Chapter 89: The First Head-on Collision (3)

The muffled sound of feathered arrows entering the flesh and the clanging of the shield were heard, and the advancing Great Cannibal Cavalry fell instantly. This was followed by a second round of arrow rain, and a third round of arrow rain, which almost swept away the first three rows of the Great Eclipse Cavalry. A large number of horses and knights rolled and fell on the ground, and the knights behind avoided them, and they ran into the wounded horses and wounded men one after another. The momentum of the Great Food Cavalry was stagnant, the formation was chaotic, and the speed also slowed down.

After a moment's hesitation, he decided to take a gamble, bet on the last of his troops, and rushed forward with the three thousand cavalry who had pressed the formation.

At this time, the Anxi cavalry on both flanks also collided with the Turkic cavalry of Shiguo. What Na Juche Nose Shi didn't expect was that this Anxi cavalry seemed to be a little different from before. Not only did they form a tighter formation, but although they weren't at the point where they were leg to leg, the spacing between each horse was very close.

What's even more incredible is that they are so tightly formed and very fast. The Turkic cavalry originally wanted to fight with them, but before the six-bucket or eight-bucket cavalry bow could shoot two rounds, it was quickly approached by the Anxi cavalry. In a hurry, they did not have time to turn and flee, and the 7,000 Turkic cavalry had to abandon their bows and swords and change their spears, losing the opportunity.

The two cavalry armies collided at once, and the Turkic cavalry outnumbered the Anxi cavalry by two and a half hundred, and the formation was scattered; The Anxi cavalry was small in number and in tight formation. From a distance, it looked as if the Turkic cavalry had surrounded the Anxi cavalry.

But what all the Turkic cavalry did not expect was that the Anxi cavalry, like a chisel, chiseled through their line almost instantly. The Turkic cavalry of the Seven Thousand Stone Kingdom seemed to be like paper paste in front of them, and the Anxi cavalry formation was too dense, and they used spears and horse lances. It ran like a forest of moving spears, with each Turkic cavalryman facing two or three spears at the same time.

No matter how superb the cavalry and marksmanship of this Turkic cavalryman were, he could not show it at this time. Because even if he stabbed one of his opponents to death with one spear, he would be stabbed to death by another or two spears. This kind of mortal battle made these Turkic cavalry, who were not very determined to fight, not know how to deal with it at once, and the resistance was completely broken in just a moment, and they turned and fled.

But the most terrible thing is that even if they escape, they can't outrun these Anxi cavalry! If it weren't for the fact that they fled too scattered, and the Anxi army refused to disband the formation, they were afraid that these Turkic cavalry would face a total annihilation.

A battle imaginary in that car nose Shi turned into a one-sided slaughter that was divided between winners and losers in just a few breaths. Otherwise, empiricism kills people, the Anxi cavalry has undergone a major change, and the Turkic cavalry of Shiguo still treats them in the same way as before.

Horses equipped with horseshoe can not only adapt more to different road surfaces, but also reduce the wear and tear of the horse's hooves. Even in the grassland, which is very suitable for horses to run, after equipping the horseshoe, it can also increase the friction, so that the horse's hooves can better grasp the ground, so that the horse can run faster and more stable.

The dense formation of the Anxi Army was also something they didn't expect, and this new tactic that was six or seven hundred years ahead of this era was naturally brought about by Xiao Quai.

During the march from Qiuzi to Shule Town, Xiao Quzhi once saw hundreds of Qarluq cavalry charging rapidly, and in the same column, the interval between horses could be at least two horses. casually asked Gao Xianzhi if the cavalry of the steppe was like this when they charged, and after receiving an affirmative answer, Xiao Qu suddenly thought of the Polish hussars who were almost incomprehensible in the era of cold weapons, and beat the Turkic cavalry without the slightest ability to fight back in the previous time and space.

So Xiao Quzhi told Gao Xianzhi about this idea, this is not a very complicated tactic, Gao Xianzhi is also a famous general in the world, and he quickly figured it out, and said three wonderful words at that time. Many things in human beings are like this, not because they are not smart enough, but because of some limitations, such as the limitations of thinking, path dependence, etc.

Just like papermaking, the West started with parchment, and if the East and West had been separated, they might have gone further and further down the road to make thinner parchment. But when Chinese pulp paper spread to the West, the West immediately abandoned the path of parchment paper and used Chinese paper on a large scale. In the same way, the tactical thinking that Xiao Quzhi brought from another time and space also gave Gao Xianzhi a feeling of brightness and sudden enlightenment.

The two also found more than a dozen Anxi generals to do a deduction, and the conclusion was that the light cavalry hedged, and the cavalry in a tight formation defeated the cavalry in a scattered formation. Therefore, along the way, Gao Xianzhi deliberately carried out training in this area, and the cavalry marched deliberately to maintain a tight formation, and the distance between the knees of the cavalry was less than a foot at most. For this reason, he was secretly teased by the Qarluq cavalry in private.

Today is the first battle of this formation, of course, after only such a short period of training, it is not at all up to the standard of hussars with their legs close to their legs, but for example, the opponent's Turkic cavalry is too strong at a distance of four or five feet from each other, plus the Anxi war horses equipped with horseshoe, as soon as they appeared, these Turkic cavalry who only had blood and personal strength and lacked organizational discipline were stunned.

It was not only the Turkic cavalry of Shiguo who were stunned, but at this time, the Khorasan cavalry of Dashi was also a little stunned. As a dozen surviving riders in the third row, Sahil had already rushed to within sixty paces in front of the Ansi formation, and after advancing more than ten steps, he could throw the short spear in his hand, and then he could rush into the enemy line and reap the enemy's life with a Damascus scimitar.

