In front of the heavy cavalry, even Ben Minglang, who was best at dealing with cavalry, had no way to deal with it. The heavy cavalry's horses were covered with a layer of fish scale armor, hanging from the back to the calves, almost touching the ground.
If you want to cut off the horse's leg of a heavy cavalry, you have to either cut through the fish scale armor with a knife, or lift up the fish scale armor first and then cut off the horse's leg, but both methods are very unrealistic.
In front of the cavalry, you only have one chance to take action. If you miss, a spear from the backhand will stab you to death, let alone the fish scale armor on the horse.
On the battlefield at this moment, the heavy cavalry is truly invincible. When advancing forward, no one can stop it.
Regardless of whether it was Yulin Lang or Benming Lang who charged forward, whether it was the Yulin Army or the Huben Army, they were all ruthlessly crushed by the heavy cavalry.
Both Liu Xiu and Long Yuan were seriously injured, especially Liu Xiu, whose face was covered in blood, with two crossbow arrows stuck in his chest and a crossbow arrow stuck in his lower abdomen. The three arrow wounds were all serious.
Long Yuan also had a lot of arrow wounds, but the location of the injuries was not as dangerous as Liu Xiu's arrow wounds.
Luo You and Long Zhun supported Liu Xiu and Long Yuan and retreated. However, their retreat speed could not be faster than the cavalry. No matter how slow the heavy cavalry was, it was still faster than their two legs.
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Soon, the first row of heavy cavalry advanced towards them, spear after spear stabbing at them. Luo You blocked with his sword. Dang, Dang, the two spears were bounced away, but then,
The third spear struck again.
Because Luo You was supporting Liu Xiu, he could not dodge, so he could only hastily put away his sword and use it to block again.
But this time she didn't have enough strength to draw the sword and couldn't completely deflect the spear. There was a sound of sand and the spear passed over her shoulder, cutting a gash in the clothes on her shoulder.
She felt the burning pain in her shoulder, and pulled Liu Xiu to dodge to the side, getting out of the way of the horse's head. At the same time, she turned back and swept out a sword, sand. The sword's edge scratched the horse's neck, and the sword's edge rubbed against the fish scale armor.
A series of sparks were thrown out, but the fish scale armor was not damaged at all, and the war horse was not injured at all. The knight on the horse was condescending, aimed at Luo You's chest, and stabbed a spear fiercely. Before Luo You could respond, Liu Xiuyi
Waving his arms, he pushed Luo You away.
Whoa! The spear pierced the air. When the knight withdrew the spear and wanted to attack again, Liu Xiu made a move like lightning, grabbed the spear shaft tightly, pushed back with force, and thrust out with the sword. Poof!
His sword hit the horse's neck right in the middle.
Even though Luo You's sword failed to cut through the fish scale armor, Liu Xiu's Chixiao sword easily pierced the fish scale armor, and the sword edge penetrated deeply into the war horse's neck.
The war horse neighed and fell to the ground, and the cavalry on the horse also fell down.
How could Luo You miss this opportunity? He stepped forward and killed the cavalryman with one strike of his sword.
"Your Majesty!" Luo You quickly came to Liu Xiu, supported his shaky body again, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty, your injury..."
Liu Xiu frowned and said, "I can still bear it!" As he spoke, he looked at the heavy cavalry in front, narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't worry about me, you can find an opportunity and leave first!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and grabbed a crossbow arrow on his chest, making a gesture to pull it out.
During the battle, having a crossbow arrow stuck in your body is too much of a hindrance.
Seeing this, Luo You hurriedly grabbed Liu Xiu's arm and said urgently: "Your Majesty, no!" With the crossbow arrow stuck in his body, the blood loss would be slower. Once the crossbow arrow is pulled out, it will only accelerate the blood loss.
Before Liu Xiu could say anything, the heavy cavalry attacked again, this time a long sword slashed at the two of them.
Luo You was afraid that Liu Xiu would be affected, so he immediately took two steps forward and held the sword against the opponent's edge. Bang! The swords collided, and the sword in Luo You's hand almost flew out.
