Chapter 78: The Way of Benevolence and Forgiveness (11)
After annihilating all the Khitan infantry in front, Li Chengzhong did not feel relaxed. On the contrary, his heart sank to the bottom.
He lost the bet, and his opponent barely delayed a moment and immediately launched an attack after he changed his formation.
The Khitan's cavalry charge was extremely decisive and swift. All the cavalry from three directions rushed into the attack at once, leaving no chance at all - even the general led the charge personally.
Li Chengzhong watched with agony in his heart as the soldiers from the front camp slaughtered the Khitan infantry in the encirclement. Then, he saw the Khitan cavalry rushing in front of him. It was too late to change the formation. All Li Chengzhong could do was to direct the archers to fire two waves of arrows.
Yu briefly blocked the attack, then ordered the archers to abandon their bows and draw their swords. His final order was - fight on their own.
Tuli's vision had been honed in countless battles and was extremely vicious. When the Pingzhou Army changed formations, he immediately judged that this was the best time to attack, and then without hesitation invested all his strength, and
He personally led the charge. His judgment was very accurate. When the Khitan cavalry rushed to the Pingzhou Army, the Pingzhou Army had no time to take it back, and the entire battlefield was in chaos.
Tuli jumped into the Pingzhou Army first, followed by a torrent of cavalry. With a flick of his carbine, he exploded a ball of blood on the neck of a Pingzhou Army, and then continued forward, completely piercing it without stopping.
With such a penetration tactic, Tuli firmly believed that the Pingzhou Army was about to collapse completely. The experience of countless victorious battles showed that 90% of the military formation could not withstand a penetration.
When Tuli turned around, he was slightly stunned. The Pingzhou Army did not turn around and flee as he imagined, but continued to fight. However, he was only stunned for a moment before leading his men again.
The elite cavalry launched a second penetration. This time the penetration route was an arc. When he passed through the Pingzhou Army formation, he turned around to observe again, only to find that the Pingzhou Army was still fighting. He was a little uncomfortable.
I can believe it. After a closer look, I found that these Pingzhou troops were all in groups of five or ten, fighting spontaneously with their own cavalry.
What made him even more unbelievable was that the tactics of these Pingzhou troops were very sophisticated, and they seemed to be very familiar with this kind of battle. They avoided the attack of the Khitan cavalry without any panic, and shouted in unison what they couldn't understand.
He shouted and stabbed down the Khitan warriors on horseback one by one from the side. There were also some Pingzhou Army detachments surrounding the lone Khitan cavalry. They would often kill the surrounded Khitan cavalry with a single blow from several wooden spears.
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This was not the battle that Tuli had imagined. The army formation had obviously been dispersed, so why were they still fighting calmly? Tuli couldn't understand, so he simply attacked again. But the effect of this attack was even greater.
Low, when the Pingzhou Army team saw him charging towards him, they immediately jumped aside, making him ineffective. On the contrary, during this penetration, the cavalry following him was instead knocked off their horses by the Pingzhou Army.
I stabbed several of them down.
The spontaneous fighting and cooperation of the Pingzhou Army squad gradually entangled the Khitan cavalry in place. More and more Khitan cavalry had no choice but to get off their horses and fight on foot against the attack of the Pingzhou Army squad. For these dismounted Khitan cavalry,
The Pingzhou Army's Sword and Shield Team will spontaneously step forward to pick up the Lancer Team, while the Lancer Team will continue to look for other Khitan cavalry who are still on horseback and charging.
Liu Jinhou was the leader of the third group of the Jiadu Left Team. The spearmen he commanded were on the front line when they fought against the Khitan infantry. Five people had been killed. He led the remaining four spearmen to form
Liu Jinhou formed a group of five people and fought with the Khitan people with wooden guns in their hands. Seeing a group of Khitan cavalry rushing towards him, Liu Jinhou shouted, led his brothers to dodge to the side, and then loudly ordered: "
"Kill", commanding the soldiers to kill the last cavalryman.
Without stopping, Liu Jinhou scanned the battlefield and saw two soldiers from the front camp being surrounded by several Khitan cavalry. He quickly rushed over with his men and attacked the few Khitan cavalry from behind. Those few
The Khitan cavalry were very skilled in riding. They used several difficult movements to throw off their stirrups and jump off their horses.
From the corner of his eye, Liu Jinhou saw a group of brothers holding swords and shields rushing over. It was the "Feiyu Team" who had a deep grudge against Liu Jinhou in the football league. Liu Jinhou's team and the "Feiyu Team" both
They are a team in the first division. One is currently ranked sixth and the other is ranked seventh. They are rivals in the league. Every time the two sides play, their movements are very rough and the fight is extremely fierce. As the saying goes, the person who knows you best is often you.
The "enemy", at this moment Liu Jinhou and the leader of the group met each other's eyes, and the two sides were connected with each other. The leader of the group directed his brothers to surround several Khitan cavalry who were dismounted and fighting on foot. Liu Jinhou led the team to continue to attack the next target, and took along the troops.
Two lone brothers from the front camp.
The Pingzhou Army team gradually gathered together and gradually formed a team of dozens of people. Liu Jinhou also found his team leader Zhong Silang in the formation. At the sound of Zhong Silang's "return to the team", he led his brothers to join Zhong Silang.
In the square formation that Shiro gathered.
As the phalanxes gradually took shape, the soldiers of the front battalion began to crush the battlefield in teams. Under the command of the team officers, each team fought individually and cooperated with each other, staggering across the battlefield.
Teams of Khitan cavalry surrounded them, using both swords and guns, and killed them all. This combat habit was slowly formed during actual combat drills with the "Wolf Army". Each team was very familiar with the Khitan fighting methods, so fighting was very easy.
