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After Xue Yantuo's army rested for a day, in the early morning of the third day, the drums sounded.
Hundreds of thousands of Xue Yantuo's army, armored and bladed, lined up in an orderly formation, poured out of the camp.The black crowd, densely covered the grasslands outside the river valley, the momentum was astonishing, and the air of murder filled the air. Even the eagle soaring in the sky seemed to be shocked by this soaring momentum, and did not dare to approach the battlefield even a little bit!
Naturally, the Tang army had been prepared for a long time. With the sound of war drums, they filed out and blocked the narrow entrance of the valley.
There are still two thousand jumping soldiers holding shields and standing at the forefront of the battle formation. Behind them are one thousand Mo Daomen wearing Mingguang armor and holding Mo Dao, and the last ones are two thousand bowmen.
The difference from before was that there were nearly a hundred arrows piled up in front of each crossbowman.The arrowhead made of fine steel shone with a dazzling cold light in the morning sun...
If it were ordinary crossbowmen in the Tang Dynasty, Li Wangyou would never have equipped them with so many arrow feathers.
The reason is very simple, there is no crossbowman who can stretch the bow and draw the string hundreds of times.
For ordinary bows and arrows in the Datang Army, even a one-stone bow and arrow, the sergeant can stretch the string twenty or thirty times in a row, and the arm is almost out of strength, and it is impossible to continue to pull the bowstring.
This is the limitation of human physiological structure, even the brave and reasonable generals are not much stronger.
One of the reasons is that muskets will eliminate bows and crossbows.
But the compound crossbow designed by Li Wangyou, in order to save effort, he designed the booster with Yan Liben's assistance because he needed to meet the needs of his small body that can draw and string the bow.
In addition, the booster assists in winding, which naturally saves energy.
Moreover, in order to prevent the crossbowmen from losing their strength, Li Wangyou also gathered the auxiliary soldiers in the general.
Once the crossbowman is unable to stretch the string, these auxiliary soldiers can go up.
The crossbow is different from the bow, its biggest advantage is that after the crossbow is stretched, it is in a state of being ready to go.Therefore, Zhang Xian, who takes the most physical effort, can be entrusted to others to do it for him.
Two thousand crossbowmen and forty-five million feathered arrows are what Li Wangyou's confidence in winning is all about!
The crossbowmen of the Tang Army were very powerful, and Jie Libi suffered a lot, and Xue Yantuo naturally knew this very well.
Therefore, Yinan Khan also came up with many ways to restrain the crossbowmen of the Tang army.
Yinan Khan holds an army of 10 to [-] in his hands. Excluding the auxiliary soldiers and the sergeants of the rear army guarding the horses, the number of troops that can be put into battle is as many as [-], ten times that of the Tang army.
Therefore, just as the vanguard, Yi Nan Khan dispatched [-] troops at one time.
However, the entrance of the valley defended by the Tang army was only a hundred steps wide, and a single row of soldiers could line up a thousand people at most.Therefore, even if Xue Yantuo's former army had 3 people, they could only enter the battlefield in batches of 5000 people.
Among these former sergeants and soldiers, almost all the shields of Xue Yantuo's army were concentrated.Its purpose is self-evident, it is to defend against Tang Jun's crossbow arrows.
In order to prevent the former army from being defeated and attacking the Chinese army as before, Yinan Khan sent out all the [-] wolf riders in his hands to act as "military judges" to supervise the military orders.
Anyone who retreats timidly and runs away will be killed without mercy!
In the eyes of Yi Nan Khan and Jie Libi, even if the [-] former troops were dead, as long as they could fight the Tang army to death, that would be victory.
Amidst the sound of Xue Yantuo's war drums, the [-] former army began to move forward, pressing towards the entrance of the valley guarded by the Tang army like a tide.
The 5000 former army, [-] people in a team, with a distance of [-] meters in the middle, hundreds of wolf riders holding sharp knives, riding back and forth on horses.Once Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry wanted to retreat, the blades in the wolf rider's hands would mercilessly cut at these robes.
Under such strict military orders, Xue Yantuo, who was regarded as the former army, knew that he had no choice but to fight the Tang army to the death.
After all, according to Xue Yantuo's military law, if they died in battle, their family members could still receive compensation.Although not much, it can also give the family something to rely on.
