After hearing Ju Wentai's order, Anda's face darkened. He didn't know what weapons those Tang people carried. Although it was impossible to carry the heavy crossbows at the top of the city, there must be bows and arrows.
Where he can shoot at the enemy, the enemy can definitely shoot at him, but the enemy is covered in armor, and they are covered in leather armor! No need to think that they will definitely suffer losses.
The question is, can he disagree?
If he dared to disagree, he believed that Ju Wentai would definitely describe his behavior of fleeing without a fight to his Khan, and he would still have to die by then!
After a moment of reflection, Anda made a decision. He could follow Ju Wentai's order to attack. Anyway, it wasn't Anda who died, and he didn't feel bad for his soldiers, but at least Ju Wentai couldn't do it without fighting. And threatened him as an excuse to escape.
"Yes, but if my soldiers suffer huge losses, we will retreat, and... I advise you, King Ju Wentai, to get your soldiers ready to retreat!" Anda took a deep breath. He spoke.
"I understand. I will make my people prepare to retreat. General Anda, don't worry. If we fail this time, it will not be your fault. It's because Datang is too strong. I will fight in Yibiduluke I will tell you your good words in front of Khan!" Ju Wentai knew very well what the other party was afraid of, so he was naturally willing to give him a good deal.
"good!"
Anda turned around and left without saying a word!
Soon the Turkic cavalry troops began to gather! Ju Wentai quickly conveyed the order to the generals of his army, ordering them to be prepared to retreat at any time, especially in the logistics force. Each soldier only carried a certain amount of dry food, and all other baggage and food were abandoned!
While Ju Wentai was getting ready, Anda over there had gathered all the Turkic cavalry, a total of 2,400 Turkic cavalry.
He observed the enemy's terrain. Yiwu City is located in a trumpet-shaped mountain pass. The city is located at the bottom of the trumpet. Going west from the city is a rapidly expanding mountain pass. The terrain here is already very open. Near the mountain peak on the north side is river, and on the south side are some dug-out fields.
In other words, this is a small plain, enough for their cavalry to maneuver. And from a distance, it appeared that the enemy did not carry a spear formation to block the cavalry from charging into the formation, but Anda still was not prepared to charge into the formation.
The Tang army is not an idiot. They can produce so many full-body armors. How can they not have simple spears? It's definitely impossible, but if the enemy doesn't bring it, then there's definitely something fishy.
Therefore, he only prepared to attack the enemy with a rain of arrows according to the original plan. But in the current situation, if he wanted to, he could lead the cavalry to circle around the enemy and then throw a rain of arrows at the center.
Mounted archery does not require accuracy, as long as the arrow is fired.
But after Anda carefully observed the enemy's formation, he decided to give up this idea, because if he attacked the enemy and went around behind the enemy, if five hundred fully armored heavy cavalry rushed out of the enemy's city, in such a short distance Inside, they would suffer heavy losses.
And when they bypass the enemy, they will be under attack from the heavy crossbows on the city wall!
He decided to lead the cavalry in an arc, forming a line, and then passed sideways in front of the enemy's formation, throwing a wave of arrows at the enemy to see what was going on. Because he was not sure what weapons the enemy had in their formation, but there must be bows and arrows!
He could lead his army to attack, but it was impossible for him to commit the lives of most of the Turkic soldiers here.
After formulating the strategy, Anda quickly formulated relevant plans with several generals under his command, then got on his horse directly, "Woo!" The unique horn of the Turks sounded!
"Turkic warriors! Kill!" Anda didn't talk nonsense. He got on his horse and roared directly, then rushed out.
The Turkic cavalry following him immediately became excited, and strange howling sounds came from their mouths. More than 2,000 war horses quickly began to gather into a long line, and began to circle a large circle on this large plain.
Two thousand cavalry is not much. In this scene, there are less than two thousand horses.
Xu Ling was a little nervous, but there was no expression on his face. He just looked at this scene with a stern expression. As the captain commanding the scene, Xu Ling would complete this battle.
