Chapter 814: Infantry Charging Cavalry
Hearing Ju Wentai's order, Anda's face was also dark, he didn't know what weapons those Tang people carried, although it was impossible to carry that kind of heavy bed crossbow at the head of the city, but there were definitely bows and arrows.
He can shoot where the enemy is, and the enemy will definitely shoot him, but the enemy is all in armor, and they are all in leather armor! Don't think they're going to have to lose.
The question is can he disagree?
If he dared to disagree, he believed that Ju Wentai would definitely tell his khan about his escape without a fight, and he would still have to die!
After a little contemplation, Anda made a decision, he could attack a wave according to Ju Wentai's orders, anyway, it was not him Anda who died, and the soldiers under his command, he was not distressed, but at least, Ju Wentai could not threaten him with the excuse of fleeing without a fight.
"Yes, but if my soldiers suffer huge losses, we will retreat, and ...... I advise you, King Ju Van Thai, to prepare your soldiers to retreat! Anda took a deep breath and spoke.
"I know, I will prepare my people to retreat, General Anda, don't worry, if we fail this time, this is not your reason, it is that the Tang Dynasty is too strong, I will tell you good things in front of the Yibi Lu Khan!" Ju Wentai knew very well what the other party was afraid of, so he was naturally willing to sell it to the other party.
"Good!"
Anda dropped a sentence and turned around and left!
Soon the cavalry units of the Turks began to assemble! Ju Wentai quickly conveyed the order to the generals of his army, ordering them to be ready to retreat at any time, especially since each soldier in the logistics unit only carries a certain amount of dry food, and all other baggage grain and grass are abandoned!
By the time Ju Wentai was getting ready, Anda over there had already gathered all the Turkic cavalry, totaling two thousand four hundred Turkic cavalry.
He observed the enemy's terrain, and the city was located in a trumpet-shaped mountain pass, the location of the castle was at the bottom of the horn, and from the city to the west was a rapidly expanding mountain pass, which was already very open, near the north side of the mountain peak was a river, and on the south side was some pit fields.
In other words, it was a small plain, enough for their cavalry to maneuver. And from a distance, the enemy did not carry a spear formation to block the cavalry charge, but Anda was still not ready to charge.
The Tang army is not an idiot, they can even come up with so much full-body armor, will they not have a simple spear? It's definitely impossible, but if the enemy doesn't bring it, then it's definitely a cat.
So he was only going to rain arrows at the enemy according to the original plan, and in the current situation, if he wanted, he could lead the cavalry around the enemy and throw the rain of arrows into the center.
Mounted archery does not require accuracy, just shoot the arrow.
But after carefully observing the enemy's formation, Anda decided to abandon this idea, because if Rao Yuan attacked the enemy, when he went around behind the enemy, if the enemy rushed out of the city with five hundred fully armored heavy cavalry, they would suffer heavy losses in such a short distance.
And when they get around the enemy's back, they'll be under the same heavy bolts as the ones on the walls!
He decided to lead the cavalry around an arc, form a line, and then skip horizontally in front of the enemy's formation, throwing a rain of arrows at the enemy to see what was going on. Because he wasn't sure what weapons were in the enemy's formation, but there were certainly bows and arrows!
He could lead an army to attack, but he could not have given the lives of most of his Turkic soldiers here.
After formulating a strategy, Anda quickly formulated a relevant plan with several generals under him, and then directly turned over and horseed, "Woo! "The unique trumpet sound of the Turks sounded!
"Warriors of the Turks! Kill! Anda didn't talk nonsense, turned over and yelled directly, and rushed out directly.
The Turkic cavalry that followed him immediately became excited, and strange howls came out of their mouths, and more than two thousand horses quickly began to converge into a long line, and began to circle around this large plain.
Two thousand cavalry is not much, and in this picture it is less than two thousand horses
Xu Ling was a little nervous, but there was no show on his face, he just looked at such a scene with a cold face, as the commander of the scene, this battle will be completed by Xu Ling.
