1703 Battle of Putao (9)

The sound of the trebuchet spring cracking continued, and countless stones with various sharp water chestnuts flew through the space above the river like a flock of migratory birds, and smashed into the queue of falconry archers on the opposite side like thunder with a terrible wind

The Xiting shooter had no shield and could not resist this completely irresistible long-range counterattack, and the huge stones were like rain, crushing through the line-like queue, and the soldiers on the entire road were smashed into pulp in an instant, and the rubble flew sideways, and under the rolling boulder, was a bloody corpse,

"Forward"

The non-infantry gritted their teeth with blood-red eyes and suffered huge casualties, just to quickly shorten the distance between themselves and the opponent's shooters, and the dense infantry spears flashed with a terrifying edge of metal. The pressure on the defensive line is getting heavier and heavier every moment, and each time it is rushing closer and closer, and the number of people is increasing. The two sides gritted their teeth, blood flew everywhere, and there were screams one after another! The Gangfei infantry who climbed onto the river beach climbed up with a scream, and the black pressure was like a black ant crawling all over a sugar cube, countless arrows were flying, and one after another shiny metal waterfalls could be seen flying from the heights.

"Shoot!"

The number of about 5,000 Xiting shooters and 3,000 crossbowmen of the Falcon Central Army desperately maintained the last line of defense on the river beach, and the heavens and the earth were filled with terrible shocking sounds, and the boulders and arrows as dense as raindrops bombarded the ranks of soldiers on both sides again, like waves slapping on the hard rock wall, turning into a splash of terrifying bright red, "Attack, advance!"

Remshat, with 3,000 Gang Fei light cavalry, like a long line crossing, pushed the river deep into the belly of the war horse in front of him, and the heavy infantry of the Eighth Army was seizing the river beach in front, and the rapid arrow clusters hit the bodies of these heavy infantry, and at the same time formed a blood-colored killing field on the surface of the river. Many Gangfei infantry were still moving forward bravely with arrows all over their bodies, and the fallen corpses rushed down the boiling river, and fifty meters further on, they were the enemy's archers.

"Keep shooting, if there is anyone who retreats without permission, slash!"

The centurions in the shooters of the West Garden, with cold faces, shouted loudly at their subordinates who made them commotion,

None of the squadrons dared to retreat half a step back without the orders of the Khan. The fierce style of the grassland people has never been afraid of fighting to the death! Amid the frantic shouts of the centurions of the Western Garden, the scattered Xiting archers who were struck by the falling rocks once again looked solemn and aimed the powerful compound heavy bow in their hands at the rigid non-infantry who were crowded together like a swarm of ants fifty meters away, "Shoot!"

The bowstring was released, and like a continuous burst of firecrackers, countless white lines shot out from the compound bow of the Xiting shooter, pouring directly down the river beach below like a raging storm. In the densest concentration of arrows, corpses were piled up in knolls along the riverbank, blood gushed into the river, and the riverbank, which was a kilometer wide, was dyed red in the fierce battle. The wounded soldiers were crushed in the pile of corpses and screamed for help, no one had time to pay attention, and the troops that were pushed up again did not dare to stay, and everyone's only choice was to move forward. This is a life-and-death battle, with no retreat and no victory. Only life and death!

"Woo!"

The terrible sound of battle horns suddenly came from the opposite side

"What's going on?" Goode looked up, his excited face was stunned for a moment, but his face quickly climbed into ecstasy, and he fled! The enemy was fleeing, and the Falcon archers on the entire river bank were retreating like a tidal wave, and their own infantry had already broken the confidence of these stubborn archers

"Forward, victory belongs to Gangfei!"

