Chapter 136: The River Is Cold

The 5,000 soldiers of the Han military camp of the wolf cavalry army slowly advanced towards the Tatarhun River under the personal pressure of General Guo Wei, gradually forming a fan about 300 meters wide, but on the other side of the river were only a few more Tushetu archers, you can imagine how many people would die in this battle of crossing the river, but they still did not hesitate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The uniform actions of the wolf cavalry put great psychological pressure on the Tushetu people on the other side of the river. Quite a few people began to waver, and they looked around, as if looking for a way out. But this move seemed to be contagious, and soon the entire arrow array showed signs of loosening. Sanger is trying his best to control the army, which is the only guarantee that he can live in peace at present, but he must not be chaotic.

"What are you afraid of! Fuck it, the enemy is about to swim over, and you won't let go of the arrows? ”

"Woo! The melodious sound of the horn sounded to remind the soldiers to concentrate. Guo Wei heard the shouts on the other side of the river, and even the sound of the arrow array on the other side pulling the bow and arrows. I believe that he is not the only one who heard it, the neat team has begun to be a little restless, Guo Wei calmed everyone's uneasy mood and said:

"Don't panic, don't mess around, remember the essentials, it's okay."

After Guo Wei finished speaking, the morale of the whole team was shocked, "Drink!" ”

The arrow array is only powerful when it is concentrated, and Sanger personally commanded, "Ready!" ... Put! ...”

At the sound of an order, thousands of sharp arrows broke away from the archer's fingertips, pierced the sky, and flew straight towards the Han military camp. Seeing this, Guo Wei shouted, "Raise your shield!" The Han military camp, which had been carrying out the order, immediately put the round shield in his hand tightly to his chest and guarded the most important part of his body. Mongol soldiers were accustomed to using round shields, but the shields in the Han camp were significantly larger than those of others. This allowed the soldiers of the Han military camp to rely on only a round shield to protect them. Therefore, when the sharp arrows of the Tushetu people shot into the Han army camp, they only heard poof! Burst! Burst! The sound of arrows piercing wood. Most of them are in good shape, but there are some who are unlucky. The round shield is huge, and naturally it will be much heavier, and some people who are physically exhausted will be nailed into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows as long as they show a slight flaw.

Most of the people were not injured, but the unprotected horses suffered, a large number of horses were shot to death, throwing the knights on their backs into the river, the autumn Mongolian Plateau river water is cold and biting, people in the water dissipate heat at twenty times the rate of the air, not to mention the Tatarkhon River, which is close to freezing, as long as it is not warm for five minutes, people will freeze, and even cause shock due to hypothermia.

Originally, the Tatarhun River was not very turbulent, but it was almost intercepted by the Han military camp, and the speed of the river suddenly accelerated, and the knights who fell into the water were brought downstream, and they would die of hypothermia if they rolled and crawled to the shore, not to mention that the fierce Tushetu people used archers to kill those poor people who were scattered, and each of the Mongols was a qualified archer.

Seeing that many soldiers gradually lost their vitality due to hypothermia due to the exhaustion of the arrow, and then quietly sank to the bottom of the river, Batu Bagen saw tears in his eyes, and he pleaded with Burhan to say, "Great Khan! Let the minister go, right? Let's take the Tigers and Horsemen to do some of the work for them! Although he choked up and pleaded, did Burhan feel better? He tried his best to keep himself from crying, and ordered, "Batu Bagan!" Take your Tiger Cavalry and set up camp on the spot to recuperate! ”

"Great Khan! Whining! ...”

"Why don't you go soon? Do you want to disobey? ”

Liu Dingchen knew that Burhan was to preserve the combat strength of the Tiger Cavalry Army just in case, but the tragic situation of the Han military camp made him a little unbearable. Although the crossbows of the Hechiti tribe had a long range, the cunning Sange placed the archers two or three hundred paces away from the river bank, so that only the ballistas of the Hechiti tribe could kill them enough.

"Great Khan! It's time for the ballista to move. ”

How could Burhan not know this? It's just that there is no commanding heights here, and the flat terrain is not conducive to the play of ballistas. At first, the order was not given because the Han military camp had not yet been deployed, and even if the ballista shells were fired, they could only hurt their own troops. Seeing that more and more soldiers were dying tragically, Burhan didn't care too much and ordered the ballista to return fire.

The gunners performed a series of maneuvers under the command of their respective non-commissioned officers, who commanded, "Ready!" Put! "Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Dozens of ballistas fired projectiles, and even at this time, the shells whistled past the scalps of the warriors, and then flew into the Tushetu formation.

