Chapter 283: Charge: Duet
"It's tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick......
The high-pitched, loud voice suddenly sounded, and in just a moment, it resounded throughout the battlefield, and it kept looping in the sky above the battlefield.
The eyes of the enemy and the people on both sides of the battlefield were focused on the watchtower where the trumpet sounded in an instant.
Like the opponents who had heard the charge trumpet, the Huaixi Army was at a loss from ordinary foot soldiers to lieutenant generals and colonels, while the Changying Army from soldiers to sergeants was instantly filled with an excitement and fanaticism.
Compared with ordinary non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and non-commissioned officers, the first time they heard the charge, all the Changying Military Academy, including Meng Gan, who knew the deployment, were at a loss.
They knew very well that the bugle should not sound at this time, however, the dazed only existed for a moment.
These military schools understood the significance of the Charge in the Changying Army better than ordinary soldiers, and after a moment of hesitation and pause, the military academies belonging to the Changying Army made almost the same decision.
"The whole team!"
"Array!"
"Forward!"
"Attack!"
In the eyes of the soldiers and military academies of the Huaixi Army, the original Changying Army military array has changed from a majestic, stable, and unshakable mountain to a turbulent, surging, and choppy sea.
And the originally peaceful sergeant Changying suddenly changed from a calm Tang soldier to a group of the craziest madmen.
The battle formation, which originally controlled the distance, controlled the speed, and steadily pushed forward, began to change under the command of military academies at all levels.
In the center of the entire battlefield, the dense heavy infantry battle formation was located, and the originally dense battle formation gradually opened up and was relatively loose.
The loosening of the formation led to a decrease in overall defense, an increase in the speed of the heavy infantry, and an increase in the range of attack.
The impact was that the Huaixi Army, which was originally in a state of compression and could survive by running backwards, began to fall under the sharp blade in the hands of the Changying Army.
At the rear of the heavy infantry battle formation, the crossbowmen armed with heavy crossbows stopped firing volleys and followed the rapidly advancing heavy infantry closely, while choosing targets to fire freely.
Although the original intensive accumulation of fire was very lethal, the main purpose was not to kill, but to defeat the Huaixi army, which might organize a counterattack, and facilitate the advance of the heavy infantry.
Now it's changed to free fire, and after giving each crossbowman the right to shoot, the crossbow bolts start flying around the battlefield non-stop.
Although some of the crossbow arrows were blocked and knocked away by the armor on the Huaixi army, not every Huaixi army was so lucky.
From time to time, crossbow arrows were shot into the joints or throats of the Huaixi soldiers along the gaps, piercing into the joints or throats of the Huaixi soldiers, accompanied by splashes of blood, falling straight to the ground, and then being trampled by their companions.
Although it is not possible to kill an enemy with each crossbow arrow, the unfixed and flying crossbow bolts undoubtedly cause more panic, after all, no one knows if there is a sinister crossbowman aiming at the back of his head.
And this made chaos, panic, and unrest further spread in the Huaixi Army, which was already in chaos.
In the interval between the battle formations, put away the bows and arrows to act as infantry, and protect the archers on the flanks of the heavy infantry battle formation, after hearing the order, they took out the bows and arrows on their backs again, and shot at the Huaixi Army in front as fast as possible.
Next, they directly threw the bows and arrows and quiver in their hands on the ground, picked up unconventional weapons such as pickaxes, armor-piercing hammers, and sapper shovels, and rushed directly out from the two wings of the battle formation, and rushed towards the Huaixi army that was retreating.
On the two flanks of the entire infantry regiment, consisting of eight-bull crossbows and light infantry, the orders of the sappers and light infantry were likewise without any delay.
After hearing the order to charge, the light infantry who was responsible for protecting the Eight Ox Crossbow threw away the excess equipment on his body without saying a word, grabbed his horizontal sword and shield and rushed out directly.
After the light infantry began to charge, the eight-bull crossbow, which had been in a flat-firing state, adjusted its angle and changed from flat-fire
to eject.
Rows of eight-ox crossbows were adjusted to an angle of about 45 degrees and were oriented forward.
45 degrees angle, this is the maximum range determined after Guo Rong's reminder and the sappers' tests.
Although the parabolic flight trajectory can no longer achieve the results of the sugar gourd, this will undoubtedly greatly increase the range, and the effective range of the Eight Bull Crossbow has quickly skyrocketed from 600 steps to at least 1,000 steps, making the relatively safe Huaixi Army's middle and rear armies also within the range of the Eight Bull Crossbow.
"Whoosh! Sou! Whoosh!"
One after another, the eight-bull crossbow arrows flew out along the smooth parabola after adjusting the angle.
