As soon as Gong Zhang's words fell, he heard a cannon shot in the north of the city, and five hundred thieves immediately appeared seven or eight miles away from the north city, and then there were four thousand elite thieves with armor and armor, which were constantly surging from the dense forest and beside the river. Gong Zhang, the www.biquge.info of the Pen, Fun, Pavilion, couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly crouched in front of the window of the city tower and tried his best to look, and exclaimed: "This is the ambush of the Yellow Turban Thieves of Gepi, it is so majestic?" ”

Qiu Yi turned his head to look, abandoned the hammer and said: "The Gepi Yellow Turban Thief He Yi and He Man brothers have captured several county towns in a row, and they are not incompetent. He also took the weapons and equipment of several counties and fought several battles with Zhao Junshoulian, and even mediocre people knew some ways of conquest and training. Ge Pi Yellow Turban has won many battles, and as soon as his morale is high, even the rabble has become an elite. ”

When General Qiu Rui saw that there were thieves ambushing in front of him, he was in a hurry, and immediately waved his flag and beat drums to order all the teams to return to the formation and assemble, wanting to form a formation and slowly retreat. It's just that the armies have separated and scattered in pursuit of the thieves, and the farthest has reached hundreds of paces, and how can they be gathered in a hurry.

Although the ambush of the thieves was broken, it was impossible for the Zhaoling army to retreat safely, and the five hundred thieves galloped forward without hesitation, wanting to surprise the Zhaoling official army that was three miles away and was gathering in a panic. Three miles away, a hundred breaths away, Qiu Rui's three generals hated that he did not have the opportunity to be in Qiu Yimingjin, and immediately gathered the army and immediately retreated. Instead, they hesitate and miss the opportunity.

And Qiu Yi, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, also felt more and more deeply how important it was for an army to be able to quickly gather and disperse on the battlefield.

But when the Zhaoling army was approaching, the Yellow Turban cavalry saw Su Heng's 300 cavalry, which had just been assembled on one side. In order not to let Su Heng see the opportunity, the cavalry department swept and assaulted from the flank of the thief cavalry brigade. The Yellow Turban cavalry general had no choice but to temporarily turn around, abandon the infantry of the Zhaoling Army, and rush towards Su Heng's 300 cavalry.

Su Heng was not to be outdone, in order to ensure that nearly 2,000 Zhaoling infantry soldiers could return safely, he also commanded the cavalry to rush towards the thief cavalry brigade. The two cavalry teams slammed into each other, and suddenly the spears and knives were broken, the blood spilled and the arms flew, the horses neighed, and the intersecting scuffle. The cavalry each flashed by two by two, and in just a few dozen breaths, there were many horsemen in the two teams who fell off their horses, and the scene was very tragic.

The swiftness of the battle between the cavalry and the tragic results made Qiu Yi, who had seen the cavalry battle for the first time, stunned. According to a rough calculation, there were more than 100 horsemen and fallen horses of the Zhaoling Army, and more than 200 people were overwhelmed by the Gepi Yellow Turban Thieves. The Yellow Turban thieves were horrified, and the thieves fled first, and the rest of the cavalry also turned around and fled. Su Hengwang saw that the cavalry was seriously damaged, and his heart was furious, and he shouted loudly and led the soldiers to chase after him.

In a short distance of three miles, the thieves rode like falling flowers and flowing water, and the people who fell off the horse continued. The thief rode in a panic and fled straight towards the Yellow Turban Thief formation. Seeing this, Su Heng turned his anger into joy, danced his spear and reined in the horse to command left and right, and ordered his cavalry to drive the thief cavalry to rush back towards the infantry array that the Yellow Turban Thief had not yet lined up, wanting to use the defeated cavalry as the vanguard and completely scratch the thief's infantry array.

Even when Qiu Yi saw this scene, he couldn't help but admire Su Heng's decision. I saw a long stride general flash out of the thief army, inlaid with a golden scarf to wipe his forehead, wearing a green brocade jacket, holding an iron rod more than two feet long, striding out of the array, facing the oncoming thief rider, it was a blow to the head and face, and suddenly the rider and horse were both beaten into meat sauce.

