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

Chapter 221: The sudden attack by the thief

"You can't fight like this anymore."

Xin Qiji retreated back into the gun formation, frowning and looking around.

It was right for the right wing cavalry not to move, because the Jin army still had a thousand infantry and cavalry who had not moved, so some reserves had to be kept.

Although the gun formation in front of him was in a tough fight, he was still able to hold on because of his solid formation.

Li Tieqiang's troops behind him had already sent out 200 armored soldiers armed with spears to provide support, but most of them still did not participate in the battle. As the army's total reserve, they were waiting for the decisive battle.

The only problem was the left wing, because the connection between Geng Xing's cavalry and infantry was not very good, and the opposing general seemed to be a wise man. He saw this flaw and personally led two hundred people to attack there. Now, seeing Geng Xing retreating again and again, the gap between the infantry and cavalry was getting bigger and bigger.

If Geng Xing's 500 armored cavalry were driven away, the left wing of the Tianping Army would be completely exposed to the Wuxing Army, and the 3,000 Tianping Army might be defeated by the 800 Wuxing Army.

That would be a huge joke.

"Xin Wenyuan! Give me your personal guards!" Xin Qiji observed the situation on the battlefield again, and then shouted loudly to his family brothers.

Xin Wenyuan was the unlucky guy who had gone to the State of Song with Li Tieqiang before, but was conscripted by the Jin army by accident. Later, when Liu Huai made a big fuss in the Wuxing Army, he rescued him.

Xin Wenyuan had just recovered from a minor injury and wasn't mentally prepared for this moment. He encountered such a large scene, and while he didn't show it, he was already panicking. Hearing his brother's words, he nodded randomly, "Iron Pillar! Take all the cavalry and follow Fifth Brother!"

Xin Tiezhu was not a member of the Xin clan, but a born son of the Xin family. He got this name because he was tall and strong, like an iron pillar supporting the sky.

Upon hearing this, Xin Tiezhu nodded, took the Dunxiang off his helmet, and then led the fifty armored cavalrymen to come behind Xin Qiji, leading the horse.

Xin Qiji also dismounted and hid everyone behind the infantry formation: "Wenyuan! No matter what, support me for two quarters of an hour!"

After saying this, Xin Qiji led a hundred armored cavalrymen and slowly moved towards the left wing with his flags lowered.

Over there, there was a large banner of Meng'an, charging left and right, unstoppable.

Pushandong led one cavalryman and two Moukes on foot, and after defeating Geng Xing's 200 armored cavalrymen from the flank, he took advantage of the situation and chased the 200 defeated soldiers towards the remaining 300 armored cavalrymen of the Tianping Army on the left wing.

Moreover, Pu Sandong's pursuit distance was neither too far nor too close. He neither engaged Geng Xing in battle nor allowed Geng Xing to gather his defeated soldiers, which resulted in Geng Xing being unable to gather strength for a counterattack. As they were on the way to retreat, the situation was already quite chaotic. When they reached the vicinity of the left wing, the armored cavalry of the two armies could no longer find their generals, and the generals could no longer find their soldiers, and were completely out of control.

Seeing this, Xiao Pennu wanted to help Geng Xing retreat first, but as the second-in-command of the Khitans, he still had some political sensitivity.

The current situation is that we must not retreat and reorganize the army first, because that would expose the left wing of the army.

Secondly, the Tianping Army had just been reorganized, and the Armored Cavalry Battalion was composed of Han people and Khitan people. But Yelu Xingge was the general of the Armored Cavalry Battalion, and Geng Xing was the deputy general of the Armored Cavalry Battalion. If he was injured, it might be considered that they did not help and excluded dissidents!
In desperation, Xiao Pennu could only leave behind a hundred armored cavalrymen and personally lead the remaining two armies of armored cavalrymen to bypass Geng Xing's defeated army, and attack Pushandong from both sides like a big pair of pliers.

Facing the charge of the armored cavalry, Pushandong simply sneered and retreated, ordering his own elite infantry of Mouke to form a battle array. After forcing Xiao Pennu to stop with a spear, he personally led the armored cavalry to attack again, hitting the lower back of Xiao Pennu's troops hard.

Seeing that the Tianping Army's armored cavalry had all come out, the last two armored cavalrymen of the Seventh Meng'an gave up cooperating with the infantry and gave up pressuring the Tianping Army head-on. Instead, they quickly gathered themselves, bypassed the front battlefield, and attacked towards the left wing of the Tianping Army.

