Chapter 299: Resisting the Horse Formation, Dare to Die Army
"The front army retreats!"
Just when the army of heavy armored cavalry was only a few breaths away from the infantry phalanx, Zheng Pingfei suddenly gave an order, and ordered the flag officer to quickly use the military flag to send out the order, and the infantry below who had already raised their hearts to their throats immediately received the message, and the first half of the infantry phalanx immediately retreated from both sides quickly and orderly.
The infantry battle formation behind them immediately made a tight defensive arrangement, and the heavy tower shields were layered on top of each other, during which sharp spears protruded outward, like a hedgehog defending with all their might, which made people shudder!
But this is not the reason for the fears of the soldiers at the front of the cavalry army, their eyes fell on what was left in place after the phalanx of the infantry phalanx of the Great Wei army retreated, and their faces were suddenly defeated, and the whole person was cold from head to toe, and some people even pulled the reins immediately, wanting to deflect the direction or simply stop the horse!
The sharp spikes of the horse firmly tied up with the giant wood were aimed at the direction of his own impact, and what was even more terrifying was that such a horse was hidden in three whole rows! If it weren't for the figures of those infantry and the iron shields held high to block these things behind them, they or their compatriots would have been able to discover this trap in time, and how could they have rushed over and sent them to death so straight!
It's a pity that it's too late to say anything now! They have no way to live except to move forward!
"Ahh
The first to scream were not the cavalrymen who ran into the horses and died miserably, but the cavalrymen who tried in vain to turn around or change direction, but were hit by the horses rushing from behind! Some of them collided with their own people in the rear, and at the moment they fell to the ground, they were trampled into meat sauce by the iron hooves that came from nowhere, and some of them were directly hit by people and horses and broke their bones and tendons, and they died tragically before they landed!
With their screams, as if the prelude to hell had been opened, those cavalry who rushed to the front had no time to react, and directly collided head-on with the horse rejection in front! The sharp spikes on the horse directly tore the horse apart with the huge impact of the horse, and the flying cavalry only touched the spike of the horse on its back slightly, and it was instantly pulled out of a huge laceration wound like a ravine, and it was impossible to survive!
The cavalry in the first row all collided head-on with the rejecting horses, and it was simply lifeless! The cavalry that was slightly behind could still react somewhat, but although the soldiers who slowed down or changed direction avoided the killing opportunities in front, they could not avoid their own soldiers and horses rushing from behind, and the whole scene suddenly became a mess, and the sound of the neighing of the horses, the sound of stampede, and the sound of the horses being smashed by the impact came and went, and it lasted for a long time!
At this moment, the number of cavalry rushing forward was too huge, and the chaos and screams in front could not prevent the cavalry behind from stopping, not to mention that the dust raised between the horse's hooves had already drowned everything in front, and the cavalry following closely behind could not see what was happening at all. You can only bury your head and rush to kill!
They also thought that their compatriots had entered the phalanx of the infantry of the Great Wei Army, and were rapidly tearing apart the enemy's battle formation, these screams were all made by the infantry of the Great Wei Army, where would they think of their own people!
Just as the back wave pushes the front wave, and the front wave does not push forward, there is only one dead word! The rows of repulsive horses only held out for a moment under the continuous impact of human lives of the captive army before they broke through, but their mission had been achieved, because the forward speed of the captive cavalry army had been greatly weakened because of this!
"Prepare for the impact!"
Under an order, the infantry battle formation in the rear was suddenly closely arranged, and everyone was ready to accept the impact, they expected to arrange people to die with heavy tower shields, and the people in the back row held tower shields one after another on the backs of their comrades in front, and the first three rows of infantry raised the tower shields in their hands above their heads, and built a dense defense above, just waiting for the enemy to impact!
The area where the horse was located had become a huge flesh killing field, which had been filled with the corpses of the captives, the blood stained the ground, the broken corpses of the horses and the severed arms and stumps of the warriors were spread all over the ground, and countless scattered arms and thighs were still twitching involuntarily on the ground.