She is not good at strength. Luo You's moves are mainly light, dexterous and unpredictable. This kind of head-on fight is not suitable for her.
With just one move, Luo You's tiger's mouth was shattered, and blood flowed out. The general who came to kill missed his sword, and struck him on the head with another sword.
Luo You dodged to the side to get out of the way. When the war horse was about to pass by her, the general kicked to the side and hit Luo You on the chest.
She leaned back and took three steps back. Before she could stabilize her body, another spear was thrust from the side.
She threw herself down and narrowly avoided the spear, but the heavy cavalry advancing from all around were already in front of her, and several spears stabbed Luo You continuously.
Luo You rolled over and over on the ground, rustling, and the spear kept stabbing the ground where she rolled over.
In just this moment, Luo You's body was cut open at least seven or eight times by the sharp edge of the spear.
She had exhausted all her strength. Lying on the ground, looking at a heavy cavalry running up to her with his spear raised high, she couldn't help but secretly thought, "It's over!"
Just when Luo You was about to close her eyes and wait for death, and the heavy cavalry was about to stab her to death, suddenly, there was a whooshing sound, and a crossbow arrow flew over, hitting the cavalry in the throat.
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The cavalryman's spear held high had no chance to stab him. The body sitting on the horse swayed a few times and fell headfirst.
Luo You hurriedly sat up from the ground and subconsciously looked back. The crossbow arrow just shot was the sleeve arrow thrown by Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu staggered up to Luo You and blocked her behind him. There was no place to hide now. Everywhere he looked, there were enemy heavy cavalry.
Looking at another heavy cavalry coming towards him, Liu Xiu took a deep breath, held the sword in both hands, and was about to fight with it. At this time, he heard a whooshing sound and an arrow flew towards him.
The arrow passed over the cavalryman's helmet, creating a cloud of sparks.
The heavy cavalryman couldn't help but be startled. He subconsciously looked past Liu Xiu who was in front of him and looked forward.
Before he could see clearly what was going on, he heard a pop and an arrow suddenly fell from the sky, hitting him squarely in the chest. The arrow penetrated the iron armor on his chest and embedded deeply into his chest.
Snapped!
Snap!
Bang bang bang!
At first, only sporadic arrows flew over, but soon, more and more arrows flew over. The armor of the heavy cavalry could not block the flying arrows, and the cavalry on horseback were hit one after another.
The arrows fell to the ground, and even the war horses fell down from time to time.
Liu Xiu and Luo You stood up and looked back, only to see a large group of cavalry running towards them from behind, as fast as a whirlwind.
Youzhou Assault Cavalry! To be more precise, they are the archers of Youzhou Assault Cavalry. These cavalry are extremely fast, and they are outstanding in both equestrian and archery skills.
The cavalrymen sat on the galloping horses, twisting their bows and setting arrows, and then fired the arrows with the inertia of the charging horses.
The arrows that flew out not only had a longer range, but also were faster and more powerful. Even the fish scale armor of the heavily armored cavalry could not withstand the arrows of the archers.
There were two people running in front of these cavalry, one was Ma Wu and the other was Geng Shu.
Geng Shu was originally under the command of Feng Yi and fought against Lu Fang's army in Bingzhou. Later, when he heard that Liu Xiu's army was ineffective in fighting in Liangzhou, Feng Yicai ordered Geng Shu to lead the Youzhou assault cavalry and rush to Liangzhou for reinforcements.
When Geng Shu led Youzhou's sudden cavalry through Bingzhou and arrived at Sanfu, they encountered a large-scale retreat of the Han army.
After he inquired with the Han soldiers, he found out that His Majesty was not in the retreating team, but was still staying in Hanyang County to break up the rear.
Geng Shu did not think twice and immediately led his troops into Hanyang. Ma Wu, who had already retreated to Sanfu, followed Geng Shu with three hundred Han cavalry to rescue Liu Xiu.
It has to be said that Ma Wu and Geng Shu's rescue was so timely. Even if it was a moment and a half later, it was unclear whether they could see Liu Xiu alive.
