Chapter 1061 [Kicking Array]
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I'm sorry, I took a break for a while because of my body, and the disease is chronic kidney failure, that is, (uremia), Lao Huang's body is definitely getting worse and worse, but let's make an appointment, this book will definitely be written for everyone!
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Compared with the heavily armored Jin Army Tiefutu and the light cavalry that is equipped with at least leather armor as standard, the cavalry of the Horn Room Department can barely be regarded as light cavalry, but with the continuous advancement of the line, it is also obvious that they dare to come to deliver food, and they still have a certain confidence.
There was no command or trumpet or drum sound, and in the dense sound of hooves and seemingly chaotic whistling, it was seen that the cavalry group quickly and spontaneously divided into two formations, and the hundreds of chamber cavalry with armor and shields quickly ran to the first line to form a sharp front, and the rest of the unarmored and unarmored men followed in a hedgehog group, and took out their riding bows and prepared to throw.
From this point of view, the gang of people in the Horn Room led by Wu Liduo are not savages who do not know tactics and specialize in fighting bad debts, but they know the tactics of attacking with armored soldiers and supporting with long-range attacks.
It's just that when Yang Keshi judged that Wu Liduo was not leading the troops into the formation, but was going to directly lead the army to attack the formation, and wanted to break the formation directly with brute force, he also quickly commanded the change of formation to put out this "Demon Modified Pingrong Wanquan Array" horizontal push combat mode.
It can also be seen that the formation of the front, middle and rear armies that was originally close to the "pin" character quickly changed into a seal "hui" shape (→ 囬), and then the northward formation of shield bearers and spearmen quickly lined up to form a small ∧-shaped formation, and the spearmen quickly listened to the order to take out a five-inch sickle-like blade and assemble it on the spear, so that the standard spear in their hands instantly became a standard hook sickle.
As for the archers of the three armies, they also quickly assembled to the north under the assembly of drums and bugles, and quickly assembled into formation, lined up not far behind the hook and sickle gunners.
The 8,000 cavalry of the left and right armies, which were the main forces, also quickly retreated, and the rear side of the array discharged a goose-shaped battle formation, and they all unsheathed their swords and guns, waiting for the battle.
"Toot! Woooooooo Doodle! ”
At this moment, I could only hear the Song army's battle array, a loud and incomparably loud military horn that was different from the sound of the horns in the past suddenly sounded, and as soon as the archers in the formation heard it, some generals immediately shouted: "Quick!" Quickly replace the anesthetic arrow! ”
Soon, Wu Liduo's cavalry quickly ran through the center of the battlefield and kicked the formation, but seeing that the front formation with a shield suddenly turned to both sides when it broke into the Song army's front line about eighty paces away, the rear archers with bows also turned along the front line and threw the feather arrows in their hands.
Eighty paces is the best range for cavalry to shoot long-distance with a bow in this era, if it is too far on this basis, the arrows shot are weak and difficult to break the armor, and if it is too close, it is very likely to be counterattacked by the opponent's shots, resulting in losses.
"Steady down! Preparation! ”
In the Song army array, the generals and officers on duty of each team continued to shout loudly, and the sword and shield bearers formed an impermeable shield wall with the shields in their hands according to the drills and training, and before they had time to get a little nervous, they heard the crackling sound of the shield in their hands, and then there were countless broken arrows with broken wolf teeth and miscellaneous arrows, and the broken arrows of miscellaneous wood slid down the gap between the shields and the shields to the feet of each person.
At this time, I don't know who couldn't help but laugh when they saw such a look, and then it also caused thousands of sword and shield hands to laugh like a tsunami.
As for why he laughed, there was nothing more to the joke than that the people in the room who had just come from the wilderness of Liaodong actually used wolf tooth arrows and miscellaneous wooden arrow shafts, but they still dared to play any throwing from eighty paces away.
It must be known that although the shield of the Northern Expedition Song Army is still wooden, the shield surface is not wooden, but wrapped with a thin layer of iron sheet, and there is a layer of cooked cow leather as a buffer layer in the middle, and the total weight is only eighteen catties, which is at least two-thirds lighter than the large beast-faced battle shield that weighs more than 50 catties in the previous Song Army.
Of course, it is said that it is iron, but it will not be a brittle or hard miscellaneous iron, it is used as ten refined wrought iron that can be used as swords and soldiers in the past, and the advantage of making a shield with such wrought iron is that it is both light and tough, even if it encounters a strong soldier or a blunt weapon like a sledgehammer or a bone, it is difficult to break the shield when it is smashed on the shield, either piercing a hole, or smashing the shield surface into deformation, but it can protect the soldiers who make the shield from serious injury.
It's just that the feather arrows shot by these people are either wolf tooth arrows or miscellaneous wood arrows, which not only have no power to break through the shield's defense, but also provoke a burst of laughter.
In other words, when the soldiers of the Song army couldn't help but laugh collectively, Wu Liduo was unaware of it, but after seeing the more than 1,000 people in the front formation turning in the middle line, they rushed to the cavalry formation on the left and right wings of the Song army, and the more than 1,000 archers in the back line threw the first round of arrow rain in the front formation, and saw that the Song army's shield array still did not react like a turtle with a shrunken head, and continued to drive forward without being greeted, and this time it rushed through the previous eighty steps position, and it was able to come to a position less than sixty steps away from the Song army's shield array, so he roared and threw the bow.
"Knock knock!"
When the second rain of arrows from this room fell in the Song army's array, he also heard the big drum on the eyes of the Chinese army suddenly sounded, and in the midst of the passionate drums, he also saw that a large number of shooting positions like the size of a human head appeared on the wall of the shield wall in front of him very regularly and symmetrically, and then there was the sound of silk strings emitted by the divine arm bow sounding continuously.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
In the window-like shooting position, the two men with a colorful pheasant tail on each helmet knelt on the ground, holding the bow to look at the mountain to aim and launch, and behind the two of them were two people in charge of passing, and four more people were stepping on the bow with arrows.
Although the firing port was only the size of a human head, for the Divine Arm Bow with a projectile of almost 260 paces and a range of 120 steps in flat fire, this kind of shooting window was already sufficient.
There is a way to capture the thief and capture the king first, shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and shoot the person who is riding a horse and hurrying sixty or seventy steps away with a divine arm bow, even the veteran does not dare to say that he can achieve a hit probability of more than fifty percent, but if the target is replaced with a war horse that is both long and wide, this hit rate is of course more than eighty percent.
But seeing a god arm bow old pawn to breathe as the standard, a breath and a breath from the hands of the person behind him to replace a god arm bow, a bead like a shot into the crowd, the blink of an eye to shoot out more than a dozen arrows, and the target is all war horses, really a nine out of ten, the winner is all on their backs.
At this time, the rear team of the people in the room had just finished throwing the rain of arrows, and when they turned the horse's head and moved sideways to both sides, not only did the war horse have a large sideways target, but they also couldn't dodge and dodge, so they really became a live target.
That is, in the time of almost one drum (in ancient times, three hundred and sixty mallet drums were used as a drum, about one hundred and eighty seconds), the rear cavalry of the Trumpet Room fell to the ground like wheat harvesting, and in addition to the hundreds of extremely lucky people who retreated, there were nearly a thousand people who fell from their horses.