The Snowy Path of the Heroic Blade Chapter 221: Northern Liang 4 Battle (3)

Beimang Iron Hoof connected the two cities of Lying Gongluanhe, and was blocked by the last Xiaguang City, which was in danger of control, outside Youzhou Pass. [] Without breaking this level and successfully breaking into the territory of Youzhou, all the cavalry on the eastern line of Beimang will be useless.

Outside the city, two generals on the eastern front line of Beimang, under the strict protection of no less than a thousand horses and elite obedience, patrolled the battle situation at the front of the city. The coach Yang Yuanzan said with emotion: "The people who travel a hundred miles are half 90, and the ancients sincerely don't deceive me. Except for this city, the gourd mouth is already in my hands, but as long as Xiaguang City does not break in a day, I will still be unable to fight the 30,000 Youqi to the death."

Pioneer General Tan Tan, who has just been made a king's account by the emperor's emperor, laughed and said: "It's really hard for the general, like a nest of young birds waiting to be fed, and it's too noisy every day."

The veteran smiled and said: "After waiting for Xiaguang City, the entire Youzhou is under our horseshoes. It is not easy to fight at that time. There are fighters and military exploits everywhere, but it depends on how much you can put in your pocket. I'm capable."

Zhong Tan, who only went to the city to kill himself yesterday, was covered in blood, and whispered softly: "Now I’m waiting for Yan Wenluan to take his Youzhou pawns to fill the gap in Xiaguang City. Otherwise, it will take up to three days, Xiaguang City. Just can't hold it."

Yang Yuanzan sneered: "Xiaguang City is not Tiger Head City. The city is just such a big city. How many people can stand at the head of the city? ≯ Yan Wenluan can throw up to 6,000 people to defend the city at one time in Xiaguang City. Going to the city’s head, you can only get crowded in the city to watch the excitement."

Yang Yuanzan looked at the fortifications of Xiaguang City in the distance, and the large crossbows were destroyed, especially after his infantry nearly demolished the city of Luanhe, the city of lying bow, hundreds of catapults were thrown wildly during this period of time. Boulder, so this summer, there is plenty of rain over the top of Xiaguang City, one after another. Except for the border fortresses on both sides between Xiaguang City and Luanhe City, the rest of the large and small strongholds have been cleaned up by the private cavalry of the Beimang tribe who want to make military exploits and go crazy. Those who have few guards are undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt. , Became the best hunting target early, and some of the larger Fort Worth, which was slightly more powerful, also broke through after the confluence of several or even dozens of family private riders. This move saved Yang Yuanzan a lot of trouble.

The current Hulukou, after the two cities of Wo Gongluan and He were destroyed, was actually very suitable for the cavalry to travel long distances. Under the premise that the cavalry strength is absolutely inferior, the Beimang Eastern Route can be attacked, but if you retreat, you can retreat into the gourd mouth north of Xiaguang City, or even exit the gourd mouth directly? No matter how outstanding your Yan Wenluan infantry is, but a two-legged infantry can outperform a four-legged cavalry? Therefore, although Zhong Tan’s infantry suffered a terrible battle damage, almost every day two or three thousand-man teams are in a miserable situation. However, the old general with frowning brows on the surface does not actually have much worry. Liu Gui, an old friend on the Western Front, has a little bit of schadenfreude. At that time, Xijing asked Liu Gui to go to Liuzhou where the Beiliang Border Army had no dangerous pass to rely on, but he asked Yang Yuanzan to attack Youzhou, and he asked him to lead his troops through Hulukou, a terrifying zone that claimed to be able to bury 150,000 Northern Mang army. , Yang Yuanzan didn't complain, but looking back now, it is really unpredictable fortune and misfortune.

From the corner of Zhang Tan's eyes, he caught a glimpse of the old general's look that he was holding the winning ticket. This prominent vanguard general wanted to say something, but he finally swallowed his words back to his stomach without speaking out his guess. The ability to squeeze out Yelu Yuhu into the new Xia Nabo in less than a year of military age is due to the words of a tycoon tycoon in the Xijing temple, "One person planting sandalwood, let my army on the east line die less at the mouth of the gourd." With 50,000 people, it’s no different from our side having more than 50,000 brave steppers who are good at attacking cities and villages out of thin air. How can we not do it!” In theory, it has become the same as the Central Plains Xie Xikou, Jianghuai, Song Li and others. The seed family of the line star general should be the most complacent at this time, but Zhang Tan always feels that the battle situation in Youzhou is not so simple.

