The 1355th section of the last white wolf ride (1)
At the moment when Liu Yang cried for the first time in his life.
On the battlefield of Yaoyang, more than three thousand miles away from Chang'an, the most elite cavalry of the Han and Hungarian countries collided head-on.
"For the Great Huns!" The Huns looked ferocious, waving their weapons, and directly ran into the oncoming Han knights.
"Xiliu Camp! Won the victory!" The Han cavalry roared and pulled the trigger of the hand crossbow in their hands. A dense rain of arrows hit the front row of the Huns. Then, they discarded the hand crossbow without hesitation.
, drew his saber and fought with the Huns.
In an instant, the entire battlefield turned into a Shura field.
Broken limbs and remains were flying everywhere.
At this moment, in the back row of the Huns cavalry, a dense and powerful rain of arrows shot directly at the Han cavalry, as if they had eyes.
The strict military discipline and strict hierarchy of the Xiliu Camp Cavalry turned into a drawback this time.
These Xiongnu shooters specifically aimed at the officers in the Han army array who wore badges on their chests and the elite veterans who wore epaulettes on their shoulders as guidance. They fell off their horses before engaging the enemy.
In an instant, the Han army's array lost hundreds of key members.
The whole formation became a little chaotic.
"Condor shooter!" someone exclaimed.
Except for the Xiongnu vulture shooters, no one can do this!
Fortunately, Xiliu Camp's usually strict military discipline worked wonders at this moment. The surviving officers and veterans immediately stepped in and took over the positions of their comrades.
Otherwise, with just this one blow, the Huns would most likely tear apart the front row of the Han cavalry.
"Cavalry Archers!" Wei Chi shouted: "Destroy the Hun Condor Shooters for me, Captain!"
"No!" Xiao Chen and another archer captain immediately responded to the order and rode their horses to disperse.
The two cavalry cavalry captains also immediately formed a battle formation. They immediately discovered that their opponents, the Hun vulture shooters, actually changed their previous tactics of being scattered among the cavalry, and instead gathered into groups to form
A huge cavalry and shooting group formed.
Obviously, their choice was wise.
This immediately increased their firepower and deterrence to a higher level.
This is also the reason why the Han Dynasty specially formed a group of cavalry archers. The damage an archer can cause is limited! The most important thing is that the power to intimidate the enemy is limited.
And once they swarm and start projecting firepower, it will be enough to frighten or even disintegrate the enemy!
This method of warfare can only be used after stirrups and saddles become popular.
Before that, no matter how powerful the shooters riding on smooth horses were, they could not adjust their shooting posture at any time and form a group.
"Fire volley immediately!" Xiao Chen shouted. He knew very well that in such a battle, if the enemy's vulture shooters could not be eliminated, then his own front row cavalry would continue to suffer devastating blows.
Fortunately, now neither the Xiongnu nor the Han army can form a continuous and intensive firepower on the battlefield.
This is determined by the nature of the bow and arrow itself.
At this time, the cavalry bows of the Han and Hungarian countries were all horn bows.
Moreover, the shape is the same, but the materials are different.
The so-called horn bow is actually a compound bow, and the Huns also called it a mixed-material bow.
Originally, this kind of bow was first invented by nomads on the grasslands.
They used a variety of woods to make the bow body, ox or sheep horns to make the bow surface, glued with isinglass, and animal sinews to make the bow strings.
This kind of bow is small and flexible, has a long range and is powerful.
Even arrows made of reed rods and bronze can penetrate ordinary leather armor.
The lethality is amazing!
It was the emergence of this horned bow that rewrote the war pattern between nomadic peoples and agricultural peoples.
The Huns even proudly claimed that they "control 400,000 strings" and showed off their military power.
However, the technical content of this kind of bow is very low, and it has been imitated by China as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.
However, because China lacks the abundant animal tendon and horn resources as the Xiongnu, it has been unable to form a large-scale cavalry.
Until Chen Jiao started whaling in Anton.
This allowed the Han Dynasty to find new sources of animal tendons and isinglass.
Nowadays, the bows and arrows of Xiao Chen's cavalry are made of mulberry wood, maple wood, and bamboo wood bonded with whale glue. The back of the bow is inlaid with elastic deer tendon, bow string material, or tough whale tendon, or pulled with silk thread. become.
Compared with the bow used by the Huns, it is more powerful, has a longer range, and is more accurate.
The most important thing is that the wrench fingers of Han army archers are much stronger than the bone wrench fingers used by the Huns, and their stress points are also better.
