There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 286: The Xiongnu Cavalry and Shooting Raid the Jin Formation
Chapter 286: The Xiongnu Cavalry and Shooting Raid the Jin Formation
At this time, the Hun cavalry on the opposite side were about 300 steps away from the Jin army's front army, and were out of the range of bows and arrows. They also stopped. The rushing black air of the Hun cavalry when they came gradually dissipated. It turned out that it was rolled up by the horses while running.
Liu Yu made a rough estimate of the amount of dust. All the Huns knights were riding on war horses, and there were two thousand of them.
The Huns' horses did not have armor, and even the cavalry on horseback mostly wore cotton robes instead of iron armor.
But the enemy soldiers were all equipped with huge bows, and it was obvious that they were strong bows. As for the weapons they held, they were of all kinds: spears, maces, battle axes, sabers, and bronze hammers.
Liu Yu saw a general in white armor galloping back and forth in front of the opponent's formation, constantly spying on him. Among the thousands of enemy cavalry in sight, he was the only one wearing full armor. At this moment,
About a mile away from our direction.
While he was not looking at his own work, Liu Yu picked up the iron bow, attached the longest long wolf tooth arrow, calculated the angle and wind direction, and shot an arrow into the sky.
I saw that the white-armored enemy general was still looking away, and suddenly he felt a strong wind coming. When I looked up, I saw an arrow flying towards me along the sunlight with a shrill whistle. It was too late to dodge.
The arrow fell from the sky with huge potential energy, drew an incredible trajectory, and shot through his neck at once.
The white-armored general shouted, fell off his horse and died. The noisy Xiongnu cavalry suddenly became silent, while the warriors in the front row of the Jin army burst into thunderous cheers.
The range of ordinary bows and arrows is only sixty or seventy steps. Even long archers with amazing arm strength can only shoot to more than a hundred steps using this method of arcing into the air. Although the white-robed general is walking back and forth in front of the formation,
Mercedes-Benz, who was at least 150 steps away from Liu Yu, was actually killed by an arrow. The accuracy and strength of this shot were so shocking that even the many sharpshooters in the Xiongnu array were stunned by this magical skill.
Liu Yu succeeded with one blow and was very proud of himself. He enjoyed the feeling of being worshiped by his own side and even the enemy like a tsunami in front of the tens of thousands of troops. He turned back and smiled at Xiang Jing and others who were clapping and applauding him.
He said: "You see, the enemy cavalry is nothing to be afraid of. They are also human beings and will die. Today, I will defeat them together with you!"
All the soldiers of Beifu shouted in unison: "Destroy the Hu, destroy the Hu, destroy the Hu!" While shouting, they stamped their feet hard on the ground, and the waves of their voices were louder than the other, overwhelming the sky and the earth.
Shu Ke on the other side looked at Liu Yu with gritted teeth. The person who just went out to be killed with an arrow was his brother. He wanted to show off his power in front of the Jin army, but he didn't expect to kill him with an arrow directly. He shouted sharply.
Shout: "Charge and shoot them to death!"
A dull horn sounded, and Shu Yeke, who was standing at the front of the Huns' formation, raised the mace in his hand high. Behind him, the eight hundred cavalry began to walk slowly, slowly accelerating, accelerating.
, accelerate again, gallop, run, sprint!
The well-trained Huns cavalry let out a soul-stirring roar, increased their speed from standstill to the maximum, and ran wildly with four hooves, like thunder chasing the moon. The eight hundred cavalry swept up the dust in the sky, like a yellow dragon,
It rolled towards the Jin army's square formation two miles away.
Liu Yu shouted sternly: "Brothers, Luo Yang!"
Originally, the Jin troops were standing on the same spot holding on to the two-foot-long super-long gaol with one hand. After hearing Liu Yu's order and being issued with countless bugles, the sound of bugles spread across the 500 square meters of the front line.
The sergeants roared in unison, and changed the long pole to be held with both hands, raising it to waist level. At the end of the pole, small copper blocks were hung one by one to balance the two-foot-long pole.
Extra long stride.
The sergeants in the first row squatted down and raised their long spears upward at an angle of thirty degrees, while the sergeants in the second row put their long spears on the shoulders of their companions in the front row. The rough roars of the officers in the front spread across the entire battlefield: "
Hold on, hold on!"
The sound of iron hoofs on the ground is getting closer and closer, just like the heartbeat of the front-line soldiers of the Jin army, which is constantly accelerating. The smoke and dust have followed the strong wind, wrapping the front-line Jin army soldiers in pieces of smoke.
It became difficult for them to open their eyes. However, what rushed directly with the sound of the first wave of iron hooves was not a real Huqi war horse, but a storm of bows and arrows!
The more than two hundred Jin army commanders standing on the front line suddenly became like arrows. These warriors wearing heavy armor are all strong men with natural strength, and they are also covered with two layers of fine steel.
The armor is almost a large iron plate covering the chest, with densely packed armor plates covering the leather armor. This kind of protection is enough to block the swords in a face-to-face fight.
However, in the face of these dozens of steps, the bows and arrows fired by the Huns' cavalry, the bows and arrows fired by these three-stone or more cavalry crossbows or the two-stone or more cavalry crossbows were enough to penetrate the large wooden shields at this distance.
Many of the fine steel armor pieces of the leather armor were shot through, and in places without heavy armor protection, especially the front door, the arrows penetrated the skull immediately. From time to time, someone fell straight down, and those in the back row
The companions quickly added up, and a shower of arrows washed away. More than ten corpses fell on the ground on the front line, but the formation remained motionless.
From the gap in the Jin army's formation, more than a hundred crossbowmen holding infantry crossbows rushed out. They did not need to aim into the smoke and dust. They just fired a burst of crossbows, and the crossbow arrows like locusts penetrated into the smoke and dust.
In the center, the tip of the arrow penetrates the armor, and the sound of the arrow penetrating into the flesh can be heard continuously. From time to time, there are also the sounds of horses falling to the ground and the neighing and screaming, making a loud noise.
The commanders of the Jin army cheered. The sergeants in the front row straightened up and were about to charge forward. However, another burst of crossbow bolts flew out of the smoke. The soldiers in the platoon who had just stood up,
This time, more than twenty people were shot down, and there was a slight chaos and disorder in the formation.
At this moment, on the right side of the square formation, another burst of dense crossbow bolts flew. It was the Huns' cavalry that passed through the enemy's front in an arc.
He retreated to the rear, but continued to move forward diagonally, rushing towards the enemy's flank.
Because there was a lot of smoke and dust at this time, and there was nothing to distinguish on all sides, the Jin army's long square formation was hit by a burst of bows and arrows on the side. Compared with its highly protected front, the armor on its flanks was obviously much weaker, especially around the neck.
Some people were shot through by an arrow. They screamed and dropped the weapons in their hands, desperately grabbing at the bloody holes in their necks.
Liu Yu looked stern and shouted: "No chaos, turn your flanks to meet the enemy!"