Chapter 252: The Decisive Battle of Wuhuan Mountain (2)

Tens of thousands of flickering wolf's tooth arrows were like tens of thousands of life-urging sigils, which made the Wuhuan cavalry feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts.

In the Han Dynasty, the cavalry usually used unilateral stirrups, which only made it easier for the knights to get on and off their horses. Ao Lie brought the bilateral stirrups, horseshoes and Takahashi saddles, which had only been developed in later generations, to his army, so that his cavalry had the ability to stand upright on horseback. The bilateral stirrups are suitable for the cavalry to exert force on both legs at the same time, which can support the physical strength of the cavalry, so that they can exert all their strength in the process of shooting, so that the running is more accurate and more penetrating.

If the cavalry shooting of the bloody killing army just now had shocked the Wuhuan cavalry, now the running shot of the Longxiang army simply made the Wuhuan people directly pillbox. Galloping, as the name suggests, is to ride on horseback to complete accurate archery movements, this difficult action, in the Han Dynasty, which was dominated by unilateral stirrups, was really a difficult action. Knights have to rely on the strength of their legs, clamp the belly of the war horse, stabilize their bodies on the back of the horse, and at the same time, they must also be distracted to ensure that the upper body is straight and still, and complete the archery through the strength of the arms.

Moreover, the stunt of running shooting is unique to the Huns, and only the Huns can complete the running as ordinary soldiers with their experience of living on horseback for generations and the super physique cultivated by the perennial nomadic life. But it is not that all the Huns can shoot, only a few Huns with excellent physical fitness and excellent riding skills can do it.

But now, the 10,000 Long Xiang army has unbelievably completed the action of the premise of running at the same time. How can this not shock the Wuhuan people!

A Wuhuan leader rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and asked his heart: "This, is it a rush?" When will the Han people be able to run and shoot? But no one answered him, for no one knew the answer. The leader tried to find the other leaders around him, but when he asked, he found that the other leaders around him had turned their horses and galloped behind them. The Wuhuan leader, who was a little slow to react, finally reacted, under the rush of 10,000 people. Stay where you are, isn't that waiting to be shot as a hedgehog? So the leader hurriedly turned his horse's head, and the last one ran to the rear.

The pathetic leader had barely taken a few steps when he heard a gut-wrenching sound of Peng Peng behind him. He knew that the Han army was shooting. It's officially begun. With the sound of the bowstring vibrating incessantly. More than 10,000 sharp arrows were shot into the sky, and after reaching the very top of the parabola, they suddenly tilted, and then fell towards the Wuhuan people. Some people will ask, there are only 10,000 people in the Long Xiang army, but what can be shot for more than 10,000 sharp arrows? Because the predecessor of the Long Xiang Army was the Flying Bear Guard of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, White Horse Yicong and Dong Zhuo. These three cavalry, respectively from Bingzhou, Youzhou and Xiliang, are the places where cavalry is most abundant in the Han Dynasty, therefore. The current Longxiang army can be said to be the most elite cavalry in the history of the Han Dynasty, in this elite, many people can shoot with one stone and two eagles, especially when the Wuhuan people are very dense, there is no need to deliberately aim at all, the Longxiang army naturally uses the method of multi-arrow shooting, in order to kill and injure the Wuhuan people to the greatest extent. At this moment, even the light scattered by the sun in the sky was temporarily obscured by the arrows shot by the Long Xiang Army, leaving the Wuhuan people in a dark place, just like their mood at the moment, and they couldn't see any hope.

The unresponsive leader of the Wuhuan was pierced through the back of his heart by a sharp arrow that fell from the sky in a scream, and the tip of the arrow pierced through his chest, cutting off all his life. He was fortunate to be the witness of the highest status under the first run of the Long Xiang Army. With his own blood and life, he witnessed the terrifying power of the Long Xiang Army's shooting.

After the first round of shooting, the Long Xiang army led by Lu Bu had already completed a third of the sprint, and the remaining distance could still allow them to carry out a round of shooting. As a result, the tooth-sore sound of string pulling creaked again, and tens of thousands of wolf tooth arrows took the bowstring, showing a life-threatening cold glow to the Wuhuan people. Then, with the second sound of Peng Peng's vibration, the wolf's tooth arrow shot into the air again, and then turned sharply, causing effective damage to the Wuhuan cavalry.

After three rounds of shooting by the Blood Killing Army and the Longxiang Army, the Wuhuan cavalry suddenly fell into incomparable chaos, under these three rounds of arrow rain, the casualties of the Wuhuan people have reached tens of thousands, and almost every three arrows will take away the fresh life of a Wuhuan people! This shows how accurate the archery skills of the Blood Killing Army and the Dragon Xiang Army are. Of course, one of the reasons for such brilliant results is also because the Wuhuan people are poorly equipped and have no iron armor to protect themselves.

The dozen or so Wuhuan leaders who fled to the center of the Wuhuan army began to be angry! They have an army of nearly 200,000, but they were pressed and beaten by a mere 60,000 Han troops, and they also lost the lives of tens of thousands of people in an instant, which is simply a great shame! So, they began to order their own tribe's soldiers and horses to meet them, and with the advantage of numbers, they tore the Han army in front of them to pieces.

Soon, the 100,000 cavalry, who were in the rear of the Wuhuan camp and did not suffer from the chaos, bypassed the chaotic front army one after another, galloped to the front of the battlefield in a roundabout way, and launched a fierce attack on Ao Lie's headquarters. Faced with the onslaught of 100,000 Wuhuan cavalry, Zhao Yun and Lu Bu once again made a move that surprised the Wuhuan people, they even led their subordinate cavalry, and after turning an arc, they ran towards the camp of the Han army, without the slightest intention of fighting with the Wuhuan cavalry.

At the same time as the retreat of the two armies of Blood Killing and Long Xiang, the Tiger Army, under the leadership of Ma Chao, had already come to the forefront of the battle array, and the dozens of objects covered with red cloth were also pushed over by them. After Ma Chao's order, the elite of the Tiger Ben Army lifted the red cloth on it, revealing the terrifying ballistas inside! That's right, it is the red-clothed ballista that has been improved several times by Wang Hun and Ma Jun!

On the red-coated ballista, five crossbow bolts have been erected, two long and three short, scattering a desperate light, arranged on the tension wings of the red-coated ballista. Seeing these crossbow arrows, the bloodthirsty madness in the eyes of the Tiger Benjun became even stronger. The corners of Ma Chao's mouth lifted a grim smile, and he loudly issued the first salvo of the red-clothed ballista since it came out!

There were only eighty red-clothed ballistae carried to the battlefield by the Tiger Army, and each ballista had five crossbow arrows, which added up to only four hundred crossbow arrows, which sounded far less shocking than the ten thousand people of the Long Xiang Army, but the actual situation was not like this. With Ma Chao's order, the Tiger Ben Army was in a group of ten, and they were quickly operating the eighty red-clothed ballistas, while the rest were guarding near the red-clothed ballistas, and took out spare crossbow arrows, ready to change the guard with the companions who operated the ballistas.

The sound of the red-clothed ballista firing crossbow bolts was like thunder. Four hundred crossbow arrows shot out with strong force, and in an instant, in the direction where the red-clothed ballista fired, it immediately became a vacuum, and the Wuhuan cavalry, even their men and horses were pierced into pieces by the powerful crossbow arrows, and they didn't even let out a few screams, and they were taken away by the crossbow arrows of the red-clothed ballista. Those javelin-like crossbow arrows, which were as thick as children's arms, often pierced the bodies of more than a dozen Wuhuan cavalrymen in a row, until the crossbow arrows were loaded with too many corpses, and they stopped piercing due to the consumption of strength. Those crossbow arrows the size of long swords could also pass through the bodies of four or five Wuhuan cavalrymen in succession, causing significant killing effects to the Wuhuan cavalry.

A round of artillery fires caused thousands of casualties among the Wuhuan cavalry, and more importantly, the Wuhuan cavalry who were charging had never seen such a powerful and terrifying battlefield killing weapon? Their courage was heavily chiseled by the red-coated ballista, and the sprinting horses, under their fear, collectively slowed down the speed of the sprint.

The Wuhuan cavalry horses slowed down, giving the Tiger Ben army more time. The Tiger Army, which had completed a cannon, immediately retreated, gave up the operation of the red-clothed ballista to his comrades, and went to prepare new crossbow arrows. The comrades who had been waiting for a long time immediately filled in as their teammates retreated, loaded the bolts in their hands onto the ballista's wings, and then quickly completed the process of loading, winding, and aiming.

The red-coated ballista is hugely powerful, and the operation process is relatively simple, only ten people are needed to complete it, but due to the limitations of the times, the ballista of this era cannot be like the artillery of later generations, which can fire at will without restrictions. There needs to be a pause between each fire, which is the only thing Ao Lie is not satisfied with with the red-coat ballista. Through the efforts of Wang Hun, Ma Jun and others, the firing interval of the red-clothed ballista was shortened to between a hundred breaths, which is equivalent to about two minutes in later generations, two minutes sounds very short, but in the rapidly changing battlefield, there is a possibility of a turnaround in one second, let alone two minutes? However, Ao Lie also knew that he could not ask for too much, especially for this kind of advanced weapon that spanned hundreds of years of time, it was already the limit to be able to reach the current level.

Of course, Ao Lie also had his own way, he asked Ma Chao to lead the Tiger Army after being familiar with the performance of the ballista, and decided to let the Tiger Army operating the ballista be divided into two teams and take turns firing the cannons. While one team is operating the ballista, the other team needs to prepare the next round of crossbow arrows, so as to shorten the time from loading to launch, Ao Lie's decision makes the firing interval of the red-clothed ballista shorten by thirty breaths!

Soon, the second team of Tiger Ben completed the loading and skillfully operated the redcoat ballista for the second round of shelling. Another four hundred crossbow arrows of different thicknesses roared out of the crossbow wings, inflicting considerable damage on the Wuhuan cavalry in the other direction, and on the battlefield, another vacuum area strangely appeared. (To be continued......)