Looking at the black-armored heavy cavalry that seemed to block out the sky and the sun, a flash of astonishment flashed across Jin Yao's face, which soon turned into horror.
"Form up and meet the enemy!"
Jin Yao roared, using the loudest roar in his life to order his Wei soldiers to form formations.
But when the Wei soldiers in the front row heard the deafening sound of horse hooves, the shaking of the ground, and the black torrent that seemed to swallow up the sun and covered the sky, their eyes gradually became dull, and in an instant they turned into pure horror.
Before guns replaced swords, swords and halberds, heavy cavalry was an invincible battlefield weapon.
The heavy cavalry has a weight of half a ton and is accelerating down the mountain at a speed of more than ten meters per second. Even the earth is trembling. This kind of terrifying scene has already made people lose courage even before engaging in battle. .
Not to mention these pawns who had never seen heavy cavalry, even the generals and the general Jin Yao had lost their courage.
"Fire the arrow!"
Jin Yao took off the bow and arrow from the side of the horse's belly. Without aiming, he bent the bow and shot an arrow at a Yu Lin sudden rider.
But the arrows that had always been unfavorable were packed with huge power, but they only penetrated the layer of heavy armor and the soft armor made of soft and close-fitting silk, and penetrated the abdomen of the Yulin Rider.
Such a result made Jin Yao a little shocked. He used his arm strength to use his internal strength to shoot the arrow. Even a soldier could penetrate two or three people. However, the arrow got stuck in the body of the Yu Lin Tuqi.
The archers of the Wei army beside Jin Yao also fired a shower of arrows. The rain of arrows from the sky hit the black torrent in front of them, but they found that it was just like stones sinking into the sea. There was a clanging sound of arrows falling on the heavy armor. After a crisp sound, it was inserted into the armor of Yu Lin Tuqi, but no blood was seen.
And the Yulin Cavalry, which had several arrows inserted but still roared towards the Wei army, gave people an indomitable and unrivaled ferocious aura. The Wei soldiers at the bottom did not understand how any armor could withstand such Rain of arrows, they subconsciously thought that the Qin army in front of them might have borrowed the power of ghosts and gods, so they would not die even if they were hit by swords and bows.
Only one out of ten of Wei Jun's arrows could penetrate that layer of heavy armor, and even fewer could penetrate the tight-fitting silk soft armor with excellent toughness and elasticity after penetrating the heavy armor.
There were only a few unlucky ones, those who were shot by the generals, and those who were shot through the gaps in their armor and face armor, and were injured, but this was only the case for a few people.
Facing the rain of arrows from the Wei army, Yulin Tuqi was not polite.
Each of the Yu Lin Tuqi held a small and exquisite Zhang Qin crossbow in their hands. They fired the crossbow arrows together without the need for Qian Chang Li Xin to give orders.
The arrow rain formed by the thousands of crossbow bolts fell, and the already chaotic Wei army's front row soldiers became even more chaotic when they were killed by the arrows.
"Hyrin Cavalry, charge!"
Li Xin took the lead, raised the three-foot Qin sword in his hand, and rushed into the already chaotic Wei army's formation.
In this era without stirrups, fighting with two hands with long weapons was too risky and training was more difficult, so cavalry generally used long swords over three feet long to fight.
Li Xin waved the Qin sword in his hand and killed several Wei soldiers. The armored war horse with strong limbs and black body roared and knocked away a Wei soldier who was blocking his path, instantly breaking him. sternum and ribs.
Not only that, the huge impact caused the soldier who was knocked away to hit the robes behind him hard, knocking three or four robes to the ground. The black war horse stepped down heavily, and its strong four hooves trampled on a Wei Junjia. On the soldier's chest, a horseshoe-shaped mark sunken inward suddenly appeared on the armor on his chest.
And this is just a microcosm of the battlefield.
In this era, heavy cavalry is an invincible weapon if there are no restrictions on strategies and terrain.
But with the Qin army's calculated and unintentional surprise attack and the plain below them, there was no possibility of stopping the Yulin Cavalry.
