Chapter 1991 Middle Road Assault
But Li Mi looked at the Heishi Camp opposite again, but frowned again. Although there were shouts of killing in the camp, with his intuition of many years of fighting on the battlefield, he felt that something was wrong. Although the killing sound was very high, he could not hear many screams of dying people. Moreover, Shan Xiongxin, who was attacking the camp, should turn to his own direction and stick out of the camp, but the killing sound still did not change. Could it be that he was hiding the ambush of the Sui army and unable to break through? Li Mi felt that he was not very good. He wanted to order a raid several times, but now he became hesitant again.
Li Mi looked back at the eight thousand inner horse army behind him, and waved his hand fiercely: "The whole army obeys the order! One thousand five hundred people are divided into six teams. After a rain of arrows, attack the enemy's infantry phalanx. Be sure to wipe out the Sui army, and then meet with General Luo Shixin, attack the Sui army's troops attacking Yuecheng together. Those who dare to retreat will definitely be killed without forgiveness!"
The Wagang soldiers who had been waiting for a long time cheered in unison. As the best Wagang warriors in the entire Central Plains, watching friendly troops let go and kill them, and they could only wait and see, which was the greatest insult to the warriors. As soon as they heard this order, eight thousand Wagang iron riders immediately arranged their attack formation. In just a few minutes, the first wave of Wagang cavalry launched a thunderous full-speed assault towards the Sui Army three miles away!
The full-speed attack of the first cavalry of the inner horse army under Qin Qiong was out of control. It seemed that there were only more than 400 steps left from the Sui army's spear formation in front. All the Wagang knights shot out the bows and arrows in their hands, then skillfully hung up the big bow, picked up the long spear, stood on the kickstick with both feet, held the reins with one hand, and clamped the long spear tightly under their armpits with the other. This way, destroying all gun charges, is enough to crush any infantry into a pile of meat paste!
Four hundred steps and three hundred and fifty steps, the Wagang Knights all let out a wolf roar, shaking the earth. With their full speed of attack, they were like an unstoppable black dragon and heading straight for the Sui army formation. In the eyes of some Wagang Knights, they were surprised to see that the Sui soldiers in the front had begun to throw down their long spears, as if they were about to escape! This is the most common script they saw when they were traversing the Central Plains and the iron cavalry rushed. Next was the enemy's head-to-head jump, and then crushing and chasing them all the way!
However, the Sui army who had thrown away the long spear suddenly took an infantry crossbow from their companions behind them. They threw away the shields filled with feather arrows, held the crossbows in both hands, and did not even need to aim. They pulled the trigger three times in a row. The sound of the machine spring firing was endless. Round after round of crossbow seas came towards the Wagang cavalry!
The four-stone infantry crossbow was enough to penetrate the Killer Knights in double mail at less than two hundred steps. In order to implement gun-mounted attacks, the Wagang Knights even threw their shields aside. This time they were shot straight away. Although their war horses were brave and swift, they were not covered with armor. The crossbows shot the heads and chests of hundreds of war horses in the first row. The crossbows shot out a bunch of bloody rains by the crossbow arrows. The war horses that lost their balance staggered forward one by one, stoking forward more than ten steps, and surfing the Wagang Cavalry, who were also caught in the arrow, rushed out more than a dozen steps forward. In the yellow sand, they rushed out a trace of blood stains in the sea.
The Wagang riders in the back row either jumped over or bypassed the bodies of their companions who were lying in front of them, and only slowed down slightly, and quickly continued to attack. The Sui army's front row of crossbows took advantage of this gap and took the second crossbow from their companions behind them. They did not aim at them, and directly targeted the Wagang Iron Cavalry, which was densely propelled like a wall, and then shot three crossbows again!
This time, because the distance was closer to a hundred steps, the penetration of the crossbow arrows was further enhanced. Many of the Wagang knights on horseback were shot by the oncoming crossbow arrows and flew straight backwards from the horse. Some war horses were still running forward, and the knights had already fallen from behind. In this round, two or three hundred Wagang cavalry shot down. After two rounds of crossbow arrows, the first wave of 1,500 Wagang knights that had attacked were more than half, but the remaining people were still red, waving the long spear in their hands, standing on the kickstand, launching a fatal assault towards the Sui army array seventy or eighty steps away at full speed. This time, it is no longer possible for a crossbow to stop the thunder attack of these knights!
Li Mi stood in the cavalry formation behind him, watching the first three waves of cavalry facing the Sui army's formation and launching a final attack. On the other hand, Luo Shixin's cavalry seemed to have encountered a bottleneck of attack. After the Sui army's formation, waves of long spear soldiers and swords and axemen were continuously running out toward the front line where the infantry and cavalry were mixed and fighting together. The archers who had originally suppressed Yuecheng City also began to run out of the infantry formation and turn to the right, forming two to three rows of archers arrays, turning round the rain of death toward Luo Shixin's cavalry.
The screams of people and the sad neigh of horses were heard, and the wind spread to Luo Shixin, causing the scar on his face to jump again and again. He shouted loudly: "Roar, kill!"
Li Mi finally understood the intention of the Sui army. Mengshan and Luoshui were like two natural isolation objects, limiting the charge width of the Wagang cavalry to about three or four hundred steps. At this distance, even if the eight thousand cavalry were divided into ten teams, they could only barely expand, and it was impossible to use the mobility of the cavalry to surround the flanks. Luoshui in the south and Mengshan in the north were the best protection for the flanks of the Sui army. They were definitely prepared, rather than rushing to fight!
Li Mi's teeth were chewed. In any case, even if the troops of Shan Xiongxin and Luo Shixin who were attacking the camp were all damaged, as long as his inner horse army could forcefully penetrate the defense line of the Sui army head-on, there was still a possibility of turning defeat into victory. He believed in the strength of his subordinates. This army swept across the entire Central Plains, and today, there was no exception! Although the Sui army was strong in bows and fast, its flesh and blood could not withstand the iron cavalry that was only a few dozen steps away from the full speed!
Chapter completed!