Chapter 816: Assault Cavalry Charge!
Such a cold and efficient killing efficiency, in only ten minutes, made more than half of the Turkic light cavalry who rushed into the camp dead, and the rest were all frightened, regardless of the raging fire behind them, they rode straight back, hoping that the horses could withstand the scorching fire and rush out of this fire in order to escape with their lives.
It's a pity that this fire field, there is a camp of the entire rear army, two or three hundred steps wide, just now the Turkic cavalry set fire to the happy, but this will be themselves into the fire, and the east wind is blowing strongly, the fire is constantly spreading in the direction of the fire, hundreds of people rushed in, and there was a scream in an instant, looking from a distance, like hundreds of burning fire phoenixes, the screams of the horses were repeated, and the riders who were on fire were lifted off at once, and those who were covered in fire rolled and fluttered on the ground a few times, I couldn't move anymore.
In front of them, more than 1,000 cavalry of the Sui army, wearing all kinds of ghost head masks, covered in blood, holding iron rods in their hands, maces and other blunt weapons, most of them are stained with red and white blood and brain flowers, one by one, the fierce and vicious, red eyes are murderous, and behind them, the infantry and crossbowmen of the Sui army who are slowly advancing in formation shouted in unison in Turkic: "Let the battle be free from death, let the battle be free from death!" ”
These Turkic knights, who had lost their fighting spirit, saw that advancing was death, and retreating into the fire was also death, and they no longer dared to have any other plans, so they could only cry and mourn, roll their saddles and dismount, and throw away their bows and arrows and sabers. Kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, Xue Wanshu lifted the bronze mask that had already been splashed with human blood and brains on his face, and laughed: "Wouldn't it be over if you surrendered like this earlier!" ”
Just when there was a fierce battle in the camp. The Turkic cavalry on both sides of the Sui army's large array in front of the city also began to move slowly, and with a wave of his hand on the right, 10,000 Turkic cavalry began to slowly move their horses, about three miles away from the Sui army's infantry phalanx in front, they used standard cavalry tactics to form a triangular squad of about 100 people, divided into six or seven waves. Start with a slow walk, and then start accelerating. Until the end, the distance of about a mile rushes the speed to the maximum.
Rushing to a distance of more than 100 steps in front of the Sui army's infantry formation, there was first a rain of arrows, and then a cavalry rushed into formation, with this uninterrupted impact. Tearing apart the infantry spear phalanx, this point, they have tried and tested repeatedly in the battle against the countries of the Western Regions, and Bayegu is also confident that no infantry can use this kind of flesh and blood to resist their own iron cavalry charge!
In the military formation of the Sui army, Wang Rengong was already standing behind the formation, and in front of him were three thousand ironclad lance infantry. The infantry in the front row held large shields, and the spears of the soldiers in the back row were placed on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row. The soldiers in the first row squatted on the ground, and the long lance in their hands was inserted diagonally into the ground, forming a 45-degree inclination, rushing two miles away. The enemy cavalry that had begun to slowly accelerate.
Wang Rengong's side, a small colonel dressed like a brigade commander. It was Liu Wuzhou, since he helped Xiao Yu hack Gao Ying last time, Xiao Yu wanted to promote him to become the general of Eagle Yanglang, but as the Xiao family suffered a series of blows in the future, his dream of promotion was shattered, and he could only return to his hometown in Bingzhou, fortunately, Wang Rengong was on the way to Youzhou, Liu Wuzhou specially went to Mao Sui to recommend himself, Wang Rengong knew that this Liu Wuzhou was very shrewd when he was under Yang Su before, so he took him with him, as a deputy general, and this time he also followed him to fight.
