Horse on the World

Chapter 58 The First Battle

Wanyan Jitai encountered not only more than [-] cavalry soldiers, but also Wang Qinian's left wing led by Li Qing himself. After expanding the army, Li Qing's cavalry wing and left wing now have [-] soldiers each. Compared with the general Dingzhou army's wing establishment, it has a half more troops. Li Qing only has two wings, but its strength is comparable to that of the average battalion head.Behind them, there were hundreds of remnants of the forward battalion who were rescued by them ingeniously, but they can be ignored now, they stay behind Li Qing, and they will be fine with soy sauce later.

In the place where the smoke and dust began to rise in the front, the sentry in front had sent back the information. The Changsheng Battalion stood in place and set up a formation. Today is the first battle between the reorganized Changsheng Battalion and the enemy. It must not be ignored.Although Jiang Kui's cavalry is more numerous than the opponent's, Li Qing has no confidence in cavalry. The elite of the Bai people are all born on horseback and grew up on horseback. Comparing them with cavalry, Li Qing is not so stupid , maybe after a period of tempering, it is still possible to fight, but now, let these first-timers in the battlefield let them stand on the sidelines, this decision made Jiang Kui feel very embarrassed.

Wang Qinian was very excited, the first battle between Changsheng Battalion and the barbarians, this honor belonged to him, after such a long time, besides training, he went to Shang Haibo to learn the art of war, now he can talk about it logically.

Two hundred chariots were quickly pushed to the front. The scorpion ballistas on the vehicles raised their heads. Rows of soldiers stood holding their guns. Behind them, another row of soldiers held a large shield in their left hand and a square muzzle in their right. The third row is a row of gunmen, standing in order, neatly arranged, no matter you look horizontally, vertically, or obliquely, Li Qing's troops are in a straight line.Excluding [-] chariot soldiers and crossbowmen, the remaining soldiers lined up in three neat square formations.Li Qing and his [-] personal guards were at the back of the three phalanxes, the banners were fluttering, and the one-eyed dragon Tang Hu was excitedly beating the drums, waiting for Li Qing's order to beat the drums for the attack.

One thousand steps, eight hundred steps, five hundred steps.Wang Qinian silently counted the distance between the other party and himself in his heart. When he reached [-] steps, Wang Qinian waved his hand fiercely, "Cannon!"

The scorpion crossbows on the two hundred chariots slammed at the same time, and two hundred polished stone bullets flew up with the sound of the wind, smashing hard at Wanyan Jitai's charging group.

Wanyan Jitai didn't pay attention to the army formation on the opposite side. Although he had encountered this kind of army formation of the Dingzhou army many times, no matter whether the troops he led at that time were elite or The mentality of daring to fight is far inferior to that of the current Bai people's elite cavalry. Even so, he has shot through the opponent's army many times, so he led his troops here, and when he found the opponent, he immediately changed into a cone. shaped attack formation.

Changing the battle formation on the galloping horse, this made Li Qing, who was watching the battle, full of praise. His cavalry is really far behind the opponent. Look at these Bai people, just a little confused, they completed the change of formation, which is amazing !This battle is fought.

The stone bullets fell heavily, and the center of the cone-shaped attack formation immediately stirred up waves. These stone bullets weighed about several kilograms, and fell from the sky. Each of them might have a force of tens of kilograms. The Bai people are not afraid of ordinary Bows and arrows, ordinary bows and arrows can't shoot through their armor at all, but this kind of stone bullet is different. If you hit it, you will be knocked off the horse directly. In this situation, if you fall off the horse, you will be stepped on. Mash it.

In the first wave of attacks, dozens of riders fell off their horses and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Cannon!" Wang Qinian yelled again, and another wave of stone bullets was fired.The enemy cavalry had only two hundred steps left.

"Set up the gun!" With a sound of swish, rows of long guns were set up neatly.

"Cannon!" Wang Qinian yelled this word at last. After the ballista soldiers on the chariot fired the last round of ballistas, they turned over neatly and got off the chariot, and passed through the gaps in the crowd behind them. Guarded by the last row of spearmen.

