Section 581 - Victory in the first battle
The foot soldiers of the Thousand Pheasant Army leveled their spears, and row after row charged, their boots stomping on the ground, and their footsteps roaring.
After the left and right cavalry rushed out of the hundred zhang, with the help of horsepower, they pulled out the big bow and aimed at the sky in an exaggerated backward posture to lead the string three times, and the long armor-piercing arrows were thrown out, and then the big bow was placed in the arrow box behind the horse, and replaced it with a short bow and three arrows again, and the neat arrow curtain was shocking.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 20 zhang.
The armor-piercing arrows falling from the sky rushed into the spear phalanx of the Westerners, and they heard a continuous popping sound, blood mist rising, and many spearmen fell to the ground or were nailed to the ground, and the neat phalanx immediately became chaotic.
The westerner cavalry who charged head-on with the thousand pheasant army was caught off guard, and was shot over by the oncoming arrows on the spot, and one of them turned over on their backs.
One ride with two bows, first far and then near, the two arrows actually hit the target at the same time in no particular order.
"Well done boys. ”
Putting down the binoculars, the novel tactics of the Thousand Pheasant Army made Jingguo Gongqing can't help but applaud.
The generals nodded secretly, the opening of the Thousand Pheasant Army was quite eye-catching, and the Westerners suddenly fell into disadvantage.
Telescopes have become so popular that even the refiners, the official Ministry of Craftsman of the Dawu Dynasty, were able to use oil stones to grind the crystal clear colorless glass into shape little by little, and finally make a telescope that could see the vista from afar.
"This is a new thing that the Thousand Pheasant Army has come up with, there is a famous hall called Yangguan Three Stacks, the long bow and the short bow are two stacks, and the final blow is the third stack. ”
The Sealing Wolf Dao Festival made Lin Mian know every Zhichong Mansion army under his command well, and knew that the Thousand Pheasant Army had spent a lot of effort to practice such a tactic.
He stroked his long beard, quite satisfied.
"Thousand Pheasant Army!
Opposite to the oncoming Westerners' cavalry, it was the halberd of the cavalry of the Thousand Pheasant Army, and the Dawu cavalry would also put the halberd on the battlefield and aim at the oncoming western cavalry.
The most suitable long-distance weapon for cavalry combat is the short bow, the short-range short weapon is the scimitar, and the long weapon is the long halberd, which can be stabbed or picked, dialed and blocked, pecked and hooked, has a side moon blade, and has a gap, which can wring down the opponent's weapon, and can also kill and injure the enemy unexpectedly.
Although spears, lances, swords, clubs, long-handled tomahawks, and maces can all be used as cavalry weapons, they are more demanding of the user and have much less variation than halberds.
However, the halberd is expensive and time-consuming, and although it is easy to use, not any army has the confidence to be equipped with such a long weapon.
The Thousand Pheasant Army was also stained with the light of Li Xiaobai's enlistment, and defeated the Feng Xuanguo's proud Chongcheng Cavalry, so that he was specially equipped with a batch of long halberds, and it was also a Fang Tian painting halberd with a double moon blade.
As soon as it appeared, it was scary to look at.
The Westerners and the Great Wu Dynasty opened their positions with open guns and horses, and opened a head-on attack of equal strength for the first time, without any conspiracy and tricks, and even the warlocks and saints on both sides did not participate, and they all wanted to see the real combat power of each other's soldiers.
Puff puff......
The horses neighed, the muffled snorts of the cavalry continued, and the sound of bone cracking was endless, and the cavalry on both sides did not slow down at all, and fearlessly rushed directly against the blades of each other's weapons.
In the blink of an eye, they penetrated each other's formations, leaving a blanket of mutilation.
Many cavalrymen were worn on the blades of the opponent at the first time, pushed out of the saddle, and then fell off the horse, and were trampled by the war horses of both sides that could not dodge, and only a very few lucky people escaped the trampling, so once they fell off the horse, it was nine deaths.
Only one impact, more than 30 people fell from their horses on both sides, and the cavalry of the Dawu Dynasty was more intact, after all, they accounted for the power of weapons, although the Westerners rode spears long, they couldn't help but pick up Fang Tian's halberd lightly, and they immediately lost their heads.
"Haha!
Ding Zhi wiped a handful of Westerner blood on his face, and just now a halberd pierced the chest of a Westerner cavalryman, and then flicked it, and the crescent blade swept the neck of another Westerner knight who passed by, and immediately created a headless horseman, and the human skull rolled to the ground, and before it stopped, it was stepped on by an unknown horse, and his head was immediately deflated, and red and white splattered out.
The headless cavalry body was carried by the war horse and rushed far away, but the horse did not know that the master on his back had died, and still followed the other war horses to turn back and start the second sprint, and the neck cavity that lost its head was still spewing out blood arrows several feet high, like a fountain, and the scene was extremely tragic.
"Thousand Pheasant Army!
