The local soldiers had no experience and effective means of resisting and suppressing the impact of large-scale cavalry formations. In a panic, they used their spears and spears to block the middle of the shield, and dozens of hunting bows shot at them in a mess behind the shield formation.
The arm-stretched crossbow hung on the left side of the saddle, swaying and flapping rhythmically as the horse galloped.
On the one hand, it is necessary to paralyze the Xuanzhou soldiers who are attacking from the south and have stronger combat effectiveness. On the other hand, the Chishan Army is already so short of supplies that they have to save crossbows. More importantly, the cavalry camp does not have much time to fight with Honglinbu.
The local soldiers fought hard and directly charged into the formation with spears and spears to assassinate them. Only then could they be sure to defeat the Honglinbu local soldiers in less than a stick of incense.
Han Donghu tightly clamped the horse's shaft, which was more than ten feet long, under his right armpit. While holding the rope with his left hand, he also raised his arm to cover his face. In just three or five breaths, he felt seven or eight arrows hit his body, but the hunter
The bow was weak, and seven or eight arrows shot were bounced off by the armor. Then he tightened his horse's grip and stabbed hard at the wooden shield in front of him.
The large shield was made of solid wood, and the outer layer was covered with animal skins of copper and iron. It could be said to be quite sophisticated. It was not pierced immediately, but the impact caused by the high-speed sprint of the war horse was so strong, like a heavy hammer.
He smashed it hard and immediately knocked the big shield and the two country soldiers supporting him seven or eight steps away.
At this moment, Han Donghu pulled the reins and turned his horse to trample over the sword and shield soldiers on the left. However, the horse's spear clamped under his right arm was still firmly tucked under his arm despite such a strong collision.
At this time, he drew a half-circle to the right, and the sharp tip of the blade passed through the neck of a soldier on the flank, bringing out a spurt of blood...
"Swish, swish, swish" three arrows shot past Han Donghu's waist at extremely fast speeds. Han Donghu raised his eyes and saw three country soldiers raising their spears to stab the war horse under his crotch. At this time, they were all hit by an arrow in the face.
Fall forward.
Han Donghu didn't need to look back to know that General Zhao Wuji was showing off his incredible archery skills.
When shooting with a bow on horseback, it takes time to take arrows from the quiver, string the string and fire the bow. People with excellent archery skills will take several arrows and hold them in their hands at the same time, saving the time of taking arrows.
It can shoot out continuously in the shortest time.
This is easy to say, but when shooting the bow, there are two or three other arrows sandwiched between the palms. At this time, it is necessary to ensure sufficient accuracy. Among thousands of skilled archers, one person may not be able to find such a superior archery skill.
In the blink of an eye, the cavalry formation tore open a gap three or four steps wide and seven or eight steps deep. At this moment, several brave men in the cone-shaped formation on the left and right of Han Donghu, who was at the head of the cone, came over with swords to chop, chop and stab.
, blood spurted out, limbs and flesh flew everywhere.
The village soldiers have been training to resist bandits all year round, and some of them are fierce. They attack from both sides with swords and spears, and use their shields to cover their swords and spears. For a while, they also squeezed the ten elite cavalry who were leading the fierce attack to a standstill.
The dozens of advanced soldiers who were at the forefront of the charge were all suicide squads. They were equipped with the best weapons and equipment, and they all wore a full set of armor. The first-level military attachés only had a small amount of rations of armor.
Except for a few extremely unfortunate individuals who were shot with arrows and spears through the gaps in the armor, stabbing in vital parts, or their horses were stabbed, shot down, or thrown off their horses due to the crotch, most of the advanced soldiers who ascended first were defeated by the local soldiers.
If you squeeze in and face dozens of spears and short lances, only your calves and other places that cannot be covered by armor will be injured in a short period of time.
However, in the face of the cavalry formation that was rushing towards them like a raging wave, there were only a few brave soldiers who could not tremble with fear and continue to hold on to the battlefield.
In fact, it is useless to have more local soldiers who are brave and fearless of death, because the elite Chishan Army cavalry they face are also brave and fearless of death, and their equipment is better than them, and there are more people who dare to fight than them.
