I’m The King Chapter 601: : Fighting in array

Yu Wenming led his team to attack the corner of the far left phalanx. It has to be said that his vision is very sharp and his purpose is quite clear. This is indeed a phalanx with no cavalry cover on the flank. The biggest weakness is that seeing the opponent running straight to this point, Sun Xiao sneered first, and then frowned tightly. The Donghu people responded in this way, which can only show that they are dealing with the heavy infantry phalanx of the Central Plains army. There are already obvious countermeasures. This is not a good thing for the Zhengdong Army.

The cavalry of the Eastern Army is quite high compared to the ratio of the various armies in the Central Plains, but for the Donghu people, this idea of ​​cavalry is nothing at all, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

Eastern Expedition Army is not worried about the source of war horses, but what is worrying is the source of cavalry. There are countless Hun tribes on the prairie who are waiting and watching. Not every tribe is optimistic about Gao Yuan. If they fail, they will suffer as well. On the other hand, Gao Yuan did not want his cavalry to be completely controlled by the generals of the Huns. How to build a cavalry led by the Central Plains people was something Gao Yuan had been thinking about day and night.

This is also the meaning of Gao Yuan's transfer of infantry to Ye Zhen's command. The infantry is the only Yan cavalry general under Gao Yuan's tent. Gao Yuan hopes that he can train a cavalry for himself in the Central Field Army. In private, he gave the infantry three years. Give people to people, and horses to horses.

Sun Xiao knows this, but he is still worried about the infantry, for an excellent cavalry, three years is still too hasty. It would take a year and a half just to train them to have certain equestrian skills before they can talk about combat. However, it is not easy to learn the cavalry combat skills accumulated by the East Army over the years.

The cries of the Donghu people were getting closer and closer, drawing Sun Xiao's attention back to the battlefield. Staring at the phalanx in the left corner, he thought to himself: "It's time!" Sure enough, just as this thought flashed by, the general of the phalanx in the left corner had already given the order to shoot, and the soldier hidden behind the spearmen raised his hand Arm length crossbow, thrown into the air along a forty-five degree angle.

About a hundred soldiers shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, and there were countless black feathers buzzing steeply in the sky, but this was not all. After shooting the arrows in their hands, the soldiers threw down the crossbows in their hands, stretched out their hands, and then picked up a stringed arrow on the ground. At the same time, the sword and shield soldiers behind them sat On the ground, he picked up the empty-stringed crossbow, stepped on it with his feet, and another crossbow was wound and buckled.

Although there are only a hundred people. But the rain of crossbow arrows was one wave after another, continuous.

The distance of 150 steps is not enough for ordinary bows and arrows to effectively kill. But for the crossbow, it is more than enough, at this distance, even if you are wearing iron armor. It can also penetrate in one fell swoop, even if it is not fatal, it can still make you lose a certain amount of combat power. And within a hundred steps. The fatality rate of the arm tension crossbow has increased to more than 80% of the horror.

Seeing waves of crossbow arrows shooting out from the phalanx, and seeing the strikers falling to the ground after a hundred steps away, Yu Wenchui, who was watching the formation from behind, couldn't help but change his face.

When the Eastern Expedition Army fought against Donghu, there were not many times when it used the crossbow with arms, but the earliest time it was used was when Gao Yuan led his troops to raid Yulin. After suffering a lot, Gao Yuan did not use arm crossbows on a large scale when he followed the Yan army on the expedition to Donghu. The several victories against Donghu were all won by sneak attacks or hard attacks.

This made Yu Wenke have no intuitive feeling for Donghu's achievements in ordnance until today.

Waving heavy weapons such as chain hammers, iron bones, and big sticks, the Eastern Hu cavalry who wanted to break open the tortoise shells of the Eastern Army did not expect to be attacked so intensively from a hundred steps away. Among the elephants, only the kind of bed crossbow with a piercing piercing power can cause a fatal blow to the cavalry from a hundred paces away. Ordinary bows and arrows have already run out of power when shot at this distance.

They didn't hear the sound of the bed crossbow, what they saw was densely packed crossbow bolts, and then there was the bone-piercing pain. One after another, the Donghu cavalry who fell off their horses made the follow-up troops involuntarily pull away to the two wings. The original attack line of a column had already dispersed into a fan when it advanced within a hundred steps.

"Oops!" Yu Wenchui only had time to scream in his heart, and saw a crossbow flying sideways from another phalanx, and the moment the cavalry dispersed, the two phalanxes It constitutes a flanking attack surface. The Donghu cavalry within this strike range were turned on their backs.

The follow-up troops opened up the distance from the front, and the cavalry who had already entered the strike range had no way to retreat except to move forward. There were only dozens of Donghu cavalry who came out. Seeing that the phalanx was in front of them, these panicked cavalry were overjoyed. The joy of surviving after the catastrophe doubled their strength, smashed their horses, and danced the heavy weapons in their hands. The phalanx in front of you.

