There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 3388: The chariot breaks through the formation and defeats the cavalry
Chapter 3388: The chariot breaks through the formation and defeats the cavalry
The expressions of Sun Chu and Hu Laoliu changed slightly. They looked behind them and heard a rumble. Zhu Lingshi was driving a four-wheeled chariot with his own hands. There was no baffle installed and the vehicle was empty. No one was there.
, the four horses pulling the chariot were in high spirits and were wearing armor. The chariot galloped to the back of everyone, and then stopped about ten steps away.
On the side and behind Zhu Lingshi, there were more than twenty chariots galloping in place. The chariots were driving long strategies and reining in the horses' heads. There were three archers on the chariots, all holding powerful crossbows instead of ordinary chariots.
With a walking bow, two soldiers holding long spears stood behind the driver, one on the left and one on the right, to provide him with protection.
Sun Chu laughed: "Big Shitou, you came here very quickly. We were in a tight situation here, and you killed us right away."
At this point, Sun Chu frowned slightly: "It's just that these chariots of yours are not equipped with baffles. If they are facing off against the cavalry, I'm afraid the crossbowmen on the vehicles will not be protected."
Zhu Lingshi nodded and pointed to the carriage: "I brought the baffles, but I didn't have time to install them. I was thinking about you, and I was afraid something would go wrong, so I brought thirty chariots without installing the baffles.
The police rushed over, and I didn’t even have time to put guards in my car.”
Without saying a word, Sun Chu jumped off his horse, and then rushed onto Zhu Lingshi's chariot. The guard on one side threw a long spear, which Sun Chu took in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "
Big Stone, you are the commander-in-chief and you should not take risks lightly. I will be your chariot guard."
Zhu Lingshi nodded and waved his hand at the chariots on the left and right: "Charge forward. We don't want to destroy the enemy at once. We just need to break the enemy's formation and prevent their assault."
The charioteers on several chariots stood up and saluted, then raised their whips. The wheels of the chariots rolled and rumbled. With the sergeants on the chariots shouting in unison, they walked towards a team of ten people a hundred steps away.
, all the armored cavalry advancing together rushed over.
Sun Chu nodded to Hu Laoliu: "Lao Liu, while you are on top of the chariot, hurry up and reorganize your team. Once our chariot gains the advantage, we will take advantage of the situation to chase down the enemy."
Hu Laoliu gritted his teeth and said: "I only need half a moment to organize the team. Then I will obey the generals' orders!"
He said and ran to the side without looking back.
Zhu Lingshi sighed softly: "This battle is really hard for Hu Laoliu and the others. I have seen it clearly along the way. They are the ones who have suffered the biggest loss. They are just delaying it with the lives of their brothers."
Time, if it weren't for their hard work, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to catch up in time. The enemy only has half a moment to get out of our encirclement, and it would be difficult to catch up again!"
Sun Chu nodded. Sixty or seventy steps away, the chariot had already engaged the opponent's armored cavalry. The crossbows on both sides were firing fiercely. However, the infantry crossbows on the chariot were obviously in such a situation.
The ten-step crossbow had an advantage, after all, the crossbow was more powerful than an ordinary cavalry bow.
Even the armored cavalrymen wearing heavy armor were hit by this powerful crossbow. They were also heavily armored. Once they hit the vital point, they would die immediately. You can see several teams of armored cavalrymen in the first few rows, and more than half of the riders.
, were no longer sitting upright on the back of the horse, but lying on the horse. Obviously, they were dead or injured, but they still did not fall off the horse.
On the Jin army's chariot, the warriors holding spears and shields waved their weapons vigorously, especially the warriors holding shields, who simply jumped to the side of the charioteer to shield him from the oncoming long arrows.
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However, these shield guards and the strong crossbowmen behind them were completely without protection. Once the opponent's bows and arrows hit these crossbowmen, they would also be killed by the arrows. Some people kept screaming and fell off the chariot.
It only rolled a few times in the sky-high smoke and dust, and then stopped moving.
On the chariot in front, an officer blew two rapid horn blasts. The two sides were within fifty steps, and the crossbowmen on all the chariots jumped from the back of the chariot.
Due to the huge inertia, some people were temporarily unstable and fell to the ground, but they immediately jumped up from the ground, holding the crossbow in their hands, standing there, facing the armored cavalry dozens of steps away, and started to
A precise shot.
This time, the targets they shot were no longer people, but the legs of war horses. Although these armored horses were also wearing vests, their legs were exposed. The crossbowmen of the Jin army were specially
Target the horse's legs that are not protected by the armor, especially the knees between the thighs and thighs, and shoot them in bursts.
For a moment, flying arrows were like locusts, and the sad neighing sounds of horses whose legs were shot off were endless. Along with the sound of war horses falling to the ground, with just one round of shooting, there were more than twenty armored horses, including men and horses.
He was shot to the ground.
Because the armored cavalry were lined up at close range just now, forming a dense formation to charge, this fall caused a chain reaction, causing several surrounding horses to fall to the ground as well.
Soon, more than half of the first batch of hundred-man cavalry fell, and the remaining knights could only hold their reins and dodge back and forth. How could they bother to attack calmly like they did just now with arrows in hand?
Where is the enemy?
Taking advantage of the chaos on the opposite side, the chariots suddenly started running at full speed. Now almost all the chariots no longer had crossbowmen, only the charioteers and two or three shield guards and crossbowmen were left.
The spearmen held up their long spears and placed them on both sides of the chariot. They did not stab any specific enemy troops, but cut them horizontally like this. This was a powerful move used by chariots when charging into the formation, and was similar to that of Western Asia.
Compared with harvesting human heads with a scythe chariot, it also has the same effect.
The front-line armored cavalry and more than ten tanks passed by each other. As soon as they met, more than twenty cavalry were swept off their horses, and some even swept people and horses to the ground.
Knights in full armor would often be crushed to death by their mounts. What's more, the knights and horses fell together and were unable to move. When the knights were about to struggle to get up, they found a new chariot following them.
, they ran over their bodies, and some people were actually crushed in half by the wheels, as if they had been cut in half by a giant axe, with their intestines flowing out, and they died horribly.
Mu Yugang's roar sounded in the second formation: "Don't panic, jam their wheels, shoot back at Wu'er!"
Following his words, all the armored cavalrymen woke up from a dream. More than a hundred cavalrymen from the second team rushed forward this time, but they no longer formed a close formation like before. They spread out and started from the side of the chariot.
Rushing up, they no longer wanted to sit on the horse and stab the enemy like their previous companions. Instead, they leaned on the saddle to avoid the flying swords on themselves, while their riding horses were dragged to the ground and intertwined.
When it passed, it was violently drawn into the axle.