The infantry without horses wielded their weapons in the most primitive way and stabbed the enemy in front of them.
Almost instantly, all the soldiers in the first row fell down and were trampled on, leaving no trace of their corpses.
Viewed from a high altitude, Xiqi's front line was advancing unstoppably. On the other hand, Su Hu's front line was slowly retreating, unable to directly engage its front.
This result greatly boosted Xiqi's morale and wiped out the previous decline of the generals. Su Hu's face became quite ugly.
In fact, judging from the battle formation confrontation alone, the two sides are equally matched, changing and competing, and fighting each other, which not only reflects the command level of the generals, but also reflects the training results of the army.
In terms of generals, Xiqi died and Nangong Shi died. Su Hu had experienced hundreds of battles and was one of the four famous generals in the world. He undoubtedly had the upper hand. However, due to the effectiveness of the army's training, Su Hu's army clearly had a tendency to be defeated in a head-on confrontation.
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In fact, if you think about it carefully, this makes sense.
In the battle of Jizhou City, Wang's division did achieve a brilliant victory, but one moment and another, now Su Hu led his army to attack the Xiqi mainland, and what he wanted was for Ji Chang to demote his soldiers into slaves again.
This is not only to kill them at the doorstep, but also to beat them back to their original shape!
Therefore, every Xiqi soldier worked hard and did not need too much encouragement at all. The morale has risen to the extreme, and they are not afraid of death and unwavering!
Su Hu understood this truth through blood lessons.
Based on his experience, he should have expected it, but he had a deep-rooted discrimination against the slave class in his heart. He had never regarded slaves as human beings, so naturally he would not put himself in their shoes.
After realizing this at this moment, Su Hu still did not compromise at all, but became more vigilant.
Slaves are no longer submissive, but are only at the mercy of their superiors. Even if Ji Chang is willing to return to slavery, those soldiers will immediately raise their weapons and resist.
"If you don't give in, I'll kill you!"
Su Hu's eyes were ferocious, he raised his sword high and gave the order: "The armored chariot is dispatched!"
Boom!
There was a sound like the earth was shaking, and armored vehicles were pushed into the battlefield.
This kind of armored vehicle is three times larger than an ordinary chariot. It is covered with iron armor and is thick and solid. It has eight wheels underneath and is as high as a person's neck. There are draw plates on the vehicle that can be pulled out, increasing the height to one
It is about ten feet long, and the roof of each cart can accommodate three people, including one long-range soldier, one archer, and one axe-thrower.
Different from the pure mechanism of the Hundred Crossbow Company, this armored vehicle is the combination of human power and mechanism. It is a comprehensive upgrade of the chariot of this era. Its main function is to attack the battlefield.
Attack the enemy head-on!
When the armored chariot rumbled in, impacting with a force that no one could resist, the expressions of the Xiqi generals suddenly changed.
In the face of this kind of war weapon, the flesh and blood body will almost collapse at a touch. No matter how brave Xiqi's infantry is and is not afraid of death, it will be in vain.
But Ji Chang remained calm and composed, and with a wave of his hand, the cavalry was dispatched.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the so-called cavalry was extremely rudimentary. It had no standard armor, no saddles and stirrups. It was basically a pure combination of man and horse.
Why do time travelers basically invent saddles and stirrups whenever they go back to the era before the Three Kingdoms? It is precisely because of them that cavalry can free their hands and make various movements on horseback more easily, and the history of human war has ushered in a new era.
The age of invincible cavalry.
Fortunately, the human race's physique in the Xianwu world is far stronger than that in ordinary history, and the demand for saddles and stirrups is relatively low. The key is war horses.
Naturally, there were horses in the Shang Dynasty, but ordinary horses were useless and could not withstand a battle at the immortal level. Horses that could withstand fierce battles were actually biased toward exotic beasts. Quanrong's war horses had the thin blood of the demon clan.
After further training, they became the cavalry that can dominate the world.
Xiqi fought with Quanrong for hundreds of years. At first, he suffered a lot from the cavalry. Then he slowly explored, gradually penetrated, and spent countless efforts to finally cultivate his own war horses and form a cavalry battalion.
Why Emperor Yi was so afraid of Xiqi during Ji Li's reign was precisely because of the formation of the cavalry.
Now the cavalry battalion has shown its due power.
The first is to be fast.
From dispatching to attacking, the infantry yelled for a long time and ran for several kilometers before they officially came into contact with each other, while the cavalry came and went like the wind, arriving first and attacking like lightning.
Second is flexibility.
Xiqi dispatched only a thousand cavalry, but it was like a sharp boning knife, cutting along the bones. Not only was it fast, but it was also never forceful. It isolated and weakened each piece by peeling off and dividing its weak points.
A tough nut to crack.
The armored vehicles were indeed powerful, rumbling forward like a moving Great Wall, but the cavalry avoided its edge and used high speeds to turn back and attack in a roundabout way, which actually reduced the role that the armored vehicles could play to the extreme.
Not only that, the cavalry commander also keenly discovered that the armored vehicles were linked to each other by chains to form a formation.
His eyes immediately brightened, and he issued an order to attack at its weak points, and then used infantry to push away the armored vehicles and break up its defense line.
"Change of formation!"
Seeing the Xiqi cavalry showing off their power, Su Hu did not panic. He waved the military flag and changed his formation.
Soldiers are unpredictable, and formations are unpredictable. The formation of the Great Wall formed by armored vehicles suddenly changed, turning into a long snake into a circle. The vanguard troops retreated under the blowing of the horn and disappeared under the thick iron plate of the armored vehicles.
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A city connected with cars can be called a city!
Hundreds of armored vehicles are hooked together into one, tightly protecting thousands of soldiers. After giving up length and flexibility, what is gained is thickness and cooperation.
The flap of the car opened, and countless caltrops were sprinkled on the ground in front of the car, causing the cavalry that had been wreaking havoc before to suffer a big loss. The steel plate stretched out again, and soldiers wearing heavy armor stood on it, aiming forward.
The infantrymen waved their Changges in their hands, killing people almost as if they were cutting grass, while the archers bent their bows and nocked arrows, pouring arrows forward without any scruples.
For a while, the screams could not be heard without stopping.
Using the armored chariot as a barrier, Su Hu's army became impregnable, integrating offense and defense. Even the cavalry had no loopholes to find. On the contrary, as long as Xiqi soldiers were within the attack range, they would have no luck.
Seeing the casualties rising sharply, Ji Chang's face became extremely serious, and he even felt helpless.
The death of Nangong Shi was indeed a heavy blow to Xiqi. After all, he preferred to govern the country and was not good at fighting on the battlefield. He continued to use his own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths.
There was hesitation in Ji Fa's eyes, but after weighing the pros and cons, he felt that the time had not come yet, so he stood still.
As a result, the strange people among his personal guards who originally wanted to show up also took back their steps and remained in a state of watching the battle.
After a brief hesitation, Ji Chang's eyes had returned to calm, and he issued orders to the heralds on his left and right:
"The three armies attack and attack Su Hu's main formation!"