When the third wave of crossbows hit them at a terrifying speed, the number of soldiers around Anda was reduced by half! The screams of horses and humans echoed throughout the battlefield! Under the fear of death, everyone, including Anda, subconsciously pulled the reins away from the enemy.
The Turks' attack route was originally a horizontal U-shape, but now it directly turned into a strange P-shape under the threat of death.
Li Daozong and An Xinggui, who were on the city tower, saw the whole scene through telescopes. Under the threat of the terrifying crossbow arrows, the Turkic cavalry seemed to have hit an invisible wall. , a large number of corpses were dropped there in less than a minute! But the formation formed by the war horses cannot be changed at all for a while under the coercion of the leading horse!
In desperation, some Turks pulled the bows and arrows in their hands in an attempt to attack the enemy and disturb the enemy's attack. However, although they were now within the attack range of the large single-man crossbow, it represented the arrows in their hands. Bows and arrows also came into range.
Those bows and arrows began to fall feebly when they were still more than ten meters away from the shield.
"Advance!" Xu Ling roared and said fiercely.
The messengers around him quickly passed on his orders.
The shield-bearer who had been squatting behind the shield quickly stood up, retracted the support, directly pulled up the shield, and began to advance steadily.
The crossbowmen following them slowed down their attack speed slightly, but still kept the crossbow arrows covering them as they approached the enemy!
The corpses of Turks have covered the ground.
Some Turks who were lucky enough to escape the crossbow fire were aroused by the blood. They roared and drew their swords and rushed towards the Tang Dynasty's formation! There are at least one to two hundred soldiers like this.
But Xu Ling didn't pay attention to them at all, and even the crossbowmen of the large military crossbows did not aim their crossbows at them, because when they rushed close to the formation, the auxiliary personnel who followed the large military crossbowmen, holding The crossbowmen with hand crossbows finally excitedly raised the small crossbows in their hands.
On average, at least a dozen people aimed at a charging Hun soldier and triggered the crossbow in their hands.
These small crossbows have a relatively short range, with a killing range of only about twenty meters, and are not as powerful as large military crossbows.
But the Turks who rushed forward were few in number, and they were basically wearing leather armor.
When every Turk and their horses are cared for by dozens or even dozens of hand crossbows, there is only one ending waiting for them.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Anda was lucky enough not to die, but a crossbow arrow shot past the back of his horse, creating a deep groove that almost made the horse under his crotch go crazy. He spent a huge amount of time. Only with enough strength could he barely control the horse under his crotch.
When he turned around, his eyes were filled with tears! Behind him, the blood and corpses of Turks and war horses covered the entire land!
The trumpet sound of the Turks' withdrawal finally sounded across the battlefield! At this time, Li Daozong, who was on the city wall, waved his right hand directly, "Order, the cavalry attacks!"
The Yiwu city gate below opened wide again, and then the dull sound of horse hooves began to roar out! Two war horses running side by side rushed out of the dark doorway. When they rushed out of the doorway, the slanting sunlight shone on them and the armor of the warhorses under their crotches!
The armor reflects the sun and shines brightly!
The brand-new high-bridge saddle, stirrups, and horseshoes cast in one piece to fit the shape of the horseshoe have strengthened these war horses like never before.
They did not carry disposable lances. In addition to the special scimitars and a short dagger slung across their waists, they also carried a recurve bow and two pots of arrows on their backs.
"Cease fire! Disperse!" Xu Ling noticed the movement behind him and gave the order directly.
The long formation ceased fire in an instant and concentrated to the left and right. A special passage was instantly formed in the middle to allow the cavalry to pass.
The two horses marched side by side, and the formation of only five hundred Tang cavalry did not stop and rushed directly through the Tang infantry array.
When the fierce heavy armored cavalry rushed out of the enemy formation, Anda panicked when he saw this scene, "Retreat! Retreat!"
But the Turkic formation had just been retracted, and the horses had not yet picked up the speed of returning to the original place. Although the enemy was a heavily armored cavalry, they had already entered a full-speed charge! Although the charging distance of the heavy armored cavalry is not long, here... it is not that long at all!
More importantly, on the only way for the Turks to retreat, the Gaochang people's infantry and abandoned baggage materials blocked most of the roads!
The distance between the two sides is closing at a terrifying speed.
"Prepare to engage the enemy!" Seeing that there was no hope of retreat and that it was impossible to distance himself before the opponent rushed over, Anda could only issue a new order.
But a scene that made his eyes split open appeared. When the Tang cavalry, which was just two horses parallel, rushed to the distance and was almost within the effective shooting range of bows and arrows, they suddenly pulled the reins left and right, and the opponent's horse instantly moved toward them. The two sides turned, and after turning, the opponent had already opened the bow and arrow in his hand, and then arrows swarmed in.
The opponent's arrows were not dense, but Anda was stunned. The heavy armored cavalry was playing mounted archery? !
The point is... when an arrow happened to pierce the neck of one of his guardsmen in front of Anda, the blood that swarmed out along the arrow directly dyed the arrow red, and Anda could see it clearly. , those arrows... are all iron three-edged armor-piercing arrows.
The sharp arrowhead was dripping with blood. His personal guard's pupils were dilated and he couldn't even scream. He could only make a sound of "hoho..." accompanied by the blood gushing out.
Then the whole person fell directly from the horse.
The Turks were unwilling to fight back with their bows, but at this time Anda sadly discovered that the enemy's bows and arrows had a farther range than theirs, and their bows and arrows could barely hit the enemy, but they had also lost their lethality. The armor on the opponent and the horse fell weakly to the ground.
"Retreat!" Anda ran away, he ran away shamefully.
But he had no choice, because he didn't know how else he could win this war. The number of enemies was not large... but the weapons and equipment were already ahead of them in every aspect.
Could it be that he led the remaining warriors to rush over and fight the enemy at close range? Fighting with enemies who are armed to the teeth with both men and horses?
He even doubted that the knives in their hands could not cut down the knives in the enemy's hands.
So Anda had no choice but to escape. He didn't know how many soldiers he had escaped, but he wanted to leave this devil's place. A sad thought came to Anda's heart after escaping. Khan... was really hostile to the Tang Dynasty. Is it correct? !
