There are clouds in future generations, white blades of frost fly, and red blood stars flow.
This describes the scene when the Mo Dao soldiers came to the battle formation.
And in the first battle between the Tang army and the Goguryeo people, the cruel scene displayed in front of the formation of the Tang army's Yulin army, Mo Dao soldiers, could not be described as more than a stream of red blood.
The big man in heavy armor wielded a heavy Mo Dao. Wherever the long blade passed, people and horses were shattered...
The Goguryeo light cavalry, which had already suffered heavy casualties under the arrows, crashed into the Modao formation, like the tide hitting the rock. The rock remained motionless, but the tide smashed into debris all over the sky.
The screams of the Goguryeo cavalry, the muffled sound of the horses being chopped to the ground, and the painful wails were mixed together, and finally merged into one, playing the strongest note in this war.
As the Mo Dao rose and fell, the remaining limbs were thrown away, and blood flowed. Under the flying Mo Dao, almost nothing could maintain its original shape, and they were broken off one after another.
In just an instant, corpses of men and horses were piled up in front of the Tang army's right-wing formation. Soon a layer of red mist filled the place, and the bloody atmosphere spread, making it look like hell.
Mo Daobing caused a horrific tragedy. Not to mention the Goguryeo people, even the nearby Tang army was devastated when they saw it.
In less than a cup of tea, the front of the Mo Dao formation was completely empty. Except for the scattered corpses of beheaded men and horses scattered in front of the formation, no enemy could stand up.
Goguryeo's nearly two thousand cavalry were all killed in front of the battle, but the Mo Dao soldiers lined up in three rows suffered very few casualties.
Gongsun An was covered in blood at this time, and his body was covered with sticky blood stains and some messy things. He looked like an evil ghost who had just crawled out of hell.
Gongsun An gasped for breath, slammed Mo Dao to the ground, wiped it on his face, stared at the bloodshot eyes, and looked at the enemy infantry rushing over not far away with murderous intent.
Physical exhaustion could not extinguish the murderous intent that was already boiling like fire in his chest. He raised the Mo Dao high, dripping with blood, and howled loudly, and the subordinates around him responded.
The cry, like the howl of a wolf, spread throughout the battlefield, full of wildness and murderous intent, frightening the enemy but boosting the morale of his colleagues.
This was the sound of the Tang army showing off their martial arts. Following Li Po's footsteps in the southern and northern campaigns, it had resounded throughout the Yunzhong Grasslands, echoing in Mayi, Bingzhou, Hedong, and outside Tongguan, or even on the banks of the Weishui River, Nanyang and other places.
Now that the Tang army had arrived in the hinterland of Goguryeo, they also displayed this horrific scene in front of the Goguryeo people, sacrificing the lives of thousands of Goguryeo cavalry.
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High up behind the Tang army, Zhao Shixun was stunned for a long time. He had seen no matter how cruel the scene on the battlefield, and he had already developed a heart of steel. The blood and casualties did not touch him at all.
But he didn't expect that the Mo Dao soldiers formed by the Yu Lin Army would be so powerful.
Before, he only had a certain degree of confidence in Mo Daobing. You must know that today's Yulin guards are different from the royal guards in normal times.
Many of them were military elites who had experienced brutal fighting in the wars at the end of the Sui Dynasty. With them in front of the right wing, even if they could not win quickly, they could fully guarantee that the right wing could withstand the enemy's offensive.
But the combat effectiveness displayed by the Mo Dao soldiers really shocked him. The high-speed charge of one or two thousand cavalry could not shake their formation at all. It can be said that it subverted many of his perceptions of the infantry.
However, a victory was a victory. Zhao Shixun, who had come to his senses, immediately ordered someone to pass on the order, "Send the order to General Wang and General Gongsun. If we fight again later, we can lead people forward to attack the enemy's left wing and defeat them."
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The right wing of the army achieved a slight victory, and the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted.
The Tang army faced hundreds of Goguryeo heavy cavalry.
There is no need to go into details about what heavy cavalry means. If I have to say something, it is that the heavy cavalry of Goguryeo is very different from the heavy cavalry of the Central Plains.
The Central Plains has always been short of "good horses", and the good horses here are not ordinary war horses.
Since envoys traveled to and from the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has had the concept and understanding of the Western Region horses. For example, the Dawan horse with its broad frame and fast galloping is one of the best.
In fact, it is a kind of horse breed from the Western Regions, a way of expressing it that is good for raids, and is distinguished from the war horses of the Central Plains and grasslands.
Because of the continuous introduction of horse breeds from the Western Regions and breeding with the Central Plains war horses, some results were finally achieved in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which also led to the rise of the Central Plains heavy cavalry.
Similarly, when the war broke out at the end of the Sui Dynasty, in addition to the various shortcomings of the heavy cavalry that were magnified in the war, there were also reasons such as lack of financial resources.
In addition, various princes and regimes in the north lost their land to raise horses. This was one of the important reasons why heavy cavalry gradually withdrew from the war stage.
In the matter of heavy cavalry, the Central Plains were in such a dilemma, let alone Gouli.
What they lack is not only good horses for heavy cavalry, but also a gap in armor casting technology.
