The 3,000 cavalry archers in the western part of the ridge rushed to the infantry phalanx of Black Domain City, shot three rounds of arrows, and spread a passage, and the 5,000 cavalry behind them appeared, waving the various weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the infantry phalanx, like a sharp blade that was about to split all the obstacles in front of them.

Five thousand war horses galloped, and the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground alone could make people feel frightened.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, why did tens of thousands of Ming troops run away as soon as they saw hundreds of Qing soldiers turn around, it was completely psychologically and momentum, and they lost before the war began.

However, this momentum did not have much impact on the herdsmen who had lived on the grassland for a long time, and they had become accustomed to this scene by living with countless cattle, sheep and horses all day long.

But this kind of scene made Zhen Sixteen, who thought that his heart was strong, tremble a little when he spoke, "Knot...... Spell! Mo knife hand out to meet the enemy, crossbowmen ready, three-stage cycle launch! ”

Zhen Sixteen forced himself to calm down, and Zhen Eighteen on the side saw this, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, this kind of head-to-head duel between infantry and cavalry, not to mention the two of them, even Tang soldiers are rare, and it is already very good to run without turning around.

Zhen Sixteen trembled and raised the command flag in his hand, waving it, his voice was hoarse, with a trill, but the people around him all turned their eyes to the cavalry in the western part of the ridge that was getting closer and closer, and they didn't notice his abnormality.

"The 1,000-man team, the 2000-man team, the target is one hundred and twenty steps, launch!"

"The 3,000-man team, the 4,000-man team, the target is 100 steps, launch!"

"The 5,000-strong team, the 6,000-strong team, the target is eighty steps, launch!"

The reason why Black Domain City was able to dispatch 8,000 infantry at once, of which more than 4,000 crossbowmen were completely made up, but the requirements for crossbowmen were not high, and ordinary Murwei people could go into battle for half a month of training, plus Murwei people were born warriors, so they could barely go into battle.

More than 4,000 crossbowmen are different from ordinary soldiers, and the requirements for combat skills and quality are extremely low, which are lower than the musketeers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in later generations.

However, the effect and shock produced by 2,000 crossbowmen and 6,000 crossbowmen are completely different, and the density of arrows alone can make the enemy's scalp tingle.

Zhen 18 knew that there was no advance or retreat now, even if his legs were shaking like a sieve, he also forcefully ordered: "Artillery preparation, fifty steps of scattered bombs ready to fire!" ”

If it is a wild rush to chase the enemy, the speed can reach about fifty or sixty miles, and the distance of less than three miles is almost a few words, and the five thousand cavalry in the western part of the ridge have entered the range of crossbowmen.

Two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and thirty steps......, launch!

The entire infantry phalanx suddenly sounded the sound of bowstrings, and then a rain of arrows like a black mist rose into the air, making a "whoosh" hissing sound in the air.

The first wave of arrows had not yet fallen, and the second wave of arrows had already sounded again after five breaths.

The battlefield is never static, just like the bow and arrow shooting the prey, there is a certain amount of advance, saying that it is one hundred and twenty steps to launch an arrow, that refers to the position where the target appears when the arrow hits the target, not that the target enters one hundred and twenty steps and then shoots, the same reason, when the second wave of arrow rain attacks, the target of the strike should have entered within one hundred steps, but the target of the second wave of attack is also a target within one hundred and twenty steps, just forming a dense coverage attack effect.

By the time the third rain of arrows was fired, the target hit by the first wave of arrows should have been within sixty paces if they had not been injured or died.

When a rain of arrows flew in the infantry phalanx of Black Domain City, the cavalry of the western part of the ridge who rushed to the front had already deftly hidden under the belly of the war horse, raised the arm shield in his hand to protect his vital parts, and stared at the infantry phalanx of Black Domain City with dead eyes, and there were no arrows flying from the sky in his eyes.

"Puff puff!"

A dense rain of arrows fell, and the cavalry in the western part of the ridge had no disdain on their faces, most of the arrows used by the Murwei people were made of bone, and the penetration was not strong at all, and they couldn't even shoot through the leather armor within a hundred steps, even if the arrows hit the war horse, it would only make the war horse more crazy, and the impact would be greater.

Although war horses are precious to the Murwei people, but the Murwei people have never lacked war horses, a tribal conflict, the death of hundreds of thousands of war horses is nothing, even if the horses are killed in battle, the Murwei people will use all the waste into the stomach, without a trace of reluctance.

However, the disdain on the faces of the cavalry in the western part of the ridge quickly solidified, and even with shock and horror, they brought the doubts full of them into another world.

It is completely different from the imagination of the cavalry in the western part of the ridge, those arrows that rushed into the sky, with a piercing neighing sound, as if forming a strong wall, not to mention those war horses, that is, the arm shield on the arm of the cavalry in the western part of the ridge, actually passed directly through the arm shield and deeply inserted into the arm of the cavalry in the western part of the ridge.

Almost instantaneously, the cavalry and war horses in the western part of the ridge that rushed to the front were full of arrows, and under the huge inertia of the war horses, they flew forward, and flew a distance of more than ten steps before they were planted on the snow.

The cavalry at the front did not react, the second wave of arrows had come, and another piece of life was harvested.

By the time the third wave of arrows came, the cavalry in the western part of the ridge already felt that something was wrong, and the power of this arrow was too powerful, far exceeding the wolf tooth arrows used by the Murowei people, and only the iron arrows used by the Murowei people's condor archers had such power!

The scarcity of iron in Murowei is the same as the lack of copper in Datang, and only a few elites will use iron weapons, and ordinary Murowei people even have very few daily iron pots, let alone well-made iron arrows.

Therefore, the defense of the Murwei people is based on the premise that the other party cannot have a large amount of iron, just like there is a sharp spear first, and then a strong shield, if there is no sharp spear, what do you want a strong shield to do?

Why is war the promoter of science and technology, catalyst, any one side is strong, will cause the other side to be jealous, under a strong sense of oppression and crisis, so that the other side to develop more powerful weapons and equipment, in order to have self-protection and attack capabilities, this is the later generations called military competition and resistance, after all, no one wants to see the opponent strong, lying on the head of someone riding on it!

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