Where did the villagers have the experience and effective means to resist and suppress the impact of large-scale cavalry formations, and in a panic, they used spears and spears to block the middle of the shield, and dozens of hunting bows were scattered behind the shield array.

The arm bow and crossbow hung from the left side of the saddle, swaying and flapping rhythmically as the horse galloped.

On the one hand, it is necessary to paralyze the Xuanzhou soldiers who are attacking from the south and have stronger combat effectiveness, on the other hand, the materials of the Chishan army have long been in short supply to the point that crossbow arrows must be saved, and more importantly, the cavalry battalion does not have much time to fight with the township soldiers of Honglinbu, and directly assassinate them with guns and spears, so that it is possible to ensure that the Honglinbu township soldiers can be defeated in less than a stick of incense.

Han Donghu clamped the long horse lance tightly under his right armpit, and while holding the stiff rope with his left hand, he also raised his arm to block his face, and in just three or five breaths, he felt seven or eight arrows shoot on his body, but the hunting bow was weak and weak, and the seven or eight arrows were bounced off by the armor, and then he clamped the horse lance and stabbed fiercely at the wooden shield in front of him.

The big shield is made of solid wood, and the outer layer is also covered with animal skin copper and iron, and the manufacturing can be said to be quite sophisticated, and it was not pierced immediately, but the impact brought by the high-speed sprint of the war horse is so strong, as if the heavy hammer of a thousand pounds smashed over, and immediately knocked the big shield and the two villagers who were supporting behind the shield seven or eight steps away.

At this moment, Han Donghu pulled the reins and led the war horse to trample on the sword and shield soldier on the left, but the horse lance sandwiched under his right armpit was still firmly clamped under the armpit and did not let go of his hand under such a strong collision......

"Whoosh" three arrows shot at Han Donghu's waist at a very fast speed, Han Donghu raised his eyes to see that three villagers raised their spears to spur at the war horse under his crotch, but at this time, they were all hit by an arrow and fell forward.

Han Donghu didn't need to look back to see it, he knew that this was Zhao Wuji's amazing archery skills.

Shooting with a bow on horseback, it takes time to take arrows from quivers, quivers, and strings to open the bow, and people with excellent archery skills will take several arrows at the same time and grasp them in their hands, saving the time to take arrows, and they can shoot in the shortest possible time.

This is easy to say, but there are two or three other arrows between the palms of the bow when you open the bow, and you have to make sure that it is accurate enough, and it may not be possible to find a single person among a thousand skilled archers who can have such excellent archery skills.

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry formation tore open a gap three or four steps wide and seven or eight steps deep, and several brave warriors who were on the left and right of Han Donghu, the head of the cone, also stabbed at this moment with their blades, blood splashed, and limbs and flesh flew sideways.

The township soldiers are trained to resist the robbers all the year round, and there are also fierce criminals, who raise swords and spears to attack from both wings, and use shields to cover knives and spears.

The dozens of first-class soldiers who charged forward were all death squads, and they were the most well-armed, and they all wore a full set of armor with only a small ration of first-class military attachés.

Except for a few extremely unfortunate people who were shot and stabbed by arrows and spears from the cracks in the armor, or because the war horses under their crotch were stabbed and shot down, and were taken and fell off the horse, most of the first sharp soldiers were squeezed by the villagers, and in the face of dozens of spears and short spears, only the calves and other places that the armor could not cover in a short period of time would be injured.

However, in the face of the cavalry array that rushed over like a surging frenzy, the village soldiers who could really not tremble and continue to stick to the battlefield were brave after all.

In fact, it is useless to have more village soldiers who are not afraid of death, because the elite cavalry of the Chishan Army they are facing is also fearless of death, and the equipment is more sophisticated than them, and there are more people who dare to fight than them.

The cavalry is not afraid of death, at this time, in order to seize the opportunity, even completely ignoring the death and injury of the war horse under the crotch, with seven or eight hundred catties or even thousands of catties of war horses directly slaughtered, not to mention that it is necessary for five or six brave villagers to join forces, it is possible to block a rapid impact of the war horse in the flat area!

