Chapter 170: Equipped swordsmen rush into battle

The Anxi Army crossbowmen pressed down the bracket hard, and with a metallic trill, the air trembled, and a row of crossbow arrows turned into cold stars and shot out with the wind!

After shooting, the crossbowmen in the front row handed the crossbow to the back, took the crossbow handed by the archers in the second row, glanced at it, and pulled the crossbow again...... The crossbowmen in the third row filled the second row with crossbow arrows at this time, and wound them vigorously.

Although Datang does not have a musket now, it does not prevent Chen Ying from taking the crossbow machine version of the three-stage shot.

The biggest advantage of the three-stage strike is that it can maintain the continuity of fire coverage, especially when the crossbow machine is wound, although it is very exhausting, and the average crossbowman will fire a pot of crossbow arrows in a row, and the power will be almost exhausted.

However, the three-stage strike is different, it only consumes the physical strength of the upper wound soldiers, and this physical strength can be compensated for by entering with the soldiers and civilians or baggage soldiers.

When the sound of "Xiu Xiu Xiu" broke through the air, Yuan Gai Suwen realized that something was wrong. Immediately afterwards, the muffled sound of crossbow arrows entering the flesh came and went, and a few rows of Goguryeo soldiers in front of them splashed a little blood star.

The soldiers who were hit by the arrows, screaming, screaming, convulsing, and falling with a bang! Yuan Gai Suwen couldn't help but be shocked, the lethality of the Tang Army's bow and crossbow was so terrifying?

In particular, many of the generals under the command of Yuangai Suwen had participated in three wars with the Sui Dynasty and survived, and they had already seen the Sui army's crossbow machine shooting, although they came up and suffered such a big loss.

These experienced veterans immediately roared at the soldiers around them: "Hold the shield, rush forward!" ”

The crossbow machine is more powerful than the bow and arrow, and the range is longer, but there is one fatal disadvantage that cannot be compensated, and that is the rate of fire. A good archer can shoot a pot of arrows in less than ten breaths, but the crossbow machine can only hold out three or four shots.

It's just three arrows, that's what it means.

In response to that sentence, old experience kills people.

Just when the Goguryeo soldiers launched an attack on the Tang army's military formation, the second round of crossbow arrows came one after another, this time Yuangai Suwen saw it clearly, those crossbow arrows that were no more than a foot and a half long were extremely sharp, and they came through the air with a piercing roar, Goguryeo's armor was like paper paste in front of it, leather armor was worn, iron armor was cracked, and an arrow pierced the chest, and the middle one fell!

Goguryeo's lightly armed cavalry began to enter a roundabout attack towards the Tang army's crossbow array, however, the Tang army's crossbow array immediately adjusted the firing target, and more crossbow arrows beckoned to the horse, I don't know how many war horses were hit by this vicious crossbow arrow, and once shot, it was often most of the arrows nailed into the horse's body, and the high-speed sprinting war horse neighed and fell, and the owner fell to the ground fiercely......

In the Tang army's formation, Chen Ying, who had long been accustomed to crushing the opponent with equipment, had a very indifferent expression.

He waved his hand at these Goguryeo soldiers who were shot one after another, and smiled: "Dalang, do you see it?" When encountering the enemy, don't mess with yourself, the equipment of our Tang army occupies an absolute advantage, and in the case of the same number, it will definitely defeat the enemy. Even if the enemy has three or four times the superiority in strength, then there is no need to panic, people are not machines, they are afraid of death, as long as they kill a third of the enemy, they will naturally collapse! ”

As if to verify Chen Ying's words, the few lightly armed cavalry in the Goguryeo army lost nearly a thousand corpses and slowly retreated. And those infantry, they formed a shield formation and attacked slowly.

The distance between the two sides was closer, less than a hundred paces.

However, at this time the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

The black-clad and black-armored cavalry of the Tang Army slowly appeared on the horizon, and these cavalrymen walked slowly, as if the war in front of them had nothing to do with them.

And these infantry were also happy that the cavalry did not compete with them, and they even gave up the three-stage shot, the front row of shooters crouched, the second row half kneeled, and the third row stood upright, with crossbow machines flat.

Even if you are fifty paces away, you can almost see the heavy white breath of those Goguryeo soldiers. But they still didn't launch.

At this moment, in a loud shout, the last horizontal sword shield hand untied something resembling a meteor hammer from his waist. They flicked the meteor hammer in the back.

