On Li Da's side, the army is divided into two groups. One group is cavalry, with 5,000 elite soldiers as the core. There are about 10,000 incompletely armored miscellaneous cavalry around them. The remaining nearly 20,000 people are infantry, and the second group is heading towards the industrial city.
As we moved forward, no one dared to take action in the surrounding villages and towns. The villagers in each village organized everyone to flee to the mountains, and dare not return until the army had completely passed through.
Fortunately, this army has no interest in villages and towns, otherwise it would have destroyed many villages and fields.
After walking one hundred and fifty miles forward, a rather large industrial city was vaguely visible in the distance.
Li Da was surprised when he saw such a scale. No wonder Li Tai was so afraid of this place. According to him, if the most advanced tools and weapons produced here were the most advanced tools and weapons that no one had ever seen before, it would be difficult for the Li family to make a comeback over time.
.
He secretly made up his mind: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Li Da will definitely fulfill your instructions and completely destroy the industrial city."
Then, he looked coldly into the distance and shouted suddenly: "Fellow soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, I, Li Da, have not done anything earth-shattering in my life, but today, I am going to do something that will send me to the eighteenth level of hell.
That means taking you to death."
"Tell me, are you afraid of death?"
Except for the five thousand elite soldiers who burst out with astonishing momentum and shouted "Don't be afraid", the voices of the miscellaneous knights were a little sparse and they didn't seem to want to answer.
Li Da snorted coldly: "I know that those who answered that they are not afraid are my loyal subordinates. As for the rest of you who are afraid of death, I understand, because I, Li Da, am also afraid of death."
"But if you think about it carefully, if it weren't for me, Li Da, you would have died on the battlefield long ago. It was I who pardoned your sins, and I gave you the basis of survival. I have nothing else to do in today's battle.
Please, as long as the Industrial City is leveled, you can go wherever you want, and I, Li Da, will never stop you. In this way, I can repay my kindness to you."
"What do you think?"
Then many miscellaneous knights shouted together: "I am willing to die for your lord."
In just a few words, he raised his morale to the highest level. Even among several second-generation martial artists, he was still a rare master of military strategy.
Li Da drew out his sword and pointed at the Industrial City.
"All cavalry, listen to the order and set off!"
The order has been passed down, the horses' hooves are clattering.
The cavalry has arrived, what to do?
Looking at the industrial city in the distance, Li Da was determined to win.
Just as the army slowly broke out of camp and marched, a sudden change occurred.
Wang Shengzhi's sniper group arrived here to ambush just before Li Da's announcement. When he saw the opponent marching, he led a sniper group of more than a thousand people to suddenly attack. He held thirty consecutive crossbows and fired them all in a short time. Thirty thousand arrows were fired at once.
It turned into raindrops, filling the sky with unrivaled force.
Li Da exclaimed loudly: "The enemy is attacking, defend!"
At the same time as he was reminded, he and the five thousand elite soldiers suddenly became one, and the iron shields under his command covered the people and horses so tightly that not even an arrow could penetrate.
Due to insufficient protection, the miscellaneous horsemen were miserable. Some horses were shot and struggled to the ground. People fell off their horses and were already injured. Some were directly penetrated by arrows and died on the spot.
In just the first encounter, these miscellaneous riders lost more than 2,000 people.
Li Da took advantage of the opportunity for the opponent to change arrows, and ordered a thousand fine cavalry to lead the attack, and three thousand miscellaneous cavalry to attack on the flanks, intending to eat them all in one go while the crossbows were out of arrows.
Wang Shengzhi greeted his men with a smile: "The wind is tight."
Instead of retreating along the way they came, the thousands of riders turned around and made a huge arc here.
The sniper group set out lightly, and the horses they selected were all good horses with excellent foot power. Li Da's elite cavalry could not catch up. Seeing that they could not eat the opponent in one bite, Li Da no longer waited.
"Thousands of fine cavalry will continue to pursue, while the rest of us will continue to set off to capture the industrial city!"
The entire battlefield was divided into two parts.
One part is the cavalry led by Li Da, heading towards the Industrial City without any obstruction. The other part is the thousand elite cavalry led by Li Da's deputy general He Huai who are chasing the sniper group.
They are fully equipped and arrows are ineffective against them. Now He Huai only needs to hold back this big Han team and let the general go to the industrial city smoothly, and then he has completed his mission.
But, how can things be so simple?
While chasing, He Huai found that the other party took out some kind of round object and threw it on the ground. He did not know what it was.
By the time you advance far enough to see clearly, it's too late.
He was lucky enough to see this thing once. It was a nightmare for all military personnel.
"It's a grenade, everyone get out of here!"
Before he finished speaking, there was a roaring sound, and the power of gunpowder was fully demonstrated. Even the well-equipped iron cavalry could only succumb to the grenade.
The screams of the war horses were heard everywhere, and the fine cavalry was fierce. He Huai, who was at the forefront, was not spared and turned into a corpse. As for the rest of the fine cavalry, they were not much better.
After the explosion, nearly 90% of this thousand-man elite cavalry was killed or injured, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness.
Long-range shooting and close-range explosions, these tactics are really useful, Wang Shengzhi thought to himself secretly.
Li Da heard the explosion from behind and turned around to see thick smoke billowing from the place where Qian Qi was. He was horrified and sighed that what Li Tai said was true. At the same time, he suddenly shouted: "Everyone no longer maintains the formation. Don't look behind. Riding indiscriminately."
Charge and enter the industrial city!"
The reason for issuing such an order was his judgment of the entire situation.
Since this team has arrows and grenades, it should come from Chang'an. Only Chang'an's sniper group has such tactics and lethality. This also means that follow-up reinforcements are not far on the way.
If they were really delayed by this light cavalry, with this kind of firepower, they might have been wiped out before they could even enter the industrial city, and Li Tai's secret chess would be in vain.
How can that be done?
After the order was given, both the mixed cavalry and the elite cavalry were speeding up, but what Li Da didn't expect was that the strange light cavalry had already circled in front of them.
He didn't know how the other party did it. He only knew that if he couldn't solve the problem at hand, all his plans would be in vain.
Li Da didn't have time to think about it and quickly issued the order: "Lock an arrow and shoot at it. I don't believe I can't shoot you."
For a time, both sides were at war with each other and were ready to attack.
Wang Shengzhi made a calm judgment and pointed to the front of the enemy's column.
"Shoot, five arrows."
After hearing this, all the soldiers fired arrows one after another. This time, the last round was different. They only shot five arrows. There was a roaring sound in the air, which was quite spectacular.
Seeing the arrows flying, Li Da's front army stopped solemnly. The arrows landed on the ground without harming the front army at all. Just when the front army was stunned, the Chinese army's fine cavalry had no time to stop and crashed into the front army formation, causing a large number of miscellaneous items.
The cavalry was knocked down by the fine cavalry, and the whole army stopped and stopped moving forward.
As for Li Da's arrows, because the distance between the two sides was too far, they could not reach the position of Wang Shengzhi's sniper group.
This is also the fundamental reason why Wang Shengzhi ordered everyone to shoot at the enemy's front line.