Under the baptism of this rain of crossbow arrows, only dozens of horses caught in the middle were lucky to escape, but listening to the screams around them, they instantly found that the mounts of the surrounding companions were shot into a bloody and blurred flesh ball, both the rider and the horse suddenly had a nervous breakdown, and the only thing they wanted to do was to escape from this damn hell, the farther the better, the faster the better.

The cavalry rushed into battle, relying on the indomitable momentum, relying on the courage to go forward and succeed, and relying on the will of the riders in the front row who were not afraid of sacrifice, and this qiē was invisible on the dozens of surviving horses.

The horses had become frenzied, ignoring their master's orders to rush forward or retreat, and did not dare to charge at the point of the spear that was rejecting the horse and the swaying spear, but stopped one after another. Kicking and jumping in place, throwing the knights out of the horses.

The valley on the opposite side fell into a deathly silence, and the black iron stream that had followed the vanguard iron cavalry in an attempt to break through a way of life stopped, and despair and fear were written in the eyes of every soldier, and more than a thousand horsemen who seemed to be unstoppable just now became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in the blink of an eye.

The fog had lifted, and every rebel soldier watched in silence as the bellied horses neighed on the ground, and the dying knights rolled and let out unbearable screams.

The psychological shock brought to the others by this qiē far exceeded the death of more than a thousand people per se, and the subsequent infantry and cavalry all remained motionless in place as if their feet had taken root.

A cruel smile flashed at the corner of Yang Su's mouth, he waved his hand, and the herald beside him turned around and grabbed a yellow flag. He shook vigorously in the air.

Since the fog has lifted. Everyone can see the handsome flag here clearly. Naturally, there is no longer a need to use the sound of a horn to convey military orders.

Hundreds of swords and axes came out of the infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, holding waist swords and short swords, and when they encountered the Jihu knights who still had a breath, they stepped forward and stabbed the result, and those dying and struggling war horses were also directly stabbed to death, these people did not say a word, and in less than a moment they cleaned up all the living things on the battlefield, leaving the corpses of men and horses in a place, waiting for the opposite valley to attack again.

Yang Xuangan has not had time to take care of the front since the start of the war. The scouts who had spread more than ten miles away did not make any return, and there was no movement of any large army due north as far as the eye could see, and even in the open area ahead, there was no smoke and dust that could be brought by the actions of more than 10,000 troops within a radius of ten miles.

It is impossible for the enemy army in the north to come to the rescue, at least not until the end of the fierce battle in this valley, Yang Xuangan is a little jealous of the majestic sea that is commanding in the Xiaoguo army, he is not as lucky as him to kill so well.

Yang Xuangan was in annoyance, and suddenly heard a thunderous roar from the valley: "The man from Bingzhou, there is a kind of rush with me!" ”

Yang Xuan was surprised to find that another group of cavalry rushed out of the valley mouth, led by a member of the iron helmet and black armor all over his body. A general riding an unusually armored war horse.

Because he couldn't see his face clearly from too far away, he could only vaguely see the long beard fluttering under the chin. With the robe he puffed up in the hunting wind, he has the demeanor of a general.

Beside this general, hundreds of cavalrymen, iron helmets and iron armor, tall horses, at a glance are the elite guards guarding the main general, and behind him, a high banner followed him and quickly advanced, with a big "Zhao" written on it.

Yang Xuangan knew that this person must be the rebel commander Zhao Zikai, seeing that his side was in a desperate situation, and the morale of the whole army was on the verge of collapse, as long as one person surrendered, it would infect the whole army like a virus to lay down his arms, and it would be impossible to control the situation at that time.

The rain of crossbow arrows on both sides once again poured down on this rebel army of several hundred people, but this time the enemy army was prepared, and all the knights on both sides dismounted, not pursuing the full speed of the cavalry, but protecting the war horses and leading to the death passage of Guò.

This trick really worked, Zhao Zi bet that the infantry phalanx on the front did not have strong bows and crossbows, and all the bows and arrows came from the side, he seemed to be right, and the sound of crossbows on the side of the crossbows on the iron shield was as endless as rain hitting plantains, but there was no arrow on the front towards them.

