Chapter 615: Heads-up before the battle
All the infantrymen also raised their voices to their maximum decibels, and stomped the ground with their right feet desperately; The cavalrymen took out their secondary weapons such as maces, steel whips, and sabers, and struck their shields rhythmically, and 20,000 people shouted the same two words with the same frequency and rhythm: "Gale! Gale! Gale! ”
Even Yang Xuangan, who was still in a daze on the side, was made enthusiastic by Yang Yichen's actions, and couldn't help shouting along, and the Xiaoguo knights who were five miles away were also infected by this feeling, and shouted loudly, and even the soldiers guarding the city of Daizhou farther away were also responding rhythmically, and the sound stretched for ten miles, one after another, and it lasted for a long time.
Wang Shichong only felt the blood boiling in his eardrums and chest, and even gave birth to a lot of impulses to go out of the city to meet Yang Yichen and have a happy battle, he settled down, looking at the enemy army more than ten miles away in the distance, Wang Ba in front of the battle was also shocked by the momentum of the Shuozhou army, at this time stationed in front of the formation to watch, Wang Shichong suddenly gave birth to an impulse, the next is the battle before the battle, Yang Xuangan vs. Wang Ba, thinking about it makes people excited!
Yang Yichen turned his head and glanced at Yang Xuangan, Yang Xuangan suddenly realized that he had promised Yang Yichen to get rid of the king for him, so he hurriedly put on a golden mask, grabbed the handle of the lance with his right hand, turned over and jumped on the mount. The four hooves of the black cloud flew up, shooting like a sharp arrow towards Wang Ba, who was standing in front of the opponent's formation with a gloomy face.
In the phalanx of heavy armored infantry behind Wang Ba, hundreds of crossbowmen flashed out at once, and the strong crossbows flashing with cold light had already been wound, and on the sweaty face behind the bowstring, a pair of bloodshot eyes were looking at the mountain on the crossbow's body. stared at Yang Xuangan, who was getting closer and closer in the distance. Just wait for him to come within the effective lethal range of 300 paces (about one mile). You can shoot ten thousand crossbows at once, just like yesterday when you shot Yang Sien, and you will shoot them into hedgehogs.
Yang Xuangan looked at the crossbows held by the other party's crossbowmen, and knew in his heart that these crossbowmen were all using the standard eight-stone crossbow and ten-stone crossbow in the elite troops since the Han Dynasty, with a range of up to 400 to 500 steps, and the effective killing distance was also about 300 steps.
Such a strong tension that even the arms have the strength of a thousand pounds. Yang Xuangan, who can open a six-stone iron tire bow, can't do it, the crossbow arrow must be two or even several people pulling the crossbow string together, or pedaling the inside of the crossbow body with his feet, and the person lying on the ground uses the strength of his upper limbs to prop the bow open.
In the current Sui Dynasty, weapon technology has made considerable progress compared to the Han Dynasty, and there are mechanical auxiliary tools that use hinges to pull the bowstring apart, which is enough to open this super powerful crossbow of eight to ten stones, and within a hundred paces, even if you wear a double layer of iron armor, you will be shot through.
Therefore, this kind of strong bow and crossbow has always been the best weapon for the Han army in the Central Plains to deal with the Hu cavalry in the north. It's just that this crossbow is fired very slowly, far less fast than a bow and arrow.
As for the lookout on the crossbow. It is a simple sight on the crossbow, and it also has a scale, through the aiming of the mountain, experienced crossbowmen can quickly adjust the height of their bow and crossbow through the mountain, according to the enemy's distance, at the most appropriate angle to kill it.
Yang Xuangan knew the power of these crossbow arrows, and ran to a place two miles away from Wang Ba, more than six hundred steps away, and stopped far away, he laughed, picked up the iron horn he carried with him, and the voice went against the strong south wind, and clearly reached the ears of everyone in the rebels in the front row: "Wang Ba, don't you call yourself a fierce general, ten thousand enemies?" You can only rely on the help and conspiracy of these crossbowmen to have the courage to fight alone? ”
On weekdays, if someone else stepped forward to challenge, Wang Ba would be useless like this, but yesterday he first fought with Yang Sien, unable to win, and then met the legendary Yang Xuangan, almost his life was guaranteed, this time I saw Yang Xuangan murderous, majesticly and straight to himself, with the terrifying momentum in the opponent's military formation, his momentum was already three points shorter, and even trembled slightly.
