"It's a broken military crossbow and a trebuchet!"
A trooper yelled.
He was one of the men who participated in the battle yesterday, and the scene of the enemy's powerful army-breaking crossbows piercing through his companions, including men and horses, was still vivid in his mind.
At this time, he saw densely packed thick crossbow arrows shooting at him first, and the fear in his heart instantly filled his body.
No, I can't fight, I can't bear the crossbow, I will die, I will die...
Fear dominated his body, and his survival instinct overrode his obedience to the general's orders.
He reined in his horse and tried to turn around and run away.
But the people behind didn't stop.
He stopped suddenly, and the cavalry behind him bumped into him on the spot, knocking him away hard, and the cavalry behind him also fell over.
The stone bullets from the army-breaking crossbows and trebuchets fell suddenly, dealing a fatal blow to these cavalry.
When Nie Chen on the top of the city saw this scene, he couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle.
The barbarians do not understand the art of cavalry warfare at all.
The battle formation is dense, and they don't know how to keep a distance, nor do they know how to arrange themselves crosswise. They don't even know that the cavalry is not used to break through in the center, but to break into the enemy's formation from the weak points on both wings, disrupt the formation, and prepare for the infantry attack.
This style of play is really a waste of cavalry.
The cavalry were still charging forward one after another, and the barbarian infantry behind them also roared and charged forward, vowing to completely tear the enemy troops in front of them into pieces.
The filial son in the rear army held his head high in Quyang, staring at the top of the city, muttering in his heart.
Why haven't you killed me yet? Why haven't you killed me yet...
You, Nie Chen, don't keep your word. You promised to kill my father when I attack?
You should kill!
Naturally, Nie Chen would not kill Queding Tangwu. He even hoped that Queding Quyang could lead the rear army to kill him as well, and then capture him alive to watch a good show of father and son killing each other.
The armies on both wings, led by Yue Dongwen and Lin Guang, are still surrounding the center. The barbarians don't care what formation you are in, they just charge inward.
Thanks to each other's ignorance, Lin Guang and Yue Dongwen successfully joined forces and surrounded the entire battlefield.
The soldiers held spears and shields, advancing step by step, killing all enemies they saw!
The 10,000 cavalrymen in front of the formation, under the attack of city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking missiles and trebuchets, finally rushed within a hundred steps in front of the central Feng army.
The enemy army is right in front, and the local commander is not far away. They only need to rush over, wave the sword in their hands, and chop all the weak wind people to death!
The barbarian cavalry screamed and charged forward fiercely, but what greeted them was an overwhelming rain of arrows.
The archers of the Feng Army fired their arrows.
The densely packed countless arrows covered the sky and the sun, drew beautiful arcs in mid-air, and all shot at the charging cavalry.
Although the power of ordinary arrow arrays is not as powerful as those of heavy weapons, they are more numerous and densely packed, leaving no place for people to dodge.
Whether it is shot at a person or a horse, it can destroy the enemy.
Ordinary infantrymen can survive if they are shot in the body as long as they are not fatally injured.
But the cavalry is not good. War horses don't tell you this. As long as the horse is shot, the horse will go crazy, trample and jump uncontrollably, and then fall down, blocking the cavalry behind.
Under this dense array of arrows, the cavalrymen couldn't help but feel fear, but they still rushed forward.
Finally, after throwing corpses all over the ground, the group at the front finally rushed to the front of the Feng Army's central formation.
Now it's good, I can finally charge into the battle.
There must be a gap in your arrow array, right?
As long as you can get in, as long as...
The joy in their hearts had just risen when they suddenly saw that the spearmen in front of them suddenly squatted down, revealing the swordsmen behind them.
The soldiers raised their repeating crossbows and pulled the triggers.
The range of a repeating crossbow is a little closer than that of a bow and arrow, but its powerful shots at close range are also very powerful.
The neat team of soldiers pulled the triggers one after another, and arrows appeared one after another, shooting the incoming enemy cavalry into hedgehogs.
One by one, the cavalry fell in front of the battle. They advanced one after another, and almost all of them were killed under the attack of city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking crossbows, trebuchets, bows and arrows, and repeating crossbows.
No one can rush in front of the shield soldiers.
The firepower of these heavy weapons and light weapons directly covered the entire battlefield from the front of the formation to three hundred steps. They were airtight and saturation strikes, annihilating all the invading cavalry.
This is the power of the battle formation. If the various arms cooperate with each other and learn from each other's strengths, they can annihilate powerful enemies.
Similarly, if the battle formation is in chaos, you will not be able to use 10% of your strength. You will only be killed by the opponent's soldiers and horses, and then flee, losing everything.
This is the importance of battle formation.
On ancient battlefields, complete annihilation of the enemy rarely occurred.
Normally, when two armies are fighting, as long as the number of troops is reduced by 30%, the battle formation will be in chaos.
Once the battle formation is in chaos, you basically lose. The soldiers are humans, not machines. It is impossible for them to stay and wait for death after losing. Their instinct is to make them run away in order to survive.
Once you run away, you lose everything.
This is why there is a supervising team, and why it is so important to have a famous division.
If you want an army to fight to the death, in addition to being well fed and well paid, you must also have faith and willpower.
Let them feel that they are fighting for justice and die deservedly and with honor.
For example, defend the country, defend the homeland, and resist invasion.
For example, on the orders of the emperor, he would fight against unruly ministers and rebels.
Many people will say, is it really important for ancient teachers to be famous? Do we have to find a reasonable reason to fight?
It can only be said that it is not important to have a famous teacher, it is too important!
After all, soldiers are all human beings, living and thinking people. Whether they fight or not, they just eat and get military pay every month. Although there are military merit rewards, they don't have to risk their lives.
What's the use of taking money when your life is gone?
Who is willing to follow you to fight on the battlefield?
At this time, faith is very important.
It is important to have a well-known teacher.
The morale of the military and the people are very important.
Let the soldiers know that they are fighting for justice!
It's a bit far off topic, back to the battlefield.
At this time, the cavalry of the barbarian army was almost exhausted, and they failed to disperse the enemy formation as Queding Quyang wanted. Instead, they lost everything.
After the cavalry are dead, the infantry will charge forward.
The barbarian soldiers roared and charged forward one by one, showing that they were not afraid of death, but in fact, only they themselves knew the fear in their hearts.
Such powerful cavalry did not shake the enemy at all. Can we infantry who charge on two legs really defeat the enemy?
