Chapter 773 Liu Jinu took the initiative to attack the enemy, and the Yan family soldiers refused to form the raging cavalry
The current Hulukou is actually very suitable for the cavalry to gallop long distance after the two cities of Wagong and Luanhe were destroyed. It can be said that as long as Yang Yuanzan’s eastern front army takes down Xiaguang City, not only will the gates of Youzhou be wide open, but the Beimang Eastern Front can attack when the Youqiu force is at an absolute disadvantage. When retreating, you can retreat into Hulukou north of Xiaguang City in one breath, and even directly withdraw from Hulukou. What’s the problem? Yan Wenluan’s infantry, no matter how outstanding the combat power is, can defeat the four-legged cavalry. Although the infantry that grows sandals have amazing battle losses, almost every day, two or three thousand-person teams have reached a miserable situation of collapse, the old general with a frown on the surface is not very worried. In his heart, he also has a little unknown gloating about Liu Gui, an old friend who presided over the Western Front. At that time, Xijing asked Liu Gui to go to Liuzhou where the Northern Liang border army had no dangerous passes to rely on, but he asked him to attack Youzhou and asked him to lead his troops through the terrifying area of Hulukou, which claimed to be able to bury the 150,000 Beimang army. Yang Yuanzan had no complaints, but looking back now, it was really a matter of good and bad luck, and God’s will was hard to predict.
From the corner of his eyes, Zhongtan caught a glimpse of the old general’s expression of winning. This pioneer general with outstanding military achievements wanted to speak but stopped, but finally swallowed his words back to his stomach and did not express his guess. The reason why Yelu Yuhu was able to squeeze out Yelu Yuhu and become the new Xia Nabo in less than one year’s military experience is the sentence of a tycoon in the temple of Xijing, “One person planting sandals made my Eastern Front army die 50,000 less than the fact that we have produced 50,000 more brave infantrymen who are good at attacking cities and villages out of thin air. How can we not be able to make Nabo?” Logically speaking, Yiyue became the son of the Zong family who was on the same line as Xie Xiprin, Kou Jianghuai, Song Li and others in the Central Plains. He should be most proud at this time, but Zhong Tan always felt that the situation in Youzhou was not that simple.
Yang Yuanzan suddenly pointed at the city where the situation had taken a sharp turn, and was happy instead of being surprised and laughed, “Zhongtan, look, Yan Wenluan finally couldn’t sit still. I thought this old man had dug some amazing pit for us in Youzhou, but unexpectedly, he had just such a little concentration. Disappointment, really disappointment!”
When Zhongtan saw the tragic battle at Xiaguang City, he finally felt relieved.
Xiaguang City has a unique geographical location, occupying the only dangerous pass at Hulukou where large-scale cavalry can enter the pass. Therefore, the war here can only be head-on. It is a dream for both sides to launch any surprise attack. The Eastern Front Infantry under Zhongtan’s command has been able to continue to rush into the city recently. Yesterday, Zhongtan personally led 800 dead soldiers to fight in the city. He was driven down from the city after half an hour of fierce battle. When the main battlefield of a siege battle changes from an ant wall to a hand-to-hand combat at the top of the city, it often means that it is not far from breaking the city. Perhaps I also knew that Xia Guang City was in danger. This was the first time that Yan Wenluan’s old-fashioned camp infantry appeared on the Hulukou battlefield. Zhong Tan rode his horse forward, and without the threat of the crossbow on the city, he used Zhong Tan’s martial arts cultivation and his iron armor to shoot the scattered archers on the city..
When Zangtan looked up, it was indeed a large group of infantrymen from Youzhou who were supporting the city. They were made of typical “Yanzha Armor”. This Yanzha Armor was carefully crafted by official craftsmen of Northern Liang. It consisted of 1,500 fine iron armor leaves, and was finely connected with tough leather strips and nails. It weighed more than 60 kilograms, which was no less than the former first-class heavy armored infantry in the Western Chu. Moreover, the male men in Northern Liang were naturally superior to the soldiers of Western Chu. The infantry of the Yan family wore heavy armor and lined up with spears to resist the cavalry. They once played a shocking effect in the Spring and Autumn War. The birth of the heavy armored infantry in the Dafeng Dynasty and the formation of the nine kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period was that when large-scale cavalry gradually became the protagonists of the battlefield, especially after the grassland cavalry became increasingly unstoppable, a deformed military system that emerged. The purpose is that since the infantry can no longer be as flexible as the cavalry, they should simply abandon their mobility and use static control. Of course, the heavy armor infantry was not originally used as a precious army to defend the city, but it was not simply because the steps were used to be useless. It was not wise to fight in close combat in the city where every inch of land was valuable.
However, the four hundred Beimang Deaths who had already attacked the city of Xiaguang City were killed by Yan Zhajia infantry almost in one encounter.
Zhong Tan turned his head and said in a deep voice to a commander: “Let Zheng Lin lead two thousand cavalry to meet the retreat of the siege infantry.”