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The cavalry led by Jie Li is the only most mobile team in the front camp. It includes both the scout team of the front camp and the "Wolf Army" composed of Khitan soldiers. Jie Li leads the cavalry at the edge of the battlefield,
When they encountered a large group of Khitan cavalry, they urged their horses to pass. When they saw a small group of Khitan cavalry, they immediately pounced on them and killed them. These Khitan soldiers were even more courageous in fighting than the scout team, and they were very aggressive to their own people.
The ruthless attack shocked even Wang Dalang, the leader of the scout team.
The battle has been going on for an hour, and there are fewer and fewer Khitan cavalry in front of Jie Li, so he turns his attention to the Khitan cavalry group with a size of nearly a hundred cavalry. This is also the largest Khitan cavalry on the battlefield. Right there.
When Jie Li fixed his eyes on this group of cavalry, he found that this group of Khitan cavalry was heading towards Li Chengzhong's position. Li Chengzhong was only guarded by a group of sword and shield soldiers, and the leader was Dutou Zhou Machete.
Xie Li was anxious in his heart and quickly led his cavalry to charge forward diagonally. He took off his bow and arrow in his busy schedule, and with the bow like a full moon, he shot an arrow directly at the leading Khitan general.
When the arrow was shot, Xie Li knew it would hit the target. This was an indescribable feeling. He just felt that the arrow felt very good, and it should be the best arrow he had shot in these years.
Jie Li watched as the arrow shot past like lightning, went directly into the back of the Khitan general's neck, flew out from in front of his neck, and then... the arrow's remaining power did not fade and flew towards Li Chengzhong.
Li Chengzhong only had time to shrink his neck, and the arrow flying out from the Khitan general's neck reached the top of his head, shooting his helmet off, and his bun immediately fell apart. Li Cheng was shocked and thought to himself, what is this?
Kung Fu, at that moment he even doubted that the Khitan general opposite knew sorcery? How could he shoot an arrow from his neck? Could it be the legendary Shushan Flying Sword?
It was Dalang Jun Tuli who was caught a hundred steps away and an arrow pierced his neck like a divine aid. As his body was lifted off the horse, the Khitan cavalry behind him were stunned. At that moment, it seemed like the entire battlefield
Everyone suddenly became quiet, extremely quiet...and then there was an uproar. The Khitan cavalry turned their horses and fled in all directions, shouting in panic.
Even if Li Chengzhong didn't understand the Khitan language, he still knew that the opponent's top commander had died in the battle. He immediately issued a loud order and ordered the soldiers in the front camp to intercept and kill the fleeing Khitan people.
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This battle that took place at the northern foot of Bailang Mountain ended with the victory of the front camp of the Pingzhou Army. The results were very brilliant. More than 630 Khitan heads were cut off on the battlefield, and more than 300 Khitan soldiers were captured.
More than 700 war horses were captured. The front camp of the Pingzhou Army also suffered heavy casualties. More than 110 people were killed, 36 were seriously injured, and 97 were lightly injured. Almost half of the casualties made Li Chengzhong extremely heartbroken.
The victory of this battle depended entirely on two accidents, two accidents that Li Chengzhong did not expect at all.
First, when the Khitan cavalry disrupted the military formation, the soldiers of the Pingzhou Army unexpectedly did not collapse. Instead, they persisted in fighting as a group, and their tactics were flexible and they cooperated with each other tacitly. This was the result of Li Chengzhong's hard training throughout the winter.
This is also a major difference between the army trained with modern training methods and the ancient army.
The second is the accidental death of Khitan Dalang Jun Tuli. This death was entirely due to the magic arrow that flew a hundred steps away from the instructor Jieli. Afterwards, Jieli admitted that if he wanted him to shoot such an amazing arrow again, it would basically take a long time.
It was impossible. The moment Tuli fell from his horse, the Khitan cavalry was completely routed. This was also one of the characteristics of the ancient nomadic army.
Under the combined effect of these two accidents, the Pingzhou Army's front battalion, which was outnumbered and outnumbered, defeated the main force of the Khitan Pinbu in a field battle and killed the enemy extremely heavily. It can be said that it completely destroyed the Pinbu's ability to fight again.
The victorious Li Chengzhong did not have time to pay attention to the battlefield. For the first time, he did not go to visit the wounded soldiers immediately after the war. Instead, he quickly organized the soldiers who could still fight to form a team and collected the horses scattered on the battlefield. After tying up all the Khitan prisoners of war, Li Chengzhong
He could only mobilize the remaining civilians and let them escort the prisoners back to Bailang Mountain. He gathered the remaining two hundred soldiers, led the cavalry led by Jie Li, and went straight to Pinbu's camp by the Bailang River.
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The follow-up attack was very timely, and Li Chengzhong effortlessly broke into the camp that had troubled him all winter. In the camp, he discovered the imprisoned young man Junwuli.
"Do you want to become Pinbu's Qijin?" Li Chengzhong happily looked at Wuli lying at his feet: "Your brother has been killed by me, and now you are the last one qualified to inherit Pinbu's Qijin."
If you want to, take me to Liucheng. If you don’t want to, it doesn’t matter. I will go by myself, and then let the Pingbu be removed from the sequence of the Eight Divisions of Khitan. From now on, there will be no Pingbu of Khitan in the world.
This tribe."
(End of Volume 1)
Continuation: After half a year of hard work and half a year of dormancy, Li Chengzhong’s military career is about to reach a new stage, and what will be shown in front of him will be a broader picture. I hope everyone will continue to support!