The trumpets sounded and the war drums rang out. It's nearly noon and the temperature is scorching. All the cavalrymen were wrapped in thick armor, their faces dripping with sweat, and their bodies were hot and restless. The war horse was also panting, foaming at the mouth and snorting, unable to settle down.

On the long street, the heat is steaming, like a giant oven. The hot wind blew, and the dust from the debris of the demolished houses filled the streets. The smell of blood and corruption was even more mixed in the air. Although the corpses of the cavalrymen and horses killed in the charge in the early morning had been cleaned up and piled up, the flesh and blood had begun to rot, and the smell had risen.

In this kind of weather, there is no room for delay. Zhao Degang understood that under this scorching weather, his cavalry would not be able to support it for long. It is necessary to fight quickly and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop. Although there were still many hidden worries in his heart, he still shouted loudly and gave the order to attack.

The cavalry began to charge, and the horses neighed with their mouths open, and the hooves of the horses could not stand on the hot ground, but this made the horses run faster so that the hooves could be lifted off the ground. Almost in the blink of an eye, the cavalry, which was originally only slowly speeding up, had already formed a torrent of surging iron hooves, charging towards Lin Jue and the others on the street in front of them.

The other party didn't seem to make much movement, but the centaurs made some adjustments to their positions. Five or six hundred people were lying in the middle of the street, some on horses, some on the ground, some on carts, and some squatting on the ground. All of them formed a three-dimensional firing formation that did not interfere with each other. A repeater in hand. The bow and arrows were ready, and a firearm was filled with a pouch and ready to shoot.

The cavalry of the forbidden army quickly reached a hundred paces away, and this hundred paces distance was only about ten breaths for the cavalry that had already increased its speed. It can be said that in the eyes of the cavalry, the distance of a hundred paces is just a few steps away. But this distance is also the distance at which you will be hit with a bow and arrow.

"Shoot the arrows!" Lin Jue gave an order in a deep voice. The crossbow made a tuk tuk sound when the shaft jumped, and the crossbow arrows about the size of chopsticks jumped out of the same arrow box, and were shot out by the strong bowstring, although the bowstring had to be pulled every time, but after omitting the upper crossbow arrow, the firing speed had been increased several times. Torrential bolts with whistling and buzzing sounds, like bloodthirsty flies, rushed towards the living flesh of the opposing cavalry.

"Stand on the shield!" In the cavalry formation, the sound of orders sounded almost at the same time. The cavalry in the front team raised their shields in unison, and hid behind the shields with their bodies on their backs.

The crossbow bolts were like the coming of a raging storm, and in an instant, the dense crowd that enveloped the cavalry was full of crossbow arrows. The bolts with a powerful whistle that broke through the air. The sound alone is chilling. People who have never experienced a real battle are afraid that they have already peed their pants when they hear such a voice.

Although the cavalry had shields, they were borrowed from the infantry's one-handed shields, not actual standing shields. The Great Zhou did not yet have the kind of heavy cavalry that could hold a spear in one hand and a shield in the other. The cavalry of the Great Zhou Dynasty can only be regarded as light armored cavalry, mainly charging and harassing. Therefore, with a shield in hand, it is not possible to ensure safety under such a dense crossbow attack. Although the vital parts of the body can be covered by the small round shield, the other parts and the war horse under the crotch cannot be covered.

Flesh began to fly, men and horses began to roll, and screams and neighing of war horses began to resound across the battlefield. As with all cavalry charges, this is the time when the cavalry is most frightened and frightened before approaching the enemy line. It was also a time when the cavalry had nightmares in their dreams.

The cavalry of the front team suffered heavy casualties under the heavy rain of arrows. Or most of them are chaotic rolling because of the arrow, chaos and casualties caused by the trampling and impact of men and horses. The number of people killed by actual crossbow arrows is not too large. Dense formation charges will encounter such a problem, sometimes the most terrible is not the opponent's attack, but the trampling and collision of your own cavalry.

Under the rain of arrows, the charging cavalry suffered hundreds of casualties, which were only inflicted in a very short period of time. But this did not stop the cavalry from charging. Zhao Degang's mobilization before the war made it very clear that this time it is absolutely not allowed to retreat, and there will be no forgiveness if you retreat, no matter who it is, no matter how many people there are, as long as you dare to take half a step back, you will be dealt with by military law immediately. This is a death order, that is, either die on the battlefield or under military law, or charge bravely, crush the opponent, win victories and great rewards. Other than that, there is no other way.

Therefore, although the opponent's arrow rain was fierce and the cavalry suffered heavy casualties, the cavalry team still rushed forward and did not stop charging because of the chaotic situation.

Countless horses' hooves trampled on the bodies of the fallen men and horses, and some of those people had a chance to escape and be rescued, because many of them only fell off their horses because of arrows in their horses, and were not fatally injured. However, they could dodge the arrows, but they could not avoid the iron hooves of their horses. In the midst of wails and despair, they were knocked to the ground by their horses and trampled by iron hooves. In a scream, the flesh trampled by the horseshoe flew sideways until it was trampled into a mass of flesh and blood.

