Chapter 785: Armored Manifestation (Reward for Filial Piety)

On the entire battlefield, on the left flank of the Zhao army, and on the right flank of the four-nation coalition army, countless soldiers of the Wei and Chu coalition forces were charging like a tide.

Chu State General Chun Shenjun Huang Xie, Shangzhu State Jingyang and Wei State General Tian Chong stood side by side on the same chariot, looking at the battlefield in front of them with a somewhat nervous expression.

To be honest, even these three are all battle-hardened people, but they still seem quite nervous at this moment.

After all, the strength of the Zhao army over the years can be said to have left a very deep impression on the two countries, so they have both expectations and a little fear for the upcoming war.

Suddenly, Huang Xie pointed ahead and shouted, "Come on, come on!" ”

The other two looked intently, and sure enough, they found traces of Zhao Jun.

Even on such a noisy battlefield, a dull, like the sky falling apart still came to the ears of the three of them, and the next moment, a heavy armored cavalry appeared.

"It's the armored cavalry of the Zhao State!" Shangzhu Guo Jingyang gasped, almost unable to believe what he had seen: "Zhao Guoren actually used armored cavalry on the left flank? ”

That's right, it was the two thousand armored cavalry led by Zhao Kuo, a general of Zhao Guo, who came from the northern camp of Handan, Zhao State, which accounted for half of the current number of armored cavalry of Zhao State.

These armored cavalrymen are tall horses, both men and horses are covered with armor with excellent defensive power, and they also wear thick helmets on their heads, so that it is impossible to see what kind of expression the people behind the helmets are.

This gave their opponents the illusion that they were facing an army from hell when facing armored cavalry, and people couldn't help but feel extremely frightened.

The next moment, two thousand armored cavalry directly broke into the frontal formation of the Wei and Chu coalition forces, and countless spears and sabers were waving in the air, bringing countless bloody rains.

Although the soldiers at the forefront of the Wei and Chu coalition forces also used spears and Changge and other weapons to block the attack of these armored cavalry, their weapons had no effect at all on the armored knights and war horses, and they could not break through the heavy armor protection at all.

The two thousand armored cavalry slammed into the position of the allied forces of Wei and Chu like a torrent of steel, tearing a big hole, like a huge ship in the sea, chopping the waves and moving forward, no matter how the wind and waves howled, they could not stop the hooves of the armored cavalry.

Spears and sabers were waving in the air, stumps and severed arms resounded through the sky with screams, it was not a fair fight at all, but a one-sided slaughter!

In the main formation of the Wei and Chu coalition forces, Huang Xie and the other three saw this scene, and their faces suddenly turned pale.

Huang Xie couldn't help but murmur in his mouth: "It is said that Zhao Guogu's armored cavalry is invincible in the world, I thought it was just nonsense, but I didn't expect that when I saw it today, it was terrifying!" ”

Yes, before this, neither Chu nor Wei had any experience in fighting armoured cavalry head-on on the plains.

It is precisely because of this that they actually have some doubts about the combat effectiveness of this armored cavalry in their hearts, and feel that the armored cavalry may not be like this at all, but it is just deliberately exaggerated by those losers.

In fact, it is not only these three people, all the generals in this era except for General Zhao Guo, they have not faced up to the strength of the cavalry, and they still uphold the backward idea of "infantry is invincible in the world".

Even though Zhao has dominated the Central Plains for several years, some people still think that the reason why Zhao is so powerful is simply that Zhao's infantry is strong enough. As for the reason why the cavalry of Zhao State is so famous, it is only because the Guanzhong region is more suitable for cavalry combat, otherwise why did the heavy cavalry of Zhao State never fight in the Central Plains?

In the eyes of these generals of other countries, the reason why the cavalry of Zhao State did not fight in the Central Plains was because the people of Zhao knew that the cavalry of Zhao State could not deal with the infantry of the Central Plains countries head-on!

