Chapter 503: Dragged to death
On the other side of the nameless river, the 20,000 Jin army actually stopped the attack, and the whole army stood in place and quickly set up a formation, where everyone could clearly see the tragic battle on the opposite side, but Jiang Xuan and Xian Enzhuo only took a cursory look and looked away.
Caught in the crossbow arrow array, no matter how strong they are, they can't use their skills, the forbidden army of the Wei people is over, the difference is only how much they need to pay and how many people escape, they are concerned about the heavy cavalry in front.
"Fuck it!" Jiang Xuan couldn't help but scold: "The speed at which the Wei people put on armor is so fast, otherwise we can rush up and shoot a burst of arrows to death." ”
It turned out that Jiang Xuan and Xian Enzhuo had just led 20,000 horsemen out of the woods, and they judged that it was impossible to rush over before the heavy cavalry was armoured, so they decisively stopped and simply waited for the other party.
Xian Enzhuo pondered: "The protection of this thing is not weak, we don't know if our crossbow arrows can be shot through, but one thing is certain, he must be slow, Enzhuo has a proposal, you see their horses, the horses are generally fat, and the armor is also expensive!"
In particular, the horse lance is a sharp weapon for the cavalry to charge into battle, although there is no horse lance in our army, but the general has mentioned that a qualified horse lance is very complicated to manufacture, and it is necessary to pick a good wood repeatedly glued and pressed, and then wrapped in hemp and painted, the gun can be light and tough, almost will not be cut off by the sword, at the same time, the weight requirements are also very strict, you need to hang the horse lance with hemp rope near the tail of the gun to keep it balanced, so that the military general can play the maximum power of the horse lance with the minimum physical strength on the horse, 5,000 heavy riders on the opposite side. With 5,000 horse lances, we might as well annihilate those servants first, and then find a way to drag the heavy cavalry to death, by that time, all his expensive equipment can be suppressed and used, General Jiang, what do you think? ”
"Great idea!" Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up and said: "Anyway, don't worry about the general, even if we slow down, the general will come to support after killing the forbidden army of Wei, and I'm afraid that he won't be able to fly with wings?" Prepare for the battle! ”
Jiang Xuan and Xian Enzhuo returned to their respective positions. Sit and wait for the Wei people's equipment to ride heavily!
It didn't take long. This group of old soldiers was neatly dressed, and the weight of the armored horses was extremely terrifying, and they needed the help of others to step on the war horses, and they had to run when they stepped on the horses. If you sit on a horse like a normal light rider and don't move. Even if it is a good horse in the Western Regions with a large body fat. It will be unbearable after a long time.
Each of the old soldiers was supported by the two servants, and almost all of them slammed into their horses, although the Jin army on the opposite side lined up and gave them a bad premonition. But there is no way, people are waiting, they can't afford to wait, even if they don't care about the fight on the other side of the river, they must attack when they put on heavy armor!
They also knew that it was difficult to fight head-on with the heavy cavalry and the light cavalry, but there was still a chance with the assistance of the servants, and the heavy cavalry never lined up in formation when they were attacking, and the spacing between each horse was between twenty or thirty steps, so that they could exert the maximum power and avoid colliding with each other.
"On the left and right flanks, drive the Jin army into a group!" A general waved his hand, and the horn sounded.
The servants on both flanks were 5,000 each, and they all urged their horses to rush towards the flanks and rear of the Jin army, which made it necessary for the Jin army to concentrate on the counter-charge if they wanted to meet the battle, and at the same time create opportunities for the mounted heavy cavalry.
The two teams of light cavalry bundled into a fish-scale array and galloped to the left and right, and in the middle were slow and leisurely mounted heavy cavalry, while the crossbow cavalry of the Jin army was arranged in a horizontal formation, with more than 3,000 people on each of the three floors, and 5,000 light cavalry on the left and right wings.
Xian Enzhuo stared intently at the two galloping cavalry teams, and when he rushed diagonally in a circle, he shouted: "Turn around, split into two groups to meet them!" ”
The standard-bearer waved the flag, and the 10,000 horsemen immediately split from the middle, and the middle part protruded, like a figure of eight arranged on the battlefield, and the light horsemen did not move for the time being.
There was still a mile or so left, and after determining that the Wei servant army could no longer turn, Xian Enzhuo said again: "Bend forward on both sides of each arm, and spread out in the middle!" ”
The crossbow cavalry immediately moved, I have to say that the combat skills of Xian Enzhuo's department are significantly higher than those of Xu Dao's department, after all, the length of training time is different, and I saw that the two strokes of the eight characters bent outward, and each hugged and rushed to Wei Qi!
Even if the servants felt that something was wrong at this time, but the temporary change of formation needed to take the risk of scattering the formation, they were just ordinary cavalry, the meaning of existence was only to serve the old soldiers, and the battle was also auxiliary, if it was a regular cavalry of the Wei State, they could change direction at any time, but they didn't dare to take this risk, even if they knew that the Jin army was in their pockets, they could only drill into their pockets.
"Stretch and stretch~~" As the distance on both sides approached to three hundred steps, hundreds of short arrows immediately shot head-on, but due to the compact formation of the fish scale array and the small impact surface, only a dozen or so horsemen on the left and right were killed, which lifted the spirits of the servants!
