Chapter 437: Long-range strike
Seeing Yuan Qi raise the mixed yuan halberd, the 100,000 elite soldiers raised the weapons in their hands above the top for the third time, and after a slight pause in the air, they tilted and pointed at the battle formation of the Wei army, and the aura of slaughter became even stronger. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Qi Tian, who was at the forefront of the Yan army's formation, coldly slashed Qi Tian's halberd forward into the void, and shouted: "The flying dragon belongs, charge the formation!" Before he could say a word, the red lightning crossed the battlefield, and the red rabbit horse had already carried Qi Tian to rush out, and in the excited neighing of the red rabbit horse, 20,000 flying dragons rode neatly and shouted: "The flying dragon belongs, there is no advance or retreat!
The horses' hooves are clanging, and the iron armor is craggy. The Wyvern Heavy Riders quickly adjusted their formation behind Qi Tian, and while maintaining the same formation as their comrades behind them, they also made some subtle changes, using Qi Tian as an arrow to form a sharp arrow array that was connected to the Five Elements Great Array but could fight independently. The Wyvern Heavy Cavalry is known as the world's first heavy cavalry, but it is not in vain, when it rushes to kill, it is like a steel dragon from ancient times, showing its hideous minions to the enemy on the opposite side. The 80,000 hooves of the horses they sat on flew up and down, bringing up puffs of smoke and dust, forming an earth dragon in the air, echoing the steel dragon on the ground.
Qi Tian's charge immediately led Ma Yue and Gan Jing on both wings to make changes as well. Ma Yue waved the Youyue spear and shouted angrily at the division on the left side of the Wei army: "The land belongs to you, go forward with a certain kill!" The 20,000 Digui wafflers were already impatient, and at the same time aimed the blade of the horse chopping knife in the direction pointed by the tip of Ma Yue's spear, and shouted forcefully from his chest: "The land is returned, there is victory and no defeat!"
Gan Jing and Ma Yue reacted in the same way almost at the same time. He collided the two spears in his hand with each other, making a crisp sound of "dang chang", and then raised his head to the sky and shouted: "The unicorn belongs, destroy the enemy!" The 20,000 Qilin elites behind Gan Jing seemed to be in order to show the world their skills in water and land warfare, and roared with all their might: "The courage of the unicorn." I'm invincible!Kill—"
The soldiers and horses in the front, left and right battle formations have already made moves, and the veteran Huang Yong will naturally not be idle, his gray beard is windless, and his momentum of not being angry and powerful has skyrocketed to the peak in an instant, and the red blood knife in his hand has slashed down from the air, but the old voice has the artistic conception of never obeying the old, and it is transmitted to the ears of the 20,000 ballistae behind him: "Scatter the line, projectile, fire on the whole line!"
The 20,000 ballistae immediately followed Huang Yong's order and divided into two teams to act. The less crowded team began to adjust the ballistic settings of the red-coated ballista according to Huang Yong's instructions. In the end, the trajectory of the red-coated ballista was fixed at a 45-degree angle, and the large team quickly loaded the crossbow into the tip of the red-coated ballista, and after completing the loading, they also used the mechanical power to pull the crossbow string of the red-coated ballista, and the extremely tense crossbow string made a series of tooth-sore crunching sounds.
As the Chinese army, Yuan Qi, who is also the command center, also made changes according to the actions of the battle formations on all sides. However, he didn't mean to immediately put the Chinese army into battle, but just instigated the jade qilin to maintain a certain speed and advance forward, and always maintained a unified pace with the battle formations in the four directions. Therefore. The Hundred Battle Heavenly Returnees led by Zhao Hu did not shout their unique battle calls, but remained silent, and followed Yuan up step by step. It's just that the horse chopping knives in their hands have already shown their blades. Be ready to join the battle at any time.
At the forefront of the Wei army's battle array, it was the Wei army's general Xiahoudun, who had fought with Yuan Qi's troops many times and was familiar with the combat style of the soldiers. After hearing the sound of the crossbow strings of the red-clothed ballista being pulled apart, Xiahoudun immediately turned his head and shouted loudly to his subordinates behind him: "Disperse! Keep in formation! Raise your shield!" The Wei soldiers who were originally standing densely behind Xiahoudun immediately did not destroy the battle formation. carried out the evacuation, widening the original gap between each other from a two-step distance from one shoulder to the other, and at the same time threw off his footsteps and launched an attack on the Wyvern Heavy Rider led by Qi Tian, and on the way to the impact, raised the heavy shield in his hand.
Evacuation can reduce the area covered by the red-clothed ballista; raising the shield can form the most direct protection for the Wei army's officers and soldiers; charging can shorten the distance so that the powerful crossbows fired by the red-clothed ballista lose their effective target; and maintaining the formation is to prepare for the first wave of offensive in front of the Wyvern Heavy Cavalry. Xiahoudun's order was offensive in defense, offensive and defensive integration, and command was measured, and he deserved to be the premier general in the Wei army.
