Chapter 62: The Encounter
"It should be Bohai archers, about two hundred."
After the mound, Lu Ning spoke, quickly pointing out the person's name, "Wang Gui's team, Zhou Renmei's team, Xue Chao's team, Wanyan Nuge's team, follow me to guerrilla the enemy's army, and the rest of the team, led by Yang Ye, will defend the main formation!" ”
More than 100 Yu Linlang were also divided into more than a dozen teams, among which Wang Gui, Zhou Renmei, Xue Chao, and Wanyan Nuge were all divine marksmen.
In fact, these Yu Linlang are skilled in each bow and horse, Jing Si, Yang Ye, Zhang Qiong, Yang Xin and other team leaders are also superb in archery, although they are weaker than the four marksman team masters, but they are not necessarily weaker than the members of the four marksman teams, but they are more brave and better than archery, and they all have to lead a team.
Among the team leaders, archery skills are really not very good, maybe only Qian Shoujun, who is nicknamed "Zhuan Pi Hu", is born as a thief, he is brave and invincible, but archery is really not complimentary.
Brother Wanyan Nu is completely a freak and a giant man, but as a fishing and hunting tribe, traditionally, his clan also attaches great importance to archery, and as the first warrior in the clan, Brother Wanyan Nu's archery skills are also a hundred shots.
Fold Yuxun, bravery and archery, can't be the team leader, but his strength is not in the battle, now this year is light, more experience, should be a very good general.
In Lu Ning's words, more than forty sharpshooters followed Lu Ning on the horse.
The rest of Yu Linlang was originally leather armor, so he quickly put heavy armor on his war horse at this time.
The Bohai archers from the north did not gallop straight up, but, as if searching for something around, they turned from time to time, and when Lu Ning went down the tree, those archers were slowing down, obviously seeing the stream downstream, and they were also ready to rest.
You don't have to think about it to know that in the direction of Fengshengzhou in the north, the scouts are almost impossible to leave the city now, so Yelu Yihu naturally knows that someone is hunting the light cavalry out of the city, and according to the direction of the recent missing scouts going out of the city to explore, he roughly guessed that the enemy who hunted the scouts should be between Fengshengzhou and Ulzhou.
Yes, Yelu Yihu chose the Bohai archers and went out of the city to investigate.
The Bohai Navy is brave, there is a saying that "three people are a tiger in the Bohai Sea", of course, the Bohai Navy mentioned here mainly refers to the main ethnic group of the Bohai State, the Sumo Tiger.
In the eyes of Yelu Yihu, these two hundred or so light cavalry archers can naturally be attacked, retreated, and defended, even if they encounter the enemy brigade, they can also retreat with their whole body.
Indeed, the opponent had a large number of ranger archers, which created a problem for Lu Ning.
If you look at the search diameter, you will definitely find yourself waiting.
If you are all wearing heavy armor, you can't chase the other party, although you can use a bow and arrow to resist the enemy, but the other party will inevitably be harassed, not to mention that in the end it is easy to get tired of your own people and lack of horses, that is, those pack horses and horses without iron armor protection, and they are shot by these rangers one by one, which is too distressing.
It was Lu Ning who chose four teams of light cavalry archers to attack with him, striving to divert these Bohai archers.
At the same time, even if the place where the horses are hidden is discovered by the Bohai archers, the heavy cavalry behind the mound forms a formation, uses bows and arrows to drive the enemy, assists the horses, hides behind them, and adds their own light cavalry to hold back from the side, and slowly maneuver with them, the balance of victory will naturally tilt towards their side.
Speaking of which, it's also a bit careless, originally the horse hiding place shouldn't be like now, just next to the avenue.
But I feel that I have a sharp eye, and I am proud of my own bravery, and I think I can cope with any situation.
But then again, it is to come to thousands of bow rides, if you just want to escape, there is no problem, after all, you can take a horse and a war horse to change all the time, plus you are cruising around these days, and you are familiar with the terrain, and it is easy to get rid of the other party.
But the question is, what if there are also thousands of archers with more than one person riding and particularly high power?
It's easy to say by yourself, you can get rid of the enemy by escaping into the mountains and forests, but your subordinates are afraid that they are not so lucky, at least, they are afraid that the horses will be lost, and the rest of them will flee into the mountains with them.
It's okay, today is a wake-up call for myself, and I can't ignore the war with the Khitans.
