The troops of Chen Dingnan and Xiahou Baichuan swooped quickly around the northern barbarian team, just like two sharks circling around a group of people who fell into the water. The two cavalry crossed twice every time they made a circle, and the northern barbarians had nothing to do with such a rogue style of play.
Mr. Xie didn't care about the life and death of the northern barbarians at all, he just resented Fang Jie's attitude. In addition, he wanted to entangle Fang Xie. If he could deal a certain blow to Fang Xie's cavalry, it would definitely benefit the Sui court in countering the rebellion. Now the emperor has reached a difficult point. Once Fang Jie's tens of thousands of cavalry troops return to the Central Plains, it will be worse for the court.
People in Chang'an City and even Gyeonggi Province were still singing and dancing in the court's hoodwink, but in fact, the entire Sui Dynasty was in chaos in the northwest, southwest, and south of the Yangtze River. This kind of deception may not be exposed for a long time. Once Gyeonggi Province falls into chaos, the court will not be able to suppress it.
Mr. Xie's mind is full of how to revive the Xie family in the south of the Yangtze River. It is not how loyal he is to the emperor, but that with the strength of the Xie family, they can only rely on the court to revive it. It's not that he hasn't wavered, wondering whether the Xie family would achieve the same goal if they attached themselves to the rebels. But this idea was quickly rejected by him. Those rebels would not reuse the Xie family, because the Xie family did not have enough capital.
And once the imperial court succeeds in countering the rebellion, those aristocratic families who secretly supported the rebellion will suffer catastrophe. The emperor has the courage to break through and then stand up, with the determination to let the Sui go back decades or even a hundred years, this is the only chance for the Xie family.
Xie Jia, once so brilliant.
In fact, the downfall of the Xie family was also caused by the suppression of the Sui royal family. No one knows better than the Xie family. In the war to overthrow Dazheng's rule, the Xie family, together with some big families, provided huge support for the rebels. And because of this, after the Yang family ascended to the dominant position, they started the project of cutting tofu with a soft knife, starting with some relatively weak families, and gradually testing the bottom line of those families.
The Xie family is the flag that was abandoned in this kind of soft struggle between the aristocratic family and the royal family. When the Yang family first ruled, those aristocratic families would always make some concessions.
The ridiculous thing is that the Xie family pinned their hope of rising on the Yang family instead.
Seeing the panicked reaction of the northern barbarians, Mr. Xie was expressionless at first. Even if these northern barbarians were all dead, he wouldn't care. Whether it was prompting the northern barbarians to mobilize troops against Mongolia or the other side, it was not a bad thing for the emperor. And the opponent's mobilization of troops seems to be more beneficial to the emperor from now on.
Although Fang Jie's pure cavalry team did not seem to have much advantage after returning to the Central Plains, because pure cavalry could not attack cities and villages, and they were far less threatening than infantry in the Central Plains. It would be a waste to let the cavalry dismount to attack the city.
But Mr. Xie also knows that in troubled times, people have the idea of attaching to a certain force for self-protection. Once Fang Jie's cavalry returned to the Central Plains and won a few battles and showed their strength, it would not be difficult to recruit infantry. As long as there are abundant supplies, how can it be too difficult to recruit troops in troubled times
All these were in his mind, and he didn't even notice the begging on the face of the northern barbarians when they looked at him.
"Sir, if you continue to fight passively like this, the northern barbarians will lose more than tens of thousands of horses. If their courage is defeated, they will not be so obedient in the future."
A close friend whispered in Mr. Xie's ear.
Mr. Xie hummed, raised his clairvoyance and looked into the distance. After a while, he finally saw a group of people on a high slope a few miles away. Said to... Let the Northern Barbarian King send people to rush over there, don't care how the cavalry stop them, just force Fang Xie to retreat from the high slope, his cavalry has no semaphore command, and such a huge battlefield will soon be destroyed. There will be mistakes."
Mr. Xie was right. The Northern Barbarians numbered more than half a million people, and the area occupied by the formation was extremely large. Among Fang Xie's several cavalry teams, they all relied on Xie's banners above the high slope to command. Once the forcing party is released from the high slope, it will be difficult to win if the cavalry who have lost their command fight on their own in such a huge area.
"This subordinate will go here."
Mr. Xie's confidant responded, and turned around to go to the northern barbarian king in the rear. After turning around, he heard the rear team was in chaos, and the mournful shouts of the northern barbarians spread far away.
"what happened?"
Mr. Xie asked.
"This subordinate is going to investigate!"
His confidant urged the horse to rush out, and Mr. Xie frowned more and more when he heard the chaos in the rear.
Just after the two cavalry crossed the northern barbarian rear, the rear barbarian subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but before the breath came out, another cavalry rushed over aggressively from behind the team. The two cavalry teams had crossed once before, and after the second time, the northern barbarians subconsciously followed the two cavalry, but when they were negligent, Chen Qianshan's five thousand light cavalry Like a knife, it stabbed fiercely into the northern barbarians' rear team.
When they were attacked suddenly, the northern barbarians' rear team immediately fell into chaos.
Following Fang Jie's order, Chen Qianshan didn't go straight to kill the barbarian team. After all, there are more than 500,000 barbarians, and the array is too thick. Once trapped, it will be difficult to get out. His cavalry first swept away the outermost layers of barbarian soldiers with two rounds of feather arrows, then swept across the barbarian array horizontally, and cut down another layer with horizontal knives.
The team's time from cutting in to leaving was very short, but the psychological blow to the barbarians was extremely heavy.
