Four hundred heavily armored cavalry lined up in a line. It seemed that they could overwhelm the Tang army's line simply by raising their lances and pushing them forward. Behind these four hundred heavy cavalry were two groups of light Arabs.
The existence of cavalry and physical cavalry was to help them block the heavy arrows of the Tang army.
Duan Xiushi said in amazement: "If you hit this kind of thing hard, it might not even be able to penetrate their armor."
Li Siye: "Of course we can't fight hard. The horse armor and the people carrying the armor have made the horse's load-bearing capacity reach the limit. The strongest is also the most fragile. Our Fuyuan crossbow team is equipped with crescent shovel arrows. Seeing the equipment
The horse's legs must be broken. The height cannot be lower than the knee. Use a crescent shovel and arrow to break their horse's legs first!"
As the name suggests, the crescent shovel arrow is an arrow in the shape of a crescent shovel. Its cutting edge is a crescent moon, and the crescent moon is facing forward with its inner arc. It is specially designed to deal with flagpoles and horse legs.
After Li Siye gave the order, Duan Xiushi immediately ordered people to arrange the Fuyuan Crossbows in a dense formation, which was as wide as the formation of Dashi's heavy cavalry. They were still more than 200 steps away from the Tang army's front formation, but the Jinnu's attacks were mostly parabolic.
If you want to shovel the horse's leg, the distance must be very close, almost meeting the requirements of a flat shot.
Therefore, before the hundreds of Fuyuan crossbows were launched, the Tang army still covered the rear of the cavalry with arrows, effectively killing the enemy's effective forces.
The enemy's horse armor was close before our eyes. We could see their heavy silver armor, which was as shiny as scales. The people on the horses were also wrapped in armor and chainmail, and even their faces were hidden in the armor.
Under the silver chain mail.
Duan Xiushi stood behind the crossbow with the command flag in his hand, narrowed his eyes and wrinkled his nose. His pupils were deep and solemn, like a precise high-speed camera. He waited until the opponent was close to more than seventy steps away.
At that time, he waved and shouted: "Aim, crescent shovel arrow, shoot!"
The soldiers fired their crossbows, and the crossbow arrows poured out a clear light like silver light. It was visible to the naked eye that dozens of horses suddenly had their legs broken and collapsed to the ground like an iron mountain.
The cavalry commander in the rear hurriedly shouted: "Spread out! Spread out! Don't be level with each other."
In order to reduce casualties, the heavy cavalry widened the distance between them, or staggered forward and backward. Another round of crescent shovel arrows came, and more than 20 horses fell to the ground. The light cavalry behind them had no time to stop their momentum, and the company
The man and the horse hit him.
After the third round of crescent shovel arrows were fired, the enemy and we were nearly forty steps apart, and less than half of the mounted cavalry were killed. Li Siye shouted again: "Bombardiers! Up!"
A thousand soldiers ran to the front row. In addition to carrying supplies, each of them also carried a dozen fierce fire thunders. Some were held in the hands like lead balls, and some were tied to arrows like iron pipes, but they were so close together.
From this distance, even a woman can throw fierce fire thunder at the feet of the armored cavalry.
Li Siye personally commanded and ordered: "Pay attention to the burning progress of the twisters, don't throw them too early or too far! Blast them for me!"
This is a standard modern gunpowder ratio. Needless to say, it is powerful. Its shell is still made of cast iron. When it explodes, shrapnel flies everywhere. Neither the horse's legs nor the unprotected belly can withstand it. In the rolling flames,
The horses wearing horse armor were blown up and staggered. Coupled with the crescent shovel arrows, only about 30 of the more than 400 heavy cavalry were left to survive. They reined in the horses and dared to rush forward.
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Ziad shouted angrily on his horse: "The pagan magic of this witch has not ended yet! Quick! Order the heavy cavalry to retreat, and the light cavalry quickly make up the attack."
Li Siye responded calmly and shouted: "The infantry team is setting up their guns! The Modao team is behind! Get ready!"
The soldiers of the infantry team stepped forward and set up their spears. These heavy-eating light cavalry would not dare to collide with them. They could only attack by peeling potatoes. That is, the cavalry charged to a dozen paces away and then slowed down and raised their weapons.