Fifty steps! The cavalry of the Forbidden Army began to shout in unison, and their long knives were raised high like a golden forest. With just a few breaths, a few breaths, they could slash their long knives into the heads and faces of their opponents who were close at a moment's notice, venting the shame of being ambushed and teased by them from early morning to noon.

However, the distance between these distances is as far away as the end of the world. Although it is only a few breaths to arrive, many people want to catch even a breath in the next moment, and it becomes an unattainable luxury.

Firearms began to roar, black smoke began to rise, and the roar resounded through the heavens and the earth. There was another smell in the air, and that was the pungent smell of gunpowder burning. The wooden round shields of the forbidden cavalry filled with crossbow arrows began to burst into pieces, and countless iron and steel balls came overwhelmingly, forming a barrage of iron bullets in the air. Countless small blood flowers began to erupt from the bodies of the Forbidden Army's cavalry, and the flesh that burst and splashed formed a pink blood mist in the air. The soldiers and horses in front of the entire charging formation were shrouded in this blood mist in an instant.

It was as if someone had wielded a huge scythe and cut through the delicate grass, and the horses and riders rolled to the ground one by one, rolling and wailing in pools of blood. Hot. Weapons against cold weapons, this is simply an unfair battle, and Lin Jue's side, who holds the secret of firearms, once again let the stupid opponent understand the power of crushing.

In fact, it is no secret that Lin Jue has a firearm in his hand, Lu Zhongtian, Zhao Degang and others have experienced the battle of the Beijing Martial Arts Hall to attack the fortress, they witnessed the ferocity of the opponent's firearms in that battle, and they should be vigilant. However, they are overconfident in their own strength, or they always think by inertia. In their minds, the number of troops is always used as the criterion for judging the victory in battle. I always think that my own soldiers and horses are overwhelming, and no matter how powerful the firearms in the opponent's hands are, they are always only a small amount.

They don't know how powerful a firearm is. If they had done a little homework, they would have known that a firearm would easily kill a dozen heavily armed soldiers armed with swords at the right distance. Hot. Weapons For cold weapons, it is a dimensionality reduction attack. It's like two people fighting each other, one party is tied hand and foot, but the other party is holding a sharp weapon, and there is no possibility of victory at all.

If they are willing to think more, they should also learn from the bloody battle on the streets of Xingguosi that night. They should understand that Yang Jun's failure that day was similar to the situation in front of them. From the beginning of Lin Jue's suggestion to face the enemy head-on, they should have thought more about why Lin Jue was willing to do this, could it be that the scheming Lin Jue would be willing to agree to a stupid head-to-head duel knowing that he would suffer a loss? They don't know each other too well, they don't know themselves too well, and they don't understand the situation in front of them too well.

Therefore, the situation in front of them is the price they have to pay for their arrogance, stupidity, and unwisdom.

In the roar of firearms, twenty or thirty steps away from the formation guarded by Lin Jue and the others, it was a death zone. No matter how many men and horses charged, none of them could break through the blockade of the barrage. Again, although there are not many firearms, Lin Jue and the others don't need to worry about the opponent's numerical advantage, they don't need to be distracted to deal with other directions, they just need to concentrate all their firepower to shoot the cavalry rushing forward.

Lin Jue is not a person who loves to kill, not to mention that these are the forbidden troops of the imperial court. But Lin Jue had to order all the cavalry that rushed to be shot mercilessly at this moment. He had to make his opponent understand what a foolish decision it was to pursue him. He must completely deter his opponent, so that the road into the mountain will be safer in the next few days. A large number of heavy family members were still not far ahead, and Lin Jue could not let the officers and soldiers catch up with the large group of men and horses, and he could not let them attack at will as if they were lambs to the slaughter. So, he wants to make his opponents feel awe-inspiring and make them not attack easily until they are absolutely sure. Because Lin Jue understood that once the other party attacked desperately, he would not be able to resist it at all. To make the other person fearful and cautious, it is necessary to give a ferocious blow to make them fearful.

Everyone was stunned by the tragedy on the battlefield, and in the past two days, the description of the firearms in the hands of Lin Jue and others in the army was full of various rumors. Those who lived through the Battle of the Long Street were reeling from what had happened that day, and they spoke with awe and horror to the other soldiers about the day. However, the vast majority of the men did not participate in the battle of Long Street that day. The Ma Military Division has an establishment of more than 60,000 people, and the cavalry that participated in the encirclement and suppression of the little prince that day was only 8,000 people. The cavalry on the day of the Battle of Long Street also belonged to the North Inner City Defense System. And this cavalry was a soldier stationed in the outer city, and it had never experienced this battle that day. Therefore, many cavalrymen did not believe these statements in the army.

No one would have believed that under the onslaught of thousands of cavalry, a few hundred men could survive, and completely annihilated the two thousand soldiers and horses that charged. This is also a big joke in the midst of common sense. That's the elite cavalry forbidden army of the Great Zhou, how could such a thing happen unless the other party has the power of ghosts and gods.