The horses ridden by the cavalry of the Dingyan Army belonged to the breed of horses in the Western Regions, with tall stature, handsome appearance, long legs and toned legs, which were obviously different from those short and fat northern steppe horses ridden by the Khitans, with short legs and short necks, and a bit like porcupines.

However, the Dingyan Army is located in the Western Regions, which is just a few grasslands, most of which are uninhabited deserts and Gobi deserts, and the local people are much poorer than the Khitan people who wander freely in the boundless northern steppes! The tyrants in the Western Regions are far less than the tyrants in the grasslands.

Since the people are relatively poor, it is natural to reflect on the equipment of the army.

The cavalry of the Dingyan Army is mainly based on light cavalry, and among the five hundred cavalry of the Dingyan Army who are rushing over at the moment, only more than 30 heavy cavalry are rushing in front, and what is even more deplorable is that the so-called heavy cavalry of the Dingyan Army covers half of the area covered by the armor of the Dingyan Army! Not even a helmet!

In He Daxian's opinion, isn't this a light cavalry hanging a twenty-centimeter-diameter pot lid on his chest?

The most troublesome thing is that the war horses of the heavy cavalry of the Dingyan Army have no protection at all!

That's too poor, isn't it? No wonder the Khitans have conquered the party members several times, and they have beaten the party members to lose their armor, why don't they have a long memory? If your party members are beautiful, the war horses will be even more beautiful! Every war horse is slender, tall, vigorous and smart, four long legs, jumping in the wind, that handsome, that elegant, it is really beautiful!

It's just that such a tall and mighty war horse, without protection, is it a big target for archers?

Therefore, as soon as the thirty heavy cavalry ran within two hundred meters, they were targeted by more than two dozen Zhenwu soldiers standing in the first row. Although the heavy cavalry of the Dingyan Army were dressed coolly, the Zhenwu Army's fart soldiers seemed to be more willing to shoot the war horses they were riding.

A row of long arrows was thrown from afar, and a dozen horsemen were knocked down on the spot, and their heads were broken and bleeding, and they rolled on the ground, rolling up a cloud of gray dust.

The speed of the fart soldier is incomparable to that of regular archers. After shooting an arrow, he immediately drew his arrow and drew his bow to shoot the second round, and then the third round!

Three arrows were fired, and all the heavy cavalry of the thirty cavalry had already fallen off their horses, and by the way, more than a dozen light cavalry had also fallen off their horses!

At this time, the cavalry at the forefront of the Dingyan Army finally rushed into a distance of 100 meters, and the ordinary archers of the Zhenwu Army began to fire arrows.

The rain of arrows of the Zhenwu Army immediately intensified a lot!

It is a terrible thing for light cavalry to storm a dense array of arrows!

The Zhenwu infantry phalanx had stopped advancing in accordance with the operational norms they had practiced during training, the archers continued to maintain a continuous rain of arrows, and the heavy infantry were ready to throw their spears.

The dense rain of arrows with a total of 150 archers in the three rows defeated the Dingyan army of seventy or eighty cavalry on the spot, plus the casualties of the previous heavy cavalry, the total casualties of the Dingyan army were instantly close to 120 cavalry, and the morale was also on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, it's only fifty meters!

All the cavalry of the Dingyan Army are gritting their teeth and holding on!

Hold on a little longer, as long as you rush into the infantry array in front, these foot soldiers of the Zhenwu Army, which look loosely arranged, will definitely flee in all directions in a chaotic formation under the strong impact of the cavalry of the Dingyan Army.

"Kill! Come on! ”

As soon as a cavalry captain of the Dingyan Army shouted, he was shot at the war horse by an arrow from a Zhenwu Army fart soldier who had already been eyeing him, and the whole person fell forward on the spot, breaking his neck and dying.

Count him dying early! The rest of the cavalry of the Determination Army were even worse luck!

I only heard someone shouting a strange command in front of me, and the Zhenwu Army infantrymen who were holding large shields and had already turned sideways suddenly threw the spears in their hands together!

Someone threw the spear in his hand, and of course the cavalry of the Dingyan Army who rushed into the formation would not feel anything, the problem was that the fifty heavy infantry in the first row of the Zhenwu Army moved together, and the fifty spears flew out together, so it was completely two different things!

These fifty spears flew from the air in a neat formation, with a buzzing roar, penetrating the bodies of more than thirty cavalrymen or war horses of the Dingyan Army who rushed to the front without hindrance, and with the long poles stained with red blood, they continued to thrust into the cavalry of the Dingyan Army that were still rushing forward behind!

