Turbulent Times Chapter 1195: A Thousand Dead Heavy Cavalry

Chang'an City, Tai Chi Hall.

Among the flames, the situation in Hedong and Guanzhong was marked on the huge map. Following Li Shimin's defeat on the Eastern Front, Wang Junlin of the North Road led the Far Eastern Army's Huanfeng Camp and Pegasus Camp to occupy the two counties and began to march towards Taiyuan. After the government entered the army, the Li Yuan Group finally panicked.

At this time, Li Yuan and the civil and military officials under his command gathered together. Ma Yuangui, Chen Yanshou, Changsun Shunde, Qian Jiulong, Li Jiancheng, Dugu Changsu, Changsun Wuji and the principals of various powerful families were already sitting in the hall .

"The current situation is very unfavorable to us. The Far Eastern Army is attacking from east, west, and north. Right now, although the second son has not lost a ground in the east, he has suffered a defeat. Hou Junji in the west has 120,000 enemies The army blocked Longguan, but the food road was cut off by the special forces of the Far East Army. The situation is very bad. And the Luliang County and Xinkou County in the north have been lost, and Wang Junlin is now sending troops to attack Taiyuan Mansion."

"It seems that Wang Junlin's troops are limited, and our defense is sufficient, but the Far East Army was able to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River within an hour. In the face of the battle, they should not be defeated at the first touch. Presumably, they will be able to stick to the front line of Linhe. As long as General Li Shentong is undefeated and Taiyuan Mansion is not lost, Hedong Foundation will be able to stand firm..."

At this time, the one in the room pointing to the map was the elder Sun Shunde, who was known as an expert soldier. After he spoke for a while, Li Yuan, who looked a little better, said, "My brother's supernatural power is a good general in the world. He has rich experience in battle, he has suffered defeats in previous battles, and now he will not disappoint Gu."

On the issue of using Li Shentong as the commander of the North Road to deal with the most difficult Wang Junlin, both Li Yuan himself and Changsun Shunde have always been the biggest pushers.

At this time, Li Yuan and Changsun Shunde were not so much determined as they were emphasizing their vision, or expressing the hope in their hearts.

Others also said yes, at this time, not many people dared to say unlucky or depressing words, Changsun Wuji wanted to speak up several times, but Changsun Shunde glared at him and then kept silent.

Dugu Changsu, who hadn't spoken much, sighed in his heart, looked at the map, and said, "My lord, there are some things that need to be prepared for the worst."

Everyone's expressions changed. Dugu Changsu represents the most powerful family in the world, and is the leader of the Guanlong nobles who are the most powerful and the biggest supporter of the Li Yuan Group. It comes out heavy enough.

The scene was silent, and a needle could be heard. After an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan let out a long sigh, with a heavy expression on his face, and said solemnly: "Can Aiqing Dugu be a good plan?"

Dugu Changsu bowed to Li Yuan, then glanced at the people from all the powerful families in the audience, and said solemnly: "We, the powerful families and the king of Tang, are both prosperous. We each sent out guards earlier, and we formed 50,000 soldiers in half a month. Ma, but the Far East Army is powerful now, and Wang Junlin has a vicious mind. If he is allowed to take down Hedong and Guanzhong, our family business will not only be lost, but our family will also be ruined. Therefore, my Dugu family is willing to donate 1,000 family members and 5,000 tenants for Form recruits, and give out one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand shi of grain for training and fighting."

Most of the powerful families here are patriarchs, and those who are not patriarchs are also the principals. Everyone is smart and knows that what Dugu Changsu said is correct. Back then, and now the Dugu family, the world's number one powerful family, took the lead, so they had to say that they would send people, money, and food.

Soon, there were a total of 100,000 servants and tenants from various powerful families, as many as 6 million taels of silver, and 3 million shi of grain.

In the troubled times, the servants and tenants of the aristocratic families are not ordinary people. They are all trained according to the method of military training. For this reason, otherwise they would have been wiped out by various rogues and thieves in the troubled times.

Although there is no elite of 50,000 horses formed by the guards who contributed before, but after a month or two of training, they will become another army capable of fighting.

As for money and food, it is not surprising. For hundreds of years, more than 90% of the land and business in the world have been controlled by these powerful families, such as the Dugu family and the seven clans and five surnames. The wealth can rival the country, which is why many outstanding people in the world thought that Wang Junlin could not beat Li Yuan.

Of course, now that the Li Yuan Group is retreating steadily under the attack of the Far East Army, the thinking of some outstanding people in the world will naturally change.

