Chapter 65: Turning the Tide (2)
On the mound, Shi Siming's two eyes suddenly opened to the maximum, and he looked incredulously at the sixty-one horses that came out of the city gate and rushed towards him.
Is this crazy? He couldn't understand what kind of army there would be in the world!
Shi Siming couldn't help but sneer again, the weapons of Tiance Mansion are really advanced, not only the five-stone Tiance crossbow, the light eight-bull crossbow, and the fierce fire oil that can be burned on the water, but now there are this new type of crossbow guns that can make loud noises and fires;
The soldiers of Tiance Mansion really swore to defend the Tang Dynasty, and sure enough, they all valued righteousness and life, and regarded death as home!
But how is this?
Do you really think that you can save these thousands of Han people with this weapon that has never been seen before, and sixty-one knights?
What a joke! Although this new weapon is very powerful and earth-shattering, it is actually not very powerful, the effective killing range is only six or seven feet, and the biggest effect is probably to frighten the horses, but there are still 10,000 infantry!
Although the cavalry of Tiance Mansion is the first in the world, there are only sixty-one horses, here are ten for one, twenty for one, and these sixty-one horses can be eaten so that there is no scum left!
On the other side, the sixty-one horsemen led by Mo Qiufeng had already rushed out more than a hundred steps, and they all raised the strong crossbows in their hands, and one hundred and eighty-three crossbow arrows shot out like lightning.
Countless Han people who were swept by these Tiance light cavalry saw that the Youzhou cavalry who had driven them unscrupulously and slaughtered them before, at this time, they were all planted under their horses with feathered arrows in their bodies, and the rest all fled in embarrassment, and a large cheer suddenly sounded in the crowd.
At the same time, the nearly 20,000 Youzhou infantry riders under Raoyang Beicheng were also a little stunned, and watched in disbelief as these sixty-one cavalry rushed over. There was a hint of panic in the eyes of a few people.
At this time, Shi Siming gritted his teeth, slashed his palm forward, and said viciously: "Attack!" Kill them all! Go and rob Raoyang City again! β
The desolate trumpet sounded, the flag waved, and the five thousand Youzhou light cavalry and six thousand infantry, who had long been waiting for the battle, lined up in a wide front. rushed towards the north gate of Raoyang, and at this time, none of the nearly 5,000 Han people ran into the city gate, and the 500 infantry led by Zhang Xing were still running out against the flow of people entering the city.
On the mound, Shi Siming raised the horse lance in his hand, revealing a mouth of yellow teeth, the yin owl laughed cruelly, and the war horse that stepped down also snorted excitedly, and one front hoof kept digging the soil.
Shi Siming's side. Sixty guards and two thousand pro-soldiers also had their eyes shining, their faces full of excitement, seeing that Raoyang City was about to be broken, they couldn't wait to join the battlefield too, and they were the first to rush into Raoyang City and kill all sides!
At this moment, a second round of crossbow bolts was fired from the wall, and eighteen crossbow guns were fired accurately into the crowd and the horses that were preparing to charge. Blood splattered, and screams rang out.
This was followed by eighteen earth-shattering bangs that rang out almost simultaneously. The flames soared into the sky, some people were blown up, their bodies and limbs flew wildly, and the neighing of war horses and the terrified screams of Youzhou soldiers resounded through the heavens and the earth.
This time, the eighteen gunpowder crossbows killed and injured more than forty people, which was naturally small and negligible for the huge base of 11,000 Youzhou troops that launched the attack, but the panic they brought was not small at all.
Li Riyue, the commander of the 5,000 Youzhou Light Cavalry, saw with his own eyes a human body exploded in front of him. The stench of blood foam and the scorching heat of gunpowder rushed to his face, and a piece of internal organs flew directly into his neck without knowing what part, and the gruesome horror made him never forget.
Li Riyue's hands shook involuntarily, his heart twitched in an instant, and his scalp was numb for a while. When the human internal organs burrowed into his neck, his soul was almost out of his body, and he quickly looked down at his body to make sure that he was not injured, and then the soul slowly returned to the body.
