Chapter 124 The Unforgivable Mistake
Chapter 124 Unforgivable Mistakes
Among the eight thousand vanguard cavalry led by Azige, there are two thousand such heavy armored iron cavalry!
Amid the sound of horse hooves like overwhelming horses, the Jiannu heavy cavalry in mail had rushed through the gaps of the baggage vehicles and collided with the thieves in public clothes. In front of the two armies, there were people slumping on their horses. The sound of tragic wailings, the sound of weapons and the angrily scolding and scolding of the soldiers of the two armies instantly intertwined into a circle, resounding throughout the sky.
The Jiannu heavy cavalry, carrying a strong inertia, easily crushed the two rows of thieves in front. Hundreds of thieves fell down in an instant and fell into a pool of blood. They were either hacked to death or hit to death.
If it weren't for the fact that the baggage vehicles that were horizontally in front of the formation seriously affected the charge of the Jiannu heavy cavalry, forcing many Jiannu heavy cavalry to slow down or bypass the formation, thus greatly reducing the assault power of the Jiannu heavy cavalry, the casualties of the bandits would not be only a few hundred people, and it might be possible that more than half of the casualties would be possible.
However, the Jiannu Chongqi, who rushed to the front, also suffered heavy casualties. At least one hundred Jiannu Chongqi died tragically under the spear of the bandits. Although the thief's body could not resist the collision of the Jiannu Chongqi, the sharp spear in their hands could easily pierce the mail on the Jiannu Chongqi's body.
Jiannu's mail has strong defense against slashing, but it lacks sufficient defense strength for straight stabs of arrows and guns.
"I've fought with you!"
Seeing so many good brothers, all of them were gone in the blink of an eye. Li Hu's eyes turned red with a heartache. He roared and pressed down with a gun. When the spear bounced up, Li Hu had already risen in the air and kicked away at the Jiannu heavy cavalry that was racing in front of him.
"puff!"
Li Hu kicked the head of the Jiannu Chongqin. With the crisp sound of the cervical vertebrae, Jiannu Chongqin fell from the horse without even humming. Li Hu landed on Jiannu’s horse and retracted his spear and swept across the Eight Wastelands. Two more Jiannu Chongqin, who had barely reached, were swept away by him.
"ha!"
Ajige roared, and the raised slashing sword slashed down fiercely, cutting a thief in front of him from his left shoulder to his right waist into two pieces. At the same time, the mount under his crotch also knocked away two thieves. The two thieves were hit to pieces and their bones were broken. Before they could land, they were already dead.
During the riot army, Li Hu and Ajige discovered each other almost at the same time. Then they urged the horse to advance quickly and raised swords and guns at the same time.
"kill!"
Li Hu shouted loudly and stabbed Ajige in the chest. Ajige ignored the spear that was stabbed in the chest. The saber in his hand still slashed Li Hu's neck. This guy was completely in a state of tying his life. Even if Li Hu pierced his chest with one shot, he would swear to cut off the head of the other party's hand with one knife.
"hateful!"
Li Hu groaned. He turned his spear and stood up to Ajige's slash. With a loud bang, Ajige and Li Hu felt their arms were sore and soft, and their mouths were numb. Their ground strength was even comparable. Their martial arts were equal!
However, after the two of them were staggered, there was basically no chance of meeting again on the battlefield. Li Hu had already rushed out of the car formation and faced the surging Jiannu cavalry alone, and Ajige would also be surrounded by bandits. Both of them would fight for their own survival and had no time to turn back and find the other to decide the outcome.
Although the bandits' chariot formation was not formed in time, the existence of these baggage vehicles still caused great obstacles to the Jiannu heavy cavalry and provided great protection to the bandits. With the protection of the baggage vehicles, Li Hu's two thousand bandits barely withstood the frontal attack of the Jiannu heavy cavalry. They did not disappear under the first wave of charge of the Jiannu heavy cavalry.
However, Jiannu had a total of 8,000 cavalry, and in addition to two thousand heavy cavalry, there were also six thousand light cavalry!
