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Thirty long-pole crossbow arrows broke through the air, although the Khitan heavy cavalry on the river had already prepared, but the long-pole crossbow arrows flying at high speed were unable to react to these small soldiers, and it was all up to luck to avoid them.

All of a sudden, the sound of piercing on the river surface came and went, and the dense long-pole crossbow arrows passed through the dense cavalry formation, and almost every long-pole crossbow arrow hit and penetrated the target, whether it penetrated the human body or the body of the war horse, it would become a red long pole, and the kinetic energy was castrated, and it continued to move forward at high speed on the river surface, piercing the body of the next person or horse, or falling into the river with exhaustion.

Only five or six long crossbow arrows touched the hard sword shield, making a clanging metal collision sound, and the direction was slightly tilted, turning into diagonal piercing, thrusting into the crowd next to them.

The sound of screams and neighing horses, as well as the thud of war horses and human bodies falling into the water, lagged for about two seconds before they came out of the water, and the Khitan heavy cavalry on the river, which was originally black, was suddenly emptied in half, and only two dozen horsemen and horses were left in the first row who were not injured.

The entire surface of the river was instantly stained red with blood, and the surface of the quietly flowing river was full of dazzling red bloodstains, floating on the water, clumps, and washed downstream.

Just now, a round of thirty crossbow arrows, after several consecutive rounds of penetration, knocked down nearly fifty horsemen from the Khitan heavy cavalry in the first five rows!

The Khitan heavy cavalry who survived by luck had red eyes, their lips and body were trembling constantly, trying to control their anger, urging the war horse under their crotch to continue to increase the forward speed from six kilometers per hour to seven kilometers per hour, breaking through the water in front of them, pushing up the high waves, and frantically rushing towards the other side of the river!

Every Khitan cavalry knows that although the Tang Army's eight-bull crossbow is powerful, the time to reload and re-fire will take nearly three minutes at the earliest, and they must rush to the front of these eight-bull crossbows before those damn long-pole crossbows are loaded and fired again, smash the eight-bull crossbows, and sweep away all the Tang Army operators around them!

"Rush, hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Every Khitan is marching bravely in the river!

There were also more than two dozen heavy cavalrymen who had died and were all right, and after choking on a few mouthfuls of the river, they stood up again on the gravel at the bottom of the river, and the water was just up to their abdomen or chest, and they also struggled to move forward in the water, of course, much slower than the horses.

There was another dense sound of bowstrings, and a large number of bows and arrows suddenly rose into the air, covering the already gloomy sky, and roaring towards the surviving Khitan cavalry!

The second round of attacks of the Don army was an arrow shot by three hundred archers!

Although the Khitan heavy cavalry was not afraid of bows and arrows, with such a saturated and dense rain of arrows, someone would always be pierced through the armor, or feathered arrows would be inserted through the gaps in the armor.

In this round of attacks, more than a dozen Khitan soldiers were defeated.

Next, it's time for hand-to-hand combat!

The Khitan heavy cavalry in the front row was already approaching the opposite bank, and the river had already dropped from the belly of the war horse to the knee of the front leg of the war horse!

"Rush, hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Wow!"

Only by getting out of the water as soon as possible can we rush up the speed and really give full play to the advantages of the heavy cavalry.

All the Khitan heavy cavalry knew this truth, and they were working hard for it.

The Yizhou soldiers of the Tang Army also knew.

Everyone has been fighting for so many years, and when you Khitan pouts your ass, we know if you're going to shit or pee!

A Tang military lieutenant let out a shout, and nearly a thousand meters of Tang army infantry rushed up with shouts, and a large number of people in Wuyang Wuyang were densely blocked on the bank of the river, and many people in the front row even soaked directly into the river to prevent the Khitan heavy cavalry from speeding up.

When the two armies collided, the cold knives and guns immediately smashed towards each other!

The spears of the Tang soldiers stabbed over, the sabers of the Khitan soldiers smashed down, the screams, the angry scolding, the sound of the war horses falling to the ground and rolling, and the crisp metal sound when the weapons collided, instantly resounded by the river!

In the era of cold weapons, every sword and sword was cut at the flesh, either alive or dead, and there was no room for false bragging.

At this time, it can be seen that the Yizhou soldiers who are experienced in fighting against the Khitans are different from other Tang troops, or that Liu Zaiming's idea of leading troops has its own uniqueness.

Liu Zaiming is one of the few generals in the Tang Army who dares to use foot soldiers to resist the Khitan cavalry, and the reason is also very simple, which is the same as He Daxian's thinking, that is, to find a way to prevent the Khitan cavalry from running, and even if it does, you must find a way to make you stop and fight face-to-face with my spearmen!

