Chapter 434: Armor Piercing in a Hundred Battles (Part II)
When the Qin State attacked the Six Kingdoms, the Hundred Battles Armor-Piercing Army under Wang Jian had a prototype, and it was subject to the national conditions of the Qin State at that time, and the armor, shields, and spears needed by the Hundred Battles Armor-Piercing Army required a great deal of money. Waiting until the Great Qin was in the world, Emperor Yingzheng collected all the weapons of the defeated Six Kingdoms and gathered them in Xianyang City, except for the twelve bronze men cast to be placed in the emperor's tomb, the rest of the weapons were all melted and cast into armor and weapons, which made this heavy infantry corps that can be called Qin or the world's first appeared in front of the world.
Charles didn't expect his enemy to be so tricky, even if he led the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group to gallop around in the Western Regions, he had never seen such a powerful opponent, which was more powerful than the elite army of the Roman Empire, his own people had suffered so many casualties before they rushed in front of them, and the opponent's shield and his own shield were not at the same level. Compared to the Roman Guards, the Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment is much more luxurious in its own army's equipment, but their shields collide with the enemy's shields, and they can't shake the other party at all. With such a big gap, Charles already regretted it a little.
Wang Li looked at the enemy rushing towards him from the rear, in addition to the guards, more of them were dressed differently from another army, although they were caught off guard and made the opponent suffer a big loss, I am afraid that the next battle will not be so easy.
"Shrink the formation, deploy the gun formation!" The enemy has already rushed to the front, if you continue to defend passively, it is no longer meaningful, Wang Li decisively ordered, arrange a gun formation to meet the enemy.
The so-called gun array is similar to the shield array that Gandalf led the Guards to block the North County cavalry outside the city a few days ago, but the gun array of the Hundred Battles Armor-Piercing Army is more aggressive than them. The shield used by the Hundred Battles Armor-Piercing Army has a palm-sized square hole at the top, through which the person behind the shield can observe the enemy in front of him, and then dozens of people gather together and use the shield to surround themselves and their companions behind the shield, like a moving steel fortress, facing the enemy all the way over.
The soldiers of the Guards and the Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment who rushed up behind stopped their advance, and Charles understood that this was the same heavy army as his own. "Hold a shield to meet the enemy!" Charles had already seen that the enemy was far outnumbered by himself, so he did not let his men continue to force his attack on him, but surrounded him from all sides. Even if it is a fierce tiger, it will only fall in the face of a group of hungry wolves.
There are only 50,000 armor-piercing troops in a hundred battles, and the combined blood wolf mercenary group and the guards have nearly 80,000 people.
The Hundred Battles Armor Piercing Army does live up to this domineering name, the Hundred Battles Armor Piercing, the spears in their hands are all carefully crafted, in addition to the unique materials of the Qin Army's casting weapons, some mercury is also specially added, which makes the toughness of the weapons in their hands have been greatly improved, and they have the upper hand in the face of the metal armor of the Guards and the Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment. Compared to the wooden-handled spears of the Guards and the Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment, they only need to charge with their shields, relying on their huge strength to crush all enemies in their way.
There are dead people on the battlefield every moment, and the cavalry of the Qin army on the north and south sides of the battlefield have already rushed back and forth twice, almost completely breaking up the cavalry formation on the Hu people's side, and only need one more charge, and the Hu cavalry almost has no combat effectiveness. And the infantry of the Qin army is also working hard to complete the division of the Hu camp with their own cavalry, so that the infantry cannot support the cavalry, and the cavalry cannot cover the footmen. This time, the 100,000 slaves who came with Charles, as cannon fodder, rushed to the front, almost without any resistance in the hands of the Qin army, and almost all of them were killed in less than an hour after contact.
Sang Kun didn't feel sorry for how many people under him died in battle, he led an army to fight with the Qin army, and wanted to counter-encircle the Qin army, anyway, they just had a lot of people, and they couldn't fight tactically, so they would overwhelm you in numbers.
Meng Tian led the Chinese army to meet Sang Kun, and the commanders of the two armies met. Speaking of which, Meng Tian still fought with Sang Kun once, it was the Meng family army led by Xue Bin who drove Sang Kun out of the grassland, and Sang Kun's impression of Meng Tian was only that he knew that Meng Tian was the commander of the Meng family army, and this time it was the first time for the two of them to see each other outside the North County City.
Sang Kun rode on the horse and saw Meng Tian among the ten thousand armies at a glance, Meng Tian's war horse and the armor on his body, as well as the image of being protected by many soldiers of the Meng family army, were too easy to distinguish.
There is a way that the enemies are very red when they see each other, and Sang Kun led the army to kill directly in the direction of Meng Tian.
Seeing a strong man riding on a horse leading the troops towards him, Meng Tian also recognized that this was Sang Kun, the culprit of this war. Sang Kun came just in time, saving Meng Tian the effort to find him.
