Facing Zhao Tianlin's sudden counterattack, although Qiu Fu had forewarned him, he was unable to do anything in this situation. He was already riding a tiger and it was difficult to get out of the situation. If he wanted to retreat, he would be killed by the cavalry of Zhao Tianlin's Longwu Army.
Now besides fighting to the end with Zhao Tianlin,
But he was not worried, because Zhao Tianlin's military strength was only half of his, Long Wu's army was elite, and his soldiers and horses were also good at fighting.
Qiu Fu was now exposed in front of the formation only part of his total strength, so even though he knew Zhao Tianlin was retreating in search of a fighter, he still pursued him without hesitation.
Even if the two armies on the left and right were gradually thrown away during the pursuit, he did not care at all.
He has a fierce and courageous character, and rushing forward is also one of his military tactics.
Qiu Fu was amazed when he saw Zhao Tianlin's more than 50,000 soldiers and horses rapidly retreating, changing their formations in the blink of an eye to form a huge attack formation at the sound of a drum. Zhao Tianlin's reputation was not as good as that of the head coach of the Fifth Army.
, is not as good as Yang Qingyuan, the Marquis of Wuxiang who is hiding in the shadow of the empire, but his command and control of these 50,000 soldiers and horses will never be inferior to any famous general.
Qiu Fu asked himself that he couldn't do such a clean and neat change of formation.
However, when he saw Zhao Tianlin's tooth flag appearing in front of the formation, and the more than 50,000 soldiers pointed by the tooth flag heading towards his own army, Qiu Fu was not surprised but overjoyed.
This is Zhao Tianlin's counterattack and also his opportunity.
Although the soldiers and horses of his central army are much weaker than Zhao Tianlin's Longwu Army, the 20,000 soldiers and horses in front of him at this time are not his real strength. His real trump card is that they are heavily blocked by 20,000 soldiers.
, which has never been revealed, are the two cavalrymen located in the rear formation of the central army.
King Zhao's Mansion has been fighting against Hou Jin all year round, and cavalry is the strength of King Zhao's army.
Before the war to destroy Hou Jin began, King Zhao took the lead and took hundreds of thousands of young people from Hou Jin into his rule.
The Mohe Jurchens of the Hou Jin Dynasty were a fishing and hunting tribe, and they were very brave. Even though they were equipped with weapons and horses at a disadvantage, they were able to withstand the pressure of the Zhao Palace.
Now that Mohe is young and strong, coupled with King Zhao's weapons and horses and training methods, his combat power will inevitably rise to a higher level.
The cavalry hidden by Qiu Fu were two mixed cavalry formed by the elite veterans of King Zhao's army and the young and strong men of Mohe.
This is also a reflection of King Zhao's personality charm. The mixed cavalry was trained by King Zhao himself.
At the beginning, there was a blood feud between King Zhao's cavalry and Mohe Qingzhuang. Many people died in the war between the two sides for many years. They should have been incompatible with each other, but after King Zhao's personal training and running-in, the mixed cavalry has become completely
Integrate into one.
The more than 10,000 crossbowmen Qiu Fu originally planned to line up on the left and right wings also fell behind in the pull of both sides, making it impossible to block Zhao Tianlin's offensive with crossbows in the first place.
However, Qiu Fu thinks the problem is not big and the advantage lies with me.
With Zhao Tianlin's 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, it is impossible to penetrate his central army's formation in a short period of time.
As long as he delayed Zhao Tianlin's army for two cups of tea, the left and right armies that were now lagging behind could quickly catch up, re-form the left and right encirclement formations, and calmly surround Zhao Tianlin's more than 50,000 soldiers. At that time, Zhao Tianlin was
It’s really hard to fly without wings.
Zhao Tianlin can probably guess Qiu Fu's plan, and Qiu Fu can guess Zhao Tianlin's plan roughly, and the remaining 20% will be the winner of this battle.
The 50,000-strong Longwu Army retreated very quickly before, but now they suddenly rushed forward like tigers down the mountain. They were more than 200 steps away when the Zhou army counterattacked, so the infantry of King Zhao's army had no time to react and were still in the process of advancing in pursuit.
In the blink of an eye, the front of Zhao Wang's army was within the range of Zhou Jun's magical crossbow.
Zhao Tianlin gave an order, and the familiar and sweet "buzz" sound suddenly sounded.
Since Yang Qingyuan retired, the military reform of the Great Zhou Dynasty began.
Although he was not in the court or the army, Yang Qingyuan's ideas were recognized by the Zhou army.
What determines the outcome of a war is not only the eliteness of the soldiers, but also the high morale of the soldiers.
It is important to give full play to subjective initiative, but it is also important to create excellent objective conditions for soldiers and generals.
Among the five major field armies, Yang Qingyuan only tested new training methods in the newly built Longwu Army, while Tiance, Shence, Yulin, and Shenwu remained unchanged. The real reforms were in logistics, transportation and ordnance and equipment.
