Chapter 31: The Tragedy of the Fishbone Array

When He Ping and He Daxian saw this wading sand road clearly, their first reaction was to dig up both sides and narrow the sand road with a width of nearly 60 meters into a single-plank bridge of about five meters, so as to slow down the charge of the Khitan cavalry.

It was just because there was not enough time, so I finally decided to make a fishbone channel.

The so-called fishbone-shaped passage is to leave a safe passage about three to five meters wide in the middle, and dig out deep trenches horizontally on both sides, which is probably dug into the appearance of the word "Feng". This fishbone-shaped sand channel covers the entire wading channel, which is more than 50 meters long, and there are hundreds of deep pits on both sides.

The sand road is a typical low-water terrain, the ground is very soft, send more than 100 soldiers to dig it in more than half an hour, the river water soaks for a few hours, this sand road is full of potholes and mud of different depths except for the safe passage.

The most important thing is that the surface of the river is sparkling, and it is impossible to see it from a distance.

He Daxian was very satisfied, if he did this, it should not be a big problem to kill hundreds of Khitan cavalry.

The safety passage in the middle is not straight, but a big S-shape, even if someone accidentally finds that there is a safe passage, they will soon fall into the pit again without running two steps under the joy, and die even worse.

Since coming to this world, he has always been in a defensive and inferior position in battle, and he has to use infantry to fight against cavalry, which makes He Daxian really annoyed with this group of Khitan cavalry.

With his thousands of years of knowledge, the biggest advantage of cavalry is actually mobility, and it can run hundreds of miles in one night without moving, which is very terrifying. Therefore, this morning, Tang Jun himself got into a pocket with only one exit, which seemed to be a very stupid move tactically, but in fact, it was a strategy that He Daxian deliberately put forward to attract cavalry to attack him.

Khitan dear, don't run so hard, we are here waiting for your invincible iron cavalry to attack.

As for how the infantry protected against cavalry attacks, it was much simpler. With the skills of cultivating immortals, there are really not too many ways. This and that, this and that, I can't count ten toes.

The most basic trick is to slow down the cavalry, stop, and then let a whole bunch of spearmen stab them. That's what I did on Golden Beach before.

I really don't understand why the Central Plains Dynasty has been bullied by the cavalry of the northern nomads for thousands of years.

Those sour literati have studied the art of war for thousands of years, but no one really studied Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, how did Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang get these bigwigs? The first two are about to hit Kiev, so if Lao Zhu hadn't suddenly become more interested in internal affairs, he would have almost sent troops to the North Pole.

Even in the strange historical period of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, the Han people in the Central Plains killed and killed themselves, killing the common people and the population was almost gone, didn't the eagles on the grassland not even dare to let out a fart?

Anyway, our old He is not afraid of the Khitan cavalry who dominates the world at all, and he is annoyed that they run too fast. There is no way, this kind of national cavalry nation, horses are a part of their body and life.

This is also the reason why Lao He is very anxious to establish his own cavalry unit.

Running fast on a horse, whether you hit or run, a quick word can solve a lot of problems.

As for the Khitan Iron Cavalry coming to charge the battle?

Hmph, come on.

After the Khitan cavalry on the sand road adjusted from a big stride to a small step, the speed dropped directly from nearly 80 kilometers per hour to about 60 kilometers per hour.

This speed is still lethal enough for infantry.

The Khitan general Nai Guasa Thorn was not worried at all, his two cold eyes stared at the Tang army in front of him through the two small holes in his helmet, and led the dense cavalry queue behind him, like a flowing rolling iron stream, and the heavy horse hooves splashed a large splash, and he stepped into the wading section without hesitation, ready to launch the final sprint and kill the Tang army in front.

"Wow! Wow, hey, hey, hey" Before he finished roaring, a strange protrusion protruded.

Huh, what's wrong? It's crooked, it's crooked

Naiguasa Thorn was the first Khitan cavalry to experience this strange weightlessness experience.

