Short spear attack formation.
In addition to Guan Xing on the right, Zhao Tong on the left was naturally nervous, because they were already within the shooting range of the Sasanian army.
"Defense!"
Zhao Tong also shouted loudly.
The knights did not have shields. Their weapons were sabers and knight crossbows. At this moment, when they saw short spears flying towards them, the Han cavalry quickly drew their sabers.
Bang bang bang.
Bang bang bang!
The short gun fell quickly,
The knights kept waving their sabers to split these short spears, but the effect of this short spear attack was really very effective.
Looking at Liu Chan from a distance, his hair stood on end.
Because he could see with the naked eye that Han knights were constantly being hit by daggers and falling off their horses, and there were also knights.
They were not hit by muskets falling from the sky, but by muskets blocked by their companions.
"Disperse quickly!" Zhao Tong shouted.
The first round of attacks by the Sasanians caused great damage to the Han army. Two to three thousand people on the left and right wings were shot off their horses.
Zhao Tong on the left led his troops to disperse quickly to reduce his own casualties.
Shapur was overjoyed to win in the first round.
"Kill!"
As soon as Shapur finished speaking, the 40,000 knights threw their short spears again. Each of them carried five short spears. This was the key to Shapur becoming the God of War. The other Sassanid soldiers all liked to use long spears, but Shapur found another way. He
Let each soldier carry five more short guns at the same time.
Five short spears will relatively slow down his marching speed, but once on the battlefield, they will have five more rounds of long-range attacks. Although these short spears are not as lethal as long spears, they are also more effective than ordinary feather arrows.
Better.
If you are facing a frontal attack from the enemy,
Waiting for their attack, the opponent will be killed and injured a lot,
It's just that what they faced today was the faster-moving Han cavalry. The Han cavalry did not have strong protection and wore thin armor.
Facing the short guns of the Sasanians, there was almost no resistance, and shooting was expected.
Although their protection is lower, their movement speed is faster. They can't stop the Sasanians' short guns, but they can run.
After encountering the first round of attacks, Guan Xing and Zhao Tong quickly dispersed to both sides. When the second round of short spears attacked the formation, although it also caused some damage to the Han cavalry, it was not as big as the first round.<
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At the same time, Guan Xing and Zhao Tong hurriedly led their troops to rush towards the two wings of the Sasanian army.
Originally, in order to lure the Sassanid army, when Guan Xing and Zhao Tong attacked, they deliberately made a posture of attacking from both sides to the middle, as if they wanted to disperse the Sassanid army.
However, Shapur was very disdainful.
The Sasanian cavalry were all battle-hardened warriors. Facing these Eastern cavalry with weak defenses and strictly speaking defenseless, he really didn't notice.
Even if the opponent has 100,000 troops today, the total number of troops is more than double theirs.
But——
How to defeat 40,000 Sasanian heavy cavalry and 100,000 Han Chinese light cavalry?
Hahaha... Victory with less is my favorite thing. After Shapur attacked in two consecutive rounds and killed many Han cavalry, he was overjoyed.
And now that the Han cavalry was quickly dispersing to both sides, he was even more excited.
Are these Orientals so inexperienced?
It’s only been two rounds of attacks, are you going to be defeated?
"Kill!"
Shapur shouted again, and the 40,000 Sasanian knights let out harsh roars, and then quickly threw the short spear forward again.
Only this time, they attacked the Han army in front, which was the Han army's central camp. Although they had seen the opponent setting up a shield formation, they had reason to believe that even if the Han army had shield defense, facing these short guns would
, they are also difficult to resist.
Bang bang bang!
When the short spears fell down, the shield soldiers in the front army were also severely damaged, because these short spears were very powerful and heavy, and facing these wooden shields, the short spears were also very destructive.
"Oh, I want the three-bow bed crossbow... Why didn't I carry the three-bow bed crossbow this time?" Liu Chan's face was full of sadness. Because of the battle ahead, the Han army suffered heavy losses. If the Han army had carried the three-bow bed crossbow,
Crossbow, how can these Sasanians be so arrogant?
Just——
What's the use of regret?
This Western Expedition was a long journey, covering tens of thousands of miles, and the three-bow bed crossbow was a heavy weapon. Not to mention carrying such a large bed crossbow machine, with the bed crossbow, you needed to carry a large number of special feather arrows.
No, no, no——
No need.