Yang Yuanzhan suddenly stretched out his hand to the head of the city where the situation had turned sharply. He was not surprised but he laughed and said: "Zhongtan, look, Yan Wenluan can't sit still anymore. I thought this old man was in Youzhou. We dug some great pit, but we were so determined. Disappointed, really disappointed!"

When Zhang Tan saw the tragic battle at the head of Xiaguang City, he was finally relieved.

The geographical location of Xiaguang City is unique. It occupies the only dangerous pass in Hulukou where a large-scale cavalry can enter the pass. Therefore, the war here is only head-to-head. Any surprise attack by both sides is a foolish dream. The eastern front infantry under the command of Zhong Tan has been able to continuously flood into the city. Yesterday, Zhong Tan personally led 800 dead soldiers to fight in the city. After half an hour of fighting, he was driven off the city. He became the master of a siege. The battlefield has changed from ant-attached city walls to head-to-head combat, which often means that the city is not far away. I probably also know that Xiaguang City is in danger. This is the first time Yan Wenluan's old-style battalion pawns have appeared on the Hulukou battlefield. This kind of sandalwood rides a horse forward, without the threat of the city head bed crossbow, uses the martial art of this kind of sandalwood, and wears iron armor, and is not afraid of the long shots of the scattered archers on the city head. .

Zhong Tan looked up, and it turned out that there was a large wave of Youzhou old camp pawns supporting the city. It was made of typical "Yan Zha Jia", all carefully crafted by the official craftsmen of Beiliang. It is composed of five hundred fine iron armor leaves, then densely connected with tough leather strips and nails. It weighs more than sixty kilograms. It is not inferior to the former first-class heavy armored pawns in Western Chu. The physique of the men in Beiliang was inherently better than that of the soldiers of the Western Chu. The soldiers of the Yan family were wearing heavy armor and armed with spears in a row to resist riding. They once played an effect that made the Xichu cavalry stunned during the Spring and Autumn Wars. The birth of the heavy armored infantry in the Dafeng dynasty and the formation of the Spring and Autumn Nine Kingdoms were originally after the large-scale cavalry gradually became the protagonist of the battlefield, especially when the steppe cavalry became more and more unstoppable. Since the infantry is no longer as agile as the cavalry, then they simply abandon their mobility and brake statically. Of course, the heavy armored infantry was not originally used as a precious unit for defending the city. It was not simply because step-to-step is a trivial purpose, but the heavy armored infantry is too heavy to carry out close fights in the area of ​​the city. , Is not wise.

However, the four hundred Beimang soldiers who had already attacked the head of Xiaguang City were killed by Yanzhajia steppers almost in one face.

Zhong Tan turned his head and said solemnly to a messenger: "Let Zheng Lin lead the two thousand cavalry troops to meet the retreat of the siege infantry."

On the top of the city, life and death will be judged.

The Beimang pawns were almost exhausted. One of them still made a fierce and fierce knife. As a result, the Yan family heavy pawns with good armor on the opposite side raised his left arm and waved the blade at will. The veteran Yingyan's sharp soldier continued to rush forward, and his right hand knife instantly pierced the chest of the leather armored Beimang barbarian. With great momentum, he directly slammed the Beimang soldier against the outer wall. After swiftly drawing the knife, his hands Holding the knife and raising it heavily, he pulled out a piece of flesh from waist to shoulder from the waist to the shoulders of a Beimang barbarian who was waiting to chop on his face. The scarlet blood was splattered with this heavy stepper. The face is extremely hideous.

A soldier of Northern Mang was knocked out of the city on the spot from the rupture of a ruined city.

The head of the city of Xiaguang is clenched with iron armor.

The **** heads of the Northern Mang soldiers were thrown down the head of the city by those burly soldiers at the same time.

No one was spared except the soldiers on the city. The Beimang siege soldiers who heard the retreat drums quickly pulled down the ladder. On top of their heads, heads and corpses were constantly smashed down, as well as arrows thrown by the archers who returned to the head of the city. rain.

This rain of blood and arrows is Xiaguang City's most powerful answer to the "rain curtain" created by the previous Beimang catapult.

For the first time, Xiaguang City, whose city gate has been closed, raised the gate on its own initiative, and a large group of heavy armored pawns rushed out.

On the top of the city, the heavy armored pawns of Youzhou slid down the ladder, slaughtering those Beimang pawns who were unable to retreat.

Like a flood-out of the city, Beimang's pawns are constantly "drowning" in the blood.

