Rong Di was not unprepared at all.
They pulled all the horses that had died in the battle among the three elders back to the camp, and then examined them carefully.
After some comparisons, we finally got the result: the Qin army's crossbows were really powerful. Most of them shot straight at them, and they were so powerful that the shields could not resist them, so they suffered a big loss.
Regarding this point, all tribes have discussed it.
Some came up with the idea to ask the tribal knights to dismount and hold up their shields in front of the horses.
Some people suggested making a suit of armor for the war horse.
Some people say that they let the war horses travel through the mountains and forests and use the trees to resist the enemy's crossbows.
Some suggested making a larger shield for each knight, capable of protecting both men and horses.
However, none seems reliable.
Thorin thought hard about how to deal with it.
During the day, I was very confident when I made the appointment, but after I calmed down, I felt that I couldn't be too rash. After all, the lessons learned by the third elder were right in front of me.
Fortunately, when the battle was scheduled, the time was not set, but the intention was to recapture the third elder and wash away the shame.
It seems that if you don't know how to deal with it, you really can't act rashly.
The two armies faced each other, and there was a huge difference between offense and defense.
Although the Qin army's flying crossbows were overbearing, they were suitable for defense. The third elder was able to hit the target while attacking with all his strength.
If the Qin army used flying crossbows to attack, it would be the same as a long bow, and the Rong Di army could also use the flexibility of their horses to coordinate their defense.
But will the Qin army take the initiative to attack?
Obviously not!
When the three elders fell into the hands of the Qin army, the Rong Di army lost the initiative and had no choice but to take the initiative. Otherwise, how could the third elder be saved?
But if we take the initiative, we must avoid a situation similar to that of the third elder.
If a war horse is shot while galloping, it is no different than not participating in the battle.
If he does not ride a war horse, the knight becomes an infantry...
Infantry is infantry!
Turn some of the knights into infantry and fight with the crossbowmen. As long as they can suppress the Qin army's crossbow camp, the cavalry can be free.
As long as the cavalry rushes into the enemy's camp, it will be like a fish in water.
However, it is also necessary to provide some protection for the war horse.
Thinking of this, Thorin made a plan and quickly ordered the sergeants to go into the forest and cut a lot of wood and come back.
Beside piles of bonfires, warriors from various Rongdi tribes transformed into carpenters.
The bark peeled off the tree trunk was cut into strips, and then threaded with hemp rope and wrapped around the neck of the war horse, which was equivalent to a "scarf" wrapped around the war horse.
In this way, the incoming arrows can be partially resisted.
The remaining trunk was cut into pieces of wood and then nailed together to form a circular wooden disk.
Putting this wooden plate on the knight's shield, the shields of all knights suddenly became larger. Not only could they protect people, but they could also protect part of the horse's belly, but the weight was much heavier than before.
The remaining wooden strips were not wasted and were made into arrows.
Three days have passed since this preparation.
Everyone in the Rong Di army was gearing up, looking forward to the decisive battle. After all, the lives of the three elders and the 10,000 tribesmen were still in the hands of the Qin army.
Finally, the heavily armed Rongdi army stood in formation and attacked. The difference was that 70,000 were cavalry and 20,000 were infantry, and half of the 20,000 infantry were archers carrying a large number of arrows.
The warm sun is in the sky and the breeze is gentle.
The weather was so nice, but there was a chilling murderous intent in the air.
Meng Wu did not choose to enter Longxi County, nor did he avoid fighting. Instead, he confronted Rong Di's army face to face.
The bloody man of Da Qin is upright and upright!
There were no more unnecessary words, and no other expressions.
The two sides glared at each other, seemingly competing for morale.
He was filled with murderous intent and seemed to be testing his courage.
Almost at the same time, intensive
The sound of drums sounded on both sides at the same time.
The fourth elder led the tribe to rush out first.
The fifth elder followed closely behind.
"Kill!"
"Come on!"
