Chapter 344: Trap
Song Mojie's mind was very confused, this smile seemed so ill-intentioned, an ominous premonition came to his heart, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the cavalry around him was rushing towards the river embankment without hindrance. It is only less than 200 steps away from the river beach, and it only takes a dozen breaths to kill the river beach, and there is nothing unusual at all.
At this time, Song Majie couldn't help but secretly scolded himself for making a fuss, and he was pitted by Li Yuan in the valley during the day. Just when he breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly more than 100 cavalry cavalry who rushed to the front row flew up from their horses and flew into the air at a rapid speed, and then fell to the ground with a scream of teeth and claws, making a terrifying landing sound, but their mounts fell forward and rolled forward in a way of kneeling with front hooves.
"There's a trip! Beware!" Song Majie immediately called out the name of this trap, but at the same time as he called out, hundreds of cavalry separated under the barrier of the second tripping rope, one went to the sky and the other fell to the ground, and they all fell to the bones.
No matter how quick you react, on a night like this, when the horse is accelerating to the extreme, it is almost impossible to avoid the dozens of tripwires that are densely arranged. In the same way, the cavalry of the Zhennan Army ascended to heaven and earth, becoming unjust ghosts who cleared the stumbling blocks for the brethren behind. But the brothers in the back apparently did not thank them for their help, and they had already fallen into the long grass and had already spurted blood from their mouths and noses, but they were still trampled to death by the cavalry further behind.
Song Maji's eyes were about to fly out, and his eyes were sprayed with anger, but there was a scene on the river beach that he didn't want to see. All of a sudden, all the sailors on the river beach disappeared, and in their place were rows of logs that had been erected. Behind each wooden row, the heads of the sailors and rows of arms with bows and arrows emerged.
"Something sinister, ***!" Song Majie didn't know whether to scold others or himself, but he didn't have time to think about it, because the familiar sound of the rain of arrows breaking through the air had made him have no time to care, and the sound of arrows flying through the sky sounded like a sound from the mouth of a poisonous snake to Song Majie, which made people get goosebumps.
After a rain of arrows, hundreds of cavalry fell off their horses.
"Rush up and kill them all." Song Maha shouted in a long voice.
Song Majie could only give such an order, because he believed that even if he withstood the rain of arrows from the other party, he could kill the river beach with tens of thousands of elite cavalry under his command, and the opponent's archers would only have time to shoot two rounds of arrows in such a short distance before they would be attacked by the cavalry, and at that time they could only be slaughtered.
The cavalry of the Zhennan Army paid the price of nearly 500 people, and finally withstood the fire of arrows, crossed more than 100 triphorse ropes set up densely, and finally arrived at the embankment above the river beach with difficulty. All the cavalry of the Zhennan Army who rushed to the embankment also jumped down without hesitation.
"***!" After the cavalry of the Zhennan Army jumped off the river bank one after another, the scene in front of him made Song Mojie, who had just arrived on horseback, scold these four words again.
Quite simply, it was because the cavalry of the Zhennan Army who jumped down the embankment had once again encountered a trap, this time not a tripstring, but a formation of wooden piles with pointed upwards scattered all over the beach below the embankment.
On the beach under the embankment, two feet wide and several miles long, dense stakes with pointed ends were buried in the ground, pointed upwards and covered with mowed grass. In the night, it seems that a withered aquatic grass grows, and you can't see the whirlpool below.
The moment the thousands of cavalry of the Zhennan Army jumped down the river embankment, the horses under their crotches began to go berserk, and the stakes pierced the horse's hooves and legs, causing these horses to frantically throw the knights on horseback into the stake formation, and they were stabbed to blood.
Although these stakes could not kill them, they made a large number of cavalry lose their mobility, and the rolling wailing men under the embankment turned on their backs to block the advance of the subsequent cavalry, and many cavalry could not stop their horses, rushed down the embankment, and then fell into a chaos composed of men and horses, and could not quickly approach the water army on the river beach.
And the greater disaster is that they have completely become the target of the archers of the navy on the river beach, and they don't even need to aim, they only need to bend the bow and pull the string, and at a short distance of only twenty or thirty paces, the power of the bow and arrow is enough to penetrate the best armor, not to mention that most of these cavalry of the Zhennan army are just light horsemen charging into battle, and they wear them
Naturally, it is not hard armor, as long as it is hit by an arrow, it will penetrate the body and go straight to the depths of the body, and the shot will kill with one arrow.
After only a few breaths of stepping into the trap of the spike formation, more than a thousand cavalrymen of the Zhennan Army were killed by bows and arrows under the river embankment, and the sound of wailing and screaming resounded in the night sky, and the two zhang below the river embankment was almost a slaughterhouse.
"Quick! Archer cover! Archer cover!" Song Majie finally made the most correct decision at the moment, at this moment, only his own archers suppressed the naval archers on the river beach, and it was possible to let the charging cavalry kill them.
Some of the cavalry of the Zhennan Army on the river embankment took their bows and arrows with their backhands, and although their bows and arrows were not replenished, there were still many spare arrows, which were more than enough to suppress the counterattack.
The sound of the bowstring vibrating is like the sound of a swarm of bees flapping their wings. The condescending round of bow and arrow suppression had an effect, and although the navy had wooden platoons as cover, there were still overexcited sailor archers who forgot to dodge, and after a round of suppression, there was a terrible scream in the navy camp.
This scream sounded to Song Majie like the sound of fairy music, and it was the sound he was most willing to hear.
Moreover, in order to avoid the bows and arrows, the navy retreated under the wooden platoon, wasting a round of archery opportunities, and the cavalry of the Zhennan Army who rushed down the river beach had already paved a safe way through the spike formation with flesh and corpses. Hundreds of horsemen had already rushed through the array of stakes and rushed towards the wooden platoon of the navy. This is enough to show that the suppression of the bow and arrow is effective, and all the dead and wounded have finally paid off.
"Kill!" Song Majie raised his spear and burst out with a shout forward. The cavalry of the Zhennan Army under his command all let out an earth-shattering shout of slaughter, and their horses jumped down the river beach, and countless horses' hooves trampled on the fallen horses and human corpses on the ground, making a dull sound of popping and clattering bones. These terrifying sounds were ignored, and their only goal was to rush at the navy in front of them and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Song Majie rode his horse and stood on the river embankment, seeing that no less than thousands of cavalry under his command had rushed to the front of the navy, and he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.
By this time, the battle had basically been won, and although the sailors on the river beach had poured out from behind the wooden platoons and gathered together to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, Song Maha believed that they were only the end of the crossbows, and under the frontal charge of their elite cavalry, these sailors who were only good at water warfare had no power to fight back.
Just as Song Maha was about to jump off the river embankment to participate in the battle, he suddenly heard the sound of fighting and screaming from the rear of the follow-up cavalry team, Song Maha subconsciously frowned and asked, "What's the matter? What happened behind that?"
"It's not a good thing, young marshal, there is a sudden enemy cavalry in the oblique stab, blocking and blocking the road of the follow-up soldiers and horses!" A general flew in and hurriedly reported.
"The cavalry of the water barracks?" Song Majie was startled, and almost thought that he had misheard: "How many people are blocking the rear of our army?"
"About ...... Less than a thousand."
"A thousand people can block the way? What do you eat?" Song Maha scolded and scolded.
"Young marshal, they ...... It's very fierce, as if they don't want to die, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary navy......