The devil is coming

Chapter 170 Rush!
The cavalry did move, but it was not the one led by Li Fusheng that charged into the camp, but two cavalry units on both sides of the camp, totaling more than [-], began to accelerate.
For cavalry, battlefield distance is extremely important. If a war horse wants to increase its speed, there must be enough distance for it to accelerate.
A cavalryman who cannot charge is like a living target.
In later generations of ancient war movies, the pursuit of a visual feel was often seen, which is why the cavalry often appeared on horseback, drawing knives and starting to chop each other after a large-scale charge.
In fact, the most effective way to use cavalry is its speed and the terrifying collision given by its speed. Generally speaking, if the troops can be pulled out again after a collision, they can take a short rest and then start a new round. The charge is repeated several times. This is the most correct way for the cavalry to open up.
Just like squeezing out toothpaste, use all kinds of methods to squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste and brush your teeth again.
However, a cavalry unit that can achieve this level must be an extremely high-quality cavalry unit. A cavalry unit without discipline or organization and with poor quality of horses and cavalry may smash eggs against the wall after launching a charge. Come on, the flowers are scattered like this, and you can’t take them back even if you want to.
Zheng Fan had personally seen the quality of the Zhenbei Army and was really not worried about this at all. The cavalry on both sides moved, but the part of the Chinese army left behind by Zheng Fan did not move.
Zheng Shoubei is an adult now. He doesn't have to run ahead to play with a horse stick like a young child like Liang Cheng.
Therefore, Zheng Shoubei carefully "overall the overall situation" here.
There were more than [-] cavalrymen on both sides, stabbing directly at the frontmost military formation.
This is the most "elite" among the three formations of this cadre army.
The Zu Family Army is famous in Daqian for its military discipline and formation. As a newly emerging army, they have already established their own reputation and confidence.
however,
When facing this rolling iron hoof,
Every soldier felt panic in his heart.
pirate,
No matter how many and powerful the pirates are,
It is impossible to create such a cavalry formation!
"Lance, press!"
"Shua! Shua! Shua!!!"
The spearmen in the front row squatted down, raised the spears in their hands diagonally upwards, and pressed the back end against the ground. They used their flesh and blood to build thorns to block the charge of the cavalry in front.
The spearman in the back row holds the spear in his right arm, and his left hand is responsible for fixing and adjusting the direction, with the tip of the spear facing forward.
The densely packed spear points are the shell of the military formation, a shell covered with spikes.
However, many of them were already trembling in their hands and feet.
Facing the charging pressure of the cavalry is like standing there and facing a motorcycle rushing towards you at full speed. Who can not be afraid?
We are all human beings, we are all living beings. Who wants to die like this?
But they knew that as the outermost being of the military formation, their chances of surviving after a big battle were really very low.
Especially the spearmen in the front row, even if their spears can pierce the opponent's war horses, even if their spears can knock off the opponent's knights, the terrifying inertia carried by the war horses can still knock them away. It is a kind of luck to die directly. The most fearful thing is the kind of person who has countless broken bones but has not yet died.
In that state, every extra moment of survival is an extra moment of torture.
"Axeman!!!"
"Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!"
The axemen began to take position. They were behind the shield soldiers, but after the charge occurred, they would quickly break away from the protection of the shield and charge forward. All they had to do was to block the cavalry charge with the spears and robes in the front row, and then Go up and kill the cavalry.
After the shield soldiers, there are the archers and crossbowmen. In fact, they provide the real killing output of the military formation.
Although Zu Zhuming was born in a general family, his general family was a bit too shabby. In the final analysis, the prosperity of the Zu family was still due to Zu Zhuming's personal ability. At the same time, he also had to thank the achievements provided by the southeastern pirates in those years. Thousands of heads help pave the way.
This is a man who is good at learning and studying war. When the official order was issued to mobilize the Zu family army to go north, Zu Zhuming was actually thinking about how to defeat the cavalry with foot.
No, to be precise, for a hundred years, as long as the generals of Qian State still had blood and dreams in their hearts, they would sit there some nights, thinking about how to deal with the impact of the Yan cavalry.
The defeat a hundred years ago is an eternal pain in the hearts of Gan people. There are many people who are afraid of the Northern Expedition, but there are even more people who long for the success of the Northern Expedition!
Zu Dongcheng sat on the horse and issued orders one after another through the messengers beside him.
Changes on the battlefield always happen in an instant. The general is the brain of an army. Only under the command of the brain can the trunk make corresponding movements.
