Chapter 1347 Crossbow Array
As fast as 1.5 million people confront this plain, only the amazing and cruel species of humans can organize such a large-scale cannibalism.
As a rush attack, the Tang army arrived at the battlefield first, after all, it has been ruling here for almost half a century, and the Tang Dynasty still understands this place, the terrain of this Longkou River is flat, the four fields are vast, and there is a river channel of the Peacock River in the southeast direction that can shield the rear of the army, and digging the river can find an underground dark river.
In Sun Tzu's Art of War, this terrain was named Tongdi, and the army stopped here and did not worry about the lack of water and the enemy's attack from behind, so the Tang army marched for a day, just to seize this favorable terrain, and led the soldiers of the whole country to fight for the first time.
However, his arrogance only stayed for a short while, and he was shocked by this scene on the horizon.
Compared with the well-equipped Tang army, these primitive nomadic tribes or nomadic peoples, and the mixture of agricultural peoples particularly show a kind of primitive barbarism.
But on the horizon, the nomads on horseback formed an overwhelming net, and batches of war horses of different heights did not let go of galloping, but only strode forward, and the earth was shocked by the heavy hooves still beating.
The formation of the coalition army is very noisy, it is based on race as a unit, the infantry and cavalry are mixed together, and the army formation of more than 100,000 Franks in the Chinese army is the most neat, wearing horned iron helmets and holding blue flying swallows in their hands, like a square surging blue ocean.
Although China has many things that the world is proud of, and the Sui, Tang, Southern and Northern Dynasties period is the golden age of Chinese armor and cavalry, it still has to be admitted that the ancestors of the heavy cavalry came from the Scythians, Scythians, and Masaggets of the Eurasian steppes.
Next to the Frankish heavy infantry, there are groups of Central Asian heavy cavalry arrays, wearing pointed armor hats, the armor on the body covers the whole body like pangolin skin, and the shiny armor reflects the cold light, although it is not as fine as the Tang horse lance, the Sarmatian riding spears still exude a smell of death.
Not only armed with spears, but also heavy cavalry carrying heavy maces, dangling in their hands for a moment from time to time, issued a provocative sneer to the opposite Tang army.
Next to the Sarmatian ironclad cavalry, there is still a group of infantry, compared to the neat lineup of the Franks, this infantry seems to be much scattered, the soldiers do not walk in a queue at all, loose and saggy, and the weapons are messy, and the armor is of all colors, but most of the warriors who are almost two meters tall carry the tomahawk and carry the shield, which is still terrifying.
These scattered heavy infantry deterred the Don army even more than the neat Frankish heavy infantry, because they were Vikings!
The rest of the unnamed barbarian warriors are countless, and even the barbarian army has a poisonous snake, wielding a strange-looking long-legged bird corpse, and carrying a three-meter-high giant with a mace full of nails.
This time, Huaxia is really fighting the whole world!
With such a surging enemy army moving forward, even Li Zhi was a little shaken, standing on the watchtower, under the thick imperial robe, his body was like a sifting chaff, but immediately, Li Zhi's body straightened up again.
Because another, equally trembling body leaned into his arms.
"Your Majesty, the concubines are afraid!"
Although his face was pale, Li Zhi forced out a confident look and stroked Xu Jieyu's soft hair and comforted: "Don't be afraid, with me, no one can hurt you!"
The two of them leaned on each other and gradually calmed down, this scene was completely seen by another woman on the side, and the dignified and indifferent look on the queen's face could not be suppressed.
She is Li Zhi's original partner, when Li Zhi was still a small Jin king, almost no one in the world paid attention to him when he married him, and the two of them survived the most torturous time of the prince's rivalry together, and even when the last time the King of Min aggressively killed him, it was also her Wang Qiang who sacrificed herself to support Li Zhi!
vaguely recalled the difficulties together, subconsciously, Queen Wang's eyes were confused, and she slowly leaned over, who knew that at this moment, Li Zhi actually held Xu Jieyu's waist, and turned a blind eye to her, turned around and went down the watchtower, and for a moment, as if a basin of cold water was poured from her head, making Queen Wang feel cold.
Utter indifference!
is not just emotionally cold, this time, the queen also felt the instability from her status, the normal emperor is not in the court, and the prince is in charge of the country, but the prince Li Zhong she said was actually brought out by Li Zhi this time, and the prisoner of the country was replaced by the fourth son of the emperor, Xu Jieyu is in Yongwangxian, which is often a signal to depose the prince.
The mother is more precious than the son, the status of the prince is not guaranteed, and the status of the queen's main palace also falls together, and there is no tenderness and confusion in the bright eyes, becoming dim and dead, Wang Qiang's pair of beautiful fists squeaked, and even the nails pierced into the flesh, and a series of blood flowers flowed down.
