Chapter 51: The Soldiers Are Coming to Block (Ask for Subscription!)
The foot soldiers without war horses, in the most primitive way, wielded their weapons and stabbed at the enemy in front of them.
Almost instantly, the first row of soldiers all fell, and then they were trampled on without being killed.
From a high altitude, Xiqi's front advanced all the way and was unstoppable, while Su Hu's front slowly retreated, unable to directly attack its front.
This result greatly boosted Xiqi's morale, swept away the decline of the previous fighting generals, and Su Hu's face became quite ugly.
As a matter of fact, judging from the confrontation in battle formations alone, the two sides are evenly matched, changing their lives, and fighting each other, which not only reflects the command level of the generals, but also reflects the training results of the army.
In terms of generals, Xiqi died Nangong Shi, Su Hu has been through a hundred battles, and is one of the four famous generals in the world, undoubtedly having the upper hand, but the training effect of the army, Su Hu's army obviously has a tendency to lose in the head-to-head confrontation.
In fact, if you think about it, this makes sense.
In the battle of Jizhou City, Wang Shi did achieve a brilliant victory, but at this time and then, now Su Hu led the army to attack Xiqi itself, and what he asked was that Ji Chang would once again reduce the soldiers to slaves.
It's not just about killing them at the doorstep, it's about beating them back to their original shape!
Therefore, every Xiqi soldier is desperate, and there is no need for too much encouragement, and the morale has climbed to the extreme, and he is not afraid of death, and he is unshaken!
Su Hu understood this truth from the lesson of blood.
Based on his experience, he should have expected it, but he had a deep-rooted discrimination against the slave class in his heart, and he never regarded slaves as human beings, so naturally he would not put himself in the other party's shoes.
After realizing this at this moment, Su Hu's heart still did not compromise at all, but became more vigilant.
Slaves are no longer obedient, only at the mercy of the higher-ups, even if Ji Chang is willing to return to slavery now, those soldiers will immediately raise their weapons and resist.
"If you don't give in, then kill!"
Su Hu's eyes were hideous, he raised his long sword, and gave an order: "A car is dispatched!"
Thundered!
The sound of the earth shaking sounded, and an armored cart was pushed into the battlefield.
This kind of armor car is three times larger than the ordinary chariot, the appearance is wrapped in iron armor, thick and solid, the bottom is carried out by eight wheels, as high as the human neck, there is a draw plate on the car, which can be pulled out, the height is increased to about one zhang, the roof of each car can accommodate three people to stand on, and arrange a long soldier, an archer, and a flying axeman.
Different from the pure mechanism of the 100 crossbow machine, this kind of armored vehicle is a combination of manpower and mechanism, which is a comprehensive upgrade of the chariot of this era, and its main role is to attack the battlefield fortification.
Attack head-on!
When the armor rumbled in and came with the momentum of Qi Ran's power, the faces of the Xiqi generals suddenly changed greatly.
In front of this kind of war weapon, the flesh and blood are almost at the touch of a button, and no matter how fierce Xiqi's foot soldiers are not afraid of death, they are also given in vain.
But Ji Chang was still calm, and with a wave of his hand, the cavalry was dispatched.
In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the so-called cavalry was extremely simple, with no standard armor, no saddle and stirrups, and was basically a pure combination of man and horse.
It is precisely because of them that the cavalry can free their hands and make various movements on the horse more easily, and the history of human warfare ushered in the era of invincible cavalry.
Fortunately, the human physique in the Xianwu world is far stronger than ordinary history, and the demand for saddle stirrups is relatively low, and the key is the war horse.
The Shang Dynasty naturally had horses, but ordinary horses were useless, and they couldn't withstand the battle of the immortal martial arts at all.
Xiqi fought with the dog Rong for hundreds of years, at first suffered the hardships of the cavalry, and then slowly groped, gradually penetrated, and spent countless efforts before finally cultivating his own war horses and forming a cavalry battalion.
The reason why Di Yi was so jealous of Xiqi during the reign of Ji Li was because of the formation of cavalry.
Now the cavalry battalion is showing its due strength.
The first is fast.
From the dispatch to the attack, the infantry shouted for a long time, ran a few kilometers of road, and then officially met in short arms, while the cavalry came and went like the wind, the last to come, and the lightning to kill.
The second is flexibility.
There were only 1,000 cavalry dispatched by Xiqi, but like a sharp boning knife, the knife was cut along the bones, not only fast, but also never hard, by peeling and dividing its weak points, to isolate and weaken the hard bones that were difficult to gnaw.
The armored chariot is indeed strong, rumbling and pushing, like a moving Great Wall, but the cavalry avoids its edge, uses high speed to turn back, and attacks in a roundabout way, which actually compresses the role that the armored chariot can play to the extreme.
Not only that, but the cavalry commander was also keenly aware that the armored vehicles were all colluding with each other in chains.
His eyes lit up at once, and he gave the order to attack on its weak points, and then use the infantry to push away the armored carts and break up its defensive lines.
"Change formation!"
Seeing that the Xiqi cavalry was reckless, Su Hu was not in a hurry, and the military flag shook and changed the formation.
The formation of the Great Wall formed by the armored vehicles changed abruptly, turning a long snake into a ring, and the vanguard retreated under the blowing of the horn and disappeared behind the thick iron plate of the armored car.
Even the car is the city, which can be called the first city!
Hundreds of armored vehicles are linked together, and thousands of soldiers are firmly surrounded by them, and after giving up length and flexibility, what is obtained is thickness and coordination.
The flap on the car opened, and countless iron thistles were sprinkled on the ground in front of the car, which made the cavalry who had raged before immediately suffer a lot of losses, and the steel plate stretched out again, and the soldiers in heavy armor stood on it, aiming at the foot soldiers in front of them, and waved the long ges in their hands, almost like mowing grass, and the archers bent their bows and arrows, pouring arrows in front of them without scruples.
For a while, the screams were endless.
With the armor car as a barrier, Su Hu's army became impregnable, offensive and defensive, even if it was cavalry, there was no loophole to find, on the contrary, as long as the Xiqi soldiers within the attack range, there was no luck.
Seeing the casualties skyrocketing, Ji Chang's face became extremely calm, and he was even a little helpless.
Nangong Shi's death is indeed a heavy blow to Xiqi, after all, he is biased towards governing the country, and he is not good at battlefield confrontations.
And Ji Fa's eyes flashed hesitation, but after weighing the pros and cons, he felt that the time had not come, so he did not move.
As a result, the strange people who originally wanted to appear in his personal guards also retracted their steps and were still in a state of spectatorship.
After a short hesitation, Ji Chang's eyes had returned to calm, and he gave an order to the heralds left and right:
"The three armies will attack and attack the Su Protector Formation!"