And once he escaped and was killed by a wolf rider, he couldn't help but have no compensation, and he would be called a coward, making his family members look down in the tribe.
It was precisely because of this that when Xue Yantuo's former army pressed up, Li Wangyou and the dudes on the watchtower car behind the Tang army were aware of their relentless aura.
"Ziyou, something's wrong! Xue Yantuo and these wolf cubs seem to have been injected with wolf blood?" Fang Yiai couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
Cheng Chumo held the binoculars in his hand, looked at them for a long time and replied: "Look at the wolf riders behind those Xue Yantuo men, I'm afraid that old man Yi Nan gave a death order to forbid those Xue Yantuo soldiers to retreat. Zhiniang, this is going to be desperate. Ziyou, it seems that you killed Ba Zhuo, and Yi Nan also hates you to the bone."
Li Wangyou also smiled wryly, knowing that what Cheng Chumo said was actually true.
It's too late to say anything now, it depends on whether Tang Jun can withstand the pressure and resist the crazy attack of Xue Yantuo's army.
The sound of Xue Yantuo's war drums became more and more urgent, and the pace of Xue Yantuo's front army became faster and faster. They started to trot slowly and rushed towards the Tang army's battle formation.
The war is on!
This time, the two thousand crossbowmen of the Tang army did not bring Xue Yantuo's men closer. When Xue Yantuo's dismounted cavalry had just stepped into the range, the two thousand crossbowmen started three-stage throwing under the command of the captain.
Arrows rained down from the sky, heading straight for Xue Yantuo's army formation hundreds of meters away.All the Xue Yantuo cavalry immediately raised their shields in an attempt to defend against the arrows.
But Tang Jun's armor-piercing arrows are all made of fine steel, which are extremely sharp.Coupled with the push of the composite steel crossbow's strings as high as four stones, it is even more unstoppable.
When the rain of arrows fell, it penetrated Xue Yantuo's shield in an instant, penetrated the shield as if entering no one's land, cut through the armor, and pierced the human body...
(The old man is even ashamed of being talked about every day so slowly. But this book is almost over, please bear with me for a while longer, gentlemen.)
1049 Unstoppable
With the rain of Tang Jun's arrows falling, Xue Yantuo's former army immediately suffered a fatal blow.
Just a burst of fire took the lives of hundreds of soldiers, and countless wounded.The howls of misery were endless, and the blood splattered everywhere, comparable to Asura's hell.
If in the past, the team of 5000 people suffered such heavy losses, I am afraid that the remaining soldiers would be defeated.
The casualty ratio is almost over [-]%!
But those Xue Yantuo soldiers' ranks, after only a turmoil for a while, continued to raise their shields in their hands and trot forward under the scolding of the centurion and thousand commanders in the army.
They knew very well that the shields in their hands couldn't withstand Tang Jun's arrows at all, and maybe they would be the ones hit by the arrows in the next moment.
When the first wave of [-] soldiers cannot retreat, let alone dare to retreat!
Forward is death, backward is also dead!
The only way to break through the Tang army's defense is to fight to the death... This is the only thought in the minds of all Xue Yantuo's former soldiers.
Since they were selected as the former army and took the lead in charging into battle, their fate has been determined.
Datang composite crossbow arrows, the projectile distance is [-] paces.
It takes at least 400 minute to run the distance of 1 meters with full armor and armor.
And within one minute, two thousand crossbowmen of the Tang army had already fired three rounds of three-stage shooting, shooting nearly 1 arrows.
The first wave of [-] soldiers from Xue Yantuo's front army had not yet rushed to the front of the Tang army, but they were already shot by the rain of arrows. The road to the charge was full of fallen corpses, and the grassland was already soaked in blood.
Presumably this grassland will grow extremely dense in the coming year...
When the surviving Xue Yantuo soldiers rushed within a hundred meters, the rain of arrows all over the sky suddenly disappeared.
It wasn't that the Tang army's crossbowmen were merciful, but that the second wave of 5000 soldiers from Xue Yantuo's former army began to charge again. Under the order of the captain, they abandoned these remnants, adjusted the angle of holding the crossbow in their hands, and charged into the distance again. The enemy army began to throw death arrows.