Chapter 121: Pinch shot, short assault
In the afternoon, the fighting pace accelerated. After a morning of various tentative attacks, the East and West armies, which had warmed up, adjusted their respective positions, and then entered the new force to carry out key attacks. The first one to attack was the Right Army of Yuchi Youqi's side (East Army).
The right army of the Eastern Army is the right wing, which is facing the left army (left wing) of Yuwen Wen's side (Western Army).
A large number of armored cavalry leaned from the outside to the left wing of the Western Army, and light cavalry on the outside intercepted the left wing of the Western Army. The Eastern Army tried to attack the left wing of the Eastern Army with the number of cavalry.
The light cavalry of both sides were attacking, while the armored cavalry set out to charge. The left wing of the Western Army began to respond, the flanks were thickened, and the spearmen broke forward, ready to face the opponent's attack.
Armored cavalry are armoured with armor, both of which are armoured. Whether it is a man or a horse, the protection is very high. It is a dream to use arrows to block the opponent's charge, so they can only use a spear to fight head-on.
The light cavalry chasing and fighting around compressed the activity space of armored cavalry. Facing the Western Army spearmen gathered, the armored cavalry suddenly changed its tactics, approached the Western Army's infantry formation and changed directions left and right, and ran crosswise to start cavalry and shooting.
This is a heavy cavalry tactic for shooting. The moving armored cavalry is not just a tactic of charge and collision. The spear soldiers who are waiting for the cavalry bow are shot with a cavalry bow. The unexpected effect is very good.
Once the opponent's archer stepped forward to shoot, the armored cavalry was not afraid of it, and the clamped shooting could turn into a charge at any time. The switching speed was enough to make the formation at a loss. The only problem was the consumption of horsepower. After all, the war horse was carrying cavalry and wearing armor, and it couldn't stand it for a long time.
The Eastern Army's armored cavalry had good clamping effect, while its right-wing insurgency array directly suppressed the left wing of the Western Army, trying to collapse the left wing of the Western Army with a clamping situation.
Yang Su, the commander of the left wing of the Western Army and the marching general, quickly made a decision and ordered the spearmen to carry out short assaults and charge directly on foot at the enemy's armored cavalry that was shooting.
Since the Western Wei Dynasty, one of the common tactics of the Western Wei army (Zhou army) is to cooperate with infantry and cavalry to deal with the superior enemy with cavalry, use spearmen to attack the enemy cavalry for a short time, and protect the flanks of our own cavalry.
Once the infantry charge successfully forces the enemy cavalry to retreat, the cavalry on their own will take advantage of the situation to chase after them. If the cavalry fails during the battle, they can retreat to the rear of the infantry, and then the infantry will continue to push the spear and attack quickly. Such a ladder attack will have a good effect on the Eastern Wei Army/Qi Army.
The spearmen who suddenly attacked forced the armored cavalry to disperse. Xue Shixiong, who was already ready to go, led three hundred cavalry to attack and rushed straight towards the enemy armored cavalry, taking advantage of the opponent's retreat to "snatch a handful".
The attacking spearmen slowed down, adjusted their formation and rested for a while, and continued to move forward after a while, oppressing the opponent's armored cavalry.
In this way, the left army had no support on the front, because the team as the reserve team had already charged on foot towards the flanking enemy cavalry, and the frontal forces were instantly reduced, which was exactly the effect the East Army wanted.
The ready-made thrower tried hard to throw the ignited thunder towards the Western Army, and the Eastern Army spearmen in the front row also launched a short assault, using the cavalry to attract the enemy on the flanks, regardless of casualties and Western Army spearmen, fell down and rushed up again.
The weak defense line of the Western Army's left wing quickly collapsed. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Eastern Army shouted "break the formation" and advanced quickly with their spears amid the tide of shouting. The formation of their right wing quickly loosened, and everyone rushed to the enemy's formation first, but they bumped into the Western Army's light cavalry head-on.
Yang Su, the commander of the left wing of the Western Army and the marching general, personally led the 500 cavalry to charge. The vanguard threw out a thunderbolt. At the moment when the flames flashed, he directly crashed into the enemy with the spear pushing flat.
The Eastern Army soldier who was about to rush up was stunned by the wake-up call. Before he could react, the vanguard was defeated. The spear soldiers with scattered formations could no longer effectively resist the light cavalry with speed.
For Yang Su, there are many tactics, but the truth is the same, that is, it causes the enemy to reveal flaws and give a hard blow to him.