Wanyan Jitai was very angry. It was the first time he encountered this kind of chariot attack, and he lacked the means to deal with it. He lost about a hundred people in three waves of shelling, but he didn't even touch the enemy's side.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer, it's finally getting closer, the horses in the first row neighed, and turned around suddenly. The shining spear points on the chariot made these spiritual horses dodge automatically, and the knights on the horses bent their bows and put arrows flexibly , shot a sharp arrow at the back of the car, and the arrow rain hit, and the soldiers lined up neatly could not avoid it. All they could do was bow their heads and protect their front door, but the distance was too close, even though there were shield soldiers The shields they raised high, and the spearmen also raised their spears and waved them in the air, but there were still arrows breaking through the defenses, and the Changsheng Battalion finally suffered casualties.The fallen soldiers were immediately dragged away by the swordsmen, and new spearmen immediately added up behind them, keeping the formation tight.

The horses in front could dodge, but the horses behind were blocked from sight, couldn't turn in time, and slammed into the chariot heavily, being stabbed to the stomach, the knight on the horse was thrown high and fell behind the chariot, immediately He was greeted by several spears in the air and pierced into a sieve.The huge momentum made the chariots in the front row fall back heavily, the handlebars that were stuck on the ground went deep into the ground, and some of the handlebars were broken in half. Overturned to the ground, the well-dressed Bai cavalry galloped straight in.

"Stab!" the whistle chiefs yelled hoarsely. Without thinking, the entire row of soldiers straightened up their spears and stabbed forward. As for the opponents who had rushed into the formation, naturally there were shield soldiers and sword soldiers to take care of them.

The Bai soldier who crashed into the formation turned over, only to find that black shields crowded up around him, and in the gaps of the shields were long knives shining with cold light, shouting in despair, and slashing violently. Although the saber in his hand cut the wooden shields in two, at the same time, several holes appeared on his body.

Wanyan Jitai found that the formation of chariots made him unable to do anything, the first wave of attacks caused him to lose dozens of knights, but the opponent's army remained motionless, slanting across the battlefield in a circle, he Once again, he led his troops to pounce on him.At this time, on the opposite side of him, Wang Qinian, who heard the sound of Li Qing's battle drums, also changed his formation brazenly. The chariots were pushed up, and they rushed forward row by row. Behind them, rows of spearmen followed.

"Looking for death!" Wanyan Jitai was overjoyed, as expected, he is still a rookie, if you don't move in the formation, I really have nothing to do, but as long as you move, there will be gaps between the queues, and my The horses are galloping, aren't these infantry like pigs and sheep?

"Charge!" he yelled.

The chariots in the front row were knocked into the air one by one, and the chariot soldiers flew into the air and fell heavily to the ground, but they managed to slow down the speed of the horses. Amidst the sharp whistles of the sentry chiefs, the infantry advanced neatly in rows.

"Stab!" With a sound of swish, rows of long spears stabbed over neatly.

"Second row, thorns!" Another row. "Third row, stab!"

The forest of guns seemed to never end, one row after another. At this time, Wang Qinian's three square formations had gathered together to form a huge square formation. There was about one step between each row. The moment the guns were retracted, the rear row had already been plugged in, and after a dozen consecutive shots, the spearmen at the rear rushed forward under the deployment of Guo Chang and the whistle of the whistle chief, replacing the one with sore arms. Soldiers in the front row.

Wanyan Jitai felt that he was trapped in an endless forest of guns. The opponent's formation had been advancing for so long, but it was still neatly arranged, without giving him the slightest space to find.He and his men struggled with the incoming waves of spear points.

His formation was completely broken up. After some soldiers fell into the gun forest, they were stabbed and thrown out by several guns at the same time in a blink of an eye. Within a narrow range, it is difficult to even turn around, let alone speed up.

"Kill out, kill out!" He swung his knife and cut off the spears that had stabbed him, and shouted loudly.

In just half an hour, a thousand elites of the Bai tribe collapsed under Wang Qinian's gun forest. A smile appeared on the corner of Li Qing's mouth. Seeing hundreds of Bai soldiers riding out of the encirclement, Li Qing turned around and said to Yang Yidao beside him, "Give Jiang Kui ordered, it's his turn to play."

Seeing Ling Qi, Jiang Kui pulled his face, pulled out his waist knife, and said angrily: "Brothers, beat the dog in the water!" He took the lead and rushed out.

(End of this chapter)