Chapter 1117: Turning Decay into Magic
Yuwen Mohuai wanted to escape, but Deng Aike did not agree easily, he ordered the entire Yuecai battalion to immediately launch a pursuit, and be sure to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.
The Hu people have always been a big trouble in the northern border states of Bingzhou and Youzhou, they roared south from outside the grassland from time to time, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and the people of Youzhou were deeply affected by it, and Deng Ai also hated them.
In the past, the Hu people had the advantage of cavalry, and the Wei army and the Hu people had no chance of winning the cavalry battle, so they could only retreat and defend in the city and let them come and go freely. Now the Bingzhou cavalry is equipped with new horse harnesses, and its combat ability has been multiplied, and when fighting with the Hu people, they not only no longer fall behind, but also have a clear advantage.
Xianbei people want to flee if they are not in a good war, there is such a cheap thing, although this is an encounter, Deng Ai is not fully prepared, but Deng Ai must not just let the tiger return to the mountain, the current Youzhou, is no longer a place where Xianbei people want to come, and they can leave if they want to, since they dare to come, then they must be prepared to pay the price, don't hurt them and be afraid, they still won't remember for a long time.
When the Xianbei people attacked, they were all swarms, there was no formation to speak of, and when they retreated, it was not to mention, they were already deserted, they fled frantically, sacrificed their lives and ran wildly, eager to let the war horse grow two wings.
Pursuing such a team, for the archers, there is no pressure at all, the Xianbei soldiers who fled in the wilderness one by one, are like a live target, the Yue cavalry can be used as an archery, where the bowstring sounds, there will be Xianbei soldiers who fall in response.
The Xianbei soldiers' ability to control the war horses is good, and their riding skills are exquisite, but no matter how fast they run, they can't outrun the bow and arrow, so the Xianbei soldiers who are behind have completely become the moving target of the Vietnamese cavalry, no matter how much they struggle, it is impossible to escape.
Now the Xianbei soldiers have given up the idea of resistance, and they are racing to escape, they are not racing with the bows and arrows of the Wei army, but with their comrades and brothers around them, and now the situation is clearly there, those who flee in front may have the opportunity to escape back to Lulongsai, and those who are left behind will die without life, and there is only one way out.
At the moment of life and death, these Xianbei soldiers who were originally scattered sand are running for their lives in various places, and the life and death of others have nothing to do with themselves, as long as they can escape, everything will be fine, and at a critical time, it is a good thing to pull a few more pads, which can make you safer.
The retreat process of the Xianbei soldiers, in the end, was more like a game of stepping on people, in order to seize the front, many people did not hesitate to make a stumbling block, and before the Wei army could kill them, they themselves calculated and assassinated each other.
From Lingzhi to Lulongsai, the Xianbei people lost their armor along the way, suffered heavy losses, and lost thousands of men and horses, which can be regarded as escaping back to Lulongsai.
With Lu Longsai's danger, Yuwen Mohuai finally breathed a sigh of relief, and fortunately there was such a danger as Lu Longsai, otherwise he would be chased by the Wei cavalry along the way, and when he fled back to the prairie, it was estimated that there would be only a few people left.
This battle is simply embarrassing, you know, the biggest advantage of the Xianbei people is the cavalry, they crisscross the grassland, gallop across the desert, attack all, invincible, never fought such a bad battle, was beaten by the Wei cavalry without the power to fight back, this is never a thing.
When the Wei cavalry pursued Lu Longsai, they stopped the pursuit, but they did not retreat, but set up camp ten miles south of Lu Longsai and rested.
At this time, it was already dark, Yuwen Mohuai stood on the tower and looked at the brightly lit Wei army camp opposite, and suddenly sighed, it has always been the Wei army defending the city before, they are attacking the city, and now the times are changing, the Xianbei soldiers are actually forced to occupy the danger to hold on, but the Wei army has taken the role of attacking, the world is unpredictable, some make Yuwen Mohuai a little unprepared.
He has been fighting during the day, and Yuwen Mohuai can't think about it, but now that he has fled back to Lu Longsai, he has finally settled down, and Yuwen Mohuai finally has some time to think about it, and he has been thinking about the unsolved problem.
That's why did the Wei cavalry suddenly become so powerful? How could they possibly train so many mounted archers?
This is completely unreasonable, you must know that most of the people in the Central Plains are farmers, there are few opportunities to ride horses, and even some people will not ride horses for a lifetime, they are not like Xianbei people, they are born to be riders, and to cultivate a good horse archer, how difficult it is, Yuwen Mohuai knows better than anyone else.
Yuwen Mohuai as the head of the tribe, his riding and archery skills are average, can only sit on the back of a horse smoothly, it is possible to shoot arrows, if the war horse gallops quickly, Yuwen Mohuai's arrows must not be accurate, so even Yuwen Mohuai himself feels that riding and shooting is not an easy task.
But judging from the performance of the Wei cavalry, all of them have excellent archery skills, and they seem to have no hands to control the war horses at all, sitting on horseback, and a group of stable.
Yuwen Mohuai has never approached the Wei cavalry, but he saw it from a distance, so he couldn't see any clues, but Yuwen Mohuai's brain is not stupid, the Wei cavalry can walk on the ground on a horse, it must be a mystery, so he deliberately called a few Xianbei soldiers who had approached the Wei cavalry and escaped by luck to ask for details.
These Xianbei soldiers escaped death and were shocked, but among them, some people still vaguely remembered that the harness used by the Wei cavalry was very different from them, the Xianbei cavalry was hanging with their feet when they rode their horses, and the feet of the Wei cavalry seemed to be stepping on something, and the saddle they used was completely different from the Xianbei soldiers, with high front and back, and the whole ass was completely stuck in it.
Yuwen Mohuai asked in detail, and after many people verified each other, he finally determined one thing, that is, the reason why the Wei cavalry became so powerful was not that they had found extremely talented riders, but that they had upgraded and transformed the horse harness, so that ordinary cavalrymen could also skillfully control horses and become masters of archery.
Based on the description alone, Yuwen Mohuai could not know the detailed appearance of these horse harnesses, but the fact that some horse harnesses could increase the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in such a way was enough to make people fascinated.
This is a magical power to turn decay into a magical power, you know, a horse archery master is a completely admirable existence in the tribe, if tens of thousands of cavalry have such ability, then sweeping the grassland is still a dream?
Thinking of this, Yuwen Mohuai suddenly became excited.