Above the city, life and death were judged.
The Beimang infantry was almost exhausted, and one of them still slashed a fierce sword with great force. As a result, the Yan family heavy infantryman, who was well-armed, raised his left arm and waved it, and waved his blade at will. The Yan family soldier from the old-fashioned camp continued to rush forward, and his right sword instantly stabbed the Beimang barbarian in the leather armor and directly hit the Beimang soldier against the outer wall with his huge momentum. After quickly drawing the sword, the Yan family heavy infantry held the knife in both hands and lifted it up heavily, pulling out a Beimang man who was waiting for an opportunity to chop on his face from his waist to shoulder, pulling out a flesh and lifting a blood groove deep in the bones. Scarlet blood splattered the entire face of the heavy infantry, which was particularly ferocious.
A Beimang soldier was knocked out of the city from a broken place at the top of the ruined city.
The top of the city of shiny light, the iron armor is clanging.
The bloody heads of the soldiers in Beimang were thrown off the city at the same time by the burly soldiers.
Except for the soldiers who climbed the city who were not immune, the soldiers who attacked the city who heard the sound of retreating drums quickly retreated down the cloud ladder. On top of their heads, there were constant rain of arrows poured out by archers who returned to the city.
This bloody rain and arrow rain are the most powerful answers of Xia Guang City to the “rain curtain” created by Beimang’s stone casting car.
Xiaguang City, whose city gate has been closed to this day, took the initiative to raise the gate for the first time, and a large number of heavy armored infantry rushed out.
Above the city, the heavily armored infantry in Youzhou slid down the ladder and launched a one-sided slaughter of the Beimang soldiers who could not retreat.
Just as the flood poured out of the city, the Beimang infantry kept “drunk” in the blood.
After receiving the order from the Zhuantan Army, the two thousand cavalrymen in Beimang, who were closest to the city, began to accelerate their charges and launched rounds of cavalry and shooting, trying to suppress the Xiaguang City infantry’s out of the city while rescuing their soldiers to retreat. At the same time, the arch bow, which had a longer range on the top of the city than the cavalry, decisively gave up shooting at the Beimang infantry and turned to the Beimang cavalry, which was harassing the heavy steps out of the city. The cavalry general Zheng Lin raised his arm and paused back. The cavalry stopped moving forward and slowly retreated fifty steps. Most of the arrows on the city were landing on the ground between these fifty steps. Zheng Lin turned around and looked around, feeling a little depressed. In addition to the siege infantry who retreated urgently from both sides of the cavalry, the culprit who really blocked more of their cavalry to the battlefield was the infantry formations nearby that were supposed to be responsible for subsequent siege. Otherwise, as long as they were given two thousand cavalry to block the city gate, the number of crossbows in Xiaguang City now is not enough to cause too much threat. Then, the four thousand cavalry completely prevented the infantry from leaving the city, and at the very least, it would be impossible for them to spread their formation comfortably.
Zheng Lin’s cavalry is an elite on the Eastern Front. In addition to the spears that he did not carry for the time being because he did not expect to rush to the formation, he has all kinds of cavalry bows, and a variety of weapons such as lasso and axe are emerging one after another. The chain mail on his body is even more luxurious than the leather armor of ordinary grassland cavalry.
Zheng Lin’s unmoving cavalry stood out among the surging Beimang infantry.
Soon, several reinforced cavalry rushed to the infantry, and together there were about 3,500 cavalry, but the fighter planes on the battlefield were always fleeting. With the skillful help of nearly a thousand auxiliary soldiers responsible for baggage transportation, the Youzhou infantry was already calmly arrayed outside the gate of Xiaguang City, as dense as a hedgehog. But for some reason, this infantry did not place the three axes in front of the formation that blocked the cavalry’s charge: deer antler wood, caltrops and horse-resisting horses. Zheng Lin couldn’t help but feel a little strange. Xiaguang City was at least the last important city on the Hulukou defense line. Even though he had never thought of leaving the city to control cavalry with his footsteps, the city should symbolically reserve these common military items. Zheng Lin smiled. Nothing better. Those large horses with four oblique woods, drilled holes and iron guns, and the other simple horse-rejected one that the military man in front of the curtain explained countless times. This really made the cavalry general like Zheng Lin feel numb when he heard it.
Zheng Lin carefully observed the distribution of the Youzhou infantry. As the group of literary military soldiers said, the strongest shields stood up almost as tall as the person in front, and the sharp spears in the back row tilted out from between the shields. On the iron wall of rattan, many rows of “gun forests” that could make their cavalry feel chill in midsummer. After this, the axe formation with a cool knife in hand held a big axe, followed by the archer who was able to kill the enemy earlier than the cavalry, as well as the waist-opening crossbow and slashing crossbow with a range farther than the staircase bow. Zheng Lin subconsciously raised his buttLeaving the horse’s back, I tried to see more clearly, but it was difficult to find more secrets of this Yan family’s old-fashioned infantry camp.