The Tatar rangers, who had been scattered, couldn't help but scratch for a while, and everyone dispersed even more in a hurry. In this way, it seems that the formation is too diluted.

The thick eyebrows on the right side of Ashde's couldn't help but raise, and there was a slight palpitation in his hoarse voice, and he asked An Jiuwei on the side, "What kind of weapon is this of the Han people?" So powerful? Looking at its range, I'm afraid it will not be less than 700 steps! ”

When An Jiuwei heard this, he was also quite surprised. After thinking for a moment, he frowned slightly and said, "Dashuai, this subordinate doesn't know very well. Looking at its crossbow arrow, it should be a bed crossbow, but the arc of the bed crossbow projectile is not so large. It is estimated that it is Lu Long's new bed crossbow weapon. Although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that Lu Long's ordnance is sharp, crowning two rivers (Hedong and Hebei). ”

In fact, An Jiuwei's words were taken lightly, Xuanwu and Hedong are probably sharper than the weapons made by the ordnance supervisor under Li Cunhuan. Li Cunhuan has always been very strict with weapons, and has a mature reward and punishment system, and has also funded some craftsmen to do experiments, in some places, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is twenty or thirty years more advanced than Hedong and Xuanwu.

As soon as Ashid heard this, he knew that today's battle was a little more difficult than he imagined, and immediately ordered his henchmen around him: "You immediately go and let the Dusi tribe send troops to support Heyle, don't let the Han people take advantage of the loophole!" ”

The henchman answered, and in a few moments some five thousand horsemen galloped out of the Tatar army.

And the battle has already begun in front, although there are more than 100,000 horses, it is impossible to launch an attack all of them. As mentioned above, the north is the Sanggan River, the south is the Xiawu Mountain, the plain is only more than ten miles wide, the widest point is about twenty miles, and the narrow place is about seventeen miles, but the terrain in the direction of the Xiawu Mountain is in vain, and there is no hills between the general plain and the mountain. Basically, they are all mountains about 20 or 30 zhang high, and there are even mountains nearly 40 zhang high.

Even if the infantry fights here, it's enough to choke. It took six or seven percent of the strength to climb the mountain, and it was said that the cavalry was not good at mountain activities. This also made Ashdena only able to put more than 10,000 troops down for the first time, otherwise with his idea. Of course, it was 100,000 cavalry who rushed over the world. I didn't dare to say that the enemy would be defeated before the battle, but the sound of horses' hooves as if the earth dragon had turned over also frightened Lu Longjun's fear, and ten percent of the combat strength also went to thirty percent.

But now Ashdena also created a few hundred thousand cavalry to launch a charge, only to see the Tatar rangers galloping, rolling up puffs of smoke and dust, in front of the smoke and dust are cavalry, and there are faint cavalry in the smoke. Therefore, although the cavalry was only lined up in five columns, Lu Longjun looked at it as if it was overwhelming, and he didn't know how many men and horses there were.

However, Li Cunhuan had already expected this, so he specially sent the Long March Army led by Fu Cunxian as the front army. The soldiers and horses of the Long March Army came from Andong, and the people of the Anton Domain were fierce, and the enemy was also a fierce steppe cavalry. Even the commanders of the other four new armies had to admit that in terms of quality, Yuan Congjun was more powerful than the other four new armies. In addition, the enemies that Anton has to deal with are mainly cavalry, so he has a lot of advantages over other new armies in dealing with cavalry.

Usually there is nothing, but at this moment it is showing, facing the galloping horses of the Tatars, the earth-shaking momentum. Although the soldiers of the Long March Army were nervous, the generals at all levels were prepared and shouted encouragement on the side. Plus Anton doesn't have much of anything, just a lot of horses. In the face of familiar things, even if people are nervous, they are also limited.

"Longbowmen! Get ready! The commanders of the crossbow battalion all raised their red flags.

The longbowmen, who were nearly 1.8 meters tall, lifted their longbows high with arrows, and their slender bowstrings tightened. It looks imposing.

But in the eyes of the bright-eyed Fu Cunxian, he couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his heart. Look at these people, everyone's elbow is just over the waist. If it is a veteran in Anton's army, I am afraid that everyone's palms are up to their waists, and the pulley longbow is also drawn for a full moon. After all, with pulleys, there are three or four percent of the strength left compared to the longbow without pulleys, and although it is difficult to pull a full moon, everyone can pull out a full moon. But there is also the relationship that these soldiers are recruits.

