Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 790
"Hey..." Hundreds of riders rushed out of the station and began to accelerate.

Their speed was very fast, and the momentum of the impact was very fierce, as if they wanted to directly rush into Liang Jun's spears regardless of casualties.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The Ten Thousand Liang Army formed many small formations, the right wing of the Chinese army turned right collectively, and the bow and crossbow team bravely stepped forward, holding the scary-looking big bow, and the armor-piercing heavy arrows flew out continuously , Shooting down more than ten riders.

The Iron Cavalry turned around and turned to the other side.

Shao Shude boarded a gentle slope and observed the battlefield carefully.

The battle of Xiangji Temple involuntarily appeared in his mind.In that battle, the Tang army, led by Pugu Huai'en, led [-] elite Uighur soldiers, rode their horses around and attacked the Anshi rebels, and finally won.

But the Uyghur cavalry waited from noon to You, and watched the infantry formations of both sides fight for several hours before attacking resolutely, which became the last straw that broke the camel's camel's back.

The cavalry fights the infantry, the infantry forms an array, the cavalry does not attack from the front, but turns around the flanks and the rear, will they definitely win?At least the Uighurs believed that they could not win, and they had to wait for the enemy infantry's physical strength, energy, and morale to be exhausted for a long time before they could be sure.At the same time, it has to be considered that the cavalry from Khotan and Dashi restrained the cavalry of the rebels head-on, so that they had a chance to make a final decision.

Today, Liang Jun's cavalry is almost nonexistent, probably more than a hundred cavalry, and there are dozens of scouts and scattered cavalry. Shao Shude hasn't paid attention to it yet, and this has helped him a lot.

The infantry of the two sides had already started to fight head-on, a line of swords and guns intersected, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and no one was willing to take a step back.

The cavalry of the Dingnan Army outflanked the left flank and walked cautiously, putting pressure on the enemy.

The enemy's infantry has little advantage in strength, and the cavalry is completely at a disadvantage. Over time, the mental pressure is not small.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Liang Jun walked a little further with a group of fifty archers.

Hundreds of Xia Qi seized the opportunity and rushed over from the flank.The enemy's rear arrows were like locusts, and cavalrymen kept falling off their horses during the charge, but in the end they forced them to rush into the scattered archers who were going back and fighting and retreating.

As soon as the war horse rushed past, the saber was stained with bright red blood, which looked so alluring under the setting sun.

The scattered team of 50 people was severely injured, and more than [-] people were killed or injured in an instant, and another seven or eight people were knocked down by the cavalry who rushed over and shot back.

Who said martial arts are useless?In the archery assessment, it makes sense to add points for bowing left and right, continuous shooting, prone shooting, and back shooting!
"It's still a loss!" Shao Shude shook his head lightly.

The cavalry of the Iron Cavalry Army are all elites who are experienced in battle. The archers of the Liang Army who shoot heavy arrows are probably not good at it.

The cavalry continued to harass the enemy's flanks and rear, forcing Liang Ren to draw troops before the battle, and the entire formation almost turned into a hedgehog.

"The Jiama army has been fighting against Er Zhu and Shi Pu on the eastern front, and their reputation is not obvious. I didn't expect it to be so difficult." Shao Shude smiled and said: "The more difficult you are, the more I want to eat you. Every time you kill Such an old Yamen army can not only weaken the Zhu thief's strength, but also strengthen himself."

Ye Li Kecheng watched intently from the side, his young face was full of eagerness to try.

"Steady!" Shao Shude laughed loudly.After all, it is the young man, it should be the first time he has seen such a large-scale tragic fight, it is understandable that he is emotional, everyone has come from this step.

"I still rely on you to protect me!" Shao Shude blinked and joked.

There are only five hundred soldiers around him, plus a thousand iron cavalry. If the thief has many cavalry, and if there is a fierce general leading him, Shao Shude will have to end himself. Anyway, he has already given both the infantry bow and the cavalry bow. Good string.

Ye Li Kecheng looked resolute, and said: "The last general will die in front of the king even if he dies."

