Chapter Eighty-Four: Battle Front
Arrows rained down, the Sui army crossbowmen standing on the big mound, comfortably shot arrows at the approaching Zhou army, the other party did not have the archers to cover, just held the spear and moved forward, for the archers, it was a live target. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
There are only three arrows in battle, which refers to dealing with enemy cavalry, and when dealing with infantry that is not as fast as horses, there will be more arrows that can be shot, and the archers of the Sui army are condescending, shooting more calmly, and can even aim a little accurately.
Shoot the face or the torso, you can choose, but the arrow shot out has an unexpectedly poor killing effect.
shot in the face, the Zhou soldiers did not dodge, but only lowered their heads slightly, and directly took the next arrow with their pockets; Shooting the torso, many Zhou soldiers were shot like hedgehogs, but they continued to move forward as if they were fine.
Is the other party arrogant? No, the crossbowmen of the Sui army discovered a situation, that is, the armor on the opponent's body was very strong, and the crossbow was better, and at a distance of fifty or sixty paces, the feather arrows were even bounced off by the armor on Zhou Bing's body.
The other party doesn't need a cart, no big shield, but the front row of knife players are protected by rattan cards, and the rest of the people are marching forward in the rain of arrows, and sporadically some people fall to the ground with arrows, but the formation is not chaotic at all.
The huge arrows shot by the Sui army's crossbow caused some damage to the Zhou army, but even if the opponent faced the shot of the crossbow, he did not dodge, the formation was not chaotic at all, and no one made any noise, just kept advancing.
At the front end of the Zhou army, the front team responsible for breaking the formation was subjected to a rain of arrows, each of them wore two layers of armor, the outer layer of Xiyang armor, and the inner ring lock armor, and the whole body was tightly protected except for the eyes, and years of hard training allowed them to move freely even if they were wearing heavy armor.
The weapon he holds in his hand is the Meteor Hammer, which is a barbed iron ball with a wooden handle attached to an iron chain, which is designed to deal with enemies hiding behind a large shield, and can directly attack those behind through the large shield.
The rest also have shield-breaking axes and axes, mostly two-handed weapons, because of this, they can't hold rattan cards, they can only rely on the armor on their bodies to resist enemy arrows, and more than ten arrows in each body are like hedgehogs.
Someone was shot in the eye and fell, but the others continued to move forward, without saying a word, their eyes full of murderous intent.
Yang Shuang was terrified when he saw this, the Zhou army was more well-trained than he thought, so well-equipped, and its performance had surpassed that of the ordinary army, and his own cavalry failed to attack the Zhou army's crossbow position, and the whistling lime bullets stirred up countless white mist in the Sui army's array, and the situation was a little bad.
"Xue Guogong! The lonely relatives led the cavalry to wait for the opportunity to break through the formation, and the infantry army was tired of Xue Guogong's command! ”
"King Wei, take care!"
The eldest grandson Lan also saw that the Zhou army was not good, he had been in battle for a long time, as the commander of the army had fought many vicious battles, there was no problem in commanding 10,000 people, Yang Shuang was good at cavalry, and the two happened to cooperate with each other.
The soldiers brought the war horses, Yang Shuang rode his horse to the back of the battle to gather the cavalry preparing for the battle, and before he went far, there was a tidal shout in front of the formation, "Break the formation!" It was Zhou Jun's voice.
Yang Shuang only said that the Zhou army was playing tricks, but what he didn't know was that as soon as the two armies came into contact, the right flank of the Sui army's infantry formation was torn apart by the Zhou army.
The vanguard of the Tiger Forest Army fought hard in the face of a large number of spears and swords, and crashed into the right flank defense line of the Sui army in one fell swoop.
They are paid double salaries, double pensions, and the task is to break through with their lives, and the soldiers of the Sui army who are waiting for the battle are nothing more than chickens and dogs in their eyes.
With the armor on his body, he crashed into it like a moth to a fire, and for every time he fell a Zhou army's battle front, two or three Sui soldiers were killed, and more than half of the battle front team suffered casualties, tearing open the gap for the pikemen who followed.
Day and night training, month and year after year, the spear spur of the Tiger Forest Army has been extremely skilled, and the pikemen are wearing armor and flat-end spears, but they can still sprint quickly, but the right wing of the Sui army, which has a slight crack, was then torn apart by them.
The two-zhang spear, the barrel of the gun is as thick as an egg, the power of the sprint is transmitted to the tip of the spear, and it easily breaks through the rattan card and crotch armor of the Sui soldiers, and continues to move forward after piercing the first person, then the second and third.
When the spears could no longer be pierced, the pikemen in the front row did not collect their guns, because it was unrealistic, they drew their sabers and crashed into the Sui army formation like the comrades of the front team, and under the cover of the spears of the follow-up comrades, stirred up a bloody storm.
In front of the dense two-zhang spear, the ordinary spear was no longer effective, and the warriors of the Sui army risked their lives, bent down and rushed forward under the spear, hoping to break through the Zhou army's spear formation in this way.
Then they met Zhou Jun's "rat team".
One by one, the Zhou soldiers in armor knelt down and walked under the spear jungle, with thick cloth wrapped around their knees and short knives in their hands, as if they had been prepared.
These Zhou soldiers seemed to be very good at fighting without standing upright, and the Sui soldiers who bravely broke through were not their opponents at all, and they couldn't use it at all when they bent down, and they were either hacked to death with knives or stabbed to death with spears.
Rat warfare is the name of the Hulin Army for this form of warfare, and the "rats" cooperate with the pikemen to fight for "three-dimensional defense".
Several phalanxes on the left flank of the Zhou army charged fatally, and the Sui army was broken through the right flank before it had time to react, and its left flank was subsequently broken through.
