Chapter 161: Wang Shichong is destined to be happy?

Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie rushed to the front of the Xuanjia Cavalry with their own soldiers, but the oncoming chariots formed a tight formation, carrying unprecedented pressure and rushed towards them.

"kill!"

Cheng Zhijie roared suddenly, tensed his muscles all over his body, and released his strength amid the roar. His wrist shook, and the horse spear in his hand drew an arc, stabbing the horse driving in front of the chariot.

"Puff..."

"Puff..."

The two huge horse heads were stabbed by Cheng Zhijie, and they stabbed into the war horse's head without delay, disrupting the war horse's head, instantly taking away the vitality of the war horse. The two huge war horses fell to the ground with a plop.

Cheng Zhijie succeeded with one blow, and Qin Qiong was not showing any weakness. He leaned forward slightly and quickly pulled out four short halberds from the chain of the horse's neck. This short halberd was only four feet long and weighed about eight or nine kilograms. Qin Qiong held four short halberds and opened his bow left and right. The four short halberds flew towards the horses driven by the Zheng army's chariots in front.

"Puff...puff...puff...puff..."

Four war horses fell down one after another. Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led the Xuanjia cavalry and launched a desperate assault on the Zheng army's chariot soldiers.

Although the Tang army's Xuanjia Cavalry was as powerful as a rainbow, their counterattack encountered unprecedented pressure. If these Xuanjia Cavalry faced Zheng army cavalry or infantry, they could rely on their armor to strengthen the blade and kill the enemy without leaving any armor. Unless they exhausted all their physical strength, the charge momentum of the Xuanjia Cavalry would not stop.

However, at this time, two or three hundred chariots of Zheng's army rushed up. Although Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong fought hard and destroyed more than a dozen chariots of Zheng's army in succession, more Zheng's chariots collided with the Tang army's Xuanjia cavalry.

There were four people standing on each chariot of Zheng army, a driver who was driving a war horse, a armored head with a horizontal knife, a bow and arrow, and two armored soldiers holding spears on the left and right.

Before the Xuanjia cavalry could hit the enemy's war horse, they either fell off the horse by arrows or were beaten by the spearmen on the chariot with spearmen.

The long spears and spears of the soldiers on the Zheng army's chariots are all for chariots, and are thick and long. Each long spear is two meters long, about four meters and seven meters long. It is even two feet longer than the spear used by infantry. As the saying goes, one inch longer and one inch stronger. In this case of chariots and cavalry attacks, the long spears of the Zheng army's chariots are fully demonstrated.

Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong, with the Xuan Armored Cavalry, felt unprecedented power after only dozens of steps. The arrows of Zheng army soldiers were shuttled everywhere in the air. Although the Xuan Armored Cavalry belonged to the heavy Armored Cavalry and were not afraid of arrow shooting, their faces, necks, hands, feet, and eyes of war horses were all weak and vital. There were always Zheng army arrows that hit the critical position of the Xuan Armored Cavalry like they were hit by the Dayun. What was even more terrifying was that the chariots delayed the charge momentum of the Xuan Armored Cavalry, and lost the charge speed. The Xuan Armored Cavalry became the target of the Zheng army soldiers' attack.

It was found that the bow and arrow were not effective, and almost two or three hundred arrows could barely hit a Tang army's Xuan armored cavalry. Wang Shichong indeed ordered to stop this meaningless attack. Wang Shichong said: "Calling the bed crossbow and catapult machine, and bombing me..."

In fact, Wang Shichong made complete preparations to ambush Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry.

The 220 Eight-Cow Crossbows in the stock in Yang Guang's prison in Luoyang City were all dismantled by Wang Shichong and secretly transported to Longmen Canyon, including more than 150 catapults. If Wang Shichong had arranged these weapons on the walls of Luoyang City, Li Shimin would have to work hard to seize Luoyang City.

In history, Li Shimin did siege Luoyang for ten days, losing more than 20,000 troops, but did not capture Luoyang City at all. However, in this time and space, Wang Renze ate Chen Ying's poisonous smoke at Hangu Pass, and he reported the news to Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong immediately realized that it was not a solution to defend Luoyang City to the death. So Wang Shichong designed such a strategy to lure Li Shimin underestimate the enemy and advance rashly.

