Chapter 0379 - Ring Lock Armor
Nebson immediately returned to the valley and sent a team of 1,000 men divided into two groups, one with bales of hay, and went down the river beach along the gravel ground, preparing to pull out the Zhou army guards, erect hay and burn the pontoon bridge. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 while the other went around to the northwest of the Zhou camp, ready to intercept the deserters.
Nebusong led the remaining 4,000 cavalry to slowly drive out of the valley, and walked two or three miles out of the valley, only one mile away from the Zhou army camp, and ordered two thousand troops to attack both sides of the Zhou army camp, and led 2,000 horsemen to watch the battle in situ.
Two teams of 1,000 people each assigned 200 horsemen to the front, rushed to the outside of the Zhou army camp to fight the horse and turn around, threw out the hook tied to the thin iron chain and threw it out violently, two hundred knights hooked the camp fence at the same time and then hit the horse back, there was a loud noise, the camp fence shook and bounced, and the huge force fell down in pieces, and the soldiers made a "yo drink" sound, cheering for a while.
The soldiers of the two thousand-man squad raised their scimitars and galloped wildly from the gap into the camp of the Zhou army, all the way to the unimpeded unimpeded without any warning resistance. But the two leading little thousand household chiefs soon found that the situation was strange, and the war knife picked the tent of the Zhou army's camp, and there was no one in it. The reason why there was a sound was that the iron pots and copper basins hanging at the gate of the camp were blown and collided by the river wind, and they naturally made a sound.
"Not good! Fooled! Hurry up and go......" The head of the small thousand households immediately ordered the horse team to turn around, and before he left the camp, he heard a burst of echoes in the mountain depression in the distance, which was a large group of cavalry approaching.
Sure enough, Nebson was reacting and ordered the horse team to turn around, but at this moment thousands of horsemen in the valley to the west rushed out of the mist and rushed straight towards the camp. Nebuzon was too hasty to flee and had to lead his troops to meet him, but the horse team was still trotting and did not raise its speed at all.
The number of Zhou army's horse team is not large, but the momentum is extremely amazing, and it is close to thirty or forty steps in an instant, and the first Zhou general shouted, and then saw that the soldiers of the Zhou army raised their hands in unison, pulled out a black iron short spear from behind, and threw it together.
WhewW...... The sound of breaking through the air roared, and the black shadows gradually magnified, falling head-on into their own horse team, and there was a miserable howl from the left and right behind him, and the chain mail equipped with it was stabbed by a short spear like paper paste, and flew off the horse's back one by one, knocking over many companions.
Nebuzon groaned and found that he had not been shot, but before he could be surprised, the opposite horse team approached at once. The side forward Zhou will be extremely brave, and the golden spear in his hand will slap left and right, opening the gap in one moment, and only one photo will break through it, and his horse team will be divided into two halves.
Xiao Qianhu's face turned pale, and he panicked in his heart, and led his troops to rush out of the camp, but he didn't have time to return to the team, just in time to catch up with the Zhou army horse team that rushed over. But I saw that one of the first generals was wearing a big red cloak, a green and faint jet-black mountain pattern armor seemed to be Qingtang armor, and he was holding a big gun with a golden luster, and the head of the spear was drenched in blood. At this time, there was another roar, and in the whirring sound of breaking the air, the left and right companions fell off their horses one after another.
Seeing the two horses approaching, Xiao Qianhu roared loudly, waved his mace and swept over, but saw that the horse leaned forward sharply, and the golden gun in his hand swung as fast as lightning, and the poisonous snake stabbed straight like a letter.
The thought of dodging in Xiao Qianhu's mind turned sharply, but the mace in both hands was old with strength, and he couldn't keep up with the reaction of his brain, and watched as the spear head covered with crimson blood pierced into his waist at once, and the chain mail woven with thin iron rings made a tooth-aching metal grinding sound, and he couldn't withstand the stab of a flying spear with the momentum of the war horse.
The golden spear will naturally be Hao Tianying, he used the power of the forward stab to raise the spear violently, pick the enemy horse away, the big gun circled, and then swept the left horse off the horse, as if entering no man's land, breaking through the enemy horse team like waves.
At the same time, another thousand-man team of 100 paces away from each other in the south was also treated equally by the second regiment of Ming Jinpeng, cutting the enemy's horse team in one fell swoop just rushed under the camp fence, turned around and returned, and then rushed to kill the 1,000 cavalry in front of him, beat the horse and accelerated to bite the 2,000 cavalry that were about to flee in front, and attacked with a regiment of horse troops left and right, broke in diagonally, and twisted it into three sections again.
"Look! Nabo is about to escape! A soldier saw that the enemy general in front of him was wearing a ring of iron armor, an iron helmet with a round peak, and a precious trimmed deerskin neck guard around his neck, and he immediately recognized it.
"Brothers, follow me to pursue ......" Ming Jinpeng shouted, took more than 100 horses, and completed the U-turn in an instant with superb riding skills, leaving the horse team to catch up far away.
But at this time, Fan's riding speed finally came up, running fast, Ming Jinpeng was seventy or eighty steps behind, seeing that the distance was going to slowly widen, he hurriedly reached out and took out a five-bucket bow from under the saddle, stared at the front of Fan and shot an arrow, but saw that Nafan would shake the horse for a while, but there was no fart in it, and the back was still beating the horse with arrows in his back.
Ming Jinpeng was secretly taken aback, and suddenly came to his senses, the ring lock armor has a very strong defensive ability against arrows, and it is difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate the armor. At that moment, he angrily drew his knife and stabbed the horse in the back of the horse, and the war horse neighed in pain, spread its hooves and galloped, and finally gradually narrowed the distance to thirty or forty paces, but the speed that was lifted in an instant immediately had a tendency to slow down.
