Chapter 1069: Support
Chun Yuqiong and Jiang Qi on the city tower also saw this scene.
They turned their heads away, because they stood higher and saw farther.
Naturally, I saw these soldiers and horses coming from afar.
However, because they stood tall, they could see at a glance that the banners held by the soldiers and horses who came over had a Liu character written on them.
Occasionally, there are some written characters and pipe characters.
With these banners, Chun Yuqiong and Jiang Qi immediately understood that these horses were the Qingzhou Army under Liu Zheng.
Guan Hai and Zang Ba, who are responsible for dispatching Qingzhou.
"Reinforcements! It's our reinforcements! ”
Jiang Qi was the first to get excited.
Although he didn't know why the person who came was not Wen Chou, but he was from Guanhai in Qingzhou.
However, in any case, they are their own reinforcements, and they are more confident in holding the city.
Chun Yuqiong was also excited at this time.
"Finally waiting for reinforcements!"
He followed behind Jiang Qi and also let out an exclamation.
As soon as the reinforcements arrived, the pressure on these defenders on the city tower was naturally greatly reduced.
However, it was not a matter of a while, those reinforcements rushed over, and the first to be affected were the men and horses who were besieging the city on the periphery.
The siege tower will also be tense all the time.
Can't relax at all.
Xu Chu didn't have time to take care of the periphery, and the reinforcements suddenly arrived.
Because he didn't care so much at this time, his purpose was to attack the city, and as for the reinforcements that arrived on the periphery, Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses naturally went to clean up.
He and Zhao Yun had already had a clear division of labor, with the main force of infantry attacking, and the cavalry guarding the perimeter to prevent reinforcements from arriving in the city.
Once there are reinforcements from Liyang's side, then Zhao Yun will lead more than 10,000 cavalry to kill those reinforcements.
"All the cavalry brothers on the periphery come with me!"
Zhao Yun yelled and gave an order to the soldiers around him.
Immediately afterwards, he took the lead in wielding a spear and rushed to the outside of Liyang County.
It was intended to use the strength of the cavalry to suppress the infantry who had come to support them.
Bai Ma Yi was very strict in commanding and dispatching the army, and with Zhao Yun's order, thousands of cavalry took the lead in following Zhao Yun's footsteps and killed in front of the Guan Hai array.
Listen to the trampling of rumbling war horses.
Guan Hai looked at the rush and rushed towards his cavalry team.
Although he was a little surprised, Guan Hai, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, did not have a trace of timidity.
"Brothers, ready to fight!"
"Slaughter all these dog things for Lao Tzu!"
Guan Hai was ruffian, pulled out his golden ring broadsword, and his face was hideous.
He was not afraid of the enemy troops rushing from the outside.
The cavalry came over, and these soldiers under Guan Hai had already been prepared, they were all soldiers and horses stuck in Qingzhou, and the biggest threat to the soldiers and horses in Qingzhou was the Karasuma people in the north.
The strongest of the Karasuma people is the cavalry, so the soldiers and horses guarding Qingzhou will basically focus on equipping things against cavalry.
For example, to deal with the most powerful means of cavalry, Guan Hai's soldiers are more or less prepared.
Bow and arrow.
It is the main means of dealing with cavalry, so Liu Zheng is almost equipped with some bows and arrows in the hands of these soldiers and horses in the north.
It's just that archers need skill, and they can't shoot accurately with bows and arrows.
If you want to shoot, you still need ability to improve the hit rate, but a large number of soldiers are equipped with bows and arrows, and even a blind cat can meet a dead mouse.
Using arrows to consume cavalry is also the stupidest, but it can be the fastest way to achieve results.
Guan Hai ordered the soldiers in the back row, took out arrows, and began to shoot at the cavalry in the distance.
Their bows and arrows were not the most basic iron-tired bows, but crossbow arrows that had been improved by the Blacksmith Research Institute under Liu Zheng.
They don't need to take special aim and draw the bow, they just need to put the arrow on the crossbow, swing the trigger, and the crossbow arrow will be ejected directly.
In this way, these soldiers were also spared the time to take out arrows on the battlefield and prepare them, and discard them immediately after they were used up.
Hand-to-hand combat is directly possible.
After Guan Hai's order, those who were equipped with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses equipped with crossbow arrows directly raised their bows and crossbows.
As soon as they pulled the trigger, all the arrows on it flew out.
Although they are more lethal than regular bows and arrows, crossbow arrows are less accurate.
At a time when the archery skills of the soldiers were not very strong, these people used crossbow arrows better than bows and arrows.
After all, what is needed is fire suppression, not precision strikes.
The launch of tens of thousands of arrows could instantly hit the cavalry in front of Zhao Yunchong.
Poof!
Poof!
Ding!
The rain of arrows fell from the sky, some of which directly penetrated the bodies of those white horse followers, and some of which missed and fell to the ground and shot into the land.
It was even bounced off by a sword.
The sounds that come out are different.
However, with so many arrows, one round of shooting still gave Zhao Yun great pressure.
Fortunately, the white horse under his command is equipped with some armor.
It cannot be regarded as a complete light cavalry, but has armor funded by the imperial court, and a thick layer of soft armor is draped from the knights and war horses.
Although the defense of these soft armor and metal armor is not particularly strong, it is still no problem to block some arrows from such a distance.
The loss caused by a round of shooting to Zhao Yun's Bai Ma Yicong was not huge.
It should have been just a few hundred people lost.
In addition, the cavalry under Zhao Yun was extremely fast, and they were already approaching in front of Guan Hai in the blink of an eye.
If it's too close, those crossbows can't be carried out, and the second round of shooting.
However, this does not mean that Guan Hai has no way to take Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Except for the bows and crossbows that everyone has. Most of the soldiers under Guan Hai were spearmen, shield bearers and pikemen.
The spears in the hands of these pikemen are completely different from the spears in the hands of ordinary generals.
For example, the spears and weapons in the hands of Zhao Yun and others.
Most are about two meters in length.
However, the spears in the hands of these pikemen are mainly slender. It is up to three meters tall.
The front is on the small side, and the back is thick and is easy to grasp.
This length was pierced by a single shot from their spears before the cavalry could fully charge up.
Such pikemen accounted for the vast majority of the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Guan Hai.
Lancers have been the nemesis of cavalry since ancient times.
is like a powerful army under Yuan Shao, the Euphorbia. It is a spear-based spearman, specializing in restraining the white horse righteous servants under Gongsun Zhan.
In addition to the halberds, there are also Yuan Shao's subordinates, and another archery unit based on bows and crossbows is called Xiandeng Dead Soldiers.
The famous Gongsun Chan has been crisscrossing the north for more than ten years, fighting invincible opponents all over the north.
Bai Mayi has never tasted defeat, but after meeting Yuan Shao, he was defeated.