Chastity Layman

  Chapter 839 Fighting against the wall

  There are 200 Jianghuai crossbowmen on the left wing, and there are four crossbow teams, divided into two brigades on the left and right. The flag waved, the horn sounded, and the crossbowmen of the two brigades pulled the breaking crossbow.

  The sound of crossbow strings bursts, and the arrows are like locusts.

   Almost instantly, out of the hundreds of wild cavalry who charged within 150 steps, more than ten of them were hit by arrows.

  The bow should be drawn strong, and the horse should be shot first when shooting people.

  One hundred and fifty paces, the savages on the pony horses didn't expect this sudden blow at all, and they were caught off guard for a while, and more than ten riders fell to the ground with arrows, wailing again and again.

  As the elite of the barbarians, the barbarians also lack armor, and their mounts are even less likely to wear armor. Even among the most elite soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, only some cavalry were equipped with armor.

   "Change to armored arrows!"

  Zhang Renzheng gave a loud shout.

  Jianghuai crossbowmen from the two brigades pulled out an armored arrow with a heavier arrow from the crossbow arrows in front of them. One crossbowman carried a hundred arrows, including thirty armored arrows.

   The first round is long stack arrows.

   "Overshoot!"

   Almost after the first round of crossbowmen finished shooting, the second round followed. The two hundred crossbowmen did not shoot arrows together, but took turns to shoot repeatedly and divided into five formations. A team of crossbowmen and five groups, one fire each time, five fires for one round.

  After five rounds of repeated shooting almost without interruption, the four Fire Crossbowmen who were the first to fire their crossbows had already fully stretched the strings of their crossbows and replaced them with armored arrows.

   At this time, Manqi rushed forward dozens of steps.

"put!"

  The sound of buzzing sounded again, and fifty armor-shooting arrows shot out from the string. The four fire crossbowmen in the first row immediately buckled the board machine, and another forty armor-shooting arrows were shot out after that.

  The sky seems to be flying over a group of migratory locusts, densely packed.

The wild cavalry who entered the front of the formation about a hundred steps, encountered greater casualties this time, because the left side is the river, the right is the pond, and the places near the river ponds on both sides are still wet and slippery swamps, the wild cavalry squeezed into this place at once. At the narrow bottleneck, people and horses gathered densely.

   Under the uninterrupted repeated shooting, even though there were only two hundred crossbowmen, it also made the barbarians turn on their backs.

  On Tuomi Mountain, the ox horns and bronze drums sounded louder, urging them to continue advancing.

  When the crossbowman shot the third arrow, the enemy cavalry had already charged nearly sixty steps.

  At this distance, it seems that a horse's hoof can step on the face in the next moment.

   "Archers, get up!"

  The archers from Guanzhong finally received the order to attack.

   stood up one by one.

  The thick and long step bows stretch out one by one like a full moon.

   "Use armored arrows, shoot the horse first!"

  Zhang Renzheng continued to give orders.

  Warrior cavalry horses are short, but they run in very fiercely. Even if the knight is shot down, it will be very dangerous if the horse continues to charge in. It is best to shoot the horse first.

  The wild cavalry who lost their horses are not afraid, and they can even block the cavalry behind.

   Sixty steps.

  For a sturdy Guanzhong longbowman, this is a distance where they can guarantee a high accuracy. During normal training, they can shoot a hundred-step target with armor, and even use a heavier bow to practice strength.

  At this time, these longbowmen in the middle of the formation had already put on iron armor and carried dozens of catties of weight on their bodies, but they had long been used to it.

   Draw the bow and draw the string, nock the arrow to aim, and shoot, all in one go, flowing like clouds and flowing water.

  The archers still adopted the method of cascading shots, and each team was also divided into five groups, one fire at a time, and alternated in turn.

  The archers in Guanzhong shot three arrows in a row.

   At this time, Manqi was almost close to his face.

  After paying the price of hundreds of casualties, they still rushed over.

  The sound of war drums and bugles sounded, and the team flags in front of the spearmen and sword soldiers behind the horse-rejecting wall were shaken, and the leaders of the spearmen and sword soldiers began to shout orders again and again.

   "Spearman, get up!"

  Pikemen who also wore iron armor sat up from the ground, clenched the spears in their hands, and some raised their long-handled heavy axes.

  The spearmen have nothing to rely on but melee combat.

   Fortunately, the two rounds of strikes by crossbowmen and archers made that narrow area a place of death for barbarian cavalry. Not only were there more than a hundred casualties, but the formation was also dispersed a lot, and the momentum lost a lot.

"Ah!"

  The 500 spearmen on the left wing roared in unison, raised their rifles and rushed out intensively.

"prick!"

"prick!"

"prick!"

   In fact, the spearmen are not very interesting to fight, and they don’t have any skills. They form a dense formation of spearmen, and then they just keep stabbing out and back, and don’t care about the rest.

  The cabinet horse wall provides great protection for the spearmen. They are not barbarian cavalry with armored cavalry. Facing those three-pointed and six-bladed horse-repelling walls, they can't help slowing down.

  The barbarians began to shoot arrows, throw guns, and throw axes on the horse.

  The spearmen all relied on iron armor and bronze helmets, carrying them hard. Fortunately, not many wild cavalry were able to break through the horse-repelling wall and the spear array.

   "It's time for the infantry to catch up, they're out of touch, hurry up."

  On Tuomi Mountain, Zuoxi Barbarian King Fusan watched the barbarian cavalry circling like headless chickens in front of the Tang Army's two wings, and couldn't help being anxious. He didn't expect that the Tang Army could use the terrain to ride so powerfully.

