The charge of the Xixia heavy cavalry was like mercury leaking from the ground, charging towards the Song army's formation with the unique texture of heavy metal. The newly repaired heavy horses were pushed away by the heavy cavalry's horses. Every heavy cavalry was a member of the Xixia army.
The famous Hercules.
The hooves of some war horses stepped into those small pits dug in advance, and then their calves were broken by the small pits, and then they fell heavily to the ground. The war horses and knights didn't even have time to moan before they were trampled by the cavalry behind them.
Meat paste, falling from the horse of a heavy cavalry is no different from death. The heavy cavalry don’t care about other people’s lives, and sometimes they don’t even care about their own lives.
Facing the overwhelming attack of the Xixia people, Yun Zheng didn't have many options. In Moruha's surprised eyes, he led his army to retreat at full speed. It could even be called an escape, but the formation of the army when he escaped was
Still intact, it is obvious that such an escape is a type of tactic.
However, Moruha couldn't figure it out. Under the driving of heavy cavalry, anyone who turned his back would usually die. The heavy cavalry would catch up one by one and kill him as easily as a chicken. The two legs were
No one can outrun a war horse, even a heavy cavalryman.
The Song army fled in a hurry. The front team changed to the rear team. The narrow valley mouth did not cause any trouble to them. All the troops disappeared from the canyon mouth in a short time. However, there were faint flags behind the low mountains.
After being exposed, Moruha now wanted to know if those flags were an ambush by the Song army.
It takes at least one mile for the heavy cavalry to start running and then increase its speed to the extreme, and the gap between the two armies is exactly one mile. All these are like the necessary conditions for a perfect trap, so be brave
Moruha involuntarily slowed down his speed. The charge of heavy cavalry always followed the peak of the arrow formation. So when Moruha deliberately slowed down his horse, the cavalry behind him also involuntarily rushed to the front.
The speed of the war horse running at full speed is controlled at a relatively safe distance.
This is the shortcoming of the heavy cavalry. The war horse carries more than two hundred kilograms of weight and can only launch two attacks at most in a short period of time. The smile on Zhang Zhi's face gradually disappeared. Yun Zheng's response was extremely unreasonable.
The method made him feel confused, which was the feeling Zhang Zhi disliked the most.
It was very difficult for the heavy cavalry to stop completely. Fortunately, Moruha took advantage of the gentle slope on the Song Army's formation to slowly control the horse's speed. Moruha, who ran up the hillside, used his horse's pin to pick him off.
The few military flags planted behind the hill looked at the Song army who continued to run into the distance and cursed. A series of Xixia curses spewed out of his mouth. If he hadn't slowed down his horse just now, he should be able to catch up with those timid men by now.
of the Song Army.
Zhang Zhi also went up the hill, took a look at the terrain behind the hill, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, because behind the hill was a large plain. In such terrain, heavy cavalry was invincible.
After Zhang Zhi's entire army poured out of the valley and the cavalry formed an array on the plain, Zhang Zhi confirmed that Yun Zheng was really running away. Even though there were large groups of birds circling in the mountains and forests on both sides, he turned a blind eye and ignored them.
What kind of ambush can't attack the cavalry in the plains? If the infantry ambush the cavalry like this, it will become a joke that everyone on this land talks about.
Damn it, Yunzheng planted his feet in a distant place again and started to form their formation again. This time, their formation was much thicker...
"General, please allow me to charge again. This time I will definitely get Yunzheng's head back!" Moruha felt the great humiliation. Yunzheng was the first infantryman to successfully escape from the heavy cavalry.
commander in chief.
Zhang Zhi looked up at the blue sky, wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned back to Li Qing and said: "Go and clear the road, carefully check the road conditions ahead. Yun Zheng is not a person who is willing to take risks easily. If it hadn't been for Moruha just now,
If they become suspicious, they will die."
Li Qing agreed and led a group of cavalry down the hill carefully. In a short time, he found a dense number of horse traps on the grassy hillside. The concentration of horse traps was almost crazy. Looking at the small horse pits,
The whole hillside was covered with pits, and he took a breath of cold air, not daring to imagine what would happen to the heavy heavy cavalry after they galloped down from here.
Yun Zheng looked at Sun Dazhi struggling to pull the sidecar over, setting up an arc-shaped defense line in front of the military formation and shaking his head with a smile. Only people like Sun Dazhi are willing to do such a stupid method, but he must not
Not to mention that this approach can at least stabilize the infantry's defense line. A city will appear on the plain immediately, and the defense capability of your army can at least be doubled.
Wu Jie said with a smile: "Zhang Zhi was not fooled and the horse trap was discovered. But that's fine. Now it's up to Cui Da. As long as he can force Zhang Zhi's cavalry to attack Checheng, this battle will be won."
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Yun Zheng burst out laughing, pointing to two mountains and forests and laughing: "The birds flying there are circling, and even fools know there are ambushes, but Zhang Zhi should ignore these things at this time, and wait until he has tried his best to fill the horse trap.
I guess the morale has almost been weakened. Cui Da’s idea is very interesting. It’s really rare to be able to turn a money-losing product that no one wants into a powerful weapon, but I don’t know if Zhang Zhi also knows this thing.”