He knew very well that although the soldiers around him were all veterans, there were not many scenes of facing cavalry charges like this.
"Put!" Seeing that the enemy spared a circle, Xu Ling shouted directly. The herald standing beside Xu Ling quickly waved the order flag inside his hand!
With a "boom", all the shields smashed into the ground in unison, forming a neat shield wall.
Xu Ling stared closely at the enemy's warhorse, if the enemy had any idea of detouring behind them, then he would quickly transform into a circle formation. When Xu Ling saw the enemy take off the bow and arrow on his back as he marched, he understood that the enemy was not prepared to come into direct contact with them.
Truth be told, he wanted the enemy to charge head-on, and for that reason they didn't even carry the spears to stop the enemy from charging into battle.
But it was obviously impossible for the enemy cavalry to charge head-on, and even they didn't seem to be prepared to go around their rear, after all, their rear was not too far away from the city, and if the enemy were to insert it between them and the city, then they would be within the range of the crossbow arrows of both sides.
So he had only one choice, with the Turkic cavalry as it was, they were clearly preparing to pass in front of them and then rain them with a rain of arrows.
Such a formation...... It's best to do the most damage to the enemy by waiting until the enemy's vanguard has rushed past the front half of their line or so, but then they will suffer a rain of arrows from the enemy's vanguard.
Although it was difficult for the enemy's rain of arrows to inflict great damage on them, even so, Xu Ling was not prepared to do so.
"Herald! Shield and crossbowmen prepare to meet the enemy head-on! Xu Ling yelled.
The trumpeter beside him directly picked up the trumpet in his hand, and the passionate and unique melody of "Dudu Dudu" sounded instantly! The shield wall, which had been horizontal, instantly began to turn in the direction of the enemy's forward, and at the same time slowly began to advance towards the enemy.
Anda: "? ”
He was stupid, and it was certain that the enemy would react, but he never expected that the enemy would slowly advance towards the cavalry in reverse after seeing the movements of their cavalry! Although the amplitude of that action is not large, but pushing is propulsion!
Don't want to die?! Or are they too confident?
A few thoughts popped into Anda's mind, but there was no way for him to change his strategy at this time.
And the change in the enemy's position is not too big, so the original plan can still be carried out!
It's just that what he didn't expect was that when they had just circled an arc and were about to approach the enemy's formation, the unique horn sound in the opponent's camp changed again!
"Boom", with the roaring sound, the soldiers in the front row instantly smashed the shield down, and then the whole person directly bent down and squatted behind the shield, stretching out the unique support legs under the shield! And while they were doing these actions, the five hundred crossbowmen in the row behind them directly put the crossbow in their hands on the top of the shield, and then directly pulled the crossbow machine without hesitation!
With a "hum", the sound of continuous crossbow strings trembling sounded, and 500 crossbow arrows instantly went straight to the enemy's formation like a soul hooking scythe!
When the trigger was pulled, the first row of 1,000 crossbowmen didn't even look at the results, directly retracted the crossbows, and retreated neatly, while the second row of crossbowmen once again directly put the crossbows on the shield wall, and then did not hesitate to directly pull the crossbow machine in their hands!
Then another 500 bolts pounced on the enemy!
By the time the third-row crossbowmen put their crossbows on top of their shields, the first-row crossbowmen had already re-wound the crossbow strings with the help of two moving pulleys!
Anda took the lead in charging into battle, and when the enemy's first row of crossbows was directly on top of the shield, Anda's head was blank!
Because the enemy is not yet within range of their bows and arrows! But the enemy's crossbow bolts have swarmed like life-seeking ghosts!
In just two breaths, Anda saw a soldier in front of him on his left, and a crossbow arrow just crossed the neck of the war horse under his crotch! Terrifying blood shot out in an instant! With a wail from the war horse, he and the war horse rolled directly to the ground!
He's dead! Although the soldier was not injured. The thought crossed Anda's mind.
But in that moment, at least twenty or thirty of the soldiers beside him had fallen off their horses or rolled on the ground with the horses!
And then the second batch of crossbow bolts!