Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 319 Edward's Whimsy
More than 500,000 cavalry lined up on a large plain, and a tense and oppressive atmosphere was slowly accumulating. Just wait for that moment to come, and it will burst out completely.
The 300,000 cavalry of the Beichen Army are all elite light cavalry of the Beichen Kingdom, wearing fish scale armor, holding spears, and carrying cavalry knives at their waists. On the opposite side were the 270,000 elite cavalry of the Cossack state, most of them dressed in blue iron armor. Only the 50,000 cavalry in the center were different, with only a cloth coat and no armor. There was a black cloak hanging on his back, and under the blowing of the majestic wind, he fluttered chaotically. Holding a cavalry knife longer than the cavalry of Beichen Kingdom, they are strong and strong, and they look like demons coming out of the abyss, holding demon blades, murderous.
After half an hour of battle, all the cavalry on both sides had recovered their physical strength and that of their horses, and adjusted their state to their peak. At this moment, Yue Fei waved the offensive order flag without hesitation. The flag officer behind him conveyed orders to the commanders of each cavalry army according to the battle deployment. The drummer below waved the thick drum vertebrae of the strong man's arm, and smashed it the cowhide drum surface, and a deafening drum sound was heard. Subsequently, the continuous drum beat spread throughout the battlefield little by little, stimulating the morale of the cavalry officers of Beichen Kingdom.
"Brothers, follow me to the right flank of the enemy!" Zhao Guangliang waved the halberd in his hand and shouted loudly at the 50,000 cavalry of the Western Army behind him.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
The roars of anger raised the state of the soldiers of the Western Army one step further. Subsequently, Zhao Guangliang took the lead and killed the 40,000 cavalry on the right flank of the Cossack state. Behind him, the 50,000 cavalry of the Western Army did not drag his feet at all. As soon as Zhao Guangliang rushed forward, countless cavalry immediately followed.
"Kill!" Shi Yan waved the spear in his hand ahead of the curve and roared loudly.
The cavalry of the capital army of more than 50,000 people, driving the war horse in obscurity, jumped forward, and rushed to the center of the battlefield in an instant.
Yun Feng of the rear army, as well as Zhang Cheng of the Northern Navy, each led 50,000 cavalry under his command and rushed to the battlefield. The only ones who were still waiting were the 50,000 cavalry from the central front, and they were not yet ready to go. For the 270,000 cavalry of the Cossack State, Yue Fei was not careless, and left sufficient reserves as usual, so as not to have a slight disadvantage and be defeated by the Cossack State in a battle.
250,000 cavalry, including Zhao Guangliang's 50,000 horses to assault the right flank of the Cossack State cavalry, Yunfeng to assault the left and right, Zhang Cheng and Shi Yan's 100,000 iron cavalry, directly stepping on the Cossack State cavalry middle army. And immediately following Zhang Cheng and Shi Yan were the original 50,000 iron cavalry under Xiao Chen's command, and they had a living force on the left and right, and they would support all battlefields at any time. Whether it is the left flank, the right flank or the middle army, as long as the Beichen army gains the slightest advantage, they will directly kill it and become an overwhelming situation on the entire battlefield.
The sound of more than 200,000 cavalry galloping and sprinting together was definitely no less than the continuous heavy artillery bombardment, and the sound of the bang had already blocked the sound of hundreds of drums on the side of the Beichen army. Xiao Chen stood on the high platform, and he could feel the whole earth trembling. And that's not all, the cavalry of the Cossack state has not yet begun to charge.
"Ulla! Ulla! Ulla! ”
Amid the cheers of Ula, the 220,000 Cossack cavalry greeted the three cavalry killed by the Beichen army. Among them, there were 40,000 people on the left and right flanks, trying to involve the 100,000 horses of the Beichen Army's cavalry. In the Chinese army, 140,000 cavalry were gathered and engaged the enemy's 150,000 cavalry from the front. At the same time, the 50,000 Cossack cavalry adjusted their condition and were ready to join the battle of the Chinese army at any time, and strive to defeat this half of the Beichen army.
Nearly half a million cavalry charged together, and the whole earth seemed to tremble violently, as if it was about to be shattered. Xiao Chen, who was standing on the high platform and watching the battle, firmly held the guardrail in front of the high platform, for fear that he would accidentally fall down. The battle of hundreds of thousands of cavalry, there is no need to say much about the momentum. Everyone has no formation at all, it's not that they don't want to, but they can't line up. Under the earth-shattering sound on the battlefield, even the simplest formation of cavalry could not be completed, and they could only rush forward in a honeycomb.