Ming Jinpeng hurriedly pulled out an armor-piercing cone from the cowhide strap on his back, leaned back slightly, adjusted the sitting posture on the horse's back, and at the same time stared at the front of the horse, and the general who was undulating with the war horse. The moment the mount's four hooves hit the ground and jumped with force, the strength rose and passed on to his body, his waist shook violently, and his right arm, which was raised high through the armor cone, swung out violently.
With a "whew", the dark armor-piercing cone crossed a graceful parabola in the air and turned around and fell, penetrating into the back of the general. A miserable howl came from afar, and the war horse suddenly neighed, and the leaping man stood up, and the raised front hooves struggled weakly for a while, and fell to his knees with a bang, but the inertia of the forward rush did not stop, and he flipped out upside down. Immediately, the general fell crookedly and was crushed under the belly of the war horse.
Several horsemen shouted in horror, and stepped forward to rescue, Ming Jinpeng pulled out the armor cone and threw it over, and then put down a horse, and the other horses let out a frightened shout, and fled one after another.
Judging from his long-term combat experience, Ming Jinpeng saw that the Fan general should have been nailed to the horse's back by the armor piercing cone, so he ignored it and turned to chase and kill the fleeing Fan cavalry. Soon, Hao Tianying's regiment behind him also dispersed the enemy cavalry, and began to divide into small teams to encircle and suppress.
Half an hour later, the battle ended easily, Hao Tianying led two regiments of horse troops to follow the order of Xuan Chongwen, and rushed here to ambush at dusk yesterday and fought a beautiful battle of annihilation. After counting the results of the battle, 1,800 beheadings were taken, more than 1,000 enemies were wounded, and after being mended by the soldiers, they were counted as beheadings, 700 prisoners were captured alive, and less than 200 successfully escaped.
The seized trophies included more than 2,000 war horses, more than 200 well-made ring lock armors, and Qingtang armor with the style of Mingguang armor and iron plates, which attracted the attention of Hao Tianying and Ming Jinpeng.
It is said that this kind of iron armor was learned from Sogdia and Great Food in Tibet back then, and it had a strong defense against swords, guns, assassinations and arrows. Several officers Hao Tianying and Ming Jinpeng immediately put on two layers of ring lock armor and shot arrows at eighty paces, but one of them could not penetrate.
It is also ineffective to drag and scratch with a Miao knife, but it can still pierce if you stab hard, because the Miao knife made by Huining Guangxiang Fort is also very tough, and the blade and tip are very sharp. Assassination with an ordinary hardwood pole spear is also not very effective, and it requires a lot of strength to pierce the armor.
Hao Tianying and Ming Jinpeng immediately led the troops to transport these trophies back to Gaolan County, as for the pontoon bridge behind them, it was still intact, which was mainly used to send troops, but it accidentally became an inducement, and the baggage was actually to take the Huining pontoon bridge.
At the same time, Wen Qishi sent another well-equipped 3,000 soldiers of the headquarters to bypass the mountains west of Gaolan City and go north, intending to attack the Gaizhu Valley thirty miles north of Gaolan City, because it was the gathering place of the Zhou army's Guangwu and Huining Grain Road, and there was a large village that occupied a radius of six miles.
In order to prevent the Zhou army from detecting the north to support, Wen Qishi immediately led 16,000 troops to drive out of the camp to the north for two miles, and lined up in the field to invite battle, and waited for half an hour, the city gate was finally opened, and the Zhou army could be regarded as leaving the city.
At this time, the morning fog was gradually dispersed by the dry wind, and the sun appeared in mid-air, and the light that transmitted the earth through the clouds was not strong, but there was also some heat, shining on people's faces with a slight warmth, and even the white frost on the ground began to slowly melt.
The first of the Zhou army out of the city was not the horse army, but the infantry army with a very neat long line, straight out of the city to the south three hundred steps to stand, naturally to both sides of the horizontal spread, it seems to be extremely skilled, soon completed the left, center, right three armies side by side, the back is still gradually superimposed, the whole process is very quiet, like flowing clouds and water to see the dazzling, almost did not hear the officer's scolding.
"Strange! They don't seem to have a formation to command, the formation is just completed, and there is no horse army on guard outside, aren't they afraid that our horse team will surprise you? Wen Qishi immediately stepped forward and watched the enemy from about a mile and a half of the open space in the middle of the battlefield, and saw that the Zhou army was calmly arranged, and he was very surprised to say to himself, and his heart swelled with unease.
"Lord Wenqi Wanhu, you see, they are very neatly marched, and the shield does not seem to be a flat square shield like ordinary town soldiers, but a tortoise shell that is round and protruding, and it looks strange. The big gun in the front row is two feet long, and it should be a horse rejection gun. There are also hundreds of scouts scattered in the distance, and the horse army must have gone to support Gaizhu Village, maybe they will fight halfway. The chief of the Nebu garrison who went to attack the pontoon bridge should have news to report back, why hasn't there been any movement yet? "The deputy general is also a big garrison chief, and he also has some doubts in his heart when he sees the movements of the Zhou army.
After a while, the Zhou army seemed to be out of the city, and the city gate behind it slowly closed. Wen Qishi roughly counted, the Zhou army's full infantry formation is an offensive phalanx, and the front row is a horizontal rectangle, which should be a rejection formation. The left and right sides are vertical rectangular large long arrays, and the middle is full of square tofu blocks, there are a total of fifteen squares, and if you count five hundred people in one group, that is 7,500 people. (To be continued.) )