Cavalry, because the length of the lance on horseback is much longer than that of the rifle, the cavalry can get close to stab.
At this time, it was time to test the discipline and psychological quality of the Tang army. The heavy infantrymen holding large shields quickly moved to the front and resisted the thrusts of the lances. The horse spears at the rear stretched out from the gaps in the shields to stab people.
The horse, and the crossbowmen in the rear aimed at the horse's head and shot.
When the enemy cavalry's momentum became too strong and they were about to retreat, the Mo Dao team, the real big killers, rushed up immediately. They formed a steel wall of killing and slashed at the enemy cavalry.
Waves of wailing sounds fell to the ground, blood spray sprayed on the cavalry, and the knights screamed. This kind of blow was extremely destructive to the psychology and will of the Great Food Army.
The autumn wind blew, and the blood mist drifted against the Tang army's formation. Everyone could smell the blood and felt their stomachs churn.
Li Siye shouted loudly: "Dunbijia, it's your turn to use your strength! Surround them from both sides, don't let the enemy cavalry escape!"
"Han Haijun! Cover Donpiga's cavalry and don't let the cannibal infantry reach the enemy cavalry!"
Bi Sishen, the commander of the Yamen, waved the command flag with both hands. Ge Luolu's cavalry raised up the billowing dust and rushed out from the central army. They circled between the front army on the left and the right and moved diagonally towards the side and rear of the food army to outflank Tian Zhen.
Lead Han Haijun to pass through from the right and insert diagonally into the middle of the enemy's infantry and cavalry joint. Their goal is to defeat the cannibal cavalry first. As long as the opponent's cavalry is eliminated, even if the infantry escapes, they can still be defeated.
catch up.
Only a quarter of the time has passed since the beginning of the war between the two sides, but various strange moves have emerged in an endless stream, and the formations have changed rapidly, requiring extremely fast reaction speed and correct decision-making. Therefore, even if Li Siye is riding on a horse and commanding Ruoding,
He was extremely nervous, which could be seen from his tight grip on the horse's reins.
Ziad's voice was hoarse from shouting, but he still could not restore the defeat in front of him. Two enemy cavalry held back his elite cavalry and moved slowly. The Mo Dao teams on the left and right front of the Liuhua Formation waved their blades towards
He pushed forward. In order to save the cavalry army, he pushed all the infantry formations forward.
The collapse of the mountain happened in an instant, and the defeat of the army also happened in an instant. The cavalry of the Dashi Army was attacked by the Mo Dao team and the Tang cavalry, and lost their will to fight. Since there were strong enemies on three sides, they could only
He could panic and flee in the direction of his own infantry, which in turn smashed the infantry formation into pieces.
"Steady! Steady!" While Ziad tried his best to save the situation, he felt that the situation was over and shouted loudly: "Retreat! Retreat in the direction of Mulu!"
After his retreat order, the food army began to retreat in groups, escaping along the dense river beach in front of Kangju City.
Seeing that the overall situation was decided, Li Siye had no time to celebrate excitedly and immediately ordered: "The Hanhai cavalry and the Geluolu cavalry are pursuing the Dashi army, and the infantry will form a long snake formation to collect fish that have slipped through the net. We will maximize our victory advantage and annihilate the enemy."
On the way to escape."
The cavalry of the Tang Army pursued all the way to Nasebo City, eighty miles away. General Ziyad once again showed his superb escape skills and fled to Kizi with only two thousand white camel troops.
Lekum Desert, after passing through this desert, they really arrived at Mulu City in the Khorasan Administrative Region where they lived, and they were truly on their own territory.
Two consecutive battles in Kesei City and Samarkand killed Ziyad's soul, and also wiped out all the troops deployed by Dashi in the river. Even most of the troops in Khorasan were lost. Even if he returned to the
The city is unable to face the censure of its superior Abu ***, and adults must take responsibility for their own failures.
If Li Siye dares to advance forward, it will be an armed invasion of their territory, which will definitely make the Caliph in Baghdad extremely angry. Does the Caliph have to mobilize the entire country to stop this beast from the east?