Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Decisive Battle (I)
Mo Huba, Duan Ri Lu Juan, and Yan Rou were very embarrassed, first, they wanted to see the tactics and combat power of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and secondly, the people of the Yuwen tribe died too quickly, and there was no time to rescue after only two charges!
Mo Hubao coughed and shouted: "Blood debt and blood repayment!" Charge the whole army! ”
Duan Ri Lu and Yan Rou also shouted: "Blood debt and blood repayment!" Charge the whole army! ”
The black-pressed Xianbei cavalry began to charge the whole army.
Ninety thousand horsemen marched together, and the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder. The green grass and red flowers of this prairie have been ravaged by horses' hooves and turned into mud.
Ninety thousand soldiers, lined up horizontally for more than 2 miles. Together, urge the horses to charge forward.
Liaodong's platoon ballistae could only face the open land in the middle of 1 mile, with several hundred meters on each side, and were defended by heavy armored cavalry.
Zhao Yungaolan has returned to the team and the order has been completed.
Gongsun Kang looked at them approvingly, and at the same time ordered them to go to the rear to line up.
The little flag officer waved the flag, and the two 10,000 people went around the two sides of the large army and stood at the back.
In the battle below, they can only beat the side drums. You can't get all the credit, and you always leave some meat for other brother troops to eat.
The small flag officer continued to wave the flag, which means: The remaining 40,000 iron cavalry, after the platoon ballista ploughs the ground, will attack the Xianbei cavalry on both sides that are not within the range of the ballista.
And the task of guarding the ballista was changed to Zhao Yun Gaolan and his people to complete.
These 40,000 Liaodong iron horsemen, who had not yet seen blood in this battle, were extremely excited, flew on their horses, and waited for the order to attack.
As early as when Zhao Yunshuai's army slaughtered the Xianbei warriors, the Liaodong front army put the carts in place, and then removed the wheels, adjusted the level, and put a large iron box with a height of one person on the car. Peel off the black cotton cloth on it, revealing a dense black hole in the small round hole.
The lieutenant of Liaodong waved a small flag and ordered: "Get on the arrow!" ”
The two big men carried a large box, stuck it in a position at the back of the car, and fixed it.
The lieutenant continued waving the small flag, "Wind up!" ”
Two more Liaodong soldiers stepped forward and turned the handles on the left and right sides, just like the steering wheel of a car in later generations.
The crunching sound sounded, and it could be heard clearly from a distance of several hundred meters.
The Xianbei soldiers who were charging were panicked and inexplicably frightened. It's as if some man-eating monster is coming.
The Xianbei cavalry of the brigade flowed over like mercury. When it was still 500 steps away from the Liaodong army.
"Aim!" The lieutenant of the Liaodong army continued to order: "Shoot! ”。
The true range of a platoon ballista is 1500 steps, but the closer you are, the better the effect. So the distance they chose was 500 steps. It can not only ensure lethality, but also have enough depth.
A shirtless strong man, wielding a wooden hammer, smashed the trigger with a bang.
And I saw dense iron spears coming out of those black holes. When I saw them come out of the big iron box, I saw that they had hit the tall horse of Xianbei.
"Hum. . . Boom" two syllables in a row came into the ears of the Xianbei warriors on horseback.
By this time the horses of the brigade had begun to divide in large numbers. It shows that the firing speed of these iron spears is synchronized with the speed of sound.
When the Xianbei soldiers heard the boom, the horses were torn apart, and their bodies began to split with them.
The first iron spears tore through thousands of horses and warriors in the front row.
When the second batch of iron spears arrived, they were just in time to meet the limbs and torsos of the Xianbei warriors in mid-air. I saw the blood raining down, and the limbs, torsos, and heads of thousands of soldiers who had been torn off continued to be shattered to pieces by the high-speed impact of the iron spear! I didn't even have time to scream.
The two sides charged synchronously, and outside the range of the ballista, the Xianbei soldiers, who were still intact, looked at this scene and were dumbfounded.
These iron spears, which are actually crossbow arrows, are set up to be fired in five batches at a time.
A total of five batches of fifteen thousand iron spears were shot into the ranks of the Xianbei warriors.
Each iron spear pierced a dozen soldiers and horses before it stopped.
The warriors in the back were better, but they were pierced by the iron spear, and they still kept their bodies intact.
The warriors and horses in front were broken to pieces by one iron spear after another, and mixed into the soil of the steppe. In the coming year, the pastures in this area will definitely grow luxuriantly, fat and juicy.
Five batches of crossbow arrows completely leveled all the horses and soldiers in the front of the Xianbei cavalry. Total destruction.
I saw that the Xianbei charging horse team opened a large hole about a mile long, and this large hole included a deep area more than a mile long behind, which was cleaned up.
The tens of thousands of soldiers left on the two flanks were still charging, and they didn't react at all, and they couldn't stop the horses galloping at high speed.
Finally, some Xianbei people reflected. The Xianbei warriors began to vomit and diarrhea on their horses. It's gastric juice that's spitting, and it's peeing pants underneath.
"Mom! Devil! The devil is coming! The Xianbei soldiers were full of feces and urine, crying and shouting, but they continued to rush towards the military formation of the Liaodong army on their horses.
Mo Hubao and Duan Rilu lived in the Chinese army, which was originally the most heavily protected position, but now it happened to be covered by ballistas.
Those crossbow arrows just now don't have long eyes. As long as it is within its reach, it is completely torn to pieces.
Therefore, Mo Hubao and Duan Ri Lu were also shot through by crossbow arrows, but whether they have complete corpses can only be verified when they clean up the battlefield after the war.
It was the third time that the soldiers of Liaodong had seen the power of the ballistae.
And they are the ones who enjoy the fruits of victory, and they are naturally full of joy.
Someone took the lead in striking the shield with an iron knife. At the same time, a cry of "roar, roar" was issued.
Slowly forming a joint force, the Liaodong soldiers were spontaneously "roaring, roaring" and shouting roughly, venting the joy in their hearts to the fullest.
Just one shot of a platoon ballista lowered the morale of the Xianbei soldiers to a minimum.
Gongsun Kang ordered: "Drumming!" Charge! ”
"Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of war were beaten with great power.
The 10,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry Heavy Armored Cavalry on the two sides pulled out the Xiangyang Iron Knife, roared "Roar, Roar", galloped on horseback, and killed the front from the two sides of the ballista. This was followed by 20,000 Chinese troops and 10,000 rear troops who entered the battlefield one after another.
The platoon ballistae fired five batches at a time, and the 50,000 Xianbei warriors in the middle of the battlefield were completely destroyed. Not a single person was left alive.
Outside the range of the ballista, there are 20,000 Xianbei warriors and 20,000 Youzhou Wuhuan warriors, each led by Yuwen Mona and Yan Rou. They were full of fear, but they couldn't help but charge forward.
The 40,000 iron cavalry with Liaodong soon came into close combat.
(End of chapter)