Chapter 395: The Ballista's Counterattack
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble... ”
Dozens of hundreds of artillery arrows fell into the puppet Qi cavalry one after another, almost at the same time, countless fires suddenly exploded, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and the iron thistle terrestris sprayed out after the explosion of the cannon arrows drew a cold light in the thick smoke and dust, taking away the lives of the puppet Qi rebels and war horses.
A large pit with a depth of one or two meters appeared in front of, behind and left and right of the pseudo-Qi cavalry who were slightly lucky and not hit by the artillery arrows, and the most unlucky ones were those who watched the big pit suddenly appear in front of their eyes, and then rushed straight into the horse, followed by the tragic neighing sound of the war horse's hooves stepping on the iron thistle, which permeated the entire puppet Qi rebels, one after another.
"Chirp. Chirp tweet. Woo-yo-yo... ”
Among them, there are many puppet Qi cavalry who were directly or indirectly hit by artillery arrows, and the horses that were scratched by the iron thistle terrestris and stabbed the horse's hooves, or even stabbed in the body, suddenly fell to the ground at the same time, and also threw out the puppet Qi cavalry on their backs one by one in different directions, and then they were trampled into meat cakes by the iron hooves of their companions who followed closely behind, leaving only a ball of soft meat paste wrapped in armor.
The bombardment of artillery and arrows was mainly aimed at the middle part of the pseudo-Qi cavalry, and the most affected part was the rear part, and the least affected was the front row of cavalry. But they were not as lucky as they imagined, and they had already seen the most threatening scene from before them after crossing the dividing line between the two armies.
With the order from the Feng family's military vehicle upstairs, the Feng family sergeants who stood at the forefront of the army with guns in the giant shield turned sideways to retract the formation, this move of brushing together, but it made the pseudo-Qi cavalry hundreds of meters away feel cold, because after the Feng family sergeants gathered the formation, more than 100 passages were exposed, and in the passage, it was the ballista that had been wound one by one, and the crossbow arrows glowing with a little blue light were almost launched directly after the Feng family sergeants in front of them were separated, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound that might pierce the eardrums, The crossbow arrows made of wooden poles more than a meter long were parallel to the ground, and they rushed towards the cavalry of the pseudo-Qi at high speed.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! Sou.... ”
Countless cold rays of light flashed, and in the blink of an eye, they had entered the cavalry camp of the Pseudo-Qi charge, taking the lives of hundreds of Pseudo-Qi soldiers in an instant. At this distance, the penetration of crossbow arrows is not at all something that a person or a horse can resist, and most of the crossbow arrows have to penetrate the bodies of three or even four or five pseudo-Qi rebels before they can penetrate the ground.
One by one, the pseudo-Qi rebels whose bodies suddenly took off were just looking around with their blank eyes open while feeling their bodies suddenly becoming light and fluttering, although they wanted to control their bodies very much to prevent them from falling into their own charging camp at will, but the transparent hole in their chests emptied the strength in their bodies almost in an instant, not giving them any chance to react at all.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou!... ”
Immediately after, the crossbow carts in the second row of the crossbow array were also fired in unison, and under the unanimous sound of breaking the air, a cold light on the flat ground suddenly shot towards the cavalry of the pseudo-Qi, like a sharp scythe, and harvested the rows of 'wheat' in front of them together, creating a burst of earth-shattering screams and wails again.
"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou... ”
The third row of ballistae that were the first to fire the artillery arrows fired the crossbow arrows that had been replaced, and the cavalry in the front row of the pseudo-Qi almost fell in response, and almost in less than a minute, the casualties of the pseudo-qi were already thousands. The most important thing is that the formation of the cavalry charge has been completely disrupted, even if the melodious horn sound is still wafting in the ears, and even the heartbeat is rhythmically following the passionate war drums, but the hooves of the war horses can no longer find the drum beat of their own, let alone want to continue the rhythmic and orderly charge.
"Brothers, get down! Dodge as much as you can! In the cavalry camp that had been slightly dispersed, a forward general realized his situation, and then carefully recalled the companion who had died just now, and his body also fell on the horse's back for the first time in the following moment, and at the same time turned his head and shouted at the people around him.
At the middle end of the charging camp, Yang Neng and Huo Cun, who led the cavalry, were also stunned by the sudden air attack just now and the fierce resistance of the Feng family army in front of them. This kind of fighting, they have never encountered before, the distance between the two sides is still a full five hundred meters before they were attacked by air, although the casualties are not too many, but it poses a great threat to the connection between the front and rear of the cavalry camp.
A subsequent salvo of crossbow arrows could take away hundreds of soldiers in the front row in one round. Although one casualty was not enough to break the 30,000-strong cavalry regiment, the launch of the ballista was too fast, and there were at least four rounds of salvos in a minute, that is, one or two thousand pseudo-Qi soldiers were directly killed every minute, which still did not count those indirect casualties.
And more importantly, the charging speed of the entire cavalry regiment has been seriously hindered, the cavalry charging in the front row has almost been killed and wounded, while the cavalry in the rear has been unable to carry out a thorough charge because of the strong resistance of the Feng army, and even many cavalry have stopped their horses and stayed in place to avoid the attack of crossbow arrows.
Although there was a reminder from the previous general, even if he was lying on horseback, it was impossible to completely dodge the attack of the crossbow arrow, especially when a pseudo-Qi soldier who had his entire body tightly attached to the horseback was directly pierced by a crossbow arrow from the top of his head, the whole head was fragile like a ripe watermelon under the rapid steel arrow, and it was immediately torn apart, and the red and white viscous liquid sprayed in the air, while the headless corpse was continued to be carried by the residual force of the crossbow arrow and smashed towards a pseudo-Qi soldier in the rear.
This scene alone was enough to make anyone feel frightened, and dozens of pseudo-Qi cavalry lying on horseback around them straightened up in an instant, but only the next moment, the body that had not yet detached itself from the shock and horror was directly knocked off the horse's back by the roaring crossbow arrows, and the crossbow arrows with one corpse after another raged in the crowd of pseudo-Qi cavalry, mercilessly destroying the lives one by one.
"Woo woo ... Woo woo woo ... ”
Just as the cavalry regiment of the Puppet Qi 'exploring the path' suffered a catastrophe, the horn sound in the Puppet Qi army increased suddenly, and the incomparably passionate war drums also sounded, and tens of thousands of cavalry roared, and tens of thousands of war horses trampled on the ground at the same time, and the entire battlefield trembled, as if it could not withstand the ruthless ravages of so many people.
"Knock knock..."
The excited sound of war drums was like urging orders, urging the footsteps of tens of thousands of cavalry in front and back, and it was a black cavalry, and they quickly pressed towards the Feng family's army.