Chapter 970: Arrows Rain
The Viet cavalry battalion was an attack on a surface several miles wide, and each cavalry could shoot three or four arrows at a distance of this arrow, with the cavalry in the front row firing at small angles and the cavalry in the rear rows firing at large angles.
Due to the dense formation of the Sima army, the Vietnamese cavalry did not need to aim at all, and they could shoot as soon as they raised their hands, as long as they released arrows in this direction, there was a good chance that they would not be empty.
Almost every arrow can bring casualties to Sima Jun, and the worst Sima Bing was hit by more than a dozen arrows in a row, and he was about to be shot into a hedgehog. This efficiency was simply appalling, and the Vietnamese cavalry only had to focus on how to shoot the arrow faster, and there was no need to worry about whether it could hit or not.
In a short period of time, the Vietnamese cavalry had already fired three or four arrows in a row, and the fastest ones even shot as many as five arrows, that is to say, in such a short period of time, the Yue cavalry battalion had thrown tens of thousands of arrows at the position of the Sima army, dense like a shower, and poured towards the Sima army together.
Sima Jun was completely stunned, in the face of dense rain of arrows, they had almost nowhere to hide, many people could only jump off the war horses, hide behind the war horses, pity those mounts, when they were alive, they were ridden, and when they died, they had to act as shields.
As a result, Sima Jun's formation was chaotic, in order to avoid the rain of arrows, all kinds of defensive means were used, and the originally deployed cavalry formation was already scattered and unformed.
Until now, Sima Jun has not understood the taste, how did the cavalry charge the formation, how did it become a chaotic array of arrows, and how could there be so many cavalry and archery masters in the state army, looking at this style, 10,000 Yue cavalry, they are clearly good at riding and shooting.
This completely subverted their cognition, you know, the riders who can ride and shoot are originally rare talents, it can't be said to be one in a thousand, but at least among hundreds of people, there will be that one, such as Sima Jun, who has the ability to ride and shoot, are all regarded as treasures, at least they can easily mix with the level of team leader Dubo.
And in the Yue cavalry camp, such cavalry archery masters are everywhere, how can Sima Jun's cavalry archers be embarrassed?
The cavalry of the Sima Army had a record of fighting with the Yue cavalry battalion before, that is, among the Shangdang, the Yue cavalry battalion at that time was just an ordinary cavalry, nothing more than more experienced in combat and stronger in combat effectiveness, but it was definitely not as outrageous as today.
In just two or three years, the Yue cavalry battalion has undergone such a radical change, and on the other hand, the cavalry of the Sima army, in addition to the increase in numbers, has not made any progress in combat effectiveness, and even due to the increase in a large number of new soldiers, the combat effectiveness has not risen but fallen, and the combat ability of individual soldiers is probably very different from that of the Vietnamese cavalry.
Although the defense line of the Sima army had been hit by a rain of arrows, the Yue cavalry battalion did not rush to break the formation, but rushed to the front and did not continue to move forward, but all went around to both sides, leaving the middle position to the cavalry who rushed up later, so that they could continue to fire arrows.
After the Yue cavalry battalion became an archer, medium and long-range attacks became their strength, so when attacking, the Yue cavalry battalion did not directly rush up to fight the enemy cavalry, but deliberately kept a relative distance and attacked with arrows in turn.
This kind of attack method with zero casualties is naturally Deng Ai's preferred tactic, since the Yue cavalry battalion has medium and long-range strike capabilities, then he will definitely not easily put the Yue cavalry battalion into close combat, maintain a medium and long-range attack mode, and use bows and arrows to kill and wound the enemy's living force, which is naturally the best way Deng Ai has chosen at present.
As for whether the Vietnamese cavalry battalion will be engaged in close combat, it will need to be arranged according to the battle situation, and it is too early to talk about this.
The way the Yue cavalry battalion attacked made the commander of the right wing battalion of the Sima army, Man Bing, crazy.
After being easily broken through the defense line by the Xiao cavalry battalion last time and suffering heavy losses, Man Bing learned from the pain and was determined to learn his lesson and use the qiang cavalry to build a solid defense line to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past again.
This time, the direction of the ambush of the Bingzhou army was actually the right-wing battalion under the command of Man Bing, could it be that the Bingzhou army regarded him as a soft persimmon kneaded at will?
Although Man Bing was annoyed, he was well prepared this time, if the Bingzhou army really chose to break through from his side, it would definitely not be able to eat any good fruit.
Man Bing seemed to be full of confidence in this, and he still had this idea until he rushed to the land of a stone's throw from Bingzhou.
But when the Yue cavalry shot arrows in the sky, Man Bing realized that this time he planted it again, the qiang cavalry has a very strong defensive ability in resisting the impact of the opponent's cavalry, but for the archers, they have no resistance ability, no protection ability, on the battlefield, they are standing there one by one live targets, can only let others strike, and have no power to fight back.
Man Bing wanted to fight back, but there were not many good cavalry archers under him, and the vast majority of the cavalry were not equipped with bows and arrows, and they couldn't use them anyway, and if they wanted to use bows and arrows to counterattack, they didn't have that ability at all.
What's more, now the archers of the Bingzhou Army are completely aimed at the cavalry archers of the Sima Army to attack, and whoever dares to come out to counterattack at this time will definitely be blown up by the Bingzhou Army at the first time.
Whoever dares to shoot an arrow will immediately be retaliated by ten times the arrows of the Bingzhou army in that direction, qiang will shoot the first bird, and whoever dares to come out will die the fastest at this time.
Man Bing's heart is bitter, last time he was beaten by the Xiaoqi battalion, and this time he was beaten by the Yue cavalry camp with a blue nose and swollen face, why is it always him who falls every time?
Of course, Man Bing is also very unwilling, but his father is also a famous general in the Wei State, and their family is also a pillar of the imperial court, when has he ever fought such a battle and suffered such a humiliating loss.
Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, Man Bing decided to send troops to counterattack, and now the state army is not deliberately keeping a distance and only conducting long-range attacks? Then Sima Jun only needs to send troops and horses, go up against the wind, and drag the Bingzhou army into close combat, perhaps it can reverse the current unfavorable situation.
After all, any army is not omnipotent, and the state army sends troops that are good at long-range attacks, which means that such an army is not good at close combat.
This is probably the last chance for the right-wing battalion, and as long as they can seize the opportunity and attack decisively, they may be able to receive unexpected results. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "The Last Three Kingdoms 2 Xingwei Jiezhong Literature" for free for the first time.