Bright Spring

The nearby soldiers were in an uproar, shouting and cursing one after another.

After hearing this, Wang Bin gradually showed a smile on his face. Obviously, Pei Youzhen no longer opposed him, and changed his attitude, helping him to stir up the morale of the army.

"You fought bloody battles for the people of the world, and your reputation cannot be slandered. Brothers, let the world see that we are loyal and brave men!" Pei Youzhen shouted generously.

"Loyal and brave! Loyal and brave..." Countless soldiers shouted for a while, and the people in the distance also shouted.On the flat, dusty official road, the momentum is even greater...

On the west bank of the small river opposite, the officers and soldiers refused to admit defeat. Amidst the noise, bursts of shouts came from the wind.

I don't know how long it took, the Hanwang vanguard's thousand corps and the hundred households finally formed the infantry phalanx one after another, and the cavalry moved slowly to the side and rear.The infantry camps of the two sides are less than one mile apart!

"Boom!" The sound of the cannon suddenly rang out.On the lush green land in the southeast, white gunpowder smoke rose one after another, and shells of iron and stone roared in the air.The originally clear and peaceful wilderness has become turbulent at this time.

Wang Bin rode to the front despite the sporadic shells flying over in the air.He watched the enemy camp on the opposite side for a while, then turned his head and said: "There are more than a dozen cannons in front of the enemy army that are silent. They must have been filled with gravel and iron pellets, waiting to bombard the infantry that we approached."

He immediately shouted, "Order the right-wing cavalry to prepare!" Then he turned to look at Lu Liangwei's commander, Chen Zhendao, "I will lead the cavalry in the lead, and General Chen will temporarily lead the vanguard, and attack according to the prescribed method."

"Order!"

Wang Bin reined in his horse and turned around, and ran towards the cavalry in the south.

Among the cavalry, a large piece of wide-brimmed iron helmet was tied with gray and white linen like snowflakes.Among them, the three groups of red, blue, and green horses are particularly conspicuous, and each cavalry has dozens of cavalry with pennant flags on their backs, and the formations are distinguished by the three colors.

Wang Bin summoned the generals of the cavalry, and they discussed for a while.

By the time the cavalry teams jogged one after another and crossed the front of the infantry phalanx, the distance between the two camps was less than [-] steps!

That piece of enemy infantry was on the gentle slope to the west of the woods on the small river bank, and it was the protruding front end of the entire enemy camp.The enemy infantry on both sides were deployed outside the woods and outside the village.

The gunfire kept ringing, and the sight was quickly affected by the dust and gunpowder smoke. The scenery was not as clear as before when it was a mile away.There was a neighing of a war horse from the cavalry, and a strange scream of people's voices that became high-pitched.

Wang Bin adjusted the gun in his hand | loose | tight, suddenly raised the cherry gun obliquely, and shouted: "Kill!"

"The King of Han is our king!" "Kill! Kill..." More than a thousand cavalry soldiers shouted in unison. The shouts were very crazy, as if they were inexplicably full of extreme fear and anger, and countless horses quickly accelerated.The fast and heavy horseshoes stepped on the dirt road, wrapped in thick dust, and went straight to the front.

Dozens of red flags were looming in the dust at the front, and they quickly dispersed and continued to run.In a short time, the cavalry peak had reached fifty or sixty steps in front of the enemy's formation.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." The flickering fires were more dazzling than the sun.Amidst the deafening sound of cannons, countless trivial stones and iron pellets flew into the air.

"Ah..." Occasionally, a rider screamed and fell to the ground with a bang.

The enemy phalanx moved forward a few steps one after another, and the dense gun|shields and spears faced the front like a dense forest.

Moments later, the gunpowder smoke from the artillery was slightly thinned by the wind, and the red flag cavalry outside the smoke had already detoured north.All the cavalry of the King of Han's army followed suit and ran straight north.

At this time, the arrows behind the enemy's infantry were thrown|shot out in bursts.The sound of hoofbeats, strings, and shouts roared across the battlefield.

To the northwest, several large square formations of infantry of the King of Han Army advanced in the form of finished characters, and they were already a hundred paces away.

4 Chapter Seventy: The Battle of Luorong (2)

Wang Bin's cavalry swept past the front of the enemy's formation. In the smoke and dust, the infantry formations in front of the two armies were only a few dozen paces apart.

The cannons on the battlefield were loud, the officers and soldiers stood still, and the spittoon-like blunderbusses erected behind them were loud; cast iron shells and arrows were thrown out together.In front of the King of Han's army were crossbowmen, and they also started flat-fire attacks dozens of steps away.

The huge noise on the west bank of the small river shook the heavens and the earth. Between the firing of artillery and arrows, countless screams and shouts filled the air.The ground is even more smoggy, as if the haze is shrouded and a storm is about to come.

The woods and houses in the distance are also shrouded in smoke and become faintly visible.

