In the Wuping military formation, Chai Kewu stood astride a tall white horse, flanked by several Wuping generals who had experienced many battles. Although the order to retreat has been issued, the city is already in chaos, but Chai Kewu is not as panicked as other generals, and his expression is very calm.
Since today's battle, Chai Kewu's sharp eyes have been staring at the battlefield. Even when he saw the elephant cavalry starting to wreak havoc in the Wuping Army's front line, he could not help but curse, and then his face became as dark as water, as if he was brewing. What are you wearing?
"Your Majesty, the Han army has begun to leave the city!"
"Your Majesty, the Han army is less than 200 steps away from our front army!"
"Capital, the Han army is attacking in too many numbers, and our army may not be able to retreat in time!"
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Several light cavalry galloped from the front, quickly reporting the enemy's movements. When he heard that a large number of Han soldiers and horses had begun to leave the city in pursuit, intending to take advantage of the chaos to attack and kill the retreating Wuping army, Chai Kewu seemed to have collected his thoughts, and immediately tilted his head and said in a deep voice: "After all, the Han army still can't calm down. It's said that General Wang, it’s their turn to take action!”
The scouts held their flags high and waved rapidly in the air. A moment after Chai Kewu issued the military order, the two thousand cavalrymen who had been hiding on the flanks of the Wuping army and had been stationary finally attacked quickly under the leadership of the commander Wang Changgeng. This Jianghuai veteran, who was over fifty years old, ran out from west to east with his fine cavalry. After a hundred paces, the cavalry began to turn and charge towards the battlefield.
At this moment, no less than five or six thousand Han troops were rushing to within a hundred steps of the Wuping formation. Looking at the Wuping soldiers retreating hastily in the elephant formation not far away, they were naturally planning in their hearts how to pursue and kill them, but not just a short time. During tea time, the Han army heard the roar of iron hoofs in horror.
The ground in the distance began to fill with smoke and dust, and a Wuping cavalry was like a column of sharp blades coming at high speed, rushing straight from the land of Lixu to the middle of the battlefield. The Wuping Army's cavalry rushed forward, forcing the Han army to stop and fight in horror.
Veteran general Wang Changgeng galloped his horse and shouted loudly. The two thousand cavalrymen raised their long spears high in the air. When they approached the Han army's formation dozens of steps, the spears in the forest were flattened one after another, and the reins were used to tie the barrels of the spears, and the tail ends were tightened. It was pressed against the leather pocket on the saddle. In the frightened eyes of the Han soldiers, the cavalry rushed into the formation mercilessly. Countless spears quickly penetrated the bodies of one or even several Han soldiers like grasshoppers.
The Han army came from Lingnan. They originally benefited from living near the sea and there was always no shortage of horses in the developed maritime trade. However, perhaps after the Han Dynasty had weapons such as war elephants, the Han monarchs in the past generations seemed to have no regard for the cavalry. Not paying attention to it led to the Han army from top to bottom. Except for the generals, almost all of them were infantry. However, the high-speed charge of the cavalry was extremely fatal to the infantry.
In addition, the armor rate of the Han army is far lower than that of the Wuping army. Even if there are armored soldiers, they still follow the soft armor of the late Tang Dynasty. Weapons such as swords and spears may be able to withstand a few knives, but so what. Can it withstand the trampling of horse hooves? The moment Wang Changgeng led the Wuping cavalry to break in, they caused horrific casualties to the Han army.
The cavalry's spears took away the lives of hundreds of Han soldiers in an instant, and the spears were useless after the charge. According to the tactics used by Marshal Li Yuan in training, the cavalry abandoned their spears one after another, and then took off their swords from the saddles. , began to stab the Han army vertically and horizontally, galloping back and forth and trampling on them.
Wang Changgeng, as a native of the south of the Yangtze River, has been through battles for a long time, so he is not gentle in battle. Xu is a veteran general who is famous for being bold and fierce in battles. Even though he is older, he has never been gentle since he was in the palace. Since the Zhijun army followed Li Yuan, it has been promoted repeatedly, and now it has become the deputy commander of the Wuping Horse Army.
Today, Wang Changgeng still used his old tactics. He was tightly surrounded by thirty strong-backed guards. They rode their horses at high speed without losing their formation. They hugged each other and crushed into the Han army like a sharp iron cone. In the formation, all of their hands were long hammers or pumpkin hammers weighing tens of kilograms. These heavy weapons were not handy, but the power of heavy weapons when they were hit head on at high speed was extremely terrifying.
Even if the Han soldiers subconsciously resisted with their swords or shields, almost all of them were smashed to pieces with their shields attached. As long as they were hit by a heavy hammer, they would basically die.
Wang Changgeng and the thirty warriors beside him seemed to be very skilled at it. They wielded the big hammer to smash the heads of the Han soldiers. The movements were done in one go without any sloppiness. The heads of the Han soldiers that were hit cracked as easily as melons and fruits. In their hands, The hammer was stained with blood, hair and brains. This bloody scene was really brutal.
It was too late for the Han soldiers who were suddenly slaughtered to regret it. Even though the number of cavalry was obviously far greater, running back and forth on their legs to dodge seemed clumsy. The sword in their hands could only occasionally hit one of them. The cavalry galloping at high speed often aim at the neutral position and want to move forward to slash, but their thoughts are always blocked by the big hammer suddenly falling from the sky.
The Wuping cavalry had basically cut off the Han army's charge formation. Two thousand cavalry actually managed to cut five or six thousand Han troops into two pieces. The front team was already locked in a bitter battle, and the rear team saw the menacing Wuping cavalry. As well as dozens of mad war elephants, most of them stayed away.
The current situation is truly what Chai Kewu had envisioned previously. This young general, who had always taken Marshal Li Yuan as his role model, always kept in mind Marshal Li's analysis of cavalry tactics in the Jiedushi Mansion in Langzhou. Even if the enemy's army is several times larger than your own on the battlefield, as long as the opponent mainly fights on foot, a single elite cavalry is enough to turn the tide of the battle.
The sudden rampage of the elephant cavalry today really caught Chai Kewu off guard for a moment, but fortunately, the Wuping Army has always had the tradition of preparing a mobile cavalry team in order to prevent sudden changes in the battle situation. Even if they cannot win, they can still use this sharp sword to kill them in time. Stop the enemy's offensive.
When he saw Wang Changgeng's cavalry gradually splitting up the opponent's formation, Chai Kewu's eyes lit up and he gave the order to stop retreating without hesitation. The entire army turned around and attacked as quickly as possible. Now most of the Han army had left the city. , as long as they can fight to the death to eat this enemy force, the overall situation is basically decided.
The high command flag was waving in the air, and Sergeant Wu Ping, who was retreating, had to grit his teeth and turn around after receiving the order. At this time, not only Chai Kewu personally went into battle, but also the miscellaneous soldiers and craftsmen who protected the food, grass and baggage, thousands of soldiers and horses of the Chinese army gave orders to Chai Kewu. After the order to attack, they all launched an attack and quickly jumped into the chaotic battle groups ahead. In addition, the front army gathered a total of more than 10,000 troops, forming an absolutely superior force to defeat the 5,000 to 6,000 Han troops and dozens of still raging troops. The war elephants were trapped together in the chaos.
Below Chenzhou City, the area within a radius of two to three miles is a battlefield, with bones and flesh flying everywhere, rivers of blood flowing everywhere, and there is no quiet place. Looking at the entire battlefield, each of the nearly 20,000 people on both sides were like crazy beasts, slashing and killing each other with red eyes. With every breath, dozens of lives were left here forever, and eventually they were transformed from living bodies into Into a stiff, cold corpse.
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