Nanming Engineer

Chapter 142 Cavalry
This is a bit fatal. The horse is heavy, and one or two people can’t move it at all. Let’s go together. The dense iron nails can’t accommodate many hands to put on it. More than 200 people surround the horse like a dog biting a hedgehog. However, someone had an idea, and used the spear and iron gun in his hand as a crowbar, inserted it under the horse and pried it hard, and it was able to move away. So everyone was overjoyed, and they were waiting to pry together, when they suddenly heard that there was a hole in the sky. The sound came suddenly, and he looked up hurriedly.

A rain of arrows came.

Two hundred warriors stood on the side of the wooden shield that was staggered one space apart by one person, holding the mountain-destroying crossbow in their hands, and fired flatly at a distance of thirty steps. Like a wall made of arrows, push it over.

The porters were unprepared, like the wind blowing wheat waves, they screamed and fell down a large area, with nearly ten arrows stuck in each corpse, lying on the ground like a hedgehog.

It is a pity that the crossbow bolts have insufficient penetration and cannot penetrate the human body, otherwise the more than 200 people who got off their horses would no longer be standing.

Even so, nearly a hundred soldiers who carried the refusal horses died in the rain of arrows, and those who survived were so frightened that they lay on the ground and did not dare to get up.

Tan Wen's men reacted very quickly. Before the white-robed soldiers put on the second arrow box, taking advantage of the gap in shooting, more than 100 archers immediately urged their horses forward. , shooting wolf-fang arrows at the white-robed soldiers.

The riding bows they use are long and powerful. They are much stronger than mountain crossbows in terms of power and range. The archers are all veterans, and they shoot very fast. They can draw ten bows in a row without stopping. Spike arrows are heavy arrows. , full of armor-piercing and penetrating power, a grade higher than the eight-inch short arrows used for destroying mountain crossbows.

The white-robed soldiers were shooting beside the wooden shield. Most of their bodies were hidden behind the wooden shield, which actually meant to prevent the opponent's bow and arrow from counterattacking. However, even so, several white-robed soldiers were still accurately shot by the opponent. The powerful impact knocked everyone to the ground and fell on their backs.

The huge protective effect of Wang Huan's reformed cotton armor and rattan armor was revealed at this moment. None of the soldiers hit by arrows were shot through, and the most unlucky people were only shot through two layers of armor. , barely able to struggle to get up, and hid behind the wooden shield.

Tan Wen's soldiers are very skilled. Seeing the white-robed soldiers hiding behind the wooden shield, he stopped, watching someone appearing next to the wooden shield, and immediately shot another arrow. This is the difference between bows and crossbows. A well-trained top archer can accurately shoot an arrow branch through the square hole of a copper coin from thirty steps away, but it is difficult for a crossbow arrow to do this. You can't get to the bottom of it if you hit your feet.

In this way, the white-robed soldiers could only hide behind the wooden shields and throw their crossbows, and their accuracy was greatly reduced. It was basically blind shooting. The courage of the soldiers increased greatly, and the layers of refusal horses were quickly and gradually moved aside.

"Tell them to withdraw, and the goal has almost been achieved, and the cavalry should come out after a while." Wang Huanning watched the development of the battle, knowing that the mountain destroying crossbow could not stop the actions of the Tan family's army horses, and immediately issued an order.

Zu Bian turned around and said a few words, and beside the two of them, Min Zhuang, who was holding a huge copper gong, raised a stick and knocked "clang, clang, clang".

Beating the drums and marching forward, beating the gold and retreating, the ancient practice, the wooden shield soldiers and the white robe soldiers moved when they heard the sound, the wooden shield soldiers raised their big shields to cover the white robe soldiers behind them, and retreated slowly.

On the other side of Juma, Tan Wen was sweating profusely from the high temperature and heat waves, and the thick black smoke billowing in made it hard to breathe. If he stayed for a while, the smoke alone would suffocate him without a big fire. .

But he didn't dare to take off the heavy fish scale armor on his body, and he was about to move it away. The obstacle in front of him had been eliminated, and the final critical moment was coming.

