Chapter 4 Immediately Horizontal Gun Section 15(1/2)
The Qiang people were extremely afraid, and they were timid. To the west was an unstoppable iron cavalry army, to the east was an infantry phalanx, to the north was Linghe, and to the south? The soldiers looked at the dark space in the south, and the fear in their hearts reached its peak. No one would have thought that the catastrophe would come so quickly, suddenly, and so fierce.
Li Wenhou saw the weapons in the hands of the Han army infantry from afar and gasped. What kind of spear is that? It is not a spear at all, a tree five or six feet long and the bowl is the same. What kind of shield is that? It is not a shield, it is a door panel two feet tall with raw cowhide. The Han army obviously came prepared with this giant weapon against the cavalry.
The cavalry had a deep-rooted contempt for infantry, and this contempt gave Li Wenhou an illusion. He felt that the way out tonight was on this group of infantry. The iron cavalry on the opposite side were all the Xianbei people of the Huntao and the Wuwan people, which was too difficult to deal with, and it was safe and reliable to fight infantry. In his opinion, no matter what weapons the Han army used or what formation it was, it was simply a delusion to block the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry.
Li Wenhou decisively ordered the 10,000 cavalry of the Right Army to fight against the cavalry that rushed towards the east to prevent them from rushing to the battlefield in the east. The soldiers who retreated from the front, rear and central troops, about 27,800 soldiers directly rushed to the Han army's infantry phalanx. The 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry and the 19 infantry phalanx in front of them were almost certain.
"I want to see who ate who?" Li Wenhou said gritting his teeth.
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The Qiang people's horns were dense and tragic, full of anger and murderous aura, echoing in the empty night sky.
The Qiang and Hu soldiers launched the entire line. The shouts of killing from tens of thousands of people suddenly exploded in the dark, like a mountain collapse and cracking, violently hitting the bloody battlefield in the dark.
Ten thousand cavalrymen of the Qiang and Hu left army formed a scattered formation. Under the leadership of Xiaoqu coach Nie Xiao, they advanced rapidly and rushed towards the Fengyun Iron Cavalry that was coming towards them.
At this time, Li Hong had commanded the army to complete the transformation of the formation, and the troops changed from a storm-forward line to a cone-shaped attack line. The cone was like a torrent, shouting and roaring, and traveling across the battlefield, like entering a no-man's land. Its fierce murderous aura was like a prairie fire gun, and it was unstoppable.
Li Hong took the lead, like a long arrow roaring in the air, sharp and sharp.
He held up his bloody steel gun, looked back and shouted wildly: "Huh...huh..."
"Huh...huh..."
The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry rode wildly. They were full of passion and used all their strength to hold their weapons high, shouting in a loud voice: "Huh... Huh..."
The two armies joined together, and a shocking sound broke out on the battlefield. Kill.
"Kill..." Li Hong opened his eyes angrily, and eroded his steel gun, eroding human lives.
"Kill..." Black Panther Yi followed closely behind, and the swords were raging the creatures.
"Kill..." The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry were like bloodthirsty beasts rushing out of the darkness. They stared at their blood-red eyes, waved their bloody weapons, and were rampant, and devouring innocent lives frantically.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry knew that there were 20,000 comrades behind them attacking the enemy's infantry. If they could not block the enemy's cavalry and let them kill them, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Nie Xiao ordered some soldiers to gather in large quantities and directly attack the enemy's cone head. The other soldiers attacked the enemy's cone formation wings, killing the enemy at all costs, and preventing the enemy from rushing to the battlefield on the right side of the camp.
"Brothers, kill...ah..." Nie Xiao swung his sword and shouted in a loud voice, "Kill..."
The cone head of Fengyun Iron Cavalry seemed to hit a stone, and suddenly it was a little difficult to move forward. Faced with the enemy rushing up like a tide, the iron cone formation gradually slowed down.
