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Thousands of cavalry formed a formation outside Tucheng and galloped towards the oasis beyond the trees.
Wanda took the lead and was not afraid of death, with a ferocious expression on her face, like a crazy hyena. She raised her command knife high on the bumpy horseback, clamped her legs around the horse's belly, and roared like a marmot.
The rolling yellow sand rolls into the red clouds, thousands of hooves gallop forward, and the momentum is magnificent.
On the Gobi desert near the oasis, Xia Yu, who was responsible for guarding the main road, had already sensed the enemy's motives through the looking glass.
"You can't calm down so quickly? No, why are there only more than a thousand troops?" Xia Yu put down the looking glass and looked confused, "Or, they thought they could break through the defense line set up by this general with just these one thousand troops. ?”
After pondering for a moment, he ordered the flag bearer behind him: "Send the order, the crossbowmen are ready. The enemy cavalry enters the shooting range and kills them on the spot. Don't let them get close to the water source!"
"Here!"
The next moment, the flag bearer jumped down from the Gobi Desert and waved a red flag to the Han army guarding and inside.
Upon hearing the order, the crossbow troops immediately formed a formation under the command of their generals.
The archers were at the back, bending their bows and unloading arrows, while the crossbowmen were at the front, loading crossbows, and aimed their cold arrowheads at the rolling yellow sand.
There was no visible expression on each soldier's face, only a hint of imperceptible excitement in the depths of his cold pupils.
This is a group of warriors who are born to kill, eager for military success, eager for honor, and even more eager to be recognized.
In the eyes of this group of cold-blooded Han troops, the galloping cavalry were just a bunch of rabble waiting to be slaughtered, and they were their own military achievements.
"啕~"
The first archer drew his bow in a full circle, and an arrow with a blue satin hanging from the end immediately came out of the string. After whizzing in the air, it was nailed deeply into the soft sand.
"One hundred and sixty steps!"
The rangefinder detected the distance of the arrow from the sight glass and immediately loudly communicated the value to the crossbow troops.
The two thousand crossbowmen took a deep breath and waited quietly for the enemy cavalry to enter the shooting range.
Wanda, on the other hand, didn't even realize that he was about to fall into the forbidden area of death. He still focused on directing the army to gallop, hoping to break through the Han army's defense line in one fell swoop.
The moment the smoke and dust rolled up covered the ranging arrow...
"Wind~~"
The commander roared, and then, rapid brass whistles sounded one after another in the formation.
"Swish..."
The next moment, a hail of arrows rose into the sky, covering half of the sky.
"ah……"
Only then did Wanda realize that something was wrong. Looking at the rain of arrows falling in the air, her expression froze for a moment, and she even forgot how to respond.
"Puff, puff, puff, puff..."
"Xu~~"
"Ah~~"
The next moment, arrows rained down from the sky, pouring into the cavalry, and countless blood flowers bloomed. For a moment, people fell on their backs, wailing and roaring.
A Kushan cavalryman was hit by an arrow in the air and pierced his chest while he was galloping. The leather on his body could not provide any protection. The moment he was hit by the arrow, he lost his balance on the horse and fell to the dust in pain.
Another cavalryman instinctively ducked down to avoid two feather arrows, but his mount was not so lucky, and a sharp feather arrow was inserted into the horse's head.
The war horse neighed in pain, stimulating the nature of the beast, and pushed the cavalryman off the horse. Then he rolled forward heavily, pressing him under him, and shattered his sternum on the spot.
There was also a cavalryman who escaped the fatal arrows, but his fallen comrade in front blocked his way forward. In order to prevent him from tripping, he kept moving his horse to move the obstacles.
As a result, he collided with another ally who also had the same thoughts, fell off his horse, and was crushed into a ball of flesh by the galloping iron hooves...
The first wave of arrow rain offensive had already disrupted the formation of Wanda's army. The originally neat formation had now become chaotic.
But before their tension was resolved, the second wave of arrows fell into the air again.
"Puff puff puff puff..."
Every arrowhead driven into the body brought out a little bit of blood, gradually turning the body temperature of the man and horse to ice-cold.
