Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 751

North bank of the Yellow River.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heita were arguing fiercely. They led the army to the south quickly, but when they arrived here, they had a dispute.

Faced with the news that the scouts reported that there was a large army stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River to intercept, Wang Fubao thought that it would be safe to wait for the arrival of the large Xia army from behind before going south.

But Liu Heitai thought that emergency rescue was like putting out a fire, and he should use this vanguard to kill across the river first.

In the end, Liu Heitai said to Wang Fubao, "If you don't want to cross the river, I will go out alone."

This forced Wang Fubao to agree to Liu Heitai's plan to take risks.

"We only have 8000 troops now, but there are [-] soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and Li Mi may lead an army to reinforce at any time. Now Dongjun is a huge trap. I believe Li Mi must have been waiting outside, waiting for us to pass. the river."

But Liu Heita said, "So what about [-]? Soldiers are more expensive than elites!"

Wang Fubao could only say, "Then the 8000 of us must rush across quickly, and then have a decisive battle with the enemy. We will be outnumbered, and we may even face the danger of being attacked halfway through."

"I know, so what?" Liu Heita said.

Dou Jiande's Xia army has encountered only a handful of defeats since the uprising, and among the rebels from all walks of life, it can be regarded as extremely smooth.And they went from a group of saltgrass thieves in Douzigang to Daxia generals who now occupy more than half of Hebei. This success also made them extremely confident.

Especially after defeating the famous general Li Jing, their confidence inflated even more.

On a windy night.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heikai took a risky move and led their troops to cross the river quickly at night. Before the Wei army on the south bank could react, they crossed the Yellow River first, and quickly assembled on the south bank.

At this time, Wei Jun from the Daying camp on the south bank of the Yellow River came quickly after detecting the situation, and blocked them by the river.

Xia Jun lined up with his back to the water.

This is the first head-on battle between Xia Jun and Wei Jun.

Zhu Can's time should not be counted.

Wei Jun didn't understand Xia Jun's fighting methods. They just regarded Xia Jun as a general rebel army, or even their own army.

In the eyes of these Wei troops, anti-army generally means poor military discipline, poor equipment, and even poor combat effectiveness.

They don't know.

In fact, although Dou Jiande's Xia army started in a reckless manner, its tactical thinking has always been under the influence of Luo Cheng.Dou Jiande, Liu Heita, Wang Fubao and others who were born in Luo Cheng's army have not forgotten the victories in tough battles they won when they were under Luo Cheng's command, so they have been learning and imitating Luo Cheng's tactics.

Xia Jun's tactical thinking has always been to use good steel on the blade.

Although Xia Jun has a lot of soldiers and horses, there are always distinctions between soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and there are also elites among the elite such as jumping, ascending first, and picking fronts.

Even among the [-] soldiers and horses who came from the south this time, there was one armored cavalry.

Liu Heikai personally led a thousand heavy cavalry. Although these heavy cavalry were not comparable to Luo Cheng's iron cavalry, they were only half-armored cavalry. The knight only wore heavy armor on the upper body, and the war horse was only equipped with thick horse armor on the front half.

However, it is extremely rare in other rebel armies to concentrate elites to build a half-armored cavalry. Even if there are some, it is usually a dozen or a few dozen cavalry, at most a hundred cavalry, and most of them are the chief generals. personal guards.

It is rare to combine thousands and hundreds of elites to form heavy cavalry.

The half-heavy cavalry under Liu Heitai's command is only a thousand people, and it was built with the strength of the entire Xia army. It has the best equipment and the best soldiers.

At this time, Wang Fubao also had a heavy infantry under his command, with a total of two thousand.Among them, there is a battalion of Mo Dao players, a battalion of elite jumping sword players, a battalion of elite crossbowmen, and a battalion of mounted infantry.

These two thousand elite infantry can count as ten.

In contrast.

