Chapter 206: The Nemesis of the Cavalry
Now the soldiers of the Goguryeo tribe have penetrated into Zhuo County for more than 50 miles, walked for nearly two hours, and passed through many villages, there are 178 villages, but there are no people living in the villages.
Instead of possessions and grain, there was left behind the endless yellow, orange and orange wheat fields, which the general took a fancy to, they were lightly armed cavalry, and the war situation was tense, and they could not do the work of these peasants. So the general could only look at the heat in his eyes, but did not make the slightest movement.
"General, will our troops continue to travel south?" The adjutant general next to him asked the general.
The general groaned for a while, if he walked further, he might have gains, but there was also great danger, now he was far enough away from the coalition camp, and it was good to say if he could get benefits if he went forward, but if he encountered danger, he couldn't rescue him at all.
Qiu Liju's warning to the general is now echoing in the general's ears. Looking at the boundless land of Youzhou, their 30,000 soldiers really seem too small, so let's return to the tribe first, and then make plans.
It seems that within a radius of fifty miles, there is no oil and water to fish, and it seems that we have to go back to Qiu Liju to discuss and continue to do this kind of thing in a different place.
The Goguryeo tribes used to plunder from the Han Dynasty and always lost some of their soldiers, but since the change of strategy according to Qiu Liju's suggestion, their casualties among the soldiers have been greatly reduced. The Goguryeo tribe, which has already tasted the sweetness, will naturally not do the same stupid thing as they used to fight to the death with the officials and soldiers.
"Walking further south, I don't know what will happen, let's withdraw first, and then act after discussing it with Qiu Liju." The general said a word, turned his horse's head and led the army back to retreat.
They turned their horses around and walked back less than three miles, when the horses in charge of the way ahead came with a message: "General, there are a thousand cavalry of the official army, and they are hurrying towards us!" ”
"Oh?" The general frowned, glanced ahead, and sure enough, he saw a burst of dust in the northeast, but the range of the dust was not a little smaller than that of Goguryeo's army. "These officers and soldiers really don't know whether they live or die, and with more than a thousand soldiers, they want to stop our army, which is really beyond their means." The general, who had 30,000 male soldiers in hand, did not look at the more than 1,000 soldiers of the official army at all, since the other party sent them to the door, he naturally wanted to eat these 1,000 soldiers, so that Zhao Yi could see the strength of his army.
"General Cream, you lead three thousand cavalry to meet the enemy and behead the general of the unified army to meet me." He snorted, to deal with these small fish and shrimp, he didn't need to do anything at all, three thousand soldiers and horses wiped out the officers and soldiers and a thousand soldiers were simply captured.
Cream came out in response, drew his scimitar and led three thousand soldiers to rush towards the official camp.
Tai Shi Ci saw many cavalry rushing towards him, and immediately waved his hand to order the soldiers to stop their horses, and took out the bow and crossbow on his waist: "Our army and the Hun soldiers keep a distance of 200 paces, we can only increase the distance, remember not to approach!" "His purpose is to harass the soldiers of Goguryeo, if he uses these more than 1,000 crossbowmen to charge the enemy head-on, then Zhao Yi's efforts for so long will be in vain.
Cream was slightly stunned when he saw that the official army actually reined in his horse, and then rushed over regardless of it. The outcome can be imagined, when the soldiers led by Cream Lian marched to a distance of only three hundred steps from Tai Shi Ci and them, and when they saw that they could rush over, Tai Shi Ci ordered the soldiers to launch an offensive.
The rain of arrows rained down on the Cream camp one after another, and only the Cream camp was heard shaking greatly, and the screams of the soldiers and the fall of the horses could not be heard in the wilderness.
These five consecutive crossbow arrows were issued by a thousand soldiers, that is five thousand crossbow arrows, and the person who shot was still an archery master trained by Tai Shi Ci, and the three thousand soldiers led by Cream and Tai Shi Ci's department just met each other, and half of the cavalry fell under the crossbow arrows before a hundred paces.
Cream's arm was also shot by a crossbow arrow, and he secretly hated the vile behavior of the officers and soldiers, and rushed over again with a shout. Tai Shi Ci, who had succeeded in the first blow, hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran back, and put the crossbow arrow on the machine again on the way to run.
The two sides chased and fled, and after being entangled like this for about half an hour, the three thousand soldiers led by Cream Lian are now only a few hundred left.
The general who was fighting several miles away saw Tai Shi Ci shooting his own soldiers as rabbits, and glared angrily: "Kill them all for me!" Now he doesn't care what others say about him, because Tai Shici's actions have completely angered him.
Seeing more than 30,000 cavalry coming towards him like a black wave, Tai Shici's more than 1,000 soldiers were not afraid of it, and still responded calmly, and Tai Shici even shot an arrow into the center of the crisp eyebrows.
And the 3,000 soldiers led by Cream have now been killed and wounded, Tai Shici saw the lethality caused by his more than 1,000 soldiers, and his eyes showed a look of shock, his own zero casualties actually annihilated the enemy's 3,000 soldiers, if his elite cavalry team expanded to 10,000, then even in the face of 100,000 enemy troops, there was a certainty of victory.
