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Volume 2 Wang Changan Chapter 21 The bloody battle of Gu Mu'er (Part 1)

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    Chapter 21 The bloody battle of Gu Mu'er

    The bright moon was in the sky, and two cavalrymen approached quickly under the clear moonlight. Duan Heng's front row of cavalrymen all set up their mounts, forming a front-line formation, while Han Yuanzhong's cavalry slowed down their horses and began to circle sideways.  , the hoofs of tens of thousands of cavalry shattered the night. Both sides discovered each other immediately, and both horses entered the charge. The sound of horn crossbows sounded. The Zhou army cavalry's horn crossbows took the lead in firing thousands of crossbow arrows, and they pounced on them like locusts.  On the other side, the shields of the Dashi cavalry were raised, and the soldiers' eyes were equally determined. They were also proud Dashi warriors, and they wanted to prove their merits with their blood.

    The crossbows could only fire one wave at the high speed of the cavalry. Due to the high density, the cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and hundreds of them were lost before the fight. The fallen cavalry rolled on the ground at high speed until they were stepped on by the horses behind them with a sonic explosion.  Hibiki lost his life. Even if there were those who were lucky enough not to be trampled to pieces by their own horses, falling off their horses at such a high speed would only result in broken tendons and fractures. Many of the horses also neighed and fell to the ground. Zhou Jun's horn crossbow was first  Made a profit.

    Duan Heng took the lead and rushed into the cavalry formation. An oncoming cavalryman raised his shield at an angle, trying to fend off Duan Heng's cavalry. The scimitar in his right hand was already at a good angle.  Entering Duan Heng, he was able to open a huge wound on Duan Heng's body with the speed of the horse's impact. This cavalryman was also an elite who had survived several wars, but he obviously underestimated Duan Heng.

    Duan Heng just changed the angle of the cavalry in his hand to avoid the small round shield. The two horses collided very fast. With this small change of moves, the cavalry struck a big gap between the lightning and flint.  On the right side of the chest of the food cavalry, the mail did not hinder Duan Heng's specially-made riding spear at all. The fifty centimeter-long spear poked the cavalryman through in one go. The two sides were approaching too fast, and there was a "click"  The body of the big food cavalry was stuck in Duan Heng's mouth.

    The body immediately left the war horse, and the strong two-way pulling force made the big food cavalry's chest wound even wider. Blood spurted out as if it was free of charge, and streams of blood spurted out from his mouth as he breathed. He was dying before his eyes.  Duan Heng's horse skills were derived from the marksmanship passed down from his father, Duan Yuntian, and were different from the regular Zhou army cavalry tactics. He put his left hand forward and flicked his hands hard, and the body of this big food cavalry flew away.  go out.

    After picking and killing the first cavalry, Duan Heng then faced the seemingly endless cavalry behind me, as if countless scimitars were slashing at them. In this kind of cavalry confrontation, it was impossible to avoid all enemy attacks.  Or block, you can only parry as much as possible, and then use the thick armor to meet the opponent's attack. The rest is luck.

    At this time, the Zhou army's sophisticated armor played a vital role. The main cavalry weapon of the Dashi cavalry was the scimitar. On horseback, they mainly used chopping. Only a small number of cavalry used guns. The standard of the Dashi cavalry was  The weapon also has a shield. There are too few people who can use the gun with one hand, and even if they use the gun, the length of the gun is much longer than the three meters or so of Buzhou Junqi.

    The scimitar of the Great Eater Cavalry came over and slashed at the Zhou Army's armor, only leaving sparks. There were very few Great Eater Cavalry who could cut open the Zhou Army's armor with their wrist strength and horse speed. Many of the Great Eater Cavalry directly  Position the scimitar in your hand and use the speed of your horse to kill the opponent. The shield is usually placed on the chest.

