I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 138 The Battle of Lingshou ([-])

The first to launch the attack was the rebel army who defeated the crowd with a few.

Seeing the flags and horns of the Chinese army behind him, Liu Jiyun drew out his saber and swung it forward, "March."

He is Liu Bogui's younger brother, who has practiced martial arts since childhood and is brave and powerful.Therefore, after following his elder brother to revolt, he immediately became the number one general in the "rebel army".

"A new Buddha is born, get rid of all the demons, Maitreya reincarnates, and the land of Buddha"

The three phalanxes, each with more than 3000 people, began to shout slogans and march forward thinking about the formation of the official army.

The distance between the two sides was less than one mile. When they had walked hundreds of steps, Liu Jiyun, who was placed at the end of the team, suddenly pulled out his saber, "Break through the formation of the officers and soldiers for me, kill!"

The army of nearly [-] people chanted slogans, armed with various weapons, and rushed to the front of the official army.

On the officer's side, the ones at the forefront of the queue were not heavy infantry armed with spears, but crossbowmen.

These crossbowmen are all from the Eastern Army of the River and the Forbidden Army. They only wear two crotch armor, because the archers cannot wear thick capes. The first row is all old crossbowmen with superb archery skills. He rode his horse and shouted from behind the army formation, "The enemy advances 150 steps, shoot."

With one order, thousands of military crossbows were fired at the same time, and the arrows flew like locusts in an instant. The rain of arrows shot directly by the first wave of crossbow arrows caused the rebels to lose nearly a thousand troops. The crossbowmen behind hurriedly handed them to the first row The old crossbowman had a crossbow loaded with arrows, and the second wave of arrow rain arrived as expected.

Next came the third wave.

The direct damage from crossbow arrows is very deadly to the rebels who only have at most two boards on their bodies, counted as wooden armor.Those who directly hit the vital point were killed immediately, and some people even had a lot of feathered arrows on their bodies, and they were tied into hedgehogs.

Some of them did not die and had no companions to rescue them, so they could only lie on the ground and howl in pain, and some were even directly trampled to death by their own people running wildly behind.

The nearly ten thousand rebels advanced to ninety paces after several rounds of arrows fired directly from their crossbows.

Just a few rounds of direct crossbow arrows and three rounds of longbow throwing made the three phalanxes of 9000 people rush up, reducing the number of staff by more than half.

When the rebels rushed to the front of the formation, about thirty steps away, the crossbowmen who were originally at the front of the formation had withdrawn to the back of the heavy infantry and were wearing capes.Hoplites began to appear at the forefront.

The short combat began.

The weapons in the hands of the rebel soldiers are various, including spears, axes, knives and shields, bones, and some even hold sharpened wood.

And what they had to face was all the heavily armored officers and soldiers with long spears and big axes. They walked in unison, stabbing and retracting, and the entire army formation was as immovable as a mountain against the impact of thousands of rebels.

Even if some rebel warriors were able to pass through the gaps in the spears, most of them would be helpless against the iron armor.Of course, some powerful people, armed with weapons such as big axes and bones, can still cause damage to many officers and soldiers, but the crossbowmen behind them have already put on their capes. As light infantry, melee combat is also a must-have skill .The rebels who rushed over would be dragged in and killed by them.

Although the rebels chanted this slogan and rushed forward to attack the official army formation, the heavy armored infantry from Longyou and Shuofang towns at the forefront of the formation could stand firm against the cavalry of Qingtang and northerners. Not moving, it is easy to clean up a bunch of miscellaneous things. Facing the onslaught of these rebels who have no formation at all, even though they are full of enthusiasm, how can they shake this immobile formation?

At this time, the rebels' formation was also moving forward. Hui Qing of the Chinese Army looked at the fight not far away with a blank expression. He didn't understand military affairs, but he could also see that his side was at a disadvantage in the battle. , but he didn't know what to do at this time, and he would show timidity if he talked casually, so he watched the two armies fight without saying a word.

And Liu Bogui, who was in charge of the command before the battle, frowned tightly, always hesitating about whether to continue to invest.

And this is the case in the real battle of the line. On this endless plain, there is no sudden ambush from the flanks, or such clever tricks as flooding and fire attack.

The two sides can only spread out their battles and confront each other head-on. There is no room for any tricks at all, and they can only fight with one knife and one gun.

Ever since, when the lights are about to dim, it is time to refuel.

Liu Bogui waved the flag after obtaining Huiqing's consent.The two brothers on the left and right in the central army also took advantage of the trend and joined the fierce battle on the front line.

Cheng Jintang watched the fighting ahead, and also issued a military order, "The front army moves forward, thirty steps."

"The front army moves forward, thirty steps."

The sound of messengers and call signs, the semaphore of command flags, and the rumbling drums all convey the will of the general.

move forward!

In an instant, the spearman began to stab, and then moved forward step by step, keeping the formation unchanged.

For the rebels, the pressure suddenly increased, and the orderly movement of the officers and soldiers was like a mountain moving for the rebels, making them almost out of breath.

Ever since, Liu Bogui refueled again and sent two thousand armored cavalry troops from the Chinese army to charge across the official army in one fell swoop.This one is the last property of the rebel army, and almost all the armor and horses of the rebel army were handed over to this cavalry army.

Although this is a bit desperate, but if you don't break the formation of the officers and soldiers in front of you, everyone can only be surrounded to death bit by bit.

This is also what the weaker side must face. They must take the initiative to attack in order to win the war.

In the eyes of Liu Jiyun, the commander of the front of the rebel army, the sudden advance of the officers and soldiers immediately caused the rebel army to shrink and retreat.There is absolutely no reason for this kind of Taishan trend.

At this time, the messenger brought the latest order from the Chinese army to open a passage for the [-] cavalry of the Chinese army.

