Late Tang

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On July [-]nd, the defensive battle of Jincheng reached its most critical moment. After several days of onslaught, the [-] Hu soldiers of Yeluzara had successively captured the four cities of Huairen, Yingcheng, Heyin, and Hunyuan, as well as the three towns and four towns on the outskirts of Jincheng. All Guanzhai also fell.There were only a few remaining defenders fighting desperately, but the Hu people still relied on their huge force superiority to open a huge gap in the strong city wall of Jincheng, and countless Hu people poured in through the gap screaming.

At this time, Jincheng has already mobilized the whole city, and there is no reserve team that can withstand the gap created by the barbarians digging tunnels with gunpowder.

Zhang Yu, the guard of Jincheng, and Luo Yan, the leader of the capital who was exceptionally promoted on the battlefield, smiled wryly at the barbarians who came from outside the city.

At this point, it is indeed the end of the mountain.

That being the case, live and die with the city.

Zhang Yu held up the Damascus Uzi Knife bestowed by the King of Qin, Li Jing, and said with emotion: "We have tried our best, and I am very happy to be able to fight side by side with everyone and die together. The only regret is that we cannot see the king of Qin doing all these ugly things with his own eyes. , Luo Yan, you are doing well, I will take a step first!"

Zhang Yu would rather die than become a prisoner of these barbarians.

Luo Yan grabbed his hand: "Wait a minute!"

"At this point, what are you waiting for? It's meaningless to kill one or two more barbarians. I don't want to fall into the hands of barbarians."

"General, no one wants to fall into the hands of barbarians, but don't you think the atmosphere on the battlefield is a bit strange?"

Hearing these words, Zhang Yu turned his head to the battlefield.

Indeed, the atmosphere on the battlefield was a bit weird. In front of the big gap in the city wall, countless barbarians were pouring in, and the barbarians who had already poured in flooded into the streets of the city like a tide.But behind that gap, there was already a rapid sound of gongs.

Knock the gong?This is not the sound of gongs for celebration. The sound of gongs on the battlefield is also called Mingjin, which means to withdraw and retreat.

Looking far away, farther away, many order flags were waving non-stop, ordering cavalry to gallop back and forth, some barbarian officers were shouting loudly, and panic and fear could be faintly heard in the voices.The Hu people's reserve team in the distance is hastily adjusting the array, and the soldiers stopped hesitantly, at a loss.

They are very flustered!

There was a rumbling thunder from the northeast.

No, that is not thunder, but the sound of galloping horses like thunder.

Zhang Yu, who thought he could only commit suicide, looked at Luo Yan, with a bright smile on his face, "Could it be that our reinforcements have arrived, and looking at the direction, they are reinforcements from Weizhou, so unexpectedly so fast?"

Feeling turbulent, it was a shocking reversal. The excited Zhang Yu shouted at the sergeants who were lying or leaning on the head of Jincheng Yacheng, "Reinforcements have arrived, King Qin's reinforcements have arrived!"

"Troops appear in the northeast!"

"It's the red battle robe, the black military flag, and the black flying eagle battle flag. They are our reinforcements. King Qin's reinforcements have arrived!"

"All are cavalry, the number is unknown!"

"a lot of..."

"At least ten thousand!"

"More than ten thousand!"

"At least twenty thousand!"

"more than!"

"There should be thirty thousand!"

......

A group of wounded soldiers who were originally desperate looked at their heads in despair, watching the dust rising from the northeast direction, and guessed the number of reinforcements excitedly.As the black line under the dust smoke approached, the black line gradually turned into a black tide. Many experienced sergeants were even estimating the number of reinforcements, ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, and the reinforcements were getting closer and closer. They also gradually estimated the number of reinforcements, at least [-] cavalry!

God, thirty thousand cavalry.At this time, although the [-] Hu people broke through more than a dozen pass villages in several counties, the defenders resisted desperately and killed more than [-] Hu people.At this time in Jincheng, the barbarians didn't even have as many reinforcements.

"Oh my God, the golden armor appeared, it is Liu Yanei's golden armor that wins the Jie army, the most powerful cavalry unit!"

"Long live, long live the king of Qin, long live the victorious army, long live!" The remnant soldiers on the top of the city boiled. Among the entire Qin army, only the victorious army wore golden armor. This is the strongest cavalry guarding Yanjing and guarding the king of Qin Troops, King Qin actually sent this cavalry to rescue them, long live!

As if to prove their words, the [-] victorious army accelerated again when they charged, and they rushed to the front in an instant. As they charged, they let out a deafening roar: "Victory!" The battle horn of the Victory Czech Army.

Zhang Yu was still a little bit immersed in surprise at this time, why did they come so fast, and at the same time, he couldn't help thinking why his father hadn't arrived yet, did something happen to him in the south?