But the war horse under his crotch did not have such quality, the earth-shattering sound and the fire produced by the violent explosion frightened it, and the mouth made a neighing sound, and he kicked and jumped restlessly, if it weren't for Li Riyue's quick recovery, he quickly pulled the reins tightly, and pressed the war horse with a heavy crotch, this famous general who had fought since he was a child almost fell off his horse.
As the commander of the hundred battles of the famous general Li Riyue is still like this, other knights are even worse, Li Riyue swept his eyes around, and saw that around each explosion, there were ten knights who were thrown off their horses, and the war horses were in a commotion, kicking and jumping around, and individual unlucky knights who fell off the horse were trampled to death or kicked to death by the war horses.
The offensive that was originally like a rainbow was instantly frightened and stalled by this round of attacks by the Tiance Army, although the knights who were killed or trampled to death were really only a very small part, but it still caused great panic, and the army's heart was shaken.
The cavalry is like this, and the infantry is not much better, compared to the cavalry, the infantry stands more densely, and there are more Youzhou soldiers who were directly killed by the explosion.
Shen Zigong, the commander of the 6,000 Youzhou infantry, was not very far from the explosion point - the Tiance crossbowmen on the city wall deliberately shot at their flags, and the stumps of his body also flew on him, and one of the arms of a Youzhou soldier smashed directly into his face, which shocked him and his soul was immediately scattered.
When he finally came to his senses, he saw that not far from him, two Youzhou soldiers were directly blown off by the waist, their internal organs flew to the ground, and the colorful intestines under his body were scattered, constantly flowing out of filth and fragments of internal organs, and one of them was lying on his back on the ground, not dead for a while, his eyes kept blinking.
The surrounding Youzhou soldiers looked at the miserable situation of the two people on the ground with great fear, and they couldn't help but stop, and most of them couldn't help but vomit, and the military spirit was already seriously frustrated.
In fact, they have seen more tragic deaths than this, such as being smashed into meat sauce by catapults, such as being scalded by fire oil, such as being swallowed by a sea of fire, but this kind of crossbow gun that will make an earth-shattering noise and fire will be full of black smoke is the first time they have seen it.
People are naturally afraid of the unknown!
Li Riyue and Shen Zigong looked at the casualties of their subordinates, in fact, they were not much, not even fifty together, but they caused such a big panic, and the originally frightened eyes of the two suddenly condensed, and became as fierce as hungry wolves. They all pulled out the horizontal knives on their waists, and with a few slashes, they cut off the heads of several Youzhou soldiers who were screaming or vomiting.
"Those who disturb the morale of the army will be killed, and if you want to live, you will rush forward! See, we've had less than fifty dead, and the weapon was nothing more than a huge momentum. And after the next launch, it only takes five or six breaths, and we have already killed those Han people! β
Li Riyue and Shen Zigong roared hoarsely, their eyes were fierce, and their faces looked around at their subordinates with hideous faces, and more than 10,000 Youzhou foot riders who were frightened also stabilized their war horses at this time, and looked up to look around, there were indeed not many dead and wounded, and the four or five thousand Han people were due to various chaos and physical reasons. The movement is also extremely slow, and the cavalry can kill these people without ten breaths.
"Kill them all! Kill into the city! β
More than 10,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry once again burst out of their savage and fierce nature, shouting loudly and continuing to advance, nearly 5,000 cavalry kicked the belly of the horse, trying to make the horse speed as much as possible, more than 10,000 people after a short period of stagnation, again like the tide of the sea. Unstoppably, nearly 5,000 Han people flocked to the north gate of Raoyang City.
At this time. The sixty-one cavalry led by Mo Qiufeng, the captain of the Tiance Military Academy, had all rushed through more than 4,000 Han people, and Mo Qiufeng, who was at the front of the team, suddenly roared, and the already extremely thin team actually divided a small team of ten people from the left and right, and rushed to the right flank of the 6,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry respectively, while Mo Qiufeng continued to rush straight to the left flank of the 5,000 cavalry facing the north gate of Raoyang.
The more than 10,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry who had already launched a charge on the battlefield and the more than 8,000 infantry cavalry who were waiting under the mound were all stunned and looked at this Tiance cavalry who dared to charge to the death, this was completely fighting for their lives!
