Chapter 90: One Strike 2

The purple flag fluttered over the cavalry array, and as soon as the observer of the soldiers behind the formation saw the purple flag, he shouted after counting the big and small flags: "The cavalry breaks the formation, the cavalry breaks the formation!" Target: Straight ahead, Distance: Three hundred. ”

"Target: Straight ahead, distance: three hundred, the cavalry breaks the formation." Again, the words of the observer hand were repeated. The position pointed by the cavalry had already been prepared, and one hundred and sixty-two thorn crossbows of a thorn crossbow brigade had already been aimed at the front.

"A test shot." Gong Yiji, who was standing on a high place, was looking at the Qi soldiers who were stepping in with Lu Lijing, and he could clearly see the beard on Qi soldiers' faces. The distance of three hundred steps was too far, and the Qi army that came with a warrior was only on foot, and they would not gallop until about a hundred paces.

"A test shot!" The crossbowman repeated the command, and when he heard the crossbowman shouting 'ready', he shouted, "Release!" ”

The 'bang' crossbow arm slammed into the crossbow frame, and a seven-foot-long crossbow bolt burst through the air, flying a distance of three hundred meters, and then pinned fiercely to the dirt ground, kicking up a small cloud of dust. The Qi soldiers not far away were startled by this sharp crossbow arrow, but they couldn't help themselves, they could only stride forward in the military formation, and they could not stop at all.

"Report: The arrow is sixty meters away from the enemy." The observer hand quickly gave the landing point.

There was no order to correct the shooting parameters, and the enemy was stepping closer to the point where the arrows landed, so the soldiers only had to wait for a moment. The fine sand in the hourglass slowly flowed down, and it was about half a minute before he ordered loudly: "Target: Front, Distance: Three hundred, the whole battalion shoots rapidly." ”

"Target: Front, Distance: Three hundred, rapid fire from the whole battalion." The order was repeated by one hundred and sixty-two crossbowmen, and the thorn crossbow had already been wound.

"Put!" With a loud shout, there was an urgent sound of continuous crossbow arm strikes, and one hundred and sixty crossbow arrows broke through the air and shot towards the Qi army formation. The right flank of the Qi army has a depth of forty lines, and the vast majority of these one hundred and sixty-two crossbow arrows will fall in the array.

The arrow was like lightning, and Qi pawn had just seen the crossbow arrow coming through the air, and the thought of raising the shield to block was still in his mind, and the crossbow arrow had already fallen. 'Ah' only half a shout was uttered, and the arrow pierced through the body, piercing several Qi pawns together.

The queue in the military array is dense, and a crossbow arrow can kill and injure at least two or three people, and what is even more terrifying is that these crossbow arrows are concentrated in one place, and after a rain of arrows, the array is full of holes. The one who was hit by the arrow fell to the ground and wailed, and the survivors trembled and almost lost their way.

"Put!" The crossbow was wound up quickly, and it shot out quickly, and when one hundred and sixty-two crossbow arrows were shot out in this round, the cavalry led by Yu Jing had already come out of the battle, and the purple flag had already fallen.

"Dangerous!" The width of the battlefield was more than five kilometers, and what happened on the right flank of the Qi army was only seen until the first wave of crossbow arrows fell. It was only an interval of more than twenty seconds, and the second array of crossbow arrows shot down angrily, once again ravaging this already riddled military formation. The surviving Qi pawns could no longer support it, and they threw away the soldiers in their hands and retreated, that is, they were intercepted and killed by the soldiers who supervised the battle behind the battle.

Of course, this is not something that makes Mu Chong cry 'dangerous', what makes him afraid is that the cavalry of the Chu army is rushing towards this gap. As soon as they rush in, the entire right wing will completely collapse.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Mu Chong shouted loudly, he didn't even wait for Shi Yi's order to snatch the white flag commanding the rear army, pointed the flag at the gap in the military formation, and ordered the rear army to fill the gap immediately.