The cavalry were not afraid of death. In order to seize the opportunity, they even completely ignored the casualties of the horses under their legs. They came directly with the horses weighing seven to eight hundred kilograms or even a thousand kilograms. It took at least five or six brave country soldiers to join forces.
, it is possible to block a fast charging war horse in the flat area!
Zhao Wuji gave Han Donghu a stick of incense to tear apart the array of Honglinbu soldiers. In fact, Han Donghu and the others only used half a stick of incense to kill more than 300 Honglinbu soldiers until they were howling like ghosts and running away with their heads in their hands.
If the more than 300 Honglinbu rural soldiers were not greedy for merit, but occupied a strong courtyard and guarded the town in the north of the pass, Zhao Wuji would still feel extremely headache.
After all, they can only mobilize more than a thousand infantry from the north at the fastest possible time, and the Xuanzhou soldiers killed from the valley post road between Shifo Mountain and Magu Mountain will gather more and more as time goes by. They don't have
Time to calmly attack Honglinbu.
When they block the attack of Xuanzhou reinforcements at the South Pass, these three hundred rural soldiers will pierce their waists like a poisonous thorn.
It is a pity that the leaders of the Honglinbu Township soldiers and the generals of the Xuanzhou soldiers who led the first batch of 300 cavalry from the south still lacked strategic vision. They only wanted to open the pass as soon as possible.
After killing three hundred Honglinbu soldiers, Han Donghu left the pursuit of defeat to the lightly armored cavalry on both wings. He gathered dozens of armored cavalry, turned their horses, and re-formed into a cone-shaped formation for charging.
Direction of South Pass.
At this time, more than 300 Xuanzhou cavalrymen at the South Pass had almost cleared the obstacles on the post road.
After the other two cavalry teams had regrouped on the flanks, Zhao Wuji reined in his horses. Seeing that the Xuanzhou cavalry had also formed a formation at the pass to prepare for a counterattack, he ordered and shouted: "Advance the team first, and advance forward with the crossbow cavalry on both wings!"
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Han Donghu muttered unhappily, but still reined in the war horse, stretched out his hand to stroke the ears of the war horse Zao'er, which was neighing in response to the fierce fighting just now, so that Zao'er's violent temper at the moment could be calmed down, and then he kept his speed.
, let Zaoer step forward on the muddy post road; at this time, the cavalry on both sides took off the arm-shaped crossbows hanging on the side of the saddle, and brought the flat end to the chest - the crossbow arrows had already been loaded during the previous charge.
Load the string - first move forward slowly, wait for the enemy cavalry squad to come out of the pass, then suddenly increase the speed, and when they are fifty steps away, pull the trigger to shoot out the crossbow arrows with cold light, and then quickly turn
The horse's head galloped sideways.
The Xuanzhou cavalry on the opposite side had already taken the carved bow in their hands and put the arrows on the string. Although in the hands of the well-trained cavalry, the time to open the bow and draw the string was very short, but when the two armies met,
In an instant, whoever can shoot the arrow in his hand first will lock in the opportunity and advantage.
Maybe when the first row of bow cavalry and crossbow cavalry of both sides were shooting at each other, the gap was not obvious. After all, it took time for the Chishan Army's crossbow arrows to hit across a distance of fifty steps. In such a short time, it was enough for the Xuanzhou cavalry on the opposite side.
After completing the action of opening the bow and pulling the string to shoot, the gap quickly widened when the second and third rows of bows and crossbows were fired at each other.
After all, when faced with dozens or hundreds of arrows coming, a crossbow rider can fire the crossbow simply by pulling the trigger. How many people can calmly draw the bow and string at this time and ensure a certain accuracy?
Accurate?
"Puff puff puff!" In the first round of close-range shooting, twenty or thirty people from the Xuanzhou soldiers were shot down, while only seven or eight people from the Chishan army fell.
The shortcoming of the crossbow is that the reloading speed is slow, and the enemy cannot be defeated by the crossfire. You must either abandon the crossbow and switch to a sword and a spear to fight in close combat, or you can distance yourself, get rid of the enemy's entanglement, and find an opportunity to reload the crossbow.
