Chapter 3: The Mighty Man (Part 2)

Archers were originally used as defensive auxiliaries on the battlefield. It is mainly used to deal with the massive onslaught of the enemy army, or to suppress the counterparts of the defending side during the siege. Before today, the Great Cannibal had never attempted to send archers to the front of the battlefield as the main force of the attack. No one would have thought that Feng Changqing, the commander of the Anxi Army, would choose such an unconventional style of play at the beginning of the battle between the two armies.

With a distance of about eighty paces, for most highly trained archers, hitting the target is almost nine times out of ten. As long as he can aim calmly, as long as he can not be disturbed by the screams around him and the sword and shield hand on the opposite side.

In other words, it was Feng Changqing who used an almost crazy tactic to turn the first round of the two armies from a traditional mutual test of strength to a "heads-up" between the archers of both sides. Shoot at each other face to face, and whoever holds out to the end is the winner.

It is clear that the Great Cannibal does not have the upper hand in this regard. Even with the support of numbers and the power of faith, the decline in them is becoming more and more distinct.

There was a certain gap in the level of training between the two sides. **The shield at the front that was scattered and flickered in the sunlight seriously affected the vision of the Great Eater Mujahideen. The curved bows in the hands of the Great Food Jihadists were purchased by them at their own expense, and the materials of the bow arms ranged from mulberry wood, oak wood to beech, and the strength of the bow was different. In the hands of the ** on the opposite side, it is a unified construction by the Ministry of War, and it is a vermilion lacquer horn bow. What we pay attention to is "winter analysis and dry and spring liquid angle, summer treatment tendons, autumn three materials, cold body". The same whistling feather arrows, the ** armor-piercing cone can easily tear through the big cannibal armor and enter the body half a foot. The big cannibal bow and arrow can only penetrate the leather armor part of the ** archer, and once it encounters things such as heart goggles and iron chest guards, the power will be greatly reduced.

The gap between the above items, the Great Cannibal and the Tang people in each of them is not very large. However, the sum of several items has caused irreparable consequences. Shot by the feathered arrows sent by the jihadists, ** were mostly wounded but not killed. As long as you can withdraw to the main formation in time for healing, you are at least six to seventy percent sure of survival. Therefore, after being wounded, the ** archer often does not shout or scream, falls silently, and silently carries himself to the rear of the battle from his own robe. And the Great Eclipse Holy Warrior who was shot by the feather arrow died on the spot. If it is light, it will also throw itself into a pool of blood, rolling back and forth, screaming endlessly.

The whole time of archery shooting was not very long. From attaching the arrow, firing the bow to loosening the bowstring, a well-trained archer only needs one to one and a half breaths. The three rows of archers in the front, middle, and back cycled back and forth three times, and the total was only a dozen breaths. However, for the side that is at the bottom of the battlefield, these dozen breaths are longer than the time from sunrise to sunset. Under the persecution of steel knives and the sound of chanting, the mujahideen followed one after another, filling the gaps one after another. Each wave of people filled it up and insisted on three or two breaths at most, and they were shot into a sieve by the ** archers. Finally, the devotion to the faith could no longer resist the fear of death, and a holy crusade wrapped in black armor suddenly screamed, turned around and ran. The panic spread rapidly like a flood with him as the core, and in an instant, most of the archers who were shooting against ** dropped their weapons, turned around and fled, and let **'s feather arrows use their backs as targets, but they never dared to look back.

"Go back, go back! Allah is watching you in Heaven! "The veterans of the Great Eater who oversaw the war were furious, wielding their scimitars and chopping over the loudest archers. However, in the face of sheer numbers, the slaughter did not make the slightest difference. The fugitive simply stretched out his hand and pushed it to the ground, and then several pairs of blood-stained leather boots stepped on it, trampling the poor veteran into a limp ball.

Seeing this scene, Ai Kailamu, the commander of the Great Food Holy War Eastern Expeditionary Army, did not dare to hesitate any longer. With red eyes, he raised his right arm high, and at the same time ordered hoarsely: "Guards battalion, all attack." Kill all the Tang people on the other side for me. Sortie! Allah is witnessing your glory in Heaven! ”

The Guards Battalion is a carefully selected veteran, and the quality is still higher than that of the Mujahideen, who are called quacks. Hearing the order, he immediately urged his mount and rushed out of the center of the formation with a shout. It is better to trample the retreating archers than to increase the speed of the horses under the crotch as fast as possible.

Looking at the black torrent that continued to accelerate not far away, and at the eighty steps directly in front of the Great Cannibal Army Array, Li Siye, a veteran of a hundred battles, gently raised the Mo knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Enter!" ”

"Enter!" Eight hundred Mo swordsmen and one thousand six hundred lancers responded in unison. At the same time, the weapon in Duanping's hand was in three sharp conical arrays, and it strode forward.

The sword and shield bearers, the archers, who had already completed their mission brilliantly, quickly turned into columns under the command of several generals. Along the gap between the Mo Dao Formation and the Long Lance Formation, he quickly retreated backwards.

In an instant, the Mo Sword Array and the Long Lance Array were completely exposed, like the teeth of a fierce beast, shining in front of the Great Food Forbidden Guard Battalion.

"Knock, knock, knock!" The drums beat again, still in the same monotonous and low rhythm. With the sound of drums, the three cone-shaped arrays pushed forward steadily. Li Siye, a veteran of a hundred battles, held a Mo knife in his hand and walked at the forefront of the entire team.

