Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 531
In front of the Sui army.

Qin Qiong received extremely warm cheers. At this moment, he is the hero of the Sui Army.

Luo Chengce immediately stepped forward, patted the heroic general on the shoulder, and said, "The leaping horse holds the lance, and the thorny general will be among ten thousand people, overwhelming the entire army, defeating the enemy with force, and a single horse with the mace alone, is the vanguard of the army. His bravery is also the courage of our generals in the Liaodong Army!"

"Come here, bring me some wine."

A young squire brought a bag of wine.

Luo Cheng personally poured a glass of wine for Qin Qiong, and respectfully.

Qin Qiong took it and gulped it down.

"Happy!" Qin Qiong laughed.

Countless Sui soldiers cheered in unison.

"wind!"

"wind!"

"wind!"

"Such a fierce general, you should be rewarded, a lot of rewards. Qin Qiong, this commander now specially appoints you as the commander of the hussar battalion, commanding two thousand hussars, and remembering one of your great achievements in dancing. I will personally play for you, please seal the title of the Zhu Kingdom. Xun!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Shangzhu Kingdom, this is the title of a super battle hero who can enjoy the treatment of the second rank. It may not be possible to award one in a battle of ten thousand people. It is Qin Qiong's brave performance that is the first to jump.

The morale of the Sui army was great.

Over there, Yuan Gai Suwen jumped angrily, furiously.

In his opinion, he clearly has [-] troops, but no matter what, he can overwhelm Luo Cheng's [-] troops.Originally, he wanted to tell Luo Cheng back with words, but he didn't think so, but fell into his tricks, and ended up in such a mess.

Yuan Gai Suwen pulled out the long knife among the five knives on his body, and pointed forward fiercely.

"attack!"

The face lost on the battlefield must be regained on the battlefield.Although Luo Cheng just won a round cunningly, so what, since Luo Cheng refused to obey the order to retreat, then beat him back.

The humming horn sounded, Yuan's commander-in-chief moved forward, and the [-] Goguryeo army overwhelmingly overwhelmed them.

Luo Cheng chuckled, and said to the left and right, "First there was fishing for gold, and then there was Shu Bao's aggressive generals. Now Yuan Gai Suwen has completely bit the hook. Send an order, hold your ground, and let's fight him slowly!"

The lineups of the Sui army and the Goguryeo army are actually similar. They are mainly infantry, supplemented by light cavalry, and there are not many heavy cavalry and chariot soldiers in between.

Tactics and equipment are similar, relatively speaking, the equipment of the Sui army is more sophisticated.

However, Yuan Gai Suwen thought that he had [-] to [-], and the number could fully make up for the lack of equipment.

At this time, the two armies were slowly approaching, and there was nothing fancy to say.

Under Luo Cheng's order, the Sui army's [-] soldiers and horses also quickly lined up to meet the enemy.

Facing the overwhelming Goguryeo army, the Sui army did not put up the traditional infantry formation.Traditional infantry formations are generally wide in rows and short in columns, which not only retains enough depth to withstand the impact of the attack, but also facilitates counterattacks. .

Generally, such an infantry formation needs to be accompanied by light cavalry to guard the two wings and prepare for the counterattack.

To the surprise of the Goguryeo people, this time the Sui army's military formation was not like this.

Thirty thousand Sui troops were on foot and cavalry, with more infantry and fewer cavalry.

The cavalry was not separated from the infantry. On the contrary, the infantry did not completely line up to form a series of infantry arrays, but formed hollow phalanxes one by one.

There are about four to five hundred infantry in a square formation, but there are more than a hundred cavalry in the middle.

The big shield is on the outermost edge, followed by spearmen, and there is a group of Mo Daomen hidden in the middle, followed by rows of crossbowmen, and the innermost are cavalry who dismounted and held bows to act as archers temporarily.

Each of these infantry formations is separated by about seventy or eighty steps, and it happens that the crossbowmen in the two formations can alternately attack the enemy troops outside the formation and cover each other.

