Chapter 17: Horses Trample the Coalition, Iron Buddha Warriors
Cavalry against cavalry.
The best versus the best.
The Battle of Longshan was destined to be an extremely tragic war from the beginning, especially the scene of the cavalry battle between the two armies, which was a shocking picture full of power and passion.
As Yunhui Army Chief Wu Qingyun personally led the Yunzhou Assault Cavalry to launch the charge, Longcheng Tiefutu and Xuanjia Light Cavalry led by Chen Huaian followed closely and entered the battlefield against the rays of the rising sun.
In an instant, the sound of the horses' iron hooves shook the earth like rolling thunder, and the soldiers' shouts of killing resounded deafeningly through the mountains and fields.
Chen Huaian took the lead, his golden armor shimmering in the sunlight, and his moving golden figure looked like a god descending from heaven;
The eighteen knights of Dragon City are covered in silver armor and gleaming with silver, like divine soldiers descending from heaven;
The men and horses of Dragon City Iron Buddha Tu were all heavily armored, and they shone with a cold light in the sunlight, as if even the sunlight could not penetrate the thick armor.
Wu Qingyun galloped forward, facing the dazzling sunlight and looking at the Dragon City Iron Buddha Tu, which was swooping towards the Longshan camp.
Looking at the high-spirited Chen Huaian in front of him and the armored beast behind him, armed to the teeth, I couldn't help but feel the sadness of a hero in his twilight years.
He raised the Qinglong Yanyue Sword with one hand and looked up to the sky and roared: "Who can ask: Lian Po is old, can he still eat?"
Kick, kick, kick!
Kick, kick, kick!
The charging speed of the cavalry from both armies was getting faster and faster. The horses galloped and their hooves rolled up yellow smoke in the sky. The smoke was also mixed with the cold light of swords and spears and the neighing of the horses.
boom!
The next moment, the two cavalry charging at high speed collided without any suspense, making a fierce collision.
The Longcheng Iron Buddha led by Chen Huaian charged in a dense formation like a moving steel Great Wall, its momentum was unstoppable.
In an instant, he ruthlessly crushed the Yunzhou Assault Cavalry in front of him, and opened a large gap in the Yunzhou Assault Cavalry's cavalry formation in just one turn.
Chen Huaian even easily knocked off several Yunzhou Cavalry soldiers, and the Longcheng Eighteen Cavalry and Longcheng Tiefutu soldiers behind him also made considerable gains.
While cutting through the enemy's cavalry formation, it also gave Yunzhou's cavalry formation several hundred more ownerless horses.
This is not over yet, the charge at Dragon City Iron Buddha is still continuing.
Under the influence of the inertia of the dive, the three thousand iron pagodas continued to charge towards the entire Pingrong and Ten Thousand Formations assembled by the Yunhui Army infantry.
Under the cover of helmets and black gauze, the expressions on the faces of the Polu cavalry officers could not be seen clearly, but their firm and decisive eyes clearly revealed their disdain for the enemy infantry's use of chariots and shields to build a horse formation.
He even turned a blind eye to the arrows fired by the enemy's crossbowmen.
Only his legs clamped tightly on the belly of the war horse, and his hands firmly grasped the sword, gun, sword and halberd in his hands, urging the war horse under his crotch to speed up, speed up, faster and faster.
Until, the horses and horses joined forces and broke through the enemy's formation.
Boom!
Finally, the high-speed moving Longcheng Tiefutu slammed into the entire formation of Yunhui's army and soldiers who were marching step by step during the battle.
The thick iron armor on the war horse hit the shield of the enemy infantry's human-driven chariot, making a deafening fierce collision.
The spears and halberds held high by the infantrymen of the Yunhui army were as vulnerable as rotten wood in front of the Dragon City Iron Buddha Tu, which was covered from head to toe with steel.
In just one round of collision, all the spears and halberds in the front row were broken. The soldiers of the Yunhui Army who were standing on the chariot and hiding behind their shields were knocked upside down and fell into pieces.
