Chapter 161 Wang Shichong is destined to be empty and happy?

Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie rushed to the front of the Xuanjia cavalry with their own soldiers, but the oncoming chariots formed a tight formation, carrying unprecedented pressure, rushing towards them.

"Kill!"

Cheng Zhijie roared violently, tensed the muscles of his whole body, and released his strength in the roar, his wrist flicked, and the horse lance in his hand made an arc of light, stabbing at the driving war horse in front of the chariot.

"Poof......

"Poof......

The two huge horse heads were stabbed by Cheng Zhijie, and they pierced into the head of the war horse without any delay, disturbing the head of the war horse, and instantly draining the vitality of the war horse. Two huge war horses fell to the ground with a thud.

Cheng Zhijie succeeded in one blow, Qin Qiong did not show weakness, leaned forward slightly, and quickly pulled out four short halberds from the chain of the horse's neck, which were no more than four feet long and weighed about eight or nine catties. Qin Qiong held four short halberds and opened his bow left and right, and the four halberds flew towards the war horse driven by the Zheng army's charioteers in front of him like sharp arrows coming out of the string.

"Poof...... Burst...... Burst...... Poof"

Four horses fell in response. Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led the Xuanjia cavalry to launch a desperate assault on the charioteers of the Zheng army.

Although the Tang Army's Xuanjia cavalry was like a rainbow, their counterattack encountered unprecedented pressure. If these Xuanjia cavalry faced the cavalry or infantry of the Zheng army, they could rely on their armor and blades to kill the enemy without leaving a piece of armor, unless they exhausted all their physical strength, the momentum of the Xuanjia cavalry's charge would not stop.

However, at this time, it was Zheng Jun's two or three hundred chariots that rushed up, although Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong fought hard and destroyed more than a dozen Zheng Jun's chariots one after another, but more Zheng Jun's chariots collided with the Tang Army's Xuanjia cavalry.

There were four people standing on each chariot of the Zheng army, one driver driving the war horse, one armor head holding a horizontal sword and bow and arrows, and two armor soldiers holding spears on the left and right.

Before the armored cavalry could hit the enemy's horses, they were either shot and fell from their horses, or they were picked off by the spearmen on the chariots.

The chariot soldiers and spears in the hands of the armor soldiers on the Zheng army's chariot are all special for the chariot soldiers, belonging to the thick and long style, each long Ge, up to two zhang, about four meters seven. It was even two feet longer than the spears used by the infantry. As the saying goes, one inch is long and one inch is strong, in this kind of situation of chariot and cavalry attack, the length and strength of Zheng Jun's chariot soldiers are vividly expressed.

Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong, with the Xuanjia cavalry only rushed out of dozens of steps before they felt the unprecedented power, the air came and went everywhere shuttled Zheng Jun's arrows, although the Xuanjia cavalry belongs to the heavy armor cavalry, not afraid of arrows, but their faces, necks, hands, feet, and the eyes of the war horse, are all weak and critical, there are always Zheng Jun arrows like hitting the luck, hitting the vital position of the Xuanjia cavalry, what is even more terrifying is that the chariot will delay the momentum of the Xuanjia cavalry's charge, and lose the speed of the charge Xuanjia cavalry, It became the target of Zheng Jun's soldiers.

Finding that the bow and arrows were not effective, almost two or three hundred arrows could barely hit a Tang army's Xuanjia cavalry, Wang Shichong really ordered to stop this meaningless attack. Wang Shichong said: "Transfer the bed crossbow and trebuchet to ......."

In order to ambush Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry, Wang Shichong was actually fully prepared.

In Luoyang City, Yang Guang's general was in charge of the 220 eight-bull crossbows in the prison, all of which were dismantled by Wang Shichong and secretly transported to the Longmen Canyon, among which there were more than 150 trebuchets.

In history, Li Shimin did besiege Luoyang for ten days, losing more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and did not capture Luoyang City at all. But in this time and space, Wang Ren suffered a big loss from Chen Ying's poisonous smoke in Hangu Pass, and he told Wang Shichong the news, and Wang Shichong immediately realized that it was not a way to defend Luoyang City. So, Wang Shichong devised such a strategy to lure Li Shimin to attack the enemy.

