Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1141
"Boom, boom, boom..." The war drums beat one after another.

The Khitan infantry formation began to move forward.A total of more than 3000 people were divided into two parts. The first group of [-] people beat the drums and killed them aggressively.

"Om..." Similar to every previous battle, the two sides always start with archery.

Liu Po ​​put on his helmet and armor, and boarded a command vehicle.There is a thick baffle in front of the car, and there are two guards holding large shields, one on the left and one on the right.

Arrows as dense as raindrops flew over from the air.

When it landed on the outer fender of the van, it made a "Dingduo" sound, and the arrow feathers trembled endlessly.

When it landed on the armor of the standing sergeants, there was a "ding dong" sound, and the sergeants tried their best to stabilize their bodies and remained motionless.Occasionally, someone fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, and was quickly supported by the auxiliary soldiers to wrap their wounds behind them.

It landed on the partitions on both sides of the mule and horse, and after piercing the skin, it made a dull knocking sound.The horse scratched its hooves irritably, while the auxiliary soldiers comforted it and kept it from running around.

From the perspective of the Khitan people, Xia Jun's vehicle seemed to have a layer of white hair in an instant, and it was almost impossible to see its original appearance.

Deadly arrows were also fired from the firing holes of the van.

The arrow leaped dozens of steps, and fell into the crowd of Khitan infantry with a whistling sound.

"Crash!" Even with the large shields in the front row blocking it, a large area fell from behind.The originally tight phalanx was like being bitten by a dog, with a corner missing here and a piece missing there.

The soldiers in the back row quickened their pace and filled the gap in front.

Yelu Shilu was still standing on the high hill, with his mouth slightly open, a little surprised.

Don't laugh, he has lived half his life, and he has never seen a few large-scale infantry formations fighting.

At this moment, he could already imagine how cruel it would be for the two infantry groups to be shot down by arrows while the two infantry groups were approaching each other at a distance of only a hundred steps.

You practiced martial arts for more than ten years, spent countless money and time, and became proficient in [-] kinds of martial arts. In the end, you were shot to death by arrows without even seeing the enemy's face.

Are you at a loss?Are you scared?
People in the front row have the highest death rate, and those in the back row are not much better.After the large-scale casualties in front, you have to make up for it, and you often don't have iron armor, waiting for the trial of thousands of arrows on the opposite side-maybe there are crossbows.

Powerful crossbow arrows pierced through the air, and the warriors in iron armor were nailed to the ground.

He may have been the bravest warrior in the tribe. He has never lost in wrestling. He can hit a wild goose in the eye with an arrow. After being drunk, he rode his horse home half asleep and half awake. The enemy's head doesn't even breathe, but when you die, you don't even see the enemy's face.

Are you at a loss?Are you scared?
The brutal and oppressive atmosphere is simply suffocating.

Yelu Shilu subconsciously tightened the bow in his hand. It turned out that the fight between the infantry was so bloody and desperate.

Yes, he felt a deep despair, a despair of not being able to control his own destiny.

When the cavalry on the prairie fought, they fought if they could beat them, and ran away if they couldn't beat them.When cavalry and archers fight each other, the two sides go around in circles on the broad grassland, firing arrows at each other at medium distances, and death is only a matter of an instant.Even when charging close combat, there is still room to move around.

But the infantry fought in formation, but everyone lined up to die.Sooner or later, they will die, especially those in the first few rows.

How tough should a martial artist who has rolled over and over again in this kind of battle have to be?
Fortunately, the soldiers in the Central Plains were not very obedient, they were too rebellious, and they resisted their superiors at every turn.If they were more disciplined, could be driven like chickens and dogs by their superiors, and didn't have much of their own will, then who else could resist the enemy in an army composed of killing machines?
"Kill!" Our own infantry was too disadvantaged to shoot at each other. After approaching, they quickened their pace and charged forward.

"Oh!"

"puff!"

"Whoa!"

"Squeak!"

Large shields, long lances, machetes, heavy swords, Guduo, long axe... all kinds of weapons are intertwined together, forming a unique killing march on the battlefield.

The Khitan infantry were crowded together, shouting loudly, thrusting out their spears with all their might.

On the van, the sword player raised the big shield high and smashed it down, causing several Khitan infantry to fall back and forth.

A pawn swung his long ax with all his strength, and immediately swept away the whole area.

In a melee, there is nothing better than a long-handled heavy weapon.When encountering someone with amazing arm strength, the effect of sweeping is remarkable, and a small gap can often be opened.

Since the Northern Dynasties, warriors' preference for heavy weapons is also incomprehensible.

Instead of stabbing with a light spear, you have to use a spear, a long axe, and a wooden galleon that can stab, sweep, or smash people.

Immediately, instead of a light cavalry gun, a heavy horse lance with astonishing weight and sweeping thousands of troops will be used.

When fighting in hand-to-hand combat, few people hold shields to protect their bodies. On the contrary, two-handed heavy swords that open and close, exchange wounds for wounds, and fight for life are more popular, so that "Zhang Shenjian", "Shao Shenjian", "Long Sword" The names of "Army" and "Black Cloud Sword" can be seen everywhere.

These are a group of lunatics who disregard the lives of others and don't care too much about their own lives. They take killing as a profession and enjoy killing as a hobby.

They plundered the people and played with women. The perversions were amazing, and the critical moments were unambiguous.I saw one person excited to kill, with red eyes, jumped out of the chariot formation with an epee in hand, swung it vigorously, there was a continuous "click" sound, and cut off a person's head and an arm in an instant, and then rushed forward bravely until he was submerged in the Khitan step Among the crowd of soldiers.

