Chapter 236: The Battle of Martial Arts 20
Li Le stubbornly led five thousand horsemen to rush towards Huaxiong, and the two cavalry rushed towards each other with a formation of arrows, and the cavalry on horseback screamed strangely, just because the horse's hooves were rumbling, which made it impossible to distinguish clearly.
Hua Xiong looked at the Xiliang cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and his mood suddenly changed complicated, if it wasn't for Liu Zhang's kind words and persuasion, maybe now he is commanding a team of men and horses to charge the Yizhou army on the opposite side! Back then, if it weren't for Liu Zhang's protection, maybe he would have been beheaded a long time ago, where would he still have the opportunity to unify the elite soldiers of the division and make contributions...... Hua Xiong shook his head violently, shook off the messy thoughts in his heart one by one, and shouted: "Brothers, it used to be a small fight, but now it is the real battle between the two heroes, whether it is a hero or a bear, it depends on this battle, it is won, this general invited everyone to drink, defeated, sorry, we don't even have a chance to walk off the battlefield alive, we can only accompany the belly of the beast, do you drink wine or enter the kiss of the beast?" ”
"Of course it's fine wine...... Hu Che'er has long heard that Yizhou wine is fragrant and mellow, last time he followed Zhang Xiu to vote, Liu Zhang once feasted Zhang Xiu, he was fortunate to be at the table to pay for Yizhou wine, since then, he has been thinking about the mellow taste, but unfortunately in wartime if there is no major event, all alcohol is prohibited, he can only reminisce from the dream that makes him worry about the taste...... At this moment, after listening to Hua Xiong's words, he was the first to shout.
Where are there few soldiers who are not good at drinking, why? Alcohol can often paralyze the nerves, make people forget their fears, forget their worries, forget their comrades who died, and forget their thoughts about their families...... One by one, Hu Che'er shouted loudly: "I want good wine...... I want good wine......"
"Okay, all of you, follow me...... Kill—" Hua Xiong shouted, smashing his horse and rushing.
The 1st Cavalry Division followed with strange screams.
The distance between the two sides is rapidly approaching, two hundred zhang, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang......
For the cavalry, fifty zhang was just the blink of an eye, and both sides grabbed their bows and crossbows almost at the same time......
Thirty zhang, no need to command, the soldiers of the two armies raised the crossbow in their hands at the same time, and pulled the trigger while galloping, and the continuous bowstring vibrated "whoosh, whoosh" followed by the sound of "whoosh, whoosh" of arrows flying, and the two sides suddenly splattered with bursts of blood rain, and one soldier after another let out a painful howl and fell off the horse!
After the rain of arrows, the knights of the two armies turned their horses almost simultaneously and ran towards their left rear.
However, a scene that made Li Le desperate appeared, there were about hundreds of people in the Yizhou army who did not dodge or dodge, sat firmly on the horse, and took a closer look, it turned out that these people were holding the terrifying and strange repeater crossbow in their hands!
"Flash out of the ......," Li Le, who was leading his troops to turn left and back, couldn't help but exclaim.
The Xiliang army has long spread the horror of repeating crossbows, but these cavalrymen have not seen the horror of this repeating crossbows, they continue the previous tactics step by step, but they don't know that death has come!
"How can this be ......" A Xiliang soldier looked at the enemy two or three feet away with grief and indignation, said unwillingly, and then fell to the ground, a crossbow bolt hit him right in the chest, and blood stained a large area of the land.
If you are also a cavalryman, but only have a normal crossbow in your hand, then you better pray that your enemies have the same weapons in their hands as you!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" wave after wave of arrow rain fell on the head of the Xiliang cavalry, the first time they encountered this kind of blow, they had just begun to turn left and back, and they who completely opened their flanks to the Yizhou army were suddenly beaten and rushed away, and the formation was rushed by themselves.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Le asked his pro-soldiers to line up into a wall early to protect himself, and then he immediately commanded his pro-soldiers to slowly retreat......
The Yizhou crossbowmen quickly shot all the crossbow arrows in the arrow box at the enemy. Hua Xiong gave an order, the crossbowman pulled the horse back, and was able to reload the crossbow arrows, but the Xiliang army did not escape because of this, the Yizhou army stationed in the horse that had drawn a circle on the battlefield and returned to the direction of the attack re-loaded the single-shot crossbow, and after the crossbowmen retreated, they immediately urged the horse to step forward to make up for the battle position, and another arrow rain fell, and the Xiliang army once again turned over on his horse, and countless casualties were killed!
In a moment, the Xiliang army fell nearly a thousand people, which almost made Li Le's heart break, if he continues to fight like this, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold Dong Ming to come, and the next round of attacks of the Yizhou army may kill him!
Li Le didn't want to die, but the Yizhou army had that kind of crossbow in hand, and if he continued the usual tactics, he might not have a few people left after a few rounds! To say that Li Le is not incompetent, he knows that if he retreats at this time, it will lead to a complete defeat in the whole battle, even if he is lucky to withdraw from the battlefield, he will not be able to avoid Dong Zhuo's axe, he has a strong desire to survive Thinking of this, he immediately had an idea, only to hear him shout: "Brothers, if you don't want to die, rush to me, rush up and fight the enemy hand-to-hand, so that the crossbow in their hands will be wasted......"