Wang Shichong saw very clearly, on the surface, the Tang army was strong and strong, but Li Shimin wanted to express himself very deliberately because of the existence of Chen Ying, an outlier. In "The Art of War", it is said that there will be five dangers: you must die, but you can also kill; will be born, but can be captured; Angry, insulting; Incorruptible, humiliating; Love the people, but it's annoying. It was precisely Li Shimin who was hit by the "anger". Anger means impatient and rash, jumping at the touch of a button, and may be deliberately humiliated by the enemy and act rashly;

Under Wang Shichong's order, Zheng Jun's eight-ox crossbows and trebuchets ambushed on Daqingshan and Longmen Mountain began to adjust the firing angle, and one hundred and fifty trebuchets and two hundred and twenty eight-ox crossbows were all aimed at Li Shimin's Daxi.

After Hou Junji, who had been broken, heard the news that Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie's assault had been frustrated, he hurriedly said to Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan: "General Qin and General Cheng's troops are exhausted and can't break through into the car formation, we must rush through a bloody road, if we can't break through, we all have to die here!" ”

Li Shimin said: "I'll go!" ”

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and rushed to the front.

However, at this very moment. There was a terrible burst of tears in the sky.

Li Shimin had just advanced more than a hundred steps, and when he turned his head to look, he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat.

I saw where he was just now, at this time, dozens of stone bullets flew down from the air, hundreds of crossbow arrows more than six feet long, these thick crossbow arrows effortlessly penetrated the armor of the Xuanjia cavalry, and nailed the Xuanjia cavalry to the ground. Dozens of stone bullets smashed the flesh and blood of the hundreds of Xuanjia cavalry present.

If the bow and arrow of this period is the submachine gun of later generations, then the strong crossbow is almost an assault rifle, and the bed crossbow and the eight-bull crossbow are almost equivalent to the power of an anti-tank gun or an anti-aircraft machine gun.

Li Shimin yelled: "Follow me!" ”

Li Shimin picked up an iron-tired bow, only to see that the arrows were like beads, shooting five or six war horses in a row, his strength was raised again, and his speed was also raised again! All around was the strong wind brought up by the gallop of enemy chariots and horses. In addition, there were cold arrows and dark arrows, and several times the bow and arrow almost swept past Li Shimin's cheek, and the skin was washed into a burning illusion at less than an inch or two, but Li Shimin didn't even blink his eyes. At this moment, his state is probably that the bow shot him in the eyeball, and he won't even be able to film his eyes!

As a general, as an outstanding commander, Li Shimin knows that at this time, there is no point in staying, there is no point in being afraid of death, and the more he is afraid of death, the faster he will die. Li Shimin led the Xuanjia cavalry to attack, but he did not follow the established target to attack directly to the south, in fact, Wang Shichong also easily guessed the destination he was about to go, so the troops there were the most powerful!

At this time, the heavens seemed to favor Li Shimin, and he was like an unpredictable prophet, who could avoid the trap set up by Zheng Jun at any time, and kept moving along the subtle "momentum" of the battlefield, and each movement was accompanied by the death of an enemy horse or the overturning of a chariot.

However, although Li Shimin was brave, Qin Qiong was fearless, and Cheng Zhijie was fierce, what they brought was only the casualties of the Zheng army's soldiers, and there was no change in the entire battle situation.

The Xuanjia cavalry of the Tang Army in the Longshan Grand Canyon has changed from more than 5,000 horses to more than 4,000 horses, and now it is less than 3,000 cavalry. From a valley that is more than 30 miles long, and the range of activities of more than 30 miles, they have been slowly compressed to 25 miles, 20 miles.

Now that the three thousand Xuanjia cavalry have been compressed to nearly less than fifteen miles, the chariot troops of the Zheng army at this time are like a deadly rope, strangled around the necks of the Tang soldiers, suffocating the Tang soldiers little by little.

"The chariot is on the chariot, the horse is Xiaoxiao, the pedestrian bow and arrow are at the waist, the wife of Ye Niang is sending each other, and the dust is not seen on the Xianyang Bridge......" This is a poem by the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty "Soldier Chariot Travel", the chariot began to appear on the battlefield during the Xia Dynasty, and quickly became the king of ancient Chinese warfare. Even later, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, chariots became a basic factor in measuring a country.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, chariots have always been the main equipment of the army, and chariot warfare is the main mode of warfare. As for the confrontation between the cavalry and the chariot, it is a matter of wisdom and wisdom, in fact, the power of the chariot is far greater than that of the cavalry, but the speed of the chariot is slow, there is no mobility advantage of the cavalry, and the cost is too high, and it gradually declines.

