Chapter 12 The Tiger Head Flag Flutters in the Wind
The enemy army who suddenly attacked, so that a group of foot cavalry who rushed into Chai Village was overjoyed, they were thinking about how to rush in, but the other party did not know how to rush out, this kind of behavior of attacking against the wind and sand, not looking for death?
The white-knuckle battle broke out in an instant, and the foot cavalry howled and pounced, and as soon as the two sides engaged, the winner was instantly separated.
The Hulin Army, which assaulted with a spear array, pierced with a flat-end spear, stabbed dozens of people on the spot, and the spear stabbing skills practiced hard with sweat took one life after another, and in front of the pikemen in a tight formation, the personal bravery of the foot cavalry was of no avail.
No one could break through the spear thrust, any tricks were useless, the first infantry cavalry to meet the battle was killed and wounded, and the soldiers in the back row had not yet reacted, only to hear the pikemen rhythmically shouting "kill" and striding towards them.
Someone bent his bow and shot at the pikemen, and the feathered arrows were nailed to the body but no one fell, and the pikemen of the Hulin Army wore a hood and armor, with an iron mask, and his whole body was tightly covered except for his eyes, like an iron man.
Each person wears two layers of armor, the outer layer is a series of cold-forged armor leaves, and the inner layer is a ring lock armor, and ordinary armor-piercing arrows are mostly fatal even if they hit the torso of a soldier.
Adequate diet, a lot of training, so that the pikemen have a strong physique, wearing heavy armor and carrying a gun is not a problem, years of training, so that they can maintain a formation when marching fast, like a raging wave crashing against a wall of sand, crushing it.
The infantry cavalry that attacked with all their strength was quickly crushed, and they couldn't resist retreating one after another, gathering near each chariot, trying to 'hold on and wait for reinforcements', and the attacking Hulin Army's vanguard began to deal with these stragglers.
The soldiers of the Frontguard, also heavily armoured, rushed out of the forest of spears like tigers, threw short spears before engagement, and then swung a variety of weapons into the chariots.
Wearing goggles to fight, the vision is slightly obstructed, but under the long-term training, this is nothing, even if it is fighting against the wind, the soldiers of the front team are still brave, with a group of three as the minimum battle formation, hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
The long-handed, long-legged wheat iron staff, wielding an armor-piercing hoe, smashed the long knife in the hand of an enemy soldier, although the opponent was wearing an iron hood, but in front of his armor-piercing hoe, it was like paper paste, and it was instantly opened.
The rod slammed into the group of enemy soldiers, drew a short knife in his left hand, and stabbed another enemy soldier in the eye with a backhand stab, and was cut down by his comrades when the enemy soldiers on the left and right were about to pounce.
With a kick in the leg, the iron rod kicked the enemy soldier to the point of a wolf howl, dodged the long knife cut by another man, and used the armor-piercing hoe to open the chest of the soldier who was clutching the crotch to the ground, and then slammed the cat forward with his waist, knocking down the enemy soldier who was about to stab his comrade with a spear.
As soon as his ankle tightened, the iron rod lying on the ground was grabbed by his comrade's foot and pulled backwards, narrowly avoiding a smashed iron shovel, and he was just about to get up to meet him, when a short spear grazed his side and stabbed the enemy soldier in the chest.
"Pay attention to cooperation, Lao Mai! You bastard, you bastard, I shouldn't let you take the lead as a substitute! ”
Listening to Shi Chang's scolding, Mai Tiezhu smiled, he was a recruit who joined the army last year, although he had all his strength and ran as fast as a horse, but there were a lot of fierce people in the Hulin Army's front team, and he was a substitute for the front team this year.
In this battle, I finally got the opportunity to take the lead, and the wheat iron staff was enthusiastic, and as before, he got carried away as soon as he got into the battle.
The two armies attacked, the military formations collided, and individual bravery was not of much use in the face of a tight formation.
In groups of three, they coordinated with each other, and the soldiers of the front team, whose arms were as thick as calves, were like beasts in iron armor, and soon tore apart the enemy's defense line.
The pikemen then broke in, and because of the obstruction of a large number of carts, they also dispersed into small groups to advance, and quickly broke through the broken 'terrain' formed by a large number of carts in the form of a scattered formation of mandarin ducks.
Tiger head flags, moving with the military formation, fluttered in the wind in the sand.
The wind and sand are very strong, people's vision is blocked, and the foot cavalry who participated in the new round of round-the-ring continuous fighting, only heard the shouts in front of them, and thought that they were about to break into Chai Village in a fierce battle, and wanted to catch up with reinforcements, but saw many pikemen rushing out of the chariot group.
The archers mixed with the pikemen fired armor-piercing arrows at a distance of less than twenty paces, and after two rounds in a short time, they knocked the enemy in front of them into pieces, and the pikemen who passed through the chariots took advantage of this to regroup, and at this moment, the enemy rangers roared on both flanks of the battlefield.
The crossbowmen with the winch crossbow, also carrying goggles, aimed at the cavalry who rushed with a horse lance in the face of the wind and sand, and at the moment of the trigger, the huge momentum made their bodies lean back slightly, and the crossbow arrows that were off the string instantly sank into the armored body of the enemy cavalry.
Some of the cavalrymen fell from their horses with their bodies crooked, and some of the cavalrymen endured severe pain, and tried their best to charge at the pikemen who were forming a formation, but they were greeted by the archers who were about to shoot the third round of arrows.
Hu Si Wanshan pulled out a horse arrow like a flat shovel, aimed at a cavalryman rushing towards him, and after a few breaths, let go of the bowstring, and the horse arrow went off the string, cutting a large hole in the chest muscle of the war horse.
The war horse with the muscles of the front leg severed screamed, the horse lost its front hooves, and the cavalry on the seat fell to the ground, and after a few rolls, there was no movement, Hu Si Wanshan dodged an arrow from the front, and drew another horse arrow, shooting down the rushing archer.
The guerrilla archers, under the cover of some pikemen, fired at the enemy cavalry in the open area, attracting the enemy's attention and buying time for their side to regroup, and the archers were also heavily armoured, and almost all of them were hit by arrows.
Because it was a headwind, the range of the arrows they shot was affected, and the feathered arrows shot by the enemy's cavalry bow were not enough to penetrate the armor of the cold-forged armor leaf, so the two sides shot at each other like this, and there was no difference between them.
These cavalry were not very numerous, they were rangers who saw that the situation was not right, and they tried to rush directly at the horseback, but the pikemen guarding the archers made them a little jealous.
As more and more horsemen were killed, the rangers shouted, turned their horses and left, disappearing into the wind and sand.
Although Hu Si Wanshan was wearing goggles and his eyes were not affected by the wind and sand, there was constantly sand flying in the upwind direction, and his vision was seriously obstructed.
He didn't think that these rangers were leaving, crying and going home to find A-Niang.
A moment later, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and in the wind and sand, countless black shadows poured towards the guerrilla archers of the Tiger Forest Army, which were a large number of archers with bows in their hands, approaching this side, trying to harass the pikemen who were forming formation.
Hu Si Wanshan was about to draw an arrow to shoot, but he heard the sound of a horn in the array, and someone shouted with a big paper trumpet:
"Archers retreat! Let the king's eight crossbows go to the top! ”