Chapter 779 Assault Riding
Yu Jin's voice exploded, Tian Jun couldn't help but tremble, and then asked Yu Jin what happened.
As a general of cavalry, it would be very dangerous for him to attack rashly if he did not know the changes in the enemy's situation.
Time was urgent, so Yu Jin kept his words concise and to the point. He pointed in the direction of Chunyu Qiong and spoke quickly:
"It's too late to explain, Arjun. You lead three thousand cavalry to attack Chunyu Qiong's right wing directly. Defeat his entire army first."
Tian Jun was silent for a moment, nodded and jumped out of the chariot, and then ran outside the dense forest in the northwest, where the three thousand assault cavalry gathered on the right wing of the Taishan Army were sitting and resting.
Seeing Tian Jun galloping over, these people stood up quickly. Among them, Han Dang, Li Fu, Yan Gang, and three cavalry generals quickly gathered their troops.
By the time Tian Jun came running over, most of the cavalrymen had already stopped their horses and were waiting for orders.
Tian Jun glanced around and shouted:
"Attack, the whole army looks at my banner!"
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In the entire Yiluo battlefield, on a front line about ten miles long, except for the eastern battlefield where the confrontation remained, there was fierce fighting everywhere else.
At this time, on the westernmost side of the battlefield, Chunyu Qiong's four legions were not having an easy time, especially the outermost Liu Xun's troops, because they were within the range of Taishan Army Chief's archers and suffered the greatest casualties.
On the chariot of the military formation, Liu Xun, the general under Yuan Shu, looked at his own formation with a troubled face.
Just now, Chun Yuqiong, who was in charge of commanding their army, sent him an order, asking him to take charge of the attack and let him choose the main direction of attack.
But when Liu Xun looked at the battlefield, there were smoke and flags everywhere, and countless heads were swarming around crazily. Even the most experienced generals could not judge where the enemy was weak.
Thinking of this, Liu Xun cursed Chunyu Qiong again.
His dissatisfaction with Chunyu Qiong had almost reached its extreme. Before the war, he placed his army on the outermost position to harm himself, because this position was the first to engage the enemy and would cause the greatest casualties.
Fortunately, the Taishan Army on the opposite side has been very restrained and has maintained its military formation until now and has not come up to engage him in close combat.
That's fine, just shoot from a distance and fight a bad battle! He is most familiar with this.
But Liu Xun's wishful thinking didn't last long, Ling Qi came running from Chun Yuqiong's side, and there was another person accompanying Ling Qi.
Liu Xun recognized this person from a distance as he was the person beside his lord.
Okay, looks like we need to get serious.
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Liu Xun had to be serious, because Yuan Shu's approach told him that the situation in the middle of the battlefield was very unfavorable to his army, and in order to support the middle, Chunyu Qiong needed to move an army there to support the middle.
In this way, Liu Xun had to take the initiative to launch an attack in order to contain the Taishan Army here.
Since the lord Yuan Shu has said this, Liu Xun can only cheer up and carry out it. Because the troops had not dispersed yet, he quickly gathered the current military strength from the generals of each battalion.
After asking his staff to calculate it several times, Liu Xun blankly accepted a number.
He now only has 3,420 men. You must know that before the war, he had more than 4,000 people under his command. Before the war, he had lost nearly a thousand men on his side?
Are the enemy's arrows so powerful?
In fact, what Liu Xun didn't know was that there were only two to three hundred people who were actually injured and lost their combat effectiveness. However, after the team leader Pao Ze brought these people down, he never returned to the position.
After getting this specific attrition figure, Liu Xun knew that he could not continue fighting like this. If it took another half hour, his side would collapse.
Therefore, he didn't care where the Taishan Army was weak, pointed at a place with smoke and dust, and ordered an attack.
The morale of the Nanyang soldiers in Liu Xun's hands was still good. After receiving Liu Xun's order to attack, Shan Hu and Tsunami launched the attack.
At the second moment, the Nanyang soldiers launched two assaults and fought bravely. However, the longbowmen of the Taishan army on the opposite side were too powerful, especially those Pingzhou warriors who used hard bows and heavy arrows. Their shots were accurate and hard. The Nanyang soldiers Both attacks were defeated.
Even Liu Xun's favorite general and his younger brother Liu Kai was seriously injured. His arm was pierced by a heavy arrow and he was bleeding profusely. Even so, he persisted in shouting for the attack. He was worthy of being a fierce general. .
But no matter how brave Liu Kai was, his soldiers were afraid that their leader would be defeated, so they withdrew without explanation.
