Chapter 63: Mo Dao Array
It turned out that Lin Feng's purpose in setting up the trapping horse formation was not to kill the enemy, but to let the trapping horse formation play the role of the crossbowmen in front of the Mo Dao Formation to slow down the speed of the cavalry!
Suo Chao, who was standing in the middle of the front row, roared angrily: "Get up!" One! ”
The snow-bright broadsword with a blade of one and a half meters long swung in unison, swinging from the bottom right to the top left, drawing a slightly arcing knife line in a regular manner, and slashing to the top of the head diagonally. The broadswords of the first row collided with the first row of cavalry, and the men with knives cut out a forest of blood.
Suo Chao swung out his sword, and the blade cut off the head of a cavalryman in front of him, and then cut the waist and ribs of the cavalryman on the horse, then to the chest, and then to the right arm, cutting the whole person in half, and the cavalryman died before he could even scream.
Suo Chao, whose face was splashed with blood, did not stop at all, and shouted: "Fall, two!" On, three! ”
The Mo knife raised suddenly slashed straight down, and the Mo knife hand took three steps up at the same time, and forcefully swung the Mo knife from the bottom left to the right and up, once again exuding a neat and dazzling knife light.
"Take, four!" Suo Chao's loud voice rose again, and all the Mo knives were suddenly retracted, and then stabbed out diagonally. The Mo swordsmen in the first three rows almost pierced through the cavalry in front of them.
"Fall, one!" The Mo knife fell heavily again, swinging from the right down to the left again, starting another round of circulation.
Those neat sword lights were as dazzling as the sun and as ruthless as the moonlight, cutting down the cavalry within the range of the sword light one after another. Watching the cavalry in the first five rows disappear like powder, the cavalry behind desperately pulled the reins, hoping to avoid the deadly sword light.
However, the steadily advancing Mo Dao Array approached step by step, wrapping the stunned cavalry inside, and then turning into pieces of flesh and blood.
"Advance like a wall, stand like a wall!" Hou Zhang, the envoy of Wusheng Jiedu, muttered that when he was young, he had seen a strange sword formation in a battle, and that tragic situation had always been hidden in his memory. But compared to the Mo Dao Array in front of him, that Mo Dao Array was like a child's game! The Mo knife array in front of him, those big men are more powerful, and the Mo knife is even more powerful, and once the knife goes down, the horses, the body, and even the armor can't hinder the knife momentum in the slightest.
"Sound the gong! Let the cavalry pull down! Li Gu and Zhao Kuangyin roared at the same time, and an urgent gong sounded, reaching the ears of the stunned Zhou Jun.
Lin Feng here, looking proudly at Li Congqian, who was already stunned, and then at the stunned soldiers around him, he was very proud in his heart, and ordered: "Sound the gong!" Let Mo Daosheng come back and rest! ”
Mo Dao is one of the secret weapons that Lin Feng prepared for the Great War of the North and South.
As a military fan, Lin Feng once searched and studied the world-famous Tang swords on the Internet in his later years, especially the Mo swords that frightened the surrounding cavalry in the Tang Dynasty.
The Mo knife is a double-edged long knife held by the infantry in the Tang Dynasty, which developed from the Western Han Dynasty horse sword, and absorbed the shape and smelting techniques of the Han Lu Mo knife and the long knife of the Six Dynasties. Around the time of Tang Gaozong's teasing and dew, the Mo knife became popular, mainly used to fight against the rampant Turkic cavalry in the north, and later became popular among the armies, specially used to deal with the "four yi" on the border of the Tang Dynasty, which was dominated by cavalry, and became a popular weapon to restrain cavalry, and was popular until the late Tang Dynasty.
However, the Mo knife itself is extremely heavy, the weight is generally between more than ten kilograms and thirty kilograms, because of its weight, not only the requirements for the Mo knife hand are very high, but also the smelting skills are naturally extremely high, it is these two reasons, since entering the five generations, the Mo knife and the Mo knife array have basically disappeared, and only become a weapon legend in the historical record.
In the "Old Tang Book", which was compiled into a book in the Later Jin Dynasty, it was recorded: "Kan Leng, a native of Linji, Qizhou. Make good use of the big knife, one zhang long, and apply two blades, called Mo Blade. In each move, several people were killed, and there was no one who was in front of him. "In addition, "Old Tang Book? It was recorded in the Biography of Pei Xingjian: "In the first year of Tiaolu (Tang Gaozong, 679 AD), the Turkic Ashinadwen Fu rebelled...... (Pei) line inspection to Shuozhou...... Then the fraud was 300 times for the grain cart, and each cart was ambushed by five people, each with a sword and a crossbow, and hundreds of people were used to help the car, and the elite soldiers were ambushed, so that the danger was awaited. In addition, Turpan and other unearthed documents also have records of Tianbao's equipment in the early Tang Dynasty.