The general turned around and swept again, and a war horse on the side suddenly folded on all fours, and the thief's cavalry flew and fell, falling into the thief's footmen, and several spears immediately stabbed him to death in mid-air, and then shook it to the ground. The general turned his head and shouted loudly, and the thieves all reined in their horses, turned down, and knelt in front of the general and trembled.

The Zhaoling army saw it from afar, although it was shocked by the bravery of the man who would ride on foot, but he was also puzzled, who would the thief be? There is such a great power that all the thieves who fled in a frenzy kneel in front of them, and dare not flee again.

Su Heng felt a pity when he saw it, but the thief's infantry formation was far more chaotic than the Zhaoling army's infantry formation, and there were a large number of defeated soldiers around him who had not yet been collected, but he was unwilling to let it go, so he led the cavalry tentatively and attacked towards the thief's Chinese army. I didn't want the thief to wave his hand, and the thieves all got on their horses and ran to the sides, leaving the thief alone to stand in front of the Chinese army with a stick. Su Heng didn't know why, but he also knew that there must be a reason, and the horse's speed couldn't help but drop a little, just in case.

The cavalry of the Zhaoling Army saw that there were still fifty steps closer to the thief army's infantry formation, and the thieves were still forming a formation in a chaotic manner, and their speed couldn't help but speed up a few points. The mounted shield was raised slightly, ready to be shot at scattered arrows, while the spear in his hand was clutched in his right hand and tucked under his armpit, ready to charge. Seeing that they had run to thirty paces and were only twenty paces away from the thief, the horsemen looked at each other, and the two horsemen in the middle pointed their spears at the thief general, ready to use the momentum of the horse's speed to kill the thief general in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, the iron rod was slammed, and a row of shield-wielding thieves behind him immediately squatted, revealing a hundred crossbowmen behind him. Hundreds of crossbow arrows shone with terrifying light, and without waiting for the cavalry to take precautions, hundreds of crossbows were fired together, and the crossbow arrows were as fast as lightning, and all the more than 20 horsemen in the front were killed. Another hundred crossbowmen appeared, and another hundred crossbows were fired, and more than ten horsemen were hit by arrows again.

At the same time, Su Heng was also shot by a strong crossbow, screamed miserably, and turned his horse around at high speed, making a superb skill in turning the horse's head, and turned the horse away. As soon as the Zhaoling cavalry fell into hell in heaven, they couldn't help but feel like they were dead, and they all fled from the crossbows on both sides and fled towards the city of Breamyang.

The thief waved the iron rod, and nearly 300 thieves rode away in pursuit again. It's just that in the end, because the Zhaoling infantry gathered quickly, it was so big that they formed a formation, and the thief cavalry lost their sharpness first and had no heart to rush into battle. Before chasing to the Zhaoling infantry formation for a hundred steps, he finally stopped, and only slowly advanced with the retreat of the infantry formation.

The thieves' infantry formation was too slow, and in the face of the large formation of the infantry of the Zhaoling army, which had already formed a formation, they did not dare to disperse their formations to attack the infantry formation, but also to maintain the integrity of their own military formation, and also gathered countless routs around them, thinking that the front was consumed, and the speed could not help but be slower, and they could not arrive in time to trap the Zhaoling army.

The three hundred thieves also feared that the Ling army also had bows and crossbow archers in ambush, and they only rode back and forth sixty paces away to roar and threaten, but they did not dare to rush into the strongest range of bows and crossbows. It's just that the Zhaoling army is not a new pawn, and it has always been unmoved in the face of intimidation, so it can only watch the Zhaoling army continue to retreat, and finally retreat into the city of Kuiyang.