Under the leadership of Ding Zhi, the commander of the Thousand Pheasant Army, the Dawu cavalry once again shuddered full of war.
The robes that died in battle will not make them sad, but will only hold their weapons tighter, aim at the enemy's heart, and stab them mercilessly.
The court gave them armor, fed and clothed them, taught them survival skills, and let their brothers and sisters live in a fair and stable environment, and they reciprocated with their own lives.
The Horse Leather Shroud on the battlefield is the fate of every warrior.
In his sight, the Westerner cavalry who were getting closer and closer, the bloody tip of the spear, Ding Zhi burst out and roared: "Kill!"
The sunlight in the sky became more and more intense, as if his eyes widened as he looked down on the creatures below fighting each other, the cold light of the blades flickering, and the screams mixed with the neighing of war horses.
The number of cavalry who charged each other became smaller and smaller, but they did not stop, they kept distancing, charged, stabbed the enemy off their horses or stabbed by the enemy, and the corpses on the ground were not only cavalry, but also war horses.
The wounded horses squealed, but could not stand up, and most of the fallen cavalry were silent, and there were barely one or two lucky ones, but they drew their swords and rushed at each other, until one of them finally fell.
The spearmen phalanx of the Westerners were still striding forward unhurriedly, and the foot soldiers of the Great Wu Dynasty flattened their spears faster and faster, like sharp arrows that did not look back, piercing the Westerners phalanx.
Starting from a distance of thirty zhang, Dawu fired arrows at the rear of the crossbowmen to the westerners' phalanx, and the westerners' foot soldiers wore chain racks, which could withstand the sword slashing, but could not stand the piercing of sharp arrows, although the formation tried its best to shake the spears that were erected to pull out the flying arrows, but there were still people who kept falling down from the arrows.
One inch long, one inch strong, the length of the guns and spears on both sides is almost the same, and the result of the charge without dodging is either the Westerners were pierced through the body by the oncoming spears and nailed in the military formation, or the foot soldiers of the Great Wu Dynasty hit the tip of the Westerners' spears headlong, and then they were picked up high.
The casualties of the soldiers in the front row instantly exceeded seven or eight out of ten, and the spears in the second and third rows of the Westerner phalanx were lowered one after another, forming a more dense gun formation.
The consistent pace finally exerted its power, like a majestic wall of guns, pressing towards the thousand pheasant army step by step.
The spearmen of the Thousand Pheasant Army were full of vigor and then exhausted, and when they could not be in the first time in the westerners' phalanx, the situation took a sharp turn, and they were soon killed and wounded, and they were pierced one after another, picked on the tip of the gun, and the corpses of those who were shot several times were often fragmented.
The sword and shield soldiers in the rear finally arrived, waved the round shield, skillfully blocked the spears that stabbed over, stepped on the corpse of the robe gunner, and quickly grabbed in front of the Westerner spearmen, one inch long and one inch strong, one point short and one point dangerous.
When it got closer, the spearman became a fish on a cutting board, the sharp horizontal knife mercilessly slashed, the severed arm and the head flew together, and the thousand pheasant saber and shield soldiers were sprayed into blood at the first time.
A whole line of Westerners fell to the ground in unison, completely devoid of the majesty of using their spears to kill or tear their opponents apart.
Lifting the shield and then entering, waving the sword, like cutting wheat, at this moment it has completely become the home field of the sword and shield soldiers, and the crossbowmen in the rear stand still, and they can't stop shooting arrows like needles.
Without the support of archers, the Westerners were in a bitter slaughter, but even if they had bows and arrows, it was useless, and the sword and shield soldiers could easily swim in the rain of arrows with a half-body round shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other.
After less than thirty breaths of effort, the phalanx of the Westerners' spears finally collapsed, and they abandoned their long and useless spears, turned and fled.
The cavalry battle has also been seen, the westerners cavalry fought to the last man, and after riding a crooked horse for more than ten zhang, he fell from his warhorse, and the thirsty ground under him was soon soaked with blood gushing out from the fatal wound.
The tall war horse screamed a few times, and could no longer stand, and fell down with a bang, with a flowing mouth and nose, obviously unable to survive.
"Hey, fuck it, we won!"
Ding Zhi wiped the blood all over his face, Fang Tian's painting halberd had already disappeared because he couldn't hold it, and it was replaced by a horizontal knife that had been curled, he still raised it high and shouted: "Thousand Pheasant Army!
There were only more than 50 cavalrymen left, and they raised their weapons together and shouted: "Thousand Pheasant Army!
The soldiers of the Great Wu Dynasty chased and killed the unarmed Westerner spearmen, and perhaps some with short swords, but they were still not opponents, and were quickly cut to the ground.
The archers were unhurried to shoot the fleeing "live targets", some of them so skilled that they could even shoot fleeing enemies from a distance of 30 feet.
Dingdingding......
Dawu heard a crisp and loud sound of banging cymbals in the direction of the military formation.
