For a cavalry army that didn't have the advantage in numbers to try and break through the three lines of defense that were tightly connected, especially when two of the lines of defense had large scale cavalry forces, under normal circumstances, it was no different from a fool's dream.
If one added on the fact that there were close to twenty thousand elite cavalry chasing after them, the situation could probably be described as a 'land of death'.
It was precisely under this type of extremely dangerous situation that the Long Xiang Army that was charging south began to change their formation. The vanguard cavalry that had most of their spears and lances destroyed slightly pulled back the front line. With Li Mofan at the head, everyone pulled out their blades and formed a conical formation. It was clear that they wanted to use the fastest speed to break through the Yi Longguan Family's thirty eight thousand cavalry. At the same time, roughly in the middle of the Long Xiang Army's formation, a clear dividing line was stretched out. The ten thousand or so young and strong cavalry that slowed down their warhorses were gathered at the back. Almost everyone had a spear and lances in their hands. In a normal cavalry formation, rows of spears and lances were laid out horizontally in a swift and fierce line.
The former formation was more used to tear apart the enemy's formation, at the same time slowing down the speed of the Beimang cavalry to the greatest extent. The latter's vicious charge was more of a life and death struggle.
Under the personal leadership of the Beimang great general, Huang Songpu's cavalry did not charge forward with all their might. Instead, when the Long Xiang Army changed their formation, their formation also quietly changed. The center of the cavalry formation was thinner and the two wings were thicker. First, they suffered the most losses. Adding on to the fact that they had circled around to the north of the main camp to cut off the path of the Long Xiang Army, the cavalry and warhorses were a little tired. After a spurt of energy, they needed to use this opportunity to recover their strength. Furthermore, they worked together with the cavalry of the Yi High School of the South to form a pincer attack from the north. If they charged too quickly and met with the cavalry that passed through the Long Xiang Army's formation, it would create an awkward situation where they collided with each other. Therefore, Huang Songpu's cavalry were like a flood meeting a pillar in the middle of a river. They intentionally gave up a large area in the north to allow their allies to turn around. When the time came, the two cavalry forces that naturally gathered together would be able to form a perfect formation with both wings thick and heavy. Together with the cavalry formation that was formed by the soldiers that came out of the camp, they would definitely be able to deal considerable damage to the Long Xiang Army that had been defeated time and time again.
However, Beiliang's Liuzhou Border Army was already showing signs of complete annihilation. After Kou Jianghuai's cavalry and Wanyan Yinjiang's twenty thousand cavalry clashed, the situation took a turn for the worse!
The twenty thousand Southern Dynasty's elite troops originally thought that it would be a simple battle where they would be able to obtain great military merits. Who would have thought that after the clash, they would be completely defeated!
Kou Jianghuai and a young general wearing a strange red armor were neck to neck, and their momentum was unstoppable!
The two cavalry were like this, and the ten thousand cavalry behind them were even more so!
If not for Zhong Liang, who was hiding beside Wanyan Yinjiang, saving him, Wanyan Yinjiang would have been pierced through the chest by the young man wearing the red armor!
If not for the fact that the young man who won the title of Enemy of Ten Thousand in the Liang Mang Battlefield did not have any desire to fight, even if Zhong Liang wanted to protect the second in command of the Long Guan Aristocrat Clan, it would not be easy.
However, Zhong Liang, who was in the middle of the battlefield, was also scared witless.
How could these ten thousand cavalry be Beiliang's last ranked cavalry?!
They were worthy of being the main force of the Long Xiang Army!
Wanyan Yinjiang's twenty thousand elite cavalry were like a piece of silk that was torn apart by a sharp weapon. After the clash, more than three thousand of them were lying on the ground.
This kind of heavy injury was simply unimaginable.
Pull one hair and the whole body will be affected.
Wanyan Yinjiang's elite cavalry was mysteriously unable to withstand a single blow, and it directly caused the hearts of the Beiliang's western infantry to waver. This was because as long as the Long Xiang Army from the north smoothly went south, it would form a situation where two cavalry armies would attack one infantry army from the north and south.
This was enough to be fatal to the large formation where only the last ranked men on the grassland would be reduced to infantry.
In an instant, the situation changed, and victory and defeat changed hands!
Although the forty thousand cavalry gathered at the Yi Gate of the Longguan Pass still gritted their teeth and tried to stop the Long Xiang Army from going south, when faced with the twenty-five thousand Beiliang cavalry, they naturally didn't have the strength to do so.
The iron spear of Li Mofan, who had killed no less than thirty enemy cavalry, had long broken apart. The forty or so halberd pouches on both sides of his saddle had even been used up. Of the forty or so corpses in Northern Mang's supply camp, all of them had a short halberd stuck in their heads!
Li Mofan, who was the vanguard of the cavalry formation, was the first to successfully kill his way through the enemy's formation.
