If two or three hundred people are held to death, they won't be able to create much power at all.
But the infantry formation behind the two or three hundred cavalrymen was like a cliff...
It is more than a hundred meters wide, with white armor like clouds, spears like cold stars, and shields like iron mirrors...
There is also a helmet with a cold light shining on the head, and a dark and reflective horizontal knife on the side of the waist... Are these all made of paper?
Everyone is like a steel monster, how can we fight this battle?
At this time, when the Baijia step formation is marching forward, the neat and powerful footsteps of "clang, clang, clang, clang" are just like the urging bells and drums...
Most of the rebels were instinctively afraid, and their fear gradually amplified unknowingly...
A dozen messengers on the wall were shouting loudly in accordance with Li Wenzhong's orders: "Don't panic, the enemy only has two thousand troops, the enemy has only two thousand..."
The village wall is three meters high, and the distance between the two armies is less than one mile. Li Wenzhong can naturally see how many troops the other side has.
But no matter how loud you shouted, it was of no avail. The soldiers under the wall didn't even take the fight, and their morale was half weakened.
In other words, there are cars in front, walls behind, and cavalry on the left and right wings. They would have been surrounded on all sides, otherwise there would definitely be rebels who would flee before fighting...
The speed of the white-armored cavalry was actually not very fast. When they trotted about half a mile away from the enemy's formation, Li began to urge the horse. When the horse reached half of its peak speed, he began to control the speed, and the cavalry behind him followed closely.
Enemy position.
The soldiers on the wall are still shouting the order "Steady... hold on...", but there are already archers under the wall who can't help but start to draw their bows, string them, and shoot arrows...
If there is the first one, there will be the second one... The white knights are still about a hundred meters away, and the arrows from under the wall are shot out like a rain of locusts, and most of them land twenty or thirty meters away from the car array.<
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Although they are rebel soldiers, most of them are Wu soldiers carefully selected by Li Wenzhong, and they would not be so unbearable originally.
But when you are frightened, your hands will inevitably shake, and your strength and accuracy will naturally be much worse...
Li Shi was also shooting arrows, muttering secretly while shooting.
If you could put your ear to his mouth, you could clearly hear him complaining about Li Chengzhi: "If you don't even allow me to rush into the formation, what's the use of this iron cavalry?"
When he arrived, Li Chengzhi warned him: Without his flag order, Li Shi would not be allowed to charge into the formation, even if the enemy troops were frightened and dispersed by Li Shi's cavalry.
Moreover, Li Shi was required to keep the distance between his front cavalry and the enemy's forward at no less than twenty steps.
Li Shi asked at that time: The servant's eyes are not rulers, so how can they be so accurate?
Li Chengzhi replied: I don’t care, it’s less than twenty steps anyway, so come and see me...
They are all old people, how could there be nothing they can do?
No, every time Li Shi shoots an arrow, the distance between the arrow and the ground is only twenty-four or five steps away from him...
When Li Shi's arrow finally landed on the front of the enemy's left cavalry formation, the enemy's faster archers had already finished their second round.
Li Chengzhi beamed: This is the effect he wants...
Seeing that the white cavalry column was about to insert itself into our own formation, the soldiers on the wall still shouted "Hold on... hold on..."
How can there be such a war?
I have never heard of your cavalry standing still in formation, waiting for the enemy's cavalry to charge?
There is no shield, and the armor is only half the body. When encountering the opponent's cavalry, you have to wait stupidly. What is the difference between this and waiting to die?
The left wing cavalryman endured and endured, and just when he was about to order his cavalry to attack, he suddenly saw the enemy's first cavalry knocking his horse's neck with his left knee. The war horse instinctively turned its head and hoof, tilted its body, and rushed out of the formation without losing any speed.
In the first twenty steps or so, we turned from west to east, then from south to north, parallel to our own array.
The rear team followed Li Shi closely, passing diagonally in front of the enemy's formation.
The enemy general was marveling at the equestrian skills of the enemy's first cavalry, when he suddenly saw that the first row of enemy cavalry leaned down one after another and only raised their shields, while the second row raised their arms.