Although the formation could not be broken directly, it also put the entire formation of tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers lined up by Yunhui's infantry in danger, and the soldiers in the front row suffered numerous casualties.
More importantly, when the infantry soldiers of the Yunhui Army faced the iron Buddha, a war machine that seemed to come from hell, their hearts were dominated by endless fear and despair, and they had almost no morale at all.
On the other hand, the Longcheng Tiefutu led by Chen Huaian was still unscathed after attacking the enemy twice, and its morale was high.
The balance of victory has begun to tilt towards the Polu army.
Chen Huaian turned his horse's head and regrouped the team. He pointed domineeringly at Fang Tian's painted halberd in his hand. The tip of the halberd faced the enemy general Wu Qingyun who was fighting fiercely with Fan Wuji's Black Armor Qingqi.
Then, there was a roar: "The generals of the Dragon City Iron Cavalry will obey the order and continue to charge with me to seize the banner of the bandit army leader Wu Qingyun!"
"The general will get the order!"
Dragon City Iron Buddha attacked again. The war horses sprinted at full speed like a tiger descending a mountain. They rushed back into the battlefield with the force of thunder and lightning in a gust of wind and rain, aiming directly at Wu Qingyun, the commander-in-chief of the Yunhui Army.
Kick, kick, kick!
Kick, kick, kick!
The sound of the horses' hooves hitting the ground as the iron pagoda sprinted seemed to have become a life-threatening chant that echoed in the ears of the Yunhui soldiers.
"General, it's bad, the thief Chen Huaian is here for you this time!"
At this time, Liang Erhu, the leader of the Yunzhou Assault Cavalry who was fighting with the Xuanjia Qingqi, suddenly discovered that the Longcheng Tiefutu led by Chen Huaian turned his horse's head and turned his sword after failing to collide with the entire Pingrong Wan array of Yunhui's infantry. The general Wu Qingyun and the Chinese army were appointed.
Hey!
This thief is planning to use the bravery of Iron Buddha to attack the Chinese army in front of the formation and seize the flag, in order to demoralize our army!
Liang Erhu swung his sword and killed several black armored light cavalry who surrounded him, and then he freed up time to continue:
"General, please don't act on your own initiative. Our Yunzhou sudden cavalry horses lack heavy armor, so we can't go head-to-head with the iron pagoda of the dog thief Chen Huaian!"
"General, please listen to the advice of the last general and avoid his sharp edge for now, so that you can reorganize your army and fight again in the future!"
Clang!
While speaking, Liang Erhu raised his sword to block the heavy blows of two black armor cavalrymen.
"Liang Erhu, where are you running!"
Suddenly, a fierce general rode out of the melee, with the tip of his lance pointed directly at Liang Erhu. It was Fan Wuji, the former deputy general of the front army who was promoted by Chen Huaian in front of the battle, and the former commander of the Longcheng cavalry of the Po Lu Army.
Fan Wuji rode his horse and fired his spear like a dragon in the melee, and cut a bloody path in the siege of a group of Yunzhou cavalry soldiers, and rushed straight to Liang Erhu.
"You dog thief Fan Wuji, give me your life!"
Liang Erhu knew that he would definitely not be able to escape, so he had to bite the bullet and ride forward to fight with the galloping Fan Wuji.
Looking at Wu Qingyun on horseback, his eyes were fierce, and his one arm was hanging down to hold the sword. The tip of the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand had already dragged to the ground. The picture focused in his pupils never moved away from the high-speed moving Chen Huaian and Longcheng Tiefutu.
Wu Qingyun knew that he would have to fight with Chen Huaian today, so no matter how Liang Erhu, the commander of the front army of Yunhui Army, advised him before and during the battle, he remained indifferent.
Then, he only heard a hoarse and low roar: "Left and right Yuhou Army, listen to my order, follow me to fight the enemy!"
