Chapter 14 In the Troubled Army
?The Anzhou army defeated the imperial court's Conquest Army with lightning, but in the subsequent pursuit, they fell into the trap of the other party and were counterattacked, and the two sides fought together.
Yang Su, the general manager of the Southern Army, led two thousand cavalry under his command to rush into the Anzhou army formation and fought hard. The Anzhou cavalry were all stopped by a unit of cavalry in the southern army on the left wing (west wing). Now they are facing only the scattered infantry in the formation and no one can stop them.
According to the plan formulated before the war, most of the elite soldiers were ambushed at the back of the camp and the cavalry that took the lead were mostly old, weak, sick and disabled, and poor horses who could only pull carts. The main cavalry gathered behind the hills on the west side of the battlefield and ambushed behind.
The purpose is to prevent the Anzhou army from using something powerful between the two armies to cause the situation to collapse. This is a trick to attract the Anzhou army to take advantage of the victory and pursue it with careless ambush.
It would be fine if the Anzhou army had no amazing means to fight against its own side. If the other party defeated its own Central Army formation, which was mainly recruited, it would have to chase and kill them all the way.
If the Anzhou army is incompetent and cannot defeat the conscripted soldiers in the dark, then the soldiers who have lunch in the afternoon will be put into the battle, and then see how the other party resists.
As a division of labor, Yang Su led the cavalry from the west wing of the battlefield to enter the formation and disrupt the formation of the Anzhou army. With tens of thousands of cavalry attacks, even if the enemy has 100,000, it is just a native chicken and a tile dog.
"Yuwen Liang is really a big deal, and I don't know where he got this method." Yang Su looked at the Anzhou Army General Banner in the south and sneered. There was someone else doing the task of attacking the Anzhou Central Army. He was only responsible for prompting the collapse of the Anzhou army.
Ask yourself if you didn't make a countermeasure to defeat yourself and put the elite soldiers in front as soon as you got up, the explosion just now would really collapse. So Yang Su was very interested in how the explosion caused.
This is very similar to the "Sui State Duke's Tribulation" incident that occurred in Chang'an City last March. At that time, Yang Su heard the earth-shaking movement nearby and saw the rising black smoke.
That scene was very similar to what we heard and saw on the battlefield today. Yang Su naturally scoffed at the rumored "tribulation" statement. He believed that it should be the effect of some kind of elixir prescription.
In early April, Emperor Tianyuan was assassinated and died. It is reported that there were thunder sounds around the scene. The soldiers and horses who came to rescue nearby were shocked. It was the assassin who took this opportunity to escape without a trace.
Yang Su doesn't care who is the real culprit behind the scenes. Anyway, he is not ready to be loyal to the Yuwen family, so whether the Great Zhou is over is not related to him. What he cares about is to make achievements and enjoy the glory and wealth of the world.
If we can find out the secret recipes in the hands of the Anzhou army and make many of these things in the same way, what would it be difficult to sweep the world? The emperor would not do it but be of the same kind as the country, so he could compete for it.
So he wanted to take the defeat of the Anzhou army here as another cornerstone for his success. Last year, he killed the Great Zhou royal family in Xingzhou. The governor of Xingzhou Yu Wenzhou earned the title of Duke of Qinghe County with this contribution.
Today, Yang Su wanted to further earn the title of Duke of the State through military merits, so all hopes were on the commander of Anzhou Army and Duke of Qi Yuwen Liang. He hoped that Yuwen Liang could withstand the impact of his own cavalry and escape his life.
Then he had the chance to chase Yuwen Liang in the chaos, and forced him to death just like Yuwen Zhou, who chased Yuwen Liang's cousin last year, and then crushed the opponent's hope of counterattacking with his own hands and finally cut off his head.
During the charge, Yang Su saw an Anzhou general in front of him organizing soldiers to form a formation. Without thinking, he bent his bow and arrow to shoot him. The soldiers who were about to organize lost their backbone and then disintegrated.
The Anzhou Army was a little panicked when it was attacked on the flanks, but it did not collapse. The cavalry of the Southern Army who broke into the formation was to create panic as much as possible to prevent the counterattack. The Anzhou Army soldiers who tried to summon soldiers were their primary targets of attack.
The purpose is to create an avalanche, causing a team to collapse and then a pillar to collapse. The next step is a military collapse. The soldiers who fled behind will cause panic among others, causing more and more people to run with them, and in the end, they will never be stopped like an avalanche.
Many cavalrymen in the Northern Dynasties were easy to use, so Yang Su led three thousand cavalry to rush into the Anzhou Army formation until a group of soldiers appeared in front of him.
The military formation was not large in size but was full of spears. Yang Su was very familiar with this situation: that was the long spear formation of the Anzhou Army Hexi Camp guards who had resisted countless sieges yesterday afternoon.
The camp that could have been captured in the evening was delayed because of the opponent's courage, but was dragged down to the arrival of the main force of the Anzhou Army and had no chance. His five hundred elite troops were all killed on the spot in order to attack this spear formation but before they could approach it. Yang Su really wanted to break through the spear formation and cut off the head of the main general as a chamber pot.
"By bypass the spear formation and don't get entangled with them!" Yang Su was not a fool, and he looked red and fought desperately as soon as he saw his enemy. As the marching chief, he had more important things to do. After the cavalry rushed through the Anzhou Army formation, he had to run a suitable distance and then turn around and continue rushing to the formation.
