Nearly two thousand Goguryeo soldiers fell in the death zone, each with at least five arrows stuck in their body.
Before the Goguryeo soldiers at the rear could even halt their advance, they were met with a second wave of arrows.
In just a few breaths, more than three thousand Goguryeo soldiers who followed up fell to the arrows.
The Goguryeo soldiers who were advancing later saw the blood-red death zone ahead and their eyes were filled with terror. They all stopped in their tracks.
At the same time, the Goguryeo cavalry charging towards the flanks of the Han army also came within two hundred paces.
"Fire Battalion, charge!"
"Black Fang Battalion, charge!"
With a loud shout from Ma Teng and Gongsun Du, the soldiers of the Liehuo and Heifeng battalions spurred their horses forward, raising their crossbows to aim at the oncoming enemy.
When the two cavalrymen were 150 paces apart, the soldiers of both battalions pulled the triggers of their crossbows.
The Goguryeo cavalry charging ahead were caught in a hail of arrows and fell from their horses, trampled into a bloody pulp before they could even scream. A gap appeared in their charging formation.
"Wedge formation, breach!!"
After the arrow was fired, Ma Teng and Gongsun Du simultaneously led their cavalry, wielding long spears, and charged towards the gap in the enemy cavalry formation, forming two torrents of red and black.
The soldiers of both battalions were using specially made standard-issue long spears, which were much longer and had greater penetrating power than the spears used by Goguryeo.
As they charged forward, the Goguryeo cavalrymen's spears were pierced through the Han soldiers' bodies and flung away before they could even touch the armor of the Han soldiers.
In a short time, the two Goguryeo cavalry units were simultaneously breached by the Fire and Black Edge battalions.
"White Horse Cavalry, charge!!"
Just then, the White Horse Camp, which was left to guard the rear, split into two and charged towards the Goguryeo cavalry that had been breached.
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