Chapter 1602: The decisive battle in Xiangzhou (3)
When the iron wall of the side van is raised up and they are formed into one by one by one, they are indeed a city wall. The whistling crossbows hit hard on the iron wall. The huge force penetrates the iron wall, but it completely offsets the momentum of the strong crossbows. Although the iron wall shakes, it still stands tall. Behind the iron wall, logs are topped on the top, and before each log, there are several horizontal trees embedded on it, forming platforms several feet square. On the platform, there are a number of powerful crossbows and crossbow machines.
"Let me!" A general shouted the order on the iron wall.
The sound of whimpering was endless. The Ming army's powerful crossbow began to be released. Once released, there were three Ming army's powerful crossbows, crossing the battlefield and plunging into the Fire Phoenix Army camp. The Fire Phoenix Army did not have an abnormal defense mechanism like a side van. No matter how thick the big shield was, it could not withstand the attack of the strong crossbow. After a crossbow broke the shield, the following powerful crossbow immediately drilled into the break. When a crossbow came over, it strung up several Fire Phoenix Army soldiers.
Compared with the powerful crossbows of the Chu army, the powerful crossbows of the Ming army have another prominent feature, which is one shot and three crossbows, and the firing rate is extremely fast.
Compared with the powerful crossbow of the Fire Phoenix Army, several people needed to turn the winch to install the crossbow arrows, but the Ming army used the mechanism to load the arrows. The efficiency ratio between the two sides was too far different.
The casualties of the Ming army were still several catapults carried by the Chu army. Although their launch speed was extremely slow, every time they fired, countless stone bullets could cross the block of the iron wall of the side van and fly there to attack the soldiers of the miners' battalion. At this time, the catapult had entered the range of the attack on the Ming army. They were fixed to the ground and began to launch continuously.
The Ming army's Thunderbolt Fire achieved a huge increase in the rate of fire at the expense of range, but at this time, it was helpless with these catapults.
The Fire Phoenix Army stubbornly advanced forward with the Ming army's powerful crossbow. Finally, the thunder fire behind the Ming army began to fire, and countless iron bombs turned into burning fireballs in the air, falling down the Fire Phoenix Army's lineup.
The front army of the Fire Phoenix Army ran and tried to spread the lineup even further. Just as the Ming army was unavoidable to avoid the stone bombs of the catapult, they had no way to resist the attacks of the Thunderbolt Fire. They could only run forward desperately, and only by running through this death zone could they avoid such thunder strikes.
One hundred steps, eighty steps, and seventy steps, the crossbow machine on the side van suddenly began to fire, and the black crossbow machine shot out like a splash of water, completely covering the distance of these dozens of steps in the rain of arrows.
The Huofeng soldiers were overturned, and countless people lay on the charge, but more people continued to run forward while stepping on the corpses of their companions.
The whistling Chu army was like a tide, and finally hit the iron wall of the side van heavily. The crossbow arrows nailed to the iron wall became their support for climbing. In the blink of an eye, the entire iron wall was covered with Fire Phoenix Army soldiers.
At the top of the iron wall, the Ming army officer was unmoved at all, still staring at the distance, constantly urging the powerful crossbows, and the crossbow machine fired in front of him. As for the Fire Phoenix Army that was attacking the nearest, he was not moved at all. Even at this time, six or seven feather arrows were already hanging on his body, and blood was already flowing along the armor.
With a thud, a section in the middle of the iron wall was suddenly pulled away, revealing a row of holes. Countless spears poked out from the holes, poking the climbing Fire Phoenix Army soldiers in rows.
Under the iron wall, the bodies gradually piled up.
The Huofeng Army divided two troops, one left and one right, towards the left and the two wings of the side van. They wanted to bypass the side van, but when they were just dispatched, the mid-horn sound of the Ming army was heard again, and the cavalry of the Liehuo Death Camp had already dispatched to face the two flying out of the Fire Phoenix Army.
The Fire Phoenix Army could only line up on the ground to face the attacks of the cavalry.
Lu Feng looked up at the sky. From the beginning of the battle, the two sides had been fighting for nearly an hour. Before the iron wall on the side, the body of the Huofeng Army was about to pile up from the ground to the top of the wall, and the entire iron wall was already full of holes and shaking, and could collapse at any time.
"Retreat the side wing army and prepare for the battle!" He ordered in a deep voice.
The soldiers stationed at the iron wall retreated in an instant, and accompanied by the rumbling sound of impact, the iron wall standing in front of everyone fell down with a bang.
The Fire Phoenix Army collapsed the iron wall, and the eyes suddenly became clear. Of course, they also saw the steel giants behind the iron wall.
Lu Feng pulled down his mask with a clang and raised his long sword: "Mining camp, move forward!"
With a loud bang, steel giants raised the big swords in their hands and began to take steps forward, first strode, and then trot. In fact, they could only trot, carrying dozens of kilograms of armor on their backs and holding a giant sword of about twenty kilograms. They couldn't run even if they wanted to run fast.