At this critical moment, the Green Rhino flag that had just displayed its might was raised again and rushed forward at a rapid speed.

When the 200 armored cavalrymen of the Jin army on the left wing had just formed up and were not yet stable, Xin Qiji led a hundred elite soldiers to suddenly charge out and crash into them.

As the saying goes, the key to military strategy is to surprise. Xin Qiji's move was precisely to achieve victory by surprise. The Jin army's scouts had long since figured out the number of the Tianping army's armored cavalry. Five hundred cavalry on each side was exactly the number of a thousand-man squadron, and the Jin army was quite familiar with this tactic.

With the right wing of the Tianping Army remaining indifferent, the Jin Army should have only needed to guard against the remaining 100 armored cavalry on the left wing. Who would have thought that there was such an elite cavalry hidden behind the Tianping Army's infantry formation?

They are indeed elite. They are the personal guards of two generals of the Xin family. These personal guards are of the nature of some officer corps and are the seeds of future generals. It is a waste of talents to use them in this way at this time.

However, the power of this blow is unquestionable.

Xin Qiji rushed forward like a tiger among a flock of sheep. The enemy soldiers fell off their horses one after another along the way. The two large black magpie flags representing the marching marshals were almost cut off and torn into pieces in an instant. One of the marching marshals was even knocked off his horse and rolled under the horse's hooves, and his life or death was unknown.

After splitting the two hundred Jin soldiers in half, Xin Qiji did not pay much attention to them, but continued to lead his troops forward, breaking into the Jin army's armored cavalry from the side and rear, heading straight for the Meng'an flag.

Pushandong was fighting with Xiao Pennu and was about to kill the Khitan man when he heard chaotic shouting behind him. Turning around, he saw a large green rhinoceros flag rushing towards him. He did not want to fight anymore and led his armored cavalry back. After mixing with the infantry, he fought and retreated.

Xin Qiji was not upset when he missed the attack. He immediately joined forces with Xiao Pennu and pressed forward.

The current situation seems to be that the Wuxing Army and the Tianping Army have each gained some advantages. The reason why Pushandong retreated was not because he was in danger, but to go back to reorganize the troops and avoid getting involved in a melee.

But the military law of "pulling a team and beheading" once again showed its shortcomings.

Specifically, because their own marching army Meng'an was surrounded by hundreds of armored cavalry, especially when the Qingxi flag of the Tianping army commander had already rushed in front of Meng'an's flag, all the marching army Moukes were furious and wanted to support Pushandong.

Except for the infantrymen who were still attacking the front of the Tianping Army, the rest of the marching troops turned around almost at the same time and led their men to the left wing battlefield.

Among them, the two armored cavalrymen who had just been split in half by Xin Qiji performed particularly well. When their flags were cut and torn into pieces, and one of them was seriously injured and dying, the remaining one took off his robe, hung it on the gun barrel as a flag, and led the army to charge.

It should be said that the marching Mouke's behavior was very heroic and inspired his comrades around him, but it did not delay Pu Sandong from becoming extremely angry and he almost wanted to kill him with his own hands.

The reason is self-explanatory.

Because this marching commander led a disorganized group of armored cavalry and charged in a disorderly manner, the originally clear and orderly situation was instantly turned into chaos.

War is a technical job. You can't win every battle just by being brave and reckless. Now Wu Xingjun's performance is like a novice on the battlefield. He rushes around recklessly and seems unstoppable, but he can't last long.

Soon, Pushandong's worries became a reality.

While the left wing was in chaos, on the front battlefield, the Jin army's infantry, which was originally smaller in number, was completely unable to stop the advance of the Tianping army after being assisted by the detached armored cavalry.

Many Jin army infantrymen were unable to retreat in time and were surrounded and killed by the sword-wielding soldiers who followed closely behind the spearmen.

Under Xin Qiji's simple and unpretentious Black Tiger Heart-piercing attack, the seventh fierce safety line was thwarted.

At this moment, the sound of trumpets became louder and louder. Pushandong, who was in the melee, looked back and saw only the big flag representing the Second Meng'an of the Wuxing Army moving.

Amidst the horrifying gaze, this cavalry force of a thousand men did not allow the light cavalry to harass them, did not dismount the infantry and form a battle formation, nor did they allow the armored cavalry to find a flaw and then charge into the battle formation. Instead, with the armored cavalry leading the charge, the light cavalry on either flank, and the mounted infantry in the rear, they slowly accelerated and fiercely charged towards Yelu Xingge's right wing.

(End of this chapter)