The two thousand cavalrymen of Beimang, the closest to the city’s head, got the order to plant the sandalwood. They began to speed up the charge and launched a round of cavalry shooting, trying to suppress the Xiaguang City infantry as much as possible while rescuing their own soldiers to retreat. Array. At the same time, the step bow on the head of the city, which had a longer range than riding a bow, also resolutely gave up the shooting of Beimang's pawns and turned to the Beimang cavalry who was harassing heavy steps out of the city. The cavalry general Zheng Lin raised his arm and paused. The cavalry stopped moving forward and began to withdraw fifty steps slowly. Most of the arrows of the city fell on the ground between these fifty steps. Above, Zheng Lin, who turned around again, looked around, a little depressed, except for the siege infantry who retreated from both sides of the cavalry. The culprits who really prevented more of them from rushing to the battlefield happened to be those nearby who were supposed to be responsible. The following siege infantry phalanx, otherwise they only need to give them two thousand horses to block the city gate. Now that the number of bows and crossbows in Xiaguang City is not enough to cause too much threat, then four thousand horses will completely stop that infantry. Out of the city, the worst can make it unable to comfortably spread the formation.

Zheng Lin’s cavalry can be described as the elite of the Eastern Front. Except for the spears that were temporarily not carried because they did not expect to rush into the battle, they also have bows and bows, and there are many miscellaneous weapons such as lassos and axes. , The all-colored chain armor on the body is more luxurious than the leather armor of the ordinary steppe cavalry.

Zheng Lin, a stationary, still cavalry army, appeared to stand out among the surging North Mang infantry.

Soon there were several reinforcement cavalry forces interspersed in the infantry with difficulty, and together there were almost three thousand and five hundred cavalry, but the fighters on the battlefield have always been fleeting, that Youzhou With the skillful help of nearly a thousand auxiliary soldiers who are responsible for the transportation of goods, the infantry has lined up calmly outside the gate of Xiaguang City, densely packed like hedgehogs. But for some reason, this infantry did not place those three-axes, staghorn wood, iron briers, and Juma that blocked the cavalry's charge in front of the formation. Zheng Lin couldn't help but feel a little strange. Xiaguang City was the last important town in the Hulukou defense line. Even if he never thought of going out of the city with infantry riding, there should be a symbolic reserve of these common soldiers in the city. Zheng Lin smiled, no Even better, those large horse-rejecting horses equipped with four oblique woods and perforated iron guns, and the kind of simple horse-rejecting soldiers who have been explained countless times in front of the scene, are really letting a cavalry like Zheng Lin The general felt his scalp tingling just when he heard it.

Zheng Lin carefully observed the distribution of the units of the Youzhou Infantry, and it was as good as the gentlemen said. The strongest shields stood up almost as tall as the front and back. Rows of sharp spears stabbed out from the shields, and on top of the rattan iron wall, there were rows of "spear forests" that made their cavalry feel chill in the summer. The army formation is followed by archers who can pull their bows to kill the enemy earlier than the cavalry, as well as the waist crossbows and crossbows that can shoot farther than the step bow. Zheng Lin subconsciously lifted his buttocks away from the horse, trying to see more clearly, but it was difficult to find more inner mystery of this Yan family's veteran battalion pawn.

A cavalry commander who came to Hulukou from Beiting Grassland smiled and asked: "General Zheng, what do you say, or let me charge with the soldiers first? Try the depth."

Zheng Lin looked at this young chieftain, who was the eldest son of a certain Daxi Tidi who occupies a large area of ​​northern aquatic and fertile grassland. He was young and vigorous. He had made a lot of achievements in the sweep of Fengsui Fortress around Luanhe City. , Now I’m waiting to break through Xiaguang City and go to the Youzhou area to carry out the killing. It is said that this kid has discussed with a group of Beiting noble children of similar backgrounds. When the time comes, I will enter Youzhou and leave no other places. They joined together and stared at the place called Yanzhi County, where the Shui Ling ladies drool even the Liyang Central Plains men. When the time comes, pick out hundreds of the best ones to enjoy alone, except for her. The women in Yanzhi County were sold to Xitic, the size of the grassland, for both silver and favor.

Zheng Lin, as a child of the Southern Dynasties, has no good feelings for these descendants of the Northern Court. In the past two decades, there have been countless cases in which the little aristocrats in the Northern Court dared to dominate the city of Xijing in the Southern Dynasty, but Zheng Lin still She shook her head and said, "That 4,000-man infantry is an old-fashioned battalion of Yanwenluan in Youzhou. It is a direct descendant of the direct line. We should not rush into the battle lightly. The general just let me cover the retreat of the infantry. "

The commander laughed: "Is it greedy for meritorious advancement? Then I have to defeat and then make a final conclusion. The thousand grasslanders under me, which one is not an elite cavalry like playing with a horse, Zheng General, since you dare not rush into the battle, just stay aside and watch me sweep the battle."

