Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 835
At this time, Li Guangshun only had time to flash this thought in his mind, and with a glance from the corner of his eyes, there was an empty space beside him. The soldier's mace flew past his eyes with a whoosh. Li Guangshun just dodged instinctively, but the mace was still far away. The Liao soldier had no chance to attack again. Li Guangshun hurriedly drew out his spare waist knife, By the time he was ready, the horse had already led him to run more than 20 steps, and there was no enemy in sight.

The dense formation of the cavalry of the Xiangfu State Army had an advantage. More than 800 Liao troops in the front row were shot down in the first round of confrontation, and more than [-] people were shot down. Before they could catch their breath, the second row of cavalry on Xiangfu Kingdom's side charged towards their faces with a dense cavalry wall, and the sharp spear points were like death spears under the acceleration of the horses.Most of this group of Liao soldiers had their blades broken, or were unable to retract them in time, and they were almost powerless to fight back, and the dense and straight formation on the opposite side gave them no room to avoid sideways.

Another round of confrontation, the cavalry of the Liao army suffered heavy losses again. After the cavalry of the second column of the Xiangfu Kingdom passed through, the formation of the Liao army was in chaos. In the blink of an eye, the follow-up cavalry of the Liao army still had no chance and time to adjust their direction, and were slowing down one after another. The third round of Xiangfu country saber cavalry rushed up again.

They still maintained their neat formation, whistling forward with thick-backed sabers in their hands. With the help of the hedge horsepower, they didn't need to swing hard. Limbs and a rain of blood.Even if there were piles of Liao soldiers in front, they could only slam into them head-on. Hundreds of Liao army cavalry were lifted high by the powerful inertia, and smashed into the Liao soldiers behind them.

The formation of the Liao army is relatively thick. For these concentrated places, the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom cannot evade in the dense formation and can only rush forward. Even if they kill the enemy in the front row, they themselves will be attacked by the opponent's rear row , or collided with the opposing cavalry who also couldn't dodge.The Liao soldiers in the back row swung their weapons to attack the Xiangfu cavalry rushing past, but the Xiangfu cavalry did not slow down, and continued to gallop forward, passing by in a blink of an eye.The Liao soldiers in the thick formation were thrown into chaos by the collision, and the rolling horses on the ground blocked their route, and they had to slow down their horses, which made them almost useless in the battle.

The three rounds of attacks were like a violent storm, violently smashing the Liao army's line, leaving behind a lot of corpses and wounded. The rest of the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom did not stop at all, like a sudden surge of frenzy, and then went away in a blink of an eye. They continued to move forward, and after a hundred steps, they slowly slowed down and began to form again.

After these three rounds, the Liao army lost more than 500 people, and the front line was fragmented. Everyone was in a panic and completely lost command.

The fourth round of cavalry followed immediately. They blew their bamboo whistles and whizzed past with the cavalry battalion as a combat unit. They didn't fight with the Liao soldiers, and quickly evacuated after firing while running. The quick crossbow was fired under such a short distance and dense coverage, and the record was very good.

The rangers of the Xiangfu Kingdom who started to retreat to the two sides were encouraged, and came to harass them again. They formed small groups, gathered and dispersed, and attacked the cavalry of the Liao army with fast crossbows and cavalry bows. .

The place where the collision happened just now was littered with corpses. The wounded soldiers and horses on both sides were struggling and screaming desperately. Where the collision was concentrated, the two sides piled up together. Some cavalrymen from both sides who fell came back to their senses and pulled out their daggers or picked up nearby fallen weapons. They fought fiercely with each other, and even some wounded people scuffled each other.

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The cavalry general of the Liao army who led the team was stabbed in the left arm. Faced with such a cavalry and cavalry tactics that he had never seen before, the cavalry general of the Liao army felt inexplicably terrified, especially the kind of fighting style contained in this style of fighting. The cavalry's style of play, which is almost exchanging lives for lives, made him feel unbelievable.He didn't know that this was a long-term training of cavalry formations and discipline requirements, and under the general trend, even if there were cavalry who were afraid of death, they could only charge forward, otherwise they hesitated a little and were not killed by the enemy, but were killed by themselves. The cavalry behind one side crashed and died.

Before the main formation of the Liao army at the rear, Xiao Dage and Shi Fat looked ashen. The cavalry field they relied on and were most confident in was defeated by the opponent in the same number of frontal charges. This may be due to the exhaustion and poor condition of the soldiers and horses on their own side. But even in their heyday, they may not necessarily be opponents.

