Chapter 55 Shanbei War 1
Nothing happened that night. The next day, when the sky was about to dawn, the original army quietly left the camp under the command of the group. The cavalry is in the front and the infantry is behind. Jiang Dongfang and his equipment troops walked in the infantry queue.
Now the equipment force not only has four cows in front of its chariots, but also wears armor on its body. The four-wheel design is also used in the chariot, so that even if the cattle in front of them are killed in the war, the crossbows and catapults on the chariot can be used normally. In addition, shields are also hung outside the body of the chariots, so that the bodies of these chariots are no longer afraid of the attack of knives, guns or firearms.
According to Jiang Dongfang's design, five passengers are arranged on each chariot. Among these five people, except for one handler, the other four can operate the equipment on the car when they are in array. In the melee between the two armies, one of them can be a spearman or archer to defend the safety of the chariot, while the utensils on the car can be controlled by the other three.
Jiang Dongfang has also improved the wheel used to tighten the equipment in the car. Now it only takes one person to tighten the cowhide on the chariot. In order to better control the chariot, Jiang Dongfang still installed two wheels on the equipment. If this is the case, in fact, as long as one person tightens the wheel and one person places a javelin or stone bullet, only two people can be eliminated. Therefore, one of the three people who always operate the equipment is also a backup.
As soon as the sun climbed up a pole from the east, the original army had come out of the eight-sided slope and lined up outside the hillside. The main general of the Orc Mountain North Battalion had already received the news that the original army had come out of the eight-sided slope, and he was not in a hurry to send troops to stop the action of the original army. According to his idea, the original army was no match for the orc army on the plain. Therefore, instead of going to the mountains to stop the originals, it is better to let the originals come here and then annihilate the original army in one fell swoop in the plains.
Under the indulgence of the carboxy, the original army went out of the eight-sided slope without hindrance, and then lined up neatly into the orc camp. When the original army approached about two miles away from the orc camp, the group ordered the original army to stop moving forward. Then, he arranged the infantry phalanx in front, with the equipment troops in the center, and the cavalry behind, arranging a formation that looked very strange in the carboxy.
However, no matter how surprised the formation of the original man, he still led the orc army in the camp to fight against the original army. According to the orc's practice, he placed the cavalry on the wings of the team and in front of the middle army. And the infantry was placed in the rear of the Chinese army by him. The number of troops involved in this war is similar. The original man had 6,000 cavalry, 12,000 infantry, 200 chariots, and 500 merchant cavalry. On the orcs side, they have 15,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, 500 wolf cavalry and 100 bear cavalry. After careful calculation, the number of orcs is slightly larger than that of the original.
At the beginning of the battle, the orc cavalry, under the command of the husk, rushed to the original army in three scattered formations, middle and right according to their usual tactics. Under the command of the original army, they did not disperse the enemy. When the orc cavalry launched a charge, the original swords and shields and spearmen formed a strange phalanx. In the first row of the original phalanx, the knife and shield soldiers were still responsible for defense, but behind them, the spearmen with different lengths were arranged into five rows to form a gun array like a porcupine back stab. At the outermost part of the gun array, there are all swords and shields and spear soldiers holding normal length spears to form a traditional array of defense. In this way, there was a formation that they encountered on the front of the orc cavalry charge. In fact, this kind of formation is no longer a strange thing in the earth world. Its core part is the Macedonian gun array system, and its periphery has been improved by the original people. It is naturally Jiang Dongfang's idea and opinion that the group can put on such a position.
When the orc cavalry approached 250 meters of the original army, the concubine shook the long sword in his hand and shouted, "The crossbow cannon!" Drop the car! Attack." Jiang Dongfang stood on the chariot behind him. He saw the handsome flag swinging at the group. He immediately commanded his instrument troops to shoot stone bullets and javelops at the orc cavalry. The orc cavalry rushing to the front was knocked down by the original man's long-range equipment.
