Chapter 1102 Working hard on the battlefield

Chapter 1102 Working hard on the battlefield

Xue Guyan, who was supervising the battle in the front line, did not dare to neglect after receiving the order from His Majesty the Emperor. He immediately dispatched all the remaining front line soldiers in the position to fight, and he himself set off later to dispatch and command in the military formation and control the offensive.

As the Qi army increased its troops, the situation on the battlefield immediately took a turn for the worse. Two thousand-man cavalry teams were separated on the two wings, fighting with the enemy's light cavalry that was roaming the battlefield to cause nuisance. They fought close to each other, no longer giving them a chance to disrupt the infantry formation and advance. At the same time, they also allowed the teams to ration The heavy armored infantry was able to pull out and advance towards the enemy's position.

Wei Jun's car formation is not unsolvable. As long as it is not a high-speed running target, the restriction and impact of this car formation will be minimal. On the contrary, because of the existence of these chariots, the Wei army's battle formation could not form a complete whole, giving the Qi army soldiers the opportunity to sneak into the enemy's formation.

Although there will be a Wei army combat team guarding and protecting the chariot next to each chariot in the formation, this has already fallen into the category of infantry combat. In hand-to-hand combat, life or death depends on each person's ability, and the Wei army cannot Have an overwhelming advantage.

On the contrary, the trebuchets in the Wei army's main formation could no longer throw stones and bullets into the battle formation unscrupulously, which gave the Qi army's heavy armored infantry more room to play. They became almost invincible in this battle formation. It only requires the cooperation of a few infantrymen to break into the enemy's formation and kill and destroy them, making them unbeatable.

Of course, heavy armored infantry is not without flaws. Its requirements for equipment and soldier quality are too high. Even among the elite Jinyang soldiers, there are very few qualified ones. The high threshold is destined to be difficult to popularize in the military. The front line of the army is only equipped with 500 people. For other units, the number is even lower, and some simply don't have any.

The price of the heavy armored infantry's super protection is its high load-bearing capacity. Even the brave generals and warriors of the three armies will find it difficult to fight in armor for a long time. Moreover, the so-called super protection is not without loopholes. Once the lower limbs are attacked, the probability of injury is not small despite the protection of the skirt.

At this time, in the Qi army's position, the drums and orders urging the advance were louder and louder than before, making people's eardrums swell and ache.

The soldiers on the battlefield did not dare to stop. First, they rushed into the enemy's vehicle array against the stray missiles thrown from the enemy's formation. Taking advantage of the decrease in long-range attacks overhead, they quickly formed formations. A heavy armored infantryman was used as the vanguard to open the way and rushed into the enemy's formation. As the heavy armored infantry broke through the enemy's formation, the sergeants from the rear swarmed up and divided and annihilated the Wei army sergeants who had been scattered.

Of course, the battle process was not smooth sailing. The Wei army was also very clear about the characteristics of these heavy armored infantry, and there was no lack of targeted training and preparation. When they saw the enemy's heavy armor charging forward unstoppably, they tried their best to avoid a head-on confrontation and instead used long-handled weapons such as long axes and big sticks to attack the enemy's armor below the waist.

Once the enemy's heavy armor is knocked down on the battlefield, the chance of standing up again is very slim, and the enemy's team is mainly formed based on the ability of the heavy armored infantry to break formations.

When this advantage no longer exists, the execution of tactics will also be greatly hindered. Although they can still fight hand-to-hand, the Wei army, which has a home field advantage and flexible coordination of equipment and tactics, will inevitably be at a disadvantage in the end. , and soon they were all killed and injured in the battle.

At this time, the outer edge of the battle formation was the area where the fighting between the two sides was fiercest. A large number of soldiers from both sides were fighting in this area, forming an arc-shaped bloody human wall.

"Keep charging, don't stop! The army behind is still heading north for reinforcements, and the Supreme Lord personally raids the formation. You can see the heroes killing the enemy, but if you can capture the flag and capture the formation, you will be rewarded! You will be granted a wife, a son, wealth and glory! "

Xue Guyan saw that the soldiers in front were frightened due to the fierce fighting, and the offensive was no longer as fierce as it was at the beginning. He was also very anxious in his heart, and shouted encouragement from behind the army formation.

The soldiers of the Wei army in the battle formation also resisted very hard. Tian Hong, the former commander of the formation, had to constantly move between the military formations. Whenever he saw that the combat teams in the formation were breached and annihilated and a loophole appeared, he had to dispatch them as soon as possible. The sergeant stepped in to prevent the enemy from further widening the gap.

The order given by Duke Tang was to hold the front here until at least noon, and no retreat was allowed before then.

Although the Wei army had the home field advantage, due to the fierceness of the enemy's offensive, nearly half of the 8,000 soldiers allocated to the front line at the beginning of the battle were deployed. In addition to the crossbowmen at the bottom of the line and the soldiers controlling the trebuchets, due to the The casualties were heavy, and reserve troops were constantly being mobilized to the front.

"Hold on, hold on... we will definitely win this battle! We are dying in old age, our relatives shed tears, we die on the battlefield, and we owe our wives, children, and parents the honor! Tang Gong is kind and compassionate to the masses, and he is invincible. A man's life will not be sold here. , Who should I sell it to?”

