Chapter 22: The Desperate Dijon Cavalry

Yang Yifei looked back and saw this effect, and secretly sighed, shoot people first and shoot horses, capture thieves and capture kings first, the ancients did not deceive me, these predecessors summed up experience, it really makes sense.

sighed, stretched out his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at an enemy horse, hitting the horse's head.

"Ah......hh Bastards...... "The Di Rong generals, who rushed to the back position, watched their war horses fall in pieces, and their eyes were split, and they couldn't wait to reach the enemy in an instant, and bite off the flesh on the opponent's body one by one before relieving their anger.

Yes, the round shield was white-belted, not only failed to have a defensive effect, but made their own losses even greater, but it also strengthened their belief that they would destroy the archers at all costs.

In this pursuit, Dijon's casualties continued to increase, and when each of the two thousand archers shot twenty-one or two arrows in the front and back, and felt that his arms began to weaken, and the hit rate was getting lower and lower, Dijon's cavalry had lost nearly six thousand horsemen.

However, the archers are stable in their hearts, they all know that Li Xin's army is not far ahead, estimate the distance, there are probably less than two miles left, the scouts should have brought the battle situation back, and the waiting for Di Rong's cavalry in front is probably a shield array that is waiting for the battle.

Daqin's shield array is not Di Rong's kind of defense, with a round shield to form a turtle shell-like defense, the round shield is a one-handed shield, which can only be supported by the strength of the forearm and elbow, and in the face of the impact of the enemy cavalry, the advantage is not great.

And the round shield is just a wooden shield, blocking the bow and arrows is barely okay, in the face of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry when the second spear is charged, it is really difficult to say whether it can be blocked, it is more likely to be scattered as soon as it hits.

But the shield of the Great Qin Infantry Soldier, which is nearly a person's tall Mengtie shield, can reach the chest of the soldier, hit the ground and resist it with his shoulder, that is a shield wall, and the spearman then pierces the spear from between the gaps in the shield wall, forming a thorny jungle that harvests life.

Moreover, they were not hard to resist the cavalry, and when the enemy cavalry rushed over, they would make the large shield slightly tilted, forming a very steep slope.

In this way, if there is a lucky escape to avoid the first round of spear stabbing of the enemy, its war horse will instinctively run up along the inclined shield wall, because the slope is too large, the war horse will naturally not be able to run, the only result is to roll backwards, and then smash the robe behind him by the way.

This is also in today's era, and the changes in the infantry battle array are not as rich as those in the Three Kingdoms in later generations, otherwise placing a gossip array, 10,000 people eating 350,000 people, is simply a matter of sprinkling water.

It's a pity that Yang Yifei didn't study the battle array, he knew that there were all kinds of battle formations in the later generations, such as the Xuanxiang Array, the Yuli Array, the Fish Scale Array, the Bagua Array, the Eight Gate Golden Lock Array, the One-Word Long Snake Array, the Goose-shaped Array, the Star Scattering Array, the Moon Array, the Six Flower Array, and so on.

He probably knew how to set up some formations and what they were for, but he could only put them into a dead formation, but he didn't know anything about the operation and changes of the formation, so that he didn't put effort into this area, so as not to be self-defeating.

But he doesn't have to think about it so much, no matter how he fights, as long as he can win the battle, all he needs to study is how to minimize his own casualties.

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The archers finally ran out of strength, and except for Yang Yifei and a few who had superior arm strength, they were basically unable to shoot their bows anymore.

But they don't need to do anything now, they can't shoot if they can't shoot, they just leave the rest of the battle to Paoze, and then they just need to rest and wait to harvest the military merits on the way.

The Dijon cavalry also felt the powerlessness of the archers, and the endless grievance and anger in their hearts began to slowly subside, replaced by excitement.

No, the enemy is finally gone, shoot! Keep shooting! Why don't you? Can't ejaculate? This time it's up to you how you die.

When the Dijon cavalry saw that the enemy no longer shot arrows, they howled one by one, and they raised their swords above their heads and waved them, screaming and urging their horses desperately, vowing to catch up and kill the two thousand archers.

After running for nearly two miles, a mountain-like mound appeared in front of Yang Yifei's eyes, the mound was not high, the slope was very gentle, but it was very long, enough to block the view, so that people could not see the scene behind the mound.

Yang Yifei thought to himself, this place was already an excellent ambush location in an environment where the terrain was relatively flat and there were no high mountains, and if he was Li Xin, he would definitely line up behind the mound.

Sure enough, when the archers rushed to the highest part of the mound and began to run downward, they immediately saw the Qin army array behind the mound that was waiting for a black formation.

"Hehehehe...... Hahahaha......"

The archers laughed, the more they laughed, the happier they became, and in the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the laughter of the archers soared into the sky, and Li Xin, who was located in the middle army, heard the laughter of the archers, and involuntarily stroked his beard and chuckled.

These guys, they didn't disappoint, he had fought for half his life, and he had never encountered such a perfect start, such an easy victory, and the archers could almost finish their work in a single battle with just one opening.

Li Xin's border army lined up more than 200 paces below the mound, and after the archers rushed down the mound, they ran to the flank.

Yang Yifei was observing the formation of the Qin army, and to his surprise, it was not the big shield hand who was at the forefront, but the big shield hand lined up in the second echelon.

At the forefront, there were Great Qin crossbowmen, about 10,000 of them, half of whom were sitting on the ground, and half were standing next to the person sitting on the ground, holding a quiver in their left hand and a crossbow arrow in their right hand.

In front of the people sitting on the ground, there was a crossbow that was a few sizes larger than an ordinary crossbow, and the bow arm of the crossbow was against the soles of their feet, which was the strong crossbow of Daqin, also known as the Kick Zhang Crossbow.

The Dijon cavalry was eighty or ninety paces behind the archers, and when the archers rushed towards the flank of the Qin army's array, the figure of the Dijon cavalry also appeared on the mound.

Their expressions of excitement quickly froze on their faces, and they were stunned for a few moments, then slowly turned to fear, and finally to despair.

At this time, they were in a state of galloping, and could not stop their horses at all, and the brothers in the rear could not see the situation in front of them, and were still desperately urging their horses to run forward, and if they reined in their horses, not only would they be ineffective, but they would collide and trample on each other, and this was the place where their remaining 9,000 cavalrymen were buried.

The position chosen by the Qin army was so ingenious that they were caught off guard and crashed headlong into this trap of death and life.

Now the only way for them to do this is to run to the wings, then make a detour and complete the U-turn and escape.

Because the speed of the horse is too fast at this time, it is impossible to make a small angle turn, but I don't know how many robes will be folded under the crossbowmen and arrows of this Qin State in the process of turning around.

"Control...... Control...... Control ......"

The general's order sounded in the Qin army's crossbow array, and the soldiers who heard the order also shouted in unison, relaying one after another, so that the order was instantly spread throughout the entire array.

"Control", that is, to control the strings, that is, to open the bow and arrows, when the Qin army carried out the battle of the large army, the instructions were clear and very efficient, and they were basically one word.

Advance is "pressing", stopping advance is "stopping", retreating is "retreating", the whole army assault is "attacking", breaking the formation is "attacking", the shield formation is "royal", withdrawing troops is "returning", and so on.

In the course of the battle, the tactical adjustment and change, as well as the grasp of the battle situation, rely on the flag language to achieve, which needs to be controlled by the generals, because the soldiers cannot understand the flag language.