Chapter 666: First Battle of the Northern Route Army
On the hill to the northeast of the camp, thick white snow has accumulated on every pine tree, but they stand upright without any bending, just like the group of white-robed knights sitting on horses in the forest!
Right in front of the team is a horse standing proudly. The spliced python skin armor looks quite weird, and even looks a bit nondescript compared to the three thousand horses behind it, but there is something in the eyes of the snow dragon horse.
Just proud!
The midday sun shone from the pine forest, and the snow dragon horse's forehead flashed with golden light. The hardest piece of snake skin was now inlaid with a danglu made of pure gold. The danglu was engraved with the three words "Snowstorm".
This big character indicates that Xue Longma has become the leader of this army!
The young man on the horse is dressed in a white robe, with clear eyes, a resolute expression, and a heroic posture that makes people dare not look directly at him. He Qizhou's confidence in daring to attack not only comes from the three thousand equally upright knights in white behind him, but also from the ten knights in white.
A recent breakthrough!
After being rescued from the water, He Qizhou rested for ten days, and then continued his hard training underwater. At a depth of 70 feet at the bottom of the lake, relying on the extreme pressure of the lake, it took him fifty days to break the life into several pieces.
The Du Veins are connected into one!
The moment the Du Vein was connected, the true energy in the Dantian began to flow happily through the meridians like melted water from the snowy mountains. He Qizhou suddenly felt that he was like a river that never stopped flowing. There was nothing in this world that could
Block your own progress!
I want to water the grasslands, moisten the desert, cross mountains and ridges, and level the injustice in this world! By the way, I also want to go to the plum grove in Jiuzhou Pond to appreciate the plum blossoms.
"Master, what are you thinking about? The emperor said that he is ready and can set off!" Luo Yu from behind reminded him gently.
"Let's go!" He Qizhou retracted his passionate thoughts, the snow dragon horse stepped forward like a general, and the three thousand armored men in the pine forest marched neatly toward the northeast!
The three thousand cavalry were divided into six battalions, two battalions of heavy armor and four battalions of light cavalry. Compared with the five thousand cavalry led by Helian Chenwu behind him, the equipment of the two was completely different.
Helian Chenwu spent almost all his money just to make Baofengxue into a warrior of tigers and wolves!
The reason why the forest tribes in Baicheng are so powerful is not only due to their amazing natural physiques, but also related to their admiration for iron weapons. Almost every man is a master of making weapons, and when they get their hands on scraps of copper and iron, everything will turn into a weapon.
Into a powerful weapon!
The light and heavy armors, long and short weapons of "Blizzard" were all made by the warriors of the woodland tribe. However, during the escape, the raw materials were limited, so the most sophisticated weapons were only assembled into the hands of three thousand Blizzard warriors.
In addition to armor and weapons, the horses of the three thousand warriors were carefully selected from tens of thousands of good horses; the three thousand sets of white robes used up all the fabric in the palace; the rations for the three thousand people included not only meat but
There are precious cheeses…
"General Gongsun, do you want to take a rest? You have walked fifty miles from early morning to now. I'm afraid-" Sixty miles northeast of the Eastern Zhou imperial camp, an officer complained to another person next to him.
"What are you afraid of, General Guo?" the officer surnamed Gongsun said calmly, without any intention of stopping.
"The weather is so cold, I'm afraid my brothers won't be able to hold on," the officer surnamed Guo replied.
"General Guo, are you kidding? I come from Xiazhou and I can persist. Your soldiers and horses in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty have always been cold-resistant. How can I not persist?" Gongsun's tone became a little cold.
"Then let's go again." General Guo sighed.
Perhaps because he felt that he had offended the other party, Gongsun said again: "General Guo, we are walking in the mountains. Although we are closer to the false emperor's lair, we are certainly not walking as fast as Master Lin. They walked a long way after landing.
This is all grassland. If you continue to rest, you may miss military orders, and neither you nor I will be able to bear the burden."
General Guo said unconvinced: "But we have been chasing the Mojie tribe before, and suddenly we were asked to turn around and go to the southwest corner of Beihai. In one round trip, we traveled at least a thousand miles farther than them! It was a severe winter in Beihai! There was not a single battle.
Fighting, dozens of brothers have been lost!"
"Then we can't stop! As long as Helian Chenwu is eliminated in one go, everyone can live a peaceful life! At least more than half of those dozens of brothers are mine. I didn't even call out. Brother Guo is feeling sorry for me.
What?" Gongsun said.
The officer surnamed Guo could only curse in his heart: "I regard my subordinates as brothers, how can I treat my subordinates as livestock like you, a beast!"
"Report——" Two scouts arrived on Pegasus, interrupting their conversation.
"Speak!" Gongsun ordered loudly.
The scout quickly said: "A group of white cavalry appeared in the pine forest ahead, numbering about three thousand. Calculating their traveling speed, they should be fifteen miles away, and they are exactly blocking our marching route!"
"Haha, the mantis is blocking the car! It's just the right time!" General Gongsun laughed sinisterly and said: "General Guo, Helian Chenwu can only have ten thousand riders at most. If you really want to stay in that lair, it's hard for us to attack. You can do it now.
Get ready, I will send a letter to Your Majesty to ask for credit for you!"
General Guo's name is Guo Chang. He was originally a captain of thousands under Lin Hu's tent. Now he is the deputy general of this army of ten thousand people. Eight thousand of the entire army are Bohai soldiers under Lin Hu's command. The chief general Gongsun Qin is transferred from Xiazhou.
