Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 650 Li Mi Hunts the Tiger
One after another, the official cavalrymen, with their horses and spears in their hands, took away one after another of the bandits.

If the spear is broken, draw the sword and fight again.

The light of the knife is like a shadow, swinging right and slashing right.

The following officers and soldiers rolled forward with swords and spears.

They slashed and roared.

That momentum is indomitable.

Li Gongyi's thousand-man formation collapsed in an instant.

There is an insurmountable gap between the mob and the well-trained officers and soldiers.One of the most important points is morale and military discipline.

Although the people fighting on both sides were only farmers and common people in the past, they might even be neighbors from the same country.

But on the one hand, they have received strict military discipline, can work together, and can withstand greater impacts.

However, the rebels can only fight against the wind. Their ability to resist shocks is even worse, their equipment is poor, their training is insufficient, and they do not have good command.

Also infantry.

Even if the officers and soldiers charge, they still maintain the battle formation of the fire team and cooperate with each other.But even if the bandit army had set up a phalanx early, they collapsed after only one charge.

Because someone was scared, scared, and then turned around and fled.

No one was going to top the gap that was blown open.

And the commander of the rebel army, the on-the-spot command was even worse. After the battle started, there was almost no command, and they all fought on their own.

This made the rebels feel that they were facing the attack of the entire official army alone.

The official army is just the opposite. They always kill one or several enemies in front of them one by one, which is always an advantage.

Swing a knife.

Swing the knife, swing the knife again.

The rebels blocked from the left and the right, but they dodged this knife, and another knife came from the other side.

There were several rebel teams in the distance, but they just watched from a distance, not even daring to take a step forward.

They just watched helplessly that this thousand-strong friendly phalanx collapsed and disintegrated almost instantly, and then scattered in all directions.

Zhang Xutuo came out through the formation, but did not continue to chase the broken bandits.

He has only one goal, which is Jia Wuben and his striker who are under heavy siege ahead.

In the blink of an eye, a thousand-man formation collapsed, and hundreds of bandits fell to the ground.

Zhang Xutuo led hundreds of light cavalry to charge forward, and the battle flag fluttered beside him.

A larger number of pawns followed Qingqi, roaring and running.

On the battlefield, their roars are earth-shattering and terrifying.

"withstand!"

In front, another infantry formation of about a thousand people blocked the way forward.

Although these rebels were afraid of the officers and soldiers, under the order of the bandit chiefs, they reluctantly assembled into a phalanx, and they were still the same.Shields and spears are concentrated in the front, and some archers are in the middle, and then there are infantrymen with various weapons, such as long spears, large spears, and even agricultural tools such as iron forks, wooden sticks, and flails. .

They were close together, as if this would give them some sense of security.

Not far behind them, there was another phalanx waiting.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of the rebel army's lack of combat effectiveness, low morale, and weak will, Li Mi deliberately did not put all the rebels together to resist Zhang Xutuo.

On the contrary, he used Dahai Temple as his battlefield. On this battlefield next to the canal, he deployed troops for more than ten miles, all of which were formed into square formations one after another with one to two thousand people, and they were scattered disorderly in this vast battlefield. superior.

On flat ground, among pine forests, by ditches, by rivers, in villages...

There are many thousands of these rebels, but they are not connected together.

He just wanted Zhang Xutuo to rush and break, but even if he broke one, it wouldn't immediately affect the next one.Even these phalanxes don't even have the ability to block an impact.

But they can intercept it at least once.

It doesn't matter even if they are washed away, after being scattered, it will take some time to gather again.

His tactics are actually just like the design of the squares in Chang'an or Luoyang. They are all isolated and single. During the battle, even if the enemy breaks through one square, it will not affect the next square.

At this time, the shipyards also began to adopt a similar concept to design ships when manufacturing sea-going ships, that is, watertight compartments.

Li Mi compiled countless rebels into separate square formations one after another, and then cast them on the battlefield. This made Zhang Xutuo defeat one square formation after another, but it would not affect other square formations.

They are individual.

And every time Zhang Xutuo broke through a phalanx, there were always a dozen or even dozens of corpses left behind.

The further they rushed to the back, the more exhausted they were, and the more bodies were left behind.

Li Mi used practical actions to teach all the leaders of the rebel army a lesson, how to fight with crowd tactics, and how to use their strengths to avoid fighting with the officers and soldiers.

Zhang Xutuo was still attacking.

Truly unstoppable.

But in front of them, those phalanxes of hundreds or thousands of people seemed endless.

Destroy one, and another one will appear immediately.

What he didn't even know was that when he defeated another army formation and continued to move forward, the army formations he defeated at the beginning had slowly regrouped, and then stood up for battle again.

The spears of the cavalry were broken.

The soldiers' horizontal knives were missing.

The bow hands of the archers have long been weak.

The horse galloped slower and slower.

Standing on the high tower of Daihai Temple, Li Mi could already see Zhang Xutuo's army charging closer and closer. There were still about five thousand of them.

"They're tired."

"Are you attacking?"

"hold on."

Zhang Xutuo and Jia Wuben are only less than two miles apart, but the distance between these two miles is becoming more and more difficult to get close.

There are more and more foot formations of the bandit army, and they are obviously much more elite than those outside. They are better equipped, and they have set up refusal horses in front of the army formation.

In particular, the number of bows and crossbows has increased, and some rebels even have large crossbows.

Zhang Xutuo still has 5000 people, and Jia Wuben has [-] people.

1 horses, unknowingly, three thousand have been lost.

on the tower.

Li Mi stroked his beard, his eyes fixed on the battlefield.

"As expected of Zhang Xutuo, as worthy of being Luo Cheng's teacher." Li Mi sighed, "If I hadn't used tricks to lure him to march hundreds of miles to come here, I'm afraid he would be even more ferocious now."

"Their equipment is so good, otherwise we wouldn't be afraid of them." Someone said.

Li Mi chuckled.

"What kind of equipment is this? You have never seen the emperor's Xiaoguo army, nor have you seen Luo Cheng's soldiers and horses. They have the strongest armored cavalry in the world under their command, and even the infantry are equipped with Mingguang The heavy infantry of Kai and Modao are the real elite of the world, fortunately we don't have to face such strong soldiers this time."

If Zhang Xutuo didn't lead the government soldiers who were not as good as before, and if Zhang Xutuo had more soldiers, then even if Li Mi had 20 rebels, he would not dare to hunt Zhang Xutuo here.

(End of this chapter)