Li Hong's eyes were full of bright battle knives and gloomy spears. Although he tried his best to dance the steel gun, he still had no time to resist. A spear stabbed Li Hong's arm, and then his thigh was slashed by the enemy's battle knives, and blood splashed. Li Hong was so fierce that he was stimulated by the huge pain that he roared and pulled out the battle knives, using the guns and swords at the same time, roaring like a tiger, clashing in the enemy's formation.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry advanced rapidly along the two wings of the iron cone while launching a fierce offensive.
The iron cone formation was thick and hard, and the soldiers gathered together tightly, like a rock that could not be shaken at all.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry rushed over and over again, frantically endlessly. Although they were ruthlessly strangled and cruelly trampled by the speeding iron cavalry army, batches of enemies were swept away by the rolling torrents, and there was no trace, but they still rushed up tenaciously, with the waves of attack higher than the other.
The soldiers in the iron cone formation aimed at the pounced enemy and fired rounds of volleys. The long arrows were like *, dense and urgent, greatly killing the enemy and reducing the defensive pressure of the soldiers outside.
Nie Xiao found that the attack was invalid and the troops suffered heavy casualties, so he immediately changed his tactics. He ordered the soldiers to move with the enemy's formation and adopt the method of encircling and cavalrying to attack from a long distance.
The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry immediately felt that the pressure was reduced sharply, and the iron cone formation began to accelerate. However, the enemy cavalry responsible for the blocking was still chewing around the cone head, and the resistance to continue moving forward was very high. Li Hong immediately ordered the formation to turn right and urged the iron cone formation to kill to the south of the battlefield. His purpose was to kill people, rather than to meet the infantry.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry surrounded the left and right sides of the formation and fired at will. Long arrows roared fiercely, shooting into the cone formation like raindrops, both accurately and fiercely. The soldiers in the formation immediately fought back. The arrows from both sides came and went, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce. The two cavalry armies were in a stalemate.
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On the battlefield to the east, the Qiang and Hu soldiers howled and roared under the command of the horns of the cow, swarmed up to the Han army formation that was coming from the opposite side. They were like a group of wild wolves with red eyes, swaying their teeth and grinning, and rushed towards a flock of sheep, a group of sheep that looked weak and bullied.
In the Central Military Formation about one hundred steps away from the front line, Xian Yufu stood under the banner of the Central Military Army, calm and calm.
He listened carefully to the various voices on the battlefield ahead, and interpreted the state of fighting on the battlefield in his mind. Hearing the enemy's rushing across the line, a smile finally appeared on his face.
Xian Yufu shouted loudly: "Beat the drum and order all the formations to stop moving forward and keep their distance."
"Kill the enemy at will, and order them to kill the enemy at will..."
The sound of war drums suddenly went from dense to sparse, from fierce to low, from passion to calm.
Nineteen giant square arrays stopped immediately. They lined up on the attack surface two miles long, with ten in front and nine in the back, densely arranged.
The giant shield was raised up obliquely, and the back was supported by six giant trees in two layers. Three giant spears were arranged side by side on the shield. The dark giant spearhead made people shudder. A considerable number of giant spears were temporarily processed, without spearheads, but just sharpened the top of the tree with a knife. The knives and axe soldiers were ambushed behind the giant shield and spearmen, preparing to attack at any time and kill the enemy's war horses and soldiers.
"Arrow..." Gao Lan shouted loudly. The war drums were beating. Four hundred archers lay their bows and arrows.
Gao Lan was very confident in this set of dense infantry formations. These methods were thought out by the soldiers of Fengyun Iron Cavalry when they were training in Shanggu, Youzhou. When they were training infantry and cavalry battles in Handan, they used this set of formations. The cavalry had a headache with this set of infantry formations and never took advantage of them during training.
Qiang and Hu soldiers rushed over.
"Let it..." Gao Lan roared wildly, "Attack, continuous attack..."
The former sected ten square formations and four thousand archers, on the two-mile-long attack surface, aimed at the enemy cavalry almost at the same time, and launched a sharp long arrow attack. For a moment, the rain of arrows was raining, and the roars of long arrows tearing the air into a huge sound of roar, which was creepy.
