Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1060
The horses are galloping like the wind, and the two sides are constantly closing the distance, drawing their bows and crossbows. The riders on the side of Xiangfu Kingdom are holding iron guns and wearing gloves newly issued by the logistics department. Although spring is about to begin, there are even flowers blooming in the south of the Yangtze River However, Shazhou City is still as cold as winter. In this kind of weather, holding a weapon in your hand, your hands are frozen, which will inevitably affect your flexibility.But Xiangfu Kingdom has gloves, so it must be more or less different.

Most of the Uighurs in Xizhou have a long saber, and they also use maces and sabers. The same formation is starting to jog, but the strictness is only compared to the ordinary cavalry of this era, compared to the cavalry formation of the Xiangfu Kingdom today. The rigor and order were much worse. Their cavalry was spaced wider, and their troops were not evenly distributed. There was a garrison in the left, middle, and right rears, and they became a little scattered after they started jogging.

Zhu Zhenxi and the other deputy battalion commander Xi Zonglin were so excited that they shouted at almost the same time: "Three speeds!"

Another sound of the marching horn, the flag bearer turned the battalion commander's flag in a circle and leaned forward, the company commander below issued an order loudly, and the pennant gun leaned forward again.The cavalry of the two squadrons of the Guards Battalion heard the horn and accelerated their horses at the same time. The sound of rumbling horseshoes was like thunder rushing from far to near in the sky.

After facing each other, the distance between the two sides is only the last hundred steps in a blink of an eye, and it only takes a few breaths of time.

"kill!"

The cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom shouted collectively according to military regulations, and the spears erected in the first row were leveled, followed by the spears in the second row.The Xizhou Uighur cavalry also leveled their spears and raised their swords, and both sides began to charge.

On the command platform of the Volunteer Corps in the rear, Huang Dongqiu watched the battlefield intently with a telescope. The frame of his telescope was full of galloping horses, and the dirt and grass clippings brought up by the horseshoes flew everywhere. can feel it.

On the opposite side of Shazhou City, Dulamati opened his mouth wide and opened his eyes for a moment. He held his breath and waited for the moment of collision. He suffered from a long-range attack just now. In his opinion, the opponent's weapons and equipment were too good. The reason is that he believes that his subordinates are definitely better than the opponent in close combat, and he is looking forward to the final victory of his side.However, the next scene made Dulamati's face more and more ugly.

The dense formation left no way for both sides to retreat, and there was no room for dodging. Killing and being killed only happened at the moment when the horses intersected. At this time, personal combat skills and riding skills were useless. It is best reflected in cavalry warfare.

Under the rapid running, the formation of Xiangfu Kingdom finally inevitably began to curve, but the short distance was not enough to affect the integrity of the formation.

Fifty paces apart, the horse speed rose to the fastest, and the two sides approached at a speed of about 20 meters per second. Zhu Zhenxi's face was flushed, his eyes were wide open, and he clenched the command gun with the black triangular flag in his hand. A cavalryman from the Xizhou Uighur, this cavalryman had a fierce face and ran ahead with a big knife in his hand. He didn't look like an ordinary soldier, but a small leader, but this person was finally a little flustered at this time, because he had to face at least one The attack of two spears.

There were still people in the front row of Xizhou Uyghur cavalry trying to shoot arrows. A wave of light arrows from a cavalry bow flew towards them. More than 100 Xiangfu cavalry were hit. Because of their good armor defense, only two fell off their horses. The short distance is fleeting.

"Kill!" Xiangfu Kingdom's cavalry burst out the last roar at the same time.

boom!
The torrent of two horses collided head-on, countless broken gun shafts and fragments of blades flew, the sound of breaking and the collision of men and horses continued, the sound of gun blades rubbing against armor made the teeth sore, and the horses that couldn't avoid it collided with each other until their bones were shattered , Some horses were knocked into the air, and some fell to the ground with their riders, rolling desperately on the ground.

At the last moment, Zhu Zhenxi's mount deflected slightly to the left disobediently, but he didn't let his spear deviate too much. He kept staring at the oncoming enemy soldier, lowered his figure, and roared on both sides. The hoofbeats staggered past.

The next moment, he felt a huge impact from his hand, his mouth numb, and the gun body flew out of his hand in an instant. With a scream, the enemy soldier turned backwards on his back, and then flashed in front of his eyes And passed, submerged in the cavalry waves.Zhu Zhenxi pulled out his specially made Zhan Saber from behind.

The dense formation of the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom had an advantage. More than 100 Xizhou Uighur cavalry in the front row were shot down in the first round of confrontation, and more than 70 people were shot down. Before they could catch their breath, the second row of cavalry on Xiangfu Kingdom's side charged towards their faces with a dense cavalry wall, and the sharp spear points were like death spears under the acceleration of the horses.Most of these Xizhou Uighur cavalry had their blades broken, or were unable to retract them in time, and they were almost powerless to fight back, and the dense and straight formation on the opposite side gave them no room to avoid sideways.