Li Yuan bowed to the patriarchs or principals of the powerful families, and said gratefully: "My king, thank you for your support. Today, I, Li Yuan, swear here that after unifying the world, I will rule the world with you!"

The chiefs and patriarchs of the families who were bleeding heavily just now were feeling distressed, but when they heard this, their complexions became much better, and they thought it was right to choose Li Yuan to support them.

They chose Li Yuan back then, on the one hand because Li Yuan's ambitions were big enough, and Li Yuan was not the most powerful in the family. Worried about being exterminated afterwards.

On the other hand, the biggest reason is that Li Yuan knows how to be a man and how to deal with things.

Before, the Li family was an anomaly among the powerful families, without a single enemy. You must know that for thousands or hundreds of years, there were many grievances and hatreds among the powerful families, and there was no enemy except Li Yuan's family. In addition, it is really difficult to find a second one.

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Beside the Fen River, Wang Junlin personally led the 50,000 soldiers from the Xuanfeng Battalion who hurried across the river, and the 100,000 soldiers from Li Shentong who rushed over to fight fiercely for half a day, until it was dark, and finally both sides were exhausted, so they retreated.

In this battle, more than 3,000 people were killed or injured by the Far Eastern Army, and nearly 10,000 were killed or injured by the Li Family Army led by Li Shentong.

During the half-day war, more than 1,000 soldiers from the engineering battalion of the Far Eastern Army had been busy all day, and had already established a simple camp on the riverside that could accommodate 50,000 horses.

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I have nothing to say all night.

In the early morning of January 6th, on the east bank of the Fen River, the silence was unbelievable.

Not only did the army of the Li family not come to harass them at night, even though it was already dawn, Wang Junlin still did not see a single soldier of the Li family.

But after listening to the intelligence briefing from the secret agent of the Military Intelligence Office, Wang Junlin realized that it was not that the Li family army had never thought of attacking at night, but was scared back by the landmines in the whirlwind camp around the camp.

It's an exaggeration to say you're scared back, but it's true.

Before Wang Junlin had time to eat the same dry rations as the soldiers of the whirlwind battalion, the spies of the military intelligence office soon sent new news——the Li family army came to attack again.

"My lord, Li Shentong saw that we were going to fight with our backs, so he was not in a hurry to fight with us..." Luo Shixin said respectfully to Wang Junlin while delivering a mouthful of dry biscuits with water.

Wang Junlin said with a smile: "Li Shentong is really not in a hurry, because he knows that if he is in a hurry, not only will he not be able to defeat us, but we will easily catch the loopholes and kill their troops. Come to the secret letter, with the support of various families, Li Yuan formed another 100,000 new troops, and they need time to train these 100,000 new recruits."

After Wang Junlin finished speaking, he swallowed the last mouthful of dry biscuits, wiped his hands on the armor, and ordered loudly: "Command! Prepare to march out to meet the enemy!"

Following Wang Junlin's order, the temporary camp of the 50,000 Whirlwind Battalion became noisy again. The soldiers devoured the dry rations in their hands and hurriedly fed the horses with the last sip of water, combed their fur, and then Riding on the horse with the lower horsepower, under the command of Ling Qi, one team after another went to the camp.

About two miles away from the camp, on a flat saline-alkali land with a slight slope, Wang Junlin ordered the army to stop.

At this point they can already clearly see two miles away

The cavalry of the Li family army, Li Shentong has rich experience, also occupies a small slope-these so-called "slopes" are completely negligible to the cavalry, but when the two armies are fighting, any little Favorable factors, the generals of both sides are unwilling to give up.

The width of the formation of the Li family army stretched for several miles, dense and dense, like a long snake, coiling in front of the whirlwind battalion, the number of people was obviously at least about twice that of the whirlwind battalion.

With the big battles these days, especially the frontal battle yesterday, although the number of people in the Whirlwind Battalion was small, the soldiers of the Whirlwind Battalion did not have the slightest fear, but were full of fighting spirit.

At this point, the two sides began a brief confrontation.

The generals on both sides used this time to observe the enemy facing them, while the soldiers seized the time to complete the final battle preparations.

What I want to say here is that Wang Junlin has always been surrounded by a special army composed of a thousand dead soldiers from Snake Island. They have their own special super armor, which is heavier than the armor of the legendary heavy cavalry.

Wang Junlin has never used these thousand dead warriors, even when dealing with No. 1 Killer King a few days ago, Wang Junlin didn't use them.

Today, Wang Junlin is going to use them.