During the expedition, Zhuge Liang originally prepared hundreds of three-bow crossbows and millions of special feather arrows for Liu Chan, but Liu Chan refused.
One hundred crossbows and one million feather arrows, transportation is a very troublesome thing.
Not to mention transporting these things to Sassanid, it is not easy to transport them to Dawan easily, because the Han army had to pass through a vast and uninhabited desert when entering Dawan from Chang'an.
There is another important reason why he gave up carrying the extremely lethal three-bow crossbow, because Liu Chan is a time traveler. In his previous life, he knew one thing, that is, hundreds of years later, there was a brave warrior in the East who once led
The Knights of the East marched all the way to the west, frightening the countries in the west.
This man is Genghis Khan, the genius of the generation.
Genghis Khan Temujin once led the Mongolian cavalry all the way to Europe. They relied on the sabers and Mongolian bows in their hands to conquer Eurasia.
It is now nearly a thousand years earlier than the era of Genghis Khan.
Because there is this precedent in history, Liu Chan naturally believes that since what Temujin can do, can we Han people not be able to do it?
Light cavalry, sabers, knight crossbows, Liu Chan's Han army's equipment is actually similar to Temujin's Mongolian cavalry. Their advantage is that their mobility is the same - fast.
The Sasanian army fired three consecutive rounds of muskets, which indeed caused heavy damage to the Han army, but it did not completely defeat the Han army. They are still unable to completely defeat the Han army. After all, the Han army has twice their number.
Much.
"Shoot!"
Guan Xing was the first to roar. After they encountered the first round of short spear attacks, they took advantage of the situation and pretended to retreat. However, the direction of retreat was to the right rear of Sassanid. Strictly speaking, they were retreating forward.
Now, the Han cavalry on the right wing and the front army have moved to a position parallel to the center of the Sasanian army. In order to achieve the purpose of shooting, the Guanxing Division continues to make roundabout approaches to the Sasanian army.
Forty steps——
The range of the Han army's knight crossbows can reach fifty or sixty steps, and forty steps is the best range. The soldiers shouted with excitement and immediately put on their knight crossbows.
Whoosh!
The close range cavalry shooting shocked the Sasanian cavalry. They had never competed with the Han army before. This was the first time.
Although they have seen bows and crossbows, because they also use them, they are still unable to shoot freely while galloping their horses.
The Han troops on both sides suddenly shot into the sky, and in an instant, arrows were flying all over the sky.
The Sassanid people all wore heavy iron armor and naturally had certain defensive abilities. However, in the face of this overwhelming rain of arrows, many Sassanid knights were hit by arrows and fell from their horses.
The Sasanians each carried five short spears, while the Han knights each carried fifty feather arrows on their horses. These feather arrows were shorter than those of ordinary crossbows, but the arrows
They are all made of fine iron and are intended to penetrate armor.
Although the Sasanian armor was thick, their smelting technology in Western Asia at this time was not as advanced as that of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, when the Han knights fired rapidly at a distance of forty paces, many arrows penetrated the iron armor and killed the Sassanid people.
Shoot.
"Beautiful!"
Liu Chan finally saw that the Sassanids' formation was starting to get messy. This was a scene he was familiar with. Isn't this the same tactical strategy used by Temujin's Mongolian soldiers in history to deal with European heavy armor?
The effect is perfect.
"Send the order!"
Liu Chan pointed to the battlefield ahead and ordered: "Order the army to attack in this roundabout way without close combat. The Sasanians are slow and our knights are faster. It is difficult for them to deal with them."
"No!"
The captain immediately responded to the order, and soon the war drums started beating a few times.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
This is a battlefield. Once the war starts, it is difficult to send instructions to the battlefield by oral transmission, but war drums can do it.
After a few sounds of war drums, in addition to the infantry, the remaining cavalry of the Han army rushed out. Like Guan Xing and Zhao Tong, they kept wandering around the periphery of the Sasanians, and then there was a wave of fire.
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The one rushing out from the left is Tian Mu, and the one from the right is Chen Xin.
Facing this kind of attack by the Han army, the Sasanians were naturally unable to adapt, because their horses were heavily armored and it was impossible to pursue the Han army. However, the Han army's cavalry came and went like the wind.
Seeing soldiers being shot and killed by the Han army one after another, at this moment the Sasanian king, Shapur, the god of war in the eyes of the Sasanians, finally became angry!
He——is angry.
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This chapter has been completed!