Chapter 1204: Choices on the Battlefield
Ma Chao led the troops away, but Pang De stayed on Han Sui's side, and after the first wave of the Qiang cavalry's offensive was over, it was naturally his turn. ◢ with ◢ dream ◢ small ◢ .lā
But the front of the general of Zhengxi, Fei Qian, was even more tenacious than Pang De imagined, or rather, stronger and more tenacious than everyone on Han Sui's side imagined.
The Qiang people left behind corpses in one place, and now, seeing that the queue that followed Pang De to attack forward was also gradually depleted and reduced before the camp in the west......
The long-handled war knife used by Pound was already a little notched, and he was covered in blood.
This is the third time he has stepped back.
There was red everywhere in front of me.
Blood-red soldiers on both sides, blood-red horse-rejecting stakes, blood-red dirt, and then he saw the soldiers on his own side rushing forward with various weapons.
He saw a soldier being shot by a roaring crossbow arrow, and his running body suddenly flew into the air;
He saw one of the soldiers having his hands cut off by a bloody sword, wailing and screaming in pain on the ground;
He saw one of the soldiers fall on his back with a spear pierced through his body, blood pouring out of his chest like a fountain;
He saw a soldier rush forward bravely, and then he chopped more than a dozen knives in one breath, cutting down the acquaintances in the Zhengxi array, but he was nailed to the ground by a spear stabbed from the side, and before he died, the soldier also cut down the soldier who stabbed him to death......
A head in the sky, drawing a dark red arc over the rejection of the horse, over the corpses everywhere, swirling in the sky of arrows, jumping, with beads of blood, landed in front of Pound's eyes, and then rolled to his feet.
Pound hesitated, then reached out and picked it up.
This is the head of a Qiang man, and he is also a subordinate of Pound, with a curled beard, and he has drunk and raced with Pound before, but now he can only open his mouth full of blood, as if he is still screaming miserably......
A terrible scream suddenly sounded around him, and it slammed into Pound's ears!
Pound was startled and hurriedly threw away his head, only to find that it was not the sound of the head in his hand, but a guard beside him.
The body of the guard fell heavily beside Pound, and the arrows poured into his chest came out of his body, and the blood quickly smeared Pound's instep and soaked the Qiang man's head.
This is one of his own personal guards, a guard who has followed him for three years, he is very brave, once led more than ten soldiers to kill nearly a hundred horse thieves, but today he died, was shot by an arrow in Zhengxi, died in front of him.
Pound watched silently, expressionless.
This is war.
There is neither grief nor hatred, only a war to the death.
The Qiang man's head was lying on the ground at the wound of the guard, his mouth open as if devouring hot blood......
"Whoosh! Sou! ”
"Spread out!" Pound shouted.
Another wave of arrows came, and several of his own soldiers were knocked to the ground by the arrows and crossbows.
Pound didn't understand, why did Zheng Xifei have so many reserves of arrows and crossbows?
When he came to Xiliang from Hanzhong, did Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, have already prepared these ordnance materials?
"Pang Junhou! Withdraw, withdraw, there are almost no more of our people in front, they are all dead, all dead......" One of the team leaders withdrew from the front line with a wounded leg, shouting to Pound in a mournful voice.
Because of the amount of carrying, the arrows of the Qiang people on his side are no longer as dense as before, which leads to the fact that the archers who are recruiting Xifei are not much suppressed and can shoot calmly.
"Let's go, Marquis Pang Jun, let's withdraw......" The team leader couldn't hold his body, fell in front of Pang De, raised his head and said, "It's all our Ma family's people who died...... How much blood is left behind......"
"You're wounded, go down first......" Pang De was silent for a moment, waved his hand and said, "The general hasn't been killed yet, even if he dies here, he can't retreat!" ”
With that, he snatched a shield, shouted, and rushed up!
"Kill!" Pound roared, kicked the spear stabbed in the side of the Feizheng Western soldier, and with a backhand, he quickly stood up with the shield in front of him, blocking several arrows that were fired, and then struggled forward, and cut down another person.
At this moment, a rejection horse in front of Pound, I don't know if it was not strong before, or it was loosened after being hit by the Qiang cavalry, and a dead soldier of Zhengxi fell on the rejection horse, which became the last straw that crushed this rejection horse, and the rejection horse stake rolled over, and smashed towards Pound with several corpses!
Pound couldn't dodge, and only had time to raise the shield, when he heard a "boom", the heavy horse-resisting stake smashed on the shield, and the whole person rose into the air, slammed on the ground, and the back of his head hit the ground, and he suddenly fainted.