After a few breaths of flying, a heavy crossbow arrow appeared in the sky above the rear army of the Huaixi Army, with the sharp decrease in kinetic energy, the thick arrow shaft, the arrow made of fine iron began to fall rapidly.
All this was presented in the eyes of a young and tall Huaixi military soldier.
In the frightened gaze of this Huaixi sergeant, the hard arrows of the Eight Bull Crossbows and the thick, large, and hard crossbow rods became more and more clear in his pupils.
Watching the arrows flying towards him, he was obviously terrified to the limit, but his legs were not controlled at all as if they were filled with lead, and he couldn't move at all, and screaming and wailing became the only thing this young Huaixi sergeant could do.
"Ahh
In the desperate screams, the huge crossbow bolts pierced the Huaixi army directly.
Under the deep affection of fear, despair, and pain, the man who was hit by the arrow was nailed directly to the ground.
With the arrival of the first wave of crossbow arrows that turned from flat fire to parabola, dozens of people who were pierced by crossbow arrows were killed on the spot in the dense battle array.
Although there were not many casualties, the ultra-long range, the miserable wail, and unbearable death of the people, the middle and rear armies of the Huaixi Army also fell into chaos.
Then came the second wave, the third wave......
The direct damage caused by each wave of crossbow arrows is getting smaller and smaller, but the battle formations of the middle and rear armies of the Huaixi Army have quietly collapsed in the process of the Huaixi Army dodging the crossbow arrows.
With this scene, the only command system in the Huaixi Army that could still maintain it also began to collapse and disintegrate, and the Huaixi Army's ability to finally counterattack was completely disappeared in the scattering of wave after wave of eight-bull crossbows.
In a large clearing hidden behind the woods on the edge of the battlefield, the cavalrymen who had been in a state of readiness for battle since the beginning of the battle had been in a state of readiness when they heard the sound of the trumpet.
Only their commander, Mo Lingjun, the head of the cavalry regiment of the Changying Army, looked calmly and looked ahead.
His eyes were locked on the deliberately carved path ahead, and what he needed to wait for was not the charge, but the order from Guo Rong.
From the sound of the trumpet, Mo Lingjun began to count silently in his heart
One, two, three......
By the time the number reached twenty-eight, Mo Lingjun had already heard the sound of horses' hooves.
When the number reached thirty-seven, a cavalryman burst out of the path set aside in the woods.
The number had reached forty-two, and the cavalryman had already rushed in front of Mo Lingjun.
Forty-two breaths, Mo Lingjun remembered this number in his heart.
"Boss, there's a signal from General Guo upstairs."
"What requirements?"
"Break through on both wings, advance in the center."
"Break through on both wings, advance in the center!"
Repeating the command gently, Mo Lingjun muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear.
"This order is not exactly the same as what the kid who came to convey at the beginning!"
"Breaking through the two wings, not outflanking the two wings, breaking through the center, not breaking through the center, this goal is not to stare at the center of the opponent and capture the thief and capture the king."
"This is to chisel through, chop, and swallow the other party completely, Boss Guo has changed his mind, I really don't know what Boss Guo thinks."
But as soon as this thought came to mind, Mo Lingjun shook his head gently.
"It doesn't matter what happened to him, what Boss Guo said
It's what it is."
Thinking back to the situation on the battlefield before, contacting Guo Rong's order, thinking about it for a while, sorting out his thoughts, and soon Mo Lingjun stopped muttering to himself.
Immediately afterwards, Mo Lingjun turned over and got on the horse with an arrow step, and then shouted loudly on the horse.
"Everyone got on the horse and divided into four teams with the battalion as a unit, An Yu, Han Zhi, Murong Zhi, and Sima Jing, the four of you listen."
"Armored cavalry in full armor to open the way!"
"The rest of the heavy cavalry followed with the upper half of their horses, and stretched to the sides along the path opened by the mounted cavalry, widening the gap."
"Light cavalry with bows and arrows, pick targets and shoot freely, shoot important targets, eliminate hidden dangers, and cover the whole team."
"Crossbowmen go to crossbows and bring spears to the maximum extent of the damage to the enemy who dares to resist."
"After breaking into the enemy camp, each battalion continued to divide its troops and advance according to the situation, with only one purpose, to cut through, divide, and tear the enemy formation, so as not to give any enemy counterattack opportunity, understand?"
"Understand !!"
"Thirty breaths ready! Then strike!"
With Mo Lingjun's order, a sound of "jingle bells" and "chirps" came out of the open space.
From the sound of the trumpet to the time when the order was issued and the preparations for the battle were completed, in less than a hundred breaths, the 3,000 cavalry who had completed the preparation divided into four routes, two teams through the forest, and two teams detoured, and rushed towards the battlefield.