The Qi army was moving forward rapidly, but the Chu army stood still, only 3,400 cavalry swept towards the gap in the right flank of the Qi army. The Qi army was advancing, and the gap between the two armies, which had been 300 paces, was rapidly shrinking. Nearly 3,000 light cavalry swept past the front of the left army of the Chu army, rushed to the gap before beating their horses forward, and finally swept fifty meters in front of the Qi army. As they swept by, the feathered arrows shot by the cavalry fell like a rain, and the Qi pawns had to slowly raise their shields.

This is the standard heavy cavalry charging tactic of the Chu army, and the precious heavy cavalry must not attack the complete heavy infantry array. Soldiers and light cavalry must help them open the gap, and even if they can't open the gap, they will cause great damage to the heavy infantry array, causing the entire array to fall into confusion.

The light cavalry swept by, and the arrows fired by nearly 3,000 light cavalry once again tore the gap in the right flank of the Qi army, and at this time, in the place where the light cavalry had just beaten their horses and turned around, in front of the left army formation of the Chu army, 500 heavy cavalry had begun to line up.

The momentum of the chariot charge was amazing, and the hooves of more than 3,000 cavalry cavalry were like thunder, and the dust they rolled up covered the entire right flank of the Qi army. When the heavy cavalry was in formation, the light cavalry that swept past the Qi army turned around again. This is not because the Qi army is not in chaos, but because the heavy cavalry is not finished. The speed of the heavy cavalry was already slow because of the heavy load, and when the light cavalry swept through the enemy formation, the heavy cavalry rushed to the front of the gap, and when the heavy cavalry beat the horse and turned again, the heavy cavalry began to line up.

Although the opportunity on the battlefield is fleeting, unqualified war horses and unskilled heavy cavalry knights will definitely delay the opportunity, but fortunately, the right wing of the Qi army has stopped at this time. But this was not to meet the onslaught of the heavy cavalry, relying on the cavalry to break through the heavy infantry array, which had never happened before the appearance of the heavy cavalry, and some only broke the heavy infantry array with chariots. In the late Spring and Autumn period, the chariot army declined, and it was the infantry that rose in its place instead of the cavalry.

The right flank of the Qi army stopped just to block the arrows. When the light cavalry of the Chu army swept together again, they shrank down and held their shields high. When the hoof sound was gone, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but another hoof sound was rushing in the oncoming dust.

'Da...... Da ...... Da ...... Da ......; Da... Da... Da... Da'

The sound is not hurried at all, but rather somewhat soothing, soothing to the point of reminiscent of an old horse carrying a load. However, there was not only one old horse, but a total of one hundred and twenty horses in the front and rear rows. They were getting closer and closer in the dust, and the sound of hooves was getting more and more urgent. At this time, the Qi pawn in the front row finally couldn't help but open his eyes, and found that the oncoming heavy cavalry looked like an iron tower.

In Qi Zu's dilated pupils, the iron tower slammed into it with a 'boom'. Some people raised their shields, but the wooden shields were smashed in an instant, some people crossed the ge, but the bronze ges fell to their chests, and more people lost their voices and exclaimed, but the exclamation could not prevent the heavy cavalry from crashing into the military formation, let alone saving the lives of the whole platoon of soldiers, they were either pierced by the spears of the war horses and knocked away, or they were trampled under the horses by the iron hooves of the heavy horses.

Before the heavy cavalry impact, the gaps exposed by the Qi army's army formation had been consciously filled by the Qi soldiers on both sides and the Qi soldiers of the rear column supervising the battle, but the depth of the filled army formation was no longer forty lines. The front and rear impact of the first heavy cavalry almost caused the gap to collapse, and when the first row of heavy cavalry slashed and struck the horses and turned to the left, the second row of heavy cavalry was already galloping slowly.

