Chapter 921 Fierce battles inside and outside

Chapter 921 Fierce battles inside and outside

The battlefield outside Jinyong City was divided into two parts, inner and outer, by the long sand embankment. Many walls of different lengths were built in the inner circle of the long embankment, which were jagged like jagged teeth and looked very ugly.

At the beginning, Hulu Jin was not very clear about the significance of the enemy's building these walls. After all, he had made up his mind to defend the city and had no intention of going out of the city to fight and break out.

But now, as his troops left the city, he immediately felt the malice of these uneven walls. These walls were built in a mess and without any rules. If the army wanted to attack the long embankment, the formation would inevitably be divided into pieces, which was not conducive to the overall dispatch and change of the battle formation.

So Hulu Jin did not rush to order an attack, but let his son outside the long embankment take the lead in attacking the enemy formation, trying to find the key to the enemy's formation through the dispatch and change of the enemy formation.

As the battle began, although Hulu Jin could not directly see the battle scene outside the long siege, when he heard the enemy's cheers like a tsunami, Hulu Jin's face suddenly changed, and he felt something was wrong.

"Attack from the front, capture the enemy's right formation, and send another 2,000 armored soldiers to Tushan!"

Fearing that the battle outside the long siege would be disadvantageous to his side, Hulu Jin immediately ordered an attack on the enemy formation.

The enemy's battle formation inside the long siege was set up based on the long siege sand embankment. The battle formation on the right side echoed with Tushan, and the troops deployed were the largest, reflecting the importance of Tushan, the siege point, and the Heyang cannon and other weapons above.

Hulu Jin originally wanted to launch an attack here after the battle progressed and part of the troops here were withdrawn, but the battle outside the long siege seemed to be not going well, and only by launching an attack on the enemy formation here could the most enemy forces be contained.

As the drums and horns sounded, the front soldiers of the Qi army rushed towards the enemy formation. At the front of the team were hundreds of heavy armored cavalry. These elite soldiers with armor were weapons of killing on the battlefield. Once they moved, they were unstoppable. The iron hooves scratched the ground and made a thrilling muffled sound. The rear formation followed behind these armored cavalry, and the whole battle formation was full of tension.

Seeing the enemy army charging with heavy armored cavalry, the faces of the Wei army soldiers in the long enclosure also became quite serious. They quickly adjusted the battle formation, withdrew the light armored and unarmored archers back to the protection of the long enclosure sand embankment, and took the spearmen as the first line of the battle formation. In the spearmen array, there were heavy armored infantry holding long-handled weapons such as sabers and battle axes.

As the king of the battlefield and the elite of the elite, the heavy cavalry would be highly concerned and alerted by the enemy as long as they appeared on the battlefield. Because of its amazing destructive power, it often became the key force to determine the outcome and was deployed. The defenders of Jinyong City sent out such an important force at the beginning of the war, which also shows Hulu Jin's urgent desire to seize the initiative on the battlefield as soon as possible.

Soon, these hundreds of mobile steel fortresses arrived in front of the Wei army. The huge sense of oppression also made the soldiers in the front pale with fear. The only action they remembered was to hold the long spear with both hands to make a chevaux-de-frise, with the spear blade pointed diagonally in the front direction.

Crack, crack!

The heavy armored knights of the Qi army who rushed to the front directly hit the spear blades of the enemy formation. The sharp spear blades first sparked and made a sharp sound on the surface of their thick and solid armor, but it was still difficult to pierce this high-quality armor. They were either knocked aside directly or simply broken by the huge impact force!

The Northern Qi Dynasty was powerful, and its craftsmanship, especially the craftsmanship of making military weapons, was also the best in the world. Even many famous ministers and generals occasionally had to be sent to Jinyang Armor Workshop to work.

As the elite of their country, the Jinyang soldiers also enjoyed the most sophisticated weapons and equipment. In this round of heavy cavalry charge, no one's armor was broken, which shows the quality of the armor of these elite Jinyang soldiers.

As the enemy's heavy cavalry rushed into the formation, the Wei army's battle formation seemed to be hit by an iron fist, and a shocking dent was made. The originally neat and tight battle formation was broken in an instant. Many front-line soldiers were directly knocked out. Their bodies were still in the air, and blood was constantly flowing out of their mouths and noses. After landing, their bodies twitched and vomited blood and died.

Although this first collision caused heavy casualties to the Wei army, it was not completely ineffective. After paying the price of dozens of lives, the momentum of these heavy cavalry was also stopped. Without the blessing of speed, the deterrent power of heavy cavalry on the battlefield will be sharply reduced.

"Kill!"

The spearmen in the battle formation roared and encouraged each other, and the long spears in their hands spurred towards the enemy's cavalry. Although most of the spear blades were difficult to stab the opponent, the force of the stab also greatly restricted the movement of these enemy cavalry, making it difficult for them to ride their horses.

