Great Han Empire

Chapter 193
The Qiang people were extremely frightened, and they became cowardly.To the west is the unstoppable cavalry army, to the east is the infantry phalanx advancing step by step, to the north is the Linghe River, and to the south?The soldiers looked at the dark space to the south, and the fear in their hearts reached the extreme.No one could have imagined that the catastrophe would come so fast, so suddenly, and so ferociously.

Li Wenhou saw the weapons in the hands of the Han infantry from a distance, and gasped.What kind of spear is that?That wasn't a spear at all, but a tree five or six feet long and as thick as a bowl's mouth.What shield is that?That's not a shield either, it's a two-foot-high door panel wrapped in rawhide.The Han army was obviously prepared to use this huge weapon against the cavalry.

The cavalry has a deep-rooted contempt for the infantry, and this contempt gave Li Wenhou an illusion.He felt that the way out tonight lay with these infantrymen.The iron cavalry on the opposite side are all from Kuntou Xianbei and Karasuma. They are too difficult to deal with, and it is safe and reliable to fight infantry.In his opinion, no matter what weapons the Han army used or what formation they formed, it was simply wishful thinking to block the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Li Wenhou categorically ordered the 8000 cavalry of the right army to fight with the iron cavalry who rushed to prevent them from rushing to the east battlefield.About [-] soldiers withdrawn from the front, rear, and central armies charged directly at the infantry phalanx of the Han army.Twenty to thirty thousand cavalry, charging and killing the [-] infantry phalanx in front of them, is not sure.

"I'd like to see who ate whom?" Li Wenhou said through gritted teeth.

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The horns of the Qiang people were dense and tragic, full of anger and murderous intent, echoing in the empty night sky.

The Qianghu soldiers mobilized across the board.The shouts of tens of thousands of people suddenly exploded in the darkness, like a landslide, violently hitting the bloody battlefield in the darkness.

The [-] cavalry of the Qianghu Left Army formed a skirmish formation, and under the leadership of Xiaoqu Shuai Nie Xiao, they advanced rapidly and charged towards the oncoming Fengyun Cavalry.

At this time, Li Hong had already commanded the army to complete the change of formation, and the troops changed from a geese charge formation to a cone attack formation.The cone is like a torrent, roaring with howls, moving freely and horizontally on the battlefield, as if entering an uninhabited land, its piercing murderous aura is like a prairie gun, unstoppable.

Li Hong took the lead, like a long arrow whistling in the air, sharp and sharp.

He held up the bloody steel gun, turned his head and shouted wildly: "Hoo...ho..."

"Hoo...ho..."

The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry galloped wildly. They were full of lofty arrogance, exhausted all their strength, raised their weapons high, and shouted wildly: "Hoo...ho..."

The two armies met, and a loud noise erupted on the battlefield.kill.

"Kill..." Li Hong opened his eyes angrily, waving his steel spear, eating away at people's lives.

"Kill..." Black Panther Yi Cong followed closely behind, with his saber swinging up and down, raging on creatures.

"Kill..." The warriors of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry were like bloodthirsty beasts rushing out of the night. They stared at pairs of blood-red eyes, brandished bloody weapons, rampantly, devoured Innocent lives.

The Qianghu cavalry knew that [-] to [-] comrades were attacking the enemy's infantry behind them. If they could not block the enemy's iron cavalry and let them kill them, the consequences would be disastrous.

Nie Xiao ordered a group of soldiers to gather densely and fight directly against the enemy's awl.The rest of the soldiers attacked the enemy's cone formation at all costs, killing and injuring the enemy and preventing the enemy from rushing to the battlefield on the right side of the camp.

"Brothers, kill... ah..." Nie Xiao swung his round saber and shouted, "Kill..."

Fengyun cavalry's awl head seemed to have hit a rock, and suddenly it was a little difficult to walk, unable to move an inch.Facing the enemies rushing up like a tide, the iron cone formation gradually slowed down.

In front of Li Hong's eyes were all shining swords and eerie spears. Although he tried his best to wield the steel spears, it was still too late to parry them.A spear pierced Li Hong's arm, and then his thigh was slashed by the enemy's saber, blood spattering.Stimulated by the huge pain, Li Hong became ferocious. He roared and drew out his saber. He used both guns and knives, roaring like a tiger, and clashed back and forth in the enemy's formation.

The Qianghu cavalry launched a fierce offensive while advancing rapidly along the two wings of the iron cone.

The large formation of iron cones was thick and hard, and the soldiers gathered tightly together, like a rock, which could not be shaken at all.

The Qianghu cavalrymen rushed madly over and over again, endlessly, although they were ruthlessly strangled and trampled by the galloping cavalry army, groups of enemies were swept away by the torrent like river sand , there was no trace, but they still rushed forward tenaciously, and the wave of attack was higher than one.