At this moment, the two armies were only two hundred meters apart, and the war horses in chain mail were running forward with all their might. They snorted wide and breathed heavily, and the knights on their horses controlled the speed of their horses so that they could gallop side by side with their comrades in a standard horizontal formation. Dust splashed under the horse's hooves, the distance was getting closer and closer, the speed was getting faster and faster, and at the last few tens of meters, the spear was flattened.

"Boom!" It was like a huge wave crashing against a reef, and in the fear of the soldiers, the sixty heavy horsemen in the front line slammed into this ravaged army formation again. The heavy cavalry directly knocked the Qi pawn out of ten steps away, and seeing that the sixty cavalry in the rear column was about to collide, the remaining Qi pawn shouted 'ah' and abandoned the army and ran. However, the men could not outrun their horses, and the spears in the hands of the knights in the back soon pierced their bodies, and the corpses fell to the dirt.

"Knives!" The galloping horseman drew his cavalry sword. The sixty heavy horsemen who had rushed through the formation quickly turned to the left, and did not continue onward. Only by quickly hooking the right flank of the Qi army can the tactical success be transformed into a victory in the battle.

"King, the enemy formation has been broken!" Xiong Jing, who had failed to challenge King Qi in front of the battle, had just returned to the rear of the battle at this time, and Deng Sui happily confessed. There had been no war for two years, and he never expected his cavalry to be so sharp.

"The enemy line is broken?" Xiong Jing was a little stunned, he took Lu Lijing and looked at the battlefield carefully. The Qi army had indeed been broken, the heavy cavalry was recoiling the right flank of the Qi army, and the light cavalry was following closely behind, and the entire right wing began to fall into chaos.

When Xiong Jing put down Lu Lijing, Zhuang looked at him without saying anything. He was tempted to suggest that Xiong Jing transfer You Que to the left flank in order to completely defeat the right flank of the Qi army, but the transfer was particularly troublesome. You Que is the reserve of the whole army, and now the Chinese army and the right army are about to engage with the Qi army, once you are transferred away and the Chinese army and the right army are broken by the Qi army, the consequences are unimaginable;

Then there is the position of You Que between the Chinese army and the right army, the Chinese army has 2,000 columns, and the width of the formation is more than four miles. The Chu pawns were wearing huge iron armor, and they were asked to gallop for four or five miles before entering the battle, and it was estimated that the soldiers did not have much strength when they sprinted.

"Order the whole army to march!" Zhuang Wudi didn't speak, Xiong Jing didn't pay attention, the order he gave was for the whole army to advance, only when the whole army advanced, the left army could quickly attack the right flank of the Qi army, otherwise just if the left army attacked, the array would break and there would be a break.

This time, the drum of the Chu army finally sounded, and the soldiers marched neatly towards the approaching Qi army. Everyone on the battlefield can only see things around them dozens of paces, the right flank of the Qi army was penetrated by the cavalry of the Chu army, and the middle army and the left wing of the Qi army did not know, and they only saw the Chu pawns constantly assassinating their own chariots as they continued to advance.

"Attack!" The distance between the two armies was getting closer and closer, and when they were a hundred paces away from each other, Qi pawns suddenly shouted wildly and rushed towards the oncoming Chu army. At this time, the arrows flew sideways on the heads of the soldiers on both sides, and as long as the halberd-wielding army in huge armor was not shot at the front door, even the heavy arrows could not damage them, and when they rushed into the distance where the heavy arrows could break the armor, the Chu archers had to abandon their bows and spears, ready to wait for the most violent impact on both sides.

"The iron rider of Jing is invincible." On the west city wall of Linzi, Qin envoy Wang Ao witnessed the whole process of the Chu army's heavy cavalry breaking the formation, and looked at the completely chaotic right wing of the Qi army, he finally couldn't help but sigh. And under the city wall, Hou Sheng, who received Shi Yi's news, hurriedly ordered the royal hand to take Qi Wang Tian Jian back to the palace, and the Qi army was about to be defeated.

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