The sound of golden drums was loud, and the cavalry troops stepped through the thick river ice and crossed the Anfeng Canal, but after entering the starting position, they did not stop to rectify the formation, but whipped the war horses under their crotches more desperately, which stimulated the war horses to neigh and scream, and suddenly increased their speed further, like a surging wave, swooping towards the defense line of the Tangyi soldiers.

Hundreds of horses' hooves stomped as if thunder were rolling against the earth, and soon drowned out the sound of the golden drums in the army.

The bloody screams of the generals reverberated through the heavens and the earth, the sharp blades waved cold light in the air, and the war spears clamped under the armpits were like poisonous snakes spitting out scarlet letters.

Seeing that the generals in front of the Tangyi soldiers were wearing armor and holding big shields, standing still like a reef, most of the Shouzhou cavalry did not take out their riding bows.

When attacking from the flanks, the riding bow can play its role to the maximum, but at this time, even if it is a strong crossbow that is slightly stronger than the foot bow in the hands of the Tangyi soldiers, it will suffer a big loss.

However, although cavalry should be deployed on the flanks for roundabout outflanking attacks, in the end, it must be adjusted according to the actual situation on the battlefield.

Now their combat mission is to tear apart the Tangyi soldiers' defensive positions on the right front road in one go; To keep Anfeng Canal from losing, even if you have to pay some heavy costs, you will not hesitate to do so.

More people even put away their swords and halberds, tied them back to their waists or hung them back in the saddle, they put their feet on the horses, and the whole person bowed on the horse's back, and protected the door with one hand, blocking the arrows that flew like locusts, regardless of how many arrows were shot on the armor on their bodies, and regardless of the people around them constantly falling off their horses, they were ready to make the last preparations before the impact.

At this time, what made them even more unhappy was that it was only fifty or sixty steps away, and the fog vapor seemed to be heavier, and a cloud of fog vapor was rolling in the low-lying ground, so that they could not see the situation in the Tangyi soldier array, which hindered their subsequent tactical adjustment.

They also didn't understand why the Tangyi soldiers formed a formation in the low-lying area, guessing that it might be to block the communication between Anfengzhai and Quxi, but such terrain was undoubtedly more conducive to them rushing over at a faster speed.

When the distance was closer, the Tangyi soldiers moved, and the several rows of generals at the front of each array, at this time, gathered more closely with the scale of the squad, and the big shields were stacked more tightly like fish scales, and thirty or forty gaps like lanes were formed in the middle of the array, so that the bed crossbow hidden in the formation showed its hideous fangs in front of the enemy formation.

It's just that the fog is too heavy, even if the distance is only sixty or seventy steps in the afternoon, the Shouzhou cavalry at the front still didn't notice the abnormality at this time.

There was a sound of "Zheng Ran", and I didn't know which bed crossbow was the first to be launched, as if a strange wind was spreading between heaven and earth.

The effective range of the bed crossbow may be twice as far as that of the arm crossbow, but the lethality is completely incomparable.

The crossbow bow made by Xuzhou has a special flat shuttle-shaped arrow cluster, even if there is a certain probability that it can shoot through the armor from the front at close range, it will not shoot deep, and more arrows will still be blocked by the armor.

The more than 200 armored cavalry on the front side of the Shouzhou cavalry, at this time, faced the accumulation of hundreds of crossbow arrows and charged, and the gap between the armor and armor of the generals and war horses was at most twenty or thirty crossbow arrows, but the fallen ones were only more than a dozen people at this time.

At this time, the heavy cavalry in the front and the light cavalry behind them all raised the horses that stepped down to a rather terrifying impact speed.

Heavy armor horses, even people with horses plus armor, weighing more than a thousand catties, high-speed impact over, if you don't care about the horses at all, let alone ordinary big shields, even if the chariot weighing more than three or four thousand heavy sand and gravel can be knocked over, so as to be the back

The light cavalry opened the gap in the depth of the assault, pulling the soldiers and horses of both sides into the chaotic bloody battle.