"Array, meet the enemy!" Most of Sang Kun's back were cavalry, and from the position where he saw Meng Tian, it was only a matter of half an hour to rush over, if it wasn't for the Qin army on the road, it might be faster. After seeing such a cavalry rushing over, the generals of the Mengjia Army under Meng Tian quickly prepared to meet the enemy.
"General, the enemy army is fierce, and the last general asks the general to watch the battle in the rear!" said a general who clasped his fists at Meng Tian, after all, the number of Hu people was much larger than them. And Shun
Meng Tian ignored the general, he just said, "You guys let go and go to war, don't pay attention to me." As your general, I will naturally not leave you on the battlefield. ”
Meng Tian's words greatly encouraged the soldiers of the Meng family army who heard it, and everyone was gearing up, looking at the Hu army rushing over, their eyes revealing a frenzy.
Sang Kun didn't expect that there were not many cavalry on the other side, and in the face of nearly 100,000 people behind him, he actually wanted to resist hard? Do you think you are the ruthless men under Gandalf who don't want to die? Sang Kun rode on a horse and rushed to the front, and before he could rush to the front of the Qin army, a round of arrows shot out behind him, falling on the Qin army formation and falling down a piece of Qin army.
"Kill!" Riding on a horse, he cut off the head of a Qin soldier with a single sword, and Sang Kun, who smelled blood, and the Hu people behind him were like wolves, and began to rush left and right in the Qin army.
Behind Meng Tian were cavalry, and in front of him were all foot soldiers, and the formation was not wide, but the depth was very long. The Hu cavalry led by Sang Kun rushed all the way, but before they could reach the center of the formation, they could hardly advance again.
This is the tactics developed by the Mengjia army in the face of the enemy's cavalry charge, in fact, there are very few regular foot soldiers in the real sense of the foot soldiers in front of Meng Tian, each of them has a halberd in their hands, and many people have a rope on their bodies, it can be said that these people are specially trained to deal with cavalry. The halberds in their hands can cut off the horse's hooves before the cavalry rushes over, and the ropes they carry can pull the cavalry off their horses after they charge, in the words of Xue Bin, who invented this tactic, that is, to artificially create a muddy ground for the enemy's cavalry, so that once their cavalry falls into the mud, it will be slaughtered.
Sang Kun rushed to the Qin army and found that something was wrong, this Qin army was too weird, they didn't attack the rider on horseback, but only the horse's leg. The horse that rushed in front was injured and fell to the ground, which became an obstacle in the way of the cavalry rushing behind, and once it could not break away in this kind of terrain, it would definitely be surrounded.
After swinging his knife to cut a rope thrown at him, Sang Kun felt a little bad. "Haruki, Haruki!" Sangkun shouted to Haruki as he rode his horse.
"Great Chief, I'm ....." Sang Kun looked to his side after hearing this, his shout made Haruki a little distracted, and he didn't see a Qin army stabbing at him with a halberd in his hand. Sang Kun saw Haruki looking at him, and then a Qin soldier stabbed Haruki off his horse with a weapon, as for what happened to Haruki, Sang Kun didn't have to think about it.
Sang Kun knew that he had been tricked, and shouted loudly: "Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops!" He no longer charged forward on horseback, but turned his head and rushed in the direction of the left.
Seeing that Sang Kun was preparing to retreat, Meng Tian looked indifferent, and then with a clamp on the horse's belly, he took the lead in pursuing the fleeing Sang Kun, and behind him five thousand Mengjia army cavalry quickly followed. Different from the cavalry of the other Mengjia Army, the cavalry armor behind Meng Tian, the cloak behind him and the war horse under the crotch are all covered with a layer of armor, the color of the armor is gold and red, running on the battlefield like a galloping fire, this is the golden fire cavalry under the command of Meng Tian, and it is also the first heavy cavalry in the Great Qin army.
This cavalry is more like a killing weapon specifically responsible for charging and killing the enemy than the Hundred Battles Armor-piercing Army brought by Wang Li, but because all the men and horses are wearing armor, their staying power is far inferior to the other cavalry of the Mengjia Army, and this cavalry directly belongs to the leadership of Meng Tian, where Meng Tian appears on the battlefield, the Golden Fire Cavalry will appear somewhere.
The reason why Sang Kun chose the left side of the Qin army to break through was because there was Charles in that direction, as long as he could join Charles, it would be more than enough to block the Qin army's footsteps with their cavalry and foot soldiers combined.
Charles led his mercenary group and guards to surround Wang Li and his armor-piercing army, but in the face of the opponent's almost flawless play, Charles was difficult to win for a while, so he could only fight steadily and consume the opponent's physical strength little by little.
The armor-piercing army of a hundred battles is indeed powerful, but after a long time, their physical strength is not enough, after all, they are wearing nearly fifty or sixty pounds of armor, and they also have weapons and shields in their hands, these things are certainly sharp weapons to save their lives and kill the enemy on the battlefield, but they are also their biggest fetters.
Charles was well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of this army, and after he sensed that the opponent's physical strength had declined, he began to order the attack.