Capture the thief and capture the king first, shoot the man and shoot the horse first, this is not a simple sentence of a poem, it is the experience summed up by the long war history of Zhuxia.
The size of the war horse is much larger than the size of the person, people will make some dodge or block the action of shooting arrows, horses without much wisdom will have some instincts to avoid danger, but they have shackles, and then some instincts have been numbed with long-term training, and they will not react to the arrows they shoot, they are passively shot.
The arrow array is not really a tall thing, but a large number of archers or crossbowmen form a formation, and multiple ranged troops are placed at a reasonable distance, and then follow the command to shoot at a certain area.
It's not a tall formation, it's not difficult to arrange, but the difficulty of specific operation is incomparably great.
The archer or crossbowman must be rigorously trained, what kind of password should be used to lift the bow or crossbow to what angle, any mistake in the air is secondary, resulting in accidental injury is called a tragedy.
In the military history of cold weapons, the training of ranged troops is more difficult than that of melee troops, as an archer or crossbowman, it is not enough to shoot arrows, but people who can shoot arrows and shoot accurately but freely are suitable for hunting, and knowing how to obey orders and enforce orders and prohibitions is the key.
The latter point mentioned above is common to any soldier, but the consequences of a mistake by a long-range unit are even more demoralizing, after all, people are fighting in front, but there are their own people shooting deadly arrows in the back, and whoever encounters it will have a psychological breakdown.
Arrow formations rely heavily on the observer, and in this era when mathematics is only in its infancy, there are so many things in rulers, spacing, and predicting moving positions that are not systematically generalized, even the most intelligent people can be confused.
Without a simple and clear scientific system, the observer of the arrow array needs to be extremely experienced, able to judge the distance between the arrow array and the enemy to be shot, and then give the firing command of how many degrees to elevate according to the weapons of the commanding arms.
In the Han army's arrow array, there were constantly shouting out the password, and one team after another of the crossbowmen shot arrows repeatedly in the sound of the password, and some of them could shoot five rounds, and the few were three, and then no more archery orders were heard.
Getanado's charioteers had apparently not been sniped by this scientific method, and the horses they used to pull the chariots were not armoured, and no less than a hundred chariots were killed by arrows during the charge, and the subversion of each chariot was a great disturbance.
The chariots that fell in front became an obstacle to the advance of the friendly forces galloping behind, and more chariots crashed into the wreckage, and each time they rolled over, with the result that at least one hundred and fifty or so chariots fell in the middle of the charge before they could enter the collision phase.
One hundred and fifty is only a little more than a tenth of the more chariots that Gittana has played, but the problem is that they have never encountered a similar situation, and it is completely impossible to say that it has no effect on the morale of the army.
The most direct manifestation of this is that the originally noisy Gitanado infantry stopped shouting, but the Han army's subordinate troops erupted in cheers as they moved to the left and right flanks.
The arrow array organized by the Han army could not stop all the charging Getanado charioteers, and the Getanado charioteers who were running in the first row had already charged far enough to soon come into contact with the Han army's tower shield soldiers.
The presence of tower shield soldiers in the Han army system has always been very strong, they are the most solid "shield" of the infantry army, and they have repeatedly formed a military formation to defend or advance and play an indispensable role, and together with the long-range troops, they constitute the strongest "shield" and "spear" of the Zhuxia army, whether it is against cavalry or infantry, they can always achieve victory step by step with far less losses than the enemy.
The chariot has long disappeared from the battlefield of Zhuxia, and it is nonsense to say that the Han army tower shield soldiers have experience in dealing with chariots, they were ordered to break away from the headquarters and move forward, and the order they got was to use their own bodies to support the shield and create an artificial slope that allowed the chariot to be subverted.
It's one thing to know what to do, it's another thing to really do it, the commander of each team of tower shield soldiers is watching and listening to all directions, and as the commander in this battle against the enemy's chariots, the responsibility and pressure are far greater than any before.
Lin Qu found the galloping chariot, shouted loudly and hurriedly formed a formation, because he was too nervous, he shouted a little hysterical, but fortunately, Pao Ze could understand.