However, sometimes there will be problems with this coordination. Either the general is too mediocre and unable to make correct decisions in time, or the quality of the soldiers is not good enough. No matter how talented a person is, if he has physical defects or disabilities, you can let him go It’s also difficult to do hard work well.
This is what a general needs to get along with his subordinates.
In the early years, in order to gain military power, the founding emperor of the Qian Kingdom mobilized elites from all armies to enrich the Forbidden Army when formulating national policies. At that time, the Forbidden Army of the Qian Kingdom was the most powerful military force in the entire country.
Once there is war anywhere in the empire, the imperial army will leave the capital to quell the chaos.
However, first Emperor Taizong's Northern Expedition destroyed the elite of the Forbidden Army in one fell swoop and turned them into a "silver wave";
Second, the years of peace have allowed the Forbidden Army to continue to corrode itself.
Although there has been no large-scale war between Yan and Qian for nearly a hundred years, the imperial army of Qian has begun to degenerate to the point where it cannot even quell rebellions within the empire.
When the Southwest Chieftains rebelled, the Forbidden Army was actually the main force in countering the rebellion, supplemented by the Western Army. Unexpectedly, the over [-]-strong Forbidden Army was unexpectedly attacked by wolf soldiers in the valley, which led to the collapse of the entire line at that time. The chieftains who were watching saw that the Qianguo army was so useless and immediately joined in. This made the situation in the southwest completely corrupt.
Whether it is the Zujia Army or the Western Army, they actually stood up on the corpse of the Forbidden Army. When the Central Army cannot shoulder its responsibilities, the expansion of local feudal towns is an inevitable conclusion.
In a vassal town, there will naturally be no situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers.
Zu Dongcheng’s palms were full of sweat.
He knows,
Whether your ancestral army can really stand up depends on this move!
Since the Yan army on the opposite side has chosen their own side as a breakthrough point, let's give it a try and see if you Yan people have such good teeth!
"Drumming!"
Zu Dongcheng ordered.
"Dong dong dong dong dong!"
The sound of war drums came, and the ancestral army began to change their formations according to the drum beats.
Zu Dongcheng believed that his commanding ability would never be worse than that of the opposite general Yan Manzi.
But what he didn't know was,
The Yan army on the opposite side,
There was simply... no one to direct them.
At this time, the six thousand Zhenbei Army cavalry that rushed out from both wings were already at a certain distance, and all the knights began to draw their bows and draw arrows.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The arrows from both wings flew past,
The knights stretched their bows and arrows on their horses while clamping their legs on the horses' backs. Their center of gravity reached a balance with the running horses.
The pikemen on the outside of the military formation immediately suffered many casualties. At the same time, almost inevitably, the two wings of the military formation began to be compressed back.
People are all afraid of death. When facing the charge of the cavalry, everyone was already very afraid. Now that the arrows are coming, it is instinct to retreat a little, and then retreat a little more!
"Fire arrows!"
Zu Dongcheng gave an order, and the archers and crossbowmen in the military formation began to fight back.
The knights of the Zhenbei Army did not retreat to avoid the rain of arrows like the last test, but continued to move forward. At the same time, they continued to draw their bows and set arrows, because the distance was close enough, and they could find the head without having to throw anymore.
For a time, the death and injury rate of the ancestral army in the military formation began to increase rapidly, especially the spearmen on the periphery. They were not protected by shields, and the armor on their bodies was not very protective. They could only be like sculptures. A person was shot to the ground.
This is the cruelty and ruthlessness of war, but there is nothing that can be done about it. If there are no pikemen on the outside of the military formation to block it, they will not be able to withstand the cavalry attack later.
However, the Zhenbei Army also began to suffer casualties. Each of the cavalrymen was shot and fell down, or their horses were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
However, the two knights of the Northern Suppression Army did not slow down, but continued to close the distance while continuing to draw their bows and arrows.
This is exchanging lives, this is fighting for courage!
The remaining knights who had dismounted quickly gathered together and began to fire arrows. They were not dazed or separated from the battle, and tried to cover their robes as much as possible.
Close, close, close,
very close!
"Change formation!"
Zu Dongcheng ordered.
The shield soldiers began to retreat, and the swordsmen began to move forward, preparing to meet the charge from the cavalry. At the same time, the crossbows in the military formation began to take aim.
The advantage of the bed crossbow is that it has a long range and high lethality, but its disadvantage is that the cocking speed is very slow.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!..."
Every shot of the crossbow was accompanied by a burst of blood.
however,
What shocked Zu Dongcheng was that,
The two wings of cavalry, which had already charged into the formation to close the distance, actually turned their horses' heads at the last moment.
