Chapter 419 Songlin Town (Sixth)

The well-trained Great Sui Mansion soldiers have a variety of formations, and the cavalry's battle formations include more than 20 changes, such as goose feathers, cone shapes, and edge arrows. Depending on different battlefields and different battle situations, generals who have experienced battle formations will rank the most suitable formation to defend against the enemy. At this time, the four thousand elite cavalry in Yanyun Village are in the wilderness and one horse is flat. Li Xian ordered the cavalry to form a basic multi-row array. Such a formation is regarded as the basic formation for various formation changes.

If it were a heavy armored cavalry, these many rows of horizontal platoons would be one of the sharpest attack formations. Light cavalry assaults mainly include cone-shaped, sharp arrow-shaped formations. Heavy armored cavalry attacks, such as trampling forward and moving forward in a square formation that is the most domineering.

Li Xian did not have heavy armored cavalry under his command. With the current financial, manpower and material resources of Juyeze, Dongpingjun, it was already a bit difficult to support nearly 100,000 troops. The heavy armored Mo Dao Hand under Xiong Kuohai, with a total of 4,000 troops, had already used a lot of expenses. Even though Li Xian envied the five thousand tiger heavy armors under Luo Yi, he did not have enough money and food to build one. Speaking of which, Luo Yi's tiger heavy armor only has 5,000 cavalry, but the size of the entire team is nearly 20,000!

What a heavy armored cavalry must be a very strong and burly person, and the requirements for war horses are stricter. How can ordinary horses carry heavy armored soldiers with a total weight of less than 300 kilograms? The heavy armor of the knight is thirty or forty kilograms, and the full armor of the war horses is also dozens of kilograms, and the strong cavalry is 170 to 80 kilograms. In addition, the necessary equipment such as horse lances, horizontal swords, and other essential equipment, the total number is nearly 300 kilograms.

Each heavy armored cavalry has at least two entourages, who are responsible for maintaining and wiping the armor and weapons of the heavy armored cavalry, and carefully taking care of the war horses. Therefore, each heavy armored cavalry must have at least one horse to carry equipment. In addition, the logistics personnel of the baggage, the total force of the five thousand tigers is actually no less than 20,000, and the total number of war horses and horses is even greater. The most important thing is that the cost of heavy armor and full armor of the cavalry and the military pay of the soldiers is too high, so high that the entire Sui Dynasty can only support the five thousand tigers of Youzhou.

Putting aside the expensive cost of heavy armored cavalry, Li Xian prefers the coming and going of light cavalry like the wind.

After waiting for about half an hour, the black army of Wagangzhai rushed in the dust and smoke. The 60,000 troops were overwhelming, and there was no boundary at first glance, surging like a gray wave. General Li Mi's 60,000 troops in the central army were divided into the front, back, left and right five armies according to the marching practice of the Great Sui Palace. The front general Zhang Qian, general Meng Rang, general Meng Rang, general Hu Luer, and general Hao Xiaode of the rear. His confidant Zhang Liang led 20,000 troops to the rear to support him.

The 5,000 troops of Zhang Qian, the former general Mingwei, were rushing to the front. Zhang Qian's 5,000 troops belonged to the outer camp soldiers of Wagang Village. The original troops of Wagang Village led by Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and others belonged to the inner camp soldiers. In general, the combat power of the inner camp soldiers is much stronger than that of the outer camp soldiers.

Li Mi also wanted to hold the inner camp firmly in his hands, but although Shan Xiongxin and others seemed to respect him, they refused to let go of the soldiers and horses in their hands. Zhai Rang still obeyed him and repeatedly expressed that after conquering Dongping County, he retreated behind the scenes and handed over the Wagang Village to Li Mi to take charge.

Therefore, although Li Mi looked down on the combat power of the foreign camp soldiers, he now had to rely on Chong Zhang Qian, Hu Luer and others. Although the men under these people were not good at fighting, they were numerous. If the troops scattered in various places were included, the total strength of Wagang Village is now no less than 200,000.

In the east county, Li Mi sent troops to attack Luokoucang, and there were also troops stationed in Baihua Valley. Therefore, during the eastern expedition to Yanyun Village, Li Mi mobilized about half of the total force, and 60,000 people Zhai Rang personally led the troops behind Li Xian to attack Xiongkuohai's troops.

Zhang Qian led five thousand former soldiers and horses to rush forward. Suddenly, he saw a cavalry in Yanyun Village standing in front like a black city wall. He did not dare to be arrogant and immediately ordered the team to stop. He went to ask Li Mi in person.

He stopped and thought that the thousands of cavalry left behind in Yanyun Village would never take the initiative to attack, but what surprised him was exactly what he thought would never become possible.

Before Li Xian could finish the formation of the front army in Wagang Village, he looked coldly at the other party's hasty army, without any worry on his face. He pointed the black knife forward and said loudly: "Kill over and flatten the front army in Wagang Village!"

"Here!"

The Jing Armored Light Cavalry responded neatly, and then slowly accelerated with Li Xian's big dark horse.

The four thousand elite cavalry followed Li Xian and gradually increased their speed. The horse's hooves stepped on the wilderness and made a sound like thunder, rumbling against the ground and suppressed the former soldiers and horses of Wagang Village.

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Zhang Qian was about to rush back to ask Li Mi for instructions, but suddenly he saw the cavalry behind Yanyun Village rushed over. He immediately sent his personal soldiers to report to Li Mi and asked Li Mi to send troops to support him.

"Arrowman! Array!"

Zhang Qian shouted loudly.

