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Chapter 15 Kite-Flying Tactics

Flags are flying, drums are roaring.?

On the clear and clear day in the blue sky, Su Dingfang ordered five thousand soldiers to split into three groups and line up, with a certain distance between them.

Just like Wumo, Su Dingfang had already discovered Wumo's reinforcements.

On this grassland that was far away from the dust, more than thousands of soldiers could not hide in this broad daylight.

Su Dingfang's experience on the grassland is certainly not as good as Wu Mo. He can accurately and keenly distinguish the enemy's movements with the strange appearance of the cavalry plundering dust, but he has already obtained the exact news of Wu Mo's reinforcements from the scouts sent by Luo Shixin, and knowing that the opponent's troops are more than three thousand more than them, and he has a numerical advantage. But just like Wu Mo, Su Dingfang showed the same sneer, and he was the same sure victory.

The soldiers on both sides became closer and closer, appearing little by little in each other's vision.

Su Dingfang issued an order to advance without hesitation: but strangely, the five thousand Tang troops did not increase their speed, but moved forward in a trot state, as if they had completely given up the speed of the cavalry.

Su Dingfang's strangeness was naturally in Wu Mo's eyes.

Telling Umo on the move, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, and more of a warning.

The power of the Tang Dynasty has been accepted by them, and Luo Shixin's power is also known to people on the grassland.

Even if he had the confidence to win, he did not dare to be careless when facing Luo Shixin's soldiers.

"Don't worry!"

Wu Mo thought to himself: "Even if they have any idea, I am not close to me. What can they stand up to me? But... the opponent's lineup is a bit loose. Could it be that they are prepared for the riding and shooting of our clan? It's too naive to arrange a strange formation and want to deal with the riding and shooting of our clan."

There is a reason why Umo is sure to win. Every tribe of the Turks has its own habits, and not all tribes are the same.

Eighty years ago, a hero appeared in Wumo's Uk tribe. This hero was respected as "Qionghan". Translated into Zhongyuan, it is a meteor, which refers to his arrows as brilliant as meteors, with excellent vision and excellent archery skills. The so-called "100-step piercing the sun". For him, it is like taking a pupil. Even in the night battle and melee, he can take off his opponent's life with just one shot, and even shoot several arrows at the same time. He shoots through several opponent's soldiers.

At that time, the entire Turks were not strong, but under the leadership of the Ashinatumen, the greatest Khan of the Turks, they were on the road to rise. At that time, the most powerful tribe on the grassland was the Rouran Khanate. This Rouran Khanate rose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Central Plains, and lived outside the Great Wall. They founded the Khanate, which was dominated by the north and south of the desert under the vast blue sky of thousands of miles. Its territory was wider than that of the Huns in the Han Dynasty, and its strength was no less than that of the Huns.

The Qiong Hang of their tribe followed the Ashinatumen and the Rouran Khanate to fight. Faced with the huge Rouran Khanate, Qiong Hang achieved extraordinary military achievements with his outstanding archery skills. In the vital battle of survival, Qiong Hang hung more than ten quiver pots and shot arrows with a hard bow, specifically aiming at the sergeant commanders of the Rouran Khanate, Shi, Centurion, Thousand Man, and Ten Thousand Man, and the arrows were shot and killed without any slightest. Those who were in the 150 steps would die. In that battle, Qiong Hang shot a total of 92 arrows, and the school officials above the Rouran Khanate were shot and killed by him in a row. He created a legendary myth of an era.

Qiong Hang of the U tribe has been dead for many years. However, his deeds have always inspired the entire tribe. Almost all the young men of the tribe regarded Qiong Hang as their role model idol when they were young. This led to the Wu tribe's archery skills being better than all grassland people who are also Turkic tribes. Regarding the overall archery ability, the entire Turkic U tribe said that he was second, but no one dared to say that he was first.

Because of this, the Wu tribe has a cavalry and archery force that is famous for the grassland. They are only equipped with war bows and arrow bags and are equipped with scimitars. They do not have any long weapons. They take advantage of the cavalry's coming and going as freely as the wind, and supplemented by the tribe's good shooting characteristics, using the grassland cavalry and archery for the battlefield has always been invincible.

This is also the confidence of Wu Mo. He never thought of attacking the Tang cavalry head-on, but intended to use kite flying tactics, relying on the habits of the Turks and the characteristics of their Wu tribe to annihilate the Tang army.

He didn't believe that the Tang army's cavalry and shooting skills could be comparable to the nation on their horses?

Wumo had great confidence in the riding and shooting of their tribe, and blew the bone flute on his neck and used the sound of the flute to command the tribe's people to fight.

As the sound of bone flutes came one after another, the cavalry of the Wu tribe took off the battle bows and put the arrow feathers in their mouths, preparing for the first wave of shooting.

The Tang Dynasty cavalry opposite seemed to give up the speed of the cavalry and slowly advance, but the cavalry of the Ukrainian tribe advanced rapidly, making the distance between them get closer and closer.

Three hundred steps!

Two hundred and fifty steps!

Two hundred steps!

One hundred and ninety steps!

One hundred and seventy steps!

...

It's almost done!

Wu Mo looked at Tang Bing who was as fast as a target, and a hot light flashed in his eyes...

