Chapter 296: The Road to the South (11)

The heavy cavalry of the Iron City Army was actually just armored cavalry. In this era when armored cavalry was not common, Li Yun creatively changed the main force of the cavalry to armored cavalry. Therefore, when these 4,000 armored cavalry suffered the attack from the enemy's longbowman, their powerful impact force effortlessly tear open the relatively tight position.

The reinforcements from the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty were a temporary mixed force. At this time, the right-wing army faced the heavy cavalry of the Iron City Army that devoted all its strength to attack despite the casualties, and the formation was in chaos.

The front of the right wing position is the sword player. Facing the whistling armored cavalry, their instinctive reaction is to protect their bodies with shields while dodging war horses. When the sword player is in a mess, the crossbow archer behind them is either knocked away by the war horse or pierced by the enemy's spear.

Behind the crossbow archers are spearmen. When they cannot dodge, they hold their spears high and fight against the heavy cavalry that rushed into the formation.

At this time, the heavy cavalry moving at high speed was unstoppable. They rushed into the right wing position of the Zhou army. Although they had not penetrated the position, they made the right wing position no longer a well-organized combat group.

Crashing positions is the strategic purpose of heavy armored cavalry.

Wang Tengxiang did not expect that the Iron Capital Army cavalry would rush into the battle formation after the first charge. At this time, the infantry was in chaos and could not organize a powerful counterattack. At this time, there were still 100 guarding cavalry and 500 most taxed infantry beside him without chaos.

Escape could only lead to the entire army being defeated quickly. The brave ones won when they met on a narrow road. Wang Tengxiang, who had been through the battle formation for a long time, knew this truth well. He did not hesitate and shouted loudly, and his personal guard rushed towards the heavy armored cavalry.

There were a hundred personal guards beside him, all of whom were caring veterans who had been following for many years. They had been fighting against the Hu tribe for many years and had a strong combat power. Following Wang Tengxiang, they rushed towards the heavy cavalry.

The personal guards were all light cavalry. In order to give full play to the speed advantage of the cavalry, they only installed leather armor on the vital parts of the horse, holding cavalry-style guns in their hands. These light cavalry suddenly penetrated from the flank and immediately collided with the heavy cavalry of the Iron Du Guard. There was no fancy fighting at all. In addition to courage, the spear of the heavy cavalry easily penetrated into the body of the light cavalry. Without fear, the light cavalry was also stabbed into the body of the heavy cavalry. While the light cavalry was shot, the spear in their hands also stabbed the heavy cavalry. Although the heavy cavalry was wearing armor, the huge impact force generated by the two high-speed war horses was also difficult for the heavy cavalry to resist. They were knocked under the horse one after another. For the heavy cavalry, falling off the horse was equivalent to being killed.

The large number of heavy cavalry quickly blocked one hundred light cavalry, but delayed the heavy cavalry offensive. Wang Tengxiang and five hundred soldiers witnessed a tragic scene. After a battle, they lost the hundred confidant guards who had been following for many years. Their hearts were like swords and their eyes were like blood spraying. He suppressed the urge to move forward and watched calmly as a young and handsome commander of the Black Eagle Army commander commanded the counterattack of the infantry and military camp.

The Five Hundred Infantry Army pierced two sharp iron spikes under the infantry's grand shield into the soil, and the shield-holding soldiers hugged behind the square shield and pressed them tightly against the square shield. Behind the Five Hundred Infantry Army soldiers were hand-held yellow-hua crossbowmen, and the long spearman raised the spear flat on the infantry's grand shield, setting the infantry formation in the face of danger and using an island stone in the vast ocean to face the impact of the huge waves.

These five hundred infantry troops were the old Black Eagle Army that Hou Dayong specially transferred from Longwei Army to Wang Tengxiang.

After the heavy cavalry destroyed the only light cavalry unit on the right wing of the Zhou army, they faced the last position of the army in front of the Central Army of Great Zhou like strong winds and waves.

At this time, Li Yun had found a fighter opportunity, and thousands of Iron City infantry followed the heavy cavalry and rushed over. He used heavy cavalry to charge, and then the light cavalry and infantry to attack. This was the tactic that Luzhou Iron City Army had tried and tested over the years. Li Yun dared to raise an army in a corner to "clear the ruling side" and was precisely based on his trust in the strong combat power of the Iron City Army.

"shooting."

With the command of the Black Eagle Army, one hundred crossbow arrows in the infantry were fired at the same time. Although these hand crossbows were not as powerful as foot-stepping crossbows, they could easily penetrate the heavy armor of the Iron Cavalry at such a distance.

Countless heavy cavalry fell off the war horses, and another batch of crossbow arrows arrived as promised.

A piece of dust rose in front of the Black Eagle Army's infantry formation, which was the dust stirred up by the Iron Cavalry falling underground.

On the front position of the Zhou army, the archers of the front army and the Iron Duwei infantry on the front were shooting fiercely. Shi Shouxin saw the right wing of the Zhou army being broken through, so he ordered the square formation to be turned into a circular formation. This time, the Great Zhou went north, and only the front army led by Shi Shouxin was its direct troops. They had been training for a long time and cooperated with great tacit understanding. The square formation into a circular formation itself was an extremely simple change formation. The front army had already been familiar with the formation, and soon, the front army became a pure defensive. In this way, even if the right wing of the Great Zhou was broken through, the front army would not be attacked from both sides.

Knowing each other and training is the greatest advantage of the front army, and it is also the main reason why Hou Dayong appoints Shi Shouxin as the general of the front army.