When two thousand heavy cavalry were entangled with the bandits, the subsequent six thousand light cavalry had already detoured from both wings and began to use bows and arrows to continuously kill the bandits in the chariot formation. If Li Yan could not make timely adjustments, it would be only a meal at most. Li Hu and the two thousand Qi County soldiers in other places would be destroyed.
On the east gate of Datong. Above the city tower.
"No, really not bad." The bearded man couldn't help but praise. "With an incomplete chariot array, he actually blocked the frontal assault of thousands of Jiannu heavy cavalry. These two thousand thieves are really good, manly!"
Scarface also said: "What is most admirable is their courage. They know that staying in the same place will only be a dead end, but they just don't take a step back. They would rather be crushed by Jiannu's heavy cavalry than retreat. This courage and determination are really good men."
Both the bearded man and the scarfaced face were from bandits, and they had no disgust towards the bandits, let alone hatred. Later, influenced by Wang Pu, the distinction between the government army and the bandits was even more indifferent. Although they had just fought with the bandits outside the city last night, they were all bloody men, and they all admired the same bloody men.
"What a pity." Zhao Xin shook his head and sighed, "In order to buy time for the bandits to form a formation, these two thousand bandits are probably going to fight all of them."
Zhao Liujin, who was on the other side, shook his head and said, "Yi Beizhi, even if these two thousand bandits are fighting all, I am afraid that the bandits' central army will not be able to form a circular defensive formation. Look, the bandits' central army is still in a mess. It takes less than half an hour to stand in a good formation, but will Jiannu Iron Cavalry give bandits so much time?"
Jiang Xuan, who was standing behind Zhao Liujin, suddenly said: "Unless Li Yan can use the thousands of bandits here to guard against us, otherwise, when the thousands of elite bandits in front are fighting all, the Jiannu Iron Cavalry will rush down with the momentum, and the bandits' army will be in chaos, and there will be no need to fight this battle."
Wang Pu's heart moved after hearing this, and turned around and said to Zhao Liujin: "Zhao Liujin."
Zhao Liujin rushed forward and replied loudly: "I am here."
Wang Pu said in a deep voice: "Let your local people shout in unison, 'If you are not my race, your heart will be different'."
"Ah?" Zhao Liujin said in confusion, "I'm not my race, but my heart must be the people?"
"Nonsense." Wang Pu frowned, "This is a military order!"
"Yes." Zhao Liujin responded with a loud promise and shouted at the Qianshang and a dozen generals behind him, "You guys, come here. Get out of here."
The bandits are in the army.
The Hongniang said anxiously: "My husband, Hu Zi is in danger!"
Li Yan frowned and silently stared at the noisy battlefield ahead. Only a trace of undetectable pain flashed across the corner of his eyes. These two thousand soldiers were all the soldiers he brought out of Qi County. Most of them were the same surname as him, and they were all children of the Li family. They watched them die one by one in battle. Li Yan's heart hurt more than anyone else!
But Li Yan had no choice. Before the central army formed a circular defensive formation, he could not let the two thousand soldiers retreat first. Even if all the two thousand soldiers were fought, he would do whatever he wanted! The only way Li Yan could do was to pray, pray in his heart that these two thousand soldiers were tenacious enough to last enough time.
But reality is cruel, and Li Yan soon discovered that his prayers were simply extravagant hopes.
Li Yan now knows that this group of cavalry that suddenly appeared was the Jiannu Iron Cavalry. Li Yan lacked enough knowledge of this sudden enemy, so he miscalculated their attack power. Li Yan originally thought that with Li Hu's leadership of two thousand Qi County soldiers, it was enough to hold the enemy back to at least half an hour.
With this half hour, more than 50,000 people from the central army were able to set up a rigorous circular defensive formation.
With a rigorous circular defensive formation, the rebel army was able to deal with the Jiannu cavalry with its strong military advantage, but Li Yan soon discovered that the attack power of the Jiannu cavalry was far beyond his imagination. In less than a moment, more than half of Li Hu's two thousand Qi County soldiers were killed or injured.
