Chapter 579
Liu Bu's army appeared under Nanpi City, which shocked the Tianxiong Army and the huge amount of confidence. Even Lu Xiangsheng, who was full of confidence, was shocked.
The road is blocked with heavy snow. Even if the opponent may send troops, it is impossible to dispatch such a powerful legion. You should know that such a powerful army, thousands of cavalrymen will take off. This is no joke.
The road was blocked with heavy snow, where did they go? How should they go? Even if they could go, they could still appear silently on his wings. This means that the other party did a very good job of keeping secrets and having the intention of annihilation of them all, so Lu Xiangsheng was also scared. Knowing that it was a critical moment of life and death, he personally drew out his sword and ordered the soldiers to form a military formation to prepare for the opponent's attack.
General Lu Jiangsheng personally stood at the forefront.
The Tianxiong Army has always been on the offensive side. In order to attack Nanpi City, he took down this strong city. Who knew that in just half a day, he began to reverse, from an offensive side to a defensive side.
If it were other troops, they would probably have collapsed when they faced such a situation. However, the Tianxiong Army was extremely elite and the military discipline was very strict, so they made adjustments immediately.
Under the command of officers at all levels, they hurriedly made adjustments.
But they all knew that the situation was very dangerous and extremely deadly. If they could not resist the impact of Liu Jun, they would be doomed.
Even if the Tianxiong Army was united and everyone was determined to fight desperately, they were in panic when facing the enemy soldiers. They had been fighting in the wild for a long time and were very tired and very tired. In the face of being very tired and exhausted, they had to fight with the cavalry of the Liu family army, which was known as the elite in the world. This was really deadly.
No soldier felt it was easy, no soldier felt it was easy. They were swallowing, their feet trembling, and under the command of the officers, they formed a formation and prepared to resist the attack of the Liu family army.
After the cavalry of the Liu family army appeared on the two wings, they did not launch a fierce attack immediately. It was not because they were ruthless, but because they ran for a long distance and inevitably had fallen behind and dispersed soldiers. They were waiting now to gather the dispersed horses to form impact force. More importantly, after the long distance raid, their horses and soldiers were almost exhausted. At this time, they launched an attack, which was called the end of their strength and could not attack Lu Shao.
On the one hand, they lined up, and on the other hand, they took out dry food and military cakes to feed their war horses. They also fed and launched a strong attack on the rushing formation. Whether it was war horses or people, they must maintain sufficient physical strength. Otherwise, when you rush into the opponent's military formation, you will not have the strength and fall into the enemy formation. This is a real life-threatening thing, which is equivalent to sending your life.
So on the one hand, they let the war horses rest and eat, and on the other hand, they also eat to make up for their physical strength. This is not because they stop, but because they are planning the beginning of a more fierce offensive.
All the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army knew this and were extremely frightened, but they could only protect themselves.
But everyone was frightened and panicked about this. How could the temporary military formation resist the enemy's elite cavalry?
If they were ready to fight, using large chariots, fences, antlers, horses, traps and other things, and set up a large number of obstacles, this could indeed resist the impact of enemy cavalry. Not to mention that he was the Mongolian mercenary he invited, even if the real Mongolian cavalry came, they would have to be bleeding in front of their army.
But now it's different. They hurriedly changed from offense to defense, and there were no defensive weapons.
How can such a military formation resist the world-famous Liu family cavalry?
Everyone understands one thing, that is, they are at an absolute disadvantage today, it depends on how many people can withstand the impact of the Liu family cavalry, and how many people can be born in heaven?
Lu Xiangsheng also understood that the opponent's cavalry was gathering strength and taking a fatal blow at any time.
He had no other way except to block the enemy and retreat calmly. If he saw the enemy's cavalry and knew that he had fallen into a trap, he would retreat immediately, which would probably lead to his army's collapse.
Retreat turned into a great defeat, and the opponent chased after him, but he would kill one of them and wiped out the entire army. The Tianxiong Army he had worked hard to train was just here.
Since the Tianxiong Army was formed, it has fought for several years and is very experienced. Everyone in their family knows that today is an extremely dangerous time. If they don’t fight hard and fight to the death, they have to explain it here.
Moreover, Liu's cavalry was preparing to attack, and the defenders on their city did not sit idly by.
They coordinated through the banner. In the past few days, the gate of Nanpi City has been closed and resisting the attack of the Tianxiong Army. However, at this time, they opened the city gate and teams of musketeers lined up from inside.
