Chapter 4421 Unstoppable
Wudemen was breached, and all the rebels saw the hope of victory, and gathered like crazy towards Wudemen. Countless rebels surged in like rising tides, and the rebels in front rushed into the gate. The rebels followed closely behind, forming a huge whirlpool in front of Wudemen.
However, before more people could rush in, they saw a group of armored cavalry suddenly coming out of Wudemen. These cavalry were in black helmets and black armor, with people like rainbows and horses like dragons. The huge impact knocked the surrounding rebels directly. Flying, and then a violent rush seemed to rush into the rebel formation that had gathered like this, rampaging and killing wantonly. Wherever they passed, there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and mutilated limbs were everywhere. Countless rebels were frightened and cowardly, howling like wolves and running away with their heads in their hands.
The infantry, who even lacked leather armor, were helpless in the face of the armored cavalry who were armed to the teeth. They were knocked around by the huge impact, and were killed by sharp sabers until they cried for their fathers and mothers, leaving the armored cavalry in the formation. Rampage, rushing back and forth to kill, but they can only run like wolves and pigs, or mice and animals.
More than five thousand rebels gathered in front of Taketoku Gate, but they collapsed under the impact of the armored cavalry...
Yuchi Gong, who was not far away, saw such a scene with eyes split open. It was clear that he had already breached the palace gate and victory was within easy reach. However, such a cavalry force suddenly turned the situation around. Now it was not that they could capture the Wude Palace, but if they could not stop it. If a group of cavalry charges and kills at will, it is very likely that one's own morale will collapse and the morale of the army will be weakened.
Once the rebellion reaches a large scale, it will cause the entire army to collapse without a fight. When the army is defeated like a mountain, there will be no way to recover...
However, even in such a dangerous situation, Yuchi Gong remained angry and undisturbed. He ordered: "Everyone get out of the way and let the enemy troops rush over!"
After saying that, he picked up the reins and led his troops to disperse to the left and right. As long as the armored cavalry passed from his side, they would run into Li Daozong's sternly waiting army. They were tightly trapped, preventing them from exerting the mobility of the cavalry. Naturally, they could only be left to be slaughtered and killed at the first glance.
Yuchi Gong, who has been in battle for a long time, naturally knows the power of the armored cavalry once they launch a charge. They can only outwit but cannot defeat the enemy. Therefore, he arranged a "pocket" according to the situation. As long as the armored cavalry gets into this pocket, he will definitely be able to defeat the enemy with the advantage of his strength. Even if he is trapped, the grinder can grind him to death!
However, before that, the rebels had to withstand the fierce impact of armored cavalry...
Fang Jun was covered in armor and was leading the way. The horse in his hand flew up and down like a poisonous dragon out of the sea, stabbing, stabbing, picking and sweeping. Every time he made a move, the rebels screamed for death. The horse was like a rainbow and the horse was like a dragon. He just charged and killed them in the rebel formation. .
The guards were guarding the left and right, and behind them were a thousand cavalry. They suddenly shot out from the Wude Gate, like a sharp arrow cutting through the waves and rushing through the tide of rebels. The distance from the front of the Wude Gate to the Wude Hall was relatively wide. Within the area, they were rampant and mobbed, and wherever they passed, the ground was covered with blood, and there was no way to stop it.
In less than half an hour, Fang Jun led his armored cavalry through this area and fought straight to the vicinity of Yu Chigong's Chinese army.
Seeing the dense rebels in front of him suddenly evading to both sides without any hesitation, it was obvious that he was deliberately trying to lure him forward. However, Fang Jun ignored it and headed straight towards the rebels gathered near Zhaode Hall. Go behind the formation.
He knew that Li Zhi and other major rebel figures were now taking command in Zhaode Hall. As long as Zhaode Hall could be captured in one go, without Li Jing, Xue Wanche and others entering the city, the mutiny would be over.
Wherever the cavalry passed, the elite guards on the right side gave way, causing Fang Jun to drive straight in and approach Zhaode Hall, moving forward unstoppably.
Yuchi Gong and his soldiers watched as the armored cavalry rushed past him. He quickly ordered to stop and let the armies on both sides converge in the middle to block the rear formation of the armored cavalry and trap them in the formation. However, he suddenly felt The green bricks beneath his feet were shaking slightly, and the soldiers around him were in an uproar at first, then screamed and started to commotion.
Yuchi Gong looked at him in astonishment, and saw the armored cavalry rampaging in front of him, leaving corpses all over the ground and flowing blood, heading straight towards Li Daozong's military formation, but behind him, two thousand heavy armored men in black helmets and black armor were armed to the teeth. step The soldiers were trotting along the road where the cavalry had charged. Their formation was neat and murderous, and they arbitrarily slashed and killed the soldiers on the right who were trying to close the gap in the middle. They followed the cavalry closely, making it impossible to tighten the gap at all.
"Mother! Go ahead and cut off these heavily armored infantry!"
Yuchi Gong was panicking. If he could not hold back and trap the armored cavalry, then even if Li Daozong could complete the interception, the armored cavalry could turn to both sides and continue to attack the Hedgehog troops gathered near Wude Hall, with its powerful impact and The lethality, I don’t know how many soldiers will be trampled by the iron hoof!
Waving their swords, they rode towards the heavily armored infantry, trying to cut them off so that they could not protect the rear cavalry.
