"These people rush very slowly. They don't seem to be elite." Chen Xing said with a smile.
After all, Wu Junwei was also the son of a county official. He reminded Chen Xing from his hometown in Jiangnan, "When the cavalry charges, the most important thing is not how fast they charge, but how to control the speed of the horse and always maintain the charging formation to prevent the formation from collapsing and getting out of touch.
From slow walking to fast walking to running to galloping charge, you must control your speed.
Although these 1,500 Turkic cavalry are fairly well-equipped, in fact, only 3,500 of them are actually experienced in combat, and most of the others have little experience. Those 3,500 people must control the rhythm.
The troops on the opposite side control their speed very well and their formation is not chaotic. They are definitely a formidable opponent. We have encountered a tough opponent."
In just two to three hundred steps, experienced Turkic cavalry can firmly grasp the rhythm and speed up in stages, so that all cavalry can keep up.
Huaiyu's face was expressionless.
"I think they underestimated the enemy. Although the cavalry has a natural advantage over the infantry, our army is already in formation and we are waiting for work. If they charge directly, they are seeking death. They should roam around and shoot, or even guard us from a distance. We
It is impossible to guard the military formation forever. We can't catch up and escape in the wild, and we have to be harassed by it while marching, which will be very uncomfortable. Now to charge like this is exactly what we want."
Seeing the Turks charging like this, Huaiyu finally showed a smile on his face, and his advantage expanded again.
"Three hundred steps!"
"Two hundred steps!"
"Hundred steps!"
The light cavalry in front of the formation were always on the lookout, constantly reporting the estimated enemy's approaching distance.
When the enemy reached the 200th step, the crossbowmen in front of the formation had already aimed their crossbows at the advancing Turks. When the sound of the 100th step fell.
The flag bearers of the crossbow team shouted, the team flag tilted forward, and all of a sudden the crossbows were fired. The three hundred crossbowmen fired thunderbolt strings one after another, and the crossbows were like locusts.
At this time, the Turkic cavalry galloped a hundred steps in front of the formation, reaching its fastest speed.
Three hundred crossbows fired a salvo, using the projectile method. The accuracy was very average, but the victory was that the salvos were intensive. The power of the crossbow arrows falling from the sky was no less powerful than a flat shot, or even more powerful than a flat shot. Among some unlucky Turkic cavalry
Arrows make people turn their backs on their backs.
But there are not many unlucky guys.
The formation of the Turkic cavalry charge was still intact and they continued to charge.
"Sixty steps!"
The observer's roar sounded again.
"Everyone, fire your bows and arrows!"
Sixty steps later, they have entered the effective killing range of bows and arrows in front of the formation. All soldiers of the Tang army are equipped with bows and carry thirty arrows. With an order, everyone is surrounded by the sound of war drums, the sound of horns, and the sound of cavalry horses beating the ground.
, quickly drew his bow and fired a volley into the sky in front of the formation.
Three volleys.
The soldiers did not aim at all, nor did they look at the results.
After three rounds of upward shooting,
The crossbowmen in the front row quickly retreated to the two rear wings of the front line, giving up their positions to the front line, and then went to the two wings behind the front line to continue firing their bows and arrows for long-range strikes.
As for the front row of the front line, the leaders of the four teams roared, and the flag bearer lowered the battle flag. All the front infantry abandoned their bows and arrows and picked up their spears from the ground.
The long spears are like a forest, like the sharp thorns of a hedgehog suddenly standing up!
Several rounds of crossbows fired, causing considerable damage to the Turkic cavalry. Although the Turkic cavalry were also equipped with shields and armor, many people were still unable to block the arrows at close range.
The man turned his back on his horse.
The distance is less than thirty steps.
The Turkic cavalry began to counterattack. While charging, they also raised their bows and arrows to counterattack the Tang army's position.
Huaiyu listened to the buzzing sound, like a swarm of bees flying around.
A large rain of arrows fell, and the soldiers in the front row of the hospital camp grunted. Some people fell down after being hit by arrows, and some people were still standing there with arrows stuck in their bodies.
Compared with the several volleys fired by the Tang army, the Turks fired from horseback, causing much less damage and being blocked by shields and armor.
