Chapter 233: The duel between the strongest cavalry and the infantry

Long Xiaojun's tenacious will to fight and superb combat skills are indeed not boasting, this is also the first time Wang Qinian has fought against Long Xiaojun, seeing that the other party is scattered at the moment, but in fact, the offensive echelon is very clear offensive formation, Wang Qinian feels that there will be some trouble today.

The biggest reliance of the Dingzhou army is the sharpness of long-range strikes, and after winning Fuzhou, the Dingzhou army has become very financially rich, which also makes Li Qing increase his investment in long-range strike weapons, so that the enemy can not touch the edge of the Dingzhou army and has suffered heavy losses, which is the most discouraged thing for the enemy. But today, this strategy is obviously somewhat ineffective for Long Xiaojun. Whenever the rain of arrows in the air is dense, the attacking Long Xiao Army scatters like frightened birds, waving shields and scimitars in their hands to minimize the degree of loss, and once the Dingzhou Army completes a round of launches, these scattered soldiers quickly gather at unimaginable speed, forming a cone-shaped offensive lineup, and the frenzy generally hits the defense line of the Dingzhou Army.

In less than an hour, the outer defense line of Shahe Town was lost, and Long Xiaojun's formation was reorganized, and the target was pointed at the core area of Shahe Town.

The ten-mile-long defense line of Shahe Town was originally in a semicircle bulging outward, but the current situation is that the top of the arc has been deeply pressed in, turning into a semicircle with a strange appearance concave inward, and the wolf army of Naben is embedded in this recess, Hu Sha'an is a little worried, "Second prince, do you want to divide your swords to guard against the two wings, we are almost surrounded by the other party on three sides." ”

Naben smiled: "Hu Sha'an, didn't you see the other party's camp flag?" Wang Qinian transferred his strongest combat force, the Tianlei Battalion, to our front, is it to have a hard fight with us, two wings? Hmph, if Wang Qibing's forces are superior, I will be careful to take precautions, but now that our troops are superior, what are you afraid of? The frontal battlefield is like a magnet that will constantly draw enemies on both wings into the middle and attack my wings? At most, it is to disturb him, don't worry about him, break through head-on, as long as the Tianlei battalion is defeated, we will cut Shahe Town into two pieces like cutting cream, and the Dingzhou soldiers will let us slaughter. ”

Long Xiaojun roared and rushed to the opposite side, and the trebuchet of the Dingzhou army, which had been silent since the start of the war, finally began to show its hideousness, and the polished round stone bullets filled the sky, smashing down fiercely, and the unique whistling sound of the four-shot eight-bull crossbow resounded throughout the battlefield, and hundreds of eight-bull crossbows were fired at the same time, each time it was hundreds of long crossbows.

Comparatively speaking, the psychological blow caused by the eight-bull crossbow to the enemy is greater than that of the trebuchet, the stone bullet of the trebuchet can still be dodged, and some perverted guys can actually use the shield of their hands and superb skills, but the eight-bull crossbow is unavoidable, unstoppable, the speed is strange, the strength is super-large, often even the shield leads people through a salvo, the powerful force often brings people into the air, all the way the blood rain will fall, screams fly in the air, blood rains down on the armor of companions like raindrops, making people all change color.

Long Xiaojun began to suffer a large number of casualties, but Naben's face was extremely calm, he knew that the blow of this powerful weapon would require a long interval of time before launching a second wave, and this was the time he needed to take advantage of.

Sure enough, after a round of firing, the trebuchet stopped, and the Dingzhou soldiers were busy reloading and tightening the ropes, and the Eight Bull Crossbows were doing the same thing.

And at this moment, Long Xiaojun had already pounced and rushed in front of the Tianlei Battalion.

"The timing was so good!" Wang Qinian shook his head again and again, and said: "At this point, we must remember that heavy weapons such as trebuchets and eight-ox crossbows must be fired in batches, and such long intervals should not occur as much as possible. A clerk behind him hurriedly waved his notes.

When Long Xiaojun was one hundred and ten steps away from the Heavenly Thunder Battalion, he was hit by a second round of blows, with a hundred rounds of crossbows. The power of the 100-round crossbow of flat shooting is also quite strong, but Long Xiaojun is obviously on guard against the 100-round crossbow of the Dingzhou Army, and the shields in his hands are all iron shields, protecting people and horses, and shooting with a round of crossbows, but the results are very limited, and it is difficult to hit Long Xiaojun as hard as the army that can't be equipped with iron armor and iron shields in the red department.

But Rao is like this, and this impact of Long Xiaojun also paid the price of hundreds of people.

Na Ben's face became a little difficult to look at, the Dingzhou army is well-armed and equipped, it is really staggering, in the past, if the Long Xiao army paid such a big price, it often rushed into the enemy's military formation, and the rest was slaughter, but today, the opponent's military formation is still neat and tidy, and it is waiting for it.

Tianlei Battalion, the strongest foot soldier in Dingzhou, from the beginning of the Battle of Fuyuan, this battalion has established its position as the strongest infantry in the Dingzhou Army, and they have fought the most times with the barbarians, and have accumulated countless refinements of foot breaking horses, even in the face of the strongest cavalry Long Xiao Army, they are also fearless, a phalanx is neatly arranged, concave and convex, if you look down from the sky, you can see that the foot soldiers of the Thunder Battalion for thousands of days are lined up into dozens of small phalanxes, and these dozens of phalanxes faintly form countless inverted glyph structures, When the cavalry rushed in, they would be surrounded on three sides, no matter what they were on.