In the blink of an eye, the enemy and the enemy collided together. Without making any sound, the black torrent was stabbed into three huge gaps by the snow-bright iron cone. The red heat wave pushed westward along these three gaps, like flames, quickly igniting all the colors between the sky and the earth.

"Enter!" Li Siye raised the bloody Mo knife, shouted loudly, and slashed down. The big food samurai he was facing took his mount and split it into two at the same time.

"Enter!" The Mo knife hand behind him and the two captains not far away responded in unison. Weapons are raised at the same time, and the large cannibals that swarm around them are cut down, stabbed down, and turned into corpses under their feet.

The distance of eighty paces was simply not enough for the cavalry to accelerate. Without inertia, the war horse immediately showed its instinct to survive, raised its front hooves, and was reluctant to rush into the knife bushes and lances. Without the help of their mounts, the Great Food Guards Battalion, which numbered five times as many as the ** forwards, shouted and cursed at the three steel jungles advancing in parallel, but could not find any dismount opportunities. The ** on the opposite side had already expected this, and under the coordination and command of the core generals and several captains, they took out the spear, fell with the knife, and killed the opponent who was close to him.

"Enter!" Li Siye raised the Mo knife and snapped.

"Enter!" The eight-hundred-faced Mo knife was raised at the same time and fell at the same time, sweeping all the obstacles that dared to stand in front of him into powder.

"Enter!" The lance stabbed straight ahead, and countless black-clothed cannibals fell from their horses and turned into one blood gourd after another.

The black-clothed guards retreated one after another, their eyes full of grievance and unwillingness. **The spear is two feet four feet long, and the blade part is made entirely of stainless steel, and then a casing more than two feet long is fixed to the body of the hardwood lance. However, the scimitar in their hands was only five or six feet long, and they could not even touch the wooden part of the mallet in the opponent's hand, let alone attack the opponent's body.

This feeling of not being able to borrow the strength of their mounts and not being able to get close to their opponents made them roar like male dogs in spring. roared, and there was still no way to release the grievances in his stomach, so he could only follow his own family flow and keep retreating backwards.

Seeing all this, the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Ai Kailamu, couldn't help but scold the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Bai Sher, for being stupid, "Go around to the flank and attack their flank." Attack their flanks. Stupid, as stupid as a stone. Come on, give me a death order, if you can't stop the **, I will turn their whole family into slaves! “

Before the herald could turn the orders and threats into a trumpet, the Praetorian Battalion Commander General Bai Sher had already begun to attempt to attack the flank of **. Under his command, more than a dozen low-level generals scattered separately, each with more than a hundred guards, and slowly circled around the flow of people, pounced on the Modao and the long lance array from different angles.

The weakness of long weapons is that they are not good for melee combat, and if they are approached by the opponent, they cannot effectively defend back. The sergeants of the Great Food Guards are mainly veterans of a hundred battles in the Khorasan region, and their reaction speed is much higher than that of ordinary mujahideen. Sensing that his side had a new response, he immediately turned his mount to dodge and took the initiative to concede several gaps to create opportunities for his teammates who pounced on the side.

"Enter!"

"Enter!"

The Moswordsmen and Lancers were oblivious to the changes in the enemy army. Still following a fixed rhythm, chanting forward. Overjoyed, the Janissary struck the horse in the belly with both feet, squeezing as much speed as he could from his crotch mount, and then raised his scimitar high and slashed it down with a sinister grin.

At this moment, he seemed to see the glory of heaven. However, a break shattered all the dreams.

"Enter!" In the cold and monotonous shout, the Anxi soldiers in the back row suddenly exerted their strength and stabbed the long lance out diagonally in front of him. The robe next to him in front of him did not dodge the scimitar slashed by him, and in the same posture, stabbed at the upper position of the diagonal side of the row in front of him. In the front row, the long lance is raised, which is also the same angle.

The periphery of the conical array expanded rapidly, and hundreds of long lances pierced at the same time, like a blooming steel peony under the scorching sun. The red light shone brightly, and one by one the big food guards looked at the spear on their soft underbelly in disbelief, their arms went weak, and the scimitar fell weakly to the ground.

The guards who detoured back to the flanks of the Mo Dao Formation ended even more tragically. In the inevitable blow, they exposed almost their entire shoulders and ribs to the Tang people who were a row behind their targets. With a snap, the six-foot-long blade slashed down from behind the flank, slashing into the soft underbelly of the Great Food Guard without hindrance. Swept the upper half of their bodies together with the machete raised high, leaped several feet, and fell screaming with a rain of blood.

"Enter!" The left and right two long lance arrays are sent out at the same time. The lancers looked out for each other, knocking the enemy straight forward and diagonally in front of them.

"Enter!" Mo Dao Array pushed forward flatly, smashing everything around him.

"Enter!" Hand up, lance out.

"Enter!" The hand rises, and the knife falls.

With the monotonous icy "in!" Enter!" sound, the big food guards in black armor landed one after another. The leading general, Bai Sher, relied on the superior number of people to constantly adjust the response strategy. But all the tricks hit the three unchanging steel cones, and they turned into pools of flesh and blood.

"Enter!"

"Enter!"

"Enter!"

"Enter!"

Li Siye is tireless, and so are the Anxi soldiers. With their monotonous and cold shouting, the Great Food Guard, who had been surging like a dark cloud before, kept retreating and retreating as if the sun had shone on it, and suddenly let out a "coaxing" sound, and it was torn apart.