This kind of spear was calculated by Nie Xiaoyu based on various factors such as the length of an ordinary adult's arms, strength, and the maximum distance it can be extended. The final length of the spear can be said to be specially equipped for this kind of spear battle formation.
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Every soldier in Wang Junlin's army will train in formation in order to lay the foundation for these advanced and scientific battle formations discovered by Nie Xiaoyu.
At this time, densely packed spearheads appeared in front of the array, and the Goguryeo infantry who rushed over the horse instinctively slowed down.
Gao Jianwu was able to send Li Guangsheng to lead 20,000 reinforcements because Li Guangsheng himself was a general with extremely rich battlefield experience. He gave an order and the long weapons such as spears in the hands of the Goguryeo infantry were leveled and the battle line was maintained as flat as possible.
, while recovering his strength, he also approached step by step.
However, because the weapons are different and there is no uniformly trained formation, the lengths, heights, and formations are naturally different. There is no way that Wang Junlin's infantry can be as neat and uniform as Wang Junlin's infantry.
The Goguryeo reinforcements obviously had not experienced this kind of fighting method. Some rushed forward recklessly and fought, but were immediately stabbed to death by the dense spears. Others squatted down directly, looked at each other fiercely under the spear poles, and tried to wait.
Timing, but it turns out that their method is useless.
Before the spears clash with each other to draw the enemy's attention, these short-sighted soldiers cannot attack, otherwise they will be easily skewered by the opponent's dense spears.
During this process, Wang Junlin's trebuchets and the bows and arrows of Goguryeo's rear cavalry and infantry never stopped firing. They continued to cause a certain amount of damage to both sides.
Goguryeo soldiers are not fools. On the contrary, they have rich combat experience. After the sacrifice of some daredevils, including Li Guangsheng, the whole Goguryeo army finally felt that things were different from what they imagined. When they were uneasy, they would not be confused.
Tie it up and bring it to the tip of the spear.
As the two sides got closer and closer, their strides became smaller and smaller. The sharp edges of their spears flashed coldly, both of them extremely threatening. In order to intimidate each other, they both cautiously approached the attack distance.
However, compared to the caution of the Goguryeo infantry, the Goguryeo cavalry was different. They had just been
In order to resist the presence of horses, and the Sui army's armor and helmets had strong defense, their bows and arrows were too ineffective, and they had to endure various long-range attacks from their opponents. They lost four to five hundred cavalry before the actual battle began. Therefore, the Goguryeo cavalry had long been suppressed.
Full of energy and with overwhelming murderous intent in their hearts, they rushed forward impatiently after the infantry cleared away the resisting horses.
In addition to 3,000 Goguryeo cavalrymen guarding both sides, the remaining 7,000 cavalrymen roared towards Wang Junlin's infantry phalanx from both sides.
"Squat down in the first two rows! Reject the horses!" Wang Junlin gave an order from the command platform on the top of the short mountain. The order soldiers around him passed the order to the bottom with drums and flags as quickly as possible. Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong, Luo
Spring came and was quickly implemented.
In front of them were the cavalry rolling in. Wang Junlin's infantry were not too nervous and obeyed the orders subconsciously. The first two rows aimed their spears diagonally in front of them, doing standard horse-repelling movements, while the following rows fired in succession.
The crossbow socket starts to aim and prepares to shoot.
The infantry in the middle of the first echelon are fighting with the Goguryeo infantry, and the infantry on both sides are facing the Goguryeo cavalry. At this time, the first two rows squat down first, and let the back two rows shoot with fast crossbows. This in itself is a battle between Wang Junlin and Nie
Basic training in the infantry regulations set by Xiao Yu.
At this time, there is no need for Wang Junlin to order an attack. Guan Xiaotong and Lu Han of the first echelon will judge the situation and issue orders. Luo Chunlai will lead the second echelon with 5,000 people, and they are ready to fill their positions at any time.
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The Goguryeo cavalry was already at about eighty paces. Guan Xiaotong looked ferocious and shouted loudly: "The last two rows are ready to fire fast crossbows!"
The soldiers in the back two rows stepped sideways at the same time, looking for shooting points. Guan Xiaotong didn't give them much time to prepare, and immediately roared: "Aim!"
Each row of Wang Junlin's infantry had a hundred repeating crossbows, all aiming at the oncoming Goguryeo cavalry. Amidst the thunderous sound of hooves, Guan Xiaotong waited coldly for the Goguryeo cavalry to enter about sixty steps, and then shouted loudly
Shouted: "Let go!"
There was a buzzing sound, and each rapid-fire crossbow fired nine consecutive shots at once. In order to avoid shooting all the arrows at the enemy soldiers in the front row, they would space each crossbow arrow by one breath. There were more than 300 people in the front row.
The Goguryeo cavalry fell to the ground in response.
While the cavalry was majestic, it also provided a larger target. Most of the hits were horses. They rolled violently on the ground, causing chaos for the Goguryeo reinforcements.
"Stand up in the front row! Aim and prepare to shoot!" Guan Xiaotong's tone was still very steady, but he gave the order a little faster.
Amid Guan Xiaotong's roar, the soldiers in the front row stood up and raised their repeating crossbows, while the row behind them began to load arrows into the repeating crossbows.
"emission!"
Another round of two hundred rapid-fire crossbows fired at intervals with nine bursts. The Goguryeo cavalry in front of them fell down more than three hundred horses again, causing chaos again, but the other cavalry speeded up and rushed in frantically.
By this time it was too late for the next round of shooting.
"Reject the horses in the front row!" Guan Xiaotong ordered again. The soldiers in the front row who had just finished shooting all squatted down, and the soldiers in the second row stood up and raised their guns. The military formation was like a hedgehog with spikes.
The Goguryeo cavalry roared in. The Sui army in front of them did not panic at all, and even set up such a spear formation. This shocked the Goguryeo cavalry and made them feel inexplicably uneasy.
The dense formation of iron spears stimulated the Goguryeo cavalry and horses to turn around at the last moment, or want to stop in front of the formation, which greatly affected the effect of the final collision of the cavalry.
The result of his side's cavalry charging the opponent's infantry shocked Li Guangsheng, and he became increasingly uneasy.
Before this, he had never seen anyone facing a cavalry charge without any panic. He had never even heard of it. He almost thought he had been dazzled just now.
Li Guangsheng was shocked. It was not that his cavalry was ineffective. The opponent's first row of infantry was still knocked away a lot, killing more than a hundred people on the spot. However, they successfully blocked the charge of the Goguryeo cavalry.
In the past battlefield experience of the Goguryeo cavalry, unless the number of infantry is several times that of the cavalry, and there is a clever battle formation to cooperate, of course the infantry must be elite soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles, so that they can not be defeated in the first round of cavalry charge.
.But the scene in front of them completely overturned the common sense of the Goguryeo cavalry. This kind of psychological impact was very big.