Chapter 37: The Second Charge
The five hundred cavalry of the Khitans at the time of their first charge, of which one hundred and twenty heavy cavalry and nearly thirty light cavalry had just broken into the trap of the fishbone array. Now that the trap had been filled, the surviving more than 300 light cavalry launched a charge again, quickly passed through this failed trap, and rushed to the Tang army's position at high speed.
With the bloody nature of the Khitan iron cavalry galloping all over the world, and with the belief of avenging General Naguasa, all the charging Khitan cavalry mustered up the courage, not afraid of arrows, not afraid of sacrifice, as long as they move forward!
"Kill!"
"Wow!"
Forward! Forward! Only forward!
When General Xiao Luying and the three hundred light cavalry staggered, a blood-colored red flag in his hand was also held high.
This scarlet banner is the signal for the start of the general offensive!
The second wave of 500 horsemen, who had already finished platooning, immediately set off!
Another team of 1,000 people, as a reserve team, also quickly filled the empty space after the front team was pulled out, and quickly began to line up!
General Xiao patted his horse and galloped, and the bright red flag in his hand was waving in the wind.
The military order is like a mountain! In an instant, the long knives on the Khitan army's position were like a forest, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and all the Khitan cavalry moved with a murderous spirit, and the earth-shattering momentum instantly flooded the river beach dozens of miles wide, like boiling lava, swallowing mountains and rivers magnificently swept towards the Tang army's position!
Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die! Completely crush the Tang soldiers in front of you who didn't know that they were going to die!
"Wow!"
"Rush!"
In the face of the stormy waves that were about to blow in their faces, everyone on the Tang army's position was pale and silent, only the archer captain Wang Dazhui calmly and brutally commanded loudly:
"Left team, ready, put!"
A buzzing bowstring sounded, and one hundred and fifty long arrows flew up in the air, drawing a long arc in the sky towards the first batch of three hundred Khitan light cavalry who were rushing over.
"Right team, ready, put!"
Before the first batch of arrows could land, there was another bowstring sound, and the second batch of one hundred and fifty long arrows flew out.
"Left team, prepare!"
Wang sledgehammer calmly prepared for the third salvo.
He Daxian led the cavalry to kill, and after returning to the main formation, he turned around and rode back to the vicinity of Wang Dazhui alone, and set up a war horse to supervise the battle behind the sampan pile.
The red spike on the top of the black helmet is still dripping with blood, and the original all-black drape has almost turned into a sauce purple, even the smell of blood with people and horses is soaring, and the cold eyes are hiding in the T-shaped slit of the helmet, and the sword looks at the Khitan cavalry who is rushing over, so thick that it is like a real murderous aura, which is slowly emanating from his body.
The fishbone array in the wading section is only the first trap set by He Taixian, and less than 30 meters after passing the wading section, there will be a section of the undetectable uphill road with a darker color.
He Daxian arranged a "shadow flow array" there.
The so-called "Shadow Flow Array" is to pick up the complete heads of eight Khitan cavalrymen on the golden beach, peel and remove the flesh, and make eight skulls, four of which are buried on that section of the uphill road as the "main formation", and the other four are buried at the foot of the Tang Army's archery position as a "secondary formation". After the shadow flow array is activated, the topography will change, and the flow direction of the ground atmosphere will flow in one direction in a short period of time. That is to say, the arrows shot from the "secondary formation", that is, the positions of the Tang army, no matter where the archers shoot, will be automatically guided and fly to the "main formation" themselves.
Usually after the bow and arrow are fired, the speed will become slower and slower due to the resistance of the air, but under the influence of the shadow flow array, the feather arrow will fly faster and faster, and finally when the "main array" lands, the flight speed of the feather arrow will reach twice the speed of the bow!
As for Xiao Luying's self-righteous wrench, in the eyes of the wise He Daxian, it was not a problem at all!