Such a loss is acceptable.
"Tickling me, Lang Riha's little cubs, that's all you can do, come again!" A leader of the team held his Mo Dao high, wore iron armor, and roared loudly. His indomitable momentum was like the arrival of soldiers from heaven.
Huaiyu was still sitting on the horse, watching the battle expressionlessly from a distance. In just a few minutes, there must have been dozens of casualties on both sides.
War is so ruthless.
"boom!"
The leader of the team twisted his waist and waved his arms, slashing with his Mo Dao. Behind him, the flag leader and the flag guard also raised their flag guns and struck.
The Turkic cavalry vanguard collided with the front row of the Datang Hospital Army's vanguard. The wedge-shaped vanguard had several rows. They stabbed with spears and slashed with knives. Some people were knocked away, but the others still stabbed out regardless.
The head of the Modao team struck down with a sword, knocking the Turkic cavalry off their horses.
The front row of cavalry was stabbed down, and the rear row of cavalry rushed over again. The front row of the front row was torn open, and the enemy cavalry poured in, but the second row of troops also faced it under the leadership of the leader's roar.
Come forward.
At this time, the crossbowmen also dropped their crossbows, picked up their swords, big sticks, and long axes and began to move their wings toward the center to support the front infantry, fighting hand-to-hand.
The sword and shield bearers of the jumping team also took action. They jumped forward, stopped the cavalry who rushed in, chopped off their horse legs, hooked the cavalry down, and swarmed them to death.
Huaiyu stared at the fierce battle. The Turks were very fierce, but the cooperation of the hospital battalion was also good. The tactics of a small team of three people covered each other and cooperated.
As the commander-in-chief of the first battalion, Huaiyu did not play, and the soldiers would not allow him to play. It was the leader of the team to take the lead in killing, and the task of the team leaders. Once they reached the rank of captain-level military attache, their task was no longer
Charge and kill, but command.
The Turkic cavalry did not expect that the Tang army's resistance was so strong. When the forwards could not break through the Tang army's formation and were killed many, the Turkic general's orders rang out on the battlefield.
When those Turkic cavalrymen with excellent riding skills rushed ten or twenty steps in front of the formation, they pulled up their horses, ran to both sides, and turned around.
The battle started suddenly and ended quickly.
Huaiyu thought that these Turks would fight to the end, or at least charge a few more waves. However, after only a moment, when they saw that the momentum was not right, the Turks stopped charging and turned back.
"No pursuit!"
Huaiyu gave the decisive order. After turning around, the Turkic cavalry did not run far, but reorganized a few hundred steps away. The hundreds of cavalry who rushed in first suffered heavy losses and wanted to escape at this time, but Huaiyi had already led the cavalry to intercept them.
They retreat.
The vanguard team, the jumping team, and the crossbow team also surrounded us.
According to the military law of the Tang army, if the two armies are engaged and the enemy retreats, the infantry cannot pursue more than thirty steps. Every thirty steps they must stop and regroup. If they really want to pursue, it is the job of the cavalry.
The pursuit is limited to thirty steps, mainly to prevent the formation from being stretched apart and being killed by the enemy's carbine.
In this round, it was obvious that the Turks underestimated the enemy and suffered a big loss due to their carelessness and a bloody blow.
This also allowed Huaiyu to see a characteristic of the Turkic soldiers. Some of them are picky and picky. If they miss a hit, they immediately retreat. They do not easily fight to the death.
They are just like wolves, worthy of being a prairie tribe with wolves as their totem.
Most of the hundred cavalry in the van lay down immediately, and the remaining twenty or thirty cavalry were also stopped by Huaiyi's cavalry and were caught up and surrounded by the infantry.
The Turkic cavalry brigade was watching from a distance. Instead of coming to rescue them, they slowly retreated to reorganize their formation, abandoning the twenty or thirty cavalrymen.
"Rescue soldiers, hurry up and treat the wounded. The seriously injured will be carried on stretchers to the back of the formation for first aid."
"Quickly deal with the surrounding Turkic brats and reorganize the formation. It's not time to be happy yet." Huaiyu stared at the distant Turkic cavalry with an expressionless expression, but his heart was beating violently.