The tide of troops that originally avoided both sides converged towards the middle, and collided with the advancing heavy-armored infantry. However, it was like waves crashing on the rocks, stirring up blood all over the sky, but the rocks remained motionless...
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Yuchi Gong led his troops to charge, but a chill rose in his heart.
In the past few years, the Youtun Guards have risen from being ordinary to becoming the most powerful among the Sixteen Guards. This was precisely when Fang Jun became the general. Fang Jun reformed the military system in Youtunwei and replaced the government military system with the recruitment system. In one fell swoop, he wiped out all the forces left by his predecessor. Everyone from top to bottom was his confidant, obeying his orders, and the soldiers he recruited were physically strong. Strong and excellent in quality, the combat effectiveness of Youtunwei increased significantly.
However, the biggest reason why Youtunwei was able to conquer the north and west and remain undefeated was its unique equipment advantage.
Needless to say, firearms. Equipped with muskets and artillery and weather permitting, the combat power of Youtunwei is enough to dominate all directions and crush the contemporary era. Any army under the fierce attack of firearms will only be annihilated. end.
The popularity of armor and the excellence of weapons are also factors that cannot be ignored.
I don’t know where Fang Jun got the new iron smelting technique. It can not only greatly increase the output, but also improve the quality of refined steel, allowing the Fang’s Iron Works to surpass the Changsun’s Iron Works. This also indirectly makes the Changsun’s The strength of the army was not as good as before. Later, the establishment of a foundry bureau and the large-scale use of water-powered forging hammers to forge armor and weapons made the combat power of Youtunwei suddenly rise.
Yu Chigong knew that Fang Jun must have a reserve force, and that this reserve force must be strong and well-equipped. However, he never expected that in such a battle situation, Fang Jun would actually hide a thousand armored cavalry and two thousand heavy armored infantry. .
While other people's troops only have two or three hundred armors, the number of Youtun Guards' armors has reached 20 or 30 percent. Especially these armors are concentrated and equipped with soldiers, forming an undefeated armored cavalry and heavy armor armed to the teeth. Infantry, how can we fight this battle?
He led the right guard forward bravely in an attempt to cut off the retreat of the armored cavalry. However, although the soldiers fought hard and looked forward to death, it was really difficult to shake the array of heavily armored infantry. Not only did he fail to do so, the entire position was even blocked by armored cavalry and heavy armor. The infantry tore out a huge hole one after another, exposing the Chinese army behind them and even Zhaode Hall not far away to the front of the armored cavalry.
The situation of the battle reversed instantly...
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Li Daozong, who led his soldiers to sit in the middle army, was also shocked by the charging speed of the armored cavalry. You must know that there are at least nearly ten thousand troops gathered on the battlefield outside Wudemen, with Wudemen as the center and the east and west sides. Stretching over a hundred feet They took turns to launch a fierce attack on the front line. As a result, Wudemen had just been breached, and before the whole army could jump for joy, the armored cavalry suddenly rushed out, and then dug through the position all the way, leaving behind mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and a bloody storm. , kill in front of him.
A position composed of thousands of soldiers was as vulnerable as paper and clay sculptures under the iron hooves of armored cavalry...
"Form up and meet the enemy!"
"You only need to withstand the enemy's first wave of charge to launch a counterattack. No one is allowed to retreat!"
"Whoever dares to step back even half a step will be killed without mercy!"
Li Daozong drew his horizontal sword and personally led the battle formation behind the central army. He ordered the soldiers behind him to beat the war drums and prepare to attack the armored cavalry.
"Boom!" The vanguard of the armored cavalry suddenly entered the formation. The armored war horses stood up carrying the huge kinetic energy. The iron hoofs as big as bowls kicked hard on the shields, leather armor and bodies of the rebels. Countless rebels spit blood and flew out, causing the battle lines around them to twist and turn into a mess.
Immediately, the spear in the hand of the cavalry penetrated the rebel's body fiercely with the help of huge inertia. The sharp spear tip easily penetrated the rebel, and even had the strength to continue to penetrate the second and third... until a series of The rebels were pierced into blood gourds, then gave up their spears, drew their sabers, jumped into the formation with their swords, and hacked and killed them wantonly.
The rebels were knocked dizzy by the huge impact of the armored cavalry. After suffering huge casualties, they finally stabilized their position and began to counterattack, only to find that the weapons in their hands could not cause much damage to the enemy who were heavily armored.
How can we fight this battle if we can only take a beating but cannot fight back, cannot advance or retreat? The rebels were in chaos.
Li Daozong saw that the situation was not good and shouted at the top of his lungs: "No retreat! No retreat! Everyone rushed up and attacked the horse's legs with heavy weapons!"
It is absolutely impossible to take a step back at this time. The armored cavalry is in full swing and our own morale has plummeted to the extreme. Taking a step back may cause a chain reaction, causing the entire army to collapse and be defeated like a mountain.
Only by entangling the armored cavalry with huge casualties, waiting for Yuchi Gong to cut off their retreat from behind, and then attacking from both sides can it be possible to defeat the enemy.
The soldiers under Li Daozong and the Yuancong Forbidden Army originally stationed at Xuanwu Gate were indeed the elite among the elite. Even in the face of brutal killings by armored cavalry, they were under great pressure and gradually stabilized their position under Li Daozong's urging. The strategy of attacking the horse's legs with heavy weapons did somewhat curb the offensive of the armored cavalry. (End of chapter)