Zhao Zikai suddenly laughed proudly on the horse, he stopped his horse, turned his head to the soldiers who were looking at the battle situation in front of him at the valley mouth behind, and shouted: "See, Ben Shuai is not wrong, they don't have archers in front, don't you hurry up?!" ”

The rebels in the valley came back to their senses all of a sudden, and all of a sudden the sound of passwords and horns was endless, and all the infantry cavalry teams began to mobilize, and more than a dozen teams of iron-clad and steel-shielded infantry quickly ran out, lined up on both sides of Zhao Zikai's cavalry, and the dense shields were connected to form a shield wall, hugging the cavalry in the center and slowly moving forward.

Yang Su's face sank like water, and he quickly gave a few orders to the herald behind him, and the herald quickly raised a few flags, Yang Xuangan was shocked when he saw it, because that order was that Xiaoguo stopped releasing arrows and changed to an iron cavalry to charge the formation!

Before Yang Xuangan could react, the Xiaoguo knights in the front row had already mounted their horses, and because there was no lance, the knights took out their melee weapons, steel whips, copper hammers, iron rods, sabers, heavy swords, and maces, all of which became like magic in the hands of the knights.

Following the orders of the team leaders in the front row, three teams of knights on the left and right sides, adding up to more than 2,000 horsemen, rolled towards the rebel array that was still in a dense formation, holding shields, and slowly advancing like angry waves.

Zhao Zikai didn't expect Yang Su to have this hand, he was slightly stunned, and before he could think of how to deal with it, Xiaoguo's iron cavalry had already collided with the rebel shield soldiers standing on both sides, because they were all holding shields to block arrows, they couldn't see the situation outside, although they heard the ground shaking outside, they didn't know what was going on.

It wasn't until Xiaoguo's iron cavalry directly collided with the shield that they realized that the enemy army was charging with the iron cavalry, and this was the last time most of them consciously thought about it in this world.

The infantry, who lacked bows and arrows, crossbows, spears, and even horses, and even horses, were lambs to the slaughter in front of the armored and armored iron horses.

Due to terrain limitations. The distance to the impact of the Xiaoguo knights was only more than two hundred steps. The war horse could not accelerate to full speed in such a short distance. The speed is less than half of the usual speed.

In addition, the knights did not have long lances in their hands, and they all relied on the shields of the war horses to hit the enemy formation, which reduced the impact of the Xiaoguo knights, who were supposed to be indomitable and crush an obstacle on the way forward, to less than thirty percent of the usual amount.

But even so, in this open field, the iron cavalry assault of the Snapgo Knights still dealt a huge blow to the rebel infantry on the march without any protection.

Although there was no more the terrifying scene of four or five people strung on a long lance, nor did there be the spectacular picture of directly knocking people out more than 20 steps, the shield soldiers on both wings of the rebels were still rushed to pieces. Together with the people around him, they fell like dominoes, and there were five or six rows of them.

The ironclad horses trampled the poor infantry on the ground, while the knights brandished their weapons and slashed at every rebel soldier around them.

Slaughter, one-sided slaughter! The rebels were broken through the formation, and the people were crowded together, unable to effectively wield the weapons in their hands to resist, and the severed limbs and severed heads of the swords were flying in the air, bringing bursts of blood rain.

Zhao Zikai shouted desperately: "Quickly pass the order, let the infantry army behind step forward, and the spearmen will assassinate these bitch Xiaoguo cavalry." They don't have pikes! ”

The herald, who was so crowded that his mount had been in close contact with Zhao Zikai's mount, woke up like a dream and took out the horn he carried with him. The trumpets were blown, and thousands of rebels in leather armor and spears rushed out of the valley, and they ran viciously towards the Warriors.

Another horn sounded, but this time the order came from Xiaoguo, and as soon as the knights who were slashing heard the horn, they all turned their horses' heads, no longer caring about the killing object in front of them, and ran directly to the position where they set off on both sides.

