Chapter 472 Let's go, don't stay here to die in vain!
Controlling the horse with both legs, half leaning on the horse, sharp arrows shot out. The forward-shooting Han cavalry continued to close the distance between each other to seventy or eighty paces, and the power of the mounted shot was immediately doubled. Although there was an issue with accuracy.
Still, cavalry archery has never been a martial art that pays attention to accuracy. For large-scale projectiles and large-area coverage strikes, you only need to maintain a general direction and shoot the arrows onto the enemy's array head to disturb and confuse the enemy.
Driving the enemy away is the true meaning of mounted archery.
From time to time, a few sharp arrows shot through or directly through the simple shield, causing screams.
But at this point, no matter what Zhu Xie said, he would not retreat. The distance had reached the extreme. Some cavalrymen tried to get closer, but every time they got within 70 steps, four or five Zhou Jun infantry archers
They would jump out of the ranks, raise their bows and aim at them, push back the advancing cavalry, and then quickly move behind the shield.
Although the Zhou army shot very few sharp arrows, the faint threat prevented the Han cavalry from pressing too hard. Zhu Zhong did not want to lose too many soldiers under his command. Repeatedly, both sides were exhausted.
Zhu Qian walked slower than a turtle with this one.
More than a hundred steps away, Zhu Zhong raised his head and looked at the sky. Time waits for no one! If it was noon now, then if he stayed up for three or two hours, he would definitely be able to exhaust the opposing coalition forces to death.
But now it is getting late, and it will be dark in two hours.
Looking at the hundreds of coalition remnants waiting in the distance, a cold smile appeared on his face. "He can be considered an opponent." If you want to take down the turtle shell in front of you without paying too many casualties, you will definitely win.
It is a technical job, but he likes to smash turtle shells. With the reins attached, Zhu Zhong quickly got off and said, "Send my military order to raise troops."
The Han cavalry behind them suddenly burst into cheers. The alarmed coalition troops turned around one after another and found that the Han cavalry on the left and right flanks and behind them were moving rapidly.
"What are you looking at? Don't look back. Keep moving forward." Zhu Xie ordered angrily. There were troop guards behind him, so those in front should move forward quickly and catch up with the hill in front as soon as possible! But he turned around himself.
Ma Tou rushed to the side of the team and looked sideways. Fifty cavalrymen followed silently beside him.
"How long will they wait? Two quarters of an hour? Or less?" Zhu Xie looked at the Han cavalry behind him and murmured. Behind the defeated troops, hundreds of Han army elite cavalry had already transformed under Zhu Zhong's control.
Formed.
More than five hundred Han cavalry formed a tight formation of thirty people, accurately following the coalition forces at a stone's throw away. The remaining more than one hundred cavalry were still surrounded on three sides in a crescent shape, and their role was to act as skirmishers!
Facing the Han cavalry in an attack formation, Zhu Xie felt like he was holding a bomb. He didn't know when the bomb exploded and killed him. But if he didn't rush to the hill as soon as possible, what would happen to him on the flat ground?
Can you stop the elite Han cavalry that looks like wolves and tigers?
It’s just the difference between dying early and dying late, why not fight for that glimmer of hope?
The four to five hundred defeated soldiers were divided into two groups. The one at the rear stretched out towards the Han army into a half-moon shape, which fit in perfectly with the Han cavalry skirmishers' Yanyue Formation. The other group spread its legs and ran forward straight out of the Hundred-Ten Army.
step.
Following Zhu Xie's order, the defeated soldiers at the rear straightened their wooden spears and used only some simple shields to form a very fragile spear formation in front of the infantry archers. More than twenty people
The famous archers all held their bows and arrows, scattered facing the left, right and rear.
Zhu Zhong didn't need to give orders, the Han cavalry skirmishers had already turned around and dispersed. The Zhou army's first wave of 'arrow rain' did not hurt any of them, and while the skirmishers retreated, the rear troops quickly retreated.
Retreat at a trot backwards.
Zhu Dai led fifty cavalry to press the formation!
The two broken troops retreated for a while and immediately regrouped. Zhu led the cavalry team and quickly returned. Covering the alternate retreat in this way, the energy of the broken soldiers seemed to be slowly increasing!
The scene was very fierce. Hundreds of defeated troops of the coalition retreated staggeredly, and were forced by the Han cavalry again and again. The "inaction" of hundreds of Han cavalry also made me understand the long-range strike power of the defeated troops. It was really powerful.
Not worth a penny!
Time passed little by little in the tense confrontation, and soon a mile or two was reached, and a small hill was right in front of our eyes.
Zhu Zhong looked at the tricks of the defeated soldiers coldly. He allowed Zhu Xie's "free" command and listened to the cheers from the opposite side. Finally, he waited until the defeated soldiers retreated to the hill. He smiled coldly and said, "You think you are smart?"
idiot!"
Five alternating coverings for more than one mile will definitely consume most of the physical strength of the defeated soldiers, because when they are mentally stressed and fully concentrated, the consumption of human energy is much greater than usual.
Their vitality has disappeared, and their morale has strengthened. Unfortunately, what has been strengthened is not the determination to fight to the death, but the confidence that "I can escape"!
