Chapter XXIV
But there was no relaxed expression on the faces of Namo and Hu Nuo, Qin Wu led the troops to behave like this, it can only show that there will be more difficult battles waiting for them in the future, looking at the Qin Wu leading troops who fought and retreated, Hu Nuo suddenly spoke: "Young Patriarch, if we can't break through Shahe Town this evening, then we have to go." ”
The brutal cavalry's tenacious will to fight and superb combat skills are indeed not Namor's boasting, this is also the first time Seinfeld has fought with the brute cavalry, seeing that the opponent is scattered at the moment, but in fact, the offensive echelon is very clear offensive formation, Seinfeld feels that there will be some trouble today.
Since Ye Qing returned to Qin Wuling, Qin Wuling's leading army has become very financially rich, which also makes Ye Qing increase his investment in long-range strike weapons, so that the enemy can not touch the edge of Qin Wuling's leadership and has suffered heavy losses, which is the most discouraged thing for the enemy. Today, however, this strategy is clearly ineffective against the brute riders. Whenever the rain of empty arrows intensified, the attacking brute cavalry scattered like frightened birds, waving shields and scimitars in their hands to minimize the extent of losses, and once the Qin Wu led the army finished firing a round, these scattered soldiers quickly gathered at unimaginable speed, forming a cone-shaped offensive lineup, and the frenzy generally hit the defense line of the Qin Wu army.
In less than an hour, the outer defense line of Shahe Town was lost, and the brute cavalry reorganized the formation, and the target was pointed at the core area of Shahe Town, at this time, Namor could clearly see Seinfeld's figure on the high command platform on the opposite side.
The ten-mile-long defense line in Shahe Town was originally in a semicircle bulging outward, but the current situation is that the top of the arc has been deeply pressed in, turning into a somewhat strange-looking concave semicircle, and Namo's wolf army is embedded in this four, Hu Nuo is a little worried, "Young patriarch, do you want to divide your sword to guard against the two wings, we are now almost surrounded by the other party on three sides." ”
Namor smiled and said, "Hunuo, didn't you see the other party's camp flag? Seinfeld has moved his strongest combat power to our front, is it going to have a hard fight with us, two wings? Hmph, if Seinfeld's forces are superior, I will be careful to guard against them, but now that we have the advantage of troops, what are you afraid of? The frontal battlefield is like a magnet, which will constantly attract the enemy on both wings and attack my two wings? At most, it is to harass him, don't worry about him, break through head-on, as long as the Tianlei Camp is defeated, we will cut Shahe Town into two pieces like cutting cream, and Qin Wu will lead the troops to let us slaughter. ”
The brute cavalry roared and rushed to the opposite side, and the trebuchet led by Qin Wu, who had been silent since the beginning of the war, finally began to show its hideousness, and the polished round stone bullets filled the sky, smashing down fiercely, and the unique whistling sound of the four-shot bed crossbow resounded throughout the battlefield, and hundreds of bed crossbows were fired at the same time, each time it was hundreds of long crossbows.
Comparatively speaking, the psychological blow caused by the bed crossbow to the enemy is greater than that of the trebuchet, the stone bullet of the trebuchet can still be dodged, and some perverted guys can actually use the shield of the hand and superb skills, but the bed crossbow is unavoidable, unstoppable, the speed is strange, the strength is super-large, often even the shield leads people through a salvo, the powerful force often brings people into the air, all the way the blood rain will fall, screams fly in the air, blood rains down on the armor of companions, people are all colored.
The brute began to suffer a large number of casualties, but Namor's face was extremely calm, he knew that it would take a long time interval for this powerful weapon to strike a second wave, and this was the time he needed to take advantage of.
Sure enough, after a round of firing, the trebuchet stopped, and Qin Wu led the soldiers to busy reloading and tightening the ropes, while the bed crossbow was doing the same thing.
And at this moment, the brute cavalry had already pounced and rushed in front of the deployment of the regular army directly under Seinfeld.
"The timing is so good!" Seinfeld shook his head again and again, and said: "At this point, we must remember that heavy weapons such as trebuchets and bed crossbows must be fired in batches, and such long intervals should not occur as much as possible. A scribe behind him hurriedly waved the notes.
When the brute cavalry was five hundred paces away from the infantry, he received a second blow, a hundred rounds of crossbows.
The power of the 100-round crossbow of flat shooting is also quite strong, but the brute cavalry is obviously already on guard against the 100-round crossbow led by Qin Wu, and the shields in the hands are all iron shields, the upper protector, the lower guard, and the 100-round crossbow is shot in one round, but the results are very limited, and it is difficult to hit the brute cavalry as hard as the army that can't be equipped with iron armor and iron shields to clean the red department.
But Rao is like this, and the impact of the brute rider also paid the price of nearly a thousand people.
Namo's face became a little difficult to look at, Qin Wu's leading army was so well equipped with weapons and equipment, it was really staggering, in the past, if the brute cavalry paid such a big price, they often rushed into the enemy's military formation, and the rest was slaughtered, but today, the opponent's military formation was still neat and tidy, and it was waiting for it.
