At the front of the Chinese army are three thousand crossbowmen. They are also spearmen. After gathering into a square formation, they are not afraid of the enemy's cavalry. In fierce battles, they will fight behind the heavy armored infantry. The other one thousand soldiers are
The Contradictory Army held high shields and short spears. They were responsible for protecting the left and right wings of the heavy armored infantry.
The 10,000 cavalry will be the main force today. They will not only fight bloody battles with the enemy cavalry, but also suppress their combat range and create conditions for the heavy armored infantry.
‘Woo’
The low horn of the Shatuo cavalry sounded again, and the eight thousand Shatuo cavalry also entered the fighting state, carrying spears and looking ferociously at the Tang army two miles away.
Zhu Xie Moshan's eyes narrowed. Damn it, it's the Tang Army, not the Geluolu people. Geluolu's cavalry is very powerful. He is still a little unsure, but the Tang Army?
Many people think that they can step into the same river twice, and Zhu Xiemoshan is obviously such a person. He has never fought against Guo Song's Hexi Army, but he has dealt with Zhao Tengjiao's Ganzhou Army, and even more so.
He fought fiercely with Wang Lien's Ganzhou Army and wiped out eight thousand Tang troops.
He despised the Tang Dynasty from the bottom of his heart. He was bullied wantonly by the Uighurs, beaten to shame by the Tubo army, and almost destroyed by An Lushan. Can such a Tang army compete with the Shatuo cavalry on the grassland?
A cruel murderous intention ignited in his heart, and he killed all the Tang troops, leaving Zhu Xie Jinhai with no place to shame!
He drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill!"
The eight thousand Shatuo cavalry suddenly launched into action. Thousands of horses galloped, and the earth trembled. They raced at high speed, trying to break down the opponent's defense line with their powerful impact.
"Crossbow ready!"
A Tang Army general shouted loudly, and three thousand crossbow soldiers knelt down on one knee. At the same time, they raised their crossbows at an angle of 45 degrees and shot the opponent in a parabola. When the crossbow arrows fell from a height, then
The firing range is also the killing distance. This is the most sophisticated arm-shaped crossbow of the Tang Army, with a killing range of up to 250 steps.
If the oblique angle is 60 degrees upward, then the parabola angle will be larger, the gravity acceleration of falling from a height will be greater, and the penetration will be stronger, but the killing distance will be shortened to two hundred steps.
However, the Tang army chose an angle of 45 degrees. They had experience. This height was enough to penetrate the leather armor of the Shatuo army, and at 250 steps, they could fire two rounds at them.
The cold arrow is streamlined and has grooves on three sides. Once it hits an enemy, it will bleed. Unless the arrow is pulled out and medicine is applied in time, he will bleed to death.
Shatuo's cavalry ran closer and closer, already within three hundred paces' range. Even the Tang army's war horses felt the overwhelming murderous intent and uneasily tapped the ground with their hoofs.
But this Hexi Tang army has been tempered on the battlefield for a long time and has strong training. They are as immobile as a mountain, looking at the sweeping Shatuo cavalry with cold eyes.
Zhu Xie Moshan suddenly felt that something was wrong. The other party actually gave him a feeling of pig iron, cold, hard, and extremely hard. However, this feeling only flashed through his heart. He had no time to think about it at this time. The hot blood was about to
Breaking through his head.
"Kill!" Zhu Xie Moshan shouted, brandishing his sword.
"Kill!" The eight thousand Shatuo cavalry howled like a pack of wolves.
The Shatuo cavalry finally reached the 250-step line.
‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’ The crisp bang sound suddenly sounded.
The crossbowmen of the Tang Army did not need to be commanded. They knew from the formation that this was a three-round shot. The thousand crossbowmen in the first row were the first to pull the hanging sword. "Click!" A crossbow machine sounded, and a thousand crossbow bolts rose into the sky.
It instantly turned into tiny black dots and disappeared.
The dense crossbow bolts roared and shot into the Shatuo cavalry team. The Shatuo cavalry were on guard and raised their leather shields one after another.
Just as the collision between two high-speed cars will be more tragic, the galloping cavalry encounters a powerful crossbow bolt, and the penetrating power and lethality of the crossbow bolt become more powerful.
