The dust and smoke rising from behind the army formation and the faint shouts of killing made Li Xiaozong's heart tighten suddenly. From the moment Mandu wolves came head-on with two thousand Mandu banner cavalry, Li Xiaozong began to feel uneasy. He and Mandu Wolf have been rivals for three years, and he knows what kind of temperament the other party is, so after he found something wrong, the first thing he did was to order Pan Mei to quickly retreat with a Zhechong battalion to defend Qingxia, but ... It's still too late.
A qualified general can roughly judge the number of enemies by the smoke and dust raised from behind. Li Xiaozong didn't need to send scouts to inquire about the news, he could guess that Pan Mei's troops in the Zhechong camp were probably already under siege at this time. Coupled with Pan Mei's arrogant temperament, she may not maintain her formation when she retreats. Under the sudden attack, it is really worrying whether that Zhechong camp can be kept.
"Zhao Sen, you bring a Zhe Chong Battalion back immediately to support Pan Mei, and decide your own tactics according to the situation. If Pan Mei can be saved, then you must rescue him. If Pan Mei is deeply trapped and difficult to rescue, you immediately lead someone to tear the mouth open. No matter what, we must ensure that the canyon is unblocked!"
"General!"
Zhao Sen said eagerly: "If I take away another Zhechong battalion, you will only have two Zhechong battalions left. Two thousand and four hundred infantry... Mandulang has two thousand elite cavalry, I'm afraid..."
"You don't have time to worry about me."
Li Xiaozong said coldly: "I said that since I am your general today, you have to obey any orders I give you, and you should understand that compared to opening the passage for the follow-up brigade, I am the leader of the army. Insignificant."
"Here!"
Looking at Li Xiaozong's resolute face, Zhao Sen knew that he could not shake the determination of this young general. Although Li Xiaozong was cautious enough to lead his troops out of the canyon, he still made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. According to the Twelve Military Orders promulgated by His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, if someone has ulterior motives to hold on to them, it is already a capital offense.
He didn't know this young general very well, he only knew that he was from the Li family in Longyou, the nephew of General Li Yuanshan, and that Dean Zhou had even praised him more than once when he was in the Martial Arts Academy. Of course, he also knew that Li Xiaozong was a person who had just been revived before the war, and his career and life were almost cut off before.
Originally, Zhao Sen had no respect for such a young and famous general. But today, the determination on Li Xiaozong's face made him feel admiration from the bottom of his heart.
"General take care!"
Zhao Sen cupped his fists, then turned and left.
"Wait!"
Li Xiaozong called him to stop and said: "Blow the horn, gather the two hundred cavalrymen who have dispersed, and if Pan Mei cannot be rescued, use these two hundred cavalrymen to tear a hole and kill them."
"We only have these two hundred cavalry, it's better to save them to support the general!"
Zhao Sen said loudly.
"yes… "
Li Xiaozong sighed: "We only have 200 cavalry, which is very precious. But this is a battlefield, and it is precisely because the 200 cavalry are precious that they should be used in the most suitable place. Go... No matter what the situation on my side is, You are not allowed to turn around to support, even if I die here, you don't need to collect the body. Qingxia... is your position."
"Here!"
Zhao Sen shouted loudly, rubbed his sore nose and strode away. After taking away a Zhechong battalion, Li Xiaozong's troops became thinner and thinner. The mandu wolf on the opposite side didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack, but watched Li Xiaozong divide his troops again with great interest.
"Taler!"
Seeing that one of the rear troops of the Sui army had been separated, Mandulang smiled and ordered: "I'll give you three centurions, do you dare to tear apart the Sui army's formation from the middle!"
The man named Tale was a very burly and sturdy prairie man with a typical beard of prairie people, thick eyebrows and glaring eyes, and his voice was like the ringing of a bell.
"Why don't you dare? If the general is willing to reward me with a beauty from the Northern Liao region, I dare to take three hundred horses to kill Fan Gu!"
"Ha ha!"
Mandu Lang laughed loudly and said, "If you capture Li Xiaozong alive, I will reward you with two beauties from Beiliao, and a cold horse from Beiliao!"