When the thousands of spearmen saw the enemy cavalry retreating, they gritted their teeth and quickened their pace, and they no longer cared about the formation, but all followed the enemy's horses and buttocks, and a few of them were daring to shout while running: "His damn Xiaoguo knight is also a coward, see Lao Tzu is coming, he will slip away!" ”

"Rush up and kill them!"

"Avenge the brothers, kill!"

Zhao Zikai saw that the Xiaoguo knights had retreated, and first breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly he saw the movements of the other Xiaoguo knights who were on standby, and immediately his face changed, and he blurted out two words: "Not good!" ”

The retreating Knights entered through the gap between their companions in the rear and galloped directly to the clearing behind, where they would regroup.

The cavalry formation is different from the dense infantry phalanx, in order to prevent each other from colliding and influencing each other when charging, the cavalry and the cavalry are often separated by three to four steps, and the front and rear cavalry are also separated by about five steps, and the current Xiaoguo knights are arranged according to this standard riding formation, each team of four hundred horsemen, exactly eight rows.

The more than 2,000 horsemen who rushed into the formation had three teams on each of the left and right flanks, adding up to six teams, which were connected in front and back, forming a wave-like echelon attack, and once the order to retreat was received, the knights who had just been like a raging wave on the shore retreated to the rear of their own army like a rapidly receding tide, leaving only the rebel spearmen who were farther and farther away from the back, scolding as they ran, eating ashes in the dust raised by the horses after galloping.

A few of the fastest rebels came out of the smoke and dust, their faces covered with dust raised by horses' hooves, and even splashed a lot of fragments of corpses on the ground that had already been trampled into flesh, dark red flesh mixed with black mud, leaving these rebels with no clean place on their bodies, only two eyes were still bright.

After these rebel soldiers broke out of this dust mist, they could finally take a few breaths of fresh air, and just as they took a deep breath and were about to continue scolding, they were surprised to find that hundreds of three-shot crossbows that had been set up were facing them, and the eyes of the knights on the horses showed the smell of murder and death.

With the sound of the crossbow machine constantly firing, another black and oppressive crossbow rain hit these rebel infantry with spears in both hands, wearing leather armor, the screams were endless, this time they didn't even have a shield, completely became a live target, many rebel soldiers who were still in the smoke and dust heard the sound of the rain of arrows breaking through the air, knew that the big thing was not good, and hurriedly ran backwards, before they could take a step, the back of the heart was shot through several blood holes, and the blood in the mouth fell wildly.

Zhao Zikai, who was crowded in the center, listened to the endless screams around him, his heart was dripping blood, and he didn't care about ordering the heralds to blow the horn. Directly shouted loudly: "The people outside put up the shield." Let the lancers all enter the shield. Fast! ”

Many of the cavalrymen jumped off their horses, ran to the pile of corpses on the side, put up the shields that had been trampled on in various ways, and then began to beckon the lancers outside to withdraw back into the shield array.

The rebel lancers, who had escaped lying on the ground in the storm of crossbow arrows just now, took advantage of the opportunity for the other party's crossbow arrows to fire and crawled one by one behind their own shields, and in their eyes now, these bloodstained iron shields were the greatest guarantee of their lives.

The rebels who ran back to the shield finally calmed down. Remembering that they were still on the battlefield, this iron shield could prevent crossbow arrows but could not prevent the assault of the iron cavalry, which was very obvious in the attack and defense round just now, and they stretched out their long lances from the side of the shield, revealing the lance pole more than two meters long to resist the possible impact of the enemy cavalry.

Although Zhao Zikai has lost the upper hand again and again in today's battle, and has lost more than 30,000 people so far, this pocket array within a radius of only a few miles has already been filled with the corpses of the rebels, but he still stabilized the situation under repeated defeats, and actually used the iron shield spear array to form a temporary barrier on the side.

For a while, the Xiaoguo knights on both sides were also unable to charge directly again due to the lack of lances to charge into the formation as before. He could only shoot with crossbow arrows continuously, and the sound of arrows hitting the iron shield was as constant as the sound of firecrackers during the New Year. It's not lively.