But the clay people also have a soil nature, Wang Ba has not met an opponent for many years, and there are no less than 20 Turkic brave generals who have been killed by him on the battlefield, and his arrogant character has already been deep in his bone marrow.
Wang Ba plucked up his courage, clamped the black horse between his legs, and roared: "The thief is arrogant, your grandfather Wang is here!" Lightning rushed towards Yang Xuangan.
Yang Xuangan laughed and shouted: "Good come!" ”
He stopped the black cloud, and pressed the mechanism on the lance, and the lance stretched to more than four meters at once, pointing at Wang Ba from afar.
Wang Ba is not a brave and unscrupulous reckless man, when he saw the opponent's blade suddenly become longer, he was shocked at first, and then quickly calmed down, and the tip of the spear shook again and again on the galloping horse, and he stabbed six or seven times in a row, the speed was extremely fast, and the soldier with a slightly worse eye looked like he had stabbed out six or seven spear shadows, and he couldn't tell which one was true and which one was false.
At the same time, the black horse neighed, lowered his head, and slammed the steel spike horn straight ahead, running towards Yang Xuangan and the black cloud at full speed, and in an instant, the distance was less than twenty steps!
Yang Xuangan praised loudly: "Good marksmanship!" It's amazing! With his left hand, he pulled the reins of the black cloud horse, the black cloud and Yang Xuangan have cooperated for many years, and they have long understood human nature, and now they understand it even more, and like their left hoof, they kicked up a handful of sand and gravel under their feet, and went straight to the eyes of the black horse.
At this moment, Yang Xuangan pressed the switch on the lance, and the long lance, which was more than four meters long, "swished", and suddenly retracted back to about two meters, turning into a standard big gun.
At the beginning, Wang Ba saw a sudden burst of dust on the opposite side, and his heart was horrified, and he suddenly pulled the black horse, which was also psychic, and twisted his head and turned to the side, Rao was so, because the speed was too fast, his left eye was still shaken by the sand, and he suddenly hissed sadly, and his steps were scattered.
Wang Ba ate this shake on the horse, and suddenly couldn't clamp the horse, plus the black horse was tilted to the side, almost a can't hold it and was about to fall, fortunately he was superb in equestrian skills, and the horse's back shook several times in a row, which was able to stabilize.
Wang Ba had already seen the direction and angle of the lance, and had already calculated how to avoid it, and now he would stabilize the horse's back, and suddenly found that the terrible lance was gone. All of a sudden, the three souls were scared out of their bodies. Electrifying and flint. I didn't have time to think about it, the spear in my hand turned into a thorn, and it waved like a windmill, enveloping my whole body in a watertight way, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.
Yang Xuan felt that this was the effect he wanted, and he laughed, and the lance suddenly swept down. Went straight to the horse's legs, this time the speed of the black horse was far less than the previous time when he was competing with Xue Rengao in Jincheng, and Yang Xuangan used a stainless steel lance, which was not the same as the wooden lance at that time.
The poor black horse didn't even have time to scream, but with a "click" of his legs, he was completely deformed, and he fell forward with a plop.
Wang Ba, who was still wielding a spear right away, was useless at this time, because his attention was all on his upper body, and a spear was wielded impenetrable. I didn't notice that the black horse would really "stumble on the horse's front hooves", and the whole person fell forward with the black horse. Fell heavily on the ground and gnawed on the sand.
Yang Xuangan's eyes revealed a strong killing intent, he thought of the tragic death of Yang Yichen's four guards, and even more thought of the situation of the hedgehog thorn on Yang Sien's body just now, he no longer showed mercy, pulled the reins of Heiyun, Heiyun stood high with his legs forward, and stepped down heavily, stepping on Wang Ba's heart alive.
Yang Xuangan, who was wearing armor and black clouds armed to his teeth, weighed more than a thousand catties, plus he stepped down from the air with all his strength, Rao is Wang Ba is double-layer iron canned food with a chain mail jacket and Mingguang armor, and he couldn't help it, so he stepped on the armor in the back of his heart and sank it heavily, blood spurted wildly in his mouth, and only the conditioned reflex of his limbs twitching was left on the ground.