At this time, with the help of the soldiers from the engineering and supply battalion, the thousand dead soldiers put on the rest of the heavy armor—in order to save horsepower and physical strength, they only put on the body armor in advance, covered their arms and arm guards. Parts such as skirts, skirts, and knee skirts, as well as night clothes, pocket mirrors, and masks must be worn temporarily, and the horse's vest has been put on during the last rest to reorganize the formation.

Then, with the help of the soldiers of the engineering and supply battalion, the thousand dead heavy cavalry were helped onto their horses one by one.

The Li family army did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack. Their cavalry did not even mount their horses until they saw the Far East stop. This was because their soldiers also needed to check their weapons and equipment before mounting their horses.

Wang Junlin and Luo Shixin knew that this meant that the cavalry of the Li family army in front of them showed an 'elite' aura.

For the cavalry, as long as they are experienced and truly elite cavalry, no matter what kind of opponent they face, they can always remain calm.

Wang Junlin stood where the general flag of the Chinese army was. His command system consisted of four chariots and dozens of riders and messengers with various flags.

On these chariots that have been transported across the river after a lot of trouble, in addition to the five-color command flags for commanding operations, there are also several big drums, buttons, horns and other objects-these all symbolize the command power on the battlefield.

If it was Tiger Camp, Wang Junlin would completely delegate power and let Yuchi Jingde take command of the battle.

And if Li Jing or Xu Shiji were here, he would not hesitate to hand over the command to these two.

But Luo Shixin is an invincible general on the battlefield like Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms. On this kind of battlefield with more than 150,000 people in front, he is still a little weak in commanding and fighting, so Wang Junlin is going to personally command this battle .

On the battlefield, Wang Junlin is not pretentious at all, he is wearing the refined steel armor made for him by Nie Xiaoyu.

I don't know what kind of material Nie Xiaoyu added to this refined steel armor. It turned out to be an extremely rare dark blue. It took three days to forge this ability, and ordinary samurai could only leave a mark on it with ordinary swords.

The most rare and valuable thing is that this armor is much lighter than ordinary steel armor. Such armor is already priceless.

At this time, Wang Junlin stood on a chariot, pursed his lips, and watched the situation with binoculars intently.

He was carefully observing the entire cavalry camp of the Li family army. He hoped to find a flaw in the cavalry formation of the Li family army.

"If that's the case, let's kill it!" Unexpectedly, Wang Junlin spit out these five words viciously, "Send down the order, let a thousand dead cavalry take the lead, and attack the front of Li's army! Rip them apart!" Since the enemy army did not reveal any flaws, it is natural to attack the front.

As soon as his words fell, several large flags around him nodded forward a few times, and the sound of war drums and horns suddenly sounded together, and a deafening "dong dong dong dong" resounded in his ears... ..." "Woooooooooooooo..." sound, followed by a thunderous sound from the ground under his feet, as if the ground was shaking.

"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" The former soldiers of the Whirlwind Battalion shouted three times in unison. A thousand dead cavalry led the way, and ten thousand Whirlwind Battalion cavalry rushed towards Li's army like giant pythons. .

On the frontal battlefield, 20,000 cavalrymen of the Li Family Army followed Li Shentong's order, and greeted them with the sound of killing. The heavy armor on the thousand dead cavalry in front of them was like fallen grass hitting their bodies, and it was difficult to cause major damage.

The cavalrymen of the Li family army shot a few rounds of arrows unwillingly. Seeing that the cavalrymen of the Far East Army had no casualties, they knew that they could not resist, so they fled towards both sides.

Behind them, another team of Li Family Army cavalry rushed up wielding maces and hammers. Obviously, Li Shentong had discovered the peculiarity of these thousand dead cavalry. Means of mounted cavalry.

However, they obviously underestimated the strength of the heavy cavalry armor, the sharpness of the steel spears, the speed at which the steel spears could be thrust out, and their strength.

Although these cavalrymen of the Li family army were very brave, before their weapons touched the heavy cavalry of a thousand dead soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, the long steel spears held in the hands of the dead soldier cavalry had already pierced their chests, or They fell off their horses and knocked over to the ground, and then were easily pierced through their bodies with spears by the light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion who followed behind, or were simply trampled into flesh by the galloping horses.

Wang Junlin's tactics seem to have achieved very good results so far.

The 11,000 Far Eastern Army cavalry in the charge were like a sharp axe, while the 1,000 dead heavy cavalry were like extremely sharp axe blades, hacking in from the front of the Li Family Army formation.

