Chapter 155: Fighters
30,000 cavalry stormed the infantry formation!
The shock is not worse than the tsunami.
Even with Zhuge Lian's crossbow in hand, the hands of many soldiers couldn't help but start to tremble.
It's the instinct of survival that shouts at them, warning them not to try to force themselves against the endless herd of horses as human beings!
However, both the border army and the northern army that followed Li Guang's support were experienced in a hundred battles, and they were all too familiar with the instinctive reaction to the cavalry.
They took deep breaths again and again, keeping their eyes glued to the knight on their horses, ignoring the fear in their hearts.
Even Tang Qi, when he saw the scene of 30,000 cavalry attacking at the same time for the first time, he was so shocked that his face was stiff and his mouth was dry, and he didn't recover for a long time.
The performance is worse than the war horse under the crotch.
Chen You calmly shouted for the soldiers to be quiet, and a pair of eagle eyes stared at the front motionless, which formed a stark contrast to Tang Qi, the "rookie egg".
At the end of the day, Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without changing color.
This has nothing to do with guts and will, only with battlefield experience.
It is difficult for modern people to imagine the visual impact of 30,000 cavalry charging at the same time.
And that's just a poorly equipped mounted archer!
If it were replaced by heavy cavalry, it is estimated that any modern person would not be able to sit on a horse honestly, and his hands and feet would have been paralyzed.
After Tang Qi reacted, he didn't get too entangled, and simply didn't look at the scene of the collapse of Mount Tai of the Hun army.
This time he turned his head, but he happened to see Huo Quzhi's red cheeks.
This kid also stared closely at the cavalry in front of him, breathing rapidly, his mouth slightly open and panting, but it was not because of nervousness, nor was it fear.
That face, as well as the sparkling eyes, and the clanging sound of the ring-headed knife hitting the iron armor, all expressed Huo Quzhi's mood now.
Excited!
"This kid was really born for the battlefield." Tang Qi shook his head helplessly.
The battle ahead has begun.
It's not quite accurate to say it's a battle.
It is nothing more than the crossbowman following the boring password, and deducting the hanging knife again and again.
The cavalry that rushed to the front was like a leek cut by a sickle, pouring stubble after stubble, and without delaying the people behind continued to roar and howl and rush forward.
The cavalry charge relied on momentum!
No matter how reluctant they were before going into battle, these steppe people, who had lived on horseback since childhood, who had been able to walk since they could walk and shoot rabbits, and who had to follow adults to raid other small tribes when they were half-grown children, knew very well.
On the battlefield, leaving your back to the enemy is the real way to die!
Before their courage is exhausted, no matter how many casualties they pay, they will move forward!
Tang Qi was already stunned.
This time it was different from the 5,000 servant army's homely charge, in the case of the Huns pressing the formation, these vassal cavalry with complex composition burst out with amazing courage and combat effectiveness!
They can even brave the horror of a thousand arrows to draw their bows and shoot at the crossbowmen!
There were even several times when they were almost successfully hand-to-hand!
Round after round of crossbow bolts were thrown out, barely able to contain the momentum of the cavalry's charge.
Even the crossbowmen ushered in the first major casualties!
The crossbowmen in the first row continued to fall, and the empty seats were filled by their comrades.
The fifty meters in front of the Han army seemed to have become a vacuum.
Fifty meters ahead, there was a Hun army that was screaming fiercely and rushing forward on the corpses of their comrades.
Fifty meters back, there were one after another fallen Han crossbowmen.
And on the ground within a range of fifty meters, it was clean, and there was not even much blood splashed, as if it was not part of the battlefield at all!
However, this part of the battlefield that "does not belong" is slowly shrinking.
The cavalry of the vassal tribes, at the cost of ever-expanding casualties, was gradually closing the distance between them and the Han army's bow and crossbow array.
The cavalry team of more than 30,000 people disappeared by a third in an instant in just a few blinks of an eye!
The casualties of the Han army are also gradually increasing as the distance is getting closer.
It is conceivable that if they were holding in their hands, it was not an improved version of the Zhuge Repeater that could fire fifty arrows in a row without winding, and its power and range were greatly enhanced.
Instead, if the Han army's traditional arm crossbow and stepping on the crossbow must have been short-handed at this time!
The sword and shield bearers and halberders in the rear have already begun to move according to the military order, and are ready to step forward to replace their crossbowmen and crossbowmen.
"Even the smashing of Wuhuan, Donghu, and Kangju are so fierce, and the Huns are even better than them, no wonder they can become the old enemies of the strong man."
Tang Qi muttered to himself.
The situation on the battlefield is strange.
The thickness of the large array of bows and crossbows is slowly weakening, and the cavalry of the vassal tribes is only a little more than half.
However, the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Han army led by Li Guang and the 10,000 elite of the Xiongnu headquarters of Zhao Ponu's relatives all stopped quietly in place without moving.
are all staring at the movements of the opposing coach, trying to come first.
Tang Qi had calmed down at this time, raised his monoculars, and was observing the situation on the battlefield.
Suddenly, Tang Qi put down his hand, licked his lips and said, "Go sick, if your heavy armored cavalry attacks these cavalry archers, can they chisel through?" ”
"The gap in strength is too big, and I don't dare to pack a ticket for a total victory." Huo Quzhi seemed to be modest, and then turned around, "But if you chisel through, even if I go to chisel the Hun headquarters, I can chisel through at least two round-trips!" ”
Tang Qi nodded.
He knew that Huo Quzhi was not bragging.
In the era of cold weapons, especially in the Western Han Dynasty, where the heavy cavalry nemesis had not yet been born, even if there were only 500 heavy cavalry rushing up, it was enough to become a nightmare for any foot soldier or light cavalry!
Heavy cavalry is often used to storm heavy infantry, but now, they will be used to storm cavalry!
"Listen to me." Tang Qi motioned for Huo Qu's illness to come over, and explained like this and this, "How about it, dare you?" ”
Huo Quzhi grinned: "Even if you don't say it, Brother Tang, when the opportunity comes, I will ask for battle!" ”
"Good!"
A herald ordered the soldiers to pass through the formation, arrived at Li Guang, and conveyed the words of Tang Qi and Huo Quai.
"Is this the meaning of the Great Farmer's Order?" Li Guang was still a little skeptical.
After all, Tang Qi is a civilian official, and he has never been on the battlefield.
The herald said: "Captain Yao said that he also meant this!" ”
"Since you agree to go to the sick, then bet on him!" Li Guang is also a decisive general, "Tell the heralds, go around the local flanks!" ”
More than 3,000 cavalry finally moved.
The movement was so big that Zhao Ponu, who was far away in the Xiongnu army, could also see it clearly.
"It's finally here." Zhao Ponu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and seemed to sigh something, "Tell Ada, take his seven thousand children, eat the opponent's cavalry, he knows how to fight!" ”
The herald took the order and departed.
Under the banner of the Han Army, Huo Quzhi also put down the binoculars suddenly: "It's moving!" ”