Chapter 890 The respective uses of chain horses, iron harriers, and heavy cavalry
Several Xia army cavalry groups numbering several thousand roared from the left flank and rear of the Song army, and the generals under Xiao Tang's command also drank their own orders to raise a strong crossbow and pointed obliquely, with the words "Arrows!" With a loud shout, the big array buzzed with the sound of a heart-wrenching wind, and thousands of arrows shot at once, making a fierce buzzing sound in mid-air, and then poured towards the galloping Xia army cavalry!
The knights of the Xia army, who urged the horses to gallop, turned their horses in unison, and raised their round shields to protect the vital points, but they were still shot down by the dense arrow rain of the Song army, but the momentum of the cavalry did not decrease, and they still either attacked the east and west, or bit the back of the Song army's large array to pursue and kill.
While obeying the order and advancing at the same pace, the Song army formation that had to resist the impact offensive launched by the surrounding enemy forces saw that it was about to meet the Xia army formation that intercepted their rear road, and at this time, the spears, knives and axes in the Xia army's formation also probed out alternately, forming a steel forest with awe-inspiring murderous intent, and the Song army under the command of Xiao Tang could only strive forward and survive in such a fierce battle!
At this moment, the military flag in the Song army's large array suddenly shook, and the array formation that was about to collide with the Xia army's array suddenly became loose from a dense number of arrays, and the military health in the front row immediately moved to the left and right, making way for a space to be stepped forward by the crossbowmen holding the divine arm bow in the back formation, and in an instant, the crossbow strings collapsed, and the crunching sound of the machine was endless, and the Song army's strong crossbowmen who had already received Yao Pingzhong's order quickly set up their crossbows, and the sharp crossbow arrows were ready to go, and the cold arrow clusters were also flashing with a cold glow, And the Xia Guojun in front of him who were fifty or sixty steps away were clearly distinguished!
With the order of the generals of the various departments, the screaming sound of the divine arm bow firing the crossbow was intertwined, and the sound of the wind released by the thousands of hard bows firing in unison was even more terrifying, and a puffy and sharp crossbow arrows were intertwined into a rain of arrows in an instant, and in a straight line, the Xia army foot soldiers lined up in front shot viciously!
The infantry of the Xia army originally intended to trap Xiao Tang's soldiers and horses here, and they were close to forming an array and erecting shields to resist the Song army's breakthrough attack, but the power of the divine arm bow could shoot through the iron bullseye at a distance of 100 meters, not to mention that the two armies were now only fifty or sixty paces apart?
"Puff puff!" The crossbow turned into a rainstorm pear blossom, shooting through the shield oars blocked by the Xia Army's foot soldiers in front of him, and was also shot through the body when countless Xia Army foot soldiers landed behind, and even shot alive into a sieve, and splashed the sky with blood!
The foot soldiers in the front of the Xia army's infantry formation fell down in an instant, and when the Song army's strong crossbowmen shot a round of divine arm bows, they immediately retreated and reinstalled the crossbow arrows, and at the same time in the Song army's formation, there was a burst of horse hooves like a landslide and tsunami, nearly a thousand sharp riding spears pierced the sky, and a thousand chain horses led by Hu Yanzhuo also suddenly killed from the big array!
Hu Yanzhuo wielded two water-mill eight-edged steel whips, a sky-high iron head, a seven-star nailed soap robe, and the black oil looked swarthy and mighty against the armor-inlaid armor. And the chain of heavy cavalry on his side is covered with heavy steel armor, all the heavy cavalry soldiers are tightly wrapped in the majestic body, even the horse under the crotch is wrapped in several pieces of vest such as the face curtain, the back ride, the chicken neck, the chest, the horse body, etc., some archers in the Xia army hurriedly rushed forward, pulled the bow and arrows, and then shot the sharp wolf tooth arrows to the charging chain of heavy cavalry to split the head and cover the face, and in an instant, the crisp sound of "bell bell bell" was endless. Although most of the feather arrows that poured over hit the vital point of the chain of horses that urged the galloping horses, they almost did not cause any damage, but were immediately bounced off the iron armor, and the arrows fell to the ground crookedly!
Hu Yanzhuo was originally a serial horse army created by following the Xia State Iron Harrier Army, and at this time, it finally played its own great role in the Song Xia War!
