Fu Song

Chapter 557 One point breaks, the whole line breaks
In a real battle, a duel between cavalry is far less shocking than a duel between infantry.

Even if it looks like their scene is bigger.

This is because cavalry battles basically come and go in a hurry, charge a few times, and shake each other a few times.Then the battle entered a mode in which one side fled and the other chased.

Both sides are four-legged, which allows them to run conditionally.

But infantry is different.

Sometimes there is nowhere to run even if you want to.

Because you are surrounded by people, you are bound to move forward, even if you are extremely unwilling, you can only drift with the flow.

Until the people in front are dead, it's your turn to go up and do your best.

That's why sometimes the infantry fell down in a row, and the rows were filled in, and the corpses fell on the ground. They were all so neat and shocking to watch.

Pseudo-Qi infantry, the combat effectiveness is really not bad.

Some things are really weird.

You are like the puppet Qi’s army. A considerable part of it is from the former Forbidden Army around Gyeonggi. When they fought against the Liao Army, they looked so weak that they fell down with one blow. army.

But they changed their flags, and looking back, when they fought against the Song army, they seemed to have changed completely, each of them was extremely brave.

Just like the team in front of them, when they collided with Gao Yingxiang's Yunnan Army, they first shot with feather arrows, then the long shields formed the wall, and the spears formed the forest. wind.

Even, because they are taller than Yunnan soldiers in terms of body shape, they still have a slight advantage in such hand-to-hand combat.

This made Gao Yingxiang slightly surprised.

He realized that he had underestimated these guys. He raised his head and glanced at the fake Qi flag fluttering in the distance. The so-called King of Qi Liu Yu was sitting under it, probably because this person personally supervised the battle!
But Gao Yingxiang was not worried.

Because Yue Teng's cavalry had an overwhelming advantage, as long as Yue Teng cleaned up the pseudo Qi cavalry around him, in retrospect, it would be Liu Yu's end.

The cavalry will definitely not be able to please the infantry who are fighting in formation.

But now, the infantry of both sides are fighting together, the situation is quite different.

The joining of a cavalry at this time is enough to crush the opponent's will to fight.

Of course Liu Yu also understands this, but he is not without backup, fifty miles away, he still has a support army!

There are at least [-] troops in Xiapi garrison!
As long as these [-] fresh troops came to join the battle, then he could crush his opponent with the numbers alone.

Sometimes, quantitative changes can really promote qualitative changes.

Liu Yu just hated his cavalry for not being able to live up to expectations, but even though their defeat was ugly at the moment, the generals in command knew the severity of the situation, and even though they were defeated, they did not dare to escape. It is a blessing in misfortune.

From this point of view, after this battle is over, this person can still be used.

After all, a general who can see the situation on the battlefield and make a correct judgment is still rare.

It is fifty miles from Xiapi to here.

Before I arrived here, I had already sent a messenger to inform the Xiapi defenders that they should be on the road now. Counting the time, they could walk twenty or thirty miles in half a day, or at dusk, they should arrive at the battlefield .

By that time, both sides are exhausted, but they are the new force.

A battle is winnable.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu couldn't help smiling.

Walking fifty miles a day, his army is actually a rare elite.Basically, the current infantry can go thirty miles a day, which is very good.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu couldn't help but his face froze slightly. He turned his head suddenly and looked to the northwest.

There was an army there, and according to the statistics of his own scouts, on the highest day, that army turned a hundred miles a day.

If one's own army is elite, then what is this army?
With this glance, Liu Yu's face lost all color.

He felt that he valued the other party enough. On the northwest corner, he placed a whole command and an army of [-] people, waiting for this army that had been fleeing crazily these days, or luring him.

It stands to reason that under such a high-intensity march, the remaining combat power of such an army is already limited. Entering the battlefield, that is, being able to contain one's own strength is very remarkable.

But now, the opponent not only launched an offensive brazenly, but also the entire army commanded by him has been defeated.

Three thousand people against three thousand people, waiting for work with ease, against the exhaustion of the laborers and soldiers, how can they still fight like this?

