On the land in the north of Liuzhou, the Beimang front line with superior military strength is naturally longer, densely packed like locusts passing through.
Huang Songpu's close to 20,000 direct line cavalry gradually moved away from the cavalry on the left and right flanks by 200 steps.
The 20,000 cavalry skillfully formed ten large rows, and the rows were quite wide apart. Generally speaking, four rows of heavy cavalry were in front, and five rows of light cavalry followed. Only one row of light cavalry followed the first row of heavy cavalry.
The so-called heavy cavalry under Huang Songpu's command are the elite cavalry in the general sense of the Beimang grassland, not the king's account heavy cavalry that the old woman in Beimang regards as the most important treasure of the country, not the Beiliang Zhihu Weixiong, which is worthy of the name. The heavy cavalry army is different from the simple leather armor of the light cavalry pawns. Most of the armor worn is scale armor with cowhide lining, which is imitated from the cavalry uniform of the Dafeng Dynasty that claimed to be "unparalleled in armor and horses". They are connected like fish scales and heavier than chain mail. Generally, horse bows cannot penetrate armor. Horses of this type of heavy cavalry can occasionally wear a small amount of leather armor. on the saddle.
The battle of Liangmang cavalry has been going on for more than 20 years. Beimang is not suitable for the strategy of gathering and dispersing with cavalry and infantry. Facing the well-known Beiliang frontier army, pretending to retreat will only be self-defeating.
Just when Huang Songpu's first row of light cavalry was about to speed up and rush forward through the gap between the heavy cavalry.
Anomalies abound.
Next, it was supposed to be Huang Songpu who took the lead in using that row of light cavalry to block the charge of the Beiliang cavalry with his life, and then handed over the four rows of heavy cavalry behind him to pierce through the enemy's formation in one go!
However, the Liuzhou Dragon Elephant Cavalry Army, which was advancing at the same time, suddenly changed its formation, and it became inexplicable. Wanqi, who was in the middle, put a little buffer intentionally or unintentionally. Then he no longer deliberately kept the horse's leg strength, and accelerated suddenly, almost bypassing Huang Songpu's army in the middle, and inserted in the direction, which happened to connect with the weak three battalions in the scattered formation. This was like cutting off Huang Songpu's troops on the spot. The two arms other than the main force!
too fast.
It was premeditated!
In the event of a change, Huang Songpu did not hesitate at all, and continued to lead the army forward bravely. Even if the formation was successfully pierced by two dragon and elephant troops in the gap, there were only 10,000 capable infantry stationed in the camp of the Chinese army. No worries about bombing camps. Once the two sides turn their horses and charge again, the hundreds of heavy cavalry hidden in the left camp are closest to the king's tent iron cavalry. As long as they take the opportunity to fight out, they may be able to completely defeat one of the dragon elephant troops!
If the charge of the two Beiliang cavalry troops on the left and right was full of trickery, then the fierce collision between the two Chinese troops was a head-to-head confrontation without delay.
First, Huang Songpu's row of light cavalry accelerated through the gap and moved forward rapidly, throwing javelins. These light cavalry were all men with outstanding physical strength in the frontier army of the Southern Dynasty. Within fifty steps, the power of the javelin surpassed the horse bow by countless numbers!
It was almost a face-to-face meeting, and the three hundred dragon elephant soldiers fell off their horses and died on the spot.
However, the first row of strikers of the Northern Liang Cavalry Army is still marching in unison, everyone's face is indifferent, and those who are afraid of death will die first!
No matter what the other armies in the world are like, this truth has been passed on by the soldiers of the Xu family from the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains all the way to the Northwest Frontier Fortress for over forty years!
This row of Bei Mang rode lightly behind the javelins, or drew their knives out of their scabbards or dropped their horse ropes, facing the row of long spears lying horizontally like a forest, they were also brave and fearless.
Fighting for life and death with the Beiliang frontier army, how can I survive, the Northern Mang Southern Dynasty frontier army has also experienced a full twenty years!
Just passing by, nearly Qian Beimang Qingqi was shot to death on the horse's back.
Those light cavalry will face the next row of iron guns of the Dragon Elephant Army.
It is destined to be a tragic ending.
This is the real cavalry clash.
There is no horse bow shooting, no fancy moves.
