In this duel, the soldiers of both Datang and Da Shi were on fire, and as soon as it began, the battle was extremely fierce.

It's just that because this is the first time that the two sides have clashed head-to-head and fought head-to-head without any tricks, many situations are still unexpected by both sides. In a nutshell, there are some underestimates.

For example, Da Shi's side looks down on the defense system of the Anxi Army very much.

Compared with the strict defense of the Dashi military camp with vertical and horizontal trenches, walled walls, and deer all over the place, the defense of the Anxi military camp can be said to be thin and simple. The walled wall made of giant trees more than two zhang high on all sides, behind the walled wall is the rammed earth wall more than one zhang high, full of crossbowmen, only there are two sides and three zhang wide walled gates in the east and west directions.

Outside the wall, there is a ditch more than one zhang deep and one zhang wide, which encloses the wall. Both Posilin and Ziyad believed that the usefulness of such a shallow trench was almost negligible, and that four thousand Khorasan cavalry could quickly fill in a passage with a bag of earth per person.

On the outside of the ditch, there is a circular belt of red deer, which is basically two layers, and only three layers are placed directly opposite the wall. The seven or eight zhang long deer barns are not connected to each other, but are staggered and sparsely arranged. If you ride alone and walk slowly, you can easily pass around and come to the front of the trench. But obviously, when the fight broke out, these deer barricades had to be removed or dismantled as soon as possible.

This was not a problem in the eyes of both Posirin and Ziyard. More than a dozen cavalrymen threw ropes to lasso the stakes, and they pulled hard together to quickly drag them away.

What really made him and Ziyad jealous was the thousands of crossbowmen on the wall, looking at the row of feathered arrows of different colors stuck diagonally on the ground in front of them. This was shot by the Anxi crossbowmen on the walled wall when he first arrived, in order to mark the maximum range of various types of shooting weapons. And Posilin estimated with his eyes that the farthest range was about 160 steps from the wall, followed by 110 steps, and 70 steps.

The two deer bars were exactly within a hundred paces, which means that if you want to move the deer bars, you must withstand the blows of two shooting weapons; If you want to fill the trench, you have to shoot with three weapons. Fortunately, he had been prepared, and Posilin had collected more than 5,000 sets of chain mail from all over the river, and this time he brought them all.

The sound of drums and trumpets sounded, and the two thousand Khorasan cavalry rushed forward like a tidal wave, and behind them, the two thousand Khorasan cavalry and the two thousand Syrian cavalry had already carried a bag of dirt, and when the two thousand cavalry in front of them dragged the deer down, they rushed up, filled the trench, and then took advantage of the situation to rush the camp.

Duan Xiushi stood in the middle of the wall, watching the Great Eclipse cavalry approach quickly. Three hundred steps, two hundred and fifty steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and sixty steps, had already crossed the farthest row of red arrow feathers, approaching one hundred and fifty steps. He shouted violently: "Release!" ”

The general holding the flag next to him immediately slashed the red pennant in his hand downward. Two hundred and thirty single-bowed crossbows pulled the trigger together, and a violent tremor of crossbow strings was heard in the air, and two hundred and thirty crossbow arrows flew straight towards the dense group of great eaters with a whistling sound of breaking through the air.

Hearing the sound of crossbow bolts breaking through the air, the 2,000 Khorasan cavalry reacted quickly enough, and all raised their round iron shields tied to their left arms to block the rain of arrows. Listening to the sound of clanging and fluttering, the Great Eater cavalry was so dense that almost not a single arrow from the two hundred and thirty crossbow bolts missed.

A small part of the shot was bounced off the round shield; A small part of the cavalry was shot at the Great Eater, because of the protection of the chain mail, it only entered the flesh shallowly, not only did not fall off the horse, but because of the stimulation of pain, it became ferocious and screamed; A small part of it was shot at the Arab war horses that had nothing to cover, and in the smoke and dust, more than fifty war horses suddenly neighed and fell to the ground, and immediately the knights flew out and rolled on the ground.

However, such a small loss was nothing to the Khorasan cavalry of the brigade, and the Khorasan cavalry behind quickly filled the vacant seats in front. Still moving at high speed, not a single person glanced at his comrades who had fallen into the dust, and not a single horse slowed down slightly.

Since the Great Eclipse Sentinel Cavalry had fought with the Anxi Sentinel Cavalry many times, they knew that although the Anxi Army's single-bow crossbow had a long range, it would take a long time to wind, and by the time they had finished winding, we would have run to the front of the deer and dragged them down.