Their practice is that someone tilts the shield at the front, and the person behind them in turn forms the shield into a slope, forming a slope of the shield wall and then using people to hold it up.
The chariot with rolling wheels, the three pilots on the body of the chariot saw the situation in front of him and tried very hard to control the war horse to make directional adjustments, but the structure of the chariot determined one point, without the premise of the axle, the war horse dragged the body of the chariot to make a turn that was too large would directly make the chariot fall sideways, and they would directly subvert themselves in the process of turning.
Lin Qu only stuck out his head from the side to watch when he heard the movement of the chariot slamming into the ground, and saw that the target he was about to deal with had overturned, and he was extremely happy in his heart.
They really didn't deal with chariots, and it was said that organizing a tilting shield wall would cause the chariot to roll over, but in fact, no one had a score in their hearts, and the person who gave the order was done after giving the order, but the life of the person who carried out the order was at stake.
Lin Qu was glad to continue to observe the battlefield and happened to see a scene.
It was the robes of the other squads organizing the tilting of the shield wall, and before the move of tilting the shield wall was completed, the enemy chariots rushed into it with the rumbling sound of wheels.
It was a tragic scene, the war horse with a sharp blade on its body was the first to collide with the person in the way, the sharp blade brought up red blood when it pierced and slashed, and the collision of the war horse caused the human body to be knocked upside down and flew out, followed by the collision of the body of the car, and the crushing of the wheels.
After waiting for the chariot to move forward, the team that wanted to build the sloping shield wall was already in pieces, and the living life was reduced to lying corpses, some of which were cut halfway through the waist by sharp blades, and some of which were dented by the wheels, and the only surviving Han soldier fell to the ground on one knee, his face full of extreme fear, and the crotch of his pants was dripping down.
It's not a shame to be scared to pee on the battlefield, it's just that veterans of a hundred battles have been scared to pee during battle, and it's normal for recruits to be scared to pee when they go to the battlefield for the first time.
It is almost impossible to say that people who go to war are not afraid, and the difference is whether they can control their fears.
And then there is a more shameless thing, no one is not afraid of death, the fear of death is the nature of the living, just show it and hide it, overcome the fear of death to fulfill their duties as a soldier.
Lin Qu didn't have much time to think or be afraid, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a chariot galloping towards the position of the organization's inclined shield wall, and subconsciously shouted: "Resist", and the person also shrank in At the next moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves stomping on the shield, and anyone under the shield wall, while they felt the weight of the top, the person on the right saw the head of a horse with its mouth open, and the picture seemed to be slowed down, and the saliva in the horse's mouth was splashing, and some of the saliva could be discerned as foam.
The speed of the "playback" of the screen returned to normal, the wheels crushed the shield surface, and the war horse that did not trample the shield wall fell to one side, followed by the subverted body tilting and smashing to the ground.
The Han army under the shield wall, basically none of them could stand, the people in front of them fell directly to the ground, and some people even knelt forward with their thighs but their waists were folded back.
The force of the collision, combined with the weight of the horse and the chariot, is really not the total weight of the horse and the chariot when they are stationary, and it has to be multiplied several times. successfully subverted a chariot, but Lin Qu was confused, and when he came back to his senses, he wanted to raise his arm but found that he did not obey the call, and he also saw the miserable appearance of the robe.
There were two people who were directly crushed by the huge force, their bodies were broken, and blood continued to gush out of their mouths, noses, and ears as they died.
The Han soldier at the front, he was directly pressed by the shield, and it was obvious that the skeleton of the body was completely collapsed, the limbs were distorted, the thickness of the main trunk of the body was reduced, and the ribs could be seen spurting out of the part that was not covered by the shield.
"What can move, pull up and can't move."
Lin Qu felt that his mouth was a little sweet, and the fishy smell was also full, he knew that not only did he dislocate his arm, but he must also be injured: "Evacuate, evacuate here." ” Successfully organized a tilting shield wall to intercept an enemy chariot, which was indeed subverted and scrapped, but eleven people died three on the spot, and the others were more or less wounded, and those who could move pulled or carried incapacitated robes to move to the flank of their own army formation at the orders of the commander.
