Chapter 1472 Evolution
Seeing the smoke and dust stirred up by the cavalry in the distance, Sun Jian immediately ordered a change of formation.
He originally lined up the westward array and faced Zhen Yan. Nearly 20,000 troops were deployed north and south, and the left wing went deeper into the gap. The navy led by Man Chong and Xu Sheng was undertaken by the navy commander of Sui Yang. Huang Gai led the main force with the strongest combat power to be the front and the back formation were the military military soldiers with slightly weak combat power, commanded by Lu Meng. After the formation was changed, Huang Gai became the left wing and maintained the pressure on Zhen Yan. Lu Meng shrank back and stood on the river bank and became the right wing. Lu Fan turned north and faced the Wuhuan cavalry running towards the front. Man Chong and Xu Sheng changed from the left wing to the back formation, and also undertaken the task of transporting cavalry across the river.
The entire tactic was discussed repeatedly in advance. From the generals of the army to the marquis of Qu Junhou, everyone knew their mission and was on standby at any time. With the sound of the central army's war drums, the entire army quickly turned, with the fast speed and tacit cooperation, which surprised Zhen Yan, who was secretly happy.
I know that the Jiangdong Army is well-trained, but this is too magical. The formation of 20,000 people changes at any time?
He was a little uneasy, as if he had made a mistake. He had been suppressed by Sun Jian in the past two days, and he retreated again and again. He had already determined that the Jiangdong Army was an elite. Sun Jian was worthy of being a tiger in Jiangdong. His tactics were powerful and his offensive was fierce. It was both unfortunate and lucky to meet such a master when he first entered the battle formation. Unfortunately, he was defeated. Fortunately, he was able to defeat in front of such masters without being in chaos and always maintain the integrity of his position. But now it seems that it is not the case, and Sun Jian has always kept his hands. With the tacit understanding shown by the Jiangdong Army's transformation of the formation at this moment, if Sun Jian had done his best, he would have been unable to hold on.
Sun Jian is waiting for Yuan Shao?
Although Zhen Yan was suspicious, he could not confirm. Even when he was about to face the cavalry, Huang Gai did not relax his attack on him, and the offensive became more fierce. An infantryman of a thousand-man was attacking west along the north bank of the Great Valley, trying to break through his right wing. The right wing faced Huang Gai and Man Chong at the same time, and the biggest loss was the weakness of his entire formation.
Zhen Yan did not dare to be careless and ordered the entire army to shrink south and reinforce the left wing to make room for the cavalry to raid. Since Yuan Shao came to help in person, the Arc Cavalry would inevitably go to fight. The Arc Cavalry was best at breaking the infantry formation, and launching an attack from his left wing was the fastest path.
As for the same formation change, Zhen Yan's speed was much slower than Sun Jian.
King Khanlu led two thousand Wuhuan cavalry to the battlefield. He thought he would see the weak flank of the Jiangdong Army. Because the enemy was in front of his right rather than the left front, it was awkward to shoot with bows and arrows, so he simply gave up cavalry and shooting and decided to use a spear and a sword to attack at close range. The Wuhuan people were not as capable as the Han knights in close combat with spears, but they still had an advantage against inadequate infantry.
The spear was tightly held under his ribs, and the sword was raised high. King Khanlu led the Wuhuan cavalry to come and found that the flags of the Jiangdong army in front of him were shaking, the drums of war were roaring, and they were changing formations. They were ecstatic. The change of formation was the most panicked time for infantry, and the resistance to assault was the least. He raised the sword in his hand and ordered an attack. The Wuhuan knights cheered and shouted loudly, and rode their horses to speed up.
Seeing the Wuhuan people getting closer and closer, their hooves were thundering, and the earth was trembling, Lu Fan was also a little nervous. If the formation was not completed in time and the Wuhuan people broke into the formation, not only would his subordinates suffer heavy losses, but it would also directly affect Sun Ce's entire tactical arrangement. However, he did not yell, and the soldiers had done their best. When urging them again at this time, they would panic.
"Personal guards are ready, archer is ready." Lu Fan waved his hand.
