Chapter 380 Serial raids
The heavy iron armor on the Sassanian camel cavalry cannot be penetrated by long bows and heavy arrows. Even under normal circumstances, a cavalry cannot penetrate such heavy armor. However, the wolf-toothed stick of the heavy cavalry of Liang army can cause huge damage to the internal organs of the human body without penetrating the armor.
The scimitar of a camel armored warrior slashed at the oncoming Liang army heavy cavalry with his head. The Liang army knight's wolf-toothed stick had just hit the head of a camel and had no time to take it back.
The Liang army knight had to slant his head to avoid the oblique slash, and the blade still slashed on his helmet. There was a crisp sound from the clang, and the helmet was almost cut through, but the scimitar was also bounced away.
When the camel armored knight was about to swing the second sword, the opponent's wolf-toothed stick had swept across and was hitting his left rib. He suddenly felt his internal organs like a smack of blood and spit out a mouthful of blood and fell from the camel.
Although the Camel Cavalry mount looks taller than the Liang army's Shire giant horse and its iron armor is even heavier than the Liang army's heavy cavalry, their weapons disadvantages are undoubtedly revealed in this battle. What's more, they just lost from the iron caltrops and their morale is depressed. Then they were rushed by the Liang army's heavy cavalry, and within a moment, they were defeated.
The Sassanian central army then fled in all directions. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ardashir, Sulehar and others had already rode their horses to run towards the front army. However, after Guan Yu and Ma Chao joined forces, they continued to chase them relentlessly. The Sassanian front army was mainly composed of light and heavy combat cavalry, but their horse speed was not as fast as the Liang army. In a short time, the Liang army chased after them. Ma Chao's silver spear and Guan Yu's long sword danced together to kill the Sassanian cavalry.
Ardashir hurriedly ordered some of the cavalry to break the rear, but it was impossible to stop the Liang army's offensive. In less than half an hour, the cavalry behind the palace was killed and retreated. When the Liang army caught up again, the remaining Sassanian army, including Ardashir and others, could only escape in scattered places. During this escape, the Sassanian army was defeated thousands of miles away.
Ma Chao and Guan Yu did not divide their troops to pursue each other, and continued to chase Persis side by side. Because there was a bigger battle in that direction--Zhou Yu was taking the main force of the 30,000 Liang army to pursue the main force of the Sassanian army's 170,000 to 180,000...
On the wasteland, an army that stretched for nearly thirty miles was moving rapidly towards Persis, like a giant python. At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, three equally rapid moving troops appeared in the distance in the rear section of the giant python. However, on the ground, they and the Sassanian army were still outside the sight of each other.
These three troops are the main force of the Liang army in the North Road under Zhou Yu. Each of them has nearly 10,000 people, each stretching for two or three miles long. Their marching speed can be described as rapid movements compared to the Sassanian army.
Zhou Yu was in one of the troops, and he kept urging the infantry and cavalry to speed up. From time to time, scouts came to report the enemy situation to him. Two hours ago, the scouts at the forefront of the Liang army discovered the enemy situation. Zhou Yu immediately issued a military order to pick the enemy side as quickly as possible.
The cavalry then whipped the horses and galloped, and infantry with ostrich began to run wildly. Infantry without ostrich ran in large strides, but they could regularly transfer to infantry on the speeding carriage.
"Report! Our central army has now been interrupted and headed towards the enemy! The two sides are eight miles apart! The front and rear army are also in place!" A scout came to report to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu held his horse stance and took a deep breath and said, "Tell me the order, turn the three armies and approach the Sassanian army!"
"promise!"
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Ardashir and others and their personal soldiers were riding a BMW horse. They quickly left the remaining defeated soldiers far behind. After half an hour, they caught up with their main force.
At this moment, Ardashir's twisted eyebrows had just dissipated a little. But when he thought of the defeat just now, he became angry again, and the anger would naturally aim at Sulehar. Because the failed strategy was produced by Sulehar.
As soon as his lips moved, Sulehar spoke first: "Your Majesty, now is not the time to think about other things. Since the Liang army has sneaked into the ambush troops behind our palace, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not continue to sneak attack our main force. We should set up a formation quickly, just in case, and secondly, to gather the previous defeated troops. After the current urgent needs are solved, I will take on the blame that I should bear."
Ardashire then suppressed his anger and ordered several personal guards beside him to order the commanders: "Quickly send orders to the ten thousand men of various departments. Because... because Liang troops were found nearby, they asked them to stop advancing and set up a defensive formation!" He still planned to conceal the defeat from the uninformed generals in advance to avoid affecting morale.
When several soldiers were about to ride their horses away, Aldashire heard a familiar sound in his ears. This sound was like a nightmare to him. It was the sound of the heavy arrows of Liang's longbows. Then he saw one of the soldiers shakingly falling from the saddle. At the same time, more than a dozen cavalry and infantry nearby were shot to the ground by sudden arrows in the screams.
Ardashir looked into the distance, and dust was flying on the skyline, and countless arrows flew out of the dust, and then Liang's cavalry emerged from the flying dust.
"Come array! Array!..." Ardashir shouted in despair. But only a hundred soldiers around him could be heard. Before Ardashir finished calling, Sulehar, the generals and his personal soldiers surrounded him and fled forward.
The Sassanian army at the three attacked sites were already crowded in panic. Because the Liang army, who were walking in the same direction, was still marching when they approached the Sassanian army, the three attacked positions were all in the second half of the Sassanian army.
The Liang army's combat cavalry passed through the Sassanian crowd almost in a moment, dividing the second half of the Sassanian army, which was more than ten miles long, into four sections. The running Liang army infantry stood firm and threw rounds of javelins at the dense area of Sassanian soldiers behind the shield wall. Then the crossbows set up behind also projected stone bombs and hot bombs on the Sassanian army.
The entire Sassanian army was suddenly attacked and fell into extreme chaos. The brigade of a thousand-man team could no longer find the commanding general, and there was no leader in the group. Only the generals at the level of centurion led their infantry and cavalry to fight.
When the Liang army cavalry turned their heads again to launch a second attack, the Sassanian army of 80,000 to 90,000 began to defeat. Some people continued to flee in three directions. At this moment, Guan Yu and Ma Chao also chased from behind, and their joining made the battle even more one-sided. The Sassanian army's rush to escape led to crowding and trampling on each other. When they disappeared behind the horizon like a tide, there were already corpses everywhere on the wasteland.
Guan Yu and Ma Chao were about to lead their troops to pursue him, and when they saw a cavalry flying over and shouting: "Two generals stay..."
Chapter completed!