Chapter 43: King Jin Breaks the Formation, Qin Crossbow Decides

The next day.

At the hour of Mao, the morning sun broke.

The gates of Shuobei City were wide open, and teams of Turkic cavalry and rows of Yunhui soldiers filed out of the city and formed battle arrays on the open ground outside the city.

In this battle, Timur assembled 70,000 Turkic cavalry and 80,000 Yunhui infantry, forming a coalition of 150,000 soldiers to approach Panlong Pass.

The Turkic coalition marched in a long snake formation, and immediately changed formation when they reached Panlong Pass.

The marching formation of the long snake formation changed to the attacking formation of the Three Elements of Heaven and Earth formation.

The 150,000-man army advanced in stages, specifically as follows:

The left and right wings were guarded by 10,000 cavalrymen, each with two horses;

80,000 Yunhui infantrymen were arranged in three layers;

The 20,000-man Battle Front (archers) were at the front of the formation with chariots and shields as cover;

The 30,000-man Jumping Team (assault team) was in the middle;

The 10,000 elite central troops were at the end of the formation, and there were 10,000 garrisons on each side (reserve troops).

The Turkic Khan Timur personally led 50,000 cavalrymen to wander outside the coalition's three-talent formation, wandering on the vast yellow land near Panlong Pass, looking for the right time to enter the battlefield and make the final decision.

At this time, Timur was standing on a high point, overlooking the overall situation of the battlefield.

The Turkic Empire coalition was arranging its troops in an orderly manner, while the Longcheng Army Camp on the natural barrier of Panlongtou in the distance was still closed.

Timur looked back again, and the empire cavalry warrior behind him finally showed a smug smile on his thin and sunken cheeks.

Then, he raised his head and closed his eyes, as if praying to the sky.

After a long time, Timur suddenly opened his eyes, and two fierce lights with revenge burst out from his turbid eyeballs, and he said to himself: "Chen Polu——"

"Ten years ago, you led three thousand iron pagodas to charge at the Onon River in Yumuchuan, caught this Khan off guard, and almost killed this Khan in Yumuchuan."

"Ten years later, this Khan will definitely step on the corpses of your son Chen Huaian and his three thousand iron pagodas at Panlong Pass in Shuobei, march all the way south, and personally overthrow the country that you, Chen Polu, built for Zhao Mang!"

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As soon as the Chenshi arrived, the Yunhui Army outside Panlong Pass had completed its battle formation.

On the central army command tower, the surrendered general Liang Erhu gave an order, and the messenger holding the signal flag immediately waved the triangular signal flag in his hand and issued orders to the Turkic cavalry on the left and right wings.

Then, the war drums on the central army command tower beat and the attack horn was blown.

For a moment, the heaven and earth three-talent formation composed of the Turkic cavalry and the Yunhui Army began to move.

Almost at the same time, the Panlongguan Longcheng Army Camp, which had been closed, also opened its camp gate.

Wearing golden armor and holding a Fangtian painted halberd, Jin Wang Chen Huaian rode a yellow horse and stepped out of the camp gate first.

The morning light hit the golden armor he was wearing, reflecting thousands of dazzling golden lights.

Facing the aggressive Turkic coalition, Chen Huaian's face did not show any fear, but he held his head high, smiling, and exuded an imperial aura that looked down on the world.

All the movements of the enemy army were under Chen Huaian's control.

Although the gates of the Longcheng Army Camp have been closed, in fact, from the moment the Turkish coalition army left the city, the Longcheng Army Camp began to prepare for war in an intensive and orderly manner, waiting for the Turkish barbarians to come!

"Daqin sharp soldiers, line up to meet the enemy!"

Boom!

With Chen Huaian's order, the wooden walls of the army camp collapsed in an instant, and were pushed down by the Longcheng soldiers in the camp.

In an instant, the entire Panlong Pass was exposed to the attacking party, the Turkish coalition soldiers.

Hiss!

Seeing this, the cavalry commanders placed on the two wings of the Turkish coalition's Tiandi Sancai formation, the Turkish people Arsleng and Surileheke, were first shocked, and then overjoyed.

