Chapter 137: Breaking Through (1)

If the 300 people left in place by Aple were spear and shield infantry restraining the cavalry, Zhao Ziliang would still have some scruples, but the other party left in place was 300 light cavalry, which greatly increased Zhao Ziliang's confidence, what is the lethality of the 300 light cavalry who are in a low terrain and stand still?

Aple saw that the Tang army on the sand dune heights began to narrow the distance between the queues, and immediately felt a little surprised, and his subordinates were also very puzzled by this, not knowing what the Tang army was going to do.

But soon the Tang army took action, so that they understood that the Tang army was about to charge head-on, but soon Aple was not happy, and he realized that his army was still at a disadvantage in the terrain, and the other party rushed down, and he didn't know if his three hundred people could stop it.

"Soldiers, prepare your bows and arrows, rush down with me, and crush the Great Cannibal Army! Kill-" Zhao Ziliang roared, holding the treasure eagle bow and riding his horse towards the bottom of the sand dune.

"Kill-" Everyone rode their horses at the same time, lined up in a neat formation, and followed Zhao Ziliang and Chu Ge towards the Great Food Army formation five hundred meters below the sand dunes.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves spread in all directions, shouting while sprinting, the officers and men of the Tang Army were inexplicably fanatical, their fighting spirit was high, and a dusty cloud of smoke rose from the slope of the sand dunes.

The rise created by the condescending charge along the terrain made Aple and the three hundred Arab cavalry behind him all change color, this kind of cavalry formation with neat pin lined up galloped, and the resonance caused by the neat movement made their hearts tremble, and the Tang soldiers rushed to the halfway waist of the slope of the sand dune, and the war horses in the Arab cavalry army were neighing because they were afraid of this huge rise, and many Arab cavalry could not control the war horses and began to turn around, and the military formation became a little chaotic.

Under the leadership of Zhao Ziliang, less than two hundred Tang cavalry rushed faster and faster along the slope of the sand dune, and not far from the bottom of the slope, it just reached the range of bows and arrows, and also reached a very fast sprint speed, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Herald, blow the trumpet!" Bow and arrow ready, free scatter! ”

The horn man who was closely following Zhao Ziliang immediately took out the horn from behind his back and sounded the horn while riding his horse: "Woo-woo-woo-".

The soldiers of the Tang Army, who were sprinting at high speed, were originally holding riding bows, and after hearing this trumpet, they immediately pulled out their arrows from their quivers and set up a large food army formation on the opposite side.

All the Tang troops released their arrows almost at the same time, and they also released arrows continuously at the fastest speed, in this case, there was not much time left for them to sprint at all, and they could only miss the most arrows in the shortest time, so as to make up for the lack of hit rate in the high-speed sprint with quantity.

Rows of Tang cavalry kept taking arrows and releasing arrows, and in just two hundred meters, seven or eight branches were released in a row, and this overcharge was only ten or twenty seconds.

In the process, the army formation of the Great Eclipse Cavalry was shot on the back of the horse, and from time to time there were people in the army formation who were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and the screams of the knights after being hit by arrows and the sorrowful screams of the horses after being hit by arrows filled the entire battlefield.

From the beginning, everything was in Aple's control, but he definitely didn't expect that the cavalry bows and arrows of the Tang Army could shoot so far, two hundred meters, close to three hundred meters away, this kind of range was almost twice as long as the bows and arrows of the cavalry under his command, and in terms of long-range strike ability, the Great Food Light Cavalry was almost completely defeated!

Although there is a reason why the Tang cavalry lost the speed of the arrow by taking advantage of the high speed brought by the terrain to sprint, the main reason is that the range of the Tang cavalry's cavalry bow itself far exceeds that of the cavalry cavalry.

By the time Aple and his big food cavalry reacted, it was too late, the Tang army's bows and arrows were not only far away, but also the armor-piercing ability of the arrows was beyond their imagination, you must know that the big food light cavalry was almost all light leather armor, and few wore iron armor, only general-level generals had iron armor, this is not that the big cannibals have no money, not to mention that their forging iron armor skills are not good, but the light cavalry is basically leather armor This kind of equipment, mainly to reduce the burden of war horses, so that the light cavalry can get a higher speed of maneuver.

