"Poisoned warriors charge!"
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet!
The first time the two sides met, they started fighting after a brief stagnation!
On Shendu's side, under the command of Umda Kashar, they used elephant soldiers to clear the way. Forty thousand cavalry were roaming around the army, while the rest of the infantry followed the elephant soldiers and started charging towards the expeditionary force!
Unlike the poisonous ones who were caught off guard, the expeditionary force, which had already discovered the military situation, had already made targeted preparations.
Placed at the front was a ram loaded with straw and oiled. As soon as Shen Du launched his attack, the expeditionary force set the ram on fire, and then a group of three soldiers pushed the ram towards the elephant. The soldiers rushed over.
The charging car burning with blazing flames is a great deterrent to any animal. The elephant soldiers, who were brave and fearless just now, are like a mouse meeting a cat, running away towards both sides of the charging car without being controlled by the elephant knight.
And this is exactly the plan of the expeditionary force!
The elephant soldiers who had just been forcibly dispersed immediately encountered 20,000 Tatar light cavalry rushing out from the side of the expeditionary force. These light cavalry drove two war horses and flew around the frightened elephant soldiers. Shoot with armor-piercing arrows.
Even though the elephant has rough skin and thick flesh, as the saying goes, the ants will bite the elephant to death, and it is an armor-piercing arrow that is specially designed to break armor. The branch inserted into it broke all the defenses.
The enraged elephant suddenly became violent and rushed towards the light cavalry who were shooting arrows at him.
The light cavalry relied on their superior mobility to fly the elephant soldiers like kites.
Even if the elephant bleeds too much, it will die. These light cavalry are running and shooting down, and soon the elephant soldiers who could have directly attacked the military formation without fear were killed by the kites.
The expeditionary force only used 20,000 light cavalry to easily drag 15,000 elephant soldiers away from the main battlefield.
And the remaining 600,000 infantrymen who originally followed the elephant soldiers were in dire straits!
After the thick-skinned elephant soldiers were lured away, it was their turn to face the expeditionary force.
The expeditionary force is undoubtedly the best choice to deal with dense and unarmored enemies like them.
The 10,000 shield soldiers leaned their iron shields on the ground and squatted half-crouched to form a three-row defensive formation. Before the enemy troops arrived, the upper half of their positions was exposed to provide a wide field of vision for the crossbowmen behind them.
Behind the shield soldiers are spearmen holding long guns, ready to poke the guns out of the gaps between the shield soldiers when the enemy approaches.
One row of shield soldiers, one row of spearmen, 10,000 shield soldiers and 10,000 spearmen. A total of three circular lines of defense were arranged in front of the crossbowmen, which was enough to block any enemy who wanted to break into the formation and give the crossbowmen behind them enough output. space.
Nearly 100,000 crossbowmen in the rear all raised their repeating crossbows at their waists and aimed at the charging 600,000 infantrymen. There were 30,000 in a group. As Ding Hongguang shouted: "Let go!"
The next moment, the first three rows were at three heights: high, medium and low. When the trigger was pulled, 900,000 crossbow arrows were shot out in the blink of an eye!
Have you ever looked up at the sky when it rains?
That's right, in the eyes of the Shendu infantry who were charging at this moment, those 900,000 arrows were like looking up at the sky on a rainy day and watching the dense rain falling from the sky.
But this shower is black and deadly!
Whoosh!
Puff, puff, puff! ! !
There was a sound of arrows penetrating, and the Shendu infantry rushing at the front were harvested in pieces like wheat.
At this time, although Kashaar was shocked by the terror of the Tianyun people's weapons, he knew that now was not the time to hesitate, and immediately commanded the cavalry that had just been cruising around the army to attack the flank of the expeditionary army from the side!
He wanted to use this method to disrupt the opponent's formation, so that his infantry would have a chance to rush into the opponent's formation.
He believed that with their number, no matter how powerful the weapons of the Tianyun people were, they would be able to surround them to death once they got close.
This is what he thinks and does.
But he overlooked one thing. He had cavalry, and the expeditionary force also had cavalry.
