Adjani's side had just finished arranging the troops, Shi Jinshui took the initiative to rush towards the enemy's large array with the more than 5,000 iron cavalry under his command, this time the 5,000 iron cavalry actually brought bows and arrows, obviously Shi Jinshui was preparing to consume part of the enemy's strength with long-range attacks before the official contact between the two armies. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThese 5,000 cavalry are the elite that he has carefully selected over the years, and they are basically eighteen kinds of weapons, and they are proficient in everything, so even those heavy lancers, after taking the bow and arrow, can immediately make a cameo appearance as an archer cavalry. In fact, not only bows and arrows, in order to cope with today's battle, Shi Jinshui and his cavalry brought extremely comprehensive equipment, including long-range weapons and a bag of heavy javelins, melee weapons in addition to cavalry guns and sabers, as well as iron bones and maces specially used to deal with heavily armored enemy troops.

Seeing the enemy's powerful heavy cavalry pressing towards his side violently, Adjani hurriedly sent his own cavalry, and there were more than 50,000 cavalry on the killing side, but among them, there were less than 10,000 heavy cavalry, and the new Carthaginian cavalry on the opposite side was like an iron can, and sending light cavalry up was simply sending death, so Adjani just sent less than 10,000 heavy cavalry to attack, but then perhaps felt that this strength was not enough, and then sent a thousand chariots and cavalry to attack together.

The chariot that killed the country was obviously imitated from the roller shutter chariot of Pontus, not only the riders on it were heavily armoured, but even the chariot and the war horse were also covered with iron armor or bronze armor, and the most conspicuous thing was the axle knife that was more than one meter long on the axle of the chariot, this thing was the biggest lethal weapon of the chariot, basically people touching people to death, horses touching horses and remnants.

Shi Jinshui saw the mixed force of this cavalry chariot sent by the other party, and his eyes were full of contempt. Perhaps it was because he developed the artillery too early, and after seeing the huge power of artillery, most countries, including the killing country, have focused most of their energy on the study of this ultra-long-range weapon over the years, but have ignored the development of cavalry as a conventional weapon. Compared with more than ten years ago, the cavalry that killed the country did not have any major improvement in terms of equipment and tactics. These hoplites, who were not equipped with stirrups and had no long-range attack weapons, were nothing more than a herd of lambs to the slaughter in his eyes. As for the chariot troops, if the other party used them to attack his own infantry phalanx, Shi Jinshui might still be worried, but now the other party is using these big guys whose mobility is far inferior to the cavalry to fight against his five thousand iron cavalry, which is inevitably very unwise.

However, this may also be due to the fact that the other party has not seen the real combat effectiveness of his iron cavalry with his own eyes, but Shi Jinshui will soon teach the other party a good lesson, so that these killers know that before the firearms are truly mature, the cavalry is still the strongest ace in land warfare.

When the two sides approached about 100 meters, Shi Jinshui and his cavalry drew their bows and arrows one after another, throwing their own arrows at the mixed cavalry and chariot troops on the opposite side.

Since both classes were heavily armoured, the effectiveness of bows and arrows was not very good, and after a rain of arrows, only a dozen heavy cavalrymen and two or three chariots were shot over.

Adjani saw this scene in the back, and couldn't help but show a comforting smile on her face, the combat effectiveness of the enemy cavalry didn't seem to be very high, and this battle should still be fought.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, Shi Jinshui and they replaced their bows and arrows, pulled out javelins from behind their backs with their backs, and threw a round of javelin rain at the enemy again, compared to bows and arrows, this armor-piercing heavy javelin was much more lethal to the opposite country-killing cavalry and chariots, and as the javelins swept over, at least hundreds of hoplites and dozens of chariots fell.

Hanging so many cavalry at once, their corpses immediately became the biggest obstacle on the way forward of the country-killing cavalry, and at this time, the disadvantage of the country-killing cavalry without stirrups was immediately apparent, in the case of no stirrups, the country-killing cavalry's over-control of the war horse was far less flexible than Shi Jinshui, and in the face of the corpses of their own cavalry and chariots that were almost close at hand, they didn't have time to dodge at all, and they collided directly, and this time, it caused a huge secondary kill. Some of the cavalry may not have died after falling off their horses, but as the steady stream of their own cavalry and chariots drove by in the rear, they were soon all piles of rotten flesh that could not even hold their human form, and they could not die again.

The other party killed so many comrades with javelins in one photo, and of course the soldiers who killed the country were also very angry, so they beat the horses that sat down hard, and rushed to the enemy on the opposite side as fast as possible, wanting to avenge their comrades who died tragically as soon as possible.

But Shi Jinshui and how could they be so stupid to fight each other, the new Carthaginian cavalry equipped with stirrups and improved saddles, the over-control of the war horses is completely beyond the imagination of these country-killing cavalry.

In the disbelief of those slaughtering cavalry, the New Carthaginian cavalry easily turned their horses' heads when the two sides were only a few dozen meters away, and just spared them from both sides, allowing their ferocious charge to completely fall into the air.

What made these killing cavalry angry the most was that while these guys were passing by their flanks, they were still constantly throwing javelins at them, continuing to inflict damage on them, and it seemed that the other party didn't need to rely on the reins at all, and could control the horse sitting down with only his legs.

