Chapter 196 Breaking the phalanx
Chapter 196: Breaking the Square Formation
Suddenly, when he heard the lord's call, Mao Hui hurriedly replied: "Yes! Don't worry, lord, I must block the enemy and never let him attack the rear of our army!"
He shouted to his subordinates, brought the only 1,500 square troops left, and went straight forward to meet him.
Feng Sha swung his halberd and killed the Yellow Turban soldiers who were fighting in front of him. He was about to lead his army to go forward when he suddenly saw an army slowly walking in the distance, blocking his way.
In front of him was a densely arranged army. All the soldiers were wearing armor, heavy helmets, and long spears in their hands, and were closely connected. The spears in their hands were stretched forward, and the spears grew higher in the back row, and they reached the shoulders of the first row of soldiers. In front of him, there were a lot of guns.
Feng Shale stopped the war horse and was amazed in his heart. Seeing that the momentum of the front of the formation was so terrifying, he slowly moved towards him like a forest of guns. If his cavalry rushed over, if the momentum was too strong, he would probably hit the guns and be penetrated into a string. If the infantry was used against the cavalry, this unit could be regarded as the number one combat power.
But the strongest troops also have their weaknesses. Feng Sha turned around and called Zhang Liao, and Xu Huang said, "You two, each bring 800 cavalry to attack the enemy's flanks from both sides. The enemy attacks head-on, although the protection is strong, the flanks are powerless. You rush over from both sides and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop! If the enemy is willing to surrender, you can let go. If you don't have time to persuade them to surrender, you will be killed!"
The two generals behind him were stunned when they looked at the terrifying formation. When they heard this, they suddenly said in their hearts: "My lord is right. No matter what, you must not retreat now. Even if you don't know the reality of the enemy, you must go forward and fight!"
The two of them turned around and gathered their troops, and were about to go around to rush to the side, Feng Sha reminded them again: "Since Liu Bei was scattering such a formation, there must be troops on both wings to support him. If you want to disperse the enemy on both wings, you will have to go through a hard battle. Moreover, the soldiers in this phalanx often cooperate with the javelins. You must be careful of the javelins that are shot from the head. If the enemy attacks with javelins, you will go farther away, leave the range of the javelins, and shoot the enemy with bows and arrows!"
The two agreed and took the cavalry. Fengsha sent someone to send an order to Gao Shun, ordering him to send nearly 10,000 infantrymen to attack the left wing of the enemy army in front of him, and took four hundred cavalry and went straight to the center of the phalanx.
The phalanx soldiers in front of him were lined up by 125 people and twelve people in a row, forming a rectangle. A large group of soldiers in the middle just blocked them, preventing them from attacking the more than 3,000 phalanx and javelin soldiers in the south.
Feng Sha waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to pause, so as not to be injured by the javelin soldiers behind the enemy. He raised the Fang Tian Hua Ji high, rode alone, and rushed straight towards the guns like forests.
The soldiers in the formation looked up at the galloping enemy, with cold eyes. Although they saw him full of murderous aura, they were not very afraid.
Since I was trained by the envoy, after several years, this army has been trained like steel by the envoy's various strange means, and the entire army has become a whole. A powerful whole like this, even if the enemy in front of me is strong, how can I stand with me? Every soldier thinks silently in his heart.
Feng Shachi came to the enemy, looked at the cold eyes of the soldiers holding a giant shield and spear in front of him, and was amazed in his heart, and did not dare to underestimate the united enemy in front of him.
He held the war horses, but the phalanx troops continued to stop, still taking firm steps and slowly moving forward, trying to force him back before he could give up.
Every soldier in the back row pressed his shoulders against his comrades in front with his shoulders. The entire square formation formed a solid whole, and with invincible inertia, he rushed straight towards the sand seal.
Faced with the determination of one thousand five hundred people, Feng Sha did not dare to underestimate him, but refused to retreat in front of them. He immediately shouted loudly, and Fang Tian's painting halberd swung out wildly, drew an arc in the air, and hit the spear like a forest in front of him from bottom to top.
The sound of gold and iron clashing suddenly sounded, and the more than ten spears in front of him were hit by his thunderous attack, pointing upwards and unable to point to his body anymore.
The soldiers' eyes were filled with surprise. They could not believe that someone had such great power that he could use one person to break out heavy guns in the hands of more than ten people. Although those guns were not completely knocked away and the handle of the gun was still held in the hands of the soldiers, the first battle was that more than ten people defeated him.
Fengsha Fangtian's painting halberd came out of the hole like a poisonous dragon, and it stretched forward like lightning and took it back. A huge blood hole suddenly appeared between the neck of the soldier facing the first row, and blood spurted out wildly. On his face, a look of horror appeared, his knees softened, and he slowly fell to the ground. The giant shield in his hand hit the ground with a roar.
The soldiers behind him also turned pale, but they still strode forward and stood in the first row. The companions behind him followed closely, clasped the spear with their numb arms, and put them on the position of their companions in front. After the initial riot, the entire square formation condensed into a whole again, stepped on the corpse of their companions, and strode towards Fengsha.