It's soon, it's soon!

Generally speaking, the effective range of the Turks is 150 steps, but the cavalry and archery troops of the Ukrainian tribe are mainly cavalry and archery. They need to keep shooting arrows to ensure their lethality. Therefore, all combat bows are short bows that are conducive to cavalry and archery, and the range is closer than that of ordinary Turkish soldiers, between 130 and 40 steps, but their endurance has increased significantly.

Wumo stared wide, waiting for the distance between the two sides to enter 130 steps, the most favorable moment of shooting range.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that Tang Jun took out something from behind...

"No," he blurted out, his heart was chilling and trepidated! "Scatter, spread out quickly!"

The Tang army, who were advancing slowly, actually took out the crossbow arrows that had been stringed from behind...

Throughout history, crossbows and arrows have been the biggest natural enemy of their grassland nation.

Since the Qin Dynasty, powerful crossbows have been pressing against ordinary bows and arrows. With the development of technology, the strength of crossbows has become more and more obvious. Li Ling of the Han Dynasty relied on the Han Dynasty's big yellow crossbow to fight against the 100,000 Huns with the power of 5,000 people, and even killed tens of thousands of them. This developed into the Tang Dynasty, and the Fuyuan crossbow in the Modao Formation made them suffer a lot.

Now Tang Jun is still using crossbows...

As soon as he saw the crossbow arrow, Wu Mo's mind instinctively emerged the power of Fuyuan Crossbow...

That powerful weapon with a range of up to 300 steps can penetrate several people with one arrow...

The sound of bowstrings that were more rapid than horse's hooves sounded!

The crossbow arrows went up and the feathers of the arrows all over the sky were like locusts, leaping into the formation.

As the speed of galloping was accelerated, the temporary and urgent orders were issued to "disperse", and even the Turks who were skilled in bowing and horses could not do this.

In an instant, hundreds of Turkic cavalry screamed and fell down by being shot. The chaotic fluctuations expanded, and the middle area of ​​the dense cavalry and shooting array of Wumo's troops collapsed instantly!

Wu Mo was heartbroken and unexpectedly found that the casualties were far less painful than he had imagined, and the power of the crossbow arrow was not as terrifying as he imagined. He suddenly realized that the Tang army was not using the terrifying Fuyuan crossbow, but the bow and crossbow with a few powers that were less powerful than Fuyuan crossbow.

Thinking of this, Wumo had already made up his mind and shouted, "Continue to move forward and speed up!"

He ordered, and then found that the Tang army on the opposite side had also increased their speed. They no longer moved leisurely, but accelerated their retreat...

That's right, retreat!

After the three of them were in the first formation, the cavalry of the first formation shot. One after another, they ran left and right like lines, retreating in a circle.

The crossbow arrows shot in succession, taking away more than 500 of their combat power.

The Tang army never stopped. When they retreated, they skillfully installed crossbow arrows on the horse's back, and then turned around and pulled the brackets.

Wu Mo was stunned and was in a bad mood: Tang Jun actually used their exact same tactics: they planned to fly kites, but now they let the other party fly kites. The difference between them gave him a feeling of urge to vomit blood.

As a cavalry and archery expert, he could see that the Tang army had put some effort into this, but in terms of speed of shooting and flexibility of changing direction, they were far inferior to them, but the Tang army's range was above them. It was fifty steps farther than them. The advantage of these fifty steps covered up all shortcomings. They had not touched the Tang army now, but the Tang army injured more than 500 of their soldiers with the power of a crossbow.

The installation of crossbow arrows is a bit complicated, not as direct as bows and arrows, but there are times when complicated installations are done...

The crossbow arrow attack broke through the air again.

Su Dingfang experienced the command of the Tang army cavalry flying kites and dogs, as an excellent military genius. When Luo Shixin proposed such a tactic, he mastered the essence of this set of tactics in the fastest and shortest time. Just like an experienced veteran, commanding in an orderly manner.

Compared to Wu Mo's victory by relying on his riding and shooting!

Su Dingfang's confidence in winning lies in knowing himself and his enemy.

Why did the Tang Dynasty fight so smoothly?

It is not that Luo Shixin has the ability to penetrate the sky and the earth, but that it is to study and ponder.

Li Shimin used his conspiracy and tricks to weaken the power of the Turks in the court. Luo Shixin on the border was of course not just a simple training...

Including Li Jing from Lingzhou and Li Shiji from Yanmen Pass, they have already set their sights on the grassland.

For the Lanyi tribe, the Uk tribe, the Luo Yi and Luo Shixin's Governor's Mansion, the information about them was piled up on the table, from the strength of the tribe, the character and character of the Khan leader, and the situation of the generals under his command, they were constantly passed to Luo Shixin's hands during the year of training...

How could Luo Shixin not know about the riding and shooting of the Wu tribe, and the archery and the grassland? How could he not be careful at all?

Crossbow cavalry appeared in the Qin Dynasty, but because the crossbow arrows were too slow to roll and were not flexible enough, it was not suitable for the real battlefield. However, they were facing the Uk tribe who was dominant by riding and shooting and intending to fight the tactics of riding and flying kites...

The advantage of crossbow cavalry has a strong advantage... (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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