Chapter 664: Launching a General Offensive (3) (Asking for Collections, Recommendations, and Subscriptions)
The more battles fought, the guards around Liu Zhijing changed one after another, and the scars on his own body were also layered, but his fame in the Third Army was also getting bigger and bigger, and he was more and more reused by Chu Yan.
Today, the Hou Ye and his wife came to the battlefield in person, and although Mu Nierge did not suffer any losses before, he really did not take any advantage, and now it is his turn to the third legion, Chu Yan naturally wants to show his hand, if it weren't for Su Jun's strict prohibition of the main general not to fight in person until the last moment, he really wanted to carry a mace to fight the striker in person, but sending Liu Zhijing should also be able to successfully realize his combat intentions.
The soldiers of the Third Legion marched out at the forefront of a phalanx headed by Liu Zhijing, the outer layer of the strict phalanx was charioteers, spearmen and shield bearers, and the inside was sword and axe hands and crossbowmen, in the voice of the sentinel's command, marched forward with neat steps, as the commander of the military marquis, Liu Zhijing, holding a big axe in one hand and a shield polished on all sides with extremely sharp on the other hand, marched forward firmly, beside him, followed by a signal soldier with several small flags of different colors pinned to his waist, Liu Zhijing needs to use him to carry out the necessary coordination and command of the whole army.
In the battle between the barbarians and Su Jun's Taidang County garrison, the most headache for the barbarians was how to break through the opponent's dense infantry battle formation with cavalry, especially after the Taidang County garrison equipped the chariot loaded with a hundred rounds of crossbows into the infantry queue, the Taidang County infantry became a nightmare for everyone in the Northern Barbarians.
If you have a heavy cavalry like the Dawu Palace Guard, you can break through the opponent's formation, but with the wealth of Dawu, it is only a heavy cavalry of thousands of people, this thing is a money-burning goods, how can the barbarians afford it.
"Arris!" Aguirre summoned a general and pointed to the Taidang County garrison who was approaching step by step, "Have you seen the other party's flying arrows attacking the city?" I'll give you five thousand cavalry elites, and you rush out and destroy these difficult guys."
"Remember, don't try to break the infantry phalanx of Taidang County, because they can't gnaw down in a short time, and once the enemy is entangled, it will be difficult to get out, what you have to do is to do everything you can to make sure that their siege equipment is left before their infantry rushes to our first line of defense, so that in the next positional attack and defense battle, we can use the breastwork, fortresses, and trenches to inflict a lot of damage on the opponent, but if the opponent still has enough Flying Arrow Cloud Vehicle, If we are suppressed, we will lose a lot, you see what I mean? ”
Arris, who was about forty years old and had a beard on his face, nodded fiercely and said:
"Chief, I see, I'm going to destroy those Flying Arrow Cloud Vehicles with my own hands."
Argill nodded in satisfaction and added:
"After destroying the Flying Arrow, lead your troops back from the left around the frontal battlefield."
The long-range catapults hidden in the barbarian positions began to fire stone projectiles, and the three-bow bed crossbows also broke through the air with a screeching sound, and more powerful crossbows and ballistas roared. Liu Zhijing let out a shout, and the shieldmen under his command raised their shields high to form a screen in the air, and the charioteers on the periphery tried their best to shrink their bodies to the chariot, and then pressed against the wall of the chariot, while the pikemen raised their spears in unison, constantly shaking in the air.
If the bullet body happens to fall in the crowd, it will immediately smash out a vacancy, fortunately, although the shield held high cannot block the stone bullet, but it greatly consumes his initial force when hitting, and the barbarians have not polished these stone bullets because of time, so the damage caused is still within the controllable range.
As soon as the barbarian's catapult moved, the Taidang County garrison on top of the flying arrow cloud car immediately locked on the opponent's position, and the improved four-shot three-bow bed crossbow placed on the flying arrow cloud car quickly adjusted the angle, aimed, and in the grid, a spear-like three-bow bed crossbow bolt shot out to suppress the opponent.
At the same time, strong crossbows and ballistas also began to shoot condescendingly at the opponent from the flying arrow cloud car. Soon after the battle began, the Tai Dang army suffered casualties, but they did not stop their attack.
"Attack!" Aris drew his scimitar and struck his horse with a backhand blow, and five thousand cavalry poured out of the position, and they were still five hundred paces away from the Tai Dang army, just enough for them to increase their horse speed above this stretch.
Attacking the opponent's chariot with strong horsepower and killing a bloody path with human lives is the most helpless way for the barbarians to deal with this turtle-like infantry queue. If the opponent is not the Taidang County Army, or if the opponent's armor is very poor, the barbarian cavalry can also use the art of running and shooting, and constantly use bows and arrows to kill the enemy on the periphery.
But the problem is that now the opponent's soldiers are generally equipped with iron armor, and the cavalry's bows and arrows are shot at them, causing extremely limited lethality, and in long-distance shooting, the bows and crossbows of the Taidang County Garrison Army have caused greater damage to the barbarians, one is because the Taidang County soldiers have used a large number of armor-piercing arrows, and the other is of course that the barbarians cannot equip the soldiers with iron armor on a large scale like the Taidang County, and many soldiers can only wear leather armor. His superb archery skills have become a joke in front of the opponent's sophisticated equipment.
Like letting the barbarians frighten the 100-shot crossbow, then what is the accuracy of the head, it is purely a large area of covering the blow, using his super high rate of fire, terrifying strength, will be in front of the living things swept clean, you have been practicing archery for more than ten years, there is no chance to perform in front of him, because he shoots hundreds of shots, and the most brilliant archer of the barbarians can shoot three times in a lightning is already a rare master.
Under the cover of the fire on the position, Arris's 5,000 cavalry lined up in several long dragons rushed over, such a formation was of course a hundred rounds of crossbows to guard against the horror of Taidang County, and tried to reduce the attack surface as much as possible, so that the opponent's strike surface was reduced, so that the threat of the hundred rounds of crossbows was minimized. Within a hundred steps, there was a buzz, and the vehicle-mounted hundred-round crossbow began to fire, and the cloud-like short crossbow shot out flat, and in an instant, in front of the human eye, it was all this kind of short crossbow, Rao is Mu Nierge had seen the power of the hundred-round crossbow many times in the battle some time ago, but now every time he saw it, it still made him tremble, although he thought about this weapon, but Taidang County did not equip him.
Arris's forwards lowered their bodies as best they could, raised their shields, and tried their best to protect themselves and their horses, although they knew that this was just a matter of doing their best, and that they were at the mercy of heaven, and that the chances of not being shot were not high, except for the heavens, and that the barbarians and the horses under them were enough to kill them in a charge of such speed.