Chapter 241: Light Cavalry Counterattack

The moonlit night is as cool as water, a bright moon hangs high in the air, and silver-white moonlight flows on the earth.

Zhang Xun led the people around him to break out of the camp gate and began to regret it. Under the reflection of the flames that kept igniting in the camp behind him, Zhang Xun saw a large black enemy army waiting for battle. At a rough look, the number of people was at least not less than 20,000.

"Wow~~" Zhang Xun hurriedly grabbed the reins of the dark horse under his crotch and waved his hand to signal the soldiers behind him to line up to meet the enemy. Under the reflection of the moonlight, Zhang Xun saw the armor worn by the enemy on the opposite side shining, and the weapons on his hands and back were also reflected in the cold moonlight.

What made Zhang Xun feel a little scary was that this army of 20,000 people was actually arranged in an attack formation. The entire team was like a huge arrow pointing directly to the direction of his camp. The formation was arranged neatly, like a beast waiting for prey to take the hook, ready to have a full meal, when a strong murderous aura came to his face.

"Damn~~" Zhang Xun cursed in his heart. He had seen bullies, but had never seen bully people like this. These enemy troops were too arrogant and dared to attack in front of our camp. He really didn't take our army seriously. It seemed that the scouts outside the camp might have been destroyed by them, otherwise they would not have heard an alarm and would not have been sent back.

There were constant noise coming from behind Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun looked back and saw that his own soldiers were rushing out of the village gate, and then distributed on both sides of the formation he had arranged.

For a moment, Zhang Xun's subordinates were busy arranging the formation, preparing to set up their formation before fighting with the enemy. At this moment, the war drum suddenly sounded in the opposite formation, "dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong", and in the quiet dark night, the sound was so harsh. Then, the soldiers on the opposite side began to attack. The front row were spearmen, each of whom pierced the sharp spear tips in the sky, and rushed over quickly with neat and firm steps.

The cold sweat behind Zhang Xun flowed down with a "swish" sound. The military strategy said: "Attack the enemy without preparation." Before his formation was arranged, the enemy launched an attack, which caught him off guard. Just like he was about to hit a snake, it was the time when his army was at its weakest defense. The enemy launched an attack and attacked his army's "seven inches".

A member of Zhang Xun's side cursed angrily: "Grandma, the enemy is too rude and righteous. If we don't wait for our army to line up, isn't we bullying us like this?"

Zhang Xun smiled bitterly when he heard this. He didn't know if his subordinate was traumatized. How could the two armies pay attention to these benevolence, righteousness and morality when they faced each other? As long as they could defeat the enemy, they could use any means. In the past, Duke Xiang of Song was unwilling to attack the enemy who had half-crossed. After the enemy crossed the river, they formed a formation before attacking, but they were defeated. This "benevolence and righteous army" became a laughing stock since then.

However, Zhang Xun knew that if the troops were announced to withdraw at this time, the soldiers who had not yet formed a formation would be even more chaotic, and there would be more casualties. The only way was to send a vanguard force to counterattack, drag the enemy for a while, and wait until the soldiers behind set up the formation, and then they could attack.

"My boys~~Follow me!" Zhang Xun raised the spear in his palm high, called out loudly to the elite soldiers beside him, and led hundreds of people to rush towards the enemy's spearmen array.

Zhang Xun's hundreds of personal soldiers were all cavalrymen, with the most excellent equipment and a strong will to fight. He was Zhang Xun's most trusted subordinate.

The pike formation on the opposite side suddenly stopped moving forward when he saw Zhang Xun's cavalry coming out, split into two from the middle, just like an arrow being cut into two halves from the middle. Then, the long shield soldiers lined up quickly and walked to the front of the array. With a "boom", they raised the long shield in their hands, and then half-squatted in reverse, protecting the bracket behind the long shield, and supporting the long shield with force. Under the moonlight, the sharp long thorns standing on the long shield were shining with dark light.

Immediately afterwards, the spearmen quickly ran behind the long shield, and placed the long wooden guns diagonally between the two long shields, and the sharp spear tips were facing the direction Zhang Xun and others attacked. More spears were inserted behind the row of spears, forming a cold forest of spear tips. At this time, the entire arrow-shaped array had transformed into a rectangle.

Long shields and spears are magic weapons for infantry to break cavalry. Zhang Xun didn't know that, but at this moment they had arrows on the string and had to fire. The horse's hooves stepped on, splashing the debris of soil, and the land under their feet receded like a tide.

"Ahhhh~~" Zhang Xun shouted loudly, as if arousing the fighting spirit of his troops. The wind blew by, blowing his voice in the night sky.

Accelerate~~Accelerate~~Accelerate~~, finally, Zhang Xun's hundreds of cavalry crashed into the infantry array. Although the number of people was not particularly large, the loud noise of the collision was still deafening in the middle of the night.

The next moment, the dozens of cavalry running in front of Zhang Xun were like dozens of sprinting cars, viciously hitting the enemy's long shield. "Bang bang bang", the war horses violently hit the long shield. The huge force hit the soldiers behind the long shield and vomited blood. However, they did not retreat, but supported the long shield more vigorously, because they knew that once the long shield was broken through, the soldiers behind would face the trampling and attack of the enemy's iron cavalry directly!

"Puff puff puff", the spear lyingly upright between the long shields was inserted into the body of the war horse without mercy, and the running war horses neighed and fell to death.

The cavalry on the horse's back threw forward under the action of huge inertia. They tragically crashed into the Leng Sensen's gun array. The cavalry were just wearing thin iron armor, which could not stop the sharp spears from being stabbed. Amid the howlings that came one after another, dozens of cavalry were all nailed to the tip of the Zhou army's gun!

But they were not sacrificed in vain. The originally solid spear formation had several gaps in the front row due to their impact. Zhang Xun happened to rush to the point where the spear in his palm danced like a dragon. The spear was everywhere. Several Zhou soldiers screamed and poured into a pool of blood.

The other cavalry followed Zhang Xun, slashing and slashing their guns, and constantly expanding their gaps.

The leaders of this late-night attack camp were Lu Dai, Pan Zhang and Deng Li. The three of them rode on horseback and watched everything on the battlefield from afar.

"This Zhang Xun is really difficult. He dared to launch a counterattack and also shook our formation. This person is really not simple." Pan Zhang knew Zhang Xun in his early years and couldn't help but sigh.

Lu Dai laughed and said, "He is too poor in our army's combat effectiveness! Pass the order and change the formation!"

"Woo~Woo~Woo~Woo~", a low horn sound rang out in the back formation, and three sounds were short. After getting the signal of changing the formation, the spearmen who were fighting to the death with Zhang Xun's cavalry who were breaking into the formation suddenly stopped attacking and retreated.
Chapter completed!