please make me king

Chapter 1057 Cavalry
"General, Ziwu Town is ten miles ahead!" The scouts rushed over to report.

"Okay, hurry up and occupy this place first!" Deputy Commander Luo Shangwen couldn't help but ordered immediately after hearing the words.

The ancients believed that "zi is the true north, and noon is the true south", and the Ziwu Valley just runs from north to south, so it is called "Ziwu Valley".

In history, anyone who tried to walk through the Meridian Valley generally did not end well.

Cao Zhen, the great Sima of Cao Wei, tried to attack the Shu Han from Ziwu Valley. "It will rain heavily for more than [-] days, and the plank road will be cut off." Cao Zhen had to return without success.

In February of the tenth year of Emperor Yonghe of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, General Huan Wen sent troops to the Northern Expedition and sent Sima Xun from Ziwu Road to attack the former Qin Dynasty. As a result, the former Qin Prime Minister Fu Xiong led [-] cavalry to annihilate the entire army.

And Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang" in history, was defeated by Sun Chuanting here, and he himself was captured alive and sent to the capital Ling Chi to be executed.

As a martial artist, Luo Shangwen didn't know much about these histories, but he couldn't resist walking through Ziwu Valley himself.

Because this Meridian Road is too pitted, and the inside is rugged and narrow, it can be called "the path of sheep intestines and birds".

In many places, soldiers even had to climb vines and vines, climbing mountains and ridges like apes.

Fortunately, Luo Shangwen led Sichuan soldiers who were accustomed to marching in the mountains. If they were soldiers from other places, they would have to return halfway.

Just here, more than a dozen soldiers accidentally fell down the mountain and fell to pieces.

Before they left the valley, it cast a shadow over this sneak attack.

Just like this, Luo Shangwen also stayed in the valley for an extra day, and his eyes on the situation in Guanzhong were dimmed.

He couldn't help frowning, and thought: I don't know if Wang Pu, who agreed to raise troops in Lantian, has started to fight. It seems that he needs to grab his "tongue" and ask about the situation.

When Luo Shangwen was thinking about it, suddenly another soldier beside him pointed to a place and said, "Look, general, there are thieves and spies!"

When Luo Shangwen heard the words, he followed the soldier's finger and saw three or five cavalry wandering on a distant hillside.

"Oops, hurry up to Ziwu Town!" Luo Shangwen frowned, calculating in his mind: Ziwu Pass is [-] miles away from this town, and Xi'an City is [-] miles away from Ziwu Town.

From the moment the bandits sent out the signal when Ziwu Pass fell, how could they make it over one hundred and forty miles each time?

I have a lot of spearmen under my command, but I lack cavalry, which is not conducive to field battles. Why don't I occupy Meridian Town first and then make plans?

Luo Shangwen thought well, but he never expected that the rebel army came this time with cavalry, and they were the most elite cavalry drawn from the "Cao Ying".

It took nearly two days for Luo Shangwen to lead the infantry across the mountains from Ziwu Pass to the vicinity of Ziwu Town, while Yang Chengzu's cavalry arrived in Ziwu Town in only half a day.

When the Sichuan soldiers were five miles away from Ziwu Town, the ground suddenly trembled, and dense cavalry appeared on the horizon.

"Arrangement, formation!" Luo Shangwen's liver and gallbladder were shattered, and he quickly ordered the soldiers to form an array.

Sichuan soldiers like to use Zhangliu long spears. With this array, they are like hedgehogs, and even elite cavalry cannot easily break through.

Yang Chengzu was standing on the top of the mountain. Looking down, he saw the Sichuan soldiers in a mess. How could he sit still?

He couldn't help but quickly ordered: "Array, charge!"

Cavalry tactics developed to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was no longer the kind of style of rushing forward in a mess.

The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty often used whistle as a unit and formed a dense horizontal formation to charge repeatedly, which is quite a bit of a "wall charge" style in later generations.

Yang Chengzu's [-] cavalry were divided into [-] posts by him, and each post had about a hundred cavalry, which were divided into three layers and ten columns to charge repeatedly.