Looking at the barbarian cavalry rushing over, Song Fei sneered: "The foot soldiers who attacked the formation with cavalry, Namo, you think too highly of yourself, today let you see the power of Qin Wuling's infantry."
"Throw the spear, prepare"
A row of soldiers at the back of the phalanx pulled out their throwing spears about a meter long from their backs, took a dozen steps back, and after giving an order, ran violently, and when they reached their maximum speed, the heavy throwing spears were thrown with a whistling sound. This is not a spear sharpened from tree branches on Bai Mountain, but an iron spear carefully made by Qin Wuling, with a head made of stainless steel and the ability to break armor.
Hundreds of spears gather fire, and when they hit the charging arrows of the brute horsemen, the cone is immediately flattened, and the shield can block the throwing spears, but the huge force of the throwing spears can make your arms numb, and if you move a little slowly, you will be stabbed to the ground by the subsequent spears.
After the Seinfeld infantry only threw a light spear and killed more than 1,000 people, the brute cavalry plunged into the infantry array, and the brute cavalry that followed closely followed immediately ran sideways in a circle of horses, running around the infantry phalanx, bending bows and arrows on the horses, and constantly shooting at the phalanx, breaking through the inside and shooting at the periphery, which was the only way for the brute cavalry to break through the infantry phalanx.
"Block!" Seinfeld ordered.
The trebuchets began to fire again, but this time they were apparently ordered, and instead of a dense attack in waves, the trebuchets were divided into several waves, smashing into the enemy army in succession, trying to stop more brute cavalry from charging into the phalanx of the advancing soldiers.
As soon as the brute cavalry penetrated into these phalanxes, the speed of the horses immediately decreased, and some were even forced to stop, and the knights on the horses, wielding broadswords and spears, kept blocking and stabbing down. This is a strong dialogue, the strongest cavalry against the strongest infantry, the soldiers on both sides are not even screaming, all of them have red eyes, fighting with their heads overhead, there is nothing else in their eyes, only the enemy and the tip of the enemy's sword, either you die, or I die.
A Qin Wu led a soldier to be stabbed and fell, but the moment he fell, he still cut off the opponent's horse's hooves with a knife, and saw that the other party was loaded upside down and dismounted, and there were a few more blood holes on his body, so he closed his eyes with satisfaction, and a brute horse jumped up and jumped into the air at the moment when he was cut down, and when several spears met him, he roared and threw the long knife in his hand, watching the long knife break through his chest and pierce the other party to the ground, and he himself was stabbed by several spears, set up in the air, and a few spears shook and threw him out of the formation.
The guerrilla cavalry soon found that the impact of this kind of shooting on Qin Wu's soldiers was not too great, first, the opponent was well-armed, as long as it was not shot to the vital point, he couldn't die at all, but empty swords and guns were flying, and the Qin Wu leader in the front row was desperately attacking the barbarian cavalry, and the soldiers in the back row were wielding spears and stirring desperately in the air, which made many of the arrows that fell down be shot down in the air, and on the sides of these spearmen, there were shield-wielding sword and shield men to cover for them.
The barbarian cavalry immediately changed their tactics and no longer shot arrows, but began to throw weapons such as iron bones and hammers. When these guys fell, they immediately caused the phalanx of the Tianlei Battalion to begin to suffer large casualties.
It is like two raging giants entangled together, and both men become wild beasts at this moment, with only one purpose, to kill each other. Although the barbarian cavalry has an advantage in strength, but it is difficult to invest too many troops at a time, Qin Wu led the troops to rely on the strong defense, and kept blocking and striking the barbarian cavalry's troops, and the thousands of barbarian cavalry who rushed in were inseparable from the Qin Wu infantry who led them, and no one could help anyone.
Hu Nuo looked at Namor, whose face was a little ugly, and whispered: "Young Patriarch, our refueling tactics will not work at all, if we can't break the road of the Terran infantry, we will not be able to win, Young Patriarch, retreat, the Erlang losses are too great, it is not a wise thing to use cavalry to attack the well-arranged infantry, and the opponent still has such a strong defensive position behind him." If Ye Qing leads his troops to block our back road and seal us off in Yi'an, it will be bad, in Yi'an, we can't find a single supply. ”
Namo exhaled heavily, the first time he fought with Qin Wuling's infantry, it was actually such a result, which made him a little unacceptable, he had always thought that as soon as the brute cavalry came out, Qin Wu's troops would fall apart and be vulnerable, but the reality gave him a heavy blow.
"Young Patriarch, we have to find an opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the other side in the field battle, instead of attacking the fortifications!" Hu Nuo admonished: "Besides, our attack this time is not without gains, and the soldiers have accumulated a certain amount of experience in fighting against Qin Wu's troops, and the enemy's losses in this battle are much greater than ours, so they have already won." ”
Namo looked up at the sky, there was no hope of breaking Shahe Town before dark, and it would not do him any good if he delayed it, if Su Tuo's 200,000 troops came with him, Namo hated it in his heart.