Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 256: The Dead and the Sad Farewell
The army marched out in all directions, and the Zhongyi Army and the Wuxing Army simultaneously launched a relentless attack on the enemy in front of them.

Neither side was as overwhelming as expected. Both the Zhongyi Army and the Wuxing Army had their own persistence and bravery.

When both the enemy and our side begin to fight hard, risking their lives to win, the situation on the battlefield does not necessarily change drastically in an instant. Instead, in addition to the stalemate, casualties suddenly increase and the situation becomes increasingly chaotic.

The first person to feel this chaos was not the generals or commanders of the various armies, but Ba'atur who was on the flank of the Wuxing Army's armored cavalry formation.

He was also the first person to discover that something was wrong with the camp behind him, the first person to discover that the Fourth Meng'an soldiers had fled in the mountains, and the first person to discover that the Loyal Army had launched a full-scale counterattack.

There is no other way. The reason why Atuer is on the flank is to respond to the overall situation, so he can have a comprehensive view of the battlefield situation.

But what was even more helpless was that at this time, the armored cavalry brigade had already begun a desperate charge under the guidance of the Wuxing flag.

Even if Atuer knew the overall situation, he had no means to do anything.

"Hold on!" Zhang Xiaoyi, holding a spear, gathered together with the soldiers of the right army, placed the spear on the ground with the tip pointing forward at an angle.

The formation of 300 people was not very neat, nor was it large, but because they were about to face the attack of cavalry, the infantry could not help but move closer to each other, and the formation quickly became dense, with long spears standing on three sides, really like a hedgehog maintaining a defensive posture.

"Hold on!"

"what!!!"

“Kill the thief!!!”

"Ahhhh!!!"

The right army screamed hysterically, shouting slogans that they could not even explain clearly amid the rumbling of horses' hooves and the deafening shouts of killing.

Nearly a thousand armored cavalrymen galloped at the same time, causing the earth to tremble. Seeing the armored cavalrymen getting closer and closer like dark clouds rolling in from the horizon, Zhang Xiaoyi swallowed hard, but smelled a hint of fishy smell at the tip of his nose.

He glanced to the right and found that a soldier in front of him was only wearing an iron crotch and even his helmet was gone. His legs were trembling and his crotch was soaked.

The hair on his lips from the side of his face revealed that he was about sixteen, barely into adulthood. The young man's lips were tightly pursed as he stared fixedly ahead. Despite his fear, he still held his spear tightly and didn't turn to flee.

Zhang Xiaoyi laughed loudly for some reason, "Little brother, if you can survive today, you'll become a brave soldier!"

In such a chaotic battlefield, even if you speak loudly, even if the general speaks, the other party will most likely not be able to hear you... No, it should be said that the other party will almost certainly not be able to hear you.

Zhang Xiaoyi didn't care. He gripped his spear tightly, looked ahead, and roared, "Golden thieves! Come on! Your grandfather from the East China Sea is here! Come and kill me!"

Meng Tian, the guardian of the country, naturally could not hear Zhang Xiaoyi's scolding.

By this time, the right wing of the Loyal Army had effectively split into two, front and rear, parts that were already disconnected. One section, numbering over 700 men, was disorganized as they pursued the fleeing enemy. The other section maintained a relatively orderly formation, but as it advanced, its formation was no longer as solid as it had been when standing still.

As long as they can defeat the three or four hundred infantrymen gathered under the Zhang flag, they can kill their way through the right wing of the Loyal Army!
"kill!"

The Wuxing flag, representing Meng Tian's identity as the commander-in-chief of the country, pointed forward, and nearly a thousand armored cavalry followed the guidance of the flag and increased their horse speed.

One hundred steps.

Although Meng Tian, the guardian of the country, personally led the armored cavalry to charge, the Wuxing Army could not really let the commander-in-chief be the vanguard. After arriving at the designated charge position, more than a hundred personal guards rushed forward and became the vanguard of the charge.

These elite Jin soldiers, who were skilled in archery and horsemanship, drew their bows and arrows, and using the power of horsepower, suddenly shot a volley of arrows at the large banner with the word "Zhang" on it. Then they threw away their bows, held their spears, and charged forward with roars.

Fifty steps.

"Avoid arrows!"

"what!!!"

"A thief born from a dog's fuck!"

In the dense formation, more than a dozen people were hit by arrows. Zhang Xiaoyi was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder, but it was stuck on his shoulder pad and he was not injured. He pulled the arrow off with hatred and looked around, trying to see the casualties, but his eyes were fixed.

The young man who had just wet his pants had a heavy arrow piercing his forehead. He was already dead with his head tilted back, but because of the dense formation, he couldn't fall to the ground. When he died, he still had his spear tightly grasped in his hand.

He didn't survive this day.

"Kill!"