These are their elite musketeers, and they dispatched nearly 2,500, which are probably the last mobile force in the city. Their musketeers will attack the front of the Tianxiong Army from the front.
The musketeers inside were moving quickly, and the cavalry on both wings were ready.
However, the Tianxiong Army felt that the defense force was far from enough. They had no confidence in whether the temporary army formation could resist the enemy's impact.
Their military formation was relatively simple, just a group of spearmen and swords and shields were arranged in a whole line, and the spears were placed in front, hoping that these dense spears could block the impact of the enemy's cavalry.
Originally, according to the standard configuration, there should be a large number of archers behind the spearmen. These archers will shoot out bows and arrows when the enemy rushes into the position to cover the spearmen, and weaken the opponent's impact. However, in the past few days of siege, their archers have fought and fought with the Ming army archers in the city, and suffered heavy losses. Now when forming a formation, they cannot summon enough archers to defend, which makes more people despair.
Moreover, their tactics have always been aimed at the cavalry of Liu's army, so they deployed the spearmen on the periphery, hoping that relying on these spears, they could block the impact of the cavalry of Liu's army.
But after seeing Liu Jun musketeers in the city leave the city, they all changed their tactics, which was to line up the sword and shield hands in the front row, hoping that the sword and shield hands' shield hands could play a certain role in covering. After a few days of fighting, they knew that Liu Jun musketeers were powerful, and the opponent came in large numbers, but they could kill you.
The Ming army's musketeers were fixed, but Liu army's musketeers could line up and fire guns while firing, which means they had the ability to attack, which made them afraid that when they resisted the attack of Liu army's cavalry, they would still face the rampage of Liu army's musketeers.
This change of formation made them even more confused. Seeing this situation, Lu Xiangsheng began to order important personnel to clean up the fine and soft and ready to retreat at any time.
In fact, without Lu Xiangsheng's order, some of his subordinates had already started to pack their luggage, because they knew that the Liu family army could appear here, which means that they could send troops to support Nanpi at any time. They had estimated that the other party was unable to support Nanpi.
Even if Zhang Dajun comes, they may not be afraid. But now they are different. The Nine Palace Nanpi Bodhisattva has become a teacher and is useless. Here, the loss of soldiers and generals is broken and bloody. How can they face the impact of the fried army?
This ending was unexpected by many people, even Lu Xiangsheng could not have expected it, so he himself rode his horse on his own and ordered the soldiers to form a formation layer by layer, hoping to use the huge army to block the enemy's impact.
The enemy is on the field, the cavalry of the army, and they are all new forces. If they do not resist the defeat and defeat the opponent and let the opponent chase them all the way, they will have no way to die.
Such a situation really made him feel scared. He had studied Liu Bu's use of troops. Liu Bu had no strange plans and always used his strength to crush him. This made him sometimes laugh in his heart. This was too bad, and he would not use tricks to fight.
But after fighting too many wars, he realized that in fact, there is no need for so many tricks to fight. If you have strength, you will win with your strength. Their army originally focused on one force to reduce ten goals and use force to defeat tricks.
Liu Bu's current move is not so wonderful or magical. It can be found in any military book, but when the other party uses it, it seems so handy and powerful that it immediately forces his Tianxiong Army to the dead end.
The main thing Lu Xiangsheng was worried about was that they were in absolute adversity now. They didn’t need to fight this battle. They were already defeated, just how miserable they were. He knew that his army was defeated here, just how many people he could bring back to Cangzhou, or even defend Cangzhou?
And he dared to say one thing, that is, since he already understood, Hong Chengchou, who was even more timid than him, would definitely not dare to send troops south to continue attacking the Liu family, and the court's strategy of besieging the Liu family was considered a miscarriage.
Even the elite legions of these people were unable to deal with the Liu family, and those border troops transferred from the border would be even more powerless.
Lu Xiangsheng saw that he was in such a dilemma in an instant, and what was even worse was that the court wanted to organize another large-scale encirclement and suppression, and he didn't know when it would be.
These people were not bandits, and the imperial army sent thousands of people to chase and attack him.
Liu Zeqing's 100,000 army was defeated in one day, which shocked the other generals from all walks of life. They all understood one thing, that is, the Liu family army was truly powerful and truly elite, and it was definitely not something you could deal with with just a few thousand troops. Unless it was dispatched to send out a heavy army group, there was no way to do it. However, the heavy army group of the imperial court was not just spoken out.
Chapter completed!