‘Poof! Poof! Poof’
The sound of a piece of leather armor being penetrated sounded, and the Shatuo soldiers screamed and dismounted after being hit by arrows. Some war horses were hit by crossbow arrows and fell forward, throwing the Shatuo cavalrymen on their horses away and being thrown behind them.
The galloping horses' hooves trampled it into mud.
After the first row of crossbowmen finished shooting, they immediately pulled out the second crossbow arrow. In order to reduce the load, each person only carried two crossbow arrows, which were inserted into a row of arrow holes on the back armor, just like the bullet belts of later generations.
They struggled to pull the bow string, jammed the crossbow hook, pulled out the crossbow arrow and put it into the slot, pulled up Wangshan, and took sixty steps upward at an angle, all in one movement.
At this time, the crossbow bolts of the second and third rows had been fired, and two thousand crossbow bolts were fired into the running ranks of the enemy. The enemy had already reached a hundred and fifty paces away.
The second round began, and another three rows of crossbow bolts were fired, "Puff! Puff! Puff", like raindrops, shooting at the enemy team, piercing their leather shields and armor, and countless soldiers fell off their horses with wailing.
A young Shatuo soldier was shot in the chest by a gun. The severe pain caused him to lose his balance and roll off his horse. His strong desire to survive made him get up from the ground, but as soon as he got up, he was severely trampled by heavy horse hooves.
On the back of the neck, the neck bone suddenly broke and penetrated the neck.
At the moment when he was about to die, he seemed to see his own tent, and his wife and young son standing in front of the tent, looking at him. His eyes went dark and he never woke up again.
The cruel war caused countless Shatuo cavalry to die like ants.
Two rounds of six thousand arrows caused the eight thousand Shatuo army to lose more than a thousand cavalry, and the remaining seven thousand had finally reached the Tang army fifty steps away.
At this time, the three thousand crossbowmen had picked up their spears and quickly retreated behind the heavy armored infantry. The generals carried their crossbows behind them and transformed into spear infantry. They quickly formed a spear phalanx and used their collective strength to attack the enemy.
The army and cavalry compete.
The protagonist has already appeared on the stage. A thousand heavy armored infantrymen are half kneeling on the ground. They are staggered in pairs, pressing the handle of the Mo Dao against the ground. The sharp tip of the knife points to the sky at an angle of 45 degrees. The Mo Dao is one foot long.
Five feet, that is, about 4.6 meters, is enough length to have enough height to prevent the war horse from jumping over the head. Even if it is forced to leap, it will be disemboweled.
Mo Dao has extremely high hardness and a little less toughness, but it does not require toughness. The extremely sharp tip and blade are enough to pierce through everything and chop everything.
Thousands of horses galloping, already 30 steps away, you can clearly see the faces of the enemy soldiers on the opposite side. It is a kind of ferocious fear, a silent cry of despair, the muscles on their faces are completely distorted, they know that they
There was no doubt that they would die. Many soldiers closed their eyes in fear and allowed their fate to send them to a miserable hell.
But the Shatuo cavalry's extremely powerful murderous intent and thunderous hoofbeats are enough to scare ordinary people out of their wits. However, they are facing a thousand killing machines. The eyes of the Mo Dao soldiers are only cold gray, like the god of death staring at them.
His prey shows no trace of mercy and is so cruel that it makes one's heart palpitate. They are like statues made of iron, motionless.
"boom!"
The galloping cavalry team finally hit the formation of a thousand cold swords. The impact was so powerful that it could smash a closed city gate into pieces, and it could also kill and injure thousands of soldiers.
That was their original plan.
It's a pity that what they encountered was a long Mo Dao. The powerful power was transmitted to the earth through the Mo Dao, and even the extremely sharp Mo Dao would only pierce one chest after another, pierce one war horse after another, and people
The corpses of soldiers and war horses quickly piled up in front of the Modao Formation. With just one collision, more than 1,300 cavalrymen died tragically in front of the powerful Modao Formation.
The series of impacts finally stopped, as if time had frozen on the Shatuo Army.
The cavalry of the Tang Army suddenly broke out and came out from the left and right wings, shouting and killing the Shatuo cavalry. The Shatuo cavalry reacted and turned their horses one after another. The two cavalry armies fought fiercely.
A thousand heavily armored soldiers also stood up suddenly, shook off the internal organs and blood foam on their Modao, stepped on the enemy's corpse, and neatly waved their Modao to attack the Shatuo cavalry.