Chapter 923: The strong crossbow pierces the seven times, and the battle is fierce

Although the momentum of the charge was also very terrifying, most of the soldiers in the Xia army showed a sarcastic smile on their faces, and the cavalry of the Song army who rushed out of the fortress seemed to be only more than a thousand horses.

And Brother Cha saw that the Song army suddenly sent cavalry out of the city to come up to his own big array, and played the banner of "The Great Song Xin'an Army Festival Envoy, Sign the Privy Council Affairs Xiao Tang" was also hunting and agitating in the wind between the cavalry formations, and the look of surprise on his face flashed, and Brother Cha immediately snorted coldly, saying in his heart that Xiao Tang was really willing to kill those captured Song army generals, could it be that I overestimated him?

Brother Cha also knew that Xiao Tang's soldiers and horses who were defending the fortress were all holding the heart of death to defend the city, and he ordered his subordinates to slaughter the captured Song soldiers in front of the battle, trying to make the Song army's determination to fight to the death flourish, but he expected that the Song army in the city was unlikely to go to danger easily in order to rescue Kang Jiong and others, so Xiao Tang was also the commander of the Song army, so indiscriminate, wouldn't it be too righteous to use things?

Could it be that the generals under your command are all invincible? If you really want to, how could Liu Fa almost die in my hands, aren't you also under the siege of our army and have to retreat south, and now you are facing such a dangerous situation?

Brother Cha's eyes also showed a bit of contempt, he waved his hand with a cold face, and the tooth general next to him immediately blew the horn in his hand again, and the war drums and horns in the Xia army's large array responded in unison, with the shouting of the generals of the various departments, the huge army formations began to move slowly, and the Xia army cavalry that swept in front of the city fortress on the left and right flanks also turned their horses' heads and covered the Song army cavalry formation diagonally towards the galloping horses. Those fierce Xia Jun knights also thought fiercely in their hearts: Since you Song dogs didn't die fast enough and went out of the city, don't even think about escaping back alive!

Kang Jiong, who was originally ready to be generous, saw that Xiao Tang led a group of strong horsemen in the fortress to really suddenly kill, and it seemed that he was about to come to rescue himself and the captured Song soldiers around him, he had a look of disjoy and shock on his face, and immediately shouted anxiously: "How can Xiao Jieshuai be so reckless!?" The Xia thief has been prepared for a long time, and since we have been captured, it is okay to die, but how can we teach the Pao Ze brothers to be killed by us! ”

As soon as Kang Jiong's words fell, the knife and axe hand behind him grabbed the back of his neck, and dragged him backwards with three hundred Song army soldiers such as Han Tao, Hao Siwen, and Li Yongqi. Wu Yuan, the fierce general in the Xia army's formation, rode out from the side with a machete, and he playfully looked at Xiao Tang and other Song army horses riding in front of him, and said in a loud voice: "The surname Xiao is really willing to come to rescue these birds?" It's really a righteous ...... Chaos Fools! Only these men dare to come to attack, Brother Cha Ling Ning spared the Song army that was captured for the time being, but it really came in handy, so it's okay, teach you to go on the road together, Huangquan Road is also lively! ”

When Wu Yuan's voice fell, nearly 10,000 foot soldiers in the middle of the Xia army formed a huge number of formations have been lined up, seeing that they want to cut off, the Song army's momentum of breaking the formation, most of the foot soldiers in the big array are spearmen, they will point sharp spears obliquely into the sky, intertwined into a cold steel forest, and the big shield in the hands of the famous and heavy armored foot soldiers at the front of the array will also be fiercely inserted into the ground, even if the Song army cavalry is very fierce, the shield wall formed by the front of the infantry formation will cross the road of the Song cavalry charge, and there are countless spears poking out from the gap between the thick shields, and the chain of horses and heavy cavalry that rushed to the forefront of the Song army was only a few hundred people, and in the face of the Xia army's large array with an absolute advantage in troops, how many rows of guns and shields could break through?

"Archer!"

In addition, the general of the Xia army rode his horse and stood obliquely on the right side of the rear military formation, he looked coldly at the Song army galloping in front of him, the right arm with a steel knife was raised high, and thousands of archers immediately pulled their bows and arrows, and they raised the bows and arrows in their hands in the air, with a creaking sound of the bowstring being pulled apart, thousands of bows were also pulled into the shape of a full moon, and the sharp arrows were ready to be fired, just waiting for the general of the unified army to give an order, they were going to throw them in the direction of the Song army's cavalry formation.

