Chapter 46: The Cavalry Strikes
All the generals present also had red eyes, knelt down and kowtowed, and cried whining.
For a while, there was a cry in the tent of the Chinese army.
Of course, it is unknown who among these people is really crying for Shetsan, but even Shetsan's own son Shetu is acting, and the psychology of other people can be imagined.
No matter how happy he is at the death of Xiesan and how happy he is in his heart, he still has to do enough scenes.
Shetu, who was crying on his knees, cried and cried, and he turned his back on his breath. The surrounding generals hurriedly stepped forward, wiped their chests again, and slapped their backs.
In the midst of everyone's thousands of calls, Xie Tu finally woke up quietly, he looked around at the people around him, with a crying voice, and said in a hoarse voice: "The Han people have no faith, the patriarch was killed, if I don't set foot in the Hanzhong City, how can I be worthy of the patriarch's spirit in the sky?" β
His words made everyone present come to their senses, and people hurriedly wiped the tears on their faces, and said in a gossipy voice: "Xietu, give an order!" β
"The old patriarch was killed, and now you are the new patriarch of our Xi clan, this time we will use the heads of all the Han people in Hanzhong City to sacrifice to the sky!"
"That's right! Sacrifice the heavens with the blood of all the Han people! β
With the support of everyone on both sides, Xie Tu slowly stood up, he closed his eyes, slowed down for a moment, raised his eyes little by little, and said fiercely: "Pass the order, the whole army will set off and march towards Hanzhong City!" β
The people were waiting for his order, and as he gave the order, the barbarians in the tent agreed in unison and walked out quickly.
In just an instant, the barbarian camp was like a frying pan, the horns sounded everywhere, and there were busy figures of barbarians gathering their tents everywhere.
The barbarian army of more than 10,000 people, after hearing the news of Shesang's killing, was full of righteous indignation, and began to march in the direction of Hanzhong City with the mentality of wanting to wash Hanzhong City in blood.
The soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong City did not know that a great catastrophe was approaching them.
It's just that unexpectedly, this catastrophe had just been brewing, and it suddenly died halfway through.
The barbarian army led by Xie Tu rushed straight to Hanzhong City, and the team was walking forward, when people suddenly heard a rumbling thunder in the distance.
The barbarian soldiers all looked up at the sky, thinking that it was going to rain, but the sky was clear, and there were no dark clouds at all, and the weather did not look like it was going to rain.
Naturally, Shetu also heard the sound of thunder, and he frowned and ordered the whole army to stop advancing.
He stepped out of the carriage, first looking up at the sky, then listening with his ears sideways.
After a while, he shuddered and said urgently, "No! There's a cavalry force approaching us! β
As soon as he finished speaking, a brute soldier hurried over from the rear of the team, and when he came to the front of Xietu, he hurriedly said: "General, the big thing is not good, there are enemy troops in the rear of our army!" β
The faces of Xie Tu and the surrounding barbarian generals changed at the same time, and the former hurriedly asked, "How many enemies are there?" β
The brute said: "The distance is too far for the villain to see clearly, but listen to the voice, there are quite a few enemy troops!" β
Xie Tu pondered for a moment, and shouted loudly: "The rear team becomes the front team, and the whole army will fight!" As he spoke, he jumped on a war horse and hurried to the rear of the group with the barbarian generals around him.
Under the order of Shetu, the ranks of the barbarian army have made a big turn, and the rear team has become the front team.
It is true that the enemy is too far away from them to see how many soldiers and horses the other side has, but the terrible thing is that a long layer of dust has been raised on the horizon in front of them, and from a distance, it seems that a large sandstorm is blowing head-on.
Staring for a moment, Xie Tu's brows tightened, his eyes rolled, and he shouted sideways: "Bring me all those Han captives and let them stand in front of our army!" β
The barbarian army captured more than 1,000 local people in Lanzhen, and they did not kill these people directly, but planned to use these Han people as their own meat shields to resist the arrows of the defenders at the head of the city when attacking Hanzhong City.
As a result, now that there was a sudden hostile situation in the rear, Xie Tu did not dare to take it lightly, and decided to use the Han people captured by his own side first.
After a short time, more than 1,000 Han people were pushed out of the ranks by the barbarian army, and let them stand at the front of their array, lined up in a line, forming a wall of flesh.
More than 1,000 people, including men and women, old and young, stood in front of the barbarian array, all of them with pale faces and trembling bodies.
Xie Tu made a round, the corners of his mouth hooked, snorted coldly, and said: "If the people who come are really enemy soldiers, they have to step on the corpses of these Han people before engaging our army!" β
His trick is poisonous enough, using innocent people as meat shields, which will cause a great blow to the morale of the other party.
By this time, the sandstorm in the distance was getting closer and closer, and the rumbling thunder was getting louder and louder, and people even felt the ground trembling under their feet.
Whether it was Shetu or other barbarian generals, the war horses under their crotches began to be restless, or they neighed in bursts, or they kept digging the ground with their hooves, and some of the war horses were spinning in place.
Looking at the overwhelming 'sandstorm', Shetu swallowed his saliva, turned his horse's head, and retreated into his own array. The other barbarian generals did not dare to continue to stand in front of the queue, and followed Shetu and retreated to their own formation.