A captive who had not died climbed on the ground with both hands, dragging a thick and long trail of blood on the ground, for the lower half of his body had been torn to the ground!
A captive warrior's stomach was torn apart by the rejection horse, and his ruptured internal organs were spilled on the ground, and he was struggling to pull his intestines over, but he was instantly torn apart by the galloping war horse from behind. Books.com
A captive warrior sat up with all his might, and just when he thought he was fine, a huge dark night slammed down from the top of his head, and it turned out to be an excellent war horse that burst out with more power than it originally had in life and death, and jumped from above the rejection horse, but it happened to fall on this lucky but unlucky captive cavalryman, chopping him to death directly!
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There are countless such scenes, which happened in front of the infantry of the Great Wei Army, making them tremble, although there is a little fear of battle, but more is excitement and excitement, the majestic battle spirit is getting higher and higher with the fall of the cavalry in front of them, the tower shield and spear in the hand are clenched, and the enemy is in front of you!
The cavalry, whose speed had been suddenly weakened by half, could no longer pose a mortal threat to the infantry phalanx of the Great Wei army, but the dense spears like spikes erected one by one in the infantry phalanx of the Great Wei army made the cavalry look at it one by one.
The captive cavalry that rushed through the repulsion ran head-on into the hedgehog-like infantry phalanx, and the scale of the impact could not shake the foundation of the infantry battle formation at all, and the shieldmen shared the impact with each other, and the pikemen sandwiched between them also dutifully and attentively harvested the lives of the captive cavalry who fell in front of the shield wall one after another.
But at this moment, it was only the front troops of the cavalry army that were defeated, and compared with the endless army in the rear, these collapsed legions were not even a tenth! The cavalry in the rear did not receive the adverse influence of the front occupation at all, and under the immediate dispatch of the generals, they regained their strength and once again launched an attack on the infantry phalanx!
This time, there was no more rejection in front of him!
"Volley!"
As the commander of the banner officer issued the call, the three rows of archers on the city wall suddenly released the bowstrings full of their hands, and one after another sharp arrows pierced the sky, and the screams were deafening, and they rushed towards the army of captives behind them like waves!
One by one, the cavalry screamed and fell off their horses and were trampled to death by the iron hooves in the rear, and some people were even shot on the spot with men and horses, so that the army of captives who rushed forward suddenly began to be chaotic. The phalanx of crossbowmen at the rear of the infantry phalanx also began to shoot forward, and they cooperated with the crossbowmen on the city walls, and a rain of arrows shot out of their hands, constantly reducing the momentum of the cavalry army rushing forward.
Although the speed has not been increased to the highest level due to the temporary reorganization of the army, it can still inflict huge damage on the infantry battle formation holding tower shields!
The two sides only just made contact, and the war horses under the crotch of the captive cavalry immediately completely knocked away the first few rows of shield-wielding infantry, and then the cavalry in the rear rushed towards these breaches like a flood through the temporarily torn rifts in front, and although the entire infantry battle formation withstood the impact of the first round of captive cavalry, it was shattered in this second round of impact!
The continuous war horses crashed into the tightly arranged infantry shield wall like cannonballs, and the thick iron cast tower shield, including the shield soldiers behind it, was immediately knocked out, and the surface of the shield appeared a deep depression, and the shield soldiers who flew out had been torn apart by the impact force at the moment of the huge impact. The clatter of broken bones, the terrible screams of severe pain, and the roar of life bursting out with death due to inner dare, were all drowned out by the dull but steady sound of horses' hooves.
The front of the infantry unit of the Great Wei Army was completely torn apart after only holding on for a dozen breaths under the impact of the cavalry army!
The cavalry units of the Great Wei Army obeyed Zheng Pingping's orders and did not directly attack the cavalry army from the front, because their size was too small compared to the cavalry, and if they rushed directly like this, it would be like a small stream hitting the raging sea, and it would not have any obvious effect at all.
With hatred in their hearts, under the command of Zheng Pingping, under the cover of smoke and dust, they began to march towards the target.
Fight to the death!