Chapter Seventy-Four: Confronting the Turkic Cavalry

The soldiers in the formation subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands, and the Turks continued to attack, and they directly attacked without stopping.

Looking at the large number of attacking Turkic cavalry, Rao is well-trained Tang Army, and he was also faintly worried at the moment.

After all, they are facing cavalry, in the past, there were cavalry as cover, and the infantry was not greatly affected by cavalry, but even so, the army's battle loss rate was very high, and now without cavalry, can such a disassembled formation alone stop the Turks?

Li Yuanji smiled slightly, handing over the military power does not mean that there is no right to suggest, the Tang army has not practiced this formation, so he does not know the real use of this formation at all.

He was far from expecting that the Turks would directly charge.

"It seems that the Turks also find life too boring and want to end their lives sooner."

"Our army has not rested all night, and has fought one after another, and it has already shown a state of exhaustion, and it is no better than the Turks." Wei Chi Jingde grinned, and secretly said What kind of thing are you talking about?

Everyone is a veteran who has fought a lot of battles, and after Wei Chi Jingde's reminder, they are naturally worried.

The Turks were running continuously, and they charged without stopping, but they came out of Chang'an yesterday, walked all night, and fought another battle before dawn, although that battle could only be regarded as a drizzle, but the energy expended was also huge.

And turning his head to look at the soldiers, which one is not holding on with a strong spirit?

"We suffer, the enemy suffers even more, just do your own thing, and victory will naturally favor the prepared side." Li Yuanji squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the galloping Turkic cavalry group.

The group charge of 3,000 cavalry is completely different from what you say with your own eyes and what you hear about that momentum.

The deafening sound of horses' hooves, the shouting of excitement to the extreme, the dust flying in the sky, a dense large area, it seems that there is no end in sight, and even the earth under his feet can't help but tremble, the slightest.

It is absolutely impossible for a person who does not have an absolutely strong heart to stand here.

At this moment, Li Yuanji didn't know how to describe this kind of scene at this time, as if a person was standing on the street, and opposite you, there was a heavy truck speeding towards you.

"Mo Dao soldiers don't need to stay here, we are all warriors, we don't need the protection of others, you immediately go to the gap to wait, and when the army is closed, you will fight to the death, and you will also block the enemy army from the king." Fortunately, Li Yuanji's body has long adapted to this kind of scene, although he was a little scared in his heart, but his body did not react intuitively, but everything was so familiar.

Stretching out his hand and pointing at the fifty Mo sword soldiers who were protecting him, let them go to the front and stand by.

"Your Highness, there's something wrong with that, isn't it?" Wei Chi Jingde hesitated a little, the troops were insufficient, so there was no safe place in the army at all, Li Yuanji was on the front line, but there was no one to protect him, which was somewhat unruly, and the mobilization of these fifty Mo sword soldiers was also to avoid giving people the truth.

"What's wrong? In terms of force, thirty or fifty people can't help this king and you, so why waste troops to protect you and me? There is the key of the key, the core of this formation is in the gap, if it can be blocked, the enemy army entering the formation will definitely die, if it can't be blocked, all of us will die. Li Yuanji said angrily.

He also found that the Mo sword soldiers around him had increased a lot just now, and this was the back formation, in terms of impact and resistance, it was far inferior to the two formations in front, and there was no need to configure so many Mo sword soldiers.

And this kind of formation that he has put on at this moment is almost incomprehensible to deal with the current cavalry.

Li Yuanji also did not think that the Turks had the brains to come up with a countermeasure to deal with this hedgehog array, and if they had, they would not have been defeated in the national war two years later.

Cavalry has the advantage of cavalry, infantry also has the advantage of infantry, since ancient times, the confrontation between the Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland peoples, always in the way of cavalry, because the cavalry is very mobile, infantry can not compete in this regard.

However, when the Central Plains Dynasty's horse breeding land fell at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it caused the current situation of the Central Plains Dynasty's lack of horses, which also led to the Central Plains Dynasty having to rely on infantry.