"Bang!" The sound of neat bow strings vibrating sounded like thunder.
The Han army's horse archers started the first round of volley at about 70 steps away from the enemy.
The effect of the salvo is very good.
When it comes to archery skills, of course the Xiongnu vulture shooters are stronger.
But, unfortunately, most of their bowstrings are drawn from horsehair.
There is no way, even the nomadic people, even the Xuhuan army, have absolutely no luxury. All bows and arrows are made of deer or cattle tendon as bow strings. At most, they inlaid a layer on the bow body to increase the power and range of the bow. .
But it was definitely not a luxury. The bowstrings were also made of precious tendons, and it was even more impossible for them to use silk that was more expensive than gold to draw the strings.
Although horsehair was very tough after being made into bowstrings, it had insufficient elasticity and was far less lethal than the horn bows of the Han army.
At this moment, the exposed vulture shooters in the front and back rows of the Xiongnu were attacked by a round of bows and arrows.
Hundreds of people were immediately thrown off their horses and their lives were unknown.
At least thirty condor shooters died!
"Han archers!" Lan Zheye yelled and quickly ordered: "Shoot them first!"
On such a battlefield, the greatest threat to the Huns was of course the archers who also used horn bows!
Moreover, judging from what we have just seen, although the shooting skills of these archers may not be as good as those of the Xiongnu vulture shooters, they are far superior to other Xiongnu archers!
If we don't destroy them first, Xu Huan's army will be suppressed by the Han cavalry in this battle!
In terms of shooting, Lan Zheye is very confident.
He has more than five hundred eagle shooters, and hundreds of quasi-eagle shooters, which are enough to suppress the firepower of the Han cavalry, and then eliminate them one by one with precise shooting skills!
Following Lan Zheye's order, the Huns' archers immediately changed their targets, and they soon found their enemies.
They all set up their bows, drew their bowstrings, aimed at the enemy, and prepared to retaliate.
But right now, on the other side.
"Bang!" Another volley fired.
But this round of salvos achieved even greater results.
Because the Hun archers had to slow down their horses just now in order to aim at the enemy.
This allows the Han army shooters to aim at the target more calmly and easily.
In an instant, hundreds of people fell from their horses.
Moreover, almost all of them are Huns archers!
Lan Zheye finally changed his expression. He never imagined that the Han Dynasty people would actually pack more than 2,000 archers into a cavalry of no more than 6,000 people.
Moreover, these archers all have the ability to shoot while running.
This far exceeded his expectations.
It even made him fearful.
As we all know, archers and crossbowmen are two completely different arms.
For crossbowmen, as long as they have the strength, they can shoot continuously, and the training of crossbowmen is very simple. Han army crossbowmen only need to train for three months before they can go on the battlefield.
But archers are different.
Without three years of training, the archers would not have combat effectiveness at all.
As for riding a horse and archery, that’s even more difficult!
Even among the Xiongnu, on the grasslands, people with the ability to ride and shoot would be regarded as warriors.
On the other hand, the lethality of an archer depends on arm strength.
The most important thing is that even a super strong man cannot fire ten bows in a row.
Even if he had the strength, he couldn't do this.
Generally speaking, an archer who fires five bows in a row is almost at his limit and must rest.
Otherwise, his muscles will not be able to bear it.
For example, how many people know about the amazing English longbowmen uploaded on the Internet in later generations? In order to master the longbow, all those archers suffered lifelong disabilities. A large number of archers even suffered deformation of the bones in their shoulders and arms due to long-term use of such longbows!
Such examples did not only occur in the Middle Ages.
It also happened to archers of all periods.
In the past, none of the big yellow crossbow shooters of the Han army could live beyond the age of forty.
The pain caused by rheumatism and bone deformity and necrosis made them restless day and night.
Although angle bow archers do not have these problems, their muscles and arm bones are also severely taxed by long-term use of bows.
In this regard, you can ask those athletes of later generations to see how many illnesses they suffered from!
This was still in an era when science was advanced and medical technology was unprecedentedly powerful.
In this pre-Central era, there were no physical therapists, let alone rehabilitation training.
Therefore, generally speaking, if an archer fires three bows in a row, he must take a short rest. After three consecutive rounds, he will lose his combat ability.
Of course, there are also people who can fire dozens of bows in a row without losing their breath.
But those are just isolated cases, just a minority.
At this moment, Lan Zheye found that he fell into a terrible dilemma.