"Pang Junhou!"
The two guards shouted, rushed forward, pushed away the wooden stake that pressed on Pound's body, and dragged him out with all hands and feet after talking, one holding Pound's head, the other holding Pound's two legs, and ignoring the arrows whistling in the sky behind him, turned around and ran down......
In the drowsiness, Pound saw the increasingly gloomy sky, as if it had also absorbed the blood on the ground, becoming extremely dark red, the layers of clouds, like all kinds of corpses twisted and crooked on the ground, constantly piling up, piling up like mountains, and he was in the abyss of hell, countless soldiers were fighting, tearing, falling, falling in various postures, falling into the boundless darkness.
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The horses galloped through the wilderness, their warm mouths splashing in the wind. Gan Feng rode on the horse, and he could feel the powerful trembling of every muscle of the war horse under his crotch.
The people of Mengjiazhai have already been dispatched, and Gan Feng has to rush back as quickly as possible to tell Jia Xu the news, so as to cooperate with each other.
Maybe it was because he killed a group of scouts before that aroused the vigilance of the Xiliang Tribes, or maybe the Xiliang Tribes were about to make some moves, and when they were about to enter the range of Tianshui County, they ran into a group of Xiliang cavalry who were marching towards Qishan.
Because they were on the march, the array of the Xiliang cavalry was very long, and when Gan Feng's small team rushed down from the grassy slope, many of the Xiliang cavalry were still stunned and could not react.
It's not that Gan Feng is hot-headed and seeks his own death, but that his small group of troops originally robbed the time difference, if he hides in the mountains, he may be able to avoid the scouts of the Xiliang cavalry, but he has to wait for the Xiliang cavalry to pass completely before coming out, who knows how much time he will have to wait?
Therefore, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the Xiliang cavalry has not yet discovered it, directly chisel through the flank of the Xiliang cavalry array, and return to Jia Xu's place!
In addition to the cavalry queue in front of him, which is a mixture of Qiang and Han Chinese, in Gan Feng's eyes, it is simply full of flaws, the formation is extremely chaotic, the flanks are extremely long, and it may not be able to quickly assemble and deal with it when encountering a surprise attack!
After the panic, someone in the Xiliang cavalry finally reacted and sounded the horn of warning.
War horses are galloping!
Gan Feng felt the tremor of the war horse stepping on the ground with every step, and also saw the panicked expression of Xiliang Northwest in front of him, and suddenly laughed: "Your crazy grandfather is here!" It's all open to Lao Tzu! ”
The mount under the crotch jumped violently, and the four hooves soared into the air, carrying the sweet wind, like falling from the sky, and directly crashed into the flank formation of the Xiliang cavalry!
In the blink of an eye, before the several Xiliang cavalry facing Gan Feng could react, they fell off their horses in a series of armor-breaking sounds!
This kind of armor-piercing sound is familiar to almost everyone who has been in battle, because this sound actually represents death, just like what can often be heard in the slaughterhouse.
For Gan Feng, this sound is like an exciting symphony, but for the slain Xiliang cavalry, the harsh friction, collision, and sound of breaking through the armor and flesh are so terrifying.
The screams of the people, accompanied by the neighing of the war horses, suddenly spread a gradually thickening smell of blood......
Gan Feng took the lead, and directly crashed into the flank of the Xiliang cavalry queue, the horse lance in his hand was extended, or stabbed or smashed, and in a blink of an eye, the three Xiliang cavalry were picked off the horse, and then the left hand drew the knife Pingping, and a Qiang cavalry passing by the side had no time to block, and suddenly the major artery on the side of the neck was cut, and blood shot out, splashing Gan Feng's face, and the whole half of his body was bloody!
Behind Gan Feng, twenty Flying Bear Army followed and crashed in!
The array that the Xiliang cavalry was marching was long and thin, and suddenly there was a burst of people on their backs!
But after all, these Xiliang cavalry have also experienced a lot of battle formations, although the incident happened suddenly, more than ten cavalry fell as if they were swept by a violent wind, and the war horses blew up and galloped, but the Xiliang cavalry in front and back were desperately rolling towards the middle, and they were about to encircle Ganfeng and them!
Gan Feng used his right lance and left knife, controlled the horse with his legs, and laughed loudly in the midst of the flesh and blood, and suddenly there was nothing in front of him, and the array of the Xiliang cavalry was killed in the blink of an eye!
