Cavalry combat is not a full rush, even light cavalry can't do it, so the men and horses can't stand it. Especially when fighting positional battles, you have to advance slowly, slowly increase your speed, so that the movement speed of the entire army is consistent, and you generally have to enter the sprint state when you are in the last mile, otherwise the momentum and strength of the impact will not be enough.

And those Khitan soldiers in Liao were originally evolved from nomads, and they were very good at horseback riding. Therefore, their cavalry was much faster than the cavalry of the Song army in the preparation process, and Xiao Qiaogu with 5,000 cavalry adjusted his pace and rhythm without much distance, and entered the charging stage in advance. In this way, it does cost some horsepower, but it also depends on what kind of opponent it is facing, for a country like the Song Army, where cavalry is scarce, it is not afraid to waste some horsepower, and it is the most wonderful thing to be able to drink blood with your sword earlier!

"Bed crossbow ready!" Qi Luosheng raised a thumb, roughly measured the distance of the Liao cavalry, and shouted: "Five hundred meters to shoot ready!" ”

The herald on the watchtower beside him hurriedly took out two colored flags of different colors and waved them vigorously towards the position of the bed crossbow in the wall.

According to the configuration of the field army, an army had ten brigades, each of which had a squadron of bed crossbows (20), which added up to 200. Originally, there were 50 trebuchets, but because they were too heavy, and there was no siege mission this time, Qi Luosheng left them at Yijin Pass and did not bring them with them.

"Attention shooters! 500 meters of shooting preparation, speed 12 (meters per second) correction (the cavalry of the Liao army sprint speed of about 40-45 kilometers per hour) ...... "After the leaders of each bed crossbow squadron saw the order flag, they immediately ordered their subordinate bed crossbow shooters to adjust the angle.

These third-generation bed crossbows after continuous improvement have improved a lot compared with the first-generation bed crossbows made by Zhao Zhen at that time, especially in terms of operation and continuous reloading, which not only simplifies the operation but also increases the rate of fire to 2-3 minutes at a time, which is almost half of the increase. It's like this elevation angle height and left and right swing angle originally required several people to coordinate and move, but now one person can quickly adjust it through two small turntables, plus a simple optical aiming device, even a new hand can shoot a ** without leaving ten.

Of course, some relatively microscopic influences such as wind and humidity are not something they can notice at their current level, and it all depends on the shooter's experience in long-term practice to achieve a more accurate design.

However, now they don't need to be so precise, a goal of 5,000 people gathering together is as big, as long as the advance of people's speed is counted, it is basically in place. Speaking of which, by the way, during the imperial examination in the fifth year of the Heavenly Sage, the two brothers who made the rangefinder later made a superficial speedometer on this basis, which also made the various bed crossbow commanders bid farewell to the original era of feeling and being blind.

"Put!"

"Put!"

"Put!"

……

This is the time! The leaders of the ten bed crossbow squadrons waved the firing flags almost simultaneously, and after a short firing by the shooters, two thousand crossbow arrows with a diameter of one centimeter and a length of one meter were fired out quickly.

Due to the previous estimate of the advance amount, this batch of crossbow arrows happened to collide with Xiao Qiugu's army head-on when they entered the five hundred meters.

"Ahhh......h

However, many more people did not even have time to scream, and they drowned under the hooves of their companions along with their men and horses. There are also many soldiers who rushed behind, and because of the "artificial stumbling blocks" that fell to the ground in front, they became the targets of continuous injury. It can really be said that people are turning on their backs and screaming miserably!

"Woohoo......" Xiao Langgu heard such a big movement, looked back and took a cursory look, and found that half of the soldiers he was leading had fallen to the ground, and the rest had also disrupted the rhythm of the charge, and hurriedly pulled the war horse urgently.

I have to say that this baby is better than his father's luck, his father was shot in the head with an arrow, and he was able to survive the rain of thousands of arrows unscathed. Of course, this is also due to the fact that his horse is better than the average soldier, and he runs at the front, so that he can avoid the range of the arrow rain attack.