With the continuous follow-up of the 'sandstorm', the murderous aura and oppressive feeling that rushed to the face made people's hairs stand on end, even the barbarian soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time and are brave and good at fighting, at this time their hearts are raised to their throats, and they involuntarily swallow saliva one by one, wiping the cold sweat that comes out of their palms.
Shetu shouted, "Archer, prepare to release your arrows!" β
As he spoke, the archers of the barbarian army walked out of the queue and stood in a long line in front of the formation. People twist their bows and arrows, and the arrows are aimed in unison.
The sandstorm was closer, less than two hundred paces away from them.
At this time, people can clearly see that it is not a sandstorm at all, but a large group of cavalry, as for the total number of cavalry in this team, it is completely unclear, overwhelming, boundless, sandstorm is the dust raised by the cavalry team when running at full speed.
Looking closely at this cavalry, the people are all steel helmets and steel armor, the armor is painted with black paint, and the top of the helmet flutters with red tassels.
The people standing in front of the barbarian army immediately recognized it, and some of them shouted loudly with joy: "It's the Jingshi army!" The Kyoshi Army has come to our rescue! β
Many of the people saw that it was the Jingshi army, and ran forward regardless of it, but unfortunately they were mercilessly shot to the ground by the barbarian archers behind them before they could run a few steps.
To be honest, Shetu had never seen so many cavalry before, let alone fought against so many cavalry, and it was impossible to say that he was not afraid.
But if you want to choose to retreat now, it must be too late, and the two legs of your own soldiers cannot outrun the four hooves of the war horse.
Shetu took a deep breath, seeing that the cavalry on the opposite side was less than a hundred steps away from them, Shetu slowly raised his hand, paused in the air for a moment, and suddenly waved forward, shouting: "Release the arrow--"
At his command, the barbarian archers shot their arrows in unison.
Airplanes--
A large array of arrows rose into the air in the barbarian array.
I saw black arrows hanging with a howling wind, flying into the air, drawing wonderful arcs in the air, and then falling sharply.
One after another, the arrows were shot into the cavalry, some of which were shot into the air and nailed to the ground, some of which hit the armor of the cavalry, clanging, and some of which hit the horsemen's horses, and the horses rolled forward, and the soldiers on the horses were thrown out of the way, and the fallen soldiers did not have time to get up from the ground, so they were trampled by the horses that rushed up behind them, and they were trampled into flesh and mud.
The barbarians' arrow formations were not incisive, but they had limited effect on the charging cavalry.
One is that there are too many cavalry, and it is really ridiculous that you can't see the edge at a glance, and second, the armor of the cavalry is too fine, and if the arrow does not happen to hit the gap between the armor pieces, it will not be able to penetrate the armor of the cavalry.
The arrows of the barbarian army shot into the cavalry team one after another, and the charging cavalry also fell to the ground from time to time, but this kind of attack could not stop the cavalry charge at all.
Soon, the distance between the two sides was only fifty paces, and at this time, the cavalrymen took off the crossbow arrows they were carrying, pulled their crossbows, and put the crossbow arrows on the crossbow machine.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Jingshi Army was only a few dozen steps away from him, the people didn't care about the barbarian army behind them at all, and the people ran over to the cavalry in front of them like crazy, shouting loudly as they ran: "Master Jun, we are the people of Lanzhen, we are all the people of Lanzhen......"
The people of Lan Town thought they had seen a savior, but they were wrong, and they were greeted not by the rescue of their own army, but by a bloody massacre.
The cavalrymen pulled the suspension knife (trigger) of the crossbow machine one after another, only to hear the snap, snap, snap, snap, and the sound of the crossbow machine shooting crossbow arrows became one.
Pity these people in Lan Town, people's faces still have the surprise and excitement of the rest of their lives, but their bodies are nailed into hedgehogs by the crossbow arrows that rush in their faces.
Seeing that the people in front of them were shot by the cavalry one after another, the people behind shouted one after another: "We are not barbarians, we are the people of Lanzhen, we are all the people of Lanzhen......"
No one listened to them, and the cavalry's crossbow arrows flew forward in a row after row. Of the more than 1,000 civilians, there are probably less than a hundred people who really died in the hands of the barbarians, and the rest of the people basically died under the crossbow arrows of the cavalry.
Looking closely at the corpses on the ground, people were all hit by a dozen or even dozens of arrows, like hedgehogs, and their condition was unbearable.
This cavalry did not distinguish between the enemy and our killing, and even the barbarians were deeply shocked. Although they are fierce, they are not enough to slaughter their own people, and the cavalry in front of them is like a demon running out of hell, trying to devour all living beings in the world.
Looking at the cavalry approaching at great speed, the barbarian archers in front of them gasped for breath and involuntarily retreated again and again.
The barbarians in the rear stepped forward quickly, and at the front of the camp, they formed a large shield wall with Teng Dun, hoping to block the oncoming cavalry.
Naive!
Under the gun, all beings are equal!
The barbarians thought that the shield wall made of Teng Shield could block the cavalry's charge, it was too naΓ―ve!
If the archers of ancient times were like the special forces of the modern army, then the cavalry of ancient times was like the armored corps of the modern army.
On the plain battlefield, in the case of a head-to-head confrontation, the cavalry is completely crushing the presence of infantry.
Those civilians who were not killed by the crossbow arrows of the cavalry, where did they dare to continue to run, and they all turned around and ran towards the camp of the barbarian army. But they couldn't run in, and the barbarian Teng Dun completely blocked them out of the camp.