Section 87 Defeat

Before there was no disc, the earliest horse repulsion pistol had to rely on soldiers, and it had to be a strong soldier half-squatting on the ground, with all his strength to stand up to the impact of the local war horse, so the result was that although the soldiers who used the rejecting horse pistol withstood the impact of the enemy cavalry, but they would also fall internal injuries, so before almost all the dragon spearmen could only fight one battle, they would retire, which would cause a lot of manpower losses, and also make the soldiers regard the dragon spear as a daunting way.

It wasn't until the Great Sui Empire replaced the Southern Han Empire that skilled craftsmen discovered the trick of using the dragon lance, that is, the appearance of this oblique disc, which re-led to the recovery of this type of troops, and most importantly, it was no longer necessary for only strong men to become dragon lancers!

Therefore, in the face of these more than 3,000 cavalrymen who rushed through the blockade of crossbow arrows and crossbow guns, they are like a dense forest to set up a rejecting horse and gun array! It depends on whether these barbarian cavalry dare to continue charging in the face of the guns.

Sure enough, the more than 3,000 barbarian cavalry who rushed through the arrow rain blockade still launched an attack on the gun forest after hesitating for a moment. It's not that these barbarian cavalry are willing to find death like this, but even if they don't charge at the gun, what awaits them is the sharp crossbow arrows that the Sui army keeps shooting.

It's a pity that even such a glimmer of life is not so easy to get.

The Sui army's gun forest is too dense, and there are archers shooting behind the gun forest, and the sharp arrows are in the hands of the Sui army's longbowmen, which are the posts of the king of Hades who ask for their lives. Countless barbarian cavalry were either shot off their horses by arrows, or pierced into gourds by Rulin's dragon spears, or they had to jump off their horses, using the body of the war horses as cover, trying to dodge the arrows of the Sui army, and move to the Sui army's position step by step.

Seeing that not many barbarian cavalry could break into front of the Sui army, the Great Khan of Tama was very unhappy: When did my steppe barbarians become so weak? The people of the Central Plains could only tremble under the iron hooves of the barbarian army, is this still the barbarian iron cavalry that walked all over the Central Plains? If there are more cavalry, the Sui army that will attack in the wilderness must be completely annihilated!

With Tama roaring, more barbarian cavalry launched an attack in a burst of roars, and this time the Sui army also began to show signs of exhaustion.

The Sui army also began to shrink, changing its troops into circular formations of different sizes, each of which was composed of dozens or hundreds of carts, all of which turned the carts on their side, exposing the bottom plate, forming a series of unconnected wooden walls, and the Sui army hid behind the carts to resist the attack of the barbarians with bows and crossbows.

Tama noticed the changes in the Sui army, and his heart began to rejoice. As everyone knows, such large and small circular formations are traps prepared by Li Hu for the barbarian army - all the circular formations are not very far apart, basically based on the range of the strong crossbow, they can support each other, as long as the barbarians rush into the middle of the round array, they will inevitably be attacked by the Sui army from two or even three sides of the circle array.

The barbarian army seemed to have disrupted the strict formation of the Sui army and plunged the Sui army into chaos, but they didn't know that this was a change in the military formation that the Sui soldiers were good at. The barbarians appeared to have the advantage of attacking, but in fact they increased their casualties. In just one hour, more than 500,000 barbarian cavalry in two waves of attacks began to become sparse, and the results visible to the naked eye made Tama greatly shocked, and hurriedly ordered the attacking barbarian army to withdraw so as to reorganize the offensive formation.

The round formation of the Sui army was to constantly cut the charge formation of the barbarian cavalry, dividing it more and more disorganized, and the two groups of barbarian troops totaling more than 500,000 were greatly weakened by the crossbow guns in the first round, and the other cavalry broke into the round formation of the Sui army, and were constantly scattered, turning the original strength advantage into weakness. In this case, in the face of the weak strength of the barbarian army, if the Sui army had not been ordered to annihilate its small group of cavalry, there would not even have been a barbarian army to penetrate into the center of the large array.

Now that the barbarians have ordered them to retreat, how can they easily let these barbarians go!

Without the Sui army leaving the circle formation to attack, just taking a few steps in one direction of the two or three circle formations adjacent to each other was enough to use arrows to seal the passage in between.

So Tama saw such a situation: after the retreat order was delivered, only the barbarian cavalry closest to the periphery of the Sui army's circle began to appear in twos and threes, and all of them were lying on their horses, desperately running backwards, even so, there were still cavalry who were shot in the back by the Sui army's arrows, or shot the horse's hind legs or buttocks, the horses fell, and the cavalry on the horses also fell to the ground.

The final statistics showed that the cavalry with a total of more than 500,000 cavalry in the two groups of charges could be withdrawn only a few thousand!