  The barbarian cavalry went up, but the infantry behind them were still swaying.

  Several messengers ordered the wild riders to gallop down the mountain.

  On the battlefield, horns sound and flags are unfurled.

  The barbarian army came over like a tide, but when they got close, they encountered an embarrassing problem.

The rivers on both sides and the current swamp pool not only protected the Tang army, but also left them with tens of thousands of horses, but in the end they were all blocked in front, and they could only rush to the Tang army through the two narrow passages tens of feet wide. The two wings were in front of the formation, but the terrain was too narrow, and the horse-repelling wall was full of thorns, so many barbarians were blocked behind, and even the Tang soldiers could not see it.

  Thousands of barbarian cavalry were blocked by their own people and could not retreat. They were squeezed outside the horse rejection wall all the way, and were slaughtered one by one by the spearmen of the Tang army and the crossbowmen behind them.

  The savage knights will not die with peace in mind.

  The thousand barbarian riders were gone, and the people behind were still pushing forward. The barbarians in front were terrified facing the dense spear array like hedgehogs and the hideous horse-repelling wall.

  It is obvious that there are thousands of troops coming from your side, but why did it become a one-sided massacre instead?

  The special terrain made the barbarian army die as if they were refueling.

  Jianghuai crossbowmen lobbed with all their strength in the back, and archers in the middle began to shoot accurately. The sword and shield soldiers on the two wings chopped down those barbarians who survived the spear array and squeezed into the horse-rejecting wall.

  On the Mount of Pack Rice.

Mrs. Nong San and others also understood everything. There is no room for them to use their superior forces. The terrain is too special. No more than two hundred people.

   Hundreds of people crowded in front of them, facing not only the dense array of Tang army spears, but also the sharp and powerful bow and crossbow shooting behind them.

  The firepower configuration of the Tang army is far superior to them, especially their pikemen and archers are all wearing iron armor, which can fight and carry.

   "Wow, I don't believe that these two or three thousand people surnamed Qin can carry it for a long time!"

   Nong Tiangui shouted.

  Nong Sanniang and Fusan hesitated for a while, then remained silent.

  The battle situation is unfavorable, but I can't think of other good ways to attack at the moment, I can't just withdraw as soon as I lose, it's rare to have a chance to fight Qin Lang, if I miss it now, maybe I won't have the chance.

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  Under the banner of Tang Jun Sanchen.

  Qin Lang was also staring at the situation on the battlefield. With the help of favorable terrain, the left and right wings fought well, and the casualties were not large, which was within the acceptable range.

  Besides, Qin Langben also kept 500 reserve teams, who can take over and supplement at any time.

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  For a while, the command and decision makers of both sides were silent, and the two armies fell into a stalemate.

  On the battlefield, like two huge meat grinders running at full capacity, the narrow passages on the two wings are full of corpses of barbarians.

  Dead horse, dead soldier.

  The sword and shield soldiers even dragged over the corpses of the barbarians who had been slashed in front of the formation, and built a parapet of corpses.

  Blood mixed with rain slurry, making the battlefield even more muddy and slippery.

   "Duke Wei, do you want my navy ship to come up along the river and approach the shore to attack the barbarians with bows and crossbows?"

   "Just ask Shenjiying to deploy firearms and bombard his mother."

  Cheng Chumo waited for the general's proposal.

   On the side of the Tang army, which has full control over the water surface, there are still hundreds of boats parked in the river. Although the marines have all gone ashore, there are still more than 2,000 sailors on board.

  Not to mention other things, on those big ships such as fighting ships, warships, and walkers, there are also large-caliber mortars, tiger squats for shooting, small catapults, and three-bow bed crossbows.

  Qin Lang looked up at the gloomy sky.

   There is no sun, but the war did not take long.

   "Don't worry, we are here to fish, we can't just scare people away."

  Qin Lang went ashore to fight, and he didn't come to grab this wasteland. His purpose was to defeat the main force of barbarians who were trying to ambush him, and at worst to hold them back.

  If the navy ship is dispatched, bed crossbows, stone cannons, and even cannons are dragged out to fight. Wouldn't this scare the barbarians off immediately?

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  On the Mount of Pack Rice.

   Seeing that it was still impossible to break through the Tang army's formation, the corpses piled up in front of the Tang army's formation became mountains, and Nong Sanniang couldn't calm down anymore.

   "I can't go on like this."

   Taking human lives like this, I don’t know when the Tang army will collapse, but the barbarian tribes of Juding and Zuoxi can no longer hold on.

  Barbarian life is also life, there are normal combat casualties, and barbarians are not afraid of death, but who wants to die in vain like this.

  Dozens of hundreds of barbarian lives may not be able to exchange for a Tang, how to fight this battle.

   There are tens of thousands of horses alone, but there are only two narrow openings tens of feet wide, which is more difficult than besieging the city.

   "Shouldn't we send a partial division to go down the river on a wooden raft and go back to the shore?" Fu San frowned and thought for a long time, but only thought of such a non-solution.

   "There are so many big boats on the Tangren River, we don't have a good chance of setting up rafts."

   "You have to try, don't you?"

The barbarians also have some collected boats, but they are all small boats on the Zuoxi River, even canoes, bamboo rafts, and wooden rafts. They have no chance of winning the water battle with the Datang Navy, but Fusan also said that they are not The ones who went to attack those navy ships were the ones who rushed to land on the beach and bypassed the two dangerous necks to pull up Qin Lang's Sanchen Banner.

   "If you fight some casualties, you can always send some people ashore."

   "Okay!" Mrs. Nong San reluctantly agreed.

  (end of this chapter)