He knew very well that although the soldiers around him were all veterans, there were not many scenes of facing cavalry charges like this.
"Let go!" Seeing that the enemy was spared, Xu Ling shouted directly. The ordering soldier standing next to Xu Ling quickly waved the order flag in his hand!
With a "boom", all the shields hit the ground neatly, forming a neat shield wall.
Xu Ling stared closely at the enemy's horses. If the enemy had any idea of bypassing their back, he would quickly transform into a circular formation. When Xu Ling saw the enemy taking off the bow and arrow from his back while marching, he knew that the enemy was not prepared to contact them head-on.
To be honest, he wanted the enemy to charge forward, so they didn't even carry spears to prevent the enemy from charging.
However, it is obviously impossible for the enemy's cavalry to charge head-on. They don't even seem to be preparing to go around their rear. After all, their rear is not too far away from the city. If the enemy wants to insert between them and the city, then they will Within the crossbow range of both sides.
So he had only one choice. With the current appearance of the Turkic cavalry, they were obviously preparing to pass in front of their formation and then rain a wave of arrows at them.
Such a formation... If you want to cause maximum damage to the enemy, it is best to wait until the enemy's vanguard rushes through about half of the front of their formation before starting to attack, but then they will suffer a wave of arrows from the enemy's vanguard.
Although the enemy's arrow rain would hardly cause them much damage, even so, Xu Ling was not prepared to do so.
"Send the order! Shield soldiers and crossbow soldiers are ready to meet the enemy head on!" Xu Ling roared.
The bugler beside him directly picked up the trumpet in his hand, and the exciting and unique melody of "Dudududu" sounded instantly! The originally horizontal shield wall instantly began to turn towards the direction of the enemy's forward, and at the same time slowly began to advance towards the enemy.
Anda: "?"
He was completely stunned. It was certain that the enemy would react, but he never expected that after seeing the movements of their cavalry, the enemy would actually slowly advance towards the cavalry in the opposite direction! Although the range of movement is not large, advancement is advancement!
Don't want to die? ! Or are they too confident?
Several thoughts popped up in Anda's mind, but at this time he had no way to change his strategy.
The change in the enemy's position is not too big, so the original plan can still be implemented!
What he didn't expect was that just when they made an arc and were about to approach the enemy's formation, the unique trumpet sound in the opponent's camp changed again!
With a "boom" and the passionate trumpet sound, the soldiers in the front row instantly smashed the shield down, and then they bent down and squatted behind the shield, opening the unique supporting legs under the shield! While they were doing these actions, the five hundred crossbowmen in the row behind them directly placed the crossbows in their hands on top of the shields, and then fired the crossbows without hesitation!
With a "buzz" sound, the continuous trembling sound of the crossbow strings sounded, and 500 crossbow arrows instantly rushed straight towards the enemy's formation like soul-sucking scythes!
When the trigger was pulled, a thousand crossbowmen in the first row retracted their crossbows without even looking at the results of the battle, and retreated uniformly, while the second row of crossbowmen once again placed their crossbows directly on the shield wall. , and then directly pulled the crossbow in his hand without hesitation!
Then another 500 crossbow arrows pounced on the enemy!
When the third row of crossbowmen placed the crossbow on the shield, the first row of crossbowmen had already pulled and wound the crossbow string directly with the assistance of the two movable pulleys!
Anda took the lead in charging into the battle. When the enemy's first row of crossbows were placed directly on the shield, Anda's head went blank!
Because the enemy has not yet entered the range of their bows and arrows at this moment! But the enemy's crossbows are already swarming in like ghosts seeking life!
In just two breaths, Anda saw a soldier in front of him on his left, and a crossbow arrow just passed through the neck of the horse under his crotch! Terrifying blood shot out instantly! As the war horse whined, he and the war horse rolled directly and fell to the ground!
He is dead! Although the soldier was not injured. This thought came to Anda's mind.
But in just that moment, at least twenty or thirty soldiers beside him had fallen off their horses or rolled to the ground together with their horses!
And then came the second batch of crossbow arrows!
