Chapter 437. Horse City
The role of prestige here is revealed here, although seeing the whole army rout, Wang Hou ordered to dismount, five thousand tigers and leopards to ride, and one thousand Qingzhou horses still turned over and dismounted without hesitation, and lined up on foot.
Thousands of people retreat and go alone! That's how it feels!
On the periphery, under the desperate shout of Wang Hou's neighing, every heavily armored war horse wearing horse armor was led to the edge, and the horse owner led the head and tail to form a double-layer horse formation, which was like a wall to firmly wrap the Han heavy cavalry in it.
"General! The rout is coming! ”
When this Wang Hou was still organizing a defensive array on the hill, Cao Chun, who was on the periphery of the side, was already shouting anxiously, and when he raised the telescope listening to his shouting, Wang Hou immediately roared in a rough and arrogant voice.
"Are Cao Zi and you afraid of death?"
"How can you put on armor and go into battle if you are afraid of death?"
"Okay, you are the first, lead the first song out of the horse formation and swing the triangular spear formation, and those who dare to hit my horse formation, no matter whether they are enemies or me, they will be killed!"
"The last general obeys!"
Soldiers are not afraid of death! I'm afraid that none of my backbones will die in vain! Compared with Zhang Liao, Wang Hou is more reassuring, in his roar, Cao Chun loudly promised, and immediately stepped out of the camp with a long lance, with his roar, more than 400 Han army brothers were also wearing heavy armor, resolutely broke out of the horse formation, in the sound of the armor impact, more than 400 horse lances more than three meters long fell like the spikes of a porcupine and faced forward.
The first cavalry of the Han army who came over was head-on, looking at this cold and shining cone-shaped formation, the first dozen or so Han soldiers who ran fast on their horses were so frightened that they were simply dead, and shouted loudly that they were defeated, and they were far away, giving way and other words, but Cao Chun was unmoved, and when he saw that he was about to crash into the sharp spear tips, the Han army veteran in front was helpless, and suddenly jumped off his horse, and rolled in from under the spear array.
The veteran has rich experience on the battlefield, but the recruits and those war horses are not so lucky, in the shouts of fear and despair, the sharp lance more than half a meter long easily pierced the human body, the horse body, blood splashed backwards, in the wailing of the war horse, Cao Chun ruthlessly put down more than a dozen of his own people, looking at the screams of the people in front of him turning over on their backs, the Han army that was defeated backwards was subconsciously passing towards the two partial horses.
In the torrent of cavalry with rolling iron hooves, under the support of this blade array, Wang Hou's heavy cavalry array is like a tough reef in the fierce, and I will not move if the waves are monstrous!
Galloping for more than a minute and a half, less than 20,000 The main force of the Han army then drifted away, halfway, Cao Chun also took a look with Zhang Liao Xiahoudun, looking at his appearance in the battle formation, Xiahoudun was all shocked and thoughtful, and Zhang Liao was as if he was relieved, and immediately pulled off the reins of the horse.
After the Han army, it was the Wuhuan people, who were tightly holding the back of the Han army's buttocks, and slashed with arrows as much as they could, and suddenly, there was such a hedgehog array in front of them, and the Wuhuan people who were caught off guard were also blocked by a person who turned over on their backs, and some howled and frantically pulled the reins of the horse, but they were hit by the horses of the comrades behind them and flew out with the horses, and the lucky ones also rolled down to Cao Chun's feet, and the unfortunate point was that they were trampled into meat paste in the bone cracking sound of Gaba Gaba.
However, the more than 20 veterans of the Han Army who had just rolled down were not vegetarians, squatting down to watch them tigers, swaying in front of them, slashing without taking out their knives and directly knocking them to the ground.
There are even more tigers who can't avoid it, and they simply kicked the horse's belly with their feet hanging in the air and slammed into it, the sound of the blade entering the flesh that made people feel cool sounded again, and a war horse was even pierced by three blades at the same time, and the person who threw it out flew towards the horse formation, but he was still greeted by a few long lances that were raised, and in the neighing sound of cutting meat, Cao Chun, a heavy party formation, took down more than forty Wuhuan cavalry.
Don't think that the cavalry charge is terrible, the cavalry three treasures, in the era when there is no machinery, the most terrible thing about the cavalry is its mobility, and the impact is the last, in the Battle of Crecy in the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, the French army's imposing knights were easily stopped by the British barricades and tomahawks, and then shot by the longbowmen into mental retardation, and the later Swedish mountain halberd corps also had many records of intercepting the cavalry, and those who fought against the heavy cavalry like Western European cans, not to mention the light cavalry of the Wuhuan people without armor and stirrups, In front of the well-organized infantry, it was really as brittle as paper, and the blood of more than 40 people flowed here, so that the Wuhuan people, who were immersed in the fruits of victory, finally sobered up.
However, the Xiongnu can give the Han Empire a headache for a hundred years, and the hundreds of thousands of people who died before and after are not cavalry charges. After coming to their senses, these Wuhuan cavalry quickly took out their old skills as a housekeeper.
Ride and shoot!
The Wuhuan people of the Chinese army reined in their horses, and the left and right flanks also gave up the pursuit of the Han army, slowed down the speed of their horses, and surrounded the heavy troops of the Han army, set up bows and strings, and released a dense rain of arrows.
The crackling arrow rain really roared down like a storm for a while, the arrows jingled on the iron armor, and the heavy riders on the periphery were blocked, even if there was an iron-clad vest, the arrows in the cracks in the armor were still bloody on the side of the war horse blocked by the periphery, and the painful war horse was restless and wanted to gallop, but was dragged by the owner in distress and continued to block.
Cao Chun outside was even more directly shot out of temper, don't think that the heavy armor is invincible, and the armor of the Roman legions is not weak, but in the Battle of Callai, more than 40,000 Roman heavy infantry legions carrying large shields were still shot by more than 10,000 Parthian cavalry commanded by Suleiman and became mentally retarded, especially if your spear is only three meters, the other party stands more than 20 meters away and shoots at you.
In the sound of puff, three or four people were shot down from his side, and his body was shot into a hedgehog, and the spear shaft in his hand flicked back and forth to block the arrows, and Cao Chun, who couldn't raise his head, screamed and retreated.
The two Han light cavalry veterans who were squatting outside but should be half a beat slow were directly shot into a sieve, and the gun array that could no longer support it shook the lance to block the arrow, while rushing back in embarrassment, but fortunately, compared to the Roman triumvirate Crassus who was shot mentally retarded in the Battle of Calle, Wang Hou had one more invincible winning weapon than him.
Crossbow!
In response to Cao Cao, suddenly, behind the buttocks of a horse, obscenely appeared one by one Han army heads, as well as the double bows and crossbows they held in their hands, with the cold light, with the blocking of the horse body, the Han cavalry gritted their teeth and narrowed their eyes, and was pulling the bow and arrows to shoot coolly, a front row of Wuhuan cavalry suddenly had dull eyes, and there was a short feather arrow trembling on the head, and a stream of blood flowed down his forehead, and he fluttered and fell to death at the horse's feet.
Whoosh~Whoosh~