Chapter 91: Weakness
However, before the infantry of the rebel army could set up their formation, a sharp rain of arrows fell on their heads, which was a long-range offensive launched by Shi Jinshui and his ironclad archers, the purpose of which was to harass the opponent's soldiers and make it impossible for them to quickly set up their formation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Facing Shi Jinshui, they were able to launch a precise arrow rain attack from such a long distance on their horses, and the generals of the rebel army couldn't help but be surprised. I thought that these neo-Carthaginians were too good at riding and archery! What they didn't know was that Shi Jinshui and his ironclad archers, equipped with stirrups and improved new saddles, were much easier to ride and shoot on horses than those who were not equipped with stirrups.
Although Shi Jinshui's arrow rain was indeed sharp, in the end, the rebels still relied on a huge advantage in strength, and at the cost of thousands of casualties, they laid a solid and thick defensive line before the enemy's cavalry troops rushed in front of them.
Facing a solid defensive line composed of hundreds of thousands of infantry with their bodies, Shi Jinshui and his cavalry did not dare to charge directly for a while, but when they rushed to a few dozen meters in front of the opponent's formation, they quickly changed into a circular cavalry shooting formation, and continued to kill and injure the enemy's infantry with a rain of arrows. Compared with the sturdy armor of the New Carthaginian soldiers, the rebels who were generally only equipped with leather armor suffered much greater casualties under the blow of Shi Jinshui's arrows, and their shields were not made of stainless steel like those in New Carthage, and they were usually shot after blocking a dozen sharp arrows.
This situation was exacerbated by the arrival of the heavy lancers, who were not armed with bows and arrows, but were armed with a bag of heavy javelins, which were more powerful than shields, and often only a few javelins could completely blow up a shield in the hands of a rebel soldier.
Seeing that the enemy's long-range attack was so sharp, the rebels hurriedly mobilized a part of the crossbowmen to suppress the enemy's cavalry, but the cavalry's mobility was much stronger than that of the infantry, and the crossbowmen had little success in attacking. In addition, all the New Carthaginian cavalry were equipped with heavy knight plate armor, and their defense was extremely strong, and occasionally a few feathered arrows could not break their defenses.
After Shi Jinshui led about 50,000 cavalry and the enemy army for more than a minute, the infantry with a number of more than 100,000 finally felt the battlefield, and then as soon as these New Carthaginian infantry arrived on the battlefield, they immediately took out their throwing axes and javelins, and came to an even more terrifying burst at the rebels who had already been shot to death. Under the attack of more than 100,000 throwing axes and javelins, the rebels at the forefront fell by 20,000 or 30,000 at that time, and the entire front was visibly thinned by the naked eye.
And the infantry of New Carthage did not miss this excellent opportunity, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's position was unstable due to a large number of casualties, and immediately launched a full-scale charge.
Some of the rebel soldiers still wanted to resist, but they saw a flash of cold light, and the spears or halberds in their hands had been cut into two pieces, and when they looked up in surprise, these rebel soldiers found that the infantry at the front of the enemy army were actually a group of hoplites with a height of more than 1.9 meters and a death scythe formation. The giant scythes in the hands of these enemy soldiers are extremely sharp, coupled with the incomparably strong strength of those enemy soldiers, when they are wielded, it is completely like a gun blocking a short gun, and a sword blocking a sword. And after the forces in their hands were damaged, the rebel soldiers were only screamed in terror by the enemy soldiers who then cut their bodies in two with their terrible scythes.
The infantry swarm, armed with heavy scythes as the blade, encountered almost no decent resistance after entering the enemy line, and slaughtered the spearmen and halberdiers at the forefront of the rebel army. As soon as these troops with strong anti-cavalry capabilities collapsed, Shi Jinshui and the cavalry and chariot troops under his command no longer had any intentions, and they picked up their cavalry guns or sabers, howling and following the infantry group into the enemy formation.
Next, the infantry group slowed down a little, and instead let the cavalry and chariots take the lead, after all, it was the cavalry and chariot units that were more advantageous against the regular infantry.
In fact, under the crushing of heavy cavalry and chariots, the rebel soldiers who lacked effective anti-cavalry weapons could not inflict much effective damage on Shi Jinshui and them, let alone make this torrent of steel stay. After a while, it was thrown into confusion and suffered heavy casualties.
Then, after these rebel soldiers, who had already been disorganized, were entangled by the enemy infantry swarms that followed closely, they could only wait for the end of complete destruction.
Seeing that the enemy's offensive was so fierce, and his own soldiers had no power to fight back, Xiang Yu, the god of war of the rebel army, suddenly couldn't sit still, and rushed over with more than 10,000 rebel cavalry, and Shi Jinshui and them were facing each other.
When he was still dozens of meters away from the enemy cavalry, Xiang Yu casually picked up a spear abandoned by his own soldiers from the battlefield, and threw it at the guy who was wearing gorgeous armor and was obviously the leader among the enemy cavalry.
At this time, Shi Jinshui was holding two war knives, happily harvesting the lives of the rebel soldiers around him, and he didn't even notice that he was already being targeted by Xiang Yu, the terrible killing god, and when the spear came to him with a scream that tore through the air, he didn't have time to dodge at all, and in a hurry, he could only raise the two war knives in his hand and block them in front of his chest.