The northwest direction was like this, and suddenly the entire Liu Yu's army exposed a huge opening in the side.

It's like a person wearing armor all over his body, but there is a piece missing under his ribs, exposing his weakness to the enemy.

"Stop them!" Liu Yu gave an order angrily, and a commanding reserve team staying beside him immediately headed northwest.

Wei Wu is now a god of killing.

Although Xiao Cheng has always discouraged the generals from charging forward, there are really many of his subordinates like this.

Wei Wu is like this, Wang Zhu is like this, Han Kai is like this, and Yue Teng is like this.

What these generals like to do most is to rely on their own abilities to tear open the mouth for their own army, break the deadlock and win.

And they also think that this is a matter of course, a job that a general should do.

This cognition is very different from Xiao Cheng's cognition.

Xiao Cheng believes that the general's responsibility should be more to command the army to fight.

However, such problems repeatedly appeared in his subordinates, and when Xiao Cheng accused them, they were still quite unconvinced, which made Xiao Cheng seriously reflect on it.

Or it was really my fault.

In this era, strictly speaking, in the era of cold weapons, this is what a general should look like?
Commanding a war is the job of a commander.

The general who leads the troops should take the lead?
The big bow in Wei Wu's hands was built by Xiao Cheng for him at a cost of thousands of guan. From the selection of bow base materials, processing to the production of bow strings, it took a master-level bow master a year to make it. this bow.

Xiao Cheng really likes that his generals make tailor-made weapons.

Just like Wang Zhu's big knife with a three-foot-long blade and a two-foot-long handle.Although Wang Zhu's subordinates all use this kind of knives, there is a complete difference between Wang Zhu's knives and their knives in terms of material.

The same is true for Yue Teng's double swords.

Since the generals under his command like to do this kind of back-firing, Xiao Cheng can only do everything possible to add an insurance to their safety factor.

Wei Wu carried a pot of arrows on his back, and then there were four soldiers around him, carrying eight pots of arrows for him.

In addition to carrying arrows, these four soldiers also had a shield and a knife in their hands. In addition to offering arrows for Wei Wu, they also had to provide protection for their general as much as possible.

Wei Wu's arrows shot without fail.

The opponent's shield couldn't stop the sharp arrow shot from the strong bow in Wei Wu's hand at all.

Wei Wu's every arrow shoots at the officers.

Basically, it was the sound of the string, and the opponent couldn't even see the shadow of the arrow.

The puppet Qi's command was defeated so quickly. The most fundamental problem is that their control was overthrown by Wei Wu's three arrows at the first meeting.

That enemy general, like Wei Wu, rushed forward and was very confident in himself.

When facing Wei Wu's bow feather, he didn't feel the slightest threat to his life.

He then paid with his life for his bad judgment.

The enemy's general, holding such a big bow, has a few soldiers who specialize in arrows beside him, and he knows with his butt that his opponent is good at bow feathers.

Or maybe these generals look down on such opponents from the bottom of their hearts,
Either he has absolute confidence in himself, or he has absolute confidence in the armor on his body. Even if he is hit by two arrows, he will pay a certain price. As long as he can rush to Wei Wu, it will not be a clean break.

Then he heard the chords,
He dodged the first arrow, the second arrow flew away, and then the third arrow hit him in the throat.

Three arrows in a row, one arrow kills.

Wei Wu finished shooting the arrows on himself and his own soldiers, and tore a hole in the opponent's tight army. Then he put his bow on his back, drew out his saber, and rushed into the enemy group.

He not only has a knife in his hand, the key point is that he also has two iron feet.

On the battlefield, these two iron feet with specially sharpened edges allow Wei Wu to have three knives. The key point is that he can jump farther and higher than others.

The command in the northwest direction was broken by Wei Wu in an instant.

The stalemate on the battlefield, as long as one point is broken, it will be a passive situation across the board.

If one side is in decline, the morale of the other side will definitely be boosted.

Liu Yu's reinforcements have not had time to rush to support, and the northwest direction has been defeated across the board.

But at this time, the cavalry general who Liu Yu thought had a big picture, made another bold choice.

