Chapter 103: The Wind

Finally, after adjusting direction again, Lakshin cheered

Turned around and shouted, "Comrades-in-arms, now, we are moving against the wind, let's start fighting back, let's shoot arrows to our heart's content, let these rabbit cubs in the back see, fighting is to use your brains." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

Light arrows are used on horses, which are greatly affected by the speed of the wind, especially in the current high-speed headwind, even if you throw feather arrows at the back of the sound, it is possible to kill and injure the enemy under the influence of inertia and wind speed, let alone arrows shot with bows and arrows.

Now, even with the use of light arrows, the killing range and lethality of the reconnaissance platoon have been greatly increased.

And the enemy, shooting arrows forward, the fluttering feather arrows were blown by the strong wind, and it was likely to fly back upside down, coupled with the speed of the cavalry rushing forward, in just a few breaths, before the reconnaissance platoon could shoot the bow and arrow, they were wounded by their own feather arrows.

The reconnaissance platoon, which had the advantage, shot down hundreds of people in less than a cup of tea.

Wait until the remaining enemies are frightened and turn and flee.

Lakshin turned his horse's head and led everyone in pursuit.

At the same time, he laughed again, "The big guys have to remember the point, you have to use your brains to fight, you can't learn the mallets in front, you have suffered from the headwind when you chase it, and now you are running away, and you haven't learned a lesson, but you are running with the wind again." Hahaha, but I really laughed to death. ā€

The warriors laughed together, and the oppressive atmosphere of being chased by hundreds of cavalry under the black pressure was swept away, and the bows and arrows in their hands were shot more vigorously.

Along the way, he kept seeing the scattered horses of the enemy, and Rakshen knew that there was a shortage of horses in the army, so he ordered, "Don't patronize the enemy, pay attention to collecting horses along the way, these are real war horses, better than the ones we ride." ā€

When the soldiers heard this, their eyes lit up, the horses had the habit of conformity, and the scattered war horses were slowly converging together, which made it convenient for the reconnaissance platoon to collect the spoils, and as long as one soldier could collect dozens of horses.

In the constant pursuit, the team, which originally consisted of only 30 horses, continued to expand in number.

As the number of horses in the team continued to rise, the enemy was also scared to kill, and the more they ran away.

In the end, by the time the reconnaissance platoon stopped repairing with more than 300 war horses, there was only a small team of more than 50 horsemen left in front.

It's a pity that these more than 50 horsemen couldn't run away, and their escape route happened to be Chen Xin's forward route.

Halfway through, Chen Xin saw Lakshen chasing the enemy with a mighty horse team from a distance, so there was no need to delve into the question of who the enemy was.

At the sound of an order, the soldiers of the first squadron quickly lined up on the official road in front.

The more than 50 horsemen were chased all the way, and they were already frightened by the powerful archery skills of Lakshin and others, and they did not dare to reflexively fight back.

was running for his life, and saw that there was actually a block in front of him, and after a closer look, he was all foot soldiers.

These people were furious, and it was okay to be bullied by the cavalry elite, but now, even a few hundred foot soldiers dared to come and block the road, which was contemptuous of the riding bow in the hands of themselves and others.

He didn't answer, turned a corner, and rushed diagonally into the farmland on both sides.

The enemy began to shoot in a circle about fifty or sixty paces away, and although he was not at all accurate at this distance, he was safely defeated.

The commander of the 1st Squadron knew when the enemy opened his bow at a 45-degree angle and pointed it into the sky that the enemy was about to shoot.

The command flag in his hand waved and shouted "protect".

The large shields on both sides of a squad in the team were immediately raised by the whole class, forming a tight shield array.

The rain of arrows clanged down on the shield, and apart from the occasional few unlucky eggs, there were no casualties.

Under the shield array, which the enemy did not notice at all, dozens of flintlock smoothbore guns protruded.

These cavalrymen were playing with the infantry array with self-righteousness, and at the same time looked at the ranks of Laksin and others in the distance, ready to run away at any time.

"Cavalry is so fast and flexible, they can fight when they want to, and they can run when they want." While these cavalrymen in the strait were thinking proudly in their minds, the guns rang out.

Half of the cavalry fell off their horses on the spot, and in the horrified eyes of the cavalrymen, in the rear, the second squadron, which had been prepared for a long time, also stretched out their smoothbore guns.

After a round of shooting, on the periphery of Chen Xin's position, only empty horses were left trotting there.

Chen Xin ordered a platoon to be left to clean up the battlefield, and the large army continued to advance, and several of the troops came out on horseback and began to collect the scattered war horses.

Coming to Lakshin, Chen Xin asked, "What's going on?" Did the enemy cavalry cross the river? ā€

Lakshin shook his head, "No, this group of cavalry has more than 800 horsemen, and they came from behind us, and I think they are there to pick up the cavalry on the shore." ā€

Chen Xin nodded, now that the time is urgent, he won't ask in detail, "How is Shiqiao?" ā€

"I'm afraid the situation is not optimistic, I listened to it before, and the gunfire is constantly thinning out."

Chen Xin frowned, turned to look at the hundreds of war horses that had just been captured, and shouted, "Raise your hand if you can ride a horse." ā€

Almost all of the 200 people in the team who followed into the court could ride horses, and the coats who were supplemented after that were not good, only a dozen or so could ride horses.

The veterans were all backbones, even officers, and Chen Xin could not take them all, so he ordered 100 people to get on the horse and be led by himself, following the reconnaissance platoon to support the cavalry company.

Galloping all the way, after a while, everyone came to the place.

The crowd that rode up the hill saw an unforgettable scene.

On the south bank of the stone bridge not far away, in a bunker of horse corpses, the remaining men of the cavalry company formed a tight formation.

At the front was a platoon of spearmen, who withstood the blows of their bows and arrows, and held their spears high to block the bridge deck, stopping the advance of the large enemy forces.

In front of their calves squatted a row of short knifemen, crouching behind the carcasses of their horses, holding their sabers and constantly stabbing the fish that slipped through the spear array.

Behind these two rows of fighters were three rows of ornithmen, who only cleared the enemy within 10 paces of them, and the enemy a little farther away, which was killed by the six smoothbore gunners in the last row.

Dozens of people not only faced the onslaught of hundreds of heavily armored soldiers, but also constantly suffered from more than 300 archers in groups.

The overwhelming rain of arrows continued to hit the soldiers of the cavalry company, and all the people standing were full of feather arrows, and they didn't have time to pull them out in the fierce battle, so they could only keep stiffening.

There are constantly fighters who are knocked down by the force of the impact and then get back up again. But there are also fighters who fall and can no longer stand up.

Their numbers are decreasing, but they are firmly in possession of the southern bridge.

Chen Xin's eyes were about to split, and he didn't think about him at all in his mind, and took the lead in charging downward.

Both the enemy and the enemy on the north side of the stone bridge cheered at the same time, believing that this cavalry had come to support their own side, and the battle became even more fierce in an instant.