Horse on the World

Chapter 976 The First Battle
From the Youyan area to Luoyang, go out of the inclined valley, pass through Fugu, and Pinggu. If you look around, you will see thousands of miles of fertile fields. The plain is the heart of the Central Plains and the most important granary. The Xiao family controls it. Over the years in the Youyan area, it was actually the idea that once the time was right, they would send troops down to take the center of Luoyang. The flat area of ​​thousands of miles of fertile fields was easy to attack and difficult to defend. At that time, the declining Central Dynasty of Great Chu was really There is not the slightest confidence that they can withstand the attack of Xiao's heavy troops.

There are many forces in the huge empire, each with their own plans, and no one will sincerely fight for the Great Chu. The powerful hope that the Xiao family will take the lead in mobilizing, and they can fish in troubled waters and compete in the world. Selling at a high price, selling himself for a good price, looking around, Emperor Tianqi was helpless.

King Ning of the South was covetous, took advantage of the famine in the three southern states, instigated hungry people to rebel, and took the opportunity to infiltrate, while Xiao Haoran controlled the center and controlled Youyan remotely. Da Chu is already in turmoil, and may fall down at any time.

Under Tianqi's desperation, he summoned a group of loyal ministers. After ten years of planning, he finally formed the final plan to drive away tigers and wolves. Tianqi, who had gained enough strength, struck in the middle and besieged the invincible Xiao family in Qingzhou, and was defeated in the first battle. However, Prince Ning's son underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, and Xiao's defeated most of the main force, which also greatly reduced his strength. Plan, and finally come to fruition.

However, man is not as good as God. As the saying goes, people plan things, and God makes things happen. In this grand plan of competing in the world and spanning more than ten years, an inconspicuous little person was born out of nowhere, and rose to the top. In less than ten years, he grew into a fiercer enemy than the Xiao family and King Ning, annexed the Xiao family, defeated King Ning, and drove straight into the Central Plains. Emperor Tianqi's life plan turned out to be making wedding clothes for others , if it wasn't for his execution of driving tigers and devouring wolves, causing Xiao and King Ning to lose both, how could Li Qing of Dingzhou take the opportunity to rise and become today's confidant?

Every time I think about this, not only Tianqi can't let go, but even Xiangping feels very depressed. The stars are changing, and now Dingzhou is aggressively attacking, while Luoyang still has millions of troops, but it can barely maintain a tie. If you can't move in a certain direction Progress has been made, and Great Chu will perish forever.

Xiang Ping believes that the person who saved Da Chu from danger is none other than himself.The chief assistant, Shang Haibo, is good at gathering money by playing the New Deal. After several years of administration, he has amassed a large amount of money for the Luoyang court, improved the status of craftsmen, and vigorously developed industry and commerce. Luoyang has also caught up in the manufacturing industry. However, Xiang Ping took it for granted and planned to join forces with King Ning. As a result, King Ning was defeated and retreated to the [-] mountains. Defeated, the rear route was almost cut off, and dozens of troops were almost besieged in Qinzhou and could not return. Shang Haibo's military strategy was not successful.

As for Zhou Tong in Suzhou, he was defeated again and again by Dingzhou's men, and was expelled from Qinzhou, and now he was expelled from Xingzhou and Pingzhou. Now he can only defend Suzhou.

Zhang Aimin of Minzhou was annihilated by the whole army of Guoshan Dan in the battle of Xingqin, but now he is beaten back every step by an unknown Chen Zeyue, and even the important town of Donglin is in danger.

On several major battlefields, I was the only one who guarded the gate of Luoyang and fought against Yang Yidao and Xiao Yuanshan for several years without losing any results. If the state contends, who else is there besides yourself?
As long as you defeat Yang Yidao on the opposite side, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue, break through the inclined valley, enter Youyan, and then directly approach Bingzhou through Xiangshan Mansion, thereby threatening the mainland of Dingzhou, and the danger of Luoyang will be solved by itself.

Xiang Ping was full of ambition, he rode his horse and stood on a hill, looking at the neatly lined up army on the plain, if Yang Yidao carried out his previous strategy and refused to fight with him, for a while, he would really have nothing to do with him. The method, after all, the Dingzhou Army's combat strength is amazing, without the advantage in military strength, I dare not act rashly, let alone divide the troops to fight, but now, Yang Yidao didn't know what medicine he took wrong, and he actually lined up , I'm going to fight to the death with myself.

Xiang Ping was almost happy from ear to ear, probably because he saw that the Lutian Group in Suzhou was progressing smoothly, and Chen Zeyue in Minzhou also beat Zhang Aimin backwards every step of the way. Bar?Xiang Ping has seen this kind of contest between generals a lot. This is not only a matter of personal urgency, but also a battle for fame and fortune in the future. Even if Yang Yidao doesn't care, but the generals under his command don't care, and Xiao Yuanshan doesn't care. Under the double pressure, Yang Yidao finally couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to have a battle with himself.