"Thank you General!"
Thaler chuckled, not paying attention to the two thousand elite Sui soldiers on the opposite side at all.
"Children, follow me to kill!"
With a roar, he took off the mace tied to his back and urged the horse to rush out. Three hundred Mandu banner cavalry followed behind him, yelling and rushing forward. It looked like three hundred hungry wolves that saw their prey. The speed of the Mongolian cavalry is extremely fast, and everyone is a good horseman. They can even easily drive wild horses that are not equipped with saddles and pedals, just as natural as southerners driving boats.
Three hundred cavalry, using Thaler as an arrow, formed a sharp-looking conical formation and rushed towards the Great Sui army formation.
This is the first time in more than a hundred years that the Mongols and Sui people have confronted each other head-on. Although the scale of this confrontation is not large, it has far-reaching significance. Both Mandu Wolf and Li Xiaozong knew the significance of this first battle. Whoever wins will take the lead.
If the Mongols wiped out all the 5,000 Sui troops who passed through the canyon, then the pride of the Sui soldiers would be severely smashed.
"Undefeated in a hundred battles?"
Mandu Lang looked at the flying red flag of the Sui Dynasty on the opposite side, with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth: "What I have broken today is your undefeated reputation!"
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"Zhang Zhen, Cui Min is here."
Li Xiaozong ordered loudly: "You two protect the two wings, and you are not allowed to move without my military order. Even if Meng Yuan's cavalry rushed into the central army, you will not be allowed to rescue if you don't hear the sound of the horn!"
"Here!"
The other two generals, Zhang Zhen and Cui Minlai, responded at the same time, and returned to the two wings to preside over the battle.
"Archer!"
Li Xiaozong urged his horse forward and commanded himself at the front of the battle formation.
"Shoot arrows!"
Following Li Xiaozong's order, a row of archers standing in the front drew a special feathered arrow from the quiver. The whole body of this feathered arrow was painted bright red, and it was thicker than ordinary feathered arrows. After giving the order, the archers in the first row immediately put this special feathered arrow on the bowstring, and more than a hundred people shot the arrows in unison. Their arrows were shot at a very high elevation angle, and the feathered arrows they shot were at the limit of the range of the hard bows in their hands.
More than a hundred red feathered arrows shot out in volley, drawing a beautiful arc in midair and landing one after another. About two hundred and thirty steps away, a red line appeared on the ground. This kind of feather arrow is called standard arrow. The function is to let the archer clearly know when the enemy enters the range.
When the horseshoes of Taler's three hundred cavalrymen jumped over the red line formed by the marked arrows, Li Xiaozong raised the command flag fiercely.
"First round, throw and shoot!"
More than three hundred archers immediately raised their hard bows and replaced them with expensive armor-piercing cones. This kind of feather arrow can easily tear through thin armor. Unless the enemy is wearing several layers of thick leather armor, or wearing expensive chain armor, it cannot stop the shooting of the armor-piercing cone.
The first round of feathered arrows drew an arc in midair, and more than 300 feathered arrows slammed into the formation of Mandu banner cavalry like hail falling from midair. The first round of projectiles is a covering blow, and there is no precision at all. But this kind of blow is very difficult to defend because it covers a large area and the feather arrow always falls from mid-air. For the infantry's group charge, the archers on the defensive side are extremely lethal. But for light cavalry who are moving forward at a high speed, the lethality of projectiles is greatly reduced.
The feather arrows smashed into the crowd of Mandu Banner cavalrymen, and immediately twenty or thirty cavalrymen were shot down and fell off their horses. Thaler waved the mace and dropped two feathered arrows one after another, the wildness in his eyes became more and more intense. It is obviously not suitable to use a heavy weapon like a mace to smash down feather arrows, but his arms are extremely powerful, and the mace that is difficult for ordinary people to wield is as light as a bamboo pole in his hand.
"kill!"
Thaler roared loudly, and the Mandu Banner Cavalry behind them roared in unison.
"Huha!"
Huha, it is the slogan for the Mongolian cavalry to charge. It has almost the same meaning as the Sui army shouting forward when charging.