The soldiers in the iron cone formation aimed at the enemies rushing forward, and fired round after round of volleys. The long arrows were like guns, dense and urgent, which greatly killed the enemies and relieved the defensive pressure of the surrounding soldiers.

Nie Xiao found that the attack was ineffective and the troops suffered heavy casualties, so he immediately changed his tactics. He ordered the soldiers to move with the enemy's formation, adopting the method of outflanking cavalry and shooting, and attacking from a long distance.

The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry suddenly felt the pressure drop suddenly, and the iron cone formation immediately began to accelerate.However, the enemy cavalry in charge of blocking were still biting around the cone head, relentlessly, and the resistance to continue moving forward was very high.Li Hong immediately ordered the formation to turn right, and urged the iron cone formation to kill to the south of the battlefield.His purpose was to kill, not to join the infantry.

The Qiang and Hu cavalry surrounded the formation, shooting at will, and the long arrows howled fiercely, shooting into the cone formation like raindrops, both accurate and ruthless.The soldiers in the formation immediately fought back.Arrows from both sides came and went, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce.The two cavalry armies fell into a stalemate.

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On the eastern battlefield, under the command of the horns, the Qiang and Hu soldiers howled and roared, and swarmed up against the Han army phalanx coming from the opposite side.Like a group of hungry wolves, they bared their teeth and bared their teeth, fiercely pounced on a group of sheep, a group of weak-looking sheep.

In the Chinese army phalanx about a hundred steps away from the front line phalanx, Xian Yufu stood under the banner of the Chinese army, calm and composed.

He listened carefully to the various voices on the battlefield ahead, and deduced the fighting state on the battlefield in his mind.Hearing that the enemy army was rushing across the board, a smile finally appeared on his face.

Xian Yufu shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, order all the formations to stop advancing and keep a distance."

"Kill the enemy at will, order them to kill the enemy at will..."

The sound of war drums suddenly changed from dense to sparse, from violent to deep, from passionate to peaceful.

The nineteen giant phalanx immediately stopped.They lined up on the two-mile-long attack surface, with ten in the front and nine in the back, arranged densely and crosswise.

The huge shield was raised obliquely, and the back was supported by six giant woods divided into upper and lower layers.Three giant spears stand side by side on the shield.The giant black spearhead makes people shudder.A considerable part of the giant spears are improvised, without a spearhead, just sharpened the top of the tree with a knife.The sword and ax soldiers were lying in ambush behind the giant shields and the spear soldiers, ready to attack at any time to kill the enemy's horses and soldiers.

"Up arrow..." Gao Lan shouted.The drums of war sounded.Four hundred archers raised their bows and raised their arrows.

Gao Lan was very confident in this set of infantry phalanx.These methods were all thought up by the soldiers of Fengyun Iron Cavalry when they were training in Shanggu, Youzhou.They used this set of formations when they were training infantry and cavalry battles in Handan.The cavalry had a headache for the infantry's phalanx, and they never took advantage of it during training.

The Qiang Hu soldiers came galloping on horseback.

"Let go..." Gao Lan roared wildly, "Attack, attack continuously..."

Ten phalanxes and [-] archers were sent in front. On the two-mile-long attack surface, they aimed at the enemy cavalry almost at the same time, and launched a sharp long-arrow attack.For a while, the sky was full of arrows, and the howling of the long arrows tearing the air merged into a huge screaming sound, which was creepy.

The Qiang cavalry basically had no armor, they all wore cloth and animal skins, their defense was poor, and many arrows fell off their horses.The death of their comrades in arms greatly stimulated Qiang Hu, the anger in their hearts was ignited, they went crazy, they lost their minds and rushed up against the dense arrow rain.

Hit, hit like crazy and ferociously.

The battlefield was instantly filled with the neighing of war horses, the roar of soldiers, the roar of giant shields being hit, the scream of long arrows tearing through the air, the muffled sound of spears poking into war horses, and the sound of gold and iron clashing.The bloody battle begins.

The Qiang cavalry faced the enemy without fear, and they rode their horses directly into the giant shield, even though their heads were bloody, they did not hesitate.

The war horse jumped high, and was either pierced by the giant spear and died, or fell back.The rider was either hacked to death after flying into the shield due to inertia, or rolled to the ground along with the horse.Only a few giant shields were hit or cracked by the horses, and the Han soldiers who supported the shields with their bodies were immediately knocked into the air or crushed to death by the horses, but no Qiang cavalry could rush in.When the giant shield was destroyed, the swordsmen, the ordinary spearmen in the back row, and the archers would immediately rush forward, be it the enemy's horses or soldiers, they would all be hacked to death.Without the giant shield, the gap will be combined with an ordinary long shield and a giant spear, and continue to hold on.

