The strength of the rebels was more than double that of the Xia Yue Army, and the front of their formation was naturally much wider and thicker than that of the Forbidden Army.
The cavalry were uniformly arranged at the extreme ends of the left and right wings of both armies.
Although now, for the Forbidden Army infantry who no longer use long-handled weapons as their main battle weapons, the sides and rear are not undefendable directions, but once the enemy attacks the rear, the Forbidden Army's phalanx can only stop attacking Move forward to defend against enemies on all sides.
In this way, the Forbidden Army belongs to the passive party.
And this will pose a threat to the ballista positions in the rear.
A small number of professional archers deployed behind the formation will also directly face the attack.
Therefore, the key to the victory of the Forbidden Army lies in whether the rebels can completely defeat the rebels before they circle back to the back of their own army.
On Sima Yue's side, the sound of drums and trumpets also began to sound.
The huge military formation began to slowly move forward.
Xia Yue accordingly ordered the military formation to move forward.
When the distance between the two armies was no more than a hundred steps, arrows poured across each other like heavy rain under a strong wind.
Both sides were equipped with a large number of crossbows, especially the Forbidden Army.
Almost every infantry was equipped with repeating crossbows.
Soldiers from both sides raised their large shields in unison, and the sound of arrows hitting the wooden shields was like the sound of heavy rain hitting the ground.
The outermost cavalry on both sides had already begun to move to their respective sides, so they were not exposed to the wild fire of arrows.
The fifty vehicle-mounted ballistae behind the Forbidden Army began to bombard.
Xia Yue considered maintaining the mobility of the army, and because the ballista ammunition, whether it was explosive shells or stone shells, needed to be specially brought from the Acropolis, making supply extremely difficult, he only brought fifty ballistas.
At this time, in the eyes of the rebel soldiers, the sky was full of flying "fireballs".
After these fireballs hit the rebel formation, pillars of fire exploded, and all the rebel soldiers close to the impact point were burned to death.
Some simply turned into burning men, wailing and rolling around.
The middle part of the military formation was already a mess.
Sima Yue, who was commanding behind the formation, and the dozen or so vassal kings were stunned, and even Director Wang was frightened.
But what shocked them even more was what came next.
When the two armies were still fifty steps apart, the central square of the Forbidden Army moved away, revealing a gap.
Six hundred royal court heavy cavalry galloped out from behind the gap.
What surprised Sima Yue and others was that the horses of these heavy cavalry were equipped with shiny armor, and the helmets of the soldiers on the horses were also made of a single piece of metal, even their faces.
All covered by chain mail.
But they were only wearing "padded jackets".
In fact, these "cotton jackets" are composite armor composed of cotton armor and scale armor.
The outer layer is cotton armor, and the inner layer is made of scales connected by chain mail.
Sima Yue came out of his daze and shouted loudly: "Quickly focus on firing arrows and shoot the cavalry in the formation first."
In fact, without his order, the generals in the military formation had already ordered the crossbowmen to attack.
These 600 heavily armored cavalry came together to shoot intensively.
A rain of arrows shot at these heavily armored cavalry.
As a result, everyone looked like a hedgehog, with their bodies covered with arrows.
But no one was shot off their horses, the arrows penetrated the armor, and only a few people were slightly injured.
In this round of shooting, the heavy cavalry had already rushed within thirty steps.
Then javelins all over the sky were thrown from the hands of these heavy cavalry.
Like a crop field struck by hail, a large group of rebel soldiers were pierced by heavy javelins in an instant.
This projection was carried out for two consecutive rounds.
The cavalry had already charged into the battle.
Some infantrymen were lucky enough to use their shields to block two rounds of javelins, but the heavy javelins embedded deeply in their shields made it difficult for the infantry to hold their shields upright.
At this time, the heavy cavalrymen who rushed into the formation had taken off their nearly four-meter-long lances and stood upright in front of the horses' heads.
The rebel soldiers in the front row had either fallen to the ground, or their shields were filled with javelins.
When a rebel soldier saw that the enemy cavalry had rushed towards him, his survival instinct made him simply throw away the large shield that he could not fully lift, and raised his two-meter-long short spear in an attempt to contain the opponent's impact.
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However, he was quickly stabbed to the ground by a thick spear blade that came quickly.
The heavy cavalry was quite skilled.
The moment the lance penetrated the soldier's chest, he retracted the lance and raised it so that the lance would not be left in the corpse.
The tall war horse galloped over the stabbed soldier, trampling his body to pieces.
The lances of Wang Ting's heavy cavalry were like a forest, and the iron horses were like a wall.
How could the rebel army, which had been decimated by explosive bombs and javelins, be able to withstand such a blow.
In less than twenty breaths, everything collapsed.
The spears continued to produce corpses, and the iron horses and the iron horses were like harvesters, "shaving" the rebels on the surface flat piece by piece.
The cavalry on both wings have also been fighting for a long time.
The rebel cavalry is certainly no match for the Forbidden Army's kidnap horse, even though the other side has only just been trained.
But the method of cavalry warfare that transcended the times made it difficult for the rebel cavalry to adapt.
The kidnapping horse tries not to engage in close combat with the opponent.
Instead, use a fast bow or repeating crossbow for long-range mounted shooting.
The two horses passed each other, and the kidnapping horse deliberately kept the distance between them, and then fired an arrow when they missed each other.
The saber or lance in the hands of the rebel cavalry could not hurt them at all.
If the rebel cavalry intends to ignore them, but directly attack the main body of the Forbidden Army's phalanx in a roundabout way.
Then they'll shoot after the rebel cavalry's ass.
After repeating this for several times, the rebel cavalry was tortured to the point of mental collapse.
They had suffered a large number of casualties, and many generals and colonels were killed.
Neither the soldiers nor the generals wanted to tangle with the kidnapping horse anymore.
First, one horse escaped from the battle, then a few horses, then a dozen horses, and finally they all fled.
But he was still chased by the kidnapping horse for hundreds of battles.
Then the kidnapper turned around and headed towards the back of the rebel army.
At this time, the royal court's heavy cavalry had completely penetrated the central square of the rebels, and the forwards were approaching Sima Yue and other princes and officials.
The infantry on both sides had already arrived and started fighting with the rebel infantry.
The morale of the rebels was extremely low at this time, and coupled with their equipment and skills, they were far behind those of the Forbidden Army.
As soon as they made contact, they were killed by the heavy rain of javelins, and they began to show signs of fleeing.
When Sima Yue and others saw that the heavy cavalry of the Forbidden Army had penetrated their own military formation, and more than a dozen heavy cavalry were charging towards them with great force, they were already in a panic.
They turned their horses around and galloped wildly.
As soon as they ran away, the already shaky rebel formation instantly collapsed like an exploding cheongsam.
The flow of people rushed toward Pengcheng like a torrent, and countless soldiers were knocked down and trampled.
They ran backwards and were immediately attacked by the kidnapping horse.
This added to the chaos of the rebels, who were trampled to death and killed countless times.
Following the shouts of "Those who surrender will not be killed", most of the rebel soldiers knelt down and begged to surrender.
Almost none of Sima Yue and others escaped, and most of them were killed by kidnap horses or heavy cavalry on the spot.
A few were captured.
Xia Yue looked at the battlefield with corpses strewn across the field and the flames blazing into the sky, knowing that the rebellion to the east had basically been put down
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