Chapter 239: Plan and Move

When the sound of an arrow tearing through the air came, the last drop of blood fell to the ground on the tip of Guo Xi's gun.

Yuan Jin strode forward, wiped the blood stains on his face, and grinned: "General Zhonglang, the time is just right." ”

Guo Xi frowned slightly: "What?" Injured? ”

"Nope!" Yuan Jin smiled a little embarrassedly, "I just split a beard horizontally and splashed it." ”

"Hmm. Did you hear that? Guo Xi pointed to the southwest, "Gao Shuai has urged us, immediately go and reorganize the team, and attack the city immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

"Wait!" Suddenly remembering something, Guo Xi felt that it was still necessary to emphasize, "When using firearms, be careful!" ”

"Don't worry! We've been practicing for months......"

"Don't be poor! Is that a joke? Guo Xi's eyes widened, and he couldn't wait to pick up the gun in his hand and pierce this heartless pair of hands.

"Yes!" Yuan Jin saw that the main general was furious, and immediately put away the playful color, "Zhonglang will rest assured, he will never dare to make any mistakes!" ”

"Let's go."

Guo Xi looked up at the sky, looked around, and naturally remembered Yang Qing. This kid, if he comes back as planned, I don't know if he can do it, if Ziyin really only led 500 people to burn Tuozhe City and still be able to retreat, he can't be underestimated by him!

Muhammad's heavy cavalry began to pick up speed, and the Anxi army had noticed that the momentum was not good, and the Shule army, which bore the brunt of the attack, did not know who shouted, and a large number of men and horses crawled and flashed to both sides. This led to the whole body, and the two wings that had been retracted also began to retreat outward, and the good formation of the Anxi army did not look like it was in shape.

It's not that the acting skills of the Anxi Army have reached such a point, in this era of cold weapons, a huge number of heavy cavalry rushed forward, and no branch of the army dared to face it head-on, this was really dodging.

Due to the great momentum and the difficulty of braking in time, heavy armored cavalry without good formation will have serious trampling on each other. Ziyad and Muhammad have no lack of experience in commanding large heavy cavalry teams, although the battlefield under the city of Talas is too small to be used, but they still carefully arrange fifty horizontal rows, each row of two hundred knights to attack the phalanx, so that the front of the Anxi army up to a thousand steps of defense will be trampled by iron hooves to the point that there is not even scum left!

Such a hearty charge is rare in a hundred years! Muhammad's eyes were red with excitement, and he was already immersed in great imaginary pleasure. Because of the fire in the backyard, the Anxi army didn't even have time to organize a defensive line at the front, even if you couldn't stop my iron hooves, it would be good if you could hinder it, just let me rush over so easily...... Hahaha! What's more, the general has privately instructed that even if he rushes in front of the Qarlu department, he doesn't have to slow down, just divide the troops left and right, and he still has some pity, after all, Qarlu has also made a big effort, isn't it? But it's hard to disobey the military order, no wonder I'm ...... Hahaha!

Well? Running so fast?

Muhammad was somewhat surprised, the speed with which the Ansi army was routing on both sides was a bit beyond his expectations. In the end, it was the Anxi Army under Gao Xianzhi, who even fled so fast! Forget it, I don't care about your Shule army for now, wait for me to eat the messy Yanqi army first, and then go back and clean up you cowards! Run? The light cavalry of Abdullah and Homer are not vegetarians, so where else can you run?

Muhammad did not dare to disperse the formation, and after despising the Shule army in his heart, he continued to command the heavy cavalry to charge forward. In fact, even if he wanted to change the battle order, it was still unknown whether the heavy cavalry in high-speed movement would be able to execute it.

I could already see the banner of the Yanqi army, Muhammad's ears were filled with the sound of whirring wind, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves seemed to be much quieter, and a pair of leopard eyes stared at the flag of the Yanqi army with black edges on a white background. Don't run yet, still stand there, okay, I'm going to turn you into meat later...... The first row was only a few hundred steps away from that pesky flag......

Suddenly, the big flag circled in the air, and three circles were neatly drawn.

The Yanqi army, which was originally fighting with the Qarlu army, stopped in an instant, like the ebb tide of the sea, and was divided into two sides at once.

Muhammad didn't understand what was going on, and was wondering why the Qarluqs didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue him, when he saw the Qarluqs retreat quickly to both sides without a sound, and once again gave up a large open space!

What is this for? Scared? Scared?

Fear! I'm so scared!

Muhammad's eyes were green, how could the Ansi army have time to build such a long line of defense against horses?

There were thousands of paces away, and at the front were three rows of hideous antler thorns, and then three rows of repulsors, and the sharpened branches of the wood pointed at a forty-five degree angle to the sky, and even the motionless dead thing exuded a thick murderous aura; Next is the high fence that stretches for five roads, plunged deep into the ground and held together by iron cables; Then there was a large open space that seemed to be nothing, but a pile of floating earth in the east and a pile in the west, and Muhammad could think of it with his toes that it was definitely a myriad of troublesome pits; And behind the clearing, there was a black crowd of people, and although Muhammad could not see clearly, his intuition told him that it was not good......