Until six years after the Battle of Changping, until Li Mu had led the heavy cavalry of Zhao to defeat the general Wang Ling of the Qin army, there were still people who held this idea that seemed ridiculous to later military scientists, and there were not a few people who supported this idea, such as Huang Xie, Jing Yang and Tian Chong, the three actual commanders of the right wing of the Four-Power Alliance.

The innovation of military tactics, like the reform of the state, is never easy and fast.

But this does not mean that the Wei Chu coalition army has no defensive measures against the armored cavalry, Huang Xie looked at the indomitable appearance of the armored cavalry, and gave an order with a very gloomy face: "Pass the order, order the strong crossbowmen to step forward, be sure to slow down the speed of this armored cavalry!" ”

As Huang Xie gave an order, the big flag behind him immediately waved, and the drums of the coalition army also changed its rhythm, delivering orders to the coalition soldiers in all directions.

Just when Zhao Kuo heard the sound of the drum, he had just used the saber in his hand to cut off the head of a general of the Chu army who was blocking in front of him.

If there is another person in the younger generation of the current Zhao Kingdom who knows everything about armored cavalry, then this person is definitely Zhao Kuo.

Even if there have been opportunities for transfer and promotion several times, Zhao Kuo has always firmly held his position as an armored cavalry captain, and has no intention of letting go.

Not for anything else, just for the current wanton chopping melons and vegetables on the battlefield, but the enemy is simply helpless to drench himself!

The surging enemies in front of him did not make Zhao Kuo's heart feel any fear, but instead made him surge with infinite fighting spirit, shouting and fighting, and he only felt extremely happy.

Suddenly, Zhao Kuo only felt empty in front of him, and when he looked up, he found that he had given up a large area of open land in front of him, and behind these open fields were hundreds of large shields standing with people high, forming a large shield array as wide as one mile.

In addition, Zhao Kuo could also see very clearly that there was a long crossbow bolt stretched out from each shield, and with years of experience in the battlefield, Zhao Kuo recognized it at a glance, and what stretched out in the gaps of these shield arrays was the crossbow from the Wei State.

"Want to block with a shield and shoot with a crossbow? Is that really a good idea? The corners of Zhao Kuo's mouth in the helmet were slightly raised, revealing an arc full of murderous intent.

As we all know, heavy cavalry such as armored cavalry has high requirements for speed, and if you want to start at speed, you must meet the two points of long acceleration time and long acceleration distance. If the speed is slowed down in such a crowded situation, then the armored cavalry will hardly have a chance to get up again.

An armored cavalry without speed is at best a big turtle wearing a bulky steel shell, as long as it takes a long time, the Wei-Chu coalition army will sooner or later wipe out this kind of iron shell big turtle that has completely lost its advantage.

Therefore, even when he saw the shield array in front of him, Zhao Kuo did not hesitate at all, but instead surged with a stronger battle intent.

The horses' hooves were flying, and almost in an instant, Zhao Kuo had already rushed to the distance of about two hundred steps away from the shield array.

It was at this time that the shouts of the Wei army commander came from behind the shield array, and then hundreds of crossbow arrows shot out directly, covering Zhao Kuo and hundreds of armored cavalry behind him.

Almost the moment he saw the crossbow shot out, Zhao Kuo subconsciously lowered his head.

You must know that the only weakness of Zhao's armored cavalry that can be killed by a single blow is the eyes, so as long as he lowers his head, Zhao Kuo does not have to worry about how much of a threat these crossbow arrows can pose to him.

As Zhao Kuo expected, several crossbow arrows hit Zhao Kuo's head, chest, lower abdomen and other parts almost simultaneously, making several short crisp sounds in a row.

Zhao Kuo's whole body was shocked, and he only felt as if he had been punched several times at once, and his body instantly felt uncomfortable, and he felt like he wanted to vomit.

Although the power of these crossbow arrows was indeed not enough to break Zhao Kuo's armor, the huge force carried by the crossbow arrows when they collided hard still made Zhao Kuo very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, this discomfort was thrown away by Zhao Kuo in an instant, and after this round of arrows passed, Zhao Kuo immediately raised his head, took out a bow and arrow from behind the saddle, and bent the bow to wind.

