Being charged head-on by heavy cavalry in open field battles on the plains is a nightmare for almost all light infantry and light cavalry!
Zhan Meihe's pupils suddenly contracted; he finally realized that he had fallen into a trap!
Zhao Muyun not only sent troops to attack Yizhou, but his reinforcements had also been taken into account long ago.
The light cavalry that harassed him had the aim of luring him into this deadly trap!
"Form ranks! Form ranks now! Spearmen forward! Archers, prepare!" Nianmei shouted hoarsely, trying to organize a defense.
However, after days of harassment, the troops were exhausted, their formation was stretched out, and they were on the march. How could they possibly form an effective defensive formation in such a short time?
The soldiers were in a panic, and the officers' orders were drowned out by the approaching thunder of iron hooves and their own fear.
"Shenji Battalion! Target: enemy rear guard, cover fire—fire!"
Liu Yi personally took charge on one side of the hill and calmly gave orders.
Five hundred Shenji Battalion crossbowmen who had been lying in ambush, along with some archers equipped with third-generation composite bows, suddenly appeared!
This time, they were not using ordinary arrows.
Crossbowmen used armor-piercing crossbow bolts with longer range and greater penetrating power, while archers switched to specially made triangular armor-piercing cone bolts!
"Buzz—!"
"Rest, rest, rest—!"
The sound of air being torn apart was even more frequent and shrill than before!
Black arrows rained down like a storm, covering the area behind the team that hadn't been hit.
"Puff puff puff..."
"ah!"
Screams erupted instantly.
The armor-piercing arrows easily tore through the leather armor of the Northern Di soldiers and even penetrated the relatively thin iron armor plates.
The Northern Di army in the middle and rear ranks was thrown into chaos, suffering heavy casualties. Their already chaotic formation completely collapsed, exposing the vanguard to the heavy cavalry.
"kill--!"
Guo Luo took the lead, positioned at the very tip of the heavy cavalry wedge formation.
He lowered his mask, leaving only his cold gaze peering through the gaps at the chaotic enemy ranks ahead, his long lance slightly adjusting its angle.
A thousand heavily armored cavalrymen, like red-hot iron plows, fiercely "plowed" into the still-forming vanguard of the Nianmeihe army.
"Boom!"
That was the terrifying sound of steel colliding with flesh.
They encountered almost no decent resistance.
The spear easily pierced the bodies of the Northern Di soldiers who tried to block it, and the huge impact sent the bodies flying and torn apart.
The heavy iron armor ignored the swords and arrows that were slashing down and the scattered arrows that were being shot at it. The powerful impact of the Akhal-Teke horse knocked away and crushed everything in its way.
Where the heavily armored cavalry passed, a scene of carnage unfolded, leaving behind a path of death paved with severed limbs and broken weapons.
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