Although Goguryeo's heavy cavalry is doing something very slick now, in fact, like many other things, they have just learned a superficial lesson. The so-called monkeys and crowns are nothing more than that.
Their war horses are obviously much shorter than the descendants of horses from the Western Regions. With heavy armor on their bodies, they cannot reach high speeds, and there is no need to count on them in numbers.
Furthermore, in order to reduce weight, Goguryeo's heavy cavalry wore armor whose defensive power was obviously not as good as that of the former Sui heavy cavalry.
Well, there is actually no need to evaluate the various advantages and disadvantages. The test standards are clearly there. If you fight with someone, all the monsters and ghosts will appear.
What's more, the tactical arrangements of the Goguryeo generals made the charging heavy cavalry more like a death squad of the army. There were only a few hundred cavalry, arranged in two teams, and they rushed towards the strict formation of the Tang army alone, even the heavy horse hooves.
The sound seems to have a tragic flavor.
This is a very ridiculous scene. The troops regarded as treasures by the Goguryeo people seemed to be abandoned by the Goguryeo people when the war began.
Seeing this, how could Tang Jun, who had been prepared for it, be polite?
Rows of crossbowmen emerged from the military formation, holding up their powerful crossbows. Judging from the speed of the Goguryeo heavy cavalry, they had a lot of time to save their shots.
Behind them, some big men holding spears and hatchets were waiting silently.
The heavy cavalry entered the shooting range of ordinary bows and arrows, but the archers in the formation did not fire an arrow. This is because ordinary bows and arrows are not lethal to heavy cavalry, especially projectiles, which are even less powerful. There is no need to waste arrows. They are waiting for the follow-up infantry of Goguryeo.
s arrival.
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The heavy cavalry charging into the formation is still very intimidating. The sound of horse hooves is heavy and clear, reverberating in people's ears like war drums. The armor is even more clanking, looking ferocious and terrifying.
When encountering them in a field battle, a slightly less determined army may panic before fighting.
But such a thing will never happen to today's Tang army.
"Five hundred steps, five hundred steps..." the people on Wangshan shouted loudly as a reminder.
Because the Tang army came from afar, they did not bring many crossbows to the peninsula. A few of them were foot crossbows, and more were arm crossbows.
Most of these things were in Zhao Shixun's army, because they were the vanguard of the army, and some of them were taken away by Li Nian's army.
The range of the foot crossbow is between seven and eight hundred steps, and the arm crossbow is shorter, also around six hundred steps. However, if they are against heavy cavalry, their effective killing range is between one hundred and two hundred steps.
Letting the heavy cavalry enter a hundred paces is a relatively dangerous distance for crossbow archers, while within fifty paces the world of spear throwers dominates.
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"Three hundred steps, three hundred steps."
"Two hundred steps, two hundred steps..."
The figures of the Goguryeo heavy cavalry were clearly visible, and the officers raised their arms one after another. When they got closer, their arms suddenly fell down.
"Shoot, shoot..."
The crossbow archer holding the crossbow aimed at the identified target and immediately pulled the trigger.
Amidst the unique buzzing sound of the crossbows, a row of crossbow arrows rushed forward with a slight arc.
Without even looking at the outcome of the battle, the archer who fired the bow immediately stepped back and gave up his position to his companions behind him.
At a distance of more than a hundred steps to a hundred steps, the Tang army's crossbow archers fired four rounds in a row.
Needless to say, the effectiveness of the armor-piercing arrows specially made by the Tang Army was demonstrated. After four rounds of continuous shooting, blood blossomed on the bodies of the Goguryeo heavy cavalry.
The strong bow string brought enough kinetic energy to the armor-piercing arrow, which easily broke through the heavy armor of the Goguryeo people, penetrated into the flesh, and drank the hot blood, but it was not enough to penetrate the enemy's back.
The heavy horse that was shot looked like a hedgehog full of arrows. The men and horses fell to the ground one after another. They hit the ground heavily, making a roaring sound, and the ground shook a little.
This was completely different from what happened on the right flank of the Tang army, but the result was the same. Hundreds of heavy cavalry were mounted, but only a few could cross the death chasm of dozens of troops.
Those who were lucky enough to survive could not turn around and escape. They could only roar in despair and continue to rush forward, hoping to get a chance to survive.
Fifty steps later, they were about to engage in battle, but the rows of big men didn't give them a chance to collide. The short axes and short spears were thrown hard by the big men.
There were only dozens of heavy armored cavalry left, and they had no power to fight back in the face of such throwing weapons. Even the short spears and short axes that were thrown were not enough to break through their heavy armor, but the heavy weight hit them
For the charging cavalry, the results can be imagined.
While people were on their backs, only a dozen cavalry finally crashed into the Tang army's formation with a roar, like water droplets falling into the river, and were immediately submerged by the Tang army.
At this point, the cavalry, which the Goguryeo people had placed high hopes on, had been completely wiped out in front of the Tang army, but they failed to cause any damage to the Tang army.
The terrifying fighting power of the Tang army was so vividly displayed in front of the Goguryeo people that the Goguryeo people could hardly believe their eyes and were even more frightened...