Before reaching the formation, more than half of Wanda's men and horses had been lost. Among them were casualties caused by arrow rain, but most of them were caused by trampling on each other.
"No chaos! No chaos! Listen to my order, charge, charge over. As long as you charge over, you can crush all these despicable Han people to pieces! Kill! My brave Kushan knights, show your courage, Follow me, general, crush the enemy’s conspiracy, kill him~”
Wanda's eyes were red, and she loudly encouraged her morale, vowing to break through the Han army's defense line in front.
However, his cavalry was a full 120 steps away from Xia Yu's defense line.
At this time, the crossbow soldier, who had long been eager to fight, couldn't wait to put his index finger on the trigger of the crossbow. He only waited for an order to obtain the coveted military glory.
These Han troops were veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time and had experienced the test of blood and fire. Some of them had been members of the frontier army since Liu Ce regained the northwest. They only had two words in mind about war.
eager!
"Disease~"
The enemy cavalry entered a hundred steps, and the order to shoot crossbows was instantly transmitted to everyone's ears.
"Huh~~"
A thousand crossbowmen were divided into several columns and pulled the triggers in order.
In an instant, densely packed "venomous snakes" swooped in and charged into the cavalry, setting off another bloody storm.
Edari was originally the child of a merchant in Kushan territory. Due to his status, his family had been bullied by the nobles since he was a child.
In order to change this situation, when he was fifteen years old, he made up his mind to join the Kushan Army, believing that this would bring honor to his family.
Now that ten years have passed, Edari is not sure whether his actions have brought honor to his family. The only thing that has changed is that he feels that joining the Kushan Army is a wise choice.
As a member of the Kushan family, he repeatedly accompanied the army to plunder the hinterland of the Yuezhi Kingdom, where he enjoyed a different life.
As long as you have force, those women and wealth belong to you.
When Erida insulted the Yuezhi women and children and watched the unarmed Yuezhi citizens looking at him in fear, his humble soul was satisfied as never before.
He felt as if he was standing at the top of the food chain and could get everything he wanted with the butcher knife in his hand. In the past ten years, he had violated dozens of foreign women and children and gained a lot of wealth. Such a life was really wonderful.
But all this...
"Pfft~"
"Uh~"
Elida on horseback felt her chest suffocate. She looked down and saw a crossbow arrow piercing her chest. She felt her body heat dissipate rapidly with her rapid breathing.
He groaned, and before he felt the pain, he felt his vision gradually blurring, and his body stumbled uncontrollably on the horse.
"Bang~"
In the end, Elida fell heavily into the dust and ended her sinful life.
As the crossbows roared, the Kushan cavalry turned over like waves of autumn harvest wheat. Sixty steps from the front of the formation, it had become an insurmountable restricted area.
After several rounds of shooting, among the entire Kushan cavalry, only Wanda was left alone, roaring loudly and charging into the formation.
When the crossbowman officer saw this, he couldn't help but get angry: "Zhuo, you are really tough. Who can give an arrow to that guy who is crying like a wolf? When I get back, I will treat him to a drink. Grape wine or rice wine, it's up to you!"
"啕~"
As soon as he finished speaking, a crossbowman in the formation decisively pulled the trigger.
"Pfft~"
The crossbow bolt flew quickly and pierced Wanda's throat with one blow. The huge lifting force forcefully took her away from the horse's back and landed heavily on the ground.
"Hey, hahahaha~"
When the officer saw this, he couldn't help laughing.
But soon, he stopped laughing. He only heard the crossbowman who shot the enemy general say playfully: "General Huang Shen, as you promised, I will make enough grape wine later. There is no joke in the army."
General Huang Shen chirped. He didn't know how to reply for a moment, so he immediately changed the subject and shouted angrily: "What are you doing standing still? Clean the battlefield!"
At the same time, I slapped myself hard. This grape wine is worth a lot of money...
After the fierce battle...
The cold wind howled, the yellow sand filled the air, and corpses lay everywhere in front of the empty Gobi Desert.
Sitain, who witnessed this scene in Tucheng, could not say a word and stood there blankly.
After a long time, he found a way to comfort himself: "At least, there will be fewer people fighting for water."
