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Chapter 86: Five Hundred vs. Five Thousand, the Most Brutal Battle

After trotting for a while, the 5,000 Turkic cavalry began to speed up.

After a while, they arrived at a distance of 300 meters from the Tang army.

These Turkic cavalry quickly drew their bows and aimed their heavy arrows at the Tang soldiers on the opposite side.

Whoosh...

A volley of arrows rained down on the Tang army's position.

dang dang...

The metal arrowhead of the heavy arrow hit the iron shield in front of the soldiers of the Shenjiying Camp of the Cavalry Guard, making a noise.

But many arrows still hit them.

The sharp arrowhead instantly pierced into the armor plates, and the tip of the arrow pierced into their flesh.

Some Tang soldiers screamed.

There were also several unlucky soldiers from the Shenji Battalion of the Cavalry Guard who were shot in the face and fell down while covering their faces.

At this moment, Feng Lang suddenly struck the iron shield in front of him:

"stable!"

At the command, the Tang army formation, which had been somewhat chaotic, stabilized again.

Several soldiers from the second row of Tang army quickly stepped out to replace the injured soldiers in the front.

At this time, Li An shouted angrily:

"Strong crossbow!"

The soldiers in the third row quickly raised their crossbows and aimed their arrows at the enemy's Turkic soldiers from between the shoulders of their companions in the two rows in front.

The range of this powerful crossbow is six hundred meters, and the effective attack distance is three hundred meters.

At this time, the first row of Turkic soldiers had entered within three hundred meters!
"shoot!"

Whizzing……

More than a hundred powerful crossbows fired at once.

The powerful crossbow arrows tore through the air and shot into the Turkic army in an instant.

Moreover, this powerful crossbow is equipped with all metal arrows, which enables it to have higher shooting accuracy and greater lethality.

Many Turks were soon shot by crossbow arrows and fell off their horses.

The powerful crossbows in the hands of the Tang soldiers were able to draw arrows even faster and could even fire continuously.

After the first round of crossbow fire, the Tang army did not need Li An's orders at all, as they launched another round of fierce shooting.

In a blink of an eye, two or three hundred Turks were shot dead or wounded.

During this crossbow-arrow exchange, the distance between the two sides was rapidly shortened.

Asina Hulun, the leader of the team, saw that the troops were about to enter within a hundred meters, and immediately shouted angrily:

"Everyone, charge quickly and get to them as quickly as possible!"

Although he didn't know what weapons the Tang army had, he had figured out a little bit of the trick from the fierce battle just now with Ashina Gudun.

The attack range of the Tang army's muskets was within a hundred meters.

As long as the Turkic cavalry took advantage of their numerical advantage and quickly attacked the front of the Tang army's position, they should be able to break through the enemy's defense line even if they suffered huge casualties.

Following Ashina Hulun's order, all the Turkic cavalry immediately increased their speed and launched an attack on the Tang soldiers.

"First row, release!"

This time, Feng Lang saw that the Turks had sped up, so he didn't even call out "ready" and directly led the first row of Tang troops to launch a volley.

Boom boom boom...

After the gunshots rang out, nearly a hundred Turks fell in an instant, and many of the injured Turkic cavalry were trampled into meat paste by the war horses behind them.

Although nearly a hundred Turks fell at once, the remaining Turks still rushed forward, trying to use their speed and numbers to quickly approach the Tang army and destroy them as soon as possible. The first row of Tang soldiers quickly squatted after the attack, and the second row of Tang soldiers also started a round of volleys, followed by the third row.

Since the Turks were extremely fast, Li An also adjusted the firing speed, firing three rounds in less than a minute.

Boom boom boom...

Hundreds of Turks fell in an instant. Many of them fell to the ground after being hit by bullets and were ruthlessly trampled by their companions' horses. Wailing sounds rang out one after another on the battlefield!

But the Turks came in numbers of 5,000 at a time and increased their attack speed. After three rounds of volleys, they were already within 20 meters of the Tang army.

At this moment, Feng Lang suddenly shouted:
"Hold the spear!"

call……

The first row of Tang soldiers suddenly put down their muskets and raised their spears on the ground, pointing the spear heads at a 45-degree angle toward the Turkic Wolf Riders. While holding the spears in their right hands and pressing the back ends of the spear heads tightly against the ground, they leaned forward and grasped the iron shield in front of them with their left hands.

More than a hundred spears suddenly appeared, like a steel jungle that suddenly appeared!
A sharp spear more than ten feet long was placed on an iron shield, with the other end pressed firmly against the ground. In an instant, it was formed into a barricade!
The Turkic war horses charging forward almost all neighed in surprise when they saw the spear heads suddenly appearing in front of them.

But they can't turn back!
Twenty meters away, just a flick of the finger...

boom……

The Turkic cavalry in front quickly charged forward towards the spears.

Chacha...

The more than ten feet long spears instantly pierced many war horses and cavalrymen. Many spears were even broken directly by the powerful impact force of the opponent at the moment of piercing.

But the stabbed horses and cavalry also fell down quickly.

Some of the cavalrymen who were not stabbed crashed into their iron shields!
But when the cavalry charged, the Tang soldiers used their left shoulders to hold the iron shields tightly, blocking the charge of the cavalry.

The loud sound of cavalry hitting iron shields, the slight sound of spears piercing soldiers' horses, the screams of the wounded, the neighing of horses, and the endless sound of iron hooves behind them all instantly intertwined into one.

But at this moment, the second row of Tang army's muskets fired again.

Boom boom boom...

This time, the Tang army fired their muskets almost right at the Turks' faces.

The accuracy of this kind of shooting is surprisingly high.

In an instant, more than a hundred cavalrymen fell!

The second round of salvos followed!
Behind him, Ashina Hulun's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared at the top of his lungs:

"Charge, kill all these Tang troops."

There are more than 4,000 cavalrymen around him. Although the Tang army is between two small hills and cannot deploy all of its cavalry, as long as they continue to attack, they will soon be able to completely defeat the Tang army!

What's more, there was a group of Turkic cavalry behind them that had already made a detour and would soon be able to outflank them from behind.

By then, we can wipe out all the Tang army!

But at this moment, suddenly dozens of round black shadows flew out from the third row of the Tang army, drew an arc in the air, and flew between the Turkic cavalry.

Many Turks saw these things, and even saw flames coming out of them.

What is this again?
Just as they were surprised and confused, these things had already fallen into their team.

Then,

Boom boom boom...

Suddenly, there was a more violent explosion. After the round objects like small jars that flew between their teams landed on the ground, they quickly exploded and instantly turned into balls of dazzling flames.

The shock wave of the explosion instantly knocked over many surrounding Turkic cavalrymen and their horses.

The Turkic cavalry within a radius of several feet also fell down in groups, as if they were shot by the things in these small jars.

"This...what is this!?"

When Ashina Hulun saw this scene, his eyes widened in shock.

(End of this chapter)