Chapter 248: Against the Seljuk Empire Army

As the saying goes, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and the little overlord in such a region will naturally not allow another tiger to break in his territory.

So the Seljuk Empire quickly entangled more than a dozen small countries around it, and organized an army of more than 600,000 people to prepare to face the fierce army of the Blue Dragon Empire.

However, Huang Zhong and the others did not panic at all, because according to the investigation of the times, most of the soldiers in this army were rabble, with poor equipment and training, and only tens of thousands of soldiers belonging to the Seljuk Empire were relatively elite.

In the past, relying on these tens of thousands of elite troops, the Seljuk Empire was naturally handy at bullying the surrounding small countries, but now that the opponent has been replaced by the expeditionary army of the Blue Dragon Empire, it is completely insufficient.

In order to deal with the army organized by the Seljuk Empire as soon as possible, Huang Zhong had no intention of taking a detour to dodge, and broke into the territory of the Seljuk Empire with the army in a daze, and finally met on the desert plain where a place had been selected long ago.

The Seljuk Empire obviously also knew that only the tens of thousands of elites in their army were more capable of fighting, so they did not let those rabbles fight, but let them shout loudly in the rear as cheerleaders, waving flags, and creating pressure on the enemy army, while the tens of thousands of real elite troops rushed straight into the enemy's Chinese army.

Shi Wengong saw that the main force of the opponent's elite troops was actually heavy cavalry, so he proposed that there should be a cavalry-to-cavalry battle!

Huang Zhong and the others discussed it and agreed to Shi Wengong's suggestion, after all, if you use cavalry, you don't have to waste ammunition.

To be honest, Huang Zhong didn't expect that after leaving the Central Plains, this road would become more and more difficult.

In the Central Plains, because there are official roads that have been built by various dynasties and generations, it is not difficult for the army to march along those official roads.

However, after leaving the Central Plains and entering the Western Regions, because the Silk Road has been broken for several years, and these countries in the Western Regions are also fighting with each other, the original roads have been completely abandoned, and because of soil erosion, many places passed through are either deserts or rocky Gobi, and the environment is extremely harsh, so even the clean water needs to be transported from the rear.

And such bad road conditions, there are so many materials to be transported, then the result can be imagined, and when it comes to hitting here, there are not many kinds of materials for the army, especially all kinds of bullets and shells, the consumption rate is even faster, and those heavy guns and tanks with amazing weight, the situation is even more frequent in the process of transporting, there are many tanks because the failure is too serious, after repairing a few times, they still can't continue to keep up with the team, they can only stay in place, waiting for the follow-up transport troops to receive and transport back to China for maintenance.

It can only be said that the maintenance of these various hot weapons is much more troublesome than that of cold weapons, and the requirements for follow-up supply are also higher, and it is difficult to maintain the supply of an army of millions without a smooth and stable transportation line. In order to solve this problem, Ye Tianlong has already requisitioned a large number of people in China and began to build those roads in the Western Regions. But after all, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and before the road is completed, Huang Zhong and the others still have to live a tight life.

Now Shi Wengong proposed to let his own cavalry meet the opponent's cavalry, and everyone would agree so unanimously.

Soon, Lin Chong, Shi Wengong and Lu Junyi set off with 30,000 heavily armed cavalry, and behind them were 50,000 lightly armed archers led by Yang Zhi, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun.

As the two cavalry continued to advance, the archers who had originally set off behind did not wear armor because of their horses, but instead walked in front of the heavy cavalry, and then these archers also began to fire arrows at the enemy on the opposite side.

Among the cavalry units of the Seljuk Empire, there were also a lot of archers, but they did not release arrows at this time, because the two armies were at least more than 500 meters apart! At this time, you won't be able to shoot the enemy with an arrow!