After three rounds of crossbow arrows, only a hundred horsemen were killed, and there were still two hundred steps away, but the Jin army had a gap in the middle, and the cavalry spread out to both sides, putting on a posture of letting you go, but the cavalry on both sides pressed forward violently, and in an instant, there were arrows shooting in all directions, and the servant troops on both sides seemed to have drilled into a tunnel composed of arrows, but they could not stop, because a stop would be collided by the horses behind, and they could not fight back, the cavalry of the Jin army were two hundred steps away, and the bows and arrows could not shoot that far!
This is more lethal than the frontal attack, can only suffer in vain, not long, finally someone can't bear it, forcibly turn the horse's head and run to the sides, in order to earn that glimmer of life in the dark, but they are not elite cavalry after all, no matter the skill and consciousness are not enough to break through this crossbow arrow array, they can only either collide with their companions and fall from the horse, or be shot to death by a short arrow, according to this momentum, the 10,000 regular cavalry do not need to play at all!
The slang people are all in a happy mood, killing people has never been so easy, and the old soldiers who are running slowly are all shocked, but the speed is so slow, they can't escape if they want to!
Jiang Xuan saw that Xian Enzhuo didn't need to support himself, so he waved his hand violently: "Let's all go and meet the Wei people's equipment and heavy horses!" ”
The rumbling hooves suddenly sounded, and 10,000 cavalry spread their hooves and ran away, which made the old soldiers anxious, not only could they not run fast, but it was very difficult to even change direction!
The cavalry gradually slowed down, and at about 100 paces, the heavy rider of the equipment was scattered and surrounded, "Dang! There was a crisp sound, and I don't know who released an arrow, but not surprisingly, the arrow was directly knocked away without causing any damage.
"Damn, it's really evil, Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil, get closer and shoot again!" One horse rushed closer to fifty paces, drew the bow and shot again, and it was still a crisp sound!
"Come closer, damn it, why is this shell so thick?" Some people ran to thirty paces to shoot, and some even dared to approach within the range of twenty paces, but without exception, not a single arrow pierced through!
On the west bank of the unknown river, 10,000 crossbow cavalry divided into two teams, each besieging and killing the Wei servants, the servants are rapidly decreasing, obviously it will not take long to be annihilated, and the five thousand heavy cavalry at an unfast speed to form a large loose formation towards the servants, as if to meet with it, on the side and tail of the mounted heavy cavalry, surrounded by a large area of light cavalry, the speed is fast and slow, neither blocked, no one goes up to fight, just shoot arrows, as if testing the hardness of the armored cavalry, It feels like you're playing.
These old soldiers are frightened and aggrieved in their hearts, how can they go to rescue the servants, but they can't run away if they want to! But then, a raging anger burned in their chests, they are the coquettes of the sky, the nobles of the Tuoba clan, and the more noble armored heavy horses than the forbidden army, but today, they are regarded as the object of other people's fun!
"Look, those people's faces are flushed, everyone come to guess, are they tired or angry?"
"Can you not get tired with a turtle shell?"
"No, it must be extremely angry, look at this person, his eyes can kill, no wonder, the heavy rider has been forced to this extent, and I feel ashamed to change Lao Tzu, so much money is spent on dogs!"
"Dealing with light cavalry with heavy cavalry, I don't know who came up with the bad idea!"
A crossbow cavalry who had just arrived took it and said: "It's the old dog of Mu Chong, the Tai Lieutenant of Wei State, General Xian just caught a prisoner, and the leader is the new Wei King Tuoba and Tai Lieutenant Wei Chong of Wei State, I don't know what happened before the war, Tuoba Yu was deprived of military power by Mu Chong's secret edict, it was he who ordered him to let the Gu Mounted Heavy Cavalry come to the brothers for fun, can he still be a Tai Lieutenant at this level?" ”
If Mu Chong heard this underground, he would inevitably vomit blood angrily, it was definitely not his intention to use heavy horses to cooperate with the servants to attack the light horses, he was ambushed and had no choice but to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor!
His original intention was to delay with the servants with heavy cavalry, and then return to the division to rescue the main force of the Jin army after the forbidden army was defeated, so he used the word circumferential, maybe the general with the heavy cavalry failed to understand, or maybe the armor rode up and couldn't wait any longer, so he could only take the initiative to attack, but take a step back and say, waiting in place sooner or later is a death!
"Plop~~" An old soldier couldn't stand the ridicule around him anymore, and after spurting out a mouthful of blood, he fell off his horse and fell unconscious on the spot!
"Hahahaha~~" arrogant laughter broke out one after another around him!
As the laughter spread, more and more old soldiers were angry, like dumplings and fell down, and some people were more determined, although they were forced to hold on, but their physical strength was also passing rapidly, and their bodies were shaky, which in turn made the laughter more arrogant, and also made the forbidden army on the other side of the river who was still struggling to tear and kill more panicked, the war on the opposite side was over, and they were finished!
I don't know who started, but the forbidden army with thousands of people left suddenly dispersed in a hurry, fleeing in all directions, and the soul of the Wei State completely collapsed! (To be continued......)