choke element

Chapter 189 Destiny

People's hearts are set, continue to march.

Within a moment, the whole army crossed the Xiangshan Pass.

Correspondingly, the smoke and dust rising from the distance continued to approach, and the Mongolian army rolled down below the smoke and dust.

The smoke and dust stirred up by the marching army is called military spirit.Some people believe that various appearances of military spirit can indicate the outcome of a war.Guo Zhongyuan doesn't believe in such gods and ghosts, but he can indeed feel the rush of the enemy's footsteps and the orderliness of the queue from the smoke, and then roughly calculate the ratio of soldiers and knights in the team .

The scouts were right, it really was a surrendered golden army, well equipped and highly morale.

On such open terrain, it is difficult to perform ambushes and interceptions.When the two armies meet, there is only a direct confrontation, and the stronger one wins.

With an interval of about three miles, the two armies slowed down and gathered into a battle formation.

Although the number of the enemy troops was small, their morale was extremely high, as if Guo Zhongyuan's troops were not taken seriously at all.They were facing Guo Zhongyuan's troops, forming a sharp triangular formation.

At the forefront of the sharp formation is a group of crazy soldiers.They shouted loudly, provoked Guo Zhongyuan, insulted in a contemptuous tone, and some laughed maniacally, ran out of the queue, picked up broken stones or cow and horse manure on the ground and threw them over.

In this regard, Guo Zhongyuan only ordered: "Those who act recklessly will be cut off."

He is not very good at forming troops, and the soldiers under his command make do with improvisation, let alone master any complicated formations.So the formation sent out is the simplest and most basic square formation.

The front row is a vehicle connected head to tail by a thick rope. The crossbowmen stand on the vehicle, put the quiver on their backs in front of them, and lead their officers to walk quickly while shouting loudly, reminding them to watch If the military flag is waved, you cannot shoot.

Compared with the total force of 5000, the number of crossbowmen is very small.The cart sent three columns, but the crossbowmen only had two columns.

Arriving behind the crossbowmen are infantry holding spears.They lined up densely, stacked one behind the other, arranged in five or six rows.

After that, there are many small square arrays mixed together.These phalanxes are not only a mix of sword shields and spearmen, but also a mix of experienced soldiers, captives, and strong men under Guo Zhongyuan's troops.Every soldier has played the role of the backbone at this time, and must keep the entire team under his leadership stable.

Guo Zhongyuan himself was in these small phalanxes.

And the ones at the back are the elite soldiers led by Xiao Mole.The cavalry led the horses, sat or stood relaxed, and sometimes looked ahead with hawk-like eyes, intimidating those who showed the slightest sign of wavering.

Several people even raised their heads as a sign.The head was dripping with blood, it was the person who was beheaded for disobeying the military order during the formation process.

One of them was standing in a small square beside Guo Zhongyuan when he was killed.He was not a prisoner or a broken soldier, but a soldier of Guo Zhongyuan's headquarters.Xiao Mole held a golden saber in his hand, and he had no scruples about killing.

This made Guo Zhongyuan very satisfied.

Most of the generals and schools under Guo Ning's command are border guards who have been stationed in northern Xinjiang for a long time.Some even served in the frontier for several generations, and witnessed the rise of the Mongolian Kingdom from scratch, from weak to strong.Everything in the army is as natural to them as breathing.Although most of them were subordinates, in terms of commanding operations, those fat-headed Jurchen generals in Zhongdu City were far inferior to them.

However, Li Ting, Guo Zhongyuan and others are different from these soldiers guarding the border.They originally had their own identities and occupations, but in recent years, after the imperial court fought unfavorably with Mongolia, they were all signed to the northern border one after another.Then, he suddenly faced the strongest military group of the contemporary era, and died bloody.

People who have survived in this environment may have high or low military talents, but the common feature is that they are ruthless.

Li Ting is cruel enough to himself, his style of taking the lead is not inferior to Guo Ning at all.

As for Guo Zhongyuan, he was cruel enough to the soldiers.

Many people who are familiar with Guo Zhongyuan regard him as a generous elder brother and a reliable partner. Guo Zhongyuan knows that he is not just such a person.When the Chinese capital was fighting that day, Pu Xian's team lured the soldiers to die for themselves, and Guo Zhongyuan saw something strange in it at a glance.Because Guo Zhongyuan has the same style on the battlefield.

In his opinion, victory is always built with human lives. No matter how generously you treat the soldiers in daily life, no matter how much you care for them, in the end, on the battlefield, as long as death can bring victory, you must let them die without hesitation. Soldiers die.

What is there to be nostalgic for in this world where human lives are ignored?I don't know how many soldiers died under the leadership of a fatuous and incompetent general. They died aggrieved and meaningless.That being the case, it is better to die worthwhile!

