Chapter 35: From a Hundred Battles (2)

The Hun army also rode their horses and began to accelerate.

Their formation was much looser than that of the Joyama Army, but it was a rough look. But when more than 50,000 war horses galloped together, they naturally formed a slightly inclined front.

The sound of the horses' hooves falling to the ground was comparable to the sound of the war drums of the Joyama army, and the knights on horseback drew their bows and arrows before the speed of the horses reached their highest.

In the excited whistle, arrows rained down.

The Huns used a much less powerful riding bow than a longbow, and many of the arrows were not so much fired as they were carried by the wind.

And although they shot a lot of arrows, the timing of the arrows was inconsistent, and the batches were invisibly divided, but there were not a few that really fell on everyone. Coupled with the lack of iron in the Xiongnu, the arrows were all ground from animal bones, and the penetration was very limited.

The drums of the Joyama army did not stop, and the spearmen braved the rain of arrows, and the soldiers wore a silk garment under their uniforms to prevent the arrows from getting into their flesh.

The sword and shield hands on both wings simply put the iron-clad wooden shield on their heads, completely ignoring the threat of arrows.

After this rain of arrows, only less than a hundred spearmen were injured, and most of them were slightly wounded, which did not affect the rest of the battle.

However, the Huns did not care about such an outcome, such an offensive might be effective against other armies, but it was a little less interesting against a strong border army like the Dingshan army.

They just kept accelerating, and the knights at the front could already feel the wind rushing into their mouths and noses. They all put their bodies close to the horse's back, and used this posture to reduce wind resistance. Although the Huns did not know much about fluid mechanics, the rich experience accumulated in life had taught them what to do.

Before the advent of modern firearms, cavalry had been the uncrowned king of the cold weapon age.

With its superior mobility and impact, the cavalry broke through the opponent's defenses again and again on the battlefield and was invincible. At speeds close to 40 km/h, a knight on horseback can tear apart all enemies in front of him with a slight swing of his saber, bringing the greeting of death to every enemy.

And the Hun cavalry, who were charging towards the Dingshan army, believed that it would be the same this time.

At such a high speed, their field of vision became very narrow, and the scenery between heaven and earth became a streamer of light flashing from the bottom of their eyes. All of them silently recited the name of the Great Black Heaven in their hearts, praying that the god in the name of calamity and death would open his abyssal eyes and curse their opponents.

The thunderous war drums of the Dingshan Army finally stopped, and Hu Bin, the general of Guangwu behind the military formation, raised his right hand high, clenched his fists with five fingers, and spit out a short and powerful syllable in his mouth: "Wait!"

The voice was heard throughout the army with the support of his majestic true power.

Sergeant Joyama, who heard the military order, stopped. The line of men standing at the front of the spear formation immediately crouched down, their spears pressed against the ground, and the heads of their spears pointed diagonally at the sky. The spearmen behind him placed their spears on the shoulders of those in front of them, and those behind followed suit.

In this way, more than 20,000 spearmen used their flesh and blood to set up an iron-blooded defense line for the Joyama army. The head of the spear made of fine iron reflects a dazzling light in the sunlight, warning the approaching enemy that this is not the way out!

The distance between the two armies was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the Huns had no intention of turning, and the speed of the war horses had already been raised to the maximum, and it was impossible for them to avoid the spear phalanx of the Joyama army even now.

Under the effect of inertia, everyone is already involuntarily, and a tragic collision is coming.

The spearmen standing in the front row were all pale, and their eyes were fixed on the Huns in front, and they knew that they were going to die.

No one can survive such a collision of flesh and blood. But no one tried to retreat, they just gritted their teeth and clenched the handles of their guns with their hands like iron, quietly waiting for death to come.

They are all veterans who have come out of the sea of corpses and blood, and they have already put life and death aside, and the enmity between them and the Huns is as deep as the sea.

The character of the Chu people is "Shang En and revenge", after the strong Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, only the Chu people shouted the blood oath "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu". After that, it was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang of Chu who were the first to raise the anti-flag, exposing the weak nature of the Qin State hidden under the power and prompting its demise. After Qin, the successor to the Great Unification Dynasty was also the Chu State established by the world-overlord Xiang Yu.

It is this kind of character that has supported this nation step by step to today's prosperity.

The Hun cavalry did not flinch, and the successive high priests of the Black Heaven Sect had told them that the Great Black Heaven admired the brave and fearless warriors the most. Only these people are qualified to return to Heaven after death and enjoy boundless joy. Those who flee on the battlefield will not only be punished by the royal court, but will also be thrown into hell by the great black sky after death, and their souls will be scorched by the flames forever.

Having received such an education from an early age, every Hun was proud to die in battle. They longed to ride their horses and charge to bring death, both to the enemy and to their own.