The two sides were entangled and fighting back and forth in the middle of the two armies, of course, most of the time it was Shi Jinshui who killed the national soldiers, and the national soldiers basically had no power to fight back. After this situation lasted for about ten minutes, a war horse sitting on a country-killing heavy cavalry that was pursuing the enemy at full speed neighed, and directly fell to the ground, and the knight above was directly thrown out because he was caught off guard. And the reason why this war horse suddenly fell to the ground was not because it had exhausted its strength in the pursuit, but because one of its hooves had been cracked.

Yes! At this time, another fatal flaw of the country-killing cavalry also began to appear, that is, their cavalry did not install horseshoes on the war horses, and the horseshoes seemed to be an inconspicuous gadget, but it was also an extremely important equipment for the cavalry. The cavalry plus the war horse, plus a suit of armor and various weapons and equipment, the weight of the war horse of the heavy cavalry is extremely huge, under the pressure of this huge weight, once the war horse gallops at high speed for a long time, the wear and tear of the horse's hooves is extremely serious. If you are not careful, you will be like the country-killing cavalry just now, and the war horse will suddenly crack its hooves while running, and he will be thrown out with it. In fact, this is also an important factor restricting the development of heavy cavalry.

However, the New Carthaginian cavalry did not have to worry about this at all, because their horses had already been installed with horseshoes, and they did not have to worry about their horses suddenly cracking their hooves while running.

And the country-killing cavalry was not the only unlucky one, as the cavalry of the two sides became entangled for more and more time, many more country-killing cavalry soon followed in his footsteps. On the other hand, none of the hoplites on the New Carthaginian side appeared in this situation, and they were still energetic there, relying on their own flexibility, constantly teasing and killing their own cavalry and chariot troops.

"Adjani, let our men withdraw! If you continue to fight, you will only be sent to death in vain! "Iron Bear is worthy of a general with extremely rich battlefield experience, although he doesn't know the mystery of the stirrup and the horseshoe, but after watching it for a long time, he has already seen that those cavalry in New Carthage completely slaughtered their own troops as fat sheep, and their own soldiers were completely powerless to fight back.

Adjani turned her head to look at Iron Bear, and found that the other party's expression was unprecedentedly solemn, and she also knew that the situation was not good, so she did not hesitate, and immediately ordered her cavalry and chariot troops to withdraw.

Shi Jinshui couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that the other party suddenly withdrew his troops, but then he secretly sighed at the shrewdness of the commander who killed the country opposite. Sure enough, after those cavalry and chariot troops had just withdrawn, the large army that killed the country immediately and quickly pressed up, obviously not preparing to compete with Shi Jinshui and them anymore for cavalry, but preparing to use the advantage of strength to directly crush over and break through the large array of the Chinese army on their side.

Indeed, compared with Killing the Country, Shi Jinshui's Chinese army formation on their side is really too thin, among which the front row is a heavy pikeman unit of about 15,000 people, and the two wings are each equipped with 5,000 heavy swordsmen to protect the vulnerable flanks of the gun formation troops. Behind the heavy pikemen, there are about 10,000 crossbowmen troops, and at the rear, there are about 5,000 artillery units and rocket troops, which are also the key objects of Shi Jinshui's protection. If you don't need heavy troops to kill the country, you don't even want to attack and hurt his artillery troops. However, this also caused Shi Jinshui and their coalition front to look extremely thin, as if they could be washed away with a casual rush.

"Huh! The premise is that you have to have that chance to rush! After Shi Jinshui sneered, he led his cavalry troops, avoided the main army that was constantly pressing over, and spared the periphery of the battlefield, preparing to wait for the fighter plane to appear before attacking.

The 200,000 troops who killed the country were all pressed up at once, and the black pressure was pressed up, which looked indeed extremely scary, and some of the New Carthage soldiers who had just been added to the army were so frightened by this scene that their legs couldn't help but tremble, but fortunately, the good military discipline of the New Carthaginian soldiers played a role at this time, although they were extremely frightened in their hearts, but none of the New Carthaginian soldiers turned around and fled.

"Haha! Killing the country, this group of scum, want to rely on the advantage of numbers to defeat us? Then they couldn't be more wrong! Today we will let them open their eyes, what is the real god! Their so-called God of War Xiang Tian, in front of it, can only be bombarded and killed into slag! ”

In Rowan's rampant laughter, the artillery and rocket units of New Carthage opened fire in unison, and the distance between the two armies was a full five thousand meters, a distance at which even the newly developed heavy trebuchet could not effectively strike. But New Carthage, on the other hand, was already able to send their shells and rockets into the enemy's array. The first to do the work was the solid iron bullets of the heavy artillery, and as soon as these solid iron bullets fell into the crowd, they would immediately plow out a bright red avenue of flesh and blood, and smash all the soldiers in this platoon into pulp. After the shells just finished raging, those big rockets flying in the air twisted and twisted, also smashed into the killing array one after another, after these big rockets landed, they immediately exploded violently, with the explosion, countless iron nails, iron beads splashed out, and swept down the killing soldiers within a radius of dozens of meters. Its lethality is even more exaggerated than that of artillery shells.