"Crossbowmen! The infidels are coming! ”

The Persians, who had just been distraught by the blasting and had been killed and wounded (the bursting rockets were not very powerful, and could not kill a few people) had just gained some confidence and felt that prayer had worked, when they suddenly heard someone shouting in their ears.

"Hurry up, stand up, get ready to shoot!"

"Stand up, you cowards, there is Allah's Paradise, are you still afraid of death?"

"Teach the infidels with bows and arrows!"

The officers reacted first, and then loudly ordered their men to get up immediately and go into battle. These Persian mercenaries were much stronger than the Persian soldiers that Aslan Khan had placed in Barasagon. Aslan Khan's mercenaries were inherited from their ancestors, and they were all mercenaries passed down from generation to generation, and they had long since decayed. And Sanjar's mercenaries are all hired and trained by themselves, and their combat effectiveness is still very guaranteed. Now when they heard the orders of the officers, they all got up, drew their bows and arrows, and prepared to shoot at the enemy.

"Stop!"

Schröding, who commanded 1,500 crossbowmen, estimated the distance between his crossbowmen and the enemy. Distance measurement is a compulsory course for Knight Academy students, so Schröding can grasp the approximate distance by visually measuring the clarity of the target.

When he estimated that his troops and the enemy had gathered less than 75 paces, he immediately gave the order to halt the advance. The trumpeter who followed him immediately relayed the order with a trumpet, followed by a cacophony of whistles.

Eighteen crossbowmen all stopped advancing and stood in the middle of the battlefield. Xue Ding, who was riding on a horse, looked around and found that the three horizontal formations in front of him were still maintaining well, and after a little tidying, it was like a knife cutting an axe.

"Triple salvo! Aim for ......"

Schröding continued to give orders.

In the crossbow tactics developed by the Knights of the Boundary River, there are two types: "three-stage attack" and "three-stack attack". The three-stage strike method is to pass the crossbow machine in his hand to complete the three actions of shooting, opening the crossbow, and loading the arrow, so as to achieve continuous firepower.

And the triple strike is a dense salvo of fire. The crossbowmen in the first column are half-crouched, the second column holds the crossbowmen flat, and the third-column crossbowmen hold the crossbowmen on the shoulders of the second-column crossbowmen. Three columns of crossbowmen firing at the same time, aiming for maximum density of fire, rather than sustained firepower, requires the three columns of crossbowmen to be slightly staggered. However, for the new army, which has to be trained in a queue every day, such tactical maneuvers are not a problem at all.

Just as the crossbowmen of the Great Sect were preparing to shoot in a group, the Persians opposite them were a little dumbfounded. The enemy is too far away, and they are all half-armoured. The Persians used their bows so soft that they couldn't reach that far if they were to shoot heavy arrows. If you shoot light arrows and don't have the ability to pierce armor, you will definitely not be able to penetrate the opponent's iron armor.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The sound of a trumpet sounded in the ears of the Persians. It turned out that Sanjar also found that the Persians' bows and arrows could not reach the enemy, so he urged them to attack, get closer and shoot again.

And that means you'll have to endure one or two rounds of crossbow bolts from your enemies!

"Forward!"

"Allah is greater, forward!"

The mercenary officers were not ambiguous and tried to push their soldiers forward. Not only did the Persian archers move forward, but a number of warriors with scimitar shields followed suit.

At the same time, a detachment of Western Tajik cavalry and a detachment of Ghulam cavalry also slowly drove out of the queue and approached the flanks of the crossbowmen of the indoctrination.

In the rear of the crossbowmen of the indoctrination regiment were more than 3,000 archers of the Hexi Army. On both sides is a phalanx composed of two divisions of the infantry of the indoctrination regiment (without crossbowmen), and there are 900 Hexi cavalry on each side of the infantry phalanx, all of which form a phalanx of 100 cavalry, each with a spear in hand, the tip of the spear pointing to the sky, glowing with a terrible cold glow in the sun.

Seeing the Tajik cavalry and the Ghulam cavalry approaching, six phalanxes of hundred horsemen immediately met them. I don't know if it's the influence of the plateau climate, or if the skills of these cavalry are not at home. Although their formation was dense, the speed of the impact was not fast. The Tajik cavalry and the Gulam cavalry did not choose to dodge, they also took off the spears on their shoulders and rushed towards the 100-cavalry phalanx of the Hexi Army that was rushing to the front in a rather loose formation.

It's a heavy ride on a heavy ride! Although the scale was not large, it immediately attracted the attention of the commanders of both sides.

The number of cavalry dispatched by the two sides was almost the same, and the equipment used was similar, all men had armor, horses had no equipment, and they were all armed assaults. The only difference is that the Hexi cavalry has worked hard in formation in the past few years, and has been able to form a dense phalanx for wall attacks.

And they are also the same as the fake cavalry of Wu Haogu and Wanyan Gundam who encountered at the beginning, they are only assaults, not hand-to-hand combat, and take turns.

Canopy ......

With a dull and violent thud, and the neighing of the horses that followed. The first collision of cavalry on the plateau of both sides was launched.

