Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 459 Wang Shichong is destined to be happy?

Chapter [-] Wang Shichong is destined to be happy?
Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie rushed to the front of the Xuanjia cavalry with their own soldiers, but the oncoming chariots formed a tight formation and rushed towards them with unprecedented pressure.

"kill!"

Cheng Zhijie let out a loud roar, tensed all the muscles in his body, and released his strength in the roar. With a flick of his wrist, the horse spear in his hand drew an arc, stabbing at the horse driving in front of the chariot.

"Pfft..."

"Pfft..."

The two huge horse heads were stabbed by Cheng Zhijie, and they pierced into the horse's head sharply and without delay, disturbing the horse's brain, and instantly draining the horse's vitality.Two huge war horses fell to the ground with a plop.

Cheng Zhijie succeeded with one blow, Qin Qiong did not show any weakness, leaned forward slightly, and quickly pulled out four short halberds from the chains on the horse's neck. These short halberds were no more than four feet long and weighed about eight or nine catties.Qin Qiong held four short halberds and bowed left and right, and the four short halberds were like sharp arrows coming out of the string, flying towards the horses driven by Zheng Jun's chariot soldiers in front.

"Puff...puff...puff...puff"

Four war horses fell down one after another.Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led the Xuanjia cavalry to launch a desperate assault on the Zheng army's chariot soldiers.

Although the Xuanjia cavalry of the Tang army were as imposing as a rainbow, their counterattack encountered unprecedented pressure.If these Xuanjia cavalry are facing Zheng Jun cavalry or infantry, they can rely on their armor to solidify their blades and kill the enemy without leaving any armor. Unless they exhaust all their physical strength, the Xuanjia cavalry will not charge. stop.

However, it was Zheng Jun's two to three hundred chariots that rushed up at this time. Although Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong fought hard and destroyed more than a dozen Zheng Jun's chariots one after another, more Zheng Jun chariots and Tang Army Xuanjia cavalry bumped into each other.

There are four people standing on each chariot of the Zheng Army, one driver who drives the horse, one armor head holding a horizontal knife, bow and arrow, and two soldiers holding spears on the left and right.

Before the Xuanjia cavalry had time to hit the enemy's horses, they either fell off the horses with arrows, or were picked off by the spearmen on the chariot with their spears.

The lances and spears in the hands of the soldiers on the Zheng army's chariot are all for the chariot soldiers, and they are thick and long. Each long lance is two feet long, which is about [-] meters.It is even two feet longer than the spears used by infantry.As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong. In this kind of situation where chariots and cavalry are attacking each other, the strength of Zheng Jun's chariot soldiers is displayed to the fullest.

Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led the Xuanjia cavalry for only a few dozen steps before they felt the unprecedented power. The arrows of the generals of the Zheng army were flying back and forth in the air. Although the Xuanjia cavalry belonged to heavy armored cavalry, They are not afraid of arrows, but their faces, necks, hands, feet, and the eyes of the horses are all weak and weak points. There will always be Zheng Jun's arrows hitting the vital positions of the Xuanjia cavalry like luck, which is even more terrifying. Yes, the chariot slowed down the charging momentum of the Xuanjia cavalry, lost the charge speed, and the Xuanjia cavalry became the target of Zheng Jun's soldiers.

It was found that the bow and arrow were not effective, and almost two or three hundred arrows could barely hit a Xuanjia cavalryman of the Tang army. Wang Shichong really ordered to stop this meaningless attack.Wang Shichong said: "Bring up the bed crossbow and trebuchet, and give me a blast..."

In fact, Wang Shichong was fully prepared to ambush Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry.

The 220 eight-ox crossbows stored in Yang Guang's general prison in Luoyang City were all dismantled by Wang Shichong and secretly transported to Longmen Canyon, including more than 150 trebuchets. If Wang Shichong arranged these weapons in the Luoyang City On the city wall, I am afraid that Li Shimin will have to work hard if he wants to conquer Luoyang City.

In history, Li Shimin indeed besieged Luoyang for ten days and stormed, losing more than [-] soldiers and horses, and did not capture Luoyang City at all.But in this time and space, Wang Ren suffered a great loss from Chen Ying's poisonous smoke at Hangu Pass. He reported the news to Wang Shichong.Therefore, Wang Shichong devised such a strategy to lure Li Shimin to underestimate the enemy.

