When the long sword was drawn, all the riders got ready, pointed at the edge of the sword, galloped forward, and wiped out all enemies.
"kill!"
The billowing smoke and dust swept across like two earth dragons huffing and puffing, with a strong killing intent.
"Fire arrows!"
Almost both sides noticed the distance between them, then took the bow and stringed it, and shot at each other.
Riding and shooting is one of the most basic operations of cavalry, and no one is worse than the other.
Arrows pierced each other in the air.
"Pfft..."
The soldiers of both sides who were hit by the arrow fell off their horses one after another.
At this time, the advantage of heavy cavalry is reflected. When the arrow is shot, it is blocked by the armor when it hits the body, and no one is injured.
However, the speed of these people was obviously a few positions behind, falling behind the cavalry.
Of course, although many people on Xu Ding's side were hit by arrows, there were still many people who avoided the arrows.
They may not be as skilled as the Parthians in riding.
But they have saddles, they have stirrups and they can do all sorts of evasive maneuvers.
After the long-distance training, they are all good horses.
Therefore, seeing that the rebel army did not fall much, the Parthian cavalry team let out a lot of cheers.
Even the caliph and other subordinates in the city of Hatra were a little surprised.
A wave of arrows shot at each other, and the casualties of both sides were almost the same.
This is a bit surprising.
Both sides accelerated, shot each other once to shorten the distance, and lowered their bows one after another to replace their own weapons.
The cavalry of the Anxi Kingdom is mainly equipped with a three-meter-long lance, which must be held with both hands when used. At this time, the knight controls the direction of the horse with his knees.
Secondary weapons include long swords, battle axes, and the bows and arrows used just now.
The first wave of sprinting with a lance is undoubtedly the best choice.
Therefore, all the Parthian light cavalry were replaced with lances, and the heavy cavalry were replaced with shorter weapons such as long swords and battle axes.
Xu Ding's side was different, they did not equip their men with long spears, but javelins and small bucklers.
The javelins were thrown at the Anxi light cavalry who were rushing forward.
In an instant, countless Anxi people fell off their horses, and their long lances also fell down, and accidentally even brought down their companions at the front, back or side.
There are advantages and disadvantages. The long lance sprint is very powerful, but the after-effects are also strong.
It's like adding difficulties to your teammates now.
So the Parthians have another style of play, the cavalry sprints to widen the horizontal distance between each other.
This made the Anxie team, which already had more cavalry than Xu Ding's rebel army, appear twice as strong.
The two wings rushed towards the flanks and rear of the rebel army.
This is a classic style of play of Anxi. The light cavalry surrounds the enemy's sides and rear, and the heavy cavalry suddenly becomes the arrow impact force in the middle. First, it can make the opponent at a loss, second, it can't move the opponent, and third, it can outflank and attack the enemy's weakness.
This style of play was widely used in the war with the Roman Empire.
It is because of it that Anxi, whose national power was weaker by one level, forced the Romans to the Mesopotamia, making it impossible for them to move eastward, and Anxi could not perish even when the national strength and military strength were fully occupied.
Chapter 707 Breaking the Resting Cavalry (Two in One)
Cavalry fights like infantry.
This was so new, the Parthians were stunned for a short moment, the entire cavalry team was divided into two, scattered left and right towards the two wings of the rebel cavalry, avoiding the frontal javelin projection.
Light up the heavy cavalry on our side.
All heavy cavalry wear iron or copper armor.
Strictly speaking, they are not really heavy cavalry, and they are still somewhat different from Xu Ding's formation of right cavalry in Dahan.
The right cavalry guard, also known as the Xuanjiawei, is wrapped in thick chain mail, and the weapons are mainly blunt weapons. The horses are carefully selected tall horses, majestic and powerful.
That is the real moving steel fortress.
But the Anxi heavy cavalry in front of him is a lot less interesting.
Not to mention that the equipment is not uniform, and the horses are not the best in the world, but they have more protection than Qingqi.
Xu ordered a javelin to shoot and hit one of the horses.
The resting knight flew upside down and fell off his horse in an instant.
However, the javelins thrown by the others were not so strong. When they hit the heavy cavalry, they didn't do much harm. They just hurt the Parthians, knocked their hats and tilted their bodies.
"Humph! Break it for me!"
Xu Ding swung his spear, and an Anxi soldier who was rushing forward also flew upside down and fell off his horse in an instant.
Xu Ding swung his spears from side to side, and each of them died or fell backwards.
Heavy riding in front of him is a living target instead.
Unable to react to the inconvenient Anxi heavy cavalry, Xu Ding easily passed through it.
"Clang! Clang..."
Perhaps this is not a special case, and the battles of other soldiers are more normal. The cavalry of the rebel army fought with the Parthian army with their swords, and the weapons of both sides collided or hit the armor.
And can not hurt rest heavy cavalry.
This made the Anxi people very proud.
However, when they slashed at the rebel cavalry with their swords, they failed to kill the opponent.
Because the opponent avoided it very nimbly, many of the two horses even missed it, and even turned around and stabbed at the weak point of the heavy cavalry's rear wing with a sword.
Some directly stabbed and attacked the horse's hips and legs. In short, the unprotected places faced the attack of the rebel cavalry.
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