Wang Shichong saw it very clearly. On the surface, the Tang army was strong and powerful, but Li Shimin deliberately wanted to express himself because of the existence of Chen Ying, an alien. In "The Art of War", Sun Tzu's Art of War, he said that there are five dangers: death, killing, and being alive, and being captured; anger can be insulted; honest, and being insulted; loving the people can be annoyed. It is precisely Li Shimin who was caught in "anger speed". Anger speed means being impatient and rash, and he will jump as soon as he touches, and he may be deliberately humiliated by the enemy and act recklessly;

Under Wang Shichong's order, Zheng Jun ambushed the Eight-Number Crossbow and Castellation Machine on Daqing Mountain and Longmen Mountain began to adjust the launch angle, and 150 trenchers and 220 Eight-Number Crossbows were all aimed at Li Shimin's Dafeng.

After hearing the news that Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie were frustrated, Hou Junji hurriedly said to Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan: "General Qin and General Cheng are exhausted and cannot enter the chariot formation. We must break through a bloody road. If we don't suddenly enter, we will all die here!"

Li Shimin said: "I'll go!"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and rushed to the front.

However, at this moment, bursts of shrill break through the air came from the sky.

Li Shimin had just moved forward for more than a hundred steps. When he turned his head and saw that he was shocked and sweating.

I saw that where he was just now, dozens of stone bullets and hundreds of crossbow arrows more than six feet long fell from the air. These thick crossbow arrows effortlessly penetrated the armor of the Xuan Armored Cavalry and nailed the Xuan Armored Cavalry and his men and horses to the ground. Dozens of stone bullets even smashed the hundreds of Xuan Armored Cavalry present to the bloody meat pie.

If the bows and arrows of this period were the submachine guns of later generations, then the strong crossbow was almost an assault rifle, and the bed crossbow and the Baniu Crossbow were almost equivalent to the power of an anti-tank gun or an anti-aircraft machine gun. A six-foot-long powerful crossbow could even be inserted into a solid city wall, let alone the armor worn by the cavalry. Even the high manganese steel bright light armor discovered by Chen Ying was also as fragile as paper in front of the bed crossbow.

Li Shimin shouted: "Come with me!"

Li Shimin picked up an iron-tied bow, and saw arrows shooting five or six war horses in a row. His strength was raised again, and his speed also increased again! The surroundings were full of strong winds caused by enemy chariots and horses galloping. In addition, there were cold arrows and hidden arrows. Several times the bow arrows almost passed through Li Shimin's cheeks, and the skin was burning with an illusion of anxiety less than one or two inches, but Li Shimin didn't even blink his eyes. At this moment, his condition was probably that the bow arrow shot his eyes and he wouldn't even get a fog!

As a general and as an excellent fierce coach, Li Shimin knew very well that at this time, it was meaningless to stay, and it was meaningless to be afraid of death. The more he was afraid of death, the faster he died. Li Shimin led the Xuan Armored Cavalry to attack, but did not follow the established target to directly go south. In fact, Wang Shichong could easily infer that he was about to go to, so the troops there were as strong as the strongest!

Li Shimin charged, not along the straight line to the south, but like fish scales, ripples, and slashing. At this time, the sky seemed to be favoring Li Shimin. He was like a prophet, and could avoid the trap set up by the Zheng army at any time and move continuously along the delicate "momentum" of the battlefield. Every move was accompanied by the death of a rival horse or the overturning of a chariot.

However, although Li Shimin is brave, Qin Qiong is fearless, and Cheng Zhijie is fierce, they only brought casualties from the Zheng army soldiers, and there was no change in the entire battle situation.

The Tang army's Xuanjia cavalry in the Longshan Grand Canyon has changed from more than 5,000 people to more than 4,000 people, and now there are less than 3,000 cavalry. Their range of activity has been slowly compressed from a valley that is more than 30 miles long to twenty-five miles, twenty miles,

Now the three thousand Xuan Armored Cavalry have been compressed to nearly less than fifteen miles. At this time, the Zheng army's chariot troops were like a deadly rope, strangling the necks of the Tang soldiers, suffocating the Tang soldiers bit by bit.

"The carriages are scattered, the horses are scattered, and the pedestrians are bowed and arrows are on their waists. My wife walks to see each other, and the dust cannot see Xianyang Bridge..." This is a poem "The Warriors and Carriages" by Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. The chariots began to appear on the battlefield during the Xia Dynasty and quickly became the king of ancient Chinese wars. Even later, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the chariots became the basic factor for measuring a country.

From the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, chariots have always been the main equipment of the army, and chariot warfare is the main mode of combat. As for the confrontation between cavalry and chariots, it is a matter of opinion. In fact, the power of chariots is much greater than that of cavalry, but the speed of chariots is slow, without the maneuverability of cavalry, and the cost is too high, and gradually declined.

