Chapter 36 Qiu Liyan who wants to cry without tears

"Woo ......" Wuhuan cavalry shouted a slogan that the Han army did not understand, and quickly rode their horses close to the city wall, at the same time, all the cavalry pulled their bows and arrows, and the horse speed gradually declined, in the era of no stirrups and saddles, riding archery was more about stopping and shooting, but this team of Wuhuan cavalry was obviously the elite of Wuhuan, with the help of unilateral stirrups, they quickly turned a big bend about fifty steps in front of the city wall of Junmi County, and shot out the bow and arrow in their hands at the same time.

"Go." Yao Jie naturally would not be unprepared, the shield hand immediately stepped forward and raised a large shield one person high, these shields were wrapped in a layer of iron sheet, coupled with good training, the entire city wall looked like a tight steel fortress, the bows and arrows of the Wuhuan cavalry were blocked by the shields, and only some arrows flying over the city wall injured a few careless soldiers.

"Shoot." The shield was removed, and Chen Chen quickly ordered.

The longbowmen have pulled up their longbows and shot arrows at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and a rain of arrows quickly enveloped the Wuhuan cavalry outside the city, which suddenly caused a burst of screams, most of the Wuhuan cavalry were dressed in leather armor, but when they encountered the longbow, it was obviously similar to the paper paste, and the longbow with the right arrow could shoot through the early chain mail and plate armor, and it would be more difficult to penetrate the Milan armor made of carbon steel in the later period, but it was still possible, and secondly, there were many Wuhuan cavalry who were shot at the horses were even more miserable, with the power of the longbow, In reality, the last arrow of the war horse will become a rolling gourd, and the Wuhuan people who fell off the horse were directly trampled into meat by the comrades who galloped quickly, and the war horses that arrived on the ground also tripped over many other war horses that did not react, resulting in more serious casualties among the Wuhuan people.

Not only the longbowmen on the city wall, but even the longbowmen under the city wall also played with projectiles, causing a lot of casualties to the Wuhuan cavalry, although the Junmi city wall was heightened and widened, but it was still not as good as the big city in the Central Plains, plus Junmi County was small, and the city wall was also short, so there were only two thousand longbowmen and a thousand shield bearers standing on the city wall, of course, it was not that the station was full, but that this section of the Wuhuan people on the other side could only stand so many people.

Qiu Liyan saw that the situation was not good, and the Wuhuan cavalry was not an opponent at all, what he didn't know was that Yao Jie's longbowmen were all iron armor, after all, it was a defensive operation, and the Wuhuan people were not good at attacking the city, but their cavalry was not weak, to shoot with them, of course, the protection of the iron armor was better, and the more important thing was that most of the longbowmen had high physical requirements, if the casualties were too large, they could not be replenished in a short time.

Qiu Liyan originally thought that Yao Jie's recruits had never been on the battlefield, and wanted to use this method to hit the opponent's morale, but he found that Yao Jie had already prepared, and the shield hand was matched with a longbowman, and he directly shot the Wuhuan cavalry crookedly.

Yao Jie deliberately put the Wuhuan people closer to fifty steps, the ordinary bow and arrow of the Han Dynasty can shoot about 100 to 150 meters away, the range of the Wuhuan people's riding bow is definitely not as good as the foot bow, fifty steps is already about the same, on the other hand, the longbow has a maximum range of 500 meters, an effective range of 300 meters, and can cause effective damage to armored targets within 200 meters, plus the rate of fire of the longbow is very fast, a qualified archer can accurately shoot 12 arrows in a minute, if it is a random arrow salvo, the rate of fire can be increased to 15, and individual perverts can even shoot 20 arrows. Such an average rate of fire.

When the Wuhuan cavalry retreated, the longbowmen naturally did not give up archery, these are excellent moving targets, especially after the Wuhuan people turned the corner, it took longer to lift the horse speed, until the Wuhuan people left the range of the longbowmen, Yao Jie's longbowmen each shot nearly twenty arrows, and many of them had soreness in their arms and fell down tired.

On the other side, Qiu Liyan was already crying, more than 4,000 Wuhuan cavalry fell on the battlefield, you must know that the Wuhuan cavalry he led was the elite of Qiu Liju, although Qiu Liju did not come to Youbeiping in person, but for Yao Jie, the guy who killed thousands of Wuhuan warriors, he has a long-term grudge, otherwise a poor place like Youbeiping would not let him send 40,000 cavalry to attack, in order to ensure revenge, he let his nephew Qiu Liyan lead his headquarters of 10,000 elite cavalry as the vanguard.

If he knew that Yao Jie's casualties were less than three digits, would he faint, of course, Yao Jie's battle report said that he had annihilated five thousand Wuhuan cavalry and lost three thousand himself. It's just that there are fewer deaths, but who cares about this detail, the infantry is already a famous general if the infantry fights the cavalry to two? And if he didn't report the casualties a little higher, how could Yao Jie be embarrassed to ask Emperor Han Ling and Zhang Rang for troops and supplies?

Qiu Liyan glanced hatefully in the direction of Junmi County, and then camped on a flat land twenty miles away from Junmi.

At dusk, the Wuhuan army finally arrived.

Wuhuan Big Tent, "Qiu Liyan, it's only been a long time, and half of your army has been lost, that is, 10,000 pigs, and the Han army is not so easy to kill half of it." Coach Wuhuan scolded angrily.

Qiu Liyan on the side lowered his head and didn't talk back, after all, he was the one who was at fault, that's right, this Badun is the last Shan Yu of Wuhuan in history, Badun is Qiu Liju's son, that is, his nephew, Qiu Liju thought that his son Louban was young when he died, so he asked Congzi Badun to take charge of the Three Kings.

Badun is the Wuhuan commander of the attack on the right Beiping, although Qiu Liyan is also Qiu Liju's nephew, but in terms of intimacy is not as good as Badun, and in terms of ability, it is far inferior, and it is not as important as Qiu Liju, although he commanded 10,000 elites This matter is named by Qiu Liju, but it does not mean that Badun will not be able to cure him, and he will not be subject to the life of the monarch outside, if he dares to fight back, Badun may not kill him directly, but it is still okay to dismiss his military power under the pretext that he does not respect the commander, and even Qiu Liju can't say anything about this.

He scolded for a while, and saw that Qiu Liyan looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and he was also very helpless, so he could only send a message: "This matter is reported to Shan Yu when I go back, and I ask him to send it." ”

The Wuhuan generals in the tent heard what Badun said, and they couldn't help but feel down, they were really afraid that Badun would make a mistake and directly take Qiu Liyan to cut it, and when the time came, they would be reprimanded by Qiu Liju at most and demoted to a few points as Badun, but they were afraid that they would be put in small shoes.

"Qiu Liyan, you have fought with the Han army, tell me about the situation." He said by name.

Qiu Liyan saw that he was called by name, and he had to bite the bullet and say: "The Han army has a new kind of bow and arrow, the maximum range can reach more than 300 steps, and the archery speed is faster than that of ordinary bows and arrows. Speaking of this, all the Wuhuan generals looked at him with the expression of a fool.

Hmph, if you don't believe it, why don't you follow me to take a look, the farthest arrow in my Wuhuan warrior is more than 300 steps away from the Junmi city wall, you must know that the Han army is all on the city wall, and they don't go out of the city at all. Seeing that the generals didn't believe it, Qiu Liyan was also annoyed, he had just been defeated, and he didn't know how to explain to Qiu Liju when he went back, and everyone here still didn't believe the painful lesson that his thousands of elite cavalry had returned.