Chapter 272: The Bloody Battle of Pu (Part II)
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The corpses of the servants on the grassland fell to the ground, and there were many corpses of war horses, and the blood was already wet with the wild grass.
When the second wave of Fugu cavalry launched a charge, there were 5,000 people, and at this time they had already rushed to a hundred paces away from the Han Navy, due to the obstruction of the corpses of men and horses on the ground, there was no formation at all, but everyone was in high spirits, and one by one they roared and urged the war horses to rush straight to the front of the Han Navy.
At this time, their number had dropped to less than 3,000, because when they launched the charge, the crossbowmen in the rear formation of the Han Navy had completed the work of rewinding, and then the Fuyuan crossbow, the Zhang crossbow, the horned bow crossbow, and the single bow crossbow were the first to strike, and four waves of crossbow rain fell into the second wave of servant cavalry, and each wave of salvo took hundreds of lives.
The Tang infantry against the Turkic divisions, the biggest reliance is a variety of standard Tang crossbows, the range of the nearest single bow crossbow is far beyond the Turkic bow and arrow, the enemy is not close to the enemy is heavy casualties, the most can hit the enemy's morale.
However, for the Fugu tribe, this battle was for survival space, and although there were heavy casualties, there was no possibility of retreating.
The first wave of Fugu cavalry died, but it also loosened the front of the Han navy a little, the shield wall in front was a little crooked, and the spears sticking out of the shield wall were no longer so dense. When the second wave of Fugu cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, the Han naval infantry at the front had just finished killing the enemy, and they didn't have time to take a breath at this time, and they were about to face the second wave of the enemy's impact.
"Woohoo!"
The dense whistling sound was extremely harsh, the sound of the eight-bull crossbow arrows tearing through the air.
The first eight-ox crossbow was the slowest to be rewound, and it was only when the second wave of servant cavalry rushed to the front of the formation that it was finally rewound, and at last it was again powerful, and another hundred and ten huge arrows roared out, smashing like a giant hammer at the charging servants.
This salvo killed hundreds of servant knights.
At this time, there were no hard crossbows available in the Anxi army, and the bows and arrows of the Fugu cavalry finally entered the firing range. The defense line of the Tang army has been loosened somewhat. The Fugu cavalry quickly shot an arrow on their horses, and then directly smashed into the shield wall of the Tang army with men and horses.
The moment the arrow rain flew, a round shield was raised in the Anxi army, and the arrow rain of the servant people fell. There were screams among the infantry of the Tang Army, the round shield could not defend against all the feather arrows, and the unlucky warriors were shot by the feather arrows, and many people fell directly.
At such a close distance, the servant at the front shot only one arrow. It slammed into the shield wall of the Tang Army. Many cavalrymen and horses were stabbed to death by the dense forest of spears, and spears were carried by the huge weight of the horses and flew out from behind the shield wall.
The follow-up servant cavalry did not pay attention to the companions in front of them at all, and did not shy away from those of their fellow clans who had lost their mounts, directly stepped on the bodies of their companions, and continued to rush towards the shield wall of the Tang army with men and horses.
The speed of the horse's charge, combined with its huge weight, slammed it on the shield wall like a giant hammer. One giant shield was knocked out and flew out, and the strong men behind the shield were directly knocked into the air one by one, and their internal organs were shattered and died.
In an instant, the first shield wall was directly destroyed by the charging servant cavalry. The Tang soldiers fought hard with the servants who rushed up, and at the same time slowly withdrew along the passage behind the second shield wall. The second shield wall closed in an instant, and hundreds of spears were waiting for the servants to rush up.
Feathered arrows flew in the sky, and the Fugu cavalry and the Tang infantry, who rushed to the front of the battle and did not enter the battle, began to shoot at each other. There were many crossbowmen in the Tang army, and at this time the crossbow arrows were too late to be wound, but the bows and arrows were available to everyone. The range of the infantry bow is already farther than that of the cavalry bow, and the Han navy's battle armor is more sophisticated, and the number of people is more than that of the Fugu cavalry, so it is still the Fugu people who suffer from such a close shot.
However, at this time, the casualties of the Han Navy were also increasing rapidly. Under the rain of arrows from the Fugu cavalry, there were also continuous Tang army athletes falling.
The Fugu cavalry at the forefront desperately hit the shield wall of the Tang army, and the other team entered the battle after one team died. In order to compete for this treasure land with abundant water and plants. For the sake of the living space of the Fugu clan, these knights burst out with incomparable courage.
The servant knights who had not yet entered the battle galloped back and forth in front of the formation, constantly throwing arrows into the Tang army's formation, and confronting the Tang army's infantry.
Although their numbers were getting smaller and smaller, they finally gained a firm foothold in front of the Tang army. And at this time, there were 6,000 servant cavalry divided into two teams. One left and one right outflanked the two flanks of the Tang army.
At this time, among the army of the Fugu tribe, who were still in place and did not start the attack, only a few thousand people remained in a neat formation. Those were the elite of the Fugu tribe, the most important force of the chieftain of the Fugu tribe, and they had no intention of going into battle at this time.
The distance between the two armies was no more than two miles, and the cavalry charge soon came to the front. Since the infantry of the Anxi Army was firing at the Fugu cavalry in front of the formation, and there was no time to rewind the hard crossbow, the 6,000 cavalry rushed to the left and right flanks, and did not suffer any casualties, and were still in full number.