Shi Siming's eyes widened again on the mound. His face was pale, and there was a slight tremor in his hands, not because of the explosion of a round of gunpowder crossbow that delayed his 11,000-step cavalry attack for three or four breaths, but because he saw these sixty-one horses, especially the forty-one horses in the middle, rushing towards him desperately.
This kind of indomitable. The desperate momentum of thousands of troops and horses alone unconsciously made Shi Siming feel a trace of fear, he slammed his horse lance on the small mound, and shouted hoarsely: "Kill them all!" Kill them all! β
When Shi Siming roared angrily, the sixty-one Tiance cavalry led by Mo Qiufeng had already shot out one hundred and eighty-three crossbow arrows from another strong crossbow, and then took them off the hook on the breastplate and threw them at the back, at the same time, his legs kicked the horse's belly violently, and the belly of each war horse had been kicked bloodied by the spurs, and the horse speed had been raised to the highest.
At this time, more than 10,000 Youzhou foot riders have also been inspired by the behavior of these sixty-one horsemen to be ferocious, and the cavalry has pulled out six buckets and eight buckets of riding bows, and it is a round of arrow rain against these fifty-one horses; And the 6,000 infantry rushed forward desperately with red eyes and spears, trying to stab the ten Tiance knights in front of them into hedgehogs.
The rain of arrows swept in the face, and the fifty-one cavalry cavalry was suddenly splashed with sparks, tinkling like rain hitting plantains, and a dense cluster of arrow shafts instantly grew on the leather armor of the war horse like a weed.
And the sixty-one horsemen on the horse also inserted their spears into the victory hook almost at the same time at this time, and their empty hands took off two iron bumps slightly larger than their fists from the cuirassal, and more than 10,000 Youzhou soldiers found that these sixty-one Tiance knights had six such iron bumps hanging on their armor, two on the breastplate and four on the waist.
But what do they want to do now that they take this thing off, Meteor Hammer? But there is no rope or chain in between, which is really strange.
"Wan Sheng!"
Mo Qiufeng, who was running in front, roared angrily, and the sixty-one horsemen ignited the iron bumps on the fire on the saddle at the same time, and then threw them forward almost at the same time.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than twenty steps away, and the speed of the throwing plus the speed of the war horse was added, and sixty-one iron bumps were accurately thrown into the military array of more than 10,000 Youzhou infantry cavalry, and then before these Youzhou rebels could react, the earth-shattering loud noise sounded again, the fire rushed to the sky again, and the broken limbs and stumps flew again, and the more than 10,000 Youzhou infantry riders who had just mustered up the will to fight were instantly stunned again!
What's the matter, not only will the crossbow guns shot by the eight-bull crossbow on the city wall explode, but these black iron bumps will also explode, and the power seems to be even greater?
The five thousand Youzhou cavalry who had just run up were in chaos again, and this time the thunderbolts thrown by the fifty-one cavalry Tiance soldiers could be regarded as the highest weapon of the Tiance Mansion, and it was a granulated black ~ fire ~ medicine with a strict formula to the extreme, and the process was excellent. The iron sheets on the outside are also similar to the grenades of later generations, which can be split into small shrapnel pieces after exploding.
The shock wave of the explosion and the fast-moving shrapnel caused huge damage in these Youzhou cavalry arrays, and the offensive of more than 10,000 people was once again stalled, especially in front of Mo Qiufeng's forty-one cavalry, forty-one thunderbolts were thrown out together, covering the range of twenty to forty steps. After a round of explosions, a relatively empty area was immediately opened up in front of themβon the one hand, it was blown up from the explosion point, and on the other hand, the war horses spontaneously dodged the flames and ran farther away from the explosion point.
Mo Qiufeng and the other forty-one horses did not reduce their speed at all, and while rushing into this empty area, Mo Qiufeng shouted loudly again: "Wan Sheng!" β
The other forty-one thunderbolts were also thrown out at once, still covering the distance of twenty to forty paces, once again opening up a relatively empty area, and the forty-one people opened up a bloody road in the Youzhou cavalry group of more than 4,000 people in this way. Directly hit the Chinese army on Shi Siming's small mound.
The sixty-one Tiance cavalry sent to Raoyang City this time are naturally the elite of the Tiance cavalry, and this kind of training of throwing thunderbolts to cover a certain area at the same time has already been practiced countless times in the secret training base of the Yaoshi Garden in Beibi Mountain.
