Chapter 1216: Hand-to-hand combat

Leading hundreds of Liaodong troops out of the barracks, Gongsun Lan did not deliberately avoid the scouts of the Goryeos, and marched straight towards the place where the 1,000 Goryeo people were found.

The 1,000 Goryeo people who had made a detour to avoid the Liaodong Army earlier saw the two armies lined up in the distance, and when they were waiting for the fight to start, they rushed out from behind.

While the Goryeo general leading the team was waiting for the plane, a Goryeo scout rushed to him on a swift horse.

Riding on horseback, the scout lifted the reins and spoke to the Goryeo general something that the Han people could not understand.

Listening to the scout's report, General Goryeo was stunned for a moment, frowned, turned his hand behind him, and shouted in Goryeo.

A thousand Goryeo cavalry immediately turned over on horseback, followed behind the general, and walked up to meet the hundreds of Liaodong troops led by Gongsun Lan.

Leading hundreds of Liaodong troops, Gongsun Lan always maintained an unhurried pace.

Her task was to defeat the Goryeo who wanted to be a surprise soldier, but swaggered past the flank of the Liaodong Army.

The other party blatantly regarded the Liaodong Army as a fool, and there was no need to use overly complicated strategies to deal with such an army.

The combat strength of the Liaodong Army was far stronger than that of the Goryeo.

Even if there were only a few hundred people, Gongsun Lan was still very confident that he would be able to wipe out this Goryeo army in the rear of the Liaodong Army's large array.

The two teams, which were not very numerous, moved slowly towards each other not long after the armies of both sides had formed formation.

Gongsun Lan, who walked in front of the Liaodong Army, held a long sword in her right hand and pulled the reins of her war horse in her left hand, and her face was indifferent when she marched, as if she was not leading the army to fight at all, but was just taking a team of soldiers to play in the mountains and rivers.

Compared with her calmness, the Goryeo general who led a thousand Goryeo people to meet her was much more dignified.

The Liaodong Army is really a little smaller in number than them, but the armament and equipment of the Liaodong Army are much more advanced than theirs.

The Liaodong army on horseback had short spears in their hands sharp, and the shields of the soldiers were also made of hard oak.

Many of the short spears of the Goryeo soldiers were even sharpened with sticks, and their shields were simply sharpened with cypress firewood.

The cypress trees are soft and rough in the Goryeo Civil War, but they are enough to protect each other.

But in the face of the well-armed Liaodong Army, their shields are often useless.

Comparing the two sides, it is impossible to say that General Goryeo did not have much hope for this war.

Slowly marching towards each other, the two teams came to a halt at a distance of only two or three hundred paces.

Gongsun Lan raised his right hand, stopped the march of the procession, and shouted behind him: "Bow and arrow wind!" ”

With her order, hundreds of Liaodong soldiers inserted their short spears into the weapon pouches on the side of their horses, took off their longbows from their backs, and put their arrows on the bowstrings.

Set up the arrows, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army did not aim at the Goryeo people on the opposite side.

The two sides were still far away, and even if they cast feathered arrows, they would not be able to hit the enemy.

Holding a longbow and pointing at the ground diagonally, the eyes of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army stared at the Goryeo people lined up on the opposite side.

The general, who led the Koreans, also raised his arms and stopped the march of the procession.

The Goryeo soldiers behind him were only equipped with hand-to-hand combat blades, not longbows.

Looking at the Liaodong Army from afar, General Goryeo shouted loudly.

As soon as his shout fell, the Goryeo cavalry who followed him walked forward with their horses.

The speed of the Goryeo cavalry's advance was extremely slow, and they slowly advanced towards the Liaodong Army in a not very neat line, trying to use this relatively heavy advance method to make the Liaodong Army feel strong pressure.

The officers and men of the Liaodong Army originally despised the Goryeo, but when they advanced over, not only did the soldiers not feel the slightest pressure in their hearts, but many of them pursed their lips and showed a touch of disdain.

Stationed in Liaodong all the year round, there will occasionally be some small friction with the Goryeo, and the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army, who have never suffered big losses, have always had a heartfelt contempt for them.

Watching the Goryeo cavalry advance in formation, Gongsun Lan lifted the reins, gently clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, turned the war horse, and circled to the side of the team.

As soon as she got out of the way, one of the officers in the group shouted, "Locate the arrow!" ”

With the officer's order, the Liaodong army in the front row raised their longbows one after another, and with enough strength to pull the bowstring full, they shot out one after another.

At the end of these feathered arrows, a thin red rope was attached.

There were not many flying feather arrows, and when they landed, most of them hit the ground and broke into two, and a few of them were obliquely inserted into the soil.

Whether it is inserted into the soil or broken in two, because the end is tied with a red string, in the array of the Liaodong Army, it is clear to see them!

