At the moment when the morning star just rose, Li Liangzuo led 70,000 soldiers to set off, the target was directly to the rear of the Serbian army, ready to fight with the army led by Li Yanzong and Li Yi in front, before the army attacked, Li Liangzuo sent out three yellow signal flares, at this time the transmission of military orders, and the cooperation between the armies is very important.
"General, look at the three yellow flares sent by His Majesty."
The adjutant general said to Li Yanzong.
According to the prior agreement, yellow represents the heavy cavalry, as the absolute elite main force of the Xia army, the heavy cavalry has basically been idle during this time, when the Serbian army attacked the camp, the soldiers of the heavy cavalry only guaranteed the logistics work, there was no chance to go to the battlefield at all, after all, a heavy armored knight was trained, but it cost much more than an ordinary cavalry, not to mention compared with the infantry "Order, all the heavy armored cavalry gather, aren't these rabbit cubs shouting every day that they want to fight Now the opportunity has come, if they can't beat our Xia army, this general has to give them a whip."
"Yes, the last general will give the order."
"Woo, woo, woo, woo" accompanied by the low horn sound of the Xia army, all the heavy armored cavalry were assembled, but it was not only the Xia army that had heavy armored cavalry, but the Seljuk Empire also had heavy armored cavalry, but the scale and weapons and equipment of the heavy armored cavalry of the Serbian army may not be as good as that of the Xia army, after all, the iron smelting and forging technology of the Western Regions in this era is not as good as that of the Great Xia Kingdom, especially the armor of the heavy cavalry of the Xia army, which is made by cold forging using the most advanced forging method in this period.
And this advanced method of building is only mastered by party craftsmen.
The so-called cold forging technology is not quenched, let the craftsman use a sledgehammer to beat over and over again, will be a very thick piece of iron, and finally knock a thin slice of the city, of course, this is a very complicated process, now this advanced technology is only mastered by the Great Xia Kingdom, and at this time the heavy armor and horse armor used by the Xia cavalry are the cold forging armor used, in addition to the cold forging armor of the various armor pieces connected and some places that are not easy to protect, all are covered with chain mail; A heavy cavalry of the Xia army can be said to be all armed to the teeth.
As for the weapons and equipment of the Xia army's heavy cavalry, I won't say much about it here, but this time the attack method of the Xia army's heavy cavalry has changed, the original Xia army's heavy cavalry attack is to tie people and horses together with iron chains, and this time not only people and horses are tied together, but also every five horses are also turned into a group, and then connected together with iron chains, this is also the chain horse of the Xia army's heavy cavalry, this tactic is only suitable for use in open places, such as this place now.
In the face of the attack of the Xia army's heavy cavalry, Maliksha did not dare to have any slackness, and immediately ordered his most elite Serbian heavy cavalry to fight, with limited Serbian heavy cavalry, Maliksha could only attack from the front because of the opposite side, Maliksha chose to attack from the front, as for the army led by Li Liangzuo, Maliksha had already prepared.
"The whole army is on order" With Li Liangzuo's order, the 70,000 Xia army with heavy cavalry as the head launched an attack on the rear army of the Serbian army commanded by Maliksha, and in the face of the charge of the Xia army, Maliksha did not make any reaction at first; Until the Xia army's heavy cavalry was about to approach, Maliksha decisively issued a military order: "Heavy shield soldiers form a formation to defend, pikemen stab, and crossbowmen are ready." ” Maliksha's military order is the best choice to defend against cavalry attacks, but now Maliksha is facing the heavy armored cavalry of the Xia army, whether such a defensive formation can be prevented mainly depends on the ability of the crossbowmen, when the cavalry attacks within the range of the crossbowmen, the crossbowmen will immediately release their arrows, and the dense arrow feathers will form an insurmountable death boundary outside the shield wall, of course, there are also cavalry who will rush over unexpectedly, but when these cavalry approach the giant shield soldiers, they will be attacked by pikemen, Even if you are lucky enough to rush into the enemy line, you will be attacked by the axemen.
Li Liangzuo was attacking, when the Xia army's heavy armored cavalry entered the range of the Serbian army's crossbowmen, Maliksha immediately ordered to release the arrows, but the result was greatly unexpected, the original Xia army's attack should have suffered heavy losses at this time, but now the Xia army not only did not lose, but also continued to advance, the Serbian army's arrow feathers shot into the body of the heavy armored cavalry only made a clanging, jingling sound.
Because the heavy cavalry of the Xia army uses cold forging armor, so the bow and arrow of the Serbian army can not shoot the heavy cavalry of the Xia army under the horse, due to the miscalculation of Maliksha, the rear army of the Serbian army immediately fell into a passive situation, the heavy cavalry of the Xia army and the giant shield soldiers of the Serbian army came into close contact, and the giant shield soldiers were smashed into meat sauce, of course, the Xia army also suffered a lot of losses for this, and all the Xia army heavy cavalry that collided with the giant shield soldiers had only one final result, that is, to become meat sauce.
Li Liangzuo led the heavy cavalry to break the first line of defense of the rear army of the Serbian army, and when Li Liangzuo led the army to continue the attack, he suddenly rushed to the front of the heavy cavalry, one of the heavy armored cavalry fell into the trap, and a series of five people all fell under the horse, Li Liangzuo immediately guessed something, and immediately gave a decisive order: "Order, the heavy armored cavalry is separated from the iron rope and fights separately." ” "Yes, the minion will give the order" After the chains were untied, the heavy cavalry of the Xia army was much freer, and even if someone fell into the trap, it was just a ride; The second line of defense arranged by Mariksha is a line of defense based on traps and thistles, traps are very threatening to the Xia army, but the thistles do not play any role at all, the reason is that the Xia army nailed horseshoes to each war horse, and these horseshoe palms made of fine iron, when they collide with thistles, the thistles are easily trampled into discus.
Soon the second line of defense of the Cypriot army was also destroyed by the Xia army, at this time the Xia army attacked everywhere, stirring up the real Cypriot army and stirring up a chicken dog restless, and Li Yanzong, led a heavy cavalry army to launch a fierce attack on the front of the Cypriot army, 50,000 Xia army heavy cavalry encountered 60,000 Serbian heavy cavalry resistance, of course, Li Yi also has half of the heavy cavalry army, more than 30,000 more armored cavalry, as for the other 20,000 in the hands of Li Liangzuo, although the Xia army heavy cavalry has an advantage in the total strength, but locally it is still the Serbian heavy cavalry advantage.
The heavy cavalry of the two armies had a head-on collision, which was completely a collision between steel, because both sides were wearing heavy armor, ordinary swords would not work at all, and the best weapons against heavy cavalry were blunt weapons, such as bones, maces, sledgehammers, etc.
Because the heavy armored cavalry on both sides did not have such a large-scale heavy armored cavalry battle, so at the beginning of the battle, the Xia army still used horse lances to fight, while the heavy armored cavalry of the Serbian army used Damascus knives to meet the enemy, so except for the cavalry on both sides encountered some head-on collision and died, the rest were basically cut by swords There was basically no major matter, therefore, after the first round of confrontations, the losses of both sides were not large.
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