"Second round, flat shot, let it go!"
Li Xiaozong issued another order, and more than 300 archers lowered their hard bows a little, raised them slightly, and the feathered arrows shot out in an instant. After the second command was issued, Li Xiaozong immediately waved the command flag and said, "The third round, shoot and let go!"
The archers focused all their eyes on the cavalry in front of the enemy, and in the third round, more than 300 feathered arrows were shot out in a very dense manner. The feathered arrows shot were like a huge fist, slamming into the oncoming Mandu banner cavalry. Thaler waved the mace in front of him, and pushed away three or four feathered arrows in a row, but in the end there was still some gaps, and a feathered arrow ruthlessly tore through his leather armor and burrowed into his shoulder. inside.
The pain made this burly prairie man even more violent, he ignored the quivering feather arrow on his shoulder, and urged his horse to crash straight into the Great Sui army formation.
"The archers retreat!"
Li Xiaozong ordered loudly: "The giant shield moves forward, and the long spears line up!"
About a hundred soldiers holding human-high giant shields quickly replaced the archers and rushed to the front. Following the commander's order, the hundred giant shields poked heavily on the ground, as if a wall suddenly appeared on the ground. Same. The long lance behind rushed to the back of the giant shield, put the long lance on the giant shield, and raised the lance forward.
The well-trained Sui Youxiaowei soldiers completed the change in a very short period of time. In an instant, the army formation turned into a hedgehog curled up into a ball.
Boom!
The cavalrymen of the Mandu Banner slammed into the huge shield fiercely, and the soldiers who squatted on the ground and carried the huge shield on their shoulders were knocked over and trampled by the horses that came up, and the wailing sounded immediately. However, the Mandu Banner cavalrymen who trampled them to death were also stabbed to death by the long spears raised on the opposite side. took their lives.
"Slay through the Sui army and cut down their general flag!"
Thaler, whose body was half soaked in blood, smashed the head of a Tai Sui soldier with a stick, and the leather helmet was smashed down, and the bright red blood and white brains mixed together and burst out, and there were many broken bones. The Sui soldier fell limply before he could utter a cry, and his ribs were crushed by Thaler's horse.
Thaler took the remaining 200 cavalrymen and tore through the shield formation of Tai Sui like a knife, but was deeply trapped in the formation and couldn't extricate himself. The dense forest of long spears makes the cavalry feel like falling into a quagmire, and it is impossible to give full play to the speed advantage of Qingqi.
It was the first time in Taler's life that he fought against the Sui people, but it was not the first time he killed people. He had led troops to massacre other tribes on the grassland several times, and those small tribes who did not follow the orders of the Mandu banner owner had to die. He has extraordinary force and is a famous warrior in Mandu Banner.
But today, this warrior found that he couldn't use all his strength at all.
Those hateful Sui people, their spear formations seem to be the natural nemesis of cavalry! Once the cavalry who came and went like the wind got stuck, the knight sitting high on the horseback became the target of those long spears.
Thaler kept waving the mace, smashing to death four Sui people's long spears one after another. But his war horse only took one step forward.
Just as he swept away the Sui soldiers in front of him with a stick, two long spears stabbed from the left side, and with a bang, they slashed open the belly of his horse. When the spears were pulled out, the internal organs of the horse were mixed Thick and foul-smelling blood suddenly fell out.
After the war horse let out a whine, it slowly fell down, and Thaler fell down because of his instability.
Before he could stand up, a long spear stabbed fiercely at his chest. He rolled abruptly to get away from Leng Feng, but there was a sharp pain in his calf.
Thaler let out a cry, and when he looked down, he found that his left leg had been pierced by a long spear and nailed to the ground. He wanted to swing the mace to smash that damned long lance, but he raised his arm when he was hit by the second long lance. The next second, the third long lance pierced into his lower abdomen, and another Seconds later, the fourth long spear pierced his heart.
Five or six long lances of the Sui Dynasty surrounded the tall grassland man who fell to the ground, continuously raised the lances, and then poked them down fiercely.
After a while... where can I see the face of that man
The smell of internal organs mixed with the stench of feces is disgusting.