Wang Shichong saw it very clearly. On the surface, Tang Jun was strong and strong, but Li Shimin wanted to express himself very deliberately because of the existence of Chen Ying.In "Sun Tzu's Art of War", it is said that there will be five dangers: if you must die, you can be killed; if you must live, you can be captured; if you are angry, you can be insulted;It just so happened that Li Shimin was hit by "angry speed".Resentment speed means impetuous and aggressive, jumping at the touch of a button, and may be deliberately insulted by the enemy and act recklessly;
Under Wang Shichong's order, the eight-ox crossbows and trebuchets that Zheng Jun ambushed on Daqingshan and Longmen Mountains began to adjust their launch angles. 150 trebuchets and 220 eight-ox crossbows were all aimed at Li Shimin's big Tao.

After hearing the news that Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie's attack had been frustrated, Hou Junji, who was originally cut off, hurriedly said to Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan: "General Qin and General Cheng's troops are exhausted and cannot break into the car formation. We must break through a bloody road. If you don’t go in, we’ll all die here!”

Li Shimin said: "I'll go!"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and rushed to the front.

However, at this moment.There were bursts of mournful piercing in the sky.

Li Shimin hadn't advanced more than a hundred steps just now, but when he turned his head to look, he broke out in a cold sweat.

I saw that where he was just now, dozens of stone bullets and hundreds of crossbow arrows more than six feet long flew from the air at this time. The man and the horse were nailed to the ground.Dozens of stone bullets even smashed hundreds of Xuanjia cavalry present into bloody meatloaf.

If the bows and arrows of this period are the submachine guns of later generations, then the crossbow is almost an assault rifle, and the bed crossbow and the eight-ox crossbow are almost equivalent to the power of anti-tank guns or anti-aircraft machine guns. The city wall can penetrate three feet, not to mention the armor worn by the cavalry, even the high-manganese steel bright armor that Chen Ying discovered, is also as fragile as paper in front of the bed crossbow.

Li Shimin shouted: "Follow me!"

Li Shimin picked up an iron tire bow, and saw that the arrows shot five or six horses in a row, his strength was raised again, and his speed was also raised again!There are strong winds brought by the galloping enemy chariots and horses everywhere.In addition, there were cold arrows and back arrows. Several times, the bow and arrow almost passed Li Shimin's cheeks, and the skin was burned by less than an inch or two, but Li Shimin didn't even blink.At this moment, his state is probably that if the bow and arrow hit his eyeball, he won't take a blind eye!

As a general, as an outstanding commander-in-chief, Li Shimin knew very well that at this moment, it was meaningless to stay, and it was meaningless to be afraid of death. The more he was afraid of death, the faster he would die.Li Shimin led the Xuanjia cavalry to attack, but did not follow the established target and went directly to the south. In fact, Wang Shichong could easily guess his upcoming destination, so the troops there followed the strongest!
Li Shimin charged, not along a straight line heading south, but like a fish scale, with ripples, and a slanted charge. At this time, it seemed that the heavens favored Li Shimin. He was like a prophet who could avoid the trap set by Zheng Jun at any time. The well kept moving along the subtle "momentum" of the battlefield, and every movement was accompanied by the death of an enemy horse or the overturning of a chariot.

However, although Li Shimin was brave, Qin Qiong was fearless, and Cheng Zhijie was tough, but what they brought was only the casualties of Zheng Jun's soldiers, and did not change the overall situation of the battle.

The Xuanjia cavalry of the Tang army in the Longshan Grand Canyon changed from more than 25 troops to more than [-] cavalry, and now it is less than [-] cavalry.From a valley that is more than [-] miles long, their range of activities has been gradually compressed to [-] miles, [-] miles,
Now the three thousand Xuanjia cavalry have been compressed to less than fifteen miles. At this time, the Zheng army's chariot troops are like a deadly rope, strangled around the necks of the Tang army soldiers, suffocating the Tang army soldiers bit by bit.

"Chariots rattling, horses rustling, pedestrians with bows and arrows at their waists, Ye Niang's wife walks to see each other off, the dust does not see Xianyang Bridge..." This is a poem "Soldier Chariots" by Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. The Chariot Xia Dynasty began He appeared on the battlefield and quickly became the king of ancient Chinese wars.Even later in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, chariots became the basic factor to measure a country.

From the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, chariots have always been the main equipment of the army, and chariot warfare is the main combat method.As for the confrontation between cavalry and chariots, that is a matter of different opinions. In fact, the power of chariots is far greater than that of cavalry, but the speed of chariots is slow, and they do not have the mobility advantage of cavalry. Too high, gradually fading away.

