancement step.
As the two armies were approaching, Liu Xia raised his long spear high. With this action, the entire cavalry naturally gathered with him as the center, forming a huge arrow with a narrow front and wide back. The horses of each person gradually got up and the roar of the horse's hooves gradually returned to the same rhythm, as if an indestructible whole was rushing towards the enemy.
When the two armies were two hundred steps apart, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air roared. The cavalry on both sides fired arrows almost at the same time. Countless arrows flew towards their respective opponents like two balls of locusts. These arrows were so dense that when they intersected in the air, they almost felt like they would collide with each other.
The soldiers of the Jin army bowed down one after another, and some used small shields tied to their left arms to resist. However, such dense arrows were difficult to defend against. In an instant, dozens of people in the formation were shot. Some people immediately rolled down from their horses, while others gritted their teeth and persevered. Some war horses were sad and neighed, overturning the warriors on their backs.
Liu Xia was the general of the army and suffered the most arrow rain. He waved his long spear like a wheel, and with a crackling sound, blocking more than ten sharp arrows shot at him one after another. Occasionally, a few hits were blocked by two layers of armor, and the flesh was not deep. Liu Xia drew out his short knife with his back hand, cut off several arrows hanging on the armor, and continued to charge forward, shouting: "Hurry! Quick!"
Cavalry is a very difficult skill, and a good bow is even rare; in the northern border where iron tools are precious, many arrow clusters are even polished with animal bones, which are difficult to break through armor. Therefore, for cavalry battles with a total of nearly 1,000 people, the losses can be caused by this wave of shooting are minimal, and the final victory is the connection between the hand and the blade. When the connection between the hand and the blade, which side can increase the speed of the war horse to the highest level and exert the maximum impact force is the key to winning!
At this time, the distance between the two armies had shrunk to a hundred steps. The soldiers of the Jin army no longer shot arrows but all used long weapons. Thick long spears or spears were raised forward, with hundreds of spear heads protruding out at almost the same time, as if the ancient giant beast suddenly showed its cold fangs.
The next moment, two groups of people collided with each other.
Liu Xia took the lead and entered the enemy's formation.
The four bandits in the first row who fought against Liu Xia were killed almost instantly. The speed of his war horse racing under his crotch was almost not reduced slightly, and he immediately collided with the enemy in the second row. His long spear danced like lightning, constantly poking, sweeping, and hitting, killing the bandits Chang in a constant manner like mowing grass. In the blink of an eye, he broke through the second row of enemy cavalry and continued to go deeper, and was invincible!
The person close to Liu Xia was dozens of Liu clans who followed him when he was in Guangping County. According to the method of selecting knights in "Six Strategies", those who are under 40 years old, more than 7 feet and five inches long, strong and fast, and superb. They can rush and rush forward, backward, left and right, move forward and backward, cross ditches, climb hills, take risks and obstacles, escape from the vast marsh, strong enemies, and disrupt the masses, are called martial cavalry men, and must be thick. Liu Xia's Guangping Township tribe is the "martial cavalry men" selected in the fierce war.
They were the most brave and good at fighting in the army. Seeing Liu Xia struggling to get into battle, these warriors shouted in unison to kill the thief, followed Liu Xia and rushed hard to kill. From a distance, they stabbed with long spears, and from near, they used a sword and sword to slash. Where the sword and gun started, blood and flesh flew across the enemy's formation. They blazed a bloody path and advanced forward.
Lu Yao and others immediately watched the battle on the slope. From their perspective, we can see that Liu Xia's troops roared and attacked with the shape of a sharp arrow, which was unstoppable. Correspondingly, Chang Shanbian relied on the large number of people and imposed the left and right wings, attempting to encircle and annihilate Liu Xia's cavalry from both sides. Liu Xia seemed to be unwilling to this. The assault position he chose was not in the middle of the enemy, but in the left direction. As his courage advanced, the Jin cavalry took a little arc and stabbed into the enemy's formation with an oblique angle.
Then the two armies were entangled, and the rolling smoke and dust soared into the sky, and everyone could not see the movements. Only the sound of horse hooves trampling, the tragic cry of soldiers, and the sound of the collision of weapons intertwined with the wind. Occasionally, the owner's war horse came out alone from the dust and smoke, trotting aimlessly.
Such a large-scale cavalry battle is rarely seen in the Han people in the Mainland of Central Plains. Shao Xu's face turned slightly pale. He looked at him for a while and asked anxiously: "What's going on? How's it?"
Lu Yao was carefully looking at the far right wing of his main formation, but he didn't take any attention to answer Shao Xu.
Except for a small number of original Jin army backbones, his subordinates were all formed by combining various tribes within a few days. Therefore, their qualities in arrays and combat discipline were far different from the hundreds of people led by Guo Huan who remained in Jinyang. Especially in terms of golden drums, banners, etc., these new recruits could be said to have no idea, and basically remained at the stage where each tribe fights independently and relies on personal bravery to solve the problem. This is of course a problem that must be solved in the future. Lu Yao had no choice but to disperse the original Jin army soldiers to the grassroots level to serve as officers to maintain the command system.
But at this moment, he found that the group of infantry located on the far right side of the main formation was in a strict formation, with orderly advance and retreat, and stood out among the messy comrades. The group of infantry should have been mainly surrendered by the Bomei tribe, and several Wuhuan soldiers were enriched. The team leader was Tulinus, who claimed to have been the centurion of the Roman Empire.
From the perspective where Lu Yao was, it was clear that he divided about a hundred subordinates into three horizontal lines. In addition to the necessary soldiers holding long spears, many soldiers also held small wooden signs in their left hand and swords in their right hand. Tulinus himself was at the top of the right hand side of the first horizontal line, and kept calling and making orders, keeping about a distance between the three horizontal lines.
“确实有趣.”陆遥满意地想着.
"General! General!" Shao Xu was inevitably anxious after all, and he raised his voice: "Can we know how the battle on the front line?"
Lu Yao came back to his senses and raised his hand to point him in a direction: "Mr. Shao, look here."
That place was the right wing of the Changshan bandits rushing to the formation of the cavalry by Yang Feixiang's troops. About a hundred cavalry were led by several armored bandit leaders, roughly keeping the formation slowly and not entering the battle. Shao Xu stared for a while, but did not realize anything unusual. Instead, his eyes were dry and tears. He reached out to wipe his eyes. Just as he was about to speak, he saw the enemy formation in chaos. A group of Jin cavalry rushed out, and he jumped on horseback and danced spears, instantly stabbed several bandit leaders under the horse. Hundreds of bandit cavalry suddenly fled like birds attacked by fierce eagles.
那员勇将不是刘遐是谁?
Liu Xia rushed out of the enemy formation, and slightly reined, and returned with a mount. In just this moment, a large number of enemy cavalry surrounded him in the opposite direction, vaguely surrounding him. Liu Xia looked around, but he didn't know what he said. Dozens of iron cavalry around him shouted and became more energetic. They rode the horses and rode the formation again!
"Surve first to attack the city, trap the enemy, kill the generals and snatch the flag, cover the arrows and stones in front of them, and do not avoid the difficulty of being a fire... It's a real hero!" Shao Xu felt thrilling and couldn't help but exclaim.
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这阵子实在忙,我尽力保持更新节奏.
Chapter completed!