Chapter 475: Twin Star Fall (5)
The victory or defeat of the war is generally not absolute at the beginning, just like the Battle of Lexy in the original world, the French army had a strong cavalry army before the war, and its own troops were more than the British army, but in this case, the British army was able to defeat the French army at the cost of a very small number of troops.
However, if one of the parties in the war falls into the pit dug by the other side because of a wrong step, it is almost impossible to win again, because when you fall into the pit dug by the other side, it means that your side will be led by the nose by the other side in the next battle.
In fact, as the commander-in-chief of the defense of the four county territory this time, Oda Nobunaga himself did not expect that the battle of the Rexi River would become a battle that would decide the fate of the right army of the Water Qilin Empire, let alone that the battle of the Rexi River would be the only battle between the side of the sun and the Water Qilin Empire in the battle of the four county commanders.
Before the battle of the Cressy River began, Oda Nobunaga had expected that the water Kirin side would detect that his side would send infantry to the Cressy River, and at the same time, Oda Nobunaga also expected that the water Kirin's side would use cavalry to take the lead, but Oda Nobunaga did not expect that the commander of the other side would be so arrogant, and let these elite heavy cavalry of the Water Kirin Empire launch a full-scale charge against his side without letting the Darlan light cavalry protect the two wings of the Water Kirin Heavy Knights.
Although after the last day, the water qilin side finally understood the situation in front of them, and did the same as Oda Nobunaga had expected before, and sent a part of the cavalry to split into two groups and move to both sides of the east bank of the Cressy River where they were originally located, preparing to bypass the wall in the water formed by the Xiyi warships in front of them and move to the two wings of the Xiyi army on the west bank of the Cressy River, but because this practice of the water qilin side was made in a passive situation, the number of Daran light cavalry distributed by the water qilin cavalry army to the two wings can be described as pitiful. It was not enough at all for the archers on the Xiyi warship to stuff their teeth, not to mention that when the Shui Qilin frontal assault force fell into the comprehensive long-range fire suppression of the 20,000 Xiyi archers on the west bank of the Cressy River, the Xiyi ashigaru on the Xiyi warship also removed the surface baffle of the shipbuilding, so that the 12 naval battle scorpion crossbows hidden inside the shipbuilding were rediscovered.
This kind of Xiyi warship sailing in the inland river is the third type of inland river and inland river warship on the mainland where the sun never sets, in addition to the Thousand Fire Ship and the Hawk Assault Ship. If the Thousand Fire Ship is compared to the Greek fire thrower in the inland river and the inland river, and the Hawk assault ship is compared to a war knife, then this shrunken version of the Guan ship is a mobile arrow tower, so Xiyi and the Sun Do Not Set people call this shrunken version of the Guan ship the Arrow Fort Ship.
The movement ability of the Arrow Fort ship is average, but its stability in the water is extremely strong, which can make the crew, especially the long-range infantry on the ship, fight on the ship, and there will be no reduction in their accuracy due to the shaking of the ship, so generally speaking, the personnel of the Arrow Fort ship is generally configured as 150 people, and 25 of them are sailors, 15 sword ashigaru, and most of the other people will be Xiyi bow ashigaru, even those who operate the scorpion crossbow Xiyi soldiers, are also trained by the bow ashigaru, Although the Arrow Castle ship could not be equipped with a giant crossbow due to the size of the ship, the 30 scorpion crossbows (12 on the left and right sides of the hull, 3 on the front and 3 in the front) and the number of people were equivalent to the number of bows and crossbows of a regular archery team, which was enough to make the Arrow Castle ship the overlord of the rivers.
With an orange tail, the long javelin with the arrow ignited was shot out by the scorpion crossbow, not only scorching the Darlan light cavalry running in front of him, but also turning into a luminous bullet, illuminating the position of the Darlan light cavalry on the Water Kirin side in the dense fog for the Xiyi archers on the ship of the Arrow Fort.
Under the continuous erosion of the rain of arrows, the number of people in the ranks of the two Darlan light cavalry, which was not very large in numbers, moved to the two flanks of the control area of the Cresy River, and the number of people in the ranks dropped from a few thousand to a few hundred, and then from a few hundred to a few dozen or a few, and finally became a few thousand again, but the word "corpse" had to be added to the back of these thousands.
The plan of the Water Qilin cavalry army to outflank the two wings of the Xiyi army was reimbursed, and the Dalan light cavalry who went to complete this task were all killed, but at the same time that the water Qilin side outflanked the two wings of the Xiyi army and reimbursed the plan, the plan of the Water Qilin side to attack the front was successful, but the price spent for this success was too great.
After dismounting and fighting due to the death and wounding of hundreds of people due to the galloping of war horses, Farabino and nearly 60,000 knights on the side of the water unicorn finally got rid of the fate of becoming a living target in the eyes of those Xiyi archashigaru, and then Farabino let everyone use the war horse as a cover, and finally crossed the stake area and collided with 20,000 Xiyi ashigaru armed with samurai spears.
Although the movement speed and charging power of the water unicorn heavy knight after dismounting have been sharply reduced, and the defense remains the same, its combat power has soared directly to 23 points, which is only a little less than the combat power of the elite troops of the Water Qilin Empire, the watt guard, and 5 points less than the defense, as for the willingness to have this effect, it is very simple, because the dismounted water unicorn knight is essentially almost no different from the watt heavy infantry holding a giant hammer in appearance, However, the armor on the former is plate armor and the latter is equipped with heavy chain mail (a distinction that is often overlooked due to the blue and red cloak worn over both soldiers), and the two-handed hammer used by the former is a combination of a hammer and a square shield.
The heavy infantry wielding a war hammer, especially a giant war hammer, is even stronger than a soldier armed with a giant axe in terms of armor-piercing ability, although this is at the expense of its attack speed, but given that the dismounted water qilin heavy knight is facing the Xiyi ashigaru who only has a few pieces of iron and steel on his body as armor, so this price did not put the water unicorn army in a predicament, but the spear forest composed of the Xiyi spear and foot light was actually crushed after being hit by the dismounted water unicorn heavy knight.
The angry dismounted water unicorn heavy knights were slaughtered unscrupulously for nearly 10 minutes in the half-chiseled Xiyi spear ashigaru battle formation, during which although there was a bow ashigaru in the rear to cover with a samurai bow, the death ratio between the Xiyi ashigaru and the water unicorn heavy knight was still stagnant between 2.5:1, and even the body was equipped with inlaid armor, The Darlan infantry armed with hammers and shields also maintained the death ratio at 1.5:1, but the foot cavalry on the Shui Qilin side, who had been killed on the battlefield, did not notice that their physical strength had been depleted, and a large group of Xiyi warriors wearing terrifying samurai armor were moving towards the front line of battle with samurai swords.