At this time, the reinforcements of the Qin army, mainly the Shengjie army, arrived at this time, with Liu Xun as the main general, Qin Zongshou, the wolf tooth general, Gao Rong, the Goguryeo general, and Liu Zhijun, the former general of the probation army who was newly attached to the Qin army. , and the [-] troops led by general Zhang Yun, among them, Liu Xun's Shengjie Army and Qin Zongshou's Spike Army were all cavalry troops, while Gao Rong, Liu Zhijun and Zhang Yun's were three cavalry infantry.

After receiving Li Jing's order to quickly reinforce Jincheng, Liu Xun took advantage of the maneuverability of the Qin army. The cavalry was paired with two horses, and the infantry was also paired with two cavalry. Fifteen thousand cavalry, fifteen thousand mounted infantry, five armies, Thirty compartments and sixty battalions formed a mixed infantry and cavalry regiment, marching all the way to join the army.In a few days, they had left the army, passed through Guizhou, Ruzhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou, and Weizhou, and finally appeared on the battlefield beyond the expectations of the barbarians.

When they arrived at the battlefield, the Hu people had just received the news of the return of the horses. At this time, they were in the excitement of breaking Jincheng. The rear army was turning around, but the front army had already rushed into the streets and alleys outside Jincheng. The Shanghu people were in chaos.

Liu Xun is holding a golden spear with a tiger's head in his hand. This is a gun body made of cold iron. It is one foot long and three feet long. extremely sharp,

The body of the spear is made of cold iron, one foot long and three feet long. The head of the spear is in the shape of a black gold tiger's head. Refined iron.It was the precious spear personally given by Li Jing when Liu Xun became the leader of the Wansheng Jie Army.

The tiger-headed golden gun paired with a golden battle armor, a golden sweat-blooded BMW, and the golden general flag with Liu characters in the hands of the flag officer behind him made him extremely majestic.

"The whole army will follow me!"

Liu Xun did not choose to complete the team, but charged directly without stopping.He could already see that with their sudden appearance, the Hu people were extremely panicked at this moment. They didn't even realize that they were [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, but only saw [-] horses galloping towards them .Moreover, because the outer city of Jincheng had just been breached, the Hu people were divided into two groups at this time. On the contrary, the soldiers of the Qin army had just arrived and their morale was high. Opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat them. "

Yeluzaci's face was pale. He never thought that the Qin army's reinforcements would arrive so soon.Moreover, it came from the northeast, not the northwest.

These days, he has actually been wary of the return of Zhang Zimian, the Marshal of the Qin Army's Western Expedition, so he sent several cavalry reconnaissance troops in the direction of Shuozhou. Even his ten-year-old son Yelu Abaoji, At that time, he was also leading a thousand-man cavalry to guard the south.

But who would have thought that Qin Jun would join the army and kill here so quickly.Moreover, so many soldiers and horses were killed.

Yeluzara hurriedly ordered to turn around and fight, but for a while, only the reserve team behind and more than [-] soldiers and horses came out to resist.As long as he can restrain the Qin army's charge, he can regroup his troops and even retreat into Jincheng to resist the enemy.The Qin army has reinforcements, and he can also stand in the city and wait for reinforcements.

Tens of thousands of Hu people jumped on their horses one after another, brandishing all kinds of weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the Qin army under the messy banners of various tribes, roaring and screaming.

On the opposite side, the elite cavalry of the Qin Army, Sheng Jie, rushed to the front and roared again: "Sheng Jie!"

The roar of ten thousand fine riders instantly drowned out the screams of the barbarians. Tens of thousands of horses galloped like thunder, lined up neatly like a moving iron wall, and quickly pressed down on the scattered barbarians.

Zhang Yu, Luo Yan, Zhang Luo and others who watched the battle from the tall arrow tower were a little surprised: "It seems that the speed of the Shengjie army's charge is not as fast as that of the barbarians?"

"Why don't they shoot arrows?"

Yes, in the past, the sharpest cavalry tactics in the Qin army were the speed of the wind, the crossbow arrows like the torrential rain, and the throwing and bombing of thunderstorms like thunderstorms.The core of tactics is cavalry, shooting, shooting, rather than face-to-face hand-to-hand combat with enemy cavalry. Most of the cavalry of the Qin army are long-range cavalry. Only the heavy cavalry of the Black Banner Army are front-on and indomitable.

The Hu people's army came under the banner, and Yelu Sala was also puzzled, did the Qin people want to fight head-to-head with them?When it comes to close combat, no matter how well equipped the cavalry of the Qin people are, they cannot match the bravery of the warriors of the grassland tribes, right?

