The biggest advantage of the horse's spear is shock absorption, especially when the horse's spear penetrates the enemy's body, the hemp rope wrapped around the horse's pole can prevent the sticky blood from flowing to the handshake position.
Therefore, when Yun Chu's Ma Shan pierced the chest of an enemy, the powerful force knocked the enemy off his horse and hit an enemy behind him. The body that had lost its strength was torn apart by Ma Shan's long blade.
On the ground, the horse pole that was originally stretched into a bow will quickly straighten, and experienced horse pole users will use the straightening force of the horse pole to continue killing the enemy.
The contact between the cavalry was only a matter of a moment. The fastest people chasing Yang Jing were only a few hundred people. After the confrontation with the bad cavalry, a large number of them fell. It was not that their equestrian or martial arts skills were not good, but that
, their weapons are really terrible.
At the beginning of Yunchu, after Zhong Kui defeated the enemy formation, he turned around and started running slowly again, attacking the Mohe cavalry who had not fallen off their horses. The cavalry who had not yet picked up their horse speed were almost vulnerable to the cavalry who had already picked up their horse speed.
In Yunchu's view, this is the difference between attacking a moving target and attacking a stationary target.
Therefore, when his horse spear pierced a Mohe man again, the war was basically over.
Standing at the top of the city, Wen Wen saw the dust in the distance, so she struck the gong and called Yun Chu outside the city to return to the city as soon as possible.
The bad guys brought their comrades who had just been killed or injured in the battle, as well as the horses left by the Mohe people back to the city, and a large group of Mohe cavalry arrived.
The trumpet sounded from the top of the city, the flag of the Tang Dynasty was erected, and the flag of General Yunchu Dingyuan was also fluttering in the wind.
The Mohe people's team stopped within a stone's throw. Although their military formation was in a mess, Yun Chu could still see that the Mohe people had initially acquired the ability to conduct group operations. After all, their horns were very important to those Mohe people.
There are still some restrictions.
There were three to four hundred Mohe corpses lying under the city. The Mohe people in the distance could clearly see this.
Originally, the Mohe people were somewhat silent when they saw the Tang Dynasty flag at the top of the city, but this silence did not last long.
The main thing is that dozens of Mohe people who were not dead were stripped naked, their feet were tied with ropes, and they were thrown upside down from the top of the city, and they let out bursts of heart-rending screams on the city wall.
As a result, the originally silent Mohe people began to become a little commotion.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Donghai, the captain of Zhechong, asked his subordinates to pour oil on the bodies of these Mohe people, and then lit the ropes. The flames slowly spread to the Mohe prisoners on the city wall.
"ah--"
It seemed that a group of Mohe people could no longer endure the atrocities of the Tang people. They shot arrows and quickly approached the city, hoping to save the tribesmen on the city wall as quickly as possible.
Zhang Donghai, the captain of Zhechong, looked coldly at the Mohe people who were charging over, counting silently in his mind. Behind him, 1,200 soldiers from the government had been waiting with their bows and arrows ready for a long time.
When Zhang Donghai gave the order, a dense rain of arrows flew from the top of the city. After flying to the highest point, they fell with a "whoosh" sound.
One thousand and two hundred feathered arrows just covered the group of Mohe cavalry. Under Yun Chu's gaze, the Mohe cavalry raised their leather shields and continued to charge against the rain of arrows that was about to fall.
The moment the arrow rain fell, the originally neat cavalry team suddenly became chaotic. Countless people fell from their horses, and with each person falling, the arrow rain had an opening, causing more arrows to hit.
The rain falls on the cavalry or war horses.
When Zhang Donghai saw this scene, a smile appeared on his face, and he waved again. The soldiers who had replaced their crossbows all rushed to the top of the city. After seizing the crossbows, they quickly retreated and changed to the second row, and then the third row.
Taking turns in turn, the crossbows fired without stopping.
The cavalry of the Mohe people became increasingly sparse, and when they reached the city, there were only a few of them. Even so, these cavalrymen still swung their sabers, cut off the burning ropes, and allowed the oil-covered tribesmen to escape from the city.
The head fell down.
Immediately, these cavalry who gave up their defense were shot like hedgehogs by dense crossbow arrows.
After all, there were only a few people who could be saved. Zhang Donghai waved the flag in his hand, and dozens of archers came forward, lit rockets on torches, and in front of the two armies, they fired the few who had just left the city.
The fallen Mohe people were ignited with rockets. At this time, the Mohe people on the city wall were finally ignited by the flames that snaked down. They screamed so loudly that even the crows waiting to eat carrion had to flap their wings and fly away into the distance.
It was obvious that the Mohe people were completely angered by the cruel methods of the Tang people. Heavy drums sounded in their ranks, and the Mohe people's infantry appeared. Under the cover of wooden shields, they slowly pushed towards the city wall.
Wen Wen asked Yun Chu strangely: "Why don't they run over quickly?"
Yun Chu said: "They will only start running when they enter the range of the arrows. If they run too early, they will mess up the team and consume their energy. After a while, they will have to climb the city to fight with us."
She smiled softly and said, "When it rains, if you run faster, can you avoid being watered by the rain?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "No."
"Why are you so sure? Did you say it casually?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "What you asked is actually an arithmetic question."
Wen Wen asked puzzledly: "Is your arithmetic better than mine?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "You have forgotten that when I was in the Imperial College, the doctor who taught us arithmetic never paid attention to me."
"Isn't it because you refuse to change despite repeated admonitions?"
"No, it's because his arithmetic skills are not as good as mine."
Just when Yun Chu was chatting and laughing with Wen Wen, Captain Zhe Chong Wang Defa came over and saluted with his fists clasped.
