Yuwen Shumi's eyes were raised, he felt that it was wrong, and was surprised by the other party's decision, how could only 3,000 people resist the charge of 20,000 cavalry, this is one of the strongest and most powerful tactics of the empire and the grassland people.

The scale of tens of thousands of iron cavalry, when launching a group charge, basically no enemy formation can stop it, not even the spear array, the reason is very simple, the power of the spear array is really the first heavy spear forest, but when the group iron cavalry charges, the cavalry in front of it can not be terminated at all, even if the front is a sea of cliff fire, they have to rush up.

The war horse can even reach a high speed of ten meters per second in a short sprint, such a high speed, so even if it rushes up and is pierced by the spear, its impact can crush a piece of pikemen, and the gun array will be broken immediately.

At this time, the cavalry appeared on the horizon, the convoys were chained together, and thirty chariots were connected end to end in an arc, which looked well prepared.

The speed of the enemy's cavalry was slowly accelerated, first maintaining a certain speed rhythmically, and when it reached two miles away, it exerted its strength violently, and the war horse immediately accelerated, and its momentum rushed straight over like a tide.

At a top speed of two kilometers, it only takes a minute to rush, and suddenly, the front line, which has already been prepared, immediately raised its flag, and when it boarded, only the sound of "Peng" was heard, and the crossbow archers on the car formation were ready.

After waiting for a few tens of seconds, I heard an order, "Hum! "As soon as the sky was dark, thousands of arrows rained down on the sky, and then rained down, and heavy crossbows were aimed at the galloping iron horsemen and fired straight at them.

Yang Qi was on the chariot behind, coldly watching the first round of attacks.

The outcome is often decided at the beginning, the result of the first charge

Although there is an arc-shaped chariot to resist the opponent's charge, if the cavalry maintains this high speed, then even a heavy giant chariot can be smashed away with flesh and blood, but as long as the first heavy defeat, it is impossible for either horses or people to produce this kind of group charge that is not afraid of life and death.

In this encounter, there was an instant result.

Unscathed, it was the feathered cavalry who rushed to the front to make a test, and found that these light cavalry had almost no casualties. Wen Shu was relieved at this time, and it seemed that he was too careful.

It seems that the rebels not only have few soldiers, but also have weak strength, and with a wave of their hands, two more cavalry forces charge from both sides, forming a three-sided charge, trying to completely crush the rebel army.

Yang Qi saw the imperial army coming from three sides, and he was really arrogant and arrogant, and he didn't take the rebel army in his eyes at all.

"Change the steel crossbow!"

I saw that the soldiers on the chariot threw away the weak bow and soft bow in their hands and replaced them with pitch-black steel crossbows, these weapons were amazingly powerful.

"Shoot" Yang Qi waved his hand.

Whoosh!

A rain of arrows fell straight from the sky, and suddenly, a piece of cavalry in the range turned into hedgehogs, and they fell from their horses one after another, and the heavy crossbows that shot directly were aimed at the galloping horses

Powerful crossbow arrows pierced through the Imperial cavalry, two or three people in a row, as well as war horses.

He also ordered the marksmen to concentrate their fire, giving the Imperial cavalry the maximum lethality.

This kind of heavy crossbow is actually a small bed crossbow, this kind of crossbow has appeared in the warring countries, and at this time, the bed crossbow on the chariot should be wound on the winch shaft, and the crossbow arrows fired are one meter long, enough to shoot through heavy armor, and even through people and horses.

The only consequence is that this heavy crossbow, the twisted shaft, takes a long time to wind, so in a real battle, there is only one chance to use it.

However, even so, the range of this kind of long crossbow, the arrow of the war horse, pierced straight in, and could no longer keep sprinting, fell heavily, and slid on the ground for more than ten meters, the roaring sound, even if it can't be heard, can be felt.

The front rider fell to the ground, the rear rider was affected, and the speed naturally eased, and Yang Qi stared straight at the confrontation point in the distance.

I only heard a bang, and after the rain of arrows, I slowed down, and several horses crashed into the chariot, which swayed, but fortunately there was a special defensive shield for defense, and the bottom was connected by iron chains, so that it did not rush over or collapse.

On the chariot, you can also feel the force of the heavy thousand catties pressing up, so on such a battlefield, it is impossible to turn the tide of the battle with personal courage, and it is good to be able to protect yourself.

Everything depends on the preparations made in advance, whether the various conditions are sufficient, the right time, place, and people, and especially the degree of cohesion of the army's morale, which has become the key to victory or defeat.

Three hundred chariots, linked from end to end, formed a single unit, in fact enclosed in a simple military formation, and 20,000 iron cavalry charged, most of them crashing directly into the chariots.

At this moment, the drums beat rapidly.

All the crossbow archers on the thirty chariots, no longer disregarding their own safety, simply blocked the wooden planks of the chariot formation, and began to desperately shoot out the crossbow bows stored in the car, this array is Yang Qi's originality, and the orientation is borrowed from the principle of the fortress, so the cavalry that enters, there are almost no dead ends, and in the same direction, they are subjected to a volley of five or six angles

Instead of stabbing people with guns in the gaps, they desperately put on the crossbow, and this crossbow bow is all steel crossbow.

When the crossbowmen finished shooting, a new bow filled with crossbow arrows was sent up, so that the crossbow arrows continued to flow, and in general, the arrows and crossbows were kept continuous.

Crossbow arrows can only kill and wound enemies from a distance, and when the distance between the two sides gets shorter and shorter, the wrestlers on the chariot smash the rushing cavalry with hammers.

As soon as the hammer went down, it burst open like a watermelon, whether it was a person or a war horse, and the brains splashed everywhere, greatly alleviating the impact.

"Thorn!" Seeing the right time, Yang Qi ordered the horse lance, which was several feet long, to be placed on a horizontal plane and stabbed it neatly.

The greater the impact of the iron cavalry, the greater the damage received, and a single horse lance could pierce through seven or eight Imperial cavalrymen, and the cavalry could not dodge such an attack, so they could only crash into it.

"Collecting" blood water poured up from the horse lance, and it took the strength of two or three soldiers to pull it out.

In such a staggered attack, arrows rained down, hammers slammed, horses pierced the imperial cavalry like meat skewers, and a large number of cavalry melted like snow, and all the rebel generals who watched the battle in the canal were dumbfounded

The chariot itself is powerful, on the earth in the Ming Dynasty has been tested, the Mongolian iron cavalry often have to pay several times or even more than ten times the casualties to consume the ammunition of the car array and then annihilate it, but unfortunately in the late Ming Dynasty, the state finance can no longer support the maintenance of the car array, the car array was abandoned.

But now, this arc-like formation, which played an incredible role, could withstand a large amount of charging force and prevent the cavalry from breaking through the defensive line, and the charging cavalry, at the same time, was subjected to concentrated fire from five or six directions, without any cover to cover.

The cavalry in the vicinity wanted to attack the chariot array itself, but there was a horse lance in front of it, and as long as it collided, it would pierce the heavy iron armor, and the faster the charge, the worse the death, even if it was lucky to avoid the horse lance.

When approaching the front of the chariot, the strongman smashed it with a hammer, but he could not dodge, and was immediately killed by the rod.

In this way, a cross-attack with no dead angles is formed, and the greater the impact, the more people, and the faster they die.

In such a situation, even a warrior would be killed without any resistance at all.