.

The crossbowmen's fighting for life finally blocked the gap in the defense line torn by Dangxiang Iron Harrier. Li Keyuan, the governor of Yinzhou, tactfully did not organize heavy armored cavalry to break through again, but almost slacking off the right wing defense line with a light cavalry, and the battle just now almost damaged the ordinary Iron Harrier. Even if he could capture tens of thousands of prisoners in this battle, it would not be worth the loss. Moreover, judging by the firm resistance of the Han army, it is hard to say whether there were any prisoners in this battle.

"In this battle, the crossbow camp should be the first to be the master of the crossbow camp." Chen De looked at the crossbow camp who thought that the armor was thin and was knocked down by the enemy cavalry, but still fought to the death, and praised in a deep voice, with great heartache. The formations of these archers and the sword shield camp of the Modao camp were already mixed together, and they resisted the detour and side attacks of the enemy cavalry on both wings. He looked up and saw that under the sharp attack of the spearmen in the front formation, the casualties of the Song army's sword shield and crossbow camp were also heavy, and the Han army formation was still moving forward slowly. Compared with the Han army, the only regret was that after the formation was broken, the lack of the ruthlessness of the people fighting to the last soldier, and the soldiers rely entirely on the courage to fight.

Before the defeat, the casualty rate between the conscious winner and the conscious loser on the battlefield is actually not very different. The so-called defeat is like a mountain, and most of the casualties occur after the formation collapse. For example, if the Han army's front was torn by the Iron Harrier just now, if the crossbowmen in the middle fell into chaos, then the next one is likely to be a unilateral massacre. However, the crossbow camp not only did not retreat, but instead organized a counterattack. Then, although the enemy cavalry that broke into the formation had certain advantages in the war loss exchange ratio, if they did not want to fill all their lives into the war meat grinder, they had to retreat and continue to seek a way to defeat the Han army at a smaller cost.

Because of this, all the so-called genius commanders are masters of psychological warfare. They will spare no effort to create panic in the enemy, making them panic, making them difficult to implement military orders, and finally fell into a state of collapse. It is precisely because the whole army's tenacious spirit of daring to fight to the extreme that the Han army led by Chen De dared to be confident. As long as they have the determination to fight to the end, all conspiracies and tricks will eventually become invisible under the courageous killing of the soldiers.

"Once the Han army breaks through, a collapse is more likely to happen in the imperial guards. Dong Zunhui, what are you waiting for?" Chen Deyao looked at the high flag of the inspector of Lingzhou, the inspector of the Song Dynasty opposite, and murmured. Even in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty when the imperial guards were in full swing, the situation of defeat was endless in history books. Chen De believed that Dong Zunhui, as a long-time general of the imperial guards, would not dare to gamble on the serious consequences of the collapse of the central army. After the formation was broken, he probably had countless determination to fight to the end.

Dong Zunhui looked at the Han army that was almost surrounded by a group of people with complex expressions. The two wings actually withstood the side attacks of the superior cavalry, and the well-trained spearmen in the front line were still moving forward desperately. Since the Qin Dynasty, the towns in the northwest have attached great importance to the training of spearmen, but the formation is so tight that it is so sharp that it is so sharp that it is really rare. With Tongyuan and Hujie, the elite forces of the two armies of Hujie, were killed and retreated repeatedly. Seeing that the stalemate line in front was getting thinner, and the Dangxiang and Tubo people were still fighting horses in vain to attack the increasingly consolidated flank defense line of the Han army.

"If you delay like this, you may be defeated first, but the imperial guards formation may be the imperial guards formation." Dong Zunhui felt an unknown premonition in his heart. Chen De's strategy was completely clear. He devoted all the elite five thousand spearmen to the forward attack, in an attempt to achieve a central breakthrough. Once he defeated the Tongyuan Army and the Hujie Army, which were the mainstay of the Song army, with so many spearmen insurgent formations, and with five thousand elite cavalry to help, it would be easy to sweep those foreign cavalry. The advantages and disadvantages of this strategy are obvious. The advantages are that they can maximize the disadvantages of the Han army but the elite troops are the disadvantages of the two wings.

Dong Zunhui was calculating in his mind that there were a thousand spearmen behind his infantry formation. Even if the Han cavalry came to invade, they were not without defense. He called the flag officer and pointed to the left wing of the Han army and ordered: "Transfer the order Yao Jixun to attack the left wing of the enemy army immediately, and do not come back to see me if he doesn't cut off Chen De's head." Yao Jixun was his confidant general. After getting the order, he immediately urged his horse. The four thousand most elite imperial guards of the Song Dynasty moved in response, and attacked the left wing of the Han army like rolling thunder.

In front, there was a flag-plaque official who had already informed the Tubo leader Zhe Gezhi of the military order, asking him to make way, and the Imperial Guards' Iron Cavalry himself attacked the flanks of the Han army. Zhe Gezhi was overjoyed. The Song cavalry at this moment was not as useless as later generations. They had good horses continuously supplied by the northwest, armored weapons carefully crafted by the Central Plains, and cavalry martial arts that inherited the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. If it was a one-on-one head-on battle, it would be an elite cavalry that was not inferior to the personal army of the Daliao Pishi.