The loud shouts of killing had already covered up the sound of the drums. The Yiqu tribe's resentment of being displaced for many years, their determination to avenge their shame, and their fearless courage finally broke out at this moment.
Looking at the Meng family army again, the leader of the front army is Meng Yi!
Just one day ago, Meng Wucai finally decided to let his youngest son take the lead.
At this moment, what hung on Meng Yi's face was not timidity and nervousness, but surprisingly calm and calm.
If Ying Zheng hadn't deliberately set up a gold-touching class so that Meng Yi could practice his courage, Meng Yi probably wouldn't be able to act so freely at this moment.
Meng Yi waved his arms, the flag commander raised a flag, and the front army of the Meng family army moved.
What the fourth and fifth elders of Ling Yiqu did not expect was that the Meng family army did not use the old routine of using crossbowmen to shoot. Instead, the cavalry in the front row rushed to the left and right sides in two directions, with an infantryman in the middle. phalanx.
These infantrymen all held huge shields as high as one person. Next to each of them was a wooden box filled with tripping ropes.
I saw the formation of the infantry phalanx changing. There were three people in each group. The person in front inserted the shield diagonally into a groove dug in advance, while the two people behind adjusted the angle and direction of the other two shields. , supporting the shield in front diagonally, and all three people got into the cone-shaped shield frame composed of these three large shields.
On both sides of the tribe of the fourth elders were arrays of archers who had already been ready. In order to suppress the flying crossbow camp of the Qin army, they were already ready to shoot.
After giving the order, Yiqu's ten thousand archers released their arrow feathers at the same time, and as expected, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison.
In an instant, dense arrows hit the Qin army's camp like a storm.
But embarrassingly, almost all the arrows were blocked by the huge shield, and no Qin army was hurt.
This is not the same as expected.
The fourth elder frowned. Who cares, although the Qin army was not hurt, the purpose of preventing them from shooting arrows and horses has been achieved.
Thinking of this, the fourth elder ordered his tribesmen to speed up their war horses and quickly rush into the local camp.
When the fifth elder saw the fourth elder rushing forward, he followed closely behind.
Just when the Yiqu cavalry rushed to a distance of less than fifty feet from the Qin army, the archers behind them stopped shooting for fear of accidentally injuring the cavalry.
And at the moment when the arrow feathers disappeared, the infantry of the Meng family army got out of the shield frame, took out the tripping ropes, and threw them at the menacing Yiqu cavalry.
Similar to the arrow feathers just now, this time thousands of tripping ropes were thrown together, and the formation was far more terrifying than the arrow rain.
I saw that many of these stumbling ropes were hitting the same target. Some of them entangled the horse's legs and the horse fell to the ground; some stones hit the horse's head or eyes. Most of the horses that were hit were panicked or panicked. Either he slowed down or went astray.
Seeing this, the knight behind quickly used the big shield in his hand to resist, but he couldn't care less.
Another wave of stumbling ropes came, and another large area of Yiqu's cavalry was tripped.
Although the rhythm was disrupted, the fourth and fifth elders had many tribes. After a slight adjustment, they continued to charge forward.
Most of the horses that tripped were crawled over by their owners after they fell, released the locks, stood up, and continued to charge forward.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
However, many war horses were injured when they fell, or were trampled by the horses behind them, losing the ability to move.
After advancing and advancing, the Yiqu cavalry finally rushed to the front of the Qin army's infantry array, only to see long halberds protruding from the shield frames.
The Yiqu cavalry running in front used steel swords to slash at the Qin infantry in the shield frame, but they were blocked by the shield frame, and their own horses had their legs cut off by the halberd below.
Some knights controlled their horses, raised their front hooves, and stepped towards the shield frame. However, many shield frames became stronger and stronger as they stepped on them, but their horses were knocked to the ground by the recoil.
At the same time, after the Qin army
The infantry in front began to fire arrows into the formation.
In the past, after the two sides entered into chaotic hand-to-hand combat, in order to avoid accidentally injuring their own people, neither side would use bows and arrows.
