Chapter 038: Gun Forest

The soldiers on the river beach boarded the boats one after another, and Qin Feng and the others suddenly found that more than 50 ferries were followed by countless wooden rafts and bamboo rafts. There are hundreds of them.

It turned out that the soldiers on the other side of the river were cut down trees and bamboos overnight, rolled into wooden rafts, and came over for emergency.

This is a good thing, this batch of bamboo rafts and wooden platoons can carry 20,000 soldiers across the river at a time, which greatly speeds up the withdrawal of troops.

The wolf rider was still hovering a mile away, neither leaving nor approaching the riverbank. Under their harassment, not a single Zhao soldier was given enough rest for the whole night. Everyone stayed up until dawn with their eyes open in tension and panic. The weary army is now even weaker. The wolf riders knew that their mission was accomplished, and all that remained was to wait for the arrival of the main force.

Finally, two hours later, dust rose at the end of the dirt road, and the deafening sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, and the barbarian army had arrived.

The first to arrive in front of the two armies were the Frost Wolf Tribe and the Holy Snow Mountain Tribe among the three main forces of the barbarians. The reason why these barbarians have been chasing after them is because they have received news that the prince of Zhao is in the middle of the fleeing army. If the current prince can be captured alive, it will be of great use to them to continue to go south. Therefore, the barbarians concentrated almost all the main forces in the north to pursue.

The trumpets sounded, and the leaders of the two tribes did not stop for the slightest. As soon as he arrived in front of the battle, he commanded a thousand heavily armored cavalry running at the forefront to kill on the river beach.

"Meet the enemy!" Amid the loud shouts of the battalion commanders, the spear phalanx of the Black Flag Army marched forward with neat steps.

The other Zhao soldiers on the river beach didn't understand why Qi Yun used pikemen to block the barbarians' heavy armored cavalry head-on. It is common knowledge of all servicemen that heavy cavalry is a nightmare for infantry. The high-speed hoplites can destroy any infantry camp that dares to stand in their way. Usually in the absence of fortifications, only heavy cavalry could deal with heavy cavalry. However, Qi Yun's heavy cavalry did not attack, but just stood quietly on both sides.

The two armies were separated by less than a mile, and within a dozen breaths, the barbarian iron cavalry rushed over.

Four hundred meters...

Three hundred meters...

Two hundred meters...

One hundred meters...

The sound of horses' hooves was deafening, and a thousand heavily armored cavalry rolled in like a torrent of steel, rushing towards the phalanx of the Black Flag Army's spears. The earth seemed to tremble, and everyone's hearts were in their throats. I don't know how many Black Flag soldiers died tragically under the hooves and scimitars of horses.

"Spearing"

Just when the barbarian iron cavalry was still thirty meters away from the spear phalanx, the commanders of the battalions of the Black Flag Army gave an order sharply.

All the pikemen twisted their guns with both hands, and a sleeve slipped out of the body. The soldiers then quickly attached their sleeves to the bottom of their spears, and all of them immediately became more than a foot long.

The soldiers were extremely skillful, sticking their spears into the ground at a 40-degree angle, half-crouching down and fixing the barrels with their hands, and pointing their spears directly at the galloping barbarian iron horsemen.

The barbarian cavalry rushed all the way over, not paying any attention to the spear phalanx in front of them. They felt that it only took one round of shock to rush the phalanxes to pieces. Unexpectedly, a neat row of guns suddenly appeared in front of him, and the snow bright gun head pointed directly at his chest and horse's head.

The distance of thirty meters was only a blink of an eye for a galloping horse, and there was no time to dodge. The first platoon of cavalry crashed heavily into the guns. Amid the screams, countless barbarian cavalry and the horses on which they sat were pierced by spears.

Immediately after that, the cavalry in the rear row also collided one after another. In the blink of an eye, at least four or five waves of cavalry collided together.

The soldiers of the spear phalanx were also uncomfortable, and the impact of several rows of heavily armored cavalry colliding in a row was not at all comparable to that of a few spears.