Things were running around and shouting orders, Tian Hong's voice had become a little hoarse.

When he saw an enemy army breaking through a battle group but there was no sergeant nearby to block the gap, he would hold a sword in hand and lead his soldiers to rush forward, slash and kill with the sword, even if he could not tear and disintegrate the enemy's army for a while. The battle team will also fight fiercely until the rear team comes forward to provide supplementary support before withdrawing, and then patrolling the battle formation elsewhere regardless of exhaustion.

In this fierce battle, the Qi army's advance was also very effective. The chariots that served as obstacles on the outside of the enemy's formation were continuously captured. Soon, the outer walls of the chariots and the horse settings were chopped and damaged, and the earth and rocks contained inside were destroyed. The tunnels and traps on the slopes were also dug and filled up, so that when the cavalry launched an attack later, they could successfully advance in. At that time, the Qi army would dominate the battlefield, enough to completely destroy the enemy!

Although the prospects are bright and tempting, the Qi army soldiers still have to fight and advance with staggering casualties. The Wei army set up a total of three similar battle formations at a distance of nearly two miles in front of this slope. The thickness of the outermost vehicle formation was about twenty feet. This was to match the effective killing range of the long-range troops in the formation.

The two layers of battle formations at the rear are even thinner, each measuring more than ten feet apart. As long as you break through these three levels of enemy formations, you can reach the Wei army's central encirclement on the plateau and capture and kill the leader of the bandits, Li Boshan!

While the two sides were fighting fiercely on the frontal battlefield, the intensity of the battle on the east side of the Wei army's position along the Zhuozhang River was relatively low.

Before dawn, General Gao Le, the leader of the Wei army's right wing, was ordered by Duke Tang to send a team of 3,000 men to attack the Qi army's camp on the east bank of the Zhuozhang River. However, the Qi army was unable to succeed because of its tight defenses, and the attackers had to retreat. return.

However, on the way back, the returning army was pursued so closely by the Qi army that they did not have time to deal with the vehicles and pontoons across the river. The Qi army chased them all the way to the west bank of the Zhuozhang River, making this night It's quite self-defeating.

The commander-in-chief of the Qi Army, He Baren, had rich experience in the military brigade and fully seized this opportunity. When his pursuers set foot on the land on the west bank of the Zhuozhang River, he dropped more than 3,000 troops to the west bank in a very short period of time, making The team established a firm foothold on the side of the Wei army on the west bank.

At the same time, in order to weaken the Wei army's counterattack, He Baren sent troops to attack pontoons and float across the Zhuozhang River upstream and downstream, causing the Wei army's already insufficient forces to be dispersed along the river. , there is absolutely no focus on counterattack and resistance.

The Zhuozhang River cuts vertically through the plateau valley and flows southward. Although the river is not wide, it is deeper and the water flow is more rapid than its tributary, the Tongdan River. Traffic needs to rely on pontoons and rafts. Moreover, the left army of the Qi Army was not the main force, and could not achieve the same feat as the main force of the Chinese army, so it still had to follow conventional means to deploy troops to the west.

At the beginning, He Baren took advantage of the enemy's retreat and chaos to drop thousands of soldiers on the other side. However, the Wei army also responded quickly and quickly gathered troops to regain control of the upper and lower pontoon bridges. After destroying them, only two were firmly controlled by the Qi army, so the subsequent increase in troops became a bit slow.

When Zhao Daode arrived with five thousand elite cavalry of the Forbidden Army, He Baren was still busy arranging troops to march westward for reinforcements.

After listening to Zhao Daode relaying the instructions of His Majesty the Emperor, he shook his head and said: "The troops here are sufficient, so there is no need to add more troops. There are rapids on the side that cut off the road. Once a large group of people is used, it will be difficult to advance and retreat. Still. The main force of the Chinese army must attack from the front to defeat the enemy. Li Boshan can only use his troops as a distraction to contain the enemy's strength. Even if he occasionally miscalculates, it will be difficult to penetrate his formation with this side attack."

Although the war progressed relatively smoothly, He Baren did not get carried away because of this. He still made a rational analysis based on the actual situation. He did not ask the Chinese army to continue to send more troops here, and he did not feel that the battlefield here could bear more combat tasks. . Even if it is only to exert the current effect of containing the enemy, the troops allocated now, including later Zhao Daode and others, are somewhat redundant.

Because crossing the river here is a dead end with no way to retreat. Once something unexpected happens and the war does not progress smoothly, it will be difficult to withdraw the troops. The risk is too great. With the Chinese army having a huge advantage on the front, there is really no need to put too much emphasis on performing unexpected operations on the side. This time the Wei army failed to attack the camp but was counterattacked in front of their camp. This is an example.

"Your Majesty is too humble. After hearing that your Majesty had made this breakthrough, His Majesty also praised your Majesty for being strong. If we continue to work harder, the bandits will inevitably become even more impoverished."

After Zhao Daode heard this, he smiled dryly and complimented him. When he was about to say something and hoped that He Baren could speed up the attack pace according to the emperor's wishes, He Baren had already turned around and gone elsewhere.