In the north wind, the horns were like a tide, and the cavalry surrounding Chai Village moved one after another, divided into many units according to their respective affiliations, and with the help of the cover of wind and sand, they quickly approached Chai Village, approached the outer antlers, rejected horses, and then released arrows into the village.

In strong winds, the feathered arrows are easily blown off the head, and the cavalry on horseback releases arrows on the move, not to kill, but to attract the opponent's archers, and the main direction of their attack is due north, and the other three directions are assists, and the attack at the same time can disperse the opponent's forces.

Cavalry approached in four directions at the same time, and the enemy troops in the village naturally had to arrange archers to release arrows separately, so that there would be no more archers placed in the north, and if the opponent dared not to place archers in the other three directions, then the assist would become a strong attack.

Cavalry is not just riding on a horse to fight, an elite cavalry, skilled in riding and archery and even able to shoot a bow left and right is very common, and mounted archery, in fact, riding and shooting.

Riding on a horse to shoot arrows, after dismounting can also shoot arrows, not only can ride a horse to charge into battle, but also can charge on foot, and the combat mode of cavalry in this era, dismounted foot combat is also very common, mainly to deal with the enemy who has arranged antlers and rejected horses.

There are two kinds of cavalry, war horses are armored, war horses are not armored, no matter which kind of cavalry is armored, people and horses are armored horses, only people wear armor and horses are not armored is light horses.

Light cavalry is to ensure the speed of movement and not let the war horse wear armor, then it is very common for the horse to be injured when charging, the horse is dead, the cavalry will attack on foot, which is also common in battle, so the cavalry will carry two bows, a foot bow, a riding bow.

When dismounting and foot combat, you shoot arrows with your bow while approaching the enemy, and finally draw your saber in hand-to-hand combat, which is also a common form of cavalry combat.

At this time, the cavalry attacking Chai Village, while riding and shooting, some people dismounted at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, approached the village with their bows, they were wearing double armor, not afraid of stray arrows, and used sporadic vehicles as cover to shoot arrows at the looming enemy soldiers at the edge of the village.

Some people still have a small shield tied to their right arm, from time to time to block the feather arrows that come from the shot, dismounted cavalry from the east, south, west three directions approached Chai Village, after shooting three rounds of arrows, after shooting three rounds of arrows, and then a new group of foot cavalry stepped forward to continue to release arrows.

There were mounted shooting, infantry shooting, retreat, and advance, and it seemed that the scene was a little chaotic, but in fact it was orderly, because everyone was acting according to the flags of their respective units, and everything was in order.

This is a method of warfare called "Loop Fighting", commonly known as 'wheel warfare', that is, to rely on the strength of the crowd and consume the opponent's physical strength, and the archer's continuous release of arrows will lead to a serious decrease in arm strength, and if you can't rest in time, you will lose your strength in the back.

When a team attacks, there are three teams waiting behind, and the teams take turns to attack and take turns to retreat and rest, this kind of tactics requires strict arrangements, so that the soldiers will not be in a mess, and can organize such a 'loop of fighting', even if the generals are not famous generals, they are almost from famous generals.

Tens of thousands of cavalry, even to the north of the upwind direction, just around Chai Village in a loop, getting closer and closer to the village, the heavily armored dismounted cavalry, gradually approaching the outer antlers, rejecting horses.

Then begin to pluck the antlers and destroy the rejection of the horse.

They were assisters, but they attacked at the first opportunity, and the dismounted foot cavalry, who assisted in the east, south, and west, had already begun to destroy the antlers and horses on the outskirts of Shiba Village despite the arrows, and the casualties began to increase.

Because they were no longer facing archers, but crossbowmen.

The enemy crossbowmen in Chai Village are also heavily armored and do not avoid arrows, and the crossbowmen used by these crossbowmen are somewhat special, because the wind and sand are strong, and the foot cavalry can't see clearly where these crossbows are strange, but the movement of the other party when winding up is a little infiltrating.

