Cold weapon warfare has always been the first wave of people to act with the crossbow troops, and generally the two armies are close to the range of the crossbow troops of both sides, which is the moment when arrows come and go.

"Shield!"

It is not heartbreaking, but such a roar is very common in the military formations of the two sides, and there is immediately a sound of wooden collision or metal friction in front of the two armies, and their respective soldiers hold the handle of the shield with one hand and support it with the other, almost when they have just raised the shield, the sound of the arrow and the shield bumping began to come from their ears, perhaps because the shield is not erected tightly, someone was hit by an arrow and let out a muffled snort and scream.

Lu Zhejun's side is at the forefront of the heavy infantry, in addition to the protection of the shield, they also have a thick layer of armor defense, even if there are arrows shot from the gap in the shield on the person, unless it is shot into the joint gap of the armor, otherwise it is fine.

The Qi Yan coalition army did not have the existence of heavy armor soldiers, their muffled snorts and screams were far more frequent than those of Lu Zhe's army, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows would inevitably reveal a larger gap after they fell to the ground, and the result was that more and more people were hit by arrows, and after the collapse of the local shield array, they were covered by continuous arrows, and soon became a dead place full of arrows.

"No! The enemy army learned the Qin army's wave-style continuous archery offensive, and the range of their crossbows was far faster than ours, and if it continued like this, the front line would be emptied! Zang Di's face was full of anxiety, his shield array was constantly collapsing, but Lu Zhejun on the opposite side still seemed to be intact: "Order the spearmen to rush in a wave, and let the array retreat accordingly to organize the shield array again, right?" ”

Tian Rong was naturally anxious, and there was nothing wrong with letting the soldiers charge, but was it really feasible to retreat some distance to organize a shield array?

There are very few soldiers in the Qiyan coalition army who wear metal armor, and even there are not too many soldiers wearing leather armor, where is it as perverted as Lu Zhejun, and the worst soldier can wear a rattan armor? In this way, the Qiyan coalition army will definitely suffer a big loss under the mutual shooting of the bow and crossbow troops.

"Decide! Either a part of the charge. The rest of the troops retreated and reorganized the defensive line; Either use the wave offensive and fight the enemy directly! Seeing that Tian Rong still hadn't come up with a decision, he urged again, if he continued to shoot at each other, he wouldn't have to fight at all, and if Lu Zhejun had enough arrows, he would shoot all his own people to death.

The wave offensive, also known as the pig rush charge, is a front-line formation-type attack, in the land of China, such a method of warfare is from the Spring and Autumn Period, the armies of all countries are using. In fact, even during World War II, this kind of tactic was still used, and the Japanese army in Asia used this tactic to gnaw most of China. Of course...... At that time, it was artillery that used the pig assault tactics as cover.

Now, Tian Rong will pay attention. The Qi and Yan coalition forces were about to fight, but their war drums beat extremely fiercely, and some soldiers began to charge with falling arrows.

It is a very helpless thing to charge with arrows, especially under the continuous shooting of the band, after the first column of the Qiyan coalition army lost the defense of the shield, nearly 2,000 people only rushed for ten steps and all turned into corpses, but they attracted the attention of Lu Zhejun's bow and crossbow troops, and the arrows shot at the Qiyan coalition army were much less. It can be regarded as reducing the pressure on this formation in disguise.

The characteristic of the pig rush charge is that it ignores casualties, so that while the first column runs out, the second column behind the first column runs five paces and immediately charges, wave after wave. Under the cover of Lu Zhejun's secret book arrow array, even if there were fish caught in the net, they only ran a distance of about a hundred steps. By the time the sixth column of Qi Yan soldiers launched a charge, the 10,000 or so Qi Yan coalition soldiers who had already rushed up definitely did not exceed 4,000 soldiers who could stand on the battlefield full of dead corpses, but at this time, the bow and crossbow troops on Lu Zhejun's side no longer shot arrows.

"Lu Zhejun's bow and crossbow troops are even stronger than the Qin army!" Not a moment in the blink of an eye. However, a large number of casualties on his side in the time of a stick of incense had already made Tian Rong numb to see, and seeing that Lu Zhejun stopped firing arrows, it seemed that the troops in front of the formation were also spreading to the left and right. The expression and tone were a little wooden: "They have no arrows?" ”

How does Zang Di know! His heart was already dripping blood, and among the 10,000 soldiers who launched the charge, nearly 3,000 were Yan troops, and now I don't know how many are left? Of course, he also saw that the front of the enemy army was cracking to the left and right, and even found that the cavalry of Lu Zhe's army, which was originally on the left and right wings, had stopped, and seemed to be arranging a cone-shaped formation?

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded on the battlefield, and the cracked position of Lu Zhejun's main formation appeared with armored war horses and armored troops, and these heavy horses of about a thousand were accelerating as soon as they appeared. And Lu Zhejun on the left and right, the front of the triangular formation is also full of heavy horses, and they are also in a state of acceleration.

