Zhao Hao rushed forward, he wanted to intercept the enemy cavalry from the gap in front of the second line of defense, so as to buy time for his infantry to retreat and redeploy, and also to cause confusion to the enemy troops leaving the city, making it difficult for their attacks to continue. At this time, the enemy cavalry rushed through the first line of defense, and they also began to change their formation in the movement, from column to side, so as to expand the attack area and make room for their own cavalry to leave the city later. However, in the end, the city gate was narrow and the drawbridge was not wide, which still affected the attack speed, and it was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning.

After several large-scale naval battles in Qiongzhou and the situation stabilized, Zhao Yu had already realized that he had fewer and fewer opportunities to participate in the battle in person, let alone in person. But he didn't let Nanshan go because of this, but still continued to temper himself, in addition to practicing martial arts every day, he also drilled and trained with the guard battalion every day, and would have actual combat exchanges with them for more than ten years.

It's not that Zhao Yu is diligent, it can only be said that he is afraid of death. Thinking that the scene of being chased and killed by the enemy in the escape still appeared in my dreams from time to time, and I was so helpless in the face of the slaughter of the enemy horsemen, I could only watch them gather butcher knives towards me. Therefore, he is prepared for danger in times of peace, and reminds himself from time to time that even if he is an emperor, he is not at ease, and he has a skill to protect himself once he is in danger one day.

Only 300 steps away from the enemy, Zhao Yu kept hitting the horse's belly with his heel, increasing the horse's speed. His horse was not the 'free horse' ridden by ordinary emperors, a bad horse with a good temper like a cow, and a bad horse that could not run two steps when the whip was broken, but a good horse chasing the wind. This horse was smuggled in Qiongzhou with a lot of money, and has been trained and trained by him, not only running fast, but also very spiritual, and the tacit cooperation between people and horses. It only takes a password or a small gesture for him to grasp the intention and make the corresponding action.

Zhao Yuma has been rushing ahead, since he was five years old to lead the troops to fight, he has commanded countless battles of all sizes, and he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles. And he also personally operated the boat to fight against the enemy, and there were one hundred and eighty people who died under him, but it was the first time to fight the enemy with a sharp blade face-to-face, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, after all, he didn't need to kill people by himself on the ship or behind the battle, and there were guards and personal guards at all times. And now it's a white knife in and a red knife out, and a little negligence will cost a small life.

But after all, Zhao Yu has seen the world, and understands that the more dangerous it is, the more calm he must be. The speed of the horse is very fast, the distance of three hundred steps is fleeting, and the distance between him and the enemy at this time is only a hundred steps, he uses the corner of his eye to look sideways, in addition to the flag officer who is close behind him, Tan Fei and other guards are not far from the left and right, but if you want to surpass him, you can't, so you are forming a sharp arrow formation with yourself as the blade and ten people as the horizontal column, and quickly kill the enemy.

'Bang! ’

'Bang, bang, bang......'

At a distance of fifty paces from the enemy, Zhao Yu handed over the knife to his left hand, withdrew the musket from the pouch behind the saddle and aimed the musket with one hand at an enemy centurion in front of him, at the moment when the war horse took off, he grasped the fleeting moment of stability and pulled the trigger, the enemy was shot in the head and shook twice on the horse and then fell under the horse, but one foot was hung on the ground by the stirrup and dragged away, even if he was not killed on the spot, he had to be dragged to death. Immediately afterwards, the guards behind him also opened fire, and the enemy horses fell from their horses one after another, causing a burst of confusion, and the speed of the team's impact couldn't help but slow down.

After shooting, Zhao Yu casually stuffed the musket into the saddlebag. There was no way, the cavalry muskets they used were changed to short barrels for ease of carrying, which reduced the hit rate, so they were required to shoot within fifty paces. The hit rate is guaranteed, but they don't have time to reload at all, so they have to prepare for hand-to-hand combat after shooting. But he turned his hand like a robot cat and pulled a pistol out of his saddlebag.

This pistol is the 'pepper shaker' pistol, because Zhao Yu has not been able to find a way to make ignition powder, he can still only use the flint ignition method, but the gun has six barrels, and after his improvement, it can be fired in parts, instead of the historical 'one pot stew'. However, this pistol is not easy to use, because the barrel is too heavy, it is not easy to aim, and the firing range is only about 20 steps, so it is necessary to ensure that the hit rate will not exceed 10 meters. Therefore, this weapon that was not 'successful' was not installed on a large scale, and only one was distributed to each officer in the guard battalion, and it was distributed to officers above the guard battalion.

