Chapter 441: Zhao Yun shows his might
Three thousand javelins were fired, but Jebel led his cavalry to suddenly turn their horses and retreat to the northwest. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe accuracy of the calculation of time is staggering, and before Ma Chao's javelin came to the cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry quickly turned their horses around and left.
Of course, although Jebe pinched accurately in time, there are also strong people in Ma Chao's army, throwing javelins farther, especially Ma Chao. After the Mongol cavalry turned and retreated, most of the 3,000 javelins missed, and many of them were diagonally inserted into the ground.
However, there were also strong men who threw javelins into the Mongol cavalry that had turned their horses' heads, but the number of javelins that could be thrown into the Mongol cavalry was only about a hundred. The javelins were so powerful that they shot into the camp of the Mongol cavalry with their backs to them, and they shot down about dozens or hundreds of people.
Although nearly 100 Mongolian cavalry were defeated before the confrontation, Ma Chao was not satisfied with this result at all. What he wanted was two rounds of javelins to come down and rush the Mongol cavalry camp, and then Bai Ma Yicong rushed to Yu with bows and arrows on both wings to suppress them, and after a few rounds of projection, he led the army to rush over.
Ma Chao looked at the javelin offensive of his own army and raised his eyebrows, these soldiers and horses are very different from those Qiang people on weekdays. And the commander-in-chief was so resolute that if the order to retreat had been given in the evening, they would have suffered heavy casualties.
Ma Chao instantly felt that this Mongolian cavalry was not so easy to deal with.
But who is Ma Mengqi? How can you back down easily? What's more, Ma Chao is now suffering from a deep feud in the sea of blood, and he is not in the same place with these Mongolian cavalry, where will they be allowed to run? As soon as the Mongolian cavalry retreated, Ma Chao immediately chased after him, and the horse raised his gun and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, don't let Hu Gou get away!"
Ma Chao led 3,000 cavalry as the main force, while Zhao Yun and Li Yuanfang each led 1,000 white horses to gallop from both sides. Seeing the retreat of the Mongolian cavalry, Zhao Yun led Li Yuanfang to chase after him in an instant.
But this chase is in the hands of the Mongolian cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry will control the rhythm.
Ma Chao's cavalry chased, and the two armies were more than 20 zhang apart, but the javelin could not hit the Mongolian cavalry at this distance, but the arrows of the Mongolian light cavalry could hit Ma Chao's cavalry.
And Ma Chao's cavalry, each carrying a few javelins, and a lot of bags. Its speed was much slower than that of the Mongol cavalry on horseback, which means that it was impossible for the 3,000 javelin cavalry to catch up with the Mongol cavalry, while the Mongol cavalry could constantly shoot arrows at the cavalry that disturbed Ma Chao.
In this way, Ma Chao's cavalry could not catch up with the Mongolian cavalry, nor could they attack the Mongolian cavalry, so they were kited by the Mongolian cavalry.
I saw that on the battlefield, while the Mongolian cavalry in front was galloping to the northwest, each cavalry was doing the same action. In front of the horses, they took arrows from their quivers and bent them on the short, light bow. Then he clamped his legs around the horse's belly, twisted his body backwards, and shot the arrow backwards.
They don't need to aim, they move in unison, and they are extremely skilled. When the arrows shoot upwards towards the sky, they form graceful arcs. Arrows converge in the sky, as if it is a bridge built by arrows, black arrow shafts, silver-white arrows, converge into a two-color rainbow.
The two ends of the two-color rainbow, one in the Mongolian cavalry, and the other fell towards Ma Chao's cavalry camp. Connected in the middle were a steady stream of arrows from the hands of the Mongol cavalry.
The horse bow is slightly different from the foot bow in that it is longer and has a long attack range and is very powerful. The Horse Bow, on the other hand, is shorter, has a shorter attack range than the Stepbow, and is much less powerful than the Arrow.
However, the horse bow also has the advantage of a horse bow, because it is light, it is also easy to shoot arrows on a horse, and its archery speed is also light and fast, not at all the speed of archery under the horse.
Although this arrow is not as powerful as a foot bow, it does not affect its use in the slightest, because this tactic does not use arrows to kill enemies in one go. His trick lies in grinding a word, grinding the enemy to death!
