Chapter 525: Mo Dao Strikes
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"Zheke, you take my command arrow and lead the 20,000 Golden Wolf Army to the rescue! We must not allow the enemy to burn all our food, otherwise our army will collapse without a fight! Jieli said with a serious face.
"The child understands!" Zheke naturally knew the importance of this, so he hurriedly turned over his horse, and then ordered 20,000 golden wolf troops to run to the grain and grass storage place two miles away!
At this time, Jieli looked at the billowing smoke behind him again, and a bad omen rose in his heart. If it is really Yuming attacking, I am afraid that the grain and grass storage area is no longer guaranteed. In this case, his only way out is to take Juyong Pass, so that he can get food in the city.
"Pass my orders! The whole army is on the attack! Ben Khan wants to personally lead 10,000 golden wolf troops to attack the city! Before tonight, we will enter the Eternal Pass to rest! Jieli gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind. He was now desperate.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! "The drums of war in the Turkic camp beat again.
The Golden Wolf Army, the most elite unit of the Turks, wearing fine iron armor and even having a helmet with a golden wolf head, finally launched a general attack towards Juyong Pass under the personal leadership of Jieli.
The Turkic soldiers besieging the city did not know that the grain and grass storage areas in the rear had fallen. When they saw the Khan leading the Golden Wolf Army into battle in person, they all cheered and their morale was greatly boosted. The attack power on the inner city of Juyong Pass has been greatly strengthened. Especially after the Golden Wolf Army joined the battle group, they swarmed up, climbed the city wall, and gradually relied on the advantage of troops to gain the upper hand.
"Everybody grit your teeth and hold on! The Turks even sent out the Golden Wolf Army, and even the banner of the Turkic Khan has appeared under the city, with the personality of Jieli, this matter must be unusual! If my expectations are correct, it must be that the reinforcements of the King of Zhou have arrived. Luo Cheng shouted loudly at this time.
"Yes! So Jieli had to make a desperate bet and send everyone up. As long as we resist their return! In the end, victory is ours! Yu Yuqing also encouraged the soldiers around him.
The soldiers of the Zhou army at the head of the city saw the county lord wearing a red coat and red armor, holding a spear and fighting the enemy, jumping on the city like a beating red elf. Everywhere she passed, she was clothed, and the Turkic soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
Everyone was greatly encouraged, and suddenly burst out with powerful combat effectiveness, bringing back the original dangerous situation.
Seeing this, Jieli frowned, and was about to order his own guards to also go into battle, but suddenly heard a sound of people shouting horses from behind.
He looked and saw a black line appear on the horizon in the distance, growing thicker and larger, and attacking the Turkic army.
"Withdraw to the camp quickly! Enemy reinforcements are coming! Jieli was so shocked that he ordered to abandon the siege when he was about to conquer Juyong Pass.
"When! While! While! The bell rang for the collection of the troops, and the Turkic soldiers, who were shooting bows and arrows at the Zhou army under the city walls, had to run down the city with all their reluctance. However, the thousands of people who had already landed in the city were difficult to withdraw, and all of them were killed by the Zhou army led by Yu Yuqing, Luo Cheng and Guo Yi. As the siege equipment such as ladders, well railings, and catapults slowly retreated, the Turkic soldiers retreated to the camp like a tide.
The Zhou army at the head of the city was cheering, and Luo Cheng was also relieved, knowing that it was the reinforcements that Yuming led from Hedong to arrive.
"Everyone has seen it: Prince Zhou has led reinforcements to save us! Now rest for half an hour, and then we will open the city and attack, and together with the king of Zhou, flank the enemy army on both sides, so that these Turkic dog thieves will not return! Luo Cheng shouted.
With his order, the Zhou army on the city wall began to sit down and rest, bandage the wounds, replenish the arrow disease in the quiver, and prepare to fight again.
At the same time, the main force of the Zhou army led by Yu Ming also reached the front of the Turkic camp.
And to Jieli's surprise, it was not the cavalry that the Zhou army took the lead, but the infantry.
Judging from the banner, it seems to be a general surnamed Qin.
"Khan, the only general surnamed Qin in the Zhou army is Qin Qiong, and I heard that this person is in command of the Modao Army. Although it is an infantry, it is said that it can fight the cavalry head-on. Ashnaji reminded.
"Humph! I think it's a rumor. I had never seen an infantry confronting a cavalry on a plain. I'm afraid that most of it was blown out by Zhou Jun! Today, Ben Khan wants to let Qin Qiong understand that no matter how powerful the Mo Sword Army is, it is impossible to confront our Turkic wolf cavalry! Jieli snorted coldly.
After Jieli gave an order, thousands of horses galloped in the wasteland, and 50,000 Turkic cavalry held spears and roared towards the Wanmo sword army.
At this time, the soldiers of the Zhou army behind the Modao array bent their bows and arrows and shot a dense rain of arrows at the enemy. Just listen to the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", and the dense arrows intertwined in the air to form a net of arrows, and the rushing Turkic cavalry was shot down piece by piece like cutting wheat. And because they were galloping, when the men and horses fell with arrows, the cavalry behind them would step over the fallen soldiers and horses, and they would be trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves.