Just when the cavalry of the two sides were four or five hundred miles apart, the cavalry of the Beichen Army took out a piece from their waists. If you look closely, it's a crossbow arrow. Then, the 250,000 cavalrymen raised the crossbow slightly upwards by more than ten degrees, and then pulled the trigger. More than 200,000 crossbow arrows flew in front of the Cossack cavalry in an instant, and after a sound of crossbow arrows entering the flesh, the cavalry of the Cossack country fell by 10,000 or 20,000 horsemen.
Xiao Chen looked at his masterpiece, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Hehe, this weapon hasn't been revealed before. Even in the first battle with the cavalry of the Cossack State before, in the case of disadvantage, the cavalry of the Beichen Army was not equipped with crossbows. All for this time, let the Cossack state first taste the power of China's advanced technology.
The power of crossbows is naturally different, especially the crossbows equipped for cavalry, which are more powerful than the crossbows of infantry. The infantry is still equipped with ordinary crossbows manufactured by craftsmen, which has the disadvantage of slow installation. The cavalry, on the other hand, was equipped with improved crossbows. Although the empire could not independently develop weapons before, it was still completely possible to modify them according to the system weapons. Moreover, this time the modification of the cavalry crossbow cost a lot of manpower and material resources of Beichen Kingdom. After hundreds of successive improvements, it finally appeared in the hands of the cavalry of the Beichen Army for the first time.
After the first wave of crossbow arrows, in less than two breaths, the cavalry of the Beichen Army pulled the bowstring of the crossbow, and then shot another wave of crossbow arrows. The so-called elite cavalry of the Cossack State suddenly seemed to enter hell, and the continuous crossbow arrows caused the cavalry to suffer heavy losses in this short 400 steps. Five consecutive waves of crossbow arrows took less than 20 seconds in total, and more than 1.2 million crossbow arrows were fired. As a result, the cavalry of the Cossack state lost forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses before the handover. With such a huge lethality, the commanders of the Cossack countries who saw it were stunned on the spot.
The cavalry's improved crossbow is a repeating crossbow. The repeater is in the crossbow and stores five crossbow arrows, and after shooting an arrow, you only need to pull the bowstring and hang the bowstring on the top of the trigger to shoot another arrow. In addition, for the first time, the tool for pulling the crossbow string was also pulleyed, so that the soldier could easily pull the bowstring with very little effort. Of course, after the five bolts have been fired, the bolts have to be reinstalled, which is the longest time. However, for cavalry, five crossbow bolts were enough. Due to the rapid movement of the cavalry, they were only able to shoot five arrows quickly, and then they did not even have time to install the arrows. It can be said that this type of crossbow was specially prepared for cavalry.
As for the infantry's crossbows, now the Beichen Kingdom is already beginning to research more powerful crossbow technology. It is expected that in a year or two, Beichen Kingdom will be producing Zhuge Repeater or Divine Arm Crossbow!
The cavalry of the two sides soon fought, and after suffering heavy losses, the cavalry of the Cossack state not only did not lose morale, but had the temperament of fighting to the death. This made Xiao Chen very annoyed, damn, how could Lao Maozi inherit the spirit of the Soviet Red Army at this time. This only made Xiao Chen secretly curse in his heart, after all, it is impossible to complete the counterattack now in Yongmeng.
The Beichen army had already achieved the greatest advantage before the battle, and the gap between the Cossack cavalry and the Beichen State had further widened after losing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. The rest of the matter is that the soldiers of the two armies will fight, and then Xiao Chen will sit and wait for the Beichen army to win.
The moment of the handover was the most tragic, and countless cavalry were packed together. This kind of collision is completely competing with the quality of the war horse, and the war horse with good performance is naturally needless to say. Although the cavalry of the Cossack state charged for a short time, the speed of the war horses did not increase to the peak. However, the Beichen Army's war horse charge has been a little longer, and its physical strength has decreased a little. Therefore, in just a short moment, the two families of hundreds of thousands of cavalry fought to par.
Tens of thousands of cavalry from both armies fell to the ground, and then were trampled into pulp as more cavalry ran. Then, the knights of both sides staggered into the crowd of each other. With the cavalry knife in his hand, he quickly slashed at the enemy he could see. However, more often than not, the moment he rushed in, he was cut in half by several enemies at once. The main forces of both armies were caught in a fierce battle, and although the strength was not superior, the cavalry of the Cossack State still resisted the attack of the Beichen army with great difficulty with the spirit of desperate and bloody fighting.
One by one, the cavalry fell from their horses in the midst of the battle. There were countless stumps and broken arms on the battlefield, and there were many puddles of flesh and mud, lying quietly on the ground. Only the potholed iron armor on it still showed that he was a person before. The neighing of war horses, the roar of knights, and the sound of sharp weapons entering flesh constitute the death march of the entire battlefield.