I have an absolute advantage in military strength, and there are [-] armored cavalry in the army. With such a magic weapon in hand, no matter how good the Dingzhou army is at breaking cavalry with steps, in the face of the absolute power of the armored cavalry, It's floating clouds.The armored heavy cavalry will unceremoniously crush all opponents in front of them, defeat the opponent's formation, and then the army will press on, everything seems so simple.

Xiang Ping is already looking forward to the glory after victory!

Yang Yidao placed in front of the Tianlei Battalion of Dingzhou Qi Nian Division, known as the number one army in the world, which made Xiang Ping believe in his own judgment. This Tianlei Battalion grew up step by step during the battle with the barbarians. They are best at cavalry with steps, but they forgot that the barbarians are almost all light cavalry, and what they own is the nightmare of all infantry and cavalry.

On his two wings, separated by dozens of miles, are two cavalry battalions under Yang Yidao's command. The only thing to pay attention to is the whirlwind battalion on the left wing. Can withstand the opponent's impact, and the key to this battle will be whether his armored cavalry will break through the defense of the Tianlei Battalion, or the opponent's cavalry will break through his own wings, Xiang Ping firmly believes that he will have no Doubtfully won.

"Drums!" he ordered firmly.

Hundreds of war drums were beating at the same time, the monotonous drumming was as dense as raindrops from the first click to the last. The flag is waving.

"Heavy armored cavalry, three-stage impact, the attack begins!" Xiang Ping fell heavily, and an orderly galloped down the hills. After counting the time, he ran to the front of the formation and repeated Xiang Ping's order loudly. .

The first wave of cavalry wrapped in heavy armor began to advance slowly, first walking, then trotting, and then, the shouts of the soldiers behind the masks began to sound dull, converging into a black torrent, and began to move towards the city several miles away. The Dingzhou position outside launched an attack.

When the first wave started to gallop, the second wave began to move forward. When the speed of the second wave also increased, the third wave officially started. This is the three-stage impact formation of the armored heavy cavalry. Among the large-scale occupations that he participated in, no one could withstand the attack of this torrent of steel. The so-called myth of being invincible under the iron armor has never been broken.

The moment the drums of the Luoyang army sounded, the loud horns of the Dingzhou Central Army several miles away sounded rhythmically, and the soldiers of the Tianlei Battalion roared forward. Behind them, hundreds of eight-ox crossbows The flashing arrows were exposed, and at the back door of the Eight Bull Crossbow, No. 20, a row of five, a total of four rows of Shenwei cannons also exposed the dark muzzle.

In the artillery formation, an artillery officer stood on the wooden podium holding a command flag, watching with cold eyes the torrent of iron armor pouring in from the opposite side.

Further back, Yang Yidao turned his head to look at Xiao Yuanshan who was beside him, "After finishing his service in one battle, after today, armored cavalry will no longer exist!"

Xiao Yuanshan said with a smile: "The lord tripod is set, marching into Luoyang is just around the corner!"

Yang Yidao stretched out his hand and held it tightly with Xiao Yuanshan.

The moment the two hands were held together, the artillery officer's command flag fell heavily, "The first row of artillery, the elevation angle is 45 degrees, the shooting distance is four miles, fire!"

The deafening shelling sound instantly covered up all the sounds on the battlefield. The first row of soldiers lit the matchlocks, and immediately fell to the ground. White smoke rose up, completely drowning their figures.

"Second column of artillery, at an elevation angle of [-] degrees, fire!"

"The third row of artillery, the elevation angle is 38 degrees, fire!"

"The fourth row of artillery, the elevation angle is 35 degrees, fire!"

During the interval between each round of shelling, only the cold shouts of the artillery officers sounded. All the artillerymen had no time to watch their results. The long brushes cleaned the gun bores, some were busy moving new shells from their side, and some picked up the fixed gunpowder, ready to clear the guns, and then reloaded immediately. After the four rounds of shelling, the artillery in the first row Filling has been completed again.

The invincible iron-clad heavy cavalry ushered in the first wave of blows several miles away. Without any psychological preparation, they were stunned in a very short period of time, and the shells falling from the sky easily killed They fell to the ground, no matter whether they were horses or people, under this kind of weapon, there was no resistance, and the dense formation was smashed to pieces in an instant, leaving large blank spaces .

Four rounds of bombardment, the first wave of attack has been out of formation, thousands of armored heavy cavalry, only a few hundred cavalry managed to charge forward, the rest either fell to the ground, or the horses were frightened, and the knights on the hunchback ran around.

These hundreds of cavalry rushed past the range of the cannon, and when they were hundreds of meters away from the formation of the Tianlei Battalion of the Dingzhou Soldiers, there was a buzzing sound from the opposite side, hundreds of eight-ox crossbows were fired at the same time, and the eight-ox crossbows densely like a swarm of locusts The cattle crossbow blocked all their paths with a screeching sound.

(End of this chapter)