Da Wei Chun

Chapter 635 Defeat like a mountain

Thousands of horses are galloping like thunder, and they are continuous.It was as if the earth dragon had turned over, and there was a clear sense of shock under his feet.The cavalry formation in the distance is like a huge wall, pressing southward like an overwhelming mountain.

Come again?

I just left five or six thousand, and here is another five or six thousand. I feel that the enemy's armor cavalry seems to be endless and endless?
But when I think about it again, it makes sense.

If what Cheng Zhi expected was correct, Luo Jianyu's defeat of Wu Chuan was just a feint, and the main force under his command was not damaged, then it is not surprising that there are [-] to [-] armored cavalry under his tent.Therefore, there should be many hidden behind the mountain or elsewhere.

Guessing secretly, Zhang Xinyi looked at the cavalry formation on the right wing, and then at Li Liang beside him.

During this Eastern Expedition, Li Liang had all the first and second guards under Li Liang's command. Each guard and two mansions, each mansion was filled with three battalions, plus the three battalions of the artillery guards and the Jia mansion, a total of [-] soldiers.Afterwards, at the bank of Juyan Lake, they united with Li Shi's one mansion, and it was still the third battalion, which was worthy of [-] soldiers.

But most of them are infantry, and there are only five battalions of armored cavalry.When I went out of the village today, I only brought three thousand with me, probably only [-]% of the enemy's army.What's more, under the same strength, the Xihai Jiaqi is not necessarily the opponent of the Zhenjun Jiaqi when it comes to cavalry battles.

In this way, he can only highlight the strange move and give Luo Jian a blow.Otherwise, it will be endless and annoying.

Thinking in his heart, he whispered again: "The front artillery brigade has been assembled, how about a trial fire first?"

Li Liang sighed helplessly: "Then try it!"

According to his original intention, he didn't want to expose the artillery so early.The reason is also very simple, for fear of scaring Luo Jian away.

It's fine if you run too little, if you run too much, nine times out of ten, the defeated army will be exiled in Daqi and Monan, where the water and grass are relatively lush, and they can barely survive, becoming bandits one after another.

But the Hu tribe in Daqi had already been kidnapped and killed by Li Song, there was no human habitation for thousands of miles, and there was nowhere to rob them.Therefore, there is only the land of Monan Xihai left.

The strength of Xihai troops is already stretched, and now it is even more turbulent and rainy.No one knew whether Gao Zhao, who had already occupied Beizhen, had reached some kind of agreement with the imperial court to turn their spearheads around and deal with Xihai instead.

Therefore, every soldier is precious, and every battle must strive to do its best to destroy as many enemies as possible.

But Luo Jian was extremely alert, and he could tell at a glance that the things Pao Yingyu was playing with in front of the formation were not simple, as if he would not give up if he couldn't find out the truth?
Luo Jian sent another five or six thousand armored cavalry. Naturally, he could no longer use cavalry to control cavalry, and use fast to control fast as in the two times just now. Li Chengzhi knew that he would damage the cavalry in vain by leaving the cannon unused, and he would definitely be able to peel off a layer of Li Liang's skin.

Under Li Chengzhi's repeated brainwashing, there is now a consensus in Xihai: put people first, and cherish soldiers at all costs.

If the land is lost, you can grab it again, if the cattle and sheep are dead, you can raise them again, if the firearms and armor are damaged, you can remake them, but if a person is dead, he is really dead!
So there was no need for Zhang Xinyi to remind him. When he saw the smoke and dust rising from the enemy's rear, Li Liang had already decided that no matter whether he would scare Luo Jian away or not, he would win today's battle first...

Zhang Xinyi had already ordered the front artillery brigade to fire at the right time.The front of the battle was orderly, with three soldiers per cannon, one filling the ammunition, one reloading the ammunition, and the other guarding the stove, but when the order was given, a red-hot iron braze would be drawn from the stove to ignite.

After each shot, there were two infantry guards, one carrying a bucket and the other carrying a sackcloth tied like a mop, to clean the barrel after the shot was fired.

Just like this, each cannon is equipped with five soldiers, and each cannon is two feet apart. A brigade of five hundred soldiers and one hundred squatting cannons made a full four hundred steps, which is one mile and two miles.

The commander of the brigade was wearing armor all over his body, and climbed up to the three-storey cloud tower to observe the enemy.He had a big whistle on his chest, gongs and drums by his side, and four strong men standing behind him, each holding a big flag in four colors: red, green, black, and white.

Red means to attack, green means to stop, white means to advance, and black means to retreat, although simple but clear.

It took some effort for the enemy cavalry to come out from behind the infantry formation, so there was still plenty of time.When the subordinates are ready, the enemy cavalry is still two miles away.

The brigade commander was not in a hurry, he clenched his fist and stretched out his thumb, constantly measuring the distance between the enemy cavalry and the front line.

The soldiers are also in no hurry.Although the momentum of the enemy cavalry was like a rainbow, like overwhelming mountains and seas, none of them showed any panic. Instead, they were all excited, with bloodthirsty gleams in their eyes.