    Almost all of the Zhou cavalry were equipped with cavalry spears. Their weapons were much longer than scimitars and longer than the spears of the Dashi cavalry. The Dashi cavalry could not attack the Zhou cavalry at all, and the cavalry spears had already penetrated their bodies.  Adjusting the angle of the cavalry is an easy thing that every Zhou army cavalry can do easily. A small round shield cannot protect both men and horses at all.

    This time he hedged against the cannibals and suffered a big loss. Countless cannibals fell off their horses amid the roar of people and horses. Duan Heng's armor was also refined armor for the captain's officers. Duan Heng only heard a tinkling popping sound in his ears.  His body was attacked more than a dozen times, and the chest and neck, which were the biggest targets of the war horse, were also attacked. The breastplate and neck armor of Duan Heng's war horse were made of iron vests one finger thick, but the chest armor was cut open, and leaks flowed out.  There was blood, but the scimitar used to cut through the armored man-eater was powerless. Duan Heng's horse was not seriously injured, but only slightly injured.

    The cavalry on both sides clashed and fought for a very short time. The two sides separated quickly after the confrontation. A large number of dead bodies of men and horses were left at the fighting place, as well as some cavalry who fell to the ground after the horses collided. These fallen cavalry did not care whether they were injured or not.  , seeing that there were still living cavalry on the other side, they immediately rushed to fight on foot. The cavalry on both sides began to shrink their queues and prepare for the second attack.

    Duan Heng picked and killed three opposing cavalrymen. The armor on his body was all marked by cuts. Among them, the armor was cut open on the shoulders and arms, and he was slightly injured. There were many vertical stripes on the thickest part of the armor on his chest.  The edge of the knife, but this is the thickest part of the armor. No knife can cut through Duan Heng's breastplate. There is no knife mark on the important neck and waist and abdomen. This also shows that Duan Heng's breastplate is thickest.? He was also a battle-hardened general, and he protected the parts most vulnerable to serious injuries. As a cavalry arrow, Duan Heng received the most attacks, but it did not hurt him at all.

    Duan Heng's eyes were cold, and he led the cavalry in a circle. All the cavalry who could follow behind him gathered together, and once again formed a charging formation, but the Big Eater had not completed half of the circle, which also showed the training of both sides.  There is a difference in level. Next to Duan Heng is Hachili, a veteran in the cavalry. Hachili only has three cuts on his body, all of which are on the chest armor. Hachili, the veteran, is next to Duan Heng and is also on the front line.  The front end of the arrow array was less likely to be attacked than Duan Heng, but it was definitely not much less. In the end, only three swords struck him. Ha Chili is indeed recognized as the most powerful cavalry warrior among the Zhou army cavalry in Dalunguan.  one of the people.

    There was still a human head on the cavalry in Hachili's hand. This was the first cavalryman to fight against Hachili. Hachili was a brave man, so he gently raised the cavalry in the moonlight, and the cavalry came directly from it.  The face of the big food cavalry was poked in, and with a twist of great force, the unfortunate big food cavalry's neck was torn off, and a head was poked into the cavalry in Ha Chili's hand. Ha Chili was charging.  During the battle, there was no time to deal with the head. Now, with a flick of the sword, the head fell to the ground with a "pop".

    Many of Duan Heng's cavalry had their cavalry spears missing. They had pierced the enemy's body during the fight and could not pull them out in time, so they had to discard their cavalry spears. However, at this time, they all had their secondary weapons drawn, most of which were horizontal knives.  Some cavalrymen had a variety of secondary weapons, including two short spears, maces, and a three-foot-long mace with a spiked round head.

    Duan Heng adjusted the pace of his war horse. Duan Heng could clearly hear the heavy breathing of the war horse. In this short battle, his own war horse knocked away at least four of the opponent's cavalry horses. The physical exertion was astonishing.  The Eater Cavalry had just completed its turn at this time. Facing Duan Heng, Han Yuanzhong's cavalry brigade, which had been drawing an arc not far away, suddenly moved. The horses suddenly accelerated and charged towards the flank of the Eater.

