Turbulent Times Chapter 1408: Battle

At present, the distance between the enemy and the enemy is about 400 steps. They have to keep a slow pace to about 200 steps. Keep in formation.

Under the usual strict training and rich combat experience, and led by Luo Shixin himself, the 1,500 cavalry were able to approach and charge at a distance of up to 300 paces.

The gentle speed brought up the chaotic sound of horseshoes, and the two sides approached 300 steps. Luo Shixin’s military flag leaned forward again, and the trumpeter blew the second marching horn. jogging.

The command of the cavalry is different from that of the infantry, which can be commanded from the rear, but the cavalry has to charge forward, and it has to lead while charging and commanding at the same time.

The two cavalry in the first battle are the elite of the cavalry, even in the whole world, they are the real elite. The sound continued continuously, causing the sky above both sides to go dark for an instant.

Archery is inherently difficult when a war horse is fully charging, and it is a combat skill that non-elite cavalry cannot master if it is accurate. Quite a lot. In contrast, within a hundred steps, Mayi’s side only shot two rounds, and each person shot two arrows, but Luo Shixin’s 1,500 people shot two rounds of sixteen arrows. Accuracy is inherently better than that of a bow.

In addition, the Far East Army’s armor is all steel plate armor, and the helmets are all low-brow face helmets, and their defense capabilities far exceed those of the opponent.

So, in the confrontation before the charge, more than 200 people from Mayi died, while only 20 people from the Far Eastern Army died.

On the top of the city, Liu Wuzhou watched the most valiant soldier under his command turn over and fall off the horse, the muscles on his face trembled involuntarily, and he gritted his teeth. Startled, I couldn’t help but feel a chill in my heart.

Originally he only thought that the Far Eastern Army was more powerful with the legendary gunpowder weapons, but now it seems that he was completely wrong, the opponent’s bows, crossbows, helmets, and armors are all there

Being much better than yourself.

He couldn’t help but start to waver in his confidence in being able to defend the city of Mayi County. Who knows if the other party has terrifying weapons and equipment that he has never seen before.

He even began to regret that he should not have been impulsive just now, sending people out of the city to fight in the field to **** the head of the son of the number one counselor Huang Xiaohu.

But having said that, in the situation just now, although it was a momentary impulse to order to go out of the city to grab the head of Old Huang’s son, the current situation is not just about Huang Xiaohu’s head.

You must know that Mr. Huang is a military advisor in his army, and Huang Xiaohu is a famous warrior in his army. If Huang Xiaohu’s head is allowed to hang outside the city like this, it will be extremely bad for the morale of the 100,000 soldiers under his command. Big hit.

Liu Wuzhou is a veteran in the battlefield. He was familiar with military books since he was a child. He naturally knows that if the army has no morale or low morale, 10% or 50% of its strength may not exist.

In fact, because of his confidence in the defensive power of his armor, Luo Shixin ignored the light arrows flying from a distance, and while running, he observed the formation on his side from left to right, and there were surging horse heads everywhere. , he who is in the front row of the queue effectively controlled the team, the array did not have any confusion due to the harassment of these arrows, and the array was still stable.

He gave an order, and suddenly 1,500 soldiers split into two groups, and another 750 people were led by a captain to detour to the rear of the Mayi cavalry. Obviously, Luo Shixin wanted to wipe out the enemy. Intend.

The horseshoes on the gentle **** are no longer a chaotic sound, but the dense hoofbeats slowly converge into a rumbling sound, which is like fairy music to Luo Shixin’s ears.

The distance between the two sides was only a hundred steps, and Luo Shixin thought it was only about fifty steps due to the fact that they were facing each other. The flat array was like a moving wall of horses.

Wang Chengguang, the cavalry general who came out of the city from Mayi, saw that he had lost more than two hundred people before he met his soldiers.

You have to know whether all of their 1,500 people have iron armor or because they are Liu Wuzhou’s personal troops. Most of the ordinary Mayi cavalry are leather armor, and only three of them can have iron armor.

One out of one. This gap alone has directly and greatly affected the comparison of the combat power of the two sides.

Right now, the two sides dispatched roughly the same number of cavalry, about 1,500 cavalry, but thinking that it would be a **** and bitter battle later, Wang Chengguang, the commander of the Mayi cavalry, was also a decisive person, so he acted decisively and gave a whistle , 1,500 soldiers and horses were also divided into two waves, each facing the cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion charging towards them.

And Wang Chengguang himself led fifty or so soldiers straight to the long wooden stick hanging their Huang Xiaohu’s head in the middle of the battlefield.

Wang Chengguang was Liu Wuzhou’s Yingji Lang general when he was Ying Yang Lang. He had followed Liu Wuzhou for many years, and he knew what he was thinking at this time. He knew that even the fifteen hundred elite cavalry he brought out all died in battle Here, as long as Huang Xiaohu’s head is brought back, if the person dies and the head is not brought back, it will be a devastating blow to the morale of the soldiers watching this scene at the top of the city.

The horses are galloping like the wind, and the two sides are constantly closing the distance, drawing their bows and crossbows. The riders of the Far Eastern Army are holding iron guns and wearing newly issued gloves. Although it is still autumn, Jiangnan is even hot to death, but However, the city of Mayi County is already as cold as winter. Holding a weapon in this kind of weather, the hands are frozen to the ground, which will inevitably affect the flexibility. But if the Far Eastern Army has gloves, it must be more or less different.

Most of the Mayi cavalry side is a kind of long saber, and there are also maces and swords and sticks. They are also in a strict formation and start jogging, but the strictness is only compared to the ordinary cavalry of this era, compared to the Far Eastern Army today. The order and uniformity of the cavalry array is much worse. Their cavalry is more widely spaced, and their troops are not evenly distributed. There is a garrison in the left, middle, and right rears, and they start to jog.

Luo Shixin and the other captain leading the team were so excited that they shouted at almost the same time: “Three speeds!”

Another sound of the marching horn, the flag bearer turned the main flag in a circle and leaned forward, the centurion below issued an order loudly, and the pennant gun leaned forward again. When the two teams of cavalry heard the trumpet, they accelerated their horses at the same time. The sound of rumbling horseshoes was like thunder rushing from far to near in the sky.

After facing each other, the distance between the two sides is only the last hundred steps in a blink of an eye, and it only takes a few breaths.