Northern Dynasties

Chapter 921 Fierce battles inside and outside

The battlefield outside Jinyong City was divided into two parts, the inner and outer parts, by the long sand embankment. Many walls of different lengths were also built on the inner circle of the long wall. They were as jagged as canine teeth and looked very ugly.

At the beginning, Hu Lujin was not very clear about the significance of the enemy's building of these walls. After all, he had previously made up his mind to stay in the city and had no intention of leaving the city to fight and break through.

But now as his troops left the city, he immediately felt the malicious intent of these jagged walls. These walls are built in a messy and irregular manner. If the army wants to attack Changwei, the formation will inevitably be divided into pieces, which is not conducive to the overall scheduling and changes of the battle formation.

Therefore, Hu Lujin did not rush to order an attack. Instead, he asked his son outside Changwei to take the lead in attacking the enemy's formation, trying to find out the key points of the enemy's formation through changes in the enemy's formation.

As the battle began, although Hu Lujin could not directly see the fighting outside Changwei, when he heard the enemy's roaring cheers and cheers, Hu Lujin's face could not help but change suddenly, and his heart Feeling bad.

"Attack from the front and seize the enemy's right formation. Tushan will send another two thousand armored soldiers!"

Fearing that the battle outside Changwei would be detrimental to his own side, Hulüjin immediately ordered an attack on the enemy's position.

The enemy's battle formation in Changwei was set up based on the sand embankment of Changwei. The battle formation on the right side echoed Tushan, and the largest number of troops were deployed. This reflects the control of Tushan, the siege point, and the Heyang artillery above. Waiting for the attention of ordnance.

Hulujin originally wanted to attack here after some of the troops were mobilized as the battle progressed. However, the battle outside Changwei seemed to be unsatisfactory. Only by attacking the enemy formation here could he contain the most enemy forces. .

As the drums and horns of the attack sounded, the soldiers at the front of the Qi army rushed towards the enemy's formation. At the front of the team are hundreds of heavily armored cavalry. These armored elite soldiers are killing weapons on the battlefield. Once they move, they are unstoppable. The iron hooves hit the ground with a thrilling muffled sound, and the rear formations follow. Behind these armored cavalry, the entire battle formation was full of tension.

Seeing the enemy's charge with heavy armored cavalry, the faces of the Wei army officers in the Changwei became quite serious. They quickly adjusted their battle formations and retreated the lightly armored and unarmored crossbowmen to the positions protected by the sand embankment in the Changwei. Within the range, spearmen were at the forefront of the battle formation. Among the spearmen array, there are heavy armored infantry holding long-handled weapons such as sabers and battle axes.

As the king of the battlefield and the elite of the elite, heavy cavalry will receive high attention and vigilance from the enemy as long as they appear on the battlefield. Because its destructive power is so shocking, it often becomes the key force that determines victory or defeat. The defenders of Jinyong City sent such an important force at the beginning of the war, which also shows Hulujin's eagerness to seize the initiative on the battlefield as soon as possible.

Soon these hundreds of moving steel fortresses arrived in front of the Wei army's formation. The huge sense of oppression also made the sergeants in the front line turn pale with fear. The only action they remembered was to hold their spears with both hands in a horse-repelling posture. , the gun blade points diagonally forward.

Click, click!

The heavy-armored knight of the Qi army who rushed at the front directly collided with the enemy's gun blade. The sharp gun blade first scratched sparks and made a sharp sound on the surface of his thick and solid armor, but in the end it was still difficult to penetrate the armor. Armor with excellent quality was either knocked aside or simply broken by the huge impact!

The Northern Qi Dynasty had a strong national power, and its craftsmanship and technology, especially the craftsmanship of weapons, were among the best in the world. Even many famous ministers and generals occasionally had to be sent to Jinyang Jiafang to work.

As the elite of their country, the Jinyang soldiers also enjoy the most sophisticated ordnance rations. In this round of heavy cavalry charge, not one person's armor was broken, which shows that the armor of these elite Jinyang soldiers is of high quality. .

As the enemy's heavy cavalry rushed into the formation, the Wei army's battle formation here seemed to be smashed into a shocking dent by an iron fist. The originally neat and tight battle formation was broken through in an instant, and many front row sergeants were directly knocked out. , the body was still in mid-air, and blood was already pouring out of the mouth and nose. After landing, the body twitched, vomited blood, and died.

Although this first collision caused heavy casualties to the Wei army, it was not completely ineffective. After paying the price of dozens of lives, the momentum of these heavy armored cavalry was also stopped. Without the blessing of speed, the deterrent effect of heavy armored cavalry on the battlefield will be sharply reduced.

"Kill!"

The spearmen in the battle formation roared to cheer each other up, and the spears in their hands thrust hard at the enemy soldiers' horses. Although most gun blades are difficult to stab the opponent, the power of the stab also greatly restricts the movement of these enemy cavalry, making it difficult for them to gallop again.