Hou Dayong knew that the biggest weakness of the Zhou army except Shi Shouxin's army was that it was the time to form an army. The important reason for the time to form an army was that Hou Dayong wanted to control the army with his confidants. Because of this, the latter army to some extent did not know the soldiers, nor did the soldiers know the generals. However, the right-wing infantry army was broken through so quickly, which was beyond his expectations.

The enemy heavy cavalry charged several times but failed to break through the last infantry formation. Only a few sharp whistles were heard. The sound of this whistle was so high that it could be heard clearly on the battlefield of the enemy. After a few whistles, the heavy cavalry no longer attacked the hard infantry formation, but bypassed the infantry position with a not-wide defense distance and headed towards the Central Army of the Great Zhou.

Seeing that the central army was about to be attacked, Hou Dayong slowly drew out the flying dragon sword. Since he left Lingzhou and came to Daliang, he had no chance to charge on the battlefield in person. At this time, facing the crisis, there was a burst of murderous aura inexplicably surge in his heart.

As the sound of war drums and flags of the central army waved, Liu Heiyi, the captain of Hou Dayong's guard, personally directed the five hundred-legged crossbowmen to shoot. The five hundred-legged crossbowmen were divided into three horizontal rows, each with more than one hundred people in the horizontal row. As Liu Heiyi's command loudly, the footed crossbowmen began to shoot in turn.

As all the crossbowmen were ready, the first round of shooting was extremely fast. Three commands, five hundred crossbow arrows kept pounced towards the arrogant subway heavy cavalry. Although the crossbow guards were wearing armor, the solid armor could not stop the crossbow arrows fired at close range. The huge impulse made the crossbow arrows look like nothing.

The heavy cavalry of the Iron Du Guard kept falling from horses, especially the hundreds of heavy cavalry in front, were basically shot and killed by crossbow arrows, and the heavy cavalry that was dropped seriously affected the horse speed.

After these two rounds of strikes, the Iron Du Guard heavy cavalry lost its violent impetus.

After the defeated infantry on the right wing of the Great Zhou Dynasty was chasing the heavy cavalry by the Iron Du Guard, they were rushed back to the battlefield by the supervisory team in front of the central army's tent. They raised their swords and guns, and fought with the heavy cavalry who had lost their speed in groups. After a brief shock, the infantry finally regained their rationality and courage. The sword players were all smart people. They used shields to protect their bodies and crazily chopped the legs of the heavy cavalry, while the heavy cavalry who fell off their war horses became the targets of the infantry's massacre.

Just as the heavy cavalry was constantly damaged, the subsequent Iron Du Guard infantry joined the melee, and the right-wing infantry of the Zhou army immediately became in a state of dissatisfaction.

Zhou's crossbowmen did not stop shooting. Under Liu Heiyan's command, they did not need to aim and fired at the horse riders. Every row of crossbow arrows in the Zhou army was shot, and a large number of Iron Duwei heavy cavalry were shot down. They were then chopped or slashed by the melee infantry or stepped into a ball of meat paste.

At this time, the left-wing infantry army was stuck by two thousand Iron Du Guard light cavalry, and they did not dare to reinforce the right-wing infantry, because as long as the left-wing infantry army was slightly scattered, the Iron Du Guard light cavalry would be given the opportunity to take advantage of it.

Li Yun did not expect that the heavy cavalry of the Iron Du Guard did not penetrate the enemy formation. The invincible heavy cavalry mixed in the infantry, and the losses were extremely shocking. Such losses were unbearable for Li Yun. He also knew that the order to withdraw troops would never be issued at this time. Seeing that the heavy cavalry suffered greater and greater losses, Li Yun gritted his teeth and said, "Beat the drum and attack the entire line."

Li Yun's troops had 40,000 people, which was stronger than the Zhou army in number. He intended to suppress all his troops and quickly defeat the Zhou army, and suffered greater losses from the Essay Iron Cavalry Army.

After the drums of Li Yun's central army sounded, the two thousand light cavalry of the Iron Du Guard changed direction. They quickly bypassed the left-wing infantry and rushed straight to the central army where Hou Dayong was. These light cavalry did not fight directly with the central army. They set off their bows on the Mercedes-Benz battle horses and shot iron arrows at the central army. The central infantry did not mobilize the crossbowmen, so they used infantry archers to shoot arrows at the light cavalry. The sword player and spearmen were on high alert to prevent the Zhou army from rushing to the camp.

Soon, 40,000 troops from the Iron Du Guard surrounded the Zhou army that remained still.

With the full attack of the Iron Du Guard, the Zhou army also quickly mobilized its forces under the command of the Central Army. The front army, the central army and the left wing leaned together to form a dense round formation. Although surrounded by the Iron Du Guard, the Iron Du Guard could not divide the 10,000 front troops. The encirclement became tighter and tighter, and the counterattack became stronger and stronger.

The five thousand men on the right wing were left. Wang Tengxiang led the last hundreds of weeks of army to disturb the large army step by step, but they were surrounded by the Iron Du Guard Infantry and could not move at all. Fortunately, their defense was still strict. Although the Iron Du Guard Infantry attacked in turn, they were unable to break the infantry formation formed by the five hundred Black Eagle Army.

Li Yun brought 40,000 troops to fight the Great Zhou imperial guards. At this time, he had already put most of the troops into the decisive battle, leaving only more than a thousand light cavalry guards beside him. These thousand light cavalry were the personal guards and the final reserve team.
Chapter completed!