Chapter 556: The First Appearance

The scene of the Huns' attack was extremely spectacular, although there was no uniform formation, but this mode of ten thousand horses galloping and rushing seemed to be superior in momentum, the iron hooves rumbled, and even the earth seemed to tremble gently, and the dust and smoke stirred up went straight to the sky.

In the face of the monstrous offensive of the Huns, the formation of the Wei army did not appear in the slightest panic, and the Wei soldiers, who had experienced several major battles, clenched the spears in their hands, without even a trace of shaking, facing the menacing enemy without the slightest fear.

The phalanx formed by the Wei army was much larger than the usual spear phalanx, at least ten times larger than usual, and even to be precise, it was not a phalanx, but an oblate battle array.

However, whether it is a phalanx or a circle, its structure is generally the same, pikemen are deployed on the periphery, the second line of defense is sword and shield soldiers, and in the back are crossbowmen.

Once the Huns entered the firing range, the Wei army's crossbowmen shot unceremoniously, and the rain of arrows in the sky was like a meteor across the sky, drawing a graceful arc and shooting towards the Hun team.

The Huns almost poured out of their nests, although they fought separately, but there was almost no distance between the horses and the horses, and they were all side by side or in dislocation.

Such a crowded formation is actually preferred by archers, because archers do not need to aim at all, they only need to orient the direction of the arrows towards the attacking crowd.

The arrows rained all over the sky, drawing arcs and then falling down, and after the Hun cavalry was hit by arrows, they kept falling from their horses and drowning in the crowd.

It is very dangerous to fall off the horse in this situation, and it doesn't matter if you are killed by an arrow, anyway, even if the corpse is trampled into mud, there is no pain.

But most of the people who were hit by the arrows were not dead but wounded, sometimes even very lightly, but falling from the horse's back became a nightmare, and countless horses' hooves trampled over their bodies, and they died in agony.

In this case, the one who was shot is not the dead, but the one who falls off the horse will definitely be the dead, and the kind of dead who have no bones left.

The arrows of the Wei army continued to attack, and the Hun soldiers continued to fall off their horses, and the screams were endless, but under this tide, the casualties of individual people could not stop the advance of the army at all, but it was just the blink of an eye, and the Hun cavalry had rushed to the front of the Wei army's battle array.

The high-speed galloping war horse was pierced by the spear with great force, and the huge inertia made the sharp spear sink deep into the body of the war horse.

It is difficult to allocate such a deep spear, the Huns are trying to use such impact to destroy the Wei army's battle formation, although it has to pay a great price of casualties, but in the case of the superiority of the Huns, such a payment is still very worthwhile, at least it can destroy the integrity of the Wei army's formation to a certain extent.

A pikeman without a weapon is equivalent to losing his ability to fight.

Obviously, this is the latest method of breaking the formation invented by the Huns, using the flesh and blood of men and horses to trample a way to break the formation.

For a long time, when the infantry fought against the cavalry, it gradually formed a more effective defensive formation, that is, the spear formation, in the absence of long-range attack means, the cavalry wanted to destroy the hedgehog as difficult as the gun forest, it is indeed not a difficult task.

Now from the attack method of the Xiongnu soldiers in the central part of the country, it seems that Liu Jiao still has a very good way to destroy the spear formation of the Wei army, and uses a part of the men and horses as a sacrifice to destroy the integrity of the Wei army's formation, and the cavalry that attacks after it can drive straight into and trample on the Wei infantry.

Sure enough, when the first wave of shock cavalry was killed, the impact of the second shock wave on the Wei army's battle formation was quite severe, and some parts of the battle formation were already unbearable, and there were signs of being broken by the Hun cavalry.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Yanghu, who was in command of the battle, immediately ordered the whole army to retreat.

This retreat is not a chaotic and disorderly retreat, not a rout in which each flees for his life, but a retreat according to a predetermined plan.

The contraction of the battle formation made the Wei army's defense line shorter, so that the previous loopholes could be easily filled, and in the process of slowly retreating, the battle line was invisibly lengthened, and the attack distance of the Hun cavalry increased, and it seemed that everything had returned to its original appearance, and the Hun cavalry wanted to break through the Wei army's defense line, and they had to continue to attack.

In fact, from the beginning of the battle, the Hun cavalry has paid a lot of price, their casualties are more than ten times that of the Wei army, in front of the Wei army's position, there are countless corpses of people and horses, this kind of corpse accumulation, to a certain extent, also affected the attack efficiency of the Huns.

The contraction of the Wei army's spear battle array was under normal circumstances, and it could hold out for a while, but today Yanghu didn't seem to be ready to hold on any longer, and the Wei army continued to retreat until it was behind the side van.

The Wei army unexpectedly listed such a huge spear battle formation today, but it was actually a formation within a formation, and inside the spear array, another battle formation was wrapped - a partial van car formation.

The partial van formation is a kind of infantry vehicle formation with stronger defensive capabilities than the spear array, at the beginning of the establishment of the army in Hedong County, Cao Liang has begun to build this kind of partial van, but to build this kind of partial van is relatively time-consuming, so until recently, it has been equipped into the army one after another.

The battle of Dongguan was an extremely important decisive battle for the Wei army, and Cao Liang did not dare to hide it anymore, he put the latest weapons and the most sophisticated equipment into it, and launched a life-and-death decisive battle with the Huns who were several times his size.

The Wei infantry retreated in an orderly manner from the gap in each side van, and then this gap was blocked, and in the face of the Hun cavalry, it was like an iron wall.

This kind of chariot Hun cavalry is still the first time to see, the reason why it is called a partial carriage, is because this kind of chariot has only one side of the envelope, the envelope is made of pine planks up to three inches thick, behind the plank, nailed with wooden bars and struts, and the height of the envelope is more than seven feet, but also put an end to the possibility of the cavalry jumping.

The chariots were connected from end to end, forming a towering barrier in front of the Hun cavalry.

Liu Jiao couldn't help but be furious when he saw that the cavalry's attack was stagnant, and he personally stepped forward to urge, but when he got closer, he couldn't help but gasp.

Wow, what a weird thing this is!