Liu Wuzhou looked at the Turkic cavalry roaring from the opposite side, running faster and faster, licked his lips, and said: "General Wang, the strength of our army lies in the strength of the bow and the speed of the crossbow, why don't you use crossbow arrows to attack the enemy cavalry?" ”
A cold look flashed on Wang Rengong's face: "This is the special order of the marshal, for this enemy army, do not shoot with a bow and crossbow, but directly enter hand-to-hand combat with it!" ”
Liu Wuzhou glanced back at the left-wing Turkic cavalry ten miles away, still standing still, and suddenly understood: "What does the marshal mean, that is the main force of the Turks?" ”
Wang Rengong nodded: "Yes, the Turkic cavalry attacking the battalion and the Turkic soldiers we are facing are just servant tribes, only those who are still standing still are the real Turkic elite, and when they move, the commander will hit them hard, so we can't fight too fast here, otherwise let them run, and it will be a disaster in the future!" ”
Liu Wuzhou nodded thoughtfully, he glanced at the front of the military formation again, the Turkic cavalry had begun to accelerate with all their might, and the more than a dozen teams of Turkic knights at the head of the row let out a terrible wolf howl, and they rushed forward, shooting rows of arrows at the dense Sui army lance phalanx on the opposite side, as if the dark clouds covered the sun, the shields and armor in front of the Sui soldiers in the front row were suddenly filled with dense arrows, and more than a hundred soldiers who were shot immediately fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind them quickly stepped forward to fill this gap, The teams of each team shouted "steady" one after another.
At this moment, the Turkic cavalry rushed into the Sui army's long lance phalanx, more than two hundred soldiers in the front row were knocked straight out, and some arrays were even knocked down by a large row, and the Turkic cavalry also had one or two hundred people who were pierced by the lance and turned over on their backs, and the huge forward momentum made some knights also become trapeze in the air, and flew to the Sui army's array, but was pierced in the air by the long lance raised high, and after a few struggles in vain, he died on the tip of the lance in an extremely terrifying and strange posture, Only a puddle of blood flowed down the mallet.
Bayegu coldly looked at the bloody battle in front of him, the first wave of 1,200 cavalry, it seemed that more than half of them had been lost, and most of the remaining knights entered the infantry phalanx of the Sui army, waving the weapons in their hands, slashing and chopping everywhere, and these war horses were also bloodthirsty, flying in all directions, and kicked at the Sui infantry who wanted to get close to them.
The fifteen or sixteen small phalanxes of the Sui army in the first line were also broken by most of them, and the casualties of four or five teams were relatively strict, and the formation was also chaotic, and the new dozen or so long lance squares in the second row were taking steps. Shouting slogans, they made up for the front line of the lancer phalanx, trying to fill the gaps that had been washed away.
Bayegu sneered, "Sui Jun doesn't look like that. Their bows and arrows should have been used up during the siege, and they could only use such an infantry phalanx to resist our cavalry, but I want to see if these flesh and blood of yours can withstand a few rounds of our attacks! The herald, the second and third waves, set off at the same time. I must completely crush the second line of the Sui army's long lance soldiers! ”
Ashina Mohe was still patrolling back and forth in front of the formation. Nearly ten miles away, the infantry of the Sui army had already been killed by the Turkic cavalry of the Baye Gu Division, which was pouring in, and from his position, the Sui army was still constantly retreating. And Bayegu's second and third waves of attacks pushed the Sui army back at least a hundred paces, and behind them, the fourth and fifth waves of cavalry also began to launch slowly, seemingly preparing to crush the thousands of Sui army commanders in front of them in one fell swoop. In the camp of the Sui army on the other side, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the smoke and dust were everywhere, while the shouts of killing were one after another, without any sign of attenuation.
A military general has been wandering around Ashina Kuzhen. His horse, like his owner, was irritable, finally. The general couldn't help but say: "General Mo He, the battle situation in the camp is unknown, but should we attack now?" It is a little unreasonable that Culero and General Bayegu are fighting with all their might, but our main force is not attacking. ”
Ashina Mohe's heart has also been hesitating, the reason why he let Baye Gu rush first. I just want to see if the Sui army has enough strong bows and crossbows, so that you can see that the Sui army has been prepared for a long time. Or hurriedly changed from attack to defense, to his surprise, the Sui army actually did not send an arrow, directly let Bayegu's cavalry closer, now it seems that Bayegu has occupied the net, no matter how elite the infantry is difficult to resist the cavalry impact in the flat ground, in the current situation, after about half an hour, Bayegu will be able to eat the Sui army in front of him.
However, this victory came too lightly, but it made Ashina Mo have a trace of doubt, the city has not been assisted by its own soldiers until now, which shows that Ximen is likely to be on the verge of falling, is it true that the Sui army used up all the bows and arrows during the siege of the city, so that now it can only be the iron cavalry with flesh and blood?
