【Chapter 576】 The bowstring is terrifying
Da-da-da-da!
The 20,000 tiger battalion iron horsemen galloped and approached the front of the barbarian army at a speed that was difficult to reach with the naked eye.
Under the iron hooves of the cavalry, the distance between more than two hundred paces was sharply shortened.
Seeing that the four members of the battle were killed by the Han general Dian Wei, and now the Han army suddenly attacked with the whole army and rushed head-on. The Huns in front of the Le Ma array were angry at Yu Fuluo, snorting like a cow, his cheeks were blue with anger, and he gritted his teeth.
Immediately, he shouted angrily in front of the sword formation: "Warriors, Hannu is rushing towards us, let Hannu see the power of my Great Hun Iron Cavalry!" Listen to my orders, Xianbei War Cavalry fights! ”
"Whew--"
In the sound of a wolf's howl, more than 30,000 Xianbei war horsemen roared and roared like wild wolves, holding scimitars, carrying bows and arrows, prancing horses and whips, and rushed out of the battle formation with a roar, rushing head-on to the tiger camp led by Dian Wei.
Whoosh!
As soon as the front of the Xianbei war cavalry rushed out of the battle formation, the 10,000 war horses in the middle followed closely behind, and the 10,000 war horses in the rear were unreined with their hands and galloped with bows. Then the dense arrows roared into the air, crossed the front of the Xianbei war horse, and then tilted straight down, like a dark cloud, pounced on the tiger camp iron horse who was about to engage the Xianbei war horse, and the person who rushed to the front was the tiger commander Dian Wei.
At the moment when the barbarian army's arrows rose into the air, Dian Wei knew for the first time that these alien races had used their usual tricks, trying to use cavalry to kill the tiger camp and rush to the front of the war horses, and then the barbarian army took advantage of the rout in the front, quickly broke through the front formation, entered the formation, killed the Quartet, and defeated the tiger horse under his account in one fell swoop. This is the Alien Iron Knight's best attack.
Stationed in Beidi County for more than two years, Dian Wei has long been familiar with this kind of combat skill, has experienced more than 100 battles, large and small, at first also suffered a big loss, and then learned a lesson, he is no longer afraid of the skill of foreign cavalry and archery.
"Scatter!" Just as the arrow was falling at a slanted angle. Dian Wei, who was in the lead, suddenly stood up, shouted violently, and waved his halberds in both directions.
In an instant, the more than 5,000 tiger warrior horses that followed behind them suddenly dispersed, and the war horses that followed them also scattered and galloped to both sides, staggling the dark clouds of arrows falling from the sky overhead. However, the five hundred guards behind Dian Wei did not dodge to the sides, but saw that their bodies were crooked and slid off their horses, hooked one foot on one side of the horse's pedal, and hid under the horse's belly. The one-handed and one-foot rise and fall is extremely fast, and its rhythm is exactly the same as the horse's hoof.
In this way, they will not fall off their horses, let alone be trampled to death by their mounts.
These 500 pro-guards were all carefully selected athletes from 30,000 war horses, and all of them were second-rate talents. All of them are one-in-a-hundred riding masters. In the past two years, this group of people has experienced hundreds of battles. One batch of killed and one more batch to be replenished. After such a lot of tempering, the current elite pro-soldier guard was finally formed.
Bang bang bang !
Sigh!
The rain of arrows above the head fell as scheduled, and it rang out, piercing a huge area of ground full of feathered arrows and dust. However, the Tiger Ben War Horse, which was still densely crowded just now, had already rushed to the sides dozens of steps away, and only a few hundred or so horses could not dodge. He was shot by a stray arrow and fell off his horse and died, leaving the rest of the thousands of horsemen unharmed. After dodging the arrows, the Han cavalry gathered again. Straight to the enemy's line to kill.
