Chapter 284 The Originator of Blitzkrieg
The front stretched forward, and countless horse hooves crossed from the eastern grassland to the central grassland, like a big river rushing. When the sun first rose, they headed towards the royal court of the Zhizhu tribe in the north of the central grassland to kill them.
The first to receive the news was the Upo tribe, which was located five hundred miles east of the King's Court of Corpses. Upo immediately summoned six thousand warriors from the tribe and rushed eastward despite the winter snow that had not yet melted. He faced the grass field and made a blocking gesture.
The Yan cavalry rushed towards them. The young general led by them did not say a word and led the Yu Lin cavalry behind him to kill them directly.
"The people of Yan despise me?"
Wu Poda was wearing an animal skin and a leather helmet, with his fox tail hanging down from his shoulders swaying. After listening to the news from the scouts in front, he frowned. As a leader, he has his own courage. He was named by the Khan of Corpse Zhuxie. The next president of the Metropolitan Government.
At this time, another scout came back from the front and stopped seven or eight steps away from him.
The scout dismounted and ran up quickly: "Chief, the Yan cavalry did charge towards us, and... they even divided their troops."
The number of the opponent's cavalry, in Wupo When A came with his troops, scouts had found out that there were nine thousand in number, not including war horses. At this moment, many of the troops seemed to look down on him.
"Are you going to charge half of my 6,000 cavalry?" Wu Poda frowned. He pulled out the scimitar from his waist, rushed his horse to the front of the army, and issued an order as he walked: "Send the order. , divided into two groups, and shot them."
When a lion fights a rabbit, it also requires full strength.
No matter whether the opponent sent out a force to bypass them, he would first annihilate all the 4,050 Yan cavalry who dared to attack them. As for the shame, he didn't care.
The horn blowing to convey the order sounded, and the tribe of six thousand people gradually separated, forming two groups and running towards the front.
Across from them, the cavalry stepping on the grass and covered with snow advanced like a sea wave.
Boom——
The sound of horse hooves was galloping across the snow-covered grassland, and the galloping figures moved like thunder. Huo Qubing at the front narrowed his eyes and looked at the Xirong scouts wandering in the distance, and grinned.
"Ha... six thousand cavalry, with so little, who are you looking down on!"
While running, he pulled out the Han sword from his waist and raised it against the cold wind. top of head.
"Command the whole army, don't be timid, follow me, this is not our end!"
The cavalry behind us are all Lu Bu's string-controlling wolf cavalry, three thousand of which are on the battlefield. Skilled veterans who have experienced fighting on the plains and in siege battles. The Xirong people on the opposite side also followed Huo Qubing into the royal court of the Xianyu tribe in the east. Their hands were stained with the blood of the barbarians. They heard the sound coming from the front. As he spoke, many people showed enthusiasm in their eyes.
And what he said to King Xia in Shangwu Hall that day.
In the future, they can come to the grassland if they want. There will also be a pasture for them here, and future generations will have no worries about food and clothing!
At the front of the surging array, Lu Bu suppressed the restlessness in his heart and dragged his halberd upside down on the ground. Hearing the words of the champion, he grinned and showed his white teeth.
"...There are only six thousand horses, which is indeed too few. They should have more in the royal court."
While thinking about it, Lu Bu burst into laughter, clamped the horse's belly, and flew As the smoky red cloud horse neighed, he looked back at the energetic string-controlling wolf rider and shouted: "Everyone rush over with a certain family and trample them to death!"
"Kill!"
On the ground, a total of 4,500 cavalrymen shouted in unison. Huo Qubing and Lu Bu rushed to the forefront, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers to protect them, and they marched in the planned direction. In the past, amid the roar of huge horse hooves, the sporadic scouts nearby were fighting each other more and more intensively.
However, the victory or defeat among the scouts will not determine the outcome of the upcoming war.
Another half mile later, the armies of both sides had entered their respective fields of vision, and a dark line had spread. When they quickly closed the distance, neither side had any intention of slowing down.
Since Lu Bu broke through the state of mind, his eyesight was even more terrifying than before. The falcon's eyes quickly locked on the Xirong cavalry rushing towards the opposite side. He hung his halberd and turned his bow, and directly nocked three feather arrows on the bumpy horseback. .
——Shoot the halberd at the gate!
Swish, swish, swish!
Three feather arrows shot out with a strong sound of breaking through the air. Two miles apart, several Xirong cavalrymen who were charging fell off their horses one after another, or were hung under their horses and dragged across the grass. .
The distance between the two sides is less than one mile.
The Han sword held high by Huo Qubing suddenly pressed down: "Peel through them!"
——Fenglangjuxu!
The moment the secret technique was activated, the loosely running wolf cavalry quickly gathered behind Huo Qubing after throwing out the first round of arrows. The people and the horses were instantly excited, speeding up again, and avoiding the opponent. Arrows thrown. ,
Locusts with arrows flew across the sky.
They all retracted their bows and grabbed the repeating crossbows on their backs. They also had too much experience in close combat between cavalry and cavalry. With such a terrifying cavalry commander like Lu Bu, it was difficult to imagine. The enemies in front of him were just a group of ragged dolls wielding sticks and riding wooden horses.
The Xirong tribe cavalry on the opposite side who originally launched a guerrilla fire fired the first wave of arrows without much effect, and Wu Poda prepared to divert them to avoid the charge of the Yan cavalry.