Lin Feng also once found the Tang Dynasty gold, bronze and black lacquered Tang straight knife that was praised as a national treasure by Little Japan and collected in Kashima Shrine, with the impression that the blade was 223 cm long, and if a long handle was added, the total length could easily reach one zhang, which should be the prototype of the Tang Dynasty Mo knife.
It was precisely because of his endless yearning for Modao that as early as when reinforcements from all over the country arrived, Lin Feng selected three hundred of the most sturdy strong men from all branches of the military and all reinforcements, and had been secretly training the Modao Formation. The daily training content is to stand in line with discipline, run long distances to practice physical strength, throw stone locks to practice strength, and wield a big knife to practice killing. At the beginning of September, the well-built Mo knives were successively equipped in place, and the Mo knife players concentrated on the most difficult battle formation training.
There was a period of extreme silence on the battlefield. Zhou Jun, who had been shouting and cheering on the river embankment, was all dumbfounded, and no sound came out.
The cavalry of the Zhou army, which had not made contact with the Modao formation, retreated one after another, and as soon as many soldiers returned to the fortress, they slipped off their horses, collapsed on the ground and shivered, and two soldiers vomited on the spot, and were severely whipped by the angry Li Chongjin, and ordered to be dragged aside.
The Modao team stopped when they heard the order, turned around in unison, and dragged their knives back. The footsteps were still firm and powerful, and the whole ground seemed to bounce to their rhythm.
Suo Chao was two steps behind, turned around and raised his knife to look directly at Wan Zhoujun, and the person froze for a moment. Thick blood continued to drip along the long blade, but it slammed into the hearts of every Zhou soldier like a loud bang.
Suo Chao let out a long roar, bent down and picked up the white cloth banner that was already stained with blood from the ground, and hung it on the top of the Mo knife again, "Li Gu, do you dare to attack?" Six big characters, like six sharp knives, stabbed all Zhou Bing's eyes, stabbing their bodies trembling.
Lin Feng strode up to meet him, slammed the chests of several brothers, hugged Suo Chao after the most recklessness, and praised with a thumbs up: "Well done, great shock to the army!" ”
Suo Chao grinned and said in a rough voice: "It's a pity, they are too scared to rush to the top, and they can't enjoy killing!" ”
"Don't worry, there will be a chance for you to slash the northern cavalry in the future!" Lin Feng answered mysteriously, took Suo Chao's big knife, waved the white cloth banner in the air, and roared loudly, "Li Gu, do you dare to attack?" ”
"Li Gu, do you dare to attack?" The Shouzhou Army, whose morale was even more uplifted, roared in unison.
Pan Long, the patriarch of the Tujia family in Chenzhou, who was aroused by the bloody scene of the Mo knife array, tore off the clothes on his body, brandished the long Miao knife with his only remaining right hand, and let out a roar of "whoa", and the rest of the Tujia soldiers would of course learn from their own patriarchs, all of them ripped off their shirts, and raised their arms and shouted wildly.
At this time, the Shouzhou Army made another unbelievable action. The whole army started from the back and forward, and retreated a hundred steps one by one, revealing a larger space in front of the position, and the soldiers at the same time unloaded their bows and arrows and threw them behind the formation, each carrying only a close-fitting steel knife. Lin Feng himself ripped off his shirt, brandished his knife, hooked his index finger, and took the lead in provoking to the north, and the whole army made a challenge of "come to the meat game if you have the guts"!
"Li Shuai! Ask for permission to lead 30,000 troops to attack! Zhao Kuangyin saw the provocation of no one in the eyes of the Shouzhou army, and then looked at the generals and soldiers on his side who had not yet faded from their astonishment, and suddenly knelt down and shouted for battle.
"Okay, 30,000 soldiers, led by you, fight with the Shouzhou army, and raise the prestige of my Great Zhou army!" Li Gu also woke up from the shock and immediately agreed to Zhao Kuangyin's request. In this situation, if you don't dare to fight head-on with the Shouzhou army, I am afraid that the whole army will not only lose the confidence to win Shouzhou, but even lose the courage to face the Shouzhou army!
Zhao Kuangyin pressed his left hand on the fortress city, and the person jumped down, then jumped up, stepped on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of him and rushed to the front of the battle formation, turned around and roared: "I want 30,000 brothers, and I will fight closely with the Shouzhou army!" It's the Great Zhou Warriors, and they stand up automatically! ”