Liu Mingzhi commanded tens of thousands of soldiers who abandoned their horses for infantry and began to launch a tentative siege operation.
On the west side of the capital, King Zhao Li Tao and his cousin Li Geng, who didn't know how to be persuaded by him, also commanded their troops and charged towards the soldiers of the Sixth Guards of the New Army in the west of the city without declaring a fight.
However, six or seven miles away from the New Army's Sixth Guard City West Camp, several black lines appeared from the capital and gradually moved closer to the west of the city, blocking their plan to sneak attack the west camp.
Han Peng and deputy general Yue Yun each commanded a battalion of soldiers and horses to intercept the 100,000 soldiers and horses under the command of King Zhao Li Tao.
The soldiers and horses of the two battalions dispersed into about six or seven square formations, blocking all the roads leading to the main camp in the west of the city under the command of King Zhao Li Tao.
Li Tao and the Prince of Shu, Li Geng, also put on fine armor. They sat on their horses and looked at the motionless two battalions of soldiers and horses parked several miles away with telescopes they got from unknown sources.
"Second brother, these are the cavalry of the Six Guards of the New Army under my uncle's command. They don't look any better than the cavalry under my uncle's command. Besides, my uncle may not look down on us brothers too much. He only sends about 20,000 cavalry. Do you dare to attack the 100,000 troops under your command?
The younger brother felt that his uncle was deliberately bluffing because of the reputation of his soldiers and horses! "
Li Tao glanced at Li Geng, who looked down on Han Peng and Yue Yun battalions, frowning and shaking his head: "Underestimating the enemy will harm you!
Even the Turkic cavalry, who are world-famous for their mounted archery, dare not look directly at the Six Guards Iron Cavalry under my uncle's command. There is a reason for this.
The cavalry of the Six Guards of the New Army are unique in the world and are admired by soldiers all over the world. Naturally, they have their own uniqueness. "
Seeing Li Tao's solemn and cautious look, Li Geng also put away his contempt and corrected his attitude to face the two battalions of cavalry several miles away.
Li Geng raised his telescope and looked around, his eyes a little confused.
"Didn't my uncle say that the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Guards of the New Army in Yingzhou had already withdrawn from northern Xinjiang in the name of disarming and returning to their fields? Where did the armor on these soldiers and horses come from?"
Li Tao shook his head silently: "Who knows? No one knows how my uncle commanded 200,000 troops and horses to quietly rush to the Jingji territory of Gyeonggi Province. No one knows how he made his soldiers wear armor again. No one knows the reason. ”
Li Geng glanced at the capital where the shouts of killing were loud: "What should I do? It's not a solution to waste time like this. Since we want to help our eldest brother rescue the siege, we must rush to the enemy's camp and disrupt their siege progress. , were brought here by 20,000 cavalry?
How about first sending two battalions of cavalry, two battalions of infantry, and the infantry and cavalry to jointly test the invincible power of the six-guard cavalry of the new army? "
Li Tao hesitated for a moment and nodded helplessly: "That's all we have to do. No matter how powerful we are, we only have 20,000 soldiers and horses. A force more than twice theirs should be able to fight in a battle.
Let the cavalry General Chang Cong and the infantry General Geng Hai each lead a group of troops to test and meet the enemy. "
"Okay, I'll go give the order right away!"
As soon as Li Geng rode away, Li Tao's 100,000 stationary soldiers and horses separated under the command of Ling Qi. The 40,000 soldiers and horses combined with the infantry and cavalry slowly moved towards Han Peng and his two battalions. The soldiers and horses approached and left.
The sword and shield soldiers are in front, the spearmen and halberdiers follow, the archers cover, and the guards assist on both sides.
Just looking at the formation, the 40,000 troops and horses under Li Tao's command are indeed coordinated well, and it seems that they have achieved both offense and defense.
Han Peng put away his telescope, straightened his body and looked towards the eight camps that were slowly approaching. After drinking tea, Han Peng breathed a sigh of relief and raised the flag in his hand and waved it a few times.
In the blink of an eye, the flag-bearer on the left side of Han Peng, who was armed to the teeth, waved the flag in his hand like Han Peng, then clamped his horse's belly and charged towards the 40,000 soldiers and horses under Li Tao's command.
Then four phalanxes of 10,000 cavalrymen on the north and south sides rushed after them without any intention of dragging their feet.
The war horses had just rushed less than a hundred paces away, and the tens of thousands of cavalry from the Six Guards of the New Army immediately dispersed. Two of the square formations rushed directly to the forward camp of Li Tao's 40,000 soldiers and horses in a triangular pyramid formation, and the remaining two The phalanx rushed towards the cavalry on both sides in a trapezoidal phalanx.
Li Tao's infantry general Geng Hai immediately ordered his infantry to form a formation to meet the enemy, and cavalry general Chang Cong also directed his cavalry to attack and cover.