Among hundreds of thousands of people, the most conspicuous is Zhao Guangliang, a rookie in the late Western Army. The halberd in one hand swayed back and forth like a dragon. With each dance of the halberd, one or two Cossack cavalrymen fell from their horses or were cut in half. The original red armor has now turned blood red, and it is all covered with blood, and the original appearance of the armor cannot be seen at all. The black horse that sat down also turned purple, and blood slowly dripped down from the hair.
After that, Zhang Cheng and Yun Feng were the most inconspicuous, and only Shi Yan, who was known as the only lucky general in Beichen Kingdom, was the most inconspicuous. This guy was dressed in silver armor and held a spear in his hand, but he was charging back and forth under the protection of many guards. I didn't see him killing, but he just blindly ran around the battlefield, shouting at his own cavalry, and slowly absorbing the individual cavalry or small groups of cavalry on the battlefield.
"Pengju, Meng Qi, do you see the four rising generals of our Beichen Kingdom, which one is the most powerful?" Xiao Chen smiled and said to Yue Fei and Ma Chao beside him.
"If you want to talk about force, it should be Zhao Guangliang. This young general is born with divine power, a halberd weighing 80 pounds in one hand is like a light feather, and his strength is not under the top historical generals, and he has the courage of ten thousand people. As long as you cultivate a little, you will definitely be a super fierce general, at least you should not be inferior to me! Ma Chao gave Zhao Guangliang a very high evaluation.
It's just that after listening to Ma Chao's words, Yue Fei shook his head and said: "Although Zhao Guangliang is a brave warrior, but looking at the entire battlefield, the last general thinks that Shi Yan is the most powerful. Zhao Guangliang, Yun Feng, and Zhang Cheng just led their troops to fight back and forth, although the force was extraordinary, and it severely hit the morale of the enemy soldiers. However, Shi Yan was the only one who ran on the battlefield and gathered the stragglers of our army on the battlefield. Look at it, it won't be long before these cavalry gathered by Shi Yan will become a key point to change the situation on the battlefield! ”
Xiao Chen smiled and didn't say anything, damn, there is no way to evaluate who is good. Because the direction of the competition is different, it is naturally impossible to compete. Zhao Guangliang is indeed a fierce general, and Shi Yan has also been gathering stragglers. It's hard to say who played an important role in the battle. After all, Zhao Guangliang was brave and had killed countless enemies, and the morale of the enemy's low-level soldiers naturally dropped a lot. And Shi Yan gathered many stragglers to reduce the army's losses. After a while, it may become a turning point in the battle.
The fierce battle soon slowly reduced in intensity, and the knights of the two armies fought continuously for more than an hour. Not only was the knight's physical strength greatly reduced, but even the speed of the war horse was greatly reduced. Including Zhao Guangliang, Yun Feng and Zhang Cheng, their physical strength has decreased a lot. It's just that Zhao Guangliang doesn't know if he is a natural battle maniac. Wielding an eighty-pound halberd, he was still rapidly slaughtering the enemy's small soldiers, which caused a crisis on the right flank front of the Cossack cavalry. Fortunately, the 10,000 Cossack cavalry that had been pulled up before finally stabilized the battle situation on the right flank.
The remaining 40,000 cavalry had already thrown themselves into the battle of the Chinese army, and Yue Fei also threw the reserved 50,000 fresh troops into the middle of the battle when the Cossack cavalry was dispatched.
By this time, the combat effectiveness of many units had been reduced by half. And Shi Yan, who has been gathering stragglers, showed a knowing smile!
More than 60,000 cavalry in the middle of the battle instantly inserted diagonally into the right flank of the Cossack State attacked by Zhao Guangliang, and Shi Yan's move made the commander of the Cossack State shocked. Subsequently, he hurriedly ordered the cavalry to block Shi Yan's army from breaking through to the right flank. It's just that after the absence of Shi Yan's 60,000 cavalry, the strength of the Beichen Kingdom is still much higher than that of the Cossack Kingdom. Therefore, under the best efforts of the two sides, Shi Yan still led more than 40,000 people and entered the right flank.
The right wing of the Cossack State was already trembling under the force of Zhao Guangliang, and there was a crisis for a time. Now, Shi Yan led more than 40,000 people into the right flank, plus the remaining 30,000 people under Zhao Guangliang, and in less than ten minutes, he completely defeated the right flank of the Cossack state. Subsequently, it went straight to the ribs and chrysanthemums of more than 100,000 cavalrymen of the Cossack army.
The commander of the Cossack state, having a long sigh to the sky, ordered the army to quickly withdraw from the battlefield. Subsequently, a chase battle continued the battle of the cavalry.