When Liu Xun was being helped by the Chinese army's chariot, Liu Xun just glanced at it and focused all his attention on the north side.
In the fierce attack of just two hours, Liu Xun did not gain nothing. He discovered an obvious weakness of the enemy's army.
That is, their troops on the sides and rear should be relatively weak. Otherwise, with the front being hit so hard, the limited reinforcements would come from the east instead of coming from their rear, that is, the north.
In this way, Liu Xun made a bold conclusion, that is, the Taishan Army should have no reserve army, and those currently on the front line should be all their forces.
If his hypothesis is true, there will be a huge fighter plane placed in front of Liu Xun, which is to bypass the Taishan Army in front of him, but continue to advance towards the north, then make a big circle, and finally penetrate directly into the rear of the enemy. Command office.
Once successful, the benefits would be huge, so Liu Xun just thought for a moment and ordered the rear battalion, which had not yet fought in battle, to advance north.
There is a dense forest there. As long as you pass through the dense forest, you can get around to the enemy's rear.
But the person in charge of this defense is Yu Jin. Would Yu Jin not have thought of the necessity of this dense forest?
In fact, three thousand of Yu Jin's most elite assault cavalry were deployed in this area, and at this time, it was when Tian Jun led the assault cavalry to fight out of the dense forest.
So, the results can be imagined.
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In the third year of Taiwu, on May 29th, at three o'clock at noon, we were in the dense forest on the westernmost side of the battlefield.
After receiving the order from the central army, Liu Xun's rear camp general Yin Rongzheng cautiously led his men to move to the forest to the north.
As a wealthy family in Nanyang and a relative of the imperial family, the Yin family's status is no longer as prestigious as it was in the early years of the dynasty, but relying on the family's cultural heritage, the Yin family still produces many talents.
And this Yin Rong is one of the more outstanding ones. He is very good at war and has strategies. If he had not looked down on Yuan Shu at the beginning, he would not still be a battalion general now.
In fact, at the beginning of the war, Yin Rong discovered the importance of the dense forest on the west side of the battlefield. It was a perfect place for the enemy to lurk.
But when he asked someone to remind Liu Xun just now, the latter thought it was a passage that could bypass the enemy's front line and asked him to lead his troops into the dense forest.
Indeed, that dense forest can indeed bypass those strong square formations, but how could you, Liu Xun, be so stupid as to think that the enemy would abandon that dangerous area?
But the military order had been issued, and Yin Rong could only move there tentatively with his troops.
Yes, it's just a test. As the team continued to advance, Yin Rong kept all the troops in formation. But no matter how cautious they were, some officials in the rear camp soon entered the dense forest, but nothing happened.
Just when Yin Rong began to doubt himself, he suddenly saw his subordinates who had penetrated deep into the dense forest in front of him and began to run back. They were yelling something as they ran.
But the distance was a bit far, and Yin Rong couldn't hear clearly.
But some generals who were still outside the forest heard clearly.
Just listen to those broken soldiers shouting:
"Assault cavalry, armored assault cavalry!"
Then, a small-scale Taishan Army's assault cavalry came directly into the eyes of the Nanyang soldiers. Then, those assault cavalry began to accelerate, using their horse spears and ring-shou knives to harvest the panicked Yuan soldiers.
The Yuan soldiers at the front collapsed immediately. They fled towards the rear in panic, and were then chopped down one by one by the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry who were chasing after them.
Some military officers were yelling, trying to summon their subordinates to defend on the spot, but the Nanyang soldiers from all departments were mixed together in a panic, and no one knew where their organization or general was.
More and more assault cavalry poured out from the dense forest, and the thunderous sound of horse hooves directly tore through the cries here. This made it impossible for the Yuan Army officers who shouted at the top of their throats to gather their troops.
In this way, their only hope is to run south, where they have their own formation and Chunyu Qiong's army.
But the hope is just hope. There is an open flat land to the south of the dense forest, otherwise it would be able to accommodate Chunyu Qiong's 20,000-strong army.
As a result, Yin Rong's rear camp collapsed, and his man was also slashed and fell to the ground not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
These Taishan Army assault cavalry who rushed out of the dense forest did not stop.
After defeating more than a thousand Yuan's troops in a short period of time, the cavalry commander Yan Gang decided to continue the attack. And their target is the remaining Nanyang soldiers in front of them.
Previously, after Tian Jun received Yu Jin's order to attack, he summoned three cavalry regiments, Yan Gang, Han Dang, and Li Fu. Among them, Yan Gang's cavalry regiment was deployed in the dense forest on the west side and was ordered to go out first.