The Qiang cavalry basically had no armor. They were all wearing cloth clothes and animal skins, with poor defense. There were many people who were caught in the horse. The death of their comrades greatly stimulated the Qiang and Hu. The anger in their hearts was ignited, and they went crazy. They lost their minds and did not dodge or dodge, and rushed up in the dense rain of arrows.
Crash, hit madly and fiercely.
On the battlefield, there was instantly a full of neighing horses, the roar of soldiers, the roar of giant shields being hit, the roar of long arrows tearing the air, the dull sound of spears poking into the war horses, and the sound of gold and iron clashing. The bloody battle began.
The Qiang cavalry was not afraid of the enemy. They beat horses and directly hit the giant shield. Although their heads were bleeding, they were willing to do so.
The war horses jumped high, either pierced by giant spears and died or fell backwards. The rider was either cut to death after flying into the shield due to inertia, or rolled to the ground with the war horses. Only a few giant shields were hit or cracked by war horses. Han soldiers with their bodies were then knocked away or crushed to death by war horses, but no Qiang cavalry could rush in. The giant shield was destroyed, the swordsman, the ordinary spearmen in the back row, and the archers and archers would immediately rush up, and they would all be cut to death, whether it was the enemy's war horses or soldiers. Without the giant shield, the gap was combined with ordinary long shields and giant spears to continue to hold on.
All the first round of collisions failed, posing no threat to the Han military formation.
The second round of impact was even more fierce.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry rushed to the horse without hesitation. Many places were attacking with two cavalry. The impact was so great that it was not something that humans could resist. Although there were six wooden stakes to support the giant shield, the number of giant shields was destroyed increased significantly. The enemy's cavalry still did not get any advantage. Either the war horses died or the soldiers were killed, and none of them could rush into the phalanx. The Han soldiers in the phalanx swore to block the death to death. If the giant shield was gone, they would use ordinary shields; if the spear was broken, they would use ordinary spears; if the shield soldiers or spear soldiers died, the sword and axe soldiers were topped up; all the soldiers on the first level of defense were killed, and all the soldiers on the second level of defense were topped up. Under the tenacious and brave defense of the Han soldiers, the square was still not opened by the enemy.
Li Wenhou was anxious. If he continued to hit like this, the enemy's phalanx would not be broken, and his soldiers would die thousands of them.
"Order the soldiers to concentrate their strength and hit the front of the enemy's phalanx, and continuously hit the front of the enemy's phalanx, without pause, and continuously hit the front of its."
The ox horn "Woo woo..." sounded everywhere, one after another.
Xian Yufu heard the enemy's horn sound, raised his eyebrows and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum... order all the square formations to concentrate the main force to defend the front of the square formation."
"Order the archers to scatter volleys and close range."
The sound of war drums is loud or small, dense or sparse, resounding throughout the night sky.
The third round of crazy impact began.
Thousands of war horses began to run, start flying and start to hit by the cavalry roaring, and start to hit; hundreds of giant shields began to break and shatter in the impact, and finally turned into wooden pieces flying in the air; the giant spear poked the first batch of war horses that leaped to death and blocked the impact of the second batch of war horses, but facing the war horses that were running one after another, the spear soldiers had no other way except shouting. They had no time to carry out the spear operation, and could only watch the enemy kill. Except for breaking, the giant spear gradually became waste after losing the giant shield.
The shield soldiers were at the forefront of the square formation, and many and miserable deaths were killed. They were either crushed and crushed by war horses or stabbed by enemy cavalry. Without the giant shield and giant spear, the swordsman of the square formation had to sacrifice himself to block the gap.
The front of the Han military formation was gradually broken through by the enemy, and more and more frontier positions began to fight hand-to-hand, fierce and cruel. The frontal defensive soldiers of many phalanx were almost wiped out, and many archers in the formation immediately filled in, swearing to block the enemy to the death to ensure the integrity of the phalanx.
