At this time, the Hun cavalry on the opposite side were about 300 steps away from the Jin army's front army and were out of the range of bows and arrows. They also stopped. The rushing black air of the Hun cavalry when they came gradually dissipated. It turned out that the horses rolled up when they were running. Liu Yu roughly estimated the number of dust. All the Hun knights were riding on their horses, and there were two thousand in total.
The horses of the Huns did not have armor, and even the cavalry on the horses mostly wore cotton robes instead of iron armor.
But the enemy soldiers were all equipped with huge bows, and it was obvious that they were strong bows. As for the weapons they held, there were all kinds of weapons: spears, maces, battle axes, sabers, and bronze hammers.
Liu Yu saw a general in white armor galloping back and forth in front of the opponent's formation, constantly spying on his side. Among the thousands of enemy cavalry in sight, he was the only one wearing full armor, and he was about a mile away from his side at the moment.
While he was not watching his own work, Liu Yu picked up the iron bow, attached the longest long spike arrow, calculated the angle and wind direction, and shot an arrow into the air.
I saw that the white-armored enemy general was still looking away. He suddenly felt a strong wind coming. When he looked up, he saw an arrow flying towards him with a shrill whistle along the sunlight. It was too late to dodge. The arrow fell from the sky with huge potential energy, drew an incredible trajectory, and shot through his neck at once.
The white-armored general shouted, fell off his horse and died. The noisy Huns' cavalry suddenly became silent, while the warriors in the front row of the Jin army burst into thunderous cheers.
The range of ordinary bows and arrows is only sixty or seventy steps. Even long archers with amazing arm strength can only shoot to more than a hundred steps by using this method of arcing into the air. Although the white-robed general is walking back and forth in front of the formation, Mercedes-Benz, who was at least 150 steps away from Liu Yu, was actually killed by an arrow. This accuracy and strength were really shocking. Even the many sharpshooters in the Xiongnu array were stunned by this magical skill.
Liu Yu succeeded with one blow and was very proud of himself. He enjoyed the feeling of being worshiped like a roaring tsunami by his own side and even the enemy in front of the tens of thousands of troops. He turned around and smiled at Xiang Jing and others who were clapping at him: "See, the enemy cavalry is nothing to be afraid of. They are humans too and will die. Today, I will defeat them together with you!"
All the Beifu soldiers shouted in unison: "Destroy the Hu, destroy the Hu, destroy the Hu!" While shouting, they stamped hard on the ground, and the waves of their voices were louder than the other, covering the ground.
Shu Ke on the other side looked at Liu Yu with gritted teeth. The person who just went out to be shot with an arrow was his younger brother. He wanted to show off his power in front of the Jin army, but he didn't expect to kill the opponent with an arrow directly. He shouted sternly. Shout: "Charge and shoot them!"
A dull horn sound sounded, and Shu Yeke, who was standing at the front of the Huns' formation, raised the mace in his hand high. Behind him, the eight hundred cavalrymen began to walk slowly, slowly accelerating, accelerating. , accelerate again, gallop, run, sprint!
The well-trained Huns cavalry let out a soul-stirring roar, increased their speed from standstill to the maximum, and ran wildly with four hooves, like thunder chasing the moon. The eight hundred cavalry rolled up the dust, like a yellow dragon, It rolled towards the Jin army's square formation two miles away.
Liu Yu shouted sternly: "Brothers, Luo Yang!"
Originally, the Jin troops stood on the spot holding the two-foot-long super-long gaol with one hand. After hearing Liu Yu's order and being issued with countless bugles, the sound of bugles spread across the five hundred square meters of the front line. The message was conveyed among the soldiers in the formation, and the sergeants roared in unison. They changed the long pole to be held with both hands and raised it to waist level. At the end of the pole, copper blocks were hung one by one to balance the two-foot long pole. Long strides.
The sergeants in the first row squatted down and raised their long spears upward at an angle of thirty degrees, while the sergeants in the second row put their long spears on the shoulders of their companions in the front row. The rough roars of the officers in the front spread across the entire battlefield: " Hold on, hold on!"
The sound of iron hoofs on the ground is getting closer and closer, just like the heartbeat of the front-line soldiers of the Jin army, which is constantly accelerating. The smoke and dust have followed the strong wind, wrapping the front-line Jin army soldiers in pieces of smoke. , it becomes difficult for them to open their eyes. However, what rushed directly with the sound of the first wave of iron hooves was not a real Huqi war horse, but a storm of bows and arrows!
The more than two hundred Jin army commanders standing on the front line suddenly became like arrows. These warriors wearing heavy armor are all strong men with courage, and they are also covered with two layers of fine steel. The armor is almost a large iron plate covering the chest, with densely packed armor pieces covering the leather armor. This kind of protection is enough to block the swords in a face-to-face fight.
However, facing the bows and arrows fired by the Huns' cavalry within a few dozen steps, the bows and arrows fired by the cavalry bows with more than three stones or the crossbows with more than two stones were enough to penetrate the large wooden shields at this distance. Many fine steel armor pieces of leather armor were shot through, and in places without heavy armor protection, especially the front door, arrows penetrated the skull immediately. From time to time, someone fell straight down, and those in the back row The companions quickly made up for it. A shower of arrows washed away, and more than ten corpses fell on the ground on the front line, but the formation remained motionless.
From the gap in the Jin army's formation, more than a hundred crossbowmen holding infantry crossbows rushed out. They did not need to aim into the smoke and dust. They just fired a burst of crossbows, and the crossbow arrows like locusts penetrated into the smoke and dust. In the middle, the tip of the arrow penetrates the armor, and the sound of the arrow penetrating into the flesh can be heard continuously. From time to time, there are also the sounds of horses falling to the ground and the neighing and screaming, making a loud noise.
The commanders of the Jin army cheered. The sergeants in the front row straightened up and were about to charge forward. However, another burst of crossbow bolts flew out of the smoke. The soldiers in the platoon who had just stood up, This time, more than twenty people were shot down, and the formation became chaotic and irregular.
At this moment, a dense crossbow bolt flew from the right side of the square formation again. It was the Huns' cavalry that passed the enemy's front in an arc, and did not fire like an ordinary cavalry ring. He retreated to the rear, but continued to move forward diagonally, rushing towards the enemy's flank.
Because there was a lot of smoke and dust at this time, and there was nothing to distinguish on all sides, the Jin army's long square formation was hit by a burst of bows and arrows on the side. Compared with its highly protected front, the armor on its flanks was obviously much weaker, especially around the neck. Some people were shot through by an arrow. They screamed and dropped the weapons in their hands, desperately grabbing at the bloody holes in their necks.
Liu Yu looked stern and shouted: "No chaos, turn your flanks to meet the enemy!"