The two sides have not really contacted the battle, the casualties of the Great Eclipse Cavalry Army Formation are almost more than half, the military formation is completely abandoned, Aple's face turned pale and tried his best to control the war horse, and at the same time yelled to let his subordinates calm down the Great Eclipse Cavalry, and reorganize the team to meet the enemy, he also knew that retreating in this situation was almost the end of destruction, so although he lost more than half of the losses, he still tried his best to control the troops to resist, as long as he insisted on the return of the two hundred cavalry who divided the troops, the Tang Army would be defeated under the attack on both sides.

But Aple miscalculated, he didn't know that the sand dune heights where Zhao Ziliang was located before were twenty or thirty miles long, so he didn't calculate how long it would take for the two hundred cavalry to go out and come one by one, which made the two-sided attack he expected unable to form, and in the end he could only lead more than 100 remnants of the defeated army alone to resist Zhao Ziliang leading the army to rush and kill.

It was too late for Aple to order his subordinate cavalry to use bows and arrows to counter at this time, the speed of the Tang army's charge was too fast, and after the distance between the two sides was less than eighty meters, the Tang cavalry immediately put away their bows and arrows and replaced them with long weapons for cavalry, spears, spears and horse lances.

At this time, Zhao Ziliang had already set his sights on Aple, he knew that Aple was the main general and soul of this Great Food Army, as long as he was killed, the Great Food Army would inevitably collapse completely.

The war horse was galloping at high speed, Zhao Ziliang held the treasure eagle bow in his hand, and a sharp arrow had been wound, at this time, Aple was wielding the Damascus scimitar in his hand with all his strength to block the arrow shot by the Tang army, but he didn't notice that Zhao Ziliang had been eyeing him.

With a "whoosh", the sharp arrow shot by the treasure eagle bow in Zhao Ziliang's hand shot at Apuler at lightning speed, where could Aple dodge? At the moment, he was shot in the chest by a sharp arrow, and the armor-piercing ability of the arrow was so strong that it penetrated the chain mail on his body and shot into his chest.

"Poof-" Aple was shot and then opened his mouth to spew out a mouthful of bright red blood.

However, at this time, Zhao Ziliang had already rushed to the front, and the treasure carving bow in his hand had already been included in the bow bag, and he was replaced with a golden nail jujube yang lance, and without waiting for Aple's reaction, he raised the golden nail jujube yang lance in his hand and immediately stabbed at Aple.

Aple, who was already seriously injured by the range of the bow and arrow, couldn't dodge at all, the speed was too fast and fierce, and he barely resisted with the Damascus scimitar in his hand, but was knocked open by Zhao Ziliang's horse lance, and the lance head still penetrated his chain mail and chest with indomitable strength, and the powerful impact force knocked his body away from the horse's back, and was picked up in the air by Zhao Ziliang's horse lance.

"General!" At this time, an Arab cavalryman saw that Aple was picked up in the air by Zhao Ziliang and knocked several Arab cavalry behind him out in a row, screaming and waving the scimitar in his hand and slashing at Zhao Ziliang.

Apple's hands hung weakly, the Damascus scimitar in his hand fell from his hand, Zhao Ziliang saw someone in front of him cutting over, he immediately caught Apple's Damascus scimitar and slashed at the scimitar, the scimitar was cut off instantly, which surprised Zhao Ziliang, but he did not hesitate at all, and slashed at the opponent's neck again extremely quickly, the knife flashed, and the opponent's head broke away from the neck and fell to the ground and drowned in the horse's hooves.

When Aple was picked into the air, his corpse knocked several people in a row, including the herald and the standard-bearer of the big cannibals, and the Arabs fell, which soon aroused the ideas of the other Arab cavalry, which made them fall seventeen times, and the main general's Daxu fell, and at this time they still had the heart to continue fighting.

The Great Cannibal soon collapsed, and Zhao Ziliang commanded the Tang Army to keep rushing back and forth, killing the collapsed Great Eclipse Army to pieces, and then divided into several small groups of men and horses to continue to pursue and kill the routed Great Eclipse Cavalry.

Under the order of Zhao Ziliang, the Tang army pursued and killed for half an hour and returned, the Great Food Cavalry, which had already suffered more than half of the casualties, was scattered and then chased for half an hour, but no one escaped, all of them were killed, some of the Great Food Prisoners who were injured and could not escape were ordered by Zhao Ziliang to be executed immediately, and the Great Food Cavalry that was captured last night had already been executed last night, and keeping these prisoners was a burden for the Tang Army, which did not have many people, so Zhao Ziliang did not hesitate to give the order to kill all the prisoners.