Zheng Lin said blankly: "Oh, then I will wait for the victory."

The young commander laughed loudly and took the lead, rushing to the heavily guarded infantry phalanx.

One thousand rides consist of two hundred rides in a row, and a large distance is drawn between the five rows. The first two rows are dominated by the taller "heavy rides" from the short ones. Everyone holds the original long The spear, or the iron spear seized from Beiliang Wubao, was also better than the back three rows in armor, and moved forward quickly. This prairie nation used extremely familiar cavalry forces to rush into the formation. The formation was simple and flexible. In the last years of the Dafeng dynasty, they faced the Central Plains infantry and achieved unfavorable results. This caused the Central Plains to be full of turmoil, and whenever it was about to collide with the Central Plains infantry. At the time of formation, the rear three rows of light knights will suddenly speed up their charge, rush out from the gap of the iron knights, or shoot dense arrows or throw short spears. Do not rush into the formation, slide out from the two wings of the phalanx in an arc, followed by Qingqi, if no fighter can be found on both sides of the phalanx, then return to the original place, and repeat until the phalanx of the infantry is shaken and there is a trace of loopholes. , The iron cavalry will launch a truly deadly powerful charge, cutting a breakthrough for the rear Qing cai.

The prairie cavalry who galloped on the territory of the Dafeng dynasty in the past years have greatly improved both their armor and weapons with the various benefits brought by the Hongjia North Run.

It's a pity that the enemy faced by this thousand-man cavalry army is Yan Wenluan's heavy armoured pawn, the Northern Liang Frontier Army.

Rather than the embroidered pillow dynasty that was boasted by some magnate scholars as "all dynasties perished by weakness, but only by force."

When it was discovered that there were only a thousand horses charging alone.

This infantry phalanx made a shocking move, violating the common sense of the art of war, and brought down the shield wall and the spear forest that were the essence of the squadron.

Only between 300 and 100 steps.

Under the sharp and sharp shots of a large number of bows and crossbows, the loudly shouting thousand riders turned their backs on their backs and lay down for more than six hundred riders.

And the next scene is also completely different from the statement in the military book. The infantry formation did not continue large-scale bow throwing, but only accurately shot dozens of rangers who tried to leave the front battlefield because of bad opportunities, and the front row Then raise the shield and spear again.

It's like saying, cavalry rushing into battle? Then please come!

After discovering that his commander had been pierced by an arrow through his chest, the remaining three hundred Beimang rushed over in a madness, regardless of life and death.

Smashed into those sharp carbines.

After a collision.

The entire infantry phalanx is still as solid as a rock!

Before the shield.

In the spear!

More than 300 horses of the Northern Mangs, without exception, were pierced on the spot by a two-and-a-half-foot long spear!

On the head of Xiaguang City, a small one-eyed old man, accompanied by Youzhou General Huangfuping and Ci Shi Hu Kui, the two great officials of the Northern Liang Dynasty, the old man didn’t even look at the north from beginning to end. Mang Qianqi's self-seeking dead end, but looking out of the gourd mouth further north, muttered to himself: "In three days, all four cavalry can enter the gourd mouth, right?"

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Outside the gourd mouth, the 20,000 Youzhou cavalry was divided into two. General Shi Yulu and General Hussar Fan Wenyao led two thousand horses to continue northward, responsible for smashing Longyaozhou’s grain and grass transportation and intercepting those wandering cavalry. Army troops.

Youqi deputy general Yu Luandao personally led 16,000 horsemen to welcome the arrival of the two cavalry forces in place ~ IndoMTL.com~ At that time, the Youzhou Cavalry Army will serve as a guard for the latter.

Although the latter two cavalry forces added together, they just exceeded half of the Youqi.

But Yu Luandao didn't feel angry at all.

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Two days later, a 10,000-thousand cavalry army took the lead to leave the army and rush into the gourd mouth.

One after another decaying fortresses, one after another there is no one beacon.

It's devastated.

The strong wind swept across the city of Crouching Bow, which is no longer a city, like weeping.

This Wanqi did not stop in Wogong City, but when passing around the city, all the pawns spontaneously drew out the Northern Liangdao and raised it high.

Heavy Snow Dragon Rider.

Just go south silently.

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