‘Tata! Tata!’ The rapid sound of horse hooves came, and a large cloud of dust appeared in the distance. From the mountain pig’s point of view, it seemed as if thousands of troops were rushing over.
However, Shanzhu'er, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, knows that judging from the distance of the dust rising, this is a feint attack.
Karakhan's light cavalry on the opposite side deliberately made the sky full of dust, hoping to use intimidation to attract the panicked infantry array to fire arrows.
You must know that on the battlefield, there are countless arrows that a soldier can shoot under the extreme tension of wearing armor. Generally, a soldier with a hard bow of more than eight buckets can shoot five arrows in a row before taking a break. At the same time, the bowstring will also change due to rapid pulling in a short period of time.
Motivation decreases.
Therefore, if cavalry fights infantry, if they are not particularly anxious, they will usually choose to intimidate first, wasting the infantry's arrows and energy.
However, these Karakhan cavalry were destined to be disappointed. Shanzhu'er and others were specially transferred from the Hanshandu warriors on both wings to the front row, just to control the strong archers in the front row.
"Don't move!" A loud shout came from the captain of the front line of spearmen.
"Don't move!" the spearman shouted in unison, sitting on the ground without moving.
"Don't shoot!" The wild boar also shouted.
"Don't shoot!" The strong archers in the second row also shouted collectively, and no one was ready to set up a bow and shoot an arrow!
The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the thumping sound of horse hooves seemed to hit the hearts of the soldiers on the left and right. Many of them looked nervous and turned pale. The charging cavalry had an amazing momentum, as if they could penetrate them immediately.
The same as the big formation.
"Oh! Oh!" After a hundred steps, the mountain pig suddenly shouted like an ape, and while calling him, he pulled out an arrow from the Hulu.
Following his strange screams, the same screams and actions of drawing out arrows were heard from around him. Boarer looked sideways and saw that none of the soldiers had drawn out arrows. Those who screamed strangely were all chosen.
Officer and marksman.
Ninety steps! Boarer took a deep breath and slowly pulled the bow string to its full length, then lightly relaxed it with his right hand.
The bow string pushes the arrow forward with huge thrust. The straight arrow shaft creates the best conditions for the arrow's flight. The air resistance it encounters is reduced to the minimum, and the trembling arrow shaft is not unnatural.
bend, and waste most of the kinetic energy!
‘Pfft!’ After just a second or two, the arrow accurately found the target who was roaring wildly on a war horse, and the slender fine iron blade easily penetrated his leather armor.
The rider seemed to have stopped in the air. The huge push pushed him backwards. He stretched out his hands and squeezed desperately, trying to hold on to the reins that had just been released.
But a sense of powerlessness came from his whole body, and he could no longer hold his loosened hand. He opened his mouth to scream, and a stream of blood mixed with gastric juice suddenly burst out!
"Bah!" The war horse neighed on behalf of the rider. Losing control, it instinctively broke away from the team and began to run to both sides. After all, the horse was forced to run wildly. Without orders, it still wanted to leave the surroundings.
Madman' stay away.
A shocking bloodstain drew a horizontal line on the gray ground. The rider's feet got stuck in the stirrups, and his blood-red head was dragged further and further on the ground by the horse.
It was not only this knight who was hit by arrows, but also seven or eight other knights. Moreover, Boar's and others' shots were targeted, with fifteen arrows shooting in eight or nine different directions.
Suddenly, knights were shot off their horses everywhere. The Karakhan cavalry, who were originally on a mission to intimidate, were so frightened that they really thought that thousands of arrows were fired in the stacked formation. In the panic, they had no time to rein in their horses and retreat, so they were forced to form a figure eight.
They walked around the forest of spears in front of them and dispersed to both sides.
'Boom! Boom! Boom!' When they had just rounded the front line, the sound of intensive bows and arrows immediately sounded. This was the Hanshandu warriors on both wings shooting. They used divine arm bows and had no worries about physical strength.
You can shoot arrows without any scruples.
Now the Karakhan Qingqi that passed by the formation were unlucky. Originally, there were not many of them, because if there were more, it would not be intimidation but cannon fodder. The Fengtian Army must have a small number of people to allow the Fengtian Army to shoot.
The arrow was shot, but no damage was done.
When the light cavalry encounters the divine arm bow, you can imagine the tragedy!
The running light cavalry bypassed the Hanshandu warriors who took the initiative to attack, and immediately felt as if a layer of skin had been peeled off. At least twenty or thirty cavalry were lost in a short time. This loss was for the cavalry who only had three or four hundred cavalry.
Said, quite a lot.
