Chapter 301: Chariots
The Shenji chariot, one zhang five feet wide and two zhang long, looks comparable in volume to the common heavy-duty carriages on the gallop road, only the front is slightly wider, but the whole body is cast with quenched iron, almost ten times the weight of a heavy-duty carriage. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The hull rests on three pairs of extremely sturdy load-bearing wheels, which need to be dragged by thirty healthy horses in order to advance and retreat quickly on the rugged battlefield.
The wheels of the chariot have sharp iron spikes of varying lengths and edges, which protrude to both sides, and with the rapid rotation of the wheels, any object that tries to approach the chariot will be accidentally cut and slashed by these sharp iron spikes.
The front and side fronts of the chariot were cast with eighth-level quenched iron plates, and the Vajra Secret Armor Dao Seal was additionally refined to further strengthen the defense; even if the Dao Dan Realm martial cultivator wanted to cut through the armor on the front with a single blow, it was extremely difficult.
The entire carriage is a double-decker structure.
Four medium-sized repeaters, fixed to the front of the side of the lower carriage, with slots protruding from the firing holes and a limited angle of rotation, locked mainly in front of the sides, and eight additional opening and closing viewing holes for the soldiers in the lower carriages to stab their spears and prevent enemy soldiers from approaching the chariot.
The upper layer of the chariot is a semi-concealed structure, and the twelve halberd-wielding armor guards are the main force to guard the chariot after close combat and fight with the enemy soldiers.
In this battle, Chen Hai wanted to use these twelve divine chariots to tear the rebels' battle formation to pieces, and he, Qi Hanjiang and Ge Tong, also directly boarded the divine chariots, and advanced and retreated with these twelve divine chariots, but on the surface, it seemed that they had limited troops in their hands and had to go out in person in order to be able to hold the flank of the spear heavy party formation.
It can be seen that the rebels still want to destroy the seemingly weakest flank on this side in one fell swoop, so that the rebel soldiers and horses assembled on the north side at this time have more than 30,000 horses at a time, as if rolling iron is rushing towards this side.
More than 200 tower shield vehicles formed an intermittent shield wall, which was closed in front of the forward line. After that, there was a forward battle formation of thousands of archers and an even larger number of swords, shields and armor, and the 5,000 elite cavalry led by Kong Peng himself followed the forward battle formation slowly on the flank, looking for more favorable fighters.
In addition to Kong Peng, the rebels also had several Ming Realm powerhouses in the forward battle formation, but the position was slightly back, and presumably no one was willing to guard against Chen Hai's elusive archery skills at all times.
They were surrounded by crowded guards, but they didn't care that Chen Hai's archery skills could still beat them.
It can be seen that Kong Peng and Zhang Xiong are clearly aware that if they want to suppress the dense spear heavy formation, they still have to use a strong bow and crossbow with strong penetrating power on a large scale.
Obviously, the rebels also wanted to use the stretch of shield wall formed by the tower shield cart to resist and consume as much as possible the quenched arrows they had in reserve.
After the rebel forward line advanced to within 2,000 paces, Chen Hai ordered the reins to be cut and let the hundreds of healthy horses dragging the Shenji chariot be pulled behind as fast as possible.
Once a fight is fought, untrained horses scatter in terror and disrupt their own battle formations.
As the rebel front line advanced to 800 paces, the forty-eight crossbows on the Shenji chariot launched the first salvo, and within five breaths, nearly 3,000 quenched arrows shot wildly, forming a metal storm-like rain of arrows, giving people the terrifying power of tearing the heavens and the earth apart in an instant.
The giant shield made of thousand-year-old solid wood is still covered with multiple layers of animal skin, and its protective power can be said to be not weak, but it has also been ruthlessly torn apart by the rain of quenched gold arrows that are as strong as a metal storm.
It's just that the frame of the tower shield car is extremely low, almost touching the ground, and only a few of the frames have been destroyed, and each tower shield car has at least three layers of shields in front and back, as well as six spare shields.