Lu Ning pondered, and glanced at Brother Wanyan Nu beside him again.
Speaking of which, the Bohai archers and their own Wanyan Nu tribe are all descendants of the Su Shen people in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but the Bohai Kingdom was built by the Su Mo Yan Nu Sect, and his own Wanyan Nu Department belongs to one of the Black Water Bush Clans.
Moreover, since a large number of fine works entered the Khitan and had a better understanding of the many tribes under the control of the Khitan, including the Heishui Eagle, I knew that there were many tribes named after Wanyan in the Heishui Arrow, and they even had to be traced back to the pre-Qin period.
Because in the Sushen language, "Wanyan" is a sacred title similar to a shaman, and the meaning of the original dialect can be roughly translated as "the existence close to God that the world looks up to".
There are many large and small tribes of the Black Water Indigo tribe with Wanyan as the name of the tribe.
And the Wanyan Department of the ancestors of Wanyan Aguda should still be in the upper reaches of the Mudanjiang River today.
The ancestors of the current Wanyan Aguta are only a small member of the Wanyan Ministry.
Even, Wanyan Agu beats this bloodline, but instead of being a pure descendant of the Black Water Indicution, the Jin ancestor Wanyan Hanpu, who was posthumously crowned by the Jin State, is a Sumo A, that is, a native of Bohai, who fell to the Wanyan Department and became a son-in-law.
Now, it should be Wanyan Hanpu's grandson Wanyan Bahai period, the ancestor of seven or eight generations before Aguta, but he is now just an ordinary clansman of the tribe, and it is not until the current Wanyan Bahai's grandson Wanyan Shilu that he became the leader of the Wanyan Department, and was named the Jiedu envoy by the Khitan and became the hereditary chieftain.
Of course, his butterfly effect should have slowly touched all the departments of Baishan and Heishui, and the descendants of Wanyan Bahai must have become very different from the history of his previous life.
Lu Ning thought wildly, and saw that the Yulin Lang who were defending the formation were all dressed in armor and ready to meet the enemy.
With a whistle, Lu Ning took the lead and came out.
The angle of view of the resting place chosen by the Bohai archers is excellent, and when they see the enemy attack from a distance, they immediately get on their horses.
The horse's hooves are flying, stepping on the loess array, and the Bohai bow rider quickly turns into a circular formation, galloping back and forth.
The training is breathtaking, so that in extremely fast movements, the archers face the enemy's side, and the bow can shoot a steady stream of arrows.
It's just that I didn't want to, and I met the most unreasonable person.
If it is a scattered mixed shot, Lu Ning will really scratch his head a little, after all, even if he shoots farther, it is difficult to hit a fast-moving target, and besides, both sides are fast horses, and the distance they open up may be approached by the enemy in an instant and enter the enemy's effective range.
After all, it's not about shooting a specific target, but about destroying the enemy to the greatest extent, so it's a bit difficult.
However, the Bohai archers were well-trained, and although they had few men, because they were attackers, they were careless and quickly formed a circle to defend.
"Whoosh!" Lu Ning had a long bow in his hand, and immediately a rain of arrows flew out.
At this time, Wang Gui and the others, the Bohai archers had not yet reached their range at all, but recently they had become more and more proficient in cooperating with the Son of Heaven, and the horses were galloping alternately behind the Son of Heaven, and at the same time swishing arrows were fired, and if the opponent's archers rushed up and wanted to shoot the Son of Heaven, they entered the range of the arrows they shot.
In the screams, several Bohai archers fell off their horses, but the leading horse that led the whole team to draw a circle obviously did not react, and was still habitual, leading this circular formation, and in the rapid circlery of the horses, the center of the circle gradually moved towards the enemy.
"Whoosh, whoosh", the arrows in Lu Ning's quiver quickly decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the arrows were like beads, shooting non-stop.
In the screams, in a short period of time, another twenty or thirty Bohai archers fell off their horses.
The other party's leading horse, or rather, the leader of this group of Bohai archers, finally came to his senses, and with a whistle, the ring bow cavalry immediately dispersed, divided into two teams, and galloped towards the two wings of Lu Ning and the others.
It's just that it's still the same sentence, but what I met was the most unreasonable person, maybe its leader didn't react so quickly, and instead of using the optimal solution to meet the enemy, it would be a different result.
Lu Ning suddenly jumped off the horse and rushed towards him.