A cannonball hit the archer in the shoulder, and in an instant, half of his body burst like a watermelon, and the stump arm that was thrown into the sky was spilled with bone marrow and flesh. And the kinetic energy of the shell did not lose much because of this, and it penetrated several more people before stopping in the stomach of the last victim. Along the way, the blood and severed limbs mixed with flesh and blood foam opened up a path to purgatory. Although its lethality is limited, the shadow it inflicts on the enemy is far greater than the damage it causes.

The roar of the ballista weighed through the rain of arrows, and it also broke through the defenses of the Tushetu people. How can a weak round shield withstand the attack of cannonballs? Guo Wei, who saw the opportunity, would not let it go, and he ordered, "The crossbow in the back row is ready!" ... Put! ”

The round shield in the front row is still resisting the sharp arrows from the opposite bank, but this does not mean that the Han military camp can only endure it, they will also fight back, and the crossbow arrows in their hands are the sharp weapons of counterattack.

Every arrow was shot out from a forty-five degree angle, and within two breaths, thousands of crossbow arrows struck the Tushetu people heavily, poof, poof! The Tushetu people, who had already been disrupted by the ballistas, were suddenly hit by crossbow arrows, and the consequences can be imagined, and the pressure near the shoal was reduced a lot in an instant. This is not the end, Guo Wei continued to say, "Wind up in the back row." "Boom, the person who shot the crossbow bolt just now immediately held the crossbow arm, and the person in the back row crossed the winding of the person in front of him, the same uniformity, the same training, the same unity of orders, and only in the Hechiti Division, in the Han military camp of the wolf cavalry. The crossbow equipped by the Han military camp is different from the divine arm crossbow, it is more powerful, the range is longer, and the winding is more difficult, fortunately, after several improvements, the crossbow of each crossbow is equipped with a cam, so that this ** back winding method can be realized.

The well-wound Han military camp once again swept away the arrow array of the Tushetu people, and after this time, there were almost no Tushetu people who could organize a counterattack, and they also got a chance to breathe, and finally flowed past the most terrible thirty meters in their lives. Looking back, how many robes that once accompanied each other day and night are gone, and then look at how many former partners are floating downstream? Mountains are stacked on top of each other, and this is the price, and victory seems to be far away.

Guo Wei, who went ashore, took the initiative to give up his war horse and let the soldiers form a fan-shaped semicircle formation tightly to defend this hard-won beachhead for the follow-up army.

"Great Khan! Attacked, really attacked. Batu Bagen hugged Burhan excitedly, and he burst into tears again, just now it was sad, but this time it was moving.

Burhan was also infected by him, happy like a child, and after hugging Batu Bagen, he hugged Liu Dingchen tightly.

However, this is only the beginning of this campaign. The Han military camp, which has not yet gained a firm foothold, will soon face a counterattack from Sange. In Sange's eyes, Guo Wei must not know how to fight, and taking the initiative to give up the war horse means that there is no mobility and no impact. Can human flesh alone withstand the onslaught of a war horse? It's just child's play. In fact, Guo Wei thought more about the lack of war horses, the formation could be tighter, the defense was more thorough, and the most important thing was that there was no time to make a fire, the soldiers who had just been soaked in water were as cold as a popsicle, shivering, gradually losing their conscious hands, and even the weapons were barely grasping. There are many people, and even if the person at the front dies, the brother at the back can live.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves resounded across the land, and the power of the cavalry's collective charge was naturally well known, but none of them were afraid. It's closer, it's getting closer. Guo Wei ordered, "Tree Shield!" "Drink!" Several rows of round shields formed a huge barrier that was impermeable, and then he commanded "Shoot" and "Bang!" "From the gap between the round shields, there were suddenly countless spears like needles, each of which was more than three meters long.

Near, closer. Bang! Eventually, the horse's massive impact slammed into the dense forest of spears, even though the pikemen and shield men in the front row had died tragically under the horses' hooves, turning into dust. However, they have made more and more war horses lose the impact they should have, and they are like being stuck in a quagmire, unable to extricate themselves. At this time, the round shield turned, and through the gap just enough for a person to pass through, these sword and shield soldiers began to harvest the heads of the people trapped in it, and this moment was a massacre, which was exchanged for the Han army camp to hurt the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred.

When the Tushetu people once again attacked the circle of the Han military camp, the crossbowmen, who had already recovered their strength, began to fight back. The crossbow machine of the Hechiti Department was originally more powerful than the Oxhorn Bow, and it completely suppressed the Tushetu people for a while. At this moment, while Sanger drew troops from other places, he began to hold on to the large camp, and he could not retreat any longer, and then retreated to expand the beachhead of the Chiti people, and waited until the cavalry arrived, that is, when he was destroyed.

At this time, people wondered what Zaduro was doing.

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