The first round of collisions all failed, posing no threat to the Han army phalanx.

The second round of impact was more ferocious.

The Qiang and Hu cavalry rushed forward without hesitation. In many places, two cavalry attacked at the same time. The number of destruction has increased significantly.The enemy's cavalry still hadn't found a bargain. Either the horses died or the soldiers were killed, and none of them were able to charge into the phalanx.The soldiers of the Han army in the phalanx vowed to block them. If the giant shield is gone, use ordinary shields; if the spear is broken, use ordinary spears; All the soldiers were killed, and all the defensive soldiers on the second layer were on top.Under the tenacious, brave and fearless defense of the soldiers of the Han army, the phalanx was still not opened by the enemy.

Li Wenhou was in a hurry. If he hit like this, the enemy's phalanx would not be broken, but thousands of his own soldiers would die.

"Order the soldiers, concentrate their strength, hit the front of the enemy's phalanx, hit it continuously, don't stop, hit its front continuously."

The bullhorn "Woooo..." was blown four times, one after another.

Hearing the sound of the enemy's horn, Xian Yufu raised his eyebrows and roared loudly: "Beat the drum... order all the formations to concentrate the main force to defend the front of the formation."

"Order the archers, shoot densely, and shoot densely at close range."

The sound of war drums, loud or small, dense or sparse, resounded through the night sky.

The third round of crazy impact began.

Under the roar of the cavalry, thousands of horses began to run, soar, and collide; hundreds of huge shields began to break and shatter during the impact, and finally turned into pieces of wood flying in the air; The spears stabbed the first batch of galloping horses to death and blocked the impact of the second batch of horses. However, facing the galloping horses one after another, the spearmen had no choice but to yell. There is no time to perform the spear operation at all, and can only watch the enemy come to kill him.Except for the broken giant spear, after losing the giant shield, the rest gradually became waste.

The shield soldiers were at the forefront of the phalanx, and they died many and miserably. They were either crushed to death by horses, or they were hacked and stabbed to death by the enemy's cavalry; , the spearman had no choice but to sacrifice himself to plug the gap.

The front of the Han army phalanx was gradually broken by the enemy, and more and more forward positions began to fight fiercely and cruelly.Many frontal defense soldiers of the phalanx were almost wiped out, and many archers in the formation immediately filled up, vowing to block the enemy and ensure the integrity of the phalanx.

With a knife in one hand, Gao Lan was drenched in blood, and ran around in the front of the phalanx with a dozen attendants like a madman.As long as you touch the enemy's horse, you will chop off your legs, and if you touch the enemy who rushed in, you will behead.He led his attendants to fight from east to west, and from west to east again, without stopping.

The soldiers on both sides forgot about life and death, forgot about pain, and only knew how to kill, kill, kill the enemy, and then kill another enemy.They are tireless and bloodless, and keep killing until they are killed by others.

Under the continuous and endless attacks of the enemy, the ten phalanxes in the front row of the position finally couldn't hold on, and all their defenses were in crisis.The nine phalanxes in the back row were not attacked by the enemy because of the distance, and the formation was complete.

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The crooked moon in the sky has moved quietly to the east, and dawn is approaching.

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Xian Yufu heard the sound of war drums calling for alarm from the phalanx, shook his stiff neck, and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum, order the front phalanx to shrink and defend, and the nine phalanxes in the back row to go up."

The drums are fierce and passionate, and the rhythm is so dense that people can't breathe.

Gao Lan slashed the enemy's head with a knife, kicked the enemy's remnant body away, and then flew back, shouting wildly: "Shrink...shrink defense..."

The phalanx soldiers strode back with the sound of drums.At the same time, the archers in each phalanx aimed at the front and launched crazy bursts to block the enemy's pursuit attack.As the defensive range of the phalanx was reduced, some of the defenders on the other three sides of the phalanx were immediately drawn out to supplement the front of the phalanx with the most serious losses.

The front phalanx had just finished shrinking, and the archers in the phalanx immediately started suppressive shooting to cover the movement of the nine phalanxes in the back row.

Under such fierce confrontation, the Han army dared to change their formation.Li Wenhou was angry. He roared and cursed constantly, and ordered the troops to attack violently while the enemy was moving and the formation was unstable, breaking through the enemy's phalanx at all costs.As long as the phalanx is broken, the rest is the bloody killing of the enemy.

The Qianghu soldiers were also angered.Under the command of the bullhorn, they adjusted their formation a little bit, and immediately started the fourth round of attack, a comprehensive and frantic attack.

Suddenly there was a huge sound wave on the battlefield, a huge and tragic sound wave.

The shrinking phalanx and the advancing phalanx were not stable, and neither the giant shields nor the giant spears played their fullest role. Although they were covered by archers, each phalanx was hit to varying degrees, causing a sharp increase in casualties.