The crossbowmen in the front row scolded as they picked up a white, almost transparent cloth and covered their faces. At the same time, the meteor hammer roared, past the crossbowmen in the front row, and fell into the shield array of the Goguryeo people.

"Woo Woo ......"

"Crackling......"

The sound of broken porcelain sounded, and a large cloud of white smoke rose in the Goguryeo array. This white smoke is not poison, but quicklime that is more powerful than poison, and countless Goguryeo soldiers who have been recruited by it cover their eyes and scream miserably.

The shields of the Goguryeo soldiers who held the shields were thrown to the ground in unison, and of course, the formation of the Goguryeo people was also in chaos. At this time, the two sides were almost face to face, but at a position of more than twenty steps, the three rows of crossbowmen did not hesitate to shoot out the crossbow machine in their hands.

At such a close distance, the power of the crossbow machine is even more terrifying. The Goguryeo people fell one by one, and the crossbowmen in the front row did not care about the results of the battle, they scattered left and right, and the Tang soldiers armed with horizontal swords or spears descended like a fierce mountain and slaughtered in the Goguryeo array.

The horizontal knife flew up and down, the stump was broken, and the blood flowed like a river.

Yuan Gai Suwen was fortunate to see the opportunity early, he covered his eyes with his use in advance, but he was still choked with tears and snot, and he cursed hysterically: "Despicable, shameless, obscene!" ”

There are many Goguryeo people who can speak Tang Yan, and the cursing sound on the other side soon reached Chen Ying's ears.

Chen Ying smiled lightly when he heard this: "Da Lang, look at it, these Goguryeo people will definitely not last a quarter of an hour!" ”

A quarter of an hour was naturally Chen Yingxiang who said more, just two pillars of incense, the Goguryeo people stopped cooking, and they fled one after another, only hating their parents for having two legs.

Gao Jianwu, who was standing at the head of Pyongyang, looked at this scene, his face turned pale with fright.

With 17,800 Goguryeo soldiers fighting against more than 4,000 Tang soldiers, it is said that victory should belong to Goguryeo.

It's just that in just half an hour, the Goguryeo people lost three or four thousand corpses and retreated in disarray. The more than 10,000 surviving Goguryeo soldiers ran in front, and the Tang soldiers in the rear pursued fiercely.

"It's an illusion, it's a fake." Gao Jianwu really found it difficult to accept this result.

Goguryeo's self-confidence in the face of the Sui and Tang dynasties was accumulated one after another huge victories, and the bones of millions of Sui Dynasty soldiers created a strong self-confidence of the Goguryeo people.

However, at this moment, their self-confidence was shattered when they met Chen Ying.

The big pair of Lu Yuan Taizuo's fist slammed into the female wall: "Your Majesty, send troops to rescue them!" ”

Gao Jianwu's Tang cavalry, who were waiting for the battle, said timidly: "No, the Tang people have already prepared!" ”

Yuan Taizuo spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

It's not that he can't see it, but Yuangai Suwen is his only important son.

Gao Jianwu said coldly: "Now there is only one way, let them save themselves!" ”

Seeing that the soldiers of the Tang army were on a rampage, the Goguryeo soldiers were defeated and retreated.

Yuangai Suwen's head was still like paste: "What should I do?" ”

The best thing to do is to retreat first, regroup, and attack again.

But after seeing the Tang Army's terrifying crossbow array and horizontal sword array, Yuangai Suwen didn't think it was a good idea, and regrouping to charge would mean that the Goguryeo people would have to endure another round of crossbow killings, and they would have to throw thousands more lives, and even if they could win, they would suffer heavy losses.

The young Yuangai Suwen immediately made a decision and shouted: "Swordsman rushes into battle!" ”

The equipped swordsman is a kind of hoplite formed by the Goguryeo people to learn from the Xianbei Murong Yan Kingdom during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Because heavy cavalry needs excellent war horses, and the Xianbei horses in Liaodong are not good horses.

Therefore, on the basis of the armored cavalry of the Yan State, Goguryeo developed hoplites with Goguryeo characteristics.

Their armament is a two-handed broadsword, a six-foot-long sword with unparalleled power.

Of course, it's too far from Modao.

However, hoplites against light infantry, that is the heavyweight boxing champion against the lightweight boxing champion.