If you think about it, you can also know that I have seen cannons like the punishment of heaven razed a mountain to the ground in a short time, and I have also seen cows and horses covered with thick iron armor still being riddled with holes by tiger crouching cannons, like a sieve. After the normal scene, how much confidence and morale should the gunner have...

When the distance was about a hundred feet, the arrows of the enemy's cavalry turned sharply, from vertical to horizontal, the brigade commander still endured and did not move.

At this time, the enemy cavalry had drawn their bows and arrows, but most of them fell sixty or seventy feet away.Even the closer ones are no more than fifty feet away, so the artillerymen didn't even blink their eyelids.

Luo Jian, who was standing in front of the formation and watching, was faintly startled.

This is to detect the enemy, not to rush into the formation, so it seems that the formation of the army is a formation of arrows, but it is intimidating, at most about a hundred steps, and the peak of the formation will turn like an arrow that can bend. From vertical to horizontal, it passes smoothly in front of the West Sea formation.

Don't think that if you are a hundred steps away, the cavalry's bows and arrows are all for display, but the pressure on the opponent's infantry is extremely great.Because before Yafeng turned around, who could guess whether the enemy cavalry came to explore the formation or to charge the formation?
Therefore, he will definitely take precautions, just like Li Feng. When the two armies encountered each other last time, he knew that the town army could not face to face in a decisive battle without counting casualties, but it was prudent to order the front array to use the spear array as a repelling horse, and then ordered the infantry The pawn threw mines behind the wall.

But the strange thing is that this time Li Liang is uncharacteristically, what was before, is still what is now.Three or five groups of pawns in front of the formation, just guarding the iron cylinder in front of them, treating the mountain-like cavalry as nothing?
If you can watch Mount Tai collapse in front of your eyes without changing color, the enemy army must have nothing to fear.But Luo Jian couldn't think of it for a while, that is, the iron pillar can not only emit sparks, but can even eject the flying thunder. Could it be possible that it can shoot farther than the cannon?

Suspicious in his heart, Luo Jian narrowed his eyes more and more narrowly, staring closely at the enemy formation...

How could Luo Jian have imagined that Xihai would suddenly switch from shotgun to cannon?
Although the Tiger Crouching Cannon is not big, it only weighs forty catties in total, but because of the slender barrel, the shooting distance is not short, it can reach two hundred feet, that is, four hundred steps, and the effective killing distance is at least two hundred step up.

But because the artillery formations are arranged in a straight line, only by waiting for as many enemy riders as possible to enter the coverage area of ​​the artillery formations can they kill as many enemies as possible.

So until riding the formation of Yafeng from west to east, he has already rushed more than a hundred feet.Just when he was able to rush out of the east wing of the artillery formation in three to five breaths, the brigade commander of the artillery battalion standing on the top floor of the cloud car yelled loudly: "Let go!"

The red flag in the hands of the big man beside him fell at the sound, and the big drum beside him also shook.Just one or two breaths later, the gongs and drums in each team (one hundred soldiers, twenty squatting guns), each group (five soldiers, ten squatting guns), and each army (ten soldiers, two squatting guns) also sounded at the same time.

And then it was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, what I could hear was thunder, and what I could see was fire.

Countless iron filings, lead pellets, and fine stones were sprayed out, as dense as a cow's hair.

Standing on the watchtower, Zhang Xinyi saw that it was like a huge scythe cutting into the enemy's formation, and the enemy cavalry was like wheat seedlings, they fell down immediately.

Just like that, the cavalry formation of the town army, like a long snake, seemed to have been slashed in the face, and it was shortened out of thin air, no more, no less, exactly one mile.

The front of the battle was like a purgatory on earth, people turned on their backs, blood splattered, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.Bloody people and bloody horses were all over the ground, and the shrill screams and horse neighs were deafening, resounding through the sky.

The front row was suddenly attacked, and the cavalry in the rear row were naturally extremely horrified.But at this time, the speed of the horse was quite fast, and the rear army continued to flow continuously. Even if he wanted to stop, he couldn't stop, so he could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

However, there were wounded soldiers and horses all over the place, even out of the consideration of being tripped, the rear army had to dodge, and this time, the gradual chaos of the formation was only second, and the most deadly was the slowdown of the charge.

More and more cavalry rushed into the coverage of the tiger squatting gun, thicker and thicker, like a living target...

Zhang Xinyi had issued the order to fire freely long ago, and there was no need to repeat the order at all. The team leaders, division leaders, division commanders, and division commanders could organize the gunners to clear their guns, fill their guns, and reload them.

After more than half a year of training, I'm afraid I have to practice thousands of times a day, and the movements have already been engraved in my bones and become instinctive.The five artillerymen cooperated seamlessly, and the cannons were filled in just twenty or thirty breaths.

At this time, the enemy cavalry went forward again, filling the front of the artillery formation.

The sound of cannons was not as neat as last time, but the deterrent effect on the town army was even more terrifying.

Every time the cannon is fired, several or even dozens of riders must fall off their horses.It was like being shot with countless arrows, and immediately there would be countless pillars of blood spraying out from the soldiers and horses.

