Chapter 374: Covenant
"Save arrows!" Cai Shun shouted in a deep voice, in fact, he didn't need to remind him, the sergeants of the Jincheng battalion also knew that the strong enemy was outside, and when the arrows were exhausted, they had to fight with flesh and blood. However, when there are enough arrows, the crossbowmen who have arranged their chariots in front of the light horses are simply a one-sided slaughter.
"Happy!" Captain Tu Ning shot an arrow from the round hole with his divine arm crossbow, and the powerful arrow pierced the left eye of a cavalryman fifty paces away, and burst out of his brain. "Crossbow coming!" Tu Ning handed over the Divine Arm Crossbow that shot an arrow to the upper crossbowman behind him with his left hand, and then took the good string of the Divine Arm Crossbow and aimed again.
The Flower Hat Army had raised the wheels when arranging the chariot formation, and then buried it with earth to make its foundation strong and stable, and at this moment the crossbowmen stood on the chariot and shot arrows, condescendingly, and there was a big shield to cover it, which was really safe. The arrows fired by the Qarluqs with their soft bows were clinked, and they were attached to the shields hanging from the railings and on the roofs of the cars. Occasionally, arrows were shot through the round hole of the arrow, but it was difficult to hit the crossbowmen of the Xia army, and a few seriously wounded soldiers were quickly transferred to the baggage camp to be disposed of by the soldiers.
Some of the Qarluqs were desperately fighting their horses to rush in through the gap in the chariots, and the spearmen and swordsmen who had been waiting here followed the horses and cavalry, and behind the heavy infantry, there were crossbowmen on standby, just in case an enemy rushed in, and they fired with their crossbows. After Xin Gu returned to the chariot formation, he saw that the enemy army had pushed out the stone thrower from the camp to attack the chariot formation, his face sank, and the horsewhip pointed at the enemy who was hurriedly arranging the position, and shouted: "Who wants to lead the troops to destroy those return cannons?" Shang Zhongxin had been promoted to centurion at this moment, and when he heard the words, he said loudly: "The last general is willing to go!"
Qarluch was besieging the chariots and was running in vain, when suddenly the guardrails of the four carts were lowered with a clatter, and the heavily armored sword and shield men, under the cover of the crossbowmen, braved the rain of arrows from the enemy cavalry that swarmed over, carried the planks and put them on the outer trenches, and then waited on the inside of the trenches. Shang Zhongxin, who had already been riding his horse on the inside of the chariot array, shouted: "Come with me!" His legs clamped the horse's belly sharply, and the war horse seemed to feel the master's heart, raised his hooves, stepped on the wooden plank set up on the inside of the chariot formation, boarded the chariot, and jumped out condescendingly, and a hundred hussars followed closely behind him, passing through the chariot array and the trench.
At this time, the hussars formed a formation, there were already a lot of fierce Qarluq cavalry rushed up to invite the battle, the centurion Shang Zhongxin rushed in front, the upper body clanged several arrows, an arrow was still stuck in the gap of the shoulder armor, if it were not for the hussar centurion's half-body iron armor is the ordnance department specially forged boutique, I am afraid that he has died several times, he shouted, his left hand was broken with the arrow inserted in his body, and he exerted all his strength, and his right arm alone stretched out the horse lance that was eight feet long, seeing that the horse lance was about to come out of his hand, his left hand was on the rear end of the horse lance, and the power stirred the slightly elastic lanceThe blade of the lance slammed into the helmet of a Qarluq cavalryman who rushed to the front, although it did not penetrate, but the huge impact force made the man lose control immediately, and the horse lost the control of its owner and ran out crookedly.
Shang Zhongxin's eyes widened, luck dantian, shouted: "Kill!" Dancing horse lance, stabbing, chopping, cutting, sweeping, hitting all kinds of means to show out, more than ten Qarlu cavalry actually can't get close, followed by his hussars to see the centurion so brave, also killed, more than ten horses in front of the horse lance and the enemy fight together, the back of more than 80 horsemen in the ten commander's order to speed up the formation, Shang Zhongxin saw that the subordinates behind him have formed a formation, shouted: "Rush with me!" The first horse to kill the enemy camp where the stone thrower was, the hussar hundred-man formation of the front arrow formation was invincible, the loose formation of the Qarluq cavalry did not dare to pick up its edge, only to chase after it.
