340 Victory in the first battle
There was no intermittent firing of rockets, and as long as the new army was willing, each cavalry would be divided into three officers. In addition to canned food, those box cars were almost all kinds of crossbow arrows, thunderbolts, and fire oil bombs, which were enough to divide.
And don't worry about the future, Mawei City's logistics box convoy will soon arrive at Wusheling Ridge. In a few days, the new army will be loaded with weapons and continue to set off, and its combat effectiveness will still be so strong without any discount.
"There are some things that you will hear when you are freshman, and you don't have to think about it so much now, let alone talk about it in front of outsiders. Okay, let's look at the flowers. "Chen Niang's question is too sharp, not to mention that she is still a child, even if an adult asks, she can't explain a sentence clearly.
At this time, there was another layer of long pipe-like things on the bomb crater and trench, Hong Tao hurriedly picked up the wet cloth towel prepared in advance, and covered one by himself, and Chen Niang covered one.
"Woooooooooo......oo Whoop...... Whoosh ...... Squeaky ...... "Just when the Western Xia cavalry thought that their companions had not died in vain, countless white flowers suddenly bloomed on the ground dozens of meters away, and then there was a scream all over the sky, and then there was no more.
The thousands of horsemen charged at high speed were like waves hitting a dam, and no matter how much they roared, they couldn't move forward in the slightest, and they all smashed in front of them, and then retreated as quickly as they came.
But the waves can take away most of their companions, but the Western Xia cavalry does not have this ability, and in an instant, half of the team lies down on a horizontal line that stretches for a hundred meters, less than thirty meters away from the nearest foxhole.
Behind this line, it is difficult to see living people and live horses within almost 100 meters. The farthest unlucky guy was pierced through the stomach by a huge javelin more than 300 meters away, and the whole person flew out upside down, fell to the ground and stared with his mouth open, and he didn't know what it was until he died, he was all unwilling.
All this did not stop there, large and small crossbows still flew out from behind the white smoke with red flames, killing everyone and horses. The density is almost the same as hail, and you can't hide it, so you can only pray for the blessing of the Buddha.
"Didi...... A few minutes later, a strange brass horn sounded in the car array, the sound was not too loud but the penetrating power was really strong, and Liang Yikui, who was on the city tower a mile away, could hear it really clearly, and he would not lose a rhythm.
Liang Yikui hasn't shut his mouth for a long time, and he looks stupid. Three thousand iron horsemen, all of them are the elite of the elite, from the beginning to the present, less than a stick of incense has been dead. The rest of the people were galloping in different directions, but they had only one thing in common, and they were all running away from the two walls of smoke.
What horsepower, what command, I don't care at all. Even if these cavalry finally come to their senses, their horses are probably gone, and they are lucky not to run to death.
"This is the devil, the devil from the mountains! The old monk wants to go back to the temple to pray for the blessing of the whole city, and Lord Thorn Shi might as well send someone to the eastern capital to ask for help......" In comparison, the old monk was not so surprised, although the muscles on his face were also twitching, but listening to his words was full of reason.
This is to remind Liang Yikui, don't play field warfare, you really can't fight, it's better to quickly retreat back to the city and defend it, and by the way, send someone to Xingqing Mansion to deliver a letter, no matter whether you come to help or not, the work that should be done must be done.
"Yes, yes, what the master said is right, this official is ...... Quickly blow the trumpet and call Ren to come back, send ten horsemen, no, thirty horsemen, and quickly go to the eastern capital for help! ”
Liang Yikui understood, and no longer cared about his due bearing, he almost shouted out the orders word by word in the loudest voice, and then poked his hands on the city wall, looking at the car city that had been covered by the white fog in a daze.
In fact, without Liang Yikui blowing the horn of withdrawing troops, the deputy town guard outside the city was already retreating. This battle really can't be said, as the main general, he followed the Chinese army and just stepped on the drawbridge of the moat, and bursts of white mist rose in the distance, accompanied by ghosts crying wolf howls, and then his elite cavalry was finished.
He didn't see what the enemy was doing, he didn't see any weapons the enemy used, and he didn't know how many cavalry he had left, and the only thing he knew was to quickly withdraw the infantry that had just left the city.
Since it was so easy for people to fight against cavalry, it would not be too difficult to deal with the infantry, and it was obviously not wise to go over and be beaten at this time. Even if you want to attack, you have to figure out a few people who don't know and don't see, and then talk about how to deal with it.
The cavalry scattered and fleeing do not have to worry, the enemy did not besiege the city, and obviously did not intend to besiege the city, the south gate could not enter, and there were three city gates, east, west and north.
But he no longer had any hope of how many cavalry he could return, these iron cavalry were the essence of several large tribes nearby, and they were almost wiped out in a single charge, what did they do when they came back?
If you encounter such a situation, your first choice is not to go back to the city, but to report back to the tribe as soon as possible, so as not to suffer greater losses to your tribe.
Compared with the state, the tribe was the basic unit that made up the Western Xia. If the country is gone, it can be rebuilt, and if the tribe is gone, it will become the slave of others, and it will be bullied wherever it goes.
"Hey, it's hard work, this trick is very useful, count it as your credit. Make persistent efforts in the future, if you have such an idea, tell me directly, don't spit on Commander Jiang, he doesn't know anything except killing. ”
At this time, Hong Tao had already stood up from the box car, and there was nothing to see on both sides, and even the north and south sides were shrouded in drifting smoke. The enemy also retreated, and then shrank in the box cart a little bit of a nonsense.
How can so much smoke know when the enemy is retreating? Please look into the middle of the box car array. At some point, a thin and tall wooden tower was erected, more than 20 meters high.
Two special forces sat on it, one with a telescope to patrol around, and the other with two small flags to send messages. No matter how loud the smoke from the rockets fired, it was impossible to envelop the entire camp, and when to stop firing and what the enemy was moving outside was something that the two of them had seen with their own eyes, and there should be no mistake.
This method was devised by fate, and when training recruits in Mawei City, Hong Tao was more afraid of the large amount of smoke generated after the rocket was launched.
If there is too much of this thing, you can't see anything, not to mention the hit rate problem, anyway, the rocket is also covered shooting, and the effect of aiming or not aiming is almost the same. But firing one more round is tens of thousands of arrows, which is too wasteful, how can you detect the enemy's movements in time?
It happened that Wang Datou sent the siege crossbow, and when he assembled it, he saw it, and he quietly mentioned to Jiang Erlang the idea of using the base of the siege crossbow to build a watchtower, but it was rejected at that time.
In Jiang Erlang's eyes, the siege crossbow is obviously more important than the watchtower, as for the waste of shooting one more round and one less round, he doesn't care at all, and he doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive.
Fortunately, he is not a dead eye, and he still hopes to make more meritorious contributions and change more land. Seeing that Jiang Erlang didn't accept it, he simply mentioned the matter to Wang Da again.
The result naturally reached Hong Tao's ears, and it was officially adopted after only one experiment. Now it seems that Hong Tao is still relatively sensible, this thing does work.