The first time the gold was covered by a rain of arrows, and although more than a dozen tower shield vehicles were destroyed, they were not able to destroy the entire shield wall.
Behind the shield wall, the rebel generals also suffered two or three hundred casualties, but this was completely within the range of the rebels, and more people just raised their huge shields to guard against the surprise attack of the war poultry battalion from the air - of course, the most powerful means of guarding against the surprise attack of the war poultry battalion at this time was the rebels' own elite archers.
Although the rebels do not have mechanical repeaters, thousands of archers or archers who are proficient in riding and archery can form a rain of arrows at a time, which is no worse than dozens of mechanical repeaters.
Seeing this scene, Yue Yiran, who was standing in the distance watching the battle, suddenly relaxed, and smiled with Miao Mingcheng: "This Black Mountain Arrow Demon is also too conceited, they still have a certain advantage with the help of these crossbows a few years ago, but he regards Kong Peng and Zhang Xiong as the leaders of the idle horse thieves, and he is just doing everything possible to delay the opportunity to facilitate them to gain a foothold in Lucheng." But he didn't know that no matter how strong the weapon was, there was a way to restrain it, and the elite army only had twenty or thirty thousand weak soldiers, once he lost the opportunity, let Zhang and Kong come up with a countermeasure, what kind of climate could he become?"
At this time, the forward line of the Montenegrin army had narrowed the distance between it and the twelve chariots to five hundred paces, and the spear heavy party formation was five hundred paces behind the chariots, and at this time it was slowly approaching.
Kong Peng personally led 5,000 elite cavalry to press the formation on the flank of the forward line, and at this time, he also stepped forward slightly, keeping an eye on the 8,000 cavalry of the elite army deployed outside the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge.
As long as these 8,000 cavalry interspersed and rushed forward, Kong Peng would not hesitate to lead 5,000 cavalry to outflank them from the flanks.
With the situation in front of them, no matter how you look at it, the elite army has no chance of winning, and Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran put their vision to the south.
At this time, Ye Qinglin and Ye He had already led their troops into the battlefield.
The two thousand heavy armored cavalry that the royal army relied on the most, after forming an armored horse formation, did not advance quickly, but it was unusually firm, like a raging wave that wanted to destroy everything.
On the south side, Zhang Jun led 20,000 cavalry to set up a defensive formation.
Zhang Jun also knew that it was difficult for the Jiama Formation to organize troops to resist in the front, so he simply dispersed the 20,000 cavalry under his command to both sides of the southern wing battlefield for assembly, leaving a gap in the middle for three or four miles deep, and the Jiama Formation, which was difficult to raise the speed, could enter and exit at will, but put the opportunity for the decisive victory in the southern wing battlefield on the charge of the cavalry on both wings.
In the farther direction, Zhang Xiong personally left and right the reserve soldiers and horses, casually paying attention to the changes in the battlefield situation.
Seeing Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng's layout, Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran couldn't find fault.
Of course, in their opinion, the biggest variable that may be there is still the two thousand heavily armored cavalry under Ye Qinglin's command, which is likely to cross the meadow with a depth of sixteen or seventeen miles, directly enter the battlefield on the northern flank, and attack Kong Peng's department, Zhang Xiong should deploy a defensive combat force in the front.
Of course, if this change really happens, every twelve horses of the heavy armored cavalry are chained together, and the speed is very limited, and Zhang Xiong's side can still send light horsemen with bows from the reserve horses to intercept them from the flanks.
In this way, there should be no new variables, even if the elite army still has 10,000 soldiers and horses in Lucheng, and they are also assembled outside Lucheng at this time, but even if they fly over Tiele Ridge, the combat power of these 10,000 soldiers and horses is weaker, and it should not be able to change the final battle situation.