Tan Wen had already looked at the formation on the opposite side when the arrows were flying from both sides just now, and estimated that there were more than 3000 stone pillar soldiers, with six layers of pikemen fortified on the front, and infantry raiding formations on both wings, which seemed to be well prepared.

On our side, there were originally only about 300 cavalrymen. After excluding the nearly [-] people who had just been shot to death, there were only more than [-] cavalrymen left. The number of people was very different. Do you expect the infantry behind to catch up?Pull them down, those people may have died from the smoke in the pine forest.

However, Tan Wensan brothers are not very worried. If cavalry is fighting infantry, if it is a battle of annihilation, it will be very difficult, and they may fall into the infantry and die alive, but Tan Wen's purpose at this moment is different. He just wants to escape. The wind breaks the formation like a knife cuts mud bricks, as long as you rush up and fight a way, you will win.

Of course, he would not have such an idea if he was confronted with dignified white-armed soldiers. Facing that kind of strong army that didn't even bat an eyelid when the knife was handed to his eyes, he had no choice but to surrender, but the current stone pillar soldiers, not like.

The soldiers on the opposite side were all dressed in sackcloth, didn't even have uniform uniforms, and mostly held bamboo spears in their hands. No matter how you looked at them, they looked like the bandits who were beaten by the officers and soldiers running around everywhere a few years ago. Those kind of cannon fodder thieves don't even need to cut with a knife against this kind of horizontal team composed of people who can't be called soldiers. When the horse team charges directly, the thunderous hooves of the horses can make them scatter like birds and beasts.

In this regard, Tan Wen is very experienced, and the experience of following two governors to suppress bandits gave him infinite confidence.

"Everyone get on their horses and form a conical formation. The heavily armored ones are in front, and the rest follow. Charge over!" Tan Wen hoarsely shouted and gave the order to charge.

Tan Zhi held his Xuanhua ax tightly, and adjusted the position of the heart mirror. This kind of scene is just what he likes. He wears chain mail on the inside and armor on the outside. The tall body and ferocious face are enough to give the enemy a strong shock.

The cavalry quickly adjusted their formation and lined up in several horizontal lines. Tan Zhi stood in the front row, and with his loud shout: "Kill!", he rode out.

The distance between the two sides was too close, only about a hundred steps, so there was no change in the speed of the usual charge. Tan Zhi directly raised the horse to the highest speed, and the spurs pierced the horse's belly, oozing blood, the horse suffered pain, and galloped crazily , rushed forward like a whirlwind.

The cavalry followed closely behind, and the horizontal line immediately became a wedge shape, Tan Zhi became the point at the tip, he was holding an ax flat, the sharp ax blade was facing the head of a stone pillar soldier he was staring at.

With the power of his horse, Tan Zhi was able to cut off the soldier's head without using any force at all.

From the moment Tan Wen started to charge, Wang Huan issued three orders in a row.

"Tighten the wooden shield, buckle the teeth into the ground, hold the shield against the shield, and cut off the one who retreats!"

"Two platoons of spearmen step forward, leaning against the wooden shield and raising their spears, those who retreat without permission will be cut off!"

"Soldiers in the back, listen to my orders and get ready to kill the captives. Throw them when the suona sounds, and anyone who throws them without authorization will be killed!"

Zu Bian, on the other hand, strode into the second row of spearmen behind the wooden shield, holding a huge three-foot-long hooked sickle spear, with an excited expression on his red face. He was born for war, and he smelled bloody. It can bring him boundless satisfaction, and the joy of killing the enemy can make him even more intoxicated.

"Cheer up, everyone, no one can be a coward! Mr. Wang is right behind us. If I die, he will come. If anyone dares to run away, I will twist their head and use it as a chamber pot!" Zu Bian's face was distorted, Loud and loud voices to boost morale.

Without some ruthlessness, it is difficult to guarantee that the peasants will not instinctively turn around and flee in the face of the cavalry that is crushing like tanks.

Wang Huan did not stand with his ancestors because of this consideration. Beside him and behind the other three layers of civilians, there were dozens of white-robed soldiers standing with crossbows in hand to supervise the battle team. Who dared to cross Anyone who ran back from where Wang Huan was standing, shot and killed no matter who they were.

(End of this chapter)