In terms of the strength of the horses, Youzhou war horses are indeed not as good as Liangzhou horses, but Youzhou horses are faster and more agile.
Especially the cavalry archers in the Youzhou Assault Cavalry are simply the nemesis of the heavy cavalry.
They can rely on their speed advantage to always maintain a certain distance from the heavy cavalry. At this distance, they can hit the opponent with bows and arrows, but the opponent's crossbow arrows have difficulty hitting them.
At this time, the cavalry in the lead began to shoot arrows at the heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry were hit by arrows one after another and fell off their horses. For a while, the heavy cavalry camp began to be in chaos.
Seeing the enemy's cavalry coming, the Xiliang cavalry rearranged themselves and charged towards the cavalry.
Before the Xiliang cavalry could rush up to the horse archers, the Youzhou cavalry had already rushed out of their own camp and faced the Xiliang cavalry to attack them.
This is a head-on collision between the Youzhou Cavalry and the Xiliang Cavalry. The two sides are fighting head-to-head.
While the Youzhou cavalry resisted the Xiliang cavalry, and the archers suppressed the heavy cavalry, Ma Wu led three hundred Han cavalry and rushed towards Liu Xiu.
The heavy cavalry near Liu Xiu and others had been suppressed by the cavalry and retreated continuously. Ma Wu and others successfully ran to Liu Xiu. When they saw Liu Xiu with several arrow wounds on his body, Ma Wu was in panic.
With red eyes, he shouted: "Your Majesty, get on your horse quickly!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, grabbed Liu Xiu, and asked him to sit in front of him.
The rest of the cavalry took Long Yuan, Long Zhun, Long Bo, Luo You and the other more than 200 surviving Han troops with them, turned around and ran back.
Geng Shu saw that Ma Wu had successfully rescued His Majesty, so he put the whistle into his mouth and blew it continuously. Hearing the whistle, the Youzhou cavalry who were fighting with the Xiliang cavalry turned their horses and retreated.
The Xiliang cavalry were not willing to let them go, so they chased after them. Unfortunately, in terms of speed, the Xiliang cavalry was really not as fast as the Youzhou cavalry.
On the other hand, if the Youzhou horses are not fast enough, the Youzhou cavalry is not worthy of being called a shock cavalry.
Youzhou's sudden cavalry started to run, and they were really powerful. Xiliang's cavalry followed behind, and they only had to eat dust.
The Xiliang cavalry chased them more than a hundred meters away, and the arrows of the archers arrived again. Bang bang! As the arrows flew down, the Xiliang cavalry was shot to the ground from time to time, and the pursuit speed also slowed down.
Go down.
Under the cover of the cavalry archers, Ma Wu took the injured Liu Xiu all the way eastward, and finally got rid of the enemy without any danger.
In this battle, Liu Xiu led 2,000 soldiers to fight against more than 10,000 Xiliang cavalry. Almost the entire army was wiped out. In the end, with the timely rescue of his own cavalry, he finally managed to escape, but only two of the 2,000 men were left.
Hundreds of people.
Moreover, not one of the people escaped unscathed, but all of them were injured and decorated. Just during the retreat, more than ten seriously injured soldiers failed to hold on and died.
However, Liu Xiu's blockade was not meaningless. At least the Xiliang cavalry had to pay the price of more than a thousand casualties.
You must know that this Xiliang cavalry is the lifeblood of Kai Xiao, the treasure at the bottom of the box. This time there were more than a thousand casualties and no results were achieved. Even Wang Yuan would not be able to explain to Kai Xiao.
After this battle, Wang Yuan did not dare to send Xiliang cavalry to pursue the Han army again, which also greatly reduced the pressure on the Han army soldiers during the retreat.
Let's talk about Ma Wu, Geng Shu and others, carrying the injured Liu Xiu, and ran for dozens of miles in one breath. When they learned that the enemy was not pursuing them, Ma Wu and Geng Shu led their troops to stop and rest on the spot.
Geng Shu immediately sent someone to find Jiang Shiyun and asked her to treat Liu Xiu's wounds.