Chapter 51: The Art of Chasing the Enemy with Wheels
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps...
The two armies are gradually approaching.
The Tang army still used this ridiculous formation, and Mosremasa could not care about so much.
It’s a mule or a horse, just take it out and slip it over and you’ll know it.
The huge horn sounded.
This is the Arab order to accelerate the attack.
However, just when the two sides reached the sprint distance,
The Tang army lined up with loose circular formations gradually became dense, and countless crossbow arrows flew up from the formation in a black way.
Tang Jun, who was located in the outermost circle of the circular formation, sent his weapon!
Powerful crossbow, cavalry crossbow of the Tang Dynasty.
The characteristics of strong crossbows are that they are far and accurate, and they have time to aim calmly, but they are laborious and time-consuming to turn. According to these characteristics, strong crossbows are usually used for defense and ambush, and the shooting continuity depends on the rotation of several groups of shooters.
However, the Tang army's use of powerful crossbows can be said to have been at its peak.
The Tang Dynasty liked to attack, so it often achieved defeat in expeditions, but as long as it was victorious, it would destroy the country at any time.
Although later generations mocked the Tang Dynasty for falling into six countries and moving nine times, there is no doubt that in the hundreds of years when the Tang Dynasty existed, the foreign countries that were personally destroyed were the most numerous among all Chinese dynasties, no doubt.
The powerful crossbow used for defense has played tricks in their hands.
There are many clever tactics in Li Jing and Su Dingfang's military strategy, such as the chain breaking technique used by Wang Zhongsi in Ziting's previous defense.
Among them is a set of tactics of crossbows and cavalry cooperation, called wheels to challenge the enemy. It is a brilliant tactic that exerts the power of crossbow arrows and cavalry at the same time.
The characteristic of a strong crossbow is that it is difficult to wind, especially the cavalry, which is even more difficult to wind on horseback, and it cannot use stacked arrays like infantry to maintain the endless arrows.
But the wheel-like circular array avoids this problem.
The Tang army's cavalry kept turning around. Every time they passed by the front of the Arab wedge-shaped charge formation, they would pull the brackets at the dense cavalry formation.
One round after another, the arrows are endless.
The Arab cavalry did not expect that there would be another move, and their minds were full of assaults.
Use their strength to tear the Tang army apart and gain glory.
The terrifying crossbow arrows came all over the sky, and they were unable to dodge at all, so they could only instinctively hold the shield to protect the door.
However, after a previous confrontation, the Tang army had already known that the Arab cavalry had round shields, and they were no longer aiming at people, but horses.
The power of the cavalry crossbow is inferior to that of the Seiyuyuan crossbow. It cannot penetrate people and horses, but it cannot be resisted by flesh and blood.
The cavalry raided at the high speed one by one by one, were thrown to the ground by the injured war horses.
Although the Tang army did not attack them, the cavalry rushing up behind them could not control the trampling on their comrades and died.
In that short moment, hundreds of Arab soldiers fell in front of the two armies.
The Tang army was spinning at high speed like a wheel, and the crossbow arrows were constantly connected and there was no time to stop.
With the powerful crossbow and arrow firepower, the Tang army suppressed the charge of the Arab cavalry and shot their wedge-shaped charge formation into pieces and was unable to form a system.
Watching hundreds of warriors fall down, Mosremasa's heart is bleeding.
As for the generals who joked about Tang Jun's wheels, his face was even more swollen.
It was not until all five thousand crossbow arrows were shot that the Arab cavalry had a chance to breathe.
But what was greeted was a new round of offensive by the Tang cavalry.
When the original circular formation was spinning, it was magically like a magic trick. It completed a change of formation while running, and turned into a pirate cavalry formation that is most suitable for cavalry thrusts.
The extraordinary execution made the Arab army watching the battle behind him dumbfounded and stunned, and could not get over the last moment.
In fact, the Arabs should be glad that their cavalry team had shields.
They held the shield and weakened the power of the Tang army's tactics to fight against the enemy by 30%.
The core essence of the wheel tactics for the enemy lies in "deciding the enemy", and the core of the tactics is to give full play to the greatest advantage of the cavalry crossbow.
First, take a look at the position of the enemy general, use the penetration of the crossbow arrows to shoot hard in the direction of the enemy general, and forcefully tear a hole.
It is best to be able to shoot and kill the enemy general. If you can't shoot, you can tear apart a hole. Then the elite cavalry rushed in along the hole and took the enemy general's head.
However, Arabia has shields that can prevent the deep tearing of such crossbow arrows and cannot obtain the opportunity for beheading tactics.
Pei Min has always been indifferent to one place in his military service, so he changed the depth to the firepower suppression, directly shooting the tip of the Arab cavalry formation, completely suppressing the speed and other things.
The unorganized Arab cavalry meets the Zhehuchen cavalry team, and the outcome can be imagined.
Zhe Huchen is a tiger general who is no less than Li Yide. As the founder of the Zhe family, the tiger general waved his big sword, roared repeatedly, stepped on the body of the Arab soldiers who were lying on the ground, separated the flesh and blood of the Arab cavalry, broke into the enemy cluster, and slashed and slashed.
The showdown between the vanguard army was obviously a complete victory for the Tang army.
Looking at the Tang general who was rushing in the front army and entering the uninhabited realm, Mosremasa said with a blue face: "I, Arab warriors, have never suffered such shame before. Who will challenge me to fight for this thief... to stabilize the defeat."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately responded: "Yislus is willing to serve the Lion King!"
Mosremasa was overjoyed and said, "I'm waiting for this sentence from Marquis, and I'll remember your first merit."
Mosremasa looked down on Yisilus at all in his heart. In his eyes, Yisilus was a villain and a traitor.
Islus was not an Arab or a war slave trained by Arabs, but an orthodox Persian nobleman with the blood of the Persian royal family.
Many years ago, Arab attacked the Persian Sassanian dynasty. Islus, the commander of the Persian cavalry of the most famous Persian Sassanian, was the last hope of the Persians. Almost all Persians placed their future on him. But for his own interests, he chose to unconditionally accept Arab surrender and betray Persia.
Mosremasa worships heroes and looks down on betrayers like Islus.
However, this cavalry commander who inherited the high expectations of Persians in the past had extraordinary abilities. His military power was even higher than that of Kahtaba. The Sassanian iron armored heavy cavalry under his command was second only to the most famous camel cavalry under his command.
This confrontation with the Tang Dynasty was forcibly started by the Tang army, and Mosremasa did not have time to transfer the camel cavalry.
Yisilus' heavy cavalry is actually the most effective killer weapon.
After Yi Silus was killed, a whistle sounded, and the sound of his hooves sounded.
The Sassanian iron armored heavy cavalry leaped out of the formation.
Mosremasa looked to the left wings and found that the left wing had begun to be killed by the Tang army and was in a stalemate.
Chapter completed!