Chapter 951: Shura Battlefield
The Turkic cavalry was charging, and the speed was very fast, and some of the soldiers had already broken through the smoke area and rushed directly to Dahua's phalanx.
After all, the blasting area is limited, and the number of throws is limited, and there are intervals, so the damage caused to the Turkic cavalry at one time is limited, and even the number of dead and wounded is about a thousand.
However, even so, it inflicted a certain psychological blow on the Turkic cavalry, and the speed of the impact weakened, destroying the momentum of the charge.
In an instant, the front wave of cavalry had already rushed forward dozens of meters, approaching a stone's throw away.
"Divine arm crossbow, bow and arrow array, shoot!" Bae In-ki commanded the phalanx of the infantry, ordered the crossbowmen, archers, and began to shoot.
As soon as the order came out, I only heard the sound of squeaking and pulling the bow, and then there was a sound of swishing through the air.
Suddenly, the arrows in the air roared out, covering the sky and the sun, pouring out, densely covering the place of an arrow, more than ten meters before and after.
The cavalry rushing here will be a bloodbath, because the crossbow arrows and longbows are close to ten thousand arrows, although it is only an indiscriminate shroud, but the cavalry in the shroud area is likely to become a hedgehog full of arrows in the next moment.
"Puff puff!"
The arrows fell, and some of the knights fell from their horses, with several arrows stuck in their bodies, and even the men and horses were shot through.
More shots missed, nailed deep into the ground, like thorns, and also created a certain obstacle to the cavalry rush.
But the Turkic cavalry charged continuously, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000...... Wave after wave, like a tide, non-stop, the front is mostly used as cannon fodder, death squads, but the surviving knights have rushed from a hundred steps to fifty steps.
At this time, the short crossbowmen in the phalanx began to shoot straight ahead, aiming at the remaining knights.
And the knights also drew their bows and shot arrows, inflicting some casualties on the infantry phalanx.
There was a knife and axe hand who had just emerged, but he was shot by a stray arrow, which penetrated his throat, and blood gushed out, and he fell to the ground and died.
For the Turkic knights, pulling the bow and shooting arrows on horseback was commonplace, and in the middle of the horse, they shot a few arrows in succession to return fire, and the arrows on both sides exchanged arrows, each with casualties, but the price paid by the Turkic iron cavalry was much greater than that of the Dahua phalanx.
The Dahua army on the opposite side is like a mountain peak standing still, and seeing this huge wave torrent, it is about to collide with the mountain peak.
"Rush over, the phalanx of the Central Plains people is our sheep to be slaughtered!"
"The time of death for the people of the Central Plains has come, as long as we approach them—"
Some centurions and thousand-sized commanders shouted loudly to direct the soldiers around them to charge into battle.
Pei Renji watched coldly, sitting on horseback very calmly, he was in charge of the various main phalanxes of nearly 40,000 people, and there was a wait-and-see from the military department Shangshu and His Majesty the Emperor behind him, so he was full of confidence and did not have stage fright, and the old general's calmness and calmness could be reflected.
On both sides of the infantry phalanx was the cavalry team in charge of Pei Yuanqing and Xue Wancheng, and the most special thing was that Shi Danai commanded the chain of horse formations.
At this moment, Luo Zhaoyun sat on the rear point platform, with a golden helmet and golden armor, shining with golden light, wearing a robe embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon, his eyes were open and closed like electricity, condescending, using monocular glasses, he could see the battle situation in front clearly, there was a sand table beside him, with terrain, formations, etc., which was used to deduce the development of the battle situation at any time and make correct deployments in time.
His expression is calm and calm, as steady as Mount Tai, giving people a feeling of not being afraid and confident, which is a lot more reassuring.
Around Luo Zhaoyun are some generals and a few strategists and scribes, and behind him are thousands of armored cavalry, which are elite royal guard cavalry selected from the Praetorian Guard, carrying quivers, cross-body war bows, and horizontal knives, specially responsible for protecting the safety of His Majesty, and at critical times, they can also be used to break the formation and kill the enemy!
"Your Majesty, it's time for a confrontation."
"I know that success or failure is here!" Luo Zhaoyun was still calm, waiting for the moment of battle to come.
"Knock knock ......"
At this time, the war drums urging the battle sounded, and the soldiers in the infantry phalanx shouted loudly, and then stepped forward, which was to do a good job of preparing for the battle, moving in unison, mobilizing the blood and courage of the whole body, representing the courage to move forward and not retreat.
"Kill—"
The wave of knights who had rushed to the front had already rushed forward, brandishing sharp sabers, swarthy spears, and heavy maces, and slamming into the iron shields.
At this moment, in the gap of the iron shield, a long spear stabbed out, like an iron wall, blocking the impact of the Turkic cavalry.
"Bang bang bang-" "Click! These dull crashes sounded, and many horsemen and horses crashed into their shields, pierced by spears, and died in front of the shield phalanx, and the knights rolling on the ground, and the terrible screams, and the wails and roars of the horses.
Even so, the Turkic knights still rushed forward one after another, like moths to a fire, and this kind of ruthlessness in the face of death did make many recruits feel suppressed by their momentum.
The front-line confrontation increased dramatically, and in a moment, blood flowed like a river, and corpses piled up like mounds, like the battlefield of Shura.
The knights who passed through the artillery fire area and the bow and arrow area were all here, fighting fiercely with the Dahua infantry phalanx.
The shield array was temporarily under tremendous pressure, many shields were damaged, people were knocked away, and the people behind immediately filled in and plugged the holes.
Ah Shi Guda came over with a group of commanders, not injured by cannonballs, nor injured by stray arrows, relatively lucky, at this time began to command the warriors who were not afraid of death to tear through the iron shield phalanx of the Dahua army, and behind them were lambs to be slaughtered, which could be slaughtered.
Even if the 30,000 charging cavalry is likely to be killed or wounded, Ah Shi Guda feels that if he can break through the defensive line, even if these 30,000 people are dead, he has completed the task, because the Turkic cavalry behind is still charging continuously, this is a fierce battle, and the early stage is to fight for casualties, to see which side can't bear it first.
Pei Renji had already seen that the shield phalanx was in danger, and set up a waving flag, so that the shield array revealed a gap in the road, and let the cavalry in, followed by the infantry phalanx with swords, axes, hooks and sickles, and began to play a role.
As the so-called blocking is not as good as sparse, relying on the shield to block, just a temporary effect, with the continuous impact of the cavalry, earlier through the screws, screws and other connections and fixations were knocked to pieces, has little effect, and then needs to enter the next step of tactics, put the cavalry in, all kinds of phalanxes to cooperate, like gears occlusion and rotation, the enemy soldiers are crushed into meatloaf.