Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 248 The crushing of strength

The Mo Dao formation marched forward neatly, like a steel wall, and a Mo Dao with a handle and blade more than one meter long shone with a cold light, making the cavalry of the Khitan troops on the opposite side feel terrified.

The cold murderous aura continued to come along with the advance of the Mo Dao formation, causing the horses of the Khitan cavalry to neigh uncontrollably, as if they knew that the long blade could split their entire horses in half.

Shele gritted his teeth, with cold sweat on his forehead, and his complexion was even more unpredictable. He wanted to order to retreat and not fight the Tang army, but looking at the cavalry around him, they were already suspicious and their morale was very low. If they dare not fight If they are defeated, morale will be even lower, and it is likely to cause internal strife.

Xie Le thought, if he can't fight, he will have to fight a small battle to show the majesty of the new leader's tribe. At worst, he will retreat to the depths of the grassland. I don't believe that the Tang army will chase into the depths of the grassland.

Sheiler didn't notice that some other tribal leaders were also staring at him, which meant something unknown.

"Kill!" Shele ordered all the Khitan cavalry to charge, and he himself led the leader of the tribe's cavalry to charge up first.

The Khitan is composed of hundreds of tribes, large and small. The tribe of the former Huaixiu Khan is undoubtedly the largest tribe, with more than 5 people.Now the tribe of the new leader, Muerhu, has only more than 2 people. After the first battle with Anlu Mountain, all of them were left with about [-] cavalry, of which nearly [-] followed the leader of Muerhu and were taken by Anlushan. He went to Chang'an with the rebellion.

That is to say, what Shele can definitely command is the more than 1000 Khitan cavalry of the leader tribe, and the remaining nearly [-] Khitan cavalry are actually people from other tribes, large and small.

Only less than [-] Khitan cavalry followed She Le and rushed towards the Mo Dao formation, and nearly [-] Khitan cavalry did not move, they just watched from behind.

"Damn it!" Shele was so angry that his nose was crooked, but it was impossible to turn around and scold those who didn't move. There was no turning back when the work started, and there had to be a bloody battle first.

"God arm crossbow, let go!" Seeing the Khitan cavalry approaching, in the center of the Mo Dao formation, Zhang Yue gave an order indifferently.

"Deng-deng--" A rain of arrows consisting of more than 4000 arrows flew out covering the sky and covering the sun.

"Pfft! Puff! Puff——" Dozens of hundreds of Khitan cavalry fell from their horses with arrows. This was because the Khitan cavalry charged more scatteredly.

She Le had just dodged the arrows of two divine arm crossbows in a row, one of which grazed his waist, and he could still feel the burning of the skin on his waist, presumably the skin had been punctured.

Shele gritted his teeth, bowed his bow and set up an arrow, and fought back against the Mo Dao formation together with the Khitan cavalry around him.

"Hoo! Shoo—" More than 200 arrows were shot into the Mo Dao formation, but the soldiers of the Anton Tang army in the Mo Dao formation even raised their shields. Only two or three people were shot down, and the number of casualties The difference is too far.

When some Khitan cavalry ran into the front of the Modao formation, they were greeted by the icy Modao forest.

A Khitan cavalryman and his horse were blocked by a Mo Dao, and blood spattered from the tattered body or horse.

The Khitan people fought against the Tang Dynasty for the New Year, so they are no strangers to the Modao formation, and they have their own methods to deal with the attacks of the Modao formation. They did not collide with the Modao formation on a large scale.

Only rush to the place ten meters or a few meters away from the Modao formation, and shoot arrows into the Modao formation at close range.

The Mo Dao formation is composed of infantry, and the speed of movement is relatively slow. Mo Dao really has no way to kill the Khitan cavalry ten meters away, or even only a few meters away.

The Khitan cavalry followed the advance of the Modao formation, and the horses they sat on kept retreating, but they didn't really hit the Modao forest. Only occasionally a few Khitan cavalry were unable to dodge in time, and they were twisted in by the Modao formation. The horse was chopped into a heap of bloody bits and pieces.

The soldiers of the Modao formation really did not expect the Khitans to fight like this. Many soldiers were shot in a short time, causing heavy casualties.

The soldiers of Modao Formation were a little flustered, after all, this was only their second real battle on the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the panic of some Modao formation soldiers, there was also some confusion in the Modao formation.

"Come on!" Shele ordered the Khitan cavalry, the leader of the tribe around him, to charge violently.

About dozens of Khitan cavalry rushed towards a part of the Modao formation.

The soldiers of the Modao formation were caught off guard, and three Khitan cavalrymen rushed into the formation. Fortunately, Zhang Shuo, who was in charge of the Modao formation, was very calm, and quickly ordered the soldiers of the Modao formation to block the gap again. The Khitan cavalry who rushed into the formation were also hacked to death.

And even if the Khitan cavalry did not confront the Modao formation head-on, and only used bows and arrows to shoot at each other, the power of the bows and arrows in their hands was far inferior to the god-armed crossbows of the soldiers in the Modao formation.Moreover, every Modao formation soldier has armor on his body, which greatly reduces the lethality of the Khitan people's bows and arrows. Even if they are shot, there are only a limited number of people who are directly shot to death.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The soldiers in the Mo Dao formation counterattacked the Khitan cavalry with their crossbows.

Many of these Khitan cavalry were within a distance of ten meters, or even a few meters. At this distance, the god arm crossbow could shoot their entire bodies through.

"Pfft, ah!" The arrow of a divine arm crossbow passed through the body of a Khitan cavalry, and then hit the face of another Khitan cavalry behind him. face, screaming miserably.

After all, the morale of the Khitan people was low, and they could only rely on Shele and other leaders of the tribe to forcibly support them. Only a few cavalry from the leader tribe rushed into the Modao formation once, and they couldn't break through the entire Modao formation.

What's more, there are [-] Tang cavalry behind the Modao formation, and they have no chance of winning at all.

In the short time since the battle, the Khitan cavalry had killed or injured 600 people, and more than one-third of them were members of the chief tribes such as Shele.

Shele already had the intention of retreating, and was going to retreat into Chifeng, relying on the favorable terrain in Chifeng Stone City to block the Modao formation, or continue to retreat westward into the depths of the grassland.

However, before Shele gave the order, nearly [-] Khitan cavalry from other tribes who had stayed behind had already thrown away the scimitars, bows and arrows in their hands, and retreated to the side under the leadership of their leader. At the beginning, they were not prepared to resist Li Fei with Shele and other leader tribes.

Many tribes who had rushed into the battlefield with Sheiler followed suit, and also took the lead in throwing away their weapons, bows and arrows, stopped fighting, and retreated outside the battlefield.

It was like a plague. More and more Khitan cavalry gave up fighting against the Tang army and withdrew from the battlefield.

Those who really remained on the battlefield were almost all the chief tribes such as Shele, as well as several tribes that were very close to the chief tribes. There were less than [-] Khitan cavalry in total, and none of them had any fighting spirit.

"You!" She Le was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.
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