In less than two seconds, fifty spears in the hands of fifty heavy infantry of the Zhenwu Army in the second row also flew in the air, and then the third row, the fourth row, and the fifth row!

The charge of the cavalry of the Dingyan Army, as if the waves were crashing against the cliff of the embankment, was stopped in an instant!

More than 200 cavalrymen of the Dingyan Army were pierced by spears and fell off their horses, or were pinned to the ground by spears and screamed loudly! Then he was completely killed by the dense rain of arrows that followed!

It was like the frozen waves in slow motion in the movie, and in the open space fifty meters in front of the Zhenwu Army's infantry array, a large pile of bloody corpses was piled up in the blink of an eye! Shocking and miserable!

Running in the back row, less than a hundred cavalry cavalry who survived because they pulled the reins in time suddenly dispersed, turned their horses' heads one after another, and ran back to Fuzhou City in a swarm, shouting anxiously while running: "Close the city gate, close the city gate!" ”

At this time, the deputy commander of the Dingyan Army, who was standing on the city tower and watching the battle, was already stunned with fright.

This man understands military formation. Only then did he notice how complete the equipment of this infantry phalanx of the Zhenwu Army was, and how unified its actions were! Even when I walked, I took the left foot together, and then I took the right foot, and no one made a mistake!

In the absence of drum beats, relying on the shouts of several captains, you can achieve the same step and uniform movements!

This is an elite infantry phalanx that has never been seen before, has been trained for a long time, and is extremely combat-effective!

The Tang Army in the Central Plains, since when did it start to have the legendary benefit of infantry training?

The next scene made the deputy commander directly reduce his morale to zero!

There was no enemy in front of them, and the Zhenwu army began to change formations, and the three rows in front remained motionless, starting from the fourth row, and the back rows passed through the front row together and drove to the front.

The first three rows of the Zhenwu army were the partners of archers and heavy infantry, and the back five rows were the partners of light spearmen and heavy infantry.

The problem is that in front of them are hundreds of dead bodies piled up by cavalry and war horses of the Determined Hardship Army! Aren't you going to take a detour?

Bloody, bloody and blurred, piled up into chest-high lumps of flesh!

At the sound of the order, this infantry phalanx did not hesitate, drove straight forward, and broke into the pile of corpses!

The heavy infantry and spearmen in the first row stabbed and hacked to death the dead men and horses as they walked by, and at the same time used their shields and spears to push the corpses that stood in their way, and thus opened a bloody path in the pile of meat, and passed straight through!

When the heavy infantry who had thrown the spear just now walked by, he also pulled out the bloody red spear inserted in the corpse, wiped the blood stains on his body indiscriminately, and took it back in his hand!

Is Nima's army still the Don Army?

Even though there were already hundreds of Zhenwu soldiers vomiting while walking, the formation was not messed up at all!

The deputy commander of the Dingyan Army standing on the city wall was a party nobleman who came to gild, and he did not belong to the cavalry of the Dingyan Army, but only came to hang up his post and experience, and accumulated some qualifications for his military career, so that he could continue to be promoted in the Dingyan Army in the future.

The second generation of officials raised in this kind of greenhouse, although they have learned the art of military formation, they have not actually experienced a real battle formation.

Today's battle is the first battle he led his troops, although he was defeated, but it is not easy to hold on to the city tower until now.

But when he saw Zhenwujun brutally walking through the corpse pile, he really couldn't stand it!

A piercing chill rose from his back and went straight to the back of his head!

"Retreat, the whole army retreats!"

Without saying a word, he took the dozens of cavalry who ran back just now, and the other 500 cavalry of the Dingyan Army who were preparing to defend the city, threw down the people all over the city, and ran away from another city gate together.

The Dingyan army fled, and the hundreds of villagers who had been preparing to defend the city with the Dingyan army also dispersed in a hurry, and some Dingyan officers and businessmen who came from Yinzhou to do business also fled behind the Dingyan army on fast horses.

If you don't have time to escape, you can't help it, the Zhenwu army has already entered the city!

Full of blood, heavy armor, neat formation, even if it is just the infantry walking, it also makes all the people of Fuzhou frightened, everyone opens the door and kneels at the door of their own house with their bare hands, for fear that the new Zhenwu army will find some excuse to smash the door and go in to kill people and rob things.

Fortunately, the Zhenwu army did not start looting, and simply arranged the defenses, and some of the soldiers went up to the city wall, and some of them lined up at important street intersections.

The leading party found a local civil official.

"Are you left behind in Fuzhou?"

"Yes, yes, I don't know what the general commands."

"Pay your taxes!" (To be continued.) )