In the vast plain to the north of Laowo Mountain, horns whimpered, and the sound shook the sky.
There are 12,000 cavalry from the direct line of the Pu tribe in the Huang Song Dynasty, 14,000 cavalry from Wanyan Jing, and 34,000 cavalry from the second class, and there are also rare heavy cavalry with five or six hundred men and horses. The Northern Mang Cavalry Army, ready to go, dragged out five or six miles in depth, endlessly. Compared with the cavalry army in the early 30,000s who appeared on the frontal battlefield of Liuzhou Frontier Army in Beiliang, Beimang's high morale was not inferior, and its strength was far superior. The coach Huang Songpu did not deliberately pursue a surprising and winning formation. Although the battlefield here is extremely vast, the meritorious general who has been the number one player in the Southern Dynasty for more than ten years did not try his best to spread the front line, and obviously did not intend to fight an unprecedented grand occasion. The large-scale chaotic battles in the frontier army did not divide the formation of the left, middle and right armies like the Liuzhou frontier army. Instead, they used their own lineage as the vanguard, Wanyan Jingqi followed closely behind, and the most numerous B-character cavalry army followed layer by layer. In this way, the strength of the Beiliang frontier cavalry's natural armor is weakened to the greatest extent. While ensuring the thickness of their own formation, it can force the Liuzhou cavalry to get stuck in the mud and reduce the number of repeated charges. .
On the other hand, in the Spring and Autumn History Books, the prairie iron cavalry that "the western frontiers and northern borders are full of iron hooves, conflicts gallop, come and go like the wind, gather and disperse, and the central plains are unstoppable without the high city and great pass" has to choose this stable formation To carry out a cavalry battle, it sets off the outstanding combat power of the Beiliang cavalry.
Kou Jianghuai and Chen Xiliang stood on the top of Laowo Mountain with a great view, overlooking the battlefield, and you can see the cavalry from both sides after charging at the same time, like two floods colliding with each other.
Chen Xiliang has never regarded himself as a military strategist who is good at military affairs, and he has never treated the battlefield with the enthusiasm of a general. It can even be said that this amazing and talented second-generation Xu family counselor of Tingchao Pavilion is very good at fighting on the battlefield. There is an instinctive dislike of scholars. Confucianism advocates self-cultivation, family governance, and world peace. The essence or root lies in the word "Zhiping". Therefore, the world is governed and the world is peaceful, which is the real peace of mind for scholars.
Chen Xiliang subconsciously turned his head to look, only to see Kou Jianghuai, who was holding a horse with one hand and holding a knife with the other, with a calm expression on his face. Chen Xiliang is often compared with Xu Beizhi, who is also a counselor in Qingliang Mountain. This is like the temples of Western Chu who always like to comment on Kou Jianghuai and Xie Xizhen, who are both great Chu and Chu. In the official circles inside the Beiliang Pass and the frontier army outside the pass, Chen Xiliang, the leader of Liuzhou, and Xu Beizhi, a higher-ranking transfer envoy, are superior and inferior. On the contrary, the Beiliang Frontier Army recognizes Chen Xiliang, who has personally experienced the first reckless battle. , I think that Chen Xiliang has really taken over the mantle of Tingchao Pavilion Li Yishan, and it is not that there is no chance to reach a transcendent height that can be compared with him in the future. However, the official circles of the three states, especially Liangzhou Lingzhou, where Xu Beizhi had stayed, looked up to Xu Beizhi even more. Chen Xiliang is probably just an economic envoy in the frontier or a minister in the center.
Chen Xiliang didn't care much about these undercurrents in the upper echelons of Beiliang. Chen Xiliang is more open-minded to many officials in Yangchaotang who have passed the imperial examination and suddenly turned yellow and purple overnight, but people often half-jokingly say to him that Xu Beizhi has a dispute between superiors and inferiors. Even the governor Yang Guangdou is blunt. Don't fight, it depends on the timing, tell him that Chen Xiliang must never take it seriously and just give in. Chen Xiliang thinks that he has a better impression of Xie Xizhen, who is now leading the battle in Liuzhou. Compared with Kou Jianghuai, a son of the arrogant Guangling Dao family, he is more in line with the scholar's impression of a gentleman like jade, and getting along with him is like a spring breeze, while Kou Jianghuai is always like the sun at noon in summer, dazzling and dazzling.
But even so, Chen Xiliang gradually admired Kou Jianghuai from the bottom of his heart as he got closer to him. He remembered reading history when he was young. General", quite fascinated. Looking at the resolute side face of Kou Jianghuai, Chen Xiliang sighed in his heart that "a master of military art should be like this".
Kou Jianghuai didn't turn his head, and suddenly said: "If I win this battle, but Xie Xizhen dies, then for me, Beiliang won and I lost."
Chen Xiliang, who has been immersed in the officialdom for many years, naturally knows the mystery, and wondered: "In this case, why did Kou Jiangjun agree to General Xie to go to the North generously?"
Kou Jianghuai smiled, with a natural expression on his face, and said slowly, "The Spring and Autumn Dingding Battle West Wall, do you know how many cavalry troops on both sides actually entered the battlefield? In fact, the total number of cavalry is less than 140,000. It is far worse than in the middle and late stages of the battlefield, when both sides still frequently reinforce 40,000 to 50,000 infantry at one time. This is because the troops of both countries were exhausted before the final battle, and the cavalry suffered a lot of casualties early on. It is not suitable for large-scale cavalry to gather and fight. So let alone me and Xie Xizhen, even Cao Changqing, or all those who use soldiers in the Central Plains, will have a knot in their hearts, that is, with the grassland cavalry who is known as the invincible after the Great Feng , let’s have an upright cavalry battle, without relying on dangerous passes, without defending the city, just on a flat battlefield, horses against horses, swords against swords..."