    The Great Eater did not relax his vigilance against Han Yuanzhong's troops. As soon as Han Yuanzhong moved, the Great Eater Cavalry suddenly deflected. The entire cavalry formation just adjusted its angle and faced Han Yuanzhong. The Great Eater was also an elite, Han Yuanzhong  He is older than Duan Yuntian. He has always been the deputy general of Li Siye's cavalry and the deputy of Ali She. There is nothing surprising about him, but he is extremely stable. He has experienced countless battles and his heart has become like fine steel.  Determined, the cannibal's change of formation and Han Yuanzhong's flank attack will not work.

    But Han Yuanzhong did not hesitate at all, and accelerated his horse to increase speed. Since he could not attack from the side, he came head-on. Duan Heng was now on the side of the big cannibal. Han Yuanzhong believed that Duan Heng could seize the opportunity. Sure enough,  Duan Heng immediately commanded the cavalry to charge. Although the Zhou army's cavalry was divided into two parts, the strength of each part was similar to that of the Dashi cavalry. The advantages of horses, armor, weapons, etc. evened out the disadvantage in numbers.

    Looking down from a high altitude, three cavalrymen formed a triangle. The two smaller cavalrymen approached the larger cavalryman at high speed, while the larger cavalryman charged towards one of them. Korean Won  Zhong's cavalry and the cannibals took the lead in the charge. They used the same tactics, first firing with horn crossbows, and then the cavalry charge without any tricks. Blood and screams echoed on the battlefield, and the collision between steel made a huge noise.

    The twisted face exudes ferocity, and the cruel side of war is vividly displayed. In the cold weapon era, this kind of cavalry charge has the highest casualty rate. The huge inertia allows the warrior to cause huge lethality even if he only holds a stone in his hand.  Not to mention that both sides have exquisite murderous weapons. No matter how thick the armor is, it will be penetrated as long as it hits the right part. Hedging at speeds exceeding 100 kilometers per hour is a complete test of the cavalry's mental endurance.

    A timid person will be completely frightened and weak when faced with such a charge. Cavalry is a profession that can only be chosen by the most courageous men. He is the king of the cold weapon era.

    It was another brutal collision. The damage caused by the long blade of the cavalry was very terrifying. The power of stabbing was much more concentrated than the power of chopping and cutting, and it was also able to hit the enemy. European cavalry discovered in the Middle Ages that  For this reason, it is believed that stabbing is superior to chopping on the battlefield. The straight line distance between two points is shorter than the arc speed. Stabbing the opponent first is the key to victory. Therefore, the famous knights of later generations appeared, using apple trees.  A lance made of a rod, this lance is a one-time use weapon.

    Because the tree structure of the apple tree is very brittle, the barrel of the lance will break after hitting the opponent. The huge energy of the impact will be released with the break of the barrel, which can protect the knight's arm from being broken into pieces due to the rebound force.  This also greatly improved the combat effectiveness of European cavalry at that time.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­There are advantages to using short weapons, but how to deal with the rebound force?  This is where the riding pole appeared. The standard riding pole in the Sui Dynasty was between two and eight meters to three meters. There is no need to go into details about the pole. The poles are very particular. The ancestors of China were very creative and used the toughest trees.  Thornwood is used to make the pole. Thornwood and ash are similar in that they are both soft and strong, but it is not as brittle as apple wood. It is a wood that is more rigid than flexible.

    After being soaked in tung oil for two to three years, the pole made of thornwood was taken out and made into a riding spear. It was strong and soft and became a qualified cavalry weapon. The riding spear first appeared in the late Han Dynasty, with Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake  It can be said that the spear is also a type of cavalry spear. Therefore, Zhang Fei¡¯s Zhangba Snake Spear is said to be a hard-core one. I have never seen it. The age when the cavalry spear really became popular and became the main weapon of the cavalry was in the Sui Dynasty. At that time, the Sui Cavalry  It can be said to be the strongest example of cavalry. The large-scale use of cavalry makes Sui cavalry a nightmare for any enemy on the battlefield.

