Chapter 206: Shooting

After a salvo, the Anxi army temporarily stopped moving.

The big food armies on both sides of the strait were in shock, and no one knew that it would take a certain amount of time for the Yuanrong crossbow to be wound again. At this time, the crossbowmen were easily wound, and the Yuanrong crossbowmen were also quickly reloading the crossbow arrows.

If the Kufa cavalry could rush to the Tang army at this time, they might be able to inflict some casualties on the Tang army, but this possibility does not exist. Most of the Kufa cavalry on the river bank have been killed, and there are corpses of men and horses all over the ground between the cavalry behind and the Tang army, even if the Kufa cavalry has not lost the will to fight, it will not be able to complete the acceleration on such ground.

What's more, looking at the densely packed corpses in robes, the Kufa cavalry on the bank of the river had already collapsed, and where did they still have any thoughts of fighting.

The Kufa cavalry in the riverbed was blocked from sight, and they didn't know what was happening on the riverbank, they still wanted to rush ashore in chaos, but no one on the bank of the Kufa cavalry took a step forward, and the river was suddenly chaotic under the rush.

Khalid was not within the range of the Yuanrong crossbow salvo, but there were corpses everywhere around him, which was caused by the eight-bull crossbow with the longest range in the Tang army, and the position of the eight-bull crossbow salvo happened to be near him, and more than two thousand Kufa cavalry were strung into a string by the spear-like giant arrows of the eight-bull crossbow, and fell to the ground horizontally and vertically.

The anger in Khalid's eyes was gone, and there was only horror in his eyes. He narrowly escaped the salvo, but most of the cavalry around him died. And what frightened him the most was the area after the Tang Army's arrow rain fell. All the knights and horses died, and the dead cavalry was nearly 10,000! The Tang people made his subordinates suffer such a big loss with just one attack!

Khalid was an extremely intelligent man, and he immediately understood that he could not avenge his family. The enemy on the opposite side seemed to be only a few thousand men, but at this moment it seemed to him thousands of tigers, and his men were weak lambs.

Such an army is simply not something that mortals can fight against!

Khalid gritted his teeth, turned his horse's head and galloped back, and at the same time roared loudly, ordering the Kufa cavalry ashore to continue charging forward to fight the Tang on the hillside to the death.

As a Dekhgan of Persian origin, Khaled, like the other Dehgans, was an extremely shrewd man, and chose to become Mawari only for the sake of wealth. He was never prepared to fight to the death for others, not even Mansour.

Let these Kufa cavalry go up and send them to death, as long as they can block the Tang people for him, he won't care if he dies more. Balhei's family is dead, there are still several concubines and two children in Kufa City, and the most important thing is to save his own life, return to Kufa City and take his family away.

He doesn't care about the status of the vizier, no matter how great the power of the vizier is, it can't be compared with his own life. This terrible army has come to Allah's kingdom, and the caliph himself may not be able to keep his position, let alone the Persian vizier.

Only by living can you take revenge, and if you can't take revenge on the battlefield, you may not be able to take revenge in other ways in the future. No matter how powerful that damn Tang general is, he will never be able to bring a large number of guards with him, and he does not lack the strength in secret, as long as he lives, he will have a chance for revenge.

The Kufa cavalry heard Khalid's order, but no one stepped forward. The generals who led the troops were not idiots, and when they saw that Khalid wanted to run away, no one would go up to die in vain.

"Retreat! Retreat to the other side! One of the generals immediately made a decision and shouted loudly.

After hearing the order, the thousands of cavalry under his command hurriedly turned their horses' heads at the same time and crowded in the direction of the river bank.

Seeing this, the other generals also shouted in chaos. In a short period of time, tens of thousands of Kufa cavalry on the riverbank turned around at the same time, leaving their backs to the Tang army in the distance, and galloped towards the riverbed in a chaotic manner.

Seeing this, Khalid roared loudly, but none of the Kufa cavalry, who had lost the will to fight, paid no attention to him, and rushed towards the riverbed with the flow of people. Khalid screamed in anger, but he was helpless, and was swept to the riverbed by the retreating army.

One by one, a dozen burning wooden frames collapsed, and the Persians on them were already charred and blackened. Khalid let out a painful roar, gritted his teeth, and galloped forward.

As long as you cross the river, you will be safe. This was Khalid's idea, and it was also the idea of the Kufa cavalry on the riverbank.

There were still more than 20,000 Kufa cavalry in the riverbed, and they had no idea what was happening on the riverbank, and continued to try to rush onto the riverbank. Tens of thousands of cavalry on the river bank wanted to pour into the riverbed, and the two sides collided together, and I don't know how many people were knocked off their horses, and then trampled to death by the dense hooves.

"Stand back! Back off! The generals on the banks of the river roared loudly and waved their whips in a frenzy. Khalid himself yelled loudly, but no one was listening to his orders.

At this moment, the Tang army on the hillside finally moved. The six thousand iron horsemen accelerated at the same time, and immediately the athlete held a hard crossbow in his hand, and a heavy Mo knife hung on the side of the saddle, rushing down the gentle slope in a neat formation, and crushed straight towards the shore.

