Chapter 55: Total Annihilation (Part II)
On the two chariots, Mide was anxiously waiting for the battle to begin, this was their first time in battle, they had not been training for a long time, and they could not control the steering perfectly, but the outside was extremely flat, and Jian Chen told them to just rush forward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The horses were covered with armor made of branches and leather, and their four-legged bodies had accepted this strange thing, perhaps because the sound of the battle outside was too loud, and the wails before death could not be blown away even by the cold wind, and several horses were a little uneasy.
Jian Chen rode in a slightly smaller cart with a drum on it, and besides him and Mite, there was only one soldier with a copper halberd next to him.
The halberd is a combination of spear and ge, and the most glorious era is when the current warrior dominates the battlefield. The chariot is a lateral attack on the side, so the hook weapon like Ge is the most effective, and the spearhead can also be pierced directly, and it can only shine in the era of wild chariots.
The warhead of the halberd is heavier than the spear and the ge, and it is very long, and it requires great strength according to the principle of the lever, so only the strongest can use it, and over time, as the chariot withdraws from the stage of history, the halberd has gradually become an ornament and a ritual weapon.
The halberds are all warriors, and the same is true for the chariot on the chariot in Yangguan, and the brave people selected from hundreds of people have their own glory, and they faintly feel different when they stand on the chariot.
They wore several layers of leather armor to protect their bodies, and the infantry who followed the chariot wore very little, they had to follow closely behind the chariot, and they needed to run quickly.
At this time, Jian Chen had not yet gotten into the car, but stood on the city wall and watched the battle in the distance.
On the opposite side, Da Wu led his men around the battlefield to avoid contact, and quickly maneuvered towards the rear of the more than 300 people.
The situation on the battlefield was temporarily anxious, Chen Jian was very satisfied with the performance of the clansmen, the more than 300 people almost pressed the opposite camp to fight again, and the opposite side showed signs of collapse several times, but the leader of the Great Xuan sent a group of people under his command to press the bottom of the box to stabilize the line, waiting for the time after the Vulture.
There is no such thing as a clever command, and the scorching battlefield competition is discipline and the will to fight. Everyone knew that they were safe behind their backs, so even when they saw Dawu walking around with people, they didn't panic too much.
Dawu's men had already gone around from the side to the back, quickly spreading out their formation, perhaps because they had some concerns about Yangguan City, and set aside more than 200 people to defend Yangguan.
Jian Chen felt that the commander on the opposite side was a very careful person, even if he deceived them for so long with methods such as no water to drink and few soldiers, the commander on the opposite side would still divide his forces to defend against him.
The time has come, this is the first battle he commanded with fewer blows, once he wins, the aura on his body will last for a long time, his heart is also excited, the hand holding the sword trembles slightly, and his heart beats extremely irregularly.
Running down from the city walls, he clenched his fists and hammered his chest, shouting: "Open the gates!" ”
The men who stayed behind pushed the gates open, and the most elite new troops in Yangguan left the gates one by one, and E-Dian followed behind them, wondering exactly what the effect of the chariot would be.
Two chariots lined up, Chen Jian's smaller chariot was on the far left, and behind each chariot were dozens of hand-to-hand combat soldiers, and the attack of the entire new army would be centered on the chariots.
Fifty riders were at the rear of the line, and they were to take part in the assault, but to pursue the deserters and drive away the possible riders from the opposite side after the chariot had completely routed the opposing side, armed with three short javelins and a long throwing spear that could be used to hold the charge back.
Jian Chen's order to them was to charge the right flank of the opposite side at full speed once the opposing front collapsed, bypass the battlefield, and pursue the routs in the direction of the valley, without stopping and waiting for partners, as long as chasing and killing those who had dispersed.
The Light Cavalry is the best class to hunt down the router, and its speed and tactical stamina will be the most murderous class on the battlefield.
The two heavy chariots and Chen Jian's light chariots lined up and began to jog towards the battlefield, the distance of three hundred paces, you can't impact now, otherwise the horse won't be able to support it for too long, and the strongest impact force is to accelerate when you are about two hundred paces.
Even with a lot of oil, the dry-ground axle still creaked like a bug biting at the skull.
Three hundred paces away, Da Wu heard this kind of sound that he had never heard before, and looked at the spinning wheels in amazement, and the thought flashed in his heart: if his tribe had such wheels, then the grassland was so big that he could go wherever he wanted, and those heavy tents no longer needed to be carried by many horses, and the whole tribe could easily move.
And then he became worried, he had never seen the chariot, and he didn't know what the combat effectiveness of the chariot would be, and he didn't expect that there were more than a hundred reserve troops on the other side.
"It's a trap! There must be some way for them to drink water, I didn't force them out, they deliberately led me here......"
He had seen the combat strength of those three hundred people before, but the small number of people could force his own front to shake everywhere, but he also knew that the bravest people would often appear last, and the more than 100 people who came out of the city were probably the real elite on the other side.