However, Chen Qianshan's cavalry slashed the barbarian and then quickly retreated. Before the barbarians could stabilize their formation, Lu Fenghou's 5,000 cavalry came again and chopped off a large piece of meat from the barbarian team again.
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Mr. Xie's face turned extremely ugly, and he couldn't help but see the barbarians in the back team pushing the front team. After the personal soldier reported, he immediately urged the horse back, and loudly ordered the Northern Man King to order the team to stabilize.
But the northern barbarians have always played in one go. When they win, these barbarians can't stop them screaming and rushing forward. When they are in a disadvantage, it is difficult to summon their courage. The chaos in the rear team became more and more difficult to control, even if the Northern Man King ordered them to stand firm, it would not help.
This tactic is very similar to Mengyuan wolf cavalry but has many differences. It was only at this moment that Mr. Xie truly understood the frightening aspect of Fang Xie's opponent. This man, in a short period of time, not only transformed the Black Banner Army into a cavalry, but also found a tactic suitable for the current black cavalry by improving the tactics of the wolf cavalry.
The cavalry of the Black Banner Army is far inferior to the wolf cavalry in controlling horses, and their skills in killing the enemy on horseback are not as good as that of the wolf cavalry. Therefore, the cavalry of the Black Banner Army has always avoided direct contact with the northern barbarians, lest they be involved by hundreds of thousands of northern barbarians. They have maximized the advantage of cavalry speed. Although their cavalry and shooting are not as good as wolf cavalry, there are too many northern barbarians and the formation is too dense. As long as the feather arrows are released, they can hurt the enemy. It's a little outrageous, but extremely effective.
The two Black Banner cavalry in the rear of the storm had the same wheels, one rushed over to attract the attention of the northern barbarians, and then the other rolled over from the flank and slashed away. Going around in circles like this left the northern barbarians with no strength left to fight back. While the rear team was hacking in turn, the two cavalry of Chen Dingnan and Xiahou Baichuan were still circling around the northern barbarian army formation. The cavalry pounced and took a bite.
"An angel!"
The Northern Barbarian King shouted anxiously at Mr. Xie: "What should I do!"
she asked.
Mr. Xie's anger was in full swing, and he was even angrier when he heard the call of the Northern Man King. He urged his horse to point at the Northern Man King and shouted: "I have brought you so many benefits and led you out of the barren land. Now you need You show your courage, but you ask me what to do?!"
He pointed at the place where Fang Jie was and said loudly, "Send people to attack over there. The enemy leader will command the cavalry with a flag on that high slope. As long as the enemy leader is killed, the Han army will be finished!"
"An angel..."
The Northern Man King hesitated and said, "Why don't we retreat first..."
"retreat?!"
Mr. Xie was furious: "At this moment you say to retreat? Have you forgotten what I said to you so soon? I come to recognize you as the king of the northern barbarians on behalf of God, and I can also take your golden rod on behalf of God. Take it back! If you still want to get God's protection, don't tell me the word retreat!"
"yes… "
The King of the Northern Man looked at the golden staff in his hand, lowered his head and replied, "Everything is obeyed by the envoy of God."
When she lowered her head, not only fear but also resentment flashed in her eyes.
The Northern Barbarian King sent two capable men to break away from the formation with about 50,000 Northern Barbarians and rush towards the high slope where Fang Xie was. The moment he saw the northern barbarians coming out, Fang Jie immediately ordered his soldiers to wave the banner. Behind him stood a row of guards, holding flags of several colors. Each color flag corresponds to a cavalry team.
After the flag was waved, Zhuge Wuyin and Liu Xuri, who had not been dispatched all this time, rushed out from behind Gaopo with 20,000 cavalry. They didn't care about the tens of thousands of northern barbarians rushing towards Gaopo, but brushed against the body of this barbarian soldier and rushed over, slamming into the front of the northern barbarian formation. At this time, the northern barbarians had just divided their troops, and the already loose formation in front became even more chaotic.
The moment the 20,000 cavalry cut in from the front, the northern barbarians were completely panicked.
Zhuge Wuji brandished his long spear and used him as the front arrow to poke into the barbarian team. This time, it was different from Chen Qianshan's and others' tactics before. The 20,000 cavalry were divided into four teams, and like four sharp knives, they pierced in when the barbarians were in a panic, constantly expanding the torn hole.
The more the cavalry killed, the more excited they became, and the swords saw blood.
"Kill through!"
"Black Banner Army, move forward!"
Several generals took the lead in shouting, and the long-lost bloodiness of the cavalry gushed out of their bones and was out of control. Facing half a million barbarians, how magnificent is it when they shouted the slogan of killing and piercing? !
This bloody scene completely stimulated the murderous spirit of the cavalry of the Black Banner Army. The training results of the past few months were fully displayed at this moment. Although they were still not as good as wolf cavalry, they found a suitable opponent, the most suitable opponent, and the northern barbarians made them extra confident.
When Zhuge Wuyin and Liu Xuri led the cavalry to charge in from the front, Fang Xie asked people to wave the banner, and Chen Dingnan and Xiahou Baichuan immediately brought 10,000 cavalry back from the flanks, and formed a formation of 50,000 barbarians from behind. Chaos.
Forty thousand cavalry made a mess of half a million barbarians.
Standing on the high slope, Fang Jie put his clairvoyance down, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "Let's go down too... I just wanted to restore the murderous spirit of the soldiers, and didn't plan to do anything to these barbarians, but since some people want to use barbarians as knives , first discounted the knife, and then discounted the person holding the knife."
He beckoned, and the white lion jumped over from a distance and fell down beside Fang Jie. Fang Jie turned over and pointed forward, and the lion immediately roared and rushed down the high slope. Like a white streamer, menacing.