The first row of spears bent and snapped in an instant. The half-crouched soldier who clenched his spear did not have time to let out a scream before he was crushed to the ground by the corpses of the barbarian knights and horses. Immediately afterwards, it was trampled into a pulp by the men and horses rolling from behind.

The second row of guns rose up again, and one after another the shiny spears mercilessly pierced into the chests of the barbarian cavalry, who had been dizzy. Again, a huge impact came from the gun. Countless spears were squeezed and bent and broken.

The barbarian cavalry rushed into the field of spears like a tidal wave, and those in front were pierced by spears and fell off their horses. The one behind continued to rush forward with the corpse. rushed through three rows of guns in a row before gradually stopping.

The battlefield was extremely fierce, countless barbarian cavalry were stabbed to death, and countless black flag pikemen fell under the barbarians' war hammers and scimitars. However, they finally blocked the onslaught of the heavily armored cavalry, bringing opportunities to their comrades behind them.

The sword barbarian iron cavalry finally stopped, and the spearmen in the back row immediately retreated to both flanks. A thousand archers who had already drawn their bows and arrows were revealed.

The archers were less than fifty paces away from the barbarian cavalry on their backs. The long arrows were raised flatly, and the overwhelming rain of arrows roared out. All the archers would not let go of the opportunity that the brothers in front of them gave themselves with their lives, and they shot all the twenty-four arrows in the quiver in a few breaths.

The barbarian cavalry, which was still trapped in the forest of guns, had no chance to dodge at all, and fell to the ground one after another.

"Kill"

With the commanders of the battalions giving orders loudly. The two thousand heavily armed short knife hands, who had long been unable to resist, brandished the snow-bright steel knife and entered the battle circle.

At this time, the barbarian cavalry was already at the end of their crossbows, and more than eighty percent were buried under the rain of spears and arrows. The remaining two percent had already collapsed, and they couldn't resist the swarming Black Flag Army****, and they were all cut down to the ground in an instant.

The first round of confrontation between the two sides ended quickly, and all the 1,000 barbarian iron cavalry were killed. The Black Flag Army was not easy, with nearly 800 pikemen killed in battle. The Black Flag Army won a crushing victory.

The two leaders of the Frost Wolf Tribe and the Holy Snow Mountain Tribe furrowed their brows. They didn't expect that the soldiers of the Zhao army, who had been harassed by the wolf rider all night, would have such a strong combat power. However, they also knew that only the black, gray and black-armored Black Flag Army soldiers in front of them in the Zhao army were still capable of fighting. As long as they are defeated, the other soldiers on the river beach will not worry.

Unable to give the enemy a chance to breathe, the two chiefs simultaneously ordered the three thousand infantry behind them to attack.

The horn sounded again, and the three thousand barbarian infantry rushed towards the Black Flag Army camp like a tide.

Now there are about a thousand pikemen and two thousand short swordsmen left in the Black Flag Army. The corpses of the barbarian cavalry, war horses, and soldiers of the Black Flag Army who had died on the battlefield were piled up. The phalanx of pikemen was disbanded, and real infantry hand-to-hand combat began between the two sides. All the soldiers marched forward bravely on the corpses of the enemy and their comrades, and 6,000 soldiers fought together in the sea of corpses and blood.

The barbarian infantry was extremely capable of fighting alone, they never wore armor, but their hands were full of heavy weapons such as battle axes. Each of these fierce soldiers from the bitter cold land was immensely powerful and fierce. After they entered the customs, they had several confrontations with the Zhao army in the customs. According to the battle damage statistics reported from various places, each barbarian infantry is capable of at least three to five soldiers of the Zhao army in the Guannai. However, this time they encountered the Black Flag Army's heavy swordsmen. It is the first iron army of Zhao State that has been fighting with them for life and death for many years at Heishi Pass.

Both sides are equally tough, both sides are equally brave. The two forces were evenly matched, and 6,000 people fought frantically on the golden beach, which was extremely tragic.