You can't throw it too far, otherwise the effect will not be concentrated, and you can't throw it too close, too close will blow yourself up; At the same time, the war horse under the crotch has to be non-stop. Ignition within a period of time. Seconds, orders, throws, all of them must be exactly the same to achieve such an amazing effect, and sure enough, it is the first time that it has been applied in real combat. Just beat these Youzhou cavalry!
It was not only the Youzhou infantry in his early 10,000s that was blinded, but Shi Siming, who was sitting in the small mound of the Chinese army, was also blinded, and in a trance, he suddenly had an inexplicable premonition that the army was so desperate these days. If you don't destroy them as soon as possible, and then let them continue to hit their morale, I'm afraid that they will really have to take this group of people into the city!
Shi Siming pulled out his five-stone treasure carved bow from the bow pouch next to the saddle, and while preparing to bend the bow and arrows, he opened his voice and shouted with all his strength: "We must kill all these sixty-one horses!" β
In the shout, Shi Siming had already pulled the treasure eagle bow in his hand into a full moon, and the sharp arrows were shining in the cold cold light of the sun, aiming at Mo Qiufeng, who was charging forward.
And at this moment, Mo Qiufeng and the forty Tiance knights who were closely following behind him had all rushed into the array of more than four thousand Youzhou light cavalry at this time, and behind them, a blood path channel that had just been split with a thunderbolt was immediately closed, and at this moment, these forty-one cavalry were completely surrounded by Youzhou cavalry in all directions.
More than 4,000 cavalry troops were killed by the 41 cavalry at once, and they broke into the center of the cavalry formation.
The Forty-One Horsemen, who were at the center of the whirlpool, took off two thunderbolts from their waistcoats again at this time, but this time they ignited both thunderbolts together on the fire on the saddle sheath.
Mo Qiufeng, who was running at the front, glanced around, especially the Youzhou light cavalry that was getting closer and closer on both sides, these beast soldiers were also completely aroused at this time, their eyes were red, their expressions were hideous, and there were swords and guns all around, this time, I am afraid that I will die here.
Mo Qiufeng, who is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, is the oldest soldier in Tiance Mansion, entered Tiance Mansion at the age of eight to learn art, and went to the battlefield for the first time at the age of sixteen, he killed the first enemy in Tubo New Town, and his father died in battle at the age of seventeen, he took over his father's spear and armor, and officially became a soldier of Tiance Mansion.
In the days that followed, he followed Wang Zhongsi to fight in the south and the north, fought the Turks, fought the Khitan and Xi, and fought the most in Tibet, and the enemy who died under his spear and arrows was not eight hundred, but also five hundred; And by his side, there will be robes and deaths, and then their sons will succeed them.
As the last soldier of the Tang Dynasty, and also the most staunch guardian and defender of the Tang Dynasty, a member of the Tiance Mansion, Mo Qiufeng has seen too many deaths, experienced too many battle formations, and at this moment of life and death, fighting with his life, he has never felt that this is as ordinary as eating and drinking.
But when it came to this desperate situation of mortality, Mo Qiufeng's heart suddenly couldn't be calm, and what appeared in his mind was his wife's smile.
It was still twelve years ago, he went north to Yanmen with Wang Zhonghei to conquer the Khitan and Xi, and in the process of carrying out a reconnaissance mission, he rescued an orphan girl whose family was all killed by the Khitans, and the orphan girl has been with him ever since.
At that time, she was still a ten-year-old little girl, but she had to marry herself, and she didn't know why, looking at her big watery eyes and miserable little man, her heart softened and she agreed.
Later, the little girl took her surname, called Mo Qingyu, and married herself five years later, when she was twenty-five years old, and she was fifteen.
By now, his wife is already the mother of two children, but in Mo Qiufeng's impression, she is still the same person who is small, with big eyes, pitiful after him, and then he stopped to hold her hand and immediately laughed happily.
I really want to be alive, to be able to go back, to be able to hold my wife's hand, and to see my wife's clear and pure smile.
The next moment, Mo Qiufeng shouted out the password of "Wan Sheng", followed by forty-one flying thunderbolts.
On both sides of them, Youzhou light cavalry rushed over like a tide - (to be continued.) )
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