Chapter 405: Kill the general and seize the flag (Center)

Eighty cavalry guarded Dong Zunhui and rushed to the river beach. In front of them were nearly 10,000 Southern Tang infantry! However, although the number of Tang soldiers was large, they were mainly baggage soldiers with low combat effectiveness. Dong Zunhui and others were not worried about the hedge formation!

While riding the horse forward, Dong Zunhui hung the reins on the saddle. Then he took off the short bow from his back, pulled out the arrow from the arrow bag, and prepared to shoot. The cavalrymen on both sides also took the arrows to bow, and rode the horse forward, and began to shoot diagonally. The arrows flew into the sky at a rapid speed, and then drew a parabola in the sky, and shot fiercely at the outer soldiers of the Tang army who were gathering in a hurry.

Dong Zunhui and others shot four arrows in a row and defeated the 500 Tang army spearmen who had just gathered in front of them. These spearmen were all temporary civilians, and they had never experienced such scenes?! The soldiers who were shot in the arrow either died or kept wailing, covering their wounds and screaming. The soldiers who were not shot in the arrow had no courage to step forward to intercept them as they heard the wailing sounds of their companions. Everyone threw down their weapons and ran towards the central army.

In the eyes of these fleeing soldiers, the central army was strong, and the enemy was only more than 80 cavalry, so they should not have the courage to pursue. However, seeing hundreds of defeated soldiers constantly attacking the formation of the Southern Tang Central Army, Dong Zunhui immediately ordered the soldiers to drive away the defeated soldiers and launch an attack on the enemy's central army.

The commander of the Southern Tang Army archer battalion, who was at the outermost periphery of the battle formation, he hesitated. Although he raised his hand, he did not order the shooting for a long time. The defeated soldiers in front of him were all his fellow villagers. If he ordered the shooting, most of them would be shot to death! If he gave this heartless order, the fellow villagers would not be allowed to drown themselves with spitting!

After he hesitated, he lost the last chance to intercept. A large group of defeated soldiers rushed towards the direction of the archer phalanx under the driving force of Dong Zunhui. Not only did they destroy the archer formation, but they also completely destroyed the phalanx of the sapters who had gathered together! Moreover, under the threat of death, these defeated soldiers actually waved their weapons and wanted to rush out first. So before Dong Zunhui and the others took action, the defeated soldiers had already started with the soldiers of the supervising team who maintained order!

The soldiers of Dong Zunhui's troops had already shot more than ten arrows in a row. Everyone carried the short bow in their hands to their backs and took off their weapons from the victory hook beside the saddle. Everyone held the reins in one hand and waved the weapons in the other, and rushed towards the scattered Tang army formation.

When they first rushed into the enemy formation, Dong Zunhui's troops were very fast and knocked all the enemy soldiers who were blocking the horses. The soldiers all broke their muscles and vomited blood and died! The formation that the Tang soldiers barely maintained was immediately dispersed, and the soldiers could only fight on their own and fight with Dong Zunhui's troops. Of course, most of the Southern Tang soldiers had no courage to resist at all. They threw down their weapons and fled to the edge of the battlefield. Taking advantage of this momentum, Dong Zunhui and others also began to fight with their weapons, constantly reaping the lives of the soldiers of the enemy.

Among these cavalry, the strongest combat power and the most lethal was of course Dong Zunhui. He rushed to the front with the long spear that the emperor rewarded some days ago. He swept across the thousands of troops and swept the Tang soldiers who were trying to cut the horse's legs to the ground. Before they could get up, Dong Zunhui's war horse stepped on their chests. These people suddenly let out a burst of screams, and soon they lost all their strength and vomited blood and died.

The long spear in Dong Zunhui's hand was like a poisonous dragon, constantly sweeping through the throats of the Southern Tang soldiers, bringing a touch of blood after touch. Although Dong Zunhui was extremely fast, the blood still slid down the spear rod and seeped into the crack of the paint on the spear rod, soaking all the hemp ropes wrapped around the spear rod!

Soon, Dong Zunhui and his team defeated nearly a thousand enemy soldiers who had gathered in a hurry in front of them. At this time, the 300 cavalry sent by Zhao Haixing were about to rush to Dong Zunhui's headquarters. The most important thing for the cavalry was speed, and the most lacking thing for Dong Zunhui's headquarters, which had just finished fighting with the Southern Tang infantry, was also speed.

If it were before, Dong Zunhui would have been very troubled, but today he smiled slightly and shouted: "Everyone, follow me to charge!"

While shouting, Dong Zunhui rode his horse forward. However, he did not rush straight towards the enemy's cavalry, but instead drew an arc and rushed towards the enemy's flanks.

Generally speaking, the cavalry of the Southern Tang Army was no match for the Later Zhou Army at all. However, the three hundred cavalry now are Zhao Haixing's confidant and their combat effectiveness is also impressive. Seeing the Zhou cavalry trying to rush to attack their flanks, the battalion commander responsible for commanding the cavalry immediately ordered a turn and rushed up to Dong Zunhui's troops.

At this time, Dong Zunhui's troops gradually increased their speed. The war horses who had been through the battlefield did not even need to blindfold themselves. Neither armies shot arrows because at their current speed, all the arrows they shot would be lost. Now everyone is trying hard to accelerate and approach each other quickly.

As they were about to approach the range of shooting straight aim, some Tang soldiers had spontaneously removed bows and arrows from their backs and prepared to shoot. Inevitably, their horse speed decreased and the team was slightly disordered. At this moment, Dong Zunhui shouted loudly: "Hold the crossbow and shoot!"

Hearing his order, the soldiers immediately raised the stringed crossbow machine from the saddle and moved the mechanical bulb at the Tang army. Although the crossbow machine could only shoot one time, it caught the Tang army off guard!

The two rows of Tang soldiers in the front were shot off the horse without any time to react; and the soldiers who rushed up could not slow down and knocked them head-on, and died too much to die! The Tang soldiers who knocked their comrades to death also decreased, and they mixed with the empty war horses in the front row, making their formation even more disordered!

Horses are very spiritual animals, so they will not collide with each other stupidly, and will soon conduct spontaneous diversion. During this diversion process, Dong Zunhui's troops who completed the shooting and focused on controlling the horses undoubtedly took a big advantage. Although they were generally in the dilemma of using fewer strikes, they formed an advantage in numbers in this local battlefield.

Under Dong Zunhui's personal charge, the Tang cavalry was no match for the Zhou cavalry at all, and they died in battle in groups. The injured Tang cavalry also fell from the horse unwillingly. Except for a few lucky people, most of the fallen soldiers were broken by the horses of the two armies and lost their combat effectiveness. During this charge, the three hundred Tang cavalry were drilled in front by dozens of cavalry led by Dong Zunhui!

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Chapter completed!