blenderwars Chapter 779 Breaking the Shield
Chapter 779 Breaking the Shield
Chapter 779 Breaking the Shield
The camp of the Tang army was in the shape of a C. Except for the entrance direction of the Western Turkic attack, all directions were tents. The strange thing is that when the Western Turkic attack came in, there was a large open space.
A total of 5 people from the Western Turks came in. Even so, they were several hundred steps away from the nearest camp, which shows how big the open space is.
Dawa Tsering's words made Bad Zoerge come to his senses, and quickly commanded the army to go to the camp hundreds of steps away.
For the cavalry, the distance of a few hundred steps was just an instant. However, the soldiers of the Western Turks had just moved, and a signal flare flew into the sky with a special sound and exploded in the air.
The loud noise startled the horses under the crotch of the Western Turkic soldiers and caused quite a commotion.
This is not the most deadly, as the signal sounded, the outermost tent was cut open, revealing Tang soldiers with strange weapons.
When Bart Zoorg saw Tang Jun, he showed joy, and ordered: "Charge!"
He didn't feel that he was ambushed by the Tang army. There was no obstacle in front of the Tang army. At such a short distance, the cavalry could reach it in a few breaths.
Thinking of the strange noise ahead, Dawa Tsering had a bad premonition in his heart, but thinking that the Tang army only had less than 5 people, and his own had [-] people, even if the other side had an ambush, he ordered the soldiers to charge.
"Shhhh~"
Tang Jun pulled the trigger, and the sky filled with crossbow arrows shot at the Turkic soldiers with the sound of piercing the air.
"Ah~"
Many of the Turkic cavalry in the front row were hit by arrows, and pieces of them fell off their horses.
Dawa Tsering did not panic when he saw this scene. Although bows and arrows have a certain impact on the cavalry charge, bows and arrows cannot be truly continuous, and there will be short gaps between each batch of arrows.
At this time, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty did not have any protection in front of them. With such a short distance, they only needed to pay some price to rush to the front of the Tang army. At that time, these archers could only be slaughtered.
But soon Dawa Tsering couldn't laugh anymore. The arrows shot by the Tang army were not only very dense but also continuous. The cavalry of the Western Turkic charge suffered heavy casualties, but the distance between the two sides was not shortened much.
"No, that's not a bow and arrow!" Dawa Tsering took a closer look and found that the arrows were continuously shot out from the strange weapons in Tang Jun's hands.
Bart Zoerg also discovered this, seeing that 5000 people were killed and injured in such a short period of time, he was very distressed, and said, "Do you have a way to deal with it?"
Dawa Tsering pondered for a while, and said: "The weapons in Tang Jun's hands seem to be able to shoot flat, not projectiles. Let people charge with shields in their hands!"
When fighting, the arrows of the archers are actually shot upwards at an angle of 45 degrees to the sky. This is the so-called projectile.
The arrow head is heavy and the tail is light, so that the falling arrow can cause lethality to the enemy.
The benefit of projectile can cause damage to the enemy in a large area, and can also effectively avoid shields.
However, the Tang army did not projectile. As long as the soldiers in the front row held their shields, casualties could be greatly reduced.
Bart Drog also had no good solution, and quickly sent people to mobilize the shield.
Soon, the Turkic soldiers retreated.
At this time, the defect of the Liannu appeared, once the mechanism was pulled, fifty arrows had to be shot, and it was impossible to send and receive freely.
When the enemy retreated out of range, the bolts of the Liannu continued to shoot.
After the crossbow arrows were shot, without Lin Xuan's order, the soldiers quickly replaced the crossbow arrows, waiting for the enemy's attack.
In the North Camp, 2 Datang cavalry and [-] Mukun cavalry were on horseback ready to go.
"General, why don't we do it?" Seeing that Cheng Yaojin didn't give the order, Xue Rengui was a little anxious.
Cheng Yaojin smiled and said: "Rengui, the most important thing in a war is to stay calm. At this time, the enemy has just entered the camp, and the [-] cavalry outside must be on guard, and we don't move. After a long time, they will naturally relax. .”
Xue Rengui naturally knew this truth, but the premise was that Lin Xuan's side could withstand it. If Lin Xuan's side couldn't hold it, even if they wiped out the [-] Turkic cavalry, so what.
Cheng Yaojin knew what Xue Rengui was worried about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, there are assists and crossbows, and the Turks will not be able to threaten them in a short time."
Seeing what Cheng Yaojin said, Xue Rengui didn't say anything, although he was still worried.
"Rengui, the old man gave you a mission. You lead the brave guards to stay in the big camp. After the old man leads the troops out, you lead people out of the camp from the side and quickly go around to the southern camp to block the Turkic retreat. " Cheng Yaojin said.
"Yes!" Xue Rengui bowed in response.
"Don't rush to agree. There are still [-] Turkic soldiers and horses that have not moved. Once you block the back of the Turkic people who entered the camp, the [-] cavalry will definitely attack you. At that time, you will face two sides. , you must persist until the old man wipes out the [-] cavalry outside, can you do it?" Cheng Yaojin said with a serious expression.
"I can't guarantee that I will be able to persist until then, but I promise that as long as my subordinates don't die, the brave guard will not retreat!" Xue Rengui said loudly.
"Okay, after this battle, I will personally ask for credit for you." Cheng Yaojin said.
Cheng Yaojin looked at the sky and said, "It's almost time, I'm going!"
The gate of the North Camp was wide open, and Cheng Yaojin led more than 2 cavalrymen to charge towards the [-] Turkic cavalrymen several miles away.
Just when Cheng Yaojin launched an attack, Lin Xuan's side, the Western Turks launched an attack again.
Seeing Xi Turk charging forward with his shield up, Lin Xuan said disdainfully, "It's really naive to rely on a wooden shield to defend against the crossbow."
Wooden shields are not bad at defending against bows and arrows. The lethality of bows and arrows can reach a hundred steps, but if they exceed fifty steps, their power will decrease and they will not be able to shoot through the shield at all, but crossbows are different.
The power of crossbow arrows will not decrease much after a hundred steps or so, and the power of continuous crossbows is much greater than that of bows and arrows. These shields can't stop them for long.
Naturally, the Western Turkic side didn't know this, and the soldiers in the front row charged again holding their shields.
After entering the range, because there are a large number of corpses on the ground, the speed has dropped a lot.
In the previous charge, the Turks killed more than 1 people, which shows the power of the Liannu.
And these corpses have now become a barrier for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, greatly slowing down the speed of the Western Turks.
Although the Western Turks were within range, Lin Xuan did not rush to order an attack, but waited until the distance was about a hundred steps before giving the order.
The sound of the machine gun sounded, and the sky was darkened by the arrows all over the sky.
A large number of crossbow arrows shot on the shield, and did not cause much death or injury to the Western Turks.
Seeing this scene, Dawa Tsering showed a hint of a smile.
With the Western Turkic shield raised, Tang Jun still didn't shoot, which showed that his guess was right. Datang's strange weapon could only shoot flat.
However, the smile on his face soon froze. The shield in the hands of the Western Turkic soldiers didn't hold on for long before it was directly shot through by continuous crossbow arrows.
"How could this be?" Dawa Tsering couldn't believe it.
(End of this chapter)