However, they had just taken action. The infantry and archers had arranged their camps. The 10,000 cavalrymen of the Six Guards of the New Army had already taken off the iron bows from their backs. They were lying on their horses, bending their bows and aiming arrows at the enemy's phalanx. .
The distance of just a few miles was fleeting for the cavalry, so Geng Hai immediately ordered the archers to release arrows.
In an instant, a dense rain of arrows shot towards the cavalry of the Sixth Guards of the New Army. When the arrows were still in the air, the cavalrymen of the Sixth Guards of the New Army who were lying on the horse immediately turned sideways and hung on the side of the horse's belly, holding their hands in their hands. The Feng Yu arrow, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately left the string.
The archers under Li Tao obviously didn't know how fast the horses were running. They didn't even advance half a distance when shooting arrows. When the arrow rain in the air covered them, 90% of the troops and horses had already left their original positions.
Arrows fell like raindrops on the land after the horses rushed. Only a few cavalry were unfortunately injured by the stray arrows.
On the other hand, a large number of the infantry commanded by Geng Hai were shot down by the counterattack arrows.
The soldiers of the Sixth Guards of the New Army, who had no time to bend their bows and set arrows again, skillfully loaded their crossbows on their backs, took off the serial crossbows on their horses, and directed another wave of arrows at the enemy infantry.
By the time Han Peng's cavalry rushed dozens of steps away, thousands of enemy infantry's forward troops had fallen.
About fifty paces away, the triangular cone struck the two cavalrymen in the infantry formation. They immediately turned around and gathered with the other two troops. The serial crossbows in their hands pointed at the infantry wrapped in the formation at random.
By the time Geng Hai commanded the archers to fight back, the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Guards of the New Army had already put away their crossbows and charged into the same place with the cavalry covering the infantry on both sides of the company to start a fight.
Geng Hai held up the command flag in his hand blankly, watching the cavalry on both sides of the melee and not daring to order the archers to release arrows.
Looking around at the wailing soldiers in each square formation or the corpses of soldiers who were directly hit by arrows, Geng Hai's eyes were full of panic that could not be concealed.
With less than a cup of tea, just shooting with bows and arrows caused the loss of thousands of troops under his command. This is too terrible!
However, Geng Hai has not yet discovered something even more terrifying.
The soldiers and horses from both sides were attacking and fighting, and it was almost a one-sided scene.
Chang Cong had just commanded the cavalry to charge towards the enemy troops of the Six Guards of the New Army without hesitation.
As soon as the duel between soldiers and horses began, the cavalry under his command were knocked down by the enemy's dazzling fighting methods on the six-guard war horses of the new army.
Seventy percent of the soldiers and horses suffered heavy injuries on their waists and were unable to withstand the bumps of the horses. They eventually fell off their horses and were trampled by the horses.
Li Tao stared blankly at the battle situation shown in the mirror tube, feeling in a daze and unable to speak.
Our cavalry had just fought with the cavalry under my uncle's command. At the moment when the war horses hit each other, the cavalry under our command had just waved their weapons and prepared to kill the enemy.
The cavalrymen of the Sixth Guards of the New Army used incredible movements to quickly hang on the belly of their horses to avoid the oncoming weapons. The weapons in their hands slashed across the waists of their own soldiers in the blink of an eye.
In an instant, the soldiers and horses under his command were either cut open by swords, penetrated by horses, or knocked off their horses by cavalry guns, leaving them completely unable to fight back.
After a wave of attacks, the cavalry under Han Peng's command quickly completed a large detour and fought back under the leadership of the flag bearer.
The iron-tired bows fired from a long distance, and the serial crossbows covered them at close range. Then they quickly changed their weapons and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Such a set of combat methods that clearly used old tricks has become a nightmare for the rebels under Li Tao's command.
Before they had time to change their formation, the second wave of enemy attacks had already arrived, and in the blink of an eye another one-sided massacre was staged.
After a period of fighting, the four soldiers and horses once again followed the flag bearer and rushed out of the enemy's camp. Their horses galloped towards the distance. After running in a circle, they slowly slowed down and stopped on both sides of the flag behind Han Peng. .
As for the battlefield they had just charged into, only the ownerless horses were sneezing, the flags that had fallen to the ground and the bloody floating corpses all over the place told of the tragic battle just now.
Han Peng held up his telescope and looked around at the few corpses of his own troops on the battlefield, with a cold smile on his lips.
“It’s just a ragtag crowd, it’s just like a mantis trying to use its arms as a chariot, and it’s overestimating its own capabilities!
Disperse and launch a third wave of attacks at any time! "
"Got the order!"
The flag bearer immediately started running through the military formation waving the flag, conveying the order to charge at any time.