The current commander of the Tianlei Battalion, General Zhao Li looked at the galloping Longxiao cavalry, and sneered: "The foot soldiers who attacked the formation with cavalry, Naben, you think too highly of yourself, let you see the power of the Tianlei Battalion today." Throw the spear, prepare. ”

A row of soldiers at the back of the phalanx pulled out their throwing spears about a meter long from their backs, took a dozen steps back, and after giving an order, ran violently, and when they reached their maximum speed, the heavy throwing spears were thrown with a whistling sound. This is not a spear cut from a tree branch on Baishan Mountain, but an iron spear carefully made by Dingzhou, with a head made of stainless steel and armor-piercing ability.

Hundreds of throwing spears concentrated their firepower and struck on the charging arrows of the Long Xiao Army, the cone head was immediately flattened, and the shield could block the throwing spear, but the huge force of the throwing spear could make your arm numb, as long as you moved a little slowly, you would be stabbed to the ground by the subsequent throwing spear.

The Tianlei Battalion only threw a round of spears, and after killing more than 100 people, the Long Xiao Army plunged into the Tianlei Camp, and the Long Xiao Army that followed closely followed immediately ran sideways in a circle of horses, running around the infantry phalanx of the Tianlei Battalion, bending the bow and arrows on the horse, and constantly shooting at the phalanx, breaking through the inside, and shooting at the periphery, which is the only magic weapon for the Long Xiao Army to break the infantry phalanx.

"Block!" Wang Qinian ordered.

The trebuchet began to launch again, but this time it was obviously ordered, and the trebuchet was no longer a dense attack in waves, but more than a dozen and dozens of them were divided into several waves, continuously smashing into the enemy army, trying to prevent more Long Xiao troops from rushing into the phalanx of the Tianlei Battalion.

As soon as the Long Xiao army penetrated into these phalanxes, the speed of the horses immediately slowed down, and some were even forced to stop, and the knights on the horses brandished their broadswords and spears, and kept blocking and stabbing down. This is a strong dialogue, the strongest cavalry against the strongest infantry, the soldiers on both sides are not even screaming, all of them have red eyes, fighting with their heads overhead, there is nothing else in their eyes, only the enemy and the tip of the enemy's sword, either you die, or I die.

A soldier of the Tianlei Battalion was stabbed and fell, but the moment he fell, he still cut off the opponent's horse's hooves with a knife, and saw the opponent get off the horse upside down, and there were a few more blood holes on his body, so he closed his eyes with satisfaction, and a dragon Xiao military horse jumped up and jumped into the air at the moment when he was cut over, and when several spears met him, he roared and threw the long knife in his hand, watching the long knife break through his chest and pierce the opponent to the ground, and he himself was stabbed by several spears, set up in the air, and a few spears shook and threw him out of the formation.

The guerrilla Long Xiaojun soon found that the impact of this kind of shooting on the Dingzhou soldiers was not too great, one was that the opponent was well-armed, as long as it was not shot to the point, it could not die at all, but the knives and guns were flying in the air, and the Dingzhou army in the front row was desperately attacking the Long Xiao army, and the soldiers in the back row were wielding spears and stirring desperately in the air, which made many of the arrows that fell down be shot down in the air, and on the sides of these spearmen, there were shield-wielding sword and shield men to cover for them.

Long Xiaojun immediately changed his tactics and no longer shot arrows, but began to throw weapons such as iron bones and iron hammers. When these guys fell, they immediately caused the phalanx of the Tianlei Battalion to begin to suffer large casualties.

It is like two raging giants entangled together, and both men become wild beasts at this moment, with only one purpose, to kill each other. Although the Long Xiao army has an advantage in strength, but it is suffering from not being able to invest too many troops at a time, the Dingzhou soldiers rely on a solid defense, and constantly carry out blocking strikes on the troops of the Long Xiao army, and the thousands of Long Xiao army who rushed in are inseparable from the Tianlei battalion, and no one can help anyone.

Hu Sha'an looked at Naben, whose face was a little ugly, and whispered: "Second Prince, our refueling tactics will not work at all, if we can't break through the middle of the Tianlei Battalion, we won't be able to win, Second Prince, let's retreat, the Erlang losses are too great, and it is not a wise thing to use cavalry to attack the well-arranged infantry, and the other party is still relying on such a powerful defensive position behind him." If Li Qing leads his troops to block our back road and seal us off in Yi'an, it will be bad, in Yi'an, we can't find a single supply. ”

Naben exhaled heavily, the first time he fought with the Dingzhou soldiers, it was actually such a result, which made him a little difficult to accept, he had always thought that as soon as the Long Xiao army came out, the Dingzhou soldiers would fall apart and be vulnerable, but the reality gave him a heavy blow.

"Second prince, we have to find an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the other party in the field battle, instead of attacking the fortifications!" Hu Sha'an comforted: "Besides, our attack this time is not without gains, the soldiers have accumulated a certain amount of experience in fighting against the Dingzhou soldiers, and the enemy's losses in this battle are much greater than ours, and they have already won." ”

Naben looked up at the sky, there was no hope of breaking Shahe Town before dark, and it would not be good for him to delay it at all, if Su Shun's 20,000 troops came with him, Naben hated it in his heart. Although the Yuanwu Empire was established, the subordinate banners still had their own thoughts, so that the Dingzhou army could calmly deal with them one by one. "These short-sighted guys, one day, they will pay for their short-sightedness!" Naben Road.

(To be continued)