But at this moment, the war horse under his crotch suddenly stumbled, fell down, and threw him off the horse. When he landed on the ground, he found that the narrow grass was sprinkled with iron thorns that they had never seen before, there were four thorns, and one of them was always pointing upwards, and at this moment he had four such iron thorns on his back, buttocks, and thighs. Only then did Sahil realize that his war horse should have stepped on such an iron thorn before he fell.

This damn Anxi army is too cunning!

Sahil broke a leg and an arm, and was stabbed by four thistles, and lay on the ground unable to move, so he could only watch his comrades fall off their horses one by one, and the bodies of the fallen horses and knights in this area covered almost the entire meadow, and in many places there were even two or three layers. Because Sahil was on the outside of the team, he avoided the fate of being crushed at the bottom by the horses and knights of the rear team.

Sahir heard the increasingly rapid sound of trumpets coming from behind the Khorasan cavalry, and it seemed that Said bin Humet also saw that he was always frozen here, and that he had to rush through this area quickly for the sake of being beaten. As long as they rushed over, the Anxi army would be crushed, and they would be victorious, albeit a crushing victory.

However, there were so many wounded and dead horses on the ground in this area that the speed of the Khorasan cavalry had slowed down, and it was very difficult to re-accelerate in such a situation. At this point, the battle finally changed from quantitative to qualitative, and it was no longer a matter of the crossbow arrows shooting the knights, but completely disrupting their formation, and at the same time making it almost impossible for them to move an inch.

Sahil saw that the formation of the Anxi army was still very intact, and almost no one died. In addition to the archers, who were still methodically and slowly shooting their arrows, the crossbowmen who had just finished firing quickly retreated. He saw the Anxi army coming out of the rear, two rows of men in heavy armor, and holding a long-handled broadsword almost eight cubits in size.

Each of these Anxi hoplites was very tall and had a ghostly face on their faces, as if they were moving towers. The double-sided blades are like a wall of light under the sunlight, and the cold light is dazzling. They marched slowly in a neat rhythm, as if they could crush everything in front of them; With every step they took, they shouted, and although it was impossible to see the expressions on their faces, it was conceivable that this morale was already like a rainbow.

Finally, the last two rows of Khorasan cavalry, stepping on the horses and the corpses of the knights in front of them, rushed to within thirty paces, and two rows of short spears burst through the air, half of which hit the two rows of heavy infantry, but most of them broke at least the first layer of armor, and were stopped by the second layer of armor, or broke through two layers, but did not penetrate deeply. Only a few unlucky ones were killed by short spears that happened to hit the gaps in the armor, and the infantry behind them immediately made up for it, and the heavy infantry continued to move forward steadily.

The distance between the two sides was soon close, and Sahil saw one of the Anthy generals closest to him roar, all his long knives raised high. Then he saw that his comrades, who had less than twenty percent of the five thousand Khorasan cavalry left, were at last approaching within eight cubits at a not-so-rapid pace.

Those shiny, bright broadswords suddenly slashed down at this time, and Sahir saw the row of cavalry running in front, with men and horses, being split in half. The blood curtain splattered, the internal organs and limbs flew wildly, and half of the body of the Khorasan knight smashed next to Sahir's head, and the blood splashed his face.

A few streaks of blood flew into Sahir's eyes, turning his whole world red. He didn't feel any pain at this point, but just watched the two rows of hoplites, after smashing the first row of Khorasan cavalry, shouted loudly, and continued to march forward like a wall of swords. Then he met the enemy again, raised his broadsword again, and slashed down again, and once again split the last row of Khorasan cavalry and men and horses in half.

Push like a wall, destroy everything, smash everything!

Oh, my God! How could there be such a terrifying army in the world!

Hu Da! Don't you care about us anymore?!

Lying on the ground, Sahir Yuan stared blankly at the sky with his eyes open, without any expression on his face, and swallowed his last breath in despair. Next to him were the corpses of thousands of his comrades. Most of them were slaves five years ago, and taking advantage of the lack of control over the place by the White Clothes and Food, Khorasan had the opportunity to attack each other on three legs. They received missionary work from the Abbasids to Khorasan and became the backbone of the Abbasids against the Umayyads.

After that, they openly raised the anti-flag while the Umayyads were still in disarray, and then they took advantage of the chaos to capture Mulu. Thus began their legend, all the way to the west, almost invincible along the way, and finally defeated the Great Eater of White, and established the Persian-dominated Eater of White. After that, they fought back into the river, crushed the rebellion of the Arabs and the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, and slaughtered cities everywhere in the river, doing all kinds of evil.

Now, they encountered the Tang Dynasty in the East, and the Khorasan cavalry, which thought that they were favored by Hu Da, was proud and complacent, and the five thousand cavalry crashed headlong into the strong bow and crossbow of the Anxi army and the Mo knife like a wall, and were hit to the point that their heads were broken and bleeding, and their bodies were shattered, and they were almost completely annihilated.

The appearance of the Anxi army's Mo sword soldiers not only made Sahir die of despair, but also frightened the three thousand Khorasan cavalry behind. At this time, the 4,500 Anxi cavalry that attacked had already regrouped behind the 3,000 Khorasan cavalry after killing most of the Turkic cavalry of Banshi Kingdom, and all the 500 cavalry of the Anxi army also attacked.

After seeing the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Anxi army, Said Ben Humet and his cavalry were so frightened that they collapsed without a fight. The 3,000 Khorasan cavalry were pursued all the way by the 5,000 cavalry of the Anxi army, and less than 500 of them finally escaped back to the city of Talas.

Datang, Dashi, the two strongest countries at that time, once again faced each other head-to-head after a gap of 36 years, and the result was still the same as 36 years ago, Datang won completely!