Chapter 221: Zhongfu
Li Min laughed loudly, pointed his sword at the soldiers who were panickingly deploying the formation on the other side of Yingshui, and said, "Is this an ambush? There is no horse resistance, no crossbow, and there are some long spears and short swords. What's the use?"
The main reason is that Li Min has captured a group of war horses from Dong Zhuo's army. This sweetness he has tasted made him a little unable to stop. Although some of them are damaged, if he raises his wounds, he can still have seventy or eighty horses to drive. If he can put the more than one hundred war horses that were hiding behind the infantry formation in front of him and then he can form nearly a thousand cavalry after he takes the bag...
There were at most scattered cavalry one to two to three, but the cavalry that formed a formation could be one to five or even higher. In the Han Dynasty, the more cavalry there were, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the army, and the combat effectiveness of hundreds of cavalry and thousands of cavalry was almost twice as different.
Looking at the tired knights who had gotten off their horses, I also observed that there were no archers in the infantry battle formation that came to meet the enemy. I just had to cross the river and defeat these five or six hundred people. The already exhausted cavalry became things in the jar...
Thinking of this, Li Min, who was so itchy, ordered his soldiers to cross the river to pursue him.
Although there are only five or six hundred people in the other side, this is not comparable to the pursuit war. In the pursuit war, as long as the chased party runs fast, not behind and not surrounded and caught, there will be no life danger. As long as the pursuit party does not miss the horse, the risk will be even smaller...
But it is completely different to fight and form a formation. Taking a formation means a life-and-death life, which is the case for both sides.
Regardless of whether you have the advantage or not, even the advantageous party may not be able to ensure that there are no casualties. Under the condition of a shortage of medical treatment and medicine in the Han Dynasty, even a small wound may lose his life due to infection complications.
Although everyone on Li Min's side thinks that there will always be victory in the end, before that, some of the soldiers who started fighting will inevitably fall on the bank of Yingshui, dyeing this piece of river water red, and the fruits of victory will be no longer possible.
Their meaning is to use their flesh and blood to tear the opponent's formation, and the sooner the opponent is defeated or destroyed, the more hope of their own will be able to survive.
Li Min was not so stupid that he directly ordered the few cavalry under his command to cross the river and attack directly. Instead, the infantry that followed was rushed to form a square formation, allowing his archers to advance to the river first to prevent his soldiers from being approached by the opponent during the crossing of the river. Then he ordered the infantry who had completed the formation to cross the river and seize the territory on the other side of the river...
Maybe it was timid, maybe it was impossible to compete without archers, maybe it was for some other reason. Although the five or six hundred Dong Zhuo soldiers lined up in a distance were a little riot, they did not step forward to stop Li Min's army from crossing the river.
Li Min's infantry quickly crossed the waist-high river water, and scattered the formation against the fierce cold wind, freeing up space for the subsequent troops.
Then the second team of soldiers crossed the river. Dong Zhuo's army seemed to have some intention of attacking. They approached more than ten steps, but stopped again. Because of the mixed actions of holding the left and right, the entire battle formation was twisting and ugly...
When Li Min saw this, he pointed to the soldier Dong Zhuo who was not very well-formed and said to Zhang An: "If you see if you have lost your form, you will lose your form. With one blow, you will inevitably be defeated!" Then he ordered the subsequent cavalry and archers to cross the river together.
The cold wind was strong. Although the river was not deep, it felt a little chill when it got wet after it was blown by the wind.
Li Min knew this, so without saying a word, he directly ordered the soldiers in front of him to fight forward, and let the 800 cavalry under him divide into left and right routes to extend to the front side to prepare for encirclement...
The war drums rumbled, and Li Min's front row of swords and shield soldiers paused the big shield on the ground every five steps. After a breath, he picked up the big shield and continued to push forward. The shouting sounded across the Yingshui River, and the neat footsteps made the earth seem to tremble.
Dong Zhuo's army seemed to be in despair. Its troops were not prevailed, and then they were about to fall into a situation where they were attacked by multiple times of their troops. And depending on the situation, it seemed that they were surrounded by three sides, and the formation became increasingly scattered...
Just as the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, Dong Zhuo's army shouted loudly, and it even scattered and turned around and ran away. The cavalry that had originally hid behind the infantry also rushed onto the war horses and fled together...
Li Min was already ready to fight, but when soldier Dong Zhuo made such a move, he was stunned at first, and then he couldn't help laughing.
This time, even Zhang An, who had always been cautious, was a little stunned. Now the attack battle turned into a pursuit battle again...
The subsequent evolution naturally became that Dong Zhuo, a small army, fled to the mountains in front, while Li Min's soldiers bit their tails and chased them. From time to time, the backward Dong Zhuo soldiers were caught up and killed by the scattered blades, and the head became a treasure that was robbed.
This time, Li Min's cavalry gained more than the cavalry who had pursued Dong Zhuo before. He targeted a backward soldier, stepped forward and chopped him over, and then dismounted his horse as if no one was around and chopped off his head and hung it on the horse's neck, and then chased the next target...
The infantry could only look at it with jealousy, and walked forward desperately, hoping to capture some things before withdrawing the troops. Even the armor, weapons, flags, etc. that Dong Zhuobing had discarded along the way, were chasing and picking up.
Li Min followed the Central Army and was also rushing forward. As soon as he turned a small hill, he heard a rumbling drum sound, and then a majestic shout sounded. A flag suddenly stood beside him, with the words "Zhonglang General Xu" written on it.
Xu Rong immediately stood under the flag, looking at Li Min's army, who had been disconnected because of the pursuit, and waved his hand expressionlessly, and heard thousands of hornets shaking their wings at the same time, as if thousands of arrows were shaking their wings at the same time, and the rain of arrows projected towards Li Min's central army position.
Chapter completed!