Li Shimin looked at the two hundred Zheng Jun chariots roaring towards him, and felt his scalp tingle. If it was in other places, Li Shimin was not afraid of these chariots, he could even pick up a hundred ways to restrain the chariots, but in the narrow Longmen Grand Canyon, there was a fire behind the road, and there was a chariot in front, and in the narrow space, the disadvantage of the chariot's original slow movement speed was well made up for from this Longmen Canyon.

Li Shimin's face was originally peaceful. Although he is a little strong, he is still handsome, but at this moment he was burned into a hideous little pair of eyes that were originally narrow and beautiful, and he had fascinated many girls through this, but at this time he unconsciously stared into a round shape, just like the angry eyes in the Buddhist temple! And those hands are covered with green tendons, if anyone can get close and take a closer look, will they think that they are really a pair of human hands?

Li Shimin was already covered in blood, but not a drop of blood was his own! Li Shimin's terrifying image is as if he has just crawled out of the blood pool and flesh, it is really the demon depicted in the major religious classics, so that all the enemies are afraid when they see him, their feet are weak, and even the beasts are intimidated by him!

It's a pity that there are still too many Zheng soldiers. To add insult to injury, the eight-bull crossbows and trebuchets on both sides of Daqing Mountain and Longmen Mountain fire stone bullets or crossbow arrows from time to time.

In the narrow space of the Longmen Canyon, Zheng Jun's trebuchet, each stone bullet can easily take several people and more than a dozen Xuanjia cavalry, looking at the Xuanjia cavalry who is regarded as the root of life and falling in the Longmen Grand Canyon one by one with hatred, Li Shimin's eyes are about to pop out, but he can't have any opinion on the situation at the scene.

Li Shimin attacked more than a dozen times in a row, but did not disperse Zheng Jun's chariot, but was pressed back step by step by Zheng Jun's chariot.

At this moment, Cheng Zhijie pounced on the horse and fell from the horse.

Qin Qiong was shocked and shouted, "Old Cheng ......"

also survived that now the Xuanjia cavalry lost its speed, Cheng Zhijie was not hit by the cavalry behind, and he struggled to get up. Cheng Zhijie grinned and said, "It's okay, my old Cheng has rough skin and thick meat......"

Qin Qiong took advantage of the firelight and hit the crossbow arrow on Cheng Zhijie's shoulder, with a commission on his face. Shoulder pads are an important part of armor and are also a very strong defensive place, second only to the chest. However, the shoulder guard has now been pierced by a crossbow arrow, which shows the strength of this crossbow arrow.

At this moment, Li Shimin rushed to Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie, looked at Cheng Zhijie's injury, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It's so dangerous, one finger will hurt your bones, and your arm is useless!" ”

However, Zhu Cang, dressed in iron armor and holding a spear, stood in the second row of the second column, pressing his steps and slowly moving forward. Zhu Cang yelled: "Hold down the step-steady-keep the formation!" ”

Following his command, the infantry phalanx of the Cannibal Demon Ironclad Legion pressed towards Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry at a slow pace.

Although the demon army is notorious, it is denied that this is a very effective army. The first row engaged. Zhu Cang shouted out the password: "Kill ——! ”

The first row of demon legion infantry stabbed their spears in unison, and they stabbed Xue to death on the spot with dozens of stunned Xuanjia cavalrymen.

Zhu Cang drank again: "Collect ——! ”

The infantry of the Demon Legion gathered their spears in unison.

"Advance ——!"

The infantry of the Demon Legion took another neat step forward.

At this time, Li Shimin also had a long-lost sense of powerlessness, and the chariot blocked the way for the Xuanjia cavalry to break through to the south, although the Zheng army chariot was less than 200, but the Xuanjia cavalry also ran out of physical strength and could no longer break forward. There were more than 5,000 Xuanjia cavalry, and at this time there were less than 2,000 horsemen, and they were compressed within a range of less than ten miles.

Just when Zhu Cang led the cannibal demon army to attack from Longmen Mountain to the bottom of the mountain, the Zheng army on the opposite mountain of Daqingshan Mountain also launched an attack.

Attacking from three sides at the same time, Li Shimin's troops were in danger.

Cheng Zhijie said with a wry smile: "My old Cheng can live and die with His Royal Highness King Qin, and this life is not in vain!" ”

Li Shimin knew that the officers and men of the whole army had lost confidence at this time, and their morale plummeted. But as the backbone of the army, others can despair, but he can't.

Li Shimin laughed and said: "It's too early to say dead, we still have reinforcements, Wang Shichong is a child, and he is destined to be happy!" ”

Qin Qiong's heart was full of doubts: "Do we have reinforcements?" ”