Chapter 326 Chrysanthemum Terrace, full of wounds
The overwhelming javelins turned into streamers and shot towards the five thousand cavalry in front of Hu Che'er. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The sound of chirping and breaking the sky came and went.
The power of the javelin is unmatched, more than a step stronger than that of a ballista.
The javelin has such great power, but it has advantages and disadvantages, but it also has fatal flaws. That is the distance of the attack, the attack distance of an ordinary bow and arrow is about seventy meters, while the attack distance of a javelin is only about thirty meters.
The javelin is already heavy, and ordinary people throw it, but three or five meters is the limit. And Ma Chao's Ma family cavalry, all of them are extraordinary, and with the galloping power of the war horse, they can expand the attack distance to thirty meters.
At this distance, when facing foot soldiers, when facing hand-to-hand combat, three to five rounds of javelins can be thrown. And in the face of cavalry, at most, throwing only two rounds of javelins is already the limit.
Once the hand-to-hand battle is made, the advantage of the javelin cavalry is gone.
Although the javelin cavalry is strong, it is actually strong in the short time when the javelin is thrown, and the terrifying lethality. Once you take a detour with a loose horse, avoid the advantage of the javelinees. After that, the javelin cavalry was no different from ordinary cavalry in the face of other soldiers and horses.
The cavalry under Ma Chao absorbed the javelin offensive of the Roman cavalry, and naturally understood its shortcomings. Over the decades, it has been improved and innovated, and on the basis of cavalry, it is also equipped with infantry soldiers to cooperate with the javelin cavalry.
Even abandoning the javelin, the combat effectiveness of this cavalry charge, under the leadership of Ma Chao, is also one of the best. If you rely on these 5,000 cavalry alone to face off against Yan Xing and Hu Che'er's 10,000 cavalry, without the cooperation of the foot soldiers, of course it will be difficult to win, but now, with the assistance of the white horse Yicong, 8,000 battles and 10,000, Ma Chao has the certainty of victory.
The distance of thirty meters is only about ten zhang, and the cavalry of the Ma family has already thrown javelins when they are about fifteen zhang away, and while the javelins are advancing, the cavalry of the other party is also rushing towards their own side!
The middle was a safe distance of five zhang, and the next moment, Hu Che'er's five thousand cavalry crossed this distance, and the two armies were within ten zhang of each other. With that, the javelins were already above their heads.
Javelins whizzed diagonally into the crowd, screaming one after another.
The javelin is the least afraid of the opponent gathering together, and if you scatter, it is difficult to cause a wide area of damage due to the short range of the javelin. But if the opponents are gathered together, and thousands of javelins are thrown towards the dense place, the killing effect is considerable.
Now Hu Che'er's cavalry is like this, gathering together to attack, wanting to break up Ma Chao's cavalry formation, but they fell into the trap. Five thousand javelins, drilled into the center.
The picture became bloody, whistling the advancing javelins, not to mention that Hu Che'er's cavalry was still desperately ramming into the oncoming javelins? Its impact is that even the fierce generals dare not hit its front!
The bright javelin happened to bump into a cavalryman, like lightning, the cavalry had no time to react, the javelin had already passed through his chest protected by leather armor, and the leather armor that had been handled to defend against ordinary arrows actually broke in response.
The soldier then felt his body uncontrollable, and the javelin passed through his chest, sending his body flying backwards.
"Ahh The cavalryman's frightened screams, the pain in his chest, the loss of blood, and the uncontrollable backward leap of his body made the cavalryman's consciousness blurred.
"Poof, poof!"
These were two consecutive movements that the cavalryman heard before his consciousness was completely dead.
"I'm blown up~" The cavalryman felt a tearing pain in his lower body behind him, his pupils shrank, and he couldn't blink his eyes.
With a snap, the cavalryman finally landed, and behind him, another cavalryman was also stuck in the javelin. What's even more interesting is that the cavalry behind him maintained the action of sprinting with a sword, and when he was pierced by the javelin, the machete in his hand also accidentally stabbed into the former's body.
This Xiliangqiang Hu soldier did a lot of evil things in front of him, and before he died, he actually experienced the pain of bursting chrysanthemums.
It is common for a javelin to run through two cavalrymen in a company, and the Hucheer cavalry is very dense, and most of the javelins are thrown, and they are rewarded. Some can hit one person, some are castrated, and there are many people who run through three or five people in a row.
The screams came and went, Hu Che'er's cavalry camp seemed to be as terrifying as purgatory, javelins attacked, often injuring several people, and in the whooshing sound, several cavalry were pierced by javelins, like toads.
"Throw it at me!" After a round of javelins, Hu Che'er's cavalry was too dense, and more than 1,000 casualties were suffered at once. And the speed of their progress has also stagnated!
Ma Chao still rode forward, a javelin was thrown in his hand, Ma Chao took out another projectile, and after the cavalry behind him threw the javelin, Ma Chao was already the third. The speed of this root, Ma Chao and the cavalry must be consistent!
At the moment, the cavalry is five feet apart, and they can still throw a round of javelins!
The speed at which these cavalrymen threw javelins was not to mention how fast they were trained, and after one shot was fired, another javelin was pinched in his hand and raised to the sky. When Ma Chao's javelin came out of his hand, the javelins of the five thousand iron horsemen were also thrown out.
The time for the two rounds of javelin projection to converge, but in a few seconds, Ma Chao did not shoot in batches, in order to ensure the power of five thousand javelins! In a few seconds, Hu Che'er's cavalry still rushed forward by inertia, and did not react at all, and scattered to both sides to survive.
So, the bloody side was staged again.
After two rounds of javelins, it should have been a short encounter, but the five thousand cavalry in front of Ma Chao continued to sprint forward, but it was only two thousand cavalry!
Ma Chao took the lead and rushed straight towards Hu Che'er's cavalry formation.
In the face of the rushing horses and more than 5,000 iron cavalry, the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry escaped strangely! That's right, they should have fought on the horses in close combat, but they weirdly turned their horses' heads one by one and galloped desperately in all directions.
Shocked by the terrifying lethality of the two javelins, more than half of his comrades died. The formation was already chaotic, and when Ma Chao's cavalry rushed in, although there were no javelins, they had already been killed and did not dare to fight, so they turned around and fled.
Hu Che'er's cavalry fled, but Ma Chao still chased after him, and did not care about the Yan Xing cavalry who were surrounded on both sides. Yan Xing's cavalry, when the time comes, there will be Bai Ma Yi from the roundabout Bao Chao to deal with, and now Hu Che'er's cavalry is fleeing, which should be to confuse its military morale and expand the results of the battle.
Once these two thousand cavalry were defeated and fled to a certain extent, it was like a domino effect. At that time, Yan Xing's cavalry would not suffer any casualties, and they would also be defeated. This is the role of military morale and morale.
Ma Chao took the lead and rushed into the defeated army of Hu Che'er, and the cavalry of the Ma family galloped, with the momentum of victory, like a sharp blade, followed closely by Ma Chao and entered the defeated army. (To be continued.) )