Bu Deng had seen the power of Bohai people's crossbows at the foot of Yanjun City. Those crossbows were extremely heavy and were installed at the top of Yanjun City. The defense of the entire Yanjun City was lackluster. The only thing that caused trouble for the Khitans was such a crossbow.
In Bu Deng's opinion, the distance and lethality of the arrows fired in the Pingzhou military formation were almost comparable to that of the crossbow. In the rapid rush forward, Bu Deng tried his best to keep his eyes open, but he did not see it.
In the figure of the crossbow, he saw the archers behind the first row of spearmen of the Pingzhou Army. Those archers were opening a long and huge bow...
Of course, Li Chengzhong's Pingzhou Army front camp is not equipped with chariot crossbows. They are using a single giant bow that is very similar to the English longbow. Of course, the arrows fired by this giant bow are not as good as chariot crossbows.
However, the crossbow that Budeng saw at the foot of Yanjun City was dilapidated, so in terms of range and power, it was close to the giant bow.
Two hundred and eighty soldiers from the front battalion opened their bows and fired in sequence according to the usual drill sequence, forming an uninterrupted arrow screen within a range of 250 to 100 steps in front of the formation. When the Khitan soldiers led by Bu Den
After rushing through this area, half of the two hundred Khitans were shot down! This is the power of the giant bow.
Luo Yuanan is a soldier under Zhong Silang. He was promoted to corps leader due to his meritorious service while at Yuguan. He was promoted to group leader after beheading two ranks in Bailang Mountain. Luo Yuanan fought bravely and was good at risking his life, but his brain was not very bright. In the cultural class of Bailang Mountain
His grades in military and military classes were very poor. As the leader of a group, he himself did not understand the content in the class clearly. When he returned to the group to teach it to his brothers, he became even more confused. After experiencing three "poor" evaluations
Later, he was promoted from the position of team leader to team leader. Although his rank dropped, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt much more comfortable and secure in this position.
According to the previous drill, Luo Yuanan took the giant bow handed down from the cart and stood behind the first row of spearmen with his brothers. The leader stood first on the left side of the group, and he and another team leader stood on the other side.
In the middle and rightmost position of the group. After hearing the shouts of team officer Zhong Silang, Luo Yuanan loosened his right thumb that was holding the arrow tightly, and the big arrow suddenly flew out diagonally upward. He had no time to look at the arrow.
On the way forward, he pulled out a big arrow from the grass at his feet, opened the bow and buckled the string, but the angle was slightly lowered, and the bow tip under the top of the big bow moved from the top of the head to the corner of the eye, and then under the command of Captain Zhong
Amidst the shouts, the second arrow was released...
After all the three big arrows stuck in the grass under his feet were shot, he quickly passed the giant bow to the brother on the right, then took the giant bow from the brother on the left and continued to pass it to the right. In the blink of an eye, the giant bow was
After being taken away by the waiting civilians, Luo Yuanan picked up the wooden gun on the ground. Under the command of Captain Zhong to "hold the gun", he stood the wooden gun upright beside him.
The wooden guns were placed above the shoulders of the first row of soldiers, and the spear points pointed out, forming a second line of guns. At the same time, Luo Yuanan heard the shouts and commands from the officers of each team behind him. According to the usual drills,
He knew that behind him were the third row of spearmen, their spear points pointing diagonally at the ground.
The original spear formation only had two rows of spearmen. After actual combat drills with the "Wolf Army", a third row was added. The purpose was to prevent the Khitan people from rolling into the spear formation. During the drill with the "Wolf Army"
, the Khitans' tactics of attacking from the bottom caused great losses to the first few teams. Luo Yuan'an's Jiadu Zuo team was one of them. His ankle was hit continuously by the wooden sticks of the Khitan "Wolf Army"
Three times, in accordance with the drill regulations, Luo Yuanan was counted as dead in battle and withdrew from the drill.
Luo Yuan'an's eyes were fixed on the Khitans who rolled down from their horses. These Khitans were holding small wooden shields and using the momentum of their horses, they rolled from their feet and rushed into the spearmen's array. The horses were in the forest of spears.
He turned around automatically and ran away.
The first row of spearmen immediately swung their spear points downward and stabbed the Khitan people rolling on the ground diagonally under the command of the group leaders. They immediately stabbed seven or eight Khitan people to death on the ground. Some other Khitan people took advantage of the opportunity of the first row.
A row of spearmen pierced the void of their wooden spears and got in. However, they were entangled by a third row of spearmen who had been prepared, and they were settled in the blink of an eye.
More Khitans came forward, some of them holding long swords waving their weapons crazily to block the wooden spears thrust out by the spearmen. The spearman in front of Luo Yuanan was hit by a Khitan man holding a mace nail stick.
He hit his shoulder, and blood suddenly poured out, and he slowly fell to the ground. Luo Yuanan didn't have time to think. According to his usual training, he mechanically took a step forward and moved up to the vacant seat in the front row. Luo Yuanan moved up on top.
At the same time, he took a sudden step forward in accordance with the training requirements, shouted "kill" in his mouth, and thrust out the wooden spear, just in time to push back the Khitan who was using a mace.
After Bu Deng led his troops to rush forward, Tu Li felt that the situation was not as simple as he thought. Under the long-range attack of the Pingzhou Army, the Khitan infantry had already lost more than half of its men when they rushed to the front of the Pingzhou Army.
The result surprised Tuli. In addition to being shocked, he was also heartbroken. Those were more than a hundred Khitan warriors, and they were lost on the road before they could reach the enemy. They were also killed when they faced three thousand Mohe people at the foot of Yanjun City.
