Chapter 319: The Unstoppable Yulin Cavalry, the Defeated Wei Army
Looking at the black-armored heavy rider that seemed to cover the sky, a flash of consternation flashed on Jin Yao's face, and it immediately turned into horror.
"Formation, meet the enemy!"
Jin Yao roared, and he used the loudest roar in his life to make the Wei soldiers under his command form a formation.
But the Wei soldiers in the front row listened to the deafening sound of horses' hooves and the tremor of the ground, and the black torrent that seemed to swallow the sun, and their eyes gradually became dull, and in an instant they turned into pure horror.
Before guns replaced swords, guns and halberds, heavy cavalry was an invincible battlefield killing weapon.
The heavy cavalry weighed half a ton, and the speed of more than ten meters per second was constantly accelerating and swooping down from the mountain, and even the earth was trembling with it.
Not to mention these pawns who have never seen heavy cavalry, even the generals and the main general Jin Yao have already lost their courage.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Jin Yao took the bow and arrow from the side of the horse's belly, and without aiming, he bent his bow and shot at a Yulin Raider.
But the arrow, which had always been invincible, carried a tremendous force, but only pierced through the soft armor made of heavy armor and soft, close-fitting silk, and pierced through the belly of the Feather Forest Rider.
This result made Jin Yao a little stunned, and he used his arm strength to shoot this arrow with internal force, even a soldier could penetrate two or three people, but the arrow was stuck in the body of that Yulin Turf.
The Wei army archer beside Jin Yao also shot a rain of arrows, and the rain of arrows shot towards the black torrent in front of him, but he found that it was just like a stone sinking into the sea, and after making a sound of the arrow falling on the heavy armor, it was inserted into the armor of the Yulin Sudden Cavalry, but there was no blood.
And the Yulin Assault Cavalry that was inserted with a few arrows but still roared and rushed towards the Wei army gave people an indomitable and unrivaled ferocious aura, and the Wei soldiers at the bottom did not understand what armor could withstand such a rain of arrows, and they subconsciously thought that the Qin army in front of them might be with the help of the power of ghosts and gods, so the sword and bow would not die if they were cut on the body.
The arrows of the Wei army can penetrate the layer of heavy armor, and even fewer can penetrate the close-fitting silk soft armor with excellent toughness and elasticity after penetrating the heavy armor.
There are only a few who are unlucky, and the Yulin Raiders who were shot by those generals and colonels, and the Yulin Raiders who happened to be shot through the gaps in the armor and the gaps in the armor, but there are only a few people in this situation.
In the face of the rain of arrows of the Wei army, the Yulin Raider was not polite.
Each of the Yulin Assault Riders held a small and delicate Qin crossbow in their hands, and they didn't need to be ordered by Li Xin, who was a thousand elders, and they fired the crossbow arrows in a volley.
The rain of arrows formed by the thousands of crossbow arrows fell, and the soldiers in the front row of the Wei army, who were already a little chaotic, were killed and injured by arrows, and they were even more chaotic.
"Feather Forest Ride, Charge!"
Li Xin took the lead, raised the three-foot Qin sword in his hand, and rushed into the already somewhat chaotic military formation of the Wei army.
In this era without stirrups, it was too risky to fight with both hands with long weapons in hand, and it was more difficult to train, so cavalry generally used long swords of more than three feet to fight.
Li Xin brandished the Qin sword in his hand and slashed several Wei soldiers, and the armored war horse with strong limbs and black body under his crotch roared, crashing into a Wei soldier who was blocking his path, instantly breaking his sternum and ribs.
Not only that, the huge impact force made the soldier who was knocked into the air slam on the robe behind him, knocking three or four robes to the ground, the black war horse stepped on it heavily, and the strong four hooves trampled on the chest of a Wei army armor sergeant, and a horseshoe-shaped trace that was concave inward suddenly appeared on the armor on the chest.
And this is just a microcosm of the battlefield.
In this era, if there is no strategy and terrain restrictions, heavy cavalry is an invincible weapon of destruction.
