Datang New Order

Bu Deng had seen the power of Bohai people's crossbows at the foot of the city of Yanjun. Those crossbows were extremely heavy and were installed on the top of the city of Yanjun.The defense of the entire Yanjun City was lackluster, and the only thing that caused trouble for the Khitan people was such a crossbow.In Budden's view, the distance and lethality of the arrows fired by the Pingzhou army are almost comparable to that of the crossbow.In the rapid charge, Buden tried his best to open his eyes wide, but he did not see the figure of the crossbow. He saw the archers behind the first row of spearmen of the Pingzhou Army. giant bow...

Of course, Li Chengzhong's Pingzhou Army Front Battalion was not equipped with crossbows. What they were using was a single giant bow that was very similar to the English longbow.The arrows fired by this kind of giant bow are of course not as good as the chariot crossbow, but the chariot crossbow that Bu Deng saw at the foot of Yanjun city was already worn out, so in terms of range and strength, it was close to the giant bow.

The 280 former battalion soldiers opened their bows one by one according to the usual drill sequence, forming an uninterrupted curtain of arrows within the range of 250 steps to [-] steps in front of the formation. When the Khitan soldiers led by Bu Deng rushed through this area, , Two hundred Khitans were fully shot down in half!This is the power of the giant bow.

Luo Yuan'an was a soldier under Zhong Silang. He was promoted to be the commander of the regiment when he was in Yuguan, and he was promoted to the commander of the regiment by beheading two ranks in Bailang Mountain.Luo Yuanan is brave in battle and good at fighting, but his brain is not very bright, and his grades in Bailangshan culture and military courses are very bad.As the leader of the gang, he couldn't understand the content of the class at all, and he was even more confused when he returned to the gang to teach the brothers. After three "poor" evaluations, he resigned from the post of gang leader. I was picked up to the corps leader.Although his rank had been lowered, he was sincerely relieved, and instead stayed in this position much more comfortably and securely.

According to the previous exercise, Luo Yuanan took the giant bow handed down from the cart, and stood behind the first row of spearmen with his brothers. This guy is in the middle and rightmost position.After hearing the team officer Zhong Silang's call, Luo Yuan'an released his right thumb from holding the arrow tightly, and the big arrow flew out obliquely upwards.He didn't have the time to look at the arrow's path, so he pulled out a big arrow from the grass at his feet and drew the string, but the angle was slightly lowered, and the bow tip under the top of the giant bow moved from the top of his head to the corner of his eyes. , and then amidst the shouts of the bell officer, released the second arrow...

After shooting all three big arrows stuck in the grass under his feet, he quickly passed the giant bow to the brother on the right, and then passed the giant bow from the brother on the left to the right continuously.In a blink of an eye, the giant bow was taken away by the waiting civilian husband. Luo Yuanan picked up the wooden gun on the ground, and under the command of the bell captain to "hold the gun", he stood the wooden gun upright beside him, and then "set the gun" by the bell captain. Under the command of the soldiers, the wooden guns were put on the shoulders of the first row of soldiers, and the tip of the guns shot out, forming a second line of guns.At the same time, Luo Yuan'an heard the shouts and commands of the team officers from behind him. According to the usual drills, he knew that the third row of spearmen was behind him, and their guns were pointing obliquely at the ground.

There were only two rows of spearmen in the original spear formation, and after the actual combat drill with the "wolf army", the third row was added to prevent the Khitan from rolling into the spear formation from under their feet.During the rehearsal with the "Wolf Army", the Khitan's attacking tactics from the bottom made the first few teams suffer a lot. Luo Yuanan's Jiaduzuo team was one of them. Army"'s wooden stick was hit three times in a row. According to the drill regulations, Luo Yuan'an was included in the ranks of the dead at that time and withdrew from the drill.

Luo Yuan'an's eyes were fixed on the Khitans who rolled over from their horses. These Khitans held small round wooden shields, and with the momentum of the horse's speed, they rolled and rushed into the formation of spearmen from under their feet.Those horses turned around automatically in front of the gun forest, and ran away. …,

The spearmen in the first row immediately swung their spears downwards, stabbing the Khitans who were rolling on the ground obliquely under the command of the group leaders, killing seven or eight Khitans on the ground immediately.Some Khitans took advantage of the emptiness when the first row of spearmen stabbed their wooden spears, but they were entangled by the third row of spearmen who had been prepared for a long time, and they were punished in the blink of an eye.

More Khitans stepped forward, and some of them wielded long blades frantically to block the wooden spears stabbed by the spearmen.The spearman in front of Luo Yuanan was swept into the shoulder by a Khitan man holding a mace, blood flowed profusely, and he fell to the ground slowly. Luo Yuanan didn't have time to think, so he stepped forward mechanically according to the usual training. One step, to fill the vacated position in the front row.At the same time Luo Yuan'an went up to the top, he took a sudden step according to the training requirements, shouted "kill" in his mouth, and stabbed out with the wooden spear, just in time to force the Khitan who was using a mace stick back.

After Buden led his team to rush up, Tuli felt that the situation was not as simple as he thought.Under the long-range attack of the Pingzhou Army, when the Khitan infantry rushed to the front of the Pingzhou Army's phalanx, they had already lost more than half of their manpower. This result surprised Tu Li inexplicably. Apart from being shocked, he was also heartbroken.Those were more than a hundred Khitan warriors, they were lost on the road before rushing in front of the enemy, and they didn't lose that much when they faced the [-] Mohe people under the city of Yanjun.But he didn't have time to think about it. Years of combat experience made him immediately issue a second order, and he threw the remaining [-] infantry into it.

