Chapter 958 What is the difference between cavalry and salted fish
On October 15, 2014, the City of Swordsman.
The rising sun rises, and the golden sun shines opens the white mist that spreads across the southern suburbs of the basin, completely driving away the darkness and silence of the night. Accompanied by the morning light, the military camp that has been silent all night has gradually become noisy.
The fireheads of each camp were the earliest. Before dawn, they began to make fires and make meals for the soldiers of the camp.
Today's war is extraordinary. In order to reward the three armies in advance and boost the morale of the entire army, Feng Qingyang, the lord of Sword and Heroes City, was particularly generous and ordered people to send fat pigs, fat sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, and other poultry to each battalion. There were even mountain delicacies, fish, shrimps, crabs and so on.
It is reported that Swordsman City is preparing a celebration banquet in advance, with higher specifications and richer ingredients.
There are also hundreds of grooms who are busy feeding the horses, washing their hair, and trying to get the horses to enter the battle in the best condition.
Experienced veterans have also gotten up one after another, after washing up, or go to the schoolyard to warm up to get the best of their bodies; or finally wipe the armor and check the weapons.
The veterans knew very well that if you were more careful before the war, there would be more hope of survival on the battlefield. I don’t know how many great men would die in this century-old war.
By 7 a.m., the entire military camp had completely awakened.
After breakfast, the soldiers rushed to their respective schoolyards as units to gather, and then led by the team leader, they drove out the military camp one by one and arranged a formation at designated locations in the wilderness.
One after another, troops arrived at the battlefield in an orderly manner, forming a square formation, with 360,000 troops of a total of hundreds of square formations arranged in the east and west directions, stretching for hundreds of miles, with swords and guns standing in a row, and flags waving. The length of the entire military formation even exceeded the length of the wall of the Sword and Heroes City, which was spectacular.
On the left wing, the 150,000 Shu Han Imperial Guards seem to have a strong army, but they are the weakest troops.
Because after the emperor settled in the royal city, the equipment of the imperial guards in the royal city will be automatically replaced with the equipment of the emperor's dynasty. Therefore, the imperial guards in the Shu Han Dynasty mainly use cloth armor, and only officers can wear two levels of armor.
Even the two armors are far from the armors of the Tang Dynasty Mingguang armor and the Song Dynasty Buren armor. Therefore, today with Gaia's open armor manufacturing technology, the armor of the Shu Han Imperial Guards seems a bit backward.
It’s no wonder that Zhao Yun looked at the other coalition’s equipment, his eyes full of envy.
In the central army, Wei Yan led the army of 60,000 Swordsman City to concentrate. Looking closely, you will find that this is the most tense unit in the coalition formation. Because 50,000 of the 60,000 Swordsman City troops were withdrawn from the front line, they saw the fierceness of the Daxia army and were about to fight with the Daxia army again, how could they not be nervous?
The right wing naturally had 150,000 reinforcements, led by Lian Po himself.
This batch of reinforcements was drawn from the main city by Di Chen and others. They were all from the Imperial Guards. Their elite level was enough to be comparable to the Longxiang Army of the Great Xia, and they were by no means ordinary people.
This is also Lian Po's greatest confidence in winning this battle.
The weather was beautiful, and it was rare that there was no rain last night, which made Lian Po feel excited. This is a good sign.
When the army gathered, Lian Po ordered the army to go south and slowly advance to the Daxia Longxiang Army at the foot of the mountain. Wherever the army passed, it was like locusts passing by, and no grass grew.
Every five miles ahead, Lian Po ordered the army to suspend and purify the military formation. It is necessary to ensure that the enemy is threatened with the strictest military formation and not give any opportunity to take advantage of.
It took me two hours to walk to see the Daxia Longxiang Army.
Lian Po stood on a specially built mobile command tower and observed the enemy's formation from afar.
The first thing that caught my eye was the ordinary hills. On the empty hills yesterday, there were already troops stationed in vain.
What shocked Lian Po even more was that overnight, the Longxiang Army arranged a P2 artillery on the mountain, forming a circle with no blind spots, guarded by heavy troops, and condescending.
Lian Po knew very well that these hills were like combat bunkers. Without removing these bunkers, they would not be able to seek the main force of the enemy's army to fight.
The formation of the Longxiang Army is also quite strange.
The right wing of the Longxiang Army is facing the left wing of the coalition forces, and basically they are cavalry units.
The central army and left wing of the Longxiang Army were mainly infantry phalanxes, and only 10,000 cavalry were arranged on the outermost periphery of the left wing to support it. In front of the military formation were two rows of P2 artillery, and behind the artillery were crossbowmen.
"This is a defensive formation."
Lian Po frowned. This formation was not like the combat style of the Daxia Army.
Even so, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. One thousand five hundred meters away from the enemy, Lian Po asked the army to stop and take the last rest.
In an instant, the noisy marching sound gradually became quiet, and the entire wilderness suddenly became silent, leaving only the breathing of people and horses.
The soldiers of the coalition were extremely nervous. In just one moment, the atmosphere of the war came up in an instant, making people excited.
"Beat the drum!" Lian Po ordered.
