I’m The King

Yu Wenming led the team to attack the corner of the phalanx farthest to the left. I have to say that his vision is very sharp and his purpose is quite clear. This is indeed the biggest weakness of the phalanx without cavalry cover on the flanks. Seeing the opponent rushing to this point, Sun Xiao first sneered, and then frowned tightly. The Donghu people responded in this way, which only means that they are on top of the heavy infantry formation of the Central Plains troops. There are obvious countermeasures. This is not a good thing for the Eastern Army.

The cavalry of the Eastern Army is quite high compared to the proportion of the military teams in the Central Plains, but for the Donghu, this cavalry is nothing at all, and it is not worth mentioning.

The East Expeditionary Army does not worry about the source of the horses, but the source of the cavalry. There are countless Hun tribes on the prairie waiting and watching. Not every tribe is optimistic about Gao Yuan, for fear that once Gao Yuan fails, they Will suffer along with it. On the other hand, Gao Yuan did not want his cavalry team to be completely controlled by the Xiongnu generals. How to build a cavalry dominated by the Central Plains was something Gao Yuan thought about.

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

Sun Xiao knew this, but he still worried about the infantry. An excellent cavalry was too hasty in three years. It would only take a year or a half to train them to have a certain level of equestrian skills before they could talk about combat. However, it is not easy for the East Army to learn the cavalry combat skills accumulated over the years.

The shouts of Donghu people got closer and closer, drawing Sun Xiao's attention back to the battlefield. Staring at the phalanx in the left corner, I secretly said: "It's time!" Sure enough, this thought just flashed. The general of the phalanx in the left corner had already given the command to shoot, and the soldier who was hidden behind the spearman raised his hand. A long-armed crossbow, along a forty-five degree angle, throws into the air.

About a hundred soldiers shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, and there were countless buzzing black feathers in the sky, but that was not all. After shooting the crossbow arrows in their hands, the soldiers threw down their arms and opened the crossbow, and when they reached out, they picked up a stringed crossbow bolt on the ground. At the same time, the sword and shield soldiers were sitting behind them. On the ground, the arm that picked up the empty string opened the crossbow, stepped on and kicked, and another crossbow arrow was wound and buckled.

Although there are only a hundred people. But the rain of crossbow arrows is continuous wave after wave.

The distance of one hundred and fifty steps, for ordinary bows and arrows, is not yet capable of effective killing. But for an open-armed crossbow, it is more than enough. Above 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 also make you lose a certain amount of combat effectiveness. And within a hundred steps. The lethal rate of the crossbow with arms increased to more than 80% of the horror.

Seeing waves of crossbow arrows shooting out of the phalanx, and seeing the forwards who threw out a hundred paces away, they fell to the ground one after another, and Yuwencui, who was watching the formation from behind, couldn't help but change his face.

When the East Army was fighting against Donghu, there were not many time to use the crossbow, but the first time it was used was when the troops made a raid on Yulin. On the Tuotuo River, a round of crossbow and arrows, let Arundai eat it all. It was painful, but Gao Yuan did not use a large-scale crossbow when he was traveling with the Yan army to Donghu. He won several battles with Donghu. They were either sneak attacks or hard attacks, and they were defeated abruptly.

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

Wielding heavy weapons such as chain hammers, iron bones, and big sticks, the East Hu Cavalry, who wanted to knock out the tortoise shell of the Eastern Army, did not expect that they would be attacked so intensively from a hundred paces away, in their reflection. Only the kind of bed crossbow with a shattering heart can cause a fatal blow to the cavalry from a hundred paces away. The general bow and arrow are already running out of energy at this distance.

They didn't hear the sound of the crossbow, all they saw was a dense cluster of crossbow arrows, and then there was pain in the bones. One East Hu cavalry who fell down the horse made the following troops involuntarily pull away to the two wings. The original attack line of the column had already spread into a fan when it advanced within a hundred steps.

"Oops!" Yuwencui only had time to scream in his heart, and saw that from the other phalanx, a crossbow flew from the side. The two phalanxes formed the moment the cavalry dispersed. A flanking blow surface. The East Hu cavalry in this range of strikes turned their backs on their backs.

The following troops opened the distance to the front. The cavalry who had entered the attack range had no way to retreat except to move forward. When the wave of arrow rain finally stopped, Donghu emerged from the arrow rain. There were only dozens of cavalrymen, and seeing the square formation in front of them, these panic cavalrymen were overjoyed. The joy of the rest of their lives made them more powerful. They smashed the horses, danced the heavy weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the front. Array.

"Enter!" the officer yelled.

"Ho!" The two rows of spearmen stepped forward and raised their spears diagonally. The spears of the second row protruded from the gap between the first row. The guards of each team widened their eyes and looked at the cavalry closer and closer.

