Myriad Realms Free Mercenaries

Chapter 221 Encounter on a Narrow Road

An Qingxu killed his father and usurped the throne, and proclaimed himself emperor. His year title was Zaicu, and he ordered Shi Siming to return to guard Fanyang, leaving Cai Xide and others to continue to besiege Taiyuan.

After Shi Siming knew that An Lushan had died, he became self-reliant. He did not receive orders to evacuate to Fanyang, but still dispatched elite troops to investigate the situation in Taiyuan, and he did not stop thinking about capturing Taiyuan City.

It's just that the leader of the scout team under Shi Siming's command felt something was wrong today, because the scouts he scattered hadn't come back since Maoshi, not a single one.

The leader of the scout team felt uneasy, so he reported this situation to Cai Xide. Cai Xide was a fierce general under Shi Siming's command. He was brave, good at fighting, and quite talented. He was no idiot.

He immediately felt that something was wrong, but he did not alert Shi Siming for the time being. Instead, he sent five hundred wolf cavalry and two thousand cavalry to carefully investigate along the way towards Taiyuan City. As a result, they met Cangyun Pioneer Battalion led by Song Senxue more than ten miles away. hit.

Song Senxue ran into the cavalry sent by Shi Siming head-on, and made up her mind almost instantly. They must not let them discover the army behind them, otherwise the situation may change, so let's fight them here.

Naturally, Tang Wuying and Ye Wei's subordinates, who were clearing out Spike's spies in the forest on both sides, also discovered this situation, and the two immediately led their disciples to move forward.

When the leader of the Spike Army over there found Song Senxue and his party, his first reaction was to be taken aback, but when he saw that there were only 1000 people on the other side, he immediately pulled out the scimitar at his waist and shouted: "Kill."

"Ooooooooooo..."

"kill……"

The first to attack was the wolf cavalry. The wolf cavalry rushed up roaring, brandishing the scimitar in their hands.

The Qian Cangyun warriors showed no signs of panic, and only heard Song Senxue Shen shouted: "Shield wall."

"Clang clang..."

The first row of Cangyun soldiers smashed the iron shields in their hands to the ground, and the shield surface tilted slightly, and the shields in the hands of the second row were placed on the shields of the first row of fighters, and then on the third row...

A slightly inclined shield wall composed of iron shields just appeared on the wide official road. The shield wall was not just shields touching each other, but layered on top of each other, extremely strong.

However, although the shield wall is strong, it is not a pure defensive formation. Cang Yun's shield has a very distinctive shape, it is not a complete piece, and there are some holes or gaps on the shield.

A few breaths after the shield wall was erected, the wolf cavalry roared and rushed over, and when it was about to hit the shield wall, the giant wolf threw itself on the shield wall.

Because the shield wall was slightly inclined and there were gaps in the shield, the giant wolf clawed at those gaps and wanted to turn over along the shield wall.

Song Senxue calmly shouted again: "Jie Dao."

The Cangyun warriors held their shields with their left shoulders, and the swords in their right hands were already ready. Upon hearing Song Senxue's order, they immediately raised the swords in their right hands and thrust them through the gaps in the shields.

"Puff puff……"

"Ooooooooooo..."

"what……"

There was a sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh, followed immediately by the screams of the giant wolf and the screams of the wolf cavalry who fell off the wolf's back and was pinned beneath the giant wolf.

A beast like a wolf is known as a copper-headed, iron-boned tofu waist. It can be seen that the wolf's fatal weakness is the waist, but the abdomen is the fatal weakness of all animals, including advanced animals and humans.

If the abdomen is pierced, even a giant wolf of different species can no longer survive, and death is only a matter of time.

Seeing that it was obviously unrealistic to climb over the shield wall head-on, the wolf cavalry left dozens of giant wolf corpses and wounded wolf cavalry behind, and then prepared to go around the two wings of the Cangyun Army array.

Unexpectedly, as they moved, the shield wall of the Cangyun warriors also changed. The two ends of the original straight shield wall quickly bent inward, and finally formed a circular formation.

Seeing that the Cangyun Army was like a tortoise with its limbs retracted into its shell, unable to attack, the leader of Spike Fang screamed in anger, and immediately made a faint move, "Cavalry battalion, use the spears in your hands as weapons!" Throw the spear, throw it in from above."

The two thousand adjourned cavalry immediately galloped up, and by virtue of the momentum of the horses rushing forward, they threw their spears towards the gap above the circle.

One hundred spears flew out, crossed parabolas, and plunged into the center of the circle.

But don't forget, except for a few masters who use double swords or single swords, basically everyone in the Cangyun army has a shield. The Cangyun warrior who is currently in the center of the circle raises the iron shield, forming an iron cover to cover it.

"Ding ding ding dong..."

The spear landed on the iron shield, just like thatch landed on the water, not a single wave appeared.

The last shortcoming of the circular formation was also made up for. At this time, the Cangyun Army had no flaws and was already invincible. After the Spike Army threw their spears, they still didn't hurt a single hair .

A trace of contempt flashed across Song Senxue's eyes, and she snorted coldly: "A mere two thousand five hundred cavalry dare to attack my thousand Cang Yun army. I really don't know how to write the word "death". Please give it to me."

There are only two ways to break the Cangyun Army's shield formation, either to hit it with catapults and stone bullets, or to send out cavalry that is several times or even ten times that of the enemy to launch continuous attacks and forcefully break the formation.

Other than that, there is no other way.

Of course, if ordinary soldiers set up this circular formation, there would be too many ways to break it, but it happened that this shield formation was set up by the Cangyun Army. They didn't have many other things, but they had many masters.

If you want to break the formation, unless your army has more masters than Cangyun's army and can suppress their masters who rush out to cover the shield formation, otherwise, you can only watch or forcefully destroy the formation with a large number of troops.

And more than [-] soldiers and horses are obviously not enough to forcefully break through the shield formation.

Following Song Senxue's words "Turn me around", a long knife stretched out horizontally from the gaps on the shield of the shield formation, and then the shield formation spun, moving forward rapidly while rotating.

The circular formation suddenly turned into a huge knife wheel, strangling towards the Spike Army's cavalry formation.

"Puff puff……"

"Sorry..."

"Woooo..."

"Ugh..."

The horses of the giant wolves and cavalry who couldn't dodge were cut by the knife wheel. Both the horses and the wolves screamed, turned around and fled, or fell to the ground.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

"Puff puff……"

"Uh……"

"what……"

At this moment, a rain of arrows suddenly flew out from the forest on the side. This rain of arrows was not random. In fact, each arrow was precise and killed one person. At most, some people were hit by two or three arrows. , in an instant 30 people fell off their horses and died.

The leader of Spike Fang was shocked. He turned his head and saw that at some point, a group of people wearing black clothes and black scarves appeared beside the road. They all held strangely shaped crossbows in their hands.

The weird-looking crossbow is called "Thousand Receiver", but it is actually a repeating crossbow that is many times more advanced than the Zhuge Liannu, and is almost equivalent to a semi-automatic rifle of this era.

Except that the range and kinetic energy are not as strong as automatic rifles, there is no difference in other aspects.

(End of this chapter)