Chapter 160: Trap Strikes
"Boss! The Turks are coming. They're going to play wheel wars! Fang Yiai looked at the Turkic army opposite.
He now also has a certain understanding of military formations, and he can see the Turks' intention of changing formations and transferring troops in this way.
Luo Tong smiled strangely: "Annihilate them one by one!" Just what the doctor ordered. ”
A moment later, the horn in the middle of the Turkic army changed sharply, from a long and long to a high-pitched and passionate one, and in an instant, the 30,000 Turkic cavalry that took the lead in the attack were like a flood that broke the embankment, surging forward.
"Sons! Take out your bow and arrows! Avenge our people! ”
Duolun raised his short bow in the air and rushed forward first. This first battle was won by him, and he vowed to let Luo Tong pay for his blood debt here.
After marching for several miles, Duolun ordered to start accelerating, and the 30,000 cavalrymen grabbed the reins, fell on their horses, swung their whips and slammed their horses' buttocks, and entered the sprint.
"Kill! Kill all these dogs! Victory belongs to our invincible Turkic warriors! ”
Riding with steps, daydreaming.
There was a sneer in Duolun's eyes.
Hold the cards in one hand!
Behind him, the 20,000 cavalry rode on tall horses, raised their weapons and shouted in response. With great momentum, the Tang army array, which was waiting in front of him, rushed over.
The heavy and chaotic sound of horses' hooves on the ground in the distance, the wheezing and snorting of war horses were getting closer and closer, and the Turkic cavalry rushed towards them at a rapid pace. The sprint of thousands of horses was indeed magnificent, and the rolling torrent and the loud shouts made them look like a flood.
The 30,000 Modao army lined up in a neat line, and in the face of the flood of Turkic cavalry, their footsteps did not loosen for a moment. This is also the quality of a veteran, if a new soldier has 20,000 soldiers and horses, he can't help but weaken his hands and feet in the face of such a momentum of the Turks.
500 steps......
400 steps......
Duolun rushed forward violently with a bow and arrow, and the momentum of more than 20,000 horses galloping forward together was still very grand......
Now that they were getting closer and closer to the Tang army formation in front, Duolun could vaguely see the Tang infantry on the opposite side with a shield in one hand and a gun in the other looking at the Turkic warriors who rushed over.
"Haha! These Han dogs are really scared silly! We didn't even fire our arrows all the way. ”
Duolun was ecstatic in his heart, and secretly said that as long as his elite cavalry rushed into the formation of the Tang army, he would definitely be able to kill them without leaving a single piece of armor.
Two hundred steps!
At this time, the cavalry had already entered a high-speed sprint state, and at this speed, it could rush to the front of the Tang army in a moment.
"No... These Tang Jun are acting too weird..."Duolun's hair stood on end, and he felt as if there was some trap waiting for him.
"Everyone, stop! Don't rush! Something is wrong! Duolun hurriedly reined in his horse, trying to slow down. He reacted in time, but his men were not so lucky.
They still rushed to the phalanx of the infantry of the Don Army at the speed of arrows......
I only heard a loud "boom", and the flat ground in front of the Tang army suddenly collapsed and turned into a long and deep trench.
The Turkic cavalry that rushed to the front immediately fell, and the men turned on their backs, screaming again and again.
Luo Tong smiled slightly, these days he commanded the border army to dig a trench here about 500 zhang long, 10 zhang wide and 3 zhang high, the trench was covered with cut bamboo and wood, and then covered it with branches and weeds on the ditch.
The Turkic cavalry was so caught off guard that they fell into a trap.
Duolun was dumbfounded and at a loss: watching the brave and warlike clansmen fall into the trap one by one, letting the bamboo and wood holes pierce and kill, and the blood in his heart couldn't stop dripping, he couldn't help but roar loudly: "Rush, press me up......"
Under this kind of high-speed running, it is difficult for the cavalry to turn around, and even if the person who rushes in front can stop, the cavalry behind will definitely knock people on their backs.
In this case, it is impossible to retreat in a short period of time, and the more you retreat, the more chaotic it will become.
Duolun saw through this in a panic, and rushed to the front to fight hand-to-hand with the Tang army despite the losses.
Completely caught in a situation of being beaten, losing more than 3,000 people before they could fight, all kinds of circumstances aroused the blood of the Turkic soldiers, one by one roaring and ignoring the deadly trap, using the lives of their own life mounts, to build a way forward.
From a distance, hundreds of Turkic cavalry are like waves, the front one falls, and the back waves come! Under this desperate surprise attack of the Turks, the distance between the two armies was shortening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Luo Tong was also a little moved, the Turks deserve to be the fierce rival of the Tang Dynasty at this moment, this brave spirit that is not afraid of death is indeed worthy of the word strong enemy.