Liu Zaiming's Yizhou army was not equipped with all spearmen like other Tang armies, but a spearman with a sword and shield soldier. Swordsmen and shields and spearmen work together in pairs.

On the one hand, when the spearman is attacked by the enemy's arrow rain, the survival rate of the spearman will be much higher with the help of the shield soldier around him, and when the spearman attacks with a spear, the shield soldier will help him block some of the enemy's swords, which can also make the spearman less scruple and relatively more brave when charging and killing.

Therefore, the shield of the Yizhou sword and shield soldier was very large, and it could easily cover the bodies of the two malnourished and thin Tang soldiers.

And the spears of the Yizhou spearmen are also very long!

How long is the spear of the Yizhou soldiers?

It is one-third longer than the spear of the ordinary Tang army spearmen, in short, it is as long as the sabre in the hands of the Khitan cavalry, and even many people directly use the captured Khitan sabre as a spear, anyway, the tip of the knife is in front, and the stabbing action is equally effective!

The spear in the hand is as long as the sber of the Khitan cavalry, what is the benefit?

The Khitan cavalry didn't run, everyone just stood on both sides, fighting to see who stabbed who first!

The Yizhou soldiers specially picked the Khitan war horses to stab, as long as they stabbed, the war horses would take the Khitan soldiers off their horses if they were in pain, and the Khitan cavalry wanted to stab the Yizhou soldiers, but it was separated by a horse's head, which was not so easy, not to mention that there was a shield soldier standing next to the Yizhou spearmen ready to block it at any time!

The-for-tat configuration made the dozens of Khitan heavy cavalry who had just rushed ashore fall off their horses and fall into the water as soon as they came into contact with the swarming Tang army foot soldiers, choking on a mouthful of water, and before they could get up from the water in a daze, the Tang army's spears pierced over. Even if you have armor and you can't pierce it through one piercing, then prick it a few more times, or pierce it with a few more spears, and it will soon make the water red!

In the midst of the uproar, the Khitan cavalry rushed up the river bank in a steady stream, and then rolled off their horses one after another in the spear array, and then there was another buzz, and a large number of feathered arrows flew over their heads, shooting at the other Khitan cavalry who were still struggling to cross the river near the middle line of the river.

The Yizhou soldiers had the advantage of geography and weapon allocation, and the Khitan soldiers relied on their innate courage and blood, and the armor advantage of the heavy cavalry, as well as the rain of arrows of the Khitan cavalry archers who had entered the river to form a confrontation with the Tang army.

The two armies fought by the river, the killing sound shook the sky, the blood flowed like a river, and the exchange ratio of casualties was basically maintained at a state of 1:1, that is to say, an experienced and luxuriously equipped Khitan heavy cavalry died, and it could only be exchanged for the life of a lightly armed foot soldier of the Tang army with only one spear in his hand!

This is intolerable!

According to the regular battlefield experience, one light cavalry can be exchanged for ten light infantry, but one heavy cavalry can be exchanged for ten light cavalry!

In other words, the normal battlefield casualty ratio should be the life of a Khitan heavy cavalry, and it should be replaced by a hundred lightly armed foot soldiers of the Tang Army! And now everyone can only exchange the casualty ratio on a one-to-one basis!

Yelu Cha looked coldly at the chaotic battlefield across the river, not at all intimidated by such a disparity in the proportion of casualties, riding on a tall horse, the red cloak representing the Khitan royal symbol behind him, fluttering in the wind in the gradually increasing mountain wind, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses showed off his demeanor!

I saw that his face was expressionless, and he waved his hand again to urge more Khitan soldiers to cross the river!

More Khitan cavalry rushed into the river, and now it was no longer a row of fifty horsemen, but a row of eighty horsemen and a hundred horsemen rushing straight over! The water on both sides of the team was deep, and the river was about to overflow the horses! There were even several light cavalry standing too far away, and the horses floated in the water, washed away by the river, and the men and horses disappeared into the wide river downstream!

On the side of the river on the side of the Tang army, the battle line between the two sides also expanded from 100 meters to about 150 meters, and more Khitan cavalry poured up from the river to the riverbank, and they all broke through to both sides, and the Tang army also sent two more thousand troops to rush up.

3,000 Tang troops blocked the river, and 5,000 Khitan troops rushed through the narrow tidal flats from the river to the riverbank!

Rows of Tang troops fell into the river with rows of Khitan cavalry covered in blood, and they could no longer get up, and more Tang troops made up from behind, and the spears in their hands firmly stabbed at the new batch of Khitan cavalry who rushed ashore.

At this time, no one will have more ideas, just mechanically poke when they see people, and cut them when they see people!

Die!

Kill!

Kill!

Kill!