Although it was not like the iron kite, the armor of the imperial cavalry was much better than that of ordinary Tubo cavalry. When the four thousand cavalry passed by the Tubo cavalry who were avoiding the side, a rustling sound of a whirlwind sound was like a river of steel passing by, with a loud murderous aura. "This is the real elite of the imperial cavalry." The Tubo cavalry secretly envied.

The captain of the Xiaowu Army also walked forward with a gun among the imperial cavalry. He looked at the Tubo cavalry around him, and his heart was filled with absurd feeling. The forest was no more rude than other rude soldiers. He had read some books and probably knew some differences between Chinese and foreigners. Since the imperial guards entered Liangzhou, hundreds of thousands of Han people were enslaved like animals. However, now he has actually attacked a Han army with these foreign troops as friendly forces. This has made the forest center that grew up in the imperial guards that have been constantly fighting with the invading foreign races for the five generations.

"Lord, the last cavalry of the enemy's army has moved. Will the order be given to Bai Yu and the hunting army to attack?" Li Si said anxiously that the combat power of the imperial cavalry is not comparable to that of the mobs of the vassal states. The four thousand armored cavalry attack with all their strength, although it is not a heavy cavalry, it is enough to determine the battle situation on the left wing.

Chen De stared at the rapid torrent of iron cavalry. He was filled with all kinds of sounds of fighting between the two armies. The golden drums and thunder were waving, and the sounds were flying, and the weapons were hitting clanging. In an instant, all of this seemed to be calm. In recent battles, he had more and more frequent such a feeling, that the more he was in this chaotic and complex battlefield, the more he fell into an extremely calm mood, as if he ignored everything around him, and seemed to see everything on the entire battlefield. Within the range of his eyes, there were warriors under his command fighting desperately for victory.

"The enemy's formation is complete. When they are completely involved in the battlefield and cannot get out of it, it is the time for our army to win." Chen De looked at Li Si and ordered: "The enemy is coming in a fierce manner. You bring the Ya Military Camp, the Diao Camp, and the remaining Central Sword and Shield Hands to support the left wing." "Lord, you can't have no guards around you!" Li Si said loudly. "If you defend the left wing, I will be as stable as Mount Tai. The left wing has fallen. What's the use of some guards here? Go quickly, don't delay!" Chen De said in a deep voice, with an irresistible majesty in his voice.

Li Si could not do so, so he could only follow the order to lead the 1,500 soldiers including Ya Military Camp to strengthen all the left wing. Before the arrival of the Song army's iron cavalry, Li Si quickly organized the defense line again. The soldiers of Ya Military Camp were all selected elite troops from each army and practiced spears on weekdays. Li Si used Ya Military Camp as the backbone, and the five hundred spearmen set up a defense line behind the original Mo Dao Hand and the crossbowman, so that the Houshi Mo Dao Hand retreated to the middle of the spearman and specifically chopped the enemy troops who were trying to break into the spearman. The sword shield and crossbowman relied on the spearman and fought against thousands of cavalry rushing forward. Before the speed of the cavalry dropped, the sword shield and crossbowman and the crossbowman who drew the sword would suffer heavy casualties.

The Tubo cavalry who made room for the left-wing battlefield for the Imperial Guards' Iron Cavalry were not idle either. Zhe Gezhi led the Xingu's cavalry army, who had a complete six thousand cavalry to attack the rear formation. The Tubo cavalry had been taught a lesson by the cavalry over the past few days. If it were not for the great victory, as long as the main force of Chen De's infantry was destroyed, these cavalry would not be able to return to the sky, and the Tubo cavalry would not be willing to challenge these elite Han Hussars.

"His grandma," Xin Gu cursed. If he hadn't wanted to protect the rear formation, he would have led the cavalry to go up. Before he could arrive, these Tubo barbarians would have dared to come and stroke the tiger's beard. He left two thousand soldiers to protect the rear of the infantry formation to prevent the right-wing party Xiang cavalry from taking advantage of the situation. He divided his troops to attack the rear formation. He led the three thousand Hussars to hedge against the Tubo cavalry. Both sides rushed to urge horses at full speed, and arrived in an instant from the flank to the rear formation. The horse's hooves rumbled, and the two cavalry hit each other head-on. The cavalry and the Tubo cavalry, which were twice as good as theirs, collided with each other. In just a few breaths, countless fierce cavalry were dropped and stepped into meat mud by the heavy cavalry.

Zhe Gezhi made up his mind to entangle the cavalry army and prevent them from sending troops to disrupt the attack on the left wing. He urged his warriors to fight with the cavalry army. The cavalrymen with the advantage of numbers also burst out with rare courage at this moment, and they tried hard to stop the cavalry army from fighting. Nearly 10,000 cavalry were spinning their horses and waving their weapons, and they were stirring up a group of them.

In the left wing, the four thousand iron cavalry were getting closer and closer with a dull roar. "Stop it!" Li Si shouted loudly. In fact, he was also a little worried. Although the Han army had the determination to fight to the end, the left wing barely pulled up the defense line of the three thousand infantrymen, and seemed a little crumbling in front of the rainbow-like iron cavalry.

,!

{Piaotian Literature www.PiaoTian.com Thank you for your support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Chapter completed!