Chapter 8: The Byzantine Heavy Cavalry Destroys
On this day, Sun Yang, who had just finished eating the little pheasant stewed mushrooms, touched his bulging belly, and opened the summoning system in a good mood. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Option 1: In 814 A.D., Tang Huaixi Jiedu made Wu Yuanji 20,000 people."
"Option 2: In 1161 AD, Yu Yunwen, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, commanded 20,000 people."
"Option 3: In 612 A.D., 20,000 people under the command of Mai Tiecane, the general of Sui Youtun Guard."
Sun Yang nodded, these three seem to be good, that is, the first one is a little weaker, and the combat effectiveness of Wu Yuanji's Huaixi Army should be about the same as Yuan Shu's Huainan Army.
Suddenly, there was a roar in my ears, and after a while, the screams of the system were heard.
"This time it's the Iron Rod...... Oh no, how did you get the Byzantine hoplites of the eleventh century out and run to Cao Cao's territory. ”
Sun Yang was full of black lines, and the system was unreliable again, and asked: "How many people are there, are they loyal to me, didn't you say that the system can only summon infantry?" ”
The system laughed dryly for a while, and said, "There are not many of them, only more than 1,500 people, and since they are not self-summoned, they have nothing to do with you." ”
In Xuchang City, the famous Cao Gong Cao Mengde was comforting a young widow who was quite attractive, and just when Cao Cao was about to have a deeper exchange, the big fat man Xu Chu ran in.
"Lord, it's not good, General Yu Ban sent someone to report that a group of thousands of Hu cavalry appeared outside Xuchang City, all of whom were wearing strange heavy armor."
Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that he was a Hun and tired of it.
It didn't take long for Cao's tens of thousands of cavalry to surround this group of Hu cavalry in an open field. I saw that the Hu people wore thin armor with elbow-length sleeves on the inside, and thick robe-like armor with padding on the outside. In addition to the eyes, the entire head was covered with an iron helmet and two to three layers of chain mail covers, and even the feet were protected by metal galoshes.
A middle-aged general with gray hair, a high nose and deep eyes was very distressed, he couldn't understand what people were saying here.
Cao Cao stood on the tower and looked at the cavalry from afar, nodded approvingly, and shook his head again.
Xi Zhicai also had the same expression, and said: "These Hu people are all wearing heavy armor, and they look unstoppable, just use light horses to harass back and forth, and after a few rounds, everyone is tired of Hu people, and it is easy to break." ”
Cao Cao bowed his head and said: "The strategy of Zhicai has won my heart." It's a pity that the tiger and leopard riding has not yet been practiced, otherwise these Hu people will definitely see the power of my Han iron horse. ”
Xi Zhicai arched his hand and said: "It's loyalty, the lord must have already made a bamboo in his chest." ”
Cao Hong said with a big grin: "These Hu people are not only dressed strangely, but even the weapons are strange, and the first four columns seem to be maces. ”
Cao Cao glared at him, and immediately stopped speaking honestly.
Following everyone's gaze, I saw thousands of cavalry circling around the Byzantine heavy cavalry, smoke and dust billowing in the sky, and it seemed that tens of thousands of foot soldiers had rushed over.
The gray-haired middle-aged man turned his head sideways and said, "Kerry, what to do, the enemy is very strong, and there are too many of them." ”
Another middle-aged man with a high nose and deep eyes clenched his fists, his eyes flashed with a hint of ferocity, and said, "Numan, we must defeat this army head-on, the other side has a lot of light horses, and we can't get rid of it." ”
"But we have less than two thousand men, and our hoplites are never meant to fight alone, so I think we should talk to them, and even if we lay down our arms, we can let His Majesty the Emperor ransom us." Numan argued.
In the camp of Cao Jun's foot soldiers, Cao Ren rode a high-headed horse majestically, and when he heard that a group of Hu heavy armored cavalry appeared outside the city, he directly pulled hundreds of bed crossbows, and the trebuchet was too cumbersome to bring over.
This is not a trivial fuss by the generals of the Cao army, who was sneaked out of Xuchang City by an army, which is also outrageous, Cao Ren's big head is still a little dizzy, what are the defenders of those dangerous roads doing.
After all, he only snatched the defense of the Gyeonggi area from Xiahoudun last month, but he didn't expect to poke such a big basket, and Cao Ren didn't dare to look at Cao Cao on the city tower now.
The Byzantine heavy cavalry moved, reflecting the evening glow, and the overwhelming smoke and dust pressed against the phalanx of Cao's infantry, most of the light cavalry avoided the enemy, and a small number of cavalry chose to crash directly into it, being knocked away like a kite with a broken string, or being smashed in the head by a hammer and falling under the enemy's horse.
There was some commotion at the front end of the phalanx of Cao Jun's foot soldiers, and the momentum of the heavy cavalry charge was quite terrifying, giving people an illusion of irresistibility.
In the phalanx of foot soldiers, Cao Ren waved the military flag in his hand, the hammer of the crossbowman was smashed, and hundreds of copper crossbow machines were launched, and the sky above Cao Jun was black and pressed, with a sharp tearing sound, covering the first three hundred steps.
Huge crossbow arrows roared with an unstoppable momentum, and at the front end of the Byzantine heavy cavalry, people turned on their backs, some were shot through the body, some were knocked down, and once the heavy armored cavalry in the charge fell to the ground, it was difficult to get up again, either trampled to death by their companions, or waiting to be captured. The seemingly brave heavy cavalry behaved a little clumsily under the attack of the dense bed crossbow.