But within a distance of three hundred steps, the battle formation that had been unfolded could no longer be changed, and the people in front were already engaged with the squad left behind by the wolf skin, and the order had been given, and letting them retreat at this time would only make the originally crumbling defense line completely collapse.
Riding on his horse, he took one last look back at Jian Chen and the chariot that was approaching, he gritted his teeth and turned his head, now his only hope of victory was to wipe out the three hundred and fifty people who surrounded him before Jian Chen defeated him.
No longer looking at the situation behind him, he shouted angrily, and led the people around him to rush towards the wolf skin.
"There are more than 300 people, more than 200 are fighting with my father head-on, and less than 100 are left behind the defense...... They had wanted to fight like this for a long time, so the more than 100 people didn't move to guard against me...... I still have more than 600 people in my hands, as long as I break up the people in front before the people behind kill me!" ”
Having made up his mind, since it is no longer possible to change the formation, all this can only be left to the heavens to decide, is it his rear that will be torn apart first? Or do you let the more than 300 people who were besieged collapse first?
On the side of Yangguan, Chen Jian beat the war drums, and the chariot rolled its wheels on the battlefield of this world for the first time.
Slowly advancing to a distance of two hundred paces, the archers of the new army immediately advanced fifty paces ahead of the chariot, leaving a gap for the chariot to pass through, and began the first round of projectiles.
Then, Chen Jian pulled out the Wu Feng, exhaled and pointed forward, and the royal hands on the two chariots slammed the horses in front of him with whips, and the horses that were suffering from pain struggled to open their hooves and pull the heavy chariots to increase their speed to the maximum.
The archer on the chariot stuck one leg on the railing of the chariot, quickly drew his feather arrow, and shot straight at the left front of the chariot, the rapid impact made the opponent's newly unfolded formation defenseless, and the slightly rudimentary archer projectile also made the opposite side appear a gap in an instant.
The halberd-wielding chariot drew its javelin from its chariot and, when it was about fifty paces close to the enemy, threw it.
The speed of the chariot combined with the extraordinary strength, Chen Jian saw a javelin penetrate a person on the opposite side, he gave a cheer, and beat the war drum with all his strength on the bumpy car.
The drums beat faster and faster, and the speed of the chariot accelerated to its maximum as it approached the enemy formation, opening up a distance of dozens of paces from the infantry following behind.
The archers behind no longer throw, and the followers run forward, firing their feathered arrows at the back of the line.
Chen Jian's small chariot followed behind the two heavy chariots, and the direction of the chariot's impact pointed directly at the place with the most people on the opposite side, where was the breakthrough selected by Dawu, preparing to insert into the center of more than 300 people from there and completely tear the formation apart.
But the sudden appearance of the chariot shattered his illusions, and the running horse was a little crazy, and its heavy chest slammed a stunned steppe soldier away.
The men on either side looked at the chariot at a loss, but they were either shot by the bow and arrow on the chariot, or slashed by Ge with a hook.
With almost no resistance, the chariot broke through the line in the defensive city of Dawu, not in its entirety, but in the center of the gap.
The defending more than 200 steppe soldiers formed a thin line, the formation was very loose, and these infantry had not yet experienced the horror of being dominated by cavalry charges.
The Xiacheng infantry following behind the chariots adopted a column, with three chariots in front, and the remaining soldiers lined up in a dozen rows to follow behind, forming only a front seven or eight steps wide.
Chen Jian's chariot rushed into the opposite line, and the soldiers of the two steppe tribes held stone axes to block the war horse, but they were knocked to the ground by the war horse, and the horse's hooves stepped heavily on him.
The right side of the chariot brandished its halberd, killing the soldiers on both sides of the chariot, and the soldiers on both wings supported in this direction, but the speed of the chariot was too fast, and it only slightly blocked for a moment, and it had already torn through the Dawu defense line and charged towards the unsuspecting steppe tribe with their backs to them.
The new army of Xia Cheng who followed behind filled the gap, and the speed of the chariot slowed down, but the infantry had also followed, charging with all their might along the gap that had been opened.
Jian Chen clenched a throwing spear and stared at Da Wu dozens of steps away, dozens of people around Da Wu densely guarded Da Wu in the center, they stared in horror at the chariot like a fast knife easily tore through their defenses, but they still mustered up the courage to protect their leader with the rudimentary weapons in their hands.
Jian Chen didn't know who Da Wu was, and he didn't want to know, because Da Wu didn't impress him too much at all, and he wasn't qualified to leave an impression in his heart, but he knew that the man who rode the horse must be the leader of the grassland.
Grabbing the railing of the chariot with his left hand and holding a javelin in his right hand, he threw it at Da Wu and stabbed to death the people who were guarding him.
The chariot also began to turn at this point, and the horses had not yet adapted to the onslaught, and they chose to run to the side as they watched the dense crowd and the raised stone spears.
The infantry behind him had already followed from the open gap, no longer following the chariot, and the sword and shield soldiers lined up and rushed towards the steppe tribes in the form of a human wall shouting. (To be continued.) )