Under the same rain of arrows, Dian Wei swung his halberd and shot down dozens of arrows, leaving himself and his mount chasing the wind unharmed. The five hundred guards who followed him quickly distanced themselves when the rain of arrows fell, and galloped forward with the help of their horses. Under the rain of arrows, more than 30 horses were shot into hedgehogs and killed, while the soldiers hiding in the belly of the horses took advantage of the situation to escape, flew and jumped on the backs of other horses, and continued to charge on horses. However, there were still more than a dozen pro-soldiers who could not escape, tripped by their horses and fell to the ground, eight of them were killed by arrows, and the remaining few were pulled on horseback by their companions, and the two rode together on the same horse, wounded and continued to fight.
After a round of arrows, the 500 soldiers lost more than 30 horses, and less than 10 were killed, and the rest were all unharmed. However, many war horses were injured by stray arrows, but fortunately, the war horses have huge bodies and are far more tenacious than human beings, as long as they are not shot, even if they are shot with ten arrows and eight arrows, they will not fall for a while, and they can still continue to gallop to fight.
What's more, these arrows fall from the top of the head, and generally do not hit the horse's hooves, and piercing the war horse can only make the war horse run faster under the pain, but it will not kill immediately. What's more, the war horses of the Tiger Camp have simple animal skin armor to protect the horse's head and neck, and minimize the casualties of the war horse.
"Kill!" After a round of arrows, Dian Wei took the lead in engaging the Xianbei cavalry. But seeing that he was holding a double halberd and driving his horse to gallop, he cut off two enemy soldiers from his horse at the first moment, and then the double halberd flew, setting off a bloody rain and bloody wind, and no one could stop him wherever the halberd reached. And the pro-guards who followed closely behind also clashed with the Xianbei Iron Cavalry, with knives in their hands, skillful and simple killing techniques, killing with one blow, killing hundreds of enemy cavalry in a few breaths, and following Dian Wei to charge into battle every inch.
Whoosh!
At the moment when Dian Wei led his troops to rush into the enemy formation, another rapid rain of arrows roared into the air. However, this time the arrows flew above the heads of the Xianbei war horses, and the people who shot the arrows were naturally the tiger camp war horses under Dian Wei's tent, and they were only a few breaths slower than the aliens, but they only took their bows and shot back after seeing the barbarian horses.
Mounted archery is not only a unique skill of foreign cavalry, among the eight main cavalry battalions of the Xiliang Army, except for the baggage soldiers and men, there are almost no cavalry who cannot ride and shoot. As for the accuracy of mounted archery, it varies from person to person, some are good and some are bad, but most of the soldiers' riding and archery skills are not bad, at least compared with foreign cavalry, they are not inferior, and the arrows are more sophisticated and more lethal. Therefore, in such a frontal battle in front of him, as long as the cavalry shooters shoot the arrows, if there is no problem with the height and strength, even if they can't shoot people, they can shoot horses, and the lethality is far higher than that of the Xianbei cavalry.
"Ahh
Sure enough, when nearly 10,000 arrows fell one after another, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry were shot by stray arrows, and they immediately screamed again and again, and people turned on their backs. Immediately, hundreds of enemy horsemen tripped over the horses planted in front, and the casualties expanded rapidly, and after a round of arrows, the Xianbei war cavalry lost at least more than 1,000 war horses.
The reason for this is that the two years of training in the Tiger Camp can definitely be called well-trained, so when Dian Wei gave an order, the soldiers behind him could immediately respond and scatter. In contrast, although there were many soldiers and horses, Yufuluo's army belonged to different camps and was temporarily put together. And the barbarian iron cavalry is okay to deal with the infantry army who is not good at horse warfare, and it is even better to rob the house, but with the Xiliang iron cavalry face to face to charge and fight, fighting positional battles, the gap between the two is immediately highlighted, and the drawbacks of the barbarian army's lack of unified training are obvious, and they cannot be concealed at all.
The iron cavalry in front of Xianbei was frustrated, which blocked the front of the cavalry that followed closely, the momentum of the charge was sharply reduced, and the battle formation fell into chaos. Under the elimination of the other, the iron cavalry of the tiger camp rushed into the enemy formation one after another, slashed and slashed, carved out a bloody road, and killed the rear of the Xianbei iron cavalry.
