Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 899
Under the night, the battlefield is extremely chaotic, and those who can see are only a few feet in front of them.Chen Shi's former army's obstruction of the Huainan cavalry did not last long. The infantry who were on the move and did not have a solid front had no power to parry when encountering the cavalry charging at high speed.

"Retract, form formation!"

The army formation was filled with the howling of the soldiers' throats, which was immediately covered by the sound of horseshoes approaching quickly.At this time, the enemy soldiers who had not been impacted instinctively shrunk inward, and the distance between the soldiers was even less than a punch.

Although the scene was extremely chaotic, this was also one of the effective means for the infantry to resist the cavalry charge. Through this dense formation to counteract the cavalry's impact, once it collapsed and was chased by the tail, it would undoubtedly lose.

After the Huainan army broke through the front line to block them, the team quickly separated and ran towards the two wings, as if two sharp knives cut along the enemy's line.

The enemy's panic-stricken Juma and gun forest also caused a lot of trouble for the Huainan Army. The dozen or so cavalry rushing to the front were unable to catch up, and some horses directly slammed into Juma. The body was instantly pierced by the sharp point of the refusal horse, and the huge inertia directly slammed those refusal horses that were not firmly secured into the enemy formation. On this line, several enemy soldiers were crushed and lay dead before they could retreat in time.

At the same time, several knights were directly carried away by the tenacious bamboo spears that were more than ten feet long. This caused a lot of trouble for the Huainan army, and they failed to completely tear apart the enemy's two-winged formation in the first round of charge.

Amidst the sound of whistles, the Huainan army knights skimmed the periphery of the battle line, and flew back to Tucheng to form an army again.To test the cavalry's combat effectiveness, the equipment is second to none. The most important thing is to maintain an efficient clutch during fast movement, which has extremely high requirements for horsepower, riding skills, and tacit understanding.

The Huainan Army formally formed a large-scale cavalry and used the cavalry as an independent combat unit after the Battle of Huaishang.

Although there were large-scale cavalry before, one did not have the environment and needs for large-scale cavalry to be put into combat, and the other was the so-called private cavalry of the Huainan Army. The quality of the soldiers and horses, including tactical training, was much worse. Most of them are still used as small groups of raiders and scouts.

A few years ago, Shi Cong of Jie State, who was attacked by the Huainan Army in a surprise attack on Qiaocheng, succeeded and obtained a lot of horses. Later, Runan and other places recruited a large number of refugees from the south, which provided the foundation for the Huainan Army to form cavalry.

With the recovery of several counties in southern Henan, the Huainan Army controlled a wider area, and with the profits brought by mutual trade, within a few years, the Huainan Army formed a huge cavalry team of up to [-] people.

It is true that the southerners are not good at horse fighting, but when the Huainan army successfully gained a foothold in the Central Plains, they had a vast source of troops.Moreover, the absence of powerful foreign invaders for several years in a row also provided precious time for the Huainan cavalry to grow and take shape.

"Continue to attack!"

The first round of charge pierced through the enemy's front formation, and it took less than half a quarter of an hour. After the formation was completed, the team was divided into three groups, divided into two wings and centered.

Although the enemy army formed an initial formation, the overwhelmed front formation was excluded. More than a hundred people were killed and injured in the previous round of charge, but the casualties were still second. The most terrible thing was that the formation was completely chaotic. When they came, the panicked soldiers were no longer restrained by the commander, and they all turned around and fled back.

When he heard the hooves of the Huainan army charging again, Chen Shi in the army was shocked. He still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Huainan cavalry. Can withstand several times.He personally got off his horse and held his saber to lead the soldiers forward, shouting in his mouth: "Forward, forward, the one who retreats dies!"

The defeated soldiers from the front line rushed towards the formation, and soon spread the chaos to the army formation. Chen Shi swung his knife and beheaded several fleeing soldiers before he was able to stabilize the front line.The outer array of guns blocked the enemy, and the soldiers inside the array began to draw their bows to counterattack, but the current situation is still chaotic, and the sparse arrows did not do much to stop the enemy.

Fan Li, a soldier of the Huainan Army, clasped his hips tightly to the saddle, followed closely by three hundred soldiers, and the Huainan sergeant's armor had live buckles to fasten the saddle, which greatly increased the stability of the man on the horse.More than three hundred knights shot twice, tearing a gap in the outer spear array, and then plunged into it fiercely.

Because of his guilt, Fan Li was even more fearless before the battle, and rushed straight to the center of the enemy's battle formation.The horse spear in his hand killed more than a dozen soldiers in front of him, and the enemy troops retreated one after another. However, due to the internal formation, the retreat was completely blocked, and he could only swing his sword forward with a desperate roar.

The enemy troops in the front line were already facing each other with their shoulders back, and even if they were stabbed to death by Ma Li, they still stood upright. Fan Li's charge was quickly blocked, and the horse ran into several people one after another. Pick and drop the horse.

"die!"

Afterwards, the Huainan Army cavalry leaned over and slashed furiously with their knives, directly splitting a bloody gap in the enemy's army wall, and then two iron hooks hung Fan Li who was about to fall off the horse's back.When there was no time to spare, Fan Li cut the leather rope between his crotch with his backhand, and then was hung by the iron hook.

Immediately, the cavalry along this route turned to the left, rushed out of the enemy's formation from the weak point, and at the same time cut nearly a hundred enemy troops from the battle line.Once these enemy troops broke away from the front line, they were quickly wiped out by the Huainan army knights, and very few escaped.