Yang Xuangan didn't do it, he didn't stop, he continued to pull up the black clouds, volleyed the hooves again, and continued to step towards Wang Ba's heart, this time the sound of steel shattering was accompanied by the sound of bones breaking, Wang Ba didn't even twitch anymore, the blood in his mouth had become a stream bubbling out, but the person had already died of anger.
Yang Xuangan let out a terrifying laugh, sure enough, only this kind of pleasure and enmity after killing a strong enemy really made his blood boil, and the corpse of the enemy general who drove the black cloud to stomp on him made his blood swell, and every open pore was full of indescribable pleasure.
He drove the black cloud and trampled on Wang Ba's corpse one by one, and after a while, Wang Ba's body was trampled into a mass of blood mud wrapped in broken iron sheets, and blurred flesh and blood slowly flowed out from the cracks in the iron sheets.
During the whole process, whether it was the Shuozhou military formation that was singing "Gale" just now, or the rebel camp with loud gongs and drums, they all fell into a terrible silence.
All the soldiers were stunned by Yang Xuangan's bloodthirsty killing poke, this man with silver armor and gold face undoubtedly became the most terrible death at this moment, everyone opened their mouths wide, and became like a clay carved wood sculpture, unable to say a word.
Yang Xuangan lifted the lance, lightly stretched the ape arm, and slashed at the neck of the king, and the big head was separated from the neck like a round ball, and on the black face, the facial features had already been distorted so that the eyes and nose were almost squeezed together, which showed the pain before his death.
Not far away, the black horse had broken its front legs, lying on the ground and swinging its hind legs weakly, his eyes were already full of tears, and he let out a heart-rending wail, staring at Wang Ba's head, not knowing whether it was pain or tears for the tragic death of his master.
Yang Xuangan knew that the horse was bound to die, and now being alive was painful for it, and with a movement of his wrist, the lance stabbed into the horse's neck at once, and when it was pulled out, it brought out a fountain of blood, and the black horse shook its head, and finally stopped exhaling, but there was a trace of gratitude in his eyes.
Yang Xuangan waved the lance again, stabbed Wang Ba's head on the lance, and raised it high, the dead face was facing the rebels' military formation, and everyone who saw it was terrified.
Wang Shichong watched this battle of dragons and tigers coldly at the head of the city, and he actually divided the winner in such a way so quickly, and he muttered: "Yang Xuangan, have you also learned to use tactics when fighting?" ”
Yang Xuangan was proud in his heart, and he roared loudly: "Who else?!" ”
The Shuozhou army a few miles behind them suddenly came to their senses, and they all roared in unison: "Gale! Gale! Gale! The rebels' camp was even more deadly silent, and every soldier who was swept by Yang Xuangan's murderous eyes all lowered their heads, not daring to make eye contact with them.
Yang Xuangan laughed, pulled the black cloud, and ran horizontally in front of the enemy's formation, the head inserted in the head of the lance seemed to have become Medusa's snake-covered head, and everyone who saw it seemed to be petrified. Stand still. Forget what you're going to do.
Yang Xuangan galloped his horse. While singing loudly: "The wind is blowing and the clouds are blowing, Pei Lang has a clever plan to calm the world, the dragoon guards are all disarmed, and no one is a man!" The Shuozhou army in the distance first erupted in laughter, and soon struck the shield with a sword, slammed the ground with a spear, and sang to the rhythm of Yang Xuangan in various ways.
The rebels are on a high platform. Standing beside Qiao Zhongkui, whose face was sinking like water, Pei Wen'an, who was already trembling with anger, couldn't hold back any longer.
Pei Wen'an's eyebrows were upside down, even his neck was swollen red, the two green tendons on it were beating like earthworms, and both eyes were about to burst out of their sockets, and the expression was as if he was going to eat people, which was somewhat similar to the expression of Wang Ba on the head of the lance.
I only heard Pei Wen'an roar sharply: "Are you fucking dead?" Just let this guy be so arrogant and proud? The guy in his hand eats dry rice! If you don't have arrows soon, you will release your arrows, and those who don't have arrows will ride forward and kill this guy with a knife! ”
Qiao Zhongkui's sandbag-sized fist flew over with a whistling wind, and hit Pei Wen'an's face with a heavy "Peng".