"Here!" Two hundred personal guards rolled over and prepared for the assault. If the infantry did not have time to complete the formation change, they would rush over to the Wuhuan people and fight for time. Charging head-on with the Hu cavalry several times their own, the probability of their survival was very low, but none of them hesitated. They knew very well that Sun Ce and Lu Fan would not let their sacrifice have any regrets.
A Level A snitch, five Level B snitches rushed to the front, took off their bows, raised their crossbows, and prepared to shoot. Their keen eyes looked for the most valuable targets in the approaching Wuhuan formation, and interrupted the charge rhythm of the Wuhuan people as much as possible.
Facing the Wuhuan people getting closer and closer, no one shouted, and they were doing what they should do under the command of drums. Finally, they completed the formation change before the Wuhuan people arrived. The big shields were like walls and spears were like forests, stacked and unbreakable.
Seeing the Jiangdong Army completing the formation change at the last moment, King Khanlu, who was rushing in front, felt very regretful. Such a good assault opportunity slipped away from the cracks of his fingers. The Jiangdong Army had already lined up. If he rushed forward directly, no matter whether he could break the formation in the end, his chance of survival was very small. He had almost no hesitation and ordered the change of the attack route, galloping east along Lu Fan's formation and continuing to move forward.
The sound of the trumpet was whimpering, and the Wuhuan people turned their horses' heads, drew an arc, and galloped past Lu Fan's formation.
Seeing the formation of the Wuhuan people unfolding in front of him, Lu Fan seemed to see a girl unbuttoning Luoshan, raising her arms excitedly and waved her hard. The messenger immediately waved the colorful flags, and the rhythm of the war drum changed, from soothing to rapid, like a storm, one after another, connecting into one piece.
"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!" The four powerful crossbow captains issued the order to shoot at the same time. The top 1,500 archers and top 300 archers began to shoot quickly. The strong archers covered the target without any difference, did not ask about the target, just shoot continuously, and shot as many arrows as possible. The strong crossbowmen attacked at a fixed point, with the main purpose of shooting the opponent's generals and disrupting the formation.
The matter was hasty, and the Wuhuan people temporarily changed their formation. They were less than thirty steps closest to Lu Fan's position. Their equipment was also very average, less than 30% of them could wear iron armor. Most of them were wearing leather armor, and some people even had no armor to use. They suffered heavy losses under the attack of the crossbowmen. Some people were constantly caught in the horse's horse's hooves, and then they were trampled into broken arms and broken legs by the rushing horse's hooves, with flesh blooming, and blood flowing.
Hearing the screams of his subordinates one after another, King Khanlu regretted it. He originally thought he wanted to come to eat meat, but he didn't expect that the fat meat turned into a hard bone. Although he avoided the danger of rushing to death, he also suffered a lot of losses, similar to the fat sheep sent to the opponent's knife, and was extremely stupid. At this point, there was no way to think about it. He could only speed up, get out of contact as soon as possible, and turn around and come back again.
The horn sounded again, and it was fast and short. The Wuhuan people kicked the horses at the same time. Two thousand cavalrymen rushed past Lu Fan's formation, and in a blink of an eye, there was only one tail left. Because there were too many knights falling off, the knights at the end could no longer run towards their companions in front. In order to avoid falling, they had to reduce their speed, disperse the formation, and rely on their personal riding skills to avoid obstacles as much as possible. Even so, there were still different knights who had no time to avoid it and fell to the ground. Recently, more than a hundred cavalry had completely lost their speed.
"Spike!" Lu Fan again, the next time, the two bent swords, shields and spearmen rushed out of the position and killed the Wuhuan knights. They scattered while running, and took Wu Shi as units to siege the single Wuhuan knights. The Wuhuan knights waved their swords, spears, chopped and chopped randomly, or rode horses to rush out of the siege. However, the infantrymen of the Jiangdong Army were prepared for a long time. The swords, shields and shields were holding their left hand to protect their heads, resisting the Wuhuan knights' war horses, spears, and waved their swords with their right hand to chop horse hooves. The spearmen thrust the spears, stabbed people upwards, and stabbed horses underneath, and cooperated with tacit understanding.
In the blink of an eye, the tails of the Wuhuan cavalry were cut off, and dozens of knights were dragged off their war horses and fell into a pool of blood.
Chapter completed!