The cavalry's huge projectile filled the pupils of the eyes, and the head of the whistle raised his arm and yelled: "Stab!"

The spears in the first row lifted up and stabbed forward steadily. The sound of chirps was endless, and the roar of people and the horrible hiss of horses instantly rang throughout the battlefield.

The horse fell and the spear was broken. The knight on horseback was either thrown high or pierced by several spears, and the neat phalanx suddenly sank inward at this time, and dozens of soldiers were hit by a huge impact. The collision flew out backwards and fell to the ground, bleeding from the seven orifices, and could no longer live.

The shield soldiers and crossbowmen immediately rushed forward and dragged their dead or wounded companions into the formation. The spearmen at the rear immediately filled the gap with their spears. They were extremely proficient in their movements. Obviously, they did not know how many times they had drilled.

More than a dozen cavalrymen fell in front of the formation in an instant, and the price paid by the phalanx was multiple of these cavalry. However, counting the Donghu cavalry who died on the road, the casualties of both sides still had the upper hand.

I thought that after choosing the right attack point, in the first wave of attacks, Yu Wenming, who was able to smash the opponent's line of defense, suddenly turned red, "Second team, attack, third team, fourth team, approaching left and right, Go shooting, cover the second team!"

With his roar, three cavalry teams rushed out. One team followed the line of the previous attack and rushed to the left and right phalanx again. The other two teams, in the form of skirmishers, pushed to the two sides of the left army. Like the wind and the electric power, approaching the East Hu army formation within a hundred steps, bending the bow and leading the arrow, shooting towards the army formation.

Fang Fang's army formation stands here and does not move easily. For the Donghu soldiers who have started riding and shooting, they don't need to aim at all, just shoot the bow and draw the arrow. Feather arrows fell into the army, and casualties began to occur, especially for those crossbowmen. In order to shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands, they could not always hide behind the shield. They often raised their arms and stretched their crossbows and leaned under the shield. When he came out, he was already shot by a feather arrow falling outside. The sword and shield soldiers had to cover the arrows falling from their heads for the crossbowmen, and they had to wind up the crossbowmen. All of a sudden, they could not help but become confused, and the arrow rain inevitably became thinner.

The second group of East Hu cavalry rushed forward. This time, as many as thirty horses rushed to the front of the formation. The chain hammers flew up and down, smashing the spear forest, holding iron bars, iron bones, and maces. The horse came straight, and before the horse hit the army, they shouted and jumped from the horse, waving the heavy weapon in their hands, and falling from the air.

Either stab the horse or stab people.

This time, the army formation was more depressed than the first time, and it was not on one spot. Almost all the spearmen in the first row on the parallel line fell in front of the formation. The price the Donghu people paid was the complete destruction of the second wave of attackers.

The army formation in the left corner shrank a whole circle.

"Come again!" Yu Wenming screamed, and the next wave of attacks unfolded again, and this time, the number of soldiers who threw out more than doubled compared with the previous two.

The enemy’s main attack direction was the square at the left front. Several times of impact, the left front square was forced to shrink again. Sun Xiao finally gave the order, and the central army started slowly advancing to the left at the same time. , The cavalry scattered among the five phalanx slowly gathered into one group and approached the left phalanx.

Yu Wenming led his soldiers to launch the most violent attack. In his opinion, the square on the left could no longer be supported, and if it was done again, it would inevitably fall apart.

"Get in!" Waving the big knife in his hand, Yu Wenming screamed, this time he rushed to the forefront ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The knife in his hand danced like a windmill, blocking most of the arrows, and occasionally Sporadic leaks came in and fell on his special armor, causing him almost nothing.

As he expected, the phalanx on the left side burst apart, and he rushed into the opponent’s previous army formation with little effort. Yu Wenming was shocked first, then ecstasy, and then he was surprised. This is abnormal. Because the soldiers in this phalanx who seemed to be broken up by his team were rushing forward with their feet, and he continued to move forward according to inertia, and the two sides went in opposite directions, except for beheading a few who stood in the way. For the pawns in front of him, Yu Wenming got nothing.

He replied in amazement, the seemingly disintegrated soldiers of the East Army formed a three-row line behind him again, holding spears, staring at them fiercely, while hundreds of East Army troops roared in front of him. . Behind these cavalrymen, the phalanx of the Zhengdong Army that had been in the most central position, at some point, moved to a place less than tens of meters away from the phalanx.

"Zhong Ji!" These two words flashed in Yu Wenming's mind, then immediately turned his horse's head, yelled, and retreated.

Just when Yuwenming Province came over, Yuwentri also dispatched a thousand-man cavalry toward this phalanx at the same time. It was necessary to rescue Yuwenming, or, by combining the inside and the outside, the phalanx was completely eliminated. It's not impossible to break up. (To be continued...)