Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 694

Following Gao Huaide's order, the flags and drums were issued immediately, and the three armies immediately moved into action. The northwestern frontier army of the Great Song Dynasty is a well-trained and experienced elite soldier, and there are no burdens such as grain trucks and supplies to take care of. The formation speed is really fast. Hurry up, before the party cavalry has rushed to the front, several spears and large shields have been laid down, and the crossbowmen are already in place behind, with arrows pointing obliquely into the sky, waiting for the command of the general.

Holding the knife in his hand, Gao Huaide personally led his own soldiers to lead the formation at the back of the team. At this moment, he stared coldly at the cavalry rushing towards him like a wave, their hooves sounded like thunder, and anger blazed between his brows.

While he regretted and hated him, he was not afraid at all. Instead, he was full of anger and murderous intent.Under his personal charge, the three armies were silent, but quickly and densely arranged their formations according to the general's orders.In front, a cavalry team of thousands of people roared forward. They clearly saw countless bows and crossbows pointing at the front of the crescent-shaped formation, and they were not afraid. In fact, under such a charge, they also stood If you can't keep your feet, whoever wants to stop will be hit by his own people and turned into mud. Go forward, only go forward, and survive from death!
Getting closer, getting closer, the vanguard team of more than a thousand people gradually formed a wedge-shaped arrow formation, and rushed straight to the center of the Yanyue formation where Gao Huaide was.

Gao Huaide sneered, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, seeing that the enemy was about to enter the effective killing range of the crossbow, Gao Huaide gave an order: "Shoot the arrow!"

The sound of "buzz" is enough to make some people who experience the battle for the first time feel terrified and numb. It was originally a sharp sound of whistling and breaking the wind, but because thousands of arrows flew into the air together, it formed a tremor that made the air tremble. There was a buzzing sound, like a dark cloud, and the sharp arrow shot towards the sky. The speed of the arrow plus the speed of the horse, both sides could severely injure the enemy cavalry within the most effective shooting distance of the arrow.

However, almost at the same time as Gao Huaide gave the order, with the sound of drums from Marshal Yang Jiye's banner in the distance, the party cavalry who were running like thunder raised their reins and turned in unison. They barely touched the tip of the moon on one side, and swooped towards the left wing in an arc.

How could Yang Jiye not understand the characteristics of the Yanyue Formation, under his command, he was also a cavalry, so there was no reason why he would not use his strengths to face the enemy head-on.

However, Gao Huaide had apparently already anticipated that they might use horse speed and sound to attack the west. The left and right flanks of the northwest frontier army were equipped with stab formations, and the dense formation could be attacked and defended. Arrows and spears, Ye Chen's cavalry galloped all the way, everyone held their round shields sideways to protect the vital points, although the first wave of arrow rain also shot down many troops, but because they came from the enemy's rear to wipe their tails , not rushing head-on, so they were very close to the northwest frontier army. Normally, the northwest frontier army could shoot at least three waves of arrows before the hand-to-hand combat. to minimum.

The thousands of cavalry ahead were simply a pretense to trigger the enemy's arrows. After they rushed over, the cavalry behind them moved their horses slightly, and then handed over to the short soldiers of the Northwest Frontier Army. Just relying on a galloping horse's dragging formula, the throats and chests of many soldiers of the Northwest Frontier Army were cut.Not to be outdone, the soldiers of the Northwest Frontier Army stabbed alternately with long spears and short halberds, stabbing people up and down on horses. Once a party cavalry was shot and fell off the horse, preventing the brothers behind from charging, they would all be their ghosts.

It is impossible to fight undead, but this style of skirmishing avoids head-on collisions and minimizes casualties. After the cavalry of more than [-] people gallops past, with strong momentum, Gao Huaide's densely populated The formation has been disrupted, and the torrent-like army behind began to rush directly into the enemy camp, wielding steel knives and beheading them condescendingly.

Gao Huaide gave several orders to exit, and the flag of the Northwest Frontier Army changed again. The army immediately changed from a few formations to a sparse formation, and the dense team immediately retreated to the middle open space. The entire dense formation was evacuated into small formations of about ten people. Hands, short swordsmen, and spearmen cooperated with each other to wipe out Ye Chen's cavalry.In such a formation, the cavalry who had penetrated into the enemy's army lost their advantage in speed, and would instead become targets for slaughter by the infantry.

As long as it is used properly, there is no unit that is invincible, and any unit can give full play to its own advantages and severely injure powerful enemies.

Regardless of whether the party cavalry or the black cavalry are obviously mediocre, the three-long and three-short horns sounded, and the cavalry who had just fallen into the northwest frontier camp and had not penetrated into it suddenly pulled their horses back and merged into the dense torrent, killing Ye Chen continuously. One side of the cavalry continued to gallop close to the Song army's formation, and began to peel off the outer layers of the northwest frontier army's skin and flesh layer by layer with ax and long knives like peeling and deboning.

Gao Huaide reacted very quickly. As soon as he gave an order, the soldiers next to him waved their flags, and the drums sounded like thunder. Limbs and arms were broken, and waves of blood surged to the sky.