The cavalry of the Li family army in the front began to waver under this fierce attack. Although it cannot be said that they fled in a mess to the back and both sides like a frightened herd, they were indeed retreating non-stop. Like the ebbing sea water, it receded towards the rear and the two wings. Seeing that this ax could forcibly split the formation of Li Jiajun's army in half.

Luo Shixin, who had been ordered by Wang Junlin not to rush out, could not help but heave a long sigh of relief. Once the formation of the Li family army was torn apart, causing chaos within the Li family army, the outcome of this battle would basically be determined—— ——The cavalry charging with the thousand dead heavy cavalry as the vanguard was really powerful.

It's just that Luo Shixin turned to look at Wang Junlin, but the latter's expression made him startled.

He saw Wang Junlin frowned, but his expression was much more serious than before.

At this time, about two miles behind the large cavalry formation of the Li family army, about two thousand cavalry stood quietly in a square formation.

Behind the two thousand Li family cavalry, under the protection of hundreds of elite cavalry, Li Shentong stood on a four-horse chariot, observing the situation of the entire battlefield intently.

"Shimin has spent so much money over the years to build a secret agent organization. At least the money was not wasted. At least let us know that there is such a deadly heavy cavalry around Wang Junlin, so that we can have a secret agent in advance. Get ready." Li Shentong smiled and shook his head, "It's just that Wang Junlin used heavy cavalry to disrupt our formation. If I were Wang Junlin, I would use these heavy cavalry to attack from the two wings. As long as the opponent's two wings are smashed, we can hit the center. The army formed a situation of oppression and siege."

"Wang Junlin didn't know that this frontal assault strategy, in the battle examples used by the ancients hundreds of years ago, has a way to break it." Li Shentong laughed: "

No matter how Wang Junlin charges with the combination of heavy cavalry and light cavalry, we just need to avoid his edge. No matter how well-trained his Far East Army is, as long as he is cavalry, the horse will be fast or slow. , the formation will inevitably be scattered, the farther you run, the more chaotic the formation will be, the fast horse will rush to the front, and the slow horse will fall behind. We only need to lure the enemy into deep, and when they are out of touch, we can fight back and use our superior forces Surround and annihilate those who run in the front, and then destroy the rear troops one by one. The more than 10,000 Far Eastern troops that rushed to the depths will soon collapse. "

Pei Ji, the commander of the side army, looked delighted, and said: "General Li is worthy of being a veteran of my Tang army. With the general's tactics, the Far East Army will undoubtedly be defeated."

"It's too early to say." Li Shentong shook his head, looked at the terrain on both sides, and said solemnly: "This battlefield is still too narrow, and there may be some accidents when it is deployed, and the result will not be completely satisfactory. , I don’t expect to be able to win a big victory, I am satisfied with a small victory.”

While chatting with Pei Ji, Li Shentong had already beckoned for a few messengers and assigned his tactics one by one.

At this time, under the charge of the Far Eastern Army with a thousand dead soldiers, heavy cavalry and then light cavalry, the cavalry front of the Li family army retreated steadily. What you want to see is cut into two parts.

Of course, this is also the situation that Li Shentong has prepared for a long time ago and expected to see now.

With the support of wealth and food from the powerful families, the Li family army has always had plenty of money, food, war horses, etc., so they also formed their own heavy cavalry.

And Li Shentong obviously regarded the thousand dead cavalry as ordinary heavy cavalry.

So, Li Shentong thinks he is no stranger to the thousand dead heavy cavalry, because he has used heavy cavalry to kill the enemy many times, so he has his own views, and he is quite confident, but he may I don't know, Wang Junlin has already studied his information, every battle he fought, especially all the battles where he liked to use heavy cavalry to kill the enemy, how could he be unprepared.

It even turned his good point into a fatal point.

In Li Shentong's view, this unit is mainly used at critical moments.

Because, from the overall point of view, it is useless. The heavy cavalry can't break through the solid square formation of more than 10,000 infantry, and it is ridiculously clumsy when facing the light cavalry.

Heavy cavalry can never catch up with light cavalry, and what light cavalry has to do is to constantly lure heavy cavalry to chase you. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible for heavy cavalry to catch up with you. shoot them one by one.

Although the armor of the heavy cavalry of the Far Eastern Army is much stronger than their heavy cavalry, it seems that ordinary arrows can't shoot through it at all, but it is not difficult to gather such a group of archers in advance.

However, Li Shentong has to admit that if the heavy cavalry is used properly, it may achieve miraculous results. For example, on a battlefield where space is oppressive, the power of a thousand heavy cavalry charging into battle is sometimes enough to change the entire situation of the battle.

