From Chief to Ball

"Jogging..."

After the long shout, there was a long horn sound. The soldiers in the front row gently pulled the reins, trying to keep them as even as possible, and controlled the horses under their crotches not to get excited too early. Move forward.

The two sides were already close to about 300 steps, and there were only more than [-] riders on the opposite side. Habayashi was not at a disadvantage in terms of numbers.

The speed of the riders on the opposite side has obviously slowed down, and the riders of Habayashi Wei are more at ease. They have already rushed from [-] steps, how much impact will they have when they really run in front of them?

Lang Jiangping, who was at the far left of the line, raised his spear and shouted a few words. Many people didn't quite understand it, but just like usual training, they had already recognized this silent order.

Clamping the horse's belly hard, the soldiers in the first row clamped their spears under their armpits, clamping them so hard that there was some pain between the armpit and the ribs.

With the ups and downs of the horse's back, many people feel as if they are holding a bark boat in the big river in the autumn water, with the roar of neat horseshoes in their ears.

Under the feet, the fine grassland that has never been plowed is constantly rolling back quickly, and the famous or unknown flowers of various colors only stay in the eyes for a moment, and then they are trampled down by the horse's hooves.

The hoof of the rider on the far left fell into the rabbit hole, and the horse's fragile calf made a crisp sound. Perhaps such a slight sound should not be heard when the horses are galloping together, but the people beside them are sure that they heard it The horse wailed in pain.

Several people looked back, and the horse fell to the ground, trying to stand up, and the partner who had lived with him for seven years fell heavily to the ground, his neck folded aside, and his body twitched.

However, he only glanced back hastily, and couldn't express any more. The sparse war horses on the opposite side had already approached within thirty steps, which was only a blink of an eye for the fast-charging cavalry.

The young Habayashi Wei who was the first to stab the enemy with his spear didn't even have time to see if the person he stabbed was dead, but he heard the sound of the spear breaking. It was like being drawn dozens of times by Mr. Xuetang's wooden ruler, it was burning and painful.

Throwing away the spear, he drew out a not-so-long copper sword, and stabbed at the already sparse enemies...

This is the first impact of the stirrup cavalry in this world, just like the well-trained cavalry of the Jin people in the previous life was like a wall so that many literati believed that the cavalry was tied together by ropes, the first intensive cavalry in this era The shock produced the same jolt.

The hedging of more than 300 people ended the battle almost in an instant.

Sixteen people died on Habayashi Wei's side, and some were injured, while the opposite side was rushed out of more than 90 casualties in the first wave.

The soldiers of the Habayashi guards mechanically followed the training in the drill code, jogged the whole team after hedging, and then charged in the opposite direction, so as to ensure that they were still rushing into the formation intensively.

However, when they were ready to turn around, they found that the riders on the opposite side had been dispersed, no longer had any formation, and fled in all directions without any organization at all.

The victorious soldiers reminisced about the feeling of killing for the first time, and felt that it was nothing more than that, and then quickly moved towards the edge of the battlefield with the sound of the horn, driving away the scattered enemy cavalry.

At the same time, marching drums sounded behind them, and the entire Xia army's left wing, thousands of people, marched forward under the command of Ji Bai, and the artillery continued to shoot to disrupt the opponent's formation.

The sound of orderly footsteps seemed to announce the start of the decisive battle. The guards in black dismounted from their horses, leaving a few people to guard the horses and lined up densely holding their shields.

Without the threat of the cavalry, Ji Bo could safely place the guards in black on the edge of the left wing, while the guards in the distant Habayashi had already begun to regroup and continued to move towards the rear of the right wing of the Awatake coalition army.

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On the other side of the battlefield, Suyue and others are experiencing the biggest shock of this battle.

They have heard that there is something called artillery in the Xia army, and they have also seen that the artillery tore apart their own army formation where the feather arrows could not reach, and the bloody scene where three or five people were hit by iron pellets triggered a bloody scene The instability of one's own infantry.

But this is all tolerable, at least the army is not completely divided, and there are soldiers to fill in those vacancies, and stabbing a few infantrymen who retreated and fled with their swords can always stabilize them.

However, that cavalry confrontation shocked the entire Awayake army. Losing the cavalry meant that his right wing needed to be longer, wider and more people to prevent those Habayashi guards from attacking from the right wing to seize the opportunity.

The previous confrontation was even more shocking. There were obviously the same number of people on both sides, and they both had stirrups. They both had learned to ride horses for six or seven years, but the heart shock caused by the impact like waves and walls was completely different.

They crossed instantly, and then their own cavalry collapsed. This high-speed impact was no less shocking than a chariot, and even had more terrifying maneuverability and secondary impact than a chariot.

300 cavalry can do what a thousand infantry cannot.

These three hundred forest guards controlled the flanks, which meant that a thousand soldiers were needed to pile up on the flank dikes, a group of cavalry who could rush into the rear of the flanks at any time.

Coupled with the continuous bombardment, the Awayake coalition forces, which were not the main force in the first place, had a tendency to waver. The originally straight front had an arc on the right wing. The person in charge made a correct move and let the soldiers continue to fight. Strengthen the right wing, move closer to the central army, and no longer dare to advance rashly.