When the spear hit the war knife in his hand, Shi Jinshui only felt as if he had been hit by a giant crossbow arrow shot from a bed crossbow, and the whole person was immediately hit by the huge kinetic energy and flew off the war horse, and one of the war knives was broken in two on the spot because it could not withstand this huge force.
Shi Jinshui, who was flying in the air, only felt that his hands were numb, his chest was stuffy, and the whole person seemed to be flying through the clouds, and he couldn't control his body at all for a while, fortunately, his guards were all experienced elites, and when he saw Shi Jinshui fall off his horse, he hurriedly poked out his riding spear, and laid a gun net behind Shi Jinshui, blocking the king who was still flying back in the air.
Under the joint efforts of five or six guard knights, the huge force on Shi Jinshui's body was finally dissolved, and then these guard knights shouted in unison, pushed the gun forward hard, and pushed Shi Jinshui back on his war horse.
After Shi Jinshui regained his body on horseback, he found that the person who had just attacked him was actually Xiang Yu, and he immediately had no intention of retaliating. Although his skills are not bad under the tempering of the war over the years, it is only compared with normal humans, and as for Xiang Yu, who is not in the category of normal people, there is no comparison at all. I didn't see that in history, Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of troops failed to stop this killing god, but were killed by him all the way to the Wujiang River, and then wiped his neck because he was disheartened! What Liu Bang's hundreds of thousands of younger brothers couldn't do, Shi Jinshui was not ready to be strong, and without saying a word, he withdrew to the side of the reloaded giant scythe phalanx with a group of subordinates.
At the same time, in order to prevent the other party from pumping cold and giving himself a javelin, Shi Jinshui took off the war horse on his back, and shot feather arrows at Xiang Yu's guy while slipping, so that the other party was too busy blocking the feather arrows he shot to be distracted from doing other things.
"Spartacus! This is handed over to you, this guy is known as the god of war in the East, as long as you defeat him, that fame will definitely be great! After rushing to the vicinity of the heavily armed giant scythe phalanx, Shi Jinshui immediately opened his throat and shouted.
After hearing Shi Jinshui's shout, Spartacus, who was originally abusing the little soldiers to play, immediately perked up, and then asked his subordinates to bring a war horse and rushed towards Shi Jinshui at full speed.
"Which is the god of war in the East? Watch me Spartacus clean him up! "The last time I failed to fight with the western god of war Xiang Tianping, Spartacus has always regretted it, so this time when I heard that there was another eastern god of war, the Thracian general immediately became more warlike.
Shi Jinshui: "Huh! It's the guy who rushes to the front, riding a dark horse and holding a spear! ”
"Haha! That's the guy! King Shi Jinshui, you just watch from the side, see how I clean him up! After Shi Jinshui pointed out the target, Spartacus immediately rode his horse and rushed towards Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu, who had been chasing Shi Jinshui, was happy when he saw that the target he was chasing suddenly stopped! But soon a tall man with a murderous face rushed in front of him, and then, without saying a word, picked up the giant sickle more than two meters long in his hand and cut him off on the head.
Although Xiang Yu was shocked in his heart, he still reflexively raised the spear to block it. After hearing a loud sound of gold and iron, the war horses on which the two were sitting could not withstand the huge force of the collision and took a few steps back in unison.
"That's a lot of strength!" Feeling the gun in his hand, which was still buzzing, Xiang Yu muttered to himself in surprise, and at the same time immediately let go of his original heart of underestimating the enemy, and began to seriously wrestle with the enemy general on the opposite side.
When these two fierce generals fought with all their might, the other soldiers around them couldn't get close at all, after all, these two people are the same amazing power, the big open and close between the shots, the destructive power is extremely terrifying, and the other soldiers are completely dead when touched, and they will be injured when they rub it!
However, he couldn't get close, but Shi Jinshui, a lewd guy, released cold arrows from time to time nearby, so that Xiang Yu had to devote part of his energy to dodge the cold arrows shot by this nasty guy while fighting with Spartacus. Fortunately, the black horse under Xiang Yu's seat is very spiritual, and he and Xiang Yu have almost reached the point of unity between humans and horses, so they can barely fight on an equal footing with Spartacus.
Liu Bang saw that Xiang Yu was entangled by a member of the enemy army in the rear, and he was immediately anxious, he was not as reckless as Xiang Yu, he clearly saw that the enemy took advantage of the opportunity of Xiang Yu being entangled, and reorganized the offensive, and beat his own large array to the ground, and there was a danger that the whole army would collapse at any time. But this is not the way to go!
"Han Shin! How do you think we're doing now? Anxious in his heart, Liu Bang asked a young general beside him.
Facing Liu Bang's inquiry, the young general thought for a while and replied with a smile: "Pei Gong is in a hurry! Although the enemy army is strong, but it has a fatal weakness, as long as we divide a partial division, hit its weakness, the enemy will definitely have to return to the army to rescue, when we wave the army to cover the past, we will be able to turn defeat into victory! ”
"Weakness!" Liu Bang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then pointed to the enemy's long-range troops under the protection of the pikemen and asked: "Are you talking about that unit, the enemy only left tens of thousands of pikemen in the rear to defend, it looks like it is indeed a soft persimmon that is very easy to pinch!" ”