The right rear foot of the war horse he was riding stepped into the air, and his body suddenly tilted to the side, and then the next second the front foot also stepped into a deep pit, and in the bump without warning, the Khitan general's ass instantly left the horse's back, and the whole person flew up like a cloud. Before his ass could fall back on the horse's back, the horse's ass turned violently upward, arched violently on his back, and immediately pushed him forward, rolling head-to-foot and plunging headlong into the muddy pool.

Who is Naguasa Thorn? The general of the Khitan cavalry!

If you don't have any real skills, how can you be the leader of a thousand Khitan iron horsemen?

Despite the suddenness of the incident, this guy is also very good, the reaction is extremely fast, wrapped in heavy armor, he can still strongly arch his tiger's back and bear waist, his limbs shrink back and hug together, accelerate the speed of forward rotation, a front flip 270 degrees, let's chirp, the whole person slapped sideways in the muddy pond, splashed a large splash and mud, and covered his face with a mouth full of river sand, almost didn't shoot himself to close his breath.

Yo, it's not bad.

He Daxian, who was sharp-eyed in the distance, couldn't help but quietly give a thumbs up.

Although this fall is so ugly and embarrassing, it is only for a layman to watch the excitement that he will make such a stupid mockery that he does not know how to pretend to understand. Truly expert martial artists, from the action of Naigua sprinkling thorns just now, you can really feel the extraordinary martial arts foundation of this Khitan general.

If General Naguasa had been a little slower to react just now, he would have been like a farmer throwing rice in a paddy field, with his heavy iron helmet and his head stuck in the muddy pond, and the whole person could not be pulled out at all, and he would have to suffocate to death in the mud in the river in less than a minute.

Therefore, people with the ability to really pretend to be forced, which is always unattainable for ordinary people.

A big pant raised his head, and General Naguasa was still dazed and didn't understand what was going on, and the Khitan heavy cavalry behind him, who were just as cumbersome, had already rushed in in groups.

It's hilarious.

One iron lump flew out, and another iron lump flew out. One horse fell to its knees, and another was on all fours.

It's chaotic, crackling with the sound of all kinds of heavy objects smashing into the muddy ground, all kinds of Khitan screams, all kinds of war horses hurting and frightened screams, and the sound of all kinds of iron lumps smashing together with each other, and the sonorous sound of sabers hitting armor.

As for the visual effects, it is even more climactic and exciting.

General Naguasa was at the first scene, and the scene in front of him was that one after another black shadows rushed towards him, and there was even a heavy cavalryman's head wearing a steel helmet slammed on the back of his steel helmet.

The Tang soldiers, who were hiding behind the sampan more than 100 meters away, opened their mouths wide one after another, and they couldn't close their mouths in surprise.

Those Khitan heavy cavalry who were originally neat and uniform, full of spirits, wrapped in iron cans, representing terror and death, fell down layer by layer like dolls at this moment, and then stacked up in a mess higher and higher, crying fathers and mothers came and went, and the war horses that could stand up again threw off the iron cans on their backs, screamed and ran around, and even several war horses with empty backs ran into the Tang army's position. A few horses rushed into the river in a panic and were swept away by the flowing water. More horses were either on all fours in the mud with the Khitan heavy cavalry who looked like iron cans, rolling and entangled in embarrassment, and some of the war horses ran back after standing up again, rushing the light cavalry behind them who had stopped their horses in a mess, and more than a dozen light cavalry were even forced to jump into the river.

This is the case of the so-called man-to-back flip.

The problem with the heavy cavalry is that once it is activated, it is basically impossible to stop the footsteps. Among the Khitan heavy cavalry that rushed into the fishbone formation, only a few cavalrymen who happened to step on the safe passage all the way did not fall, but they only held up for a few more seconds.

Because the safe passage of this pit daddy is S-shaped.