When the drum sounded from the opposite side, Su Yue looked at the black-clothed guard flag flying far away, and clenched his fists.

"That's Black Clothes Guard and Habayashi Guard?"

"Well, you know the guards in black. The first batch of soldiers who followed Ji Xia in the war included people like Ji Bo. Habayashi guards were Xia's cavalry, some of them were orphans after their father died in the battle, and the other They are the original black-clothed guards, and some are the riders recruited from Yangguan."

Su Yue said with emotion: "The strength of the battle is unprecedented, it is no less than a chariot charging. This is the elite that Ji Xia relies on to win."

"Now the cannon is on the left wing, and the two guards, Habayashi and Heiyi, are also on the left wing. This is clearly seen."

He smiled, and asked his son beside him, Su Tang recalled what he had learned in school, and said, "It should be like this, Jixia wants to rely on Yubayashi, the two guards in black, and those cannons, Let's crush our right wing first. His central army has not moved at this time, and the right wing has been deployed at the back. Once we charge their right wing, Xia Jun can turn to defend and delay our attack."

Su Yue nodded, and the allies beside him also agreed with this view.

From their point of view, the Xia people are very stupid in fighting. They always fight in a certain position with more and less, and then rely on other places to stick to it, and slowly roll over with more and less fighting.He never had the boldness of attacking across the board, nor the momentum of winning across the board. It was rather dull and boring.

Su Yue pointed to his own chariot and Xia Jun's Habayashi and Black Clothes Guards in the distance, and said: "In war, you still have to rely on these things. The pawns with spears will never be the ones that decide the outcome of the war." People. Now the main force of the Xia army is concentrated on the left wing. Jixia thinks that the infantry he trained can block the impact of the chariots. It depends on whether our right wing collapses first or our chariots break through their infantry first. .”

Everyone asked: "Then arrange for chariots to attack?"

"Don't worry, Xia Guo's infantry is still available, and the distance is too far away now. What if Ji Xia just tricked us? Once we let the chariot charge too early, Ji Xia can now completely defend from the left wing and mobilize those people to support The direction of the impact of the chariot."

"Before the battle, you saw that Xia Guo's infantry moved very fast, and formed formation much faster than ours. Wait a minute, wait until our right side fights."

"Order, let us march slowly on the left side, and wait for my order to hold Xia Jun's right wing, so that he has no soldiers to move. Transfer all Dongyi's archers to the right wing, and then transfer some people to the right wing."

"Isn't Jixia going to attack our right wing? Let's fight fiercely there, until they are too tired to rush in, and our left wing and their right wing will also fight, making it difficult for the entire Xia army to fight. When the mobilization and military orders are not smooth, we will attack again and defeat Xia's army in one fell swoop."

"Ji Xia has always won battles, so now he is so arrogant and frivolous. He does not defend first but attacks first. Those who don't know think that he has ten thousand people and we only have four or five thousand."

Chapter 136 The Final Battle ([-])

Xia Jun's left wing, Habayashi Wei's impact brought about a series of chain reactions.

First, the commander of the right wing of the Suyue coalition army was worried about being attacked, so he ordered the soldiers to endure the artillery attack on the opposite side and shrink closer, and these soldiers did not have much quality at all. It might be possible for them to charge, but the change of formation at this time is undoubtedly a kind of disaster.

When the soldiers shrunk back, the 600 people on the far right were about a hundred steps away from the military formation next to them.

They panicked and wanted to get closer, but Habayashi, who had already reorganized his formation, decisively spotted the fighter this time, and drove his horses around them to the rear, so that the riders with unbroken spears were arranged in the first row. , ready to charge directly.

The most perfect formation is always stationary, and once it moves and the soldiers are not trained enough, enough gaps will be exposed.In addition to learning how to ride horses, the officers of these Habayashi guards only learned three things in the school: measuring distance, estimating the speed of cavalry impact, and judging whether it is possible to break through the enemy's defense.

The [-] infantry were horrified to find that their left flank was empty, and the group of bastards did not alternately cover themselves. These people withdrew first, but retreated first.

Some people want to escape back, but some people know what the consequences will be if they leak their backs to the cavalry on the opposite side. The only hope is to form a defensive formation and hold them back until the shrinking comrades rescue them.

In a panic, the archers took three steps forward and pulled away the mulberry bows. The spearmen behind them stood together as they had been trained, pinning their last hope on being able to withstand a wave of impact from Habayashi, creating a scorching Fight in melee and let the friendly troops behind you support them.

It's just that the friendly troops behind him are already too busy to take care of themselves.

The spearmen of the Xia army on the left marched slowly with the sound of drums and flutes, and stopped every twenty steps to wait for the musketeers to catch up. The distance between the two sides had reached about 250 steps.

The artillery moved forward with the army formation, and entered the effective range of [-] steps. The light artillery was deployed quickly, and there was no need to adjust the angle, just shoot straight.

While the artillery was still unfolding, the infantry continued to move forward. This was a group of infantry who had been trained for seven years. It was no longer the Xia army that needed to be regrouped to ensure an orderly array after walking twenty steps.