"Put!" The red flag waved, and two thousand three-edged arrows shot out vigorously, turning into black dots in mid-air, as if there were locusts flying over the sky as if there had been a disaster year.

Among them, the triangular arrow is even more destructive, because of the weakness of the triangular arrow, although the armor-piercing ability is much weaker than the armor-piercing arrow, but once the triangular arrow is shot into the enemy's body, the lethality is not ordinary. All of them are made because the three-edged arrows Li Cunhuan refers to the three-edged military thorns of later generations. Although the bloodletting ability is a few points weaker than that of the real triangular army thorn, it is really not ordinarily powerful to deal with this era of backward medicine. If you are hit by a three-edged arrow, although you dare not say that you will definitely die, you will definitely bleed profusely and your vitality will be greatly damaged, and it will take three months to recover, to say the least.

However, although the damage of the triangular arrow is powerful, the disadvantages are obvious. It's just that the armor-piercing ability is not very good, and it's just enough to deal with thin armor such as leather armor. If it is to deal with chain mail, bright light armor, etc., it is obvious that only one of the five or six arrows will penetrate shallowly. Basically ineffective against plate armor. Therefore, although the three-edged arrow is powerful, Lu Longjun has always been not very well equipped.

But the Long March of the Antonians was the opposite, because the nomads of the steppes could say unceremoniously that they had nothing to be proud of except horses and mounted archery. Moreover, the cavalry on the grassland, the armor on their bodies is leather armor, and the quality is very inferior, which allows the triangular arrow to maximize its powerful damage.

As soon as Fu Cunxian, who was sitting in the Chinese army over there, raised his hand, a captain of the pro-soldier took a monocular clairvoyant and put it in Fu Cunxian's hand. Fu Cunxian pulled the monocular clairvoyant and put it on his own eye. The scene in the same place suddenly became much clearer, as if it was only ten meters away from the other party.

Soon Fu Cunxian's sight appeared Tatar rangers who had fallen from their horses, but no more, no less, and the Tatar rangers knew their weaknesses very well. Each of them carried a shield, which was not large, no more than a small round shield wrapped in buffalo skin about a foot (thirty centimeters) in diameter. As soon as he saw the opponent's arrows coming at him, he immediately raised his shield.

Fu Cunxian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, it seemed that the other party was not as easy to deal with as he imagined. However, the arrows fired by the longbow also caught the Tatars quite unprepared, and the area protected by the shield was somewhat less. Many Tatar rangers were hit by arrows in the thighs and other positions, or their horses seemed to have turned into hedgehogs, and suddenly their knees weakened, throwing the knights away.

Fortunately, the Tatar rangers who were shot did not know the power of the three-edged arrow, and pulled out the arrow, and the hot blood was immediately like a crater that had been suppressed for a long time, and a fiery red blood arrow shot out. No matter how you press it with your hands, the blood can't be stopped. For a moment, the Tatar ranger formation stirred.

But the Tatar Rangers, who were not shot, had no choice but to charge. It's all because nomads are loose and good, but it doesn't mean that they are loose on the battlefield. On the contrary, the military regulations of the nomads on the battlefield are three points stricter and three points more cruel than those of the Central Plains. Once a cowardly retreat is enough to make a powerful person and his whole family become slaves, at that time it is really better to live than to die, and there is no way to regret it.

"Swing the crossbow, release!" The second wave of killings was the famous Dangzhang crossbow in the Han Chinese weapons, and in the face of the Dangzhang crossbow, the Tatar rangers adapted a little. They had never seen a bow and arrow that could shoot so far. The Tatar rangers, who had accustomed them to the strong crossbow fire of the Han Chinese, were a little caught off guard.

However, they also underestimated the power of the longbowmen, and the crossbow could not reach the enemy with three arrows, but with the addition of the longbowmen, they shot a total of seven waves of arrows, three waves of crossbows, and four waves of longbows. Although the longbowmen had only 2,000 men, their lethality was not much weaker than that of the 4,000 crossbowmen.

The Tatar Rangers, who had survived seven waves of arrows, were really angry, when had they ever been so suppressed? The Tatar rangers lost about two thousand horses, and when did the Tatars suffer this great loss, and it was the first contact. Even if it was a cavalry hedge, the casualties were nothing more than that.