These enemy heavy cavalry were naturally the elite of the army, and each of them had the courage to fight against the crowd alone. Although their speed was limited by the fearless enemy soldiers, their hands and feet were still unrestricted. The horse lances in their hands were swung up and down, like sickles harvesting lives, and the surrounding enemy soldiers were constantly killed. Even with the protection of armor, they were inevitably injured and fell to the ground after being hit by the long lance.

Under the charge and fight of hundreds of cavalry, the battle formation here was constantly being pressed back. When the rear infantry entered the front to connect the offensive, the pressure on the enemy formation suddenly became greater. Even though the Wei army soldiers were also fighting back bravely, the formation was still inevitably retreating step by step.

However, just as the Qi army's battle was getting better, new elements appeared on the battlefield. A heavy armored cavalry had just fought through the entanglement of several enemy soldiers with spears and spears, but what appeared in front of them was not another enemy team, but a solid wall of sand.

After seeing this, the knight tried hard to rein in the horse. However, the huge weight and inertia of the armor of the man and horse were too great, and the difficulty of controlling the horse was several times greater than that of the light horse. After all, the knight was unable to escape. The man and the horse hit this section of the sand embankment together.

The sand embankment is several feet wide, with hard ice covering the top and bottom, and the bottom is frozen tightly with the ground. After withstanding this heavy impact, although ice chips mixed with sand are splashing on the surface, the wall remains intact. The body still didn't suffer much damage.

On the contrary, the situation of the knight and his horse who was firmly hit on the sand embankment was very bad. The horse's neck was directly twisted by the impact, and the whole body of the horse collapsed under the wall, and the horse on the horse's back was in very bad condition. The knight was also knocked down, and the bag on his head also fell to one side.

The knight resisted the pain in his body and stood up with difficulty, holding his hands on the ground. Suddenly he felt his vision blurred for a while. When he settled his vision again, he saw a headless steel body moving in a strange way. His posture was about to rise, and blood continuously spurted out from the neck cavity that was supposed to be connected to the head, and then the world fell into deathly silence.

In addition to the great trouble caused by these sand embankments and walls to the enemy's cavalry, the Xiangyang army itself also had troops deployed for heavy cavalry.

Although heavy armor can provide very tight protection for humans and horses, the various attacks they receive cannot be offset and must still be endured by the bodies of humans and horses wrapped in iron armor. When the power of the attack reaches a certain level, even if it does not break the armor, the huge shock force is enough to cause death.

Heavy weapons such as tomahawks and awls are suitable weapons for fighting heavy cavalry, but they require extremely high physical fitness requirements such as the user's arm strength and physique.

These elite soldiers, who are also wearing strong armor, are distributed among the battle formations. Once the enemy cavalry is caught in a fight and is overwhelmed by attacks from all directions, these elite soldiers will bully the horses directly and wave their Changke battle axes towards them. The enemy soldiers' heads, chests, backs, waists and other vital parts will be chopped off. As long as the ax is struck firmly, the enemy soldiers will often lose their combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.

In the battle formation, a heavily armored young general tried his best to chop his battle ax into the heart of an enemy soldier. The enemy soldier and his horse suddenly fell forward, and then collapsed directly on the horse's back, with the hood that had not yet fallen off. Blood continuously overflowed from the gaps in his faceplate, and his internal organs were shattered and he died.

"Good skill!"

Li Ya, who was also fighting hard in the battle formation, saw this scene and stabbed the enemy soldier on the opposite side. She also turned her hand and gave the young general a thumbs up to praise him.

"It's already the seventh one!"

Han Qinhu, who was also a confidant in the Taiyuan king's tent, grinned after hearing this, and proudly made a gesture representing "seven" to the surrounding robes, and then carried his Changke battle ax and headed towards the fierce battle. go. These elite axemen have great maneuvering rights on the battlefield and do not need to follow orders to advance or retreat on a certain battlefield.

Li Ya and others heard that Han Qinhu had such a powerful record, and they couldn't help but feel envious for a while. They looked at the fewer and fewer enemy heavy cavalry on the battlefield, and kept moving forward under the cover of the fighting robes around them. .

In the melee, Li Ya saw an enemy heavy rider with a gold belt around his waist, and her heart suddenly moved. Seeing the enemy general reining in his horse and turning to fight, she got up and quickly approached him. However, when he struck out with an axe, , the enemy knight suddenly jumped sideways, and the ax that was supposed to hit the enemy general's back fell on the horse's hind foot. The huge force directly broke the horse's foot through the armored curtain, and the enemy general also tilted straight away. The war horse fell down.

"Don't hurt my lord, dog thief!"

Soon several enemy cavalry who were fighting together with the enemy general noticed something was wrong and hurriedly jumped on their horses and rushed forward to rescue him.

After hearing this, Li Ya's eyes suddenly lit up again. She ignored the enemy spear that was stabbing her diagonally. She swung the battle ax and struck the enemy general in front of his heart. She was relieved to see blood gushing out of his mouth like a fountain. As soon as he smiled, his body was immediately thrown out by the enemy. The entire left half of his body was numb and burning. After landing, he fell directly into the pile of corpses of several people, and soon passed out unconscious.