Chapter 286: The Huns rode and plundered the Jin formation
At this time, the Hun cavalry on the opposite side left the front army of the Jin army about three hundred paces, outside the range of bows and arrows, and also stopped, the Hun cavalry came when the galloping black gas gradually dissipated, it turned out to be the dust rolled up when the horse ran, Liu Yu roughly estimated the number, all the Hun knights were riding on the war horse, there were two thousand people.
The horses of the Xiongnu were not armoured, and even the cavalry on the horses were mostly dressed in cotton robes rather than iron armor.
But the enemy soldiers were armed with a large bow, which at first glance was known to be a strong bow, and as for the weapons they wielded, they were all sorted: spears, maces, battle axes, sabers, brass hammers, and so on.
Liu Yu saw that in front of the opponent's formation, a white-armored general was galloping back and forth in front of the formation, and kept spying on his side. Among the thousands of enemy horsemen in sight, he was the only one in full armor, and he was about a mile away from his own side at this moment.
Taking advantage of the fact that he didn't look at his own kung fu, Liu Yu picked up the iron tire bow, mounted the longest long-pole wolf tooth arrow, calculated the angle, the wind direction, and shot an arrow into the air.
I saw that the white-armored enemy general was still looking away, and suddenly felt a strong wind coming, and when he looked up, he saw a feather arrow flying towards him along the sun, with a terrible whistling sound, and it was too late to dodge, and the feather arrow with the huge potential energy falling from the sky, drew an incredible trajectory, and shot through his neck at once.
The white armor general shouted, turned over and fell off his horse and died, the noisy Hun iron cavalry suddenly became silent, and the strong men in the front row of the Jin army burst into a thunderous cheer.
The range of the general bow and arrow is only sixty or seventy steps, even if the longbowman with amazing arm strength can only shoot more than a hundred steps by taking this way of arcing in the air, although the white-robed general is galloping back and forth in front of the battle, there are at least one hundred and fifty steps away from Liu Yu, and he was killed by an arrow.
Liu Yu was proud when he struck a blow, he enjoyed the feeling of being worshiped like a tsunami by the enemy and even the enemy in front of the ten thousand armies. He turned back to Xiang Jing and the others who were clapping at him and smiled: "See, there is nothing to be afraid of enemy horses, they are also human beings, and they will also die, today, I should break it with all the kings!" ”
All the soldiers of Beifu shouted in unison: "Destroy Hu, kill Hu, kill Hu!" While shouting, he stepped on the ground vigorously, and the sound was higher and higher, overwhelming.
Shu Ye on the other side also looked at Liu Yu with gritted teeth, it was his clan brother who went out to shoot an arrow just now, he wanted to show off his might in front of the Jin army, but he didn't expect to kill the other party directly with an arrow, he roared sharply: "Charge, shoot them!" ”
A dull horn sounded, and Shu Ye, who was standing at the forefront of the Hun army formation, raised the mace in his hand high, and behind him, eight hundred cavalrymen began to walk slowly, slowly accelerating, accelerating, accelerating, galloping, running, sprinting!
The well-trained Hun cavalry let out a terrifying roar, increasing the speed from stationary to maximum, and the four hooves ran wildly, like thunder chasing the moon, eight hundred cavalry, rolling up the dust in the sky, like a yellow dragon, swept towards the Jin army platoon phalanx two miles away.
Liu Yu roared sharply: "Brothers, fall into the lance! ”
Originally, the Jin army was holding a super long lance up to two zhang in one hand, standing in place, hearing Liu Yu's order, after being issued by countless military horns, the sound of the horn was conveyed in the five hundred phalanx soldiers on the front line, and the sergeants roared in unison, changing the long lance to be held by both hands, raising it with the waist, and the tail end of the lance rod was hung with small copper pieces one by one to balance the super long lance about two zhang long.
The sergeants of the first row squatted down, and the lance was raised at an angle of thirty degrees, while the sergeant of the second row carried the lance to the shoulders of the comrades in the front row, and the rough roar of the officers in front spread throughout the battlefield: "Hold on, hold on!" ”
The sound of iron hooves stomping on the ground was getting closer and closer, just like the heartbeat of the front-line soldiers in front of the Jin army, which was constantly accelerating, and the smoke and dust had already wrapped the front-line Jin soldiers in patches of smoke with the strong wind, making it difficult for them to open their eyes. However, with the sound of the first wave of iron hooves, it was not a real horse, but a stormy bow and arrow!
Standing on the front line, more than 200 Jin army commanders suddenly became like arrows, these heavy armor lancers, are some strong men with natural bravery, and they are also covered with two layers of stainless steel armor, almost the entire large iron plate is blocked on the chest, and the dense armor pieces are set on the leather armor, such protection is enough to block the sword when fighting in person.
But in the face of these dozens of paces of distance, the bows and arrows shot by the Hun army's iron cavalry, these bows of more than three stones or the bows of more than two stones of crossbows, are enough to penetrate the big wooden shield at this distance, those stainless steel armor with leather armor, there are also a lot of shots to penetrate, and there is no heavy armor guard, especially the face of the door, it is the arrow that pierces the skull, from time to time someone falls straight and upright, and the companions in the back row quickly make up, a rain of arrows washed, more than ten corpses fell on the ground on the front line, The formation is still immovable.
From the gap in the Jin army's array, more than 100 crossbowmen armed with infantry crossbows rushed out, facing the smoke and dust, and there was no need to aim, it was a burst of crossbow fired, like flying locust-like crossbow arrows drilled into the smoke and dust, the tip of the arrow penetrated through the armor, and the sound of entering the flesh was endless, and from time to time there were also the sound of horses falling to the ground and neighing and screaming, which sounded together.
The long lance bearers of the Jin army let out a burst of cheers, and the sergeants in the front row stood up, stood up straight, and were about to rush forward, but a burst of crossbow arrows flew out of the smoke and dust again, and the platoon fighters who had just gotten up shot down more than 20 people this time, and there was a little chaos and irregularity in the formation.
At this moment, on the right side of the phalanx, a dense burst of crossbow bolts flew again, that is, the cavalry of the Hun army, after sweeping the front of the enemy army in an arc, did not retreat to the rear like an ordinary cavalry ring, but continued to move forward diagonally, rushing to the flank of the enemy.
Due to the smoke and dust at this time, there was no argument on all sides, the Jin army's long lance phalanx, the side was hit by a bow and arrow, compared to its highly protected front, the armor on its flanks was obviously a lot weaker, especially the neck here, some people were shot through by an arrow, screaming and throwing away the row in their hands, desperately grabbing the blood hole in their neck.
Liu Yu's expression was grim, and he shouted: "Don't mess up, turn to meet the enemy on the flanks!" ”