After the cavalry suffered repeated losses, they also rethought of ways to crack this formation, which led to the destruction of the Song Dynasty.

After that, it was not until the advent of thermal weapons that this conventional tactic was broken, and the cavalry completely withdrew from the stage of history.

Mounted archery has been around for a long time, but Li Yuanji doesn't think that the Turks can think of using mounted archery to crack this hedgehog array.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the sound of thunderbolts colliding between weapons, the distance between the two sides getting closer and closer, and the shaking of the ground getting louder and louder, the Tang army did not retreat timidly because of this huge psychological impact, even one step.

And the only thing they can do is to hold their pace, hold the spear in their hand, stab the tail of the spear diagonally into the ground, and use the power of the ground to unload the huge impact of the enemy's charge.

"Shoot the arrows!" Captain Tang visually measured the distance and gave the order to fight without hesitation.

More than a hundred archers quickly let go of their right hands, and the bowstring that had already been drawn made a dull echo with the help of the elastic force of the bow body, and then, the sky suddenly darkened, and hundreds of bows and arrows fired at the Turkic cavalry on the opposite side.

Because it is located on high ground, it has a certain advantage in geographical location, so the range of bows and arrows is also longer, and the lethality of the enemy is also greater if the shooting line is parabolic.

'Puff puff ......'

Hundreds of bows and arrows came at the sky, and the Turks, who were also armed with bows and arrows, could only fight back in a hurry, while also enduring the attack of bows and arrows overhead.

And such a dense attack, as long as it is the enemy forces in this area, it is basically difficult to dodge.

In an instant, more than 20 Turkic soldiers were hit by arrows, only a few people could control their bodies and continue to stay on the horse, and the rest fell to the ground one after another, and they didn't even have time to make follow-up movements, so they were fiercely trampled by the war horse that followed closely.

And it was only at this time that the Turks realized that they were at a geographical disadvantage, and it was not easy to attack the defenders from the low to the high, so the bows and arrows they shot were still two or three steps away from even the most advanced Tang army.

And the slight slope also brought certain difficulties to the gallop of the war horse, and the speed of the war horse, which was already a little weak, began to drop sharply, even less than half of the peak.

Many Turks continued to take out a new bow and arrow from the arrow cluster behind them, and then with the help of horsepower and distance, they slowly shot the first bow and arrow into the Tang army formation.

However, this was only the only round of their attacks, and the remaining time was not enough time for them to pick up their arrows and shoot again, they had to throw away their bows and arrows, remove their weapons from their weapon racks, and prepare for the attack.

Otherwise, by the time they rush in front of the enemy, they will not even have their weapons ready.

And the last round of shooting of the Turks only brought a small number of casualties to the Tang army, and the numbers were almost negligible.

The number of bows and arrows fired into the formation was indeed quite a lot, but the Tang army, who had been prepared for a long time, hid directly behind the shield, and a large number of bows and arrows either pierced directly into the shield or directly sank into the ground, and only a few unlucky guys were directly hit.

In order to avoid accidental injury, the cavalry behind did not continue to shoot arrows, but continued to rush forward with weapons and horses.

On the other hand, on the side of the Tang army, the shield bearers in the formation also lost their shields, took out the bows and arrows that had been prepared long ago, and joined the battle group.

In an instant, the density of bows and arrows increased by a full double compared to before, and the Turkic cavalry, which relied on a dense charge, fell in an instant, and the dense formation was instantly disrupted a lot.

'Click! ’

'Bang ......'

The spear was broken because it could not withstand the huge impact, and the speed of the horse's gallop, as well as its own inertia, allowed it to rush forward even after being stabbed by the spear.

After all, human strength is limited, and it is impossible to be as strong as a war horse.

With a simple face, brutal and brutal contact, the soldiers behind the shield were knocked out of the way, and several soldiers behind them were also killed.