In a melee where the two sides are equal to each other, the cavalry who is condescending and slashing left and right always has an advantage over the foot soldiers.

However, in the three arrays in front of the Tangyi soldiers, a total of ninety light chariots were arranged, and more than ninety bed crossbows were placed on them, each crossbow arrow was like a spear with a sharp cluster flashing with a deadly cold light, and at a close distance of sixty or seventy steps, not to mention the armor after shooting, even if the war horse wearing heavy armor could directly pierce the body of the horse.

Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and the bed crossbow is also aimed at the war horse whose target is much larger than the person, and almost instantly makes forty or fifty war horses neigh and roll to the ground in pain.

The biggest role played by the bed crossbow array at this time was not to shoot down forty or fifty war horses at the same time.

The bed crossbow is slow to reload, and it is enough to organize a salvo at the distance of a single charge.

However, it is unimaginable to shoot down forty or fifty horses on the front at the same time, as well as many more hard, stone-like blocks of frozen earth that have broken away from their targets, shot indiscriminately at the enemy's line, or burst into the frozen ground, and have an unimaginable effect on the enemy's cavalry formation that is in full speed charge.

Organizing more crossbows may be able to shoot down forty or fifty people during the charge of the enemy cavalry, but this gradual process, even if people continue to fall off their horses, will have a limited disturbance to the entire enemy cavalry formation.

Ninety bed arrows were fired together, and the more than forty heavily armored cavalrymen at the front immediately fell.

The damage of the bed crossbow and the ordinary crossbow to the war horse is not a concept at all, ordinary horses are shot by crossbow arrows, and they may eventually lose blood and die, but the worry about the horses themselves is not so great, the well-trained war horses can continue to keep moving forward under the control of the cavalry, but the war horses shot by the bed crossbow are shot off, the flank is shot through, and the blood holes are splashed with blood, and a very small number of them die on the spot, and more war horses neighed and struggled after falling to the ground, or stood up and fled in all directions in a frenzy......

The entire charging cavalry formation did not notice the abnormality before being shot by the bed crossbow, and there was no preparation for buffering in advance, and the cavalry behind could not control the speed of the horses, and they crashed into it quickly, and the entire cavalry formation was in chaos almost instantly.

Countless people were thrown off their horses, trampled and crushed violently, and they could not hide from each other.

The light cavalry further behind was in a panic and was forced to disperse to the two flanks, but without heavy armor to protect them, their formation was scattered and their speed was pressed down, and they panicked to meet the denser crossbow arrows, and the men and horses fell to the ground one after another like crops after autumn......

"Drum Attack!" Han Qian stared gloomily at the movement in front of the battlefield and ordered.

The momentum of the enemy's exuberance was overshadowed by their sticks, and the entire forward cavalry array would inevitably fall into chaos next.

According to the prepared battle plan, in addition to the two battalions of infantry on the left flank who continued to stare at the defenders of Anfeng Village, the first battalion of infantry soldiers served as a reserve, and the other three battalions of infantry should advance to the east bank of Anfeng Canal as soon as possible.

If the enemy formation becomes further chaotic, the two battalions of cavalry must decisively rush through the two flanks to maximize the damage and defeat of the enemy army and expand the results of the battle.

Covered by a cloud of fog, Xu Mingzhen didn't know why the front suddenly fell into such a big chaos at first, it was too chaotic at first, and the forward cavalry didn't have time to dodge the arrow rain, so naturally no one rushed over to get through the front at the first time.

Xu Mingzhen thought that the Tangyi soldiers had set some trap in front of the formation, and he ordered the cavalry on the east bank to withdraw one after another, but he also evacuated to the west bank as much as possible to regroup, and when he saw hundreds of Tangyi soldiers coming out of the low-lying ground and forcing into the east bank of Anfeng Canal, he almost groaned - looked at the Tangyi soldiers in horror

Hundreds of chariots led slowly and persistently with military horses, and one after another bed crossbows squatted on top of the chariots like fierce beasts.

