Chapter 491: Charge (II)
The polished, grease-coated tip of the double-layered spear shimmered brightly in the thin sunlight.
If it is a simple field battle, such a horizontal formation consisting of only two rows of spears is still easy to be rushed away, and the simple fact that there are no more companions behind can make the soldier's confidence lose a lot, and the number of spears is relatively thin, which also makes the blocking ability decrease a lot.
But now that there are fortifications like the car battalion in front of you to help block it, you can also be sure that the enemy will not be killed from behind, which has a lot of help in terms of both practical effect and psychological advantage.
This is another great advantage of the Che Camp - even a group of cowardly soldiers, if they are allowed to fight on the plains, it is easy to scatter and flee, but they will have a little courage to hide in the Che Camp.
Even if they still wanted to escape, the camp itself would not only deter the enemy, but also the deserters, prevent them from escaping easily, and then lower the morale of the whole army - from this point of view, the camp and the sheepfold may have a similar effect.
The horses had been a little hesitant to face the camp itself, but their riders were relatively good at riding, so they were confident that they would be able to jump over the low part of the camp.
But the sudden appearance of a spear in front of him immediately slowed down several horses, and it was useless to give orders from the riders.
Wild horses in nature try to avoid shrubs and branches, and the shafts of their spears are not thin and have sharp and reflective tips, so they naturally fear and hold back.
But there were also about ten horses, who had been trained beyond instinctive fear, or if they had not had time to brake, but they had already rushed to the tip of the spear.
In an instant, one man was stabbed off his horse, and two horses were pierced in the chest, but their inertia continued to rush forward, so that the shaft of the spear began to bend, and the soldier with the spear was also pushed back.
At the same moment, the rest of the men brandished their spears, knives, and clubs to pick the spears apart, and then rode their horses through the gap between the tips of the spears, and prepared to leap up and rush into the camp!
If it is a spear formation with more platoons, it is naturally not afraid of this kind of amateur cavalry blocking, and there will be two more when you open one, and there will be three more behind the two...... It is almost impossible for such men and horses without armor to break through.
However, Luo Ming's soldiers not only had to disperse to guard the surroundings and operate the artillery, but also set aside a reserve team, so there was a shortage of manpower, and there was a big loophole.
Of course, Luo Ming naturally expected it and kept his hands on dealing with this situation.
He raised his sword and shouted, "Release!"
Of course, it is not artillery that is fired, and if you fire it at such a distance, you will accidentally cause more accidental damage than killing and injuring enemy personnel.
Accompanied by Luo Ming's voice, five arrows were fired.
Shorter than normal bows and arrows, but thicker, the arrows also take on a broader, more tearing shape, like the kind used to hunt large beasts.
This is exactly from the hand crossbow, the large arrow used for hunting is difficult to guarantee the lethality after the long range, but the close shot is just right, although the original ordinary crossbow is very powerful at a short distance, the long shot is relatively weak, so it just complements each other.
Of course, Luo Ming and Aya have also come up with several ways to make better individual crossbows, which are easier to use than bows, and are more suitable for equipping Luo Ming's armies who have never used bows for the rest of their troops.
But most of those methods lack certain conditions, even if the most likely one is realized, the cost and reliability are not bad, and because Luo Ming is now short of steel, and can only exist on paper for the time being, the official army does not know how to wait until the year of the monkey.
However, even an ordinary crossbow is still very reliable at such a close distance.
The arrow, which had two fingers at its widest point, directly broke through the horse's skin and the herdsman's leather clothing, pierced into the flesh and blood, and even one of the remaining forces pierced directly through the back of the middle arrowman.
This is similar to being stabbed through the body with a sword, and due to the high speed of the arrow, the damage actually caused is far greater than that of a normal sword.
Blood poured out almost in a handful, and muscles, blood vessels, and internal organs were torn apart, quickly disintegrating the combat effectiveness of the attacker. Even if a wild boar is hit by such an arrow, it won't last long, let alone a mortal.
But although the head man was shot in the left chest by an arrow, the extremely heavy multi-layered leather coat he wore played no less than the role of iron armor, greatly weakening the power of the crossbow arrow, and the arrow only barely pierced into his flesh, without going any further.
The leader screamed in pain, sprang up on his horse, jumped over the line of the chariot camp, raised his spear and stabbed at Luo Ming.
It seems that he wants to carry out a decapitation tactic, and the tip of the spear also exudes a fighting spirit, coupled with the speed of the horse, even if Luo Ming is wearing iron armor, if it is not enchanted or strengthened by rare metals, he is likely to be stabbed in the heart.
And a rider who stayed outside the range of the spear tip suddenly grabbed his bow and arrow, and fired an arrow at Luo Ming's face.
Although Luo Ming did not deliberately dress up with bells and whistles, his clothes were still quite different from ordinary soldiers and officers, which was certainly convenient for his subordinates to identify him, and also made it easier for the enemy to recognize him.
The man and the archer must have premeditated. The decapitation tactic is one of the suretest ways to defeat the strong, and the opponent will be ready to do so if they have a little brain.
Luo Ming didn't know that in the original plan of the head man, there would be two archers shooting at him from both sides, forming a situation of attacking from three sides.
However, one of the archers had been wounded by a shotgun and fell off his horse, and although he was lucky enough not to be trampled to death by the hooves of the horse that followed, he also fell and could not move for a while.
"Ha!" In the face of the pinching attack, Luo Ming not only did not retreat, but rushed forward, the arrow grazed the root of his ear, and it might have scratched some flesh and skin, but it was bounced away by the flickering fighting light on his body.
Of course, this also meant that the relative speed between him and the leader was faster, and he almost collided with the spear. The spear that stabbed at him was originally superimposed on the strength of the leader himself and the horse under him, and now the relative kinetic energy has reached a higher level, if the quality of the spear shaft is not considered, even a hole in the city wall may be pierced!
Luo Ming held the hilt of the sword with one hand, and held the unbladed area at the end of the sword with the other, and let out a loud shout, using the sword body full of fighting spirit against the tip of the spear that also exuded fighting energy, and then stubbornly resisted the huge momentum of the unity of men and horses, and deflected the tip of the spear to the side.
In the next instant, the blade slashed down!