Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 461 The Sadness of the Southern Tang Cavalrymen
In the dark night, apart from Ye Chen, it is almost impossible to see Haidongqing clearly in the sky.Therefore, it was not easy for the reinforcement army of a thousand pure cavalry led by Hei Yue, Zhang Dawei and Lian Jicheng to find Ye Chen and his party.However, this situation had been thought of by Ye Chen and Hu Sanguang more than two months ago when they led people to carry out the analysis of various possible situations and the research on countermeasures.That is, the scheduled meeting point has been set in advance.

Therefore, at this moment, the two parties of the Huaxia Weifu gathered at the same place from different routes.

However, just when Lian Jicheng, Hei Yue, and Zhang Dawei were about to arrive at the scheduled meeting place, they first received a secret order from Ye Chen from Haidongqing—letting them continue to keep the secret order given by Li Congshan, Zheng Guogong of the Southern Tang Dynasty. They arranged for the identity of the Southern Tang local army, and then waited for the Maitreya Sect to issue an order to them through the Southern Tang court.In order to mix into the enemy army, turn the tide at the critical moment.

Lou Yanming ran around in person, and took the will of the lord Li Yu with him. No matter whether the nearby garrison was willing or not, he just mobilized another 5000 people overnight on the basis of the original 5 people, for a total of 2 people. According to the direction indicated by Shangguan Bingyun, from three directions, they surrounded a small valley with steep slopes on three sides and an open side on the east side of Yizhou where Ye Chen and his party were located.

After the Southern Tang army was deployed, Lou Yanming personally presided over the army. First, he asked the infantry to expend and test it. After confirming that there should be no gunpowder weapons such as stone mines, he asked the infantry to surround them layer by layer. Five thousand cavalry were dispatched, with far superior forces than the opponent, rushing into the small valley, intending to completely crush Ye Chen and his party, and end the siege that should have ended long ago in one fell swoop.

However, just as the five thousand cavalry rushed into the valley, a scene that surprised everyone on Lou Yanming and Nantang's side happened. The last thousand cavalry suddenly accelerated, and moved forward [-] Nantang from behind. Tang cavalry rushed up.

A group of cavalry was attacked from behind by an enemy of the same cavalry, and suddenly entered without any precautions. This in itself is considered the most dangerous situation in cavalry warfare, not to mention that the strength of the thousand cavalry behind is stronger than that of the Southern Tang cavalry in front. The higher is not 01:30, but several times higher.

Therefore, even though the number of cavalry in the Southern Tang Dynasty was three or four times that of the thousand cavalry behind, it still showed a one-sided massacre.

All the Southern Tang soldiers on the periphery were stunned, most of them didn't know what happened, why their own people started beating their own people, and how those thousand of their own people could be so powerful.And a group of Maitreya masters headed by Lou Yanming and some military generals turned pale with shock, with disbelief on their faces, as ugly as a bereaved concubine.

Lou Yanming roared even more, the anger he had never felt in his life filled his heart.Shangguan Bingyun's face was livid, and he took a deep breath.It's not that they didn't expect that there would be reinforcements arranged in advance by the Huaxia Weifu, and they even suspected that Li Congshan and Xu Xuan might have been controlled by Ye Chen, and they would arrange for the Huaxia Weifu's reinforcements to sneak into Southern Tang, but because of their chaotic troops in Southern Tang He didn't know enough about the system, but he never thought that the reinforcements from the Huaxia Weifu would be mixed into the army he used to deal with Ye Chen.And it is the most powerful and deadly cavalry.

Amidst the roar, Lou Yanming issued the most stupid order in his life: "The whole army is dispatched to kill me."

Several generals who knew the soldiers felt something was wrong, and wanted to say something, Lou Yanming looked over coldly, and shouted: "Whoever dares to resist the order, I will punish the nine clans."

At this moment, no one dared to say anything, several generals ordered one after another, and those soldiers who were in a daze instinctively rushed up from all directions.

Because the cavalry had to be given a certain speed-up distance before, the infantry encirclement was four to five hundred steps away from the small valley.Coupled with the time delay just now, the one-sided massacre in the small valley is coming to an end.100 cavalry from the Southern Tang Dynasty, the strongest cavalry in the world, a thousand cavalry composed of the black cavalry and the elite of the Huaxia Guards, came under attack from behind, and Ye Chen and his team of more than 300 people also charged forward on horseback. When they came over, they almost didn't even have a decent resistance, and they were almost killed. Only the sporadic two or three hundred people on both sides of the valley dismounted at the first time and climbed up the steep hillside to escape.

When the 100 infantry from the outer areas of the Southern Tang Dynasty rushed up, Ye Chen and his party of more than [-] people had already joined the [-] cavalry, turned their horses around, and rushed towards the outer edge of the small valley.

Since ancient times, the infantry has only one way to deal with the cavalry rushing into the formation. Form an formation on the spot, use spears or knives to transform yourself into a "hedgehog", so that the cavalry has no way to attack, or even if they attack, they have to pay a considerable price. .In the same way, the most stupid way for infantry to deal with cavalry is naturally to expose their backs to the enemy and run forward. In that case, they will become wheat waiting to be harvested.It is slightly better than this, but the same stupid way to deal with it is that the infantry in the Southern Tang Dynasty is like this, without formation, and rushing towards the cavalry in a swarm.Of course, the Southern Tang infantry were not so brave and fearless, so when the infantry facing the cavalry saw the enemy cavalry rushing towards them, they yelled and tried to hide to both sides, or turned around and ran back.In short, from the stupidest response to the most stupid response.

If it is said that when a thousand cavalry suddenly defected, this must-win battle became full of variables.If the 100 infantry of the Southern Tang Dynasty could form an army formation and block the small valley layer by layer, although they would have to pay a very heavy price, they would still be able to block Ye Chen's attack.In other words, even if the Southern Tang army was not willing to fight, more than [-] people on Ye Chen's side could finally break through the infantry battle formation and escape, but it would take more than half of the casualties.However, the Southern Tang soldiers, under the command of Lou Yanming, who is smart but has never led soldiers in battle, made the most stupid way of fighting under the command of Lou Yanming, who was doomed to the absurd outcome of this war and unbelievable.

When Ye Chen and his party easily killed more than 1000 infantry, broke through the encirclement, and walked away, the scene was already in chaos.Lou Yanming also reacted at this time, knowing that he had given the wrong order just now, but it was already too late.You can only order the army to be reorganized, and then catch up.Just chasing cavalry with infantry, how can they catch up.

Naturally, there were other cavalry in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although Lou Yanming did not expect to lose so quickly and absurdly just now, he and Shangguan Bingyun had thought beforehand that this time it might happen because of their overestimation of Ye Chen. Failure, there are also some behind.Therefore, after ordering the infantry to catch up, Lou Yanming also sent someone to notify his followers with loud arrows.

(End of this chapter)