Another round of confrontation, the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry suffered heavy losses again. After the second row of Xiangfu cavalry cavalry passed through, the formation of the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry was in chaos. The interval was only a blink of an eye, and the Xizhou Uyghur follow-up cavalry still had no chance and time to adjust their direction, and they were slowing down one after another. The third round of Xiangfu cavalry was replaced by sabers instead of iron spears. Rush up.

They still maintained their neat formation, whistling forward with thick-backed sabers in their hands. With the help of the hedge horsepower, they didn't need to swing hard. Limbs and a rain of blood.Even if there were piles of Xizhou Uyghur soldiers in front, they could only bump into them head-on. More than 100 Xizhou Uyghur cavalry were lifted high by the powerful inertia and smashed into the Xizhou Uyghur soldiers behind them.

The Xizhou Uyghur soldiers formed a relatively thick formation. For these concentrated places, the cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom could not evade in the dense formation and could only rush forward. Even if they killed the enemy in the front row, they themselves would suffer from the opponent's rear A platoon attack, or collide with the opponent's cavalry who also cannot dodge.The Xizhou Uighur soldiers in the back row brandished their weapons to attack the Xiangfu cavalry rushing past, but the Xiangfu cavalry did not slow down, and continued to gallop forward, passing by in a blink of an eye.The Xizhou Uyghur cavalry in the thick formation was thrown into chaos by the collision. The rolling horses on the ground blocked their route, and they had to slow down their horses, which made them almost useless in the battle.

The three rounds of attacks were like a violent storm, violently smashing the Xizhou Uyghur Army's line, leaving a lot of corpses and wounded. The rest of the cavalry of Xiangfu Kingdom did not stop at all, like a sudden surge of frenzy, it was gone in a flash Go, they continued to move forward, and after a hundred steps, they slowly slowed down and began to form again.

After these three rounds, the Xizhou Uighur cavalry of the two teams had each lost nearly half.The front line was fragmented, everyone was in a panic, and completely lost command, but the attack was not over yet, and what greeted them was a rapid fire of four bursts of fast crossbows.

The fourth round of cavalry followed immediately. They blew bamboo whistles and roared past with platoons as combat units. They specially attacked the small Xizhou Uighur cavalry who had been divided into less than 50 people. Each of them had a fast crossbow. They also did not fight with the Xizhou Uyghur soldiers, and quickly evacuated after launching them while running. The quick crossbow was fired under such a short distance and dense coverage, and the record was very good.

The rangers of the Xiangfu Kingdom who started to retreat to the two sides were encouraged, and came together to harass them again. They formed small groups, gathered and dispersed, and attacked the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry with fast crossbows and cavalry bows. Obvious chaos.

The place where the collision happened just now was littered with corpses. The wounded soldiers and horses on both sides were struggling and screaming desperately. Where the collision was concentrated, the two sides piled up together. Some cavalrymen from both sides who fell came back to their senses and pulled out their daggers or picked up nearby fallen weapons. They fought fiercely with each other, and even some wounded people scuffled each other.

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This is the first time that the Xizhou Uyghur cavalry confronted the Xiangfu cavalry head-on. The cavalry battle between the Stone Wolf and Dura Tiexiong years ago was not considered a charge at all because of the hundreds of landmines laid in advance. In terms of massacres, the Xizhou Uighur side has always believed that if they were given a fair fight with the Xiangfu cavalry, the latter would definitely not be their opponent.

However, in the face-to-face confrontation right now, facing such an unprecedented cavalry and cavalry tactics, Harik, the famous Xizhou Uighur general who rushed to the head of Dula Alang in the middle with fifty people, felt inexplicably terrified , especially the almost life-for-life cavalry style of play contained in this style of play made him feel incredible.He didn't know that this was a long-term training of cavalry formations and discipline requirements, and under the general trend, even if there were cavalry who were afraid of death, they could only charge forward, otherwise they hesitated a little and were not killed by the enemy, but were killed by themselves. The cavalry behind one side crashed and died.

In the rear, Dulamati, the head of the city of Shazhou, looked ashen. The cavalry field they relied on and were most confident in was defeated by the opponent in the same number of frontal charges.Without turning his head to look, Dulamati knew that the morale of his soldiers must have declined a lot.But right now, the only way to restore some morale is to get his son's head back in the end, otherwise it would be a big mistake to send people out to fight in the field today.

Dulamati knew this truth, and Harik also understood it, so he suppressed the shock in his heart, stared at the wooden stick with his eyes, and rode forward, slashing with the long knife in his hand, and the wooden stick became shorter by sections. After coming down, he reached out and took the head of Dura'a wolf, and put it into the leather bag that Han had prepared, and Harik rode back.Only at this time did he notice that the two cavalry he had divided to the left and right had already been killed by Xiangfu Kingdom for more than half. If they hadn't brought out all the brave elites who were not afraid of death, they might have been defeated by this time.

(End of this chapter)