Jiang Zhe said: "I have read a few books. I couldn't help but be frightened when I saw this thing. The tigers and leopards were even scared to death. Zhang Zhi has lived in the north for a long time, how could he know how powerful this thing is."
Yun Zheng laughed and said: "Now is the estrus period of the elephants. Cui Da separated the male and female elephants. Those infatuated males and females are already hungry and thirsty. If there are some more troublesome guys in the middle, God knows how they will go crazy.
, I just hope that Cui Da can control those behemoths. How many elephants has this guy brought back from Lingnan over the years? I don’t even know that those things have huge appetites, and I don’t know what they feed. It seems like this.
This guy hasn't been idle these years."
Lang Tan curled his lips and said: "He has become a pig now. Nowadays, any businessman in Shu who wants to do some decent business dares not to look at his eyes. When I became an army, I wanted to ask him for some help, but he actually opened his mouth to ask for it.
The right to sell the trophies of my Tiancheng Army, this damn profiteer, just has an iron abacus on his lips, talking about either money or profits, and the honest and simple Cui Da in the early years has long since disappeared."
Yun Zheng looked at Zhang Zhi's army in the distance and said in a deep voice: "Don't talk about these trivial things. The war is about to begin. Zhang Zhi's army is eating. We should also eat something quickly. After this meal, we will still have something to eat."
We don’t know when the next meal will be. We can look down on Zhang Zhi, but we can’t be careless. The Xixia people have been fighting for many years, and they are not those idiots in the south. Be careful."
Zhang Zhi's eyelids were twitching fiercely. He always felt that Yun Zheng seemed to have a back-up plan. He racked his brains and couldn't figure out what Yun Zheng would do to turn defeat into victory. He knew that there was an ambush in the woods, so he sent three scouts to explore the city.
There was no news. Those scouts would disappear immediately as soon as they entered the woods. Finally, one scout ran out of the woods but was split in the middle by a crossbow fired by an eight-niu crossbow. After that, Zhang Zhi never dispatched him again.
The scout went to investigate and fight in the dense forest. He was not the opponent of Yunzheng who defeated the Cochin soldiers in the jungle.
No matter what kind of ambush Yunzheng arranged, they would be defeated by his heavy cavalry. Under the absolute strength, any conspiracy and trick would become a joke for people after dinner.
He looked up at the day in the sky. It was already past noon. The battle would be completed in this afternoon. The cavalry won the battle quickly and failed very quickly. He gritted his teeth and firmly believed that he would not fail. This was
Field battles belong to Daxia Kingdom.
Zhang Zhi poured a sip of strong wine into his mouth, stood up suddenly and said to Moruha, who had been prepared for a long time: "Let's start, you attack Yunzheng's main formation and get rid of those annoying cars. Zhang Shou, Li Qing, I
Bring the light cavalry to guard your two wings. You must fight hard in this battle. Victory or defeat depends on this. After the victory, the army enters Longcheng for ten days without sealing the sword and letting you and others do whatever they want!"
The Xixia people took action immediately. This time Zhang Zhi did not make a probing attack. The two trials had exhausted his patience. More than 10,000 cavalry formed three black waves on the ground, roaring toward the clouds like a tsunami.
The majestic military formation rushed over.
Having witnessed the Xixia people's charge into battle, the Song army was slowly becoming familiar with this terrifying psychological pressure. The veterans and the recruits were calmly preparing for the battle.
"Listen, kid, don't be a coward on the battlefield. Do you know who dies the fastest on the battlefield? I tell you, cowards die the fastest. Don't treat yourself as a human being at this time, just treat yourself as a beast. The enemy will come.
If you can't chop with a knife or stab with a spear, if you don't have a weapon, you have to use your fists, legs, head, or teeth to bite the enemy to death! If you kill him, you will live..."
The recruits were busy loading various gunpowder bombs and kerosene cans into the ballista. After listening to the veteran's words, they couldn't help but become anxious. They hurriedly put an extra gunpowder bomb into the ballista's leather bag, just to make it faster.
Kill these animals that are ready to take their own lives and eat their own flesh.
The veteran slapped the recruit on the head and said angrily: "Idiot, there is a limit to how much stuff can be loaded on the ballista. If you do this, the gunpowder bullets will not fly far. If you hurt one of your own, I will kill you like a barbarian!"
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The recruit reluctantly took out the gunpowder shells from his leather pocket, looked at the two ballistas he was about to fire, and listened carefully to the commander's orders. He was ready to fire the two ballistas as soon as the commander gave the order. He even had some thoughts.
I hope the Xixia people will enter the range of the crossbows soon.
Zhang Zhi, who was galloping on horseback, felt more and more uneasy. The horse under his crotch was obtained from the Western Regions. He snatched it from him after killing the Uighur tycoon in Shazhou. It is said that this horse
It is a purebred Dawan horse from the distant Dawan. It has a violent temper and dares to chase wild wolves. However, at this time, this horse kept roaring and did not gallop in either direction no matter how hard it drove him away.
Gathered in the group of war horses, they galloped forward desperately..." (To be continued)