This is a quick turn by the cavalry. This scene takes into account the coordination and discipline of the troops, as well as the cavalry's equestrian skills. If the control is not good enough, family members will collide with each other and trigger a subsequent series of rear-end collisions, leading to The troops are stuck there.
Zheng Fan had seen this kind of tactics before. When Liang Cheng led the army, he took his barbarian cavalry to fly kites and basically eliminated the guards of a convoy with no casualties.
In the outer area where the cavalry on both wings turned, there were hundreds of cavalry on each side. Instead of following the large troops to turn, they chose to directly attack the opponent's military formation.
Because the troops need space to turn, their departure can give their robes the space they need. In addition, the distance is already very close. At this time, if you rein in the horse's head and stop, you will soon be shot into a hedgehog.
Therefore, it is better to just use the speed of the horse to hit it directly!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Each war horse was pierced by a spear, and a knight was knocked down. However, their men and their horses still smashed into the ancestral army's formation with extremely strong inertia.
The two wing formations were directly knocked out of two large gaps.
"hiss………"
"hiss………"
The two gasped, almost at the same time.
One is Zheng Fan.
Seeing so many elite knights attacking like this, Zheng Shoubei felt heartbroken. How much money would it cost to arm them? How much energy and cost would it take to train them.
Raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while, this sentence, at this time, received the most cold and cruel interpretation.
The other one was sent by Zhong Mao. He couldn't stand this method of using cavalry to smash the military formation directly. Moreover, these cavalry were really brave and not afraid of death!
This is really... terrible.
No one wants to fight a bunch of lunatics who are not afraid of death.
The cavalry on both wings detoured back,
Some of the cavalrymen who were charging into the formation had already rushed into the formation and began to kill, while others fell off their horses and continued to fight with sabers. No one retreated, and they all moved forward!
At the same time, the two cavalry units on the east and west sides also began to mobilize. They almost seamlessly connected the previous cavalry wings' pressure on the ancestral army's formation.
When the cavalry on both wings retreated in a roundabout way, the two cavalry on the east and west sides began to press their bows and arrows to suppress.
Everything is handled very well.
Because they are so familiar with each other, this is the fundamental reason why Li Fusheng can relax and sit back and rush into the camp!
The two cavalry units at the back who were responsible for cutting off the Qian Army's retreat also began to press forward at this time, putting pressure on the military formations on the east and west sides of the Qian Army, forcing these two military formations to be unable to attack the front where the Zujia Army was the main force. The military formation provided support and response.
Zheng Fan suddenly felt like a pack of wolves driving the sheep.
Because the most elite and solid military formation at the front had begun to be flattened by the two groups of cavalry, causing many chaos.
This kind of chaos can be seen even by a war novice like Zheng Fan.
First of all, this is due to the Zhenbei Army's excellent riding and shooting skills. Even on horseback, the lethality of their bows and arrows is not inferior to the dry army's crossbowmen standing on the ground in the military formation, and even to a certain extent , there is still victory!
Liang Cheng once talked with Zheng Fan about the cavalry charge. Liang Cheng said that even after the emergence of modern muskets and artillery, when the infantry faced a large-scale cavalry charge, if the formation was not stable, the firepower formed by the muskets and artillery would It is also difficult to defeat cavalry.
What's more, this era is still an era of absolute cold weapons. The scene where arrows are fired and the cavalry in front fall down like they are lining up to be shot is almost impossible to happen.
Secondly, there were the knights who took the initiative to rush into the formation. Their impact was like two big rocks hitting the turtle shell of the Ganren Army Formation, severely hampering the operation of the Ganren Army Formation.
These knights are not only good at horseback fighting, but also know how to cooperate in foot combat after falling from their horses. They often rise in groups or in groups, even if they are swordsmen and axemen composed of the strongest men in the ancestral army. When facing them, with the same number, they were completely suppressed, and they could only rely on the number of people to pile up. It was necessary to concentrate more strength here, and other aspects would naturally become weaker.
In addition, after the blows from the east and west sides came one after another, the ancestral army's military formation was like a piece of brown sugar, being bitten and pulled repeatedly, creating cracks and gaps, and was pulled out all at once.
Zu Dongcheng never expected that the ancestral army and the military formation that he was proud of would be as fragile as the lanterns sold on the streets of Beijing during the Lantern Festival in front of this Zhenbei Army.
gap,
It's so big.
In fact, no matter how much you look down on the Yan people, you will even say that the Yan people's Zhenbei Army cavalry is the best in the world.