Li Shimin looked at the whistling of two hundred Zheng army chariots, and felt his scalp numb. If it were elsewhere, Li Shimin was fearless of these chariots, he could even pick up a hundred ways to restrain the chariots. However, in the narrow Longmen Grand Canyon, there was a fire breaking the road behind it, and there were chariots in front. In the narrow space, the chariots' originally slow movement speed was well compensated for from this Longmen Canyon.

Li Shimin's face was originally peaceful. Although it was a bit tough, it was still handsome. However, it was burned by anger and was fierce. His eyes were originally narrow and beautiful. He had fascinated many girls by this. At this time, he unknowingly stared into a round shape, just like the angry Vajra in the Buddha Temple! And those hands were even covered with blue veins. If anyone could get close to them and look closely, would he think that they were really a pair of human hands?

Li Shimin was already covered in blood, but no drop of blood was his own! Li Shimin's terrible image was like he had just crawled out of the flesh and flesh swamp of blood. He was really a demon depicted in the classics of various religious scriptures. It made all enemies scared and weak when they saw him, and even beasts were intimidated by him!

Unfortunately, there are too many soldiers in Zheng's army. To make matters worse, the Baniu crossbows and catapults on both sides of Daqingshan and Longmenshan fired stone bullets or crossbow arrows from time to time.

In the narrow space of Longmen Canyon, Zheng Jun's catapult, each stone bullet, could easily bring several dozen Xuan-armored cavalrymen. Looking at the Xuan-armored cavalry who were regarded as the lifeblood, they fell in the Longmen Grand Canyon with hatred. Li Shimin's eyes were about to pop out, but this could not have any opinions on the situation on the scene.

Li Shimin attacked several dozen times in a row, but did not disperse the Zheng army's chariots. Instead, he was suppressed step by step by step by step by step by Zheng army's chariots.

At this moment, Cheng Zhijie fell off his horse and fought with a pounce.

Qin Qiong was shocked and shouted: "Old Cheng..."

Surviving now that the Xuan Armored Cavalry lost its speed, Cheng Zhijie was not hit by the cavalry behind him, and he struggled to get up. Cheng Zhijie grinned and said, "It's okay, I'm a man, Cheng is rough and thick..."

Qin Qiong took advantage of the fire and shot the crossbow arrows on Cheng Zhijie's shoulders, and his face was filled with commission. The shoulder pads are an important part of the armor and are also a place with very strong defense, second only to the chest. However, the shoulder pads have now been penetrated by the crossbow arrows, which shows how powerful the crossbow arrow is.

At this moment, Li Shimin rushed to Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie. Looking at Cheng Zhijie's injuries, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's so dangerous. If you almost get a finger, you will hurt your bones. Your arm is also useless!"

However, Zhu Can was wearing iron armor and holding a spear in his hand, standing in the second row of the second row, pressing his steps and slowly moving forward. Zhu Can shouted: "Press up the steps - stabilize - maintain formation!"

Following his command, the infantry phalanx of the man-cannibal demon armored legion rushed towards Li Shimin's Xuan armored cavalry at a slow pace.

Although the Demon Legion is notorious, it denies that this very combative army, the first row of troops, was engaged in the battle. Zhu Can shouted a command: "Kill--!"

The first row of infantry soldiers of the demon army stabbed out spears, stabbing dozens of shocked Xuan armored cavalry Xue to death on the spot.

Zhu Can shouted again: "Come on!"

The infantry of the Demon Legion gathered spears together.

"Enter--!"

The infantry of the Demon Legion took another neat step forward.

At this time, Li Shimin also felt a long-lost sense of powerlessness. The chariots blocked the Xuanjia Cavalry's way to break through the south. Although the Zheng army's chariots were less than 200, the Xuanjia Cavalry also exhausted their physical strength and could no longer move forward. More than 5,000 Xuanjia Cavalry, less than 2,000 at this time, were compressed within a range of less than ten miles.

Just as Zhu Can led the cannibal demon army to attack from Longmen Mountain to the bottom of the mountain, the Zheng army on Daqingshan Mountain on the opposite mountain also launched an attack.

Attacking at the same time from three sides, Li Shimin's troops were in danger.

Cheng Zhijie smiled bitterly and said, "It is not in vain that I, Cheng, can live and die with His Highness the King of Qin!"

Li Shimin knew that the entire army had lost confidence at this time and his morale turned down. However, as the backbone of the army, others could despair, but he could not.

Li Shimin laughed and said, "It's too early to die now. We still have reinforcements. Wang Shichong's son is destined to be happy!"
Chapter completed!