Because of the resolute sacrifice of this line of light cavalry, the first spear collision between the Liang and Mang sides gave Huang Songpu an inherent advantage in the line of heavy cavalry.
Huang Songpu and nearly a hundred personal followers lined up next to him, most of them shot the enemy and dismounted almost without any suspense.
In the collision of cavalry, those who fall from their horses will undoubtedly die. This is the iron law of the border.
The cavalry charged, and the iron spears opened the battle. It is extremely taboo to shoot through the enemy's body. Even if it can be drawn quickly, it will still delay the opportunity of the battle. Life and death are on the line. Otherwise, where does the word chisel come from
Killing with one hit while requiring maximum power storage is the guarantee of surviving to the end.
General Huang Songpu brought out the cavalry of the direct line, after all, they were among the top elite in the frontier army of the Southern Dynasty. Excluding the first column of light cavalry, the casualties were extremely heavy, and the next three columns of heavy cavalry exchanged battles with the Liuzhou Dragon Elephant Army. The loss is only a slight disadvantage.
Quietly, the last row of heavy cavalry was at the end, and four rows of light cavalry rushed across the front line quickly.
Because Huang Songpu knew very well that on the battlefield, with his last breath, he couldn't fall!
Among the 10,000 dragon elephant troops on the left wing, an elegant-looking middle-aged general acted as the head of the cone, and brazenly opened the formation. The cavalry in front of this formation were all pioneer battalion daredevils, who died the earliest and fastest.
The army on the western front of Beimang was no stranger to this man, and after the confrontation ten days ago, they hated him even more.
Probably in the entire Beiliang Frontier Army, this man was the only one who could be so unique, holding an iron spear, swords hanging from his left and right waists, and halberd pouches on both sides of the saddle.
It was Li Mofan, the deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army who was brave and good at fighting in the Beiliang Army, but became notorious!
The breakthrough of this ten thousand cavalry was precisely the cavalry army of the central army of the Pu tribe in the Huang Song Dynasty and the cavalry of the Jia family in Longguan. Probably no one expected that the northern Liang cavalry would avoid frontal combat. , It looks like a broken bamboo, just like cutting tofu with a knife, with ease.
The insertion of another dragon-elephant light cavalry was more relaxed. Several cavalry troops gathered from the high gates of the Southern Dynasty B rushed out of the camp. There was a gap with the formation of the Chinese army, and they were instantly flanked by ten thousand cavalry. Cutting off a large area, unexpectedly killed more than a thousand riders abruptly. If it is said that the two sides collided head-on with tens of thousands of people and killed more than a thousand enemies, it would not seem so surprising, and even on the reckless battlefield that is used to endless deaths, it would not be a tragic word. But at present, this kind of assault formation is purely passing by. It is absurd that the side with the superior force will lose thousands of people. The Dragon Elephant Army, the No. 1 Qingqi army in the frontier army, even though the Northern Mang cavalry army had a strong desire to fight and had no timidity, they were still powerless.
If it is incredible enough to say that the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Dragon Elephant Army evaded the heavy and lightly intruded, then the subsequent performance of the Dragon Elephant Army made the main force on the western front of Beimang even more inexplicable.
After cutting out the formation, they should turn their horses' heads and launch a second charge. This is the meaning of the previous twenty years of reckless cavalry battles, but the scene that left the two cavalry battalions on the left and right of Beimang was dumbfounded. What happened, under the command of Li Mofan and another deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, 20,000 cavalry troops headed straight for the Beimang camp!
Beiliang's iron hooves easily broke through the simple horse-repelling line of the Beimang camp. After entering the camp, they were very familiar with the way, like wandering in their own courtyard, driving straight in with light horses, without any delay. The two torrents gradually merged, heading for the battle behind The weak supply battalion was quickly killed!
In contrast, the Dragon Elephant Army in the middle lane, which collided with the Huang Song Puzhong Army, suffered the most damage and the slowest speed. Both sides left more than two thousand corpses on the battlefield, and the Dragon Elephant Army was slightly over two thousand. Beimang is close to 3,000, this kind of exchange is enough to be called heroic.
