Chapter 247: The Merits of the First World War (Part II)
They didn't need the general's orders at all, they turned their horses' heads and ran behind them, even if they had the walls of the port city behind them, they couldn't care about it.
They would rather run into the enemy's lair than face these god-like brocade riders.
Seeing the knights running towards the city wall, Bao Ji smiled and shouted:
"I've seen it all! If you dare to shoot out without looking, don't blame my knife for not recognizing people! ”
When Yuwen Tieqi had just run to a distance of 100 steps from the city wall, he saw that the cavalry behind him was no longer chasing.
The people did not dare to rest, and were about to bypass the city wall and flee back to the army behind them from the other side, when anyone thought that suddenly arrows rained down on the city wall.
In the fish scale array over there, I saw that Gongzi was shot into fifty hedgehogs under the city wall with fifty horsemen.
Yang San swallowed his saliva, turned his head and said to Da Zhuang beside him:
"Da Zhuang, or let's ...... Hurry up and run, shall we? ”
Da Zhuang turned his head and glared at him:
"Run? Where to escape? Can you run away on four legs?
Have you forgotten what the instructors used to call us? In this case, we can only have a chance to turn defeat into victory if we stay together and stay in danger! ”
At the same time, the young general of the Yuwen family, who was in charge of commanding the footsteps, also opened his mouth and shouted:
"Don't panic! We're a hedgehog covered in thorns! As long as we keep the fish scale formation and slowly retreat step by step, those cavalry can't do anything about us!
Listen to my orders, take a step back, retreat! ”
I have to say that the Yuwen family has taken great pains to train these thousands of private soldiers.
In this case, these thousand people can still maintain the same formation as the regular army, and calmly retreat under the orders of the young general.
If this private army is placed in the army, it can definitely be called elite.
After Lu Xing'an took one hundred and fifty horsemen to join the other knights, he ran towards these steps non-stop.
Seeing them put on a fish-scale formation, Lu Xing'an almost didn't laugh.
In the Central Plains, the best way to deal with cavalry is the same fish scale formation as the hedgehog or footfoot.
After all, there are huge shields on the periphery, and there are many spears, and the cavalry can only look for death when they rush up.
But I'm from Xiling!
Those Hu Er didn't know how long it took to develop a way to deal with the hedgehog array, but pity these Central Plains soldiers, and thought that this would be able to stop my brocade clothes?
The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, and Lu Xingan shouted:
"Take the crossbow!! Stop at 50 paces from the enemy! ”
So when the three hundred horses galloped to a distance of fifty paces from the fish scale array, they all stopped and began to load their crossbows.
The Fish Scale Array naturally saw what these horsemen wanted to do, and the young general immediately shouted:
"Archers!! Raise your bow! ”
With a shout from the young general, the archers who were firmly protected in the center of the fish scale array drew their bows and arrows in the direction where Ti Cai was.
It's just that because there is a heavy wall in front of them, they can only aim in mid-air and throw them.
"Put!"
At the sound of an order, more than 300 feather arrows were shot in the air.
For these feathered arrows thrown at themselves, it is difficult for the horses to dodge.
These cavalry are the elite of the elite, and they are all veterans drawn from the border army.
When they were in the border army, there was a saying that they shot directly at the head and threw at the destiny of heaven.
This means that if it is a direct shot, whether it can be hit depends on the experience of the shooter.
If you can shoot, even if you are an experienced marksman, whether you can shoot the target or not, you can only ask God for favor and depend on luck.
Even the most powerful marksman in the Praetorian Army, the same is true for the projectile, not to mention the rest of the people.
And at a distance of fifty paces, if you want to shoot, you can only raise the feather arrow high, and as for where it will eventually fall, it is only determined by heaven.
Hundreds of feathered arrows landed, and only two people on the side of the brocade rider were shot and fell to the ground.
One of them was only looking up at the sky when he was cut on the cheek by a feathered arrow that happened to fall right next to his head.
Subsequently, seeing that there were casualties here, Lu Xingan also knew that he couldn't just stand and let those feet shoot.
It can be loaded with crossbow arrows on horseback, but it cannot be moved, and can only be loaded when it is stopped.
So after the Jinyi Tiqi finished loading the crossbow bolt and shot towards the fish scale array, Lu Xingan didn't look at the results, and took the tiqi back a hundred steps.
Then another rain of arrows fell.
However, at this time, the cavalry had already galloped on the warhorse, and this round of arrow rain was not injured by a cavalry.
When he retreated to a distance of 100 paces, Lu Xingan asked Tiqi to stop and reload again.
He also took advantage of this gap to check the results of the round of crossbow bolts just now.
I saw that a group of people had fallen in the fish scale array, and many people were lying in a pool of blood crying for their fathers and mothers, begging bitterly.
But the soldiers around them seemed to have never heard them, and only slowly retreated at the sound of the commander's orders.
Want to run? Leave me a piece of meat!
After the cavalry finished loading the crossbow arrows, Lu Xing'an gave an order, and led the cavalry to rush towards the fish scale array.
Seeing the cavalry rushing towards him, the young general didn't dare to let the fish scale formation move, for fear that the chaotic formation would be taken advantage of by these heavy cavalry:
"Steady!! Hold it all for me!! Shieldman, raise your shield above your head! ”
I thought that those brocade-clothed riders would rush to a distance of fifty paces from their own and release their arrows as before.
Who knew that this time when they reached the distance of fifty paces, they did not stop and continued to move forward.
Shocked, this young general hurriedly raised his head:
"Tight!! Raise your spear!! ”
He thought the horsemen were ready to charge.
Unexpectedly, Ti rode ten paces away from the Fish Scale Formation, and even the spear couldn't reach them.
The dozens of horsemen at the front suddenly galloped to the left, holding the bow and crossbow in their right hand against the fish scale array, and pulled the trigger without aiming.
Since the young general thought that the cavalry was about to charge into battle, he asked the soldiers to be close together to prevent the cavalry from passing through the formation.
But in this way, against these soldiers, who are almost shoulder to shoulder, the cavalry does not need to aim at all.
As long as you aim the crossbow in the general direction, you will always be able to shoot people.
Lu Xing'an took Tiqi like a long old snake, and he was about to rush into the fish scale array, but he suddenly turned a sharp turn and moved forward sharply to the left.
And each rider who changed direction shot the crossbow bolt in his hand into the scale array.
For a moment, a thick blood mist rose from the fish scale array.
The wails of the soldiers who were shot by the crossbow arrows were even more resounding.
Seeing that these Ti Cavalry shot a round and ran back to a hundred paces away to continue loading, and the projectile of the archers on his own side was as painless as if they were giving them an itch for the heavy armored Ti Cavalry a hundred paces away.
"If this continues, we'll all die!"
"His grandma, let's just stand like this and let them?!"
The soldier no longer paid attention to the young general's shouting orders, and began to complain.
The young general was even more helpless, he thought that these brocade clothes were the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, who would have thought that he would use such a helpless method?
When you finish shooting, you run, and when you reload, you run back and continue shooting.
Since their own archers were protected in the innermost corner, their projectiles did no harm to these heavily armored knights.