The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Naturally, such a small overlord in the area will not allow another tiger to break into his territory.

So the Seljuk Empire quickly entangled more than a dozen small countries around it and organized an army of more than 600,000 people, preparing to face the aggressive Qinglong Empire army.

However, Huang Zhong and the others were not panic at all, because according to Shi Qian's investigation, most of the soldiers in this army were a mob with poor equipment and training. Only tens of thousands of soldiers belonging to the Seljuq Empire were relatively elite.

In the past, relying on these tens of thousands of elite troops, the Seljuk Empire was naturally able to bully the surrounding small countries, but now that the opponent has been replaced by the expeditionary army of the Azure Dragon Empire, it is completely insufficient.

In order to get rid of the army organized by the Seljuk Empire as soon as possible, Huang Zhong had no intention of taking a detour to avoid it. He led the army straight into the territory of the Seljuk Empire, and finally found a place where he had been waiting for a long time. We met on the chosen desert plain.

The Seljuk Empire obviously also knew that only the tens of thousands of elites in their army were more capable of fighting, so they did not let the rabble go to fight, but let them act as cheerleaders in the rear shouting loudly, waving flags, and creating pressure on the enemy. And those tens of thousands of truly elite troops charged straight into the enemy's central army.

Shi Wengong saw that the main force of the opponent's elite troops was also heavy cavalry, so he suggested that there should be a cavalry versus cavalry battle!

Huang Zhong and the others discussed it and agreed to Shi Wengong's suggestion. After all, using cavalry would eliminate the need to waste ammunition.

To be honest, Huang Zhong and the others did not expect that after leaving the Central Plains, this road would become increasingly difficult.

In the Central Plains region, because there are official roads that have been continuously built by various dynasties and generations, it is not difficult as long as the army marches along those official roads.

However, after leaving the Central Plains and entering the Western Regions, because the Silk Road has been interrupted for many years, and the countries in the Western Regions are constantly at war with each other, the original roads have been completely abandoned, and many people have passed through them due to soil erosion. The place is either a desert or a rocky Gobi, and the environment is extremely harsh, so even clean water needs to be transported from behind.

And with such bad road conditions and so many supplies to be transported, the result can be imagined. By the time they reach here, the army will not have much supplies, especially various bullets and artillery shells, which consume The speed is even faster, and there are also those heavy artillery and tanks with astonishing weight. There are frequent problems during the transportation process. Many tanks have too serious faults and are still unable to keep up with the team after being repaired several times. They can only It was left in situ, waiting for subsequent transportation troops to receive it and then transport it back to the country for maintenance.

It can only be said that the maintenance of these various hot weapons is much more troublesome than cold weapons, and the requirements for subsequent supplies are also higher. Without a smooth and stable transportation line, it is difficult to maintain supplies for an army of millions. In order to solve this problem, Ye Tianlong has already recruited a large number of civilians in the country and started to build the roads in the Western Regions. But after all, distant water cannot quench the near thirst. Huang Zhong and the others will still have to live a tight life before the road is completed.

Now that Shi Wengong proposed to let his own cavalry fight against the opponent's cavalry, everyone agreed so unanimously.

Soon, Lin Chong, Shi Wengong and Lu Junyi set off with 30,000 heavy cavalry. Behind them were 50,000 light cavalry led by Yang Zhi, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun.

As the two groups of cavalry continued to advance, the cavalry that originally set out behind them walked in front of the heavy cavalry because their horses were not armored. Then these cavalry also began to fire arrows at the enemy on the opposite side.

There were also many horse archers among the cavalry troops of the Seljuk Empire, but they did not fire arrows at this time, because the two armies were still at least five hundred meters away! You can't hit the enemy with arrows at this time!

At the same time, they couldn't help but despise that the soldiers of the opposite army were really amateurs, and they actually fired arrows from such a distance. You must know that the range of the cavalry bow is shorter than that of the infantry bow, and those infantry bows with stronger bow power The furthest bow can only shoot more than three hundred meters, and if you ride a bow, you can only shoot more than two hundred meters at most. Now those enemy archers are firing arrows from a distance of more than 500 meters. Isn't this nonsense!

However, a few seconds later, a large rain of arrows fell from the sky and fell on them. Many soldiers of the Seljuk Empire were unprepared and were hit by several arrows at once, screaming and falling off their horses.

Obviously, these soldiers of the Seljuk Empire underestimated the strength of their opponents. You must know that the regular soldiers of the Qinglong Empire are all elites selected from the best. Among them, those who mainly use cold weapons to fight are even more elite. Among them, many are elite, and many of them are masters of Huajin. The remaining ones among the Dark Jin warriors are also strong, and they are not far away from Huajin cultivation. Therefore, these horse archers have very strong arms, and the range of the hard bows they use completely exceeds 500 meters.

After shooting one wave, the archers of the Qinglong Empire quickly started a second round of shooting. The dense rain of arrows continued to fall like raindrops, causing the advancing Seljuk Empire army to shoot every second. Soldiers were shot dead and wounded.

But they couldn't retreat yet. After all, as the elite of the entire army, their appearance in the first round was originally intended to win a small victory and boost the morale of their own army. If you retreat before formally engaging the enemy, it will greatly damage the morale of your own army.

Therefore, these soldiers of the Seljuk Empire could only hold up their shields at this time and continue to approach the enemy on the opposite side against the falling arrows.

After finally getting into the range of their bows and arrows, the archers and horse archers of the Seljuk Empire hurriedly fired arrows at the enemy to fight back.

But after the arrows they shot fell, they were unable to penetrate the armor of the heavy cavalry who had already rushed in front. The arrows landed on the armor and made a clanging sound. , and then the bullet fell down weakly.

Under the constant rain of enemy arrows, the heavy cavalry of the Qinglong Empire began to accelerate slowly. During the acceleration process, these heavy cavalry also paid attention to maintaining their formation, making the entire cavalry unit advance smoothly. , still maintaining a neat rows of queues, as if there is a collective consciousness, the speed and distance of each step taken by the war horses are the same.

The soldiers of the Seljuk Empire were under great pressure when facing the heavy cavalry troops that were approaching them uniformly. In order not to be outmatched by their opponents, they quickly assembled more than 20,000 of their own. The cavalry began to work hard to move forward in a neat formation.

But this move is obviously not something that just any cat or dog can learn. The heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire have different weapons and equipment, and the shoulder heights of their horses are also different. Some even ride armored camels, and they have never been trained before. They had to advance and charge in such an orderly manner, so even though the heavy cavalry had worked very hard at this time, the formation quickly fell into chaos.

At this time, there was no time for them to continue to slowly adjust their formation, because at this time the distance between the two sides was already close to within a hundred meters, and the heavy cavalry on the opposite side had quickly increased their horse speed to the highest speed, and moved toward them menacingly. They pressed forward.

In order to avoid suffering a loss during the confrontation, the heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Empire had to start whipping their horses to speed up, and they did not care about the messy formation.