Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1424
The military information was passed on layer by layer, and it reached the Chinese army in an instant.

Xie Ai, as the creator of the eight formations of Wang Shi, knows better than anyone else the strengths and weaknesses of this formation.He and Ma Qiu have also been enemies for many years. Although they have always maintained an advantage over them, they have not underestimated their opponents because of this. It is not surprising that Ma Qiu chose such a time to launch an attack.

At this time, the light between heaven and earth was still weak, Xie Ai was in the central army and could not grasp the situation of the front line in time, because he made a decisive decision and ordered Xie Yi's cavalry to go out to meet the enemy, and must prevent the Jie army from attacking the enemy before the sky was completely bright. Large array of further damage.

At the same time, he also led the command and transmission system of the Chinese army to move forward, and boarded a command tower of a large camp of the former army, in order to have a more keen grasp of the frontline battle situation and give timely feedback.But even so, the field of vision is still blurry, and it is difficult to make effective command and dispatch before the sky is completely bright, and the soldiers of the front battalions still need to fight through this period of time.

At this time, the fierceness of the fighting on the battlefield has reached a new high. The soldiers of the two sides have reversed their previous stance of not making a show, and seem to pour out all the fierceness accumulated in the past period of time in the shortest possible time.

The focus of the current battle is in the small camp outside the large formation that was breached by the Jie army. The size of the small camp is only a few dozen feet. The Jie army squeezed into a tight group, with this as the center, the Jie soldiers were wrapped layer by layer, and more than two thousand soldiers were squeezed into this limited space.

Among them, the soldiers of the innermost Jie army simply abandoned their horses and fought in order to completely wipe out this battalion of soldiers of the Jin army.The Cavalry knights in the outer layer were still riding horses. In addition to preventing the cavalry of the Jin army from entering the rescue, they were also consciously outflanking and besieging the other two nearby camps.

After several rounds of shooting arrows in those two camps, the offensive has tended to be conservative now, only occasionally stray arrows are shot, but with the army's sharp shooting, every time an arrow is shot, one enemy will be hit.Their arrows are also limited. Seeing that the friendly camps have been breached, they can only endure the pain to preserve their strength and no longer respond to rescue, so as to ensure that their own camps are still the top priority.

At the rear of the Jie army, Ma Qiu also had a serious face, his eyes fixed on the core of the fierce battle, and he had a new understanding of the tenacity of the Jin army.

Originally, he thought that as long as he could break through the tortoise-like car formations outside the Jin army camp, the next killing should be very easy to finish, but he didn't expect that the soldiers of the Jin army were not afraid of death, and they were clearly exposed to the enemy. Under the iron hooves of his blades, he still fights to the death and persists so hard that the war here can't end for a long time.

After realizing this, although Ma Qiu was not lacking in disappointment, he did not hesitate for too long, and immediately ordered other offensive Jie troops to abandon their targets and gather on the battlefield here, using this as a breakthrough to attack inward, no longer expecting to be able to attack one after another. Knock out the gap.

Since the command system of the large formation has not yet fully functioned, the soldiers of the other camp kings of the large formation can only guard their own camps, even if they hear the brutal fighting outside, they dare not move arbitrarily.

As for the ones responsible for obstructing the Jie army's offensive at the moment, it is mainly the cavalry under Xie Yi's troops.

The Jie army invested thousands of troops on the battlefield in a very short period of time, which also made Wang Shi's blockade extremely difficult. Xie Yi first sent [-] cavalry to attack and walk around the battle formation, but it only slightly hindered the surrounding Jie army from moving forward. The approach of the battlefield here.

Moreover, because the Jie army gathered here from various battlefields, they indistinctly outflanked the Wangshi cavalry along this route, greatly limiting the range of activities of the Wangshi cavalry on the battlefield.

In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, Xie Yi could only send another two thousand cavalry to charge inward on the right side of the battlefield, rushing past several cavalry of the Jie army to obstruct the obstruction, and gathered with the comrades in the center of the battlefield, and then blossomed from the center to all sides , so that the scope of the battlefield is further expanded, and it also prevents many Jie army cavalry from attacking the formation itself.

The cavalry is originally a group of clutches, and its greatest significance on the battlefield is to rely on its own flexible mobility to attack and contain the enemy's impact.But on the current battlefield, because the goals of both sides are too determined, one must attack and the other must defend, and the rhythm of the battle is extremely fast. It turned into a closely entangled hand-to-hand combat.

Such a form of combat would cause great harm to both sides of the war. The most important advantages of the cavalry unit offset each other, and transformed into a slashing and killing that was not afraid of death.On the current battlefield, dozens of knights were hacked to death on both sides almost within a breath!

Such a brutal fight is still beneficial to Master Wang, that is, it can maximize the advantages of Master Wang's own equipment.The knights only maintain basic control over the horses. Once they are attached to the enemy cavalry, they will chase and kill them endlessly.

The Cavaliers of the Jie Army may have a slight advantage in riding skills on average, but they can't exert this advantage at this time. Their crude protective gear can exert almost no protection in such a tragic hand-to-hand combat. The battlefield is full of blood and flowers, which are rendered layer by layer, and human life has become the most insignificant thing among them!
Ma Qiu naturally also noticed that the battle situation was getting worse, and the corners of his bearded mouth were twitching constantly. After a little weighing, he could only grit his teeth and wave his arms, and once again sent three thousand cavalry into the battlefield, hoping to disintegrate the obstruction of the Jin cavalry on the battlefield .

