Chapter 477: Moon Formation
According to the general truth, this approach is not of much use to the car formation. After all, it's not one big car, it's big cars that are connected to each other. This means that they are not just going to overturn one car, but an entire column.
This cart is not light, and with many soldiers and other things on it, the weight is very amazing. But by the same token, when a horse can't be pulled by one person, what if hundreds of horses, or even thousands of horses, act together?
I'm afraid the power is different! At this time, the Hun soldiers did just that, and some of them approached the middle part of the chariot formation and immediately began to drag. The soldiers of the Huashan Army, who were hiding in the cart, immediately felt that they were shaking involuntarily.
Seeing this, some of the soldiers tried to cut the ropes. But as soon as they showed their heads, they were attacked by many enemy troops, and some of the soldiers were shot by arrows.
In addition, there are some iron claws that are more tricky, not directly hooked on the upper carriage, but hooked underneath, which is even more difficult to stop.
Li Erhei, who was in the back, saw this, and his expression became serious. Then he ordered: "Send a signal!" ”
When the herald next to him heard this, he immediately ran to the side and started operating. Soon, an arrow with a terrible screaming sound flew straight into the air, and the sound spread within a radius of dozens of miles.
In the county seat, although Sun Tie and the others had seen the Hun army outside the city move again and again, there had been no movement. At this time, they were standing on the castle tower and observing, and after hearing this voice, they finally moved.
"The time has come, it's time for us to make a move!" Sun Tie looked at Hu Tian and said lightly.
"Let's go! It's time for us to play! Hu Tian nodded, and then called the generals beside him to explain.
After a while, the east gate of the county seat suddenly opened, and groups of Huashan troops kept coming out from inside. These people were not the group brought by Hu Tian, but the troops that originally belonged to the commander of Sun Tie to guard the county.
It's just that the army that appeared in front of the Huns at this moment was not more than 3,000 people as originally estimated, but a full 4,000 people! Moreover, many of these people were Mo swordsmen wearing battle armor and holding Mo swords.
In addition to the army that came out of the city gate, at this time, from the south side of the city, there were also large armies coming out. This is the 6,000 army that Hu Tian brought over, and their equipment is the same as Li Erhei's, and it is also a thousand carts!
After the two groups of troops marched out, they immediately drove in the direction of the Huns' camp. The distance between the two is about five miles, but because Liu Weichen ordered the rest of the army to go out of the camp to be on guard, in fact, the distance between the two armies is only about three miles.
Therefore, as soon as the Huashan army left the city, the enemy army immediately discovered it. While they sent someone to inform Liu Weichen there, they were killing the Huashan army.
At this time, the Huashan Army was not moving fast, it was not so much an action, but it was more appropriate to arrange troops. Because in the process of moving the soldiers and horses, the soldiers under Hu Tian moved the cart and began to extend to the north and south.
And the 4,000 men and horses in Sun Tie's hands were trying to get closer to the middle as much as possible at this moment, and behind them was facing the East City Gate. They were caught in Hu Tian's car formation, but from the perspective of the entire field, the area occupied by the Mo Dao Hands was not particularly large.
Hu Tian's car formation, like a crescent moon, crossed to the north and south of the East City Gate, blocking all the directions that entered the city behind him. If you stand on the top of the city and look down, you will find that Sun Tie's 4,000 men and horses are like a rectangle embedded in the middle of the moon.
The width occupied by Sun Tie and his part was about a mile wide, and it stretched a long distance to the back, far exceeding the thickness of the car formation. Moreover, the front of them was not on the same level as the car formation, but was recessed into it for a few hundred meters or so!
When they had completed the formation, the enemy on the opposite side had already been killed.
They had nearly 20,000 cavalry, led by one of Liu Weichen's younger brothers, and rushed over with a roar. This place outside the city was only less than a dozen miles wide in the north-south direction, and when so many cavalry all came over, the density was not ordinary.
This group of Hun cavalry is not the same as Liu Weichen's, because they have never seen the power of the car formation. Therefore, I didn't know the power of this car formation at all, so I rushed straight over like this.
After Hu Tian saw this scene in the formation, he couldn't help but sneer, and immediately ordered an attack.