But Ashina Mohe looked back at the camp, but frowned again, although the fire in the camp was very strong, and the sound of killing shook the sky, but with his intuition of many years of fighting on the battlefield, he felt that there was always something wrong, although the killing sound was very high, but he couldn't hear many screams of the dying, and it stands to reason that Curero should turn in his direction to highlight the camp at this time, but the sound of killing still hasn't changed, could it be that he stumbled the ambush soldiers of the Sui army and couldn't break through? Ashina Mohe didn't feel very good, and he wanted to order a raid several times, but now he became hesitant again.
There was a burst of cheers suddenly sounded at the head of the city, Ashina Mohe looked up, but saw one or two thousand Turkic archers, at this time ran to the head of the city of the West Gate, all cheered at themselves, looked at the past, a person standing at the head of the city, with a golden helmet on his head, shining in the sun, in the entire Western Regions, there was only one person wearing a golden helmet, that is, his brother Kuzhen Tutun, it seems that he also heard that his cavalry had arrived, and he came to the city to help the battle!
Ashina Mohe didn't hesitate any longer, and waved his hand fiercely: "The whole army obeys the order!" A team of 1,500 people, divided into ten teams, after a round of arrow rain, storm the enemy's infantry phalanx, be sure to annihilate this Sui army, and then meet with General Bayegu, attack the Sui army camp, dare to retreat one step, will not be forgiven! ”
The Turkic soldiers who had been waiting for a long time cheered in unison, as the best Turkic warriors in the entire Western Regions, watching the friendly troops let go of the slaughter there, and they could only wait and see, it was the greatest insult to the warriors, as soon as they heard this order, 15,000 Turkic iron cavalry immediately lined up in an attack formation, and in just a few minutes, the first wave of Turkic cavalry launched a thunderous full-speed assault towards the Sui army front three miles away!
On the head of Yiwuxi City, Gremu Qijin was wearing the golden helmet of Kuzhen Tutun, brandishing his sword, and all the soldiers around him, cheering and shouting, seeing that the Turkic cavalry on both sides had begun to charge, especially the elite of Ashina Mohe's headquarters on the right, he rushed to the Sui army array under the city at full speed, and he hurriedly ordered: "Warriors, pick up your bows and arrows, and pour out your anger on the Sui army under the city!" ”
Before his words fell, he suddenly felt a darkness in front of him, from the dense phalanx of the Sui army, under the shield, suddenly drilled out of thousands of archers, these archers were all mixed in the phalanx of the long lance soldiers, shooting arrows at the head of the city at a very fast speed, before the Turkic soldiers at the head of the city reacted, they had already shot two or three rounds of arrow rain, especially in the first round, most of the archers of the Sui army were three arrows with one bow, three arrows in one arrow, and the arrow composed of tens of thousands of arrows covered the entire city at once.
Gremu Qijin's smile was still frozen on his face, a long-pole wolf tooth arrow with a whistling wind, it shot down the golden helmet on his head, followed by an arrow, tightly swept his scalp, Gremu Qijin only felt that the top of his head was hot, and then there was some hot liquid flowing downward, touching it with his hand, his hands were full of blood, scared his soul away, how could he care about commanding his subordinates, suddenly the cat's waist squatted down, and several guards around him hurriedly raised a wooden shield inlaid with iron skin, covering the top of his head, covering him to retreat to the rear.
However, the other Turkic soldiers did not have such good luck and protection as Gremu Qijin, this round of arrow rain shot down hundreds of Turkic soldiers who were densely concentrated at the head of the city, and the remaining living people did not care about releasing arrows to fight back, they all bowed down and squatted behind the battlements, only to hear the sound of the feather arrows breaking through the air above their heads, such as a terrible roar, and those feather arrows that fell on the top of the city, the arrows pointed downward, pierced the skins of these people, and burrowed into their brains or faces, causing a burst of screams before death.
Occasionally, a few bold Turkic archers straightened up and tried to shoot at the archers of the Sui army, but often as soon as they got together, they were shot through the chest and abdomen by several bows and arrows, and planted directly from the head of the city to the bottom of the city, and the corpses fell in the dry moat, and only a muffled sound was heard.
The more than 1,000 Turkic archers at the head of the city have grabbed their bows and arrows in their hands, hoping that this damn rain of arrows will slow down, yes, as long as they stop for a moment, they can straighten up, pour their bows and arrows down the city, and take revenge fiercely, but now, they can only endure, they can only wait! (To be continued) R466