The three groups of horsemen galloped like thunderbolts, and the Mongolian Duoyan cavalry on the horse shouted excitedly, and when they were still about a hundred and fifty meters away from the coalition army, they began to shoot on horseback.

Mounted archery was a characteristic of the Mongol cavalry, which was later learned by the Tatar cavalry. As the originator of cavalry archery, these horsemen had a good bow and arrow accuracy, and shot a shower of arrows straight towards the coalition army.

The vanguard of the coalition forces, equipped with a large number of shields, came in handy.

One might ask, is it just such a coincidence? The shield is equipped on the vanguard?

Sorry, in addition to the shields, at least half of the spearmen are also equipped on the vanguard, or the "forward battalion". And where is the shield and spear armoured by the other half? The answer is at the end of the line.

This is not a coincidence, but the common sense of the march.

Why?

Because on the battlefield, when most horsemen sneak attack, they will never sneak attack the middle position of the enemy army, the reason is very simple, if you go to the middle position of the enemy, the opponent's army can immediately spread out from the front and rear, and it is easy to surround you.

The sneak attack on the vanguard is different, the general army stretches for several kilometers, and it will take half an hour to wait for all the rear to rush up - it depends on whether the terrain is big enough to allow them to rush up unimpeded. Taking a step back, even if a third or a quarter of the troops in front tried to rush up, it would take at least a quarter of an hour.

And this quarter of an hour is enough for the cavalry to wreak havoc well!

Therefore, if the cavalry wants to sneak attack, it will only sneak attack the vanguard of the army, or the troops behind the palace, that is, the head and tail ends.

Since we know that the two ends of the head and tail are the focus of the cavalry sneak attack, will the army not focus on these two parts when marching? Not only Qin Shuhuai's coalition army will do this, but any army will do this, including the Ming army's guards and the Tartars' Eight Banners Army!

And as mentioned earlier, the Rivers Gang has built a large number of shields, at least half of which are now equipped on the vanguard.

The shield soldiers on the periphery immediately raised their large shields at a 45-degree angle to defend against the rain of arrows, which could protect the swordsmen and spearmen behind them more.

A large number of bows and arrows fell on the shields, as if playing a cold tune. Of course, there are also a large number of arrows falling in the open space - such a thing as mounted archery, to put it bluntly, is to shoot arrows on the back of a bumpy horse, no matter how well trained the shooter is, as long as it is not in a brain-dead TV series, his hit rate is always not as good as the normal shooting of archers.

Cavalry cavalry shooting, the purpose is not to kill or inflict casualties, but to disrupt the enemy's formation first, which is especially useful when the cavalry of the two sides is about to fight.

After a rain of arrows, the Ming army suffered about 300 casualties – most of them only wounded.

After each of the soldiers fired an arrow, the bow was put away, because there was no time for them to take the arrow, build the bow, and shoot again.

However, they drew their sabers and rushed over with a strange shout.

At this time, more flares were raised, illuminating the battlefield.

Only then did the soldiers see clearly, as if these soldiers were a little different from the Ming army they imagined.

Their formation was not chaotic at all, and their shields were far larger than the standard shields of the Ming army. And those soldiers were all staring at each other, and their eyes were as bright and cold as the wolves on the grassland!

But it was already less than a few meters away, and it was no longer time to hesitate!

"Wow!"

The cavalrymen roared in a strange tone, raised their sabers, and rushed forward with no indomitable courage!

At the head were heavy cavalry, not only the cavalry wore heavy armor, but even the war horses were armored!

Countless tall and strong horses leaped up, and then stepped heavily towards the shield soldiers of the coalition army to form a shield wall.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The sound of horses and shields clashing was dull and loud!

The shield soldiers of the coalition army were all full of true qi and suddenly stepped forward against the horse's hooves! Most of these shield-wielding soldiers were composed of about the seventh rank of the Xuantong Realm! What is the concept of the seventh rank of the Xuantong Realm? Anyway, if the third-class and left-class masters of the Xuantong Realm were to be one-on-one, they could knock down the galloping war horse with one punch -- of course, he himself might be injured.

Although the seventh rank of the Xuantong Realm can't do this, it can be done with a shield to block the step of the war horse!

The shield and the horse collide, and if the shield does not fall, then the horse is likely to fall!

For a while, countless war horses seemed to have crashed into an iron wall and fell to the ground one after another. As soon as the horses fell, these cavalrymen were all bad, either cut into pulp or turned into a sieve by the barrels of spearmen.

However, because there are many soldiers, they take turns to charge. The shield soldiers of the coalition army may not be able to block the second one! If they can block the second one, they may not be able to block the third one!

Moreover, the shield armies of the coalition forces are always limited and cannot protect all the infantry. Some of the soldiers still rushed into the infantry, which lacked shield protection.

In short, after several rounds of assault by the Duo ** soldiers, the shield wall of the coalition army was still broken. However, the Duo ** soldiers also paid a heavy price, in order to break the shield wall of the coalition army, they lost at least seven or eight hundred cavalry!

The ordinary coalition infantry formation, which was not protected by shield soldiers, was inevitably disrupted by the Duo ** soldiers, and paid a certain amount of casualties. However, the coalition infantry was more or less light, and they already had a tacit understanding with each other, so they quickly dispersed, so there was no large-scale squeezing, pushing and stampede.

As a result, the effect of Duo ** Bing's impact this time has been greatly reduced!

The first round of the charge of Duoyan's 5,000 elite cavalry launched a total of five echelons from three directions, but only caused about 1,000 casualties among the coalition forces, which was only slightly more than their loss of cavalry.

They began to realize that something was wrong.

Urdu's face began to change slightly.

Just as they were returning to prepare for the second round of charging according to the plan, they saw a large number of spearmen on the other side killed under the cover of shield soldiers!

At the same time, there was the sound of countless sharp arrows breaking through the air in the air, and they knew very well that it was the sound of crossbow arrows!

Their hearts sank even more, so quickly counterattacked!

After experiencing the onslaught of the horsemen, these shield men and spearmen were not at all confused, and there was no panic, but the excitement of discovering their prey?

Could it be that these crossbowmen were already lying in ambush next to them, so why could they rush up to support the battlefield so quickly?

Nonsense! Most of these crossbowmen are from the Jianghe Gang, and the average cultivation of the Jianghe Gang soldiers can reach the ninth rank of the Xuantong Realm? Do you compare the marching speed of ordinary soldiers with the martial artists of the ninth rank of the Xuantong Realm and have learned light skills?

As the coalition forces have a deeper understanding of warfare, their personal cultivation is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and their personal cultivation is becoming more and more prominent!

At least 200 crossbowmen rushed to the battlefield first, firing strong crossbows at the Duo ** soldiers! For a while, crossbow arrows flew sideways on the battlefield, and many Duoyan horsemen fell off their horses with arrows.

Your didn't care about any of this, and hurriedly organized a second charge.