Li Shimin watched the two hundred Zheng Jun chariots roaring towards him, and felt his scalp tingling.If it is in other places, Li Shimin is not afraid of these chariots, he can even use a hundred ways to restrain the chariots. In the space, the chariot's original disadvantage of slow movement was well made up for by this Longmen Canyon.

Li Shimin's face was originally peaceful.Although he is somewhat tough, he is still considered handsome, but at the moment he is scorched into a hideous look. His small eyes are originally narrow and beautiful, and he has fascinated many girls with this. It has a round shape, just like the angry-eyed King Kong in the Buddhist temple!And those hands are covered with blue veins, if someone can look closely, will they think that they are really a pair of human hands?

Li Shimin was already drenched in blood, but not a single drop of blood was his own!This terrifying image of Li Shimin is as if he just crawled out of a pool of blood and flesh. He is really the devil described in the scriptures of various religions. All enemies will be afraid and weak when they see him, and even animals will be killed by him. Overwhelmed!
It's a pity that Zheng Jun still has too many soldiers.To make matters worse, the eight-ox crossbows and trebuchets on both sides of Daqingshan and Longmenshan fired stone bullets or crossbow arrows from time to time.

In the narrow space of Longmen Canyon, Zheng Jun's catapults, each stone bullet can easily take away dozens of Xuanjia cavalry, looking at the Xuanjia cavalry who are regarded as the lifeblood, one by one, fell to the ground with hatred. In the canyon, Li Shimin's eyes were about to pop out, but he couldn't have any opinion on the situation at the scene.

Li Shimin charged more than ten times in a row, but he did not break up Zheng Jun's chariot formation, but was pushed back step by step by Zheng Jun's chariot.

At this moment, Cheng Zhijie fell off his horse with a plop.

Qin Qiong turned pale with shock, and shouted: "Old Cheng..."

Also survived. Now that the Xuanjia cavalry lost their speed, Cheng Zhijie was not hit by the cavalry behind him, and he struggled to get up.Cheng Zhijie grinned and said, "It's okay, my old Cheng has rough skin and thick flesh..."

Qin Qiong took advantage of the firelight to hit the crossbow arrow on Cheng Zhijie's shoulder with a look of commission.The shoulder guard is an important part of the armor, and it is also a place with very strong defense, second only to the chest.But the shoulder pads have now been penetrated by the crossbow, which shows how powerful this crossbow is.

At this moment, Li Shimin rushed to Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie, looked at Cheng Zhijie's injury, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief: "It's so dangerous, one more finger will hurt the bone, and your arm is useless!"

However, Zhu Can was dressed in iron armor, holding a spear, standing in the second row, second row, stepping forward slowly.Zhu Can yelled: "Hold your steps—steady—keep in formation!"

Following his command, the infantry phalanx of the Ogre Iron Armored Legion approached Li Shimin's black cavalry at a slow pace.

Although the Demon Legion is notorious, but denied, this is a very combative army.First row to fight.Zhu Can called out the password: "Kill——!"

The infantrymen of the first row of demon legion all stabbed their spears, stabbing Xue, who was stunned by dozens of Xuanjia cavalrymen, to death on the spot.

Zhu Can ordered again: "Accept—!"

The infantry of the Demon Legion gathered their spears together.

"Enter--!"

The infantry of the demon legion took another step forward in an orderly manner.

At this time, Li Shimin also felt a sense of powerlessness that he had not seen for a long time. The chariots blocked the Xuanjia cavalry's way of breaking out to the south. Unable to dash forward.There are more than [-] Xuanjia cavalry, less than [-] cavalry at this time, and they are compressed within a range of less than ten miles.

Just as Zhu Can led the cannibal demon army to attack from the top of Longmen Mountain to the bottom of the mountain, Zheng Jun on the opposite mountain Daqing Mountain also launched an attack.

Simultaneous attack from three sides, Li Shimin's troops are in jeopardy.

Cheng Zhijie said with a wry smile: "My old Cheng can live and die with His Royal Highness Qin Wang, and this life is not in vain!"

Li Shimin knew that the entire army had lost confidence at this time, and their morale plummeted.But as the backbone of the army, others can despair, but he cannot.

Li Shimin laughed and said: "It's too early to say death, we still have reinforcements, Wang Shichong's son, we are destined to be happy for nothing!"

Qin Qiong was full of doubts: "Do we have reinforcements?"

(End of this chapter)