Yun Chu took off a bronze medal from his waist and handed it to Wang Defa. Wang Defa, who had received the medal, showed it to a group of people standing under the city wall. Immediately, twelve ballistas were pushed into the shooting holes under the city wall by the group of soldiers.
After taking off the cloth on the crossbow, Yun Chu saw these strong guys starting to turn the winch. As the winch was tightened, eight huge crossbows placed side by side on the bow bed slowly began to rotate.
Open.
Immediately, crossbows as thick as spears were placed on the sliding bed, three at a time. When the winch stopped sounding, a fire-looking soldier looked up at Wang Defa who was standing on the city wall.
Zhechong captain Wang Defa suddenly waved the red flag in his hand. Yunchu, who was sitting at the top of the city, heard a rapid buzzing sound, followed by a tearing sound, and thirty-six crossbow arrows were fired from chest high.
Kong Ping covered the Mohe people who had already started running.
What Yunchu's army is equipped with is not a large instrument like the Eight Bull Crossbow. A Eight Bull Crossbow requires ten people to operate. What Yunchu is equipped with is a lightweight sliding bed crossbow that only five people can operate. Even if it is such a thing
, it is not the standard equipment of all Zhechong mansions in the Tang Dynasty, only some very wealthy Zhechong mansions in Guanzhong have it.
The two Zhechong Mansion under Wannian County were equipped with twelve weapons at once, which was already the highest among the Zhechong Mansion in the Tang Dynasty.
Legend has it that the Baniu crossbow has a frightening range of three miles, and a single shot is said to have the power of piercing gold through stone. However, the sliding bed crossbow equipped by Yun Chubu is not bad at all. A crossbow can only penetrate more than three people.
Stop killing.
"Thirty-six dollars is missing."
After seeing the sliding crossbow fire a round of volleys, Yun Chu sighed and said to Wen Wen.
Wen Wen looked at the enemy troops cleared by the crossbows and said, "It seems to be worth it."
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Unless we can receive enough benefits from the Mohe people, we will definitely lose money."
Fortunately, this round of crossbow volleys effectively disrupted the Mohe people's formation and the rhythm of their attack, allowing the crossbowmen and archers to fire a few more rounds of covering arrow rain, basically achieving the goal.
The purpose of firing a volley of crossbows.
The horns of the Mohe people sounded again, and those Mohe people who were about to charge to the city wall retreated one after another, but the crossbow archers at the top of the city left many people behind. When they ran away, they forgot that there were crossbow arrows behind them.
Zhong Kui, who had been observing the battle, suddenly said to Yun Chu: "After the Mohe people's second attack failed, I want to take five hundred cavalry to attack their military formation."
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Five hundred people can't shake their army formation of tens of thousands. We should attack with the whole army."
Wen Wen said: "Okay, we can't let them shrink back, otherwise it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity again."
Zhang Donghai said: "As long as they can shake their military formation, it will be easy. At this time, we need fierce generals to kill the generals and capture the flag."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Leave Wang Defa and five hundred men behind, and prepare the rest to attack."
Seeing everyone starting to get busy, Yun Chu sighed secretly. If Li Ji had given him the gunpowder and thunderbolt earlier, he wouldn't have needed to use such things to shake the enemy's military formation.
Just when everyone was ready for the assault and the cavalry was already hiding behind the city gate, waiting for the Mohe people to launch a full-army attack if their attack failed again, the Mohe people stopped attacking.
They began to retreat, and after retreating for a mile, they began to set up camp.
Yunchu also saw that the sun was setting towards the west, so he ordered the rest to be taken in rotation.
The Mohe people seemed to be very smart. After losing more than two thousand people, they finally calmed down and retreated farther away. However, they refused to leave, which meant that they were preparing to build siege equipment.
As long as the Mohe people did not leave, Yun Chu would not be disappointed. He sent civilian men out to clean up the battlefield and kill the surviving Mohe people. He also took back the crossbow arrows, feather arrows and crossbow guns fired today.
The weather was too hot, and Yunchu was worried about the outbreak of the plague, so he asked the peasants to pile up the corpses and burn them on fire.
As night fell, the five small hills piled up by the bodies of the Mohe people began to burn, and there was a lot of crying in the Mohe camp.
It seems like they won't be able to sleep tonight.
After Yunchu inspected the city defenses and took off his armor to rest, the three brothers Wang Zhao and Yang Jing came.
As soon as he entered the door, Yang Jing knelt down and kowtowed.
Yun Chu looked at Wang Zhao in confusion, and Wang Zhao quickly said: "The county magistrate personally went out to fight in the city today to rescue Yang Jing. Yang Jing is very grateful."
Yun Chu helped Yang Jing up and said, "Those who serve us in the Tang Dynasty will never be let down by the Tang Dynasty. Trivial matters are not worth mentioning."
Yang Jing knelt down again and said: "I used to hear that the county magistrate never disappoints others, but now I know that the county magistrate is benevolent and righteous. Please allow Yang Jing to do your best for the county magistrate."
Yunchu said with a smile: "I heard that the Yang family of Goguryeo also had a distinguished eunuch family. Is your surname Yang the same as this?"
Yang Jing kowtowed again and said, "I am the third son of Yang Wanchun, the former Anshi guard."
Yun Chu said in surprise: "Back then, when I went on an eastward expedition against Emperor Taizong, I could not attack Anshi City for a long time. The weather turned cold, so I led my troops back to the country for a truce. I heard that your father once praised Taizong's wisdom on the city wall and received a reward.
There are hundreds of pieces of brocade, can this matter?"