Jin Yao's eyes were about to burst. Yu Linqi had already broken through the front army's defense line, and then he suddenly remembered a question.
Where did the Qin army get its cavalry from?
And they are such elite heavy armored cavalry!
Cavalry is the nemesis of infantry, not to mention heavy cavalry against the light infantry under his command.
It is true that Wu Qi used Wei Wuzu's heavy armored infantry to defeat the Qin army's cavalry in the battle between Yin and Jin, but it was only light cavalry.
Faced with such heavy armored cavalry armed to the teeth, even the soldiers of Wei who were at the peak of Wu Qi's command might not be able to resist.
Jin Yao could only pray that this heavy cavalry with only a thousand men could not penetrate his army formation due to the limited number of people.
However, just as Jin Yao was thinking this, the tremors on the ground became more intense, and smoke billowed from the flanks.
Under the smoke and dust, there was a Yulin Cavalry dressed exactly like the Qin army that was charging at the moment.
After finally plucking up the courage to stand up and form a formation after a group of Wei generals killed several deserters, the Wei soldiers were a little at a loss when they looked at another group of thousand-man Yulin Assault Cavalry rushing from their flanks. The ground froze in place.
Thousands of Yu Lin's cavalry were divided into two teams and attacked the left and right wings of the Wei army respectively.
In other words, these Wei soldiers saw only 500 Yulin Riders on the flanks, but these 500 Yulin Riders made people feel inexplicable fear.
The roaring momentum, as if the sky was shattering and the earth was shattering, made many Wei soldiers scream in fear. They no longer paid attention to the swords of the war supervisors beside them, threw down their swords and turned around and ran away.
Arrows cannot hurt, halberds cannot penetrate, and they will vomit blood and die if they are hit. Once such an enemy rushes over, they will almost certainly die!
A deserter is like a snowflake in an avalanche. He is inconspicuous in this army, but he can bring his own fear to the people around him, causing an avalanche-like collapse of an army.
As the Wei army collapsed, the Yulin cavalry that rushed in like an overwhelming force penetrated the Wei army's formation as if it were unstoppable.
When the two Yulin cavalry led by Li Xin and Qiang Yu had penetrated the Wei army's formation before they could turn around for the second charge, Su Jiao also led the scout battalion into the battlefield.
Although it bears the name of a scout camp, if anyone really dares to treat this thousand-man light cavalry as a scout, that would be a complete fool.
The difference between light cavalry and heavy cavalry is that the first thing is fast.
Different from Li Xin and Qiang Yu's mission of storming the enemy's position, on another hill, he observed the Wei army for a long time, always looking for the location of the Wei army's baggage.
When Su Jiao confirmed the location of the Wei army's baggage, his swift and windy Qingqi passed through the disorganized Wei army's formation, heading straight for the target like a black poisonous dragon.
Although not as unstoppable as the sudden cavalry, the defeated Wei army was unable to organize an organized interception at all.
In addition, the Wei soldiers watched another Qin army's cavalry rush into the formation, and they were even faster and fiercer. They thought that this cavalry was the Qin army's trump card. They had no intention of resisting, and they were focused on running past the robe in front of them.
It is impossible for them with two legs to outrun the four-legged cavalry, but as long as they outrun their own robes, then they will never be the ones who die.
And when Su Jiao arrived at the place where the Wei army's baggage was, he immediately took out the fire oil cans tied to both sides of the horse's belly, threw them out fiercely, and fell to the ground with the flaming sticks.
The kerosene and sparks touched each other, and with a bang, raging fire rose into the sky and swallowed up the nearby Wei soldiers.
The fierce flames were merciless, devouring the baggage that the Wei army relied on for survival, and also devouring the lives of the Wei soldiers.
After burning the baggage, the scout battalion led by Su Jiao immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
After Li Xin and Qiang Yu carried out the second round of charge, they also took turns to cover and exit the battlefield, laughing happily, and returned to Yanshi City.
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