The cavalry of the Xia State rushed to the front of the stone-throwing fuselage, regardless of the gunners who were holding their heads and running back, took out the fierce fire oil tank behind the saddle, and smashed the ping pong on it, and the fire oil flowed to the ground, but the Xia cavalry did not have a lot left, and the horses were left, and when they ran out of seventy or eighty steps, Fang You Shang Zhongxin and a dozen others left behind to take out the rocket, the end of the rocket was the primer made by the Ordnance Department under the guidance of Zhao Ping, Shang Zhongxin liked this thing the most, laughed, wiped the arrow on the saddle, turned around and looked at the moon, and shot the rocket, more than a dozen sparks splashed rockets fell into the fire oil flowing everywhere, and the raging fire suddenly ignited, and the nearby UighursThe Turks began to cry and howl in all directions. And the enemy riders who stood in front of Shang Zhongxin and the other hussars didn't know why, so they were distracted and rushed by the hussars.
Cai Shun boarded the car and looked from afar, and saw Shang Zhongxin rushing in his direction as agreed, and shouted in a deep voice: "Ready!" The surrounding sword and shield hands and crossbowmen held their breath, the square shield on the roof of the King Kong car had been withdrawn, and the rain of arrows thrown by the Qarlu cavalry clanged from the air and fell on the thick body armor of the foot soldiers, and those who were injured were immediately dragged down.
Seeing Shang Zhongxin running closer and closer, "Release!" Cai Shun shouted violently, and the sword and shield hand immediately rushed forward to take off the shield hanging on the car rail, and almost at the same moment, several sharp arrows shot in with a strong wind, and with a bang, the side car railing was also lowered, "Up!" Cai Shun jumped off the chariot with a spear first, immediately bowed down, dodged several powerful arrows at the head, the sergeant behind him struggled to push down the planks that had been placed on the cart, forming a slope suitable for cavalry to pass, and braved the enemy's arrow rain to carry the plank on the top of the trench, this is not the friendly army that rushed first, but the cheap Qarlu cavalry, they shouted loudly and brandished the scimitar and rushed up, but in the face of the jungle of spears like hedgehog hair, there were dozens of crossbowmen on both sides who could not stop shooting arrows at the opposite side of the wooden bridge, many Qarlu cavalry wailed and fell off the wooden bridge, and died directly in the trench full of wooden thorns。
Shang Zhongxin saw that the infantry army had already set up a passage, fought hard on the horse, waved the horse lance to drive the enemy army in front of him to get out of the way, and suddenly his eyes were empty, and with a bang, a Xia Guo crossbow arrow smashed on the edge of the cuirass, if it was half a point higher, it would penetrate through the gap in the armor, "Damn the stake!" Shang Zhongxin frowned, shouted angrily, and led the army to pass quickly from the wooden plank bridge.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" Cai Shun saw that his hussars were unceremonious, and rushed over like a storm, and the infantry sergeant hurriedly got out of the way, and before he could stabilize his body, the first cavalry centurion rode between the two infantry troops, and the war horse was as rude as the master, and the hind hooves were so hard that he actually jumped up from the two crossbowmen who bent down to dodge, and did not pass the ramp pedal, jumped into the chariot, and returned to the chariot. "His grandmother's, a group of horse thieves!" Captain Tu Ning scolded violently, brandishing the crossbow in his hand, and after all the hussars returned, the Jincheng battalion immediately pushed the wooden bridge into the trench, and then returned backwards to the chariot formation, re-propped up the guardrail on the outside of the King Kong cart, hung the upper shield, and placed the square shield on the top, and continued to stay in the well-protected chariot formation to shoot the enemy.
The Qarluq cavalry surrounded the camp of the Xia army for a long time, but to no avail, and the Xia army burned the stone thrower, so they had to collect their troops and return to the camp. Peach Blossom Stone Khan Ali Kadir scolded quite angrily: "The army of the Xia Kingdom will come and go, and if it wants to burn our stone thrower, a hundred horsemen rushed over and burned it, Ge Lulu has always claimed to be the leader of the central and western regions of the river, and 30,000 soldiers surrounded the enemy to attack, and they found nothing, it is simply a shame!"
In the evening, the king of Khotan, Chi Dama, with 30,000 Khotanese troops to help the war, according to the Xia army camp under the wall, Yu Chi Daruma to be late as a reason, personally to the Xin Gu tent to confess, his army has long crossed the desert, stationed in the territory of the Black Khanate, just because the Xia army has not been seen, do not dare to go deep alone, today I learned that the vanguard army of the Xia country has arrived at the city of Shule, immediately waved the army to the city to meet the division, the two armies joint camp, suddenly the momentum was great, Xin Gu sent a sergeant to instruct the Khotanese army to build a camp according to the military system of the Xia army, in order to collect the effect of the horns, Yu Chi Daruma also obeyed his words, a loyal vassal posture。