Chapter 168 Engagement [Part 1]
When these two bald novice monks crawled in front of Shi Le's horse and cried, Shi Le had already seen with his own eyes how Zhu Tu, the Hu monk in the Western Regions, died. 3≠83≠83≠reading 3≠books,↗o●
Shi Le had a gloomy face and ignored the two novice monks at all. Instead, he ordered a barbarian guard next to him.
"Go and pick that thing up."
The iron ball shell just now ejected from the ground, knocked off Hu Seng Zhutu's head and fell to the open space between several square formations behind.
The Hu cavalry quickly took the order and turned his horse's head and ran away.
"General, this thing is iron and hot."
Soon, the guard used a rag to lift a black iron ball over, and there were many blood stains of Hu Monk Zhu Tu.
Shi Le and several generals around him came forward to check.
"Hmph, this is definitely not a shitty thunder spell. I think it should have used some mechanism techniques."
As soon as Shi Le saw this black iron ball, he knew that the Donglai Army on the opposite side must have used some thunder spell.
Because Shi Le saw his grandfather avoiding thunderstorms under a tree when he was a child, and was killed by lightning strikes. The scene still vividly remembers it. The real death of lightning strikes should be like his grandfather, with a burnt body and a meat scent similar to roasted lamb, rather than being smashed by a big iron ball like Zhu Tu.
"What the general said is reasonable. When the ancient times, a hundred schools of thought contend, Mozi founded the Mohist school and was used to being a craftsmanship and thoughtful thing. This iron ball was also thrown by some mechanism."
Zhang Bin quickly answered the conversation and helped Shi Le calm the ghosts and gods in everyone's hearts.
After hearing Shi Le's explanation with such a positive tone, the Hu Han generals surrounding him all calmed down a little and frightened. But then, these people were worried again, because if this was not the Heavenly Thunder spell, it would mean that the Qingzhou army on the opposite side had some magic weapon that could throw such a deadly iron ball nearly two hundred steps away. It seemed that it was not much weaker than the Heavenly Thunder spell.
Unlike the generals around Shile, except for the soldiers close to Hu Monk Zhutu, who knew what had just happened, the rest of the Hu infantry and cavalry did not know what had happened.
They just suddenly heard loud roars, both like thunder, but not very appropriate. Some of the cavalrymen with good vision also saw several smoke and dust rising from the Qingzhou army formation.
Compared with those who can still be calm, many of the horses of the Hu cavalry were disturbed by the "sound of cannons" just now.
If these barbarian cavalry were not all good at controlling horses, they would have probably had horses that rush around long ago.
Even so, many of the marching cavalry had some chaos, but for thousands of cavalry, the lake was almost microwaved.
Except for the fact that Hu Seng Zhu Tu, who had just been knocked to death by a jump, the effect of the five cannons being fired all at once quickly disappeared completely.
"Quick! Reload it for me!"
Liu Yu, who was very dissatisfied with the results of the battle just now, rode his horse to the rear of several artillery guns and personally urged the gunners to start preparing to reload.
If the cavalry charges at a distance of more than 100 steps, these gunners would not have time to load and fire the second shot.
Fortunately, the direction these five artillery faced was the intensive infantry of the barbarians, but even so, they would not have many opportunities to launch. 〖∈8〖∈8〖∈8〖∈read〖∈∈book, 2∞3↓o
These temporarily pieced together artillery soldiers, all the cleaning, loading, resetting, etc. are very unfamiliar.
According to Liu Yu's estimate, before the opposite Hulu infantry rushed to the face, these unfamiliar gunners could fire at most two shots. If the Hulu infantry advanced in a hurry, they could only fire at most one shot.
Suddenly, the Hulu cavalry on the opposite side began to accelerate slowly and rushed towards the place where the five artillery artillery of the Qingzhou Army were located.
Soon, at least two thousand Hu cavalrymen raised the speed of the horse to the fastest, but did not directly attack, because the infantry of the two brigades of Qingzhou Army had advanced to the front of the artillery to cover the artillery, and the array of more than one meter of incisors and spears was not easily broken by the cavalry.
These Hu cavalry rushed to the Qingzhou military formation diagonally and shot out a dense rain of arrows with their cavalry bows. With the help of the inertia provided by the extremely fast horse speed, these arrows gained an additional range. With the buzzing sound of breaking through the air, they fell into the Qingzhou military formation like raindrops.