It must not be fought like this, the strange circle formation of the Sui army is really a monster with its mouth wide open and constantly devouring the strength of the barbarian army! This is the idea of almost all the leaders of the barbarian tribes.

But before the barbarians could make a new choice, the Sui army's circular formations began to move in the direction of the barbarian army one by one.

Looking at the countless dragon spears like hedgehogs, every barbarian leader knew that today's battle must have a result: either the barbarian army was defeated by the Sui army, or the barbarian army defeated the Sui army at a heavy price. But no matter what the result is, it is unacceptable to these tribal leaders, but now, looking at the posture of the Sui army, if they don't do it with all their might, the barbarian army doesn't even dare to retreat! Because all the leaders know that with the situation of the barbarian army (the discipline is very poor), as long as the retreat is started at the beginning, and the Sui army attacks at the same time, then the only thing waiting for the barbarian army is to collapse, everyone scatters and flees, whether they can escape or not, it depends on their luck, and there will definitely be a leader who will become a prisoner of the Sui army!

In any case, whether they are dead or alive depends on whether they can defeat the Sui army's attack circle formation in front of them! All the leaders who realized this began to have bloodshot and red eyes, and they didn't even know which leader first let out a roar like a wolf's howl, and then they saw countless black lines spreading towards the Sui army's circle array.

Even Tama was surrounded by countless blood-red barbarian cavalry and rushed towards the Sui army.

The charge of millions of cavalry was undoubtedly very impressive.

Different from the impact of the first two barbarian armies just now, this time the more than ten circular formations placed in the front of the Sui army did not last long, and were broken by the barbarian army who were not afraid of death, and the Sui army in the round formation also fell into the situation of fighting for itself, and after a short time, it was overwhelmed by the surging barbarian cavalry, and even the cart that was originally used as an obstacle was smashed by countless iron hooves, and the long dragon spears that were originally dense like a forest were left with only a few lonely poles pointing weakly at the sky, and the ground was full of broken arms and stumps, and remnants of horses that groaned in pain.

But that's about it.

After the iron cavalry of the barbarian army broke through the dozen or so circular formations in the front, they finally changed the direction of the attack by the circular formations that were constantly shrinking and opening and closing, and were constantly diverted, merged, and diverted again by the circular array, and finally fell into the embarrassing situation that the soldiers could not find the generals, and the soldiers could not be found, and the speed of the impact became slower and slower, and began to fall into a slow pause, and countless cavalry looked around helplessly with their horses, looking for the direction of the charge.

After the charge of more than 1.5 million barbarian cavalry, mixed with the Sui army with the same number of more than 800,000, the huge battlefield of more than 2 million people on both sides stretched for hundreds of miles, and everywhere there was the sound of gold and iron clashing with swords and guns, the roars and screams of dead and wounded soldiers echoed everywhere, and there were countless ignition points with black smoke.

The heavy cavalry that originally appeared with the cart of the Sui army appeared on the flank of the entire battlefield at some point, still the number of 20,000 horses and armor, plus all the 100,000 light cavalry of the Sui army that had been replenished again, a large strategic group was ready to make a fierce blow to the barbarian army.

More than a dozen rickety serpentine flame arrows flew into the sky, which was a signal that the barbarian army had begun to flee from the circle formation at the rear of the Sui army, and it was also a signal that the Sui army's light and heavy cavalry led by Li Qing had ordered Li Hu, the commander of the Sui army, to start attacking! The final blow to the barbarian army was launched.

Seeing the snake flame arrow flying, Li Qing raised his lance high and swung it heavily in front of him, and the huge body of the Wild Horse King also slowly ran with this swing.

The location where Li Qing launched the attack was a gentle hill on the flank of the battlefield, and with the gradual acceleration of the Wild Horse King, Li Qing looked back at the countless iron horses behind him, and couldn't help but be proud, and a crisp long howl spread throughout the entire Sui cavalry brigade that attacked.

At this time, the cavalry of the Sui army, both young and old, already knew that their commander was the Li family's divine power Lori, not only did not feel ashamed, but they were proud of Li Qing, a peerless fierce general, what does it represent? That is the myth of invincibility! With such a fierce general leading, every cavalry has a chance to return home alive, and there is also a chance to obtain countless military exploits!

Even in the hearts of fanatical soldiers, it is the most important thing to be able to go home alive, and to be able to live and obtain military merits is the icing on the cake, and what cavalry is not willing to follow such a commander?

With Li Qing's long roar like a phoenix, all the Sui cavalry let out the strongest roar, and the rolling waves shook the heavens and the earth, and also shocked the barbarian cavalry who were fighting to the death.

Especially when the barbarian cavalry found that a Sui heavy cavalry with an intact formation appeared behind them, the feeling in their hearts was estimated to be no different from killing a dog. Seeing the hideous mask on the face of the general led by the Sui army, the soldiers who knew the defeated barbarian army were even more frightened.