Although his men and horses were not well equipped and were far less well-trained than those of the soldiers and horses in the Wagang Village, they had experienced countless wars and were still much stronger than ordinary green forest bandits. He believed that the combat power of his soldiers was at least much better than that of the gang members and the white clubs.

He was determined to show off in front of Li Mi, so he took a twelve-point spiritual command.

"Spikeman, three arrows are behind the gun array!"

While riding a horse in front of the military formation, he made loud orders.

"There are only a few thousand cavalrymen behind Yanyun Village, and we have an army of 100,000!"

He loudly cheered his soldiers: "Today is the day when Yanyun Village is destroyed! The great cause of the Secret Duke will be successful in the future. You all have the achievements of following the dragon, and your future will be bright! Who doesn't want to return home in glory? Who doesn't want to be a marquis and generals?! The soldiers! Step on the enemy's bones and achieve your fame and fortune!"

Zhang Qian has been studying for a few years and has done a first-hand article, so he is much more elegant than Hu Luer and others. He does not only know how to shout a few monotonous words like killing or rushing. He has also participated in the imperial examinations in the court, but because he has no money to give gifts. Although his articles are well done, he is quite neat, but he is far less beautiful than a bag of silver. He failed the exam without any surprise, but his son, who is a wealthy family in the same village, was defeated. In anger, Zhang Qian followed his clan uncle to work as a businessman in the north. This is undoubtedly a degeneration in the eyes of outsiders.

In the first year of Daye, the imperial examination system was established, and the status of literati was significantly improved. Young men who studied in county schools were also respected by the people. The family members refused to let them work. Even if they were chopping firewood, they felt sorry for the scholars. Zhang Qian took the initiative to cut off his studies and went to do the most despised business. From this, we can imagine how strong the anger in his heart was at that time.

The social ranks of scholars, peasants, industry and commerce in the Great Sui Dynasty, and merchants were the most looked down upon.

However, Zhang Qian was not lucky. He brought some Shu brocade and tea bricks for the first time in the north. He planned to exchange for two inferior horses and then sell them for silver. Who would have thought that when the Sui Dynasty was rushing to Goguryeo in the eastern expedition of the Sui Dynasty, the horse he bought was forcibly collected for military use, and even a good meat was not given to him. Zhang Qian was also an angry person. He contacted several people and killed the Dharma Cao that night, and then fled into the barren mountains and became a bandit. Who would have thought that in just a few years, he became a great man in the green forest with tens of thousands of soldiers.

He had a little more knowledge than the general rebel leaders, and after he got into trouble, he also read several military books, so he also had some experience in training military training, especially thinking that the training method of the Great Sui Mansion soldiers was the best. Because he had read books, he knew that the world could not be in chaos for a long time, and that sooner or later there would be a time when the separation would last for a long time. The biggest thing about him was that he had self-knowledge and knew that he would never achieve anything in the game of dominating the world, so he decided to find someone who could achieve great success to assist him.

He was one of the many people in the Sui Dynasty who firmly believed that Li Mi was the true emperor, so he firmly believed that he had taken the right path.

The elite armored light cavalry in Yanyun Village had reached two hundred steps away. Zhang Qian looked at the elite black armored cavalry and couldn't help but praise him sincerely in his heart.

People say that Li Xian, the leader of Yanyun Village, is best at using cavalry. Today, he only sees the formation and knows that these cavalry are real veterans of a hundred battles and should not be underestimated.

"Photography!"

Zhang Qian shouted loudly.

With a buzzing sound, a feather arrow flew into the sky. Hundreds of archers loosened the bowstrings almost at the same time. The feather arrows gradually rose up and rose into the air, and when they reached the highest point, they accelerated down. Then the dense feather arrows smashed into the cavalry queue of Yanyun Village like hail, and dozens of cavalry were immediately dropped.

The damage to the cavalry is much less than the damage to the infantry. The high-speed war horses can often throw the feather arrows behind, and when facing the cavalry, the time for the archer to shoot the feather arrows becomes extremely hasty. From entering the range to shooting the last arrow within his ability, it often only takes six or seven breaths.

The second and third rounds of feather arrows shot over a hundred cavalry again, and the archers had to quickly retreat behind the military formation.

"Gun array!"

Zhang Qian ordered loudly: "Pull it!"

At this time, the cavalry of Yanyun Village was less than fifty steps away from the military formation, and it was really too late to change the formation. With his orders, more than a thousand spearmen rushed up and arranged several platoons of gun formations.

Seeing that the cavalry in Yanyun Village was about to hit the gun formation in another fifty steps, the big dark horse in front suddenly turned to one side and changed direction. Following the big dark horse, thousands of cavalry actually completed a turn that seemed impossible to complete, and made a very beautiful arc and turned a ninety-degree turn, from facing the Wagang Village military formation to a rapid rushing parallel to the military formation.

"crossbow!"

Li Xian shouted, then took the lead in taking off the crossbow, and pulled the spearman in Wagangzhai who was less than twenty steps away and pulled Ji Kuo.

In an instant, the crossbow arrows were like rainstorms.

The elite cavalry slid across the Wagangzhai Army formation in parallel and poured out the crossbow arrows in the crossbow box with all their might. The density of crossbow arrows was astonishing. In an instant, the three rows of gun arrays fell down layer by layer like straw blown down by the strong wind. Spearmen with almost no defense, at this distance, could not even run away from such a dense crossbow arrow.

In an instant, Zhang Qian changed his face and felt heartbroken.
Chapter completed!