The Great Eater cavalry continued to charge, and the knight who was running in front had already taken out the rope and kept dangling it in his hand. They were still more than forty steps away from the first row of deer and about one hundred and twenty steps away from the wall. They saw a row of yellow feathered arrows on the ground stuck one hundred and ten paces away from the wall, which should be the attack distance of the Anxi army's infantry bow.

They were about to cross the yellow feather arrows and get within range of the Anxi Army's infantry bows, but this was only the longest distance, and they thought that the Anxi archers should not start firing until a hundred or ninety paces. The first deer was about seventy paces away from the wall, and they thought that they would take at most one blow from the bow before they reached the deer, and then one or two more blows when they pulled back.

Regardless, at least now is safe time.

Just as they relaxed slightly, preparing for the rain of arrows that would come in a few breaths, the second round of single-bow crossbows from the Anzai crossbowmen suddenly shot out. Because of the proximity and the lack of preparedness of the Khorasan cavalry, the results of this battle were even greater than the last time, and at least seventy Khorasan cavalry mounts were shot and fell from their horses.

The more than 1,000 Khorasan cavalry were stunned, didn't it say that the crossbow machine of the Anxi dog thieves would take a long time to string on the last string?

The horses continued to gallop forward, and there was no time for them to think, but the others who were watching the battle from a distance saw what was going on. It turned out that after the more than 200 crossbowmen were fired, they did not wind up, but turned around and handed over the crossbow machine in their hands to the person behind them, and at the same time took the good winding crossbow machine they handed over.

In this way, the more than 200 crossbowmen of the walled wall only need to be responsible for firing, and the winding work is left to the people behind them to complete. The three sets of crossbow machines were wound in turn, and the weakness of slow winding of the crossbow machine was overcome in this way.

In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand Khorasan cavalry had crossed the row of yellow feathered arrows and rushed to a distance of ninety paces.

Duan Xiushi on the walled wall waved his hand violently: "Step bow, shoot!" ”

The flag bearer next to him immediately slashed the yellow pennant in his hand downward, and two hundred and thirty single-bow crossbowmen and nearly a thousand archers shot the arrows together.

More than a thousand arrows roared and flew towards the Great Eclipse Cavalry, and even the sky was temporarily obscured by this dense rain of arrows, and a black shadow appeared on the ground, moving rapidly like a dark cloud.

The Great Eater Cavalry suddenly fell into a large area, blood splattered, screams, and the neighing of people on their horses came and went. The first two rows of Great Eater cavalry were almost swept away, and a rough estimate estimated that at least more than three hundred Khorasan warriors were killed or seriously wounded.

Even armed with chain mail and mounted round shields, a few rounds of strikes from the Anxi crossbowmen knocked out almost a quarter of their combat strength. Not good, but fortunately, the remaining Khorasan cavalry, after suffering such heavy casualties, not only did not rush, but became more and more courageous, and at this time the rope nooses they threw out had already lassoed the stakes of the deer.

The remaining 1,500 or so Khorasan cavalry immediately mounted their horses and ran back, but something seemed to be wrong!

More than 1,000 Arab horses struggled to raise their hooves, and more than 1,000 Khorasan knights pulled back with all their strength, but these deer seemed to have taken root, and they didn't move at all!

"Silly fork, these deer barns are all sharpened wooden stakes at two ends, which are more than two feet deep into the ground, and you can pull them before you can get out of the ghost!"

In the middle of the walled gate, Xiao Qubing couldn't help but laugh when he saw the embarrassed appearance of these big food cavalry from a distance. On the wall, Duan Xiushi, who had always been serious, did not smile, his eyes lit up, he was engrossed in directing the battle, and shouted excitedly: "Aim, launch!" Launch! ”

More than a thousand feathered arrows whistled again and shot at these somewhat stunned cannibal cavalry. This time, it was a stationary target, and then a shot at the back, and the distance was close, and the protective ability of the chain mail was greatly reduced, and a full five hundred Khorasan cavalry were shot in the back and fell off their horses.

Screams resounded across the battlefield, and blood stained the earth red like a stream. and the face of the Bosilyn is like ashes; The Khorasan and Syrian cavalry, carrying earthen bags in the back, were terrified, and the soil in the bags leaked to the ground; The Anxi army let out a shocking cheer!