The second round of charging lasted more than twice as long as the first round. Although the Huainan army successfully tore a few gaps in the front line and killed hundreds of enemies, they still did not completely smash the enemy's formation.In addition to the tenacity of the enemy troops along this route, it was also because the field of vision was not wide enough that the Huainan Army's charge did not exert its maximum deterrent effect.

"Banzhu, let's charge for a while!"

The Huainan cavalry gathered under Tucheng again, and Fan Li, who had already changed to another horse, rode up to Xiao Yuandong. During the charge earlier, his forehead was cut. At this time, his face was covered with blood, and he looked extremely ferocious.

Xiao Yuandong looked at the enemy battle formation that had almost formed into a ball in front of him, his eyes were full of solemnity, he shook his head after pondering for a while.In the previous two rounds of charge, although the Huainan army had the upper hand, it had the natural advantage of waiting for work and cavalry.The enemy army was able to withstand two rounds of charges without being defeated, which shows that it is also tenacious enough.

In the two rounds of charge, although the Huainan army killed hundreds of enemy troops, as long as they failed to break through the enemy's formation, the number of enemy kills was meaningless.Although he chose to fight at ease in Tucheng, the current battlefield is too close to Suanzao City, and even if he overwhelms the enemy formation, there is not much room for pursuit. Absolute control of the field cannot be achieved within such a short distance. They rushed to the fortified earth city, and although they won the battle, they still lost.

Naturally, Xiao Yuandong would not speak out about this worry, as it would damage his image of being in possession of wisdom. After hearing this, he just laughed and said: "The first battalion disturbed the enemy, and the other two battalions got off their horses to rest. The purpose is to trap these thieves outside the city." So close, let them see it but not get in, and die with regret!"

Xiao Yuandong dared to stop the battle at this moment because the enemy's formation had not collapsed after two rounds of impact, but it was still in jeopardy. If he dared to move at this moment, he would collapse.In the direction of the camp, there are still many refugees fleeing in disarray. The enemy general used a trick before, and he is also worried that there may be some arrangements among the refugees. He fought fiercely with the enemy here, but was taken by a group of mobs. There is nowhere to go. complain.

Following Xiao Yuandong's order, the cavalry of the Huainan Army divided into two groups, with more than [-] people carrying the few remaining arrows along the way, wandering around the enemy's formation to harass, not giving the enemy a chance to relax and breathe.The other route retreated to the vicinity of Tucheng, drove the fleeing villagers out of the camp, gathered in the open space in front of the camp and divided them into guards.

Chen Shi in the army formation was also very heartbroken at the moment. Before that, he chose to retreat without fighting because he cared about his strength. This time he had to attack Suanzao again. After two rounds of Huainan army's charge, his troops had already suffered heavy casualties.Although the Huainan Army has slowed down its attack right now, it does not mean that the danger has been lifted.

He failed to rush into the city to defend the city without losing his vigor at the first time, but was forced to stop in the wild by the Huainan army's fierce attack. Although he survived two rounds of charges, his morale was completely lost.The reason why they are still able to gather together right now is because the soldiers know that it will be more dangerous if they flee in the middle of the night.After dawn, if the Huainan army launches another attack, it may not be able to hold on.

In field battles against infantry and cavalry, if there is no significant disparity in the number of soldiers participating in the battle, then the cavalry will have the absolute initiative to attack, besiege, divide, or pursue.At this moment, the soldiers had already become frightened birds, and Chen Shi didn't even dare to make a big move to gather the elites of the direct descendants who had been dispersed in various ministries in order to control the army formation.

The outlying Huainan army's cavalry harassment was going on all the time. Chen Shi took advantage of the opportunity to boost morale and wandered between the battle formations, collected some of the bow and arrow weapons, and sent them to the cavalry battalion quietly assembled in the northeast corner of the camp, as a small The latter means of counterattack.

Time passed quietly, gradually reaching dawn, and as the field of vision widened, the tragic scene of the blood-soaked corpse outside the battle formation was gradually exposed in the field of vision.The Huainan cavalry also gathered in front of Tucheng solemnly at this moment, ready to charge again at any time.Although the slave army is still gathering battle formations and occupying the superiority in numbers, they are extremely sad and helpless trapped in this plain without any danger.

"I don't want to die, spare my life, spare my life..."

Suddenly, there was a cry of mourning in the front line, and then a slave soldier rushed out of the front line and fled to the north.

"Fleeers die!"

A few feathered arrows flew out from the battle formation and directly pierced the man's back. The man swooped down two steps before suddenly falling to the ground.All the viewers were awe-inspiring, and the world fell silent.However, the dead silence didn't last long, and a bigger commotion broke out suddenly, and the camp screamed!
"rush!"

The originally silent Huainan knight formation moved again, directly attacking the collapsed enemy formation: "The one who resists will die, and the ground will not kill!"

Chen Shi from the northeast corner of the enemy formation also rushed out with a whip. Nearly [-] knights broke away from the battle formation and rushed southward from the left flank.In Huainan's formation, a group of troops also separated, turned around and rushed towards them: "Capture and kill the thief general Chen Shi!"

"We will avenge this in the future!"

The two cavalry confronted each other, and the distance quickly narrowed. Chen Shi could even clearly see the excited, ferocious and fighting faces of the Huainan knights. Among them, they fled to the north.

(End of this chapter)