Chapter 584 Tail cutting
Li Xiu is thirty-six this year.
Among the Five Tigers Duanmen Daoshanmen, he is also one of the top rising stars.
Xuanyuan's eighth-grade cultivation was second only to the deputy commander Kang Zhen among the Huben Army.
This time Kangcheng took thousands of elites to Yangcheng, and thousands of others stayed in the Huangpi area to confuse the enemy's spies. The remaining 15,000 people were led by Li Xiu and transported by the navy to take a detour. behind the enemy.
Yang Lixin and Xiao Zhongren thought they had bypassed He Yiming's team, but they actually guessed wrong.
The series of actions Cao Hui led the White Tiger Brigade during this period, including the continuous harassment last night, were intended to distract Yang Lixin. When Yang Lixin and others turned their attention to the White Tiger Brigade, the scouts kept chasing them. When he was the main force of the White Tiger Brigade, he naturally relaxed in other areas.
So when Li Xiu and the others suddenly appeared, Yang Lixin and Xiao Zhongren were extremely shocked.
In fact, Li Xiu herself is quite shocked now.
Because the White Tiger Brigade joined them.
This Tiger and Ben army has no cavalry.
In the battle plan, after landing, the White Tiger Brigade would be assigned to them to fight.
While on the ship, Li Xiu was quite worried about the combat effectiveness of this cavalry.
Because after all, he didn't trust people like He Yiming and others too much.
As a result, Li Xiu was really shocked when he saw the White Tiger Brigade early this morning.
There are actually quite a few guys who are above the eighth level of Xuanyuan in martial arts.
Moreover, Li Xiu, who had also experienced bloody battles, felt the special aura emanating from these guys immediately.
After a little chat, Li Xiu guessed their origins.
This group of people are not battlefield rookies like He Yiming and others.
They are the gods of death from outside the customs.
Both are cavalry, those outside the pass are stronger than those inside the pass.
This is not a matter of regional discrimination, but because people have been born and raised on horses since childhood, and horses are their home.
This is just like the sailors in the South who make boats their home and live by the water. Each has its own specialties.
With this wave of people coming to deal with the cavalry troops from the north under Yang Lixin, Li Xiu felt that there was basically no suspense in this battle.
The war drums of the attack rumbled, and the Tiger and Ben troops formed a zigzag formation, squeezing forward with heavy steps.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.
Yang Lixin also had no way out.
At the sound of the horn, the cavalry under his command took the lead in attacking and rushed towards the square formation of the Tiger and Ben Army. Behind the cavalry, the five thousand infantry under his command formed a thick square formation and followed closely.
Yang Lixin did not dare to divide his troops into several square formations like his opponent did.
The Huben Army is the most elite heavy infantry of the Chu State, consisting entirely of heavy infantry. However, under Yang Lixin, there are only more than 3,000 such heavy infantry, and they are all still following Yang Lixin under the banner of the Chinese Army at this moment.
He could only hope that his cavalry could defeat the opponent's cavalry and then disrupt the opponent's heavy infantry formation, and then his infantry could take advantage of the chaos to attack.
In this way, there may still be a chance of victory.
Until now, Yang Lixin hated his former Green Forest partners who had been annihilated by the other side in the past few days.
If the three thousand cavalry can attack at this time, their chances of winning will increase by several percent.
Now, Yang Lixin felt that the hope of victory was too slim.
He still has 20,000 people left, of which more than 3,000 are logistics personnel, more than 3,000 cavalry, 3,000 heavy infantry, and the remaining 10,000 are light infantry. The so-called light infantry is the kind without armor.
If everyone is light infantry, it doesn't matter, but if they encounter fully armored heavy infantry like the Huben Army, they will be in big trouble.
You can imagine what it would be like to cut someone with a knife and nothing would happen to you, but if someone cuts you with a knife and your body bleeds, what kind of experience would it be like?
If this were in the north, it would be quite difficult to organize such heavy infantry. Marching, logistics, and transportation would all be big problems.
But here in the south, the situation is very different.
Because Chu State has ships.
The extensive waterway transportation ensures that these heavy infantry can be delivered to the predetermined battlefield at any time.
On the contrary, it is difficult for the cavalry to play a big role here.
Because too many water elements cut the land into a mess, the advantage of the cavalry was greatly weakened.
Still thinking about the cavalry in his mind, the cavalry from both sides in front had already collided heavily.
With just one collision, Yang Lixin groaned in pain.
Now he understands why his friends in the green forest died so easily?
Because at this moment, his cavalry team clearly had a numerical advantage, but after the battle, they were chopped off by the opponent like melons and vegetables.
"How far are we from He Yiming?" Yang Lixin turned to ask the soldiers beside him.
"General, it's about two days' journey!" the soldier said.
"Pass my order, retreat while fighting, return to the main camp, and quickly re-establish the camp with logistics and supplies. If you don't want to die, hurry up!" Yang Lixin shouted.
The foundation of the camp in the morning is still there, the ditch dug yesterday is still there, and the piles driven down are still there. At this time, as long as we retreat, we can rely on these constructed positions to hold on. At the same time, we hope that He Yiming will come to rescue us. In two days The journey to the destination was not far. He Yiming was from Caobang and was a skilled sailor on ships.
Yang Lixin felt that he alone would not be able to defeat the Tiger and Ben army in front of him no matter what.
Drawing his sword, Yang Lixin slowly moved forward with 3,000 heavy infantry, while more than 10,000 light infantry began to retreat towards the location of the main camp. Fortunately, it was not far away, less than three miles away.
The cavalry began to flee into the distance, while the Chu army's cavalry pursued them, and both sides quickly moved away from the central battlefield.
The first heavy infantry phalanx of the Huben Army crashed into a large infantry phalanx built by Yang Lixin with a total of 5,000 men.
The large square formation was knocked into a nest, but relying on its thickness, it still withstood the opponent's attack.
But the problem is that this phalanx only has 500 people.
From the side and behind, another phalanx collided. The light infantry between the two phalanxes seemed to be caught in the middle of the stone millstones. As the upper and lower millstones rotated, the things in the middle were ground into powder.
Xiao Zhongren gritted his teeth and stood firm.
Every time the spear in his hand stabbed, he would pick up a heavy infantryman of the opponent, and then slam it into the steel jungle ahead.
The guards around him desperately resisted attacks from both sides. As the guards fell one after another, Xiao Zhongren had no choice but to take a few steps back. He knew very well that if he fell into the formation, let alone he was just A warrior who has barely reached the eighth level, even the ninth level, cannot escape being poked into a sieve by countless spears.
how so?
It was obviously a stable battle, so why was it different from what was expected?
The morale of the Huben Army has not weakened at all
They could only retreat while fighting.
In Yong'an County, in front of the huge sand table, Li Dachui smiled and placed several small red flags around a blue flag, saying: "Taking Yang Lixin's team and blocking the opponent's retreat is to cut off the tail. Then go south. , to destroy Feng Kuan’s army under Yangcheng is to take out the heart!”
(End of chapter)