Chapter 218: Returning to the Horse (Second Update)
"Whoosh-poof!"
The sharp arrow passed through the brain, bringing up a stream of blood.
The Hun centurion didn't even have time to react before he was killed by an arrow.
Li Mu was murderous, shot two more arrows, and shot down two Hun cavalrymen respectively.
However, the Hun cavalry was not to be outdone, shouting and shouting, while bending their bows and arrows to shoot at the Zhao cavalry.
As a people who were born to grow up on horseback, the Huns have always been very confident in their archery skills.
The two sides went back and forth, and two rounds of mutual shooting broke out in an instant.
Many Hun cavalry were shot and fell from their horses, and the Zhao cavalry also began to suffer casualties.
The movement here has begun to attract the main force of the Huns who are burning and looting in the village, and a cavalry of about 300 people rushed out of the village, and more Hun cavalry continued to gather from all over the village, and the scale expanded rapidly.
Li Mu pulled the reins of the horse, and the whole person did not rush directly into the village, but drew an arc obliquely, bypassing outside the village.
During this period, Li Mu was not idle at all, and kept shooting arrows with a bow and shooting towards the Hun cavalry that rushed out.
Under the leadership of Li Mu, five hundred Zhao cavalry roared through the village like a torrent, rolling up bursts of smoke and dust, and arrows kept shooting out of the Zhao cavalry's formation, knocking down one Hun cavalry after another.
When the main force of the Xiongnu cavalry finally completed the assembly, the cavalry of the Zhao army led by Li Mu had already passed by the village and headed to the east with billowing smoke and dust.
The Huns, who came to their senses, only found out at this time that at least nearly a hundred Hun cavalry had died in this raid by the Zhao army.
The Hun commander led by the Huns was furious, and pinched the horse's belly hard: "Chase me all down, catch up with these damn Zhao people, and kill them!" ”
The remaining hundreds of Hun cavalry shouted loudly, and they whipped their horses one after another, and followed the commander of the thousand commanders to closely pursue Li Mu's subordinates.
The commander was not at all worried that he would lose this battle.
As a nomadic people, the Xiongnu athletes have long practiced excellent riding and archery skills in the hard struggle with nature, not to mention that the number of people at this moment is comparable to the cavalry of Zhao State, even if there are more cavalry of Zhao State, the commander of the Xiongnu is confident that he will win in this cavalry and archery battle!
It seems that Li Mu didn't run too fast, and after less than half an hour, the Hun commander led the Hun cavalry under his command and gradually caught up with Li Mu's department.
The horse's hooves flew up, the dust and smoke were puffed, and the two troops, one in front of the other, looked like two long dragons chasing each other in the air.
The commander of the Huns stared at the cavalry of the Zhao State in front of him, his face full of murderous energy.
You must know that when the Huns fought wars, they all sent troops to the tribe, and this commander was the second son of a tribal patriarch, and these cavalry were all the children of his tribe.
Before they have made a contribution, the soldiers have already lost a lot here, how can they not make this commander feel heartache?
Between chasing and fleeing, the distance between the two sides of the rapid gallop began to gradually close.
Five hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps...
The commander began to take the longbow in his hand, ready to shoot arrows.
As a prairie athlete, the commander has a very clear grasp of the distance he shoots.
At the moment, he is headwind, but he only needs to get a little closer before he can start hunting the cavalry of the Zhao State in front of him.
The commander's eyes were fixed on Li Mu, and with his outstanding eyesight and Li Mu's leather armor that was different from other officers of the Zhao army, the commander of the thousand could easily judge that Li Mu was the commander of the Zhao army.
The principle of beating the wolf and shooting the head of the wolf, the commander of the Huns still understands.
But as soon as the commander's hand touched the arrow on the quiver, his body suddenly tightened.
At this time, Li Mu suddenly turned around and shouted: "Go back to the horse!"
As soon as the words fell, all the cavalry of the Zhao State turned around at the same time, bent their bows and arrows, and their movements were neat and skillful, as if they had practiced countless times.
The commander's eyes widened suddenly, and his face was full of hell.
Suddenly turning around to shoot an arrow on a high-speed horse is a skill that requires great riding skills.
As long as the balance is not well controlled a little, then it will be an end of falling off the horse and falling over.
In terms of the knowledge of the commander, the people in the Xiongnu tribe who can make such actions are also one in a hundred.
But at this moment, there were nearly five hundred cavalry of the Zhao State in unison in front of this commander!
What's going on? The commander could barely believe his eyes.
But there was no time left to give him doubts.
"Shoot!" A roar came from Li Mu's mouth, and then Li Mu let go of his fingers, and the bowstring that had already been drawn made a crisp sound, and the arrow shot out vigorously.
"Whoosh!" Dense arrows were thrown into the sky and then fell on the Hun cavalry.
"Damn it!" The commander of the Huns didn't have time to think, seeing the countless arrows in his sight getting closer and closer, his body subconsciously moved, and instantly hid under the belly of the war horse like an agile ape.
As soon as he finished this action, the arrows of the Zhao army's cavalry landed.
"Puff puff!"
The sound of arrows entering the flesh was accompanied by the screams of the Hun cavalry, and many Hun cavalry who were holding bows and arrows like the commander and preparing to aim were caught off guard and fell off their horses one after another.
The Hun commander, who was lucky enough to escape, came out of the horse's belly with a look of surprise on his face.
Of course, the commander of the Huns did not know that this was the tactic of returning horses and arrows that the Mongol cavalry that was born on the same steppe thousands of years later relied on to sweep the world, but he was still shocked in his heart.
It stands to reason that even the cavalry of Lin Hu and Lou Fu is slightly inferior to the Hun cavalry, which is common sense on the prairie.
But right now, this cavalry of the Zhao State, which is dominated by Lin Hu and Lou Furen, actually shows super riding skills and archery skills that make the elite of the Huns stunned!
There must be something wrong with this!
The commander's gaze swept back and forth among the Zhao cavalry, and finally firmly locked on the saddle under the crotch and the stirrup under the feet of the Zhao cavalry.
At this moment, the commander of the Huns finally came to his senses.
It turns out that the problem is here!
The commander took a deep breath and ordered in a loud voice: "Don't chase, stop, stop!" ”
The Hun cavalry slowed down instantly, the distance between the two sides quickly widened, and the cavalry of Zhao State left with dust and smoke.
Someone asked, "Commander, don't chase it?" ”
The commander snorted heavily, and said with palpitations: "Still chasing a fart!" The horses of the Zhao people are strange, and go back with me to see if you can find those strange things of the Zhao people! ”
The Hun cavalry was silent, ready to turn their horses back.
To be honest, this battle was a bit demoralizing, not to mention many results, and a lot of people died.
But before the Huns could begin to turn around, suddenly someone screamed again.
"Zhao Guoren, Zhao Guoren is back!"
"What?" The commander was startled and looked up to the east.
The sound of rolling horses' hooves came from far and near, and the figures of Li Mu and the cavalry of Zhao State appeared in the sight of the Huns again!