The central part of the shield wall, made up of carts, had become useless, and the lime bullets had stopped firing, but the quicklime mist had tossed the middle step formation enough, and the crossbowmen on the mound began to speed up the rate of their arrows, but they were sniped.
As the Zhou army crossbowmen advanced in the spear formation, they did not release arrows on the way in order not to slow down the advance of the phalanx, but now they were mixed in the crowd and shot at the Sui archers located in the high places.
The crossbow arm is attached to the individual winch crossbow with iron plates, and the armor-piercing ability is very amazing, so the winding needs to use a crank handle, in front of this kind of crossbow with a straight armor-piercing ability, the Sui army crossbowmen wearing crotch armor have no power to parry at all.
As a result of the collision of the two sides, the left and right flanks of the Sui army began to loosen irrepressibly, and even a small group of Sui soldiers who were not afraid of death died under the dense jungle of spears.
The Sui army behind the middle shield wall was about to rush out to attack the flanks of the Zhou army on both sides after pushing away the cart, but they had nothing to do in front of the dense spears, and the Zhou army's crossbow in front of them had been replaced with crossbow arrows.
The crossbow with an effective range of at least five or six hundred paces slaughtered the Sui soldiers at a distance of only two or three hundred paces, and the Sui army's infantry began to loosen in an irretrievable state.
The Sui army's infantry formation was located in front of the mound, and was squeezed by the Zhou army from both wings, and involuntarily retreated, retreating uphill and fighting with the enemy in front of it, the difficulty can be imagined.
Don't avoid arrows, even if your comrades fall, you won't flinch, you don't have fear and concern, and the boss doesn't have orders, so you will keep moving until all the enemy troops in front of you are down.
The sound of trumpets came from behind the Sui army's large array, and the elite Sui cavalry all sorted, appearing from the left and right flanks of the mound, together with the left and right flank cavalry who had failed to assault the crossbow before, and outflanked the Zhou army's large array.
In the face of a spear formation like a hedgehog, they did not rush to attack, took out their riding bows and constantly released arrows, which is the usual trick of cavalry to deal with the infantry in formation, although the range of the cavalry is shorter than the infantry bow, but it is better than the cavalry's mobility ability.
If the enemy archers are not properly scheduled, the casualties will increase, and the spearmen and sword players in the infantry can only suffer from the arrows, and if they can't stand it, they will collapse, and then it will be the time for the cavalry to break through.
However, at this time, the Zhou army's infantry formation showed no signs of collapse, approaching the mound of the infantry formation, there were spears on the front and back, and the crossbowmen in the formation began to shoot at the Sui cavalry, and the big crossbow position located in the middle and rear was like a fish in water.
1,000 crossbowmen, whose soldiers were mountain people who had returned to the government, had settled in Huangzhou, divided the fields, had sufficient training, and excellent equipment, and their morale was very high.
The crossbowman used a winch crossbow, three shots, each shot could harvest a piece of Sui war horses, and the cavalry who fell off the horse lost their speed, and there was only a dead end.
The crossbowmen were dressed in Xiyang armor and could shoot at the Sui cavalry, while the arrows used by the archers were all horse arrows, like the arrows of a flat-headed shovel, which could easily cut through the muscles of the horses.
The general armor-piercing conical arrow, shot on the horse can only cause severe pain, a good war horse can endure this severe pain, but the war horse that can endure it again, the muscles are cut and unable to support.
No matter where the horse was shot, it could cut a bloody wound, and the harassing Sui cavalry did not wear much horse armor in order to increase their speed, so they gradually suffered heavy casualties in front of the well-prepared Zhou army crossbowmen.
Seeing that the effect was not great, the Zhou army's main formation had already pressed up again, and Yang Shuang, the king of Wei, ordered his followers to blow the horn.
The sound of horses' hooves and the dust fell, and nearly a thousand heavily armed cavalry appeared on the east side of the battlefield, setting up a formation and attacking the back of the Zhou army's infantry that was attacking their own infantry formation.
With armored cavalry, the king of the battlefield, men and horses are not afraid of arrows, except for human eyes, horse eyes and horse legs, both men and horses are invulnerable, even if they are stabbed by spears when rushing into battle, people, horses, and armor add up to more than two hundred pounds of weight, and no one can stand it when smashed into the spear array.
The premise is that it can break through the serpentine barbed wire.
Thanks to the Daye Iron Mine, as well as the hydraulic wire drawing machine, the serpentine wire fence that was only put into use in modern warfare traveled through time and space to the cold weapon battlefield in the sixth century.
The heavy armored cavalry charged unstoppably, but it was impossible to make a sharp turn in the full sprint, and it crashed into it like a moth to a fire in the face of layers of barbed wire.
The horse's legs were tripped up, and the horses fell to the ground and threw out the cavalrymen on their backs, and the heavily armored cavalrymen fell to the ground, and those who were lucky enough not to break their hands and feet were also entangled in barbed wire and could not move.
The pikemen of the Zhou army, who had been waiting for a long time, swarmed up and easily stabbed the Sui soldiers in prison to death, while the crossbowmen wearing Xiyang armor continued to shoot at the Sui army's archers without avoiding arrows.
The Zhou army's main formation leaned towards the three-bow bed crossbow position, and the rain of arrows from the various Zhou army formations forced the Sui cavalry out of the center of the battlefield, and the horn sounded from behind the mound where the Zhou army was originally arrayed, and the Zhou cavalry, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, began to dispatch.
Their number was significantly smaller than that of the Sui cavalry, but their morale was high without stage fright, and the Kaifu general Shi Wanzai led the cavalry that had been personally drilled to gallop forward, with only one goal, that is, the person who commanded the Sui cavalry to fight.
Found you, Yang Shuang! (To be continued.) )