Yang Qingyuan found the people from the Luban Divine Ax Sect, and they joined the generals and supervisors of the Great Zhou Dynasty to start the improvement and innovation of ordnance.
The five thousand crossbowmen in the middle of the military formation fired first, and they were still projectiles. More than ten thousand crossbow arrows formed a black rain of arrows and roared into the unsuspecting infantry formation of Qiu Fuzhong's army who did not stop in the blink of an eye.
The powerful crossbow arrows used gravity to tear apart the solid armor of Qiu Fuzhong's soldiers. Blood suddenly appeared, and they screamed in pain. A large piece of Qiu Fuzhong's infantry who was still pursuing them fell instantly.
Just after the first wave of crossbow arrows passed, "Buzz", another wave of five thousand crossbow arrows were thrown out from the center of the counterattacking Longwu Army. The infantry of Qiu Fuzhong Army, who had just breathed a sigh of relief and was lucky to escape with his life, heard this
The familiar terrifying screams suddenly changed everyone's expressions, and the formations were in chaos.
The Divine Machine Crossbow is not something only the Longwu Army has.
There are also many in King Zhao's army. Although the performance of King Zhao's own imitation is not as good as the genuine Shenji crossbow produced by General Jiang, it still has 80% performance.
Regardless of the merits of the crossbows of the two armies, their mechanism will not change. No one expected that the Longwu Army could launch the crossbow so quickly and fire a second wave of crossbow arrows during the attack. After another series of miserable cries, Qiu Fuzhong's army
The infantry became much sparser, and there were many more wounded corpses on the ground. These two waves of arrow rain reduced Qiu Fu's Chinese army to almost 4,000 men.
Not only the soldiers of King Zhao's army, but also the general Qiu Fu turned pale when he heard the second wave of crossbows whistling in front of the southern army's formation.
Among the Wednesday crossbows, the Shenji Crossbow is used to break armor and strengthen soldiers; while the Xuanji Crossbow can fire ten arrows in a row, causing a continuous rain of arrows.
If the Southern Army can really combine the characteristics of the Mysterious Crossbow and the Divine Machine Crossbow, and equip itself with an armor-breaking crossbow that can fire continuously, then its Chinese Army will be just a feast of military exploits in front of the Southern Army.
"Blow the trumpet!" Qiu Fu shouted quickly.
"Woooooo!" The dull and thick horn horn sounded in Qiu Fu's central army. This was a message calling for the left and right armies to speed up and come to support.
Qiu Fu's left and right armies could hear this sound, and Zhao Tianlin on the opposite side could naturally hear it.
"Buzz!" The roar of the third wave of arrow rain instantly overshadowed the sound of the horns that sounded in Qiu Fu's army. This time the crossbow arrows were obviously much denser than the previous two. They densely covered the sky, forming a large dark cloud that swarmed in.
Down.
At a rough count, there are nearly 20,000 arrows.
There were not only 5,000 crossbowmen in Longwu's army, but his 20,000 cavalry were also equipped with riding crossbows.
Just as this wave of arrow rain fell, the third wave of arrow rain from five thousand crossbowmen fell again like raindrops.
This kind of feather arrows lasted for five rounds.
In just over ten breaths, Long Wu's army fired a total of 45,000 crossbow arrows at King Zhao's army.
The results of these 50,000 crossbow arrows were also extremely brilliant. Even Zhao Tianlin, who was using the new crossbow machine in actual combat for the first time, couldn't help but feel lost for a moment when he saw the tragic situation of Qiu Fuzhong's army on the opposite side.
After losing my mind, I felt deeply frightened.
After the crossbows fired, the infantry of Qiu Fuzhong's army injured more than 15,000 people, leaving only a few sparse infantry.
Under such intense firepower, it was truly a blessing from heaven to be able to fall to the ground without any casualties.
Wails filled the ground, and blood flowed into rivers.
This situation also fully exposed the two cavalrymen that Qiu Fu had hidden, because the infantry that were blocking them were basically lying on the ground now.
Zhao Tianlin was shocked when he saw these two cavalrymen. If it were not for the new crossbow machine of the Great Zhou Dynasty, then the counterattack that he thought would be a success would have ended up in his grave.
The black cavalry, both men and horses wearing heavy armor, is a heavy cavalry. Once it attacks, it is difficult to contain the heavy cavalry.
Compared to Zhao Tianlin who was absent-minded for a moment, Qiu Fu was truly lost and there were even several personal guards around him.
Before the two sides came into contact with each other, the elite infantry under his command lost 15,000 people.
In just a few dozen breaths, he was wiped out by a wave of fierce crossbows from the Confederate Army. Qiu Fu's heart was bleeding. What followed was deep fear.
He had always thought that with his own talents and an army twice as large as Zhao Tianlin's, he should be able to defeat Zhao Tianlin, but now, he was a little unsure whether he could win.
If this powerful crossbow sea can still be launched, then even a hundred thousand troops may not be able to win.
Whether it was the Confederate army who personally caused such a major victory, or the surviving infantry or cavalry who experienced it personally, they were all shocked by the lethality of the Confederate army's powerful new crossbow machine and stopped on the spot.