After coming, he returned to Linhu Jiedong. Although he only had two thousand personal soldiers, he was still entrusted with the responsibility of commanding the army. The two thousand Xiazhou soldiers almost never fought and only served as supervisors.
Because Helian Chenwu's army had always retreated at the first sign of pursuit from Baicheng to Beihai. In Gongsun Qin's eyes, the opponent's army of ten thousand people was overwhelming in numbers, and he could easily defeat the three thousand people who had gone out to fight rashly!
But Guo Chang obviously didn't think so. He grabbed the scout and asked, "Have you seen clearly what kind of army it is? How many cavalrymen are there from the Woodland Tribe? Are there anyone from Hanjian Villa?"
"It's really hard to see this. They were all in white and they were in the snow. We couldn't keep our eyes open just to count their heads. When we were about to come back to report the news, we happened to bump into their scout cavalry. The commander saw the other scout.
There are only two riders, so prepare to kill them."
"Have you killed him?" Guo Chang asked again.
"I don't know, we just want to get back in a hurry." One of the scouts replied.
Gongsun Qin smiled and said: "Six cavalry versus two cavalry, what else is there to ask? General Guo, you must march immediately. If we let them know our number, I'm afraid they will escape!"
"You are the commander-in-chief, you make the arrangements!" Guo Chang said helplessly. Every time, his own men charged into the battle. Although his men were filled with resentment, he was powerless.
"Okay! Listen to my general, change the long snake formation into a wild goose formation, speed up, don't let go of the enemy troops who are coming to die!" Gongsun Qin gave the order, and the advancing army quickly spread out horizontally, and the Chinese army started to advance
Rush up.
After running five or six miles, he saw an army in white clothes slowly marching out of the sparse forest on the slope three miles ahead. Gongsun Qin stopped the march and prepared to let the two wings of the flying geese formation be lifted up and line up before heading towards them.
The opponent charges.
The scout cavalry who just reported the military situation never found his companions, so he ran back and reported to Guo Changhui at the front of the team: "General Guo, Chief Yu and the others have not come back. I think they have killed them. I don't know who else is behind them."
Are there any reinforcements?"
"Even if Helian Chenwu comes out in full force, there is nothing to fear. General Guo, prepare to attack!" Gongsun Qin ordered without waiting for Guo Chang's reply.
"I think we should shrink our formation. It's easy to be scattered by them if we line up like this!" Guo Chang looked at the three thousand people and horses on the slope three miles away, and suddenly felt a sense of timidity. Although the three thousand horses were spacing out,
There was no formation in the forest, but the men and horses stood quietly, making almost no sound. They looked like a group of unusually calm wolves, staring indifferently at their prey.
"Are you kidding? General Guo doesn't dare to fight?" Gongsun Qin sneered.
Guo Chang had no choice but to give the order: "Send the order and prepare to charge!"
…
"Everyone, listen carefully. After they enter the shooting range, the two battalions of heavy armored soldiers rush out from behind first, and the others stay in place to shoot arrows. When the opponent stops shooting, everyone quickly attacks. After breaking through the enemy's formation, first deal with the enemy's rear.
The enemy troops will turn around and join forces with His Majesty's army to attack the enemy troops in the front row."
He Qizhou began to issue general orders to the officers of each battalion. Although he had seen armies of more than 10,000 people many times, this was the first time he had encountered a large army face to face. Although he was extremely confident in the "Blizzard", he still felt a little bit in his heart.
nervous.
"Leave the enemy's general to me." Yuwen Lingfeng approached He Qizhou.
"Okay, one for each." He Qizhou and Yuwen Lingfeng looked at each other and smiled. They watched Gongsun Qin and Guo Chang talking from a distance. The two of them had already figured out who the enemy general was.
"Kill--" Guo Chang's army took the lead in launching an attack. Thousands of horsemen galloped at the same time. The horses' hooves passed by, and snow flew everywhere, seeming to shake the ground.
"Arrow!" With the white-robed cavalry less than a mile away from the hillside, Guo Chang's charging army fired thousands of arrows at the enemy troops who were still motionless!
"The front army shoots arrows, and the heavy armor attacks!" He Qizhou looked up at the arrows falling like dark clouds, and finally ordered to fight back. A thousand well-dressed heavy armored cavalry rushed out from behind, while the remaining people drew their bows on their horses.
Reflection.
The bows carried by these three thousand horsemen were all two-stone bows, and their range was at least twenty or thirty feet farther than the opponent. He Qizhou had conducted a detailed study of the Eastern Zhou army before the war began, and most of the opponent's first arrows would miss.
, even if a few arrows can barely reach it, they can no longer penetrate the light armor of men and horses. The timely attack of heavy armor will make those archers afraid to shoot the second arrow, and they will either move to the back row and shoot again, or carry the arrow with their backs.
Bows were exchanged for weapons and horse fighting. None of these would pose a threat to the light armored troops on the slope.
But the power of the arrows shot by one's own side is not the same. First, the bow is strong and the ground is occupied; secondly, the opponent is sprinting, which makes the arrows shot by one's own side more lethal; finally, the standing volley is absolutely
More powerful and accurate than arrows shot from horseback!
Therefore, in the same volley, the thousands of feather arrows from Lin Hu's army only injured a dozen of He Qizhou's riders, while the two consecutive arrows fired by He Qizhou knocked over three or four hundred riders! This chapter has been completed!