Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 904 Canyon Ambush ([-])

"emission!"

Another round of [-] fast crossbows fired four bursts at intervals, and the Guiyi Army cavalry in front of them fell down again with four or five hundred cavalry, causing chaos again, but the other cavalry accelerated and rushed madly.It was too late for the next round of shooting at this time.

"Reject horses in the front row!" The four battalion commanders ordered again. The soldiers in the front row who had just finished shooting squatted down, and the soldiers in the second row stood up and raised their guns. The army formation was like a hedgehog with spikes.

The cavalry of the Guiyi Army roared forward, but the infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom in front of them did not panic like they used to rush before the enemy infantry formation. In fact, it can be said that they did not panic at all, and they even put on such a long spear formation.

Naturally, they didn't know that the Xiangfu infantry often had combat training against infantry and cavalry, not to mention that they had already had actual combat experience of infantry against cavalry in the battle with Liao State a few years ago.

The dense array of iron spears stimulated the horses of the Guiyi Army to turn their heads at the last moment, or to stop before the formation, which greatly affected the final impact of the cavalry.

Cao Xuexiong was shocked by the result of the Guiyi Army's cavalry charging the infantry, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.Before this, he had never seen a cavalry charge without the slightest panic, and he had never even heard of it, let alone [-] cavalry charging into less than [-] infantry.He almost thought he was dazzled just now.

Cao Xuexiong was taken aback. It wasn't that his cavalry had no results. The infantry in the first platoon of the four battalions was still knocked away a lot, and more than 200 people were killed or injured on the spot.However, they managed to block the charge of the Guiyi cavalry.In Guiyi Army's previous battlefield experience, unless the number of infantry is several times that of cavalry, at least the number must be equal, and there must be a clever battle formation to cooperate. will not be washed out.But the scene in front of him completely overturned the common sense of the Guiyi Army.The psychological impact of this is very large.

Especially now that the cavalry has lost the advantage of charging, and the length of their weapons cannot beat the infantry with spears, they have become the targets of the infantry with fast crossbows behind Xiangfu Kingdom.Even though the cavalry of the Guiyi Army had superb riding skills, the leading general was also a quick-reacting and decisive person. He turned his horse's head desperately at the first time, circled around from the side and went back to prepare for the second charge.But in the process, they have killed more than 2000 people by crossbow arrows and spears.

The cavalry retreated miserably in the face of the infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom, which was much smaller than them. This scene was watched by Cao Xuexiong, and his face was already gloomy enough to drip ink, especially when he watched the battle between infantry and infantry in the middle of the battlefield. The front line has become a mess, more and more soldiers are rushing to the middle ground, struggling in front of their respective formations, the pain caused by cold weapons is very intense, the hoarse howling of wounded soldiers resounds through the front line, the wide and dense contact surface Huge casualties were quickly brought, and the first row of both sides quickly lost more than half, while the pikemen in the back row continued to fill up.The tidy rear quickly turned into a zigzag.But on the whole, their Guiyi army faced the weird long spear battle of the Xiangfu army with more casualties, and even reached the verge of collapse.At this moment, he faintly felt that the uneasiness in his heart was about to gradually become a reality.

However, the real nightmare has just begun.

On the podium of the short mountain, Yang Jiye gave an order, and a series of nine fireworks shot straight into the sky, hidden in the mountains on both sides. Tuoba Lion, Kurban, Han Tao, and Pan Luo Ajiu each led [-] cavalry on yellow sand from the mountain road. After rushing out, if someone looked at it from a high altitude, it would feel like two black dragons soaring out of the mountains with yellow clouds and yellow fog, rushing straight to the two wings of the Guiyi Army in the Grand Canyon.

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Yang Jiye chose to let [-] cavalry come out from both sides at this time, which has deep meaning.Facts have proved that this is true. The infantry in the middle of the battlefield and the infantry front, the Guiyi Army who were still gritting their teeth, heard and felt the cavalry ambushing on both sides. , a group of infantrymen of the rebel army began to retreat. When they fled, they made earth-shattering shouts, fearing that their voices were not loud enough.As a result, the other infantry of the Guiyi Army who were still desperately resisting also retreated hastily along with the rout.

Retreating means leaving the back to the enemy, and has basically lost any ability to resist and dodge.The army of the Xiangfu Kingdom did not need Yang Jiye's order. The battalion and company commander at the lowest level had already ordered to start hunting. The soldiers in the front row kept stabbing their spears. The fast crossbows and longbows in the hands of Chinese soldiers were constantly fired and installed or wound up and fired. The infantry of the Guiyi Army was like cutting wheat, and began to die in large numbers at an extremely fast speed.

This situation was not stopped until Cao Xuexiong ordered his personal guards to act as military judges with red eyes, and mercilessly shot and killed the hundreds of infantrymen who retreated first.