But in just a moment, the queen suddenly became expressionless, like a dummy, and followed down the stairs in silence.
Below the watchtower, the eldest grandson Wuji was already as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and when he saw Li Zhi hugging the beauty down, the eldest grandson hurriedly rushed up, and anxiously hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, there are many enemy troops, and the soldiers are quite panicked, please come to the front in person to appease the soldiers!"
But how can Li Zhi be willing to go? After two sounds, he threw the command to the eldest grandson Wuji, hugged Xu Jieyu, and Li Zhi actually went to the back camp with a smoke.
Indeed, there is a specialization in the cause, and many times Li Shimin does not personally command the legion, but hands it over to Li Jing to command, but Li Shimin never hides back when the soldiers need encouragement, and even when he needs it, the dignified Khan will charge to the front line, which is why there is an invincible Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period.
But now, it is this one who is resolutely fighting, and it is this one who is impotently at the critical moment, the eldest grandson Wuji is really disappointed and shook his head fiercely and scolded: "Tiger father and dog!"
"Sikong, what should I do now?" It's not just the eldest grandson Wuji who is anxious, Wang Xiaojie, the former army commander, and Quan Shancai, the right army commander, are all here! With such a big enemy, even if the two generals who have seen the world can't help but sweat in their heads at this moment.
The annoyed eldest grandson Wuji flicked his sleeves angrily and asked, "Do I have no warriors in Datang?" Beat the drums, send the fierce generals out of the camp to challenge! ”
With the backbone, the second general breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and returned, and in less than a moment, the loud military drum sounded majestically in the sky above the Tang army's military formation.
The front section of the 500,000-strong army was more than 30 miles long, and as soon as the heart-shaking snare drum was released, the noisy noise of the various ethnic groups on the opposite bank was immediately suppressed.
Although the Tang army at this time was numerous, it was actually weaker than the Tang army in the same period of history, pacifying the Western Turks, breaking through the Su Dingfang of Baekje, breaking the Turkic ten surnames, Pei Xingjian who shocked Mobei, breaking the Tubo, defeating the Turkic Heizhi Changzhi, three arrows to set the Tianshan Mountain, and Xue Rengui, who took off his hat and retreated from all enemies, has now followed Li Jie to dominate the foreign region, and all the generals of the Tang army who supported an era have been poached.
However, in the land of China, there are many talents, and there is a miracle in the majestic military drum, a member of the Tang Army, who is majestic and has the posture of a tiger and wolf, rushed out of the military formation on a single horse, and went straight to the countless Hu Junjun before stopping the war horse, and the stainless steel jujube yang lance in his hand coldly pointed at the countless barbarians on the opposite side, and shouted loudly.
"The barbarians, the land of the world, have their own territory! Huaxia is in the middle, the four Yi are guarding the Quartet, each guarding each domain, you and other Yi Di generations, dare to invade my Shenzhou hot land! Acquaintances quickly retreated, sent an envoy to Chang'an to apologize, Your Majesty can still crown you some officials, otherwise, those who offend me in Huaxia will be punished even if they are far away! ”
When Cheng Wuting was guarding Qiuzi, the migratory peoples he had fought were wave after wave, and even dozens of leaders died under his gun, at this time Cheng Wuting came to ride alone and curse, and it was really shocking that the hundreds of thousands of Hulu coalition troops on the opposite side were silent, and they were stunned for a while, and an angry insult tore through the dead silence.
"The land of the world, there are strong people, what you say is yours is yours! This Chang'an, we Sarmatians are still about to decide! ”
In the awkward Tang rebuttal, an iron tower-like general rushed out of the ironclad cavalry, although Cheng Wu was tall and round, and he was already a strong man among the Tang people, but he was actually a circle smaller than this person, and seemed to be very confident in his warriors, and hundreds of thousands of nomads from the Eurasian steppes cheered loudly with their weapons held high.
Seeing that the bear-like giant man rode the same huge war horse and came straight to him, Cheng Wuting didn't even blink his eyelids, and the arrogant Ang didn't look at him, which made the strong man even more angry, roared and kicked the horse faster, and the spear shining with cold light was pointed directly at Cheng Wuting's chest.
Seeing the two horses in the stirrups, seeing that Cheng Wuting was about to be stabbed off the horse with a spear, but at this moment, Cheng Wuting's stainless steel jujube yang lance moved.
Leaning back to let go of the surging spear tip, the upward lance of more than half a meter long cut the giant man's throat lightly, and a stream of blood rushed out, and the Sarmatians ran forward more than fifty meters before they fell into the dry sand like a dead pig.
The entire Apasian coalition was abruptly silent.
