Chapter 147: Gap
Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai were gathering the retreating infantry, and if the cavalry charge was successful, these infantry would continue to enter the battlefield and deliver the final blow to the Ning Yuan battle array.
Mang Gurtai gathered a group of men and horses, and when he looked up, he just saw that in the infantry battle formations gathered by Ning Yuan's army, the black spears that were stacked on top of each other unfolded violently, like a peacock opening a screen.
The blades of the spears that shimmered with cold light pointed in the direction of their own cavalry charge.
At this moment, his heart was dripping blood.
If your own cavalry wants to break through such a battle formation, I don't know how many people will die!
He raised his head, looked at the miserable white sun overhead, and muttered, "Ning Yuanjun, what an iron army; ”
Then his face turned fierce, "This person must be killed today, and Ning Yuanjun will be completely annihilated, and this person and Ning Yuanjun must not be allowed to develop further!"
A huge shock came from under his feet, and a Ning Yuanbing looked down, and the blood under his feet rippled in circles.
He felt a suffocation in his heart: It's coming!
He was a little scared......
At the moment, it was not like two wings, and the cavalry facing it was divided by a trench.
Such a dense cavalry charge, the power is not comparable to that of scattered cavalry.
But he can't go back, and he can't go back.
There were comrades in front of him, left and right, and everyone was so close to each other that they couldn't move at all, but this gave him and his companions the courage to face the Jurchen cavalry.
A few miles ahead, the Jurchen cavalry that came like a tidal wave began to pick up speed.
The cavalry charged, at first, let the horses take small steps, and then gradually accelerated. When he was about 100 meters away from the enemy formation, he raised the horse's speed to the highest speed and slammed headlong into the enemy formation.
In this way, the powerful impact advantage of the cavalry can be brought into play.
The charge of more than 6,000 war horses was really overwhelming, and the mud soaked in blood on the ground was picked up by tens of thousands of horses' hooves, flying high in the air, looking at it from Ning Yuanjun's side, the entire sky was fine blood water, like a black-red fog.
Look at that round of white sun, it has turned black.
200 meters, 180 meters, 160 meters...... After a hundred meters, the speed of the Jurchen cavalry increased to its maximum, and the formation, which had previously been slightly sparse, became dense.
The sound of the rumbling horse's hooves seemed to knock into people's hearts, shaking people's bones and bones.
The ground shook more and more, and the spearmen in the first two rows of spearmen trembled uncontrollably as they half-crouched on the ground, their minds blank with the intense secretion of adrenaline.
They pointed their spears diagonally in front of them, and just watched intently as the enemy rushed towards them at an astonishing speed, and the six thousand war horses, like six thousand ancient heavy tanks, made them nervous that their mouths were dry, their hearts were beating unstopprisingly, their palms were full of cold sweat, and they felt that the spear shaft was slippery and could not grasp it steadily.
"Steady, steady, everyone steady, don't do anything, just wait for the other party to bump into you. The officers were screaming hoarsely, as if to vent their tension and fear in this way.
Victor and his men didn't do much better, and with the advent of the Age of Hot Weapons, such a massive cavalry assault on the European continent was almost impossible to see.
It was also the first time they had faced such a horrific scene.
Boom Boom!
The Jurchen cavalry rushed extremely fast, and soon collided with the spear phalanx, making violent movements.
Even if Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai were two miles away, even if the battlefield was so noisy that the roars of men and horses and the sound of cavalry hooves were boiling over, the two of them could still hear the crisp sound of their spears breaking.
Almost in a flash, the first row of spearmen of Ning Yuan's army was knocked to the ground and could never stand up.
But the Ningyuan military array did not collapse, and the phalanx that was close to each other was like a rock, resisting the tidal wave of Jurchens.
The joy on Mang Gurtai's face dissipated before it could be revealed.
The sturdiness and tenacity of the Ningyuan military formation once again exceeded their imagination!
The offensive of the cavalry of the Jurchen army was very fierce, and they entered the spear formation of the Ningyuan army one after another.
Although the spears in the hands of the spearmen of the Ning Yuan army were more than three meters long, they could preemptively stab the head of the spear into the chest of the enemy horseman. But the huge anti-shock force still caused many spears to break in an instant, and some people were directly rushed by the huge force and spurted blood into the air.
Ye Qiu's face in the rear trembled slightly, and then he regained his composure, Feng Hu didn't care about the casualties, but said excitedly: "This kind of exchange, the Jurchens can't last long." ”
The phalanx of Ning Yuan's army blocked the first wave of Jurchen charges, but the Jurchens really broke out this time, and the second and third waves of cavalry rushed over immediately.
The power of the armored tank units in the era of cold weapons was fully displayed at this moment.
The extremely layered impact weakened Ning Yuanjun's phalanx layer by layer.
The enemy's cavalry charges were so densely packed that they barely had to aim or do anything but hold their spears. The enemy will slam into the spear with great inertia.
The tremendous force causes the spear to pierce the body of the horse and the knight on the horse, and the anti-shock force will also cause a platoon of spearmen to break tendons, lose their combat power or even die.
In general, though, the Jurchens suffered greater.
Under the continuous impact, the phalanx was shrinking, but it was still immovable.
Because before the battle began, all the officers were constantly reminding, "Those who do not retreat according to the military order will die!"
If you retreat, you will die, you may not die if you resist, and even if you die, your family can get a pension. It was such a simple idea that made these soldiers of the Ning Yuan Army burst out with tremendous energy, resisting the impact of the Jurchen cavalry again and again.
There were also some Jurchen cavalry who passed through the gap between the two phalanxes, wanting to go around to the back to attack, and because of the strong resistance of the spear phalanx, more cavalry were driven by the war horses under their crotch and drilled into the gap.
It's not that these Jurchen cavalry are afraid, but that the war horses are spiritual, and they are frightened when they see the spear tips in front of them that are as bright as the forest.
So, uncontrollably, he instinctively ran to the gap where there was no spear.
"The effect is really good!" Ye Qiu's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart: "Sure enough, the beasts will also seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, leaving these gaps can make it impossible for the Jurchen cavalry to attack the formation with all their strength, and the war horses under their crotch will take their masters to run to seemingly safe places!"
But the question is, is the gap between this Dao phalanx really safe?
Of course not!
These gaps are the essence of Victor's modified Macedonian phalanx, and the distance between these gaps is precisely calculated, about five meters.
This distance seems safe, as the spear is no more than three meters.
But when the spearmen in the phalanx on both sides were stabbing at the same time, these Jurchen cavalry who rushed into the gap found that they had no place to dodge, and there was no dead end left in the gap.
The Jurchen cavalry in the gap had to face attacks from both sides, which made them resist, like a massacre, and the Jurchen cavalry in the gap was assassinated in an instant.
And then there was a steady stream of cavalry.
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