Horse on the World

Chapter 704 Harvest Season (1)

The Hailing Battalion to which Xiong Dehai belonged traveled day and night, rushing towards Xiaoaihe. Jiang Heiniu and Buyangu's troops, who had been transporting to Xiaoaihe together behind him, had suddenly turned in the middle of the road and raided Huting. At this time, Song Kaige's more than [-] Huting defenders have been wiped out by the second discharge of Xiaoai River, and most of them have become ghosts in the water in the torrential flood.Even Song Kaige himself died because of his panic attack.

Most of the main force of the Hailing Battalion came from the former Hailing Salt Workers. After years of fighting and retiring, the original first batch of soldiers is not much left, but the skeleton of the entire army is still the same as before. It was formed by a group of people. The first batch of those who joined the Hailing camp and those who stayed in the barracks basically became officers, and most of the soldiers recruited later were the children of salt workers. Retaining the characteristics of the original army, all soldiers are tall and powerful, with extraordinary strength and strong individual combat capabilities.

The miraculous achievements made by the surging water of the Xiaoai River also boosted the morale of the soldiers in the Hailing Camp, and the wind blows under their feet. Even if the road under their feet is muddy, it will not affect the soldiers' eagerness to go to the battlefield to make meritorious service.

"Brothers, hurry up, the Yizhou camp is about to launch a final attack on the enemy. If we slow down, we won't even have a sip of the soup." Xiong Dehai laughed while riding his horse.With Song Kaige's Huting defenders, Li Feng, who has been holding back these days, will inevitably launch a fatal blow to Ben Kuan's troops, completely smashing them and re-opening the passage between Yaqueling and Qinzhou.

Xiong Dehai expected it well. After the Xiaoai River surged past for the second time, Li Feng's Yizhou Battalion launched an attack on the Ben Kuan's troops in front.

The stalemate these days gave Ben Kuan time to build a camp. Relying on the camp, Ben Kuan led [-] soldiers to line up in the camp. The chariots were in front, forming the first defensive line, and the spearmen behind them Shieldmen and archers lined up successively, and in the battalion, long-range strike weapons such as trebuchets were deployed as support. These days of stalemate with the Yizhou battalion, although Ben Kuan was unable to launch a counterattack, he was full of confidence in defending the formation , fought with Yizhou Ying more than a dozen times, and it doesn't necessarily mean that Fang Fang is very good.On the two wings of the army formation, he deployed his only two thousand cavalry to support the main formation at any time.

From a military point of view, there is nothing wrong with his arrangement.

Li Feng has been depressed these days. Ever since he led the army, most of the battles he fought were scenes of rushing and killing. This kind of dawdling, half-truth and half-fake style of fighting made him feel sick Qi, these days, he has not made any progress, but every attack has damaged a lot of brothers. Sometimes he has to pretend to be unsupported when he is about to make a breakthrough, which makes his temper these days He was extraordinarily big, and he was concerned about Li Qing's safety on Yaque Ridge. His face was visibly haggard. After more than ten days of slovenliness and unshaven beard, he looked a lot more ferocious.

Looking at Ben Kuan's troops who were waiting in full battle, Li Feng laughed and said, "Today I can finally have a good fight. Damn, I'm suffocating these days. Brothers, beat Ben Kuan. Let’s go to Yaqueling to have dinner today.”

The cavalry around burst into laughter.

Amidst the shouts, the cavalry rode out. In order to avoid the attack of the catapults in the camp, on the front of the thousand-meter-wide battlefield, the cavalry who launched the first attack scattered in all directions, without any fixed position. Formation, everyone just desperately smashed the horses and ran forward. Once the trebuchets were installed, their striking surface would be fixed. As long as they crossed this life-and-death line, these trebuchets would be completely useless.Of course, if the opponent has enough long-range weapons such as trebuchets and ballistas, and arranges them into echelon attack surfaces, this life and death line can be extended as much as possible to increase the casualties of the attackers, but the troops of Ben Kuan on the opposite side Obviously, these conditions are not met. Therefore, on the battlefield between the two sides, the follow-up from the thousandth pace to the seventy-eight hundred paces is the most dangerous. If you cross this distance, you will enter the dead end of the trebuchet. The distance of two or three hundred steps is only two or three breaths for a horse sprinting at full speed.

Sometimes the gap between life and death is so short.

The attackers roared in, but the defenders held their breath. The ministries of the Central Plains lacked experience in fighting large-scale cavalry, but after these days of fighting against opponents, even the most ordinary fighters knew that the infantry wanted to fight against the cavalry. To contend, the only hope is to maintain a tight formation, slow down the opponent's speed, and then flood them with a sea of ​​people. Once the passage is opened by the cavalry, or the formation is scattered, the battle between infantry and cavalry will become a massacre .All the soldiers unconsciously huddled tighter, the physical attachment to their companions gave them the courage they gave him.

Nearly [-] war horses charged at the same time, their hooves fluttered, and the ground trembled slightly. Some soldiers were focused and stared at the formation of the opponent's charge, while some turned pale, bit their lips, and their hands trembled slightly. Although they have fought with these cavalry for more than a dozen games, the huge power of each opponent's charge still makes people uncontrollably frightened.