Aren't there a lot of dead people on the golden beach? Cut off the leg bones and hand bones of the dead man, cut them into small sections, and then hollow out the bone marrow, and put it on the finger to be a wrench!
The Khitan people grew up drinking milk and eating meat, and their bones are dense, so they are just right to use them as wrenches.
Therefore, in fact, everyone in the archers of the Tang Army has a wrench, and the basic standard configuration is three to four "human bone wrenches" per person. It's just that this kind of thing is so disgusting to say it, and everyone is silent.
The three hundred Khitan light cavalry in front had already passed through the filled fishbone array, and were speeding up the charge, and at this moment, He Daxian, who was watching the battle with cold eyes, quietly made a mark on his chest with both hands, and silently activated the "Shadow Flow Array".
The first batch of one hundred and fifty arrows were shot out in a parabola, and after reaching the highest point, they began to descend, and began to adjust their trajectories by themselves in the high speed that the human eye could not detect, and the speed also increased rapidly, and finally fell into the "main formation" at the same time with almost exactly equal spacing, just at this time the first batch of Khitan cavalry stepped into this dead land!
The speed of the feather arrows that had been accelerated by the "Shadow Flow Array" was so fast that even the most experienced Khitan hundred-man commander could not stop the rain of arrows coming in his face! What's more, most of the feather arrows directly penetrated the body of the first Khitan cavalryman, and then inserted into the body of another horse with a lower position behind.
On the usual battlefield, the cavalry fell to the ground one after another when they encountered the rain of arrows, or fell off their horses one after another, but this group of miserable Khitan cavalry was about fifty horsemen who suddenly fell short at the same time in the same second, people and horses were piled up together, rolling and falling along the sandy ground, violent friction and long knives flying everywhere, mixed with the blood and dust that were constantly splashing out, so that these dozens of heroic cavalry instantly seemed to fall into a wok, flesh and blood were connected to metal, like dumpling filling, In an instant, they trampled each other and stirred into a cloud of flesh and blood.
The other fifty horsemen who followed behind were also covered by one hundred and fifty arrows fired by the second batch of the Tang army, and the ending was strikingly similar to that of the first batch of fallen warriors, only three of them did not hit the arrows. It wasn't that they were lucky, but they tripped and fell ahead of time, and they rolled into the mass of meat stuffing in front of them.
No matter how miserable the screams came from the "main formation" of the "Shadow Flow Array", no matter how much blood and flesh were flying in the sky, on the Tang Army's position, Wang Dazhui's cold voice tone and rhythm did not change in the slightest during the entire process. None of the archers of the Tang Army spoke, everyone kept their mouths shut, and at the fastest speed they could, mechanically draw their bows, shoot arrows, draw their bows, shoot arrows!
"Team Left, get ready to put!"
"Right team, ready to release!"
"Left Team, Ready"
The two archers on the left and right teams each cast five arrows, a total of ten rounds, and the sound of the king's sledgehammer finally stopped.
Because none of the 300 Khitan soldiers are alive.
The battlefield was a little quieter for the time being, and only a few dying Khitan cavalry were screaming without a single voice.
As the time approached noon, the hotter and hotter sunlight continued to evaporate the water on the river surface, causing the hot air to rise, the air on the shore continued to replenish, and the wind on the river beach gradually increased. The sand and dust raised in front of the Tang army's position were quickly blown away, and the corpses of more than 300 Khitan light cavalry piled up into a bloody mountain of flesh gradually became clear.
The cruel truth quickly revealed itself to the world as the dust faded away.
The wind blowing on the river surface diluted the strong smell of blood on the battlefield and the violent stench on all kinds of men and horses, but there were still many people on the Tang army's position, who couldn't stop lying on the ground and vomiting desperately.
However, the following five hundred Khitan cavalry did not seem to be affected in the slightest, and were rolling towards them with their own rumbling horses' hooves.
Twenty seconds left, and the second wave of attacks is coming soon!
"Left Team, Ready"