The hoplite cavalry began to charge, getting closer and closer to the battle formation where Gongsun Xu was, as if a large black cloud was constantly expanding, and it had covered the top of the dark cloud, covering the sky and the sun.

Fifty hoplites lined side by side in front, all dressed in black armor, and even their horses were completely covered with black hedgehogs, and they looked like torrents of steel rolling here.

Wherever these hoplites passed, there was a black pressure and smoke and dust, as if thousands of troops and horses had charged at once.

The biggest strength of cavalry is speed, as long as it can raise speed in the battle between the two armies, it is the world of cavalry.

The hoplites were slow to get up, but once they were able to run, they were not much faster than ordinary cavalry.

Because the war horses used by the hoplites are the best and strongest of the war horses, and the cavalry riding the war horses are also the best cavalry.

That is, Karasuma Province is rich in war horses, and this time it was possible to form fifty heavy cavalry.

However, even these fifty hoplites were already the envy of most of the high-ranking generals.

The Han Dynasty was vast and powerful, and this kind of heavy cavalry was nothing more than a few hundred, and most of the heavy cavalry belonged to the regular army of the royal family.

Every hoplite cavalry is like a treasure under the general, and they are reluctant to use hoplites in peacetime wars.

This time, Karasuma's Lord Nanlou returned to Karasuma because Qiu Liju returned to Karasuma with Su Muyan, Wuyan and several other adults, so he gritted his teeth and sent his dozens of heavy cavalry here.

Behind these hoplites were well-equipped Wuhuan cavalry, with two thousand men.

They controlled the distance from the hoplites, some of the cavalry had already bent their bows and arrows, some had already tightened their guns, and some of their knives were unsheathed, just waiting for these hoplites to break through the battle formation, and they wanted to destroy some of the Han troops in front of them.

The Wuhuan cavalry is famous all over the world, and they want to let those damn Han soldiers see the strength of the Wuhuan iron cavalry, and they want to drive those damned Han troops out of Xiangping.

The leaders of Karasuma had already regarded Xiangping as their own land at this time, and told these cavalrymen who came to help Qiu Liju that they were now fighting not only for honor, but also for the founding of Karasuma's unification.

Nanlin defeated Gongsun Chan some time ago, which made the morale of the Wuhuan people skyrocket, and now the opponent is Gongsun Chan's son, and they are more confident that they can defeat Gongsun Zhan's troops in one go.

Gongsun Xu could clearly see the appearance of the heavy cavalry at the front, and even felt the murderous aura of those heavy cavalry, but Gongsun Xu looked at those heavy cavalry calmly, and no orders were given.

The sound of the horse's hooves sparked a resonance in the hearts of the soldiers on Gongsun Xu's side, and the hearts of many soldiers began to beat wildly with the sound of the horses' hooves, and the strong feeling of suffocation seemed to raise their hearts to their throats.

A large part of the soldiers under Gongsun Xu's command were bandits who had surrendered, and none of them had seen the charge of the hoplites, and when they saw the terrifying impact, they felt the pressure between life and death.

They felt that if the Wuhuan cavalry, covered in armor, rushed in front of their large array, they would definitely not even have the ability to resist.

They didn't know why the young General Gongsun had not given the order to attack.

They didn't understand why Gongsun Xu was indifferent to the reinforcements of the rebellious army in front of them.

It was as if such a heavy cavalry had been allowed to attack their battle formation, and there was no such thing as this.

At this time, many newly surrendered bandits and recruits from several newly joined forces all came up with a thought--don't be this young general who has just entered the battlefield and is stupid by such a scene!

When Gongsun Xu saw the attack of the heavy cavalry for the first time, he also had a kind of trepidation in his heart, but Gongsun Xu had a bottom in his heart, because he had a cross-era killing weapon trebuchet.

The hoplites charged, and even more shieldmen and pikemen could not stop their attack.

However, with trebuchets, the faster these hoplites charged, the faster death befell them.

The impact of the trebuchet's stone, coupled with the inertia and impact strength of the heavy cavalry, even if the body of the heavy cavalry is stronger than other cavalry, as soon as the stone falls, the heavy cavalry will be directly knocked away, and they will not die at that time, the huge earthquake will also damage their bodies, making their internal organs bleed to death.

The huge impact force of the two sides, not to mention the heavy cavalry, is an iron lump of completely steel, and it cannot be spared under such an impact.

The reason why Gongsun Xu did not give the order for the trebuchet to attack when the heavy cavalry was about 150 meters away was because Gongsun Xu found out that Nanlin had put the heavy cavalry in the front, and he must have put these cavalry closer to fight.

The coverage of the trebuchet Gongsun Xu also adjusted, he asked the soldiers operating the trebuchet to set the distance between 60 and 80 steps between the trebuchet and the trebuchet as soon as his order was given, they immediately covered the launch.

The range of bows and arrows in the late Han Dynasty was not very long, the range of ordinary archers was between 90 and 100 paces, and the range of archers with slightly greater strength could cover a distance of 150 paces at most.

It is precisely for this reason that Gongsun Xu wants to put the enemy close to fight, so that he can inflict the greatest blow on the enemy.

The trebuchets attacked the hoplites and the rest of the cavalry at the front, and the Wuhuan cavalry behind them were unable to contain the forward trend due to the force of inertia.

In doing so, Gongsun Xu would be able to defeat more Wuhuan cavalry.

When these Wuhuan cavalry were severely hit and fled backwards, the distance of the trebuchet had been adjusted to a distance of one hundred and fifty paces to more than two hundred paces, and the cavalry in front was solved by archers and those shield soldiers and pikemen, and those in the back were solved by trebuchets.

Gongsun Xu kept calculating the distance between the hoplite cavalry on the opposite side and his battle formation in his heart, two hundred paces, one hundred and eighty steps, one hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and twenty steps......

The time froze when the hoplites had entered a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, and Gongsun Xu roared sharply: "Raise the command flag, let the trebuchets fire with all their might, and the archers will throw arrows high and attack all over the body." Hit me hard. ”