This is the first to win the lead. Since he has the advantage of military strength, Lian Po naturally has to overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum.
"Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!"
The sound of war drums broke the silence of the wilderness, further stimulated the blood in the bodies of the coalition soldiers, mobilized their emotions, made their bodies warm up, and were ready to tear the enemy to pieces at any time.
What's strange is that the Longxiong Army opposite was still silent.
Without shouting or war drums, more than 200,000 troops were silent like stagnant water, standing silently on the field. When this silence condensed into a momentum, it was enough to make people feel heartbroken.
The entire Dragon Forge Army was as motionless as a mountain, like a steel Great Wall.
The soldiers of the Swordsman City Army shook slightly, as if they remembered something horrible. Bad memories immediately poured into their minds, and a hint of fear grew.
The Longxiong Army opposite is a group of people-eating devils.
When Wei Yan saw this, he frowned, but there was no solution. At this time, anything he said would only have a counterproductive effect, so it would be better not to say anything.
The sound of war drums became more and more rapid, pushing the soldiers' emotions step by step to the peak. The long sword was unsheathed, the bow and arrow were in his hand, the spear was holding, and his eyes were staring at the front, ready to rush out at any time.
The decisive battle is right in front of you.
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The Longxiang Army's position was surprisingly calm at this time.
The arrangements that should be made have been arranged yesterday. What the soldiers have to do is to accumulate energy and accumulate strength silently. When the enemy comes, they will give the other party a fatal blow.
Chen Gong stood on a high ground, holding a talisman in his hand, staring at the battlefield.
This talisman is naturally the [Zhuge Ge Talisman], and its function is to prohibit the imperial guards of any royal city from participating in the lord war, and lasting for a week.
Ouyang Shuo was unable to visit the front line in person and could not grasp the opportunity to use it, so he handed over this talisman to Chen Gong, authorizing Chen Gong to flexibly use the talisman according to the battlefield situation.
This is the key to success or failure of this battle.
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After a "brush", Lian Po pulled out the sword from his waist and said in a deep voice: "Attack!" After the order, the commander waved the flag in his hand and issued an order to attack the entire army.
"kill!!!!"
The coalition forces that were ready to go were like wild horses that broke away from their reins, like floods that broke into the sky, carrying murderous auras, and they were dying out in a blast, and were unstoppable.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At the front hill, guns opened fire, opening the prelude to the war.
In an instant, the mountains were surrounded by the coalition forces, and a large number of soldiers tried to rush to the top of the mountain, destroy the artillery, and make the first contribution to this battle.
"Raising the shield!"
There are a brigade of Longxiang Army soldiers guarding each mountain, with swords and shields in front and crossbowmen behind, confronting high and artillery cooperation, taking advantage of the time and place.
Although the coalition forces were powerful, they could not take such a mountain for a while.
The morale that had just been condensed was unconsciously stagnant.
When the coalition general saw this, his face looked ugly. He gritted his teeth and sent waves of soldiers up, and he must conquer one mountain in the shortest time.
For a moment, the sound of killing shook the sky and artillery fire broke out.
Under the tenacious defense of the Longxiang Army, soon piled up piles of coalition corpses at the foot of each mountain. Later generations had to step on their companions' bodies and attack the mountain.
At the same time, the large army braved the artillery fire and continued to rush towards the Longxiang Army's position.
One thousand meters, nine hundred meters, eight hundred meters...
Soon, the coalition soldiers rushing in front could see the face of the Longxiong Army on the opposite side. Before they could see clearly, another deadly shell was coming towards them.
Two rows of artillery fired with this, and cooperated with crossbowmen to form the first long-range strike.
The coalition forces that rushed in the front were immediately bombed and were overturned and defeated. Because they were charging quickly, the troops that followed could not avoid them at all, so they could only go there forcibly.
Countless dead and injured were immediately stepped on the meat sauce and were out of shape. Among them, there were injured soldiers who fell to the ground. They did not wait for assistance, but were ruthlessly trampled by their companions.
This is war, without any kindness.
Six hundred meters, five hundred meters, four hundred meters...
The two sides are getting closer and closer, and a close fight is right in front of you.
The coalition soldiers suddenly became excited again. They withstood the baptism of enemy artillery and, after paying a heavy price, they finally rushed to the enemy's formation.
Next is their revenge moment.
Thinking of this, some blood-devouring soldiers unconsciously licked their somewhat cracked lips, and their dark eyes began to show a trace of blood red, which was very strange.
Zhao Yun was also very excited. He personally led the cavalry troops to charge at the forefront, just to teach the Daxia army a lesson so that they could see the power of the Shu Han army.
Although the armor is not superior, Zhao Yun is still full of confidence.
But the further forward, a trace of doubt flashed in Zhao Yun's eyes. If the Daxia infantry was ready to fight and defend instead of attacking, the Daxia was all cavalry troops arranged on the side of the Shu army.
If the cavalry doesn't charge? That's no different from a waste.
Facing the Shu cavalry unit that charged at high speed, the motionless Daxia cavalry was a living target and allowed to be slaughtered. Zhao Yun really didn't believe that the other party would make such a low-level mistake.
Chapter completed!