Chapter 802: The Battle of Jingnan (Part 2)
The second and third waves of the two thousand cavalry in Jingnan and the Liang army collided heavily. In an instant, many people were caught off guard. The horses that had lost their masters whine and escaped from the brigade, running aimlessly for a while, standing in the middle of the battlefield in a daze.
The vision of the Jingnan infantry suddenly widened, and the fighting cavalry chased and died north, and in an instant they wrapped around each other and headed towards both sides.
The next moment, the fourth wave of Liang's cavalry appeared in front of them.
The horse's hooves were stomping on the ground with a heavy sound, and the entire ground seemed to be trembling. On the horse's back, the cavalry lowered their bodies, and spears poked out from the horse's head, like a heavy hammer, hitting the Jingnan infantry hard.
"Stand up a shield and set up a gun!" The roaring voice of the officer Jingnan changed a little.
"arrow!"
The shield suddenly stood up, and spears were mounted. The soldiers pressed the shields on their shoulders. The spearmen stomped the tail of the gun into the soil, and then closed their eyes.
Next, whether or not you can survive or not can only be left to fate.
The dense crossbow arrows shot into the sky, then turned around and smashed into the impact of the cavalry. The cavalry fell off the horse like dumplings. But the cavalry in front still hit hard on the shield that had just stood up.
With the loud noise, the shield was split into pieces. The soldiers behind the shield were knocked up like a ball and flew towards the infantry formation behind. At the same time, the cavalry that collided with the military formation also had broken tendons and bones, and together with the war horses, they all fell to the ground. At the moment of the collision, there were countless war horses, and the cavalry were stabbed into sieves.
The first attack of the cavalry broke through the first level of the Jingnan Army's military formation. Ding Jian had expected this situation. At the moment when the military formation in the front was broken, the infantry from the two phalanxes shouted, and the entire formation scattered, and then surrounded from left to right, wrapped up with the cavalry that had lost its speed.
Countless spears stabbed through them, stabbing Liang's army on the horse off the horse. At the same time, countless infantry were assassinated by condescending cavalry on the spot.
The private soldiers of the Ding family and the Bai family were the strongest fighting power and the most determined fighting will. Even when facing the impact of the tall horse, they would never retreat, but rushed forward without hesitation.
The cavalry avoided the first gun and slashed the one to death. After slashing the knife, more spears stabbed out from different directions, not only stabbing people, but also horses until the cavalry in front of them were killed in front of them.
The battle situation ahead was a bit beyond Dai Chao's expectations. The two wings of the battlefield, the cavalry of Jingnan was completely at a disadvantage. The battle between the two sides had turned into a pursuit battle, but the opponent just fought to the death. After watching for a while, Dai Chao understood that these cavalry did not think about winning at all. They just wanted to hold back their main cavalry. You chased, he ran away, and he got stuck again.
The Liang army's cavalry commander obviously had discovered the opponent's intentions. They were several levels higher than their opponents in the use of cavalry. Soon, several pretended to leave the battlefield to support the central main battlefield to lure the enemy. Several more than a hundred Jingnan cavalry were deceived. When they chased after them again, they were surrounded by the Liang army's cavalry instantly. After a fierce battle, all of these Jingnan cavalry were killed on the battlefield.
At first, the cavalry on both sides were 2,000 to 2,000, but gradually, the number of cavalry in Jingnan was getting fewer and fewer. When Dai Chao beat the drums and commanded the infantry to slowly press up, the cavalry's battle had already fallen, and the Liang army's cavalry had left at least 1,500 cavalry, while the Jingnan cavalry had lost half.
Dai Chao did not care about the thousand cavalry that had been trapped in the mud. The drum beats kept ringing, urging them to continue to move forward and continue to rush, and continued to tightly restrain Jingnan's infantry in the local area. His squad of infantry slowly approached forward in a concave shape. The formation of Jingnan's army had become increasingly scattered under the continuous impact of the cavalry. When his main infantry arrived, the overall situation would be almost settled.
Dai Chao thought it was very cost-effective to lose these thousand cavalry but he could wipe out his opponent's main force.
There were the last thousand cavalry beside him, but he had no intention of putting them into battle. No matter how far the war was fought, Dai Chao would habitually leave a unit as the final reserve. Until the overall situation was decided, this unit would not be put into battle.
Either you don’t have it, and once you go, you will be able to win ten or ten thousand battle situations.
Wu Ke roared and waved his sword to cut off a Liang cavalry in front of him. The leader of the Tang army's inner guards in Jingnan was now the more than a hundred inner guards he gathered with him and became part of the Jingnan cavalry. They had done almost what they should do. Now Jingnan needs soldiers, so they appeared here.