Huang Songpu, who was covered in blood in his iron armor, had already stopped his horse and stood at the end, shaking off the blood from his gun. The old general reined in his horse and turned around, his eyes widened. He instantly understood the real intention of the Dragon Elephant Army, and roared angrily: "Wanyan Yinjiang! No need! Take care of the left and right flanks of the enemy army, desperately entangle this central army, and don't let them wander into the camp!"
The two cavalry battalions on the left and right of Beimang were aggrieved. After they had strayed from the two dragon-elephant Qingqi, they continued to run forward to meet the commander Huang Songpu's army. From Wanyan Yinjiang to those commanders and commanders under his command, they all realized that today's battle is destined to be different from the past! Therefore, regardless of the formation, the vanguard of the double-battalion cavalry quickly turned around, and the rear cavalry, which had not yet missed the dragon elephant army in the middle, began to thrust in obliquely, trying to cut it inch by inch, like chopping a long snake! Once a cavalry army loses its formation, it also loses its speed to a large extent, and when it gets stuck in a quagmire, it can only wait to die.
There is no doubt about the bravery of the Dragon Elephant Army, but they are not invincible gods after all, so it is impossible to remain invincible under such circumstances.
Faced with this predicament, the Dragon Elephant Army in the middle road did not hesitate to make the move of the strong men cutting their wrists. The thousand or so cavalry located on the front line of the two wings spread out for the first time, and invisibly drew with the large cavalry army in the middle. Open a large distance to delay the desperate collision of the Northern Mang cavalry army on both sides.
The Thousand Dragon Elephant Army who resolutely shifted their formation was exchanging their lives for a stable formation of the main cavalry.
A thousand cavalry on both sides of the periphery that kept away from the main force ran as hard as they could. Driven by the cavalry of the Dragon Elephant Army, the horses with a tacit understanding did not care about physical strength at all.
Full of the magnificence of moths to a flame.
Qingqimen from the Dragon Elephant Army kept being stabbed off their horses by the spears of the Northern Mang Cavalry Army, and then were lightly wiped by the Northern Mang Barbarians with their swords, provoking a head.
One was pulled off the back of the horse by the lasso used by the Northern Mang Cavalry Army, and was dragged all the way, bloody and bloody.
This disorganized Dragon Elephant Army, thousands of riders, will surely die in the face of the continuous enemy forces from the Northern Mang.
One of the riders was stabbed in the shoulder by a spear from Beimang, and while he was crumbling, he still stabbed the neck of the enemy rider with a single shot, but was soon knocked off the horse by the next rider from Beimang, and finally his body was still intact. When he fell to the ground, he was cut off by the third Northern Mang cavalry soldier who was skilled in horsemanship and cut off his head.
I can't stop it.
Huang Songpu, who led the main force and turned around to fight again, sighed heavily.
The veteran did not expect that the real intention of the Dragon Elephant Army this time would be the supply battalion, which is an important place for food and grass, let alone that they are so familiar with the internal deployment of their own camp.
So everything happened so fast.
This is true for the sudden formation of the left and right wings of the Dragon Elephant Army, the attack of the main force in the middle, and the sacrifice of the thousand dragon elephant army riding among them.
Let this accomplished Beimang veteran be caught off guard!
Huang Songpu suddenly turned his head to look.
The horseshoes burst and the dust flew up.
Huang Songpu said in a low voice to one of his subordinates: "pass down the order, all the infantry in the battalion will leave the camp to form a formation in the south of the camp! Order the army of the left battalion to follow us in the middle to hunt down the dragon and elephant army, and each of them will go around the camp. Trapeze the enemy army as soon as possible! Don't be greedy for merit, if the Dragon Elephant Army tries to retreat back to Qingcang City, one of the cavalry must be killed nearby! Also, let Wanyan Yinjiang lead the army to block the 10,000 cavalry behind. State General Kou Jianghuai's cavalry army is mostly young and strong refugees, mixed with some Liangzhou frontier troops, and their combat power is not worth mentioning."
Huang Songpu suddenly added: "By the way, tell Wanyan Yinjiang, be careful that Xu Longxiang himself may be hidden in Kou Jianghuai's army, don't worry about other things!"
At the same time, a middle-aged man wearing an ordinary chain mail beside Huang Songpu smiled and said: "If the general is worried, I will go to Wanyan Yinjiang's side and learn about Xu Longxiang, who is the enemy of thousands."
Huang Songpu glanced at the second head of the Zhong family, and nodded.