And there are dozens of such army formations, spread out in the open plain below the mountain.

Almost every military formation has eight military formations on all sides.

Except for the military formations around them, there is a lack of military formation support, and the rest of the military formations are almost all nine formations.

Each army formation has eight formations to help.

This is Luo Cheng's improvement on the basis of Zhang Xutuo's Eight Wind Array, which combines some of the characteristics and advantages of the hollow square array of the musket era and the Spanish long spear array.

Although in the era of cold weapons, the impact of cavalry is quite powerful, but in the era of cold weapons, the lethality of bows and crossbows is also quite powerful.

There are a large number of crossbows in Luo Cheng's army, especially many large crossbows, which can kill even heavy cavalry.

The hollow phalanx has a characteristic, that is, it makes excellent use of a habit of horses.When the horses are charging, if they are in a traditional formation, they must either surround the cavalry and shoot, or break through the formation.

And if it is this kind of hollow formation, then after the horses rush into the hollow formation group, they will not collide with the square formation, but will only keep advancing along the gap between the square formations.

When Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, a marshal of the French army led cavalry without infantry cover into the hollow formation of the British army. As a result, the elite cavalry suffered heavy casualties, which finally led to the emperor's defeat at Waterloo.

The hollow array is not invincible. If the cavalry is in front and followed by large steps, it is still very targeted.

Of course, Luo Cheng's hollow formation is not a simple hollow formation. If the Goguryeo people engage in the coordination of infantry and cavalry, he will also cooperate with infantry and cavalry.

Luo Chengneng took out this army formation confidently. One reason was that Yuan Gai Suwen underestimated the enemy, and wanted to suppress the few with more, so he would come up in waves.Secondly, it is because the Sui army has an unparalleled advantage in the long-range bow and crossbow. The 20.00% equipment rate of the Sui army's bow and arrow is not a joke, let alone a [-]% crossbow equipment rate, let alone Said to have a large number of heavy crossbows and so on.

What's more, the pikemen and Modaomen in the phalanx are by no means hard to take. Even the Macedonian phalanx and the Spanish pike phalanx have withstood the impact of cavalry countless times.

The core of Luo Cheng's phalanx is to defend first, using the heavy infantry's large shields and mo knives, and the light infantry's spears and crossbows to defend against the impact, and using the nine formations in a row to form staggered long-range firepower to support the melee infantry on the outer layer .

And the biggest purpose of Luo Chengbai's formation is to let the Goguryeo army completely rush into his nine-series formation, let them infiltrate, once infiltrated, it is not easy to get out.

At that time, Luo Cheng's final killing move appeared. He also ambushed two soldiers and horses on the periphery, ten thousand elite cavalry and ten thousand step cavalry.

This is the real fatal move.

To put it bluntly, even Luo Cheng himself was a bait.

Luo Cheng withstood the impact of the cavalry in front of Goguryeo, and the victory belonged to him. No matter how many Goguryeo infantry came up behind him, his infantry formation could withstand it for a while. Even if a small formation was broken, it would not immediately affect the Other phalanxes will not immediately collapse in chains. This is like the airtight cabin technology in shipbuilding. If one cabin is broken, it doesn’t matter. The other cabins are separated. Could sink the whole ship.

"Protect the handsome flag!" Luo Cheng said to Kan Leng, his adoptive son, and then he smiled and said to the eight guards behind him, "Don't be afraid, the whole army of Goguryeo is pressing down. We have already won this battle." Won!"

"We are not afraid."

Several servants who were only eleven or twelve years old obviously turned pale, but they bit their lips and said they were not afraid.

Luo Cheng had already retreated to the middle and rear part of the formation with the commander-in-chief flag. His phalanx was larger. In addition to cavalry, there were also ballistas as fences. Antler fences were placed in front, and scattered outside. On the caltrops.

(End of this chapter)