Chapter 341: Bow Riding Might
When it comes to the individual soldier quality of the Qiang people, no one dares to underestimate it, even if the entire Qiang army is in chaos, but at this moment, the Qiang cavalry that is facing the Shu army to launch a counter-charge is still extremely fierce and murderous, and it seems that the Han cavalry is not taken into account at all.
In the eyes of these Qiang people, the Han people were not suitable for riding horses at all, or they did not know how to ride horses, and the soldiers of the Han people could only hide under the tall city walls, relying on the protection of the city walls to survive, or in the field battle, forming a formation like a turtle shell, making themselves like a hedgehog, and could only move slowly like a snail. For the Qiang cavalry, it may be difficult to deal with such a spear formation, but there are many times to attack, and there is always a way to pry open this hard shell, even if it can't be attacked, it is defenseless, and the infantry has no threat to the cavalry at all, at best, it can only be invincible.
As for the cavalry of the Han people, it was purely an ornament, and the Qiang soldiers did not take them seriously at all.
But the cavalry on both sides had just entered the range of a stone's throw away, "whoosh", and the feather arrows shot from the Shu army's cavalry array came like a shower, shooting at the Qiang cavalry rushing in the first row with great accuracy.
The Qiang cavalry was caught off guard and fell from their horses one after another. In fact, even if they are on guard, they are irresistible, and the dense rain of arrows forms a death fan, as long as the Qiang soldiers are covered within this range, it is difficult to escape the fate of death. Almost all the soldiers of the Qiang soldiers were dressed in leather armor, few were protected by iron armor, and they lacked shields in their hands, so it was very difficult to resist the dense rain of arrows.
The first round of arrow rain stunned the Qiang soldiers. Riding and archery skills on horseback are not something that ordinary riders can master. Even the Qianghu tribes, which claim to be a people on horseback. With the exception of a few masters, most riders are unable to shoot accurate and steady arrows on the back of a high-speed horse. After the horse runs, the bumps are not ordinary, and most riders can only hold the reins or mane tightly with one hand to maintain their balance and not fall off the horse's back, and use one hand to control the bow and arrow, which is too nonsense, right?
But the scene in front of them shocked them incomparably, almost all of the Shu soldiers were masters of riding and archery. Accurate and steady arrows can be shot on the back of a high-speed galloping horse, although it is difficult for the Qiang people to believe this, but they have to believe it, because the facts are in front of them.
Under the second round of arrow rain, the Qiang soldiers were already holding their heads and running away. The perfect combination of cavalry and archers, no matter how fierce the Qiang cavalry is unmatched, the ferocity can only be reflected in the short-handed battle, and now the archers of the Shu army do not give the Qiang cavalry any chance to approach, the dense arrow rain is more like a one-sided slaughter, and the rout of the Qiang cavalry has become a matter of course.
The Qiang cavalry that was routed in front spread to the Qiang soldiers who were not attacked behind. The entire Qiang army team collided with each other and trampled on each other. There were countless dead and wounded, and there was a mess.
Pa Kunluo was so angry that he screamed, he had fought countless battles, fought with the Han people, fought with other tribes of the Qiang people, and fought with the Xiongnu Xianbei people, but like today, he has never fought in a nest battle like this, and he has never fought too much, he is a cavalryman, and others are also cavalry, so why are they suppressed by other people's cavalry, and these cavalry are the Han cavalry that he has never looked at with his eyes.
It's really evil, in their own team, it is definitely one in a hundred to have a good horse archery who shoots arrows on horseback at high speed, when did the Han cavalry train so many horse archery masters, it seems that the thousands of people who rushed up are such good hands, how is this possible?
Seeing that the cavalry of the Shu army was getting closer and closer to him, one of his centurions had sharp eyes and said to Pi Kunluo: "Chief, they seem to be stepping on something under their feet!" ”
Dial Kunluo to take a closer look, isn't it, Takahashi saddle is sitting under the buttocks, and there is a horse's head in the way, it is not easy to see, but the bilateral stirrups hanging on both sides of the war horse can be seen clearly. The stirrup is not a rare thing, it is said that it was invented by the Han people, in order to make it easier to step on the horse, the Qiang people are mostly dismissive of it. In the Qiang tribe, only some children who have just learned to ride horses and old people will hang a stirrup on the side of the horse, if it is a strong man riding a war horse with stirrups, he will often be ridiculed by others.
But the Shu soldiers in front of him seem to be equipped with stirrups, and they are not one but a pair, not stepping on the horse but stepping on the horse all the time. It was the first time that he had seen someone use stirrups like this, and suddenly a flash of inspiration occurred in his mind, could it be that the cavalry of the Shu army was good at riding and shooting because they stepped on two stirrups?
Although it feels a little unbelievable, this is also the only reasonable explanation that can be given at present, and he does not believe that there are so many cavalry and archery geniuses among the Han people, and it seems that only improving the horse harness is the way to improve the combat ability of the cavalry.
He stared at the stirrup, his mind was in a trance, he didn't know that an arrow had been shot at him, and when he came back to his senses and wanted to dodge again, the arrow had already pierced his throat, and with the unwillingness to be unpaid, with the despair of death, he fell from the horse, and fell to the ground, and he never closed his eyes like a dead fish.
It was Fu Zhu who shot this arrow, Fu Zhu's archery skills were originally good, and when he was in Duan Gu, he practiced the skills of riding and archery, and other archers only emphasized that they could shoot smoothly when they were trained, as long as they could project the bow and arrow into a fixed angle, and they did not need to pursue superb accuracy. But Fu's archery skills have obviously surpassed this category, when he is on the flat ground, he has been able to penetrate Yang in a hundred steps, and after hard training, he can also approach this level on the back of a galloping horse.
Fang Cai Fu saw it clearly, there was a person in the Qiang formation under the banner of the rich clothes, all the Qiang soldiers surrounded it like the stars and the moon, Fu Zhu expected that this person was the leader of the Qiang people, and it was always the only rule on the battlefield to capture the thief and capture the king first, Fu Zhi did not hesitate to open a bow and arrow, aimed at the Kunluo, and shot an arrow over.
It was also appropriate for Kunluo to hit the end, and when he was staring at the new stirrup of the Shu army, Fu's arrow shot like a meteor, hitting his throat.
As soon as Kunluo died, the Qiang soldiers were even more chaotic, scrambling to flee for their lives. (To be continued.) )