The main task of the first wave of crossbow cavalry from the Chishan Army was to disrupt the enemy formation, so that the advance cavalry led by Han Donghu could attack with a sharper attitude. Therefore, after they fired the crossbow arrows in their hands, they immediately took the fallen cavalry with them.
The wounded soldiers scattered towards the open slopes on both sides. At this time, the hooves of the cavalry's horses were already thundering on the ground. They were not afraid of the enemy's cavalry entangled...
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The Shiqi Mountain at the southwest foot of Jieling Ridge is full of weathered gravel. It looks like the Gobi Desert, so it is named Shiqi Mountain.
The sky was getting dark, and a team of ragged soldiers were marching through the gravel-filled valley. Most of the soldiers were wearing straw sandals that had traveled countless roads, and fine stones came in from the loose gaps in the soles of the straw sandals.
The soles of my feet were covered with calluses and were covered in blood.
Although many people gasped in pain, no one stopped. In the dim night, the sallow and thin generals were as silent and ferocious as hungry wolves.
The distance from Xianshan Lake to Nantang Village is one hundred and ten miles.
It rained heavily in Guangde last night. The Second Capital mobilized 6,000 soldiers and horses from the Jiudu Mountain and Xianshan Lake defense lines to march westward in six groups. However, after walking on the muddy road for a day and a night, the fastest group of soldiers and horses were still far away from Nantang Village.
There is a small land of thirty miles.
Han Qian mobilized reinforcements from Xianshan Lake. His original plan was to arrange them all to the Longxu River line, which is thirty miles south of Nantang Village and ten miles north of Langxi City. He used the terrain to organize a second line of defense. This would also make it easier for Lin Haizheng to lead the first capital.
The elite main force withdrew from Nantang Village to reorganize their positions.
However, the main force of the Chuzhou Army stationed in Liyang came out and fought too hard. Thousands of Chuzhou Army soldiers and horses in Jintan, Danyang, and Yangxian also gathered in the direction of Nantangzhai at an unimaginable speed. Lin Hai
Zheng was unable to lead the elite main force of the First Capital to withdraw. The two sides were fighting near Nantangzhai. No matter which side retreated first, it might trigger an uncontrolled collapse.
Han Qian could only adjust the combat deployment. Not only did Wei Chang lead the Chishan Army's only 400 cavalry in Tingzi Mountain to Nantangzhai for reinforcements, but he also ordered Gao Shao to change the reinforcement assembly area of the Second Capital from Longxu River to Nantang Village.
Tangzhai, ordered the six thousand troops to rush to Nantangzhai as quickly as possible to participate in the interception of the Chuzhou Army!
The garrison of Langxi City learned that reinforcements were coming from both sides and had a strong will to resist. They attacked for a long time. The two sides fought repeatedly at the East Gate Tower and North City Gate Tower, but failed to open a gap.
The overcast sky and the lack of light were very unfavorable for attacking the city. The troops of the Third Capital could only withdraw to rest. Zhang Ping saw that he could not help near Langxi City, and at the same time he was more worried that Nantangzhai would not be able to support the front line, resulting in
The entire battle plan collapsed, so he asked Han Qian to supervise the battle on the northern front, hoping that he, the military supervisor, would appear on behalf of Yueyang and boost morale a little.
Zhang Ping led a dozen guards and encountered the first wave of reinforcements from the eastern front when they crossed Shiqi Mountain.
The two sides communicated their passwords, and Zhang Ping and the battalion commander of the group, Xiao Dahu, met together.
Thousands of generals temporarily stopped to rest on the south side of Shiqi Mountain, eating cold noodles with boiled mountain spring water and wrapping their bellies with wheat cakes. Although all of them were sallow and thin, they were full of energy and energy after eating cold noodles and wheat cakes.
It is hard to imagine that the generals who have been trudging on muddy roads for a day and a night, and who have only been half-fed and hungry every day for the past two or three months, would have such high morale.
This is perhaps the most powerful aspect of Han Qian's military management.
In such a short period of time and under such harsh material conditions, an army composed mainly of slaves was able to display such indomitable fighting will and perseverance.
Perhaps the combat effectiveness of each of the Chuzhou Army's elite generals is generally stronger than that of the Chishan Army, but when thousands of Chuzhou Army's elite generals gather together and collide with the Chishan Army of the same size, it's really...