'Bang! Zhao Hao took the lead and bore the brunt of the encounter with the enemy, and when he saw that the enemy had aimed his bow and arrow at him, he raised his hand and shot him in the door, killing him. I used to think that the pistol was a melee self-defense weapon, and it didn't hurt to have a short range, and it had a certain degree of concealment, which was not only easy to carry, but also could give the enemy a critical blow by surprise, and it could save your life at a critical moment. On weekdays, when he travels, he will not have this one in his waist, but now it has become an appetizer before hand-to-hand combat.

'Kill! Zhao Yu fired several shots in succession to shoot all the bullets, and at this moment he had no time to aim, anyway, whoever threatened him would be shot first. Seeing another enemy rushing towards him, he stabbed himself in the chest with his spear, and he raised his hand to remove the spearhead while urging his horse forward. As the two horses staggered, the enemy horseman had no time to withdraw his spear, and he slashed his knife across the elbow of the enemy's hand holding the spear, and the sharp blade then slashed off his forearm.

'Hey! Zhao Yu's horse rushed forward, and he didn't have time to see how injured the enemy who was hit by him was, let alone make up for it. At this moment another enemy soldier rushed at him, and he pierced his lower abdomen with his spear, and he swept away the spearhead of the enemy soldier with a horizontal sword, and pressed down on the shaft of his spear so that it was difficult for him to withdraw his weapon for a while, and then quickly leaned in. At this time, the opponent's weapon was already difficult to use behind him, and he slashed his opponent with his sword, slashing through the enemy's neck, and a stream of scarlet blood immediately spurted out, staining his battle robe red.

'Whoa! Zhao Hao had already rushed into the enemy group at this time, and he didn't have time to wipe away the blood splashed on his face, and some enemy soldiers swung their knives and slashed down. He didn't have time to return to the knife to block, so he had to raise his left arm to meet it, and the enemy's knife slashed on the small round shield tied to his forearm with a crisp sound, shocking Zhao Yu's arm numb, and he handed the knife forward, stabbed it in the stomach from the crack in the armor on his side, and then cut a hole in the back knife with the flesh and armor.

"Kill!" Zhao Hao heard the sound of an enemy horse falling from his horse behind him, and he didn't have time to look at it, so he caught up with the three enemy horses. He flicked the horse's head slightly, and the horse scurried to the right to avoid the front, and stabbed out with a loud sword. The enemy soldier was stunned when he heard the roar, his knife had already pierced his throat, and at the same time he drew the knife, he stabbed it with his backhand, and the back of the knife slashed the jaw of another enemy rider who had just arrived, and he did not dare to engage and ran away. Seeing that the situation was not good, the third horse ran away, and Zhao Hao urged the horse to catch up and stabbed him in the shoulder, and waved his shield to knock him off the horse.

At this moment, there was a sudden emptiness in front of him, and Zhao Yu realized that he had killed through the enemy formation and rushed over. He wiped the sweat from his face, both tired and frightened. You must know that there is a saying on the battlefield that 'one inch is long and one inch is strong, one inch short and one inch is dangerous', and the cavalry of the Song Army is equipped with a cavalry knife in addition to a musket, which is more like the cavalry sword equipped by the modern Western cavalry, with a knife length of less than three feet and a weight of four catties. In addition to riding bows, the Mongolian cavalry was mostly equipped with spears, and was equipped with secondary weapons such as long knives and axes, which had an advantage in length and weight.

Everyone knows that the advantage in weapon length is very large, just like the weight advantage in hand-to-hand combat. Because the longer the weapon, the greater the attack range, and if the opponent's weapon is short, you can attack the opponent when the opponent comes up without being attacked by the opponent. Weapons are not like bare hands, and they may be able to endure a punch with their bare hands, but a weapon may lose its combat effectiveness after taking a hit.

Although long weapons cannot be used after being close, it is very difficult for short weapons to get close, and most of them are killed by long weapons on the way to try to get close. If you want to get close to a short weapon, you can only risk being attacked, which is why it is said that an inch is short and an inch is dangerous. A skilled soldier can firmly grasp even the length advantage of the weapon by an inch, and control it at a distance where he can just hit the opponent, and the opponent is almost unable to hit his own.