Although the cavalry that originally belonged to Li Le suffered heavy losses, the formation was in chaos, and the people were panicked, but after listening to Li Le's orders and the supervision of Li Le's personal guards, they finally rushed up.
"It seems that the enemy wants to give up riding and shooting, and is going to fight with us!" Huaxiong Road.
Zhang Xiu, who was anxious to make meritorious contributions, said: "It's good, let's use the enemy's body to sharpen our blades!" ”
Hua Xiong said: "Okay, Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er, you two will each lead 2,000 people to bypass the enemy cavalry from the left and right, and the crossbowmen will follow you, and I will drag these people!" ”
"Yes, General!" Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er led their troops away after responding to the order.
Hua Xiong hung the crossbow in his hand on the saddle, took a long knife, and waited for the enemy to come, and the soldiers of the first division of the four or five thousand cavalry behind him gave up their weapons in long-range combat like him, and picked up guns, spears, ge, horse swords, and other weapons used in hand-to-hand combat.
The distance of thirty zhang was originally in the blink of an eye, but because the Xiliang army suffered heavy losses and the formation was chaotic, by the time Li Le rearranged the formation and came back up, Huaxiong had already lined up the formation.
I saw pieces of cold blades flashing, and more than 100 heads suddenly fell in the Xiliang army.
After Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er led the troops away, Huaxiong only had more than 3,000 horsemen in his hands, which was roughly the same as the number of Li Lebu after the heavy losses, although the morale of the Yizhou army was like a rainbow, but the Xiliang army was very complacent about their own melee skills, and after seeing the terrifying crossbowmen of the Yizhou army leave, the morale was shocked, and there was no threat of the crossbow, in their opinion, they could be the teachers of the Yizhou cavalry, and let these leopards in Yizhou know what cavalry is called with a hearty victory!
The battlefield suddenly resounded with shouts of killing, scolding, screams and neighing of war horses, and one after another knights fell to the dry earth, they used their blood to relieve the hunger and thirst of the earth, and bring life to all things!
Under the strict training of Huaxiong, the first cavalry division is absolutely first-class in combat effectiveness among the cavalry of today's princes, except for the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other horseback peoples, only Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry can slightly press a head! Although Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry had already been established, it was blocked by Lu Bu and Yuan Shao that he could obtain good horses, not only was the quantity very small at the moment, but the quality was not high, and there was still a certain gap compared to Huaxiong's first division! Although the ordinary cavalry of the Xiliang Army is also called elite, except for the Flying Bear Army, the others are at most comparable to the combat strength of the First Division. No one retreated, they all knew that as long as they persevered, the worst outcome would be a lose-lose situation, but if that side couldn't hold on and wanted to escape, then the side that handed over the ass to the enemy would face only destruction!
With the sound of the steel, countless people fell with every breath, some were already dead, some were still alive at this time, but the next moment it was likely to turn into a wisp of green smoke......
On the battlefield under the bright sun, the corpses of countless soldiers on both sides and the wounded soldiers who fell from their horses were trampled into meat by the horses' hooves, and the war horses that lost their owners looked at everything that happened around them with nothing to do, some war horses saw their masters fall off their horses, they didn't know what happened, maybe the masters were joking with them, they lowered their heads and gently sniffed the master's taste, licked the master's familiar face with their long tongues, and gently arched the master's body with their heads, maybe the next moment the master would suddenly get up and continue the familiar game with them……
In the distance, Gao Shun looked at all this, and suddenly had an urge to cry, he didn't know why, he had been in the army for nearly ten years, and he had experienced countless things about life and death, but a scene not far away still touched a certain nerve in his heart.
"Li Le-come and send him to death...... Hua Xiong's long knife was horizontal, and after cutting down a Xiliang cavalry who was blocking the road, he clamped his legs between the horse's belly and rushed towards Li Le, who was heavily protected by his own soldiers not far away.
Hua Xiong's reputation as the first fierce general in Xiliang in the past was not small, Li Le knew that his martial arts were far from Hua Xiong's enemy, and when he saw Hua Xiong rushing towards him, he immediately shouted: "Someone, stop him...... Whoever can kill this first rebel general in Xiliang, this general will reward him with a thousand gold, and at the same time give Xiangye, please Xiangye give him an official and enter the knighthood......"
There were about fifty or sixty soldiers protecting Li Le, and these people were the only ones who looked at Li Le's horse, and when they heard that there was a rich reward, they greeted Brother Kong Fang with their eyes in their eyes.
Hua Xiong was not afraid, he shouted with a knife in both hands, and opened the two spears that stabbed at him, and without waiting for the other party to react, he turned the knife in his hand and cut it to the body of the gun. The two Xiliang cavalrymen were numb by Hua Xiong's shocked hands, and they couldn't throw away the guns in their hands, and before they had time to throw away the guns in their hands, there was another shock that spread to their hands, but this time the amplitude was much less, but when they looked at it, only half of the gun body was left in their hands, and the two knew that something was wrong, so they threw away the gun in their hands and fled.
How could Hua Xiong let them escape easily, and was about to swing a knife to harvest the lives of these two people, but found that several more Li Le's personal guards rushed up, Hua Xiong had no choice but to let go of the two of them and raise his knife to fight.
The two Xiliang cavalrymen who lost their weapons fled to Li Le's side, and then they were relieved, Li Le, as the commander of the first army, had countless guards, and it should be the safest to follow him!