Turbulent Times Chapter 1273: The “open” army

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Seeing the sudden change of formation of the rebel army, Wang Junlin's expression froze, and while he was vigilant, he couldn't help secretly sighing Yang Su's control over the army on the battlefield.

You must know that when tens of thousands of troops are rushing to kill, suddenly changing formations and changing attack targets when the distance between the two armies is less than 20 steps away without warning, this is not easy in itself. It's normal, but most of the rebels are rogues who have not undergone systematic training. Even if Yang Su has temporarily trained these days, it is by no means a means for ordinary generals to reach the level in front of him.

Moreover, Yang Su's move is of course very powerful. The two wings of the Far Eastern Army are cavalry. The fighting power can't be displayed.

However, the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army will never be more than cavalry, or in order to become a cavalry, you must first become a qualified infantry.

Yuchi Jingde was slightly taken aback when he saw the enemy's main target on him, although he felt sorry for not being able to lead his men and horses to charge recklessly on the battlefield, but his face was full of ferocity and murder. meaning.

"Still a grenade!"

"Quick crossbow throw!"

"Get off the horse and form a battle."

Yuchi Jingde issued three orders as quickly as possible.

After the first order, hundreds of grenades were thrown out, not to mention killing and injuring thousands of rebels running ahead, and causing the rebels behind to rush forward instinctively.

With the grenades waiting for time, the tiger battalion cavalry took the opportunity to quickly throw their crossbows and killed thousands of rebels.

With two rounds of long-range attacks to block the enemy, it bought enough time for Tiger Camp to dismount and fight.

The horses leading the horses and the formations set up were tense and orderly. There were not many people colliding with tens of thousands of people in such a narrow and sudden rush.

"How did such an army train out?" Yang Su witnessed the reaction process of the cavalry on the two wings of the Far East Army.

Of course he already knew that the infantry cavalry of the Far Eastern Army was equally powerful, but he deliberately arranged for two-thirds of his troops to rush towards the cavalry when he was 20 steps away from the central army of the Far Eastern Army. It is impossible for the army to dismount in time to fight on foot. You must know that it is easy to dismount, but it is not possible to complete tens of thousands of horses in the back, and then deploy them in a short period of time. Moreover, according to Yang Su's calculation, the cavalry of the Far East Army In the middle of the formation, he was rushed to the front by his army, and it was the time when they were scattered.

It's just that Yang Su has experienced countless battles in the battlefield all his life, and he has seen many kinds of powerful troops, but he never thought that an army can control these details to such a degree.

"Although the old thief Yang Su is powerful, he doesn't know the horror of the formation training of the professional army of later generations." Every move Yang Su made, the change in the latter's face just now naturally fell into his eyes.

The rebel soldiers who rushed in front of the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army found that the opponent's response was completely different from what they had expected before. And at this time, the sequelae of Yang Su's temporary change of formation were also reflected-their battle formation seemed a little scattered.

Even if the rebel army collides with the Far Eastern Army's long spear battle formation, it is difficult to match. What's more, their battle formation is scattered at this time, almost showing a one-sided massacre from the beginning.

As for the front line of the central army of the two armies, Yang Su arranged one-third of the elite to deal with the infantry formation of the Far East Army's central spear battalion. The rebels killed ten people, and they were able to kill one or two soldiers of the Far East Army.

With an army of more than 100,000 people fighting on the battlefield, the sound of drums and horns can no longer control the army too much. At this time, it is mainly the grassroots officers who can control the army. Shouts and screams have long replaced drums and horns as the main theme on the battlefield.

In a few breaths, three or four thousand people fell down at the first contact. It may be affected by the resolute and desperate slogan of the rebels before. The rebels behaved quite bravely and died. On the second floor, more rebels stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to rush towards the spear battle formation like hedgehogs in the dense forest, like moths to a flame.

How could Yang Su be unprepared for the powerful spear formation of the Far East Army? He has collected a large number of shields in the cities he controls these days. One of them held a large iron shield to withstand the sharpness of the Far Eastern Army's spears.

I have to say that Yang Su's method was very effective. The rebel infantry used small shields and giant shields against their spears, pushing each other hard, and seized the opportunity to stick out their knives from behind the shields to slash. The army soldiers were caught off guard, and many were killed or injured.

But because of the existence of Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu, the Far Eastern Army's tactics and training methods, armor and weapons, have far surpassed anyone's imagination in this era, even Yang Su , If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would never have imagined that the spears of the Far Eastern Army were so sharp.

The thick wooden shield in the hands of the rebels did not block a few times, but it was pierced or directly split. This is by no means something that ordinary spears in this era can do. This is something that can only be done by some aristocratic families who spend a lot of money and spend two or three years building it. But now the spears in the hands of any soldier in the Far East Army can do it.

Therefore, when the shields in the hands of the rebels were unable to block the spears of the Far East Army, the rate of death and injury of the rebels accelerated again.

Rebel soldiers were repeatedly stabbed by spears, and died on the spot screaming. But more people were half dead, clutching their stomachs in vain, rolling and moaning in a pool of blood, really miserable.

The weapons and armor of the Far Eastern Army are so dominant that they can pierce almost anything they touch, and there is almost nothing in the rebel army that can beat them. Soon, the Far Eastern Army gained the absolute upper hand. Wang Junlin gave an order, and to the sound of war drums, the left, right, and middle lines moved forward in unison, and there were corpses everywhere they passed.

Wang Junlin was preparing to command the Far East Army to completely defeat the rebels when suddenly thousands of rebel soldiers in cloth armor rushed up with resolute and fierce faces. They were not going to hurt the enemy with their weapons or block the spears , but used both hands to desperately hug the legs of the Far Eastern Army soldiers in front of them. They were either dead or injured, but their arms were tightly hugging the legs of the Far Eastern Army soldiers, and they just blocked the push of the Far Eastern Army.

"It's a big deal to take out three or four thousand dead soldiers all at once!" Wang Junlin's expression froze when he witnessed this scene.

But then he sighed secretly, he saw at a glance that the three or four thousand dead soldiers were not soldiers who had been trained for a long time, but bandits, or even refugees.

These dead men are obviously the kind of people who have been forced by the court or the local government to no longer survive. It is possible that many of their relatives and even their families were killed by the government, so they are easily killed. Yang Su integrated training into a dead soldier.

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