The soldiers all looked at him, and some of them subconsciously clenched the equipment in their hands, ready to fight to the death.

Of course, things didn't go this far.

Wang Jingluo was so busy that he even left the commanding position of the central army and led a wave of counterattacks with his own soldiers, stabilizing the somewhat irresistible front line.

An iron spear was majestic and majestic, sweeping away thousands of troops. As far as Shao Shude could see, three small officers with flags on their backs had already been stabbed to death by this man.

"One brave general, the same as Wang Yanzhang." Shao Shude commented.

Wang Yanzhang is amazing, let him lead the army to fight, the winning rate is really not high, it seems that he is not capable enough as a coach.But he can always lead people out of the tight siege when he is defeated, or kill the enemy's pursuers, and he must come back with all his tail.When his status was low, he led his troops into battle and repeatedly defeated the enemy. To put it bluntly, he was a general, not a handsome talent.It is actually not qualified for him to be in charge of the main force of Houliang.

Another group of cavalry got on their horses and pressed over from the west bank of Caishui.They carried some war drums and beat them directly behind the bandit soldiers, and hundreds of people shouted to kill in unison.

After shouting, get on the horse again, go around to another place, and continue to do so.

The battlefield is very chaotic.The infantry on the front line of the two sides met their opponents, and the battle was indistinguishable, and the casualties were astonishingly large.But as time went by, Sergeant Liang Jun became more and more anxious and panicked.At the critical moment, Wang Jingluo yelled, and asked people to follow up with a big banner, wear heavy armor and fight on foot, and rushed forward continuously to boost morale.

The first formations of both sides had already collapsed, and the broken soldiers slipped back from the passage between the formations, and the latter formation directly went up and strangled together again.

Zhe Siyu was also in a hurry, and directly led more than a thousand cavalry in armor, and rushed towards the corner of the flank of the bandit formation.

The arrows flying head-on knocked down many knights. They resisted the casualties, pulled away horizontally, and shot a round of projectiles within the range of the bow.

After one round of shooting, the second wave of hundreds of riders came again.Then came the third wave and the fourth wave.

There was almost no time interval between the fifth wave and the fourth wave. Taking advantage of the slight confusion of the enemy army, they rushed over with short spears in hand.

Attack a corner!
This can also be regarded as one of the cavalry tactics, that is, regardless of casualties, attack a corner of the enemy's formation wave after wave, open the gap and then invest in fine cavalry, continue to expand the gap, and finally achieve the goal of confusing and collapsing the enemy army .

"Xi Lulu!" The wailing of the horses came and went.The infantry in the first row of the Jiama Army suffered heavy casualties, and the sergeant in the back row with a long ax stepped forward and cooperated with Pao Ze to forcefully knock the knight off his horse.

A knight's war horse fell to the ground after being shot by an arrow. At this time, he got up from the ground, picked up the spear on the ground, and rushed forward with all his might.

The two sides were in a mess, and almost couldn't care about anything, only the enemy in front of them, facing each other with swords and guns, fighting for their lives.

More and more cavalry rushed over, and the enemy's archers were affected, and they could no longer shoot arrows wantonly.The cavalry on the periphery moved closer, shooting arrows repeatedly, and unarmored Liang Jun kept screaming and fell to the ground.

"The thief army is about to be defeated, kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Xu Shi felt the noise and chaos from the right wing of Liang Renzhong's army.

Morale ebbed and flowed. Xia people's morale was high, but Liang people's morale was inevitably low. No matter how hard Wang Jingluo fought, he couldn't change his disadvantage of having few soldiers. The overall front continued to retreat, showing a tendency to collapse.

Fu Yanchao led more than [-] cavalry slowly around, shooting arrows from time to time, which intensified the chaos of the enemy.A quarter of an hour later, he shouted loudly, pulled out his Chashan sword, and said: "The thieves are in chaos, follow me!"

More than two thousand riders accelerated slowly, divided into three batches, and directly inserted into a gap exposed by Liang Ren.

