Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 277
kill!

Regardless of Ge Congzhou's disregard, he ordered the whole army to cross the river without wearing armor before the completion of the pontoon bridge. The battle at the pontoon bridge was even more intense.

Unable to wait any longer, all the bandits and cavalry came out to pursue Zuo Shenwei's army, and the Zuo Shenwei army was once again in danger.

This time, even Ge Congzhou felt that the Zuo Shenwei army was doomed, and what he could do now was to quickly cross the river to support the Zuo Shenwei army.

It takes dozens of steps to get to the other side of the pontoon bridge, and the short distance has become a natural barrier. The spearmen of the bandits can directly stab the auxiliary soldiers. In just a few dozen steps, people kept falling down in Hanoi with arrows.

The commander of the Zuozhen Wujun sent Hua Hong to tear his eyes, and rode his horse to the pontoon bridge.

"Step aside!"

The soldiers in front stepped aside one after another, and Hua Hong threw the long spear in his hand vigorously. The long spear drew a long arc, flew over Xiaoqinghe, pierced a bandit soldier in the chest, and nailed him to the ground.

Hua Hong, on the other hand, grabbed the wolf trap of the soldier next to him, galloped his horse, and using his horse's momentum, supported the wolf trap at the end of the pontoon bridge, got up and flew over.

Ten steps away.

The horse fell into the river.

Hua Hong stepped steadily on the pole to the opposite bank. Under the shock of the bandit soldiers' faces, Hua Hong pulled up his long spear, turned around and swung it in a circle.

The thief army was stunned, and the officer army was also stunned.

"General Hua is really a god!"

Ge Congzhou didn't have time to be amazed. On the one hand, he made people rush to build the pontoon bridge, and also made his subordinates who knew how to swim quickly swim across the river.

Wave after wave of people jumped into the water, and more and more people climbed to the other side.

Seeing that the last plank of the pontoon bridge was missing, Ge Congzhou said to Liu Zhijun, "General An is in danger. Only General Liu led the cavalry here, and the rest of the infantry can't catch up. General Liu doesn't need to pay attention to the thieves here, and leads his troops to rescue General An quickly."

Liu Zhijun clasped his fists and said, "The last general respects the order of the deputy chief!"

……

At this time, Sun Ru's eyes were wandering. Hundreds of steps away, he had been observing the formation of Zuo Shenwei's army, which was the same as the formation that had just begun to repel Ma Yin's troops.

More than [-] people formed thousands of small formations at a distance of [-] paces long and [-] or [-] paces wide. For more than a dozen steps, each small formation had shield soldiers in front and spearmen behind. What made Sun Ru vigilant was that on the left flank of the official army, a group of cavalry was quietly hiding in the formation.

But when he saw the military flag unfurled where An Fujiang was, Sun Ru had already made up his mind.

kill!

What Ling Qi thought was that there was nowhere to go, and the whole army went directly to Anfujiang's commander-in-chief. In Sun Ru's view, Anfujiang's commander-in-chief was located, but there were only five or six hundred people, and they would collapse as soon as they charged. Squads one by one, went straight to the Chinese army.

When they arrived, they discovered that the Chinese army was surrounded by dead horses.

Dozens of cavalry were unable to catch up, and slammed into it fiercely, tripping over the dead horse.

These dead horses were all poor horses on the carts of the Zuo Shenwei army. The army pursued them, and they couldn't bring the carts and antlers. An Fujiang could only kill hundreds of horses and put them in front of the battle, using them as obstacles.

The effect is obvious. The speed of Sun Ru's cavalry was successfully slowed down. The fast-running horse has no way to avoid the dead horse. Only when it slows down can it go around the dead horse.

But the speed has dropped, what is the advantage of the cavalry?
This was something Sun Ru didn't expect, but what he could have expected was that the cavalry of the left-wing officer army was dispatched, divided into dozens of squads, and interspersed in the dense formation of mandarin ducks. When they arrived, more than a thousand cavalrymen slammed into Sun Rujun fiercely. The cavalrymen on both sides brandished swords and horse spears, and the swords were red...

What surprised Sun Ru was that the pawns of Zuo Shenwei's army were slowly gathering, trying to surround them.

He is very clear, what does it mean to be surrounded inside?
"kill!"

Regardless of Sun Ru's disregard, he ordered the army to charge towards Shuaiqi's place, and the bandit cavalry quickly joined the Chinese army.But what he faced was a hedgehog-like defense.

The army in the commander's tent is naturally different. It is guarding the commander. Although there are only three or four hundred soldiers, everyone is heavily armored. The outer circle is shield soldiers. Each soldier has two auxiliary soldiers. There are not many spearmen. Most of them are archers, and archers are equipped with scimitars for close combat, and the arrows they are equipped with are also armor-piercing arrows.

If the cavalry charged, they might be able to break through the defense, but if these cavalry couldn't increase their speed, that's two things to say. When they encountered the army guard infantry who were armed to the teeth with steel, all they could do was kill them one by one.

A series of arrows, ignoring the existence of armor, rushed to the front of the bandit cavalry, all of them fell off their horses.

Unable to attack in the front, chased and killed by officers, soldiers and cavalry in the rear, and these infantry slowly encircled him, how could Sun Ru not understand that the situation was already extremely unfavorable to him.

Sun Ru made a prompt decision.

"withdraw!"

If you don't withdraw, it will be too late.

The whole army was not procrastinating, leaving one part behind, and the rest turned their horses around and fled along the gaps between the small formations. Even so, the spearmen and archers of each small group gained a lot.

Cheng Rui watched this scene in shock.

"When they come, they are fierce, like thunder, and when they go, they die, like a bereaved dog. Why are the thieves and bandits defeated so quickly?"

He originally thought that a bloody battle would be inevitable, and even in the situation just now, if he encountered three thousand cavalry, there might be a rout.

And now...

Cheng Rui shook his head, from the bottom of his heart, he couldn't do this.

An Fujiang's gaze focused on the situation on the entire battlefield. Seeing the bandit cavalry fleeing, he hurriedly waved the command flag and ordered the deputy general Chen Xiaojing to pursue him.

And Sun Ru, who ran out of the Zuo Shenwei army formation, roughly estimated the cavalry under his command, and lost more than a thousand cavalry in the battle just now.

These are the family assets of the rest of the battle. I didn't expect that they lost [-]% in the First World War.

But when Sun Ru saw a puff of smoke rising from the ferry in the distance, his heart skipped a beat and he panicked.

This is cavalry!

He didn't deploy cavalry at the ferry, so where did the cavalry come from?
There can be no doubt that the ferry must have been lost.

Without even thinking about it, Sun Ru pulled the horse's head to the right and led the whole army to move southwest.

Years of military career have made Sun Ru cultivated to always choose the most beneficial decision for him.

If you go back to the army directly, you will definitely collide with the cavalry from the ferry. At that time, there will be enemies in front and pursuers behind, and it will be difficult to parry.

In Sun Ru's view, the instigator of this fate was undoubtedly the Zuo Shenwei Army.

On the horse, Sun Ru stared at the army of less than 2 soldiers.

He defeated more than [-] troops one after another, and even his cavalry guards couldn't do anything about it, so he couldn't help sighing.

"Oh my God, don't help me!"

(End of this chapter)