Immediately, Zhao Wei no longer hesitated and shouted an order to his subordinates again: "The whole army speeds up and sprints!"
As he spoke, he held his long sword horizontally, exerted his strength with his legs, and the war horse immediately accelerated and galloped...
In the summer of 260 BC, in the small plain area in the north of Shangdang, the two strongest combat forces in the Warring States Period completely unleashed their full power for the first time.
That is the strongest collision between red and black, and a direct dialogue between blood and knife.
There’s no emotion, it’s all technique.
Cavalry fighting, in this era without stirrups, relied entirely on the cavalry's personal ability. If the horse's belly could not be clamped with both feet, it would be immediately cut off from the horse. The waist was not strong enough to stand up and lie down at will, and the bones and tendons would be broken immediately. Although horse fighting in this era lacked many fancy horse skills compared to the stirrup era, it focused more on mastering basic skills.
In this regard, it is obvious that the Zhao army's side cavalry, who deal with the Hu people all day long, have more advantages. Even if many of the Qin army come from Yiqu (Yiqu grassland has been incorporated into the Qin state since the Queen Mother was declared), Due to the lack of fighting, their skills and strength are much weaker than those of Zhao Jun.
There is a saying that "a slight difference can make a thousand miles difference", not to mention that the Qin army's cavalry was almost completely backward.
Therefore, as soon as the battle began, even though the Qin army had more than 50,000 troops, which was almost twice as many as the 30,000 troops of the Zhao army, it was inevitably at a disadvantage.
Zhao Guo's cavalry army ran at the front, with about three thousand cavalry, and their tall horses were obviously much stronger than the troops that followed. Zhao Wei took the lead and served as the vanguard himself, accompanied by three thousand elite cavalry to serve as the sharp edge of the army. His intention was very clear, which was to break Qin's front in one fell swoop.
Obviously, these more than three thousand arrows were specially selected. Not only were their horses strong and their men strong, they were also covered in fine armor. Not only was the knight covered with armor, but the horse's mouth, nose, and chest were also covered with iron armor. Except for a pair of stirrups, it even looked like a heavy-duty horse in later generations.
In addition to the fine armor all over his body, his weapons are also different from most cavalry. In addition to a heavy machete, there is a small shield on his left hand. What he carries behind his back is not a bow and arrows, but several short missiles. spear.
It can be said that he is armed to the teeth.
Such finely armored cavalry, under the leadership of Zhao Wei, have accelerated their charge, like a torrent of steel. It really kills gods when God blocks it, and kills Buddha when Buddha blocks it.
Before the battle came close, the Qin Army's archers took the lead in attacking. However, the Qin Army's bows and arrows were somewhat powerless in front of the high-speed moving armored cavalry.
Only a few "ding-dong-dang-dang" sounds were heard, and the arrows quickly grazed the armor of the elite cavalry. Except for a trace of sparks, there was no more achievement.
Taking advantage of the interval between the Qin Army's attacks, the distance between the two armies was narrowed again. The Zhao Army's cavalry unhurriedly drew out their short spears from behind, then straightened their bodies and leaned back slightly, turning slightly sideways and looking away. Measuring the distance, as the commander in front gave the order "throw", he suddenly twisted his body, and the short spear in his hand immediately came out.
Almost instantly, thousands of short spears roared towards the Qin Army's cavalry formation.
Among the Qin army, there may be those who are highly skilled in martial arts, such as Ying Seng, etc., who wield their long swords to knock down the incoming short spears one by one, or there may be those who are lucky enough to miss the short spears, but there are more But he ran into the short spear head-on.
The short spear is not too short, it is as long as an arm and as thick as two fingers. The back is made of hard wood, but the front end is made of fine iron. With the power of the horse's speed and body twisting, although the speed of the short spear cannot match that of the arrow, its power is not comparable to that of an arrow as thick as a finger.
Even if an elite Qin army member wearing fine armor was hit by a flying short spear, his bones would be broken at least. If his equestrian skills were a little poor or he was a little lax, it would not be impossible for him to be knocked away in one fell swoop.
If the Qin soldiers were wearing ordinary armor, there would be no other possibility except to break through the armor.
Sure enough, as the short spears entered the formation, from time to time there were sounds of "puff-puff-puff" of iron entering the flesh and "bang-bang-bang" of people turning on their backs, coming from the Qin army's line.
Of course, when short spears attack, there are not a few who are resisted and not concentrated. There are more than a thousand short spears, but only a few thousand can really cause damage. Among the Qin army's fifty thousand cavalry, these more than a thousand casualties were simply not worth mentioning.
Therefore, casualties are not the most serious problem. The more serious problem is that the short spears cause people to flip over, which greatly affects the Qin army's marching queue.
What's more terrible is that compared to the cumbersomeness of setting up a bow and shooting arrows, short spears are undoubtedly more convenient to take. Therefore, before the Qin army had time to fight back, Zhao Jun's second round of short spear attacks had already struck.
Hearing the sound of breaking through the sky, the Qin army's generals were astonished and did not care about anything else. They imitated the general's behavior, loosened their reins with both hands, and waved the long swords in their hands, trying to block the short spears.
Sure enough, because the speed of short spears was not as sharp as the arrows of bows and crossbows, the Qin army's soldiers danced wildly and actually knocked down many short spears to the ground. The results of Zhao Jun's second round of short spear attacks were obviously more than one level worse than the results of the first round of raids.
But in this case, there is no need to think about counterattacks with crossbows. What is even more troublesome is that the soldiers of Qin took their hands off the reins, and their control of the horses was weakened by more than one level. In addition, there were obstacles caused by the fall of Paoze along the way. For a time, the originally neat front line became bumpy.
Without waiting for the generals of the Qin cavalry army to adjust their lines, the third round of short spear attack by the Zhao army cavalry was already approaching. With no choice, the Qin army generals could only wave their long swords to resist.
Since the beginning of the war, the Qin army took the lead and launched a volley, but the harvest was very little, killing less than a hundred enemies. Then it came to the Zhao army's turn. In three rounds of attacks, the total number of kills was more than 2,000, nearly ten times. Yu Qin.
In terms of the results of the battle alone, the difference in combat power between Qin and Zhao is obvious.
However, the Qin army could still accept a mere two thousand men. However, the Zhao army's purpose was obviously not just the battle losses of these two thousand men. As the Qin army continued to be injured and fell to the ground, and as it was tired of dealing with Zhao Jun's short spear offensive, the Qin army's front line became twisted and twisted as if it had been gnawed by dogs.
And this kind of chaos, like waves, continued until the Qin army's follow-up army, until the queue was long enough to eliminate these waves one by one.
However, the chaos of several rows of the front army was enough for Zhao Jun to perform.
That's right, the Zhao army's short spears are not only secondary to killing the Qin army, but more importantly, they are to disrupt the Qin army's advance, thereby creating conditions for the follow-up army to charge.
After three rounds of offensives, the two armies were less than a hundred steps apart, almost as close as the cavalry could reach them in an instant. Zhao Jun's cavalry picked up their swords one after another, preparing for the next close encounter.
