Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 752

Someone kept reporting the approaching distance of the enemy.

"Crossbowman, let go!"

When the enemy was 150 steps away, the team officers who led the battle finally shouted and ordered to launch, so the crossbowmen holding the crossbows pulled the strings one after another, and countless crossbow spikes flew out.

At a super long distance of 150 steps, Wei Jun was still running, but Xia Jun's first wave of offensive had already launched.

It may take many years to train an archer, but it may only take half a year or even nothing to train a qualified crossbowman.

But the crossbow has a far longer range than the bow and arrow, and it saves more energy.

An archer, if he draws the bow and shoots arrows continuously, will exhaust his physical strength in a short time and cannot draw the string anymore.But a crossbowman can shoot continuously for half a day.

However, the cost of the crossbow is high, and at the same time, the crossbow also has the disadvantages of slow firing rate and easy damage.

But crossbowmen can be quick, so there are quite a few crossbowmen in the Xia army, especially Wang Fubao's elite team, which has [-]% of the number of crossbowmen.

"The enemy is nearly sixty steps away!"

From 150 steps to [-] steps, the crossbowmen have already shot three arrows, and they all use three-stage shooting to ensure non-stop shooting.

These three waves of shooting caused Wei Jun to fall countless people.

But the people behind were still rushing forward.

"bow!"

One after another Xia Jun raised his bow.

Whether it is the Mo Dao hand, the spear hand, or the sword player, they all raised their bows and set up their arrows. This is another place where the Xia army far surpassed the Wei army. Soldiers, everyone has a bow.

Although many soldiers' bows were inaccurate, it didn't matter, Xia Jun's tactical thinking required long-range firepower.

Even if each soldier only released three arrows before the battle, that would be enough.

Not asking for accuracy, but only asking for three rounds of volley fire, it is enough to cause huge damage to the charging enemy troops, especially to greatly improve the morale of the army.

The bows and crossbows of the soldiers of the Sui army were already powerful, but now the armor of the Wei army is weak, so the lethality is even greater.

Three arrows.

Most of the Xia army's infantry only shot three arrows.

Then Wei Jun, who rushed over according to the inertia, finally rushed to the front. Although thousands of them had fallen, they still rushed over by inertia.

"Mo Dao!"

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The battlefield is not far away.

On the high tower of a temple by the river bank, several short-haired monks are standing on the top of the tower watching the battlefield here.

It's just that their conversation doesn't seem like a monk at all.

"Can you see, Xia Jun's tactics are very clever." A big monk said to several young monks.

"Well, the Xia army was a sham at the beginning. They lured the Wei army to pursue, and then the army scattered. At this time, the Xia army stood by the river and attacked first with bows and crossbows, killing and wounding the Wei army in large numbers, and greatly boosted the morale of the Xia army. .”

The great monk laughed and said, "It's far more than that. Didn't you realize that Xia's army had a half-armored cavalry before they crossed the river, but have you seen this cavalry on the battlefield from the beginning to the end?"

"No, only one light cavalry appeared."

The big monk praised the young monk, "You looked very carefully, that's right, the heavy cavalry is gone, and it didn't appear here at all. Tell me, where should he be now?"

"Could it be that you went to the White Horse City?"

river bank.

Wang Fubao rushed to the formation with light cavalry, lured the enemy by feigning defeat, and then counterattacked.

Bow and crossbow volley, then Mo Dao blocked the enemy, and then Qingqi attacked from both sides.

Wang Fubao's heavy infantry is as indestructible as a rock, while his light cavalry roams coquettishly, and elite crossbowmen continue to harvest.Although Wang Fubao has few soldiers, he still has 7000 troops. When the [-] troops are very elite, it is no longer easy to defeat them with more hits and fewer.

At the beginning, the Wei army continued to attack regardless of casualties.

But soon, Wei Jun couldn't move.

No matter how they rushed, Xia Jun would not move like a mountain, but they dropped countless corpses in front of the formation.

When the casualties reached a certain number, the nature of Wei Jun's motley crew was finally exposed.

Instead of rushing forward with bloodshot minds, they began to turn their heads and run regardless of orders.

But Wang Fubao launched a counterattack in due course, so the Wei army was defeated and fled.

Until this time, Liu Heita and his thousand and a half armored cavalry had never appeared on the battlefield.

When Wang Fubao was fighting fiercely against the Wei army to intercept the troops, Liu Heita led a thousand of the most elite semi-armored cavalry to cross the river from another river bank. After a fierce battle, they went around to Baima City behind the Wei army.

One thousand and a half armored riders, without armor, galloped all the way on spare horses.

After approaching Baima City, they quickly began to put on half armor for themselves and their horses, then stepped on their horses and launched an assault on Wang Bodang's main camp outside Baima City in Xiaoseli.

The new wind is flying.

The morning is cold.

At this time, Wang Bodang was still commanding the troops to stop Cao Bao who was trying to break out of the city, but he never expected that tens of thousands of horses would not be able to stop thousands of Xia's troops on the shore.

Although the one thousand and a half heavy cavalry led by Liu Heitai were inferior to Luo Cheng's heavy cavalry in terms of equipment, they still imitated Luo Cheng's heavy cavalry in terms of tactics and organization.

When they charge, they also have the same indomitable momentum.

Liu Heita even rushed forward with his horse in hand.

A part of the Wei army tried to intercept the cavalry, but was quickly smashed by the cavalry.

Even if they are only half-suited armored cavalry, they cannot be stopped by ordinary soldiers and horses.

Liu Heikai led the half-armored heavy cavalry, crushing and ramming them all the way. Wherever they passed, no matter if it was the infantry of the Wei army or the light cavalry, they were hit and collapsed by them.

Wei Jun, who didn't have time to gather and form a formation, couldn't stop this heavy cavalry at all.

Wang Bodang could not rush to mobilize troops, and quickly formed an army formation to intercept with his elite personal guard battalion as the core.

At this time, although Cao Bao failed to break through the barrier of the earth wall, he led Xia Jun to rush around between Baima City and Tucheng. Many of the siege machines built by Dang were set on fire.

When the battle reached the golden light of Chaoyang, Wang Fubao had already defeated the Wei army on the south bank and went to Baima City.

Wang Fubao is like a tiger like a mountain, and the thousands of elites under his command are even like a tiger like a sheep.

Wei Jun was caught in a flank attack.

Wang Bodang struggled to hold on, but he managed to block the charge of the heavy cavalry, but Cao Bao took the opportunity to break out of the fortification.

When the three generals Cao Bao, Wang Fubao, and Liu Heita reunited, Wang Bodang also knew that the situation was over.

Although he has many soldiers and horses, he can't play a role at all today, and the soldiers and horses are scattered, so he can only take a last look at White Horse City, and leads his army to the west to be defeated unwillingly.

(End of this chapter)