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The battlefield that was supposed to be filled with shouts of death fell into an eerie silence at this moment.
The first person to react on the battlefield was Qiu Fu.
"Whoever takes Zhao Tianlin's head will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold and will be granted the title of Marquis of ten thousand households!"
Qiu Fu rode on his horse and shouted loudly, his high-pitched voice soaring into the sky.
As Qiu Fu fell, more than ten thousand light cavalry rushed out from the two wings of the three thousand heavy cavalry with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai.
The heavy cavalry, which had been hidden by Qiu Fu in the central army, was also fully dressed and began to accelerate slowly.
The light cavalry divided into two groups and surrounded them, obviously hoping to hold all the 50,000 dragon warriors here. As long as the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings arrived, Qiu Fu could counterattack.
When Zhao Tianlin heard Qiu Fu's shouting, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, and his tooth flag pointed at Qiu Fu's location.
Following the command, the original forwards spread out to the two wings, and a group of heavy armored infantry wearing plate armor and holding a black gold saber appeared in front of the heavy cavalry.
The Jinyang Army and the Zhanma Camp once showed great success in the first battle with the Hou Jin Army.
Originally, the horse-killing battalion was used to fight against the light cavalry, but now Zhao Tianlin could only let them fight Qiu Fu's iron cavalry.
If the heavy cavalry is allowed to attack, the Longwu Army's formation will be broken up in a short time.
We must first withstand the charge of the heavy cavalry, regardless of the cost or casualties!
Qiu Fu's light cavalry attacked on the left and right separately. This mixed light cavalry skillfully took off their long bows while galloping and shot at Longwu's army from both wings.
This is the power of the mixed cavalry. With the addition of the Mohe Jurchen, the cavalry and archery skills of King Zhao's army have greatly improved.
He picked up his bow and arrows, and fired more than ten thousand feathered arrows from both wings at Zhou's infantry.
This sudden attack of more than 10,000 feather arrows caused the more than 2,000 Longwu Army infantry on the outside of the wings to scream and fall to the ground.
Although the ordinary infantry of Longwu Army were armored, they were still unable to resist the armor-piercing arrows thrown by King Zhao's army.
Zhao Tianlin, who was in the middle army, looked at the more than 2,000 old soldiers who had followed him since the defense battle of Jinyang and fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, with eyes wide open.
These are all the old brothers who accompanied him from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood!
Chen Qu, the commander of the cavalry on the left wing, saw this scene and knew that he could not let such a light cavalry loose his arms and legs to fight. He immediately whipped his horse hard and rushed out first, followed closely by hundreds of guards who guarded Chen Qu.
They all rode their horses to catch up, firmly protecting Chen Qu in the middle.
"Kill with me!"
The elite cavalry on the left and right wings of the Longwu Army also fought out under the leadership of the general.
Qiu Fu's mixed cavalry could only fire one round of feather arrows, and then they collided hard with Long Wujun's fine cavalry.
The head-on confrontation between light cavalry is a clash of blood and courage.
The moment the two armies met, the sounds of broken bones and tendons were heard, accompanied by the continuous screams of the horses.
The cavalrymen of the two armies at the front suddenly fell down, including their men and their horses.
Although the Longwu Army had an advantage in the battle, it could not completely defeat or strangle the mixed cavalry in a short period of time.
Due to the obstruction of the mixed cavalry, the Longwu Army cavalry could not penetrate quickly, posing a threat to Qiu Fu.
If the strength of the two armies is equal, then everything is easy to say. The key is that Qiu Fu has 40,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry on his left and right wings, who are surrounding him and are about to arrive to completely surround Zhao Tianlin.
At this time, Qiu Fu's heavy armored cavalry also began to charge, rushing towards the formation of the Zhanma camp with an overwhelming and unrivaled momentum.
The light and heavy cavalry were activated at the same time, which meant that the defense around Qiu Fu was empty.
At this moment, the infantry suffered heavy losses, and the cavalry attacked one after another. Qiu Fu was surrounded by only a thousand personal guards.
From the original light cavalry, the Longwu Army once again separated three thousand cavalry from the left and right wings and outflanked Qiu Fu.
The battle between the two armies is a constant game between encirclement and counter-encirclement.
This immediately frightened the light cavalry who were attacking the Zhou army. They hurriedly wanted to give up the battle and rush back to rescue Qiu Fu.
It doesn't matter whether they win or lose in a short period of time, but if the general is captured and killed, then they will only be defeated!
Qiu Fu's bravery was also fully revealed at this moment. "Crazy Qiu", a rare man who fought extremely bravely on the Houjin battlefield, once again showed his fangs.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The sound of the war drums beside Qiu Fu became more intense, which was a signal to continue the attack.
Qiu Fu had no intention of letting his cavalry return to defense!
He wanted to fight Zhao Tianlin to see if Zhao Tianlin's cavalry would defeat his remaining infantry and personal guards first, or if his troops on the left and right wings would arrive first!