Chapter 423: Chariot Attack

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It was dawn.

The soldiers in the palace had already cooked and eaten their fill.

Then, they continued to march northward under Chang Wei's command.

More than an hour later, Chang Wei saw a large area of ​​white tents.

Outside the tents, the cavalry of the Black Iron King's tent had lined up and were waiting for them, like an insurmountable wall.

"Woo woo woo..."

When the two armies were 500 meters apart, the sound of horns rang out in the Beidi army.

Then, the Beidi cavalry moved slowly, and the cavalry on both sides moved east and west respectively, encircling them from both wings, while the central army pressed towards them in a black mass.

"Form a formation!"

Seeing this, Chang Wei immediately ordered the charioteers in charge of the chariots to lead the chariots into a circle, hang the iron ropes on the chariots on the chariots in front, and then untie the horses' ropes and let the horses enter the middle of the circle.

"Boom boom boom..."

The circle gradually took shape, and the sound of the Beidi cavalry's horses trampling the ground became louder and louder.

The Beidi light cavalry on both wings did not charge the chariot formation. When they entered the chariot formation within a hundred meters, they kept shooting arrows at the chariot formation. This was their common tactic. Often in this kite-like fighting style, the local infantry would suffer heavy casualties.

But their most skilled tactics were destined to fail in front of the chariot.

When the Beidi arrows attacked, the chariot soldiers immediately propped up the iron cover of the chariot, and the Beidi arrows were blocked.

At the same time, the flintlock soldiers in the chariot formation climbed onto the chariot and used the holes in the cover to start fighting back.

"Bang bang bang..."

White smoke rose, and the Beidi cavalry kept falling off their horses.

"Hahaha... It's just like the exercise. Your Highness is really amazing. This is equivalent to us having a mobile bastion on the grassland." Lu Chang laughed.

He and Chang Wei were in the circle in the middle. At this moment, like other generals, they were observing the battle with telescopes.

Chang Wei had a smile on his face. For them, fighting on the grassland was a suicide mission.

After all, no infantry could win on the grassland.

But obviously, the appearance of the chariot array reversed this situation. Although the chariot array had poor mobility, they also had the ability to fight back.

"The cunning King Yan, this must be his bad idea again." Enke, who was in the middle of the Beidi Army, frowned when he saw everything in front of him.

The chariots of the King Yan's soldiers were like chevaux de frise, so his cavalry naturally could not directly attack their infantry.

And now, the covers on these chariots were lifted, and the King Yan's soldiers could actually resist their bows and arrows while allowing the soldiers to use firearms to fight back.

"Pull up the artillery!" Enke shouted.

This was what the Beidi soldiers fought hard to get back when Qingfengkou collapsed, but now there are only twelve guns left.

Now, he has to use these twelve guns to blast the King Yan's chariot array, otherwise this battle cannot be won.

The order was passed down, and twelve cannons were pushed over and aimed at the middle of the first row of chariots.

Chang Wei immediately discovered this situation through the telescope. At this time, the Beidi Central Army was only about 300 meters away from them.

At this distance, the cannons were very powerful.

He immediately shouted: "Mortar cover, Zhongli, Chen Hu, destroy their cannons!"

After receiving the order, Zhongli and Chen Hu immediately organized the cavalry in the chariots to stand by. At the same time, the mortars were loaded with lime bombs and fired at the Beidi Central Army.

"Boom boom boom..."

The mortars in the chariots spewed flames, and the shells drew an arc in the sky and exploded above the heads of the Beidi Central Army.

Some lime bombs exploded above the heads of the Beidi cavalry, and the white lime scattered into a cloud in the shock wave formed by the gunpowder explosion, covering the Beidi cavalry.

The huge explosion startled the Beidi people's war horses, and the central army immediately became chaotic.

As the lime bombs fell, the front of the Beidi Central Army seemed to be covered by fog, and the eyes were burned by the lime, which soon made them fall into greater chaos.

"Attack!" The time came, and Chang Wei immediately ordered.

At this time, the chariot soldiers immediately opened the chains, and then changed the direction of the chariot from horizontal to vertical, and the cavalry rushed out from the opened gap.

They had practiced this kind of tactics many times during the exercises, and the cooperation between the soldiers had already reached a tacit understanding.

"Kill!"

Zhongli and Chen Hu rushed out, a hundred meters away from the Beidi Central Army, they picked up the pulley crossbow from the horse's back and shot a wave of arrows.

Then they hung the crossbow on the horse's back, Zhongli waved the silver spear, and Chen Hu drew his saber, and killed out of the chaotic central army.

Rushing straight to the front of the Beidi people's artillery, facing the Beidi people's ten artillery, Zhongli immediately shouted: "Nail the artillery for me!"

Under his order, some cavalrymen immediately dismounted and rushed to the artillery, took out the iron nails and stuffed them into the fuse holes of the Beidi people's artillery, and used the handle of the knife to smash the iron nails into the ignition holes.

This was one of the items in their exercises after learning that the Beidi had artillery, and it was also added by the King of Yan to the exercise.

Now it came in handy, and the cavalrymen admired the King of Yan more and more.

I didn't expect that the King of Yan could take into account any situation on the battlefield. The ignition holes of these artillery were nailed shut, and this battle was useless.

The soldiers of the King of Yan suddenly attacked, and the Beidi cavalry on both wings reacted and immediately rushed towards Zhongli and his men.

On the left and right wings, more than 20,000 cavalrymen were aggressive.

"Hahaha...you Beidi dogs, you are incompetent and furious!" Zhongli laughed, nailing the Beidi artillery, he and Chen Hu did not want to fight, and turned their horses around.

They knew very well that once they were entangled, they would have no chance of leaving.

At present, they still have to rely on the chariot formation and the black iron king's tent to fight.

When they returned to the chariot formation, the chariot soldiers immediately opened the chains and hid in the formation again.

The Northern Di cavalry that followed them to kill only saw a white smoke floating up, and then they fell off their horses and fell in a pool of blood.

"Boom boom boom..."

The artillery in the chariot formation began to fire. The artillery had pushed the field artillery behind the chariot chains and bombarded the Northern Di cavalry through the gaps between the chariots.

In front of the battle formation formed by the chariots, the Northern Di cavalry had already lost their advantage, and they were constantly killed by the artillery and flintlock rifles of the royal army.

In just a short time, the Northern Di cavalry that rushed over suffered heavy casualties.

Facing a battle formation with nowhere to attack, they finally remembered the artillery, but when they returned to the central army, they found that all the ignition holes of their artillery could not be used.

Enke soon learned the news, and he was almost crazy with anger, "Damn King Yan, damn King Yan's soldiers, go and drive out all the slaves, let them be human shields."

The servants were all dead, but there were still many slaves in the king's tent for them to drive.

He wanted these slaves to rush in front, and the Northern Di soldiers followed behind to attack the chariot formation.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw the King Yan's soldiers who had been hiding in the battle formation rushing out of the chariot formation and blocking the chariot.