Horse on the World

Chapter 52
The first contact battle between the two sides ended with Lu Dabing's complete victory. It was short but intense. After encountering two thousand soldiers of the front battalion suddenly, dozens of Bai elites had no time to retreat. Ma Fei fled away, and Lu Dabing brought out his only [-] cavalry from the city, but these cavalry were far behind the Bai people who grew up on horseback in terms of riding skills, and they couldn't catch up. Can turn around and surround dozens of Bai soldiers who came back from the killing.

This battle in Yixing made Lu Dabing happy, but he also raised his vigilance. These Bai barbarians were more elite than he expected. Once they found that they could not escape, they would abandon the stolen property and cover their companions from escaping. Reporting the letter, killing to death without hesitation when knowing that there is no luck, as long as you want to buy some time for your companions.This fighting will made Lu Dabing feel terrible.
After dozens of cavalry barbarian soldiers were charged back and forth by the cavalry of the front battalion several times, no one survived. Seeing the shocking battle loss ratio, Lu Dabing's little joy just disappeared, and 500 people surrounded and killed dozens of cavalry. The loss ratio was almost two to one, and one of these dozens of barbarians pierced through the formation. If it wasn't for their own infantry who had already set up formation in the distance, these cavalry would have fled.
Squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, bursts of smoke and dust rolled in, and the reinforcements of the barbarians came.Lu Dabing suddenly felt excited, cavalry, I am indeed no match for you, but breaking cavalry with steps has always been our Dingzhou army's strong point, come on, let me become the famous Bai nationality elite cavalry in the grassland.

"Clean up the battlefield, transport the dead and wounded back to the fortress, and the rest of the troops line up and prepare to meet the enemy!" Lu Dabing ordered solemnly.

The 300 Selected Front Battalion moved quickly, worthy of battle-tested veterans. After a clash of weapons, the 400 infantry quickly formed five phalanxes of [-] men, with only [-] soldiers between each soldier. With a distance of more than a foot, so that the spears in the hands could be stabbed with arms, the spears of the soldiers in the back row protruded from the gaps between the soldiers in the front row, and five gun forests were formed in an instant.The remaining [-] or so cavalry had been exhausted from the charge just now, and now they were behind the infantry phalanx, and the knights all jumped off their horses to restore their horsepower as much as possible.

The barbarian horses in the distance were extremely fast, and before the time of the incense sticks, they appeared in Lu Dabing's field of vision. With the sound of a horn, the rushing torrent stopped, and all the cavalry dismounted. General A stood out about a hundred steps and observed Lu Dabing's formation.

This silver-armored general looked familiar, Lu Dabing only glanced at him, and recognized that this man was the one who planted the flag under the fortress.There was a burst of anger in my heart, and I almost wanted to leap out of the horse and fight him again.He raised his hand and lowered it, finally gritted his teeth and gave up the idea. Now he is the commander of the army, not a quack.The opponent is not a reckless man, unlike the barbarian generals in the past, he didn't rush to kill the enemy at the beginning of the encounter, but he also knew how to save horsepower. He obviously regarded himself as an equal opponent. He had to be careful with such a person.
Now he can only stand still and wait for the enemy to attack. Once he rushes to attack, the formation will inevitably loosen up during the march, which is fatal to the infantry. Let the opponent's horse rush into the formation, and his own infantry will become a lamb.

While Lu Dabing was observing the barbarians, Nuoqia was also looking at the opposite army formation. Seeing the five guns lined up in the front, two in the back and three in the back, standing solemnly, with the points of the guns gleaming coldly slanting upwards, he couldn't help but He sighed: "No wonder with the advantages of our iron cavalry, we have not been able to completely conquer Dingzhou for so many years. Da Chu's ability to break cavalry with steps is indeed unique."

A general behind him smiled and said, "Master Chief, as long as we can rush in, pierce their formation, cause their confusion, and prevent them from forming a neat formation, then they are no different from pigs and sheep. "

Nuoqia shook his head and said: "To do this, we have to pay a huge price. Great Chu has a vast territory, a large population, and sufficient soldiers. It only takes about a year for an infantryman to become a qualified soldier. But our elite knights can only grow up after ten or twenty years, we can't afford it."