Also covered in blood, I don't know if it's my own, or the Westerner, the battle helmet doesn't know where it fell, the thousand pheasant army with a cloak turned at the commander Yu Hong to collect the knife into the sheath, took out a Fang Tian painting halberd on the corpse on the ground, and shouted at Ding Zhi, the commander of Zuo Guoyi, who was about to chase the poor man Yongyong: "Ding Zhi, collect the wounded and withdraw the troops!"
"Yes!"
This reckless man finally knew that he would accept it when he saw it, he and the other cavalrymen gathered the ownerless war horses, sent the corpses and wounded of the robes to the saddle, and those who could not get on the horses were directly carried on their backs, and they would not give up a robe no matter what.
Only more than ten people escaped from the Westerners' phalanx, which can be regarded as the annihilation of the entire army.
The foot soldiers, under the leadership of another Guo Yi Du Lieutenant, quickly cleaned up the mess and took the bodies of the dead and the wounded away, leaving only the corpses of the Westerners, and quickly withdrew their troops.
From the beginning to the end of the battle, it was not even a quarter of an hour, the Westerner cavalry was completely annihilated, and the pike phalanx was also a very small survivor.
As for the wounded Westerners, whether they were foot soldiers or cavalrymen, the hospitable Han people of the Dawu Dynasty would enthusiastically send them back to the west, and they didn't think about keeping prisoners at all.
The Thousand Pheasant Army also paid a heavy price, with more than half of the direct casualties, but everyone fought bravely, none of them retreated, although there were many sacrifices, but the spirit of the army was still there, once the new recruits were replenished, it would not be long before it was a resounding and warlike army.
Thanks to Li Xiaobai's rescue medical skills left in the army, suturing, disinfection and open supply of healing pills, the casualty rate of the soldiers of the Dawu Dynasty has greatly decreased, which also makes these killers more desperate when fighting, presumably after the injury is recovered, these old soldiers will become more fierce and fearless.
Yu Hong, the bloodied commander of the Thousand Pheasant Army, took the two deputy lieutenants of Guoyi and was ordered to come to the big tent of the Chinese army, and as soon as he entered, he knelt on one knee and bowed his hands in unison: "Your Majesty." ”
Until the Thousand Pheasant Army completely withdrew from the battlefield, the million-strong army of the Westerners was like a thousand horses, and they did not send another army to chase their remnants, as if they had acquiesced in their own defeat.
The first time the two sides tried to make a move, even if they caught up with and eliminated the Thousand Pheasant Army, they could only turn the battlefield here into a meat grinder that added fuel to the oil, which was not suitable for the purpose of the commanders of both sides.
Jing Guogong was very satisfied with the performance of the Thousand Pheasant Army, the victory in the first battle was enough to boost the morale of the whole army, he did not hesitate to reward, looked at the three men who dared to fight and said: "Your performance is very good, the commander is very satisfied, what kind of reward do you want." ”
At the behest of Empress Xiangjun, in order to motivate the soldiers, the military exploits made in the war with the Westerners will be rewarded more abundantly than before.
If the Dawu Dynasty is defeated, then everything such as land, population, and wealth will be Westerners.
Rather than falling into the hands of outsiders, it is better to cheapen your own people first, and the rewards and punishments are clear, so that the soldiers can kill the enemy more bravely.
The first battle was successful, and Jing Guogong was happy to set an example for the army.
"I don't dare! ”
Yu Hong, who represented the Thousand Pheasant Army, responded very decently, without the slightest appearance of pride.
"Whatever you want, just ask, don't miss the opportunity! Although you have made a contribution, don't be complacent, waiting for the victor is just a few servant army. ”
The chief general of the Thousand Pheasant Army, the Wolf Dao Festival made Lin Mian remind and beat at the same time, and he was rewarded for his meritorious service, but he couldn't get carried away.
At the moment of speaking, more than ten people suddenly came out of the Westerner army array, but it was the phalanx spearmen who had just escaped, one by one, who were tied up with five flowers, followed by a swordsman with a big waist and a round waist, kicked it, and hit the leg crook of those surviving spearmen, and knelt directly on the ground.
Those swordsmen did not hesitate, pulled out their two-handed swords and slashed down diagonally, the heads of people were rolling all over the ground, and the phalanx spearmen were actually cut off by Qi Qi, and the big warriors who saw this scene were slightly commotion, and the Westerners were demonstrating to them, and they didn't even want a single escapee, and they were directly killed to set an example.
"Yes!"
Ding Zhi was stunned, where could he not hear the meaning of the beating of the Jiedu envoy, the original little pride in his heart disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye, he and Youguo Yi Du Wei Cao also glanced at each other, and nodded to Shangguan Yu Hong.
The latter immediately clenched his fists and said: "We only need to be rewarded with more gold and silver cloths to compensate the casualties of the Pao Ze family." ”
The three of them bowed their heads in unison, as if mourning the robes that had died on the battlefield.
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