However, in the end, the truth was beyond Xiahoudun's expectations. Because, the first wave of targets that Huang Yong wanted to attack was not Xiahoudun's troops, but the Ugongxiu troops displayed behind Xiahoudun. Why did Yuan Qi let Huang Yong command the ballista gunners every time there was a big battle? This is not unreasonable. On the one hand, Huang Yong's archery skills are superb, and he can use his actions to indicate the target of the attack to the ballista gunners, so that the ballista gunners have a clearer idea of the purpose of the task; on the other hand, Huang Yong has been on the battlefield for decades, and this experience is extremely valuable, and he can make the most accurate judgment according to the form on the battlefield. At present, Huang Yong is using his own experience to change the direction of the ballista bombardment, and change the red-clothed ballista that is good at penetrating shooting to a projectile, although the lethality will be weakened by this, but it can effectively avoid the already prepared Xiahou Dun Division, and kill and injure the unprepared Ugong Rest Division, so as to create chaos in the division of the Ugong Rest Division, and cut off the mutual echo between him and Xiahou Xuan, at the same time, Huang Yong uses the method of projectile to avoid accidentally injuring the Wyvern Heavy Riders who rushed to the forefront, making room for the Flying Dragon Heavy Cavalry's charging formation。
Seeing thousands of crossbows flying in an arc above his head, Xiahoudun chuckled in his heart and immediately realized that something was wrong. The commander of the Wei army behind him is Ugong Xiu, who is called "my family Qianli Ju" by Ugong Zhaolie, although he is brave and good at fighting, but there is an obvious lack of control over the overall situation, and Ugong Xiu has only fought with the soldiers on the frontal battlefield once, and he is very unfamiliar with the advanced weapons, and he will not prepare in advance, I am afraid that under the invasion of this round of crossbows, there will be a lot of Wei soldiers who will be bloodstained on the battlefield.
Xiahoudun's guess did not deviate again this time. When thousands of powerful crossbows roared around the Xiahou Rest Department and came to the front of the Unomiya Rest Department, they immediately caused effective damage to the Unomiya Rest Department. In a burst of popping sounds, the Umiya Retreat, who had not yet fully raised their shields, seemed to have turned into fish, allowing their bodies to be pierced by thick crossbows.
They were crucified to the ground, along with men and horses.
Even Unomiya Hugh himself has suffered the closest test to death in his life. A giant crossbow with a thin arm and about a zhang, with the sound of breaking through the air, coincidentally shot down towards the top of Unomiya Xiu's head. Unomiya Xiu didn't dare to slack off, and he didn't care about commanding the troops to raise their shields to defend, so he hurriedly pulled the reins, trying to drive the war horse to move sideways to the left, dodging the powerful crossbow in front of him. However, the horse he sat on had barely stepped out of his front legs, and before he could move his hind legs, the huge arrow and crossbow were already approaching in front of him, less than three feet above his head.
Unomiya Xiu didn't seem to have time to dodge the action, secretly gritted his teeth, ran through his arms, and with the power of the war horse's kicking on the ground, he picked up the big knife in his hand and slashed desperately at the falling giant crossbow. The huge inertia multiplied the acceleration of this giant crossbow, and the power was extremely great, when Umiya Xiu's war knife slashed on the giant crossbow, the powerful anti-shock force immediately acted on Umiya Xiu's arms, shaking his arms numb, and almost dropped the big knife in his hand to the ground. Unomiya Xiu knew that if he let go, his life would be difficult to protect, so he put all the strength in his body and used all the strength to eat, and finally knocked the falling giant crossbow half a foot away, and at the same time twisted his body, which was able to avoid the vital parts, and then he could no longer stop the fall of the giant crossbow, and watched weakly as the giant crossbow tilted and pierced his right leg, and then unstoppably pierced into the belly of the horse, nailing himself to the ground with the horse that sat down.
After falling to the ground, Unomiya Xiu struggled weakly twice, and helplessly found that he couldn't shake the giant crossbow at all, but also affected the wound on his right leg, bringing a burst of heart-piercing pain. After a spasm of his body uncontrollably, Umiya Hugh gave up all his struggles and lay on the ground in pain with a face full of cold sweat.
At the same time that Ugong Xiu was hit and fell from his horse, the ballistae gunners inspired various powerful crossbows fell criss-crossed, like a rain of arrows falling from the sky, nailing more than 4,000 Wei soldiers behind Ugong Xiu to the ground. Fortunately, there is no crossbow that falls in the direction of Unomiya Xiu again, otherwise Umiya Xiu's life will definitely be difficult to protect.
When the thousands of crossbows were completely still, a vacuum had been cleared out of the battle array of Unomiya Xiu's headquarters, and in this area, except for Unomiya Xiu, who was seriously injured and fell to the ground, there was no other living creature that could breathe. Various types of crossbows, either straight or obliquely inserted into the ground, brought a lot of damage to the Unomiya Rest Department, and also temporarily formed a crossbow forest, blocking the path of the advance of Unomiya Retreat's follow-up troops.
Seeing Unomiya Xiu lying on the ground in pain, Xiahou was angry, Unomiya Ren was angry, all the children of the Unomiya family were angry, and even Unomiya Terulie was angry. They can no longer bear the death of another fierce general in the family in the hands of Yuan Qi, Xiahou Yuan, Yugong Hong and other famous generals have been unscathed after a hundred battles, but in the end they all died directly or indirectly in the hands of Yuan Qi, even if the Ugong family is at the peak of talent, but it can't afford such consumption! What's more, the family generals have repeatedly died at the hands of Yuan Qi, which in itself is a kind of humiliation, Yuan Qi is using killing, trampling the dignity of the Ugong family under his feet!