However, when the real variable that determined the development of the battle situation appeared, the distance between the rebels' forward line and the twelve Shenji chariots had been reduced to within 300 paces, and the thousands of armored archers hidden by the rebels behind the escape wall also opened their bows and shot arrows, forming a rain of arrows covering the Shenji chariots.
The penetration power of ordinary bows and arrows is too limited, and only the sharp sound of metal with a dense thud can be heard, which is as dense as a rainstorm hitting the ground, but it does no damage to the indestructible carriage of the Divine Machine.
Even when they saw this scene, Yue Yiran and Miao Mingcheng didn't feel anything.
The chariot is so clumsy and heavy, and the defense power is naturally not thick, but the dragged war horse has been withdrawn, and no matter how strong the chariot's defense is, it is a dead thing that cannot advance or retreat, and even if the twelve chariots are guarded by more than 100 of the most elite soldiers of the elite army, they will be drowned in the surging crowd of the Black Mountain Army in the blink of an eye.
Is there any doubt about this?
Dozens or even hundreds of soldiers overthrew this chariot, which looked like an ancient beast and made people feel extremely uncomfortable to look at, and the crossbow in the carriage would also be useless.
It may be that in a short period of contact, the mechanical crossbow can still cause some casualties, but this casualty is completely meaningless.
“…… The cavalry at the bottom of the box at the last point of the elite army has been dispatched!" Yue Yiran saw Fan Dachun leading eight thousand cavalry forward, but his face was full of contempt, the timing of the elite army to enter the cavalry was too hesitant and too late, and at this time it was completely impossible to change the situation of the battle.
The thousands of archers in the forward array of the Montenegrin Army were gathering slightly back at this time, thinking that the shield halberd soldiers in front of them would overthrow the twelve chariots by borrowing the protective wall of the shield wall, and the spear heavy formation of the elite army five or six hundred steps away should advance to this side, so they would meet them with a dense rain of arrows.
The wind gust box at the bottom of the Divine Machine Chariot was activated, and countless people felt that there was a strong wind that was close to the ground swirling, blowing stones and sand.
On the battlefield where tens of thousands of people gathered and killed, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Breath was chaotic, which meant that the Xuan Cultivators above the Ming Realm had become extremely difficult to control the Heaven and Earth Yuan Breath with their divine sense, and they would be attacked at every turn, but this did not mean that the Heaven and Earth Yuan Breath did not exist, and it could not be borrowed by some extremely special rune arrays at all.
The Divine Chariot is still too heavy, and even the most sophisticated Wind Gust Tank needs to be activated by two at the same time to increase its speed to the same level as a normal galloping horse, but this is enough.
The tower shield car built by the rebels is made of thousand-year-old wood, and the weight is not light, not only can it be difficult to resist the destruction of the rain of quenched arrows, but it is too light in the face of the god machine chariot that seems to be like an iron stone.
When the Shenji chariot suddenly charged forward, the rebels gathered more than 60 tower shield chariots in front, a group of five tower shield chariots, and a hundred elite halberd shield soldiers gathered behind each group of tower shield chariots, ready to rush forward and overthrow these disgusting and depressing ugly chariots of the elite army as quickly as possible.
Even if the five tower shield vehicles are close together, they can't stop the collision of the god machine chariot at all, after the tower shield car is knocked over, knocked away, and destroyed, a hundred elite halberd shield armor soldiers are exposed, and when they are frightened in the face of the iron lump that even exceeds 20,000 catties and can rush forward more than ten meters in a short period of time per breath, what defense can they have?
What's more, at this time, each of the four repeating crossbows in the Divine Chariot is fanning forward, and those halberd shield armorers who are not covered by a shield wall and the lightly armored archers who are less than two hundred paces apart can have any defensive power?
In the eyes of Yue Yiran and Miao Mingcheng, the seemingly indestructible forward line of the Montenegrin Army was completely torn apart in a few blinks, and the generals of the Montenegrin Army were like wheat after the autumn, cut down by the fierce and crazy rain of arrows.