Gao Lan held a knife in one hand, covered in blood, and ran around the frontier of the square like a madman. Whenever he met an enemy's war horse, he would chop his legs and behead him when he met an enemy who rushed in. He led his servants to kill from east to west, and from west to east, and for a moment.
The soldiers on both sides forgot life and death, and forgot pain. They only know how to kill, kill, kill, kill the enemy, and kill another enemy. They are tireless and do not know how to bloody they continue to kill until they are killed by others.
The ten square formations in the front row of the position were finally unable to hold on with the continuous and endless attacks of the enemy, and all the defenses were in crisis. The nine square formations in the back row were not attacked by the enemy because of their distance, and their formation was complete.
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The crooked moon in the sky quietly moved to the east, and dawn was coming.
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Xian Yufu heard the sound of war drums calling the police from the square formation, shook his stiff neck and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, order the front to send the square formation to shrink the defense, and the nine square formations in the back row should be pushed up."
The drums are loud and intense, and the rhythm is so dense that it makes people feel a little breathless.
Gao Lan hit the enemy's head with a knife, kicked the enemy's body away with one step, then flew back, shouting wildly: "Contract... Contract defense..."
The soldiers of the phalanx stepped back with the sound of drums. At the same time, the archers in each phalanx aimed at the front and launched a frantically continuous shooting to block the enemy's pursuit and attack. As the defense range of the phalanx narrowed, some of the defensive soldiers on the other three sides of the phalanx were immediately drawn out to supplement the front of the phalanx with the worst losses.
The front phalanx had just been contracted, and the archers in the phalanx immediately began to suppress the shooting to cover the nine phalanxes in the rear row moving forward.
In such a fierce confrontation, the Han army dared to change the formation. Li Wenhou was angry. He roared wildly and cursed constantly, ordering the troops to attack fiercely while the enemy was moving in an unstable formation and break through the enemy's square formation at all costs. As long as the square formation is broken, all that remains is bloody killing of the enemy.
The Qiang and Hu soldiers were also angry. Under the command of the Horn, they sorted out the formation a little, and immediately started the fourth round of attacks, attacking in an all-round and crazy manner.
There were suddenly a huge sound, a huge and tragic sound on the battlefield.
The shrinking square formation and the moving square formation have not yet stood firm, and neither the giant shield nor the giant spear plays the most. Although there are covers of archers, each square formation has suffered varying degrees of blows, and casualties have increased dramatically.
As time went by, nineteen huge square formations finally stood side by side, forming a human wall of more than two miles long. Facing the formation like a copper and iron wall, the Qiang people began to be unable to do it, and felt like they had no idea how to start.
Li Wenhou immediately ordered his subordinates to concentrate their main force and break the point first, one square array and one square array to break. As long as one or two square arrays of the Han army were broken, they would definitely be able to defeat all of them.
Some of the Qiang and Hu cavalry gathered slightly under the command of the horn and then launched the fifth round of attacks.
Gao Lan's square formation was broken, and Fan Li's square formation was also broken. Qiang and Hu cavalry swarmed up, and the soldiers on both sides immediately began a bloody hand-to-hand combat, fierce and cruel, and never ended.
The war drums for help were beating.
Xian Yufu immediately ordered Tie Yue and Lei Zi to bring one thousand people each to support quickly.
In order to support the troops, Xian Yufu specially equipped the 2,000 troops of the central army with war horses. Tieyue and Lei Zi had been in a hurry. Xian Yufu's order had just been issued, and the two troops rushed to the battlefield like two sharp arrows flying away.
Seeing the support troops reaching, Gao Lan and Fan Li's square formation immediately gave up the passage. The soldiers of the support troops shouted and roared in. The Qiang and Hu soldiers were caught off guard, and the enemies in the square formation were quickly killed and fled in a panic.
Night opened and dawn came quietly.
The fierce and cloud cavalry scattered across the battlefield, and the more they killed, the more they became braver, and the speed became faster and faster, and gradually became a trend that thousands of men could not stand.
Nie Xiao was caught in an arrow and retreated by his servants.
To be continued...