The number of horse archers of the Han Dynasty was twice that of their archers.
What's even more troublesome is that the shooting skills of these people are not inferior to their own cavalry.
Although his Condor Shooters are extremely brave, they can only suppress one side at most.
If he continues like this, then his eagle shooters and quasi-eagle shooters will be hit on the left side, only to be shot up by the right wing, and they will be killed by the left side after controlling the right side.
And if you take care of both sides, the final result may be that both sides are suppressed.
"What should we do?" Lan Zheye raised his head and observed the battlefield. He knew that he had to make a decision immediately, otherwise, his elite troops would be continuously consumed by the Han Dynasty shooters.
The current battlefield situation also made it difficult for him to make a choice.
He found that even in hand-to-hand combat, Xu Huan's army did not gain an advantage.
The firepower of the Condor Shooters, which should have supported the advance of the cavalry in the front row, was now suppressed by the Han Dynasty archers.
If a decision is not made immediately, then the Xu Huan Army will be doomed!
He bit his lip and made a difficult, but very suitable decision for the White Wolf Cavalry. He loudly ordered: "Don't worry about the Han Dynasty archers, let me shoot the Han Dynasty cavalry officers and the elite troops in front with all my strength to cover our army."
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He knows that now, this is the only thing, and this is the only way.
Use your own vulture shooters to exchange zizi with the Han Dynasty people.
Just like the Han Dynasty story he once heard his brother tell.
Use my inferior horse to lose to your superior horse, then use my average horse to win your inferior horse, and finally, use my superior horse to defeat your average horse.
Today, although the situation has changed.
He had to sacrifice his superior horse in exchange for the victory of his own cavalry.
But Lan Zheye believes that as long as he can defeat the enemy, all the costs will be worth it.
It has to be said that the White Wolf Cavalry of the Xu Huan Army are indeed a group of lunatics.
Even if it is an order like Lan Zheye's, they will execute it immediately.
Countless Xiongnu archers, including those precious vulture shooters, immediately took aim at the officers in the Han army's array and began to snipe and kill them.
They believed that as long as they could break through and smash the front row of the Han army, they would definitely win!
Just like all the enemies they've faced in the past.
As long as you rush over and break through the enemy's formation, the enemy will panic and collapse.
Their choice immediately dealt a huge blow to the Han cavalry who were fighting with the Huns cavalry.
These lunatics, completely ignoring the threat of being shot by the Han army's archers, stood out in formation, sniped and killed Han army officers one after another with their bows, in order to create opportunities for their own victory.
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"These lunatics!" Xiao Chen and Wei Chi were shocked when they saw this situation.
They never imagined that these Huns cavalry would be so crazy.
They don't even want to die!
He even made it clear that he wanted to exchange lives with the Han Dynasty!
One after another, the officers and elite veterans of the Xiliu Battalion were shot off their horses.
Even after that, the Xiongnu archer was immediately killed by several Han army archers.
But that's how they were, carrying the Han army's bows and arrows, and constantly attacking and killing.
The pressure on the Han army's front row immediately increased sharply.
After all, although Xiliuying is an iron army, it is not a robot and has no emotions.
Fortunately, at this moment, three miles away on the right side of the battlefield, a group of Han cavalry, lined up in neat lines, shining brightly like gods descending from heaven, joined the battlefield.
Their number is not large, only about 1,500 riders.
However, their appearance immediately made everyone in Xiliu Camp extremely excited, and at the same time, the Huns were heartbroken.
"Breastplate! Here comes our breastplate!" The Han cavalry shouted, waving their sabers and knocking off the enemies one by one.
The Huns' white wolf cavalry began to panic.
"Sacred Cavalry!" Countless people exclaimed.
Lan Zheye also had to shift his gaze, staring intently at the cavalry whose whole body was shining in the sun, like a wall of light.
Just one glance and he couldn't look away.
This cavalry...
Just the aura he showed made him breathe quickly.
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"Enter the charging posture!" Yi Zong raised his lance high and ordered loudly.
The speed of the war horse began to increase at this moment, from walking to running.
The cavalrymen on the left and right surrounded him tightly, never leaving, and the entire array accelerated in an instant.
The war horse began to jolt, its breastplate also shook, and the beating caused some pain in the muscles.
However, the pain also stimulated Yi Zong. He raised his lance horizontally, and 1,700 lances immediately formed a steel forest.
At this moment, the Han army's cuirassiers were one hundred and seventy steps away from the enemy. (To be continued.)