Chapter 20: The Spear
However, for the "Great Phalanx of Hermis", who hastily gathered and fought with religious convictions, erecting a banner for each phalanx of the "five limbs" to dispatch instructions had reached the limit of its establishment and management. www.biquge.info early Arabic Crescent Army could replace the various detachments in the army with "clan families", but on this battlefield on the Sivas Plateau, the "five limbs" spliced together by the Turkic, Persian, Saracen and other ethnic groups did not have a strong head at all, and it was impossible to use the former model.
In the midst of the turmoil and chaos, many people from all the divisions of the left army of the Mujahideen stepped forward with various bows and arrows, and formed a formation two hundred feet away from the front of the main army.
At the same time, the horizontal formation of the brigade's attached archery corps and pyrinomers advanced like the wind, and the distance between them and the left army of the Mujahideen was rapidly shortened - 500 feet, 300 feet, 250 feet.
The archers of the Mujahideen hung the strings on the ears of their bows in a frenzy, and began to take out the arrows in their quivers, and faced the attached team of the Gaowen Brigade under the command of the banner one hundred and eighty feet away, and during this period, they quickly ran forward fifty or sixty feet: among the burning ropes, the front hand-gun fire-throwing soldiers, all half-kneeling down, and the horizontal team in the rear were stacked into one, and the guns were all lined up outside, only a hundred feet away from the front team of the Mujahideen, and both sides could see the eyes of the soldiers on the opposite side. The tip of the nose and teeth.
"Shoot!" The feathers on the helmets of the flag officers at the side of all the queues swayed vigorously, and the short spiked iron rods in their hands (the brigade and regimental affiliations used this command, while the centurions of the infantry companies used short halberds) chopped down, gave a short order, and then quickly retreated a few steps backwards, their figures were quickly obscured by the large clouds of gunfire and firelight, and the thunderous arrows fired from the guns partially hit the bodies of the archers who were still stringing and preparing to shoot, and the tufts pierced through all parts of their bodies, and some of them carried the second stage of the cartridges, After exploding fireworks in the crowd, they continued to rampage through armor, helmets, and cloaks.
Under the banner, Elvez saw his front team, a scene of ambushing and dying, and people turning over on their backs.
But before they could recover from the blow, the gunpowder clouds dispersed, and the opposing arrow team came up as substitutes and threw a deadly arrow at their side.
At this time, the front team of the left army of the Mujahideen was completely stunned, some cavalry fell from their horses, some abandoned their posts and walked around, some fell to the ground and wailed with their wounds, and some lay on the ground and did not know whether they were dead or alive.
"Can't mess around!" Elviz also bravely called the standard-bearer to wave the Hethep again, and raised his saber as he motioned for the infantry in the back to come up and hold their ground.
At this moment, the ground began to tremble, accompanied by the thunderous hooves of the horses, on the left flank of the Mujahideen's left army, Bramson leaned over the saddle, carrying a cold and shining long sword, and the red hand cavalry behind him galloped in a row, the spears they carried behind them shook the light, and then behind them were the heavily armored mounted cavalry, black pressure dark clouds, torrents like a torrent crossed the left army of the Mujahideen, many of the Mujahideen in the back queue turned their heads, and saw the afterimage and dust of the enemy's war horses galloping by, They all cried out in horror, for everyone could see that the cavalry of the opposing party was going to penetrate the river between the left and rear armies and the circular forest, and cut off the connection between the limbs.
So the dense jihadists in the left army began to stir and panic, this mood spread very quickly, faster than the speed of the sun, and then spread to the "camel city" of the Chinese army, and Qasim, who was also riding a mule under the banner of Hethep, panicked by the rout of the avant-garde in his eyes, could not react effectively to this, everything he had planned was disrupted by the bloody chaos everywhere, the camels were screaming, and in this situation, Qasim would only wave his black sleeves, Constantly shouting at the soldiers on the Madam gun emplacements in front of him, "Shoot, shoot bravely!" ”
The Fifth Army of Hermis, with a total of 60,000 or 70,000 people, including almost half of the non-combatant members, was brought into a situation of "fighting on its own" between the Chelei Mountain and several rivers and plains.
And in the direction of the left army, the spearmen of the Red Hand Brigade and the Guardian Brigade had been divided into twenty columns that were almost in unison, and they fought out of the smoke and crossed the line of the affiliated teams, their spears densely like rampaging centipedes, and the centurions at the front kept waving their halberds while running, shouting, "Rush over and stab the stab, stab this group of weak locusts!" ”
"Stab them!" In the face of the cloud-like enemy formation that could not be seen at a glance, the warriors in the forefront, armed with vermilion lacquer infantry spears, all turned around and shouted to encourage the comrades behind them, and then "Hallelujah! All the spears in the shout instantly flattened in the run, the flat spear tips staggered up and down and trembled, fluttering and thrashing into the bodies of the bloody mujahideen, some of the mujahideen hugged each other back and forth, the spear blades pierced from the chest of the former straight through the spine of the latter, they fell down in rows of wailing, blood splashed on the faces and bodies of the brigade soldiers who kept advancing with spears, and the corpses were trampled by pairs of gaiters and boots.
The six thousand spearmen who attacked side by side soon broke through a distance of nearly 100 feet, and the corpses of the Mujahideen were piled up at their feet, and those who were lucky enough to not die were also trampled to death or suffocated to death, and the array of more than 20,000 mujahideen left army was quickly pushed into a recessed half moon, and after the sharp horn and the spears like a forest, the soldiers of the Gao Cultural Tourism Regiment were still cursing and continued to hold their weapons and move forward - the collapse was almost instantaneous, and the soldiers behind the left army saw that in front of them was a forest of spears that were forced to stab, and in the rear were the unstoppable cavalry that cut in, They scattered in a hurry, stepping on the long grass in the river and fleeing.
The jihadists in front also tried to counterattack, but they were either pierced by spears piercing, or approached by the opposing stragglers more skillfully and skillfully chopped into pieces with swords and long-handled scythes, and the corpses were like autumn harvesting the cut down sheafs, and soon the desperate cries and howls shook the four fields - Qasim, in the smoke, grew his mouth and knew the cruel truth, "the most powerful left army was destroyed", its commander Elviz fell from his horse in the chaos and was trampled into pulp by dozens of his own people, and his face was unrecognizable, And the Hethep banner of the left army was also taken away and captured.
At this time, in front of Qasim's eyes, the Armenian Kiposa believers were also finished, this group of originally fanatical troops, the brave warriors who dared to fight were almost all turned into corpses in the upper and lower areas of Chelei Mountain, and the remnants could only scream and flee from their left and right, towards the camel city, and the entire hill was covered with Gao Wenfang's border soldiers who pounced down.
In the scuffle, a maddam spewed flames in panic, and the Bondak stone pill that he wanted to shoot was mistakenly hit by the retreating Kiposa believers, several of whom were knocked to the ground, and the cuirass of the horse was hit by the stone pill, and fell down and planted in the sight of Qasim, and died instantly, the body was covered by a mutilated cloak, and a dusty golden hand rolled down beside it...... (To be continued.) )