The enemy's armored cavalry used to mobilize his military formation, so he used the trick to make the opponent do what he wanted. His spearmen attacked the flanks, while weakening the front line of defense, gave up a charge channel for his cavalry.
So when the enemy infantry thought they had succeeded in the assault, it was when Yang Su cut melons and vegetables. For this reason, he used all the cavalry he could mobilize and led the army to charge into the battle.
The galloping cavalry defeated the Eastern Army infantry like a knife cutting tofu. Seeing this, the generals of the army quickly gathered soldiers to form a formation, but Yang Su led the cavalry to turn, cut through the outer edge of the enemy's formation, and turned to the left.
The enemy's right wing was still very thick, and he knew he could not rush now, but he had a better target, that is, the enemy's armored cavalry and light cavalry.
The spearmen who attacked the flanks shortly were anvils, and the cavalry of Xue Shixiong was the left hammer, and the cavalry led by Yang Suqin was the right hammer, so they quickly "knocked" the armored cavalry that could not be raised.
The cavalry led by Yang Su personally directly captured the enemy's cavalry's back and forth. Under the attack from front and back, the enemy's cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining soldiers then dispersed. Yang Su gathered his infantry and cavalry and did not pursue them rashly.
The Western Army's left wing formation, which had just been torn apart, quickly recovered, and the enemy's right army, which took the initiative to attack, suffered heavy casualties.
At the main team of the central army, Yuwen Wen, who learned that the left army was fine, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He saw that the left army (left wing) was shaken, and almost led his troops to block the mouth. Yang Su was obviously playing with his heartbeat, which almost made his heart beat.
According to the news brought by the messenger, the left army successfully resolved the opponent's heavy blow, so now Yuwen Wen felt that it was his central army's heartbeat.
In the former school of the Central Army, the soldiers who were fighting with the enemy soldiers gradually could not stand it. Most of them were barbarians. Although they received "intensive training", the mud could not support the wall. They had only had to hold on for half a day to take the lead, but now they have no need to retreat.
If there weren't a supervisory team in the back row waiting with a shaky knife, many people would have really wanted to turn around and run away. Now, their physical strength is gradually overdrawing, and everyone will be almost unable to withstand it.
At this moment, the horn sounded, and the leaders who had originally had a bitter face almost cried happily when they heard this: "Retreat, retreat! Go to someone else!"
The barbarians almost cheered when they heard this, and they didn't care that the teams that had left the lieutenant colonel had not yet arrived, so they retreated one after another. This retreat directly led to the loosening of the front line.
The Eastern Army soldiers who were trying to kill themselves were almost unable to believe their eyes when they saw this: You should withdraw before the rotation team was in place. Is it true?
It's indeed a mob!
The Eastern Army generals who supervised the battle on the front line quickly reacted and shouted loudly to let the soldiers attack. The enemy's formation was loose, which was an excellent opportunity to break the formation.
Facing the enemy soldiers howling and attacking with spears, the barbarians in the retreat were frightened. Just like outside Ruyin City, they began to perform again in the "reality": a great escape.
The central army front collapsed instantly, and the barbarians fled desperately. The team of lieutenant colonels was unstable. They wanted to form a formation but were attacked by the defeated soldiers and began to retreat soon.
This scene was seen by Yuchi Youqi, who was located in the main formation of the Eastern Army, and the left and right generals were excited to ask for battle. They thought that the enemy's central army was unstable, and it was time for them to dispatch the central cavalry to attack and defeat the enemy in one battle.
Yuchi Youqi put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile Mile, looked left and right, and then looked ahead. After a while, he shook his head: "They are deceiving defeat and use weak soldiers to lure our army to attack!"
"Think about it, the opponent's left army and the right army are still stable, why did the central army suddenly collapse? If our army attacks with all its strength and breaks into the opponent's central army's main formation, then the flanks will inevitably be attacked by their left and right troops."
"This is a pocket, just wait for our army to get into it!"
Yuchi Youqi made a point, but the generals had different opinions, because since ancient times, retreating in front of the enemy has been a very risky thing, and if you are not careful, it will evolve from "orderly retreat" to a great defeat.
They believe that the enemy may be setting up a pocket formation to lure their own side to attack with weak soldiers, but as long as they dare to gamble, there is no chance to turn false defeat into real defeat.
Several men in armor asked for battle in front of Yuchi Youqi. They were powerful people in Huaixi Fortress and had an irreconcilable grudge with the Yuwen clan. Therefore, even though they knew that the risk was very high, they still wanted to drive the king's army:
"Shangshu Ling, I am willing to charge for the official army. Even if it is a trap, I am not regretful!"
Chapter completed!