Even, no one needed to give them an order to attack, and they immediately led their 10,000 Turkish cavalry to charge towards Panlong Pass on the 15-degree slope.

Because, at this moment, at Panlong Pass, the cavalry of Longcheng Army was dragged to the back of the defensive formation.

The one at the forefront was actually a light infantry!

With cavalry against infantry, wouldn't that be a one-sided killing?

What surprised Arsleng and Surileheke even more was that this bunch of stupid Han soldiers actually pushed down the walls of the camp by themselves, and took the initiative to give up the solid defense line of defending against the cavalry charge.

How could they not accept this gift that was delivered to the door?

Even Liang Erhu, who was always paying attention to the battlefield movements in the command tower of the Tiandi Sancai Formation, couldn't react for a while. What was this damn Chen Huaian selling?

At the beginning, when facing 30,000 Yunhui troops in the Longshan camp, almost attacking with the same infantry and cavalry formation, Chen Huaian didn't do it this way.

In that battle, Chen Huaian personally led the Dragon City Iron Pagoda right from the start, charging with heavy cavalry, outflanking with light cavalry, and harvesting the remnants with long-handled broadswords.

Today, facing the Turkic Khan Temur, they deployed almost the same formation.

This Chen Huaian actually pushed down the wooden wall of the military camp, voluntarily gave up his last line of defense from a high position, and put the infantry at the forefront. What was he trying to do?

Just when Liang Erhu was puzzled, the Qin warriors on Panlong Pass quickly gave him the answer.

On Panlong Pass, a tall and resolute general stood in front of the formation holding a Qin sword. He was Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period!

Behind the knocked-down wooden wall, there were 18,000 super elite soldiers that Chen Huaian summoned from the system last night, armed with the Great Qin Warriors!

Beside the Great Qin Warriors, hundreds of Great Qin crossbow carts lined up in sequence were like sleeping lions, awakened by the sunshine, with cold crossbow arrows and solid car bodies flashing with cold light.

Chen Huaian rode to Wang Jian and said to him with a smile: "General, this is up to you!"

Wang Jian's eyes were like torches, and he clasped his fists and accepted the order: "I will not disgrace the king's order!"

Then, Wang Jian turned around suddenly and shouted at the Qin Warriors behind him: "Qin Warriors, prepare the crossbows!"

"Yes——"

Eighteen thousand Great Qin Warriors responded in unison.

Dengdengdeng!

Dengdengdeng!

In the blink of an eye, the 20,000 Turkic cavalry led by the Turkic generals Arsalan and Surilehek had already charged to a distance of more than a thousand steps away from the Panlong Pass camp.

As the war horses continued to speed up and sprinted at full speed, the gentle slope of Panlong Pass became flat in the eyes of the Turkic cavalry.

Arsalan, who was galloping on his horse, naturally saw countless crossbow carts lined up in front of the fearless Longcheng soldiers and infantry at Panlong Pass.

But Arsalan, who was arrogant by nature and had never seen the power of the Qin crossbow carts, and his Turkic cavalry did not take the Qin crossbow carts seriously at all.

In addition, before today's battle, the 20,000 Turkic cavalry who had been prepared were all wearing iron armor, which made them even less concerned about the crossbow carts at Panlong Pass.

Once they set foot on Panlong Pass, these Han army infantrymen were all headless ghosts under the scimitars of the Turkic warriors.

"One thousand two hundred steps!"

"One thousand one hundred steps!"

"One thousand steps!"

Wang Jian held the Qin sword, pointed the tip of the sword directly at the charging Turkic cavalry, and kept counting.

When the 20,000 Turkic cavalry charged in a wedge formation to a distance of one thousand steps from Panlong Pass, Wang Jian immediately waved his sword and gave an order: "Fire--"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

At Wang Jian's order, the Qin warriors quickly pulled the rope of the crossbow cart, and the huge crossbow was instantly stretched to full length, and the tight arrow strings rushed to make a harsh creaking sound.

The next moment, thousands of arrows were fired at the same time.

On hundreds of crossbow carts, each crossbow cart was equipped with dozens of crossbow arrows as thick as spear shafts, which cut through the sky like meteors and pierced directly into the Turkic cavalry formation.