After a full moment, one after the other, two Hu generals scolded the language of their own race, and angrily beat the horse and went straight to Cheng Wuting, this time Cheng Wuting did not pretend to be forced, and also scolded and kicked the war horse, ping pong, and the Hu general in front of him grazed Cheng Wuting's shoulder armor and passed by, and a large piece of sparks was played.
The sturdy Hu man in the back who made the bones was a little lax because of the slender Hu man with a gun in front of him, but after a confrontation, the black shadow suddenly accelerated in front of him, and it was too late to raise the bones to defend.
With a pop, the sharp lance passed through the chest, and the wolf's tooth hammer even directly pierced a bloody hole with horsepower, and suddenly grabbed the spear shaft that came out of the other end, carrying the blood-drenched lance, Cheng Wuting proudly turned around the horse and galloped back.
The slender and lean man in front of him had the upper hand with a gun, and he was still secretly proud there, and when he turned around, he had already seen half of his companion's broken heart swaying out, and he looked at himself in disbelief, his heart was cold, and he screamed, and the Hu general turned around and ran.
But the horse's hooves behind him seemed to follow him like a shadow, and the Hu Jiang who listened to it was even more chilling in his heart, and a lion's roar behind him made him subconsciously turn around, but then he felt a chill in his throat, and with a click, the whole world began to spin.
One stabbed the whole head off, the trembling lance pointed to the sky, and no longer cared about the headless corpse shaking and constantly spurting blood, Cheng Wu, who was drenched in red, turned back and roared at the mountain-like military formation behind him.
"Huaxia!"
It was simply boiling, and the shock that had just been faced by countless enemy troops was also gone, and countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were also boiling with blood all over their bodies, raising their weapons and roaring angrily.
"Offend me Huaxia! Even though it is far away, it will be punished!! ”
In the Frankish army array, the noble chiefs of the various departments were pale, and subconsciously looked at Sharmat, who was faintly led at this time, and was also taken aback for a moment, but Sharmat roared fiercely: "Send out the cavalry, directly rush to the opposite Tang army array, this king wants to see, although he is brave in China, he can stop a few!"
Suddenly, the horns of the nomads were great, and the cavalry of all ethnic groups who were still in a daze subconsciously urged the war horses, and in an instant, the cavalry brigade of no less than 100,000 people rushed out towards the east, and the whole world seemed to become either a man or a horse, and the dust trampled by the horse's hooves, like monsters, was overwhelmingly enveloped the Tang army.
"Fuck it!" scolded angrily, Cheng Wuting had to quickly throw his head, jerk the war horse and run back.
Seeing this scene, Wang Xiaojie, the head of the former army, was also panicked, and rode a war horse around the entire front army and shouted loudly: "Shenfeng Array!" Kill the enemy with a horse rejection! ”
Just now the mighty of the warriors of the Tang army has made the Tang army's blood boil, in the respective captain's orders, the front army of 200,000 Tang troops in an orderly manner, the forward battalion with a spear of a few meters neatly squatted, the spear shaft is on the ground, the tip of the spear is on the shield and points to the west, the Tang army is not a cheat to shoot the spear array, but it is scattered.
Countless archers in the gap quickly ran to the front of the formation and half knelt, raising their bows high in the air, the second-level crossbowmen stood upright, the standard Tang crossbow rose slightly, straight ahead, behind them, the Tang army carrying the larger No. 1 crossbow suddenly lay down, spread the crossbow arm with both feet, pulled the heavy crossbow string up, the half-meter-long heavy crossbow arrow pointed obliquely at the sky, and finally the Tang army crossbow also raised its head high.
The heavy footsteps were getting closer and closer, seeing the enemy in his sight constantly magnifying, every Tang Jun's heart was beating violently, everyone was shouting in their hearts, and Wang Xiaojie, who was calculating the distance a little bit, was also excited and his hands were trembling, until he couldn't suppress it anymore, and finally shouted violently.
"Put!"
In an instant, 10,000 bowstrings almost trembled together, and the yellow demons with fangs and claws were scattered as if they had encountered a Buddha light that illuminated everything, and the almost irrepressible cavalry charge also came to an abrupt end.
In the crossbow array of China, Li Ling relied on the crossbow array of 5,000 cavalry to entangle with more than 100,000 Hun cavalry for half a month, and in the next fifty years, the crossbow array of the Arab cavalry on the battlefield of Hengros could force five times that of his Arab cavalry! At this time, it showed its ferocity on a larger scale.
On this day, the Hulu army did not launch a second attack, but set up camp on the battlefield, and on the separation zone between the two armies, flies and vultures fluttered into the sky, and countless men and horses were frozen at the moment of the charge............