At this moment, Zhang Liao led 5,000 Jinqi Guard cavalry to follow, fiercely slaughtering into the enemy formation. Since then, the 25,000 Han army iron cavalry is better than the 30,000 Xianbei iron cavalry fighting together, and the number alone is not much worse than the barbarian army, plus the Xianbei iron cavalry offensive has been frustrated, and it is already at a disadvantage. Therefore, the Jin Yiwei Iron Cavalry was like a straw that crushed the camel's camel, attacking with indomitable bravery, tearing apart the enemy formation in the shortest possible time, and rushing straight to the Xianbei rear formation, and the Xianbei rear formation at this time was actually the Chinese army where Yu Fuluo was.
However, the Chinese army led by Yu Luo himself was very strong, and it was still a war cavalry with more than 40,000 people. This cavalry is the Hun iron cavalry led by the old king of the Southern Huns, temporarily obeying the dispatch of Yu Fuluo and defending the Chinese army.
Seeing that more than 30,000 Xianbei iron cavalry were broken through the battle formation by the Han cavalry in an instant, with heavy casualties, and now they are only twenty steps away from the Chinese army. In an instant, the expression of the old king of the Southern Huns changed greatly, his wrinkled cheeks were crisscrossed and furrowed, his face was crying and mourning, and his loose eyelids were jumping up and down.
"Shan Yu, it seems that the news you got earlier was wrong, who said that the Xiliang Han army has been sparse for a long time, the soldiers have been frustrated, and the morale is low! Look at the situation in front of you, the Han army is so fierce, how can there be a little negligent posture in the battle formation? The old king of the Southern Huns complained to Yu Fuluo with a straight face.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Yu Fuluo also frowned, his cheeks were slightly pale, and his eyes were full of horror. He couldn't figure out why the Han army, which had shrunk in the city a month ago, and didn't dare to fight, had such a strong combat effectiveness?
In particular, the black-armored cavalry who followed the Tiger Ben camp to enter the military formation, slaughtered all the way and rampage, killing the Xianbei Iron Cavalry and retreating, almost without the power to counterattack, it was simply unstoppable. The most conspicuous thing is that this Han cavalry is well-equipped, the horses are armored, the soldiers are dressed in black armor, only a pair of eyes are exposed from head to toe, and the rest are all wrapped in iron armor, and even the nose is protected by iron armor. The weapons carried are very sophisticated, all of them are five long-handled war knives, they look like big knives, but there is no back curve of big knives, and they look like big swords when they look closely, and they are bladed on both sides, which can both slash and stab, and the end is a rare odd-shaped weapon.
"What do you mean by that? Can we calmly withdraw from Liangzhou and retreat to the tribe now? Yu Fuluo asked with a gloomy face, but he was worried that the respected uncle of the tribe next to him would be angry.
So after he took a deep breath, he explained in a low voice: "Uncle should know that after Xiliang Li Li sent troops to the border, for more than two years, my Southern Xiongnu tribe has never set foot in the Han Realm. In the past, we had to send troops to hunt in autumn every day in autumn, plundering Han counties and counties, looting grain, cloth and Han women for the winter, so as to strengthen the strength of the tribe.
However, in the past two years, our clansmen did not dare to set foot in the Xiliang border for half a step, and they never grabbed a grain of grain again. What's more, the Han army on the border has to send troops to plunder the southern Xiongnu tribe every month, and often send tens of thousands of cavalry to loot the border within a radius of 100 miles, regardless of the old and the young. Uncle, has my dignified Hun warrior fallen to such a state? ”
Yu Fuluo told the history of blood and tears of the Southern Xiongnu in the past two years with an indignant face, and said it with emotion, so that the old king of the Southern Xiongnu blushed when he heard it, and lowered his head in shame and did not dare to face Yu Fuluo.
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