Pei Wen'an's mind flew out of his body along with the two front teeth. I only felt that half of my ears kept ringing, and the other half of my ears vaguely drilled into Qiao Zhongkui's cold words: "Lao Tzu's soldiers." It's not your turn to insult this muddy ball, and if you dare to scold a word, you will be killed! Also, I tell you one last time, there is only one one in this army who gives orders, and that person is not you! ”
Qiao Zhongkui glanced at the frightened herald beside him, and shouted: "What are you doing, why don't you hurry up and order the crossbowmen to release arrows, shoot this thief to death, and avenge General Wang!" ”
The flag of the flag officer immediately and unmistakably transmitted Qiao Zhongkui's order, and the crossbowmen in the front row woke up like a dream, and pulled the trigger one after another, and the arrows flew out like locusts, and Yang Xuangan had already calculated the distance, five or six hundred steps away from this row of crossbowmen.
Their crossbow arrows were raging when they came, but when they arrived in front of Yang Xuangan, they had really become the end of the strong crossbows, and they fell to the ground one after another, and occasionally a few ten-stone strong crossbows slowly and leisurely hit Yang Xuangan's iron armor, that is, the feeling of smashing the lump of dirt, which could not cause even slight damage at all.
Yang Xuangan laughed, took a few steps back, and took off his iron-tired bow, at this time he felt that the south wind, which was quite strong just now, had turned a little, and the "Qiao" handsome flag in the opponent's formation had begun to gradually swing to the south, Yang Xuangan's heart moved, knowing that the north wind was about to rise.
The crossbowmen in the first row in front of the rebel formation all showed annoyed expressions, and retreated to the back row to reload their arrows in the reprimands of the commander, while more than 100 dragoon guards in front of the formation, with iron armor and armor, jumped out one after another, brandishing various weapons, shouting various slogans in their mouths, and rushing towards Yang Xuangan while emboldening themselves.
These more than 100 people are also a group of guards led by Wang Ba himself, and they are at the forefront of every battle, even in the strong dragoon guards, they can be called elite, seeing Wang Ba die in battle, all of them are red-eyed at this time, and when they give an order, they rush out with Yang Xuangan gritting his teeth.
Yang Xuangan thrust the long lance in his right hand into the ground, Wang Ba's head was nailed to the ground at once, he held an iron tire bow in his left hand, took out a long-rod wolf tooth arrow from the quiver with his right hand, squinted his eyes, quickly calculated the distance and wind direction in his heart, and shot at the horse that rushed to the front, a distance of three hundred steps, an arrow shot directly into the man's big open mouth, and passed through his brain.
When the other enemy horsemen saw this scene, they were all slightly flustered, and the momentum of running was blocked, Yang Xuangan won an arrow, and he was even more confident, and he took out arrows from the quiver one by one, and did not need to aim more, facing the enemy horses who came intensively, an arrow was shot out quickly, and more than ten arrows were shot out in a blink of an eye, and the opponent's more than ten horsemen were shot through the head and neck before they could react, and they fell off the horse one by one.
But the other enemy horsemen were even more frenzied, and the fall of their companions from their horses and death aroused the fighting spirit of these people, and a man who shrank behind him and looked like a lieutenant shouted: "He has a maximum of fifty arrows, and if you go up together, you will be tired and tired to death!" ”
Before the words fell, Yang Xuangan's wolf tooth arrow rushed towards him with a roar of death, this person hurriedly raised a large wooden riding shield as thick as a door panel to resist, and with a clang, the arrow directly passed through the riding shield, and the cold three-edged arrow directly touched the face of the deputy general, leaving a blood mark in his thick beard, and he could even feel the cold death breath on the arrow.
The lieutenant shouted, threw his riding shield, touched his head, and exclaimed happily: "My head is still there!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, another wolf's tooth arrow shot directly into his eyebrows, and before it was too late, it pierced through the skull, and hit the iron helmet straight out several steps away, and the lieutenant didn't even snort, and fell off his horse and died, with a smile on his face that did not fade.
The rest of the knights no longer had the heart to pay attention to the death of their lieutenant, and everyone's eyes were almost spurting blood, staring at the silver-armored and golden-faced Grim Reaper two hundred paces away. Kill him, or be killed by him, this is the truest thought in the hearts of the remaining seventy or so Dragoon Guards. (To be continued......)