The general sneered: "That being said, there are not many elite pawns like this in Da Chu now!"
Nuoqia smiled and said: "That's not bad, the selection battalion in front of me is composed of soldiers who survived the last war. They have fought and seen blood. This kind of troops is the most difficult to deal with. The rest of the troops in Dingzhou? I'm afraid it's far worse."
"Commander, are we going to fight? Or should we continue to confront them like this?"
Nuo Qia smiled and said: "Fight, of course we have to fight, don't how can we hold them back? Isn't it just for this moment that the Zuo Xiaowang made a plan? We don't want to win, but we want to drag them here. The longer the time, the more beneficial it will be for the school king of Jizuo."

The general behind him said dissatisfiedly: "My lord, we are here to gnaw bones, but where does Zuo Xiaowang eat delicious food and drink spicy food? It is really suffocating. There are only a thousand people left in Fuyuan Fortress, and Zuo Xiaowang has nearly ten thousand troops. Isn't that right?" It's within reach."
Nuoqi Ayang whipped his hand, "Bastard, Zuo Xiaowang's strategy is very good, so that we can capture Fuyuan at the least cost. Fuyuan Fortress has a lot of weapons and food, which is a great supplement to us. Zuo Xiaowang sent us because he trusted us, and only we can bite out this Lu Dabing. Do you think Zuo Xiaowang didn't send his son because of selfishness? If Wanyan Jitai is here, I'm afraid If you have already swung your troops and attacked wildly, it must be a losing game."
The general who had been whipped endured the pain, "Yes, my lord, I was wrong."

Nuoqia said coldly: "Remember, Angu no longer exists. Wanyan Bulu is now the Zuo Xiaowang of our Bai clan. If you don't understand such a simple truth, let me hear such nonsense again, and I will chop your head off."
"The whole army get on the horse!" After Nuoqia taught the generals a lesson, he suddenly turned around, raised the mace in his hand high, and the thousand elite behind him yelled, and got on the horse at the same time.

"Fulin, you make the first wave of probing attacks. Remember, reducing casualties is our goal, but we must also let the other party understand our determination to fight to the death."

"Obey, Commander-in-Chief." After being whipped, Fulin was full of evil fire, and he wanted to burn the fire on the other party.

"Yo drink!" With a strange cry, Fulin rode out on his horse, and behind him, hundreds of cavalry roared out.

Boom boom boom!Seeing the barbarian attack, rhythmic drums sounded from Lu Dabing's central army. With the drumbeat, the soldiers in the first row of the two square formations at the front stretched out their spears, with the tip of the spear pointing upwards, and the tail of the spear was deep into the ground. Diving into the soil behind them, the soldiers in the second row stretched out their feet to press the end of their guns, and the guns themselves stuck out, and so did the soldiers in the back row.All the nine-foot-long spears were stretched out, and the two phalanxes suddenly turned into two hedgehogs.

After the two hundred cavalry led by Fulin jumped out of their own formation, they quickly scattered away. During the long-term confrontation with the Dingzhou army, they had long known that the Dingzhou army had a kind of strong crossbow that was carried with the army. It can be pulled apart, with a range of up to a thousand steps, and can effectively kill cavalry. When one's own side rushes in front of the opponent, this crossbow can shoot up to five rounds. If the formation is too dense, it will become a living target, but as long as you disperse Formation, this kind of crossbow is not easy to aim, and the hit rate is not high, which can effectively avoid casualties.
There was a sharp whistling sound in the air, it really was this kind of crossbow.But obviously, Lu Dabing's army didn't carry many such crossbows. Hearing the howling in the air, Fulin was convinced that there were only twenty or thirty strong crossbows, and they could not pose a threat to him.
The soldiers manipulated the horses flexibly, avoided the crossbow, and went straight to the enemy's position.When there was still a distance of a hundred parts, the Bai soldiers drew their bows and shot arrows, and hundreds of arrows shot towards the dense army formation of the opponent with a whistling sound.In terms of shooting skills, the Dingzhou Army naturally cannot compare with these elite Bai people who grew up immediately and started archery from childhood. What's more, the Dingzhou Army has a dense formation and does not need to aim at all. Two arrows have been shot, and those with high skills have shot three to five arrows.

The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion were unmoved. Seeing the rain of arrows all over the sky, they just lowered their heads to protect the front door. Sliding away, some hung on the soldiers, and only a few unfortunate guys were shot at the seams of the armor on their bodies, bleeding.
In the first round of confrontation, the two sides shot each other in vain. The Dingzhou army had few crossbows and their hit rate was low, while the Bai people's arrows were quite accurate. helpless.Some soldiers of the selection front battalion were covered with arrows, which looked like a hedgehog, but it didn't affect his combat in the slightest.

(End of this chapter)