"Come in!" The officer shouted loudly.

"Hey!" The two rows of spearmen took a few steps forward, their spears raised obliquely, and the spears of the second row poked out from the gap in the first row. The whistle chiefs of each team stared at the cavalrymen who were getting closer.

The cavalry's huge projection filled the pupils of the eyes, and the whistle chief raised his arm and shouted loudly: "Stick!"

The spears in the first row raised up and stabbed forward stably.

The horse fell, the gun broke, and the knights on the horse were either thrown high or pierced through the whole body by several spears. At this time, the neat phalanx suddenly sunk inward, and a dozen soldiers were thrown by a huge The force of the impact caused it to fly backwards and fall to the ground, bleeding from the seven orifices, making it impossible to live.

The sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen rushed forward immediately, dragging their dead or wounded comrades into the formation, and the spearmen behind immediately filled the gap with their spears. times.

More than a dozen cavalrymen lay dead in front of the corpse formation in an instant, and the price paid by the phalanx was several times that of these cavalrymen. gain the upper hand.

After choosing the right attack point, Yu Wenming, who thought that he could smash the opponent's line of defense in the first wave of attack, his eyes turned red, "Second team, attack, third team, fourth team, Approach from left to right, shoot freely, and cover the second team!"

Following his roar, three cavalry teams rushed out, one team followed the previous attack line, and rushed to the left and right squares again, while the other two teams, in the form of skirmishers, pressed towards the left army formation On both sides, war horses were galloping like wind and lightning, approaching within a hundred steps of the Donghu army formation, bowing their bows and drawing arrows, shooting towards the army formation.

Fangfang's army formation stands here, and it will not move easily. For the Donghu soldiers who start from riding and shooting, there is no need to aim at all, just draw the bow and draw the arrow. Feather arrows fell into the army formation, and casualties began to occur, especially for those crossbow archers. In order to shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands, they could not always hide behind the shield. When he came out, he was already hit by a feathered arrow falling from outside. And the sword and shield soldiers had to cover the arrows falling from their heads for the crossbow soldiers, and also had to string the bows for the crossbow soldiers. For a while, they couldn't help but get a little flustered, and the rain of arrows inevitably became thinner.

The Donghu cavalry of the second team charged, this time as many as thirty cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, the chain hammer flew up and fell, smashing the spear forest to the left and right, Donghu with iron rods, iron bones, and maces The knights rushed forward on their horses, and before the horses hit the army formation, they jumped up from the horses with loud shouts, waved the heavy weapons in their hands, and fell from the air.

Stab the horse or stab the man.

This time, the army formation was much more sunken than the first time, and there was not one place. On the entire parallel line, almost all the spearmen in the first row fell in front of the formation. The price paid by the Donghu people was the complete annihilation of the second wave of attackers.

The army formation in the left corner has shrunk a circle.

"Again!" Yu Wenming sternly roared, and the next wave of attacks launched again, and this time, the number of soldiers thrown out was more than double that of the previous two.

The main direction of the enemy's attack is the phalanx at the left. After several attacks, the left phalanx was forced to shrink again. Sun Xiao finally issued an order, and the central army began to slowly advance to the left. At the same time, the cavalry scattered among the five phalanxes slowly gathered together and approached the left phalanx.

Yu Wenming led his personal soldiers to launch the most violent attack. In his opinion, the phalanx on the left could no longer support it, and if it came again, it would inevitably collapse.

"Get in!" Waving the big knife in his hand, Yu Wenming roared sharply, this time he rushed to the front~IndoMTL.com~ The big knife in his hand danced like a windmill, blocking most of the arrows, and Occasionally, sporadic bits leaked in and fell on his specially-made armor, causing almost no damage to him.

As he expected, the phalanx on the left exploded, and he rushed into the opponent's previous solid formation without any effort. Yu Wenming was first stunned, then ecstatic, and then surprised. It's not normal, because the soldiers of the phalanx that he led seemed to be scattered were running forward, while he continued to move forward according to inertia, and the two sides actually ran in opposite directions. Yu Wenming got nothing from the pawns standing in front of him.

He replied in astonishment, the soldiers of the Zhengdong Army who seemed to have disintegrated formed a three-row line behind him, holding spears, staring at them sharply, and in front of them, hundreds of Zhengdong cavalry Come roaring. Behind these cavalrymen, the phalanx of the Eastern Conquering Army, which had always been in the center, moved to a place less than tens of meters away from the phalanx at some point.

"A trick!" Yu Wenming flashed these two words in his mind, then immediately turned the horse's head, shouted, and retreated.

When Yuwen Wenming came over, Yuwen Chui also dispatched a thousand-man cavalry at the same time to rush towards this phalanx. It is not impossible for the phalanx to completely break up. (To be continued..)