At this speed, at most one meal, the two thousand Qi County soldiers would be destroyed.
"Husband." Hongniang was so anxious that she stomped her feet and said, "Hurry up and let Senior Brother Jing's Laoya Camp and Li Xuan's Gushan Camp be pushed up, otherwise Huzi and Qixian Camp will be wiped out. Husband. These two thousand soldiers are all children of Qixian County, and these are all your efforts to train them."
Li Yan remained silent. He also wanted to let Laoya Camp and Gushan Camp be pushed up, but the officials in Datong City had to be guarded. If Laoya Camp and Gushan Camp be pushed up, the officials in Datong City took the opportunity to go out of the city to attack, the rebel army would be attacked from both sides, and they would be defeated faster and worse.
"My husband." The queen urged urgently. "Give orders quickly, it will be too late."
"If it is not my race, their hearts will be different!"
"If you are not a person of my race, your heart will be different!"
"If you are not a person of my race, your heart will be different!"
Just when Li Yan was hesitating, the neat and loud shouts of the Ming Dynasty's official army suddenly sounded on the head of Datong City. Li Yan's frown suddenly stretched out and shouted loudly: "Come here, I will immediately send Jing Maocheng and Li Xuan to lead their elite troops to support Qixian camp!"
"yes!"
The two personal soldiers responded with a loud promise and galloped away.
"Mr.!" The Hongniang looked at Li Yan affectionately and said in a low voice, "This battle is related to the life and death of the rebel army. I know that if the rebel army is defeated, you don't plan to go back to Henan to meet Li Zicheng alive. For the rebel army, and also for you, I will fight."
"Okay." Li Yan nodded gently, "Madam, you have to be careful."
The Hong Madam smiled brilliantly and said softly: "Don't worry, my husband, these Tartars can't hurt your wife, let's go!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hongniang was already galloping away. The only 400 bandit cavalry in the central army also followed Hongniang. The wind and dust were fierce. Hongniang wearing red clothes rode the same fiery red horse, like a ball of burning flames, carrying scorching heat waves, and rushed towards the noisy battlefield ahead like lightning.
At this time, Ajige, the vanguard general of Jiannu, had already been red-eyed in the bandit formation. This guy was waving his bloody sabre and rushing left and right in the bandit formation, and the blockers were invincible.
Ajige can't remember how many thieves died under his knife. Now he only has one thought left in his mind, that is, killing and killing! As for the eight thousand iron cavalry under his command, he has long been thrown away by him. Now Ajige just wants to kill among the troops!
Azige is a rare general, but he is definitely not a qualified commander. This time, Azige made at least four unforgivable mistakes when he encountered the thief!
First of all, Azig should not rashly launch an attack on the thieves in the uncertain situation of the enemy!
Secondly, Ajige should not have taken the Jiannu Iron Cavalry to attack Li Hu's chariot formation from the front, but should have taken the Jiannu Iron Cavalry to detour to the right wing of the bandits' land, and then launched a raid on the bandits' central army from the right wing. In this way, even if Li Yan had the ability to reach the sky and the earth, he would not be able to save the fate of the bandits' defeat.
Again, Ajige should not have been too entangled with Li Hu's two thousand thieves. When the enemy resisted stubbornly and the attack was not smooth, he should decisively order to detour to the enemy's flanks and look for a new fighter. But Ajige did not do so. He insisted on tearing the thieves' defense from the front, and finally got completely entangled with the Laoyao Camp and the more than 5,000 thieves in Gushan Camp that supported him.
When the Jiannu cavalry finally defeated the four bandits of Li Hu, Jing Maocheng, Li Xuan and Hongniangzi, the more than 50,000 bandits led by Li Yan had already formed a formation, rows of spearmen were ready, and teams of archers were ready to go. More than 50,000 bandits were hugging them tightly, like a hedgehog covered with spikes, lying quietly on the ground, waiting for Jiannu to go and bite them.
Chapter completed!