Battlefield of All Sides

Chapter 287

After everyone discussed the tactics, Li Mu also returned to the camp. He selected hundreds of soldiers who were strong and good at running from the camp, and then ordered them to hold only swords and shields, and headed towards the left side of the battlefield together. away from the highlands.

Just after Li Mu had finished deploying his defenses, and the remaining thousands of soldiers from the Vanguard Battalion under the hillside had also lined up and prepared, there was finally movement in the distance.

Yelusha's army has arrived, and it seems that they are waiting seriously.

Yelusha obviously knew that there were Song troops waiting for them here, but maybe the number of Song troops found in the scout report was not many, which made the opponent feel itchy. He wanted to eat these Song troops, but he was a little worried about being ambushed.

So the speed of the Liao army slowed down a lot.

But even so, the huge number of Liao army troops were flying around and making noises, which really made the soldiers of the Qianfeng Battalion a little uneasy.

Li Mu briefly reassured the surrounding soldiers, and then ordered to attack after hearing the sound of the enemy's attack horn. Li Mu's composure made the soldiers slightly relieved.

And the troops of the Liao Army under the mountain have begun to slowly disperse, and it is vaguely possible to see that the battle formation is slowly forming.

This is just the deployment of tens of thousands of Liao troops, but the effect is already much more powerful than the compact formation of the Song army, especially some of the Liao soldiers are still shouting, and the scene is chaotic with a little wildness .

Fortunately, the soldiers in the forward battalion were mostly experienced soldiers, so they still maintained their formation under the orders of their commanders, and began to move forward slowly.

This provocative action immediately caused the Liao army to explode. The archers from both sides were the first to receive troops. From the top of the mountain, Li Mu could clearly see the arrows thrown by both sides falling in front of their respective formations.

And as a low horn sounded across the land, the Liao soldiers howled as if they were suddenly on stimulants. The shining swords in their hands kept shaking, and slowly the soldiers in front began to run.

Seeing this situation, Li Mu suddenly tightened his grip on the handle of the knife. A soldier nearby was about to stand up and charge, but Li Mu suppressed him and ordered the surrounding soldiers to stay calm.

The Liao army launched an attack somewhat suddenly, while the soldiers of the forward battalion led by Captain Gong formed a formation steadily. Li Mu saw that the archers in the rear of the formation had begun to intensively draw their bows and shoot arrows.

As the distance between the two sides continued to increase, casualties also began to appear. However, Captain Gong was still restraining the troops' offensive pace, so Li Mu could only wait.

Finally, when the first Liao soldier fell a few steps in front of the Song army's formation, a different horn sounded, and the shields and knives of the Song army's formation were shaken, and the troops suddenly burst into shouts of killing. Voice.

Thousands of Song troops plunged directly into the Liao army, and for a while, it was like a river flowing into the sea, and the chaos was unbearable.

And Li Mu finally stood up, raised the knife in his hand, and shouted at Song Bing behind him.

"Follow me into battle and defeat the Liao army!"

The soldiers stood up and roared one after another, all with high morale. Seeing Li Mu going down the mountain quickly, they all stood up from hiding places, then took steps and strode down.

At the foot of the mountain, the Liao army could only see people's heads shaking suddenly on one side of the mountain, and the next moment there were shouts of killing, those people dressed in Song army uniforms, rushed straight!

Those Liao generals who realized something was wrong immediately loudly ordered the soldiers to stabilize their positions, and at the same time hurriedly sent the troops behind them to the right, preparing to block the flowing Song troops.

However, the ambush position of Li Mu and others was close to the battlefield, and the Liao army had no time to defend, and Li Mu was the first to plunge into the battlefield.

The broad knife in his hand slit a person's throat, Li Mu held up his shield and charged in violently, and more soldiers of the Song Army behind him also waved the big knife in their hands to harvest people's heads.