The quiver carried by the Mongol cavalry consisted of three large bags and a hundred or so arrows, which could be used continuously. If the two men were within range of the Mongol cavalry's bow and arrows, the Mongol cavalry would be able to grind the enemy to death with the help of these arrows. Escape? If they are within the range of the Mongol cavalry, once the enemy escapes, the Mongol cavalry can quickly turn their horses in pursuit.
With the advantage in the speed of the horses, this cavalry was like fighting a guerrilla war. The enemy can't touch him, but he can keep suppressing the enemy.
In other words, under the arrows of the Mongolian cavalry, the rhythm of the battlefield has been completely controlled by this cavalry.
Ma Chao led the cavalry to chase after him for only a few feet, and he saw that arrows were constantly being fired from the Mongolian cavalry in front of him. Ma Chao's face changed, a trace of disbelief flashed in his eyes, and he shot back on the horse, these five thousand people can do it? The cavalry of the Han Dynasty can only be done by Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong, but unfortunately it has also been destroyed now, and now the White Horse Yicong in Zhao Yun's hands can also do frontal archery and shooting, although the White Horse Yicong can barely do it, but he is not proficient enough. If the white horse is on the battlefield and shoots back to resist the enemy, I am afraid that the formation will be chaotic, and if one charges down, he will definitely be defeated.
The dense arrows in the sky attacked, and Ma Chao hurriedly waved the dragoon gun to resist, shouting: "Raise your shield to resist the enemy!"
The three thousand cavalry hurriedly raised the wooden shields, but the wooden shields were not big. Blocking the head, can't block the chest, can't block the chest, can't block the head, and these bows and arrows are shot from the back and fall into Ma Chao's army, and many of them fall from the sky.
So in Ma Chao's army, there were screams again and again, and the cavalry couldn't make any mistakes on the way to gallop on horseback, not to mention that the cavalry was injured? Once injured by an external force, the cavalry will immediately turn over and fall off their horses.
It's just that the power of this horse bow is not too great, although the arrow hit many cavalry, but it did not die on the spot, fell to the ground and groaned, and even some cavalry were hit by arrows and rushed forward on their horses.
"Brothers, charge me, support for a while, and kill into their army, they are just archers, they can't kill us!" Ma Chao brandished the dragoon spear while cheering for the soldier.
Indeed, the tactic of flying kites against the Mongols is to rush and kill the past, they are good at riding and archery, but they are not good at fighting in battle. As long as you can rush into the Mongol camp, you will win!
Ma Chao took the lead in galloping, arrows flying, he wielded a dragoon gun to resist, but gradually he found that he was left behind. Ma Chao's Li Feisha was extremely fast and could catch up with the Mongol cavalry, but the cavalry under his command could not catch up in any way, and his cavalry was always hung by the Mongol cavalry.
Ma Chao was extremely surprised in his heart, this cavalry shot arrows while fleeing, and its speed was faster than our army's full rush? In a stunned moment, an arrow hit Ma Chao's arm. The power of this arrow is not great, for Ma Chao it is just a mosquito bite, Ma Chao broke it casually and looked at his cavalry camp.
I saw that I chased all the way for more than two miles, although the power of the Mongolian cavalry's arrows was not too big, but the emphasis was on strong continuity, and after chasing all the way, Ma Chao's cavalry was always within the attack range of the Mongolian cavalry.
From a distance, there were corpses of the Ma family cavalry all along the way, and because of the arrow throwing, many cavalry had already messed up, and they were no longer in the formation of maintaining a charge. Being kite flying like this by the Mongolian cavalry, the cavalry of the Ma family was also afraid.
Chase and can't catch up, javelins can't attack them, and if we chase down, we must not all be killed by their arrows?
The Ma family's cavalry has lost more than one-third, Ma Chao's heart is dripping blood, although he can rush into the Mongolian cavalry camp alone, what is the use? After all, cavalry combat is not the time for fierce generals to be brave, once they are deeply trapped in the enemy's formation, where is there still life?
Ma Chao was reluctant to suffer casualties among the cavalry under his command, so he hurriedly turned his horse's head and ordered: "Stop the pursuit and dodge the shooting range of the Mongolian cavalry!"
Stop the pursuit? Ma Chao thought that this would reduce the casualties, but the fact that the Mongolian cavalry was bloody gave the young Ma Chao a profound lesson. Stopped advancing, Ma Chao's cavalry became a live target for the Mongolian cavalry, most of them were Ma cavalry in cloth armor, and the shield in his hand could only cover the vital point, so the Mongolian cavalry also stopped advancing, and continued to shoot arrows at the cavalry under Ma Chao across dozens of zhang.
