002 Battle of the Panhe River Down
Before the rain of arrows fell overhead, a shield array covering the heavens and the earth was erected in the infantry formation, like a brown mushroom in the vast field, and then the sound of dingding and ding came one after another! The mushroom was like a reed with a large white flower!
The rain of arrows continued to fall on the shield array, and from time to time stray arrows drilled into the gaps between the shields and nailed into the bodies of the soldiers under the shields!
From time to time, someone snorted and fell, and the exposed gap was quickly blocked by the shield soldiers behind him, and more than 800 pioneers were like stubborn stones, no matter how the storm washed them, they always stood on their own!
At a distance of sixty paces, more than 2,000 white horses shot nearly 6,000 arrows! The casualties of the infantry under Koji Yi were only more than 100! Yan Gang didn't care about such an effect, he was full of confidence in himself and the knights behind him! Those white horse righteous knights are all carefully selected from the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, and since they formed the army, they have not tasted defeat!
Yan Gang hung the bow on the saddle, and raised the iron anchor to prepare for an attack, originally if the opponent was strong enough, the cavalry could shoot several rounds around the enemy's formation until the opponent collapsed, but the arrogant Yan Gang directly omitted this link, in his opinion, how could this handful of infantry in front of him be his opponent, you must know that he had led his headquarters to defeat the Qingzhou Yellow Turban ten times his own last month!
It's just that this time he didn't meet a group of rabble Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, on the contrary, it was a well-equipped Jizhou elite! And the main general is still the main general who was born in Liangzhou since he was a child, and is quite familiar with cavalry tactics!
When I saw that there were still sixty paces between the two sides! The infantry array, which stood motionless like a rock, suddenly moved! The flat and dense shield array suddenly widened a lot, and countless gaps suddenly flashed between the shields! Hundreds of crossbowmen flashed from behind the burly shieldmen, and hundreds of crossbow arrows devoured the cavalry like poisonous snakes!
Yan Gang, who rushed to the front, only heard a tingling sound on his scalp, and the crossbow bolt that was as fast as a meteor had reached a few meters in front of him! The crossbow arrows are powerful, and Yan Gang is at the arrows in the formation, which has attracted the attention of too many crossbowmen, and there are dozens of crossbow arrows just shooting at him!
At the critical moment, Yan Gang showed excellent riding skills, hiding in a stirrup and drilling under the horse's belly, although the war horse was hit by more than ten crossbow arrows on the spot, and fell to the ground with a neigh, Yan Gang's body was agile, and he immediately bounced up as soon as he landed! Jump on a horse with no one around you!
The other White Horse Yicong obviously did not have the horsemanship and strength like him, and the sharp cavalry array was like a bamboo shoot that had been stripped of a shell, and most of the cavalry who rushed to the outermost aid were shot by crossbow arrows! At such a close distance, many knights were even carried out by powerful crossbow arrows!
The front row of the white horse was suddenly overturned! A lot of knights and horses were shot to the ground! The robe behind him was speeding up, how could he react at such a close distance, no one stopped, and no one dared to stop, in the high-speed galloping cavalry charging array, one person stopping would cause the collapse of the entire formation! Such a rain-dense stream of horses' hooves trampled past! The knight who fell from his horse will surely die!
Just this wave of arrow rain, the white horse who fell off the horse was close to 200 people! Although the knights in the back row were in confusion, they reluctantly rushed over a large pile of rotten limbs, but before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a second wave of deadly arrows came to their faces
Yan Gang now regrets it very much, regrets that he shouldn't have been so careless and chose to use a dense queue to impact the enemy formation, just now the war horse he sat down was tripped by a horse corpse, and was almost rushed to the ground by the cavalry behind, if he had surrounded the enemy formation with a straggler array and shot a few rounds, even if the opponent had a shield array, he would not be able to block the arrow rain attack from all directions, and it would inevitably collapse, and then use the cavalry to tear the gap, and annihilate them would be as easy as mowing grass!
But it's too late to say anything now, two waves of arrows rained down, and a total of more than 300 horses were lost! After a chaotic trampling of men and horses, the charging formation even slowed down a lot!
Fortunately, at this time, the crossbow bolts that had fired two waves finally stopped, and now the distance between the two sides was only thirty paces, and the rate of fire of the crossbow bolts was slow, so the cavalry under his command only had to rush forward to see what else they had to be rampant!
Yan Gang grabbed the spear hanging on the saddle, shouted in his mouth, and looked viciously at the infantry shield array that had been re-closed! At a distance of thirty steps, the solemn faces behind the cowhide shield on the opposite side were already extremely clear! It only takes a few breaths for him to be able to show the depression in his chest!
"Assault! Assault! ”
It's just that before Yan Gang's words fell, the oval shield array suddenly moved, although slowly, but it pressed forward towards the high-speed galloping cavalry, just like a heavy tank that had just started! Although in the face of a raging white torrent! But he was not afraid!
"MD is looking for death!" Yan Gang seemed to have a feeling of being insulted, the infantry formation, and he dared to think of the cavalry to attack! At this moment, the anger in his heart could no longer suppress the anger in his chest, and he completely gave up the idea of rounding the wings, kicked the horse's belly and accelerated forward!
Brush Brush Brush! In the Koji Yi array, the three spears and poisonous snakes generally pierced out from behind the shield, one stabbed Yan Gang, and two stabbed horses! Yan Gang shouted violently, swept the spear in his hand, and swept away all three spears, but at this time he realized that the spear was not a weapon he was good at, and if he wanted to expand the results, there was nothing he could do!
Bang! Yan Gang sat down and slammed into a thick cowhide heavy shield! The infantry carrying the shield was hit hard by a truck, flew straight up and crashed into his companions behind him, and the huge impact force knocked down several people at once! The dense shield array was suddenly knocked open by him, and he saw the spear in his hand like cold stars, and suddenly several shield-wielding pioneers covered their throats and staggered to the ground!
But that's all he can achieve! The thickness and toughness of the shield array were obviously beyond his imagination! A few shield soldiers in the back row quickly made up for it, and a few spears stabbed violently, forcing him back!
The other cavalry also suffered similar encounters to Yan Gang, just this wave of charge, Koji Yixianden lost more than a third of his troops! However, these soldiers are like a resilient spring, not only resisting the wave of momentum of the White Horse Yicong, but also beginning to launch a powerful counterattack!
The whizzing sound of crossbow arrows is like the call of death again! At such a close distance, once they were aimed, it was almost impossible to dodge, and the charging cavalry couldn't help but feel a chill when they saw the faint black light of the crossbow arrows, and some cavalrymen didn't even have time to react before they were pierced by the powerful crossbow arrows!