Although 20,000 Tatar light cavalry have just been sent to lure away the elephant soldiers, this does not mean that the expeditionary army has no cavalry!
In addition to the 20,000 Tatar light cavalry who were sent out to lure away the elephant soldiers, there are still 30,000 light cavalry left in the headquarters, and these 50,000 light cavalry were the Tatar tribes that each Yunzhou county surrendered to when the expeditionary force was poisoned. Mercenaries sent out.
When Shendu sent 40,000 cavalry to attack the flank, Ding Hongguang had long known that there were 40,000 cavalry on Shendu's side, and immediately sent out the remaining 30,000 light cavalry.
Although there were 40,000 cavalry on Shendu's side and Ding Hongguang only sent 30,000 cavalry, this did not mean that the 30,000 light cavalry sent by Ding Hongguang could not defeat Shendu's 40,000 cavalry.
First of all, technically speaking, although the Tatars in Yunzhou County have been naturalized for many years, Yunzhou County itself has a large area of grassland territory. The living habits of these naturalized Tatars do not have much difference. Despite the changes, the characteristics of the nomads have been maintained.
He has been practicing horsemanship and archery since he was a child. Although not all of them are proficient, those who can become mercenaries must be elites, and most of the cavalrymen who are poisonous are composed of Kshatriya nobles.
Although these nobles had a lot of time, their skills were no match for the Tatar cavalry, because they only practiced riding because they were military nobles.
But the Tatars are trying to survive.
If a person becomes a knight just because he is destined to be a knight from birth versus a person who becomes a knight in order to survive, it is easy to imagine which side is stronger.
The Tatars who came out of the line of life and death are much stronger than these arrogant body poison cavalry. In addition, in terms of equipment, although the Tatar light cavalry are not fully armored, they are only equipped for mobility. They had two and a half pieces of armor, a breastplate and a helmet, but their advantage against the Poison Cavalry, which was only equipped with armor and wielded bronze scimitars, was much greater.
As soon as the Tatar light cavalry came out, they first fired a round of crossbow projectiles, giving the rushing Shendu cavalry a big surprise.
When the distance got closer, the two peoples who also liked to use scimitars pulled out their scimitars and rushed towards each other!
Sonorous!
In the collision between the scimitars, the bronze scimitar was no match for the iron scimitar and was cut off easily. Then it cut across the neck of the poisonous cavalryman and chopped him off his horse.
However, the poisonous cavalry occasionally broke through the Tatar cavalry. The scimitar slashed at the Tatar cavalry. The scimitar scratched the iron breastplate and helmet, but it could not break the defense at all!
Just leaving a white mark, the Tatar cavalry reacted and cut his neck with a knife!
The close combat in this cavalry charge is bloody and brutal!
The fight after the violent collision requires courage and weapons!
There is no doubt that the Tatar cavalry has the advantage in this regard!
The brutal fight finally resulted in the victory of the Tatar cavalry!
The 30,000 Tatar cavalry dispersed the 40,000 poisonous cavalry with the loss of less than 1,000 people. Immediately after charging back and forth, the 40,000 poisonous cavalry were completely unable to resist and were defeated by the Tatars. The Tatar cavalry were slaughtering them like chickens, without any ability to resist!
Seeing that the cavalry side was stabilized, Ding Hongguang let go of the breath he was holding in his heart. He looked at the bodies in front of him who were still trying to rush to the military formation with their lives, but were harvested by the continuous crossbows. Army.
The corner of Ding Hongguang's mouth curled up slightly, and he issued an order, revealing his trump card that had been hidden for a long time!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As Ding Hongguang's military order was conveyed, the earth suddenly began to tremble. The sound was so loud that even the soldiers from the fighting expeditionary force and the body and poison could detect it.
Everyone looked towards the direction of the sound.
However, they saw that the left and right flanks of the expeditionary force were already filled with sand and dust. In the sand and dust that obscured their sight, majestic black figures loomed in the dust and mist, charging towards the front line with incomparable momentum. More sand and dust will rise wherever it passes!
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(End of chapter)