Speaking of this, Kou Jianghuai paused for a while, let go of the rein and the handle of the knife with both hands, and suddenly clenched his fists and slammed them together, "Head to head, let's have an upright collision!"
Kou Jianghuai's eyes were burning hot, "And! Our Central Plains cavalry won a big victory!"
Rao Chen Xiliang, a literati and civil official who rejects casualties on the battlefield, heard this remark, and it was inevitable that he would feel a surge of strong emotions.
Kou Jianghuai stretched out an arm and pointed at the battlefield at the foot of the mountain where the two armies were about to collide, "It just so happens that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of me and Xie Xizhen. I want to win, and he wants to win, so no matter why No one can lose! It's just that Xie Xizhen is more ruthless. He is willing to pay the price with his life for this battle. I am not as good as him. I am only willing to bear the price of a bleak official career in Beiliang. A hero depends on success or failure, and a hero will not hesitate Death. Perhaps in the history of history, Xie Xizhen will be praised more than me."
Chen Xiliang was speechless.
On the battlefield on the right side of Laowo Mountain, the battle between the two sides reached 100,000 cavalry troops, which was spectacular and tragic.
In order to increase the strength of the formation, the refugee young and strong cavalry army in the middle of the three cavalry troops in Liuzhou took the lead in charging with a 6,000 straight battalion, jumping out of the original front line.
In the first wave of charge, Huang Songpu did not use the veritable armored heavy cavalry army, but hid it outside the battlefield. It was still the old man who led the fine cavalry of his lineage, and it was still the former official who came to the South Courtyard. The king's veteran took the lead.
Abandoning the cavalry battle of luring the enemy and loitering tactics, cavalry colliding with the formation is a change of life.
The 6,000 straight battalion was the tip of the cone formation. During the acceleration process, the width of the front line was gradually reduced, and it collided with the 12,000 cavalry led by Huang Songpu, who was in an orderly formation.
Liuzhou's iron hoof chiseled the formation, like a big cone cutting a mountain.
Including the direct battalion, a total of 10,000 riders from Liuzhou charged desperately.
The deeper they chiseled the formation, the easier it would be for the two Dragon Elephant Army on the two wings of the cone formation to tear through the thickness of the Northern Mang cavalry army.
Huang Songpu deployed the front, middle and rear three armies stacked formation, in this kind of collision formation without any fancy, it played an astonishing effect.
The 12,000 cavalry led by the old commander are the first-class frontier elites who have experienced battles, and they are better than the Liuzhou border cavalry built by young and strong refugees.
The two sides rushed five hundred paces before starting the battle, and some Liuzhou cavalrymen were stabbed off their horses and crashed into the first two thousand cavalry of the battalion. Five or six out of ten died on the spot. Under the continuous collision, it is often a luxury to stop the speed of the Beimang enemy cavalry. The Beimang cavalry don't even need to deliberately cut off the head, the horse just hits straight.
The 14,000 Wanyan Jingqi did not closely follow the cavalry army of the Pu tribe of the Huang Song Dynasty, but gradually opened a clear gap of six or seven hundred steps between the two armies. The best family private army can launch a second charge.
When the remaining 7,000 Liuzhou cavalry formed the formation of the Huangsong Pubu cavalry, they faced the Wanyan Jingqi whose speed had just been raised to the extreme.
The speed and momentum of one side are declining, and the momentum of one side is at its peak. The result of the collision is obvious.
Fourteen thousand Wanyan Jingqi rode their horses with spears in their hands and galloped wildly. Relying on the impact brought by the charge of the horses, they were extremely powerful and heavy.
Five hundred riders from Liuzhou Bianqi were killed on horseback after passing by each other once.
So much so that the Wanyan cavalry at the rear even had the leisure to seize the opportunity to bend down a little and stab the Liuzhou cavalry to death with a single shot.
When the Liuzhou Cavalry Army, which broke out twice, finally met the largest number of the B Cavalry Army, it was already severely damaged.
Fortunately, their sacrifices relieved a lot of pressure on the Dragon Elephant Army on the left and right wings.
Regardless of whether the wild goose flies north or south, it is always the head goose that struggles the most.
It is even more so when the cone formation on the battlefield is like flying geese.
Although the cavalry army gathered by the high gate of the second dynasty in the Southern Dynasty had the thickest formation and the longest depth, it did not pose too much threat to the Liuzhou cavalry army. Facing the battle-damaged dragon elephant army, it obviously suffered a lot.
It's just an exchange of battlefield positions.
On both sides of Liangmang, corpses are scattered all over the field, and there are people and horses everywhere.
However, the cavalry formations of both sides still maintain a relatively stable formation, which means that the next charge will have more dead people and be easier.
Standing on the top of the mountain, Chen Xiliang fell silent after witnessing the tragic collision.
If it is judged only by the Laowoshan battlefield, if this situation continues, Beimang will win in the end.
Kou Jianghuai remained indifferent from the beginning to the end.
There are not enough dead people here, and Bei Mang doesn't feel that the battle is at hand, or if Huang Songpu perceives that the situation is not right, then the final encirclement of Laowo Mountain will not be able to stop the main force of Bei Mang. Not to mention that there were no terrifying soldiers and horses like the Daxue Dragon Cavalry Army and the two Beiliang Heavy Cavalry Army to block the retreat.
Kou Jianghuai turned his head and looked towards the southeast.