"This Turkic general is still a bit level! But it's still a little naïve. Luo Tong squinted his eyes and looked forward with his hands on the pergola: as far as his eyes could see, the Turkic cavalry stepped on the flat avenue made of flesh and blood of their people, each holding a short horse bow in their hands, and rushed towards them with the force of thunder.
The majesty of the Turkic cavalry charge was truly amazing, and Luo Tong felt that the ground under his feet was shaking, and the speed was also eye-catching, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the front......
The Turkic soldiers slowly slowed down, and even if the Turks were skilled in arching and horses, it was impossible to accurately shoot the target in the rapid sprint, and slowing down and shooting arrows was the basis of mounted archery.
When the Turks reached two hundred and fifty paces, they all bent their bows and were ready to shoot......
Because there is no point of focus in cavalry archery, most of the bows and arrows used are short bows, and the most lethal range is within 80 paces, but the two armies are fighting, and people are swarming in one place, as long as they are facing the direction without aiming, they can also hurt people...... It is possible to deal damage to the enemy as long as it comes within range of an arrow.
Especially the arrow feathers brought by the salvo of ten thousand bows......
The effective range of the Turkic cavalry was up to one hundred and fifty paces......
Just when the Turkic cavalry stepped into two hundred steps and was about to enter the range of one hundred and fifty steps, Duolun was stunned to find that Tang Junmo, who was holding a shield, suddenly fell to the ground, revealing the soldiers full of crossbow arrows behind him!
The cunning Tang soldiers actually hid a large number of crossbowmen behind the Mo Dao soldiers......
The sky is full of crossbow arrows!
"What a cunning and despicable Han man!" Doron screamed loudly!
The crossbow of the Central Plains has always been the first weapon to deal with the nomads, and it is necessary to have a deep study of the crossbow arrows of the Central Plains Turkic generals, and the effective range of the Tang Dynasty's Fuyuan crossbow can reach 300 steps, and the distance between the two armies is less than 200 steps at this time.
There is no way to hide, there is no way to avoid it.
In an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows pierced through people and horses, often piercing three or four people with one arrow, and the Turkic cavalry neighed sadly, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.
"Bite them! Serial shooting! ”
Luo Tong's eyes flashed with a scorching light, just as he said that the Turks were too naïve, how could he let Tang Jun reveal such a big flaw? Infantry is indeed an easy target for the unrivaled Turkic cavalry, but before you can target pikemen and shieldmen, your ferocious and domineering crossbow arrows will shoot them into a sieve first.
At the sound of the order, the well-trained left guard soldiers fired in a neat and orderly cascade, in a cycle, forming an intermittent rain of arrows, which suddenly became a terrible nightmare for the Turkic cavalry.
With the neighing of horses, the Turkic cavalry fell to the ground one after another, these elite horsemen usually only shoot people, how could they have thought that there was a day when they were shot like this, many soldiers were nailed to death alive with men and horses, and it was unbearable to see. Although they were also equipped with simple leather shields, they could not fully resist the rain of arrows falling from the sky.
Under the continuous overlapping fire of the crossbowmen of the Tang Army, the 20,000 cavalry who filled the trench with their lives were lost!
Moreover, the powerful firepower network of the Tang army forced the Turkic cavalry to stop at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and even pressed to two hundred steps.
Duolun's face was gloomy and terrifying, and his black pupils flashed with anger, and he roared, "Descendants of the wolf god, rush forward! Step on the ...... from the bodies of these wastes"
Duolun shouted Turkic, like a gambler who had lost everything, and let the remnants press up, and before he could finish the order, he felt a sharp murderous aura rushing towards him, and before he had time to guess what the reason was, the sharp arrow had already passed through his head, and a large hole was made in the chest of one of the guards behind him.
In the distance, Almaty indifferently put away the strong bow! He performed this decapitation perfectly with amazing archery.
With Doron's death, the outcome has been revealed.
The Turkic soldiers, who had lost their command, only knew to avenge their chieftain and swarmed in a haphazard manner. But the powerful firepower net made it impossible for them to get in! In just a moment, the exhausted and demoralized Turkic soldiers were already in a state of collapse and began to trample on each other and flee blindly.
In just a few moments, the dead bodies of the Turks were piled up everywhere, and the corpses were densely spread all over the ground like the thick fallen leaves in the woods.
In the first battle, the Tang army crippled the Turkic 30,000 vanguard army to the ground, but it itself suffered zero casualties. However, the sacrifice of the Duolun tribe was not without the slightest use, they filled that deadly trench with human lives and horse corpses, and consumed a large number of arrows from the Tang army! For the Tang Army, this next war is the real test.