He was extremely fast, and the other party wanted to fly by, and he was also approaching quickly, although the leader of the other party and the archers behind him reacted very quickly, dozens of arrows shot at Lu Ning together, but Lu Ning seemed to speed up again in an instant, and those arrows fell short, and then, the leader of the Bohai archers felt a tremble behind him, but the enemy had already arrived on his horse, and his throat was resisted by a cold forest arrow, and at the same time, the reins of the horse were pulled by people, and he suddenly turned around and ran out to the side.
Bohai bow riding was a little confused.
At the same time, Lu Ning rushed towards the left flank of the Bohai leader's team, Wang Gui, Wanyan Nuge and other cavalry shots, then Qi Qi rode their horses along the right flank gallop, when Lu Ning captured the Bohai leader, it was when Wang Gui, Wanyan Nuge and the Bohai right wing archers entered the firing range of each other.
When the Bohai archers saw that the leader was captured, their minds were not affected, and this was the most fatal moment.
In the midst of the screams, more than a dozen archers on the right wing of the Bohai Sea fell off their horses.
"If you want them to live, you have to stop them! Don't wait for me to ambush all my troops! Lu Ning whispered in the ear of the Bohai chieftain.
The training of this Bohai archery was extremely good, and Lu Ning was not willing to kill its leader when he saw that he was happy with the hunt.
Regardless of whether the other party understands it or not, scare it first.
Speaking of which, although the Bohai Kingdom was deeply influenced by the civilization of the Central Plains, they used Chinese characters, but they spoke the languages of various tribes, and those with a higher degree of sinicization were all nobles or descendants of Goguryeo.
The leader of the Bohai Sea, who was pinched by Lu Ning's iron pincers and couldn't move, was a middle-aged man in his thirties, looking at his face, he was a Yan Yan, with slightly smaller eyes and larger ears, which was somewhat similar to Wanyan, and was obviously different from the Khitan and Central Plains people.
The leader of Bohai seemed to be distracted by this completely illogical change, and he was afraid that his beloved sons would be shot, so he shouted a few words.
It seems that his majesty is extremely strict, and his prestige is very high, and those Bohai archers really slowly stopped their horses, watched from a distance, and talked to each other, apparently worried about the safety of the leader.
"Make them surrender, and don't wait for me to catch up, and shoot them with an arrow." Lu Ning spoke, making a gesture from afar, this is not to scare them, if you kill their leader now, in its chaos, it should be no problem to annihilate most of these Bohai archers, how many escapes depends on their courage, if there are more timid archers, there will be more people who escape.
"Are you Qi military horses?" From afar, one of the archers on the other side said loudly, although the Central Plains dialect was blunt, it was not difficult to hear clearly, "Let our head go, if the military horses of the Qi State come to attack Shengzhou, we are willing to defect!" ”
Lu Ning's heart shook, although the Bohai people did belong to the ranks of the oppressed, and the Bohai tribes who were relocated to Fengsheng Prefecture were no exception, but the promises of these Hu people were not worth mentioning at all.
Even if it really defected, it must be because the Qi army attacking Fengshengzhou was strong, and Fengshengzhou was more likely to be lost.
Not to mention, it is not the patriarch of his tribe who made this promise, the head of the clan and the like.
The captured leader of the archers may not be the leaders of these thousands of families of the Zhai tribe who were forcibly relocated to Fengsheng Prefecture, and they are not the right age.
"It doesn't matter if you surrender or not, but I won't kill you today." Lu Ning was handy, and threw the leader of the archers out, with a bang, he fell a few feet away, and fell to the ground, and he couldn't get up at all.
Those Bohai archers, seeing Lu Ning's divine power, their faces changed drastically, and at this time, recalling the beginning of the encounter, the distance was so far away, and their companions fell off their horses one after another, when they looked at Lu Ning, they were even more shocked and frightened.
There were also riders who hurriedly dismounted to support their leader.
Some riders wanted to collect the bodies and treat the wounded, but some did not dare.
Lu Ning no longer paid attention to them, whistled, and led the crowd to turn around.
Thinking about it, it's time to leave this place, during this time, the terrain survey is almost over, and the act of hunting and killing the opponent's scouts has bought enough time for the front army of Lu Pingdian and the mighty baggage team to enter Yunzhou, so that the elite cavalry force that has a surprise attack on the other side has also missed the opportunity to harass.
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On the mound in the distance, Hu Dugu watched the encounter from beginning to end, but his big eyes became brighter and brighter.