Feng Shale retreated and looked coldly at the powerful enemy army in front of him.
The attack just now was just a test. Now he had seen that this army was not invincible on the strongest front. What surprised him was where the enemy's javelin soldiers had gone, so why didn't they come to help and throw the javelins all over the sky and attack him?
However, he did not know that among the elite soldiers that Liu Bei lived in the plain for many years, there were only four thousand square soldiers, one thousand javelin soldiers, two thousand powerful crossbow soldiers, and one thousand iron cavalry. These eight thousand elite soldiers alone had exhausted the financial and material resources that Liu Bei had accumulated in the plains for many years. They were originally the biggest ace for him to compete for the world, but now in order to get rid of this Liu Sha who posed the greatest threat to him, they took it out. Except for the strong crossbow soldiers who were burned out by Fengsha, who went to Guan Yu in the rear overnight, the Dazhai where Taishici was stationed, the remaining six thousand elite soldiers were all here.
When the thousand jaggers faced Zang Ba's strong soldiers, in order to quickly defeat the enemy and attack Laiwu with all their strength, Liu Bei ordered them to go forward to cooperate with the 2,500 quartet soldiers in front of them to attack the enemy. Unexpectedly, Mao Hui led the quartet soldiers to the battle for the first time, and he was in a hurry. He didn't even bring too many heavy javelins. After several rounds of throwing, the javelins were empty. Although the transport soldiers from the rear ran to get the heavy javelins, Liu Bei deliberately set up his camp in the rear to prevent the defenders in Laiwu City from leaving the city to attack the camp, and he specially set up his camp in the rear to protect the Zhangrao camp. It was far away, but it was not as good as sending the heavy javelins. The thousand jaggers stood behind the 2,500 quartet soldiers in the south, doing nothing, and smiling bitterly.
Seeing that the enemy's jazzard soldiers were still in the future, Feng Sha guessed that they might have had a logistics problem or that they were unable to mobilize their troops for a while, so they would not be able to let go of such an opportunity easily. He shouted and rode forward. Fang Tian Hua Ji put more than ten spears in front from below, and used all his strength to pick them up. The more than ten spears were immediately lifted up by him and fell to the side in a scattered manner. Although the soldiers behind him tried their best to grab the tail of the gun, they could no longer point at him, posing a threat to him.
Feng Sha made a big move and took two rows of more than 20 long spears next to him. Fang Tian's painting halberd burst out and stabbed three times in the air. Then he saw that the vanguard of soldiers among the three rows of enemy troops had fallen softly. Although he had tried hard to shrink his neck to the back of the giant shield, his forehead had already been pierced with a blood hole as big as a fist by the spear. His forehead bones were broken, and his brain was gushed out. He fell to the ground, and he was unable to survive.
Feng Sha made a blow and was greatly energetic. Facing the first battle against the square soldiers, he was somewhat sure. He lifted the Fang Tian Hua Ji hard and slashed it hard, slamming him hard on the head of an enemy soldier in the second row, smashing him to pieces. The soldier fell to the ground, and blood and brain plasma poured out from under the helmet, mixed with soil, and turned into a pool of blood mud.
Feng Sha shouted loudly, and Fang Tian's painting halberd was stabbed out with force, and instantly stabbed more than ten halberds, stabbing more than a dozen enemy soldiers in front of him to the ground. He was no longer the vanguard of the three enemy soldiers in front of him, and the vanguard of the enemy soldiers next to him had already picked him up not far away. The tip of the gun had not pointed at him, but he stabbed him from the side. The tip of the halberd immediately tore their throats and fell to the ground screaming.
Under such a fierce attack, the originally tightly-bounded square soldiers were immediately torn out of a gap, and the formation began to be a little confused. Feng Sha lightly held the horse's belly and rushed into the gap. Fang Tian's painting halberd swung wildly around him, and several feet around him. The soldiers were screaming and falling, throwing the spear aside, and no longer pointing forward.
The gap became larger and larger, and finally, the sealed sand had penetrated deep into the enemy's formation. Fang Tian's painting halberd pointed to the east and west, with enemy soldiers on the front, left and right sides, arranged in dense arrangements. Each halberd was swung out, several enemy soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.
Feng Sha roared, and the cavalry behind him came and rushed into the formation after hearing the sound, holding up a long-handled steel knife in his hand. The blade was sharp and extremely sharp. The cavalry slashed down in the air with force and chopped the enemy soldiers standing standing with long spears to the ground.
The soldiers in the phalanx were shocked. It turned out that during training, as long as they tried to withstand the comrades in front and forward with all their strength, they would be fine. The envoy Zeng said that this would make the enemy in front unable to resist dozens of spears attack at the same time. Our army kept pushing forward, forcing the enemy to have no way out. When fighting with our army, they would inevitably be defeated by the strong attack power of our army. Who knew that this enemy general was so powerful that he broke through the strongest front with one man's power and broke into the formation and killed a lot. How could this be done by manpower?
Chapter completed!