At this time, the four thousand cavalry on both flanks also rushed forward and collided head-on with these servant cavalry.
Although these cavalrymen were all light cavalry, they were the elite of the Han Navy, and each of them was issued with a single bow or a mounted crossbow, and these hard crossbows had not been fired before. Before the cavalry of the two sides collided, the knights of the Han Navy had already shot out the crossbow arrows in their hands, and suddenly the servant cavalry fell from the war horses one by one, and hundreds of people on each side fell off their horses.
The cavalry of the Han Navy was as strong as a rainbow, and when they were facing the enemy, they discharged their usual sharp and arrow formation, and rushed towards the Fugu cavalry like sharp arrows.
It was like a flood hitting an embankment, and the cavalry on both sides collided together, and the speed slowed down.
War horses are a very spiritual creature, they do not really collide with their kind head-on, the cavalry of the two sides staggered, and immediately the knights roared and waved their swords and spears, desperately attacking the enemy, and suddenly one by one the cavalry fell from the horse.
There were nearly 100 people in each group of the Han naval cavalry, and they rushed forward in a neat formation, taking care of each other, stirring up the Fugu cavalry, and the Fugu cavalry was scattered, and everyone who fought with the Tang army had to deal with the attacks of several Tang troops, although they were extremely brave, but it made the Tang cavalry instantly gain the upper hand. For every Tang knight who fell, three or four servant cavalrymen would die.
The cavalry on both sides fought desperately on the flanks, the galloping horses and knights were staggered, the sound of weapons colliding sounded like a torrential rain, and the white blades intersected and the warriors fell to the ground, and the scene was extremely tragic.
If the enemy is strong, the cavalry of the Tang Army will use the technique of striking, and after fighting for a while, they will retreat and fight again, but at this time, since they have the upper hand, they will naturally become more and more courageous the more they fight, and there is no need to use the art of striking.
The cavalry of the Tang army on the flank continued to advance, and the knights of the Fugu between the front and arrow formations fought less and less, and in the front of the Tang army, the second shield wall had all disappeared, and the infantry of the Han Navy was completely exposed to the hooves of the Fugu people.
Under the blow of the Tang army's arrow rain, there were less than 1,000 still alive servant cavalry in front of the shield wall, and at this time they no longer shot with bows and arrows, but all urged the war horses to rush forward, howling loudly and killing the infantry of the Tang army.
Li Huaiguang squinted and looked ahead, and after giving an order, the two thousand infantry moved forward as a whole and pressed towards this wave of servant cavalry.
Although the shield wall was gone, the cavalry had lost their speed. The cavalry, without speed, was no match at all against the elite infantry of the Tang Army.
The Han Navy soldiers strode forward with neat steps, swords and spears flying towards the Fugu cavalry. The servant cavalry was entangled by the infantry, and the horses could not increase their speed at all, so they could only wave their weapons and desperately resist.
Anxi elite soldiers, unparalleled in the world, the land of Beiting originally belonged to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Beiting Army is also from the Anxi lineage, and it is also the infantry to dominate the world. The infantry, under the orders of the junior officers, strode forward in a neat pace, stabbing the knights up and cutting off the legs of their horses, forcing the servant cavalry to retreat step by step.
The advantage of the cavalry lies in the speed, and the grassland cavalry without speed is entangled by the Tang infantry, and the battle is a one-sided situation.
While the two thousand infantry were advancing, they slowly and methodically moved to the sides, revealing a wide passage in the middle. Many of the servant knights finally found a place to break through, and one by one they rode their horses forward along the passage. However, in the next moment, five hundred tall warriors wearing bright light armor appeared in front of them, all holding terrifying-looking giant battle knives in their hands.
The giant knife is about more than a zhang long, and the blades on both sides are exactly the Mo knife that the Tang border army made the barbarians fearful. The five hundred Mo swordsmen in the Han Navy finally stepped on the battlefield at this time.
"Beat the drums!" Du Huaiguang gave an order.
The war drums of the march were ringing, and the smell of it was exciting. Five hundred Mo swordsmen lined up in a neat formation, stepping on the drum and walking forward step by step.
The servants rushed forward, and they were greeted by a moonlit sword light. The Mo swordsman in the front row swung his knife at the same time, splitting the knight in front of him into two pieces with his men and horses.
The first row of knights all fell, and not a single one remained. The Mo knife hand in the front row paused in place, and the Mo knife hand in the second row strode forward with the beat of the drum, and waved the Mo knife at the servant cavalry in front of him to chop down, and the movements were uniform.
The Tang Army's Mo Sword Soldiers are the nightmare of the cavalry, although these Mo Sword Soldiers of the Han Navy do not have the physical fitness of the cavalry of the Anxi New Army, they are also good hands in the Han Navy, and it is effortless to wield the Mo Sword in foot combat. Another moonlit sword flashed, and another row of servant cavalry fell.
Out of the knife, swing the knife, the action is clean and neat, without dragging mud and water. It's really a strange knife that everyone is broken, this is not a war at all, but a one-sided slaughter!
The scene became extremely bloody, and the disemboweled horses and cavalry fell one after another like wheat harvests. The Mo swordsmen walked through the pool of blood to the beat of the drum, hacked all the enemies in front of them, and soon they were on level with the infantry on both sides and reached the front line of the battle. (To be continued.) )