Chapter 157: Roman Heavy Infantry

What ran out was a cavalry captain of the Dingyan Army, with a handsome face, and he was also the leader of the Fuzhou garrison.

At first glance, it sounds like "collecting taxes", and I can't help but feel ridiculous.

When will it be your turn to collect taxes from the Zhenwu Army?

was about to open his mouth to refute, but he saw the general of the Zhenwu Army running over on horseback not in a straight line to meet him, but in an arc and greeted him from the side, looking very suspicious.

The Dingyan military captain became vigilant, quietly turned the horse's head, and aimed the horse's head at Huang Zhi, who was running over slowly.

However, it was a bit late.

I saw two silent arrows, shot from the first row of the Zhenwu Army's infantry position two hundred meters away, and went straight to the chest of the general of the Dingnan Army!

The captain of the Dingyan military academy also has some ability, although he saw that someone was shooting so accurately from a distance, in a panic, the spear in his right hand was raised in time, and an arrow was missed, and his left arm also came sideways, blocking the second arrow with an arm shield.

Shot from such a distance, it was still strong, and the feather arrow was inserted into the arm shield, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still vibrating violently!

The captain of the Dingyan Military Academy was furious!

Shameless! Nima, it's a sneak attack!

However, getting angry is useless.

Zhenwu Army's fart decapitation tactics have never been only one wave!

The first two arrows did not work, and the echelon multiplication was activated, and immediately eight arrows were shot together!

There is no way, the queue of foot soldiers of the Zhenwu Army looks nothing special, the problem is that there are more than twenty long-range archers with big "fart" characters on their bodies standing in the first row!

As soon as the second round of eight arrows was fired, another sixteen people had already completed raising their bows and arrows, and they were ready to go! Once the second round is missed, the third round of sixteen arrows will be fired immediately!

The captain of the Dingyan Army has a little ability, but it is not big enough to be able to catch eight arrows at the same time on a horse! I think that at the beginning, Qin Chi, the famous and powerful lieutenant general of the Shuozhou Army, was not the same when he was attacked by more than a dozen fast arrows, you are a little difficult military captain, do you still want to compare your skills with Qin Chi and Lord Qin?

That's not an order of magnitude at all!

said that it was too late, and before the captain of the military academy could react, eight arrows were shot together!

What's infuriating is that none of these eight arrows were shot at horses, and all of them were shot at people accurately! One of them again stuck in the arm shield that had not yet been lowered, two were shot in the breastplate and were ejected, and the other five arrows were stuck in the flesh.

One into the lieutenant's face, two through the gap in the armor on his chest, and two into his arms and shoulders.

The armor of the captain of the Dingyan military academy is a vest-style armor similar to the basketball player's vest, and there is more room to expose the flesh, and four arrows can be inserted into the flesh at the same time, which shows the simplicity of the equipment!

The most important thing is the helmet, the front is actually completely empty!

The Dingyan Army is mainly composed of party members, and the helmets of the generals of the Dingyan Army are all unprotected on the front!

There is no way, the Dangxiang people are actually a people mixed with various ethnic groups such as the Qiang people and the Han people, the Tuyuhun people, the Uighurs and so on in the long historical evolution.

The party generals came out and pretended to be forced, so they must show their faces!

People with high appearance can naturally wear this kind of helmet to pretend to be sultry, show their own advantages, and have incomparable scenery. Everyone comes out and pretends to be forced, and you can be ashamed of you by your appearance! Convinced or not! But if you accidentally get shot in the face with an arrow, you can only be killed on the spot!

Hearing only a scream, the captain of the military academy fell headlong, fell off his horse, and died!

Huang Zhi didn't care so much, he slapped his horse forward, slashed the long knife in his hand, provoked this person's head, hung the head on the edge of the saddle, and hurriedly ran back to the main formation, and raised the long knife in his hand, shouting: "Enter!" ”

The neatly arranged array of Zhenwu Army's foot soldiers, like a big parade, began to march forward in unison as the captain on the side shouted one, two, one.

The cavalry of the Dingyan Army, who were still queuing up at the city gate, were suddenly blindfolded!

How is this going on? Before the fight started, the supreme commander was attacked and his head fell off?

Is that still a fight?

Hit!

The habit inherited from the Tang Dynasty is that there is generally only one commander when a thousand-strong team follows the large army, but when going out to perform independent combat tasks, especially the task of defending the city, the ancients still considered the situation in case the supreme commander fell ill or was injured. Generally, when a general goes out to serve as a guard of a city, he is usually called a so-and-so commander, and since there is a commander, there is naturally a deputy commander.

Therefore, the commander of the defenders of the Dingyan Military Prefecture was killed, and the deputy commander naturally took over the command.

However, the deputy commander did not ride on a horse, but stood on the tower above the city gate.

"All assault!"

The deputy commander of the Dingyan Army waved a small flag on the city tower and shouted the order to charge.

Although they were not very willing, the five hundred cavalry cavalry gathered in front of the city gate still mustered up their courage and began to separate column by column, launching a cavalry charge.