The Xiliang cavalry at both ends, when Gan Feng broke through the array, had already spread out the queue in the process of turning, outflanked on the left and right flanks, and when they saw Gan Feng breaking through, they took out their riding bows, put on bows and arrows, and poured arrow rain towards Gan Feng!
Run.
This word, which seems to be very good in later generations, seems to be a great skill in many games, but if it really talks about lethality, it is actually nothing more than that.
Because in the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of them were unilateral pedals, or piso pedals, and there was no high bridge saddle, so the cavalry opened the bow and shot arrows on horseback, except for those who were gifted and practiced the martial arts of the superior general-level figures, most of the miscellaneous soldiers rode the bow and bow, which was worse than the bow and arrow of the foot soldier, and basically only five or six percent of the strength of the foot archer.
In addition, the war horse is constantly galloping, ups and downs, not an extremely proficient master, it is difficult to achieve a balanced posture to shoot arrows, so when these Xiliang cavalry arrows are splashed, it is more of a coverage strike, which is enough for the fixed infantry battle array, anyway, if you can't shoot the person in the middle of the infantry battle formation, you may not be able to say that it is crooked to the side, and then win the lottery......
A rain of arrows rushed in, and the Flying Bear Army, including Gan Feng, were all veterans of cavalry warfare, and they didn't panic at all, some of them used their blades to dial, and some of them raised the small cavalry round shield tied to their left arm, and while bowing their bodies, they blocked and blocked the arrows that might endanger themselves and their horses, which seemed to be so easy.
The arrows rained down, and most of them didn't know where they landed, and they didn't hit the target much, or they hit the riding shield and sank shallowly. Or drop a few sparks on the helmet armor and scatter them. Gan Feng took these flying bear troops, although they were not armored horses, but before rushing into battle, they all put on the horse with the horse coat of Gebu, although it would add some weight, but the thick Gebu horse coat in the galloping can also give the horse part of the protection, even if there are feathered arrows penetrating the thick Ge cloth, it is only shallow into the flesh, but it provokes the fierceness of the war horse, and the long neighing and accelerates with hooves!
In addition, Gan Feng and the others were running forward again, and many of the arrows shot from the side and rear were either unable to fall when they flew to the end, or they also lost most of their kinetic energy, and the lethality was indeed not strong, which also caused the current Xiliang cavalry arrows to rain down, but there was really not much direct killing effect.
At this time, if you look from the air, you can see Gan Feng, a small group of men and horses, galloping wildly at the front, and the penetrated Xiliang cavalry array is like a pair of open giant hands, grabbing towards Gan Feng.
"To the east! East! Gan Feng waved his horse lance and pointed to the east.
For the terrain in this area of Longxi, Gan Feng and the others are not much worse than the Xiliang cavalry, not to mention anything else, just the mountains and valleys that can be used to hide the troops, in this area, Gan Feng knows two or three, and Jia Xu and most of the rest of the Zhengxi cavalry are in one of these locations.
Gan Feng couldn't go straight to the direction where Jia Xu's troops were located, although the hiding place of Jia Xu's troops was also good, but it still took time for the army to unfold after all, so when he was close to the hiding place, Gan Feng had to take the risk to turn around, and at the same time, he also drove the Xiliang cavalry to change direction together......
"Come, come, come! Come with Crazy Grandpa! Gan Feng shouted, not looking at the soldiers and horses outflanking the right flank of the Xiliang cavalry that was getting closer and closer in front of him.
These stupid roe deer are still using bows and arrows?
Although Gan Feng and the others turned, it also meant that the distance between Gan Feng and the others and this part of the soldiers on the right wing of the Xiliang cavalry was shortened, and the strength of the bow and arrow was relatively more threatening, but after all, the Flying Bear Army was fought in fierce battle formations again and again, where would they be afraid of the arrows shot by these Qiang people in these Xiliang cavalry, not to mention that some of these arrows were bone arrows......
Comparatively speaking, those Xiliang men with knives and guns are really the biggest threat to Gan Feng and others, when the two sides of the battle are handed over, is it better to hold the knives and guns in their hands for a long time, or is it better to temporarily put away the riding bow and then take out the knives and guns?
The speed of the war horse is extremely fast, and most of the cavalry just have time to make a move when they pass by, if it is half a point slower, it may be life and death!
Gan Feng roared, brandishing his horse lance and war knife, and the right flank of the Xiliang cavalry chasing after him, finally collided with one place!
At this moment, outside the mountains and forests in the distance, Jia Xu waved his arm, and on his side, a group of Zhengxi cavalry finally rushed out of the hidden place and joined the rolling battle for Longxi!