Chapter 572: Hate to the Bone
10,000 heavy cavalry, this is quite a lot of fat, Yuqing didn't want to miss it just like that, thought about it and nodded and said, "You can try, let's send two thousand light cavalry over first." ”
The composition of the Taiji Legion, in addition to the long-trained female soldiers is the elite of each unit, cavalry archery is not a matter for them at all, and this time every soldier is equipped with a short bow suitable for cavalry archery and enough feather arrows, so, with Yuqing's order, a thousand elites plus a thousand female soldiers rushed out, harassing along the two wings of the enemy's retreat route, or parallel galloping fast arrows poured, or straight to the enemy's waists, pouring arrow rain in the direction of the nearest safe distance, bringing a kind of cavalry tactics into full play, It was full of joy, and the main force led by Yuan Fang was following behind the enemy army, harvesting the lives of the soldiers who fell from the other side's horses, and of course, there were many who were captured alive.
Although the heavy cavalry was amazingly defended, they were not good-tempered when they were beaten and did not fight back, and after being harassed several times and losing a lot of manpower, they moved and sent two troops of five hundred men to attack, charging at the enemy light cavalry, which was as annoying as flies on both sides.
Just like Yuqing said, the heavy cavalry is not good at speed, and the overly heavy armor makes it difficult for the war horse to speed up, in other words, it takes a relatively long process from starting to accelerate to form a certain impact force, and the time required for this process is enough for those light light cavalry to run far away, so their counterattack is futile, not only did not kill an enemy, but was besieged by a dense rain of arrows, and finally left hundreds of corpses to return.
Dialing the horse to avoid the corpse of a war horse, Yuan Fang smashed it and said: "These guys won't just come to send them to death, if they go on like this, they will die without going to Guangyuan City." Yuqing was also puzzled, observing the battle situation ahead and was silent.
Ling Hu, the commander of the heavy cavalry of the personal guard legion under Dugu Feng, is honest, upright, has received Dugu Feng's great kindness, follows with all his heart, and is loyal, but his personality is more impulsive, he will lose his mind when his mind is hot, and he will not listen to anyone's advice. Before the military doctor could rescue Dugu Feng, he died of poison, Ling Hu was immediately furious, regardless of the persuasion of other colleagues, and took 10,000 heavy cavalry out of Guangyuan City, vowing to avenge His Royal Highness the Prince, so the previous scene happened.
And at this time, after chasing all the way, Ling Hu had gradually calmed down, he regretted a little, regretted that he shouldn't be so impulsive, watching the soldiers fall one by one, Ling Hu's heart hurt terribly, but what else can be done now?
Way? Ling Hu turned his head to look at the enemy army that fell not far behind him, frowned and muttered for a moment, he had a decision in his heart, a decision to burn jade, in his heart, there was nothing more important than Dugu Feng, now His Royal Highness King Qin was killed by those despicable guys behind him, he wanted to avenge His Royal Highness the Prince, as long as he could kill that shameless sneak attacker, even if it was worth taking the lives of many soldiers.
So, when he had just crossed a small hill, Ling Hu ordered his troops to quickly turn around and rush back to fight the enemy to the death.
I have to say that the timing of Ling Hu's choice was just right, the sight of the two sides was blocked by the hills, Yuan Fang and their followers could not see that the enemy army in front of them had turned around and killed back, when the light cavalry harassing on both wings saw that the situation was not good, and sent people back to remind Yuan Fang, the large army led by Yuan Fang had reached the top of the hill, and at this time, Ling Hu's heavy cavalry had begun to accelerate to impact the hill, and Yuan Fang was too late to turn around now.
Yuqing's face changed greatly, urging the horse to the front of the troops, commanding the soldiers to meet the enemy, and at the same time, ordering the light cavalry on both flanks of the enemy to return to help and block, as much as possible to contain the opponent's vanguard and buy more time for the main army.
Seeing that a frontal lore was about to be staged, in such a conflict, the light cavalry on Yuan's side was obviously at a disadvantage, and once the heavy cavalry broke through the defensive line, the consequences would be unimaginable. In the face of the impact of the heavy cavalry, Yuqing was apprehensive but did not retreat, gritted her teeth, rode her horse to the forefront, and raised the war knife in her hand, she had already made a decision, even if she died in battle, she would never let the enemy take a step forward.
Closer, closer, the female soldiers behind them have finished lining up, Yuqing was about to give the order to attack the enemy, but was stunned to find that the enemy heavy cavalry rushing to the front suddenly slowed down, and the war horse behind crashed headlong, followed by the third row, the fourth row, in an instant, the originally neat battle formation was crowded in one place and became chaotic.
Stunned, the captain of the guard beside Yuqing said in surprise: "General, look at their war horses." ”
When Yuqing heard this, she found that the enemy's war horses were trembling, some kneeling on the ground, no matter how the cavalry above controlled them, they just didn't move, and some had to foam at the mouth, obviously exceeding their physical strength limits and could no longer fight.
Yuqing was overjoyed when he saw this, and the war knife held high in his hand did not fall, but shook it to both sides, and the herald understood it, immediately waved the battle flag, and ordered the troops to separate the left and right sides and outflank them along the two wings.
At this time, Ling Hu was about to vomit blood, he didn't expect that at such a critical moment, there was a problem with the war horse, and he was about to take revenge, but he missed the opportunity, and the depression in his heart can be imagined, and more importantly, without the war horse, they are lambs to be slaughtered, he regrets, regrets that he shouldn't be so impulsive, but what can he do now? The only hope is that the colleagues in the city can come to the rescue as soon as possible, otherwise their 10,000 heavy riders will really have to be aggrieved here today. The situation suddenly changed and became extremely beneficial to Yuan Fang's side, but Yuqing did not dare to be careless, even if the heavy cavalry did not have war horses, it should not be underestimated, especially when so many people gathered together, it was also a very difficult bone to gnaw.
The Taiji Legion was outflanked separately, surrounding nearly 10,000 heavy cavalry, Yuqing gave an order, and 10,000 arrows were fired together, with a clanging sound, there were very few heavy cavalry that fell, which made Yuqing and Yuan Fang frown.
Without the drag of the war horse, the heavy cavalry covered in plate armor will have no weakness, the heavy armor bow and arrow are difficult to hurt, and Yuqing does not dare to let the soldiers under his command fight in close quarters, the two sides are in a stalemate for a while, and there is no way to take each other.
In the middle of the defensive circle, Ling Hu looked at Yuan Fang on the hill and his eyes were about to split, but this short distance was like a chasm, lying between the two, one was very close to each other, and the other was dazed and ignorant.