He ran away!
Or maybe it's because he's too holistic.

He supported it before because he felt that there was still a chance of victory.

Now he is running because of the failure in the northwest direction, which is likely to be a breaking point. If he doesn't run, he probably will really have to confess here.

If he didn't run, the war would probably continue to be a stalemate for a while, but his running was a fatal blow to Puppet Qi.

Because Yue Teng finally pulled out his hand.

He didn't care about the fleeing cavalry at all, but immediately turned around to flank the puppet reserve team that was transporting northwest.

This reserve team was originally going to intercept Wei Wu's troops.Unexpectedly, he was intercepted first on the way. The key point is that it was cavalry who intercepted them.

What happens when the infantry in motion encounters the cavalry rushing wildly?

Although they found something wrong, they quickly stopped and started to form a formation, but the cavalry who rushed in quickly raised their butcher knives at them before they formed a formation.

As a result, another puppet Qi command collapsed.

When a single infantry encounters an enemy riding towards you with a ferocious smile, there are very few who do not collapse, and the subconscious reaction is to turn around and run.

The question is, can you run on two legs better than four?
Most of the endings are just as soon as they take a step, they see cavalry roaring past them, followed by severe pain, loss of strength, and then falling down, a ray of unjust souls walking towards the underworld with unwillingness.

So at this time, it's called massacre!

The puppet Qi army began to flee towards Xiapi.

Liu Yu was naturally at the forefront.

At this time, Liu Yu desperately hoped that the defenders of Xiapi would not come out, so that when he fled to Xiapi, he could rely on the city of Xiapi to resist the enemy, and then dispatch troops to regain the situation.

Unfortunately, this hope was quickly dashed.

It took only a stick of incense to escape, and Liu Yu saw the flag of the Xiapi army.

What made him even more desperate was that the Xiapi army was first attacked by his own fleeing soldiers, and the enemy, like a beast of prey, drove the defeated soldiers in the rear and launched an attack on the Xiapi defenders with the momentum of rolling back the vermilion curtain. .

At this time, Liu Yu was completely unable to effectively control the army. He could only watch helplessly as he was also surrounded by the rout and rushed towards the Xiapi defenders.

The army from Xiapi hesitated for a moment, but there was no time to make any changes.

Similarly, he was also involved in the ranks of fleeing.

For them, it was really wronged. They had not had any contact with the enemy at all, and they ushered in a miserable defeat.

At this time, the defeated soldiers have already lost their minds. If you dare to stop them in front of them and stop them from escaping, they will raise their knives and slash at them without hesitation, trying to carve out a way to escape.

People blocking these roads actually have only one way, turn around and run along with them.

Better run faster than these guys.

chase!
Keep chasing!
Xiapi City is just around the corner, but Liu Yu has no chance to enter the city.

Yue Teng's cavalry continued to pursue frantically, Gao Yingxiang's troops followed up to maintain corresponding pressure on the enemy, while Wei Wu's troops stopped, and Xiapi did not do any more unnecessary stop resistance, when they watched from the city After seeing the image of Liu Yu fleeing wildly, I am afraid that he has already made up his mind to surrender, so when Wei Wu led his troops to arrive, the city gate was wide open, and the officials and gentry inside were already standing neatly on both sides of the city gate Greeted.

On Xuzhou City, Liu Jun, who was sleeping soundly in the city gate building, was woken up by the officer on duty.

He jumped up, thinking that the enemy was attacking again.

In order to take Xuzhou as soon as possible, the puppet Qi army lit countless torches to attack at night, not once or twice.

"Zhizhou, the enemy is retreating, they are leaving!" The officer's voice trembled a little. Anyone who has been besieged for more than a month is always struggling on the verge of death. When he suddenly sees victory in front of him, he will lose his composure. Even Liu Jun is no exception.

He jumped up, rushed out of the city gate building in three steps at a time, leaned on the wall and looked outside.

The enemy camp is brightly lit, and their movements can be clearly seen.

"Go and inform Xie Zhizhou!" He sat down on the ground, his voice choked up.

This gamble finally won.

Liu Yu must have suffered a big defeat from the reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)