In the gap, someone fell to the ground, someone stood there alone fighting, and someone was running back.As soon as the surging cavalry rushed in, under the chopping and stabbing, Liang Jun was either killed or injured.Those who escaped the cavalry attack by chance rushed back and collided with the enemy troops who were coming to reinforce them, making a mess.

A second wave of cavalry arrived, cutting them in half at once.

Then came the third wave, which slanted in and fired a salvo of crossbows.

The Flying Dragon Army fighting on the front line became more and more courageous, and Liang Jun seemed to have reached a critical point. Suddenly, some people broke down emotionally and turned around and fled.Desperation drove more people, and almost no one was willing to continue fighting, pushing and shoving Pao Ze one by one, wanting to escape with their lives.

Crash!
Wang Jingluo rushed out of the rebellious army under the wing protection of his own soldiers, but he couldn't find his horse for a while, so he could only flee on foot.

He was already being targeted by the cavalry, and they wanted to catch someone alive, so they followed Wang Jingluo unhurriedly, riding a bow and shooting continuously, and the number of soldiers around him became less and less until there was no one left.

Wang Jingluo jumped into a carriage, looked back, and almost shed tears.Tens of thousands of men, Bo and Ying, were being chased northward by Xia Bing, hacked and killed.

"I want to see Shao Shude!" Wang Jingluo threw the iron gun and said loudly.

More than a dozen knights got off their horses, rushed up, crushed him to the ground, and tied him up.One of them jokingly said, "I'll take you to meet the king."

Wang Jingluo stopped struggling and was taken away obediently.

Shao Shude rode his horse down the gentle slope, turned his eyes away from the battlefield, and asked curiously, "Why does General Wang want to see me?"

"A way out for the soldiers of the Jiama Army." Wang Jingluo replied.

Shao Shude smiled and said, "I didn't intend to kill the prisoners, don't worry. Are you willing to surrender?"

"Surrender!" Wang Jingluo replied.

Shao Shude was taken aback, and subconsciously asked: "During the fight just now, General Wang personally led the warriors, repeatedly smashed our army's sharp edge, and saved the crisis several times. Today's battle, if there is no general Wang's brave performance, I am afraid that it will be too late. I took it. Why did you drop it so simply? If I knew it was like this, why bother..."

"My family background is a general of Yingzhou, and Liang Wang is the commander-in-chief of Bian, so it is his duty to fight for him." Wang Jingluo replied: "Today, when we are facing King Xia, we have done our duty. King Xia can defeat me. , either have great luck or have great ability, I am convinced, so I am willing to surrender."

Shao Shude couldn't help but smile after hearing this.This man speaks of surrender so freshly and refinedly, he is also a talent.

But his martial arts are really good.When Huang Chao entered Boyingzhou in the past, he led the Yingzhou soldiers to fight back for ten days.Later Qin Zongquan came again, but was still beaten back by him.After retreating, he was not reconciled, so he sent a general to lead an army to attack. Wang Jingluo took the lead and clashed left and right, and Cai was defeated and fled.

"In the troubled times, Yingzhou was safe and peaceful. It was not poisoned by the Chaos and Cai thieves. It also collected refugees from far and near. There were countless people alive. With such great virtue, they should not die." Shao Shude said: "Get up. In the future, we will fight for you." I fight, and there are riches and honors to be had."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing him." Wang Jingluo said happily.

The chase on the battlefield is almost over.The soldiers of the Xia army gradually stopped and began to accept surrender and capture prisoners.

Just now Shao Shude carefully observed that the Flying Dragon Army should have suffered more than 1000 casualties in this battle, and the Iron Cavalry and Dingnan Second Army also lost hundreds of cavalry. Still worth it.

"Your Majesty." Xie Tong cautiously followed up: "The magistrate of Fugou County is my old acquaintance, or it can be said that he came to surrender."

Shao Shude looked at the sky, nodded and said, "That's fine. The battle is over, and the soldiers are exhausted. Let's go to Fugou to rest first, and then worry about it."

(End of this chapter)