The Khitan man grabbed hold of the sidecar and tried to climb over. Xia Bing slashed with his axe, his fingers fell off, and blood dripped all over the corner of the carriage.

In the shooting hole, the long spear stabbed repeatedly.For every stabbing, one person was killed.At the end of the stabbing, the tough long lance was actually broken. The soldiers held the broken lance and smashed it like crazy until Pao Ze rushed up to replace him.

Everyone fell into frenzy, their eyes were red, their noses were heavy, and their armor was soaked in blood.When the long lance was broken, use the broken lance. The broken lance made it difficult, and drew out the horizontal knife at the waist. The horizontal knife curled its blade, and took the epee, mo knife, long axe, and even wooden sword handed over by the person behind.

The wooden gallium is thick at the top and thin at the bottom, heavy at the front and light at the back. There are those fierce people who have spikes tied to the front end, which are as straight as a mace. Khitan infantry.

The wooden galleon was also broken, and he replaced it with an iron mace, and skillfully smashed the enemy's head, even with a helmet, he couldn't resist it.

The brutal fight only lasted for a moment, and the outside of the van was piled up with corpses.

The Khitan people stepped on the corpses and climbed up—maybe there were wounded soldiers inside, but it didn't matter, they were going to die anyway, so they just stepped on it.

All kinds of weapons came oncoming, and the Khitan people often fell down before they even had time to snort.

No extra action.

The heavy sword cuts down on the neck.

The iron mace was smashed against the head.

The sword is always piercing towards the heart.

The whistling long ax often sweeps at places that are difficult for you to resist.

Soldiers with insufficient training and poor skills are often sloppy, and waste too much energy in ineffective, redundant, and out-of-shape movements.But this group of people is different. They have learned the four-character formula of stability, accuracy, ruthlessness, and speed. They have concise movements and skilled skills. The control is quite good, and the cooperation is relatively tacit.

The Khitan's offensive was smashed to pieces like a sea tide hitting the breakwater.

The tide receded quickly, faster than it had come.

"Dong, dong, dong..." The war drums rang, Xia Bing pulled the car array, and more than a thousand soldiers rushed out from the gap, chasing and killing them bravely.

The fleeing Khitan soldiers were stabbed and hacked from the back by the Xia people, and the number of those who fell to their deaths on the way was unknown.

The Khitan cavalry who were waiting in formation were also stopped by the retreating infantry.There are people everywhere, they can't run at all.

The infantry of the Xia army came head-on, and the long-ke ax smashed, and the cavalry screamed and fell to the ground, drowning in the crowd.

The cavalry also began to flee backwards, and met another group of cavalry head-on.The two sides collided head-on in the middle of the battlefield. For a while, people shouted and screamed, and the chaos was in utter chaos.

Xia Bing's Changlong jungle followed one after another.The cavalry on horseback had too many fighting gaps and blind spots, and they could hardly make any effective resistance, and were directly knocked down.Some people were not dead for a while, and they were dizzy and wanted to get up, but they were cut with a knife and an ax very quickly, and blood flowed all over the ground.

"Let the arrows! Let the arrows!" Yelu Shilu ordered angrily.

The Khitan infantry, who had reacted, fired all their arrows, regardless of enemy or friend, and shot all the people in front of them to the ground, including men and horses.

"Dangdangdang..." The sound of gongs sounded in the convoy, and the Xia soldiers who were chasing them gathered one by one and retreated slowly.

Two teams of Khitan cavalry circled out from both sides, trying to pursue the retreating Xia people.However, a large number of crossbow arrows were released from the convoy, and the Khitan cavalry was stunned as soon as they raised their horse speed, and had to turn their horses' heads and retreat.

Xia Jun's infantry continued to retreat unhurriedly.

The Khitan people had no intention of pursuing them a second time, and just watched them retreat back into the car formation in a daze.

"Crash!" The vans were stuck together again, and the car formation was complete again.

Satisfied, Liu Po ​​got off the command vehicle.

The soldiers of the Longwu Army were originally veterans of Ziqing Town. He was very unconvinced when he was defeated by the Xia Army.

Obviously the skills are not inferior to yours, and the equipment is also very good, the difference is nothing but combat experience.

After surrendering, he was used as a miscellaneous army to attack the two towns of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and then he was transferred to Anton Mansion to fight for more than a year. The experience can be regarded as making up for it.

Today, let you barbarians take a good look at what kind of demeanor the Central Plains warriors have fought for 150 years.

There are about [-] Mrs. Wei Bo in the car formation.

They looked at the soldiers of the Longwu Army who had just defeated the enemy with complicated eyes.

It's not that great!Why are you so arrogant?Give me a knife, and I can fight in battle.

Damn, even you and the Khitan were hacked together!
The corners of Yelu Shilu's mouth trembled slightly, and it took him a lot of effort to control his expression and not lose his composure.

There are already tribal soldiers in the rear who want to flee.

They are Shiwei and Tatar "allies" who were called in. Seeing such a tragic battle, they lost their fighting spirit.

It's no good, and people will die. Can this battle be fought?
Even the eight parts of Khitan were a little shocked.

The cavalry charged and was shot too close.The infantry rushed, and were also killed and fled in defeat.Is there any other way to stop the Xia people?

Everyone is confused and doesn't know what to do.

The south wind blew, the herbs bowed down, and the wind was filled with a strong smell of blood.

The horse snorted uneasily and pawed the ground lightly.

The shepherd swallowed nervously, and the palm of the knife holding the knife was full of sweat.

The enemy is surrounded by three layers, and there is nowhere to speak.Yelu Shilu looked at the flamboyant Xia people in disappointment, waved his hand, and said, "Get out!"

(End of this chapter)