One thousand steps, nine hundred steps, rumbling sounds, inside the camp, trebuchets began to roar, firing scattered gravel to increase the hitting surface, and perhaps they would not die if they were hit by these stones. But it can definitely make people lose their fighting power in an instant.The sky was covered with gravel, which fell with a whistling sound. Although the formation of the galloping cavalry was scattered, many people were still hit by the gravel and fell off their horses screaming. The cavalry charged and fell off their horses. Basically, it is a dead end. The teammates charging from the back don't care whether they can step on the comrades in front, and it is impossible to care. They lie on the horse, reducing their area as much as possible, and the spurs on their feet keep hitting the horse. Belly, constantly urging the horse to speed up.

Eight hundred steps, seven hundred steps, six hundred steps, people kept falling off their horses, but more people crossed this life-and-death line in an instant. The knight straightened up immediately, lifted the iron bone with the iron chain on one side of the saddle, and with the help of horsepower, danced like a windmill in the air.

There was a sound of collapse, which was the firing of the eight-ox crossbow. With a unique sound, the eight-ox crossbow shot across the battlefield. Hole through.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, getting closer and closer.

The hands of the soldiers were sweaty and extremely slippery.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps.

There was a buzzing sound, and after the formation, the archers began to release arrows. After reaching the highest point, the feathered arrows that were shot upwards to the sky turned back and fell down, piercing towards the charging cavalry.

Compared with the damage caused by trebuchets and eight-ox crossbows, the damage caused by the feathered arrows shot by Ben Kuan's archers is extremely low. This is mainly because the armor equipped by Dingzhou cavalry is really strong, as long as it is not luck Too far back, hit the vital point, the impact of these feather arrows on the soldiers is extremely low, you can even see a cavalry holding dozens of feather arrows in bits and pieces, but still vigorously smashing the horse towards the ground. forward.

At fifty paces, the spearmen uttered a shout under the loud order of the officer, and at the same time raised their spears forward, and the spears rose forward, ready to face the battle.

Amidst the strange screams, the first batch of cavalry rushed up violently threw the spinning iron bone in their hands, and the ten-pound iron bone flew towards the spearman with a whistling and long tail.The spears were stirring desperately in the air, trying to fly the iron bones out, but after the Yizhou Battalion cavalry crossed the life and death line, their scattered formation merged into several long dragons in an instant, and dozens of cavalry charged side by side. This makes Tie Guduo's strike surface almost in the same position every time.Just as the one in front flew away, the one behind had already received the hammer, and the spear danced, revealing its flaws. From time to time, iron bones fell from the gap, and there was a crisp sound of bone cracking, and people kept screaming and falling to the ground.

The iron chain dragged by Tie Guduo was even more difficult to deal with. If one accidentally swept the iron chain and hit the face door, the face bones would be instantly shattered.

The cavalry in front threw the iron bones in their hands, pulled the reins, galloped along the edge of the chariot formation, circled an arc, and returned to the tail of the attacking team.And the ones behind immediately followed, and the iron bones in their hands roared and threw out. From a distance, in front of the broad army formation, there seemed to be several huge cavalry vortexes, which were constantly circulating.

Tie Guduo smashed out gaps in the lined up army formation, and the chariots were knocked upside down, and some were smashed to pieces. When all the attackers threw the Tie Guduo in the hand city, the front of the army formation was already full of scars. Hundred holes.

"Crush!" The commanders of the first batch of assault gave the order to charge without hesitation.

The cavalry drew out their lances, lowered their bodies, and accelerated towards the front of the incomplete position.

The drums were rumbling in the defensive formation, and everyone knew that the most critical time had come.

The charge of the Yizhou Battalion was rather strange. Unlike other cavalrymen of the Dingzhou Army who tried their best to break through the enemy's formation when they broke the infantry defense, they immediately turned around when they charged about ten meters away. The local government desperately killed the generals, and the latter were handled in turn, which made their battle with the infantry like peeling onions, thinning the army formation layer by layer.

Standing under the banner, Li Feng stared at the opposite battlefield and said, "Second Yang, the attack begins!"

The second wave of two thousand cavalry shouted, and the leaping horses rushed out.

Ben Kuan stood on the high platform of the camp, his face was extremely heavy. This time the opponent's attack was completely different from the previous ten days. Some time ago, once the opponent encountered a strong counterattack, he would choose to withdraw his troops, but today, until Now, he has no intention of retreating at all. The cavalry on both sides of him have already thrown in, threatening the flanks of the attackers, but Li Feng didn't seem to notice them, and let them flirt on both sides, while the main force still ignored them. He was making a breakthrough in the center, seeing that his army formation was getting thinner and thinner. Although the opponent's loss was also great, in comparison, his own loss was much more serious.

What happened to make the opponent suddenly attack him desperately?Is it because Huting's reinforcements are about to come to support him, so that the opponent can only desperately try to break through his defense?
Looking at the direction of the Huting defenders, Ben Kuan prayed for the arrival of reinforcements. He knew clearly that if the fight continued like this, whether his troops could last until dark would be a problem.

(End of this chapter)