Chapter 70 Flaws
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"Beat the drum..." Wanyan Yu raised his right arm high and waved in the air, "Attack...^^^"
In an instant, the war drums thundered, followed by the intense horn sound, and the two horse troops rushed out of the formation first and killed the wings of the coalition forces.
Gao Congyou led a thousand Bohai horses on the left wing, roaring forward with a front-and-arrow battle formation; Yelu Elita led a thousand Xi troops on the right wing, and galloped rapidly with a geese fighting formation.
The war horses galloped, and the roar rolled in like thunder, from far to near from the battlefield, which was thrilling.
The knights lay on the horse's back and shouted angrily. The horses became faster and faster, and gradually the four hooves were flying into the air, and the wind and lightning were rushing. At the command of the sound, the eagle-flying battle formation set off a lot of waves like a tide.
The first wave rushed out. Yelu Deguang led a thousand cavalry to fight first. They were like an eagle soaring in the air, with their spreading wings moving forward quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they formed a sharp attack formation.
On the right wing of the coalition forces, Li Liangfu commanded the Xixia horse army to rapidly change the formation. The hook-shaped formation suddenly turned into a huge Yin-Yang formation in a short period of time. The battle formation kept spinning, and the speed was getting faster and faster. The sound of wind and thunder gradually came out, and the entire right-wing battlefield seemed to circulate together.
The horse troops on both sides collided first on the left wing.
The Jin army was like a fierce roar, fierce and accurate, shooting straight at the eagle that was rushing towards us. The eagle wings forward, as if it was about to clamp the long arrow, but the eagle's head was behind. Even if the wings clamped the long arrow, it was difficult to stop the arrows from hitting the eagle's head.\\\
The horns were shrill and loud, like the eagle's cry in the sky. The sound shook the sky. Suddenly, the eagle's head disappeared. The Eagle Xiang battle formation instantly turned into two sharp swords. These two swords were aimed at the front arrow battle formation and thunder struck down.
The head of the arrow was about to hit the eagle's head, and then they saw the second wave roaring towards them, another eagle, another eagle with two wings forward.
The crossbow arrows roared fiercely. The war horses neighed, and the knights' killing sounds were deafening. In an instant, the war horses running at high speed fell down in the tragic neigh. One knight after another either fell into an arrow or flew backwards. Their bodies were trampled by dense iron hooves in a blink of an eye.
The two sides met in close combat. The spear was like lightning, and the sharp spear tips tear open the knights' bodies and brought out a trace of scarlet blood. The sticks were like the wind, roaring unscrupulously, and ruthlessly devouring fresh lives. The soldiers went crazy and turned into bloodthirsty beasts. They slaughtered prey with the most cruel means.
The second wave rolled in, and in a blink of an eye the enemy was submerged.
Gao Congyou immediately changed the formation. If he continued to fight like this, the Bohai Army would be unable to support him and would immediately change the direction of the attack, "change the formation, attack to the right, attack to the right..."
The third wave surged, but the Jin army changed its formation, and the arrow suddenly turned into a long snake. The long snake twisted its thick body, before the third wave hit.\\/\ broke through the left and right attacks of the Liao army's "Blade Formation" and rushed out quickly.
"Strike sideways and destroy the right wing of the enemy formation..." Gao Congyou took the lead and led the Bohai Army to draw a beautiful arc on the battlefield, and then became sharp. He rushed all the way and killed the enemy formation.
The Xi army on the right-wing battlefield fought tenaciously in the stormy waves of the Xia army's Yin-Yang Formation, but they were too few, and the attacking party could not hold on for too long in such a huge defensive battle formation.
Wanyan Yu ordered that the second attack began.
The left and right wings of the cavalry came out at the same time, and a thunderous roar sounded again on the battlefield.
Li Hu stood on a high slope and looked into the battlefield from afar.
Yue Fei was beside him, staring at the battlefield with all his attention, looking very nervous. This was his second time looking down at the entire battlefield, but just like the first time in Zhenchuan Fort, because the battlefield was too large, four or five miles long, and his eyesight was limited, he could not see the entire battlefield. His current location was behind the left wing and the middle formation, and he could just see the Liao army and the Jin army fighting.
At this time, the "sword formation" of the left-wing Liao army suddenly dispersed, and the knights retreated in two directions, changed horses after the battle formation, reorganized the queue, and prepared to conduct a second attack.\//\
The "waves" of the Eagle Flying Formation ahead are still continuing, the Jin army is still attacking, and the Jin army, which is attacking the first formation, is retreating.
"General General, the Jin army has exerted force on the right wing." Xie Yidao suddenly shouted from behind.
Li Hu turned his head and looked to the right. Under the azure sky, the central army's various command flags were constantly changing, with black yellow, white, green and red colors. Some of them were given orders, while others were messages sent back from the battlefield in the distance. On the battlefield, the transmission of flags was like the transmission of beacons, which was the fastest way of transmission. Li Hu saw from the flags that the Jin army was exerting force to attack the Xixia army on the right wing.
Li Hu frowned slightly, and was secretly surprised. Did the Jurchens find the key points of the coalition forces so quickly? The key points of the coalition forces are indeed at the junction of the right wing and the middle formation.
The Xixia army was close to the infantry, and their infantry was close to the Yisheng Army. The Yisheng Army had just been formed and was mostly recruits. It would be great to complete the formation today. As for the flexibly changing the formation in battle, it was impossible to change the formation flexibly in battle. The Yisheng Army is the key to the coalition. If the Jin army discovers this key and launches a sudden attack, it is very likely to destroy the coalition's battle formation.
"Have the Jin army cast their elites to the right wing?" Yue Fei asked in a low voice.
