In addition to the array of spearmen in the front row, there were also people in the back row carrying steel crossbows.
They are all pure farmers who were refugees before. They have never learned bows and arrows, and they do not have the time. They are very busy farming, working and training.
So they all bought steel crossbows. After all, after three days of training, even children can use these crossbows.
After one round of musket fire, the crossbowmen immediately stepped forward and fired another burst of output.
For a moment, the sound of machine springs was heard in succession, and the steel crossbow arrows, only a dozen centimeters long, flew towards the Heshuote cavalry like locusts.
The Hoshuotes had just been caught off guard by musketry. They didn't know there was an ambush on either side.
At this time, they all raised their left arms.
They usually wear a small round shield on their left arm to protect their chest and abdomen, mainly to block arrows.
However, these steel crossbows are spring steel power storage structures that are wound by a pulley in the receiver. The bow power is very strong. Steel crossbow arrows are short, but very sharp and hard, and are much heavier than bows and arrows.
The kinetic energy was so great that it was enough to penetrate the small bucklers covered with rawhide of the Heshuote people.
Their arm shields were shot through one after another. A large number of people fell off their horses wailing. The saddles on both sides were empty.
As soon as the crossbowmen finished firing, the auxiliary soldiers rushed forward with spears.
Six battalions of spearmen, two battalions on each side, flanked on three sides.
Behind the three fronts, there is also a musketeer battalion. They have loaded their ammunition, are stretching a long line, and have raised their muskets.
The cavalry target is large and high. Because they are on horseback, their bodies are much higher than the spearmen in front. It does not affect the shooting of the musketeers behind the spearmen array. The field of vision is very good.
The spearmen in the front row and the Heshuote cavalry have already engaged.
The galloping cavalry rushed towards the spear formation. The two battalions of spearmen in the front were from the pirate regiment. They were well equipped and wore half plate armor.
They all put the butts of their spears on the ground, and pointed their spears at a 45-degree angle to the sky, aiming at the swarming cavalry.
The spearmen in the first, second and third rows all squatted down, holding their spears leaning forward in their hands.
As the musketeers suddenly stood up, five hundred muskets were aimed at the oncoming cavalry. Just before the cavalry hit the spear formation.
The muskets were fired again.
Bang bang bang! A line of fire flashed across one after another.
The dense lead bullets hit the cavalry like a downpour.
The surging cavalry was immediately stagnant, and the first group of people moved forward to grab the ground and fell.
The knights rolled forward and fell off their horses.
Then, the cavalry of the brigade ran into the spear array.
Although the pirates fought at sea, they had learned the common sense of land warfare for a week before coming to the northwest. They knew that they must hold the spear shaft empty at this time.
Because when the war horses collide, the spear shaft will most likely break.
If you hold it tightly, the exploding wooden pole will hurt your hand. The strong impact of the cavalry will break your arm.
After all, the war horse only weighs four to five hundred kilograms, plus the knight, armor, and various accessories on the horse, plus the bonus of high-speed impact, the momentum is very huge.
One after another, the war horses were pierced by spears and screamed tragically.
A large piece of the spear shaft was broken, and the sound of the explosion was deafening.
The spear shafts are made of hardwood and have no elasticity. They can only explode in the face of strong impact. Wooden spikes and fragments fly everywhere.
Fortunately, the people facing the cavalry here are the pirates and not the militiamen.
Those militiamen may not be able to stop these fierce Heshuote cavalry.
The war horse fell to the ground, and the knight was thrown forward from the direction of the horse's head.
The moment before they collided, they withdrew their feet from the stirrups and prepared to throw them forward. Otherwise, their feet would be stuck in the stirrups and they would be hit by the horses, which would be even more dangerous.
They immediately huddled up and rolled forward.
Trying to use rolling to release the forward force.
Although the Heshuote cavalry and war horses in the front row were stabbed to death with spears one by one and even turned into meat skewers. However, they were not afraid of death and did not hesitate to directly choose to collide.
With both sides fighting for their lives, a large number of pirates in the first three rows were knocked away by their horses.
They rolled and flew backwards, with extensive fractures all over their bodies.
Many people's internal organs were smashed, and they vomited blood and rolled on the ground after struggling for a few times.
The Heshuotes broke through three rows of spearmen from three places, and after paying the price of more than 500 people being stabbed to death by spears, they rushed directly through the spear array.
The spear formation collapsed. Pirates are human beings too, and this is their first time to face off against the overwhelming cavalry. It is not easy to hold on until now.
Zhao Ting could see clearly from the chariot. He knew that the two pirate battalions, relying on three rows of spear arrays, could not stop the more than 3,000 Heshuote cavalry. The arrays were too thin.
If it were an array of fifteen rows of spears, no cavalry would be able to charge through it.
Of course, in that case, Elunqi would not dare to attack head-on.
"Flan cannon, prepare to fire, shotgun, twelve rapid fire rounds." Zhao Ting gave the order again.
The battle raged between the inner and outer circles of Camel City.
The Fran machine guns on the inner circle of Camel City did not dare to fire again because both sides were mixed up.
This kind of indiscriminate attack will definitely kill one of your own people, and this will lead to a military court.
Now, since Heshuote's cavalry broke through the spear formation with the help of five hundred people's desperate collision, the spearmen of the pirate group had collapsed and fled in all directions. They were surrounded by the surging cavalry.
Then Zhao Ting has no scruples.
Elunqi watched the cavalry rush to the front of the inner circle of Camel City. He knew that there would no longer be any guards there. Now everyone was fighting on the battlefield in the outer circle.
He had no intention of paying attention to the infantrymen who were surrounding him on both sides. He wanted to go straight to Huanglong and fight directly into the inner circle of Tuocheng.
Kill their general and middle army, and then burn their food and baggage.
The infantry lost their supplies and, under the harassment of the cavalry, could not last more than a few days before collapsing.
However, at this moment, on the camel city in front, more intensive artillery fire was fired than before.
During this period of time, the previous fighting was enough for Zhao Ting to concentrate all the 500 Fran machine cannons on one side of the camel city.
The muzzles of all five hundred guns were pointed at the three thousand cavalrymen who were breaking through from the front.
Boom boom boom! Five hundred Franco cannons opened fire.
The gunners didn't pay attention to the shooting effect at all, because everything in front of them was the surging cavalry.
They kept loading, lighting, and unloading their guns.
Then, reload, ignite, and remove the blunderbuss.
Each cannon fires twelve rounds in succession.
The first three shots took less than twenty seconds.
Densely packed shotshells, each shot contains hundreds of small steel balls.
Five hundred cannons can fire 50,000 steel balls in one salvo.
The dense steel balls were like a rainstorm, hitting the cavalry head and face.
The cavalry rushed through the spear array like the Yellow River bursting, and their momentum was extremely shocking.
But under the dense rain of steel, he was struck to a halt.
The entire front was full of fallen men and horses, and the ground was covered with the bodies of men and horses. One layer on top of the other. A distance of thirty meters seemed to be an insurmountable red line.
Every five or six seconds, there is a flash of fire.
Fireworks and flames spurted out from the black holes of the cannons, peeling apart the Heshuote cavalry layer by layer like cabbage.
Before the twelve shots were fired, the Heshuote cavalry completely collapsed.
Such a dense rain of bullets was not something they could bear.
They immediately turned their heads and rushed to both sides without hesitation. Although there were spear formations there, the muskets and spear formations were far less terrifying than these Fran cannons. They were already frightened out of their wits.