Liu Yu heard the sound of "", "" and "" around him. This was the sound of Hu Qi's feather arrow hitting the armor and shield of Qingzhou soldiers.
The archers of the Qingzhou Army were all scattered in four directions. In the direction where the Hu cavalry launched the attack, the archers of the Qingzhou Army were at an extreme disadvantage in numbers and could not play a role for the time being.
Under the rapid and intensive riding of the barbarians, these archers could only hide behind the armored soldiers' shields for protection.
Although the Qingzhou army has a very high armor rate, there are still many unlucky soldiers who are shot into the unprotected neck, face and calves, and some are penetrated by bows and arrows through the gaps in the armor leaves.
After a round of feather arrow attacks from the Hulu cavalry, many injured people screamed immediately in the Qingzhou army, and soon all the brigades suffered a reduction in personnel.
"It seems that the neck armor and the iron eaves helmet must be equipped."
After seeing many soldiers suffering casualties under the attack of feather arrows, Liu Yu couldn't help but think in his mind that the helmets in the Western Jin Dynasty had almost no iron eaves and could not resist the arrows falling from large angles like those in the bright helmets. They mainly rely on neck armor and masks, but the cost of making neck armor is not low, and ordinary soldiers have no configuration at all.
"General, look, the thief is here again!"
Wu Xin shouted beside Liu Yue.
Liu Yu raised his head and watched. After shooting a round of bows and arrows, the Hu cavalrymen who had just charged and fired feather arrows all turned and rushed to the rear in a diagonal direction, running from the original right wing to the place close to the left wing. The Hu cavalry on the left wing had already begun to accelerate and had to do the riding and shooting method just now.
"Is this the Hulu's cavalry and shooting tactic?"
Liu Yu saw with his own eyes the cavalry on the left and right wings of the captain, like butterflies passing through flowers, shooting alternately in front of the Qingzhou Army.
"Yes, general, this is one of the common cavalry and shooting tactics used by the barbarians. If there are no cavalry to compete with each other and there are not enough arches to fight back, then you can only stand and get beaten."
Wu Xin is obviously very familiar with the tactics commonly used by these Hu people.
After hearing this, Liu Yu had no time to ask more questions, he heard the sound of horse hooves treading on the ground like before.
The sound of thousands of war horses speeding at high speed was transmitted to every soldier of the Qingzhou Army through the tremor of the earth.
Seeing this, several guards of Liu Yu quickly held up several shields to surround Liu Yu and protected him with their bodies and shields.
There were waves of buzzing sounds like a flying wasp, and then thousands of feather arrows hit the Qingzhou army again, and many unlucky guys were shot and fell to the ground.
This time when Hu Qi was shooting arrows, the distance from Qingzhou Army was closer than the last time. Almost all the arrows fell completely into the Qingzhou Army infantry array. There were even two feather arrows flying over the infantry array and shooting onto the shield beside Liu Yu.
Liu Yu pulled out a feather arrow, and saw that there were still words engraved on it, which were arrow branches in the Wei County Armory. From the depth of the shield inserted, the power of these arrow branches was also very impressive.
This feeling of being beaten while standing is too bad.
Moreover, for Qingzhou soldiers who can only be beaten but cannot fight back, not only do they feel bad in their hearts, but they may also cause morale to decline.
"The Hulu, he is so arrogant!"
At this time, Ran Long beside him suddenly gritted his teeth and said.
Because at this time, the Hu Qi, who had completed the first round of shooting, had already begun to reorganize the team. You can tell at a glance that these Hu Qi would continue to do the same thing and use horsepower to exchange for killing.
"General, how could the Hu thief be so arrogant? Let the archer set up a formation and fight back."
Wu Xin also advised Liu Yue.
"Li Feng, arrange the archer immediately."
"Abide by the order!"
Liu Yu looked at the gunners of the five artillery. Because of the interference of two rounds of Hu Gu's bow and arrow attacks, these cucumber-like "artillerymen" had just completed the second round of artillery clearance. Liu Yu expected that when the third round of Hu Cavalry started attacking, they would be able to catch up with the launch.
Thinking of this, Liu Yu immediately ordered several military leaders of the artillery soldiers without hesitation.
"Switch to the shotgun immediately! Order the infantry guarding ahead to dodge the gap."
Soon, the two brigades that had just covered the artillery received the order and immediately formed several smaller square arrays to array cover in the gaps between several artillery guns.