On the other side, Zhao Yun also sensed that something was wrong, and originally wanted Ma Chao's javelin cavalry to be the main force to break through the alien cavalry, but he didn't expect to be kited by the alien cavalry.
Zhao Yun's face changed greatly, this kind of combat method, Zhao Yun can't understand it, Zhao Yun once stayed under the command of Gongsun Zhan.
In the past two years, Liu Wei not only asked Zhao Yun to train his troops, but also hoped that Zhao Yun could become a qualified commander, so he tried his best to make Zhao Yun the commander of the White Horse Righteous Servant, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to form this White Horse Righteous Servant.
In addition to Liu Bian's love for Zhao Yun, there are also expectations, to be honest, Zhao Yun's attributes, in Liu Bian's opinion, the commander is not eye-catching, and the commander can only act as a vanguard. But Liu Wei was unwilling, people always practiced, and they should be impressed by each other for three days. Lu Meng listened to Sun Quan's words and studied hard, didn't he also become a qualified commander?
Liu Wei was strict with Zhao Yun, not only did he learn the book of soldiers, but also asked him to ask Lu Zhi and others for advice on how to use soldiers. And Zhao Yun is also a hard-working person, the Son of Heaven has high hopes for him, how could Zhao Yun disappoint Liu Wei?
In addition to training soldiers and practicing martial arts, Zhao Yun also studied books, and in addition to this, Zhao Yun also pondered the tactics of the cavalry, and naturally thought of Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteous method.
In Zhao Yun's opinion, it is necessary to use cavalry to break this tactic, and the virtual is faster than the enemy in speed. The light cavalry of the archers is to rely on the speed and use arrows to bully people. If there is a cavalry that is stronger than it in speed and rushes wildly, as long as the short hand is hand-to-hand, this method of battle will be broken.
Speed, speed! The most important thing for cavalry is speed.
Zhao Yun rode his horse and galloped in the direction of Ma Chao, looking at the Mongolian cavalry, Zhao Yun faintly felt that the speed of his cavalry was not slower than theirs under the full gallop.
At this time, Ma Chao had no choice but to retreat, he couldn't catch up, and he couldn't stop, but at this time he retreated. The Mongolian cavalry actually stuck up again as if they were scoundrels, and there were constantly arrows in the rear army.
Seeing Zhao Yun's cavalry rushing in his direction, Ma Chao shouted anxiously: "General Zhao, don't care if their bows and arrows are within range, otherwise you won't be able to escape!"
Zhao Yun looked at the speed of the Mongolian cavalry, and his heart was also constantly making choices, if his cavalry was slower than them, he would definitely fall into the same situation as Ma Chao's cavalry, and even today he might be wiped out with Ma Chao's cavalry.
But Zhao Yun faintly believed his instincts, and he felt that his white horse was faster than this Mongolian cavalry. As long as they catch up with this Mongolian cavalry and join forces with Ma Chao's cavalry, they will not be able to inflict heavy losses on the foreign cavalry.
Zhao Yun's fists were clenched, and he immediately loosened, and the intuition in his heart finally triumphed over reason: "The fighter plane on the battlefield is fleeting, where can I be afraid!" If this battle is won, I, Zhao Yun and Bai Ma Yicong, will surely be famous all over the world! ”
Zhao Yun already had a plan in his heart, but there was a confident smile on his face, and he shouted at Ma Chao: "Meng Qi retreats to my left and right flanks, I will cover the retreat of your army, and this alien training army will be handed over to me to deal with!"
"Brother Li, march my white horse cavalry from both sides to protect Meng Qi's cavalry retreat!" Then Zhao Yun shouted at Li Yuanfang on the other side.
After Zhao Yun finished shouting, he suddenly saw that he had increased his speed, and the white horse Yicong behind him was also as fast as flying and followed closely, and Li Yuanfang on the other side also concocted the same method, and the cavalry marched forward at full speed.
I saw that on the battlefield, the white horse who was originally behind the two wings of the Ma Chao Javelin cavalry suddenly increased his speed and rushed diagonally into the battlefield from both sides, like a figure-eight camp. Ma Chao was helpless, but he suffered heavy casualties, and he had to lead the rest of the cavalry to gallop away from the small mouth of the eight-character camp that Bai Mayi had unfolded. (To be continued.) )