The Wei army paid more attention to the number. Li Mi claimed to have millions of soldiers. In fact, after annexing Meng Rang's troops, his soldiers and horses reached 60.

But there are too many mobs among them.

But the real elite, Wei Wuzu, was directly controlled by Li Mi, who was guarded by his side like the imperial guards.

The Wei army who intercepted Xia's army relied on a large number of troops, so they set up an army formation several miles long on the plain.

This super long infantry formation, in addition to being long, has another feature, that is, it is thin.

A thin layer, that is, about ten rows.

Then there is no one behind.

Wei Jun put up such a one-word long snake formation, obviously trying to stop Xia Jun, or even double-team Xia Jun, and annihilate him in one fell swoop.

The battle begins.

Xia Jun Qingqi took the lead in charging, but he didn't take advantage.

Because the infantry of the Wei army were basically pikemen, coupled with the shields in the front row and a small number of crossbowmen in the back row, relying on their huge numerical advantage, they forcibly repelled Xia Jun's light cavalry charge.

Xia Jun's Qingqi rushed several waves, but couldn't break through the thin army formation, and began to retreat.

The general of the Wei army was overjoyed.

"Attack with the whole army and drive all the damned Hebei guys into the Yellow River!"

Cao Bao in Baima City also knew about the battle on the south bank of the Yellow River. He climbed up a tall building and watched the Xia Jun brothers fighting on the bank in the distance, so he also led his army to open the city gate and fight out.

However, Uncle Wang built a wall outside the city that day, so that after Cao Bao left the city, it was equivalent to being trapped in his fortifications.

Wang Bodang's subordinates were able to stand on the earth wall and shoot arrows condescendingly to attack Cao Bao who had left the city. At that time, Cao Bao's army also suffered heavy casualties, which were even more serious than when they were defending the city.

On the bank of the Yellow River.

The Xia army retreated steadily.

The Wei army attacked like a tide, and the whole army pursued it.

But soon, the situation on the battlefield had some subtle changes.

Although Xia Jun retreated steadily, he never collapsed from the beginning to the end. Even if he retreated, he retreated neatly.

But on the contrary, Wei Jun's pursuit seemed much more chaotic. As soon as the pursuit was far away, the infantry and cavalry began to separate, and even the infantry dispersed slowly.

The already thin army formation has completely turned into a skirmish line.

This is also the phenomenon of many peasant armies such as Wei Jun. There are many soldiers, but they are always not good.

Wei Jun was chasing vigorously, no one realized this problem at all, and no one thought about it, where is Liu Heita's half-packed thousand-man armored cavalry?

Where are Wang Fubao's two thousand elite infantrymen?
They only knew that Xia's army was defeated and retreated, so they rushed to pursue them first, wishing to drive Xia's army into the Yellow River immediately.

Xia Jun soon retreated to the edge of the Yellow River, and behind him was the Yellow River.

Although there is no water in the Taotao River, and there is ice on the river to pass through, Xia Jun will not just retreat across the Yellow River when he comes here.

Wang Fubao's flag was raised on the bank of the river, and then he did not retreat.

As a result, the flags of Xia Jun's generals and regiments were raised one after another, but they all stood still.

Xia Jun no longer retreated.

They lined up along the river to fight with their backs.

Look at their banners waving, the army formation is neat, and there is no such thing as a half-point defeat.On the contrary, Wei Jun on the opposite side chased all the way, and he had already run into skirmishers.

A general of the Wei Army rushing forward was startled when he saw Xia Jun's formation, but it was impossible to stop the troops at this moment.

"Prepare the crossbowmen!"

In front of the Xia army, an officer was issuing orders.

The enemy is approaching.

The crossbowmen, who accounted for [-]% of the army formation, had already raised their crossbow guns and aimed at the front.

"The enemy is two hundred paces away!"

someone shouted.

"Hold on, hold on!"

The team leaders who led the battle roared with all their might.

"The enemy is 150 steps away!"

(End of this chapter)