    However, cavalry also has shortcomings, that is, the production time is too long and the cost is too high. With the demise of the Sui Dynasty in its heyday, cavalry in the Tang Dynasty could not be equipped by all cavalry, and the cavalry lances became various wooden ones.  , there are also those who use iron rods, and the cavalry who can use formal cavalry are basically of a small fortune. Li Zuoguo's contribution to the Zhou cavalry was the popularization of cavalry and the configuration of horn crossbows, which improved the combat effectiveness of the Zhou army's cavalry.  Not even a little bit.

    In Shule's military operations, there was a huge area in 1999, which was specially used to make riding poles. The stranding technology was used, which is the same method as Li Zuoguo's overlord's crutch gun, which was boiled in oil.  Although this method can greatly improve the production speed of tungsten rods, it used to take three years to soak the tungsten rods to be qualified. Now it only takes four months to have the same efficiency, but heating tung oil requires  The fuel was amazing. It was not until Shule produced a large amount of coal that the Zhou cavalry truly became a regular and popular weapon. This also allowed the Zhou cavalry to reproduce the style of the Sui cavalry.

    The minds of the Zhou army's cavalry have been tempered, and the huge effect of Li Zuoguo's deliberately cultivated sense of military honor, coupled with the sharp weapons of cavalry warfare and sophisticated armor, made the difference in combat power between the Dashi cavalry and the Zhou army's cavalry impossible to use.  Decide by your will to die.

    Han Yuanzhong's cavalry and the Dashi cavalry collided violently again, and the huge power of the cavalry was once again demonstrated. Only a small number of Zhou Jun who were inexperienced in cavalry thought that they had injured their arms by using the wrong force, and the rest of the cavalry were basically injured.  The harvest was huge. This time the hedging caused the Great Cannibal to suffer even greater losses. At least more than a thousand cavalry were killed and wounded. The war horses fell to the ground with a mournful neigh. The triangular flat horse was like a perfect cutter. As long as it stabbed any part, it would be a huge  With a slight pull on the sharp edge of the blood hole, the sword can easily open a huge blood hole in the blood hole. With the huge power of the stabbing, the damage to the human body is simply terrifying.

    Unless the stabbed cavalryman was stabbed in the arm, his life would not be saved. After the cavalry spear penetrated the body, the cavalryman's arm would be clamped inward, and a gash would naturally be cut at the edge, allowing the cavalry spear to escape from the opponent's body. This way unless  It is stuck in the bone, and most of the riding equipment can be used again and will not become single-use items.

    The Great Food Cavalry has a firm belief. This belief can make people risk their lives. However, seeing their own battles suffer heavy casualties under the opponent's cavalry stabs, their hearts will still be shaken. When stabbed in the abdomen, they will immediately be stirred up.  A big hole, with an easy pull, came out of the body on both sides of the body, leaving behind the screaming cavalry and the blood of internal organs flying in the sky. This kind of scene is not something that anyone can bear, not even veterans. Big Cannibal  A hole has been opened in my heart.

    This time, the confrontation between the Dashi Cavalry was not as straightforward as the previous battle with Duan Heng's cavalry. Many cavalrymen involuntarily slowed down their horses. This situation led to the fact that the Dashi Cavalry did not charge very quickly this time.  Passing Han Yuanzhong's battle formation, of course, this kind of behavior is because every big food cavalry wants the rest of the battle to rush in front of them. No one wants to taste that fierce first blow. The feeling of dying without a whole body will make people scared.  .

    The most fatal thing in a cavalry battle is the loss of morale. Less than half of the Dashi cavalry rushed out of Han Yuanzhong's cavalry formation. Han Yuanzhong, a veteran, immediately discovered the hesitation and fear of the Dashi cavalry and did not directly penetrate the enemy formation.  , a small arc was drawn directly on the battlefield. The cavalry charging behind Han Yuanzhong followed the general in all directions, and also followed an arc. In this way, a piece of the big food cavalry was cut off at once. Han Yuanzhong led the cavalry.  The cavalry began to fight against the remaining six thousand cavalrymen.