Finally, the Huns' cavalry slapped on the hard reef of the Dingshan Army like the waves of the sea, and the blood-colored waves rose.

More than a thousand spears pierced deep into the bodies of the Xiongnu war horses, and each war horse had several such spears stuck in their bodies. Driven by their masters, these innocent creatures crashed headlong into the "Wall of Sighs". In the last days of their lives, tears flowed from their beautiful big eyes, and I don't know if it was because of their nostalgia for life or because they could no longer be by their owners' side.

And the vast majority of the Dingshan sergeants in the front row died at the first moment of the collision, they were not killed by the sabers of the Huns, but were killed alive by the war horses.

The kinetic energy of kinetic transformation acted on their bodies without reservation, and the human body was vulnerable to this force. The bones of these soldiers were shattered into many pieces, and at that moment, the imbalance of pressure inside and outside their bodies made the blood spurting out of their mouths mixed with fragments of internal organs.

And as the other side of the collision, the Huns were naturally no better.

Because the stirrups had not yet appeared at this time, these Hun cavalry could only rely on the strength of their thighs to clamp the belly of the war horse and fix their bodies.

And when the war horse under the crotch was forcibly stopped by the Dingshan army, these Hun cavalry were tragic.

They had no way to stop themselves, so they had to continue to fly forward under the effect of inertia, and finally fell into the "gun forest" in a desperate look and turned into ready-made meat skewers.

This kind of death can be called torture, and many people because they are "lucky" that the place where they are pierced by a spear is not critical, and they do not die immediately.

They could only hang on to the head of their spears, struggling in vain, wailing in agony, begging that perhaps some "good" enemy could grant them death and save them from their misery.

And this was only the beginning, after the spearmen and cavalry at the front were almost dead, the same scene was played out by those in the back.

The cavalry behind stepped on the still warm corpse of his companion and continued to collide with the dense array of guns, again and again, this bloody wave perfectly interpreted the profound beauty of death.

The corpses of the soldiers of both sides were trampled into mud and nourished the ground beneath them, and the grass that grew on this land in the coming year would surely be much more lush.

Under such waves of flesh and blood, which seemed to have no end in sight, the spearmen standing behind retreated uncontrollably, and the military formation began to deform and twist, revealing gaps. This is the method of breaking the formation summed up by the Hun cavalry in the process of fighting against the Dingshan army again and again, and the price is the lives of countless people.

The spearman pressed his chest against the tail of the gun, his forehead bruised, and the corners of his eyes almost split, trying with all his might to stop the retreat. I don't know how many people have broken their ribs by the barrel of the gun, and the blood from the corners of their mouths keeps oozing, but the strength of the whole body is still forward, forward!

Cheng Kun was completely stunned by the scene in front of him. The cruelty of war in the age of cold weapons was far beyond his imagination.

In less than three minutes, the number of dead Dingshan troops he saw alone had exceeded a thousand.

He had only joined the Joyama Army for less than two months, and his sense of belonging to this army was not strong. But at this moment, his heart was strongly shaken. Life was so cheap, but the sacrifice of those dead Dingshan soldiers was not meaningless, and the speed of the Hun cavalry became slower and slower, and the force of the impact became less and less.

The formation of the spearmen had already collapsed in half, and because of their sacrifices, the remaining soldiers had a much better chance of survival, not to mention the archers who were protected by the spearmen.

Cheng Kun's eyes were full of tears, and the voices and smiles of his comrades who died on the battlefield in his previous life appeared in front of him, and their illusory figures seemed to coincide with the fighting Dingshan soldiers in front of him at this moment.

Comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms!

The hottest blood in the man's chest boiled, and Cheng Kun roared, wanting to rush up and fight side by side with them.

But as soon as he took a step, he was held down, and when he looked back, it was Junhou Zhu Chen who stopped him. Cheng Kun wanted to rush forward without obeying the order, and such an "unorganized and undisciplined" behavior made Zhu Chen very annoyed.

But when he saw Cheng Kun's red eyes, he froze for a moment, and then his stern gaze eased a lot, he remembered that he had just joined the Dingshan Army and saw his brother sacrifice when he behaved the same, Cheng Kun's mood at the moment he could understand.

The hand he was clasping on Cheng Kun's shoulder let go, turned into a palm and patted Cheng Kun, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, look at it, the opportunity for revenge will come soon." ”

Cheng Kun also realized that he was impulsive, if Zhu Chen hadn't stopped him just now, he would definitely rush up and kill him like a river of blood.

He kept admonishing himself, calm down, you must be calm. But the battle intent was still boiling, and the iron-clad true qi in his body seemed to feel the master's mood, flowing in the meridians at a speed that was more than double the normal.

Cheng Kun only hoped that what Zhu Chen said was true, and he didn't want to see his comrades-in-arms fall in front of his eyes again.