At the same time, they couldn't help but despise that the soldiers of the opposite army were really amateur enough, and they actually released arrows at such a distance, knowing that the range of the riding bow was shorter than that of the foot bow, and those with stronger bow strength could only shoot more than 300 meters away, and if you rode the bow, I am afraid that it would be able to shoot more than 200 meters at most. Now those enemy archers are firing arrows more than 500 meters away, isn't this nonsense!

However, a few seconds later, a large rain of arrows fell from the sky and fell on them, and many Seljuk soldiers were unprepared, and they were hit by several arrows at once, screaming and falling off their horses.

Obviously, these soldiers of the Seljuk Empire underestimated the strength of their opponents, you must know that the regular soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire are all the best of the best, and these of them are still mainly using cold weapons to fight, so they are even more elite among the elites, many of them are masters of transforming strength, and the rest of those who are in the dark strength are also strong, and they are not far from cultivating into strength. Therefore, these archers have strong arm strength, and the range of the hard bows they use is completely more than 500 meters.

After shooting a wave, these archers of the Blue Dragon Empire soon started a second round of shooting, and the dense rain of arrows continued to fall like raindrops, causing soldiers of the advancing Seljuk Empire army to be killed and wounded every second.

It's just that they can't retreat yet, after all, as the elite of the entire army, they appeared in the first round to get a small victory and boost the morale of their own army. If you retreat before you have officially engaged the enemy, it will greatly damage the morale of your own army.

Therefore, these soldiers of the Seljuk Empire could only hold their shields at this time, and continue to approach the enemy army on the opposite side with the arrows that kept falling.

After finally getting into the range of their bows and arrows, the archers and archers of the Seljuk Empire hurriedly fired arrows at the enemy.

However, after the arrows they shot fell, they could not penetrate the heavy cavalry armor that had rushed in front at this time, and those arrows fell on the armor, and after a clanging sound, they fell weakly.

Under the continuous baptism of the enemy's arrow rain, the heavy cavalry of the Qinglong Empire has begun to slowly accelerate, and in the process of acceleration, these heavy cavalry also pay attention to maintaining the formation, so that the entire cavalry unit still maintains a neat queue in the process of advancing, as if there is a collective consciousness, and the speed and distance of each step of the war horse are the same.

The soldiers of the Seljuk Empire were also under great pressure in the face of the heavy cavalry troops that were constantly approaching their side, and in order not to give their opponents a comparison, they quickly gathered more than 20,000 cavalry of their own side and began to work hard to line up in a neat formation to advance.

But this trick is obviously not something that any cat or dog can learn, these heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire have different weapons and equipment, and the shoulder height of the war horses is also different, and even some people ride armored camels, and they have never been trained to advance and charge in such a uniform manner before, so at this time, even if those heavy cavalry have worked hard, the formation is still quickly messed up.

At this time, there was no time for them to continue to slowly adjust their formation, because at this time, the distance between the two sides was already close to within a hundred meters, and the heavy cavalry on the opposite side had already quickly raised the speed of their horses to the highest level, and pressed towards them with great momentum.

In order to avoid suffering losses in the future, the heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire also had to start constantly whipping the horses under them to accelerate, and they couldn't take care of the disorganized formation.

However, just a few seconds after they had accelerated, the cavalry on the opposite side drew javelins from behind and threw them at them.

These javelins are much stronger than the armor-piercing ability of arrows, and the distance between the two armies is only about fifty meters at this time, so this wave of javelins can be said to be fast and fierce, so that the soldiers of the Seljuk Empire have no time to dodge at all, and more than 2,000 horsemen were shot and killed at once, and even more were injured.

And after a few waves of javelin strikes, there were no more Seljuk heavy cavalry in the front row, so that when the two armies really met and were about to start a white-knuckle battle, the Seljuk heavy cavalry in the front row became sparse, and only a few dozen horsemen remained, while the enemy army opposite them was still full, and before they could readjust their formation, those despicable foreigners relied on the superiority in strength, and seven or eight people at the same time stabbed at them with long pole weapons such as spears and horse lances.