It's just that the momentum of the 50,000 cavalry charging together is indeed huge, even if some cavalry were killed by arrows, it did not hinder the overall situation, they still rushed towards the Mo Dao phalanx of the Zhou army like a stormy wave.
"Ten feet!"
The Turkic cavalry had already entered the range of the short bow, and they began to untie the short cavalry bow from their backs, and then began to shoot back, but the effect was not obvious, because the Modao soldiers standing in front of them held a square steel shield in their hands, blocking most of the arrows that came from them. Even if a few unlucky people were shot by arrows, they were not seriously injured, because the armor they wore was as thick as that of the average heavy infantry. Even if an arrow hits, it doesn't go deep into the flesh, and you can resume fighting after bandaging it.
"Twenty feet!"
The Turkic cavalry had already removed their spears from the hooks of their saddles, clenched their hands and prepared to begin the fight. They all had red eyes, and vowed to avenge their comrades-in-arms who were shot dead by the Zhou army just now, and kill all the enemies in front of them.
"Ten feet!"
The Turkic army finally reached the front of the Zhou army, but it also experienced the enemy's round volley, and more than 4,000 comrades were killed by arrows. The main reason why they had more than 10% of the casualties was that the Zhou army used improved longbows, which doubled the rate of fire and doubled the penetration compared with the previous Sui army's standard longbows.
Although the Turkic cavalry wore armor, it was hard and could not be compared with the Zhou army, and they had great confidence in cavalry warfare, believing that even if some people would be killed by the enemy during the charge, as long as they rushed closer, they could crush the infantry of the Zhou army with ten thousand forces.
"Raise your sword!" Qin Qiong shouted loudly at this time.
The Wan Mo knife army is lined up in ten rows, with a thousand people in each row, forming a long phalanx, and the Mo knife more than two zhang long is shining in the sun. These Modao troops were all elite divisions that had fought against the cavalry of Goryeo, Silla, and Khitan, and had rich experience in fighting the steppe cavalry.
The Mo Dao soldiers were close together, and at the moment when the enemy cavalry rushed to their eyes like a raging wave, they touched the tail of the Mo Dao blade raised high to the ground, and leaned forward, so that the Mo Dao and the ground formed a forty-five oblique angle. Make these strange knives stand densely like a sloping knife forest, with the cold light of death.
With a loud "bang", the Turkic cavalry finally slammed into the Mo knife formation, thousands of war horses neighed fiercely, and the long blades pierced into their bodies, and many war horses were pierced by the Mo knife and fell in a pool of blood. The Turkic cavalry sitting on their backs was also flipped to the ground.
"Cut!" Qin Qiong shouted again.
The Zhou soldiers pulled out their swords and slashed horizontally at the Turkic cavalry who fell to the ground.
"Poof! Poof! ”
The heads of the Turkic cavalry rolled down like watermelons, and the grass in front of the Modao Formation was stained red with blood.
This is the power of the Mo knife. Its long term is longer than that of a normal spear, reaching more than two feet. And the texture is extremely hard, even if there is a war horse hanging on many Mo knives, and even a cavalryman, it has not been broken.
This is also due to the fact that Zhou Jun obtained the technology of refining black steel from Dashi, and used black steel to create this kind of hard and tough Mo knife.
Yu Ming requires that the Mo knife must be quite hard. Because he knew that the Mo sword had to withstand the powerful impact of the cavalry, and it could not be required by the standard of an ordinary broadsword. The sword must not be broken or twisted just because a horse or a cavalryman is attached to it.
As the impact of the Turkic cavalry gradually disappeared, the Modao Army, which was originally half-crouching, also stood up and began to advance like a human wall.
They saw that there were also standing Turkic cavalry, both men and horses, and they all rose up and split them in two.
Although quite a few Turks raised their spears to resist. But their spears were really short, while Zhou Jun's Mo knife was long. Often, before their spears reached the infantry of the Zhou army, they were beheaded by Modao.
The Turkic cavalry finally began to be unable to hold on. Although the cavalry behind them was still coming, they were no longer able to move forward. When the cavalry in front saw the might of the Modao Army, they involuntarily showed a look of horror and began to retreat. But the comrades in the back kept pouring in, so the retreating Turks and the advancing cavalry collided together and became a mess.
The war drums rumbled, and the Modao Army advanced in an orderly manner.
The Mo knife soldiers in the first row wielded Mo knives, chopping melons and vegetables, and chopping the enemies in front of them, whether they were Turks or their war horses, were all killed one by one, but they ignored the wounded enemy soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned.
Behind them were the second row of soldiers, who made up for the omissions of their comrades in the front row, and stabbed the enemies who were lying on the ground, and sent them to the western sky.
They were followed by the first and fourth rows of Mo sword soldiers. They marched in turn, in an orderly formation, and when their comrades in front fell, those behind immediately made up for it, always keeping the queue intact.
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