The gunners of several bronze artillery also began to push the paper-packed black huoyao into the barrel, then put a piece of wood as a partition, and finally a large bag of barrel shotguns, with nearly three kilograms of iron beads inside.
As the sound of horse hooves sounded from slow to fast, the third attack of the Huguan cavalry began again.
Just at this moment, hundreds of archers on the front of the Qingzhou Army were also on standby among the infantry arrays, and the five artillery pieces finally completed the final placement of the letter and were ready to be launched at any time.
The third attack of the Hulu cavalry was obviously higher than the previous two times. Accompanied by the rapid sound of horse hooves, strange screams and shouts also resounded in front of the formation.
The attack direction of these two thousand Hu cavalry is like a parabola. The Qingzhou Army is ahead of the top of the parabola. The Hu cavalry will shoot the bows and arrows in the hands in the front to kill the Qingzhou Army infantry, and then turn half-steer and complete the last section of the parabola.
What these Hu cavalry were thinking at this time was that because the Qingzhou army had no power to fight back against two attacks by thousands of Hu cavalry, they seemed to have no power to fight back. The original archers with superior range also completely lost their intention to counterattack under the advantage of the number of cavalry archers.
Therefore, this time they have to be closer to the infantry array in Qingzhou, because the closer they are, the greater the lethality caused by bows and arrows, and the closer they are, the greater the morale of the Qingzhou soldiers.
"Run!"
As the general of this cavalry, Taobao rode his beloved mount and charged to the front.
The cold wind whistled in his ears. Taobao felt that after his riding and shooting, the morale of the Qingzhou army standing foolishly and being beaten on the other side would be greatly damaged.
At that time, as long as you rush to the cavalry and shoot for two more rounds, and then the infantry behind you stepped forward and fought in a short battle, you could completely defeat these Qingzhou troops.
Taobao led the cavalry to accelerate to the peak. He was about to shoot arrows in a curved bow, but suddenly found that many small black dots were leaping out of the Qingzhou army. Taobao knew that this was the archers in the Qingzhou army finally began to counterattack.
"Hmph, such a little arrow can't stop so many cavalry."
Taobao had already guessed that the Qingzhou Army's infringement archers did not use them in a concentrated manner, but were scattered in four directions to fight against the harassment of Hu Qi.
With a sound of puffing into the flesh, there were bursts of screams behind Taobao. He knew that someone was shot by Qingzhou army's bow and arrow, but Taobao was not afraid at all. At this time, they were all eyesless, and they were not afraid of dodging.
When another round of Qingzhou Army's bow and arrows came, Taobao had already shot his own arrow, followed by thousands of feather arrows fired by Hu cavalry.
Taobao lightly controlled the horse, wanted to pass by the Qingzhou army formation, and then returned to the other side.
At this moment, Taobao discovered that five gaps were dodged in the Qingzhou Army's infantry array, revealing five strange-looking big cars, and five black guys were facing him.
"What's this?"
Taobao had a little doubt in his heart, and was wondering if it would have anything to do with the thunder just now.
Suddenly, another "boom" sounded.
Taobao heard the thunderous sound again. Before he could look back on the horse's back, he felt a powerful force coming from behind, as if he was hit by a sledgehammer, and his whole body was driven forward. Then another severe pain came from his waist, and then his eyes turned dark and he knew nothing.
"boom!"
"boom!"
With the five beautiful smoke from gunpowders, thousands of iron beads sprayed out from the muzzle like storms. Two thousand barbarian cavalry, who were almost fifty steps away in front, fell down a large area like wheat fields swept by the strong wind.
The iron beads flying out at high speed burst out with blood mist after hitting the human body and horses. The Hu Qiqi Army, which was originally roaring and running, was immediately killed or injured. The cavalry near the Qingzhou Army were almost completely killed and turned into overwhelmed corpses.
All the Qingzhou soldiers who witnessed all this were stunned by the bloody scene in front of them.
Even though they had heard the loud noise of artillery fire many times when they were in Qingzhou, they never thought that these big copper tubes with thunder could have such terrifying damage!
In front of the entire formation, there was only a chaotic barbarian cavalry shouting in horror and noisy voices.
Suddenly, no one knew who was in the Qingzhou army, let out an excited and loud shout, and then the entire Qingzhou army array burst out with a shout higher than a wave of shouts!
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
Ran Long also blushed with excitement, raised the bow in his hand, and followed the guards beside Liu Yue shouted loudly.11
Chapter completed!