This deputy general of the Long Xiang Army seemed to have twenty-five thousand Long Xiang Army cavalry behind him, but in reality, it was less than fifteen thousand cavalry. This was because there were ten thousand Kou Jianghuai's troops that were far weaker than the Dragon-Elephant Cavalry!
Those ten thousand outstanding vagrant youths, who had been conserving their strength from start to finish, were left with the corpses of the Beimang cavalry wherever their long spears passed.
Kou Jianghuai's sneaky substitution was precisely the key to this battle that gave the Beimang cavalry a feeling of absurdity from start to finish.
In reality, these ten thousand people had been following behind the left wing's two groups of dragon-elephant light cavalry from start to finish. From breaking through the enemy's formation to entering the camp, and then to now heading south, their losses were negligible.
In the early stages of the battle, the two wings of the Long Xiang Army broke through the enemy's formation too easily, so the Beimang didn't see through their identities.
As a result, on the current battlefield, the Beimang army was in an incomparably awkward and comical situation.
The southernmost Wanyan Yinjiang's cavalry was beaten to the point where not a single bit of their energy was left. From the main general to the ordinary cavalry, everyone was panicking and at a loss.
Then, there was the infantry formation that had yet to completely solidify. The top-notch infantry of the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties border army, more than twenty thousand infantry soldiers, had already been deployed to launch a surprise attack on Phoenix Town and Lin Yao Town. This infantry army that had hurriedly left the camp and formed the formation were mostly clad in light leather armor. After all, they were not the heavy armored infantry that specialized in facing the grassland cavalry in the history of the Central Plains. Moreover, the original intention of this infantry army was to attack Qingcang City in Liu Province. How could they possibly be used to resist the frontal assault of the Northern Liang cavalry? For this type of infantry and cavalry battle, the Beimang infantry, be it in terms of equipment or training, were all abnormally immature. The men of the Northern Mang Grassland had always been the weakness of the men of the Northern Mang Grassland. They were naturally unfamiliar with the heavy crossbows that they were not used to. Suddenly, they had to stand still and face the charge of the Northern Liang Cavalry. It was easy to imagine the extreme discomfort they felt.
Further north was the Yi High School cavalry that had brushed shoulders with the Long Xiang army. The northernmost was the Huang Song Pu cavalry that had given up their core.
The perfect defensive line that should have been united was now in tatters.
Beimang still had the advantage in numbers, but the morale of the Liang Mang side was like heaven and earth.
Li Mofan raised his head and looked at the Kou Jianghuai cavalry that was a Beimang infantry formation. That was the true main force of the Long Xiang army.
The corner of this general's mouth twitched as he raised his cold blade and lightly spun it.
The ten thousand dragon-elephant light cavalry behind him didn't even bother about the infantry formation. They circled around the formation and easily went down south.
When Li Mofan heard a voice, he suddenly turned his head in shock.
After the frontal collision, there were still eight thousand strong refugees behind him. One of them actually charged straight at the Beimang infantry formation, his spear pointing forward as he furiously hollered, "Liuzhou cavalry! May the dead die! Follow me to death! "
Li Mofan, whose face was cold, slowed down his horse, turning his head to look towards the north.
Was that fellow crazy?
The start and end of today's battle was due to Kou Jianghuai's careful planning. Originally, everything was within Kou Jianghuai's calculations. However, that Liuzhou general didn't allow the refugees to die on their own accord!
One must know that such bold actions would result in military merits after the battle. Based on Beiliang military law, a light punishment would be a demotion in rank, and a heavy punishment would be beheading in public!
In Li Mofan's field of vision, he saw that when that rider was about to collide with the Northern Mang infantry's barricade spears, he suddenly tightened his reins. That A-ranked warhorse from the Silken Pasture suddenly leapt high into the air!
It jumped over the first two rows of spears that were slanted forward, crashing into both the man and the horse!
The heavy fall of the horse's iron hooves trampled a Beimang infantry soldier to death on the spot.
The war horse that couldn't bear the heavy burden had its knees broken. That Liuzhou cavalry viciously thrust out his spear, piercing through the chests of three infantry soldiers in a row!
After landing, the Liuzhou cavalry held his spear with both hands and charged forward.
Behind him, the vanguard of the cavalry faced the Beimang cavalry formation that was shining with a cold light. The men and horses didn't retreat at all, charging straight ahead!
Those Beiliang war horses were stabbed to death by the sharp spears.
When the cavalry faced the infantry formation that was waiting for them, the vanguard cavalry would definitely die. This was the only way to break the infantry formation bit by bit.
Apart from using the lives of the cavalry and war horses, there was no other shortcut.
Eight thousand Liuzhou cavalry, charge!
In the end, not a single one of them followed the Long Xiang Army back to the south.
On the first row of Northern Mang's infantry's Barricade Horse Infantry Formation, many of Liu Province's troops were hung with corpses!
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