Moreover, because some Xiangfu infantry were chasing and killing all the way at this time, the long spear battle formation was not so neat, and some protruding companies were instantly flanked by the Guiyi army on three sides, and within a few breaths, they were restarted desperately. The rebel army killed nearly half, and the infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom lost more than 700 people in one fell swoop, but then the main infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom, which was lagging behind, caught up, and then rearranged into an impeccable order amidst the roar of the battalion and company commander and the sound of war drums. In the long spear battle, the desperate heart that the Guiyi army had just gathered collapsed after another group of people died.The second retreat started again, this time Cao Xuexiong's personal soldiers could not stop the shooting.Fortunately, the cavalry on both sides finally circled back and turned to follow the horse's head. Cao Xuexiong quickly ordered the cavalry to charge obliquely towards the Xiangfu infantry in the middle, blocking the Xiangda infantry formation. The generals regrouped the infantry and formed formations.

At this time, Tuoba Shi, Kurban, Han Tao, and Pan Luo Ajiu each led [-] cavalrymen and rushed out of the mountain path, fighting with Yan Yishan's cavalrymen who had been on guard for a long time.Yan Yishan's cavalry was inevitably affected by the situation ahead, and their morale declined. Compared with Tuobashi, Kurban, Han Tao, and Pan Luo'ajiu who led the cavalry to charge all the way, although they also took the initiative to charge up, but because of the impact It was a bit late, and the distance was not the best time for the cavalry to attack, so although the two sides were in equal numbers, they were at a disadvantage from the beginning.However, it would be very difficult for the [-] cavalry of Xiangfu Kingdom to defeat Yan Yishan's [-] cavalry in a short time.

With the help of the cavalry, Cao Xuexiong on the central front line finally stabilized his position and regained some morale. The battle began again amidst the interspersed cavalry and infantry.

The cavalry on both sides fought with the cavalry due to geographical restrictions. After rushing once, they fought together. It was difficult to start a second confrontation. People kept falling off their horses, and there was a lot of screams and shouts.

After Stone Wolf graduated from the Military Academy, he was assigned to a brigade, a battalion, and a company of the Black Wolf Army cavalry as the company commander. There were originally 600 cavalry under his command, but with the addition of the surrendered Liao cavalry assigned to him during the Western Expedition, the total [-] people.Since the Western Expedition, he has held back his energy, thinking about killing the enemy and making great achievements.It's just that it takes a long time to attack the city on this road, and there are too few field battles, so he has no chance to make great achievements.It wasn't until this time with the ambush of the Guiyi Army that he saw that his opportunity to make great contributions had arrived.

He led his [-] cavalrymen to follow the brigade commander Han Tao, and rushed out from the right flank among the [-] cavalrymen. Except for the initial charge, he fell into a melee of left and right.However, Shi Lang led a thousand horse thieves to gallop around Luliang Mountain for many years, and his experience in horse warfare was even relatively rare in the entire Xiangfu Kingdom. Under his leadership, his [-] cavalry did not break up.This is actually quite good on the current battlefield, but Stone Wolf will never be satisfied with the current situation.

At this time, he led people to kill a small group of Guiyi Army cavalry in front of him, and scanned the entire battlefield, thinking: "If you want to make great achievements, now you have to take advantage of the chaotic battle to kill the Guiyi Army cavalry. Get into the infantry among them and affect the whole battle situation."

"I'm going to be a marquis, fight!" Shi Lang roared, raised his iron spear, lifted the horse's belly, and moved forward first, leaving only about [-] cavalrymen to follow up on the left and right , Shi Lang's vision is very poisonous, and the place he is aiming at is a place where the rebel army is relatively not dense enough.

Stone Wolf yelled: "Kill!" He raised his horse's speed as much as possible in just over 20 steps, and galloped forward. More than 500 cavalry rushed obliquely like a torrent to a relatively weak cavalry area of ​​the Guiyi Army.

At this time, the cavalry under Yan Yishan's command is equivalent to the skin and muscles of the "giant" of the Guiyi Army. What Stone Wolf has to do is to use himself as the tip of the knife, and lead more than 500 cavalry under his command to turn it into a sharp knife, and find the giant's Guiyi Army. The weakness, piercing the skin and muscles at once, smashing into its body, and chaotically chaotic infantry of the rebel army, thus making a great contribution.

Stone Wolf itself is a top-notch master, especially good at horse fighting. When a first-class martial arts master is good at horse fighting, and he uses himself as the tip of the knife to rush into the enemy's line with all his strength, it is really like a sword. The sharp knife was inserted into the Guiyi Army brigade.Incomparably sharp, coupled with geographical restrictions, the cavalry under Yan Yishan's command were deployed on both wings of the Guiyi Army. The thickness of the cavalry was not as thick as it seemed. After half a stick of incense, the stone wolf really let in. Only 300 cavalry remained under his command, and he himself was slightly wounded.However, he succeeded after all.

However, he caused such a big commotion, the Guiyi Army infantry he was facing could not have been unprepared. In fact, he had already formed a hedgehog formation commonly used by infantry against cavalry. The front of the phalanx is densely packed like hedgehogs, but compared to the neat and impeccable formation like Fu Guo's long spear battle, there are still gaps between people in the hedgehog formation of the Guiyi Army.

(End of this chapter)