We must hurry up to the opponent's cavalry to stop the charge forward until the Anzhou army is defeated. The so-called defeat is as high as a mountain, even if this spear formation can hit more than a thousand people, it will still be able to turn the tide.
The sound of breaking through the air sounded a rain of arrows and splashed at Yang Su and his cavalry. Although the cavalry and horses were all armed, they still caused casualties.
"When the other party forms a formation, can there be a large number of archers covering it?" Yang Su murmured to himself, then looked closely and saw many carriages surrounded by the spear formation, archers standing on it were shooting arrows at him.
"So that's the case, it's a lot of painstaking efforts." Yang Su smiled disapprovingly with a few arrows on her body. The armor he was wearing was not so easy to shoot through. Although the other party was a little annoying, there was no need to entangle.
So he still decided to bypass the cavalry under his command because he had no time to fight the opponent to the death. Under his order, the cavalry divided into two left and right strands to bypass the spear formation in front of him.
Just as the cavalry of the Southern Conquest Army were divided into two strands to go around the two wings of the spear formation, the crossbows on the carriage in the formation began to frenzy. The flame bombs they shot lit up the heads of the cavalry on both sides of the left and right wings, and a fire instantly burned into the cavalry group.
The subsequent cavalrymen saw that their comrades in front of them were burning and they ran to the side. Some cavalrymen were closer to the spear formation and were stabbed off the horse by the spearmen in a few steps.
The cavalry continued to fly across the spear formation and was shot down by the bows and arrows in the formation. The flames burst out from time to time and ignited the cavalry. When they passed the spear formation and came to the wilderness, they had already lost nearly hundreds of cavalry when they were about to turn around.
"Master Lang, if these spear formations are left unstoppable, no matter if they are allowed to enter the military formation, they will take the opportunity to organize manpower formations. At that time, the war will be stalemate..." A subordinate beside Yang Su, who had a hideous scar on his face, carefully proposed.
"Yeah." Yang Su looked at the spear formation and looked cold. He just now he was determined to make contributions and did not want to get involved with the other party. Now it seems that it will be impossible not to solve the problem.
If the spear formation gathers together, the soldiers in Anzhou will gather more and more, and it will eventually become a big bunch. Even if the army of our side is pressing over, it will be difficult to win for a while.
The plan of our own deception was implemented at the cost of losing more than half of the combat power. The soldiers who were previously scattered by the Anzhou army did not gather so quickly, and it may not be good to organize and invest in combat.
The Southern Army now uses 50,000 or 60,000 troops to counterattack, so it is necessary to prevent the opponent from forming a formation and re-collapse the soldiers. Yang Su looked at the remaining cavalry in the Anzhou Army formation and gritted his teeth and made a decision.
"Yang Liu, you lead eight hundred cavalry around the spear formation." Yang Su paused for a moment after saying that, "Don't let them move forward, and don't let the rest of the soldiers approach them!"
"Get orders!" The scar face, known as Yang Liu, was hesitant to take the order and rode away to summon his subordinates.
"When the army arrives, we have to see how you can resist it!" Yang Su looked at the spear formation with ferociousness. He thought that the spear formation was powerful, but in order to deal with the cavalry, he had to stop and form the formation honestly.
If there are cavalry harassed them around, they should beware of their guards and don’t think so. As long as the other soldiers are dispersed and the spear formation is dispersed, there will be no way to gather more people to prevent the situation from collapsing.
Yang Su and the remaining thousands of cavalry continued to attack the Anzhou Army formation, while Yang Liuze led 800 cavalry to start wandering near the spear formation.
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Yuwen Wen, who was standing on the chariot in the formation, took Qianli Jing away from his face and sneered: "The enemy cavalry split up and seemed to want to pester our army."
"They thought we could only hold on the ground in formation." The military leader Chen Wudi disagreed when he heard this.
"The square formation moves forward, continue westward!"
The sound of trumpets sounded, and then the sound of horns came one after another in each square formation. The spearmen who formed the formation began to move westward. The formation movement was a subject that the new army practiced every day on a daily basis. Therefore, when moving in actual combat, it was not only fast but also able to maintain the formation.
The new army platoon was a hollow square formation, so not only the archers were also included in the formation, along with the long sword soldiers led by Yang Ji. As for the 300 cavalry led by Yuwen Shiwu, they stayed in the Hexi camp and stood by.
The enemy cavalry wandering outside began to move when they saw the spear formation moving. They rode their horses and wanted to rush to the formation to force the formation in front of them to stop and defend. However, at this time the carriages in the new military formation began to change.
"Prepare the crossbow!"
The auxiliary soldiers on the carriage surrounded by each square formation turned the twisting powered crossbows on the carriage one after another. This was specially created by Yuwen Wen to provide "long-distance output" to move with the army.
Compared with the torsion springs made of horsehair last year, the torsion springs of this batch of car-mounted crossbows were made of animal tendons, so they are more powerful and of course they are more expensive.
"The order Yuwen 15 is to be ready to fight at any time." After giving the order, Yuwen Wen looked at the flags in the formation and found that they were all hanging down, so he turned his head and asked, "It's been quiet all the time?"
"I have reported to the commander of the army, and the last general has just observed that it is indeed Jingfeng." Xu Shao, the owner of the banner, said, and he and Yuwen Wen were all wearing clothes and were also called military positions.
This was the first time he was in a large formation and he was on the battlefield and the scene was a "big scene". Seeing the crowds of people around him resounding across the sky, Xu Shao couldn't help but feel excited.
This is the place where a man can achieve success!
Chapter completed!