"I obey my order!"
With Wu Qingyun's order, the 800 Yuhou Army soldiers who had already formed a battle formation around him received the order in unison.
Then, Wu Qingyun accelerated his horse and rushed to the attack route of Longcheng Iron Pagoda first, and the 800 Yuhou Army soldiers followed him at the risk of their lives.
Two hundred steps!
One hundred steps!
Fifty steps!
Until the distance between the cavalry of the two armies was less than fifty steps, Wu Qingyun, who had been dragging the Qinglong Yanyue Sword all the way, suddenly raised the Qinglong Yanyue Sword with one arm, aimed at Chen Huaian who was close at hand, and split Huashan with a powerful and heavy move.
Facing Wu Qingyun's full-strength attack, Chen Huaian on the yellow horse showed no fear, and even had a smile on his face. He raised the Fang Tian Huaji in his hand and easily flicked it, dissolving Wu Qingyun's powerful attack into nothingness.
Wu Qingyun was shocked. He never expected that this seemingly weak scholar Chen Huaian's martial arts had reached such a terrifying level.
Compared with his father Chen Polu at his peak, it was no wonder that Chang Chenghu couldn't even hold out for one round in Chen Huaian's hands and was knocked off his horse.
God knows how Chen Huaian, who has extraordinary martial arts, has endured the ridicule of being a waste by the civil and military officials in the court for more than 20 years.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: For so many years, I have underestimated Chen Huaian!
At this point, Wu Qingyun finally put away his contempt for Chen Huaian, cheered up and swung his sword to change sides to fight again.
Unlike the calm and harmonious first round of confrontation between the two army commanders, the first round of confrontation between the three thousand Dragon City Iron Buddhas and the eight hundred Yuhou Army cavalry was much more brutal.
Although the equipment of the eight hundred Yuhou Army soldiers under Wu Qingyun could not match the heavy armor of the Dragon City Iron Buddha, they were not much inferior.
As the Northwest General of the Great Xin Dynasty and the General of Huwei, Wu Qingyun spent a lot of money on the equipment of his Yuhou Army soldiers.
Referring to the heavy cavalry aliased "Iron Harriers" formed by the sons and confidants of the Tangut nobles of the Western Xia Dynasty, he also built a Yunhui Army Iron Harrier.
These eight hundred Iron Harrier soldiers rode good horses, wore heavy armor, and tied themselves to the horses with hooks, so they would not fall off the horses even if they died in battle.
The cold forged armor used was light and hard, and could cover the horses and soldiers over a large area, with extremely strong protective capabilities.
The eight hundred personal soldiers were veterans who had fought hundreds of battles, the elite among the elite, and their combat effectiveness was self-evident.
Therefore, when these eight hundred iron harriers faced the three thousand iron pagodas, the casualty ratio of both sides was almost one to one.
After the first round of confrontation, more than three hundred personal soldiers of Wu Qingyun were killed, and more than three hundred Longcheng Iron Cavalry under Chen Huaian also fell forever on this land they loved deeply.
After a round of elite cavalry confrontation, the two armies returned to their starting positions.
The Yunzhou Tuqi and Xuanjia Qingqi, who were still fighting on the battlefield, tacitly cleared a space in the center of the battlefield for the main generals and elite cavalry of both sides to fight.
At this time, behind Chen Huaian and Longcheng Iron Pagoda, was the Xuanjia Army Modao Team, which had been ready to go. The leader was Chen Qingzhi, a white-robed Confucian general who had changed into white armor.
Behind Wu Qingyun and the Yuhou Army's Iron Harriers were the Yunhui Army's infantrymen who were rushing to repair the Pingrong Wanquan Formation that had just been smashed to pieces by the Iron Pagoda.
After two high-speed sprints back and forth, the heavily armored Iron Pagoda warhorse had begun to pant.
The yellow horse under Chen Huaian's crotch began to breathe a little faster, and the sweat had wet the mane on its neck.