With a loud roar, the sword light suddenly slashed down.
The knife fell, and the second row of miners' battalions had passed through the gap, and another knife was slashed, followed by the third knife and the fourth knife.
The miner's camp was like a huge knife wheel, which was slowly turning forward and slowly.
In the Fire Phoenix Army, a heavy armored infantry with almost the same outfit appeared in front of the miners' camp, with the same heavy armor all over them. The difference is that they were holding heavy weapons such as maces and big hammers.
Two human-shaped beasts collided with each other.
This was a heavy infantry similar to the miner's battalion that Sun Chenglong tried his best to piece together. Although there were less than two thousand people, it did play a role in blocking the soldiers of the miner's battalion on the battlefield. The slowly advancing miner's battalion's knife wheel was forced to stop for the first time.
They stopped moving forward, and the surrounding Chu army immediately surrounded them like wolves. Rope sleeves were thrown out and fell towards the bodies of these heavy infantrymen. Once they were intertwined by these rope sleeves and could not be cut off in time, they would be immediately dragged down by the Chu soldiers and dragged out of the array. If the fallen heavy infantry were not able to stand up by themselves without the help of their companions.
Some soldiers from the miner's battalion saw their companions being dragged away from the queue, and anxiously left the queue and wanted to help their companions get out of the trap. However, before they could take a few steps, they would be trapped in a rope and fell to the ground. Without the cover of their companions, the heavy infantry's clumsiness on the battlefield was indeed their fatal point.
This is also the reason why Qin Feng never spent a lot of effort to develop such heavy infantry after he was in the miner's camp. Heavy infantry was indeed unfavorable to defeat the enemy, but their shortcomings were too obvious.
Compared with the temporary difficulties encountered by the miner's battalion, Lu Feng did not care much about it. The opponent's heavy infantry suddenly appeared, which made him happy without being surprised. As the commander of the miner's battalion, he knew his strengths and weaknesses. Now that the enemy is equipped with the same army, his existence will be more meaningful. Otherwise, if the long term continues, the miner's battalion will be a useless existence in the Ming army.
"Kill them all!" he said coldly.
The main battlefield has reached a white-hot stage, and ten miles away from here, Jiang Shangyan is crisscrossing and moving. As the swords in his hand rise and fall, one after another of Chu cavalry is killed by him. Teams of cavalry are running back and forth, forcing the already dispersed Chu cavalry back, and then gather and annihilate them one by one. When Jiang Shangyan cut another enemy down from the horse, he looked around and could not find an enemy on the battlefield where corpses are everywhere.
Putting away his swords, he took out a whistle from his arms and blew it hard. With the whistle, countless cavalry gathered from all directions and reshaped the team in front of him.
"Can you still fight?" Jiang Shangyan shouted loudly.
"Fight, fight, fight!" What answered him was the powerful roar of the soldiers.
"Strike!" Jiang Shangyan turned his horse's head and rushed to the main battlefield.
On the left wing of the main battlefield, the Canglang Battalion, which was immediately commanded, had completely disrupted the Chu army's array, and the entire left-wing battlefield was completely trapped in chaos. Not only did the Chu army, but even had its own immediately, could not control the entire army now. However, this was the Canglang Battalion's favorite combat mode. Without the command of the highest general, the lieutenant, the whistle commander, and the squadron commander under the Canglang Battalion had their own system, with teams of soldiers working together to strangle the enemy.
When the two teams met, the older one immediately became the commander, because in the Canglang Camp, the elderly were almost synonymous with veteran qualifications. Needless to say, no matter whether they were in charge of each other or not, the lower level would immediately be integrated into the high-level command sequence.
The head general of Canglang Camp, starting from the wild dog, was a guy who charged into battle, and they never rely on unified command.
But the Chu army could not do this, so when the battlefield fell into such an extremely strange situation, the Canglang Camp, which had a smaller number of people, had the upper hand.
It is a taboo on the battlefield if the general does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the general. However, in Canglang Camp, it is like a fish in water.
When Jiang Shangyan arrived at the main battlefield, he immediately rushed his troops to join the left wing battle without thinking. Because such a battlefield was so suitable for cavalry combat, the Chu army and the Canglang Camp were caught in chaos and could not organize a close formation to fight the cavalry. Jiang Shangyan's troops were as straight as tigers and wolves, turning the entire left wing upside down.
The Chu army was destroyed, and more and more Canglang camps gathered together. However, under the attack of Jiang Shangyan, the Chu army could not gather even if they wanted to.
After fighting tenaciously for most of the day, the left-wing Chu army finally showed signs of collapse.
The right-wing Ruijin Camp has another style of play. They completely isolated the left wing of the Chu army from the main battlefield and launched round after round of attacks in an orderly manner. Yu Xiu'e and the monk led their troops to attack the Chu army in turn, and they also steadily gained the upper hand.
Chapter completed!