Chapter Forty-Eight: Broken Days
It's almost noon!
The autumn sun unexpectedly exudes a scorching breath in the sky, and the heavy clouds seem to wrap the sky and earth in a thick quilt, covering it tightly, impermeable to the wind, without a trace of autumn coolness.
The heavy and chaotic sound of horses' hooves on the ground in the distance, the wheezing and snorting of war horses were getting closer and closer, and the Turkic cavalry rushed towards them at a rapid pace. The sprint of thousands of horses was indeed magnificent, and the billowing smoke and loud shouts made them look like a flood.
Two thousand five hundred right guards stood quietly in the scorching sun, most of them wearing heavy armor and lined up in a neat line, and they did not let go of their footsteps in the face of the flood of Turkic cavalry.
This is also the plain of a veteran, if a new soldier has 20,000 soldiers and horses, he can't help but weaken his hands and feet in the face of such a momentum of the Turks.
"This Turkic general is still a bit level! But it's still a little naïve. Luo Shixin squinted his eyes and looked forward with his hands on the pergola: as far as his eyes could see, the Turkic cavalry was holding a short horse bow in their hands, and rushed towards them with a thunderous force.
The majesty of the Turkic cavalry's charge was truly amazing, and Luo Shixin felt that the ground under his feet was shaking, and the speed was also eye-catching, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the front......
500 steps......
400 steps......
300 steps......
The Turkic soldiers slowly slowed down, and even if the Turks were skilled in arching and horses, it was impossible to accurately shoot the target in the rapid sprint, and slowing down and shooting arrows was the basis of mounted archery.
When the Turks reached two hundred and fifty paces, they all bent their bows and were ready to shoot......
Because there is no point of focus in cavalry archery, most of the bows and arrows used are short bows, and the most lethal range is within 80 paces, but the two armies are fighting, and people are swarming in one place, as long as they are facing the direction without aiming, they can also hurt people...... It is possible to deal damage to the enemy as long as it comes within range of an arrow.
Especially the arrow feathers brought by the salvo of ten thousand bows......
The effective range of the Turkic cavalry was up to one hundred and fifty paces......
Just when the Turkic cavalry stepped into two hundred steps and was about to enter the range of one hundred and fifty steps, Si Li was stunned to find that the Tang Jun Mo swordsman in front of him suddenly fell to the ground, revealing the soldiers full of crossbow arrows behind him!
The cunning Tang soldiers actually hid a large number of crossbowmen behind the Mo Dao soldiers......
The sky is full of crossbow arrows!
Si Li was dumbfounded and at a loss: the crossbow of the Central Plains has always been the first weapon to deal with the nomads, and it is because of the deep study of the crossbow arrows of the Central Plains Turkic generals, the effective range of the Tang Dynasty's Fuyuan crossbow can reach 300 steps, and the distance between the two armies is still less than 200 steps at this time, even if the speed of the Turkic cavalry is too fast, it will take a lot of time to turn the horse head and retreat from the dense to the evacuation formation, and it is impossible to avoid it.
There is no way to hide, there is no way to avoid it.
In an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows pierced through people and horses, often piercing three or four people with one arrow, and the Turkic cavalry neighed sadly, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.
"Bite them! Serial shooting! Luo Shixin's eyes flashed with a scorching light, just as he said that the Turks were too naïve, how could the Mo Dao Array reveal such a big flaw? The slow mobility of the Mo Knife Soldier will indeed become a target, but before trying to use the Mo Knife as a target, the ferocious and domineering crossbow arrow will shoot the opponent into a sieve first.
In fact, there is no need for Luo Shixin to order, after a month of training, every soldier in the Modao Formation clearly knows their role, and after a long period of practice, they fire in layers in a neat and orderly manner, one after another, preferring to have loose arrows and feathers, but also keep shooting.
The powerful firepower network forced the Turkic cavalry to stop at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and even pressed to two hundred paces.
Si Li Xie watched the brave and warlike clansmen let the slender crossbow arrows shoot through and kill, and his heart couldn't stop dripping blood, and he couldn't help but roar loudly: "Rush, press it on me......" At this distance, once the crossbow arrows are entangled in a series of stacked shots, it will be difficult for the cavalry to turn around, let alone retreat in a short time, and the more they retreat, the more chaotic it will be.
Si Li saw through this in a panic and did not panic, and rushed to the front to fight hand-to-hand with the Tang army despite the loss, so that the power of the crossbow arrow could not be exerted.
Completely caught in a situation of being beaten, losing nearly a thousand tribesmen before they could fight, all kinds of circumstances aroused the blood of the Turkic soldiers, one by one roaring and ignoring the crossbow arrows that came from the hurry, and stubbornly piled up a way forward with flesh and blood.
Hundreds of Turkic cavalry fell, and the Fuyuan crossbow was not as good as the machine guns of later generations, and it could not be completely suppressed by firepower, and the distance between the two armies was shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye under the Turkic assault.
Luo Shixin was also a little moved, the Turks deserve to be the fierce enemy of the Tang Dynasty at this moment, and this brave strength that is not afraid of death is indeed worthy of the word strong enemy.
Luo Shixin licked his lips, and when the Turkic soldiers approached sixty paces, he issued a brand new order: "All the Mo sword soldiers step forward and line up, all the soldiers put away their crossbows and prepare for battle, and all the archers shoot for me!" ”
Countless arrows shot from the black pressure formation past the Mo Dao soldiers into the Turkic army formation, and the sharp arrow feathers pierced into the body of the Turkic cavalry, causing the red liquid to splash like a fountain!
Without the suppression of crossbow arrows, the Turkic cavalry finally began to accelerate for a long time.
Si Lixie's face was gloomy and terrifying, his black pupils flashed with anger, and he shouted: "Descendants of the wolf god, rush forward! Step through the bodies of these wastes! ”
As soon as Si Li's evil cry fell, the surrounding Turkic cavalry let out a heart-rending roar, and with this indescribable roar, they swept across the distance of sixty paces like a whirlwind, killing the Tang army's formation, and seemed to declare war on the Mo Dao soldiers again.
Facing the entry of the Turkic cavalry, Xue Yong fearlessly led the Mo sword soldiers to meet him.
If you want to fight, you will fight!
In the splattering of blood, the horse collided with the outstretched Mo knife, and under that terrifying force, the Mo knife pierced from the horse's neck, all the way to the body, and finally pierced through the back of the war horse, and instead pierced into the chest of the knight on the horse.
Resisted!
The Turkic cavalry did not break the Modao array, but the Modao soldiers resisted the cavalry's assault to the death.
This qiē was all expected by Luo Shixin.
Is the impact of the Turkic cavalry terrible?
Terrible!
Under normal circumstances, the Modao Formation can stop the Turkic cavalry?
Unstoppable!
However, the Mo sword soldiers are interlocking, and the arms cooperate with each other to learn from each other's strengths!
The most powerful charge of the Turkic cavalry had been neutralized by the powerful crossbow arrows, and the chaotic array of bows and arrows had disrupted the assault formation, and the impact of the cavalry, which had only accelerated within sixty paces, could not shake the specially trained Mo swordsmen.
Is a cavalry without impact an opponent of the Mosaber soldiers?
There is no need to calculate, Xue Yong, who is at the forefront, announces the result with practical actions.
Mo knife crossed a beautiful arc in the air, with a loud "......bang", the knife and the knight on the horse came into close contact, the invincible power directly pressed the knight's body, the blade broke his stomach, the power did not weaken at all, and continued to chop on the horse's back.
Broken apart.