Facing the waves of arrows rained down by the Wei army, the Han army's cavalry general Hua Chang had already lost his sense of normalcy.
In addition to being furious, Huachang was also really wondering: Why did the Wei army's crossbow arrows keep firing endlessly? Until they got closer and closer to the Wei army's defense line, allowing Hua Chang to clearly see it.
He suddenly realized the crossbowmen of the Wei Army on the opposite side.
It turned out that the Wei army's crossbowmen that Huachang faced were actually divided into teams of two or three, with one person responsible for shooting, and the remaining one or two people responsible for loading the crossbow bolts. In this way, the Wei army ensured the continuous attack on the Korean cavalry.
Covered by arrows.
Although this method resulted in the number of arrows fired by the Wei army in each volley being much less than that of a real volley fired by the entire army, the victory was continuous, forcing the Korean cavalry to constantly make decisions while charging.
Various avoidance behaviors.
Under such circumstances, the Korean cavalry couldn't care less about speeding up. It would be great if they could maintain their current speed.
"Damn it, you're trying to be so clever on me!"
Cursing secretly, the cavalry commander Hua Chang once again passed by the area shrouded in arrow rain.
Behind him, the cavalry with superb riding skills kept up with the general's trajectory without any fear, while the cavalry with poor riding skills crashed into the place shrouded in arrow rain, taking everyone with them.
The horse was shot through the sieve.
But even though he escaped the Wei army's arrows, the cavalry general Huachang was not happy at all, because he knew that when avoiding the second wave of arrows, he and his cavalry would inevitably sprint faster.
Slowed down somewhat.
For the cavalry, which is mainly responsible for rushing into the formation and cutting through the enemy's formation, once the speed drops, it also means that the power has dropped.
Seeing that the distance between him and the Wei army's defense line was getting closer and closer, Hua Chang felt resentful and cursed secretly in his heart.
Damn it! I didn’t increase my speed... It seemed like I couldn’t penetrate the Wei army’s formation in one go, so I had to use a car to hang on.
Gritting his teeth, Hua Chang led his cavalry to charge towards the sword and shield soldiers in the front row of the Wei army's defense line.
At this time, the crossbowmen of the Wei army fired another wave of arrows, covering the road ahead.
Seeing this, Hua Chang took a deep breath, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and suddenly pulled the horse's rein to the left. For a moment, he and the horse under his crotch made a big turn with an attitude of leaning to the left, and rushed forward.
To the west side of the Wei army's defense line.
Following him, the endless stream of Korean cavalry behind him also turned around and finally came into contact with the Wei army's defense line.
"Sword and Shield Soldier! Get up! Raise your shield!"
Just before the collision with the Korean cavalry, General Qian Bi in the front row of the Wei army's defense line roared. Immediately, the sword and shield soldiers in the first three rows stood up one after another and formed a shield wall with their shields.
I saw these Wei soldiers standing sideways, with one foot in front and one foot behind, keeping a steady stance. In their hands, they held the shield with their left hand, with their entire left arm attached to the inside of the shield, and at the same time tightly
Close to the left rib of the body, the whole body leaned forward slightly, preparing to use the strength of the arms to meet the collision from the Korean cavalry.
This is a very smart and formal way of holding a shield against cavalry charges.
Because the usual posture of holding the shield with one hand cannot block the impact of the cavalry at all, not to mention the left hand and the right hand.
If one fails, the wrist will break instantly.
But using this posture is different. First of all, the wrist will not be injured. If it is injured, the entire arm will be directly destroyed. Under the huge impact force of the Korean cavalry, it will be comminuted and fractured, and even the ribs will be smashed.
It seemed that this shield-holding posture was even more unbearable than usual, but in fact, only the Wei soldiers in the front row were seriously injured.
Yes, with this shield-holding posture, you can block cavalry charges!
Twenty feet, ten feet, five feet...
"shield!"
As Wei General Qian Ben roared, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row of the Wei army and the Korean cavalry finally collided. But to everyone's surprise, this time the charge of the Korean cavalry did not even include the Wei army in the front row.
Disperse.
But it's no wonder. After all, the Korean cavalry initially rushed into the Wei army's defense line after speeding up to the limit. That is, the Wei and Han armies presented a T-shaped contact formation from a bird's eye view. In this contact formation, the cavalry would look like
Like a sharp spear, it penetrated directly through the defenders.
However, because of Sun Shuke's relationship, the Korean cavalry led by the two brothers Hua Chang and Hua Can were never able to increase their speed to the limit through straight-line acceleration, so that Hua Chang had to change his tactics and use the car suspension early, so that from a bird's eye view
Look, the current contact formation between the Wei and Han armies has changed into a U shape.
It seems that being forced to change the tactics is very fatal. After all, the chariot-mounted battle method is like a constantly rotating wheel from a bird's-eye view. What is important is to make the cavalry continue to launch a continuous attack on the defending infantry without slowing down.
attack.
Under normal circumstances, the two brothers Hua Chang and Hua Can would first use a long snake formation to penetrate the enemy's army and scatter the infantry in the front row of the enemy's army.
The crossbowmen and other units with weak defensive capabilities inside the enemy's belly launched continuous attacks.
But now, the Korean cavalry was forced to change into a chariot formation without breaking up the Wei army's front row infantry. It is no exaggeration to say that this Korean charge failed.