Although most of the armored cavalry came from the tall Zhao people and not the nomadic Hu people in the northern part of the Zhao country, how could he not know the art of riding and archery?

In the past few years of training, these armored cavalry of the Zhao State have already practiced the art of mounted archery. Although it is not possible to say that everyone is a marksman, in such a situation the enemy army is so dense that it is enough to be able to shoot arrows, and this requirement is too easy for armored cavalry.

At the same time that Zhao Kuo pulled the bow and wound it, hundreds of armored cavalry behind Zhao Kuo took out their bows and arrows, bent the bow and pointed straight at the blue sky.

Zhao Kuo pulled the longbow like a full moon, and then roared wildly: "Shoot him for General Ben!" ”

With a whoosh, at the same time as the second wave of crossbow arrows shot out from the gap in the shield array, the bows and arrows of Zhao Guogu's armored cavalry also flew high into the sky, drawing a parabola in the sky, bypassing the shield array at the front with great accuracy, and falling into the allied crossbow positions behind the shield array.

Suddenly, countless screams rang out from the position of the allied crossbowmen, and the entire crossbowmen's position was chaotic because of this sudden blow, and even the shield array in front of the crossbowmen's position was also a little chaotic.

Zhao Kuo haha, put the bow and arrow in his hand into the saddle bag, and raised the saber in his hand high, and the whole person and the horse were like a heavy tank, and slammed into the shield array that was already close at hand.

"The thieves of Wei and Chu, today is the death date of you!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Kuo's whole person immediately slammed into the shield in front of him with people and horses, only to hear a loud sound of the bell, the shield in front of Zhao Kuo was instantly knocked away, and it smashed heavily somewhere a few zhang away, bringing a bloody light and screams.

And Zhao Kuo's whole body was also hit by the force of the rebound and leaned back violently, and he was almost knocked down from the horse, but fortunately, Zhao Kuo grabbed the reins of the horse quickly after all, which allowed his center of gravity to recover again.

The next moment, Zhao Kuo was finally pleasantly surprised to find that there was only one shield array of the Wei Chu Coalition Army!

At this moment, there was no more damn shield in front of Zhao Kuo, only countless panicked Wei and Chu alliances.

Zhao Kuo laughed loudly, raised the saber in his hand, and then slashed down hard: "Give it to General Ben - die!" ”

Behind Zhao Kuo, one armored cavalry after another followed Zhao Kuo's footsteps and launched an attack towards the Wei and Chu coalition forces, wildly ramming into the shield array formed by the Wei and Chu coalition forces.

Although there were also many horses with armored cavalry that were directly knocked down, or knights were knocked off their horses or even broken bones by the force of the shock on the shield, the entire shield array had been completely scattered, and more armored cavalry completely broke through this shield defense line along the road opened by other cavalry. Rushed into the infantry and crossbowmen positions of the Wei army behind the defensive line.

When a group of heavily armored cavalry faced an army of crossbowmen and light infantry, the result was undoubted.

This is not a fair fight at all, but a one-sided slaughter!

At this moment, in the main formation of the right flank of the coalition army, Huang Xie Jingyang and Tian Chong looked at Zhao Kuo as if he had descended from the heavens, and their three faces were full of stunned expressions.

Damn the people of Qin, why didn't you explain it in advance, this armored cavalry is so fierce?

On the opposite side, the general of Zhao State, who led 100,000 soldiers and horses on the left wing of Zhao State, although he was known for his steadiness on weekdays, how could he miss such a good opportunity? Under the command of Le Cheng, countless Zhao soldiers swarmed along the road opened up by the armored cavalry, launching waves of breathless offensives towards the Wei coalition forces.

The battlefield only lasted for half an hour, but the three main generals of the Wei-Chu coalition army were horrified to find that the 150,000 troops under their command had already begun to rout!

"Damn it!" Huang Xie couldn't help but roar: "Send someone to ask Wang Di for help immediately, and ask him to send reinforcements quickly!" Also, find a way to stop this hateful armored cavalry, or we will all die here today!" ”

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