The Liao army formation that was hit by the impact suddenly became a little unstable, and Xiaowei Gong and others who had already rushed into it even shouted at the soldiers to attack immediately. The attack speed of Song soldiers continued to increase, just to meet Li Mu and others.

After such an attack, the Liao army was in disarray. The soldiers in front frantically resisted the Song army's attack, but the soldiers in the rear couldn't rush to the front because of the crowded battle formation. The whole army was a little out of touch in an instant.

And Li Mu and others had already killed everyone in it.

Li Mu and others, carrying swords and shields, plunged straight into the long spear formation of the Liao army, making these people almost powerless to fight back. There were broken guns and fallen Liao army everywhere.

In this close-to-hand fight, the Song army had the upper hand.

However, the two forces of the Song army converged strongly in the Liao army formation, which almost stirred up chaos in the entire Liao army's front formation. Some soldiers even began to retreat, threatening to be ambushed by the Song army.

And under such several attacks, more and more Liao troops gradually began to retreat. Li Mu suddenly found that there were only Liao troops lying on the ground screaming beside him, and none of them were standing still.

Li Mu took a deep breath, wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand, and then looked around, realizing that he had joined Captain Gong's team, and those Liao troops were being squeezed out of the battle formation little by little. .

Li Mu hurriedly looked for Colonel Gong, seeing that the other party was also fighting bloody battles, he immediately ran over and grabbed him.

"Lieutenant Gong, we should hold on!"

Li Mu's yelling sound came into Lieutenant Gong's ears, and the other party stopped immediately, looked around, then nodded to Li Mu, and shouted to the surrounding area.

"End formation! Don't pursue! End formation!"

Lieutenant Gong's voice was quickly echoed by more officers, and shouts and shouts began to resound from the entire battlefield, but in a short while, the Song Army had already built a line of defense among the corpses everywhere.

On the other hand, although the Liao army retreated, the opponent was quickly settled down because they dispatched cavalry.

The cavalry, which was not in the scout forecast, arrived at the position in such a short time.

Not only that, they bypassed from both sides, obviously preparing to eat the four thousand people from the forward battalion.

At the same time, the retreating infantry was also contained and defeated, and under the strict order of the officer, they regrouped and regrouped at a position a hundred steps away from the Song army.

The afternoon sun shone on everyone's forehead, but this time a sense of crisis swept through the entire Song Army.

Both Li Mu and Gong Xiaowei noticed this change, but fortunately they closed their formation ahead of time, and it was still stable for the time being.

It's just that the sudden cavalry is a great threat to the infantry of the vanguard battalion.

"Where's our cavalry?" Li Mu squinted his eyes and asked Captain Gong next to him, who also pursed his chapped lips and looked at you at the cavalry coming from both sides.

"Some of them have already detoured to the rear, and some of them are reserved for His Majesty's raid."

"Gone?"

"There is another team that should be here too. Let the scouts notify you after we discuss the tactics."

Li Mu looked at the sun in the sky, and immediately said with some seriousness: "It should be coming too."

"That's what I planned. Who would have thought that this Liao cavalry would appear here!" Lieutenant Gong was a little annoyed, and immediately shouted a few words to the surroundings.

"The spearmen came forward, the crossbowmen collected arrows, and threw these Liao corpses out to see how the cavalry would step over them!"

As soon as the words fell, the hastily formed Song troops also began to change. The swordsmen and shieldmen moved in to clean up the corpses on the ground, the pikemen moved out, and the crossbowmen began to draw their bows and strings.

Li Mu looked at the assembled cavalry, and then an idea flashed in his mind, and he thought of something.

These cavalry may be the trump card in Yelusha's hand.

Perhaps it was intended to take a detour to ambush Zhao Guangyi, but he did not expect the infantry to suffer such heavy losses in the battle.

In order to kill Li Mu's thousands of people first, the cavalry was brought here.

In this way, I inadvertently made the Liao people make a different decision.

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(End of this chapter)