Chapter 11: Looping and Fighting
In the north wind, the horns were like tides. The cavalry surrounding the village outside Chai Village started to move one after another, divided into many groups according to their respective belongings. With the help of the wind and sand protection, they quickly approached Chai Village, approached the outer antlers, resisted horses, and then shot arrows into the village.
In the strong wind, feather arrows are easily blown tilted and causing the head to fall. The cavalry riding horses to shoot arrows while moving, with the purpose of attracting the opponent's archers. The main attack direction of one side is the north, and the other three directions are assists. At the same time, the attack can disperse the opponent's troops.
If cavalry approaches in four directions at the same time, the enemy in the village will naturally have to arrange archers to shoot arrows separately. In this way, there will be no more archers arranged in the north. If the opponent dares not arrange archers in the other three directions, then the assist will become a strong attack.
Cavalry is not only able to fight on horseback. It is common for an elite cavalry to be skilled in cavalry and even be able to shoot left and right, while cavalry and shoot are actually cavalry and shoot.
When riding on a horse, you can shoot arrows after dismounting. You can not only ride a horse to charge on the battlefield, but also hike. In this era, the fighting style of cavalry is also very common, mainly to deal with enemies who have arranged deer antlers and resist horses.
There are two types of cavalry: war horses and armor, and war horses are not armored. No matter which one is it, cavalry are all armored. The ones with men and horses are armored are armored cavalry. Just people are armored and horses are not armored are light cavalry.
Light cavalry is to ensure the movement speed and not allow the war horses to wear armor. It is very common for horses to be injured during charge. When the war horses die, the cavalry will attack on foot, which is also very common in battle, so the cavalry will carry two bows, one step bow and one riding bow.
When dismounting the horse and fighting in the field, you can shoot arrows with your archers while approaching the enemy, and finally use your sword to fight in person. This is also a common form of cavalry combat.
At this time, the cavalry attacking Chai Village were riding and shooting, while others dismounted at seventy or eighty steps and approached the village with their arches. They were wearing two armors, not afraid of the scattered arrows, and used sporadic chariots as cover to shoot arrows at the enemy soldiers looming at the edge of the village.
Some people had small shields tied to their right arm, blocking the feathered arrows from time to time, and the dismounted cavalry approached Chai Village from east, south and west. After shooting three-wheeled arrows, they followed the rear, and then a new group of pedestrian cavalry stepped forward and continued to shoot arrows.
There are riding and shooting, stepping and retreating, and advancement. The scene looks a bit chaotic, but in fact it is orderly, because everyone follows the flags of their respective troops, and everything is in order.
This is a tactic called "Round and Round Battle", commonly known as "wheel battle", which means relying on the large number of people and the power of the opponent, archers' continuous shooting of arrows will cause serious decreases in arm strength. If they cannot rest in time, they will lose their strength later.
When a team attacks, three teams wait behind. The team takes turns to attack and retreat and rest. This tactic requires strict arrangements so that the soldiers will not be in chaos. If they can organize such a "round-route battle", even if the general is not a famous general, they are almost the same as the famous general.
Tens of thousands of cavalry, connected to the north of the upwind direction, surrounded Chai Village and fought in a row, getting closer and closer to the village. The heavily armored cavalry gradually approached the outer antlers and resisted the horse.
Then start pulling out the antlers and destroying the horse.
They assisted, but whenever they had the opportunity, they attacked strongly. The dismounted pedestrian cavalry, who assisted in the east, south and west directions, had already begun to destroy the antlers outside Chai Village, and refused to fight the horses, and casualties began to increase.
Because they are no longer facing archers, but crossbowmen.
The enemy crossbowmen in Chai Village were also wearing heavy armor and did not avoid arrow shooting. The crossbows used by these crossbowmen were a bit special. Because of the strong wind and sand, the walking cavalry could not see clearly where these crossbows were strange, but the movements and movements of the opponent when he was turned on the string were a bit cunning.