The closest point between the two armies was fifty or sixty paces away, and the blunderbuss behind the official army's formation could only be thrown, otherwise the iron pellets would easily fall out of the trumpet-like muzzle; the solid shells fell into the Hanwang army's formation and smashed into a hole.The bow | arrows thrown from the back of the formation are farther away, and their lethality is far inferior to the strong bows and crossbows that are shot flat.

After a while, when the sergeants in the front rows of the King of Han Army with crossbowmen, mountain guns, and copper fire guns gradually approached, the phalanxes of the official army finally began to waver, and they were adjusting their formation...

Not long ago, the cavalry of the King of Han launched an attack that appeared to be a charge.On the front of the official army, there are several large square formations lined up in a very dense formation, with about two to 3000 people, standing in camp to resist the enemy.In such a formation, the front rows are mainly spearmen and spear shield soldiers, and people are also close together to form a dense formation to deal with the cavalry attack.

But after the infantry battalion of the King of Han Army approached, the dense camp of the official army was very unfavorable!The firecrackers and bows and crossbows in front of the Hanwang army will carry out long-range strikes on the official camp.

The frontal firepower of the officers and soldiers was not as good as the layout of the King of Han's army; they didn't dare to rush to fight in close quarters quickly, otherwise such a dense formation would make it difficult to advance quickly, and it would easily become chaotic and fall apart.

So the officers and soldiers began to separate the formations of the hundreds of households, preparing to counterattack.

At this moment, a voice from the King of Han's army shouted, "Kill!"

In an instant, the shouts became even louder!The firecrackers and archers in front of the King of Han's army retreated from between the gaps in the phalanx, and the melee infantry attacked the official army in a horizontal line.The two armies soon engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the sound of killing was earth-shattering.

The terrified shouts and lung-piercing screams echoed in the air, and people a hundred steps away could feel the tragedy and smell the faint savage blood|smell!

The two armies fought fiercely head-on for a while, and the officers and soldiers began to retreat. There were signs of loosening in each formation, and the defeat seemed irreversible!

But in the woods and river to the east, a group of infantrymen of the officers' army was advancing westward.The official army dispatched the Quan Yong Squad to reinforce the battlefield in the middle.

Wang Bin led the cavalry three times, and they had run to the left flank of the army, between the front battalion participating in the battle and the second batch of middle battalion infantry arrayed behind.He was not in a hurry to dispatch cavalry again to pursue the defeated enemy's front battalion.

Because there are woods and small rivers behind the slope in the distance, which is not conducive to cavalry|movement.What's more, the enemy's Quanyong team is advancing, and the newly mobilized enemy troops have not yet entered the battlefield; the Quanyong team's firearms must be well prepared, the people's physical strength is not exhausted, and the formation is strict and orderly.At this time, it will never be so easy to attack them in the woods.

Wang Bin now believes that Chen Zhen, who is leading the infantry battalion, should let the front battalion retreat one after another, reorganize the troops, and then face the enemy's frontal Quanyong team.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before the various formations of the King of Han's army in front had stopped pursuing.

The most important thing is that Wang Bin found that the official army did not dispatch any cavalry!Where are their cavalry?

Wang Bin looked into the distance in all directions, and finally on the other side of the small river in the northeast direction, he saw some cavalry men and horses moving north.The main force of Wu Gao's army was marching in the southeast direction, but the cavalry was mobilized in the opposite direction, and Wang Bin suddenly had some bad feelings.

At this moment, the soldiers came to report: "Report to the governor, our scouts found a large group of enemy cavalry five or six miles to the southwest, and they are marching north!"

Wang Bin's heart suddenly "clicked"!

At this moment, Wang Bin suddenly realized.

Although there are paddy fields on both sides of this place, it is difficult to march a large army for a while; the weather is also very good, and the sight is wide, and it is difficult to hide any movement of the enemy... But the cavalry can take advantage of the short-term speed from farther away. The King of Han's army outflanked the rear wing!

Wu Gao has an advantage. He has a lot of soldiers. Even if he only uses cavalry, his strength is not inferior to Wang Bin's forward cavalry.

Wang Bin was suddenly full of remorse. Why didn't he think of the possibility of such a simple deployment?The main reason is that Wu Gao was quite calm, and there was no movement at all before the battle!

"Immediately send an order to Chen Zhen to retreat to the forest to the north!" Wang Bin said to the generals beside him.

The general said: "Captain Wang, it's too dangerous to retreat before the formation!"

Wang Bin didn't like hesitation, so he made a decisive decision immediately: "We have just won for a while, our morale is high, and the main force has not joined the battle yet, so there is still time to retreat! Ask Chen Zhen to stabilize the battalions and retreat slowly. The elite soldiers cooperate with the cavalry to fight back!"

"Order!"

Wang Bin reached out his hand to touch the dust and soot on his face, then turned his head and said: "Mr. Li, immediately charge to the right (a charge of [-] riders), go to the northwest, and see if there is an opportunity to stop the enemy cavalry!" He then pointed to the distance, and said, "For the forest in the north, follow the road to the south of the forest and go west."

A general clasped his fists and said, "Decree!"

After a while, there was a green pennant in the crowd, and they left the place first.