Li Jun stood on the improvised high platform, he saw the tragic scene through the telescope, most of the team was not able to organize the inclined shield wall to be directly reimbursed, and some of the oblique shield walls were not much better.
In fact, even if they form an inclined shield wall, they may not be in the right position, and the people who carry the shield are not invincible Iron King Kong, most of them are directly crushed to the collapse of the shield wall, and their sacrifice is to successfully paralyze a chariot of the enemy army.
"If not."
Li Jun's mood swings are there, but to say that he has not lost an inch, he has seen too many tragic battle scenes: "To deal with the chariot, you need to do a good job of fortifications in advance, and the cost of relying on temporary blocking is too great." ” The reason for this is that any successful or unsuccessful squad has played its part, either using the remains of the chariot or the corpses stacked on top of each other, to successfully create obstacles to the chariot's advance, so that the space in which the chariot can pass is constantly decreasing.
There are no immortals in war, sacrifices are only divided into valuable or worthless, and the tower shield soldiers who go out to fight reflect their own value, their efforts and sacrifices are so that most enemy chariots cannot pass through the battlefield and crash directly into the main formation.
The small number of Getanado chariots that were able to charge up, they found that the number of friendly troops around them was so scarce that the horses pulling the chariots certainly did not have any thoughts, but the people on the hull of the chariots were panicked.
For a chariot without a braking device, the driver needs a buffer time even if he wants to stop, and a chariot at high speed needs at least a hundred meters to stop, but they don't have that much distance.
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"Rush, speed up rush" Xaesia's face was full of ashes, and most of the chariot troops led by him did not rush over, but more of them had a forest of spikes composed of spears in front of them.
This war was not only unfamiliar to the Han army, but in fact, the situation after the battle was completely unexpected on the side of Getanado.
In the land of Ah San, it is the chariots and cavalry that deal with chariots, and no matter how experienced people are, they have never seen or heard of infantry daring to take the initiative to block the chariots in the gallop.
Not to mention taking the initiative to attack to deal with the charging chariot, even if it is to organize a formation in place to block the chariot, Ah San will only do it on the premise of having some tools such as rejecting horses, and it is also a legend that people stand in a dense phalanx to resist.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes today, he didn't believe that anyone had that guts at all, and while his mind was full of confusion, he only had to wonder how the Han people could have so much courage and the spirit of not being afraid of death.
Again, no one is not afraid of death, but the soldiers of any country have discipline, and then there is a sense of mission or honor, which makes them suppress the fear of death.
Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the forest of spikes, Xsaesia snatched the reins of the rider with a fierce face, and drove the horses pulling the cart to speed up and speed again.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that another vehicle was about to crash into it, and his attention was drawn.
The chariot under the high-speed gallop has no shock absorbing device, and the bumpy feeling caused by the speed is more obvious, and the white foam in the mouth of the horse pulling the cart is splashed, and the people on the car have to hold the wall of the car to control the balance of the body.
At that moment, as long as the conditions permitted, everyone's eyes were on the chariot that was about to crash into the formation of spearmen.
What they saw was that the horses pulling the chariot rushed up, and the forest of spikes instantly dented, and the spears pierced the horses' bodies, but the spearmen were also pushed backwards with a great force.
The horses pulling the cart died at the first moment of the collision, and the body of the cart was pulled forward by a kind of inertia, and the people on it were thrown into the sky, and the people danced in mid-air.
The military formation that formed the rectangular spear array, the wailing of the recessed piece continued, and the forest of spear spikes on the left and right sides was also disintegrating.
The body of the car crashed into it by inertia, pushing the dead horse forward, the wheels collapsing under the force of the impact, and the bottom of the car was plowed all the way through the fields, not only pushing up the soil, but also shoveling the dead or wounded Han spearmen forward.
"Hiss" Li Jun's teeth were pantothenic acid as he inhaled, and his eyes were wide.
He could judge for the first time that it was just such a collision, and although the chariot was finished, it also took away at least one or two dozen Han soldiers: