The earth trembled slightly, and the sound was like thunder, low and shaking. The trembling became more and more obvious, and the thunder was like a race, gradually, everyone could clearly feel the tremor of the earth, and the spear in the hand began to beat, and the feeling of numbness and crispiness spread from the palm of the hand to the shoulder, and the vibration transmitted from the sole of the foot converged together, surging to the heart, rushing to the mind, turning into a chill, making the face of every Shu Han soldier change slightly.

This is the power of the cavalry charge?

As the Shu Han army in Bashu or southern Yizhou, most people are no strangers to earthquakes, they are in awe of that kind of liliang, and they also want to have that kind of liliang. But now, they are going to be enemies of such liliang, and fear comes up from the bottom of their hearts, making everyone feel scared involuntarily.

Ma Jian felt this change in emotion, his face changed slightly, and he immediately raised his hand and shouted, "Drumming!" ”

The flag-bearers waved the flags, and the drummers raised their arms and beat the war drums heavily. The sound of the drums quickly drowned out the muffled sound of the horses' hooves, echoing through the valley and reaching into the sky, dispelling the fear that hung over the hearts of every soldier.

The Shu Han soldiers woke up, lifted their spirits, re-grasped the weapons in their hands, and waited for the battle to begin.

However, the thunder did not dissipate, but became louder and louder, more and more urgent, as if it had the meaning of overtaking the sound of drums. Ma Jian clearly felt the soles of his feet trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous. He had seen the cavalry charge, and Ma Dai led the army to fight with the cavalry of the Wei army many times, and he had observed it, but he still had some disapproval of Ma Dai in private. But now, as the commander of the cavalry, he feels a different taste.

It turned out that the cavalry charge actually had such a might, and it was unimaginable that he had not personally experienced it.

A fast horse rushed out of the valley, and the horse galloped wildly, its hooves almost free. The knight crouched on horseback. Combined with the war horse, if you don't look closely, it's easy to mistake it for an ownerless war horse.

Followed by. Another war horse rushed out, this is a real ownerless war horse, the knight on the back of the horse has disappeared, only the war horse is fighting its tail. A vigorous gallop, quickly overtaking the knights in front of him, rushed towards the large formation in the middle of the valley.

The knight straightened up from his horse. Raise your hand and wave the colored flag in your hand to signal that the enemy horse has arrived. He had just swung it twice, and a large pole peeked out from behind the mountain, and then a knight rumbled out of the valley like a torrent. Liliang rushed over with a sea of mountains.

Ma Jian subconsciously opened his mouth wide and shouted: "Prepare for battle-"

Because of his nervousness, his voice was a little sharp. However, no one noticed the strangeness of his voice, for every soldier saw the rapidly approaching rolling torrent. I couldn't control my nervousness, and I wasn't in the mood to notice Ma Yan's abnormality at all.

The Wei army rushed out of the valley and rushed unstoppably towards Ma Yan's position.

Ma Tan chose a relatively narrow valley, the valley was more than a hundred paces wide, and no matter which part of the valley he passed, it was within the range of the crossbowmen on the slopes on both sides. When the Wei knights charged, one side was under the frontal fire of the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen did not need any aiming, as long as they shot the arrows in their hands, they could shoot at a target. Instead, they had to worry about not being able to lift too high so as not to shoot at their companions on the opposite hillside.

The positions of the crossbowmen on the slopes on both sides of the hill meander along the mountain, with four rows of sword and shield men and six rows of archers, intermittently discharging four or five hundred paces. In other words, if the knights of the Wei army wanted to rush in front of Ma Yan, they had to first rush through the four or five hundred steps of the flank arrow array. Ma Tan believed that at such a long distance, the possibility of not being injured by an arrow was very small, and the Wei army would suffer heavy losses. As long as a sufficient number of horses fell, the roads between the valleys would be more difficult, the speed of the charge would be severely affected, and the impact of the Wei cavalry would be more difficult. Even if someone could rush in front of him, the 6,000 soldiers behind him could completely block those scattered cavalry.

Although the time was in a hurry, he didn't have time to make more obstacles, but he believed that with such haode terrain and such a position, it was more than enough to block Zhang He's charge.

Although the cavalry is sharp, its strength is guerrilla, and it is not so easy to force a breakthrough. In the face of the strict infantry array, even the world-famous tiger and leopard cavalry did not dare to say that they would win a hundred battles.

Is Zhang He leading the tiger and leopard ride? Of course not. It was Cao Wei's Son of Heaven's guards, and only the Son of Heaven could go into battle if he personally conquered. Zhang He led only the elite cavalry in the forbidden army, although it was stronger than ordinary cavalry, but it was not strong enough to easily break through the position.

Ma Tan was confident, seeing that the forward of the Wei army had already rushed into the shooting range, he raised his hand and waved lightly: "Shoot!" ”

The sound of the drums of war changed and became as rapid as rain. As the sound of the war drums changed, the crossbowmen on the hillsides on both sides released their bowstrings and pulled the crossbow machine.

Long arrows roared, pouring down from the hillsides on both sides, and slammed into the Wei soldiers galloping in the valley.

"Raise the shield-" In the military formation where the knights of the Wei army were advancing like water, there was a loud roar, and almost all the knights rushed up the riding shields in their hands, covering the horses and their heads. Once again, they accelerated, and the sound of the horses' hooves became more rapid and louder, mingling with the sound of war drums.

"Whoosh-"

"Whoosh-"

The sound of arrows breaking through the air was incessant, mixed together, as if a rainstorm had fallen from the sky and pounced on the galloping knight. The knights caught in the middle are safer, with their companions in front and behind, left and right, and they only need to protect the top of their heads. And the knights on both sides were about to face the most direct attack, and almost instantly, the horses on both sides were hit by arrows, as if countless thatches had suddenly grown.

Ma Tan smiled. The Shu Han army did not have cavalry, but this did not mean that the Shu Han army did not have sharp weapons to deal with cavalry. Zhuge Liang dared to face Zhang He under Shangtai City, and he dared to wait for Zhang He in Luomen, because they had ordnance that far exceeded that of the Wei army. Now they are coming from a long distance, and those heavy ordnance such as thunderbolts, even crossbow carts, and even baggage carts that can charge obstacles, but they still have powerful bows and crossbows, which can completely inflict serious damage on the Wei army.

These bows and crossbows are the work of the prime minister, and of course there is also the credit of Wei Ba, although that kid is a little unruly, but his talent in machinery is really amazing. Even the extremely smart prime minister is full of praise. These repeating crossbows, which bring together the talents of the two generations of Shu and Han, are the sharpest killing weapons of the Shu Han army at present.

With such a killer weapon in hand, Ma Jian is confident that he can defeat Zhang He head-on. You can ignore the advice of Wang Ping, get rid of those disobedient Yizhou people, and win this battle alone.

However, as soon as the smile bloomed in the corner of his eye, Ma Jian noticed that something was wrong.

The horses that were in the cavalry did not fall. They were full of arrows, but they were still running wildly.

What's going on?

Ma Jian looked closely, and only then did he realize that these war horses were indeed different. They didn't have knights on them, but their bodies looked a little bloated, as if they had something tied to them. The arrows were fired at those things, and although they were as dense as thatch, they did not do much damage, only a few horses fell, and many more were still rushing into the fire.

What is this? Can you actually make the war horse withstand the attack of a dense rain of arrows? You must know that the range and penetration of repeaters are not as good as ordinary bow crossbows. But at such a close distance, the lethality is still considerable. These war horses are all within range, but weishenme is not hurt as it should be?

Ma Tan was puzzled.

The officers and soldiers of the Shu Han army also noticed something unusual, some of them exclaimed, and some of them shot harder. However, no matter how desperately they tried, the casualties of the Wei army were still minimal, and they quickly approached Ma Yan's main formation at an unimaginable speed.

The distance of five or six hundred steps is only a matter of the blink of an eye for the galloping war horse. Before Ma Jian could figure out what was going on, the Wei army's iron cavalry had already rushed in front of the big array.

Looking at the Wei knights who were roaring, looking at the hooves of the horses flying up and down, looking at the Wei knights who were lying on horseback with fierce eyes, and looking at the arrows flying out of the cavalry array, Ma Jian only felt a cool air rushing to the back of his head, instantly making him cold, and he even forgot to give orders.

The soldiers of the Shu Han army did not wait for the military order to be issued, and reacted instinctively, and the spearman in front clenched the spear in his hand, and the cold and shining spear tip pointed directly at the rushing war horse.

The crossbowmen shot out the arrows in their hands, and the galloping arrows rushed towards the formation of the Wei army, and the arrows of the warhorses in front of them were neighed, some continued to run forward, and some fell to the ground, and then they were stepped on by their companions behind, and their skin was opened, and their bones were broken and bleeding.

At the same time, the knights of the Wei army also shot the arrows in their hands, and the arrows were like locusts, and they swooped straight at the spearmen who were standing in formation. The spearmen clenched their spears in both hands, there was no cover, and in the face of such a rain of arrows, they could only gamble for their lives. Bet that after this short breath, I will still be alive.

The Shu Han army only had time to shoot three rounds of arrows and shoot down dozens of war horses that rushed to the front, and the Wei knights rushed to the front of the formation.

"Kill!"

The soldiers on both sides shouted in unison, the war horses galloped, and rushed towards the Shu soldiers, some of the horseback knights stabbed out the spears and iron halberds, and more raised the snow swords, and cut down the Shu soldiers head-on with the speed of the war horses.

"Pounce!" Spears pierced the corpses of horses and knights.

"Boom!" The spearman was hit by his horse and screamed and flew through the air.

"Whew!" The sharp sword split the leather armor, split the flesh of the soldiers of the Shu army, and cut their necks.

Blood burst out, shouts of killing shook out.

The Wei generals were like fierce tigers, using the speed and liliang of their horses to the extreme, they first shot spear formations with bows and arrows, killing and wounding spearmen, disrupting their formation, and then ramming them with their war horses. Although the spear pierced the body of the war horse, those spearmen were also knocked back again and again by the liliang of the war horse, and then hit the companions behind them unsteadily, and became more and more panicked.

The sacrificial impact of several war horses quickly broke through a gap in the spear array, and the knights of the Wei army rushed in and killed wantonly.

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The fourth shift in debt repayment is two shifts.

There's something going on at home in the past two days.,The time of the code word can't be guaranteed.,Originally said to pay off the debt this week.,It looks like it's going to skip the ticket.,But Lao Zhuang tried his best.,The remaining two chapters.,As far as possible in these days.。

zuihou said, of course, asking for a monthly pass, asking for a recommendation ticket. (To be continued.) )