Seeing Cream fall to the ground with an arrow, the general let out a cry of grief: "Second brother! "Cream is the brother of this general's mother. Jiwei drove the horse to Cream's body, and the Cream with the arrow in his eyebrows had already died, and Jiwei's eyes burst out with a strong hatred: "Kill me!" He personally led the soldiers and horses to rush towards Tai Shi Ci.
Tai Shi Ci deliberately slowed down, and when the Jiwei army was less than three hundred steps away from him, he glanced at Jiwei who was rushing to kill him, and the crossbow arrow in his hand was quickly activated.
The crossbow arrow turned into a black light and shot straight at Kiwei's chest, Kiwei didn't expect the crossbow arrow to be so far range, and so fast, by the time he observed the trajectory of the crossbow arrow, it was too late to dodge. The cold wind that the arrow carried made a shudder.
Ji Wei is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, at this critical moment gently pulled the rope, his body naturally lay on the back of the horse, but his speed was always a little slower than the crossbow arrow, and he felt a piercing pain in his shoulder, and the powerful arrow had drilled into his left shoulder, and the sharp arrow poked out of his back with a piece of hideous flesh.
The four guards who followed closely by Cream did not have the ability to react, and were hit in the chest by Tai Shi Ci's crossbow arrows, falling from their horses, and before they could utter the screams in their mouths, they were trampled into meat sauce by the soldiers who followed.
Ji Wei reluctantly pulled out the crossbow arrows and threw them on the ground with hatred, the four guards were Ji Wei's cronies, and they had rich combat experience, Ji Wei wanted to promote these people to small leaders after this trip to Youzhou, and let them become his backbone.
Frankly speaking, Cream and the death of these soldiers, Jiwei was not sad, since they chose to be soldiers, they already had the psychological preparation of the horse leather shroud. These people all have the potential to be generals, and they have all died on the battlefield where the two armies are fighting, and they should not die so badly. This is the angriest part of Jiwei's heart.
At the same time, Jiwei was very glad in his heart, fortunately he dodged it, otherwise the crossbow arrow just now would have hit his heart, and it was only now that Jiwei understood why Cream was so passive in the fight with the official army just now.
Because the officers and soldiers had no idea of fighting with them head-on from the beginning, they used war horses and strong bows against their soldiers.
The more they chased Tai Shici and the others, the more angry they became, because their war horses and the war horses of the official army were always kept at about three hundred paces, and they accelerated their speed, and the officials and soldiers also increased their speed. And the war horses ridden by these officers and soldiers are very different from the officers and soldiers of Liaodong County, and the Central Plains war horses are smaller and the stride is even smaller, but these war horses are extraordinary, compared to their own war horses, they are even more miraculous, and they are still more than the war horses of Qiu Li's residence that they valued before, if the official army has 30,000 such cavalry, the foreign Yi people are only afraid that no one will dare to invade Youzhou.
Ji Wei had the intention to kill people and take horses, but Tai Shi Ci and the others walked too fast, and the feather arrows fired by the archers in their own army flew in the air and fell to the ground after only two hundred paces, and they didn't even touch the buttocks of other people's horses.
Tai Shi Ci and the others attacked the soldiers of the Jiwei Department very effectively, and each round of attacks would cause the Jiwei Department to lose more than 100 soldiers.
Jiwei had been chasing Tai Shi Ci for almost an hour, and the soldiers who fell in Tai Shi Ci's hands had more than 2,000 horses. Ji Wei was so angry that this mere 1,000 soldiers had caused his army to lose nearly 6,000 people.
Although Tai Shi Ci did not have a look of fear on his face, he was also very nervous in his heart, he needed to control this distance, otherwise, he and these more than 1,000 soldiers might be swallowed up by the 30,000 army behind him.
"General, we're running out of arrows left!" One of the soldiers beside Tai Shici shouted.
Tai Shi Ci looked at the crossbow arrows that were originally full of two quivers, and now there was not much left, and ordered the soldiers to aim and shoot again. secretly said in his heart that if the crossbow arrows were enough, there was no need for the Youzhou cavalry to dispatch, and Tai Shici was also confident that he would kill 10,000 cavalry.
Bending the bow and shooting arrows to the fingers is very damaging, even if there is a wrench to prevent the fingers from being strangled, but the bow arm can not withstand the strong tension for a long time, and the crossbow arrow is a good way to fill this defect, after the filling you only need to snap on the machine bracket, and then start to excite it, there is no damage to the fingers at all.
Looking at the heavy bow and crossbow in his hand, Tai Shici's eyes flashed, this thing is the basis for the rise of Youzhou in the future, he immediately ordered these more than 1,000 soldiers to lose their lives, but this bow and crossbow must not fall into the hands of the enemy. As long as one falls into the hands of Ji Wei and the others, after dismantling and researching, they can make thousands of the same bow and crossbow in time, which is a great threat to Youzhou.
After a long time, Tai Shi Ci returned to the territory of Zhuo County with Ji Wei, and Tai Shi Ci led his troops to rush into the wheat field.
Ji Wei followed, and after walking three miles, Ji Wei pulled the war horse slightly, because he saw a strange thing.