webnovelfull Chapter 379 Cavalry vs. Artillery
Chapter 379 Cavalry vs. Artillery
A barbarian spy discovered a hot air balloon, but he didn't know what it was. From their perspective, they could only see a small round dot and nothing else.
The hot air balloon flies very high, and you can't see what's above from below, but the people up there have telescopes.
When Shen Changgong invented the telescope and hot air balloon, he thought of this combination technique, which together is simply a magical reconnaissance skill.
More and more barbarian spies discovered the hot air balloon, but they didn't know what it was, and couldn't even see the black dragon on it.
"Whatever, it's probably a big fat bird."
The spies continued to lie down and observe the enemies coming from the south.
Finally, the enemy appeared from the horizon, leading a long team and marching towards us in a mighty manner.
The spies immediately went to report to Qi Yan Huihe.
"Wang Khan, Wang Khan, the enemy has appeared. There are so many of them. Go and have a look."
Upon hearing this, Qi Yan Huihe rode his horse over, left it at the foot of the hill, and walked up the hill himself.
He looked into the distance and saw a large group of black-armored soldiers rushing towards him like a steel torrent in the direction where the sun was at its highest point.
Qi Yan Huihe finally understood why there was fear in the eyes of his spy.
The mighty army covered the sky and the sun, was several miles wide, and was long as far as the eye could see.
As they came over here, people continued to appear on the horizon.
The largest battle that Qiyan Huihe had participated in and commanded involved only tens of thousands of people on each side. Even this was a decisive battle between him and two large tribes. At that time, he felt that this should be the largest battle in history. He was simply a natural-born commander and a heroic lord of the grassland.
But when he saw the military strength of the Central Plains people in the south, he realized that he was wrong.
Even for him, it was the first time he had seen so many people.
And it is not a chaotic population, but a well-organized army.
The oppressive feeling of that dark mass was too strong.
Can I really beat them?
Qi Yan Huihe, who was invincible across the grassland, had this idea for the first time.
He heard that the State of Yan had an army of one million. To him, one million was just a number, just a vague concept.
He believed that the Xia people were weak and no matter how many tens of thousands of them there were, they could not withstand the sabers and bows and arrows of the grassland cavalry.
But when he saw the dark mass of Yan army, he realized how wrong he was.
This is just 300,000 out of one million people, but it feels so oppressive.
If a million troops came together to fight them, the population of their entire grassland would not be enough for each of them to have a share.
There are nine countries in the Central Plains, and conflicts are constant, but no country was destroyed by external nations. On the contrary, these countries that have been at war all the time still have the spare capacity to wipe out those small countries and expand their territory.
The Central Plains is truly full of martial virtues.
He no longer dared to think about getting involved in the Central Plains. He only hoped to repel these people and protect the grassland.
And they had to be repelled because they had to defend the grasslands in the south. If they migrated to the north now, their cattle, sheep and people would starve to death.
Damn it!
They all have one head and two legs, so who’s afraid of whom?
Qi Yan Huihe encouraged himself.
Finally, after waiting for another hour.
What made Qiyan Huihe feel relieved was that the Yan people were so arrogant that they didn't even send out scouts. They just marched forward and didn't notice their ambush at all.
That’s great! It seems that being too strong is not a good thing. It will breed arrogance, and arrogance is the beginning of destruction.
Everything is moving in the right direction!
The vanguard of the Yan army finally entered between the two mountains and continued to move forward.
Qi Yan Huihe stared at the large black flag. He knew that was the center of the Yan army and the location of the Yan commander, Shen Changgong.
As long as they can break through the center and kill him with lightning speed, the Yan people will be defeated.
Arrogant Yan people, let me show you how powerful our grassland warriors are.
At this moment, Qiyan Huihe was surprised to find that the Yan people actually stopped and began to deploy their troops.
"Oh? Are they preparing to attack our tribe? Indeed, we are only about twenty miles away from here, so they should make preparations.
But we can't let them get ready, we have to attack immediately."
Qiyan Huihe had his horse pulled up and ordered the soldiers to blow the horns.
Woo!
Uh...
The dull sound of horns was heard, and dense masses of barbarian cavalry appeared on the hilltops on both sides.
Qi Yan turned around and shouted,
"Men of the grassland! For our homeland, our tribe, and the great Savage God, charge! Kill all these enemies!"
"After you die, you will return to Changshengtian, and the Barbarian God will embrace you heroes!"
"kill!!!"
Qiyan Huihe drew out his scimitar and commanded the army to charge towards the enemy.
He led a small army and waited on the hillside. When the main army reached the middle of the hillside, he also rushed down.
In the middle were countless Yan army soldiers, quickly forming battle formations.
On both sides were mighty barbarian cavalry, rushing towards them like a torrent with the force of thunder.
While rushing down, Qi Yan Huihe suddenly saw that the Yan people seemed to have fixed an iron frame to the ground, and then the black opening was facing them.
Just when Qi Yan Huihe was curious about what that thing was, suddenly, a series of bang bang bang sounds were heard.
All I saw were those pitch-black gun muzzles firing out many pitch-black balls.
There are two types of spherical shells: solid shells that do not explode and cause less damage, and explosive shells that contain gunpowder and fragments and are more lethal.
The one invented by Shen Changgong was the second one.
The shells flew out and quickly hit the crowd of barbarian cavalry with a loud bang. The explosion of each shell would blow away a large number of horses and people. Those who were close were directly torn to pieces, and those who were far away were also injured by the shrapnel and fell to the ground, living a life worse than death.
Qi Yan Huihe widened his eyes and was almost tripped by the horse's legs.
What was that? Was it divine thunder? Was it divine punishment?
They were still two miles away from the enemy. How could those Yan people attack from such a long distance?
This is a weapon!
The cavalry on both sides were in chaos, but the downward momentum made it difficult for them to stop, so they could only continue to charge downward.
The shells fell one after another, blowing them to the ground and making them scream and wail.
Qi Yan Huihe calmed down and found that the weapons of the Yan army could only be fired at a distance and could not attack nearby.
As long as they can rush to those people, the weak Central Plains people will definitely not be their match.