The more than a thousand Tuqi in Yan Gang's hands seemed to be few in this battlefield of more than 100,000 troops, but at this time, they were a strategic force in the western battlefield.
When Qianqi, who had finished running, began to attack fiercely, there would be no way to stop them in front of them.
Liu Xun's face turned pale when the enemy's sudden cavalry appeared in the dense forest to the north. He also saw that the enemy defeated his entire battalion without any effort. Liu Xun knew that he could not stop him.
Therefore, Liu Xun jumped off the chariot very decisively, and then ran directly to the west with a dozen of his cavalry. He did not intend to go to Chunyu Qiong behind.
Without the command of the Chinese army, the remaining Nanyang soldiers quickly collapsed under Yan Gang's fierce attack. They scattered in all directions, just wanting to escape and ascend to heaven.
Yan Gang, who had just cut off General Liu Xun's flag, found angrily that the enemy general had run away. Suddenly, he thought of seeing an enemy cavalry running to the west before, and his heart moved.
He directly ordered a young general and asked him to lead a hundred cavalry to pursue the cavalry. Then Yan Gang took the remaining assault cavalry and continued to charge south.
His next target is Chunyu Qiong in the south.
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Behind Yan Gang, Tian Jun led two cavalry regiments, Han Dang and Li Fu, out of the dense forest.
And when I took a quick look at the battlefield, I found a shocking scene.
Outside the dense forest, the Yuan army that was supposed to engage in a duel with Long Xiang's army had collapsed and dissipated. There were scattered broken troops everywhere, and some officers and men dressed as military officials continued to kneel down and surrender.
Those who died in battle, those who were wounded were wounded, those who were captured were captured, and those who were routed were disintegrated. When the flag belonging to the Nanyang soldiers also fell to the ground, as an army, its army no longer existed.
Tian Jun saw a considerable part of the defeated soldiers running towards the west of the battlefield, but he ignored the miscellaneous soldiers and continued to observe the battlefield.
He was thinking about whether to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.
But soon, he no longer needed to hesitate, because Yan Gang in front had already rushed towards Chunyu Qiong's army with his cavalry.
Tian Jun cursed, then blew the horn, and led the two thousand cavalry in formation straight to the south.
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Many people in Nanyang soldiers subconsciously ran to Chunyu Qiong after their collapse.
What is very strange is that those Yuan Jun formations actually accepted these remaining soldiers and guided them to the rear to rest.
In the rear, these Nanyang soldiers found their commanders one after another, and under their arrangements, they began to integrate one after another.
After re-forming, although these Nanyang soldiers were still unable to continue fighting, their fearful mood had stabilized a lot.
While these people were resting on the back slope, they suddenly heard a nightmarish sound.
That was the sound of horse hooves mobilizing a large-scale cavalry force.
The already nervous Nanyang soldiers collapsed once again. They could no longer be restrained by their own soldiers and began to run towards the rear of the battlefield.
In fact, these military officials were also panicked. At this time, they were already at the rear of the battlefield. If the sound of horse hooves could be heard here, what would it mean?
But soon, all these worries were relieved, because they saw that the galloping cavalry was flying their own flag, which was their own cavalry.
This cavalry army was very large, shining like a giant dragon in the sun. They didn't care that a poor friendly army collapsed because of their appearance, but quickly advanced towards the northwest battlefield.
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Yan Gang, who had fallen into the formation at this time, did not know that a large number of enemy cavalry was approaching at full speed. He was currently leading his knights in a bloody fight.
Previously, he led hundreds of cavalry to disperse the broken troops on the battlefield, and then used the cover of these broken troops to directly break into an army formation.
After fighting for a while, Yan Gang's horse's front hooves were chopped off by a big axe, and Yan Gang himself also had his neck twisted when he fell off the horse.
But this Yuan army's formation was also crumbling under their fierce attack.
At this time, Yan Gang saw his deputy general approaching with a group of surprise cavalry. There were several heads hanging under their horses' heads. They were all generals of Yuan's army.
After the support army came over, Yan Gang put on his war horse again. He glanced at the head of the deputy general's horse, and then led them to charge towards the big banner ahead.
Just when Yan Gang was leading his cavalry to make another special distinction, he suddenly heard a familiar sound of a horn, which was the horn for the army to gather troops.
Subconsciously, Yan Gang turned his head and looked over, and then saw countless Yuan Jun's sudden cavalry appearing in darkness on the southwest side of the battlefield.
The fastest assault cavalry among them had already charged to the outside of the battlefield, and the direction they were charging towards was Tian Jun's main formation behind him.
Seeing this scene, Yan Gang's face suddenly turned pale.