The first row of cavalry rushed to the position of the white line, and the Chinese army gave an order, and another wave of crossbow rain flew into the sky and shot densely towards the riverside.

This time, the Kufa cavalry horses on the shore were almost next to each other, pushing each other without any gaps, and the crossbow arrows of the Tang army basically did not miss, all of them were nailed into the flesh and blood of the Kufa cavalry.

Before the army rushed down, the Yuan Rong crossbowmen had already rewound, this time in the same salvo mode, with the rain of arrows covering most of the area where the Kufa cavalry was located on the shore, and the eight-bull crossbows extending further into the riverbed. Under the intensive blow of more than 30,000 pure steel crossbow arrows, a large wave of Kufa cavalry fell on the river bank in an instant, and no one survived within the cover of the arrow rain, and there were still two or three thousand people alive, all of whom were just outside the range of the Tang army's arrow rain.

And hundreds of giant arrows of eight-ox crossbows shot into the riverbed also caused great chaos in the riverbed. Huge crossbow bolts raged through the dense cavalry hordes, nailing thousands of Kufa cavalry and their horses to the mud.

At this time, the Tang army was already densely packed with Kufa cavalry corpses in front of him, and there was almost no place to stand. The athletes loaded their horses and slowly trampled over the corpses of the enemy, crushing the remnants of the enemy on the riverbank.

The Kufa cavalry on the riverbank, who had survived the death, had completely lost their fear, and many of them did not choose the road at all, jumped off the steep riverbank, jumped into the riverbed and fled to the opposite bank. Many horses broke their legs directly in the mud, and many Kufa cavalry who were originally below were knocked down by the horses that jumped down, and were trampled to death by the chaotic hooves.

The Kufa cavalry in the riverbed also became panicked, not knowing what was going on above, so that these robes fled desperately. Khalid narrowly escaped the second salvo, and rushed down the high riverbed with his men and horses, shouting loudly: "Withdraw!" Retreat to the other side! ”

At this time, he did not want to let the Kufa cavalry block the way for him, and if these fellows did not retreat, he would not be able to rush across the river if they stopped him.

He was the commander of these Kufa cavalry, and although the generals in the riverbed were puzzled, they still shouted loudly and gave orders, and in the wide riverbed, more than 20,000 Kufa cavalry obeyed the order to turn their horses and rush towards the other side of the river at high speed.

After two volleys, Tang Jun slowly stepped over the messy corpse, and at the same time had completed the winding action, but he carried the hard crossbow behind his back, and at the same time pulled out the heavy Mo knife from his back.

In the muddy riverbed, more than 20,000 Kufa cavalry rushed to the opposite bank in a chaotic manner. The one behind is still on the bank of the river, but the one in front is about to rush to the other side.

Niu Xu was anxious, and suddenly urged his horse to rush out of the crowd and rush towards the Kufa cavalry on the riverside. His riding skills were taught by Nan Jiyun himself, and he was extremely clever, running at high speed among the corpses all over the ground, barely slowing down. Soon the army had been left behind him, and he had already rushed behind the Kufa cavalry alone, and rushed straight away on a single fast horse, not caring about the sparse Kufa cavalry on the bank, but actually rushed directly to the bank of the river.

At a position only two feet away from the steep river bank, Niu Xu suddenly lifted the reins of his horse, and the man stood up with the neighing of the war horse, and paused vividly. Before the front hooves of the war horse fell, Niu Xu had already taken off the seven-stone bow from his back, bent the bow and shot an arrow.

He had been staring at Khalid all the time, for fear that this guy would be killed by someone else, and he couldn't kill Khalid in two volleys, and he could see it clearly, so he came on horseback.

The giant arrow spun violently in the air like a poisonous dragon, and flew towards Khaled, who had already jumped into the river. At this moment, Khalid's horse screamed, and one of them fell down in the shallow water, and Khalid fell heavily into the water.

Huge arrows whizzed over Khalid's head, passing through two Kufa cavalrymen in a row. Niu Xu scolded angrily, and without hesitation, another arrow was shot.

In the midst of the chaos, Khalid had no idea that anyone was going to shoot him. No sooner had he risen from the shallow water than the second arrow of the bull whistled at him.

With terrifying power, the arrow struck Khalid directly into the center of his eyebrow, whistling through Khalid's skull, and nailing heavily into the river. A huge hole of blood appeared in the center of Khalid's eyebrows, and blood spurted out mixed with his brain, and slowly fell.

At this moment, Niu Xu suddenly heard the wind in the back of his head, suddenly lowered his body, grabbed the heavy mace from the saddle and swept it back.

The special mace was extremely heavy, and it smashed heavily on the sneak attack of the Kufa cavalry, who was also tall and strong, but was directly smashed by Niu Xu's club, and the internal organs squirted out of the mouth, and it seemed that he was not alive.

Several Kufa cavalrymen who had not yet descended the riverbed howled and surrounded them, brandishing heavy swords and slashing at Niu Xu, Niu Xu screamed, and the mace danced like a windmill, smashing several Kufa cavalry one by one.

At this time, Ma Lan had rushed to the shore with six thousand iron horsemen. (To be continued.) )