Zhang Xiaoyi didn't have time to think. Over a hundred armored cavalrymen leading the Wuxing Army were already charging head-on, spears in hand.

"what!!!"

The chaotic slogans and curses disappeared at this moment. Both the Zhongyi Army and the Wuxing Army used the simplest roars to vent their fear and anger.

The first to die were the three Wuxing Army armored cavalrymen who served as the tips of the spears. Their spears penetrated deeply into the chests of their horses, and then came out from the backs and penetrated into the abdomens of the knights. Then the spears resting on the ground could not withstand such huge potential energy and broke in half.

Amid the neighing of war horses and the screams of soldiers, the Jin army, along with their horses, rushed into the right army's spear formation.

The war horses, knights, armored soldiers and infantry were entangled together, rolling forward like a bulldozer made of flesh and blood.

Three Jin knights were killed on the spot, resulting in only five deaths on the right side of the army. This exchange ratio was enough to make any general heartbroken, and was enough for Wanyan Liang to chop off the head of Meng Tian, the guardian of the country.

But then more and more Jin army armored cavalry rushed into the formation. When the leading 100 armored cavalry all rushed in, they suffered about 50 casualties, causing nearly 100 casualties on the right army.

The right army's formation was crumbling.

Then, nearly two hundred more cavalrymen rushed forward recklessly and finally tore through the infantry spear formation at the cost of their lives.

The large banner with the word "Zhang" on it swayed twice among the surging cavalry and then collapsed to the ground.

The next moment, the spear formation collapsed, and the 800 armored soldiers of the right army who advanced forward, just like the Sixth Meng'an of the Wuxing Army just now, threw away their armor and fled in a panic.

The generals who were coming to support were stunned and speechless for a moment.

Whether it was Zhang Baiyu who was leading his troops to charge, Li Xiu with bloodshot eyes, or Wang Shilong and Shi Qilang who were struggling to run up a hill to reorganize their troops, all of them had horror in their eyes.

Knights are rare and war horses are precious. It is not cost-effective to use cavalry to attack the infantry formation head-on. Even if one can exchange two or three for one, it is enough to make the cavalry commander feel painful.

But the battlefield has always been like this, there is no can or cannot, only should or should not.

When necessary, the rear army would push the front army into the mud and march quickly on the enemy. This was not unprecedented.

When the cavalry charged into the infantry formation with the confidence of dying together, the greatest weapon for killing the enemy changed from horse hooves and spears to the potential energy accumulated by the horses' rapid galloping.

Even the most elite infantrymen have a limit to the casualties they can endure. After the Wuxing Army's armored cavalry suffered over a hundred casualties, they finally broke open the hard shell of the right army and tasted the delicious flesh inside.

However, the Wuxing flag only slowed down slightly, and then sped up again, driving away the fleeing soldiers of the right army and smashing towards the rear formation that was moving forward.

A hundred of the leaders reacted quickly and shouted loudly to stop and form a battle line, but about half of them were slow to react, or felt that they could not stop without military orders, and continued to advance.

These unstable infantrymen were the targets of the second wave of attacks.

The armored cavalry, who dispersed and attacked in units of puliyan (a team of fifty men), only harassed the infantry slightly before continuing to charge forward.

Less than a moment later, three phalanxes of a hundred men out of the right army's one thousand fresh troops were broken through, and the armored cavalry of the Wuxing army broke through the formation.

The entire right wing of the loyal and righteous army was shaken.

Meng Tian, the guardian of the state, had already passed the front line between the Wuxing and Zhongyi armies. He rode his horse to a halt on a hill, looked around, and laughed heartily: "Everyone said this group of bandits was extraordinary, but I defeated them with one blow! Today, I will drive all these Zhongyi bandits into the Yi River and make them turtles! This will comfort the souls of our fallen soldiers in heaven!"

The guards around him cheered.

Although the Wuxing Army fought an extremely difficult and brutal battle, no matter how ugly it was, Meng Tian, the guardian of the country, finally seized the fleeting opportunity and opened a gap in the formation of the loyal army.

However, before he finished his words, Meng Tian, the guardian of the country, suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that a white fish flag in the west was leading hundreds of armored cavalry to charge rapidly through the billowing smoke and dust.

This armored cavalry, which obviously belonged to the Loyal Army, did not make any unnecessary movements, but directly attacked the back of the Wuxing Army's armored cavalry.

On the other side, nearly two hundred armored cavalrymen with large flags bearing the character "Li" appeared in the east. These armored cavalrymen did not even care about the harassment from the few surrounding Jin armored cavalrymen. They just endured sporadic casualties and headed straight for Meng Tian's Wuxing flag to defend the country.

"You're really brave!"

Meng Tian, the guardian of the country, cried out in anger.

(End of this chapter)