Goode suddenly pulled out his saber and raised it above his head, his face showed irrepressible excitement, the combat power of the archers on the opposite side was very tenacious, under the pressure of the heavy infantry on this side, he actually held on to the present, but the final victory belonged to himself, belonged to these brave imperial warriors, fierce battles until now, the casualties of the Eighth Army of Gangfei exceeded three thousand, and the river had already been stained red with bright red blood, but the Falcon Army on the opposite side was also not happy, and the trebuchet troops gave the opponent's shooters huge damage

Thankfully, in this offensive and defensive battle, it is you who wins the victory! Heavy infantry is a natural nemesis of long-range shooters, and the opponent has no chance of winning at all from the beginning!

"Hooray, forward!"

"Kill all those bitches!"

Feeling that victory was in sight, the Congolese army let out bursts of victorious cheers, and a large number of infantry overflowed the river beach.

As the shooters retreated to the rear in an orderly manner, the ecstatic Gangfei infantry quickened their speed, panting and climbing up the soft river flats, crossing the slope of the riverbank, that is, the flat ground, and pursuing with all their might, leaving no one behind!

The three thousand Gang Fei light cavalry of Remchat leaped up to the river bank, and the hooves of their hooves thundered like thunder along the slope of the riverbank.

A dazzling cold light in front of him came into view, and the pupils of Remchat, who was running in front, constricted unconsciously, and he struggled to pull the galloping war horse under his crotch with a shocked expression

"It's!"

All the light cavalry who rushed up the slope of the river bank were almost the same as him, their faces were as white as if they had been slapped in the face, and looking at the scene ahead, many people were so shocked that their whole body turned into stones, and behind the raised river bank was a huge flat land!

Thousands of black cavalry are like a static black line, a dense cold light, which is the reflection of the bow and arrow erected in the hands of the opposing cavalry,

"It's the other party's archers!"

Remsciat stared blankly at the black tide in front of him that blocked his vision, so black that people didn't dare to face it, only to see countless war horses, wearing black armor archers, pulling out the strong bow to show a full half-arc, the cold light of the metal tip, like a sky full of stars, the eyes contain killing, it is conceivable that once the bowstring is released, in front of this rapid and dense killing array, the infantry who have just rushed to the river bank will be instantly tied into hedgehogs, taking advantage of the panic of the infantry, these archers will use their war horses to crush all the infantry who rushed up the riverside,

Compared with these ambush arrays of archers who were as still as mountains but full of killing fury, the infantry who had just been panting after a fierce battle were completely unaware of the terrible situation they were about to face, and the joy of victory made the infantry completely ignore the possible counterattack, and the queue of their own infantry to resist the cavalry onslaught. It had already been torn apart, and everyone was running up excitedly, not realizing that the huge side swords composed of tens of thousands of cavalry had been raised high above their heads.

This will be a massacre of tens of thousands of imperial warriors! Remchat's face turned pale and shuddered,

He could see in front of the black line, a fat man in black heavy armor and a red cloak looking at him with interest. Under the other party's gaze, which was far sharper than the arrows, Remschat felt that his every qiē seemed to be under the control of the other party! The other party gave him the feeling that he was so invincible!

"My lord, what shall we do?" a cavalry captain stopped his horse and said to Remchatt with a gloomy expression, no one dared to move, and under the countless clusters of arrows on the opposite side, everyone felt that they were on pins and needles! I fell into an ambush!

"Everybody follow me, hold them down, and buy time for the infantry to line up!, or we'll all die!" Remchatt's face was resolute and he slammed his horse. The first one came out to meet the attack, shouting hysterically, and after hesitating for a short second, three thousand Gonfei light cavalry rode their horses to follow the commander Remchat. Since this is already the case, there is no possibility of withdrawing, and let the beloved war horse gallop again like the wind. The sound of galloping horses' hooves is like rolling thunder in a rainstorm,

Looking at the Gangfei light cavalry whose courage broke out unexpectedly, the fat man's cold and calm gaze flashed like a black pool,

The courage of the first general to rush out made his eyes flash with a hint of appreciation, yes, he was able to make a self-sacrificing choice in a short period of time, he was a good commander, but it was a pity! Even if he died, this war was irreversible!