Zhao Wuji gave Han Donghu a stick of incense time to tear apart the array of Honglinbu township soldiers, in fact, Han Donghu and they only used half a stick of incense to kill more than 300 Honglinbu township soldiers to the point that they were crying wolves and howling.

If the more than 300 Honglinbu township soldiers were not greedy for merit, but occupied a strong courtyard house in the town market north of the pass, Zhao Wuji would still feel an extreme headache.

After all, there were only more than 1,000 foot soldiers they could transfer from the north in the fastest time, and the Xuanzhou soldiers who were killed from the valley post road between Shifoshan and Magu Mountain would gather more and more over time, and they did not have time to attack Honglinbu calmly.

When the time comes, they will block the attack of Xuanzhou reinforcements at the southern pass, and these 300 township soldiers will be like a stinger deep in their waists.

It's a pity that the leaders of the Honglinbu Township Soldiers and the generals of the Xuanzhou Soldiers who led the first batch of 300 cavalry from the south at this time still have poor strategic vision, and they only want to open the pass as soon as possible.

Killing 300 Honglinbu Township soldiers, Han Donghu handed over the matter of chasing defeat to the cavalry wearing light armor on both wings, he gathered dozens of armored cavalry, turned the horse's head and reformed a conical formation for charging in the direction of the South Pass.

The more than 300 Xuanzhou cavalry at the southern pass almost cleared the obstacles on the post road at this time.

After the other two cavalry teams regrouped on the flank, Zhao Wuji reined in his horses, and saw that the Xuanzhou cavalry was also forming a formation at the pass to prepare for hedging, and ordered to shout: "Go ahead and advance in the two wings, and the crossbow riders on both wings will drive forward!" ”

Han Donghu muttered twice unhappily, but he still reined in the war horse, reached out and stroked the ear of the war horse Zao'er, who was stimulated by the fierce battle just now, so that Zao'er's irritable temper at the moment calmed down, and then pressed the speed to let Zao'er step on the muddy post road and move forward; At this time, the cavalry on both wings took off the arm-open crossbows hanging on the side of the saddle and brought them flat to their chests—the crossbow arrows had already been loaded with good strings during the previous charge—and at first marched slowly, and when the enemy cavalry group had come out of the pass, and then suddenly increased their speed, and when they were fifty paces away, they pulled the trigger and shot out the crossbow arrows that shimmered with cold light, and then quickly pulled the horse's head and galloped to the side.

The Xuanzhou cavalry on the opposite side has long taken the carved bow in his hand, and put the feather arrow on the string, although in the hands of the trained archer cavalry, the time to open the bow and pull the string is very short, but the moment the two armies dock, who can shoot the arrow in his hand first, can lock the opportunity and advantage.

Maybe when the first row of archers and crossbowmen on both sides shoots at each other, the gap is not obvious, after all, it takes time for the crossbow arrows of the Chishan Army to shoot horizontally across the space of fifty paces, and in such a short time, it is enough for the opposite Xuanzhou cavalry to complete the action of opening the bow and pulling the string, but when the second and third rows of crossbow horses shoot at each other, the gap will widen rapidly.

After all, in the face of dozens or hundreds of arrows, the crossbow rider can complete the launch as long as he pulls the trigger, and how many people can calmly open the bow and pull the string at this time, and ensure a certain accuracy?

In the first round of close-range shooting, twenty or thirty of the Xuanzhou soldiers were shot down, while only seven or eight of the Chishan soldiers were killed.

The short point of the crossbow is that the reload speed is slow, and the enemy cannot be defeated by counterfire, either abandon the crossbow and change the knife and spear to close the melee combat, or open the distance, get rid of the enemy's entanglement, and find a vacancy to reload the crossbow arrow.

The main task of the first wave of the Chishan Army's rapid crossbow cavalry was to shoot the enemy formation, so that the first cavalry led by Han Donghu could kill it with a sharper posture, so they shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, and they immediately scattered to the empty slopes on both wings with the wounded soldiers who fell off their horses......

