Chapter 51: The Art of Wheel Fighting
Three hundred, two hundred and fifty, two hundred, two hundred, one hundred and fifty steps......
The two armies are already approaching.
The Tang army still uses this ridiculous formation, and Mosley Massa can't care about it so much.
It's a mule or a horse, take it out and slip it away.
A huge bull's horn sounded.
This is an order from the Arabs to speed up the assault.
However, just when the two sides reached the sprint distance,
The Tang army, which was lined up in a loose circular formation, gradually intensified, and countless crossbow arrows flew up from the formation.
Tang Jun, who was located in the outermost circle of the circular array, sent his own sharp weapon!
Strong crossbow, the cavalry crossbow of the Tang Dynasty.
The crossbow is characterized by being far and accurate, and there is time to aim calmly, but winding is more laborious and time-consuming. According to these characteristics, crossbows were often used for defense and ambushes, and the continuity of fire relied on the volleys of several groups of shooters.
However, Tang Jun's use of strong crossbows can be said to have been exerted to the extreme.
The Tang Dynasty liked to attack, so there were often expeditions and defeats, but as long as they were victorious, they would easily destroy the country.
Although some descendants ridiculed the Tang Dynasty for the fall of six countries and the nine migrations of the Son of Heaven. There is no doubt that in the hundreds of years of existence of the Tang Dynasty, the number of alien countries that were personally destroyed was the largest among all the Chinese dynasties.
The powerful crossbow used for defense played tricks in their hands.
There are many clever tactics in Li Jing and Su Dingfang's tactics of war, such as the serial suddenness technique used by Wang Zhongsi in the previous Ziting defense.
Among them, there is a set of crossbow cavalry coordination tactics, called wheel tactics, which is a clever tactic that combines the power of crossbow arrows and cavalry.
The characteristic of a strong crossbow is that it is not easy to string, especially for cavalry, which is even more difficult to wind on a horse, and it cannot be like a foot pawn, using the method of stacking formations to shoot layer by layer to maintain that kind of continuous arrows.
But the wheel-like circular array avoids this problem.
I saw that the cavalry of the Tang Army kept turning in circles, and every time they swept the front of the Arab wedge-shaped charging array, they would pull the bracket against the dense cavalry formation.
Round and round, the arrows are endless.
Where did the Arab cavalry expect this trick, they were full of surprises.
Use their strength to tear apart the Don army and achieve glory.
The terrible crossbow arrows were all over the sky, and they were powerless to dodge, so they could only instinctively hold their shields to protect the door.
But after a previous encounter, the Don army already knew about the fact that the Arab cavalry had round shields, and they were no longer aiming at people, but horses.
The power of the cavalry crossbow is inferior to the Fuyuan crossbow, and it can't penetrate people and horses, but it is not something that flesh and blood can resist.
The cavalry rushing at high speed was thrown to the ground one by one by the wounded horses.
Although the Tang army did not attack them, the cavalry that surged up behind them trampled their comrades to death uncontrollably.
In that short moment, hundreds of Arab soldiers fell in front of the two armies.
The Tang army has been spinning like wheels at high speed, and the crossbow bolts are also constantly chaotic, and there is no time to stop at all.
With powerful crossbow firepower, the Tang army stubbornly suppressed the charge of the Arab cavalry, and shot their wedge-shaped charge formation into pieces, forming an organization.
Watching hundreds of warriors fall, Moslemassa's heart was bleeding.
As for the generals who laughed at the Tang Army's wheels, their faces were even more swollen.
It wasn't until all the 5,000 crossbow arrows were fired that the Arab cavalry had a chance to breathe.
But they were greeted by a new offensive of the cavalry of the Don Army.
When the original circular formation was spinning in circles, it magically completed a change of formation in the middle of running, and became a sharp cavalry formation most suitable for cavalry thrusts.
The extraordinary execution power made the Arab armies watching the battle behind them dumbfounded, dumbfounded, and did not come to their senses for a long time.
In fact, the Arabs should be glad that their cavalry has shields.
Holding shields, they weakened the power of the Tang Army's wheel-seeking tactics by three-tenths.
The core essence of the wheel strategy is to "seek the enemy", and the core of the tactic is to give full play to the greatest advantage of the cavalry crossbow.
First take a fancy to the position of the enemy general, use the penetration of the crossbow arrow, shoot hard in the direction of the enemy general, and forcibly tear a hole.
It will be best to be able to shoot the enemy, and if you can't shoot it, you can tear a hole, and then the elite cavalry will follow the hole and take the head of the enemy general.
However, the Arabs have shields that can withstand the deep tearing of such crossbow arrows, and they cannot get the opportunity for decapitation tactics.
Pei Min has always been confined to one place with his soldiers, so he changed the depth tearing to fire suppression, and directly flattened the tip of the knife of the Arab cavalry formation, and completely suppressed the speed.
The Arab cavalry, which was not organized, met the Huchen cavalry, and the fate can be imagined.
As the founder of the Zhi family, this tiger general brandished a broadsword, roared again and again, trampled on the body of the Arab soldier who fell to the ground, parted the waves of flesh and blood of the Arab cavalry, and slaughtered into the enemy, slashing and slashing.
This duel of the vanguard army was obviously a complete victory for the Tang army.
Looking at the generals of the Tang Army who were wantonly rushing and killing in the front army, coming and going into a no-man's land, Mosley Massa said with a blushing face: "I, an Arab warrior, have never suffered such a humiliation in the West. Who went to beg me for this thief...... Stabilize the rout. ”
As soon as his voice fell, someone immediately answered: "Isilus is willing to play for the lion king!" ”
Mosley Massa was overjoyed and said: "What I am waiting for is your words, Marquis, I will remember your first merit if you cut down the other party's general." ”
Mosley Massa didn't look down on Ixlus at all in his heart, and in his eyes Ixlus was a villain, a traitor.
Isolus was not an Arab, nor was he a war slave trained by Arabia, but an orthodox Persian aristocrat with the blood of the Persian royal family.
Many years ago, the Arabs attacked the Sassanid Empire in Persia, and Isolus, the commander of Persia's most famous Sassanid Persian cavalry, was the last hope of the Persians. Almost all Persians pinned their futures on him. But for his own interests, he chose to accept the surrender of Arabia unconditionally and betrayed Persia.
Mosley Massa worships heroes and looks down on betrayers like Isilus.
However, the commander of the Iron Cavalry, who had inherited the high hopes of the Persians, had extraordinary abilities, and his force was even higher than that of Kakhtaba, and his Sassanid ironclad heavy cavalry was second only to the most famous camel cavalry under his command.
This confrontation with the Tang Dynasty was forcibly opened by the Tang army, and Mosley Massa did not have time to transfer the camel cavalry.
The heavy cavalry of Isolus was the most effective killer weapon.
When Isolus was killed, there was a whistle, and the clatter of hooves sounded.
The Sassanid heavy cavalry leaped into battle.
Mosley Massa looked at the left flank and found that the left flank had begun to be inseparable from the Tang army's slaughter and was in a state of stalemate.
Then he looked at the right wing, and his face was happy, but the right wing had achieved extraordinary results......