The scouts sent by Nangong Jing found a Han army spear infantry of more than 10,000 people ten miles away. This news made Nangong quite moved. The Han people were not large, so it just allowed his army to fight the first battle and defeat the Han army to establish its authority.

Although Ma Chao asked him to wait until the main force arrived, Nangong Jing was already impatient at this time, and he immediately led 5,000 cavalry to run southeastward.

After a moment, they rushed to a high ground and found the Han army several miles away. Nangong Jing immediately put a curtain on the high ground and looked at the Han army. The Han army seemed to have discovered them and were slowly retreating, but when they retreated three miles away, they stopped. A grassland appeared in front of them, obviously wanting to fight with them.

Nangong Jing slowly narrowed his eyes. The Han army was not large in number, basically all infantry. It was probably an ambush reinforcements, but they were discovered by their own scouts. This was their chance.

Nangong Jing was very conceited. His five thousand elite cavalry were all veterans who had been fighting for many years. He had rich combat experience and was an elite army of the Kushan Empire. They also participated in the war during the last expedition to Northern Tianzhu, but they defeated the 50,000 Tianzhu troops from the flanks.

It was the repeated victory of the Tianzhu army that made this army look a little contemptuous of the Han army. The Han army may have good equipment, but they are not nomadic peoples, are not strong in cavalry, and are only stronger than the Qiang army, which is still far from the Kushan army.

"Prepare for combat!"

Nangong Jing shouted loudly, and the five thousand Kushan soldiers lifted the spear, with uniform movements, showing their superb military qualities.

“Route forward!”

‘Woo--’ The low trumpet sound was blowing on the grassland, which was the order to attack.

The Kushan Army marched slowly. Five thousand cavalry were divided into five rows, one thousand people in each row, with a distance of two meters, as if carefully measured. Each of them was equipped with ten short spears, each of which weighed about seven kilograms, and was made of fine iron, and threw it far by arm force, and pierced the enemy from a distance of thirty steps. This was the sharpest weapon of the Kushan Army to deal with the heavy armored cavalry of Anxi.

The cavalry began to turn into trots, holding shields in one hand and spears in the other, and the line was still neatly arranged, with the sharp short spears in their hands shining in the sunshine with a cold light.

The Han army encountered by the Kushan Army was the left-wing spear infantry led by General Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren's army was deployed at the north gate of Guzang County. When he heard reinforcements arrived, he volunteered to intercept them.

The army led by Zhang Ren was Liu Zhang's Yizhou Army. Most of the soldiers came from Bashu. They had followed Liu Jing to fight for many years and also had rich combat experience. In particular, they participated in the Battle of Hanzhong and the Battle of Longxi, and also had certain experience in dealing with cavalry.

The Han army is equipped with a horn crossbow, with an effective range of 100 steps. The only disadvantage is that it is slow in the winding, and can only be fired twice within a hundred steps. In order to make up for this weakness, each Han army is equipped with a pair of bows and arrows, suitable for short-range shooting, followed by swords, spears and shields, and is equipped with complete equipment. (Baidu search for Gree Literature Network is the fastest and most stable update)

But this time they did not carry bows and arrows. Carrying too much equipment would make it inconvenient for them to march, but they brought the most powerful secret weapon of the Han army.

Although this was Zhang Ren's first battle with the Kushan Army, his rich combat experience allowed him to see the advantages and weaknesses of the Kushan Army at a glance.

Needless to say, it is easy to maintain a neat queue while running, even the Qiang cavalry cannot do it. Obviously, they are very skilled in their overall cooperation. From this point alone, this is a strong enemy.

Secondly, they did not have bows and arrows, each of them had multiple short spears behind them, and there was another spear in addition to the short spear. From this, it can be inferred that the short spear was their throwing weapon, and the range of the short spear was not as good as that of the crossbow arrows. The Han army had a slight advantage in this regard.

However, the Kushan Army's war horses seemed to be very strong, tall and strong, much more powerful than the Huns' war horses, and even faster than the Han army's war horses.

But his weakness is also obvious, that is, their armor is all tight leather armor. This leather armor cannot withstand the crossbow arrows of the Han army, but he seems to know this weakness. Each of them has a large shield, but even if there is a shield, it cannot stop the crossbow iron arrows of the Han army.

Zhang Ren had a plan to fight the enemy in his heart, and he immediately ordered: "Put the crescent moon crossbow formation!"

The Han army flag waved and began to quickly adjust the formation, adjusting it to a crescent-shaped army with heavy and light ends in the middle, with five rows in the middle and two rows on both sides, so as to ensure the maximum density of crossbow arrows. The Han army soldiers in the front two rows held huge shields in their hands, which was to defend against the Kushan spears.

The Han army also slowly advanced forward, holding crossbow arrows in their hands, stopped on a high ground, maintaining a tight formation. The two armies were getting closer and closer, and the hissings and shouts were intertwined, drums rumbling, and horns sobbing, encouraging the morale of their respective soldiers.

Two hundred steps...one hundred and fifty steps...one hundred and twenty steps, it has entered the range of killing of the Han army's crossbow arrows. The Kushan cavalry raised their shields, but Zhang Ren did not order to shoot arrows. He stared at the Kushan people's shields with sharp eyes, as if he had seen through these wooden shields. At one hundred and twenty steps, these shields could withstand the Han army's hard crossbow, but it might not be possible to enter eighty steps.

All the Han troops were holding their breath and waiting for the battle.

After ninety steps, Zhang Ren still did not give an order. Many Han soldiers were in cold sweat. This was something they had never fought for many years, and they had not shot arrows at ninety steps.

