Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Nightmare of the Wuhuan Cavalry
The order to start the attack was shouted out by Gongsun Xu by pulling his neck, and his rough voice almost covered the distance of more than twenty meters around him.
made such a roar, first, Gongsun Xu wanted to let the Lingqi soldiers around him hear his orders, so that his soldiers could better perform his tasks.
The second is that Gongsun Xu used his roar to release all the depression and pressure in his heart, which was more able to boost the morale of the soldiers around him.
And when he gave the order to attack, it was a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, which Gongsun Xu carefully calculated.
According to the distance of about five seconds and twenty paces, plus the time difference caused when the trebuchet began to fire, the heavy cavalry of Nanlin was thrown out from the time he gave the order to the time when the trebuchet stone was thrown, which was exactly that time period, plus the all-round coverage of sixty to eighty steps, Gongsun Xuan concluded that no heavy cavalry would be able to rush to his front through such a dense rain of stones.
In this era, there is no stopwatch, and it is even more difficult to estimate the speed and time of the cavalry, but what! Gongsun continued to calculate the time with his fingers.
After counting five, the distance traveled by the enemy army is about 20 meters, even if it is a little different, it is not much worse.
If Gongsun Xu was not a person who came to the end of the Han Dynasty from later generations, if it weren't for the fact that Gongsun Xu still had some culture in his head, Gongsun Xu would never dare to be so big.
The speed at which the command was delivered was so fast that not only was the flag already commanded, but even the sound reached the ears of the trebuchet pitchers and archers by word of mouth.
As soon as a single man saw a beautiful girl who was stripped naked, they immediately manipulated the trebuchet as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and let the trebuchet under their control send out as fast as possible.
These trebuchet pitchers know best in their hearts that they are the real main force in this battle of sniper reinforcements, even if the enemy sends thousands of troops, they also have the confidence to win.
In Qingfeng Cottage or in Tempest Village, they have already discovered the benefits of trebuchets, and they are even more convinced that once the trebuchets come out, all enemies will not be their opponents.
The weight of the stones is almost uniform, but the angle of the launch is different, and the landing point is also different.
When I attacked Qingfeng Cottage and Storm Fortress before, there were only a few trebuchets at that time, and there were only a few dozen of them.
Now the number of trebuchets on their side alone to snipe reinforcements has reached one hundred and fifty, and they even feel that they can kill as many people as they can with trebuchets when there are people coming from the enemy's side.
A dense rain of stones suddenly appeared in the sky above the hoplites, and they fell from the sky even more quickly, cutting off the torrent of steel in an instant.
These dense stone rains not only killed the heavy cavalry in front of them and smashed forty-seven or eight, but also smashed a lot of Wuhuan cavalry who followed very closely, and this stone rain alone could kill more than 300 Wuhuan cavalry.
The heavy cavalry smashed by the boulder is the nightmare of those cavalry behind them, a heavy cavalry flying out, can even kill and wound seven or eight cavalrymen, the huge impact force makes those cavalry as long as they are touched, they will suffer huge damage.
These Wuhuan cavalry had been closely following the hoplites to charge towards Gongsun Xu's battle formation, and looking at the speed of the hoplites, they always thought that they had succeeded.
They thought in their hearts that with the absolute superiority of the heavily armored cavalry, as long as they could break through to the battle formation where Gongsun Xu was, then the troops led by Gongsun Xu would only have one way to lose.
The hoplites are the most terrifying cavalry armed to the teeth, as long as the hoplites keep increasing their speed, as long as the hoplites are not besieged, they can win the final victory against as many enemies as they are.
They didn't expect that the heavy cavalry, which they regarded as god-like existence, would be crippled in one face under the attack of the Han army, except for one or two heavy cavalry who were not smashed into the air and smashed into the ground, the heavy cavalry was completely wiped out.
They were shocked to see that the lethality of the hoplites when they were smashed into the air and wounded people was not inferior to the lethality of the trebuchet boulders, and the cavalry they encountered were crippled if they did not die.
The cavalrymen who followed closely in front of them tried desperately to restrain their horses and stop them, but the inertia of the fast gallop made them unable to stop at all.
Even many cavalry were not hit by the rain of boulders, nor were they hit by the flying hoplites, but because of inertia, their horses directly hit the boulder in front of them in a panic and were thrown out.
At this moment, the bow and arrows of the trebuchet boulder, like locusts covering the sky and the sun, fell into their bodies in a pervasive manner.
That is, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of cavalry fell off their horses.
The screams of the cavalry after being wounded and the mournful sound of the war horses continued to sound, and the place of death, about a hundred paces away from Gongsun Xu, seemed to have become a Shura area.
The archers shoot very quickly, and they are ordered to shoot as far as possible, this dense formation, there is no need to think about whether the high arrow can kill the enemy, just shoot, there are always some arrows that will hit those black cavalry.
Shoot with arrows, draw bows, and shoot high.
At this time, the archers under Gongsun Xu mechanically followed this procedure, constantly sprinkling the rain of arrows on the Wuhuan cavalry in the distance.
The rain of arrows kept falling, and the Wuhuan cavalry fell from the horse like a dumpling, during which some Wuhuan cavalry also shot arrows at Gongsun Xu's side, but that kind of counterattack could not form a scale at all, and most of them were blocked by the shield soldiers in front of the archers, and only a few Han soldiers were killed or wounded.
Remove...... Retreat ......
The generals of the Wuhuan cavalry had already felt a kind of despair at this time, they felt that the Han army battle formation in front of them was like a man-eating tiger, constantly devouring the Wuhuan cavalry, if they did not retreat, all their cavalry would stay here.
As for the order that Lord Nanlin said that it was absolutely not allowed to retreat, it had long been forgotten by them.
Knowing that rushing forward would be a waste of death, they would not do such a stupid thing anyway.
The Wuhuan cavalry was not originally a general's subordinate, and when these Wuhuan cavalry began to retreat, there was immediately chaos, and many cavalry were crossed together, unable to quickly retreat to the back.
At this time, the bows and arrows of the Han army were overwhelming again, and more Wuhuan cavalry continued to fall from their horses.
However, the nightmare did not end at this time, and another round of stone rain fell frantically towards the place where they had retreated.
The cavalry that was retreating in front of them, and the cavalry that had not yet reacted were crowded together, just in time to receive the second blow from the trebuchet, and the scene of extreme horror appeared again.