So, he deliberately came here earlier and led the army to stop here. In fact, he deliberately chose this place as the battlefield, and set up traps according to his own careful planning, waiting for the arrival of the Far East Army.

Of course, Li Shentong is so confident this time because he knows that the North Army of the Far East Army has run out of gunpowder weapons such as grenades and explosives in many previous battles.

For a long time, Li Shentong believed that when he faced the Far Eastern Army, he was always defeated. The main reason was that the opponent had terrifying gunpowder weapons. Idle, I tried my best to cut off all kinds of ordnance and equipment sent by the Far East Army through the Military Intelligence Office, Wulin Guild, Xiaoyu Theater and Fanyang Chamber of Commerce across the river, and it would be a long way to go to Youzhou to go around the Turkic territory. .

Besides, these days Li Yuan also sent envoys to several large Turkic tribes near the east of the river, bringing gifts.

Although the Turkic Great Khan besieged Yang Guang at Yanmenguan a few years ago, he was scared and hurt by the Far Eastern Army led by Wang Junlin. The Far Eastern Army's ordnance team passing through its own territory dared.

So, at present, the North Route Far East Army led by Wang Junlin is far away from Fanyang County, and it is difficult to supply gunpowder weapons and equipment.

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Everything was as expected by Li Shentong. When the Far Eastern Army began to charge, even the Far Eastern Army, which is famous for its neat formation, could not keep the formation very neat all the time.

This is mainly because although the horses ridden by the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army are all carefully selected good horses, once the horses start to gallop, the quality of the horses and the riding skills of the cavalry will be distinguished immediately. The mounted cavalry rushed to the front, and the other part fell behind. At first, the light cavalry behind them tried to maintain the formation, but soon they found that this was impossible.

What's more, after a thousand heavy cavalry of dead soldiers cut deeply into the frontal formation of the cavalry of the Li family army and disrupted the formation of the cavalry of the Li family army, this kind of restraint seemed to be meaningless.

Under the urging of the rhythmic battle drums behind them, the formation and discipline of the light cavalry of the Ten Thousand Whirlwind Battalion in the front of the Chinese Army seemed to be worse than before. The cavalry fell behind, leaving only a loose formation, chasing the cavalry of the Li family army who were about to panic.

However, after easily "defeating" the formation in front of the cavalry of the Li family, the former army of the Far East Army discovered that about two miles behind the front formation of the cavalry of the Li family, there was actually a formation waiting in full force.

Many cavalrymen of the Li family army fled to the rear of this army formation. The cavalry of the Far Eastern Army, whose formation had become somewhat chaotic, could no longer reorganize their formation, and the light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion, who were able to kill, had no time to wait for the thousand dead heavy cavalry left behind by them.

Under the order of their general, they took up their spears and charged at the cavalry of the Li family army that appeared in front of them again.

But this time, the charges of the former Far Eastern Army seemed to hit a soft wall.

The cavalry of the Li family army that suddenly appeared was even more elite. They all rode fast horses and carried strong bows and sharp arrows. Surround and shoot with bow and arrow.

Although the light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion are well-trained horse fighters, most of the time, they cannot touch the cavalry of the Li family army who attacked them. Faced with Li Jiajun's cavalry with a helmet on, they had already suffered heavy losses after a few rounds of arrow rain from such close range.

However, under such a blow, the 10,000 cavalry and the 1,000 dead heavy cavalry of the Far Eastern Army's Whirlwind Battalion inevitably began to be chaotic, but the chaos appeared a little quickly, and few people could see them. There is some order in the chaos.

At the same time, the formation of the rest of the Li family cavalry also began to move. A cavalry was sent from each of their two wings, and from the two wings, they attacked the 1,000 dead heavy cavalry of the Far Eastern Army and other light cavalry from the former Far Eastern Army.

The cavalry of the Li family army who fled to the two wing formations from the frontal formation that had been "destroyed" gathered again and rushed directly towards the central cavalry formation of the Whirlwind Battalion. Surround the charging front army of the Whirlwind Battalion, and cut off its connection with the main force of the Whirlwind Battalion Central Army, thinking about annihilating the front army of the Whirlwind Battalion Central Army as soon as possible with superior forces, and then join the battle with the Whirlwind Battalion Central Army.

Li Shentong's plan has been going smoothly so far.

However, when all the cavalry generals of the Li family army were ecstatic and felt that everything in today's plan was under control, the muscles on Li Shentong's face suddenly tightened, because today was too smooth .

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PS: I'm very sorry, the Spring and Autumn Messenger was killed in the previous plot, yesterday's chapter has been changed———