But this time it was different. The infantry of the Qin army were all hiding in the shield frame. Even if more arrows flew towards them, they were not afraid.
The Yiqu Cavalry was having a hard time.
On the one hand, they had to resist the bows and arrows shot from above, and on the other hand, they had to be careful of the legs of the horses below being cut off. They also had to watch out for the halberds poking at them from time to time. They were very busy.
It was even more difficult for Yiqu's war horses, probably because horses cherish their limbs the most. When many war horses saw their companions having their legs cut off, they were frightened and panicked. Some were spinning in place, and some were falling backwards. There was also a neighing sound that sounded like fear coming out of his mouth.
The Yiqu warriors who fell down did not dare to move easily, but used their shields to block the rain of arrows.
Just as Yiqu's horses fell down one after another, the Qin army's cavalry who had previously run towards both sides rushed towards the side and rear of Yiqu's cavalry from the left and right sides.
The arrows fired by the Qin army finally stopped. The Yiqu cavalry finally regained their breath, but they were hit by the Qin army's cavalry again, and they were suddenly attacked from both sides.
The cavalry from both sides fought in a melee, and the horses fell. The Yiqu warriors who fell on the ground also fought with the Qin army's infantry.
However, the Yiqu cavalry, which originally had a numerical advantage, were at a disadvantage due to the loss of their horses.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Suolin quickly ordered 30,000 Chinese troops to charge forward, and also ordered Qiang Yu to lead his army to attack from the flank.
But at this moment, another cavalryman was seen coming out from behind the Qin army, passing through the gap in the middle as fast as lightning, and what this cavalryman was holding was a flying crossbow!
The Fei Nu Camp finally appeared, but this time they were riding horses! !
This is unscientific...
I saw the flying crossbow camp split into two rows. The row on the left shot down a piece of the Rong Di army's horses in a cavalry shot; the row on the right hit countless archers of the front army during the shuttle.
After the flying crossbow battalion passed by, they quickly ran to the other side.
Seeing that he had suffered another loss at the hands of Fei Nu Camp, Thorin was so angry that he screamed and ordered the Chinese army to turn around and pursue Fei Nu Camp.
The flying crossbow battalion flew forward in a fan-shaped formation, but still did not forget to shoot the flying crossbows backward.
Although Yiqu's war horse wore a "scarf" made of tree bark, Thorin misjudged the power of the flying crossbow. He thought that the flying crossbow was no different from an ordinary crossbow arrow.
However, this was only a distance of more than a hundred feet, and each crossbow arrow pierced the tender bark of the tree like a spear, and penetrated into the skin and flesh of the war horse, but the piercing was not that deep.
The war horses could not bear the pain and fell to the ground one after another. Although most of them did not die, they also lost their fighting power.
This situation is no different from what happened to the third elder.
What's even more annoying is that Fei Nu Battalion is riding a horse this time, and the two sides always maintain such a distance. Yiqu's horses are constantly being damaged.
Yiqu's warriors raised their long bows to fight back.
However, one shoots backward with the flow, and the other shoots forward against the wind, so the range is naturally different.
Most of Yiqu's arrows landed behind Fei Nu Camp's horses.
The war horses of Yiqu Zhongjun were constantly being worn out, but there was no good way to deal with Fei Nu Battalion.
Not only Thorin, but almost all the warriors in the Yiqu Army were furious.
Finally, Fei Nu Camp's crossbow arrows were almost exhausted, and the number of crossbow arrows shot became sparse. More than half of Yiqu's horses were used up, but there were still more than 10,000 in number.
Seeing that the Fei Nu Battalion was about to run out of crossbow arrows, the Yiqu warriors couldn't help but feel shocked. At the same time, they screamed and whipped their horses to speed up the pursuit.
At this moment, a team with special costumes appeared in front. The leader was handsome and mighty.
I heard this man shout loudly: "They say brothers are brothers in war, Meng Yi, brother is here to help you!"
This person is none other than Meng Tian!
Behind him were three thousand "our troops" who finally got to show off their skills!