The cavalry behind hurriedly slowed down their horses and stopped beyond the range of the bed crossbow, the leader Numan was pierced through the chest, and Kerry's head was missing, losing the leader, and the cavalry behind was somewhat overwhelmed.
The crossbowmen of the Cao army urgently loaded the crossbow arrows, and the scattered light cavalry of the Cao army dismounted and released the arrows, but the effect was limited, and it only made the enemy panic for a while.
Liu Ye, who was standing beside Cao Ren, shook his head helplessly, Liu Ye was not only Cao Cao's important strategist, but also a genius in equipment manufacturing, responsible for Cao Jun's ordnance building, these three hundred copper crossbow machines were Cao Jun's inventory, and they were built by Cao Jun with a lot of money.
The bed crossbow was originally used to defend the city, and there were many defects, which were relatively bulky, poorly accurate, and easily damaged, and its main role was to hit the morale of the enemy army. Dealing with ordinary foot soldiers is too extravagant, but I didn't expect to be pulled by Cao Ren, a reckless man, to deal with the cavalry today, and the effect was unexpected.
Using three hundred bed crossbows to deal with 1,500 people, Cao Cao and the others on the city tower were collectively speechless.
Cao Ren was also stunned, three hundred steps in front of the Cao army's formation, turned into a slaughterhouse for men and horses, and the smell of blood on the battlefield was pungent. This thing is too powerful, I used to hear the old man say how good the crossbowmen were during the heyday of the Qin State and the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and today it is an eye-opener.
Cao Ren fantasized about firing thousands of bed crossbows at a time, and tens of thousands of enemy troops would not collapse immediately, and when the time came, no matter whether he was a peerless general or an invincible hero, he would not be able to escape the fate of being torn apart, and when the time came, my old Cao family, ahahaha.
Liu Ye looked at Cao Ren's nymphomaniac expression, he didn't want to hit him, but he was afraid that he would come nonsense, and said: "Zixiao, in order to build these three hundred bed crossbows, we have exhausted all that our army has, and it has taken several years, the output of copper is low, and the iron is unusable, and it is time-consuming to manufacture. ”
There was no suspense next, the remaining Byzantine heavy cavalry simply surrendered, the enemy's bed crossbow was so terrifying that I didn't see General Kerry's head shattered.
What makes Cao Cao and others depressed is that no one can understand what these Hu people are saying, in these years of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the melee of the princes, the Hu merchants in the Central Plains are almost extinct, maybe Liangzhou is not in their own land.
After searching all over Xuchang, I really found a few Hu merchants who sold horses, and after talking with the Byzantine captives, I only knew that they were from the Byzantine Empire and spoke Latin, and I didn't know anything else, Hu Shang was dizzy, which one was Byzantium? Wasn't the Mediterranean a Roman domain? These Hu businessmen, who have traveled all over Europe and Asia, want to break their heads, but they can't think that these people are from more than 800 years later.
If you don't understand, you don't have to work hard, Cao Cao received a report from Hu Shang, and said expressionlessly: "They say they are from Byzantium? On the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. ”
"Yes."
"You say that the whole Mediterranean is the domain of the Romans? That's they lying? ”
"It's strange to me that all of them say that."
"In that case, either they're all crazy, or you're playing a trick."
Cao Cao's eyes were small, and he ordered to drag these people down and cut them down, Hu Shang Hared was directly frightened, and he cried bitterly and lay on the ground with an oath from his ancestors, and Cao Cao let them go.
As for this group of Hu people of unknown origin, Cao Cao took up a heart of love for talents and incorporated them into the tiger and leopard cavalry that was being trained, and Cao Cao's cavalry already had many Hu people, which was very common among the princes.
In the heyday of the Han Dynasty, there was indeed a large-scale cavalry establishment, but the cavalry of the princes in this era was mostly infantry on horseback, and compared with the Hu people who grew up on horseback, it was too far behind, and the princes would more or less recruit Hu cavalry.
In Xuzhou Mu's mansion, Lingqi came over with a basin of foot-washing water, Sun Yang sat on the edge of the bed, Lingqi brushed her bangs soaked with heat, and put Sun Yang's feet into the copper basin.
looked like a little daughter-in-law, Sun Yang couldn't believe it, and secretly said that his daughter-in-law had changed sex.
Sure enough, he just rubbed Sun Yang a few times and whispered, "Sun Yang, my mother asked me to ask when you will marry me." After saying that, the little blushing was the same as the monkey's buttocks.
"Let's marry tomorrow."
"What, so fast, people aren't ready, and my father is still angry, me."
"Then I'll marry someone else."
"You dare!" Lingqi suddenly stood up and grabbed Sun Yang's collar, and her eyebrows jumped.
"Say yes first, don't slap your face." Sun Yang's neck shrank, and a dou turn star shifted and pressed Lingqi on the bed.
Lu Lingqi struggled a few times and stopped.
Two people you look at me, I look at you, the breathing of the two people is getting heavier and heavier, it is the dry firewood and the spring breeze and jade dew are happy to meet, Lingqi feels as if she has been poked by something, and snorted softly.
immediately crisped Sun Yang to the bones, and then looked at the delicate little face that was both happy and disgusting, with a trace of confusion in his eyes, Sun Yang's hands and feet were suddenly unclean.
It's really tender like water, the best period is like a dream, the beautiful scenery of the good day is the sky, and I only hate time to take away my 10,000 years.
"It's all old husbands and wives, what's so embarrassing!" Lingqi under her squirmed again, Sun Yang couldn't stand it anymore, her little heart was pounding, "Oh, murder your husband." Sun Yang's body suddenly curled up, like a shrimp.