The fat man's raised right hand fell suddenly, "Shoot!" "There are only cold, no sympathy, regret and the like on the battlefield, which can only be said after the war!"

"Collapse, collapse, collapse!

Countless bowstrings were released at the same time, and the dense white lines that shot out from behind him, like huge white buds that suddenly bloomed, presented a spectacular and gorgeous storm that quickly covered the oncoming light cavalry cluster The cold light of the killing was like a torrential rain beating the leaves of the lute, piercing, bursting, and the armor was scattered, and the three-diamond-shaped steel arrow clusters effortlessly and completely shot into the bodies of these rigid and non-light cavalry who launched a suicidal charge, without the protection of heavy armor, the flesh of the light cavalry was torn apart in front of the Mitsubishi armor-piercing arrows used by the archers to deal with the heavy infantry, and the blood exploded like flowers on these light cavalry who lacked the protection of heavy armor, and the war horse dragged the master above forward!

"Shhh

The war horse neighed in pain, the running pace began to deviate, after moving forward for more than 20 meters, the huge body weighing half a ton and the light cavalry full of arrows on it, smashed on the ground like a falling star, raising a large amount of smoke and dust, extremely tragic, the dying war horse was completely paralyzed, and the ground below the blood-stained war horse, only the inciting nose still represented the last insistence of the war horse, "Andrea, my Andrea"

The young cavalryman, who was covered in blood, struggled to climb to the side of his beloved war horse, and his bloody body dragged a blood-colored trace several meters long on the ground! The arrow cluster struck again, the bright red blood puffed out with the arrows that penetrated the body, and the whole person was nailed to the ground, and the decisive blow of the three thousand cavalry was completely contained at a distance of fifty meters from the archers, and the role they could play was only delayed for more than ten minutes, at this time, the Gangfei infantry had already rushed up the slope, but the scene in front of them made them completely stupid

"What's that sound?" Good, the commander of the Eighth Legion who was riding across the river, unexpectedly stopped his horse, the icy water overflowing his feet, but what made his heart cold as an ice cellar was the loud roar coming from the edge of the opposite riverbank, it was the sound of the hooves of the cavalry,

"Cavalry, enemy cavalry!" the chaotic shouts came from the front at the same time, "cavalry!" Good's head was stunned, he saw that the non-infantry on his side, who had been rushing in high spirits just now, were now running down the river bank as if they were being pushed by an invisible hand, waving a double number of mournful shouts, countless white lines shot quickly, and the corpses of these soldiers tumbled down the slope, followed by the ground trembling violently

"Beware, enemy cavalry!" at the moment. All the Gangfei people felt a piercing chill rise to their heads, only to see countless cavalry in black armor flying down like a flock of eagles, like a black iron wall, forcibly crushing the Gangnon infantry who were still on the slope of the riverbank, like a mass of spinning spikes and flails smashed heavily on the thin armor, fragments splashed, and even the first row of Gangnon infantry who were in contact with it could be clearly seen, directly swept by the galloping war horses, and turned into a mass of flesh on the ground

The non-heavy infantry, who was caught off guard, was knocked away like a toy. Cut by the brush, countless iron-hoofed combat knives were like a flood that crushed and submerged the stupid non-infantry in front, and the war horses passed by, leaving only the remains of corpses all over the ground.

"Kill" The knife light of the scimitar made Gang Feiren mess up "Bastard, this is a trap!" Good's eyes were blood-red, and his fists were clenched together. Under his gaze, the black iron wall formed by the enemy cavalry expanded rapidly, so much so that it occupied the entire slope! The corpses of our infantry fell in pieces without the cover of the queue. Like weeds swept away by a strong wind, the enemy's attack is very rapid, but it sweeps sideways, cutting through several points. Unstoppable as an iron stream, the infantry stood in place, staring blankly at the galloping and crashing war horses. Almost didn't even react, and was drowned out by the flying snowy sword light, "Kill!"

