Chapter 596: Death Knight (Eighth Update!) )
Under the city of Yanmen.
The Turks fired thousands of arrows, and the rain of arrows fell overwhelmingly, completely covering a wall several miles long.
Under this fierce rain of arrows, countless Turks carried simple wooden ladders and pushed ladder carts, and began to advance towards the high Yanmen city wall.
Rear.
The golden wolf stands tall, the war drums are like thunder, and the horns are continuous.
It's been five days.
The Sui army in the city was exhausted, and the Turks felt that they could break through the city of Yanmen with more effort.
Then.
The gates slammed open.
Shi Bi stood up all at once, every time, and at the critical moment, the Sui army would fight out of the city. The first few times were when the attack was at its most intense, seeing that the soldiers were already about to go to the city, then the Sui army came out of the city.
But today, the Sui army came out exceptionally early.
Before the ladder on this side reached the city, the Sui army had already rushed out.
"Adjust the light and ride up and besiege this Sui army!"
Shi Bi gritted his teeth and said, every time the Sui army used this way to go out of the city to sabotage his offensive, Shi Bi made special preparations today, he wanted to let these Sui troops have no return, so that they would not dare to go out of the city again.
The horn sounded, and the wolf flag waved.
A Turkic elite, attached to the wolf rider, appeared.
And in front of the city gates.
The Turks who rushed to the front only instinctively rushed to the city gates, and every time they did, as soon as the city gates were opened, the Turks rushed into the city.
Completely ignoring the ironclad cavalry behind the city gates.
Some shouted, others shouted.
They all wanted to be the first to enter the city, although the Turks did not have the credit of being the first to enter the city, but the first to attack the city could also get more loot.
"Long live the Great Sui!"
Fifty-nine-year-old Wang Rengong put down his mask, leveled his horse, and shouted loudly.
Liu Wuzhou and Wei Chigong, two guys like steel black bears, also roared in unison.
"Great Sui, long live!"
One shout after another rang out.
With this battle cry.
Two thousand cavalry and cavalry rolled out of the city like a torrent of steel.
After five days of bloody battles, countless knights fell.
But they were still not afraid of death.
The 2,000 heavily armed cavalry composed of the frontier cavalry of the Yanmen Governor's Mansion and the royal heavy cavalry of the Xiaoguo Praetorian Guard, all of them were armoured.
At the time of the Han and Wei dynasties, there were very few heavily armored cavalry.
In the early days of cavalry, because there were no stirrups, the cavalry was not the main force on the battlefield, they only undertook tasks such as scouts and liaison, and later, they developed into mounted infantry. Maneuvering on horseback, dismounting and foot fighting, and later, archers on horseback.
Until the stirrups were perfected and the saddles were constantly strengthened, the peoples of the steppe became strong cavalry warriors.
The Han Dynasty has been attacked and disturbed by these cavalry, and although the Han Dynasty also trained cavalry, the cavalry was always inferior to the grassland cavalry, until Wei Qing and they changed the cavalry to the assault cavalry, equipped the cavalry with spears, and used the combat method of assault into the battle, which made the Han army defeat the Huns again and again.
In the final analysis, the Han Dynasty was technologically advanced at that time, and the weapons and armor of the Han army were far superior to those of the Huns.
When it came to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was more of a melee in the Central Plains, and the technology and financial resources of all parties were not weak, so the armor was strengthened again, and then there were blunt weapons such as stronger armor-piercing horses and whips, and then there were armor and riding equipment.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, especially in the North, there were heavy cavalry families.
The tough, even tens of thousands of hoplites, the impact of these heavily armored cavalry is unquestionable, especially against infantry, it is simply unstoppable.
The impact of armored cavalry can often defeat opponents who are ten times their size.
In the south, often one or two hundred heavy cavalry can defeat thousands of soldiers and horses.
As a result, in the later Southern Dynasties, even armored cavalry that often made armor was used to equip light cavalry with the appearance of armored cavalry made of leather or cloth, disguised as heavy cavalry, but mixed in the army, it could often frighten the enemy.
The Turks did not have any heavy cavalry, they still admired mounted archery, and the Turks almost always shot with bows and light cavalry.
Riding and archery was their natural skill, but the cost of armoured riding was too high for the steppe tribesmen who herded sheep and horses to afford.
The two thousand armored horsemen and horses were all wearing black bright light armor, this kind of bright light armor was specially thickened, and the whole person was blocked by iron armor, and they were flat with black lacquered horse lances like forests, and they came out of the city.
Then quickly lined up outside the city.
The heavy cavalry lined up in a long horizontal formation, with a distance of more than ten paces between each row.
Wang Rengong didn't line up the front arrows, they were heavy cavalry, each heavy cavalry was a sharp knife, sweeping past, the attack area was larger, and the lethality was more amazing, because no one could block their impact.
The sky was even darker.
The red tassels on the black iron helmets of the heavy riders were so dazzling.
The silver iron entwining on the black lacquer lance also shimmered.
Wang Rengong rode his horse at the front of the queue, and the veteran personally led the charge of the team.
"For the sake of the Great Sui!"
Two thousand armored horses galloped, including men and horses plus armor and weapons, weighing more than a thousand catties, and thousands of horses' hooves stepped on the earth, causing the earth to tremble.
Standing in front of them were the ant-like Turks who followed the walls of Yanmen.
A few miles long under the city, there were Turks everywhere, carrying ladders, pushing ladders, pushing battering rams, and still struggling to advance.
By the time they felt the tremendous tremors, the mounted cavalry had swept in like a black storm.
Armored cavalry, also known as armored horse warriors or ironclad cavalry, they have both the strongest impact and the strongest defense, so every ironclad cavalry, when charging, is blind to nothing and ignores everything.
People block killing, and God blocks killing gods!
The earth shook violently, and the horse's hooves roared like thunder.
Rows and rows of ironclad cavalry galloped in, bringing up a rush of dust.
Those ant-like Turks, who barely had a chance to line up, were trampled by the torrent of steel, as if they were as vulnerable as paper.
The Turkic soldiers in the distance shouted loudly in panic.
Some generals tried to get these abandoned horses and siege the city of tribal warriors to meet the enemy, but they only had bows and knives, and they didn't have a few spears.
Shibi Khan's eyes were fixed on this side.
His eyelids twitched.
"Take a bow and shoot them, let the Wolf Rider shoot them from behind!"
The elite detached wolves rode out on horseback, and they did not face the ironclad cavalry head-on, but appeared behind the hoplites, which is also the tactic of the wolves on the steppe,**.
The wolf with the silver wolf's head banner galloped on horseback, but the two thousand Sui army heavy horsemen ignored them at all, and just kept rushing forward.
Yu Chigong's horse lance no longer remembered how many Turkic soldiers he had killed through the hole, and when he hit the back, even the horse lance fell, and he pulled out a nine-section steel whip and smashed left and right, still unstoppable.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Once the hoplites charged, they saw nothing but the enemy in their way.
Death to those who stand in my way!
Countless arrows were fired, but most of them were blocked by the armor and cloaks of the heavy riders, and a few arrows pierced through the iron armor outside, but there was a leather armor lining inside.
Everyone is armored.
Defend against most arrows.
In the eyes of the Turks, these people are simply monsters that cannot be killed.
But these knights had already chained themselves and their horses with iron chains, and even if they were shot to death, they would not fall off their horses, and the horses would still carry them and continue to charge with the team until they were exhausted.
Unless the horses are killed, these knights will really be like immortals, and they will not stop charging.
Even if a war horse is carrying a dead horse, it can hit the Turks with a huge impact, and it can also kill and trample the Turks.