Chapter 943: Breaking the Hulu
"Boom, boom!" A series of explosions sounded in the three-hundred-step area, and the explosive package of black powder exploded, and the knights who broke into this area turned on their backs, causing the Turkic cavalry charging behind to suddenly slow down, and the rhythm was interrupted.
If you follow the rhythm of the Turkic cavalry charge, a steady stream, like a tide, and a wave is stronger than a wave, it is enough to crush and disperse the enemy troops in front of you, and grasp the initiative to kill.
And now, the rhythm is completely controlled in the Dahua army, the two-hundred-step crossbow machine fault, and the three-hundred-step crossbow black powder blasting area, cutting the Turkic impact into several sections, and the momentum naturally disappears.
This is the way Luo Zhaoyun and Pei Renji discussed to deal with the Turkic vanguard, unlike before, which was reduced from 300 steps, 200 steps, and 100 steps, but reversed, expanding from the inner ring to the outer ring.
The Turkic cavalry at close range was handed over to the elite of the 3,000 Mingguang armored heavy cavalry led by Pei Yuanqing, and they pierced through it with a bold axe, completely breaking up the waves of cavalry that rushed to the front, and the team was in chaos, and the cavalry behind began to harvest.
"Poof!" A soldier wearing Mingguang armor, armed with a long-handled Mo knife, slashed five or six people in succession, only to be pierced by a Turkic soldier's spear, and the injuries in front were blocked by Mingguang armor.
In terms of combat effectiveness and defense, Dahua's elite heavy cavalry still has a big advantage.
"Click-"
Pei Yuanqing's horse lance flew in his hand, and he had already killed more than 30 knights, and he was brave.
The rest of the elite guards, under his leadership, killed two in and two out, plus ordinary cavalry to participate in the battle, suppressed the 15,000 men and horses invested by the Turks.
Seeing that the casualties were very large, King Liwang of the Right Valley frowned, it was difficult to imagine when the Central Plains people had such a fierce cavalry.
For a long time, the people of the Central Plains were mainly infantry and chariot formations, with a small number of cavalry teams to do surprise attacks, and there were few real cavalry armies that had such a head-on confrontation with the grassland cavalry.
"King Gu Li, the situation is a little wrong, when did the Central Plains cavalry become so strong." The military advisors were a little dazed, which was different from what they had expected in advance.
"Yes, it is said that the people of the Central Plains are mud legs, there are not many war horses, and they want to form a cavalry team, even the Great Sui poured national strength, and there are not too many cavalry teams. King Gu Li is also a little confused.
15,000 troops were invested, the casualties were very large, many knights were injured and shot, the horses wailed, the knights screamed, the smoke was billowing, the scene was messy, and it was obvious that the morale of the vanguard warriors was taken away, and the Dahua cavalry took the initiative.
"You can't just forget it, continue to blow the horn, let the knights in front move forward bravely, only yo they rush into the formation of the Dahua army, and the warriors behind us can give them a fatal blow!" King Gu Li was not discouraged, after all, he still had half of the troops in his hands, and after removing the casualties in the front, the troops still had to be more than Dahua's vanguard army.
"Woo-woo-"
The Turks blew their horns, as if urging the warriors in front to dare to charge, not to give up, to boost morale, and to move on.
On the Dahua side, Pei Renji also ordered, beat the trumpet, continued to invest troops, and invested another 4,000 men and horses, slanting left and right to enter, so that the number of troops sent out exceeded 10,000.
"Kill, kill—"
The shouting of killing shook the sky, and the fierce fight on this sandy riverbed landform was very tragic.
At this time, it was a test of the actual combat strength and cooperation of the cavalry on both sides.
Since most of the Turks are herdsmen, they have been riding horses since they were children, and their personal riding skills are better than those of the Central Plains cavalry, after all, these Dahua knights have only joined the cavalry team in the past year and half a year to train their horsemanship, and those who have followed from the northwest frontier have fewer numbers and are constantly consumed in various wars, leaving only a part of the elite, such as the cavalry of Mingguang armor, which is a selection of cavalry veterans and soldiers.
Therefore, the Dahua knights can only rely on the coordination of formations and the sophistication of weapons to make up for some of the disadvantages of horsemanship.
The Turks were brave alone, but they could not cooperate as a whole, because they were not recruited regular troops, but a temporary team of herdsmen, gathered as soldiers, scattered and people, once the overall charge was chaotic and divided, it immediately became scattered.
After a while, the cavalry rushed out from the northeast of the rear of the Turkic side, and Xue Wanqian led his troops to kill him, mending the knife and breaking the tail.
Suddenly, the Turkic vanguard army became overwhelmed.
After setting up an ambush for a long time, the first wave of today's net was closed, and the sudden appearance of cavalry made the Turkic vanguard army stunned and exclaimed, and hurriedly turned its head and sent a part of the soldiers and horses to meet the battle.
That Xue Wanqian was originally a tiger general, leading the troops bravely, and selected the strongest group of soldiers to follow him, and came through the chisels, driving morale.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Pei Renji also pressed all his forces up, and the front and rear forces surrounded and attacked.
"Kill—"
"Destroy the Hulu!"
The Dahua soldiers are strong and strong, and the morale is strong, and the remaining Turkic soldiers and horses are already in the grip of victory, and there is no suspense.
Although King Gu Li was reluctant to fail, but in this case, he was already weak by the enemy, and under the persuasion of the military advisor, he broke through with hundreds of cavalry, and in the chaos, he almost escaped, but was discovered by Xue Wancheng and personally led people to block it.
"Where to go!"
Xue Wanqian had already used his spear, and he killed more than a dozen guards one after another, and killed him.
King Gu Li is also a little brave, pulled out the knife and Xue Wancheng pulled the horse in close combat, when there was a burst of weapon sound, about ten rounds later, Xue Wancheng was pierced through the abdomen with a shot, and the horse's back was picked off.
"King Gu Li-" Some close guards shouted, shouting Turkic language, Xue Wancheng and the others couldn't understand it, but they knew that it must be a Turkic nobleman with a high status, or even a vanguard general, so they refused to let go of this group of people.
Soon, King Gu Li, the military advisor, and the general were surrounded and killed, and the corpses fell to the ground.
Pei Yuanqing, on his side, also killed a general, who was the deputy commander of the vanguard army, and was beheaded in person.
Except for a few men and horses who escaped, mostly two or three thousand, the rest were either dead or wounded, and a number of knights and wounded were captured.
The two armies converged, Xue Wanqian and Pei Yuanqing looked at each other and smiled, this great victory, their meritorious service was not low, the most important thing was the important task entrusted by His Majesty, which was successfully completed, and they all felt that their faces were bright.
"General Xue, come in time to break the Turkic vanguard!"
"Haha, the Pei family's father and son went into battle, and they really led their troops well, resisted the Turkic attack, suppressed the Hu people's morale, and were successfully surrounded and killed by us."
After a few words of greeting, the two went to meet with the vanguard commander, General Pei Renji, and after greeting them, the two armies began to send people to clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses, escort the prisoners, treat the wounded, count the number of captured horses, etc., and need to send good news to His Majesty.