And on the Qin army's calculating and unintentional raid and a piece of plain under their feet, there was no possibility of being able to stop this Yulin cavalry at all.
Jin Yao's eyes were split, and the Yulin Cavalry had already broken through the defense line of the front army, and he suddenly remembered a question.
Where did the Qin army come from?
And it's such an elite heavy cavalry!
The cavalry is the nemesis of the infantry, let alone the heavy cavalry against the light infantry under his command.
It is true that in the battle of Yin and Jin, Wu Qi defeated the iron cavalry of the Qin army with the heavy infantry of Wei Wushu, but it was only a light horse.
In the face of such a heavily armored cavalry armed to the teeth, even if it was a Wei warrior in the heyday of Wu Qi, I am afraid it would be difficult to resist.
Jin Yao could only pray that this heavy cavalry of only a thousand people could not cut through his army formation due to the limitation of numbers.
It's just that just when Jin Yao was thinking like this, the tremor on the ground became more and more intense, and the smoke and dust billowed from the flanks.
Under the smoke and dust, there was a feather forest assault horse dressed exactly like the Qin army who was rushing to kill at the moment.
Finally, after a group of Wei generals killed a few deserters, the Wei soldiers who had the courage to set up a halberd formation looked at the other thousand-man feather forest assault cavalry rushing from their flank, and were a little at a loss to froze in place.
The 1,000-strong Yulin Assault Cavalry was divided into two teams and attacked the left and right flanks of the Wei army respectively.
In other words, there were only five hundred Yulin Assault Cavalry that these Wei soldiers saw on the flank, but it was these five hundred Yulin Assault Cavalry that made people feel inexplicable fear.
The momentum that roared and seemed to be like the sky was falling apart made many Wei soldiers scream in fright, and they no longer cared about the sword of the overseer next to them, threw down their halberds and turned their heads and ran.
The arrows can't hurt, the halberd can't pierce, and if they are hit, they will vomit blood and die, once such an enemy rushes over, they are almost certain to die!
A deserter is like a snowflake in an avalanche, inconspicuous in this army, but he can bring his own fear to the robe beside him, causing an avalanche of rout in an army.
With the rout of the Wei army, the Yulin Assault Cavalry, which rushed like a mountain and a sea, cut through the Wei army's military formation as if it were unstoppable.
When the two Yulin Assault Cavalry led by Li Xin and Qiang Qi cut through the Wei army's formation and did not turn their horses' heads for a second charge, Su Jiao also led the scout battalion into the battlefield.
Despite the name of the scout battalion, if anyone really dares to treat this light cavalry of 1,000 men as a scout, it is a complete fool.
Light riding is different from heavy riding, and it is first and foremost a fast word.
Unlike Li Xin and Qiang's task of storming the enemy's position, on another small hill, he observed the Wei army for a long time and kept looking for the Wei army's baggage.
When Su Jiao confirmed the position of the Wei army's baggage, the light horse, which was as swift as the wind, passed through the chaotic Wei army's formation, like a black poisonous dragon, and went straight to the target.
Although there was no unstoppable force of the assault cavalry, the routed Wei army was simply unable to organize an organized interception.
In addition, the Wei soldiers watched another cavalry of the Qin army rush into the big formation, and they were even more rapid, thinking that this cavalry was the finale trump card of the Qin army, where was there still the heart of resistance, and they were all about running through the robe in front of them.
It is impossible for them to outrun a four-legged cavalry with two legs, but as long as they outrun their robes, it will never be them who will die.
And when Na Su Jiao arrived at the place where the Wei army's baggage was, when he took out the oil canisters tied to the sides of the horse's belly, threw them out fiercely, and fell to the ground with one fire after another.
The fire oil and the sparks collided, and with a bang, a raging fire rose into the sky, devouring the nearby Wei soldiers.
The flames were ruthless, devouring the baggage on which the Wei army depended for survival, and also devouring the lives of the Wei soldiers.
After burning the baggage, the scout battalion led by Su Jiao immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
After the second round of charges, Li Xin and Qiang Yan also withdrew from the battlefield in alternate cover, laughing and returning towards Yanshi City.
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