Lu Zhe, who was in this formation, was now saying in a relaxed tone: "Although you can use powerful long-range troops to defeat the enemy army, but there is no short-range encounter, Qi Yan will not be convinced even if he loses, so let them witness the first battle of the new troops, and let us completely annihilate these 30,000 enemy troops!" ”

The tone was brisk, but everyone around him could hear Lu Zhe's natural confidence and domineering, as if he wanted to stage a scene that the nations would never forget, so that some people would be awakened by nightmares even when they were sleeping.

In fact, the horseback attack on the infantry army has been done once by Su Lie, a cavalry layman, in the Battle of Danyang, but that time it was to drive away the unmanned horse impact, and the Chu State had made a special discussion after experiencing a blow, thinking that it was an individual phenomenon, and that Lu Zhejun was too wasteful, and even took the horse herd with heavy losses as a tactic.

This time, the cavalry of Lu Zhejun, who was equipped with stirrups, was equipped with Ma Kai, and the knight itself was also equipped with the copper fish scale armor that was very common in Lu Zhejun, which seemed to be close to the equipment level of Zhao Murong Xianbei's heavy cavalry after the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The weight of a knight himself is about one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty, and with about forty pounds of armor, it is about one hundred and seventy pounds, plus about fifty pounds of horse Kai, the total weight of the war horse is about two hundred and thirty pounds. It is difficult for ordinary war horses to carry such a heavy weight, but the excellent breeds of Northland horses and dai horses have such endurance, but to be honest, it lasts for about two quarters of an hour, and it will definitely not be able to run for a long time.

The total weight of the knights, armor, and horses combined is about 400 catties, and when a thousand heavy horses begin to accelerate, not only the roaring hooves of the horses are fierce, but even the ground will shake slightly.

The soldiers of the Qiyan coalition army have seen war horses wearing armor, but where have they seen heavy horses wearing armor even with men and horses? When he was in a daze, he was stunned to watch the heavy horse riding on the heavy horse hooves rolling in, and when the heavy horse was close to a hundred meters, someone turned around and ran away.

In fact, no matter whether you can see or understand what the charge is, as long as people with a normal brain know that there will be no good end if they are bumped into, and they are really fools if they don't run.

"That's ...... What is it? Tian Rong finally found that there were cavalry of Lu Zhejun with men and armor on the front and left and right flanks to attack: "This is a single horse? ”

Zang Di shook his head very affirmatively: "It's not a single horse, it's a ......" He didn't know what kind of soldier it was, anyway, it didn't look like a kind of foot soldier on horseback: "They want to charge directly." ”

Cavalry equipped with stirrups can indeed charge, especially the armored heavy cavalry with men and horses was originally used to impact infantry positions, and only light cavalry is still difficult to effectively impact infantry in formation.

The three arrows of Lu Zhejun are all led by heavy horses, followed by knights wearing leather armor and war horses without armor, and they will basically carry a variety of equipment because they want to fight on horseback, that is, riding spears, swords, and short-fired crossbows.

Naturally, the cavalry gun is not a hard, tough material of the wooden pole used by the foot soldiers, but a material that will crumble on its own when the body of the gun encounters enough impact force, such as a tree pole. In fact, the main reason is that there is no applewood in Asia at present, otherwise it is best to use applewood as the barrel of the cavalry gun.

The chopping knife is not a standard used by foot soldiers, it is a weapon that has been lengthened with a handle, and the blade has a slight curved amplitude, and the handle plus the blade is 1.6 meters, which is a kind of Japanese samurai sword that has been lengthened, but it is far more thick than the katana.

The riding crossbow in burst mode does not look very large, it should be half the normal power crossbow, it has a special arrow box and bronze springs, although it can fire five crossbow arrows in a row, but the range is only 30 steps, more than 30 steps will lose its power.

Now, the cavalry units equipped with cavalry spears, horse swords, and serial short crossbows, equipped with heavy cavalry have already held the cavalry spear in one hand and fired crossbow arrows in the other hand when they approached within thirty paces of the Qiyan coalition army, and after shooting the crossbow arrows, the knight released the riding crossbow with a rope at the tail, and when the riding crossbow was released, it was directly hung on the side of the horse's neck, and then the cavalry spear was held flat by both hands, almost completing the posture of charging with a gun, and they immediately collided with the enemy.

Nothing can stop the iron hooves of the heavily mounted cavalry, especially since the Qiyan coalition itself does not have a thick infantry army formation because of the pig rush charge, so what will happen can be imagined.

"What's the situation!?" Xiang Liang was also stunned: "Lu Hou's single-rider can really impact the infantry army, and looking at the battlefield situation, the single-rider with three arrows is simply boiling water and pouring cold oil, and it will melt when it meets it!! (To be continued......)