He patted the yellow horse's neck, then stared at the enemy army opposite with a torch-like gaze, and once again issued a combat order to the Iron Pagoda soldiers behind him:
"All the generals of the Dragon City Iron Cavalry, listen to my order, follow me to charge the enemy formation again, and open a bloody path for the brothers of the Mo Dao Team!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
After speaking, Chen Huaian turned his head to look at Chen Qingzhi, gave him a reassuring look, and then took the lead and led the Dragon City Iron Pagoda to charge into the enemy formation again without hesitation.
Almost at the same time, Wu Qingyun also raised his Qinglong Yanyue Sword and issued an order to the remaining 500 Iron Harriers: "All troops, attack!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Suddenly, shouts of killing rang out at the foot of Longshan Mountain, and the sound of horse hooves shook the sky.
One thousand and one hundred steps!
Five hundred steps!
Three hundred steps!
One hundred steps!
The yellow horse galloped wildly, and Chen Huaian on the horse held the Fang Tian Hua Ji with both hands. Then he pointed the tip of the halberd and shot out like a dragon, stabbing Wu Qingyun who was coming in front of him with lightning speed.
Seeing this, Wu Qingyun did not dare to be careless, and immediately raised his Qinglong Yanyue Sword to meet him.
Unexpectedly, Chen Huaian's fierce stab was just a feint, and he suddenly changed his moves when Wu Qingyun raised his sword to meet him.
He pulled the Fang Tian Hua Ji back with one hand, and took advantage of the situation to hold the hard and cold halberd with both hands, and then swung the Fang Tian Hua Ji in a sweep, smashing the tip and the halberd into Wu Qingyun's armored abdomen.
In a hurry, facing Chen Huaian's sudden change of moves, Wu Qingyun wanted to raise his sword to block it, but it was too late.
He could only watch the Fang Tian Hua Ji in Chen Huaian's hand hit him like a blue dragon out of the sea.
Clang!
Boom!
Hmm, hum!
In a flash of lightning, three different sounds intertwined and rang out.
The first was the metal collision sound made by Chen Huaian's Fang Tian Huaji hitting Wu Qingyun's armor;
The second was the roar made by Wu Qingyun and his horse being knocked away by Chen Huaian's halberd;
The third was the neighing sound made by Wu Qingyun's warhorse after it fell to the ground.
That's right, Wu Qingyun, the dignified commander of the Yunhui Army, the Northwest General of the Great Xin Dynasty and the Tiger Power General, was actually knocked away by Chen Huaian, the waste who had been ridiculed by the civil and military officials for more than 20 years, and flew away with his horse several meters before falling heavily to the ground.
This sudden scene caught the soldiers of both armies off guard.
Only the Yuhou Army's personal soldiers who reacted roared and fought in a mess, and then desperately squeezed to the side of the commander Wu Qingyun, whose life and death were unknown in the melee.
Looking at Chen Huaian on the yellow horse, a smile finally appeared on his stern face, and he murmured to himself:
"No one in the world can withstand a blow from my Fang Tian Hua Ji, no one can!"
As he said, Chen Huaian led the remaining Longcheng Iron Pagoda to the Pingrong Wanquan formation that the Yunhui Army infantry had not had time to repair and perfect.
Boom!
After a moment, a loud bang shook the earth.
With Chen Huaian as the single arrow, the Longcheng Iron Pagoda broke through the Pingrong Wanquan formation that Wu Qingyun was proud of without any suspense.
In front of the Longshan camp, Chen Qingzhi, holding a long-handled Mo Dao, had been paying close attention to the battlefield dynamics.
When Chen Huaian led the Longcheng Iron Pagoda to break through the enemy formation, Chen Qingzhi also issued an order: "Modao team, the whole army will attack, and we will never withdraw until the enemy camp is destroyed!"
"We will never withdraw until the enemy camp is destroyed!"
"We will never withdraw until the enemy camp is destroyed!"
"......"