However, their misfortune was far from over. There was a horn sound in the stacked formation, and You Yi's army, which was protected by the Han Shandu soldiers on both wings, jumped over and drove out.
Although they are also light cavalry, Zhang Zhao equipped them with hundreds of sets of loop-like ring-lock armors taken from Kara Khan's treasury and Li Shengtian's treasury. This kind of armor only weighs more than ten kilograms and has very good protective power.
Yes, it is the most suitable armor for light cavalry.
The ring-locked armor shattered the leather armor, and the advantage was immediately apparent. The protruding Fengtian Army rode faster and cut off the Qingqi of Karakhan who was hurriedly fleeing for their lives.
One side wanted to kill people and perform meritorious service, while the other side just wanted to escape for their lives. In just ten minutes, one-third of the more than two hundred Karakhan light cavalry who scattered and fled on both sides were lost.
Saktu, who was in the distance, also stood on a small piece of earth. He looked at the battle in the distance and his cheeks couldn't help but twitch.
In such a short exploratory contact, he lost almost a hundred cavalry, not to mention the death of the enemy, and I don't know if there were five injured.
And before that, he had ordered his Qingqi to attack five times in a row, but none of them succeeded in causing panic in the opposing formation.
"Send a signal and give me three thousand cavalry at a time. The archers will circle the front and shoot. The five hundred armored cavalry will try to rush into the front. They only have a dozen large shields. I don't believe that the spearmen can stand and be shot."
!" Saktu waved his hand and gave the order for the second attack.
‘Whoa! Whoa!’ The chaotic ghost screams sounded again, and this time it was obviously a normal attack, because the dust brought up by the horse’s hooves was not a deliberate display of teeth and claws in the chaos, but real pieces.
"Squat!" The captain of the spearman quickly called to the spearman who was sitting on the ground to save his energy and squat down. The command flag behind him waved violently, and the hard archers behind the spearman also drew out the arrows in Hu Luzhong.
"Ninety paces!" With a shout, the officer in charge of measuring the distance shot the last arrow. The place where his arrow landed was the seventy paces. According to the tactics of stacked formations, the enemy cavalry must enter this range.
Finally, the hard archer will start shooting arrows.
Of course, the Karakhan cavalry on the opposite side also knew the danger of entering the range of this arrow. After all, the marked arrow was still very conspicuous.
Therefore, when approaching the stacked formation, according to the practice of the light cavalry, they began to spread out in a figure of eight before seventy steps.
It is absolutely unwise to use horse bows to shoot with foot bows. The real damage depends on the armored cavalry at the back, because the bows of the armored cavalry are different from those of the light cavalry, and they also use hard bows.
"Protect the flanks!" Zhang Zhao shouted.
The flags of Hanshandu on both wings began to wave slowly, and the soldiers of Hanshandu took out their divine arm bows one after another and began to shoot at the dispersed Karakhan Qingqi.
Yan Jin and other brave generals simply took out their Mo Dao and 丩-shaped halberd to protect their flanks to guard against the light cavalry charging into the formation. Although the probability was extremely small, they still had to be prepared.
Seventy steps! Just when the divine arm bows on both wings came to shoot, the wild boar howled, the strong archers in the entire front line loosened their hands in unison, and hundreds of arrows shot out from the formation.
As if being struck by lightning, Karakhan's light cavalry fell in large pieces in the rain of arrows from the sky. Most of them only had leather armor on their bodies and could not withstand the fire of more than eight buckets of hard bows.
However, due to the large number of them, they still fired a batch of arrows during the movement. This wave of damage almost all hit the spearmen in the front line.
The tinkling sound was mixed with screams. Although all the spearmen in the front row were equipped with various armors that Zhang Zhao tricked and kidnapped, most of them wore two layers and had thick clothing bonuses, but after all, they were doing
No full body protection.
Besides, there will always be some particularly unlucky ones among the crowd. Suddenly, seven or eight people in the phalanx of spearmen fell under the fire from the light cavalry on the opposite side.
"Bang!" A spearman at the front looked at the light cavalry getting closer and closer on the opposite side. Hearing the screams of his unlucky comrades in his ears, he suddenly couldn't bear it any longer. He dropped the spear in his hand, raised his leg and thought
Run back.
However, as he was running, he found that he suddenly flew up, and then his vision went black. Before even the pain could reach his mind, his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
"Let's see who dares to fucking run! Whoever runs will die! If you are injured, please crawl to the side and shut your mouth!"
The wild boar was covered in six or seven arrows, its triangular pig eyes glowed fiercely, and the horizontal knife in its hand was still dripping with blood.