"Put! Let those Southern Barbarians know that my Tatar warriors are great at riding and shooting! "The Heyle who led the charge was really blood-red. The Tatars who died were the warriors of their Möngke tribe, two thousand! I don't know how many people can survive among them, and how many people are in the Möngke tribe? It's just over 10,000 people! Blood is dripping from Hüyler's heart! I feel ashamed of my old man.

The Tatar rangers from the Möngke tribe were also angry. How many men are there in the Möngke tribe? There are more than 10,000 people, and there are fewer people, so when you go out, you naturally look down and don't look up. Who among them does not have a single relative or friend, and sees his relatives and friends dead or seriously injured. The arrow of the Tatar rangers was really hateful, and everyone pulled a full moon without saying anything. A few of them almost broke their bowstrings.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Long March Army were well prepared, and the spearmen and hook-sickle pikemen sent to the front were each wearing iron-rimmed helmets, half-body plate armor, and a pair of leather gloves.

Although the soldiers in the back are a little worse, only wearing iron-inlaid armor, their helmets are not bad, they are all iron-edged helmets. The iron-rimmed helmet is like the helmet worn by Donnie Yen in the brocade guard. The characteristic is that when you bow your head, it becomes a small round shield, which is the most effective against arrows.

But even so, hundreds of casualties were caused, and blood flowers bloomed in the battle array.

"Release!" However, Fu Cunxian was not without a strategy, because of the terrain, the infantry was low, while the crossbowmen were higher. Fu Cunxian specially found a few small hills and arranged crossbows on them, although the number was not large, but it was only about thirty zhang away from the Tatar rangers. At such a close distance, hundreds of crossbow bolts shot out with great intensity.

The Tatar rangers were also caught off guard for a moment, and screams came and went. The blood stained the land along the border between the two sides into a dark red that made ordinary people look shocking.

"Order! Infantry hold the formation! Bow Battalion Free Fire! Hmph, play this with Lao Tzu, you are still tender! Fu Cunzhen saw that his soldiers were injured, and Fu Cunzhen couldn't help but be angry. However, Fu Cunxian's self-control ability really didn't say it, but he suppressed the anger in his heart for a moment and quickly gave an order. He did not recklessly charge out of anger.

Huyler immediately blew the horn and separated the left and right flanks of the soldiers. In an instant, the Tatars were separated from each side of the battle formation, as if they had crashed into the waves of the reef.

Seeing Ashde, who was in the back, his face couldn't help but change slightly, and he lost his voice: "Oh no! ”

Fu Cun saw the Tatar rangers who had dealt with him sweep past the flanks, and arrows flew out all the way. On the contrary, the arrows shot by the crossbowmen in the army for a while missed many times. However, Fu Cunxian was not only not angry, nor worried, but his serious face showed a rare touch of success.

"Order! The left and right flanks outflanked the Tatars! "Fu Cun is a decisive judge.

At the same time, Li Cunhuan also stood up, with a hint of excitement in his eyes. Chanted: "Order! Zuo Yan [***] and Yuan Congjun attacked! ”

At this time, Zhou Dewei was also excited, why were the middle and senior generals of Lu Longjun so excited. And Asster, who has always been indifferent, has his face changed?

It's all because of Li Cunhuan's arrangement. The Long March Army is the front army, like a bird's head. The Zuo Yan [***] and Yuan Congjun were the left and right wings, the Baipao Army was the middle army, and the Yuan Congjun and the Ma Army in Zuo Yan [***] were separately organized as the rear army.

And Huyl was accustomed to letting the soldiers sweep towards the wings, which was nothing in normal times. But the problem is that the Sanggan River in the north, the Lulongjun in the middle, and the Xiawu Mountain in the south. Didn't you drill hard into the bag?

With Li Cunhuan's order, the sound of horns and drums moved. Fu Cunxian's Long March Army quickly became disconnected from Li Cunhuan's Chinese army, and the Long March Army expanded to both flanks.

Huyl also discovered the problem at this time, and his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he hurriedly asked people to blow the horn and order a retreat. But who is Fu Cunxian? How can you let the duck fly away and let you turn over with a salted fish?

"Crossbowmen have changed their swords and axes, and they will be killed by me! Yuan Xingqin, please on the right! Fu Cunxian Huo Ran stood up and ordered in a loud voice. He immediately ran to the side, and with a leap, the man was already on horseback. He led a hundred personal soldiers and more than a thousand crossbowmen who replaced their swords and axes. Charge the rear army of Tatar Rangers on the left flank.

