The lethality of the crossbow is the natural enemy of the light cavalry, but it can only perform three rounds of attacks.
The distance is too far and the range is not enough; after three rounds of shooting, the extremely fast light cavalry has rushed to the front of the formation with thunderous momentum, and the crossbow arrows have lost their effect.
Fang Jun raised his arm again: "The crossbowmen stand back, fire automatically, and the grenadiers prepare!"
After the crossbowman has set three rounds of crossbow arrows, he will automatically push them to the rear formation. The next task is to automatically find the target and continue to kill people. Generally speaking, this kind of killing effect is great, but it cannot deal with the impact of the cavalry.
The formation constitutes fatal destruction, so no matter how many people are killed, it cannot determine the outcome of the war.
Once the infantry phalanx is dispersed by the enemy, these crossbowmen will become the prey of the enemy cavalry, slaughtering them wantonly and without any resistance!
The grenadier stepped forward to fill the crossbowman's position, and torches were lit.
"put!"
Fang Jun shouted loudly.
Each "earth-shaking thunder" ignited the fuse and was thrown violently by the grenadier.
Each grenadier is selected after a brutal selection process in the Shenji Battalion, and each one has amazing physical strength.
It was impossible for the grenadier to perform the same uniform movements as the crossbowman. The dark iron lumps were thrown out from the square array and landed twenty or thirty meters in front of the array.
Before the fuse was burned out, the Turkic cavalry had already rushed to the front of the formation!
The soldiers in the first row punched the tails of their spears on the ground, and were firmly stepped on by the shield hand beside them to fix them. They used their bodies as a fulcrum to hold up the spears, which were almost ten feet long, at an angle.
Pointing to the sky, it is like a forest of spears!
The spearman could still clearly see the ferocious face of the Turkic cavalry, as well as the white foam spitting freely from the war horse.
Then……
An earth-shattering explosion exploded in the formation of the Turkic cavalry!
The sky-high firelight illuminated the entire camp, and also illuminated the horrified faces of the Turkic cavalry! The hot air flow formed a small shock wave with the explosion, projecting the prefabricated fragments of the "Thunder" in all directions, filling it with countless fragments.
It flew wildly and unscrupulously into the nearby space, and the huge kinetic energy irresistibly destroyed all obstacles, wailing loudly, and blood spurting out!
Broken limbs and broken arms were thrown randomly in the explosion, and the Turkic cavalry's impact formation collapsed instantly!
The civilians hiding in the distance were completely dumbfounded. Faced with such an earth-shattering explosion and soaring fire, they were at a loss. What happened in front of them had already exceeded their understanding!
Is it a thunder coming from heaven?
Could it be that the old man Hou Ta from Xinxiang can not only "call for wind and rain", but also summon thunder and lightning?
Everyone was stunned!
However, although the destructive power of the "Zhentian Thunder" is huge, its range is too short. Although it makes the Turkic cavalry's charge formation chaotic, the cavalry at the front has already slammed into the square formation due to the power of inertia!
"boom!"
It was like a violent wave hitting the rocks on the shore, making a dull roar.
The brutal Turkic cavalry controlled the war horses. The thousands of kilograms of war horses combined with the running speed created huge inertia. The sharp spears pierced the bodies of the war horses, then pierced their own bodies, and slammed into the phalanx!
Splashing blood-red waves!
The huge force knocked the array into chaos, and the spears pierced the horses and human bodies, but their inertia was still not exhausted, and they just hit the spearman's body.
boom!
The weight of the war horse hit the spearman so hard that his bones and tendons were broken, and blood spurted out of his mouth. Because the comrades behind him held his body tightly, he did not fly backwards, but he was already exhausted on the ground, died of breathlessness, and was still alive.
Killed!
Even so, in the end, the fierce Turkic cavalry raised their scimitars high and struck at the spearmen! Although they were blocked by the shield soldiers with their shields, they would defend the dignity of the Turkic warriors even to the death without fear.
die!
The spearman was killed, and his comrades immediately took up the position behind him. Once again, there was no gap in the sharp spear forest, ready to welcome the next attack of the Turkic cavalry!
However...the imagined impact did not come as expected.
The huge explosion effect and violent lethality of "Zhentian Thunder" have already frightened the Turkic war horses to the point of peeing. No matter how much the cavalry scolded and whipped them, they could only crawl around with their hooves, unable to take a single step forward!
