Qian Song

Chapter 25 The Great Victory
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The Macedonian phalanx is a tactic used by early Western infantry in combat.

Before Homer's time, infantry fought like a swarm of bees and disorganized. Therefore, the Macedonian phalanx with strict formation could easily defeat the numerically superior but chaotic enemy.

However, the Macedonian phalanx was not perfect and invincible.

The fact is exactly the opposite. The Macedonian phalanx actually has many shortcomings.

First of all, the Macedonian phalanx has a fatal weakness, that is, as long as it tries to prevent it from having a unified battlefield, and only attacks its two wings or the back, not the front, it can be killed.

——Once the enemy breaks through the flanks or back of the Macedonian phalanx, the spearmen in the spear formation are almost live targets for anyone to kill.

In addition, the Macedonian phalanx is very weak against dense arrow formations, especially the Macedonian phalanx without shield protection.

In this way, whether it is a light cavalry archer or an infantry group, as long as the light infantry can be dispersed, the spearmen in the formation can almost only be shot and killed.

But then again, as the Macedonian phalanx that once swept three of the four ancient civilizations, on some specific battlefields, such as fighting against cavalry that cannot run and is not a professional cavalry, or fighting against a cavalry that fights on its own Infantry, especially in a place where they cannot disperse, the horror of the Macedonian phalanx is fully reflected.

"Raise your gun and stab!"

Seeing Yu Yancheng leading a few brave cavalrymen rushing towards him, Li Cun suddenly swung his sword forward and let out a loud roar.

Those in the first row of the Macedonian phalanx were elites who would fight wherever Li Cun pointed out without hesitation, such as the Queen's Five Idiots.

Therefore, even though their faces were tense to the point of trembling, their palms were sweaty, and even their legs were trembling with tension, when they heard Li Cun's order, they almost instinctively flattened together. Holding the spear, exerting all his strength, he shouted with a trembling voice: "Kill!"

Immediately, the brave Yu Yancheng was pierced by two long spears, and even his very handsome horse was not spared from being stabbed down by three long spears.

When Li Cun was a dealer in Wang Chaoyi's family, he had heard people say that Yu Yancheng's martial arts were very high, and he might not even be inferior to Li Cun.

But on the battlefield, especially on certain specific battlefields, personal bravery really can't change the outcome of the battle.

Just like Yu Yancheng, Li Cun saw it with his own eyes just now. After Yu Yancheng rushed over, relying on his martial arts strength, he blocked and dodged several shots in a row.

Unfortunately, this still cannot change the ending of Yu Yancheng being pierced by the Macedonian phalanx with almost no dead ends.

This scene also gave Li Cun a deep vigilance, so that in the future, Li Cun will rarely rely on his own martial arts to blindly charge into battle.

The other brave cavalry who charged up together with Yu Yancheng, without exception, all followed in Yu Yancheng's footsteps.

Seeing such a result, the soldiers of the Huben Army who were still nervous to death were all relieved immediately, and then they all became excited again.

It turns out that killing the enemy is not difficult, as long as you follow the command of the general and do whatever you want, then we are still afraid of a ball!

——A group of Huben recruits began to evolve from recruits to real Huben.

The people who are charging don't mean that you can stop if you want to, especially the horse team that is in a narrow area and is not a professional horse army.

What's more, in the view of these landlords' armed forces, their retreat has been cut off by the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army. Only by breaking through the Huben Army in front can they have a way out.

Therefore, the ensuing battle is quite a bit like one after another.

Dust was flying in Linjiadian, and the sound of killing was loud. A bloody battle lasted for nearly half an hour, until the remaining hundreds of landlords were armed, or dismounted and surrendered, or threw away their weapons and surrendered, or turned around and went to Fang Baihua and Zhang. If there is no more resistance on the scene, it will be considered over.

The morning sun shone on the pierced corpses, shining with bright red light, and the appearance of blood was frightening.

There was a thick, sickening smell of blood in the air.

Some seriously injured people lay dying on the ground. They looked at the sky for the last time, wondering whether they were yearning for heaven or fearing hell in their hearts. The corners of their twitching mouths did not know whether they were smiling or suffering.

Niu Meng consciously took over the hundreds of surviving horses and the sabers armed by the landlords, and the soldiers of the hundreds of tigers and horses who had been used as infantry before picked up the sabers and rode on the horses with tears in their eyes.

After asking Li Cun for instructions, Niu Meng immediately led the Huben Horse Army to surprise Yujiazhuang.

On Li Cun's side, people interrogated the captives as soon as possible, who were the landlords who participated in the attack on the rebel army, and how many soldiers were left in their Zhuangzi?
After getting detailed information about the enemy, Li Cun boldly divided his troops and sent people to attack the Zhuangzi of these landlords.

As for Li Cun, he personally led the [-] guard battalion to meet Niu Meng.

——For Li Cun, the Zhuangzi of other landowners is just icing on the cake, and only Yu Yancheng's Yujiazhuang is what he must have.

To make a long story short.

When Li Cun led the guard camp to Yujiazhuang, Niu Meng had already attacked Yujiazhuang by surprise and controlled all the people in Yujiazhuang.

Li Cun walked Yujiazhuang once, and found that Yujiazhuang is huge, and there is a school yard that is bigger than the sun-drying field. The key point is that Yujiazhuang is next to Xin'an River, and the waterway is very convenient, and there are more than a hundred parked by the river. There are even a dozen large ships with five thousand materials.

In addition, Yujiazhuang also has 10,000+ grains, more than 3 pieces of cloth, and more than [-] pieces of cloth. There are no statistics on gold, silver, jewelry, and other materials, but they are certainly not in the minority.

Furthermore, Yujiazhuang's terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which can largely avoid being attacked by the enemy.

——To be honest, the people in Yujiazhuang did not expect that Yu Yancheng, who had won consecutive battles in recent days, would lose so quickly. Otherwise, it would not be so easy for the Huben army to take down Yujiazhuang, even if Yu Yancheng took away most of Yujiazhuang's armed forces.

Li Cun immediately decided to use Yujiazhuang as the new stronghold of the Huben Army, and sent people to call all the Huben Army, Fang Baihua Army and their subordinates who were left behind.

After completely occupying Yujiazhuang, Li Cuncai sent people to contact the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army who attacked Zhuangzi, another landlord.

Not long after, the news came back one after another.

The dozens of Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army sent out by Li Cun, some relying on the landlord's private armed forces, were all sent out, their homes were empty, some caught the landlord's family by surprise, and laid down several landlords' villages. , but more of them saw that there was nothing to do, and they surrounded the Zhuangzi of those landlords according to Li Cun's prior explanation.

Li Cun did not rush to attack those Zhuangzi who had not been defeated, but waited until the left-behind Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army moved their family to Yujiazhuang with their subordinates, and then let Zhang Shi lead three thousand Huben troops and one thousand Fang Baihua's army was guarding the house, and he and Fang Baihua led the remaining Huben army and Fang Baihua's army to check on those Zhuangzi who had not been defeated...

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(End of this chapter)