When Li Shi calmed down and saw not only the five-color command flags gathered around Li Xian, but also the handsome flags, he was so frightened that his heart seemed to dare not beat.
Li Chengzhi is also charging with the horse?
Do you want your life?
Don't talk about any unforeseen circumstances, as long as a little bit of Langjun's skin is rubbed off, it will be light if Fourth Brother and Li Feng come back and peel off a layer of his skin...
In just an instant, Li Shi was startled and broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't even care whether the infantry formation behind him would be broken by the enemy's cavalry.
He just heard a sharp roar: "Hurry up, hurry up..." At the same time, his legs clamped tightly on the horse's belly, and the half of the reins in his hand was pulled hard...
Li Chengzhi led his cavalry to attack, not just on a whim.
First, he rushed the army in a hurry. He didn't even select a cavalry brigade commander before the enemy came. Li Feng was away and Li Shi was powerless, so he had to personally command.
The second is that sooner or later, you will have to experience this day...
Don't listen to Li Song, let alone Li Shixian, even Li Qi, a fourth-grade deputy general, sometimes rushes into battle with the army...
Rather than waiting to encounter a strong enemy and having to rush in hastily, it is better to become proficient in advance while the enemy is not strong.
The thieves are only half-armored cavalry, without shields or bows. They are already as weak as they can be.
Moreover, there are nearly twenty personal guards on his side, so as long as he is not unlucky enough to fall off his horse, there is basically no danger...
Li Shi could see it, and Li Liang naturally saw it too.
He gritted his teeth, looked at Shuai Qi running further and further away, and cursed severely: Lang Jun is simply crazy!
Then he turned back and stared closely at the enemy cavalry who was urging their horses to circle to the left side of the Chinese army, showing a sinister smile: Well done...
The spear formation has an extremely obvious shortcoming: the spear is too long and cannot be turned when charging or attacking, so the flanks and rear are extremely weak. In the era when the Macedonian phalanx was invincible, in addition to the front army, the other three sides were equipped with a large number of cavalry protection. p>
But who gave Li Chengzhi more iron?
His spearmen are not only spearmen, but also equipped with full armor, and are equipped with swords and shields. They can abandon their spears when necessary.
Even at a ratio of four to one, every brigade of spearmen includes a team of archers with swords and shields.
This perfectly makes up for this shortcoming, and can even form a hollow formation when stationed to achieve all-round defense.
As long as necessary, the infantry in any direction and in any position can raise their guns and turn. They can also mobilize reinforcements from within the square according to the strength of the enemy's attack, without affecting external defense capabilities.
Therefore, Li Chengzhi was not afraid of enemy cavalry attacking the flanks of the infantry formation at all. He wished that Li Wenzhong would send out all the cavalry.
In the end, as he expected, Li Wenzhong actually sent out all the cavalry: half of them circled the left flank of the infantry formation, and the other half intercepted himself.
The right-wing cavalry of the rebels had just come out of the formation, and dozens of carriages followed closely behind them, inserting themselves directly between the two formations and lying in the middle.
Then Li Wenzhong took the initiative to send out the left-wing cavalry, intending to block Li Chengzhi's cavalry in the south, making it impossible for him to return to defend the left wing.
But Li Wenzhong never dreamed that Li Chengzhi had no intention of returning to defense, but wanted to wipe out all his cavalry...
As long as these thousand thieves are eliminated, the remaining infantry will be no different from lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
What makes Li Chengzhi even more happy is that this shows that his battlefield sense is not bad at all. At least he can guess the enemy commander's next move based on the enemy's slightly abnormal behavior.
I dare not say that I can predict the enemy's opportunity, but at least I can be one step ahead of the enemy...
Looking at the charging enemy cavalry, Li Chengzhi smiled sinisterly: Only a fool would hedge against you.
He lowered his body, quickly leaned on the horse, and shouted coldly: "Diffraction!"
At the forefront of the cavalry team are Li Hou'er and his father... Li Chengzhi wanted to be the vanguard, but no one dared to agree, and Li Shi was away, so he replaced Li Cong and his son, who were the best in horsemanship.
The father and son drew their bows and nocked arrows, and at the same time they knelt on the horse's neck, the war horse's instinctive direction.
Seeing that the white cavalry was avoiding the battle, the cavalry leader of the rebel army was slightly stunned, then pulled the reins and rushed over diagonally.
Li Chengzhi scratched his head a little: How could this cavalry general have the same virtue as Li Shi, so much that he knew how to fight?
The question is, can you do it?
Li Cong and his son turned their horses aside again, loosened their bow strings, and fired arrows at the enemy's first horse.
Such a big target was less than 20 meters away. It was difficult to shoot accurately. Two heavy arrows were accurately shot into the left belly of the war horse, causing two flowers of blood to appear.
The war horse suddenly felt pain, let out a long hiss, and instinctively dodged to the right, allowing the knight on the horse to stab the enemy with a carefully prepared shot.
At the same time, the forwards of both sides passed each other shoulder to shoulder, with a horizontal distance of less than two feet.
Li Chengzhi secretly thought it was dangerous: If he got closer, the enemy cavalry's spear blade would cut into Li Hou'er's neck.
Sure enough, no matter how passionate you are from outside the battle, there is still no excitement like coming to the enemy's battle in person...
Fortunately, Li Chengzhi is self-aware, and now is not the time for him to kill the enemy, otherwise the cavalry behind him will be in chaos, and the whole army will rush to protect him...
One black and one white, two teams of cavalry passed by on the wrong horse, arrows flying everywhere.
Just listening to the random sound of, from time to time, you can see the enemy riding connected and the three collapses.
Then came the ear-piercing howl and the neighing of horses.
Although the horse is being shot, as soon as it falls, half of the ten horsemen will be stepped on by the horse behind them or crushed by the horse.
The rebel soldiers didn't have steel armor to protect themselves like Bai Qi, so how could they not be trampled and screamed?
Li Shi, who had almost used up all his strength to catch up to the end of the team, drew his bow and shot an arrow. He looked at the densely packed enemy cavalry lying on the ground and secretly smacked his lips at the destructive power of the shot from the wrong horse on the enemy cavalry.
, why is it better than frontal hedging?
What’s even more strange is: so far, it seems that our cavalry has not lost a single one?
Not to mention that the enemy cavalry does not have a few bows. Even if it does, the white cavalry wearing full armor will not be able to cause much damage unless equipped with a crossbow.
What's more, the enemy cavalry are not fools. The front army suffered so many casualties, how could the rear cavalry dare to charge at the white cavalry?
The enemy knight who is still alive, or has not been shot down, has only one thought in his mind: the farther away from the white knight, the better.
This resulted in the cavalry formation on the left flank of the rebels collapsing before the cavalry on both sides were completely out of formation.
But Li Wenzhong was so clever that he divided the battlefield into two. The enemy cavalry had no place to escape and could only circle in the south half of the battlefield.
The infantrymen in the front army were so excited when they saw this that they wished they could rush forward and fire two more shots...
Li Chengzhi led the cavalry in a circle of fire until there was no more shots to be fired, and finally fired a round at the left-wing infantry formation of the rebels before urging the horses to turn.
When he walked around the formation again, a thundering cheer suddenly burst out from the formation: "Wan Sheng..."
Li Chengzhi was shocked. Could it be that the right-wing cavalry of the rebels was destroyed by Li Liang?
How could it be so fast?
The distance between the two formations was only a hundred meters. He had just finished a round and turned around. He had been holding on for only a minute. The right-wing cavalry of the rebels had only just rushed in front of the infantry formation?