Chapter 473: Twin Stars (2)
"Warships? What would be a warship? Looking at the figure of the dozens of Xiyiguan ships in front of him, leading 30,000 water unicorn heavy knights and 40,000 farabinos, he finally knew where the uneasiness in his heart was? At the same time, he suddenly realized what would happen after the flood: the riverbed was widened in the flood.
Everyone knows how terrifying the impact of the water will be when the flood and tsunami hit, and what is even more terrifying is the undercurrent under the turbulent river after the flood rushes, and this is one of the main reasons why the sun never sets to demolish the dams in the four counties: so that the Xiyi medium-sized ships can sail freely in the river bed and width of the river that has been widened by the flood.
The ships mobilized by Oda Nobunaga this time are different from the ships in the Land of the Thousand Islands, because compared to those ships that appeared in naval battles, the Xiyi ships that sailed in the Cresy River at this moment are more delicate, and they are equipped with only one paddle wheel, which is hidden on the side of the ship that the cavalry on the water unicorn side cannot see at present, in addition, the sides of the lower decks of these ships are also installed on both sides of the wooden stakes that have been sharpened by Atlantan carpenters.
"These days don't fall on the clutter? It turns out that they had long expected that our army would attack them like this? "Looking at the shape of these strange warships, and the figures holding torches above them, and the sharpened wooden stakes placed around the hull of the warships, all the cavalrymen present knew what the situation in front of them meant, let alone Farabino, who was now scolding in his heart that the sun never set.
The cavalry charge is unstoppable, and there is nothing to stop the millions of cavalry charging together, even if it is the command of the cavalry commander: although the sound of one's horn can cover the entire cavalry army that is rushing forward, the reaction power of the people is not absolutely the same. If Farabino blew the horn at this time to stop the cavalry army, then the cavalry army would happen in the next second, and the cavalry that was still in a galloping state in the rear collided with the cavalry that had stopped advancing in front, and in the panic of countless war horses, the cavalry army of the water unicorn galloping had not yet made contact with the soldiers on the side of the sun before it was in chaos, and even the cavalry army at the rear of the army had a war horse trampling on its own soldiers.
Therefore, after discovering that his cavalry was only less than 600 meters away from those warships, Farabino had already given up his plan to stop his cavalry from advancing, although if Farabino ordered the cavalry army to slow down slowly, this galloping cavalry army might be able to make the body of the horse under the crotch of the water unicorn heavy knight in the front row, and stop the cavalry army before touching the sharpened wooden stakes on the hull of those Xiyi warships. But the question is what next? Will the ranged infantry who never set the sun let go of the Darlan hussars, who have become fixed targets in the turn of their horses, and the heavy knights of the Water Kirin, who have exposed their backs to themselves during the subsequent retreat? Apparently not! So Farabino can only make mistakes for now, and let the cavalry continue to charge forward to gain hope.
"It's good that these weird ships are moving so slowly?" After discovering that the speed of the ships on the side of the sun never set was as slow as a snail, Farabino breathed a sigh of relief, because this time these Xiyi warships only covered most of their view to the opposite shore and a few shoals that could only allow a few horses to pass to the opposite bank at the same time, but they did not cover the shallows in front of their cavalry, which was extremely large enough for their cavalry to gallop to the opposite bank.
"The whole army has changed to a conical formation! Let's use our war horses to trample all the soldiers who are as timid as rats and hide behind these warships into flesh! "After determining the current situation, use the horn to let the Darlan light cavalry located at the rear of the team move to the two flanks, hoping that they can bypass the water wall formed by these Xiyi warships and cross the Cressy River to the opposite bank, and outflank the Xiyi soldiers hiding behind the Xiyi warships. However, every once in a while, the Water Qilin Heavy Knights who took the lead were attacked by an overwhelming rain of arrows, and the most terrifying thing for the Water Qilin side was that these arrows could easily penetrate the armor of their own Water Qilin Heavy Knights.
Of course, the reason for this situation is indeed caused by weapons, but it is not caused by arrows, but by bows, to be exact, composed of samurai bows equipped in the hands of those Saiyi bows and ashigaru.
Although the range of the samurai bow is very short, and the accuracy is extremely poor, but the lethality of the samurai bow with an ordinary iron arrow can be the same as that of shooting with a purple shirt longbow with an armor-piercing arrow, and if the samurai bow user uses a steel arrow, then its lethality can even be compared with the Mo forging crossbow, which is also why Oda Nobunaga asked Sherman to distribute all the samurai bows that had not been disposed of before to the Xiyi soldiers who participated in the battle of the four county leaders, and they were distributed as much as they had in the inventory.
"Shoot the arrows!" When the cavalry on the side of the Water Qilin was only about 100 meters away from the bank of the Cressy River, the Xiyi soldiers who had originally pulled the warrior bow apart as much as possible finally let go of their fingers, and then there was a burst of sound of breaking the air, and the huge Water Qilin cavalry cone formation immediately sounded the wailing sound of war horses. And the head of the cavalry formation, which originally seemed sharp, was also dulled by the rain of black arrows in a matter of seconds.
"Damn! It is worthy of the sun that never sets with a longbow that shocks the world! But it is impossible for these arrows to stop the charge of our Water Qilin Empire's cavalry! Looking at the steel knight's shield in his left hand that was pierced by an arrow, and feeling the pain from his left hand, Farabino, who was at the forefront of the cavalry cone formation, knew in a short period of time that the arrow received by his left shield had already injured the tendons between his fingers after hitting the knight's shield, and in the next battle, his left hand probably couldn't help much.
The internal injury on his left hand and the death of more than 300 Water Qilin Heavy Knights did not destroy Farabino's fighting spirit, and he continued to lead the huge Water Qilin cavalry army to charge forward after receiving the first wave of arrows, but it didn't take long for the scene in front of him to make Farabino's heart directly half cold.