The Western Cool Cavalry and the Western Tajik Knights collided first. The Western Tajik knights, who were originally attached to the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty and turned against the Western Qarakhanid Dynasty in Sanjar, were a strong force. Although they are Celestials, their tactics are similar to those of the Crusaders, and they are good at charging with guns. However, they are all knight lords who are usually scattered in their respective fiefdoms of Ikta, and it is impossible for them to train in dense formations. Therefore, they were also the same as the Western Xia Iron Harriers back then, using scattered formations to fight against the enemy's dense formations.

And dense means concentrating more horses, knights, and spears on the front of the real collision. Moreover, the cavalry was next to the dense formation of the cavalry, which also made the knights in front of the array move forward without hesitation. Because the way back was sealed by his own companions.

Only by moving forward can there be a way to live, and if you retreat, you will surely die!

Therefore, under the collision, Rao is an elite like the West Tajik knight was also shattered by the Xiliang cavalry, which only belongs to the second-rate in the Hexi Army! The Western Tajik knights who encountered the Western Liang cavalry head-on were almost all knocked off their horses. And the losses of the Xiliang cavalry were insignificant.

Subsequently, the second and third teams of the Western Liang cavalry quickly followed up, and stabbed the West Tajiks twice in the wounds, causing these feudal cavalrymen from the foot of the Green Ridge Plateau to turn over on their backs.

The Western Tajik knights, who had not come into contact with the Western Liang cavalry, had not yet understood how much damage their troops had suffered, and wanted to engage in hand-to-hand combat after the onslaught, as before, and rely on their own martial arts to kill the evil infidels.

However, after the impact, the Western Liang cavalry did not slow down at all, but quickly disengaged, and then left the center of the battlefield a few hundred paces away from the Western Tajik cavalry and quickly sorted out the formation......

"That's amazing!"

Sanjar witnessed the battle between the cavalry of the two sides, his eyes were about to fall out, and his face turned even bluer.

The cavalry on the peach blossom stone is too powerful, right? It was much more powerful than the Crusaders, no wonder the Eastern Qarakhanid Dynasty was easily defeated by them, and it was no wonder that the cavalry they sent out during the confrontation in Kashgar was always defeated.

Looks like I've done something stupid this time......

It's too weak, right?

Xiao Heda was also watching the cavalry duel on the battlefield - now he was just trying to test the opponent's reality so that he could decide what tactics to use later.

I didn't expect the result of the temptation to meet a weak chicken.

"Order the ballista team to concentrate on bombarding the left flank of the captives and shoot out all the exploding rockets!

Order the infantry to press and prepare for a spear assault!

Order the cavalry on the left flank to prepare for the assault! Be sure to go all out, break it with one blow, and then roll into the middle of the thief! ”

Xiao Heda soon had a plan to break the enemy—a very simple blow from east to west, using burst rockets to lure the enemy's reserves to the left flank and set up a rear, while at the same time launching a cavalry assault on their right flank. After the cavalry broke through, they immediately covered the infantry in the center, and the two infantry of the indoctrination regiment also took the opportunity to launch a spear assault.

In this way, all enemy forces will be completely destroyed, except for the reinforced left flank of the enemy. There is no suspense about the outcome of today's decisive battle.

Just when Xiao Heda gave the order, the situation on the battlefield changed again. There are two changes, one is that a team of Ghulam knights sent by Sanjar was as unlucky as the Western Tajik knights, and was completely destroyed by the Western Liang cavalry.

Another change occurred in the duel between infantry bows and crossbows, and the winner was quickly decided. The crossbowmen of the indoctrination regiment did not rush to fire their precious blow, but put the Persian archers on a distance of thirty or forty paces, that is, more than fifty meters, before firing a volley.

It's just a round of Qi *** accurate and deadly! The hit rate of the Boundary River Crossbow is already high, and it will hardly miss at a distance of thirty or forty paces, and at this distance, except for the Rim Armor, which has a certain amount of defense, the rest of the armor is impossible to withstand the damage of the Boundary River Crossbow transformed from the Divine Arm Bow.

So 1500 crossbow arrows, almost knocked out 1000 Persian archers! Although the stopping effect of the crossbow arrow is far less than that of the later bullets, the taste of the arrow is still not very pleasant. The Persian ranks were immediately chaotic, but before they could regroup, countless feathered arrows flew down from the air in a parabola, and they were all heavy arrows with great lethality. It turned out that the Hexi archers lined up behind the crossbowmen of the indoctrination regiment began to shoot a dense rain of arrows, and in a very short period of time, more than 3,000 archers shot 18,000 feathered arrows, which caused the Persians to be confused, and they had to raise their shields to cover them, and no one had the heart to organize a counterattack.

And the crossbowmen of the Indoctrination Regiment took advantage of this opportunity to complete the loading of the arrows, and then another round of fierce and accurate shooting!

The Persian mercenaries, who had been battered one after another, no longer had the perseverance to hold on, and retreated one after another, despite the dissuasion of the officers.

Seeing that the Persian mercenaries suffered such a big loss, Sanjar's face was about to turn into Kunlun slaves, the enemy was not only strong in cavalry, but also the most powerful infantry he had ever seen in his life, there was no one!

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted in Sanjar's ear, "Emir, the ballistas of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone have been transferred to the front of our left flank!" ”