The Shengjie army had already charged within a hundred steps, and Liu Xun's loud voice came: "No archery, keep the formation, and continue to charge!"

Under the guidance of the golden battle flag, the cavalry behind continued to charge at a not too fast speed, and amidst the sound of horns, the distance between them got closer to each other, and the formation became more orderly.From afar, it looks like iron walls are moving.

Their hornbows were still hanging on their saddles, their crossbows were still hanging on their waists, and their thunderbolts were still in their waist pouches.

They wore gold-plated steel plate breastplates, a conical mirror-shaped cavalry buckler on their left arm, an eight-foot three-edged spear in both hands, and a sharp unsheathed sword and horse on their waists. , wearing an iron pan-like helmet on his head, covering his entire head.

They were horse-to-horse, shoulder-to-shoulder, and only controlled the horse with their legs instead of holding the reins. They hung shields and guns in both hands, and charged forward while maintaining their speed and formation.

Sixty steps!

The galloping Hu cavalry began to shoot arrows immediately, but their good archery skills met the Qin army's excellent armor, steel helmets, breastplates, cavalry shields, and vests, which blocked most of the arrows for them. Arrows.Moreover, the entire platoon of cavalry lined up together, and they blocked each other, making the arrows all over the sky, but in the end the real lethality was very limited.

The Qin army did not fight back and continued to advance steadily.

Fifty steps.

Forty steps.

Thirty steps.

......

Sathorn finally felt where the worry in his heart came from. These damned Qin people actually used the tactics of the infantry formation in the cavalry battle.

It is shameless to let the cavalry charge like infantry.

This kind of formation is very powerful, at least it is very powerful on Qin Jun now, because they have excellent helmets and breastplates, and the most important discipline.Not all the cavalry can be like this cavalry of the Qin Army, facing the sky full of bows and arrows, but they can always maintain their formation, charge without haste and do not fight back at all.

If it was replaced by the grassland tribal cavalry, I'm afraid they would have swarmed up with screams and screams.

But the Qin army did it. They came in formation like cavalry as infantry. They didn't disperse or counterattack, they just came straight!

"kill!"

With a loud roar, the two armies got closer and closer, and the speed of the galloping Shengjie army did not decrease at all. The cavalry began to lower their bodies, and their spears were more than five feet ahead of the horses.

Hu Qi is still shooting arrows!

But the two armies are getting closer and closer, twenty steps, ten steps, five steps...

There was a roar like thunder: "Shengjie!"

With this loud roar, the iron wall in front shot out like a dragon almost at the same time, and eight-foot cavalry spears shot out from the array, and just rushed up, ready to teach these Qin people a lesson, what is cavalry? What is horse fighting, what is riding, what is bravery, but they were shocked to find that three or four spears appeared in front of them almost at the same time.

Blocked one, two, but not the third, the fourth.

With unbelievable and unwilling anger, the sturdy and conceited Hu warrior fell off his horse with several blood holes in one round, and was ruthlessly run over by the neat iron wall of the Qin army!

Relying on the huge impact of the iron wall tactics, the spears of the Shengjie soldiers pierced through the rushing horses one after another without difficulty, and continued to maintain the momentum of charging without rush.One row rushed past, and the second row of iron walls rolled over again.

Qin Jun's tactics are like a comb, combing over and over in the wilderness under Jincheng, and those scattered Huqi are knocked down one by one.

In such battles, if the Hu people stabbed a Qin army to death, dozens of them would have died themselves.

The Shengjie army rolled forward without stopping until it penetrated the entire enemy army.

At this time, they started to turn around, divided into smaller formations of iron walls, and continued to attack and kill.

At this time, Qin Zongshou's 5000 Spike Cavalry Army finally dispatched. Qin Zongshou's five-element cavalry army completely used the traditional skills of the Qin Army. Those barbarian cavalry groups that were crushed by the iron cavalry shot arrows, crossbows, and thundered, like a group of blood-eating sharks, specially charged at the dispersed barbarians, outflanked, rode and shot, dispersed, and finally annihilated them in one fell swoop.

They have a clear division of labor and act quickly.

The number of reinforcements from the Qin army far exceeded that of Hu Qi, and their weapons and equipment far surpassed those of these tribes. What's more, this time the Qin army adopted a strange new style of warfare for the first time, which caught them by surprise.

In less than half an hour, nearly ten thousand Hu Qi had been dispersed and fled in all directions.

The three mounted infantry behind have dismounted and assembled.

Gao Rong, the general of Goguryeo, raised his two-handed epee as high as a man and slashed forward. He yelled at his North Korean army and pointed to the big purple banner stabbed by Yeluza: "The whole army strikes and crushes them!" (unfinished to be continued.)