If you are unfortunate enough to be shot in the face, it will be like tearing away the flesh with an invisible hand.

Looking at the dense white bones and bloody teeth, and then hearing howling like a ghost, the rear line was suddenly attacked and it was chaotic.The cavalry seemed to be crazy, and they used all their strength to hold their horses.Then it ran around like a headless chicken.

My mind was completely blank, with only one thought: escape!
So there was no need for Luo Jian's order, and they rushed past the first battalion. The artillery only fired five or six rounds, and the army behind the cavalry was in chaos like a pot of porridge.

At this time, the battlefield is full of smoke and smoke, and the sight of the horses is limited.The knights were even more panicked, so the battalion of cavalry who entered the battle had no direction to speak of.

Some rushed to the artillery array, but were knocked down by a cannonball within ten steps.Some are still rushing forward, and naturally they cannot be spared.There are also those who are more awake and quick-witted, knowing that the only way to survive is to stay away from the fire, so Jin Ma rushed to the front of the phalanx subconsciously.

The bad thing is that the order of the town army was not smooth, coupled with panic and blind obedience, the rear army only received the order to return to the army, just like the southern goats, one jumped off the cliff and all jumped off the cliff, swarming north rush away.

But in a short period of two or three miles, no matter how slow Yu Ma was, it would take half a word (one word 5 minutes) to arrive, so Luo Jian didn't even find out the battle situation, and suddenly saw his own cavalry rushing over...

Hearing the sound of cannons thundering, Luo Jian had a bad intuition, and thought to himself that his guess was right, those pillars in front of the Xihai formation could indeed shoot thunder away.

But thinking that when Li Chengzhi pacified Woye, the torch only spewed out the fireworks for three to five feet. The ones in front of us are farther away, ten times more, that is, three to fifty feet, I am afraid they will last to the end.

The distance between the two sides was tens of zhang, not to mention casualties caused by such a distance, even the horses would not be startled.

And because the smoke and dust filled the air, the sound of the guns was even louder, and the sound of people howling and horses neighing was completely covered, so Luo Jian didn't know the battle situation in the formation.

But watching the formation, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

There is a battalion at the front of the riding formation, and they have rushed into the formation from west to east for a long time, no matter how slow they are, they should rush out of the smoke and dust, and rush to the end of the formation.But what he saw in his eyes was only a few hundred riders?

What about the remaining [-] riders?

I was still thinking about it, and suddenly I saw Jiaqi rushing out of the smoke, but not to the east, but to the north?

Taking a closer look, what followed was like a landslide and tsunami, and all the armored cavalry sent out were like crazy demons, rushing towards the formation regardless of their care.

Why is this so?
Luo Jian has experienced battles for a long time, so he naturally knows that this kind of situation will only happen when one side is defeated, and the casualties are so heavy that the morale of the soldiers is lost, and they only know how to survive by fleeing back to the main formation.

But the strange thing is, the loss of the five thousand armored cavalry is less than [-]%, and the time has just passed?
Even if they are invincible, even if there are a few casualties, they will not suddenly collapse, and even if they are bewildered, wolves urging tigers to chase their own army?

Luo Jian was startled, his pupils almost shrank to the size of a needle's eye, and his roar was high-pitched, like howling like a pig: "Order, wave the flag, retreat to the wings... Bow camp, open the bow, shoot back..."

But where can it be?

Don't talk about Luo Jian, even Li Liang didn't expect the town army's cavalry formation to be defeated so quickly, and collapse like water?
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was defeated, he only knew to rush back to the main formation, and he was overjoyed: What a god-sent opportunity?

If you still don't know how to do it, how can Li Liang and He De be regarded as the number one confidant by Li Chengzhi?

He hurriedly shouted: "Xinyi, hurry up, order the artillery battalion to stop firing, order all the cavalry to leave the camp, and go north to hide and kill..."

Zhang Xinyi was even more excited and trembling all over, he snatched the command flag from the commanding soldiers, and waved it several times towards the artillery formation.

The brigade commander received the order and shouted repeatedly. The four big men had quick hands and eyes, and those who changed the flags changed the flags, and those who knocked the gongs knocked the gongs.

In just three to five breaths, the sound of the guns gradually became thinner until it became silent.

After a while, two wing armored cavalry swarmed out, forming a horizontal formation, pressing towards the town army like a wall.

At this time, [-]% of the Zhenqi rear army is still in the west of the formation.Seeing Xihaijia cavalry coming to kill, he was even more confused. He only knew how to draw his horse, but he didn't know how to change direction to escape.

The sober front army was finally shot by the other side's bow pawns and became chaotic again. The cavalry who had just been divided into two groups and bypassed the infantry like a character of eight became a mess again, and could only move forward blindfolded. rush.

Luo Jian's face was as pale as snow.

He couldn't figure out why he lost so quickly?

Before and after, there will be a moment...

The war horse neighed and rushed forward.Luo Jian subconsciously flicked the rein, but it was empty.

Luo Ping pulled Luo Jian's war horse, and twitched the horse's butt vigorously: "Captain, I have no power to recover, and I will soon retreat to the back of the mountain..."

(End of this chapter)