The loss was so much. But he had no time to think deeply. His many years of combat experience made him immediately issue a second order, and he threw the remaining 200 infantry on hand.
Tuli's second order was timely. The second wave of Khitan people were not attacked by the ultra-long-range arrow screen like before. They only encountered two waves of arrow rain within a hundred steps away, losing more than ten people. The first wave
The input of the second wave of infantry also put Pingzhou Army's gun formation under tremendous pressure, and the two sides fought fiercely on the front line of the battle.
Li Chengzhong stood under his general's flag and stared at the front line of the fighting gun formation. He felt a little proud and a little proud. These people who fled outside the customs could not even hold their swords and guns steadily a few months ago. After passing
After training for a whole winter, now when fighting in formation, they are no weaker than those Khitan people who have experienced countless battles. Although their fighting skills and personal bravery are not as good as those of their opponents, with strict discipline and obedience, they can rely on
With an almost reflexive familiarity with the formation, they really withstood the Khitan's frontal attack.
In front of the rows of spears, the Khitan people suffered heavy losses. The rows of Khitan soldiers who rushed forward were knocked over by the spears. Some Khitan soldiers who tried to fight in from the lower wall were also shot by the guns from the back row.
Lin Nail was pinned to the ground. But despite this, their bravery still caused heavy casualties to the soldiers of the former camp.
Although the gun array on the front line was as solid as a rock, the damage was not small. In the short moment when the battle line was stalemate, more than 20 gunmen were killed in the battle. The gaps between them were occupied by the second row and the third row.
The platoon of gunmen stepped forward. Although the exchange ratio was almost 1:2 or even 1:3, Li Chengzhong still couldn't afford such a loss. He only had more than 400 soldiers. If the exchange was allowed to continue like this
, how much does he have left?
Li Chengzhong turned his attention to the Khitan brigade and the two cavalry groups on both sides in the distance, and fell into hard thinking. If he maintained the formation without making any changes, he would lose most of his spearmen. When the Khitan cavalry began to attack, what would he use?
Resist? If you change your formation, you will automatically be relieved of your biggest reliance against cavalry charges. If your opponent reacts quickly and immediately launches a cavalry charge when you change formations, the front battalion is likely to collapse on the spot. This is a dilemma.
Changing means slowly waiting to die. Changing formation is likely to lead to death immediately. What should we do?
The troops are too small. If he had a thousand soldiers, no, even if he only had 800, based on the performance of the soldiers in the front camp today, he would be completely confident of defeating his opponent. However, the reality is before him. He only has a total of more than 400.
After struggling in his heart, Li Chengzhong finally decided to change his formation. Instead of waiting for death slowly, it was better to seize the "possibility". He wanted to bet that the Khitan cavalry would not be mobilized in time. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Khitan cavalry was still far away.
Annihilate the Khitan infantry in front of him as soon as possible. If the Khitan cavalry can charge later, he can rely on his daily rigorous training to have the soldiers in the front camp reorganize their spear formation before the Khitan cavalry rushes to his side.
Li Chengzhong took out a small flag that was long horizontally and short vertically from the flag box held by Zhou Xiaolang behind him, and raised it in the air. The strict formation immediately began to change. The spearmen on the left and right sides were centered on the first soldier in the front row of the formation.
, respectively made diagonal forward arc movements. At the command of the team officer, the soldiers marched with their guns drawn, and gradually turned to the front. It looked like two wings in the phalanx were opened and wrapped forward.
This kind of formation change is very difficult. If it is not handled well, the entire array will be separated midway. However, the soldiers in the former battalion have gone through a winter of split training, and this kind of formation change has almost become a habit of the soldiers, and soon
Naturally, it was completed according to the command of the team officer, and the formation was very neat. The two wings reached the designated position at almost the same time at the same step. This was an extremely perfect formation change before the battle, and the degree of perfection even reached
This is a level of proficiency that can only be achieved after several months of hard practice and hundreds of times. The soldiers' familiarity with formation changes has been deeply rooted in their bones.
As both wings opened at the same time, the soldiers from the front camp formed an encirclement on the Khitan people, attacking the Khitan people surrounded in the center from three directions. Rows of wooden spears shot out, and rows of Khitan soldiers were knocked over.
On the ground, screams resounded through the grassland. Attacks from the flanks are always the most lethal. Khitan soldiers were killed by wooden guns in groups, without even the strength to fight back. Everything was like a massacre, a naked massacre.
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Bu Deng waved his mace stick with both hands and smashed wildly at the wooden spears thrust in front of him. He had charged several times, but was blocked by the wooden spears of the Han soldiers in front of him. Two of these Han soldiers or
They work in groups of three, and their cooperation is very sophisticated. Every time they rush forward, there will always be two or three wooden spears stabbing them. The wooden spear in the front stabs their chest, and the wooden spear next to them stabs their waist and ribs.
.Just two simple stabbing movements, but they always come back in vain.
Bu Deng was angry and helpless and danced the mace into a ball of bright flowers, preparing to attack again, but suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the back of his heart. His movements immediately stopped, and then he was shot by the Han soldier in front of him.
Chest. He slowly turned behind him in disbelief, trying to figure out what was going on behind him, but he saw that all the Khitan soldiers he led behind him had fallen to the ground. They were surrounded by Han soldiers from both sides.
They were all killed on the side and behind.
He turned his eyes to both sides of him again, and saw that the Khitan soldiers who were fighting alongside him were also stabbed to the ground in the blink of an eye. Buden didn't understand how these Han soldiers killed them on both sides and behind him. He wanted to say
What? He opened his mouth but before he could say anything, the world in front of him quickly turned black.