Originally, with the hit rate of the bed crossbow at this time, it was impossible to achieve this attack effect, even if the thousand crossbow arrows were hit, it should not be like this. The real reason has to be attributed to Xiao Rugu's baby, he is so greedy, he wants to rush up and take a bite when he sees Song Jun, and he doesn't know if it's good to try his teeth first!

No, the Liao army that entered the sprint speed was already fast, and there was no psychological preparation for things, so it was natural to suddenly encounter such a silent attack and fall into chaos. The number of people who were really killed or injured by the crossbow arrows is estimated to be five or six hundred, and the others are all injured or killed by their own collisions, which can only be said to be their own death, and they can't blame others.

"Grandma! It's too much of a deception! I used to shoot my dad, but now I want to shoot me again, and I can't spare you bastards! Xiao Rugu vented in his heart, and then shouted loudly to the soldiers behind him: "Hurry up and recover the formation, if you are not dead, quickly climb on the horse for me, pick up your bows and arrows and give me a fierce counterattack!" ”

After such a toss, not only did the advantages of his cavalry not be brought into play, but it was delayed for a while. This is also thanks to the fact that the 3rd Army of Qinglong is not a cavalry, otherwise they would have been allowed to return to normal there, and they would have taken advantage of his chaos to kill him.

"Good! All right! Well shot! That's it! ”

On Song Jun's side, Qi Luosheng saw that his bed crossbow had achieved such gratifying results, and it actually exceeded the evaluation effect of the usual drills, so naturally the big teeth were about to laugh off, and he didn't even shout pain when he slapped his thighs violently, and forgot to say that he was shooting people's thighs.

Qi Luosheng waited quietly for two minutes (the time for the bed crossbow to be filled), ready to witness the meritorious service of his bed crossbow unit again, but he never saw an arrow flying overhead, so he looked back, only to find that the bed crossbowmen under his hand were busy and happy, and he didn't think about making up for it at all.

"Now it's war! You still think it's a drill! What are you doing there? Why don't you hurry up and take advantage of his illness to kill him! Qirasheng was about to be angry, and snatched the herald's loudspeaker and yelled in the direction of the bed crossbow.

After his reminder, the crossbowmen hurriedly returned to their respective positions, and the squadron leaders also began to give attack orders: "The target is 500 meters, do not correct, prepare ...... Put! ”

At this time, Xiao Langgu finally gathered up his cavalry that could still move, and prepared to continue to charge. Although he suffered a big loss just now, he was not timid, he thought that this was just the usual sneak attack method of the Song army, as long as he could rush over and fight them hand-to-hand, he could beat ten people by himself, besides, he was followed by a captain of ten thousand, and he couldn't say anything in front of him.

So, Xiao Qiaogu raised his horsewhip and prepared to give the order to charge again.

"General, look, here we go again!" The guards beside Xiao Langgu suddenly grabbed him, pointed to the arrows flying above the Song army camp and shouted.

"Nima! Come back! Xiao Qiaogu was startled when he saw it, and muttered, and Nima shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Hurry up, hurry up!" Scatter the charge, don't get in a pile, rush up and kill them for me! ”

It's all at this time, this thing is still thinking about attacking, and no one will believe him if he is not a fierce general!

The delay of the Song army's bed crossbowmen gave the Liao army a lot of time to react, resulting in the second wave of bed crossbow attacks with little effect, only killing a hundred or so scattered Liao troops in time, and did not cause a riot to them as a whole.

"Alas! It's a pity! Seeing this, Kira couldn't help but sigh.

Seeing that Xiao Langgu continued to rush over with the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry, the bed crossbow had already lost the opportunity to attack. He gave several orders in succession: "The shield soldiers come forward to defend, the crossbowmen are ready to attack, and the bed crossbow is on standby!" ”

With the mass destruction of the previous bed crossbow, the morale of the soldiers is very high, and even the speed of carrying out orders is much faster.