At this time, the Kushan cavalry suddenly accelerated, and the distance between the queues began to widen, but the queues were still neat. This was the rich experience of the Kushan cavalry. The distance was widened at the last moment, so that the killing area of ​​the Han army's bows and arrows would be smaller.

The horses galloped, and the cavalry shouted and rushed towards the Han army. Seventy steps, Zhang Ren pointed his sword and shouted: "Fast shooting!"

The three crossbow arrows in the first row shot out flat, which is the advantage of seventy steps. There is no need to shoot the parabola anymore, but directly shoot flat. The arrows roared towards the Kushan cavalry group like heavy rain.

The powerful crossbow arrow shot through the shield of the Kushan cavalry, shot through the leather armor, and penetrated its body. The war horses pounced on the ground and fell down. The cavalry screamed and fell from the horse. In an instant, people were on their backs and horses were overturned. Nearly 500 people were shot over, and the Kushan cavalry's offensive momentum was a setback.

Immediately afterwards, the 6,000 arrows from the second and third rounds were also shot. Within seventy steps, the 5,000 Kushan Army lost more than a thousand men. Although the Kushan cavalry galloped, almost all the cavalry in front were shot down, making the Kushan cavalry not close to the Han army, and it was still seventy steps.

At this time, the Han soldiers who had finished shooting the first round had already been lifted up their crossbow arrows again, and the knife was hanging to pull them. The arrows were like rain, and three thousand arrows were shot at the Kushan cavalry overwhelmingly.

The three thousand soldiers in the second row were also put on the strings and then raised the crossbow and shot. They did not need to aim, but just aimed at the direction. The soldiers in the third row also raised the crossbow arrows.

The soldiers were shooting arrows, raising arrows, and lifting crossbows. The movements of the soldiers were extremely smooth and completed in one go. In a very short period of time, they had shot two rounds of twenty thousand arrows.

The Kushan cavalry had lost more than 1,800 people, and the rest of the soldiers were red in their eyes, raised their swords and yelled, urging their horses to run.

More than 3,000 Kushan cavalry rushed forward in line with dense rain of arrows, and their speed became faster and faster. The sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and their momentum was like storm waves, destroying everything, invincible, and rushing towards the densely defended Han soldiers with an unstoppable violent violent approach.

At this time, the rapid drum sounded in the Han army, and the Han army's crescent crossbow formation suddenly dispersed. Before the Kushan army's short spear was thrown out, it quickly pulled apart to both sides, as if an inverted geese returning north.

The Han soldiers rushed, and the army retreated like a tide. Behind them were densely packed with wooden ox-bee crossbows. These were a thousand bee crossbows. The cold crossbow arrow box aimed at the rushing Kushan cavalry.

The Han army's transformation caught Nangong Jing off guard. He had originally seen the Han army holding giant shields in front of the two rows, as if to resist their spear throwing, which made him secretly happy. The Kushan people's short spears were extremely sharp and powerful, and no shield could resist them. The Han army's formation was dense, just for their flying spear rain to massacre.

However, the Han army suddenly changed its formation at fifty steps, and Nangong Jing had no time to adjust, so he had to yell: "Spout the spear!"

Without his order, the Kushan cavalry had already raised their arms and threw them. Thousands of short spears intertwined into a dense rain, flying in the air, with a terrifying momentum. Although most of the cavalry threw them at fifty steps, with the help of war horses, most of the short spears were shot into the Han army's positions.

The last part of the Han army had no time to withdraw, and the force quickly and sharp short spear pierced through their armor. More than 200 Han soldiers fell to the ground with screams, and the short spear pierced their bodies and nailed them to death on the spot.

At this moment, the bee crossbow also fired, and a crackling sound was heard, and 30,000 iron arrows broke out from the strings and roared towards the rushing cavalry group.

More than a thousand Kushan cavalry rushing in front saw wooden ox blocking the road ahead, and they all tied up their war horses, but they were stunned by the iron crossbow arrows that ejected out.

But the bee crossbow had a long range. They crossed over more than a thousand cavalry in front, but shot at the Kushan cavalry behind them. The overwhelming iron crossbow arrows rushed towards them like a black cloud.

The iron arrows were shot into the cavalry group like a storm. The running Kushan cavalry raised their shields to defend themselves. They were pierced by the iron arrows and their heads and bodies, and screamed and wailed, blood splattered everywhere, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. Then the second round of 30,000 iron crossbow arrows roared again. In just two rounds of shooting, the Kushan cavalry behind was shot and defeated.

This powerful weapon made Nangong Jing frightened. He drove his horse and fled. More than a thousand cavalry under his command were scared to death and followed the chief general to flee backwards.

At this time, the bee crossbow showed its might again, and another 30,000 iron crossbow arrows were shot out, and they were shooting densely at the escaped Kushan cavalry. Nangong Jing ran to the front, but he could not run away from the roaring rain of arrows. He felt a chill on his back, and several iron crossbow arrows shot through his body. He could only hear a scream behind him, and his eyes turned black and his war horse fell off.

At this time, the Kushan Empire fought with the Han army for the first time, which was also the most tragic failure since their founding. Five thousand elite cavalry were shot to death after just one charge, and almost all of them were wiped out. Less than a hundred people escaped from the arrow formation massacre.

The news later reached the Kushan Kingdom, which made the Kushan king and ministers frightened. The complex of the king Dulin's hometown was smashed into pieces. From then on, they no longer had the idea of ​​peeping into the Central Plains.

A few years later, the Kushan prince Suleiman went to the Central Plains to pay homage. When passing by this battlefield, he also found a short Kushan army spear covered with rust, which made him cry.
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