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The stone moraine mountain at the southwest foot of the boundary ridge, the mountains and valleys are full of weathered gravel, looking like the Gobi, so it is named the stone moraine mountain.

As the sky grew darker, a team of ragged armor marched through the gravel valley, most of the soldiers wearing straw sandals that had walked countless ways, and the fine stones came in through the loose cracks in the soles of the straw shoes, and the calloused soles of the feet were covered with blood.

Although many people inhaled in pain, no one stopped, and in the dim night, the yellow-faced and thin-skinned soldiers were silent and vicious like hungry wolves.

From Xianshan Lake to Nantang Village, the distance is one hundred and ten miles.

Last night, it rained heavily in Guangde, and the second capital sent 6,000 soldiers and horses from the defense line of Jiudu Mountain and Xianshan Lake to march westward in six teams, but walked in the muddy road for a day and a night, and the fastest team of soldiers and horses was still 30 miles away from Nantang Village.

Han Qian transferred reinforcements from Xianshan Lake, and the original plan was to arrange for them to go to the front line of the Longxu River, thirty miles south of Nantang Village and more than ten miles north of Langxi City, to organize the second line of defense with the help of the terrain, so that it was also convenient for Lin Haizheng to lead the first elite main force to withdraw from Nantang Village to rectify the position.

However, the main force of the Chuzhou army stationed in Liyang came out and bit too tightly and too hard, and the thousands of soldiers and horses of the Chuzhou army in Jintan, Danyang, and Yangyang also assembled in the direction of Nantangzhai with unimaginable speed, Lin Haizheng could not lead the first elite main force to withdraw, and the two sides killed red eyes near Nantangzhai, no matter which side withdrew first, it was possible to induce an uncontrolled collapse.

Han Qian could only adjust the combat deployment, not only did Wei Chang lead the Chishan Army to rush to Nantangzhai for reinforcements with only 400 cavalry in Tingzi Mountain, but also ordered Gao Shao to change the reinforcement assembly area of the second capital from Longxu River to Nantangzhai, and ordered 6,000 men and horses to rush to Nantangzhai as quickly as possible to participate in the interception of the Chuzhou army!

The defenders of Langxi City learned that reinforcements were coming from both sides, and they had a strong will to resist, and they attacked for a long time, and the two sides repeatedly fought for several times in the East City Gate Tower and the North City Gate Tower, but they failed to open the gap.

The sky is thin and cloudy, the light is sparse, it is very unfavorable for the siege, the soldiers and horses of the third capital can only be withdrawn to rest, Zhang Ping sees that he can't help near Langxi City, and at the same time he is more worried that the front line of Nantangzhai will not be able to support, resulting in the collapse of the entire battle plan, so he asked Han Qian to supervise the battle on the northern front, hoping that he, the representative of Yue Yang, the supervising army envoy, will appear and boost morale a little.

Zhang Ping led more than a dozen guards, and when he crossed the Shimoi Mountain, he encountered the first wave of soldiers and horses transferred from the eastern front for reinforcements.

The two sides reported the password, and Zhang Ping and Xiao Dahu, the battalion commander of this team, joined together.

Thousands of soldiers temporarily stopped on the south side of Shiqi Mountain to rest, and boiled mountain spring water to eat cold noodles, wheat cakes wrapped in belly, although all of them are yellow and thin, eating cold noodles and wheat cakes are full of energy, it is hard to imagine that the soldiers who trekked in the muddy road for a day and a night, and in the past two or three months every day can only be half-full, starving, will have such a high fighting spirit.

This may be the most powerful part of Han Qian's army.

In such a short period of time, under such harsh material conditions, it was possible for an army mainly composed of slaves and maids to exert such tenacity and perseverance.

Maybe the elite of the Chuzhou Army, the combat effectiveness of every general is generally stronger than that of the Chishan Army, but thousands of elite generals of the Chuzhou Army gather together and collide with the Chishan Army of the same size, is there really a chance of more than fifty percent?