Chapter 526: Infantry Battle Cavalry (I) 1/2
On the other side, after observing the temporary residence of the Hunan team, the three herdsmen immediately returned to their tribe, a nomadic tribe called "Black Wolf".
The Black Wolf Tribe is a large nomadic tribe with a population of more than 2,300 people, and has been living in the edge of the grassland, because of its proximity to the jungle, the Black Wolf Tribe can go to the jungle to obtain firewood as fuel during the severe period of natural disasters, so that the Black Wolf Tribe has not suffered much loss.
It is also because the black wolf tribe lives in the edge of the grassland, the black wolf tribe used to often attack the farming tribes or hunting tribes living in the edge of the jungle, and wiped out several tribes, and other tribes moved away from here and moved to the east because of the attack of the black wolf tribe.
It is not for nothing that the black wolf tribe likes to attack the farming tribe and the hunting tribe, the black wolf tribe is not short of food, but it lacks all kinds of living utensils, such as pottery for filling water and boiling water, so the black wolf tribe often looks for farming tribes to attack after destroying a farming tribe and getting pottery and other living utensils.
But the Black Wolf Tribe will never go deep into the jungle, when it is flat, the cavalry of the Black Wolf Tribe can abuse the infantry wantonly, and in the jungle where the cavalry is very restrictive, the cavalry can be dangerous.
Unexpectedly, now I found that another farming tribe had migrated, and I found that the three herdsmen of the farming tribe quickly returned to the tribe and wanted to tell the leader about it.
"Chief, chief, we found out that there is a tribe over there, not a tribe on our steppe." Not a tribe on the steppe, that is, not a nomadic tribe.
When the leader of the black wolf heard this, he immediately asked the three herdsmen about each other's situation in detail, although the three herdsmen could not express the situation of the Hunan team with accurate numbers, but they also roughly said that the number of the Hunan team was only a few hundred, which was very small, and the tribe with this number of people could easily be destroyed for the powerful black wolf tribe.
"Very good, the three of you have made meritorious contributions, and when that tribe is destroyed, each of you will get a woman, and the loot will be selected first." The black wolf led the way to the three herdsmen, and then shouted in the tribe's settlement: "Quick, all the warriors assemble, find a prey, let's go and catch him." ”
Trample! Trample! Trample!
Not long after, the Black Wolf Tribe gathered nearly four hundred cavalry, ninety percent of them were adult male clansmen, and one percent were teenagers who were close to adulthood, and the leader of the black wolf thought that he could easily destroy the enemy with nearly four hundred warriors, and it didn't matter if he took dozens of teenagers to feel the atmosphere of the battle together.
"Let's go, kill them!"
Trample! Trample! Trample!
Nearly 400 cavalrymen of the Black Wolf Tribe, led by three herdsmen, galloped towards the place where the Hunan team had established a temporary residence.
The Black Wolf Tribe did not let Hu Nan wait for a long time, and since two and a half hours after the three herdsmen left, the afternoon time had not yet passed, and the four hundred cavalry of the Black Wolf Tribe were less than two miles away from the temporary residence.
The grassland was endless, and there was hardly much to block the view, and the clansmen of Hunan's team who were on guard soon discovered the enemy's traces and immediately returned to the dock area to report to Hunan.
"My lord, the enemy is coming, and they are all cavalry."
"How many cavalry?"
"Not sure, but we don't think it's going to be more than five hundred."
"No more than five hundred cavalry?" Hu Nan turned his head to look at Lu Zhe beside him and asked, "Lu Zhe, can we defeat the enemy with our manpower?" ”
Lu Zhe is the captain of that team's field/war army, and also the commander-in-chief of all combatants, Hu Nan has always served as the city lord, and his combat command ability is far inferior to Lu Zhe, if there is a battle, Hu Nan will not interfere in the battle, and it is completely commanded by Lu Zhe.
Lu Zhe thought for a few moments and then said: "My lord, I think that we can defeat the enemy, we have one hundred and sixty-five archers, and if we release a few more waves of arrows, we will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the enemy." ”
Hu Nan looked at Lu Zhe carefully a few times, and finally gave an order: "Okay, then we will fight, and we must fight the enemy." ”
"No"
Trample! Trample! Trample!
Nearly four hundred cavalry of the Black Wolf Tribe are getting closer and closer to the Hunan team, and the Hunan team has already formed a battle formation under the command of Lu Zhe.
A row of sword and shield soldiers squatted at the front, the enemy's cavalry will release arrows when they run into a certain distance, and the sword and shield soldiers need to raise the copper shield in their hands to resist the enemy's arrows, and the copper shield used by the sword and shield soldiers is not the previous round copper shield, but a larger rectangular copper shield.
Thanks to the improvement of copper smelting and copper casting technology, the rectangular copper shield has increased by nearly half of the area compared with the previous round copper shield, while the weight has only increased by one-third. No... In addition, among the five arms of cavalry, the sword and shield soldiers have the greatest strength, and they can fully afford today's rectangular copper shields.
Immediately behind the sword and shield soldiers were four rows of archers, and the longbowmen with the longest range stood in the fourth row, all of whom were already holding their bows in their left hands and an arrow in their right hands, waiting for the order to fight.
The pikemen at the rear, as soon as the enemy cavalry rushes in front of them, the archers will immediately retreat, and the pikemen will step forward and fight the enemy cavalry in close combat with the sword and shield men.
Trample! Trample! Trample!
The Black Wolf Tribe is getting closer and closer to the temporary residence of the Hunan team, they have found that there is no one in the temporary residence, everyone is gathered in the dock area, under the leadership of the black wolf leader, they rush directly towards the crowd at the dock, as long as these people are defeated, this place belongs to the Black Wolf Tribe.
"Everybody follow me." As the strongest man of the black wolf tribe, the leader of the black wolf rushed to the front, his legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, picked up the bow placed on the horse's back, and drew the arrows in the quiver, and when he approached a certain distance, he would shoot the arrow of death at the weak enemy in front of him, and the warriors behind the black wolf leader were almost the same.
One hundred zhang
"The enemy is coming, all the archers are ready." Lu Zhe shouted.
Hearing Lu Zhe's voice, all the archers put their arrows on the bow, and the bowstring was slightly opened.
Ninety zhang
Eighty zhang
Seventy zhang
"Longbowmen prepare!"
The longbowmen pulled the bowstring with all their might, and the bow body had been bent into a half-moon.
Sixty zhang
"Shoot the arrows!"
Sou! Sou! Sou!
More than forty arrows flew towards the enemy as if they were carrying the power of a thunderbolt.
Just when the longbow and arrow were about to collide with the cavalry of the black wolf tribe, at that moment the black wolf leader felt the danger that he had not seen for a long time, he didn't have time to shout, he immediately leaned down to dodge, a longbow and arrow swept a few inches from his body, pierced into the body of a young clansman behind him, and under the huge power of the longbow and arrow, the clansman fell directly from the warhorse.
"Arrows?! How can it be? How could an enemy's arrow shoot so far? ......" Suddenly, the leader of the black wolf felt a chill, and various thoughts kept churning in his mind.