Chapter 22: One death solves a thousand sorrows, one death all things are over!
To the northwest outside the city of Mi County, Zhang Guangda led a team of 300 heavy cavalry. They formed a formation and marched slowly towards the bandits in the south. Su Laohu and Mo Rigen each led more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry to protect his sides.
Zhang Guangda tried his best to suppress the speed of the horses in order to maintain the order of the formation. The heavy cavalry charge into the formation relied on the neat and tight military formation rather than personal bravery. Therefore, the integrity of the military formation and the consistency of the marching speed were required.
Extremely high.
After a year of training, the heavy cavalry formed a formation and charged. From forming a team, walking slowly, walking quickly, running, forming a team again, and charging forward, they could maintain a strict formation. However, after all, they had never experienced the test of actual combat. Zhang Guangda also felt that
Somewhat bottomless.
He put on heavy armor and rode his horse at the front, keeping the speed down. He led the heavy cavalry towards the bandits at a slow pace to maintain power, so that he could launch a death charge in the final stage.
The heavy cavalry, with Zhang Guangda in the center, was composed of five cavalry in the first column, seven cavalry in the second column, and so on, forming a twelve-column conical formation and ran toward the bandits.
Su Laohu and Mo Rigen each commanded more than a hundred cavalry, and were stationed on both sides to protect the flanks of the heavy cavalry. Their speed was also suppressed and they did not attack at full speed.
Zhang Guangda saw the bandits forming a team from a distance, but Zhang Guangda didn't take it seriously. Even if the bandits on the opposite side were well prepared, they were still vulnerable to his own cavalry.
When he saw the heavy cavalry trotting in less than 200 steps away from the bandits, Zhang Guangda shouted: "The heavy cavalry should form a team, pay attention to the formation, and prepare to speed up."
They began to urge their horses, changing from a canter to a fast run. Seeing that the formation of the bandits on the opposite side was gradually getting tighter, Zhang Guangda even shouted: "Keep the formation, speed up the charge, and let the bandits see our Xuanzhen cavalry!"
When the two sides gathered and entered the 100th step, the array of horse thieves on the opposite side gradually became more serious and shouted loudly, but Zhang Guangda ignored him and just shouted loudly: "The whole team, pay attention to the formation, charge forward... charge!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
Twelve rows of cone-shaped cavalry formation maintained a strict formation and began to accelerate forward. The horses under their crotches had been suppressed. Now that they were free of restraints, they were all running hard with their hooves raised.
Although there were only three hundred riders, their momentum and oppressive feeling were as if thousands of riders were galloping forward, raising a cloud of smoke and dust, and the sound of iron hoofs trampling the ground shocked everyone's heart.
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Li Jiyu was also frightened. He vaguely felt that something was wrong with the approaching officers and soldiers. They dared to charge towards his own formation of nearly 4,000 people with only four to five hundred horsemen.
But I had never encountered such a situation before. Those officers and soldiers were not always chased and beaten by me. They only dared to stick to the city fortress and never dared to go out of the city to fight with me.
"It's really evil!" Li Jiyu couldn't help but mutter in his heart.
He was able to become the leader of this group of thieves not just because of his chivalry and kindness, but also because of his courage, insight and decisiveness. Seeing this situation, he immediately ordered: "Quick, go and ride two horses to see how they get back to the city.
It's okay, you guys go up and ask the infantry formation to rush up and intercept the officers and soldiers, quickly... quickly..."
At this moment, the official cavalry on the opposite side advanced a hundred steps away, and he could clearly see the cavalry in the large cloud of smoke. Not only were everyone wearing iron armor, but even the horses were heavily armored cavalry wearing layers of cotton armor.
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Li Jiyu was so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth, "No..." He muttered in his heart. He had fought against the army several times before, and there were not many people wearing iron armor, but the cavalry in front of him was armed to the teeth.
Never seen.
Suddenly, a group of thieves rushed out of the west gate of Mi County, howling, and then a group of horse thieves rushed out of the west gate. They even brandished swords and guns to slash and stab the thieves who blocked the way.
Li Jiyu hurriedly turned around and saw that the leader was none other than Ji Zhiying, who had gone to the city to seize the treasury. Knowing this, he secretly said "No...".
I heard Ji Zhiying shouting from a distance: "Master, the officers and soldiers are entering the city, they can't stop it... the north gate... the south gate... have all escaped..."
This roar became the last straw for Li Jiyu to save his life, but he did not only care about his own people when trouble came. He shouted loudly: "Quick, drive the hungry people forward, disturb the officers and soldiers, everyone is shouting..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't wait for anyone else's reaction. He was the first to urge his horse forward, and after making a semicircle, he galloped away into the wilderness to the west.
Most of the horse thieves were old bandits from various places or deserters. They were all experienced in robbery and escaping. Their personal escape skills were excellent. Even if Li Jiyu didn't give an order to remind them, he would not be so stupid.
Go and die.
But Li Jiyu didn't want to escape by himself. He also wanted to escape with the thieves. As for the hungry people, it didn't matter. As long as there was no major loss of the core strength, the team could grow again at any time.
Under the pressure of the horse thieves, the hungry people on both sides could only stupidly rush towards the oncoming heavy cavalry of the army. Even if they knew that they were going to die, what could they do?
What's more, everyone knows very well in their hearts that someone will always die if they rush in, but if someone dies, then someone will survive. This is what everyone thinks.
They rushed forward without hesitation, maybe just to win and have a good meal, maybe because they were used to obeying, or maybe they were looking for a way to escape.
One death will relieve a thousand worries; one death will put an end to everything!
In fact, Li Jiyu originally wanted to fight the oncoming officers and soldiers. He even believed that a mere five to six hundred officers and soldiers, even the more than 3,000 troops he had not entered the city, were enough to defeat them.
Even if the officers and soldiers coming from the opposite side are impressive and well-equipped, so what?
Since the uprising, have there been fewer battles against the government troops? Every time I didn’t run after the government troops, even the city was captured and captured. If it weren’t for this group of government troops causing trouble, Mi County would also be ours.
Le.
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Zhang Guangda just started to speed up and charge, when he saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from behind the formation of horse thieves on the opposite side. He knew that the horse thieves on the opposite side were more than a hundred steps behind the foot formation, and it was impossible to launch a charge at this time. They must run away!
But there was no other way. He was leading a heavy cavalry, which was good at rushing into battle, but it could not last long, let alone pursue the enemy, because the men and horses were too heavily armored and could not run fast at all.
Zhang Guangda could only shout: "Su Laohu, Mo Rigen, rush forward, don't let the thieves escape..."
After he finished shouting, the heavy cavalry around him who were charging horizontally repeated it in unison. They shouted like this three times, for fear that the Meng cavalry charging on both sides wouldn't hear.
Su Laohu and Mo Rigen also discovered the small movements of the horse thieves on the opposite side. The habit of their Mongolian cavalry is to keep a certain distance from the enemy, and then use mounted fire to harass the enemy to tire them out or make the formation chaotic before they launch a real attack.
attack.
Now their task was to harass and intercept the fleeing enemy on both wings. On the right wing was Su Laohu leading more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry. He had already seen the signs before Zhang Guangda issued a warning.