As the saying goes, two fists are hard to defeat with four hands, although these heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire are also elite, but in the face of this situation, it is obviously impossible to block so many attacks at the same time, and these attacks with huge speed bonuses, each blow can be said to be fatal, after being hit several times at once, those Seljuk heavy cavalry suddenly turned into a broken corpse and fell from the horse.

After that, those heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire continued to charge quickly on horseback, and the cavalry spears and horse lances in their hands continued to stab at the enemy cavalry standing in front of them.

After stabbing their spears and lances to the ground, the heavy cavalry drew their secondary weapons such as maces, bones, and sabers, and continued to smash and slash at the enemy forces that appeared in front of them.

And these heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire naturally did not wait for death, and they also kept greeting the enemy with weapons in their hands after really making contact with the enemy, but most of their attacks could not break through the solid plate armor made of dark alloy on the heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire, but they were shocked to their mouths, but fortunately they didn't have to worry about it for long, because soon their opponents would stone them to death or hack them to death with a backhand.

After losing more than 10,000 people, even the elite heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire couldn't stand it, and one by one they completely gave up fighting against those enemy heavy cavalry and began to retreat.

The archers, who still had more than 50,000 men, kept firing arrows, hoping to slow down the pursuit of the enemy's heavy cavalry, so as to buy more time for their heavily damaged heavy cavalry to escape.

It's a pity that the heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire did not slow down the pursuit at all, but threw out a few javelins from time to time to shoot the archers who stood in their way.

In addition, the lightly armed archers of the Blue Dragon Empire also chased after them, and constantly fired arrows at those enemy archers, effectively suppressing the opponent at once, making it easier for their own heavy cavalry to pursue the enemy's fleeing heavy cavalry.

The most unfortunate were the infantry and archers of the Seljuk Empire, who had no horses to ride and escape, so they could not outrun the enemy's cavalry units at all, and were basically lost after being trampled by the heavy cavalry and light archers of the Blue Dragon Empire in turn.

However, those cavalry units of the Seljuk Empire did not live long, and the heavy cavalry was quickly caught up by the heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire and completely wiped out.

And those archers were also shortened by the archers of the Blue Dragon Empire after they released arrows and shot at each other, and then suddenly pounced on them and entangled them in melee combat.

The melee ability of the Seljuk Empire's archers is obviously not very good, plus most of them are only equipped with leather armor and cloth armor, where are those who are called light archers, but the knights themselves are also the opponents of the Blue Dragon Empire archers wearing iron armor!

And those high-ranking Seljuks saw that their most elite tens of thousands of troops were wiped out by the other party so quickly, and they immediately clearly felt the difference in the combat strength of the two armies, and immediately wanted to lead the army to retreat.

But how could Shi Wengong let the other party slip away, after eliminating the opponent's heavy cavalry troops, he immediately led the heavy cavalry troops under his command to pursue the enemy's large army non-stop.

Seeing this, Huang Zhong also immediately sent dozens of armored vehicles and tanks in the team that could still move, and joined the pursuit, as for those infantry, they could only take a carriage and slowly chase behind, but there is a high probability that when they arrive, the battle may be over, after all, the enemy is only tens of thousands of elites, and the rest are a group of rabble, and there is no combat effectiveness at all.

The result was just as Huang Zhong expected, and by the time they finally caught up with their large infantry, their own cavalry troops were already cleaning up the battlefield.

Huang Zhong inquired about the results of the battle, and Shi Wengong said that the generals of the Seljuk Empire had all been killed because of the fierce resistance, and as for the soldiers, about 200,000 were killed, and more than 300,000 soldiers were left to surrender.

Hearing Shi Wengong's statement, Huang Zhong immediately felt that there was something wrong with it, after all, how could the Seljuk generals be all hard bones and would resist to the end! This eighty percent is Shi Wengong, this guy deliberately took advantage of the chaos to kill those Seljuk Empire generals who had surrendered in order to facilitate the management of those prisoners in the future. Because this guy did this before during the attack on the Qarakhanid.