When I took a closer look, I saw that they were actually javelins.
"Raise your shield!" the enemy general shouted.
In fact, he didn't need to remind him at all. When Li Shi was testing arrows one by one in front of the enemy's formation, the rebel cavalry had already raised the shield in front of their faces.
It can't be called a shield at all...
The shields they brought were not many, and most of them were allocated to the chariots and archers of the Chinese army. The cavalry only found some broken wooden boards to make do, and there were not even a few pot lids.
Such a shabby thing is difficult to protect against arrows, let alone javelins?
More than a hundred javelins fell diagonally into the cavalry formation, and there was only a faint crashing sound, and then there were pitiful howls one after another.
Li Shi raised his shield and charged forward, while taking the time to glance back.
Although the screams were miserable, there was no big fluctuation in the enemy's cavalry formation, let alone a collapse.
Li Shi was slightly disappointed. The distance was still a bit far, and the strength was not enough. It did not cause too much damage. He probably only stabbed thirty or forty enemy riders...
If Lang Jun didn't restrict him, he would have to rush at least ten steps away from the enemy line before turning, and he would have killed at least twice as many enemies...
As thoughts swirled in his mind, Li Shi felt as if his right ear was being chopped, and enemy arrows hit the iron shield like raindrops.
Taking a closer look, most of the arrows collapsed upon contact with the shield and had little strength at all.
Didn't you expect that grandpa is holding a steel shield, and you are the only one with a few drizzles?
Just as he was feeling proud, Li Shi suddenly felt a strong force coming, as if someone had hit the shield hard with a hammer. At the same time, there was a muffled sound of "dong", and then like a swarm of bees coming out of the nest: "Buzzing".
Buzzing..."
This is the sound of the arrow shaft shaking when the arrow is nailed to the iron shield.
The sound was not loud, but the force was unusually strong, and the shock made Li Shi's wrist numb.
When he raised his head again and saw an arrow tip about half an inch long exposed behind the shield, his scalp suddenly numbed: The iron shield had been shot through?
As Lang Jun expected, the enemy actually had a powerful crossbow?
If he hadn't clung to the horse's back, most of his strength would have been offset by the horse, and he might have been knocked off the horse...
Hearing the neighing of horses and roars from behind him from time to time, it was clear that a cavalryman or war horse had been hit by an arrow, and then fell off the horse... Cold sweat broke out on Li Shi's forehead.
Lang Jun, you are so wise...
The rebels captured so many forts, how could they not capture strong bows and powerful crossbows?
It’s just a question of how much.
That's why Li Chengzhi strictly ordered Li Shi that the distance between contact with the enemy should never be less than twenty steps.
Twenty steps equals thirty meters. As long as it is not three crossbows, a weapon that cannot be operated by a single person, such as a chariot crossbow, should not be able to cause much damage based on the steel armor on the cavalry.
There is nothing the horse can do, but no matter how far away the cavalry's short bows and javelins are, they won't have much lethality...
Sure enough, the crossbow arrows immediately penetrated the wooden armor of several horses and entered their bellies. There was a long neigh, and several horses fell to the ground as if their hoofs were broken, and the knights on the horses were also thrown.
All kinds of meat and vegetables.
The cavalry behind were caught off guard, and more than ten cavalrymen were tripped and fell.
Fortunately, the cavalry that followed were on guard, and the cavalry made a small detour, without the tragedy of "one of their own being trampled to death" that Li Chengzhi was worried about.
Although he had expected that there would be damage, his heart still felt like needles pricking his heart: more than twenty cavalrymen, one-thirtieth of them were gone in one go...
Until the cavalry ran past and saw two old soldiers of the Li family running back at the end of the team, they shouted and gathered the cavalry who had fallen off their horses into a small circle. Half of them were holding shields and guns, half squatted, and the other half drew their bows and prepared to shoot.
When, Li Chengzhi laughed again.
As long as everyone is fine.
As for horses, the biggest problem is selling a few more knives...
It seems that the daily training has paid off. At least these veterans have learned how to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy after falling off their horses...