Zhu Xie looked at the Han cavalry who were pressing forward again, and then at the defeated soldiers who began to breathe heavily after a few alternations. A feeling of cat playing with mouse came to his heart. He felt that he was that person now.
A pitiful mouse, and what's even more pitiable is that this mouse is the one he's rushing to take on. --- Treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
"Brothers, we'll be on the mound in one more round. The Han thieves can't do anything to us..." Zhu Xie turned around and saw the familiar carriage on the mound.
"Don't come up, don't come up!" On the mound, Fan Chunju said to himself and prayed in a voice that only he could hear. Hundreds of Han cavalry followed the defeated soldiers in a tight formation.
The distance of a hundred steps can be reached in the blink of an eye for the cavalry.
It's a pity that God didn't hear Fan Chunju's prayer. On the battlefield, the more you want the enemy to do something, the less likely you are to do it; and the less you want the enemy to do, the less likely the enemy will do it.
"Woooo..." The horn sounded, and as Zhu Zhong waved the sword in his hand, five hundred cavalrymen started to move their horses, and the speed of the war horses reached the fastest gallop in a very short period of time.
The scattered cavalry also started to move. They were still in very scattered formations, slapping their horses and rushing into the area within fifty steps. "Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." More than a hundred arrows were fired at the defeated troops. The men and horses naturally
The ground was divided into two columns along the route of the broken troops, 'swish, swish, swish...' and the arrows never stopped falling.
No matter how bad the accuracy is, 50 steps is enough to shoot the arrow to a general area. All the casual knights need to do is to aim the arrow at the entire hundreds of broken troops.
Zhou Jun's infantry archers let go of their arrows and fired back.
Dozens of sharp arrows fell, and the harvest was pitiful. Because their target was the extremely fast-moving cavalry rather than the slow infantry.
And there are only a few people in total, who have been in a alert state since the team was decorated by Han cavalry, and they have long been exhausted. It's a shame if they can gain something!
Then Zhu Zhong's real killer began to charge. Each of the five hundred cavalrymen were wearing iron armor and a small leather shield on their left arm. As long as they were not unlucky, a few sharp arrows would not hurt them at all.
Accelerating rapidly, the war horses moved forward and forward. After entering fifty steps, a sharp spear was flatly placed in their hands. From a distance, the sharp edge of the gun blade dazzled the human eye.
The defeated soldiers were in chaos. Zhu Xie shouted to calm down. Some of them had a look of determination on their faces and clenched their weapons in their hands. Some of them were pale but had not yet moved. But more people wanted to retreat. Didn't just retreat all the time?
It was quite fun, and now they reflexively want to retreat——
"boom--"
The galloping iron stream collided with the tiny cavalry of the defeated army, and then hit the fragile infantry formation.
Blood splattered and screams instantly shook the world!
The cavalry were submerged in the billowing red, and the entire formation was like a glass plate smashed by an iron block, falling apart after one blow.
"Kill..." Like a wounded beast, Zhu Xie's eyes turned red. He waved the sword in his hand and killed the Han cavalry who came towards him one by one.
In just one attack by Han cavalry, the fifty cavalry he organized lost more than 80%, and he himself survived a total of seven cavalry.
On the infantry array, the fragile long poles were even more fragile in front of the iron flow. The long spears of the Han cavalry had to be discarded because they pierced multiple bodies. They drew out the sabers from their waists and continued to chop.
The trampling of horses' hooves was not something that human power could withstand. The defeated soldiers who were hit flew to the rear one after another. The few fallen horses also rolled over, creating bloody grooves in the dense crowd.
Charge and then get out of the way, and the back row will follow up, and then continue to charge; get out of the way again, and the back row will follow up again, and then continue to charge again... It was just five hundred horses, but now it turned into a huge wave crashing on the shore, a huge *
Continuously slapped on the infantry formation formed by the remaining coalition soldiers.
There was no need for seventeen columns at all, just seven columns of cavalry charging. They tore the broken infantry formation from the front to the core, and then tore the entire infantry formation into pieces in one go.
From this moment on, the rout was orderly and the organized resistance ended, and the Han cavalry won.
The defeated soldiers, who had completely lost their will to fight, were in a mess, fleeing in all directions and trying to escape again. What supported them before was only their own will to survive, but now it failed. Every defeated soldier felt that their last hope had been ruthlessly crushed.
.Besides escaping, surrendering, and fighting to the death, they have no other way to go!
No one wanted to die if there was even a chance of survival. So after the attack, half of the remaining defeated soldiers chose to surrender. They didn't have the strength to escape anymore, and they didn't believe that they could escape the Han Dynasty again in this place.
Riding horseshoes.
Zhu Xie looked at everything with a sad smile, and was defeated so easily. If he had known this, why would he have joined the team?
The fleeing defeated troops were pursued by scattered cavalry. Zhu Zhong left dozens of cavalry behind to watch over the prisoners. The team divided into two and surrounded Zhu Xie and the carriage on the hill.
Fan Chunju, who was seriously injured, took out the accessories from his waist and pointed the white blade straight forward. The smooth blade could still reflect the defeated soldiers who were being chased down the hill like bereft dogs.
"Let's go, don't stay here and die in vain..." He said to the guard masters around him. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