This is not that the Dingyan army is very heroic, but that there are 500 horsemen on their own side, and the opponent is only 800 foot soldiers, and according to conventional military common sense, the victory rate of their own side is basically 90%. Just like in the plains field battlefield in later generations, the tank cluster meets the infantry cluster, and the victory rate is also more than 90%. Therefore, when the cavalry saw that the other side was an all-infantry lineup, there was no reason to be afraid!

It's just that although most of the Dingyan Army is composed of party members, these party members have unfortunately been contaminated with the sour literati habits of the Han people who have brought disaster to the country and the people in the process of sinicization.

What are the bad habits of the sour literati? When a powerless sour literati hates a person, it is impossible to beat him, and when the hatred is not so great, the method adopted is to ignore him!

Ignore! The description of this idiom is very accurate!

I look down on you, so, when you are air, not only ignore you, but also pretend not to see you! Seeing you is no different from seeing a dog or a cat, and the eyeballs will never stop for you!

Isn't it cool?

This is the highest level of humiliating a person and despising a person! Right?

Well, you sour literati yourself are sour, that's your own business, but if you bring this disgusting habit to enterprises and countries, it will definitely be a disaster for the country and the people!

You hate him, and you pretend you can't see him? But people are studying you all the time!

Do you know where the best military maps came from during the Anti-Japanese War? Captured from the Japanese army! Countless Japanese geographers have spent decades traveling all over China and drawing it one stroke at a time!

You look down on Japanese people and hate them, but they are working day and night with infinite enthusiasm to study you! Why did the Sino-Japanese Naval War fail? Is it really a weapon reason? The reason for the generals of the Qing army? Do you have an officer organization chart of the Japanese Navy? Have you studied the habits and styles of each Japanese admiral? Do you know everything about every Japanese battleship, as well as the parameters of various weapons on various ships?

Therefore, the author also hates to read those anti-Japanese crossing texts, that is, those Xiaobai essays that write the so-called subversion of the First Sino-Japanese Battlefield and the subversion of the anti-Japanese battlefield, where is it so easy, have you really organized a group of experts who are proficient in Japan? Is it fruitful? Has the library been built? The Japanese have studied you for a hundred years, how many years have you studied Japan? What are Japan's weaknesses other than being tough? I don't know, I don't know, then you think you can win by improving a few small techniques of the Qing army? Do you know how many layers the national strategy of the Japanese is now unfolding? How many prep plans are there?

Of course, China's sour literati have plagued the country and the people for thousands of years, and there are no more than one or two wars. We'll stop there.

Back on the battlefield in Fuzhou, the Dingyan Army, which had five hundred cavalry to charge, didn't know what was different about the ordinary-looking Zhenwu Army infantry array in front of them, so they rushed over stupidly!

The Dingyan Army hated this newly emerged Zhenwu Army, but because it had the natural barrier of the Yellow River, it did not fight the strategy of expanding its territory to the east of the river for the time being, so it basically adopted a policy of ignoring it.

However, He Daxian is different, the territory of the Dingyan Army, the most fertile land in the Hetao, what a piece of fat! I really want to eat it.

Research! Anyway, there are many party members in the Zhenwu army, historical stories, geographical environment, and city defense situation, which are clear, and they also set up files and cases, and send people to Yinzhou and Xiazhou from time to time to learn about the latest equipment details of various armies, details of generals, and local customs.

Otherwise, why do you think Daxian dared to send the stupid Zhao Sang to fight Fuzhou and Linzhou in the face of a Dingyan army that had never fought before? How to fight without discussing before departure? The configuration of the troops is all patted on the head?

Huang Zhi's eight-hundred-man infantry array was lined up in a large phalanx of one hundred people per row, a total of eight rows.

In the first three rows, out of a hundred men each, fifty heavy infantry and fifty archers were paired. That is to say, a hoplite with an archer by his side, and the two of them fight in pairs.

This idea of two-man infantry configuration at the bottom is a bit similar to Liu Zaiming of the Yizhou Army. The advantage of pairing is that no matter how large a number of people are killed, those who don't die can quickly pair up with others on the fly, or in groups of three or four. Therefore, on the first-line battlefield, this idea of dual-arms configuration has a single combat capability that is several times higher than that of a unified arms configuration!

In the infantry array of the Zhenwu Army, the heavy infantry is a strange type of troops made by He Daxian, which is unique in this world!

The armor on the body is configured according to the standard of the Khitan heavy cavalry, the shield with a large door panel in the left hand, a round iron sheet with a large lid in the middle, lifted when walking, and can be placed on the ground when stopped, and a one-and-a-half-meter-long spear in the right hand.

This spear is not meant to be stabbed, but to be thrown!

In addition to the one in his hand, there are two buckles on his left shoulder, and two throwing spears are hung! The head of the spear was slanted upwards, the tail was dragging on the ground, and it was clattering as it walked. There are three spears in total, and this heavy infantry actually serves as a spearthrower.

The heavy infantry of the Zhenwu army also has a two-foot-long Persian machete on its waist, and once the enemy gets close, it will draw out the Persian machete, and the left hand shield and the right hand knife will be transformed, and it will become a melee combat method similar to the Roman heavy infantry!

The left shield hits, the right knife stabs, and the armor is not afraid to cut.

Roman heavy infantry, but in the Middle Ages, the European infantry sequence, the strongest defensive combat power! (To be continued.) )