With his order, this moon-shaped formation suddenly spewed out~ countless arrows, and fell straight into the Hun army formation in front. Looking from a distance, I only saw the rows of Hun cavalry in front, and at this time, it was as if they had been blown down by the wind, and they fell directly.
After this attack, those Hun cavalry realized that these carts in front of them were not just strange to look at, but like hedgehogs, things that could kill people!
But by this time, it was impossible for them to stop anymore. In addition, casualties during the charge were a common occurrence, and most people did not care about it.
As Liu Weichen had thought before, most of the Huns felt that as long as they rushed in front of these strange carts, victory would fall to their side. But the truth is that when the two armies finally collided together, they found themselves hitting a bag full of heads.
The moon-shaped array has its peculiarity, that is, the depth of the front is relatively large, and the depth of the two ends is relatively shallow. But the difference is that these two sharp corners are bent towards the middle, so they can play a role in supporting each other.
Therefore, when these Hun cavalry arrived, the soldiers on the chariots on both wings became powerful. The arrows coming from the north and south crossed each other into one point in the Xiongnu army, and almost in the blink of an eye, most of the charging formation of the entire Xiongnu army was cut off.
There were about 4,000 people in the front part, and they had already rushed directly to the middle of the moon. The remaining 12,000 people, after being blocked out at this time, turned into two teams and launched an attack on the north and south flanks of the Huashan Army.
The front part of the enemy army was naturally greeted indiscriminately by the arrows of the Huashan army. But they soon discovered that in the middle of the formation, there was a place where there were no chariots and where ordinary soldiers were standing.
In this way, almost without thinking, the Hun cavalry rushed towards the middle, just like when Liu Weichen and them dealt with Li Erhei before.
Sun Tie's arrangement was a bit special, because of his 4,000 men, 2,000 were crossbowmen, and of the remaining 2,000, 1,000 were Mo Daomen, and 1,000 were using hook and sickle spears.
In detail, two thousand crossbowmen were placed at the front, followed by the Mosakemen, and then the hook and sickle gunners. On both sides of this part of the soldiers and horses, there were chariot formations, but the chariots on both sides did not put up carriages and shields.
Sun Tie himself held a strong bow and stood in front of the team. At this time, I saw that these more than 4,000 people were really rushing towards me, and the bows and arrows in their hands were already raised, and they let go gently.
With a whoosh, a feather arrow broke through the air and directly hit the Hun general who ran in front.
His arrow was a signal, and the soldiers who had not released the arrows with the soldiers in the car formation started to do so at this time. In an instant, a rain of arrows flew out of this car array, rushing straight towards the Huns who rushed over.
The soldiers on the carts on both sides were also constantly firing arrows at this time, but the difference was that when they released their arrows, they only aimed at the sides and tails of the more than 4,000 people. As for most of the people in the middle, they were allowed to rush into the middle of the formation.
As a result, almost most of the Huns ended up wedged in the middle of the formation. And after Sun Tie released an arrow before, he immediately jumped on the chariot on the side, and so did the other soldiers beside him.
But all the soldiers who had released a wave of arrows did not hesitate to get directly on the chariots on both sides. Then, the soldiers next to him immediately erected the carriage and shield, and in this way, a one-mile-wide passage appeared in the middle of the moon formation.
The Huns rushed straight in, but in the end they reached the inside, but there were only 3,000 people.
Just as these people were overjoyed that they had broken through the enemy formation, and just as they thought that they were about to establish immortality, they rushed towards those strange swordsmen, only to find that the real Grim Reaper was waiting for them in front of them.
Wearing battle armor and grim faces, the Mo swordsmen did not have any fear at all in the face of the rushing enemy horses. When the two collided together, these Huns were greeted by a bright sword light, and one by one the enemy was killed on the spot as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
The location of the Mo Knife Player and the Hook and Sickle Gunner was actually behind the car formation, so the space for these Huns to exert themselves became larger. Although the Mo knife is invincible and fierce, there are still some Huns who ran to the back.
And these slipping through the net is where the hook and sickle men come into play. I saw them chopping the horse's legs and hooking the enemy's head, and they cooperated with the Mo knife hand in front of them very tacitly.
In this way, none of the Huns who rushed to the rear of the battle survived.