    Before the Dashi Cavalry who rushed out of the formation had time to form a team, Duan Heng's cavalry slammed into them from the side with a strong smell of blood. This attack was so fierce that the Dashi Lightning Legion cavalry, who had always been tough on the battlefield, suddenly became stunned.  A big hole was opened, and the Zhou cavalry followed Duan Heng and rushed in. The cavalry on both sides waved and stabbed mainly. Each of the big cavalry screamed and fell off their horses.Duan Heng didn't stay much longer at all. After killing hundreds of the opponent's cavalry, he rushed out from the other side. His horse drew an arc. All the cavalry followed Duan Heng's horse and adjusted their pace.

    Duan Heng listened to the heavier breathing of his horse after he sat down, and thought to himself: I can only charge once more, the horse is not strong anymore, this time I rush into the opponent's formation and start to contact the strangle, which can save horsepower, I'm afraid there will be more later.  fighting.

    Duan Heng's impact made the Dashi cavalry unable to recover for a long time. The officer yelled at the top of his lungs and failed to gather the cavalry that had broken into two sections for a long time. However, the 6,000 cavalrymen wrapped up by Han Yuanzhong were the 15,000  If the Lightning Legion had poor combat power and willpower, Han Yuanzhong would not have been allowed to stay.

    Han Yuanzhong used more than 7,000 cavalry to fight against more than 6,000 cavalry whose morale had declined. He suddenly stood up to the wind. Every moment, big cannibals screamed and fell off their horses. The two sides strangled on the ground within a radius of one mile. The cavalry used weapons in their horses' hands to fight each other.  Attack, the cavalry is a little longer in close combat. At this time, in addition to some cavalry with high martial arts skills, many cavalry drew their horizontal swords to kill. The double pedals and high bridge saddles allowed the Zhou cavalry to hold weapons with both hands without any problem, and they were more able to  With all their strength, Han Yuanzhong's troops gained the upper hand.

    Duan Heng's cavalry began to divide into groups, and they were naturally divided into dozens of peaks. They were all famous and brave men in the cavalry. As the peaks, they once again attacked the chaotic Dashi Cavalry. Hachili was also a peak at this time.  , his level of cavalry fighting was recognized as strong among the Zhou army. Ha Chili even rushed in front of Duan Heng and entered the enemy. Duan Heng saw Ha Chili easily stabbing a large food cavalryman in the neck.  , cut off the neck of this big food cavalryman with the broad blade of the cavalry, and the head flew up with blood, extremely violent.

    Under the not-so-bright moonlight in the dark night, while the horse was still running up and down, being able to stab the opponent's neck with one blow was simply miraculous. The Zhou army cavalry who saw this scene were so excited that they roared, looking at this  With a loud shout, Duan Heng's cavalry crashed into the opponent's cavalry again. This time, the Dashi cavalry had no effective resistance. They turned around bravely and fought with the Zhou army. Some of the Dashi cavalry were overwhelmed by the overwhelming strength of the Zhou army.  Under the attack, they even forgot to fight back, and were easily killed by the Zhou army's cavalry. Similarly, 15,000 vs. 15,000 cavalry, the Zhou army's cavalry interpreted the word tough.

    Abu Muslim silently saw the dilemma faced by his cavalry in the distance. At this time, the Tocharian cavalry had appeared. Garissa led the last 20,000 Tocharian cavalry to appear on the battlefield where Zhang Xiaoyong was besieged in the middle.  Not far away, Abu Muslim's order came, asking him to cooperate with the Lightning Legion cavalry to attack the Zhou army's cavalry.

    The sound of neat war drums came from the mouth of the valley, and the large groups of Zhou army infantry appeared in neat queues. All the troops of the Zhou army had been dispatched, and Abu Muslim still had 15,000 of the most elite Muslim legion cavalry in his hands.  .

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