"Business sheep cavalry! Attack." The long sword in the hand of the concubine fell down, and in the sky, the Shang sheep cavalry flew forward together under the leadership of Tian Zheng and Zhang Zhentian. Naturally, Yao Xiu also rode on the commercial sheep bird and followed Zhang Zhentian to attack the orcs.
Five hundred merchant sheep birds, on the orders of their respective cavalry, plundered low altitudes. At the same time, columns of water spewed out of their mouths, and their cavalry kept dragging their long-handled swords from the heads and necks of the orc cavalry. On the road of Shang sheep riding, there are always unlucky orc cavalry who are hit and fall to the ground by the water column of Shang sheep birds, or are cut by the sword in the hands of the cavalry.
Of course, Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu on the commercial sheep bird will not be idle. The two of them, with both hands, kept throwing skeleton water balls at the orc cavalry below; one arched an arrow and shot deadly arrows at the officer of the orc cavalry. The orc cavalry, which had been confused by the Shang sheep cavalry and equipment, became more chaotic under the attack of the two of them.
"Fight arrows!" In any case, there are still too many orc cavalry to charge the original people. After the cavalry in front of them fell in the chaos, the cavalry behind them launched a fierce attack. When the orc cavalry approached 100 meters away from the original army, the group gave the order to release arrows. Although the original bow and arrow can shoot farther, the orc cavalry becomes dense at a distance of 100 meters, and the original archers are also easier to shoot at the target they face.
The orc cavalry that rushed to the front fell to the ground in rows under the blow of the original bow and arrow. However, this did not stop the orc cavalry from marching, and the cavalry behind them still rushed forward. The original archers and the soldiers of the equipment force also did not hesitate to shoot arrows or javelles and stone bullets at the orc cavalry.
"Remight in the front row! The spears are rushing!" When the orc cavalry rushed to the front of the original army through the rain of arrows, the group issued new orders. According to his order, the original knife and shield soldiers in the front row bowed their bodies and carried the shields on their arms with their shoulders and bodies. The spear soldiers behind them put the spears in their hands forward on the shoulders of the soldiers in front of them, and then the whole spear array slowly rushed up against the orc cavalry.
The orc cavalry charging at the front obviously did not expect the originals to do so. They rushed straight to the original spear array. Their ** war horse was directly stabbed and stabbed to death by the original spear, and the orc cavalry who fell from the horse was also stabbed to death by the original spear, or directly killed by the sword and shield soldiers in the front row!
Following the orc cavalry, he found that the cavalry in front of him was in chaos. While ordering the cavalry to slow down, he threw the wolf cavalry and the bear cavalry into the battlefield. However, as soon as these wolf and bear cavalry entered the battlefield, they became the key objects of the Shang sheep cavalry. At the same time, the original army has also changed. Their infantry ranks tightened each other, and soon several paths emerged from the original infantry's army. Then, a large number of bull-pulling chariots rushed out from the back of the original infantry formation, and they rushed forward while dropping javelin and stone bullets forward. The orc cavalry have never encountered original equipment troops that can move and attack on the battlefield before. They suddenly felt a little stunned. Behind the original chariot and the two wings of the infantry formation, the original cavalry also killed them in three ways.
In this way, the orc cavalry that originally charged came to a pause. However, the original cattle chariot did not stop at all. Jiang Dongfang stood on the chariot, beating the drum while directing the chariot forward. The attacker on the chariot shot the arrows in his hand at the orc cavalry. When the bull chariot approached the orc cavalry, the bull knocked down the orc cavalry. The attackers on the chariot also changed their long-handled swords or spears, and they directly cut off orc cavalry from the war horse or assassinated them to the ground.
"Kill!" Seeing that Jiang Dongfang's cattle chariot had deterrenced the orc cavalry, he immediately commanded the infantry array and pressed forward. Similarly, the original cavalry who followed the bull chariot also refused to give in. Their swords and spears in their hands were also desperately attacking the orc cavalry.