Tuli's second order was timely. The second wave of Khitans was not attacked by the ultra-long-range arrow barrage as before, but encountered two waves of arrow rain within a hundred steps away, and lost more than ten people.The investment of the second wave of infantry also put great pressure on the Pingzhou army's spear formation, and the two sides were fighting fiercely on the front line of the battle.

Standing under his general flag, Li Chengzhong stared at the front line of the gun battle, feeling a little proud in his heart.These people fleeing outside the customs could not even hold their swords and guns steadily a few months ago. After a winter's training, now they are fighting in an formation, and they are not weaker than those Khitans who have experienced countless battles.Although his fighting skills and personal bravery were inferior to his opponents, relying on his strict discipline and obedience, and his almost reflexive familiarity with the formation, he really withstood the Khitan's frontal attack.

In front of the rows of guns, the Khitans suffered heavy losses. Rows of Khitan soldiers who rushed forward were overturned by the neatly stabbing guns, and some Khitans who tried to come in from the bottom were also shot by the guns in the back row. Lin was nailed to the ground.But despite this, their bravery still caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the former battalion.

Although the gun array on the front line was as solid as a rock, it was damaged a lot. In the short moment when the front line was stalemate, more than 20 gunmen died in battle, and their gaps were filled by the second and third rows. The spearmen went up.Although the exchange ratio has almost reached 1:2 or even 1:3, Li Chengzhong still cannot bear this kind of loss. He only has more than 400 soldiers. If the exchange continues like this, how much will he have left?

Li Chengzhong turned his eyes to the Khitan brigade in the distance and the two teams of cavalry on both sides, and fell into deep thought.If the formation remains unchanged, most of his spearmen will be lost. When the Khitan cavalry starts to attack, what will they do to resist it?If you change the formation, wait until the biggest reliance against the cavalry attack is automatically released. If the opponent reacts quickly when you change the formation and immediately initiates the cavalry charge, the front battalion is likely to collapse on the spot.This is a dilemma. To stay the same is to wait for death slowly, and to change is likely to die immediately. What should we do?

The number of troops is too small. If he has a thousand soldiers, no, even if there are only eight hundred, based on the performance of the soldiers in the front battalion today, he is fully confident of defeating his opponent. However, the reality is before him, he only has more than 400 soldiers in total. .Struggling inwardly, Li Chengzhong finally decided to change his formation. Instead of waiting for death slowly, he should seize the "possibility". He wanted to bet that the Khitan cavalry would not be mobilized in time, and he wanted to wipe out the Khitan cavalry as soon as possible while they were still far away. The Khitan infantry in front of him, if the Khitan cavalry can charge later, he can rely on his usual strict training to get the soldiers of the front battalion to form a spear formation again before the Khitan cavalry rushes to him. …,

Li Chengzhong took out a small horizontally long and vertically short flag from the flag box held by Zhou Xiaolang behind him, and lifted it into the air, and the strict formation immediately began to change.The spearmen on the left and right sides take the first soldier in the front row of the formation as the axis, and make oblique forward arc movements respectively.In the sound of the team officer's password, the soldiers walked forward with their guns raised, and gradually turned to the front. It looked like two wings had been opened in the phalanx and wrapped forward.

This kind of formation change is very difficult. If one is not handled properly, the entire formation will be scattered halfway.However, the soldiers of the former battalion have undergone a winter of separate training. Such a formation change has almost become a habit of the soldiers, and it is naturally completed by the commander's command. Moreover, the formation is very neat, and the two wings are almost Step on the same step at the same time to reach the designated position.This is an extremely perfect battle change, the degree of perfection has even reached a terrifying situation.This is a level of proficiency that can only be achieved after several months of hard practice and hundreds of times. The soldiers' familiarity with the transformation of formation has been deeply rooted in their bones.

With the simultaneous opening of the two wings, the soldiers of the front battalion formed an encirclement of the Khitans, attacking the Khitans surrounded in the center from three directions.Rows of wooden spears shot out, rows of Khitan soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the screams of pain resounded through the grassland.Attacks from the flanks are always the most lethal. Khitan soldiers were killed by wooden guns in groups, and they were unable to fight back.Everything is like a massacre, naked massacre.

Buden waved his mace with both hands, and slammed wildly at the wooden spears stabbing in front of him. He had charged several times, but was blocked by the Han soldiers in front of him with wooden spears.These Han soldiers are in groups of two or three, and they cooperate very skillfully. Every time they charge forward, two or three wooden spears will always stab at them. stabbed at his waist.Just two simple stabbing movements, but it always makes me return in vain.

Furious and helpless, Buden danced the mace into a ball of bright flowers, ready to attack again, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his heart, and his movements immediately stopped, and then he was shot by the Han soldier in front of him. chest.He turned back slowly in disbelief, trying to figure out what happened behind him, but he saw that all the Khitan soldiers he led behind him had fallen to the ground, and they were surrounded by Han soldiers from both sides. Killed all behind.

He turned his eyes to the sides again, and saw that the Khitan soldiers who were fighting together were also knocked down to the ground in a blink of an eye.Bu Deng didn't understand how these Han soldiers got to his sides and behind him. He wanted to say something, but he didn't have time to say it, and the world in front of him quickly turned black.