At this time, the bed crossbow is no longer a salvo, but a loaded forward shot at a faster speed.

The Shouzhou army on the east bank could not organize a decent counterattack, and it was unable to form a defensive formation on the spot, so it could only be constantly pressed by the Tangyi soldiers to retreat, and it was also the elite and brave of this group of Shouzhou troops that were abnormal; Zhao Wuji and Han Donghu also led the cavalry at this time, outflanked from the flanks, approached slowly, and shot with bows and crossbows, compressing and striking the enemy from both flanks as much as possible.

The soldiers and horses led by Xu Mingzhen for the first time to reinforce Anfengzhai are definitely the elite of the Shouzhou army, whether it is the elite of the generals or the sophistication of the armor and equipment, they are definitely better than those of other Shouzhou troops.

And Xu Mingzhen learned two days ago that the Tangyi soldiers were divided into several ways to penetrate the Chaozhou defense line, he gathered the first batch of reinforcements in two days, and rushed one hundred and seventy or eighty miles in the severe cold weather, only half a day late to kill directly to the periphery of Anfeng Village, and the reaction speed can be said to be extremely fast.

However, the problem is that the more than 6,000 soldiers and horses assembled on both sides of Anfeng Village were dispatched so quickly, and they really did not carry such bulky large and medium-sized weapons as bed crossbows, let alone chariots that could temporarily assemble anti-impact walls and suppress the impact of the other side.

Even if the post roads and gallop roads north of Anfeng Village were under their control, they could not confirm that the Tangyi soldiers' surprise target must be Anfeng Village, and they also ensured the mobility of the cavalry troops, and did not bring chariots.

The more than 6,000 generals of the Shouzhou Army, in addition to only carrying three days' rations, even carried a serious shortage of arrows, and the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides in armor and weapons were even more obvious.

Due to the relatively developed agriculture around Anfeng Village, both sides of Anfeng Canal are leveled farmland, which provides great convenience for Tangyi soldiers to attack with chariots.

In this case, no matter how elite and brave the generals of the Shouzhou Army are, there is no way to stabilize their positions on both sides of the Anfeng Canal.

When I saw that one of the Tangyi soldiers had successfully crossed the Anfeng Canal, there were more than a dozen chariots with bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows to enter the west bank, and more chariots gathered two bed crossbow arrays on the east bank of the Anfeng Canal, looking at the rivers of blood flowing everywhere, countless brave generals were sacrificing in vain, Xu Mingzhen's big eyes were bloodshot, and at this time, he could only choose the strong man to break his wrist first, and ordered the remaining soldiers and horses to retreat to Gaocheng in the northwest direction.

In addition to ordering Zhao Wuji and Han Donghu to continue to lead the cavalry to pursue the enemy and expand the results of the battle, Han Qian gathered his infantry and some of them rested on both sides of the Anfeng Canal, while the other soldiers and horses launched an offensive against Anfeng Village at dusk.

Before the sky was dark, a pale crescent moon hung over the sky, meaning that it would be a sunny night tonight.

One rode the chariot to the front of the formation, and the soil pit dug in the middle of the array was poured into tung oil and burned.

I didn't carry heavy siege weapons such as whirlwind cannons, after all, the whirlwind cannons were disassembled, and there were too many gun tips about five or six zhang long, which was not conducive to rapid long-distance transportation.

However, for Anfeng Village, which is only surrounded by a three-foot-thick rammed earth wall, there is no need for heavy cyclone cannons, and there is no need for soldiers to brave the rain of arrows and the spilled fire oil to push the car to hit the wall.

More than 30 bed crossbows were concentrated in the front, and each wave of fire tore countless holes in the thin parapet wall, and in a short time it tore out a gap of more than a foot wide.

Or they have witnessed the tragic situation of the main force of reinforcements being beaten and fleeing in a hurry, or the fire of the bed crossbow and the continuous throwing of fire oil bombs from the scorpion cannon, the soldiers and civilians in the village do not dare to force up and can only watch the gap expand little by little......