However, Zhao Yu thought that although the weapons in the confrontation were short, he would suffer a relative loss, but when he encountered a weapon longer than himself, it was impossible to say that he would directly give up resistance and be killed. In the face of disadvantage, the inferior side is not qualified to seek stability, an inch is short and an inch is dangerous, and only by taking risks can we win a chance to win. When the length of the weapon is at a disadvantage, it is generally more difficult to attack the opponent's torso, and it is the most feasible way to directly attack the opponent's part that is closer to you.

Therefore, Zhao Hao chose to take the initiative to attack, and there was no special skill in the moves, which was direct and effective. Unlike hand-to-hand combat, cold weapons can incapacitate you regardless of whether they hit the vital point or not, and the limb that is hit may not be usable, and even if they are healed, there is a high probability that they will be disabled.

Therefore, the primary goal of combat on the battlefield is not to kill the enemy, but to render the enemy incapacitated. To put it mildly, it doesn't always take a sword to pierce a transparent hole in the opponent's heart, or split the opponent's head in half with a single sword. A few seconds are enough for a seemingly insignificant blow to an opponent who can't use a weapon effectively for a short period of time, or a stab in the face that causes an opponent to temporarily stun — and it won't take long to make a few more cuts or an ultimate, and you'll always have teammates around you ready to make it up for you.

In addition, Zhao Yu thought that he should not stop, and always maintain rapid mobility, especially when facing heavy armored cavalry. Because when the opponent is wearing heavy armor to fight, he is more likely to use the armor to defend against the opponent's attack and counterattack at the same time. This requires the smaller the action, the better. Because in a high-weight state, physical strength simply does not allow you to make those movements that seem to be flexible, but are actually very physically demanding. If you use these energy-intensive moves, it won't take you two minutes before you're running out of stamina, and you're basically waiting to die on the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhao Hao recalled that in many works of art in his previous life, he sneered at the scenes of wearing heavy armor and making various gorgeous moves, which would not exist at all in reality. In his previous life, he had heard that enthusiasts who had never worn armor often boasted about how flexible heavy armor was and what movements it could make. And when demonstrating, the performer can do a variety of seemingly nimble movements, but that doesn't mean that they are also nimble in a suit of plate armor.

Because although you can make movements, in the armour-piercing and weight-bearing state, your speed of movement is much lower than that in the non-armor state. A lot of complex actions that seem to be flexible are useless if they can be made, and the other party can easily dodge them. Because when you're wearing heavy armor, even if you can make complex movements, it's too slow. Of course, it should be said that in real combat, the said slow action is not as slow as a move in the game, where there will be a few seconds of hard stun.

In the eyes of those who have practiced, this speed is simply ridiculously slow. Because in martial arts, the action time for ordinary people to raise their hands and slash down forcefully is actually enough for a person who has practiced to cut him two or three times, because in fact, the action of the battle is too fast, and the time to say a word is enough to cut several people. And the situation of 300 rounds of big battles that often occurs in classical romances is actually very fast, otherwise they don't have to be killed at all, but they would have been exhausted to death.

And this leads to another problem, they think that the ancient generals are too corrupt, because in the ancient sculptures and paintings of our country, most of the generals are round faces, thick waists, and have big bellies, how can such fat bodies defeat the enemy. Because in modern society, whether it is a strong man who likes fitness, or a European and American action star in film and television works, most of them are muscular men with wide shoulders and thin waist and thin eight-pack abs, but the image of ancient generals is not very big muscles, and there are no eight-pack abs but a big belly!

Zhao Yu wanted to say that they were all wrong. The reason why the ancient generals held their bellies was not because of the low level of training and the obsession with eating in ancient times; It's not like a hunk man with a belly who is clumsy and inflexible, and can't beat an eight-pack abs at all. And the idioms that describe macho men in ancient China are also big shoulders and round waists, tiger backs and bear waists, especially emphasizing that the waist must be thick enough to be fierce.

And the best representative of the image of an ancient Chinese military general with a big waist and a round waist may be a generation of famous general Yue Fei. Yue Feisheng has divine power, and he can pull a hard bow of 300 catties, and open a crossbow with the waist of eight stones. His portrait is of a fat man with a round belly and fleshy face, with a standard waist and a round shoulder. Instead of a male dog waist with a chest circumference much wider than the waist like a modern combat athlete, the waist shrinks rapidly from the ribs to the hip bone, and the lines are similar to the waist curve of a dog, and there is no trace of fat on the belly, and the lines are clear......