After all, war horses are not humans. They have a natural fear of fire and loud noises...
Occasionally, a few war horses collided with the phalanx, but it was not enough to shake the stability of the phalanx.
As long as the formation is stable, there is no fear of the enemy's cavalry charge!
Fang Jun was simply overjoyed. He could hold on so easily. Even if he was not a military genius, he knew that the greatest lethality of the cavalry lay in its violent impact. Without a charge, it would not be the target of crossbowmen.
Without his order, the crossbowmen who had retreated to the rear had already taken the opportunity to scatter. One held a crossbow and aimed at the chaotic cavalry to find the target and fire, while the other followed behind with a quiver of arrows to provide continuous fire support from a distance.
Cavalry has no impact, so there is only one thing better than infantry - running fast!
The arrogant Turkic Wolf Riders suffered a disastrous defeat under completely unacceptable fighting conditions, and their always unruly morale dropped to the lowest point. These barbarians, who have never been restrained by military aircraft and have no military literacy, can always burst out with amazing combat effectiveness when facing a weaker party.
, unscrupulous, risking their lives to kill, but when the defeat is determined, they will completely lose the last trace of will to fight.
I don't know who the leader was, and with a roar, the remaining several hundred cavalrymen put their tails between their legs and fled as fast as they could, running like a wolf or a pig...
The sound of fighting gradually dissipated, the tents had been trampled to pieces by the Turkic cavalry charge, and the entire military camp was in a mess.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and the strong smell of blood.
In front of the phalanx, there are corpses everywhere, the whine of war horses, the groan of Turkic cavalry, blood flowing across the field, and scattered stumps, it is like a tragic scene of hell on earth.
The entire Shenji camp fell into a brief silence.
Their bodies were still trembling from being shocked by the fierce and domineering momentum of the Turkic Wolf Riders, and their minds could not accept the current situation in front of them.
This means...win?
Two thousand infantry, facing off against a thousand powerful Turkic cavalry, could they win so easily?
The next second, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion finally came to their senses and let out an earth-shattering roar!
It was the ecstasy after the huge fear was released!
I was already determined to die, but who would have thought that victory would come so unexpectedly and so easily?
The joy of surviving a desperate situation and the shock of defeating the powerful Turkic cavalry made cheers resound throughout the world!
Folks in the distance also ran over like crazy to participate in this joyful carnival!
They had been at the rear, clearly seeing the overwhelming charge of the Turkic cavalry, clearly seeing the enemy being blocked by the phalanx, and even more clearly seeing the earth-shattering "thunder" that would be invincible.
The Turkic cavalry exploded into the sky!
Therefore, the shock brought to them by the entire battle is more intuitive and thrilling!
How many armies of the Tang Dynasty dared to challenge the Turkic cavalry with infantry?
Even though Li Weigong led his army across Mobei, no one despised the power of the Turkic cavalry!
This is simply the most powerful army of the Tang Dynasty!
People rushed to the side of the Marquis, who had been standing proudly on the horse, and fell to the ground to worship him!
In their opinion, this prince is the god of thunder descending to earth. Otherwise, how could he summon the thunder from the sky to blow up the fierce and powerful Turkic cavalry and scatter their souls, completely defeating them?
Fang Jun sat on the horse and let out a long sigh.
Suddenly, I found that my whole body was soaked with cold sweat. The cool night wind outside the Great Wall blew gently and chilled me all over my body.
No one knew that at the moment when the Turkic cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, this "half-immortal" almost turned around and ran away...
This is not because Fang Jun is cowardly. People who have never experienced the overwhelming cavalry rushing into battle cannot imagine the fear they faced at that moment!
How would it feel if a ten-story building collapsed before your eyes?
The cavalry charge on the ancient battlefield was even better!
That kind of fear has nothing to do with life and death. It completely unearths the most basic fear of human beings. At that moment, what you want is not to live, but not to face it even if you die!
Fortunately, I persisted...
A smile overflowed from Fang Jun's lips, he was very proud.
No matter how fierce and domineering the cavalry is, aren't they vulnerable to firearms?
You are on the right path!
As long as we continue to develop along this path, the threat of the grassland peoples to the Tang Dynasty will no longer exist. At that time, the Tang Dynasty will be able to fully unleash its population advantage and usher in more prosperous development!
But the most important thing right now is that he has to figure out the purpose of this Turkic cavalry...