Compared with other Jingnan cavalry, their team of more than 100 people is obviously more powerful than a thousand. More than 100 cavalry always gathered together at any time. Although these people were engaged in the work of an inner guard, before entering the inner guard, they were all brave men on the battlefield, adhering to the usual fighting style of the Tang army cavalry.
After slashing, no matter whether it causes damage to the enemy or not, he immediately rode away and left his opponent to his comrades behind him. One, two, three, and one will eventually kill the enemy.
Their uniqueness immediately attracted the attention of the Liang army, and more Liang cavalry surrounded them.
"Go to die!" An officer Liang Jun holding a mace knocked Wu Ke with a heavy stick. Wu Ke blocked the sword with a loud bang, and with a loud bang, the long sword in his hand immediately twisted into a trickle. Wu Ke let out a muffled groan, and his arms first hurt a sharp pain, and then almost lost their feelings. Before the opponent's second stick was knocked down, he was already running forward with his saddle.
The second soldier leaped on his horse and slashed at the Liang army officer who was using the mace.
When the knife was blocked, the mace swept across, and the Tang army was knocked out.
The third inner guard came over. Before his opponent's mace could be taken back, he jumped up from the horse and jumped onto the officer's head at a moment of inability to send out. He opened his hands and hugged the officer.
The fourth inner guard arrived on his horse without hesitation, and the long spear in his hand stabbed out fiercely. With the help of the galloping horsepower, the gun first penetrated the chest and abdomen of the previous inner guard, and then stabbed into the chest and abdomen of the officer.
The Liang army officer screamed in a long scream, trying to get rid of the dead Tang army, but even if he was dead, the man still firmly clamped his body. When the fifth inner guard passed by them, the war horse waved, and the cold light flashed, and the two heads flew up at the same time. With a loud bang, the two still entangled corpses fell off the horse.
The Liang army surrounded them was shocked at this moment.
They have never seen such a tragic way of playing. In order to kill their opponents, they will kill them together.
Such combat methods are rare among the regular cavalry of the Tang army, but for the inner guards, they are commonplace. In order to achieve their goals, everyone must sacrifice for the overall situation. In the past process of carrying out tasks, I don’t know how many companions were willing to die in order to complete the task.
Although this team had only more than a hundred people, and after continuous rushing, they lost one-third of their personnel, their bravery was like a catfish in a pond, muddling the water. After seeing their desperate fighting style, Liang Jun unconsciously retreated when he encountered this team.
This allowed Wu Ke to gather several Jingnan cavalry that had been broken and disrupted in a short period of time, causing him to gather nearly 300 Jingnan cavalry behind him.
But the team had gathered a lot, and the disadvantages were immediately revealed. The fighting methods of the Jingnan cavalry and their were completely inconsistent.
They were surrounded by more Liang cavalry.
The Liang army's infantry finally arrived at the battlefield.
Bai Minzhong looked back at Ding Ci on the city wall, waved his fist at him, then raised his right hand high, and shouted loudly: "The whole army attacks!"
It was said that the entire army attacked, but in fact, only the last two thousand reserve teams were left beside Bai Minzhong at this moment. The first to join the final reserve team was to show the opponent that I had tried my best to make my last fight.
Dai Chao was unmoved. Even though Bai Minzhong had already participated in the battle himself, even if the battle between the two sides had entered a white-hot stage in the middle of the battlefield, he had no intention of investing the last thousand cavalry. It was very simple. What he expected was not to win a decisive victory here. The attacks launched by He Zhang and Cai Quan at the east and west gates were his greatest hope. When the Jingnan Army concentrated all the elite main forces here to fight him to death, the east and west directions would inevitably be weak.
"General Cai returns that the enemy has blocked the Xicheng Gate, and our army can only attack the city with ant."
"General He returns that Jingnan Army blocked the East City Gate!"
Military newspapers from two attack directions continued to gather at Dai Chao. The opponent blocked the city gate, which surprised Dai Chao a little. It seemed that the opponent had no intention of abandoning the city and fleeing. This battle might have been stalemate for a while.
The trapped beast always jumps for a while.
If a dog is anxious, it will bite people.
"Tell me the order, after breaking the city, I will not seal the sword for three days!" Dai Chao said with a blank expression.
Jingnan was rich, and Jiangling City was the essence of the entire Jingnanjie Town. This order immediately made the entire Liang army excited as if they were injected with chicken blood.
Chapter completed!