Just about two hundred breaths before the trumpet sounded, on the southern edge of the entire battlefield, groups of cavalry suddenly appeared from the woods and on both sides of the woods.
At this moment, the heavy infantry, light infantry, and archers who had completed the change of formation had frantically entered the front army of the Huaixi Army.
In less than 200 breaths, the sappers completed more than a dozen rounds of firing at the central and rear troops of the Huaixi Army, and hundreds of people died, torturing the central and rear troops of the Huaixi Army.
Originally, in the face of the calm, resolute, and continuous attack of the Changying Army, Wu Shaoxiang was already like ashes, looking at this posture, the Changying Army was likely to take the road of forced surrender.
Since it is a forced surrender, then the tens of thousands of elites under his command will probably not be slaughtered, and Wu Shaoxiang can leave with peace of mind.
However, without any warning and without any reason, the forbidden army's sudden change of formation and sudden madness completely surprised Wu Shaoxiang.
Obviously, the victory has been secured, why did the forbidden army on the opposite side suddenly change its formation?
Obviously, as long as you advance steadily and push slowly, you can take down your entire 30,000 elites with minimal casualties, why did the forbidden army on the opposite side suddenly start a crazy attack and killing?
After a short period of thought, Wu Shaoxiang came to a conclusion, it must be a critical moment, and there was a change in the tactics and plans of the commander of the forbidden army.
What is this change?
In Wu Shaoxiang's view, with the current situation, the reason why the forbidden army can be forced to speed up the battle can only be changed in one world!
Either the three towns of Hebei raised troops to the south, or the news of the elimination of Li Yu, who had marched into Liaodong, came back to the Central Plains, or the arrival of the Japanese army that Li Shidao was waiting for in Jiaodong, or the ...... It was the Tubo people thousands of miles away who had already attacked Tang in a big way!
Wu Shaoxiang didn't know which one it was, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that he suddenly didn't want to die!
First, it is naturally from the perspective of the general trend of the world, the more chaotic the world, the more warlords like him will be like a fish in water, even if he is defeated today, it may not be a dead end.
As for the second point, in fact, it is the same as what Zhi Muyu said, in today's battle, the infantry regiment of Mengqian has only one shortcoming, that is, the number is too small, the firepower is not enough, and the martial virtue is insufficient, if a wave cannot defeat the opponent or reorganize the opponent, the situation will be reversed in an instant!
Wu Shaoxiang was really stunned under the saturation attack of the catapult and the eight-bull crossbow that he had never seen before, coupled with the saturation attack, step by step, step by step tactics, Wu Shaoxiang was indeed powerless.
However, with the Changying Army's self-abandonment of martial arts turned into a fierce attack, although it seemed that the attack was more ferocious, it also broke the original flawless tactics.
He suddenly felt that he still had hope!
As Wu Shaoxiong said, he doesn't understand war, and he doesn't understand military affairs, but he knows his brother.
Everything was as Wu Shaoxiong expected, after Guo Rong decided to modify the tactics and tactics according to Wu Shaoxiong's suggestion, Wu Shaoxiang, who was already dead, rekindled his fighting spirit.
In the face of the complete collapse of the front army, the middle army and the rear army began to disintegrate, the whole army was panicked, the command system was basically scrapped, and the Changying army attacked frantically, Wu Shaoxiang sacrificed the three magic weapons of butcher knife, reward, personal prestige and ability.
With a series of orders issued, several people were directly beheaded, and their cronies were dispatched, with Wu Shaoxiang's handsome banner as the core, the Chinese army and the rear army, which had not suffered much damage, already had a tendency to rebuild the command system.
Seeing that the battle situation has been reversed, Wu Shaoxiang, who was thinking about suicide dozens of times ago, is standing under the handsome banner at this moment.
However, just when Wu Shaoxiang felt that he was on his feet again, Mo Lingjun's three thousand cavalry had quietly appeared.
"Stormtroopers!"
As Mo Lingjun's order was given, the trumpeter who followed him took out a small copper trumpet tied around his waist.
"It's tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick......
When this high-pitched, passionate voice suddenly sounded from the other direction, once again occupying the sky and the ground, the smile on Wu Shaoxiang's face that had just flashed suddenly froze.
As the cavalry charge horn sounded, the four cavalry battalions that had opened the way with a small number of mounted cavalry, a full 3,000 cavalry, without saying a word, rushed directly from the southern end of the entire battle line to Ganggang
But hearing the sound of hooves like thunder, the three thousand iron cavalry were blazing in the wind and the sun, and the four cavalry battalions were like four sharp knives that cut directly into the middle and rear armies of the Huaixi Army.
Caught off guard, the Huaixi Army, which had just begun to gain momentum, was directly chiseled and cut like tofu......