Chapter 461
There were ten thousand soldiers, connecting the sky and the earth. What's more, the huge Kushan army had more than 35,000 soldiers and horses. The width of the entire army was far beyond the limit of normal vision. Looking from the direction of the Liang army, the horizon was densely filled with human heads and flags, like an endless tide rushing towards the Liang army.
From soldiers to generals, no one of the Liang army panicked and continued to arrange the military formation in an orderly manner. The guns and shield soldiers and a circle of five rows of human walls were built around the hollow formation. In front of the human wall was a shield wall, and the wall was a forest-like gun blade. The outermost side was surrounded by thick oars and shields and there were spearmen inside the oars and shields, as well as light crossbows. Behind the five rows of oars and shield soldiers were a circle of long bowmen.
In the middle of the phalanx is the Liang army's crossbows position. The Liang army's combat cavalry did not live in the formation, but retreated outside the formation like the chariot soldiers, but did not retreat as far as the chariot soldiers. Instead, they cruised not far behind the hollow phalanx, and stopped work and supported the infantry phalanx at any time. The crossbows were also equipped with heavy crossbows. In fact, the crossbows were originally mounted on the carriage of the crossbows, and they only had to be erected when used. Three airships rose from the hollow space in the formation, and Zhang Liao personally sat in the airship basket to observe the enemy's situation.
Hao Miluo was surrounded by the generals, and he observed the enemy formation in a stare like Zhang Liao. When he found that the opponent was posing a completely defensive formation like a hollow square formation, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart: "If you want to be a turtle, then you will do your best. But your turtle will fall into my iron pot and steam it."
He waved his hand and said, "The cavalry on both sides charges and rushes to the rear of the enemy's formation." The orders followed the sound of drums and whistles of the generals. The two wings of the Kushan Army formation, which were originally jogging in small steps, suddenly increased their speed and changed their formation. Some changed into cone formations, and some changed into edge arrow formations, galloping forward, but they did not directly face the Liang army's square formation, but detour behind the Liang army.
In Zhang Liao's overlooking view, the Kushan military formation, which was originally a rectangular, evolved into a big U-shaped character, directly covering the Liang military formation.
Hao Miluo looked at the airship in the air and said, "When the range of the crossbow cannon is enough, shoot Liang Jun and other air-viewing towers first!"
More than ten miles away from both sides of the Liang army formation, the sound of horse hooves rushing like summer thunder. It was the cavalry on both sides of the Kushan wings passing through the Liang army formation from both sides. The cavalry behind the Liang army formation did not intercept them, but divided the troops into two groups, spreading to both sides of their own formation amidst the whistles, one rushed to the bank of the Indus River and the other rushed to the foot of the Hindu Kush Mountain.
Hao Miluo was not like Zhang Liao, with airships helping him, so he didn't know that the Liang army's chariots had retreated thirty miles behind the formation, nor did he know that the Liang army's cavalry was spreading toward the two wings. The restlessness of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the battlefield caused sand and dust to spread all over the sky. On the ground, he could only judge the enemy's position and movement by relying on the flags that appeared in the rolling yellow dust.
Hao Miluo never expected that the first thing to confront the enemy was not his cavalry vanguard, nor the central military formation he was facing the enemy. Instead, the tails of the cavalry units on both sides were first attacked by the Liang army's cavalry extended to both sides.
The arrows of the Light Cavalry Flying Feathers shot towards the Kushan War Cavalry with great kinetic energy with great kinetic energy. With the crackling sound, the Kushan Light Cavalry without armor protection fell from the horse. Everyone with heavy armored cavalry was hit by five or six arrows, like hedgehogs. They did not dare to hesitate to stop, and quickly followed the home team in front of them.
The heavy cavalry rushed over with a full-length cavalry, like a comb, and passed through the messy Kushan cavalry like a horizontal comb. Almost every cavalry was inserted into a Kushan corpse. In a moment, the Kushan war cavalry that fell behind were almost killed.
But the cavalry generals in Mercedes-Benz were at the forefront and of course it was even more impossible for Hao Miluo to know. Someone discovered this situation in the infantry formation on both wings of the rear of the Kushan army, but it was impossible to inform Hao Miluo of the information immediately. Therefore, the huge Kushan army units still acted step by step according to the established plan.
The two Kushan cavalry that crossed the Liang army's phalanx began to turn around about ten miles behind the Liang army and blocked the Liang army's retreat. At the same time, the Liang army's cavalry rushed towards the infantry formation that was moving on both wings of the Kushan army.
Most of the Kushan wing soldiers who were advancing with drum beats were not alert to this. They heard the sound of the thunder-like horse galloping, but they thought it was the sound of their cavalry charging forward. Only a few of them were confused--the sound of horse hooves had gone away just now, why is it suddenly approaching now? But the thoughts of these few people could not affect such a large military formation for a while.
When the Kushan soldiers saw the Liang army cavalry coming out of the rolling dust, the other party was already close, and the hair on the Kushan soldiers exploded.
Before the commanders could issue orders, arrows were densely shot. Most of the Kushan infantrymen were incomplete in armor, not to mention that they were moving forward and could not better defend with shields. Many people were caught in the arrow, and blood splattered everywhere and fell to the ground and died.
The light cavalry that shot out two waves of arrows then turned back, followed by the Liang army heavy cavalry roaring in a cone formation. The huge iron armored war horse and the flying wolf-toothed stick tear open two huge gaps on the Kushan army formation with almost no effort. The Kushan soldiers were either knocked down by the Liang army's iron cavalry or dodged to both sides in panic. The Liang army heavy cavalry then galloped through the gap, and the light cavalry followed closely behind the Kushan army formation.
With a large formation that costs dozens of miles, Hao Miluo, who lives in the formation, naturally could not know what was happening at both ends in a short time. Compared with the huge Kushan army formation, the impact of the Liang army was just like a small stone thrown into the stone pond and caused several ripples. The large formation that was dozens of miles wide was still moving slowly towards the hollow square formation of the Liang army.
However, at this time, the crossbows in the Liang army's position had begun to be projected, and a stone bomb was fired, and the explosive bomb was attacking the Kushan army formation like raindrops. From time to time, the head of a soldier suddenly disappeared without a trace in the splash of blood rain. The flames rising into the air swallowed up several Kushan soldiers, and then turned into several firemen running and screaming.
The last row of longbowmen also began to snipe at the Kushan Army behind the human and shield walls. Heavy arrows pierced the armor of the Kushan soldiers and generals from time to time and knocked them over to the ground. The Kushan army finally pressed into the fifty battles of the Liang army formation, and the crossbowmen behind also opened their bows and shot arrows. Thousands of arrows rushed towards the Liang army.
The Liang army formation was commanding, layer by layer of shields were raised, but the crackling sound of arrows entering the wood. The two armies finally officially began to confront each other.
Chapter completed!