The rebel soldiers in the valley seemed to see hope, and began to pour into this temporary passage, shoulder to shoulder, crowded, tens of thousands of rebel soldiers suddenly stuffed this mile-square temporary passage like a sardine can, and the people inside could not even breathe, let alone draw their weapons to fight.

Zhao Zikai himself was almost squeezed into meat buns by the guards around him, and the herald on the left was almost directly squeezed from his mount to Zhao Zikai's horse's buttocks, so anxious that Zhao Zikai shouted: "Order, don't mess around, don't squeeze, the shield hands on both sides protect the lance and push outward, quickly!" ”

Yang Su watched more and more people squeeze into this narrow area, a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he turned his head meaningfully to look at Yang Xuangan, who was more than a mile away from him, and found that his son was also staring intently at the battlefield ahead.

Yang Su shook his head and said to the herald beside him: "Herald, the archer is attacking with a rain of arrows, fifteen arrows are fired in a row, and the rear infantry cut off the long lance and throw it directly into the enemy formation, quickly!" ”

Zhao Zikai was sweating profusely and ordering, urging the sergeants in front of him and on both sides to move forward, trying to restore order to the crowded military formation, when suddenly he noticed that the light seemed to suddenly dim.

Looking at the sky again, a rain of arrows under black pressure covered the sun's rays, and smashed down on themselves with a roar, and many soldiers with big shoulders and round waists suddenly ran out of the enemy infantry line in front, many of whom were shirtless and unarmoured, and directly threw the broken lance cut into about two meters and threw it towards themselves.

Zhao Zikai's eyes were dark, and a mouthful of blood was almost spurting out, but before he could fall under the horse, two arrows shot through his neck fiercely, and he was about to open his mouth, and an arrow went directly into his mouth that was not fully opened.

Yang Su stood on the high platform, looking at the Shura Hell in front of him expressionlessly, and he muttered: "Zhao Zikai, didn't you say that I don't have archers, I'll let you see what a real infantry arrow rain attack is." ”

Due to the fact that the rebels' central front was crowded with so many people, even those with shields in their hands could not draw their shields at all.

Patches of arrows and broken lances whistled, and the rebels in the circle fell in pieces like wheat fields blown by a typhoon, and even the shield-bearers on both sides directly gave up the protection on both sides and raised their shields above their heads in an attempt to hold up a safe sky.

Xiong Kuohai, who was standing at the forefront of the Xiaoguo team, saw this scene, laughed, and didn't wait for Yang Su to give an order, he directly raised his hand, cut it down fiercely, and roared: "Repeater salvo!" ”

The rain of arrows in the air, the crossbows on both sides, the broken lances on the front, and the waves of blows were so cruel and bloody that people couldn't bear to look at them directly.

However, with a cup of tea, most of the thirty or forty thousand people gathered together had fallen to the ground with arrows, many of them were shot like hedgehogs, full of feathered arrows, and those who did not die were almost all wounded, rolling on the ground with the place where they were shot, moaning and screaming.

Although Yang Xuangan has been on the battlefield for a long time, he is still shocked by such a tragic situation, his expression is solemn, his mouth is tightly closed, and he does not say a word.

Yang Su in the distance still didn't have any expression, the whistling mountain wind blew his three locks of long hair, and with the murderous aura on his face, it showed the powerful aura of the commander of the first army to kill and decide.

Yang Su turned his head and said in a deep voice to the herald: "Ride forward, open the way with a long lance, press the formation with a bow and crossbow, coerce the enemy army in the valley, and let it go to battle!" ”

Yang Su's orders were clearly transmitted to each team leader along with the horns and banners, and these team leaders quickly translated these orders into their own mouths, and the infantry phalanx began to move, and the Xiaoguo iron cavalry on both sides also began to move.

The shirtless men who had been throwing their broken lances one by one in front of them now began to move away from the horses and deer that had been placed in front of the phalanx, which were preparing to deal with the enemy's assault, while the infantry phalanx, with shields and lances, marched forward with unstoppable momentum and force. (To be continued......)