…

Because there are few horses and many heavy armor, the horse army in Shuibo Liangshan is all heavy armored cavalry.

In fact, such a development is unhealthy, and only by combining light and heavy cavalry can the advantages of cavalry be brought into full play.

In fact, if it weren't for the sudden war with Goryeo, Li Yan would have reorganized the army and formed light cavalry at the time of this reorganization - with the continuous growth of the Yangsan army, the structure of the Yangsan army was already very unreasonable and had to be reorganized.

Pity!

Before the Yangsan army could be reorganized, the war with Goryeo broke out.

In the era of cold weapons, heavy cavalry was the "god" on the battlefield.

In the era of light cavalry, infantry could also inflict mass damage on cavalry with bows and crossbows, while in the era of heavy cavalry, infantry was almost arbitrarily slaughtered against cavalry in the plains and wilderness.

And the most famous of the heavy cavalry is the "Iron Floating Massacre".

Tiefutu is also known as Tiefutu, Futu is the meaning of the iron tower in Buddhism, to put it bluntly, Tiefutu is actually equipped with heavy cavalry, that is, men and horses wear heavy armor, cavalry to attack the enemy formation.

Tiefutu has extremely high requirements for the quality of the war horse and the quality of the rider (the iron horse armor with heavy armor weighs 40 kilograms, and then counting the rider's iron armor and weapons, as well as the weight of the rider itself, the weight of the war horse is often more than 200 to 300 kilograms, such a huge weight requires the rider and the horse to have extraordinary physical strength and endurance, and this alone is difficult for the horses in the south and most of the Central Plains people to be competent. ), so it was not possible to massively expand the army.

Although the horse army in Shuibo Liangshan was all heavy cavalry, the real Tiefutu was the Lin Chong Battalion and the Bian Xiang Battalion - as the mainstay of the two horse armies, the men and horses of these two battalions were carefully selected and matched with the best human armor and horse armor.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan said that Lin Chong's battalion and Bian Xiang's battalion were the two best battalions of cavalry in the Liangshan Army.

And the Eagle Yang Army is also equipped with heavy cavalry, which can also be regarded as an iron float.

After the two sides lined up in their respective formations, they began to gather momentum.

When the momentum reached its highest point, Lin Chong and General Ying Yang raised their spears in their hands at the same time, and pointed their spears at each other at the same time!

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

The soldiers on both sides shouted an earth-shattering killing sound at the same time!

Hedging begins!

Ten thousand horses galloping!

Dusty!

At first, both sides were only interested in hedging and did nothing else.

Until the hedge reaches about 20 zhang!

"Shoot-"

Under the orders of General Yingyang, the Yingyang army shot an overwhelming rain of arrows in unison!

"You don't have to dodge, this arrow can't kill anyone." Lin Chong shouted.

Goryeo's horned bow and wicker arrows against the infantry army, especially the infantry army with incomplete armor, the lethality is indeed amazing, even stronger than the divine arm crossbow (because of its fast rate of fire and long distance), but against the Liangshan iron cavalry, which is wearing high-quality iron armor, its lethality is really too limited.

Listening to Lin Chong's shouting, the Liangshan soldiers stopped the commotion and continued to rush towards the Yingyang army without chaos, noise, and chaos......

"Change the heavy arrow!" General Eagle Yang shouted.

Seeing that light arrows could not frighten the Liangshan army, General Yingyang put away all his luck and decisively asked the cavalry to replace the wicker arrows with heavy arrows, preparing to compete with the Liangshan army in a dignified manner.

……

Ten zhang!

"Three-stage, shoot-"

Lin Chong, who had been silently calculating the distance between the two sides, finally gave the order to shoot.

The Liangshan soldiers, who had long been ready to shoot, spontaneously divided into three parts, aimed at the front of the Yingyang Army or opened the bow and arrows or pulled the trigger - the composition of the Liangshan Army is very complicated, not all of them are cultivated by themselves, many of them were originally turned into regular officers, so some of them have good archery skills, Li Yan did not force this part of the people to switch to crossbow arrows, after all, bows and arrows have advantages such as fast rate of fire, which crossbow arrows cannot compare.

Someone may have to ask, isn't the shooting distance of the Divine Arm Crossbow two hundred and forty steps, why did Lin Chong wait until ten zhang to give the order?

There are two reasons for this:

1. The Divine Arm Crossbow can indeed shoot 240 steps, but if you want to break the armor, especially the high-grade iron armor, it is only safe if it is less than ten zhang, so as to ensure that it will not slip or ricochet on the armor.

(Don't think that it takes 30 meters to break through the iron armor, sorry for the great prestige of the Divine Arm Bow, in fact, this is already very remarkable, you must know that the early arquebus armor breaking distance is only 30 meters, as for the Goryeo horn bow with heavy arrows, only when the distance is less than five zhang, can break the iron armor.) ”

Second, the crossbow of the god arm is too difficult to open the bow (the small force has to use the foot to open, the strong also have to use the waist to open), especially when charging, and the speed of the cavalry charge is very fast, even if the use of a bow and arrow with a relatively fast rate of fire, when hedging, it can not shoot three or five arrows effective arrows The two sides will be short-handed, if it is a crossbow arrow, basically you can shoot an effective arrow.

However, the Liangshan Army's individual divine arm crossbow was modified by Liu Huiniang, and it can shoot three crossbow arrows at a time, and more than 1,000 people shoot more than 3,000 crossbow arrows.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh"

After three rounds of arrow rain, the front of the Eagle Yang Army turned on their backs!

A rough estimate is that these three salvos killed and wounded at least one or two hundred people!

(The crossbow arrow is a direct shot rather than a throw, so the person in front can block the arrow for the person behind, so in this kind of hedging, as long as the formation is not chaotic, it is impossible to solve the opponent with the crossbow arrow alone.) ）

General Yingyang relied on a large shield to survive the three rounds of deadly arrow rain.

Just as General Yingyang put down his shield and was about to give the order to fight back, two sounds of "hey" and "hey" broke through the air and came straight to his front door!

The two arrows were shot by Chen Liqing with the aim of decapitation.

General Yingyang's reaction was very fast, and he dodged an arrow stubbornly!

Pity!

Chen Liqing calculated correctly, and it can also be said that she was blinded by the trajectory of General Yingyang's evasion, and the second arrow of the Lianzhu arrow hit General Yingyang's face, shooting General Yingyang's face through it!

However, this Eagle Yang General is really brave, and in such a situation, he did not forget to order: "Huang (also) Jin (hit)!" ”

With the order of General Yingyang, the Yingyang army will aim at the middle and second half of the Liangshan army at the same time to shoot arrows - because the Liangshan army was the first to attack and was delayed by Chen Liqing, the Yingyang army missed the best time to shoot, so they could only shoot the middle and late sections of the Liangshan army, so as to kill and injure the Liangshan cavalry.

After a period of rain, the Liangshan cavalry also had thirty or fifty men and horses left behind.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than three zhang, and it was impossible for anyone to shoot a second arrow.

All the Eagle Yang soldiers spontaneously hung up their bows and picked up their spears.

General Yingyang threw away the big shield that had protected him all the way and picked up the iron spear, and at the same time endured the heart-rending pain and pulled out the arrow on his face, and then shouted: "Ha (kill)-"

On the other side, Lin Chong also raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Kill-"

The generals on both sides shouted in unison: "Kill—"

Meet at close quarters!

……