Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 752 An old friend after many years

When a group of cavalry confronts the infantry who lost their formation and fled in all directions, it is a massacre for the infantry. The cavalry will easily smash away individual soldiers who are trying to resist, using the speed and weight of the horses, and using their swords Easily harvest life.

  But the same thing is that the cavalry who lost their speed and clustered together are the best targets for archers and crossbowmen. It took more than a thousand years for the West to truly realize the lethality of bows and arrows, especially armor-piercing weapons such as longbows and heavy crossbows, against heavy cavalry. Of course, even so, there are still many people who are superstitious about the power of heavy cavalry, so The big **** of Gaul died one after another on the road of charge.

What's more, now that Zha Tiansheng is eager to win, Hu Qi has caught up with him and surrounded the gate of the camp. However, the strong camp has a relatively small camp gate, and there is no way for Hu Qi to launch a full-scale offensive. We can only honestly line up at the gate of the camp to check the tickets.

  Now Hu Qi's hard work has finally brought him rich rewards. They don't have to continue to struggle in this dirty and painful world. Tickets from the Death World are being distributed for free...

At this moment, the longer-lasting effectiveness of crossbowmen than archers is gradually reflected. As long as the crossbowmen are not damaged and the number of crossbow bolts is sufficient, crossbowmen can maintain a continuous and stable firing of crossbow bolts for a long time. On the contrary, archers firing at high frequency However, due to lack of physical strength, it is easy to cause the bowstring to cut the wrist or fingers, and the accuracy and strength of shooting will decrease.

But even though their fingers were cut **** by the bow string, many archers on the wall of the village still persisted, standing with the crossbowmen, cursing and shooting arrows at the same time, as if this could add freshness to their arrows. The released curse adds some inexplicable power.

  For a while, "melon skin" and "broken counselor" flew together, and "wet mud north" and "mother than" were the same...

   Zha Tiansheng was really dumbfounded.

   Even many Hu cavalry are the same. The sudden change almost refreshed their three views, just like the soldiers who shot each other in formation in World War I met the Maxim machine gun.

How is this possible?

   Thousands of riders, even if you want to fight, you have to fight for a while, even if you can't fight, most of them should be able to run out!

  The gate of the camp of the Han army is like the mouth of a demon that opened its mouth. It swallowed more than a thousand horses in one gulp. It seemed that it was effortless, and he licked his tongue, revealing more greedy lips and teeth...

  How long did it take for more than a thousand Hu Qi to rush into the camp and wipe out the entire army? !

   Zha Tiansheng couldn't believe his eyes.

It has been too long since the Hu people have encountered such a dense crossbow attack from the Han army. Since Emperor Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, perhaps because of the decline of national power, perhaps because of the cumbersome casting of crossbow machines, or some other reasons, crossbows have gradually withdrawn from the battlefield. Naturally, it disappeared from the sight of the barbarians, but now after half a century, when the strong crossbow once again stepped on the stage of war, the barbarians once again proved with their lives that the strong crossbow is still so coquettish and enchanting.

   Zha Tiansheng was dumbfounded, but Zhang Ji was not.

  When the scouts reported that there were a large number of Hu cavalry, Zhang Ji, under Fei Qian's arrangement, took the cavalry behind a forest about ten miles south of Yulin Camp.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker by the minute, Zhang Ji waited left and right but failed to get the signal, and sent a lot of scouts to take turns spying on him. When he heard that Hu Qi had defeated the Yong'an camp and began to charge into the camp, he couldn't sit still at all. Yes, I asked the scouts over and over again if they saw the double rabbit flags, and checked again and again whether it was because of the weather that the scouts couldn't see clearly...

   The scout vowed that there was a torch on the central platform, and he could see it. He also saw other flags erected, but he did not see the double rabbit flag...

Zhang Ji had personally seen the tragedy of the Xiliang cavalry attacking the Fei Qian camp, so Zhang Ji was a little surprised to say that Hu Qi was able to break through the camp so easily, but the scouts made it clear that there were other banners operating , and without the double rabbit flags, it means that the central command is still in operation, and the stable command on the central high platform shows that the situation is not as bad as it seems...

  But this is not sure!

   Zhang Ji, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, had no choice but to send scouts to check again and again, and he kicked the small tree beside him to relieve his anxiety and uneasiness.

  When Zhang Ji poisoned the third small tree, a scout rushed over and shouted from a distance: "Flag! The flag is up! The flying bird flag and the double rabbit flag are up!"

   "Very good!" Zhang Ji shouted loudly to the Xiliang cavalry beside him, "Boys, get on your horses! Beat the ditch!"

  The Xiliang cavalry all around promised with a loud bang, and they would check whether the leather armor on the horse and the armor on their own body were fastened again, then got on the horse, followed Zhang Ji out of the woods, and ran wildly towards the Yulin camp.

  The cavalry from Xiliang had just joined Fei Qian's command not long ago. Although they had met each other on the battlefield before, for ordinary soldiers, there was not much boring hatred between them, whether it was before or now. Being a soldier is a job of being ready to lose your head at any time, not to mention that soldiers just follow orders.

The horses of these cavalry under Zhang Ji's direct command are the original Xiliang horses. These war horses are about a head taller than the Bingzhou horses. They are comrades-in-arms who have cooperated with each other for a long time. After the initial chaos, they gradually stepped on the same pace. Like a whole, under the cover of the gradually dimming sky, they formed a frontal formation, while the remaining 800 Hu Qi recruited in Pingyang followed behind to form a loose fan. Go straight to Zha Tiansheng's side and rear along the road!

  The sky effectively concealed the towering smoke and dust raised by the cavalry galloping at high speed. It wasn't until Zha Tiansheng's peripheral Hu cavalry noticed the tremor of the earth that Zhang Ji's cavalry came rushing from the side and rear.

  The horn sounded hastily, Zha Tiansheng tried to order the cavalry behind to turn, but it was too late. Zhang Ji led the Xiliang cavalry without stopping for a moment, and directly crashed into the loose formation of Zha Tiansheng's cavalry!

The impact force of the heavy cavalry was once again displayed perfectly. The armored Xiliang cavalry rushed forward like small tanks. The shield knocked away some attacks that might endanger oneself or the horse, and the right hand held sabers horizontally one by one. They didn't even need to swing them at all, just let the high-speed horses drive the sharp ring-head knife to cut through all those who dared to stand in the way. of all objects.

  A group of tall horses came crushing like a mountain. Facing the Xiliang iron cavalry that was rushing towards them, Zha Tiansheng's cavalry subconsciously dodged to both sides, unable to resist at all...

   During the long-term confrontation between the Han Dynasty and the Huns, the strong crossbow was once the main long-range strike force on the battlefield...

   Whether it is Li Guang or Li Ling, they were besieged by the Huns and defended with chariots and crossbows, but the siege of the Huns could not be broken. In the end, it was because the food and grass were cut off and the weapons were exhausted, which led to the defeat...

   But Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was indeed too expensive, so in the later period, the poor Han Dynasty gradually chose bows and arrows that were relatively cheap...

  (end of this chapter)