"Spread out left and right! Spread out left and right! Muhammad yelled like madness, pulling at the reins desperately, hoping to change the direction of his travel.

It's a pity that it was a little late, and the horizontal row of two hundred knights in front of it, and the heavy cavalry that had already increased their speed, it was impossible to perfectly divide the troops in two ways in a short time. The cavalry of the second row left a distance of thirty or forty paces from the first row in order not to trample on each other, but it was difficult for them to see the situation in front of them - the dust kicked up by the horses in the front row almost reduced their visual distance to zero.

Only twenty or thirty horsemen on each side had time to turn around to avoid the horse-repelling positions laid by the Anxi army, and the rest of the heavy horsemen rushed towards the sharp antlers without hesitation.

In order to maximize the effect of the horse-repelling position, the Yanqi army also laid several stumbling ropes. Seeing that the first row had been killed, the Tang troops on both sides struggled, and the ropes that were originally buried under the shallow soil "buzzed" and straightened.

"Bang Bang!" There was a sharp crisp sound, the speed was too fast, except for a small number of heavy riders running in front of them who tripped and fell into the air, the tripwire that was temporarily spliced was kicked off in an instant. The rest of the knights in the first row struggled to stick their spears out, hoping to pick up the obstacles in front of them.

The "poof" sound continued, and most of the heavy horsemen who had been tripped into the air by the stumbling rope and had not been able to dodge the leaping antlers and the repelling rifles had the same fate: the sharp tip of the spear pierced through the horse's heart, came diagonally out of the back, and never slashed into the lower abdomen of the knight who abandoned his horse and fled, and pinned the man and the horse firmly together.

With the arrival of the heavy cavalry of the fourth and fifth platoons, the few repulsion rifles, antler thorns, and high fences had been kicked and kicked to the ground, and after harvesting the lives of hundreds of enemy soldiers, they could no longer play a role. However, at this time, the trap became the beginning of another nightmare for the heavy cavalry.

Horses' legs are actually very fragile, and in order for them to run faster, they cannot be equipped with protective armor. Once a high-speed running war horse has one leg stuck in a pit, it is basically sentenced to the death penalty of a knight on its body - it is enough to choke when it falls out of the horse, not to mention that the heavy riders are all wearing heavy armor, and it is difficult to stand and walk alone, and there is no reason to survive on the battlefield? Wounded horses and heavy cavalrymen who had been bruised and crushed rolled on the ground in agony. They didn't suffer for long, for a steady stream of knights rushed up again and trampled them under their feet. The big cannibal was stunned to pave another way in an instant with hundreds, or even thousands of lives.

But......

The big cannibal who was lucky enough to escape the obstacles in front of him rushed out, and was about to face the most terrifying weapon of the Tang Army-the crossbow.

Muhammad finally understood the reason why he had not been hit by the Anxi army's crossbow arrows all morning: Gao Xianzhi had placed almost all of his crossbows here! He knew that there was no point in using a bow for heavy cavalry protection, it was a well-designed deception!

In the middle is dozens of bed crossbows, which can fire more than a dozen large crossbow arrows at the same time, and the range is also the farthest, up to 1,000 steps; Next to it is the Fuyuan crossbow, which fires seven arrows at a time, with an effective range of more than 700 steps; Lined up again, there is a bamboo pole crossbow, operated by three people, up to 500 steps. The above is only a heavy crossbow, and the ambushed individual soldiers also have crossbows in their hands, arm crossbows, horn bow crossbows, and kick crossbows...... The whole crossbow array!

Muhammad was desperate, after his heavy cavalry had passed the first three levels, it was conservatively estimated that nearly half of it had been lost, but it was still hundreds of paces away from actually killing the enemy, and even these few hundred paces now seemed so far away!

After withstanding this rain of crossbow arrows, how many of his men will be left? Thousand? Hundreds? Or dozens?

All of this is due to Qarlu! Confused, the general is confused, and he himself is confused, and he actually believes that they will rebel...... Muhammad closed his eyes, he knew that the success or failure of the battle was a foregone conclusion, and his only hope was that the heavy cavalry scattered on both flanks could fight the Ansi army with the cooperation of the light cavalry of Abdullah Homer, and at least Ziyad could collect 20,000 ...... No, even if it's only 10,000! Even if only 10,000 Khorasan warriors can retreat to Mulu Prefecture, Lord Abu will not lose his foundation. As for himself, since he has rushed here, as a proud warrior, he can only move forward without hesitation.

Perhaps Muhammad's prayer was heard in the dark, and the two wings led by Abdullah and Homer were not bad. Seeing that the heavy cavalry was about to end, they burst out with amazing combat power.

Because he wanted to act and act well, when receiving the outstanding "actors" of the Shule and Yanqi armies, the positions of the Khotanese army and the Qiuzi army were still chaotic for a while. This fleeting opportunity was tightly grasped by the keen Apdullah and Homer, and after gathering the heavy cavalry that escaped from the ambush in time, the big cannibals, who did not suffer in numbers, began to gain the upper hand and suppressed the two wings of the Don army! The soldiers and horses of the four towns of Anxi kept retreating......

Gao Xianzhi's face gradually became solemn, and he was about to lose his mouth!