Liu Jiyun immediately understood that this was a desperate attempt to use the only cavalry on his side to break through the formation of the spectators, disrupt the formation of the officers and soldiers, and then the entire army pressed forward to fight with the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, located in the middle of the entire official army formation, the rebel army began to retreat. The march of the rebel army, whether it was advancing or retreating, was not as fast as the official army's advance and retreat, and some confusion even occurred for a time.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers saw the rebels retreating in front of them, but did not pursue them, because in the army formation, they had to obey orders to advance and retreat.

"The rebels began to concentrate on the two wings, are they ready to fight to the death?" Cheng Jintang, who had experienced many battles, immediately discovered the rebels' intentions.

"Marshal, do you want the two-wing cavalry to intercept the enemy cavalry?"

At this time, Chen Wenzuo, the governor of Jizhou, suggested.

Cheng Jintang directly refused: "No, the main task of the two-winged cavalry is to intercept the fleeing army. Once these routs flee in large numbers, they will run around and cause disaster for the town. The cavalry of the thieves is only a thousand people. Let them see the majesty. array!"

The rebels in the middle vacated a road, a wide area of ​​tens of feet long, and two thousand rebel cavalry also quickly marched out, gathered in the middle road, ready to go.

Many athletes in Hebei practice riding and archery, and there is no shortage of horses, so the rebels were able to form this 2000-man cavalry army.

After the order was given, the first rider, wearing bright iron armor and holding a spear, took the lead. He was Liu Bogui's second brother, named Liu Zhongkan. In the Second World War, they all took the lead.

In the last battle against Marquis Anyuan, it was he who led hundreds of cavalry to attack from the flanks before turning the tide of the battle.And today, he will also lead the most elite two thousand cavalry of the rebel army into battle.

"Kill it."

Liu Zhongkan yelled when he was dozens of units away from the enemy's line, and then he shot an officer and soldier directly with his horse.

And the thousand cavalry behind him also slammed into the officer's horse-rejecting spears fiercely like him, and some of them dodged and ran into several rows in a row, but finally stopped them.

And the precious two thousand cavalry did not live up to Liu Bogui's expectations, disrupting the formation of the officers and troops directly ahead.

Seeing this opportunity, Liu Bogui immediately ordered the whole army to press on.

"The middle road has been disrupted by the cavalry, and now we are attacking across the board, life and death, in this battle, press up! Kill!"

Liu Zhongkan held a long spear, and his riding skills were extremely handsome. He was accused several times in a row, escaped the spear thrust, and then stabbed and blocked with a big spear in his hand, killing more than a dozen officers and soldiers in a row. Seeing Liu Zhongkan's bravery, He Baxu directly drew his bow and set up an arrow, and shot it away.

In the middle of his horse's leg.After the front leg of the war horse was galloping and hit by the arrow, he knelt down in pain and threw Liu Zhongkan out.

The cavalry general who lost his horse immediately lost seven points of his momentum, and he must not be able to move freely in the army formation, and dozens of soldiers immediately surrounded him here.

Liu Zhongkan was so brave, he couldn't hold back these frontier soldiers who surrounded him with shields, and was captured alive in the end.

Huiqing sat on the shoulders of 16 people and followed the army. The whole rebel army pressed forward, and it really pushed back the formation of the army by dozens of steps. , When the two sides come, they mix together and fight.

The officers and soldiers were well-armored and well-trained, but the rebels naturally fought with all their strength in front of the King of France, trying to fight for a way out.

For a while, the formation of the officers and soldiers seemed a little shaky before the rebels' offensive.

At this moment, Cheng Jintang said, "Send the order, the Jingsai army, to attack the enemy from the flank."

After a while, the thousands of Jingsai soldiers who had been recharging their energy at the end of the ranks of the officers and soldiers mounted their horses one after another with the help of the auxiliary soldiers. This cavalry army, which is famous all over the world, circled a large circle directly from the back of its own army, and then Appeared a mile away on the rebel flank.

There are three big characters on the military flag "Jingsai Army".

When Liu Bogui saw the big flag, his face was pale, and he muttered in the air, "It's over. It's over."

As a tyrant in Hengzhou, if he doesn't even know about the famous Jingsai Army in Hebei, why would he rebel, just find a tree with a crooked neck!

This cavalry army with only a thousand men seems to be showing the general of the rebel army how the cavalry should charge.

I could only hear thousands of horseshoes stepping on the ground like thunder and rolling, directly plunging into the rebel formation from the flanks.

The first general was holding a horse lance and wearing black armor. His whole body was as ferocious as an iron beast. The horse lance in his hand was stabbed and slashed, and no rebels could stop his charge.

And this cavalry general's vision is also extremely sharp. As the front of the army, he turned to attack the enemy's weak points.

The heavy armor of the Jingsai army shone brightly, and the horses held flat like a forest became more and more ferocious. The rebel infantry had no armor at all, and the sharpened wooden spears were of no use to armored riders or horses. threaten.Even these pawns couldn't organize any resistance, so they could only let these cavalry run wild, and everything they passed showed a tendency to collapse, just like the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

At this time, even Hui Qing, who doesn't know soldiers, can see clearly that the general trend is over.

At this time, Cheng Jintang of the official army and the central army issued the final general order. The cavalry on both wings spread out to surround the defeated army, and the entire infantry army pressed forward!

Ever since, Zhou Tieguan, He Baxu, Su Duan and other powerful officers and soldiers all ordered their troops to move forward bravely after seeing the command flag waving.

And the disorganized rebels who were originally rushed by the Jingsai army finally couldn't hold on, and at this moment, even the fanatical beliefs had lost their effect.

The army was defeated like a mountain.

(End of this chapter)