When Yuan Xingqin heard this, he turned over his horse excitedly, raised the horse lance in his hand, and roared: "The meritorious deeds of benefiting the descendants of all generations are in this dynasty!" Those who kill the enemy at the first level will be rewarded with the first level! ”

The more than 1,000 crossbowmen who were left behind by Fu Cunzhen were all excited when they heard this. What is the purpose of being a soldier? Defend the country a little, and eat a little. But who doesn't have the heart to be a general? Moreover, the lord of the Tang Dynasty can only be knighted if he can make military achievements. Otherwise, you are a powerful prime minister, and it is useless.

Although Huyl resisted desperately, the cavalry was different from the infantry, and it was not easy for the war horse to turn around, especially the galloping war horse. Moreover, as soon as the soldiers and horses of Heyl's subordinates turned around, their natural speed slowed down to varying degrees. Immediately, the arrows rained down. On the one hand, the longbowmen are firing, and on the other hand, they are slow and can't dodge, so there is a feeling that there are suddenly more arrows. In just a few moments, no less than a thousand Tatar rangers were shot by arrows, and nearly 500 fell from their horses. I don't know if he was shot or seriously injured.

"Kill!" Fu Cunxian also led his own soldiers to kill the rear army of the Tatar rangers, with a Xuanhua axe in his hand, flying up and down. The place where he passed was really turned on his back. An axe goes down, so that you can try the taste of cutting off the head of the waist, even if it is a tall war horse, Fu Cunxian's head also flew up, and the blood shot out of the horse's neck, it was really like a big whale at sea spitting seawater.

The crossbowmen with swords and axes in the back didn't have long to follow. Although they were all dressed in cotton armor, they were fierce and imposing, but they were not inferior to the infantry, with a large shield in their hands and a short-handled axe in their hands. Crash into the cavalry bush. A dozen or so people formed a small formation, shields protected the body and head and other vital points, and the axe stretched out from the gap between the shields. When you split it, your skin and flesh are opened, and your bones are exposed.

There were also soldiers armed with long knives, who were much more fierce than crossbowmen with axes. A long knife in his hand greeted the hooves of the war horse. As long as he swiped lightly, the war horse screamed and fell to the ground. The rider on the back of the horse also flew out, those long knife soldiers are not Song Xianggong, and they will tell you benevolence and righteousness. Wait for your guy to stand up and hit one more. Three or four people picked up long knives and greeted them, but before they could stand up, their bodies had already been cut into several sections.

"Crash! Crash them away! Huyl was in a hurry behind him, and when he saw that the pace of the procession was slow, he hurriedly shouted. immediately looked behind him, and saw that Lu Longjun had already mobilized. The infantry formation was slightly chaotic and rushed over, and the formation was chaotic, but the spear was not a wheat stalk that would break at the slightest touch, pierced on a person's body, but a hole that bleeds vigorously.

Huyle's words also reminded the Tatar rangers in front of them, and they also launched a fierce attack. did not resist the enemy's attack, and stabbed the scimitar directly into the horse's buttocks. The stinging pain of the war horses was straight, and they were all stimulated to their potential, and with a wail, dozens of war horses galloped out at the same time.

The soldiers had no choice, they were not in a dense spear battle formation, and they could not withstand the impact of cavalry with men and horses of 500 catties. The only way to get out of the way is to get out of the way.

"Let's go!" When Huyl saw that there was a way, his face immediately rejoiced. also stabbed the war horse's buttocks, and the war horse flowed blood all the way and galloped out all the way. Fu Cunxian's face couldn't help but change slightly, and his heart was angry. But Fu Cunxian was also very helpless, after all, his soldiers were no more than a thousand, and all of them had to intercept four thousand Tatar rangers. And it is also a knife and axe hand who is at a disadvantage against the cavalry, and it is already good to be able to do this.

Compared with Fu Cunxian's side, Yuan Xingqin is a lot better. Yuan Xingqin was so powerful that he once entered the enemy line, seriously wounding the Tatar commander and plunging the Tatar rangers into chaos. was outflanked by Lu Longjun and was still working on its own. And Fu Cunxian's side was not without gains, and also besieged more than a thousand Tatar rangers.

(To be continued)