"The Jin army will not invest in elite troops now." Li Hu smiled and calmed down. "There is a heartbreaking part of the Jin army's war, that is, tenacity. They are very tough. Every attack is wave after wave, which makes people breathless. Look..." Li Hu pointed to the battlefield ahead and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, the Jin army will continue to attack one by one until the Khitans are knocked down. If they want to exert force, it will be two thousand people, three thousand people or even five thousand people attacking from all directions at the same time, which will not only make you breathless, but also make you overwhelmed."
Yue Fei looked at the fierce battle, thinking about something.
"Let's go to the right-wing battlefield to take a look." Li Hu turned his horse's head and shouted to Yue Fei, Xie Yidao and others, "This is a tentative attack by the Jin army, and the decisive battle has not officially begun."
On the right-wing battlefield, the second attacking horse army of the Jin army also fell into the Yin-Yang formation.
The Xixia people's horse army battle formation was developed in actual combat and was quite powerful. The Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Han people and other foreign countries fought together for a long time. The soldiers were friends of life and death, and worked together on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness was very strong.
The Jin army immediately changed the attack method, and they sent out five thousand horse troops in one breath. Each thousand men were a team to attack the Xia army from five directions. The Jin army came overwhelmed and used the most powerful wolf pack attack technique on the grassland.\\/\
The rotation speed of the Yin-Yang Array immediately slowed down, and its defense ability dropped sharply.
The Jin army attacked even harder and tried to tear open the Xia army's battle formation.
At this time, it was too late to change the formation. Li Liangfu immediately ordered to move closer to the infantry, while the infantry crossbowmen concentrated on one side, preparing to use arrow formation to block the Jin army.
When Li Hu led Yue Fei and a group of iron guards to the right wing battlefield, he happened to see the Xia infant's arrow formation suddenly exerting its power.
"Buzz..." A dull low roar came from the wind, and then a huge black cloud suddenly rushed into the air. Then another terrifying roar was heard, and another cloud of arrows rushed into the sky.
Too fast. At an incredible speed, the Xia army's crossbowmen fired continuously in a short period of time, and balls of arrow clouds connected head to end in the air, which was spectacular.
"Wengbu buzz..." The arrow clouds fell from the sky, and the sound of a long arrow shooting at the ground made people feel heartbroken.
"Swish swish swish swish..." The long arrow was nailed into the ground, into the body of the war horse and the enemy, and nailed to the hard shield. For a moment, the man was overturned and the screams of shrill voices rang through the battlefield. But then they were drowned by the terrifying roar of arrows.
The Jin army was caught off guard. In a blink of an eye, a large area fell down, and the Jin soldiers following him were shocked. They turned their horses and escaped from the coverage area of the arrow formation.
The Xixia horse army took this opportunity to get rid of the entanglement of the Jin army. One continued to block the enemy, while the other quickly changed the formation and attacked again.
Wanyan Yu was watching the battlefield ahead intently when he suddenly saw Huo Shi coming from his horse.
"I've found the enemy's seven inches."
Wanyan Yu was stunned for a moment. So fast? Why didn’t I see it? Then he asked anxiously: “Where is it? Where is it?”
"The junction of the right-wing cavalry and infantry."
Wanyan Yu looked at the coalition forces ahead, but still couldn't see it. He turned to look at Huo Shi and waited for his explanation.
"There is obviously a problem in the cooperation between the right-wing infantry." Huo Shi explained, "We were exerting force just now. The Xia army was not prepared enough and the battle formation was not changed enough. They were very passive at one time. Finally, they called the infantry arrow formation and relied on their intensive shooting to complete the formation change. The infantry army was placed under the wind formation. As long as one of the places changes, the entire formation would move with it. However, when the right-wing infantry crossbowmen made adjustments just now, the entire formation did not change at all. This shows that there was a serious problem with Li Hu's infantry cooperation, and the problem lies with the right-wing infantry."
The first thought that flashed through Wanyan Yu's mind was a trap.
“This could be a trap.”
"No, it's definitely not a trap." Huo Shi said, "If it's a trap, they will try to cover it up in order to deliberately hide it, rather than expose it on purpose."
Wanyan Yu thought about it and then, but he didn't dare to believe it easily.
"We can try to attack." Huo Shi said, "Li Hu's right-wing infantry may have new recruits. They are not familiar with the battle formation, so this fatal flaw was caused."
Wanyan Yu is willing to adopt this idea, "You first command the infantry attack and tear open the enemy's formation. I will let Yinshu lead the army to assault."
The Jin army's infantry began to attack, and it was a large-scale attack, with a total of 10,000 or 20,000 people, but the main attack direction was aimed at the junction of the Yisheng Army and the Xixia Infantry Army.
Li Hu, who was observing the battlefield, felt a numb scalp and immediately realized that something was wrong. His flaw was discovered by the Jurchens. Li Liangfu was in a hurry and called the Xixia infantry Arrow Formation to block the Jin army. The Yisheng Army should adjust the deployment in time to provide cover for the Xixia infantry. However, the Yisheng Army was not familiar with the battle formation and did not react at all. As a result, the Jurchens immediately discovered the abnormality.
"I hurriedly sued Geng Shouzhong and Fu Xiuguo, and defended the battle formation at all costs." Li Hu immediately ordered, "I hurriedly sued Lu Long, approach the Yisheng Army and give him strong support."
"I'm sorry to Yelu Ma Ge, take the initiative to attack, prepare to change the formation and transform the dragon pan."
"Say Li Liangfu again and form a formation to defend, so that his army of troops can take the initiative to attack and ensure the safety of the Yisheng Army's flanks."
Chapter completed!