When Xiao Qiaogu's people entered the two hundred meters, Qi Luosheng ordered again: "All repeaters, fire!" ”

At the same time, Xiao Rugu also gave his soldiers an order to move closer, preparing to complete the final assault and open a breakthrough point, as long as they could rush in, no matter how many Song troops would fall under their horses' hooves.

He was right! There have always been many generals who like to use cavalry raids, and it is not uncommon for a hundred horsemen to break the enemy. This has to be left on the original Song army, as long as Xiao Qiaogu can break through the gate of the village and rush in, the 20,000 Song army infantry will really not be able to do 2,000 cavalry in most cases.

What a pity! No one told Xiao Langgu that continuous firing of weapons was a cavalryman's nightmare!

"This is the moment we have been waiting for!" The corners of Kirasheng's mouth lifted slightly, revealing a smile that was often accompanied by the bad luck of someone or a certain family of people.

"Shoot!"

Qi Luosheng gave an order, and the Liao army, which was scattered in order to avoid the bed crossbow, was just gathered by Xiao Langgu, and then ushered in the baptism of the crossbow storm. He is not as calm as Di Qing, and he doesn't know what "pity the fragrance and cherish the jade", so he just let the two brigades arranged in the front shoot together.

Think about it, two brigades, six hundred repeaters, and all of them are continuous damage skills. What's more, there are a hundred divine arm crossbows, all of which are also the best weapons of the Yin people.

When Xiao Qiaogu came to the wall under the continuous rain of arrows, the Song army also finished shooting a box of crossbow arrows...... And then, there was no then!

"General, the Song army is cheating! Withdraw! ”

The guards around Xiao Rugu saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly protected his stupid master, and forcibly dragged him out. And there were originally a hundred personal soldiers around him, and there were only one or twenty left to block the arrows for him.

When they ran out of the range of the crossbow arrows, Xiao Rugu had time to take a closer look at his army. Well, it's better not to look at it, just take a casual look, those who are still on horseback, those who can move, and the total is estimated to be less than a thousand.

Xiao Langgu's mood at this moment can be described by an idiom, that is, he wants to cry without tears!

originally ran over with confidence, ready to make a quick fat and tooth sacrifice, but he didn't expect to end up being the one who was beaten and sacrificed. It only took a quarter of an hour from the end of the capital to the end, and the 5,000 soldiers he brought were left with the thousands of people around him.

Of course, the nearly 4,000 Liao soldiers who fell to the ground were not all hanging, at least at this time, most of them were panting. It's just that Xiao Rugu didn't withstand the rain of arrows again to save their consciousness.

At this moment, he didn't have time to care about them, because he still had a lot of questions that he hadn't figured out for a while.

When did Song Jun become so fierce? Is it because people have become fierce, or has their own Great Liao Kingdom become cowardly? When will the infantry be able to torture the cavalry? What kind of world is this? Is there any heavenly reason......

Xiao Langgu stayed there, and 100,000 whys instantly popped up in his mind, but unfortunately there was no question expert on the scene to answer for him.

Alas! It's all to blame for this kid in addition to picking up girls to eat and drink on weekdays, and he doesn't know how much to care about current affairs and politics, Zhao Zhen was able to use infantry to bully cavalry ten years ago, and he is still in a state of arrogance in Yelang!

Qi Luosheng's captain, Dou Shu, who was the reserve team, didn't drink the soup in the battle just now, and his heart was itching. At this moment, seeing Xiao Langgu and the others running away and staying in a daze, they felt as if they were being underestimated.

So his little temper also came up, and he ran to Qi Luosheng and shouted: "Lord Commander, please allow the last general to take people out to pursue them!" Dare to underestimate us, and the end will destroy them all. (To be continued.) )