Turbulent Times Chapter 1231: The mainstay
"Kill Dou Jiande!" Shan Xiongxin shouted.
"Kill Dou Jiande!" More than 700 cavalry shouted at the same time, brandishing their long spears, and knocked down the minions who surrounded them one by one.
A rebel chief led some of Dou Jiande's confidants and rushed up again, trying to slow down Shan Xiongxin's advancing speed, so as to buy time for the second leader on the other side to start gathering the defeated troops and reorganizing their troops. But the outcome of the battle is not entirely determined by courage. Shan Xiongxin's cavalry easily killed a group of thieves led by the big boss, and Shan Xiongxin picked the big boss to death with a spear.
Someone tried to avenge the big boss, lying on the ground and rolling towards Shan Xiongxin's horse belly. Shan Xiongxin shouted decisively, jumped away with his horse between his arms, then turned his head and stabbed the enemy who had lost his target to death cleanly. He drew his lance, drove the horse, stabbed obliquely, and all these movements were done in one go, provoking another unlucky guy who couldn't dodge, laughing and throwing the opponent into the air.
After dispelling the enemy army in front of him, Shan Xiongxin proudly raised his horse, signaling the brothers around him to move closer to him. Then he pointed the horse forward again, and rushed towards another group of enemy troops who were at a loss.
"At this time, Dou Jiande's personal soldiers had already protected Dou Jiande and ran behind the five thousand people in Xiongkuohai. Shan Xiongxin knew that the best time to chase and kill Dou Jiande was finally lost, so he stopped chasing Dou Jiande. put.
Cavalry relies on speed. Abandoning those enemies who can entangle you for a long time on the battlefield and attacking the opponent's weakest point will be far more effective than a frontal encounter with the enemy's elite. This is the most basic content of the Cavalry Tactics Regulations of Fanyang County, and Shan Xiongxin has also mastered it skillfully.
The bandit soldiers of Dou Jiande continued to be in chaos. At this time, Shan Xiongxin drove the rout soldiers to roll back. All the bandit leaders or brave bandit soldiers who tried to stop were killed by him under the horse.
More than a thousand defeated soldiers were finally organized by the second leader, and they were forced to drive them away, forming a human wall to stop Shan Xiong Xinma. They kept flinching, their eyes filled with fear. No one can guarantee that they can block the horses, but if this line of defense is broken again, the situation on the battlefield will be out of hand.
Shan Xiongxin led 700 cavalrymen and directly "bumped" into this thin human wall, blood and flesh flying everywhere. After breaking through the human wall, the Fanyang County cavalry threw off the corpse on the long spear and accelerated forward again. No one can block their way, the only thing the poorly trained bandits can do in front of them
The thing is to run around, as long as there is a slight hesitation in footsteps, icy spear points will protrude from their chests, and ruthless horseshoes will trample on their ribs.
The human wall that the second head has hastily organized is too thin to slow down the speed of the war horse at all. He tried to gather his soldiers and horses again, but he was powerless.
Not to mention the more than 4,000 county soldiers who have always kept the battle formation behind, and even if they saw the bandits rout, they kept a neat battle formation and advanced forward. Enter the flock, the eagle wins the sparrows.
"Raise the spear, stab." Shan Xiongxin ordered loudly.
Rushing to the front, the cavalry raised their four-foot spears, which looked like a row of fangs from hell, devouring all living things in front of them. The minions who stood in the way of the cavalry's attack were either picked up by the long spears or trampled to death by the horses, and they had no way to fight back.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the second leader and a group of people did not dare to stay where they were and fight recklessly with the cavalry.
On the entire battlefield, the only thing not moving was the 5,000 troops led by Xiong Kuohai. After several unsuccessful attempts to rush into the core of the battlefield to reverse the defeat, Xiong Kuohai ordered his brothers to stop the rescue operation. When Dou Jiande's soldiers desperately escorted Dou Jiande behind them, Xiong Kuohai no longer cared about the life and death of Dou Jiande's bandit soldiers, but formed a square formation and stood outside the battlefield like a rock.
A banner with "Xiong" written on one side and "Purple Faced King" on the other side stands beside the Xiongkuo Sea.
"Blow the horn, let these Gao Jibo brothers come closer to us!" Looking coldly at the killing field ahead, Xiong Kuohai ordered loudly.
"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." The high-pitched horn sounded suddenly, overwhelming the shouts and screams.
Hearing the sound of the horn, those who lost their backbone and fled in all directions suddenly found their way, crying and rushing to the phalanx of the majestic sea.
"Shield up!" Xiong Kuohai shouted loudly. Standing in the first row of the phalanx, the bandits from the Taihang Mountain quickly took a few steps forward, squatted down, and erected a huge wooden shield as tall as a person into the ground. The ground was uneven and the shield was difficult to stand upright. They use their bodies to form another angled angle to support the shield.
"Raise the spear!" Xiong Kuohai rode his horse to the front of the shield, and raised his ax high. Thousands of hardwood spears were raised from the ranks, stepped forward, and placed directly above the shield. a
A hedgehog made of hardwood and steel took shape instantly, and Xiong Kuohai nodded proudly.
Watching the whole process from a distance, Shan Xiongxin's pupils shrank slightly, but his eyes lit up, showing a fighting spirit in an instant.
"Third brother, you are in command. My personal soldier, follow me!"
Xiong Kuohai shouted, leading hundreds of cavalry around the army from the flanks, and gathered around him, forming a small rhombus formation. Xiong Kuohai led the group of cavalry and ran forward for a few steps. The moment he was about to come into contact with the fleeing soldiers, he shouted loudly: "Spread out, go through the two sides and gather after the formation. Anyone who disobeys the order, kill!"
This order was addressed to the rushing soldiers, but it obviously had no effect. The few rout soldiers who fled at the forefront were just stunned, and quickly ran past them. It will be safe in another twenty steps, and the seemingly solid battle formation is close at hand. It's just that they lost their chance of reaching their destination forever. An ax whizzed past them, and chopped off the heads of the most defeated soldiers on the spot.
Xiong Kuohai had a hideous expression on his face, blood was flowing down the ax in his hand, not far from the horse's feet, there were a few heads that could not rest in peace.
"Assemble after arriving at the formation on both sides, those who disobey the order will be killed!" Xiong Kuohai shouted again with his red eyes. The diamond-shaped array behind him suddenly launched, not attacking the enemy, but horizontally attacking the rout soldiers who were too late to stop.
The ax was swung, the knife was shining, and dozens of rout soldiers were chopped down on the spot. Xiong Kuohai led the cavalry to push horizontally for more than 20 steps, then quickly turned around and pushed towards the rout on the other side. All the rout soldiers were petrified, they didn't expect the helpers invited by the head of the family to kill their own people so ruthlessly. They stopped suddenly, and then separated like a torrent around the Xiong Kuo Hai line, bypassed the square formation, and fled to the position of their big leader's flag.
Xiong Kuohai returned to the front of the army formation with an ax in his hand. At this time, no rout soldiers dared to rush to their battle formation.
The second boss under Dou Jiande came running with disheveled hair. His horse was hacked to death at some point, and there was a big **** on his shoulder, bleeding profusely. : "Thank you Purple Faced King, our master is still alive!"
The second leader said something nonchalantly, then turned around, led hundreds of routs around the two wings, and assisted Xiong Kuohai to disperse and guide the routs, so as not to give the officers and soldiers more trouble An opportunity to take advantage of.