The "crying" sound when the string is turned, just like a winch is rotating, which means that the crossbows used by these crossbow soldiers are likely to be wound by the winch.
Generally speaking, the powerful crossbow used by a single person is to step on a barbarian crossbow, but I have never heard of a winch crossbow. The crossbow has a slow firing rate, but it is powerful. At this time, the enemy crossbow soldiers in Chai Village were very lethal. The cavalry was wearing two armors at a distance of 50 steps and could not block the crossbow arrows.
A single arrow in the body can make people feel extremely painful, and the armor on his body is like paper in front of these crossbows.
Many pedestrian cavalry were shot down, but more people bent their bows and arrows to shoot against the enemy soldiers in Chai Village. The casualties on both sides increased, but the attacking side with a large number still had the advantage.
Relying on their large crowds and powerful forces, they destroyed the outer antlers and resisted horses, gradually approaching less than thirty steps from the enemy's defense line. At this moment, strange obstacles appeared in front of them.
They were obstacles made of iron wire, height and chest. The iron wire was twisted from several thin wires, the thickness of chopsticks, with iron spikes on it. These iron wires were lying across the periphery of Chai Village like a giant snake, and were slashed with a knife. At such a close distance, the arrows shot by the opponent's archer could also break the armor.
The pedestrian cavalry pushed the car forward and wanted to break through the obstacles composed of these iron lines. However, these obstacles were boned by wooden stakes and were difficult to break through in a short period of time. The attack of round-rotation and continuous attacks slowed down instantly.
The attacking party could only rely on the cover of the car to shoot against the opponent's crossbowmen. A new group of pedestrian cavalry who were "flying back and forth" carried axes and tried to destroy these iron wire obstacles.
However, these obstacles were like bamboo cages, and it was difficult to work if they were rushing with an axe. Even if they cut and pull out wooden stakes that fixed the obstacles, the crossbow arrows shot from the Chai Village caused heavy casualties.
The battle lasted from early morning to noon, the sky was still dark, the north wind was still strong, and the flying sand and stones were flying, and more and more corpses were piled up outside Chai Village.
The assists from the east, south and west have been exhausted, attracting more than half of the enemy troops in Chaicun. Next, it depends on whether the main attack can break through the obstacles set up by the enemy in one fell swoop.
They knew that there were dead soldiers who had big axes in the main attack direction to break through these iron wire obstacles, and it would not be too hard to break through these iron wire obstacles.
In the north of Chai Village, the pedestrian cavalry, which concentrated its forces to attack fiercely, was blocked by the barrier of the iron line, and the chariots could not advance. The enemy crossbowmen were fierce, and many pedestrian cavalry fell down. It was not until the dead soldiers holding large axes broke through the barrier and cleared out the passage at the cost of heavy casualties that the attack could continue.
Although the pedestrian cavalry attacked with the wind, they found that the opponent's crossbowmen were very brave even when they were against the wind. In addition to the range of the feather arrows being affected, the opponent could actually shoot against them against the wind and sand.
The battle lasted from the early morning to the present. It is indeed surprising that the enemy troops in Chai Village can perform like this under extremely unfavorable circumstances against the wind. However, no matter how brave the soldiers are, they cannot make up for the huge gap in quantity.
Therefore, more than a thousand new pedestrian cavalrymen who have been newly engaged in combat have been prepared to attack Chai Village.
The sound of the trumpet sounded, which was a signal of their own charge. They howled and charged, rushing towards the enemy's defense line less than thirty steps away. As long as they broke through this line of defense, they could rush into Chai Village and defeat the opponent's resistance.
The sound of the trumpet sounded again, but the sound came from Chai Village. The enemy's defense line suddenly became restless, and countless spears appeared in the wind and sand, as dense as the woods, and then placed them flat.
The Hulin Army soldiers guarding Chai Village were all wearing masks and glass goggles, and well-made Xiyang armor. They were scattered in a tight counter-storm formation. Amid the shrill sound of horns, they attacked the invading enemy in the face of the wind and sand.
Chapter completed!