Qiu Yili breathed a sigh of relief at the head of the city, from the time when the gold had been called, to the lightning cavalry battle between the two cavalrymen, to the defeat of the thief cavalry, and then to the defeat of the Zhaoling cavalry, the time was only a few hundred breaths. Between these hundreds of breaths, the rapid transformation of the winning and losing hands is dizzying and unguardable. Even Qiu Yi and Gong Zhang, who stood in the city tower and did not fight, were worried about the Zhaoling army outside the city. In the end, because the thieves' foot soldiers formed a formation and marched too slowly, the Zhaoling army retreated into the city safely.

Gong Zhang patted the window and scolded: "Zhao Qian should be damned." ”

Qiu Yi asked, "Lord General, why is this?" ”

Gong Zhang scolded angrily: "The crossbow is a heavy weapon of the military state, even if it is an ordinary one-armed crossbow, it is only available in the arsenal at the county level. Where do thieves' crossbows come from? It was not taken from Zhao Qian's Pingyu Army. If the thieves hadn't had the 200 crossbow archers, they would have been broken through the thieves by the cavalry of the Soviet army, and Qiu Jiyu would have led the infantry to attack, and the Gepi Yellow Turban thieves would have been destroyed in a war. ”

Qiu Yi remembered that Gao Qu first told himself that the Han army commonly used weapons, and the crossbow was one of them. The crossbow is different from the longbow, the crossbow is mainly based on flat shooting, the accuracy is longer and the bow is higher, and the training is very fast, it can become an army in a few days, and it will become an elite in a few months, but it is not as fast as the longbow fire.

The crossbowman had only fired one arrow, while the longbowman had already fired five or six arrows, which was inferior to the longbowman in terms of striking surface, firing density and speed. However, the crossbow is strong in shooting, high accuracy, less effort, can shoot continuously, and has a miraculous effect against the cavalry without heavy armor and heavy shield protection, and is a sharp weapon for the Han army to resist the northern Dijon cavalry, which is indispensable.

However, although the crossbow archers are strong, they also have their hard wounds, but they are not a difficult army, and this defeat is only a defeat on the unknown situation of the enemy, which is not a big deal.

The tens of thousands of Gepi Yellow Turban thieves finally marched to the foot of the city of Liyang, and stopped three hundred steps away from the city. With a large army on the side, the thieves on the opposite bank crossed the river again, and hundreds of small boats were rowed upstream to meet the thieves on the west bank to cross the river. The generals stood at the head of the city and watched the thief army, the 50,000 thieves were still in chaos, but with the 4,000 yellow turban spirits there, the Gepi yellow turban thieves were finally difficult to break.

The generals gathered at the head of the city to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy, and suddenly saw the previous Yellow Turban thief striding out, standing in the middle of the formation and pointing at the city with a stick and scolding: "A certain is a Yaksha He Man, a rat official thief, actually took advantage of the absence of a certain family, seized a certain city, and took my food, this is not the work of a hero." Today, when a certain family returns, you and other rats, can you dare to have a battle with a certain sword and gun? ”

Only then did the generals at the head of the city know that this thief general was He Man, one of the leaders of the Yellow Turban thieves in Gepi. Qiu Yi also found that He Man was nine feet five inches long, much taller than ordinary people, standing on the ground, no shorter than ordinary people riding war horses. Coupled with its strong body, it's no wonder that it can beat people and horses into meat sauce at the same time with a single stick. It is precisely because of his length that there is no good horse suitable for him to ride, so he has to fight on foot.

A member of the city, Tun General, said happily: "He Man, who is actually one of the leaders of the Yellow Turban thieves in Gepi, if he is killed, won't the thieves be defeated?" Wait for me to behead him. Then he hurried down to the city.

Ye Cun smiled at Gong Zhang: "This is Qin Song and Qin Tun under my command, he is quite brave in the army, although he may be able to kill He Man, he can also explore some of his high and low levels if he wants to." ”

Gong Zhang nodded noncommittally and looked directly at He Man who was scolding in front of the formation. The north gate opened wide again, and before the rope of the drawbridge was completely lowered, a swift fish jumped out. I saw Qin Tun running with a gun and riding a horse and shouting: "The thief will leave He Manxiu, and Nanyang Qin Songte will come to take your head." ”