Because the sword and shield soldiers of the Yanling Army are definitely no less powerful than the Shangshui Army, and coupled with the new weapons and equipment, they are definitely one of the best elite infantry in the Wei Kingdom.
If the Korean cavalry wants to defeat the infantry of the Yanling Army using a formation with relatively weak impact and penetration capabilities like chariot suspension, it can only be said to be a fantasy.
"Dang Dang Dang"
"Dangdang"
No, countless Korean cavalry began to circle outside the Wei army's defense line. When the cavalry on the outside approached the Wei army's sword and shield soldiers, they raised their spears and stabbed the Wei army's shield.
But the problem is that the advancing route of their horses is not directly towards the Wei infantry, so the impact force is not enough to shake the shield wall formed by the Wei infantry.
Of course, if the Korean cavalry faces the armies of other countries this time, such as Chu infantry, Qi infantry, etc., the Korean cavalry may still be able to disperse the front row infantry of those countries by relying on the chariot warfare method, but it is a pity that
Unfortunately, what they faced this time was the infantry of Wei State.
The infantry of Wei State are the most powerful infantry in all the countries in the Central Plains, bar none!
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On the distant slope, Han Jiang Baoyuan frowned and stared at the battlefield ahead.
The vanguard army...tactics failed.
How long has it been since this happened?
Bao Yuan frowned and said nothing.
Hua Chang and Hua Can were the two favorite generals he used most frequently during his conquests. In previous battles, these two brothers could always create advantageous situations, but today, the cavalry led by these two brothers were defeated by the Wei army.
It was contained.
But it doesn't matter, because the cavalry led by Hua Chang and Hua Can is only a vanguard of 10,000 cavalry out of 30,000. Later, there will be 5,000 cavalry each led by Zhangwu and Lin Xin, as well as a group of cavalry led by his deputy Li Han himself.
Thousands of cavalry.
Although the vanguard army suffered some setbacks, Bao Yuan believed that victory in this war still belonged to him.
At the same time, five thousand cavalry each led by Han generals Zhangwu and Lin Xin gradually approached the Wei army.
They did not take the middle battlefield. After all, Hua Chang and the Hua Can brothers had 5,000 cavalry each on the middle battlefield. They chose the left and right wings.
Since the middle road cannot penetrate the Wei army, then attack the Wei army from the left and right flanks in a roundabout way to establish an advantage and feed back the middle road.
Thinking of this, the two Korean generals Zhangwu and Lin Xin, who cooperated tacitly, each led their cavalry to attack the Wei army from the left and right wings.
Han General Zhangwu was in charge of the west side of the battlefield, that is, the side close to the Wei army's main formation.
He thought well and bypassed the Wei soldiers on the opposite side to attack the Wei army's main formation.
He didn't know what kind of existence he was about to face.
"General Uncle Sun has an order, Yuma attacks!"
"General Uncle Sun has an order, Yuma attacks!"
The orders were shouted from the mouths of the messengers and reached the ears of the general Ma You.
At this time, Yuma's heavy cavalry had just put on thick armor with the help of friendly soldiers, and also covered their horses with thick armor.
"General Ma You!"
One of Sun Shuke's guards rushed to Ma You, gestured and said: "The general orders you to attack in the southeast direction, across the entire battlefield."
Southeast?...Oh, do you want me to take care of those Korean cavalry in the middle who are hanging their cars?
Ma You nodded and said lightly: "I understand."
After saying that, he shook the reins with both hands and shouted in a deep voice: "Yuma... attack!"
Without any shouting or raising of arms, the five thousand heavy horsemen began to run slowly, bypassing the infantry on the west side of the Wei army, and officially entered the battlefield.
Facing the front, the five thousand cavalry led by Han general Zhangwu were startled when they saw the Youma army.
The Wei army has cavalry?... And why are these cavalry...all covered with armor? Even the horses have armor? This...
Han General Zhangwu was really a little puzzled, because in his impression, the cavalry should reduce the burden of the load as much as possible.
"Humph, pretending to be a ghost..."
Pouting his lips, Han General Zhangwu confidently raised his hand and pointed at the oncoming Yuma Chongqi.
To be fair, he looked down upon this Wei cavalry.
In his opinion, the Wei people didn't understand the meaning of cavalry at all. They actually put heavy armor on knights and horses. How could they charge with such a heavy load?
In addition, the scattered formation of Yuma Juqi also made Han General Akira look down upon.
He didn't know that, contrary to the flexible light cavalry, heavy cavalry was very taboo about forming close formations, because once something unexpected happened, such as when the heavy cavalry in front was tripped by a corpse, the close formation would cause the heavy cavalry to suffer serious self-inflicted injuries.
chain reaction of damage.
Therefore, the formation that is most suitable for heavy cavalry is to have no formation, leave a distance of two or three cavalry between each other, and then push forward without thinking.
"Boom boom boom boom"
As the distance between the two cavalry became smaller and smaller, Han General Zhangwu gradually felt that something was wrong.
According to his visual inspection, the Wei cavalry on the opposite side only had a few thousand cavalry, but the momentum of the opponent's charge was more shocking than the tens of thousands of cavalry, as if the whole earth was trembling.
"Crush them!"
Following Ma You's sharp shout, the 5,000 Youma heavy cavalry seemed to carry an overwhelming force and crashed into the ranks of the 5,000 Korean cavalry led by Han general Changwu.