Chapter 214: Crossbowmen Attack Head-on

In front of the big array, when Xu Huang fought against the Right Xian King, the Hun cavalry also tried to detour back to the flank of the Xinxi Liang Army from the north.

However, Huang Yu and Yang Feng had already led the elite to wait for a long time, and even the terrain was specially handled, waiting for the Huns to throw themselves into the net.

The northern part of the Great Array, the terrain is low-lying, and it is specially arranged by the Tuntian Army Engineer Corps, so this is a battlefield specially prepared for the dreadnought army to annihilate the opponent's cavalry.

The five tribal kings of the Xiongnu saw that the arrangement of the dreadnought infantry was two rows of crossbowmen in front, three rows of archers in the back, and then two rows of melee infantry.

There are also various types of melee infantry on either flank of the crossbowmen, but the banners seem to be slightly different.

In their eyes, this formation is much easier to deal with than the big formation in the south. Those crossbowmen numbered at most a thousand, and it was impossible to hold back more cavalry than them, so they discussed it for a while and decided to charge head-on.

The five kings gathered their armoured tribesmen and selected one king to lead his men as the second echelon, with 1,000 armored horsemen and 2,000 light horsemen in front and behind, ready to charge head-on across the dreadnought.

A thousand armored cavalry formed ten conical formations, and began to accelerate from a mile away. Two thousand light horsemen followed, following in random formation, ready to kill the infantry they had scattered.

But a strange thing happened, the first batch of reckless Hun cavalry rushed to the front, and it was logical that entering a hundred and fifty paces should increase the speed, but they were slow, and some of them even lost their feet.

It turned out that this muddy area was not only led by the engineering troops, but also arranged a little scattered tripping ropes and horse rejections. Most of these things are disposable, and they require a little cost, but they are naturally nothing to the Xinxi Liang Army, which is abundant in materials and has been prepared for a long time.

A thousand Hun armored horsemen staggered into range of the crossbowmen. The cavalry on horseback were not too afraid, they were wearing leather armor and holding round shields in their hands, and they were ready to fight the rain of arrows.

Moreover, the horses were shot down when they were not fast, and these cavalry could just avoid accidental casualties, and when the time came, the rest of the people were killed, and the light cavalry behind followed, wouldn't it be easy to solve them?

Their ideas are beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Because this is a cemetery carefully prepared for them, I am afraid that they will not dare to rush over.

"Shoot the arrows! No need to keep it! ”

"No!"

With an earth-shattering roar, the crossbowmen in the front row aimed at the cavalry in the first row and shot at it, and the archers in the back row raised the angle of their shots slightly, and released their arrows without hesitation.

In an instant, more than a thousand arrows swept through the Hun cavalry that could not increase their speed like the wind.

The dreadnought's crossbowmen did not begin to laboriously reload their arrows, but threw their finished crossbows on the ground. Then he took the loaded Que Zhang crossbow handed over by the people in the second row! Another salvo aimed at the target that was still standing!

They then threw away the crossbow machine, picked up a long-prepared Que Zhang crossbow from the back row, and then fired a third round of accurate fire!

After three rounds of direct fire, they picked up the weaker, but easy-to-reload, Zhang crossbow to continue the fire!

Within ten breaths, six hundred crossbowmen shot more than two thousand arrows, and the six hundred archers had not yet made a force, and only shot one thousand two hundred arrows, but this number was enough to severely damage the thousand leather armored cavalry who rushed up slowly.

These Hun soldiers who were sent to death also tried in vain to block the arrows with small round shields and leather armor, but the arrows shot by the powerful Que Zhang crossbow were so powerful that they directly penetrated their bodies with armor!

For some miserable people, the round shield in his left hand was easily pierced like paper, and the sharp arrow was amazingly powerful, and it pierced his arm.

How much energy can a human's fragile arm consume from an arrow? The arrow continued to move forward, plunging directly into the leather armor on the man's chest, slowing down slightly, just before it sank into the heart and lungs.

This is a full set of protection at the level of the Hun centurion, in exchange for which the arrows will not penetrate through the back.

More than 400 people were directly shot dead by 1,000 Hun armored horsemen, and more than 300 people were seriously injured due to arrows, trampling on each other, and horses flying, and barely survived.

Nearly 100 more people were so frightened that they scattered on their own, and a small number of remnants of the soldiers relied on corpses and obstacles, and fought back scattered with ineffective riding bows.

The dreadnought's crossbowmen, under the command of the chief, killed the targets of scattered resistance in order.

With orderly command to deal with scattered counterattacks, the Huns suffered heavy casualties in a short time, and those who survived fled desperately.

What's more, they have experienced the terrible shock brought by Lu Bu, they have carried out arduous tempering this year, and now they are more proficient in cooperating, and they can easily solve nearly 100 Hun soldiers, only a few obscene ones are left, and they are barely surviving.

It is not surprising at all that elite crossbowmen, in specially arranged positions and favorable terrain, crushed the onslaught of the opponent's so-called armored cavalry.

Whether it was the previous Bai Bo Army, Yuan Shaojun or the old Xiongnu royal court army in front of them, they were not only facing a well-equipped, well-trained, and one-in-a-hundred strong army, but also a system based on the tuntian system, accommodating the strong and powerful scholars and the small peasant economy, and integrating them with a system.

This system is based on abundant resources, carries out a large degree of division of labor and cooperation, and controls the degree of explosion of troops very rationally.

The equipment that could arm 50,000 people with someone else was allocated to 10,000. Moreover, the brigades and battalions have also undergone many temperings, spending a lot of time training and strengthening, and the enemy has no power to fight back.

Of course, this is only the beginning of the battle, and this level alone is not enough to be called the best performance in the whole battle.

The two thousand light cavalry following behind hesitated slightly, the misery in front was really amazing, these armored cavalry were the best armor-piercing soldiers in each department, they were all this result, where did the back dare to try it easily.

However, Prince Xian, who led the team, was a famous reckless man on the grassland, and he only said that the people in front were shot to death because there were not enough people, and the people behind dared to rush up, and they would definitely be able to rush up.

He roared and ordered his men to rush forward. Some of the Hun soldiers had brothers who had just been shot dead in front of them, and at this time they were also angry and rushed forward with a fierce light.

"Whoa!"

"Roar, roar, roar!"

The two thousand Hun cavalry, regardless of the obstacles in front of them, roared like beasts and rushed forward.

These people were even more fierce than just now, as if it was not them who had experienced the damage, but the side of the Dreadnought.

Huang Yu withdrew his mouth, these Hun soldiers are really beasts, if ordinary people touch them, it will be miserable.

However, he was not restrained by the sight of his eyes, and hurriedly let people observe the movements of the Hun army in the rear. Soon, a number of soldiers who had observed the enemy situation reported back the results, which made his palms sweat and made him excited.

"Well done! That's a bit of a challenge, so we don't have to chase it. ”

Yang Feng is also eager to try, believing that he will have a chance to perform in a while.