When Guo Zhongyuan was a general, he thought so; now that he is a general under Guo Ning, he still thinks so.

Now most of his subordinates are new captives, and half are young men who have recently joined the army. It is difficult for the army formed by them to maintain stability under sudden pressure.And Guo Zhongyuan's way to deal with it is also very simple, that is, to give out the pressure in advance.

If the soldiers are used to the swords of their own generals, the viciousness of the enemy army will be nothing!

On the battlefield, people have their strengths and weaknesses, and their spirits have their ups and downs. No one dares to say that they are always victorious and undefeated.But at any time, if one person dies, he is enough to fear thousands of people, let alone 5000 people who dare to die?
Guo Zhongyuan looked ahead calmly.

He saw the enemy approaching quickly, saw his own crossbowman shooting arrows continuously, saw the enemy's crossbowman shooting back while running, and saw his own crossbowman being quickly suppressed and had to rely on the vehicle to retreat.

He saw the enemy army spread out in front, divided into countless small groups, passed through the formation of vehicles, and rushed into the formation of spearmen without hesitation; he saw that the spearmen were in chaos, and somewhere the purse leading the team could not hold on. , a little panicked, but as soon as he turned around and took half a step back, he was beheaded by the military judge who came from behind, and the military judge immediately entered the line with a knife and took over the command.

He saw the enemy army screaming and fighting like wild beasts, and blood and blood flew everywhere they went; he saw the formation of spearmen getting looser and looser, and the small phalanx behind them filled up one by one.

One of the officers in the small phalanx was Guo Ning's old acquaintance, a rout from Yehuling, a Liaodong man named Zhang Chi.On that day, Guo Ning gathered the crowd at the Jijun River, and Zhang Chi was the first group to arrive, with very deep qualifications.

On weekdays, Guo Zhongyuan treated him very politely, and did not simply regard him as a subordinate.

Zhang Chi rushed to the front of the line, turned sideways to avoid the spear that was stabbing straight at him, and swung his knife to slash.The enemy on the opposite side screamed and fell to the ground. He reached out to cover the wound on his chest, but the blood vessels in the wound twisted and blood gushed out. How could he cover it!

Zhang Chi didn't look at the enemy who fell to the ground, he swung his sword horizontally, and parried away the spear stabbed by the No. 2 enemy behind him.

But at this moment, the No. 3 enemy leaned over and sprinted, grabbed Zhang Chi's side, pushed him to the ground violently, and then pinned his legs.He immediately threw away the long knife, took out the short knife at his waist and stabbed randomly.After stabbing twice, the hand holding the knife was stepped on by the No. 4 enemy.

It's hard now!

Zhang Chi shouted sharply, and two companions rushed to rescue him.In a blink of an eye, one person was shot by an arrow and the other by a gun, and both of them were dead on the ground.

The enemy knelt down to press Zhang Chi's arm, and stabbed Zhang Chi's throat with a half-broken iron spear.Fortunately, the No.3 enemy was stabbed by Zhang Chi with a short knife before, and he was already dead.At this time, the corpse wobbled twice, and suddenly jumped on Zhang Chi's body, just blocking the path of the iron spear.

The enemy with the spear quickly turned around and stabbed Zhang Chi in the stomach.

Just as he was about to strike, another of Zhang Chi's subordinates rushed over and pushed him away.The two tore at each other, turned over twice, and couldn't care less about pulling out the short soldiers around them.But Zhang Chi took a step forward, saw a gap, and plunged his knife into the gap between the enemy's helmet and shoulder armor.

The enemy twitched twice, blood was flowing from the neck, steaming, staring dead.

"Boy, good job!" Zhang Chi drew back his dagger, praised in his mouth, and stretched out his hand to grab his subordinates who fell to the ground.

Clasping his hands, Zhang Chi was about to exert his strength when a cold light flashed in front of his eyes.

A soldier rushed out from the enemy's formation, swung a knife and cut off the arm of the fallen soldier.

The soldier's left arm was broken at the shoulder, and he couldn't help screaming loudly, and then his head was beheaded.

Zhang Chi couldn't stand steadily, and staggered back with half of his arm in his hand.He took a few steps back, seeing the front line wavering, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the figure of the military judge!

The military law is strict, no one dares to commit crimes, retreat on the battlefield, and die immediately!Instead of dying at the hands of one's own family members in a humiliating death, how can one kill an enemy and die like a hero, leaving some pensions and land for the family?

What's more, I just didn't stand firm!Guo Zhongyuan is crazy, Xiao Mole is also crazy, why are you in such a hurry?
Zhang Chi yelled, threw half of his arm forward, and hit the soldier in the face, and then moved forward to die.

(End of this chapter)