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This is not the first official confrontation between Yang Jiye and Gao Huaide. It doesn't matter who is stronger or weaker. It depends on your skills, mentality, awareness, equipment, and the quality of your soldiers. No one will fight hard unless you It is several times stronger than the enemy, and it doesn't care about its own casualties.Although Yang Jiye is famous for his defense, he is obviously not weak in attacking ability, while Gao Huaide is famous for being good at attacking, but at this moment he just lost one, the good at defending is attacking, and the one who is good at attacking is defending.And their offensive or defensive skills are not weaker than their original specialties.

The so-called famous generals are just like that, capable of both offense and defense, able to defend and attack. Yang Jiye is famous for his good defense, but because the Northern Han Dynasty he previously protected was too weak to give him a chance to attack.And Gao Huaide is famous for his offense, not because he is not good at defending, but because he has been attacking everywhere under Zhao Kuangyin's command for more than ten years, and he has no chance to defend at all.

In this battle, they fought for three hours until the wind started to blow and the snow drifted away. Thousands of people were killed and injured on both sides. Yang Jiye gave an order to withdraw troops, and Ye Chen's army quickly retreated. Reorganize the army and rush eastward.

Not to mention the role of war horses in battle, even if it can only serve as a means of transportation, on this vast snowfield, one side can only use their legs to drive, and the other side can accumulate physical strength until they explode in battle. What a difference.Not to mention that Gao Huaide's Song army is running out of food and grass, and their uniforms are not warm. If they don't go back to Gyeongju as soon as possible, the cold wind and snow in the northwest will wipe out their combat power. It is not impossible to be destroyed at once.

Therefore, Gao Huaide knew that Yang Jiye or Ye Chen didn't let the army under his command fight them to the death because he planned to consume their physical strength, morale and fighting will, but he had to bite the bullet and hurry.

This is a conspiracy. Even if you know exactly what the other party is doing and what purpose they have, you will have no way to resolve it, have no loopholes to find, and are invulnerable.Knowing it was a trick, I still had to drill in.

Just like when the battle was in full swing, under Ye Chen's rule, besides Xiazhou, there were [-] new recruits, the defenders of Yinzhou, Lingzhou and other six states had almost all come out, saying that these six states were now complete. It is not an exaggeration to create an empty city.At this time, it is only necessary to send three to five thousand soldiers to easily capture any state city, but even if Gao Huaide knows, there is nothing he can do. As soon as his troops move here, the spies of the Hu Sanguang Intelligence Department can accurately grasp them in time, and the army under Ye Chen will naturally Correspondingly mobilized, and with the advantage of cavalry, Gao Huaide sent people back to send the sheep to the tiger's mouth.

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In this way, the army was long, and Yang Jiye was haunted along the way. The two armies fought and left. I don't know how many battles they have experienced. It was not until the second day that the attack suddenly stopped.Going forward, we have to leave the wasteland and enter the unnamed mountainous area that Ye Chen mentioned.Once they entered the mountainous area, it would be difficult for Ye Chen's side, who were mostly cavalry, to give full play to their advantages, and the northwest frontier army could raise a certain amount of food and grass nearby, so the northwest frontier army was much safer.

In the carriage, Gao Huaide, who felt that his body was about to be overwhelmed, was thinking deeply.He didn't think it would be safe to get here, didn't he think that Ye Chen would give up the chance to hit them so easily - if the [-] northwest frontier troops were hit hard, the imperial court would not be able to use troops against Ye Chen in Hexi in a short time. Ye Chen is bound to establish a country smoothly and has a great opportunity to stabilize the government, vigorously develop industry and commerce, recruit troops and train the army.

Therefore, Gao Huaide believed that Ye Chen would do everything possible to hit them, weaken them, and eradicate them before they fled into the mountains.

The situation has developed to such a bad situation, but Gao Huaide is gradually relieved that he has been a soldier all his life, and he is over sixty years old. Not to mention the army that was wiped out by him, even the kingdoms that perished in his hands, the emperors and kings were captured alive.This life has been glorious, so what regrets?Although he is defeated now, it is not a crime of war, but because His Majesty the Emperor was poisoned by Ye Chen in the early days, the court threw a lot of taboos, and missed the best time, which led to Ye Chen becoming bigger and firmly seated in the northwest.Became the veritable Northwest King.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless for Gao Huaide to be angry and regretful now. The most sensible and correct way for him is to think hard about a good strategy to deal with Ye Chen, and present it to the emperor and the court.

"Ye Chen's wolfish ambition has become a serious problem for my confidant in the Song Dynasty, even far surpassing the Khitan in the north. I hope your majesty and the princes of the court can treat it with caution. The [-] party cavalry under Ye Chen's command are brave and brave. It is the custom of the people, but their bravery is not invincible. However, the situation in the west of Hexi is vast and desolate, and the party members are good at fighting with horses. If our army sends troops to attack, we will not be able to defeat the enemy in a short time. , with Ye Chen's ability, its power will increase every day and change every month, there must be no delay, otherwise it will be a catastrophe."

(End of this chapter)