The most important thing is that these days Ye Chen single-handedly planned, the effect of the psychological offensive brought about by the tactics of harassing tired soldiers jointly carried out by the security department, the special brigade and the rebels and the loss of morale and will finally manifested.First of all, the more than [-] Liao troops who lost their horses were desperate for a moment. They knew that even if some people could return to Wuzhou, they would definitely not be them. In despair of life and death, they forgot about discipline and orders from their superiors , I began to think about grabbing a horse later in the meeting to see if the timing was wrong.And many other Liao soldiers with horses saw the bony horses around them and the extremely clear exhaustion in their bodies, and most of the fighting spirit in their hearts dissipated almost instantly.Xiao Dage and Shi Fat soon discovered that the morale and fighting spirit of the army were rapidly fading, and they knew they couldn't go on like this, otherwise there would be no chance of victory at all.

"Your Highness, the gunpowder packs of the trebuchets on both sides of the enemy army have never been used. When the gunpowder packs of the Xiangfu Kingdom are used in large quantities, under the sound of the explosion, the morale and fighting spirit may drop even more... It is better to fight me The advantage of the number of soldiers was fully utilized, and the enemy's trebuchets were afraid of throwing rats, and they did not dare to launch gunpowder packs." Shi Fatty said quickly in a low voice.

As Shi Fatty said, how can Xiao Dage not see it, but once the melee fights, his safety as the commander is difficult to guarantee, and even if the Liao army wins in the end, he himself may die in battle.But looking at the current situation, if we don't fight immediately, I'm afraid there will be no chance of survival.After a little hesitation, a flash of determination flashed in Xiao Dage's eyes, and he ordered: "The whole army goes out."

As soon as the main force of the Liao army moved, Yang Jiye on the command platform behind the Xiangfu army suddenly noticed a flash of light in his eyes, and said, "They want to fight in a melee."

"Order the trebuchet company to start the attack at its own discretion."

"Order Zhe Yuxun to leave 2000 people in the infantry phalanx to guard Taniguchi, while the others advance quickly and enter the melee mode with the infantry formation."

"Order all the armies, and before receiving new orders from now on, the generals at all levels will command independently."

Three orders in a row were quickly conveyed to the entire army through semaphore and drumbeats. As soon as the order came out, the entire army of Xiangfu Kingdom immediately started to move.

The first thing to attack was that the four trebuchet companies that had already been ready to launch, amidst the rumbling explosions, began to explode in the main camp of the Liao Army.It immediately caused great confusion to the already exhausted Liao army.Seeing this, Shi Fatty and Xiao Dage felt lucky in their hearts. Fortunately, they decisively ordered to enter the melee just now, and the trebuchets could not launch a few waves in succession, and the friendly troops would be blown up, so they dared not launch.Otherwise, if you follow Yang Jiye's rhythm, the morale of the Liao army will get worse and worse as you get further behind and have not yet fought.

Xiao Dage roared loudly to give orders to his subordinates, to go around from the bottom of the hillsides on both sides, to kill the Xiangfu army, and to get rid of the melee of gunpowder packs as soon as possible, however, the continuous bombardment of gunpowder packs drowned out his horn and roar The cavalry of the Liao army became chaotic because they were too dense.

Shi Fat next to him said to him: "Look, Your Highness." After speaking, he pointed to the east.

Xiao Dage really turned his head and saw that the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom led by Li Guangshun had re-arranged on one side after charging, and there were at least 6000 to [-] people gathered together.At this moment, a bugle sounded, and Li Guangshun led the cavalry formation to jog, while the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom army retreated to the infantry formation behind.

Xiao Dage was really trembling, he didn't want to think about it, seeing Li Guangshun leading the cavalry in the direction, he was afraid that he would cut off his own army, and the scuffle that had not officially started would probably die prematurely.But at this moment, the only ones who could immediately mobilize and stop Li Guangshun were the eight thousand cavalry guards around him.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Dage had already made a decision, and ordered the commander of the personal guards to lead five thousand cavalry of the personal guards to meet Li Guangshun.

The distance of hundreds of steps disappeared quickly, and amidst people shouting and neighing, another round of cavalry collided. The cavalry of Xiao Dage's personal guard were naturally the elite of the elite, and they didn't even need to be ordered by the general. One experience, the distance between the front and the back was larger, to avoid being blocked by the chaos caused by the collision, the loss was not as great as before, and Li Guangshun's cavalry was successfully intercepted. It was difficult to regroup for a while, so Li Guangshun immediately ordered that the cavalry battalion and company be used as a single unit to direct the attack independently.

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Under the winter sun, the [-] infantry soldiers of Xiangfu Kingdom stayed in place and firmly guarded the valley entrance, while the remaining [-] infantry soldiers were densely packed with heads shaking like scales, using the infantry battalion as a combat unit, rushing from both sides. The Liao cavalry who came over greeted them.

"Order Zhe Yuxun, the infantry phalanx covers the entire valley horizontally, the first brigade is on the left, the second brigade is in the middle, the third brigade is on the right, and the fourth brigade follows behind as a reserve team, attacking in columns and entering the enemy's formation. Push through the valley .” Yang Jiye stood on the podium behind and controlled the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)