But neither the local generals nor the ministers in the court really dared to look down on the Yan people's fighting prowess.
Otherwise, there would not have been a situation where soldiers and horses from all directions rushed northward. After Taiwei Yang proposed a strategy to avoid the war, he could continue to sit in the position of governor of the three sides.
Everyone, in fact, is still upright in speech and body.
Zu Dongcheng and Zhong Mao often heard their elders talk about the Yan people. Whenever they talked about the Yan people, they would naturally talk about the Yan people's Zhenbei Army.
The elders have actually paid enough attention to this Zhenbei Army, thinking that if this so-called 30 Zhenbei cavalry were to be encountered on the battlefield, it would really be a headache.
But the situation at hand,
Is it really just a headache?
It was only then that the two young men from the Zu family and the Zhong family truly realized how terrifying this Northern Suppression Army cavalry was.
This army has been fighting with the barbarians in the desert for hundreds of years. Their former opponents were the barbarians, a terrifying group whose members are excellent cavalry as long as they reach adulthood!
But even so, his bones were broken bit by bit by the Zhenbei Army, and he was beaten until he lost his temper.
How do Ganren compare to barbarians?
Zu Dongcheng waved his long sword and rode forward, while Zhong Mao immediately shouted:
"Brother Dongcheng, you have to stay and take command!"
"Once the front line is broken, we are all doomed!"
In the three-party formation, everyone knows that the front formation is the strongest. This is not just as simple as the destruction of the front formation causing the two rear formations to lose their barrier cover.
Once the front formation is broken, firstly, the soldiers in the front formation will be defeated, and their own troops will attack their own military formation; secondly, when the two military formations behind see that the strongest front formation has also been broken, the morale of the soldiers will be instantly weakened. ,
then,
A rout,
That’s how it started…
Many things in this world are unfair.
The same is true for the battle between cavalry and infantry. The cavalry feels that it is not easy to chew this bone, so they can easily stop it and then retreat. The infantry can't catch up anyway.
And once the infantry is defeated, if they want to escape, can they escape with four legs?
In other words, once the front line is broken, it means that the [-]-strong army will be wiped out here!
Zhong Mao mentioned his horse and said:
"Brother Dongcheng, I'll go with you!"
At this time, the cavalry on both sides that had detoured back began to charge again. At the same time, the cavalry on both sides finished their work and detoured back.
This feeling is like four hammers repeatedly striking the Qianjun military formation.
At the same time, the cavalry under Han Laowu were restricted to the military formations on the east and west sides of the rear, especially the Forbidden Army formation. Even after revealing the hidden crossbows and chariots, they were faced with a tough situation. The attack of the death-fearing knights of the Zhenbei Army still showed a tendency to collapse.
At this moment, even if Han Laowu wanted to turn his horse's head to support the front army formation, he couldn't do it. First, the three thousand cavalry under his command were actually entangled by hundreds of the opponent's cavalry, and they couldn't be pulled out at all. Second, Once my cavalry withdraws, the Forbidden Army here will definitely blow up their nest!
Straight bitch,
Why are these Yan people so fierce!
.........
In front of the military formation,
The charging camp, which had formed early but had not been dispatched, began to pick up speed as the leader, Li Fusheng, rode forward.
This true cavalry that rushes into battle, this thousand-rod horse spear, this true elite among the elites, finally plans to join the battlefield!
War kills people, Li Fusheng knows this very well.
During the previous period, the various cavalry units had actually suffered a lot of casualties during their raids.
But this is necessary and will definitely happen.
However, this kind of casualties will not be too many because they will not last forever.
As long as the front line of this dry army is defeated,
The remaining tens of thousands of cadres on the battlefield will be scattered like birds and beasts, like lambs running around in panic. They will no longer have attack power and lethality, and will be easily killed by their subordinates on the way. Harvest the heads.
Everything before was actually paving the way. Now, the time has come!
Li Fusheng raised his horse,
The Qianqi behind him also made the same move,
Subsequently,
Li Fusheng's horse is raised forward,
next moment,
Thousands of horse stems are lifted forward,
Li Fusheng's eyes were red, like a hungry wolf, he couldn't wait any longer!
"Give them one last shiver!"
Li Fusheng shouted:
"The ambition to break the formation!"
Thousands of riders behind them shouted in unison:
"Death but not life!"
immediately,
The whole army speeds up,
Like thunder rushing forward from the ground,
finally,
Under the personal leadership of their commander-in-chief, a thousand knights from the Chong camp,
He crashed into the already crumbling Ganjun military formation.
"boom!"
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