As time passed, the nineteen huge phalanxes were finally juxtaposed and lined up, forming a human wall more than two miles long.Facing the impregnable situation like a copper wall, the Qiang people began to feel powerless and felt helpless.

Li Wenhou immediately ordered his subordinates to concentrate their main force, to break points first, one square formation after another, as long as one or two square formations of the Han army were broken, they would surely be able to defeat all of them.

Under the command of the horn, some Qiang and Hu cavalry assembled for a while, and then launched the fifth round of attack.

Gao Lan's phalanx was breached, and so was Fen Li's phalanx.The Qiang and Hu cavalry swarmed up, and the soldiers on both sides immediately started a bloody hand-to-hand combat, which was fierce and cruel, and there was no end to death.

The drums for help sounded.

Xian Yufu immediately ordered Tie Yue and Lei Zi to bring 1000 troops each to support them quickly.

In order to support the troops to reach their destination quickly, Xian Yufu specially equipped all 2000 Chinese troops with horses.Tie Yue and Lei Zi had been in a panic for a long time. As soon as Xian Yu Fu's order was issued, the two troops rushed towards the battlefield like two sharp arrows flying off the string.

Seeing the support troops approaching, Gao Lan and Fan Li's phalanx immediately gave way.Soldiers of the support unit shouted and roared in.The Qianghu soldiers were caught off guard, and the enemies in the phalanx were quickly killed and fled in embarrassment.

As night fell, dawn came quietly.

Fengyun iron cavalry crosses the battlefield, the more they kill, the braver they are, and the speed is getting faster and faster, gradually becoming an unstoppable force.

Nie Xiao was hit by an arrow and retreated surrounded by his attendants.

Standing on the edge of the battlefield, he saw the soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry, under the command of the horn, flexibly manipulating the iron cone formation, killing wantonly and invincible, while his own soldiers were exhausted, and they were chased and killed one by one without fighting back The force caused heavy casualties.Due to the sudden incident, the Qianghu cavalry were caught off guard and had no time to form an formation, so they could only gather temporarily and fight back in a skirmish formation.

I don't know if it's because of the severe pain, or because his subordinates are running out, and they don't have the power to fight anymore. Nie Xiao smelled an increasingly intense breath of death.He gave a wrong order. He ordered his subordinates to withdraw from the battlefield and flee south with all their strength while taking advantage of the light.

Li Hong suddenly found that the enemies around him were running away, he was ecstatic in his heart, and roared loudly: "To the east..., to attack the east..."

The sound of horns soared into the sky in an instant.

The soldiers of Fengyun Iron Cavalry cheered thunderously, one by one galloped their horses like flying, and charged towards the battlefield in the east, their shouts of killing were earth-shaking.

Xian Yufu smiled slightly, and said to the soldiers accompanying him, "We won, we won."

"Beating the drum... beating the drum... we won..."

Amidst the cheers of the soldiers, the war drums were beating violently. The sound of the drums was passionate and majestic, soaring straight into the sky.

Inspired by the sound of the drums, the soldiers of the Han army in the phalanx shouted wildly one by one. Their high fighting spirit and morale like a rainbow made the enemy frightened.

Li Wenhou was desperate.He looked at the stormy iron cavalry rushing from the western battlefield, and then at the infantry phalanx that had not been defeated so far on the eastern battlefield, he was completely desperate.

He couldn't believe that Jizhou's infantry phalanx could withstand the continuous attacks of tens of thousands of cavalry.Looking at the battlefield full of corpses, at the battle flag of the Han Dynasty standing proudly in the morning light, and at the enemies with high morale, he smiled helplessly.

Beigong Boyu, where are you? Are you dead?Li Wenhou looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

"Withdraw..." Li Wenhou said softly.No one heard it, and everyone was looking at the Fengyun Iron Cavalry in fear.

"Withdraw..." Li Wenhou roared angrily, "Withdraw..."

The low and long sound of horns hovered over the banks of the Ling River, feeling helpless and desolate.

The failure is irreversible, but retreat does not mean that withdrawal will be possible.Soldiers from both sides fought together on the battlefield. Even if they wanted to escape, it would take time and a way to retreat.

The Fengyun iron cavalry was killed in an instant, and the Qianghu fighters who were hit by the frontal attack couldn't help themselves, so they could only turn around and flee to the Han army phalanx.They were caught between two sides, and there was no way out.The soldiers on the south side of the battlefield were the luckiest, they escaped the battlefield first.The Qianghu soldiers on the north side were the most miserable. They had no choice but to jump into the Linghe River besides rushing into the enemy's formation and breaking through by force.

A round of fiery red sun suddenly jumped out of the horizon, shining brightly in an instant.

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(End of this chapter)