The scimitars of the steppe cavalry shone on the faces of these tired and panicked Gangfei soldiers, and the war horse cluster descended like an avalanche through the arc of the slope, and the heavy infantry of the Gangfei Eighth Army was completely confused, and in a miserable scream and exclamation, the section that came into contact with the black cavalry was instantly cut into several pieces, "Ah" The Gangfei infantry fell to the ground in its entirety, and in just ten minutes of contact, the front-line Gangfei infantry had disappeared from everyone's sight, one row, two rows, three rows, the black cavalry killed the infantry on the riverbank, completely in an unabashed crushing posture, killing with all their might, and the corpses were lying all over the riverbank, until there was no one still standing.

Under the strong impact pressure, the chaotic infantry was overthrown by the cavalry platoon, and the black cavalry that rushed into the rush was like a cluster of arrows off the string, and suddenly rushed in from the hasty infantry, and the fierce impact sound came with the wind, and the powerful impact force knocked all the impacted objects out of the air.

The scimitar with blood slashed down towards the neck like the wind, the war horse galloped past the scattered deserters like a hurricane, bringing up a rush of blood, the big human head was split into the air by the arc of the scimitar, and the war horse swept across the river bank like thunder,

The corpses of the Gangfei infantry were under the hooves of the horses, like the remnants of the leaves that were rolled up in the storm, knocked down, trampled, and finally torn apart by the galloping war horses, the morale of the Gangfei army could no longer be maintained, and the whole team had an irrepressible rout, and everyone jumped into the river that had just been spent so hard in spite of the black cavalry that was killing behind them, and everyone wanted to stay away from these terrible cavalry,

"Steady, don't retreat!"

Some tenacious non-officers shouted, "The rapid battle horn came from the rushing riverbank, and the heavy armor on their bodies was heavier than that of ordinary soldiers at the moment became the most terrible lethal weapon, and many officers wanted to stop their own soldiers, but they were knocked sideways into the boiling river by their own people, and the people inside were affected by the heavy armor, and their bodies fell into the river uncoordinated, swallowing the river water in pain, and they were directly drowned alive by the river.

"One hundred and fifty meters ahead, covered with projectiles!"

While the steppe cavalry swept across the riverbank, three thousand skilled crossbowmen of the Imperial Central Army lined up in several rows on the higher edges

The powerful infantry crossbow with the flat end in his hand began to rise upwards with the shouts of the captains and the arms raised upwards,

The formation lined up in a line spreads out in an orderly manner from the middle to both sides, like a huge and powerful falcon wings, in a nearly fully open zigzag, spreading its dead arms to the gangnon people who are crowded into a mass in the river, and the sound of the powerful bowstring vibrating even makes the whole space shake.

A dense and terrifying arrow covered the inky sky in an instant,

The metal arrows flashed with chilling light in the inky air, like a gorgeous metal light rain, crossing the distance of more than 100 meters in front, drawing a beautiful arc in the air towards the river surface, and countless Gangnon infantry congested in the river were hit by arrows.

In an unguarded situation, it was exploded by a metal arrow, and blood flowers floated with the current,

Among them was the corpse of Gude, the commander of the Eighth Legion of Gangfei, who was shot by five crossbow arrows, one of which pierced his helmet and pierced the skull of this Gangfei general, and with his eyes open in disbelief, he fell from his horse into the river under the frightened gaze of the guards! His death made the Gangfei army completely lose the will to fight! "Clear the river with all your might!"

The Xiting cavalry, who had finished killing on the riverbank, began to take off the compound bows and arrows on their backs and shoot at the enemies floating in the river one by one

Screams rang out one after another, and corpses rolled in the red water

Tens of thousands of troops of the Eighth Army and the Crusade Corps were shot and killed in the river in this way! Only a few and less than 1,000 people were able to climb up the river bank and escape, and the corpses flowed down with the impact of the river, and in the narrowest section of the river, there were even a large number of corpses blocking the river, (to be continued......