The sound of "creaking" when winding is like a winch turning, which means that the crossbows used by these crossbowmen are likely to be wound by the winch.

Generally speaking, the high-power crossbow used by a single person is the stepping crossbow, but I have never heard of the winch crossbow, the fire rate of the crossbow is slow, but the power is great, at this time the lethality of the enemy crossbowmen in Shiba Village is very high, and the foot cavalry wearing double armor at a distance of fifty steps can not block the crossbow arrows.

An arrow in the body can make people feel a lot of pain, and the armor on the body is like paper paste in front of these crossbows.

Many of the cavalry on foot were shot down, but more men bent their bows and arrows to fire at the enemy in Shibamura, and casualties on both sides increased, but the attackers with more numbers still had the advantage.

They relied on the strength of the outnumbered people, destroying the outer antlers and repelling the horses, and gradually approached less than thirty paces from the enemy line, when strange obstacles appeared in front of them.

It was an obstacle made of iron wires, chest high, iron wires were made of several strands of thin iron wires, the thickness of chopsticks, with iron thorns on them, this iron wire was like a giant snake lying on the periphery of Shibamura, cutting with a knife urgently, and at such a close distance, the arrows shot by the opponent's archers could also break the armor.

The cavalry on foot pushed the cart forward, trying to break through the obstacles formed by these iron lines, but these obstacles were made of wooden stakes and were difficult to break through in a short period of time.

The attackers could only rely on the cover of the rook to shoot at the opposing crossbowmen, and a new wave of 'looping and fighting' foot cavalry, carrying axes, stepped forward to try to destroy these iron line obstacles.

However, these obstacles were like bamboo cages, and it was difficult to cut them with an axe, and even if they cut and pull out the stakes that fixed the obstacles, the crossbow arrows fired in Shiba Village caused heavy casualties to the foot cavalry.

The battle lasted from early morning to noon, the sky was still dark, the north wind was still strong, and more and more corpses were piled up on the outskirts of Chai Village.

The eastern, southern, and western assists have done their best to attract more than half of the enemy's forces in Shibamura, and it will be up to them to see if the north side of the main attack can break through the obstacles laid by the enemy in one fell swoop.

They knew that there were dead soldiers with big axes in the main direction of attack, and it would not be too difficult to break through these iron line obstacles.

In the north of Shibamura, the cavalry on foot, who had concentrated their forces and stormed, were blocked in front of the iron line barrier, the carts could not advance, the enemy crossbowmen were fierce, and many of the infantry cavalry fell with arrows, until the dead men armed with large axes struggled to break through the barrier and clear the passage at the cost of heavy casualties, and the attack was continued.

Although the cavalry on foot attacked with the wind, they found that the opposing crossbowmen were very brave even against the wind, and in addition to the range of the feathered arrows, the opponent was able to shoot at them against the wind and sand.

The battle has been going on from early morning to the present, and it is indeed surprising that the enemy army in Shibamura can behave in such a way under the extremely unfavorable situation of the headwind, but no matter how brave the soldiers are, they cannot make up for the huge disparity in numbers.

Therefore, the more than 1,000 foot cavalry newly put into battle were ready to attack Chai Village in one go.

The trumpet sounded, which was the signal for their own charge, and they howled and charged on foot, rushing to the enemy's line less than thirty paces away, and if they broke through this line, they would be able to rush into Shibamura and crush the resistance of the other side.

The sound of the horn sounded again, but the sound came from Chai Village, and the enemy defense line suddenly became agitated, and countless spears appeared in the wind and sand, as dense as the woods, and then brushed and laid flat.

According to the officers and men of the Hulin Army guarding Chai Village, everyone wore masks and glass goggles, and wore well-made Xiyang armor, discharged a tight anti-charge formation, and in the terrible sound of the horn, faced the wind and sand, and launched an attack on the invading enemy.

The shouts sounded, it was the roar of the soldiers of the Tiger Forest Army, and it was also the oath before the bloody battle: "Kill the enemy, kill the enemy!" ”

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