The Goryeo people obviously didn't know what the Liaodong Army was going to do, and when they saw them shoot a puff of arrows aimlessly, and the place where the arrows fell, there were still more than 100 steps away from the array of the Goryeo Army, and many Goryeo people showed a strange look on their faces.

Located on the northern coast of Goryeo, in addition to catching some sea fish on the coast, the people of Goryeo also work around their not very rich land.

Most Koreans are not very intelligent, but there are a few who are relatively intelligent.

Those relatively intelligent Goryeo people, in order to change the poor living conditions, entered the Central Plains, sold some wild goods such as mountain ginseng, and returned to Goryeo, bringing back some customs and etiquette of the Central Plains.

Over time, a culture similar to that of the Central Plains has developed in Goryeo itself.

Although some of them are not anti-dogs, they eventually treat the Central Plains culture as if they were freaks with pure blood, but because they took the wrong medicine during pregnancy.

After learning the culture of the Central Plains, the Korean people gradually formed some of their characteristic civilizations, but in the civilization, they always had the shadow of the Central Plains.

Even their houses were built in the style of the Central Plains.

Until thousands of years later, the Koreans still maintained the habit of sleeping on the ground with bunks in the Central Plains.

These are digressions and will not be elaborated here.

It is only said that the 1,000 Goryeo cavalry, when they were advancing forward, saw the Liaodong Army shooting a puff of feather arrows aimlessly from a distance, and they took it for granted in their hearts that they had a contempt for the Liaodong Army, thinking that the Liaodong Army was afraid of them, and they panicked that even the distance was not safe, so they fired arrows.

There was contempt in his heart, and the speed of the Goryeo cavalry gradually increased.

At first, they just let the horses go a little faster, but later, they held the horse's belly between their legs, shaking the reins incessantly, urging the horses to gallop faster.

Shooting the positioning arrow, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army put the feather arrow on the bowstring one after another, just waiting for the Goryeo to rush to the distance marked by the positioning arrow.

The opposing horses were getting closer and closer, and the heavy hooves of the horses pounded on the ground, rolling up a small cloud of dust and smoke in the wilderness.

Pulling the bowstrings, hundreds of Liaodong troops aimed at the Goryeo who were charging towards them.

Not a single Liaodong army shot an arrow in a panic.

In their eyes, the charging Koreans were nothing more than a herd of pigs eager to die.

With a little effort, the Koreans won't be able to make a big impact on them!

The Goryeo people in the charge were getting closer and closer, and they were about to rush to the front of the positioning arrow fired earlier by the Liaodong Army.

Raising his arm high, the officer commanding the Liaodong Army on behalf of Gongsun Lan stared at the Goryeo in the charge, and when their front war horse was about to rush past the positioning arrow, he pressed his arm down and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

With the officer's order, hundreds of Liaodong troops loosened their open bowstrings.

Arrows whistled towards the Goryeo cavalry.

The Goryeo man holding the round shield saw a puff of arrows flying in front of him, and hurriedly raised his shield to cover it.

The shield made of cypress wood is a little powerless to shield the blades of the opponent's stabbing during the fight, let alone shield the oncoming feather arrows.

Hundreds of feathered arrows covered the Goryeo people, and some of the arrows directly hit the Goryeo cavalry on horseback, and some hit the war horses under their crotch, and even a few feathered arrows actually penetrated the shields of the Goryeo people, shooting the Goryeo cavalry behind the shield off the horse.

Of course, there were only a few feathered arrows that hit, and more of them flew into the gap between the charging Koreans and fell to the ground.

The first Pengyu arrow was fired, and the soldiers of the Liaodong Army immediately put the second arrow on the bowstring and shot it towards the Goryeo.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the power of the feather arrows is also increasing.

The Koreans in the charge fell more and more from their horses.

When the Goryeo people rushed to a place that was only more than 30 places away from the Liaodong Army, Gongsun Lan pointed the long sword in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" ”

With her order, hundreds of Liaodong soldiers put their longbows behind their backs, drew short spears from their weapon bags, and killed the Koreans.

The two teams on war horses charged at each other, and the distance between them became closer and closer.

The Liaodong army rushed out more than ten steps, and the speed of the war horse accelerated, and at this time, the Goryeo people, the war horse under the crotch had already raised the speed to the limit.

"Kill!" The Liaodong army in the charge, seeing that it was about to collide with the Koreans, let out a burst of shouts.

Similarly, the Koreans also made a shout that the Liaodong army could not understand.

The two teams that charged quickly were in one place, and the war horses collided violently, and in the roar, you could even hear the "click" sound of the war horse's bones when they were broken.

One by one, the horses fell down in the impact, and one by one, the soldiers of both sides who were thrown into the air by the violent impact flipped in the air and fell heavily into the battlefield where the horses' hooves were staggered.

After the two teams collided with each other, the soldiers on both sides waved their blades and kept stabbing at the enemy while shielding each other's attacks.