"Shoot !!"

The general of the Xia army immediately slashed forward, and all the archers immediately let go of the fingers that were holding the bowstring, "Hum! A large heart-pounding bowstring vibration suddenly sounded, and thousands of sharp feather arrows immediately swept into the air, forming a dense rain of arrows in the air, and the Song army's strong horsemen who were galloping towards themselves roared and fell.

The heavy cavalry of the chain of horses that urged the ironclad cavalry to rush to the front were the first to bear it, bearing most of the arrows pouring down like a waterfall, but fortunately, the sharp arrows sparked on the iron armor covering the men and horses, making a continuous crisp sound and almost no casualties to the heavy armored cavalry. However, due to the very dense rain of arrows poured by the Xia army, hundreds of sharp arrows fell towards Xiao Tang and other knights behind the chain horse!

Seeing this, Xiao Tang and a group of his subordinates immediately waved the weapons in their hands and shot down the sharp arrows that fell from the split, and there were still sixty or seventy cavalry soldiers who couldn't block it in the middle of the period, and were shot through the body by several sharp arrows, and the war horses under their crotch were also pained and neighed, and they rushed forward and fell to the ground!

Although there were casualties in the cavalry formation galloping towards the Xia army, the momentum of Xiao Tang's charge did not stop at all, and the hundreds of heavily armored iron horsemen at the forefront of the chain horses had already raised their spears in their hands one after another, aiming the sharp and dark spear tips at the Xia army's foot soldiers who were arriving in front of them. When looking from the Xia Army's large array, I saw that the figures of the Song Army's powerful horsemen became more and more clear!

In the Xia army's large array, Wu Yuan and several Xia army generals still had a calm and hideous smile on their faces, and as one of the Xia army generals let out another wolf's howl, a large number of soldiers galloped past the pikemen who were lined up in front. Those foot soldiers lined up in formation, and immediately raised the crossbow in their hands with iron as a crossbow and copper as a machine to aim at the Song army's chain of horses that were within a hundred steps of their own soldiers and horses, and the crossbows held by these crossbowmen were all first-class bows that were not inferior to the shooting power of the Song army's divine arm bow!

Originally, during the Xining period of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Hongjin, a Xia man from the Song Dynasty, presented the divine arm bow he invented, which was then manufactured in large quantities after a slight improvement by skilled craftsmen, and was issued to the crossbow soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, which became the weapon of the Song army to defeat the enemy. In view of the continuous war between the Song and Xia countries, and his own soldiers and horses have suffered a big loss because of the Song army's divine arm bow, he advised his imperial brother that the power of the Song Dynasty's divine arm bow is extravagant, and he should choose another Han Zhuang Yong to teach and practice a strong crossbow, and choose to train and form a strong crossbow army with the shortcomings of the Xia country and the length of the Yi Song country.

This army created by Chage and according to the Song army's tactics, when the enemy fights the first crossbowmen as a formation, depending on the enemy's distance from the formation into a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, the strong crossbow army is ready to break the enemy with crossbow arrows first, the Xia country is prolific in iron ore, cold forging iron smelting and other technologies are also very clever, with a bow shot out of the crossbow also hit the iron crane, the record of shooting no feathers, the distance within 100 steps is enough to shoot through the enemy's heavy armor, is the Song army even if there are not afraid of the longbow heavy cavalry, but the number is at an absolute disadvantage, The crossbowmen who formed a formation on their own side have also been prepared for a long time, although the Song army is fierce, what can they do?

The roaring wind sounded so fierce that it seemed to burst people's eardrums, and the dense crossbow arrows like locusts drew straight trajectories in the air, and shot densely towards the galloping chain of horses! The piercing sound of metal cutting into metal, the muffled sound of sharp blades piercing through flesh and blood, and the wails and neighs of warriors and horses intertwine together to form a very strange and terrifying loud sound, and countless extremely powerful crossbow arrows shot through the iron armor and body of the chain horse, and easily pierced the iron armor and flesh of the soldiers on the horse, Rao is rushing to the front of the heavy cavalry slashed their sabers and spears to block, but it was not enough to shoot down those who fired extremely fast, A more penetrating rain of deadly arrows! In an instant, the surging chain of horses was a group of people on their backs, and nearly 200 heavy cavalry soldiers and horses were shot alive into a sieve, even if they were killed on the battlefield! 8)