The rumbling hooves were like rolling thunder, and the wedge-shaped arrow array formed by the heavy cavalry of more than 1,000 people was fiercely inserted into the phalanx of the Xia army, and the chain horse rushed to block the person in the cloth, and the Xia army's foot soldiers were cut to the ground in an instant, and the military health of the front line was the first to hit the chain horse heavy cavalry with flesh and blood, and the military health of the heavy cavalry was not broken to the bones, and then was trampled under the trampling of the rolling iron hooves, or was knocked down and chopped by the cavalry spear and saber in the heavy cavalry of the Song army, and in an instant, it had rushed into the Xia army's foot pawn phalanx nearly thirty steps away!
But at this moment, the rear of the Xia army in the formation sounded the majestic horn sound, originally in the first round of the divine arm bow, the second round of the attack of the chain of horses were about to break out of the Song army from the front of the enemy formation was torn open, but suddenly heard the sound of rolling horses' hooves on the other side of the mountain also suddenly sounded, the whole earth also seemed to begin to tremble, the heavy cavalry behind the mountain drove the horses under the crotch from the back of the hooves trot, galloping, rushing with all their strength, thousands of war horses bowl-sized hooves knocked on the surface of the ground as if the earth dragon turned over, Those heavy cavalrymen also held spears in their hands, and the sharp arrows that flew out of the Song army's formation shot down their bodies with a clanging sound, and then they all fell to the ground in an uproar, and the knights of the Xia Kingdom with high heads and horses were like the Song army's chain horses, and the heavy armor of steel cast iron was also unharmed, and at this time, it also turned into a nail wall made of steel and crushed towards the Song army's large array!
Xiao Tang ordered Hu Yanzhuo to lead a chain of horses and heavy cavalry to storm and break the formation, in order to tear a gap in the phalanx at the rear of the Xia army, so that his subordinates could break through and avoid the enemy forming an encirclement of his own troops and horses; And Brother Cha ordered all the Iron Harriers to ride heavily towards the Song army, in order to completely crush the dense military formation of the Song army before it intended to break through the encirclement!
Originally, the Iron Harrier Army of the Xia State was often used as the front army that charged into battle, and the iron cavalry broke through the formation to force the enemy army to rout, and then advanced with infantry and cavalry. And this heavy cavalry corps was the trump card of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of the Xia Dynasty, in that year, divided into ten teams and each team of 300 people, and the generals who served as captains were all fierce generals who were famous for their martial arts at that time. The Xia Kingdom has been passed down for generations, and now this heavy cavalry has expanded to nearly 10,000 troops, even if Cha Gedang ordered the five thousand iron harriers who obeyed his orders to launch a fierce impact, its huge momentum of shaking the mountains and the earth was even several times greater than the chain of horses led by Hu Yanzhuo!
After all, there was a shortage of war horses in the Great Song Dynasty, and Hu Yanzhuo's ability to train such a heavy cavalry force was enough to make the Song generals of the military divisions of other state capitals very red-eyed, not to mention that Xiao Tang thought about the fact that the chain of horses was connected by iron cables, and there were also the disadvantages of being easily attacked by the enemy army and falling in a row, and he once suggested that Hu Yanzhuo reduce his heavy cavalry to 1,000 people. And at the moment, the Song army's large array is slowly moving to the rear to intercept the enemy's formation, only to make the chain of heavy cavalry suddenly kill the impact of the Xia army's array to launch a chisel attack tactics, although the Xia army was caught off guard, but fifty or sixty steps away, the impact of the heavy armored war horse has not yet exerted its maximum power with the hoof and galloping, it has already penetrated into the Xia army's infantry formation, the Xia army iron harrier with several times more troops than the Song army's chain horse, but with the inertia of galloping, the destructive power and impact of this iron armored heavy horse can be exerted to the extreme!
Seeing the momentum of more than 5,000 riding iron harriers galloping and shaking the mountains, as if a flying mountain peak was about to hit his head, there were many soldiers in the Song army who had been in battle for a long time, and all the generals such as Xiao Tang, Xu Guanzhong, Xiao Jiasui, and Wang Jin had a general thought in their hearts: It should come, and it is finally coming!
And Liu Qi, who had already received Xiao Tang's order, also rode his horse and galloped, rushing to the front of the marching formation that was about to be violently attacked by the Iron Harrier Army, and then he shouted loudly and said: "Brothers, hold the position strictly!" Whether or not we can intercept these birds depends on our ability! ”