However, the opponent did not give him any chance, and his speed even increased sharply. He gestured wildly, asking the soldiers around him to blow the horns, and kept urging the warriors under his command: "Spread left and right, avoid the path of their charge." The next second, Wu Poda, who was in the Xirong cavalry formation, followed the running wildly, his eyelids twitching wildly: "They are..."
In the field of vision, the Yan Kingdom who was originally charging straight towards The cavalry turned to the left and right, each turned an arc, divided their forces again, and turned into two queues of more than 2,000 people, heading towards the Xirong cavalry who also separated and fired.
Large areas of soil swirled and splashed under the iron hooves.
The moment the cavalry on the left and right came into contact and crossed each other, the string-controlling wolf rider raised his crossbow and aimed it at the Xirong people swimming in groups opposite. A cold light spread out in his hand, which was reflected The crossbow arrow shines in the sky.
Among the wolves riding on the horse, a captain's voice shouted with all his strength: "Shoot!"
When the first string sounded in the person's hand, the sound of the crossbow string trembling was followed by a large sound.
Bang...Bang bang bang bang——
Densely packed crossbow arrows spread across the ground, shooting out one after another.
A lot of blood spattered, crossbow arrows penetrated people's bodies, or were nailed to the bodies of galloping horses, and people and horses fell down in droves.
Xilulu——
Wupoda tightened the reins and stopped. He watched his subordinate Qingqi fall down in the field of vision. He opened his mouth slightly, unable to make any sound. He turned his head and looked at the hundreds of people following him. The soldiers couldn't react for a moment. When did Yan's crossbows become so terrifying?
"Leader, let's go!"
A soldier suddenly shouted, waking him up. Wu Po followed the direction pointed by the other party, and saw a fiery red figure riding a red horse. The war horse was particularly eye-catching on the snow. The opponent was extremely fast and rushed towards him in a straight line.
The scarlet cloak flutters and rolls.
The war horse stepped into the grass, swirling up the mud and snow. Lu Bu raised his halberd on the horse and led a dozen horsemen to charge forward, following the hundreds of horsemen guarding the opposite side.
“Ahhh!”
Wupoda let out an angry roar. The moment he brandished his blade, he watched the Yan generals rushing towards him, splitting apart several personal guards. For a moment, the opponent's weapons and horses were infinitely magnified in his sight.
He suddenly jumped on his horse, knelt on the ground without hesitation, picked up the weapon and raised it above his head.
Lübul stopped his horse and looked at the Xirong people begging for surrender. He narrowed his eyes and was about to raise his halberd to kill the opponent directly. Huo Qubing galloped towards him behind him, "Don't stop."
After saying that, Huo Qubing looked at Wu Poda and used simple and clear gestures to tell him to stop his people and lead the way!
Just like when he penetrated the Hexi Corridor before, he only killed those who resisted and blocked, and all those who surrendered followed him forward. He did not stop and his horse did not unsaddle and galloped all the way to the next target.
Lu Bu naturally understood his intention to fight. He put away his halberd and glared at Wu Po Da. The latter nodded repeatedly, quickly mounted his horse, summoned the scattered soldiers, and asked them to blow the horn. Gather the remaining more than 3,000 cavalry and lead the way.
The people did not stop along the way, and the horses did not unsaddle. They walked from east to west and pounced on the next tribe. If the opponent's soldiers and horses gathered, they pounced directly to kill the opponent, and then set off to the next target.
Extremely fast, faster than deserters and sentinel scouts!
It's so fast that the Xirong tribe can't react!
It’s so fast that many tribal leaders have no time to deploy!
We are almost here and the Xirong cavalry has not had time to resist!
It was so fast that as soon as they made contact, they were hit with lightning speed and were beaten to the point of losing their armor!
Advanced six hundred miles to the west in one day, with the Controlling Wolf Cavalry as the main attack, and Baima Yi as reinforcement from the outside. They alternated back and forth to continuously defeat and defeat the eleven troops of Xi Zhuxie Khan on the east side of the central grassland. tribe.
No rest, no adjustment, almost flat push all the way! Using tactics that Xirong had never seen before, he swept across the entire eastern grassland.
At this time, Xi Zhuxie was mobilizing tribal warriors around the royal court, and was deploying against the Yan army coming from the south. Messages from the east were delivered immediately.
A cavalry force from the State of Yan, in a devastating situation, was coming towards us. All the tribes that resisted on the way were defeated. After hearing this news, Xi Zhuxie, who had just celebrated his forty-seventh birthday, Sitting in the chair for a long time, I didn't come back to my senses.
Until his son Xi Zhuquan reminded him, "Father Khan, this cavalry may be the one that attacked the tribe before. Be careful of them!"
If the Yan army in the south borrowed In the cold winter and relying on night attacks, they continued to capture tribes one after another and pushed forward. The cavalry on the east side almost swept through the entire east side like thunder.
"...Immediately send an envoy to the west, and ask Guiba Khan to provide immediate reinforcements." Xi Zhuxie's eyes moved, and he glanced at the tribal nobles, chief ministers, and several sons below who were looking at each other in disbelief.
He stood up slowly, his eyes turned red, and roared at them: "Tighten your defenses, don't divide your troops, let the warriors of the tribe fight with them in the royal court, and wait for reinforcements to arrive. !”
“Father Khan, we don’t have the Yan people’s city to rely on!”
Xi Zhuquan hurriedly stepped forward, half-knelt down, and put his fist on his shoulder: “It’s better to surrender. We can still save the lives of the tribal people.”
(End of Chapter)