It is less than two quarters of an hour before the start of the battle, but Ma Qiu has already invested more than [-] troops, which is more than half of his troops, and also broke his plan before the start of the war.Cavalry combat should be especially careful with horsepower. Too many pawns invested in the initial stage will make the follow-up weak, which will directly affect the implementation of follow-up tactics.

But now Ma Qiu has no way out, so he has to grit his teeth and stick to the end. If he withdraws his troops anticlimactically, not only will all the losses in the early stage be wiped out, but it will also make morale even more sluggish.

However, such a violent investment of soldiers is not without effect. The cavalry in the Jin army's large formation are constantly drawn out, which will continuously weaken the support force inside the large formation, which itself is also one of Ma Qiu's plans.

In order to continue to put pressure on the Jin army, after Ma Qiu put in new soldiers to join the battlefield, he himself also led the rear soldiers and generals to push forward, getting closer to the front-line battlefield.

The current battlefield has become a gambling table where neither side can back down. If one side continues to raise bets, the other side has to continue to increase.Seeing that the Jie army was increasing its troops again, Xie Yi could only continue to send troops to the battlefield. After the additional reinforcements, there were only a thousand reserve troops left around him.

Xie Yi couldn't hide this situation, and sent someone to quickly report to the main general Xie Ai in the battle formation.

Xie Ai had already boarded the former military command tower at this time, but he still hadn't issued the military command. When he learned that the cavalry on the front line was in a hurry, he frowned for a moment.

He turned his head to look at the gradually expanding fish white in the east, and after a moment of pondering, he immediately ordered the large formation of left-wing Fenwu troops to form an formation, but they must not go out without authorization and control the rear of the Jie army. If Ma Qiu continues to advance to the battlefield Soldiers, the Fenwu Army immediately attacked and rushed to the rear!
The name of the Fenwu Army is also a thunderbolt to the Jie Army. A total of [-] cavalry appeared on the left wing of the battlefield, which immediately made the rhythm of the entire battlefield stagnate.

Ma Qiu watched this scene from the rear, and waved his hand to signal the rear cavalry to gather a little to the left to prevent the Fenwu army from entering the battlefield.However, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Although the battle on the battlefield is gradually falling into a stalemate, and the Jie army's first-hand advantage of taking the initiative to attack is gradually being offset, at least it has forced the Jin army to draw another hole card.

The Jin army's formation is intricate and occupies a vast area. Since the Jie army can't go deep into it, and dare not run around to check the enemy's situation, they don't have a practical understanding of the basic situation of the Jin army, or even the most basic strength. .

Such a crude understanding of the enemy's situation is also one of the reasons why Ma Qiu is reluctant to launch a decisive battle.How much strength he has in his hand, the opponent is like the palm prints, but how many killing moves the enemy has, but he is like seeing flowers in the fog, how to fight such a battle?
Right now, because the Jie army has invested a large amount of troops from the beginning, this also forces the Jin army to deal with it with all its strength. Due to the constraints of the weather, the Jin army's camp is almost in a state of disuse, and can only respond to the enemy with cavalry.

Ma Qiu believed that what he saw in front of him should be all the cavalry forces under the Jin army's eyes, and the number of troops displayed by the Jin army on the surface was beyond his previous estimation, so he couldn't help but gasp.

Originally, the Jin army had always maintained a large formation and advanced slowly, making Ma Qiu think that the Jin army did not have enough cavalry strength, but now on the battlefield, in addition to the [-] elite cavalry of the Fenwu Army, there are still nearly tens of thousands of cavalry fighting. In terms of cavalry combat power alone, the Jie army no longer has an absolute advantage.

This situation also made Ma Qiu shudder. Xie Ai's forbearance was beyond his imagination, and such a huge cavalry force had been assembled quietly.

Originally, Ma Qiu had a plan in his mind, that is, if he was unable to prevent the Jin army's large formation from approaching the city of Xiangguo, he would abandon the city if necessary, and take advantage of the Jin army's siege of Xiangguo and the weakening of the large formation to use The superior cavalry force turned to field battles to break through the Jin army's formation.

However, the Jin army has assembled such a powerful cavalry force. It is conceivable that if he really does this, he may be surrounded and ambushed by the Jin army cavalry as soon as he leaves the city.
"Fortunately..."

Ma Qiu was lucky enough to sigh, but quickly stopped his words. Although he forced out a hole card of the Jin army, it did not mean that the specific situation of the battle had changed. Just be more clear.

"Tell Zhang Hedu that the southern army is strong, and the northern city may be in danger of being attacked. Let him strengthen the defense!"

Although the relationship with Zhang Hedu is not harmonious, Ma Qiu still has some bottom line after all. Later, his army will definitely directly attack the main body of the Jin army's formation, and it will be difficult to defend the whole city by then.With the blessing of the large formation to stop the enemy, part of the cavalry strength of the Jin army can be liberated, and it is very likely that they will directly attack the city of Xiangguo.

There are also nearly [-] soldiers under Zhang Hedu's command, and tens of thousands of them are elite infantry who were directly taken from Yedi under Ma Qiu's command. The strength in hand is more than enough to defend the city, and it can also avoid the danger of Maqiu's troops fighting fiercely on the front line but their old lair being copied.

(End of this chapter)