These enemy heavy cavalry are naturally elites in the army, and each has the courage to defeat many enemies. Although their speed is limited by the enemy soldiers who are not afraid of death, their movements of hands and feet are still unrestricted, and the horses in their hands move up and down. When it was swung, it was like a sickle harvesting human lives, and the surrounding enemy soldiers were constantly killed under the horse. Even if he is protected by armor, he will inevitably fall to the ground after being hit by Changsha.

Under the charge and fighting of hundreds of cavalry, the battle formation here was constantly being pushed back. When the rear infantry moved forward to connect the offensive, the pressure on the enemy formation suddenly became greater. . Although the officers and soldiers of the Wei army were also fighting back bravely, the battle was still retreating steadily. However, just as the Qi army's battle was getting better, new elements appeared on the battlefield. A heavy armored cavalry had just fought through the entanglement of several enemy soldiers with spears and spears, but what appeared in front of them was not another enemy team, but a solid wall of sand.

After seeing this, the knight tried hard to rein in the war horse. However, the huge weight and inertia of the armor of the man and horse were too great, and the difficulty of controlling the horse was several times greater than that of the light horse. After all, the knight was unable to escape. The man and the horse hit this section of the sand embankment together.

The sand embankment was several feet wide, with hard ice covering the top and bottom, and the bottom was frozen tightly with the ground. After withstanding this heavy impact, although the surface was covered with ice chips mixed with sand, the wall was still intact. The body still didn't suffer much damage.

On the contrary, the situation of the knight and his horse who was firmly hit by the sand embankment was very bad. The neck of the horse was directly twisted by the impact, and the whole body of the horse collapsed under the wall, and the man on the horse's back The knight was also knocked down, and the bag on his head also fell to one side.

The knight resisted the pain in his body and stood up with difficulty, holding his hands on the ground. Suddenly he felt his vision blurred for a while. When he settled his vision again, he saw a headless steel body moving in a strange way. His posture was about to rise, blood spurted out from the neck cavity that was supposed to be connected to the head, and then the world fell into deathly silence.

In addition to the great trouble caused by these sand embankments and walls to the enemy's cavalry, the Xiangyang army itself also had troops deployed for heavy cavalry.

Although heavy armor can provide very tight protection for humans and horses, the various attacks they receive cannot be offset and must still be endured by the bodies of humans and horses wrapped in iron armor. When the attack power reaches a certain level, even if it does not break the armor, the huge concussive force is enough to kill.

Heavy weapons such as tomahawks and large awls are suitable weapons for fighting heavy cavalry, but they require extremely high physical fitness requirements such as the user's arm strength and physique.

These elite soldiers, who are also wearing strong armor, are distributed among the battle formations. Once the enemy cavalry is caught in a fight and is overwhelmed by attacks from all directions, these elite soldiers will bully the horses directly, wave their Changke battle axes and attack them. The enemy soldiers' heads, chests, backs, waists and other vital parts will be chopped off. As long as the ax is struck firmly, the enemy soldiers will often lose their combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.

In the battle formation, a heavily armored young general tried his best to chop his battle ax into the heart of an enemy soldier. The enemy soldier and his horse suddenly fell forward, and then collapsed directly on the horse's back, with the sword that had not yet fallen off. Blood continuously overflowed from the gaps in his faceplate, and his internal organs were shattered and he died.

"Good skill!"

Li Ya, who was also fighting hard in the battle formation, saw this scene and stabbed the enemy soldier on the opposite side. She also turned her hand and gave the young general a thumbs up to praise him.

"It's already the seventh one!"

Han Qinhu, who was also a confidant in the Taiyuan king's tent, grinned after hearing this, and proudly made a gesture representing "seven" to the surrounding robes, and then carried his Changke battle ax toward the fierce battle. go. These elite axemen have great maneuvering rights on the battlefield and do not need to follow orders to advance or retreat on a certain battlefield.

Li Ya and others heard that Han Qinhu had such a powerful record, and they couldn't help but feel envious for a while. They looked at the fewer and fewer enemy heavy cavalry on the battlefield, and kept moving forward under the cover of the fighting robes around them. .

In the melee, Li Ya saw an enemy heavy rider with a gold belt around his waist, and her heart suddenly moved. Seeing the enemy general reining in his horse and turning to fight, she got up and quickly approached him. However, when he struck out with an axe, , the enemy knight suddenly jumped sideways, and the ax that was supposed to hit the enemy general's back fell on the horse's hind foot. The huge force directly broke the horse's foot through the armored curtain, and the enemy general also tilted straight away. The war horse fell down.

"Don't hurt my lord, the dog thief!"

Soon several enemy cavalry who were fighting with the enemy general noticed something was wrong and hurriedly jumped on their horses and rushed forward to rescue him.

After hearing this, Li Ya's eyes suddenly lit up again. She ignored the enemy's spear that was stabbing her diagonally. She swung the ax and struck the enemy general in front of his heart. She was relieved to see blood gushing out of his mouth like a fountain. As soon as he smiled, his body was thrown away by the enemy. The entire left half of his body was numb and burning. After landing, he fell directly into the pile of corpses of several people, and soon passed out unconscious.

(End of this chapter)