"Tiger tiger tiger!" The cavalry roared as they charged the advancing Sichuan soldiers along the gentle slope.

The Sichuan soldiers did not have time to form a large formation, so they had to obey the slogans of various officers and gathered four or five long spear formations, large and small.

The first to bear the brunt were those spearmen who were too late to enter the formation, and were slashed to the ground by the roaring cavalry.

Secondly, those large formations that were not complete in formation were slammed into them by the cavalry long ago, and they immediately turned on their backs. For a while, it was unknown how many people were knocked down and how many spears were broken.

After finally surviving the first wave of impact, the second wave of charge came again.

Three more spear arrays were defeated by the rebels in a row, and Luo Shangwen and the spear array next to each other became horns, like two hedgehogs, densely packed with spears sticking out.

Seeing this, Yang Chengzu frowned, and asked someone to come forward and shout: "You have already failed in this sneak attack, don't make any more indifferent struggles!"

"The former Fan Shizhu, the Tusi soldiers of Yiyang, and the soldiers of the Sichuan Army have all taken refuge in King Shun, and they are highly valued. If you continue to resist to the end, you will only have a dead end!"

"Stop talking nonsense, fight if you want to fight, and if I break this formation, I will kill myself; if I can't break this formation, it will be nothing more than talking!" Luo Shangwen, the deputy commander, couldn't help shouting loudly after hearing this.

It's over, it's over!

Don't look at Luo Shangwen's tough mouth, but his heart is actually cold.

The formation of the rebel army was almost the same as that of the Ming army. Just because the rebel army formed ten formations and charged repeatedly, Luo Shangwen had already guessed that they were [-] elite cavalry sent by the "thief".

A total of [-] elite cavalry, Luo Shangwen was about to cry. He only brought out a total of [-] spearmen this time.

Not to mention being raided by thieves, even if you fight in an array, you may not be able to beat the "thieves" with this little manpower.

"Clean up the periphery first!" Yang Chengzu frowned, and ordered with a cold face.

It's not that he has any benevolence, it's just that he is worried that the fine cavalry under his command will suffer too much loss.

These cavalrymen under Yang Chengzu's hands are the elite among the elite. The horses wear half armor, and the men wear cotton armor with iron arms, holding three-eyed guns and waist knives, and elite cavalry armed to the teeth.

It would be a big loss if we only hit these few birdmen who were already struggling.

So he planned to deal with him after he cleaned up the defeated spearmen outside.

The other cavalry orders immediately dispersed and began to harvest those remnant soldiers with sentries as units, while Yang Chengzu personally led more than a thousand troops to wander outside the formation, not giving Luo Shangwen any chance to take advantage of it.

"Forgive me, forgive me, ah~"

"Turtle son, I fought with you, ah~"

"Formation, formation, ah, ah~"

Seeing that Paoze outside the formation was massacred by the "thief" cavalry without any resistance, Luo Shangwen and his spearmen couldn't help but change their expressions.

"Don't kill them all, save some for a while to drive and charge!" Yang Chengzu looked at the cavalry outside who took pleasure in killing, and could not help but ordered and scolded.

He was born as a "Cao thief", and he was not a righteous soldier in the "Shunying". How could he have any kindness?
Although they are subdued by Zhang Shun now, they dare not harm innocent people,
But when dealing with officers and soldiers, they naturally have no scruples, and use whatever ruthless methods there are.

Luo Shangwen's eyelids twitched when he heard the words, and he quickly said loudly: "Don't kill, don't kill, can I surrender?"

"I just hope that you can abide by the agreement and don't ruin King Shun's good reputation!"

"It's too late!" Yang Chengzu couldn't help snorting when he heard the words, "I didn't want to kill you before, but I didn't think of a way to not damage my elite cavalry."

"Now that I think about it, your surrender is worthless!"

"I..." Luo Shangwen was in agony when he heard the screams from Pao Ze outside.

How to do how to do?
Do you want to watch all the people who followed him get slaughtered?
Thinking of this, Luo Shangwen couldn't help closing his eyes in pain, and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop! I have important information to inform King Shun, and please be merciful, General!"

(End of this chapter)