Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Hunting Game
In the camp of the Xiliang Army, Dong Zhuo was jumping like thunder, and the corpses of a long row of rangers were neatly placed outside his big tent, and everyone was killed with one arrow, which was the elite of his army, so they were all reimbursed.
"How many people have we folded in the past few days?" Forcibly suppressing his anger, Dong Zhuo began to inquire about the loss.
"Back to Dashuai, today we have recovered the bodies of thirty-five brothers, yesterday it was twenty-two, the day before yesterday it was sixteen, and there is another brother who is missing, no one alive, no corpse is dead, I am afraid that nine times out of ten it is also a bad poison; Everyone was killed with one arrow, and the arrow hit the vital point, and judging from the accuracy of the arrow cluster and the depth of the wound, it should have been done by an archer with a 'five-stone' hard bow! "When it comes to the ability of bows and arrows, Zhang Ji is one of the experts, although his right hand is now useless, but his keen eye is still there, and he soon saw a lot of information from those corpses.
In addition, Zhang Ji can be 100% sure that this is Xiao Yi's masterpiece, the condor shooter he personally trained is very familiar with all kinds of methods, but one thing he has to admit is that although Xiao Yi's archery skills were learned from him, it is already 'better than blue'!
"What do you think about this?" Dong Zhuo asked about Li Ru this time, and the Xuanjia Army suddenly shot the rangers under his command frantically, and there must be something strange in them.
"Marshal, Xiao Yi's hand is indeed extremely ruthless, the rangers are our eyes and ears, responsible for reconnoitring the enemy's situation, listening to the enemy's reality, and now that our eyes and ears are destroyed, we have become deaf and blind, and we don't know the dynamics of the enemy army at all, and we can't make any judgment on the situation!" Li Ru lightly twisted the three long strands of long beard on his chest, his eyes flashed, obviously thinking about the strategy to deal with it: "The only way to do this is to continue to send rangers, and at all costs to find out the enemy's next move, besides!" Then Lu Bu can be called a superb martial artist, and he is also good at riding and shooting, why didn't the marshal send this 'tiger' to deal with Xiao Yi's 'greedy wolf'? ”
"Okay, this plan is very good, just let my son go to meet Xiao Yi for a while, Ben Shuai has always wanted to know, the two of them, who is strong and who is weak!" As soon as the final word was made, Dong Zhuo decided to send his own killer weapon - Lu Bu!
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The fierce cavalry battle began, and the terrain around Luoyang was complex, with plain fields, muddy river beaches, rugged hills, and undulating mountains. These places have become a good battlefield for the rangers on both sides to fight, and for a while, the sabers flashed, cold arrows flew sideways, and there were death traps everywhere, and the two sides fell into a strange duel.
Xiliang soldiers and horses fight with the Qiang tribe in the Western Regions all the year round, everyone is skilled in bows and horses, and the combat effectiveness is quite strong, while the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry is all from the Yan Zhao generation, there is also a perennial tug of war with the Huns outside the Saiwai, and the folk customs are extremely strong, so in terms of the quality of the soldiers, the two sides are comparable, but in the competition of tactics and strategy, the Xuanjia army easily crushed the other party, thanks to the fact that they have a cunning as a fox and a fierce wolf as a leader - Xiao Yi.
On a vast grassland in the northern mountains, a good show of chasing is being staged at this time, several soldiers of the Xuanjia Army are riding horses and galloping, and behind them, dozens of Xiliang iron horsemen are chasing all the way, chasing all the way, these pursuers are scolding their mothers all the way, because the prey in front of them is so hateful, they are running, and from time to time they turn around on horseback and shoot arrows, and they have shot several of their brothers along the way.
'Shooting! 'One of the tactics that Xiao Yat learned from a military forum in his previous life; The Han Dynasty was in the initial stage of feudal society, the society still has the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period of the gentleman's atmosphere, at this time the soldiers still have a certain 'chivalry', the two armies fought, although there have been a variety of tricks and tricks in the strategy, but in tactics or advocating a head-on duel, fighting with a sword, comparing strength, good courage and ruthlessness, this is the battle between men, so there will be so many generals between the things of heads-up duels, and retreat is despised.
But Xiao Yi has no scruples in this regard, just kidding, fighting a war, it should naturally be done to the extreme, as the so-called 'monarch has no morality in governance, and there is no principle for soldiers to win', whether you cut with a knife, shoot with arrows, or bite with your teeth, as long as you can knock out the enemy, it is good, and face is not as important as life, so he repeatedly told his subordinates that when the enemy is strong and I am weak, he doesn't say a word, one word - escape!
The cavalry understood that two groups of people shot arrows at each other on their horses at the same time, so those who fled in front took advantage of it, because while they were fleeing, they were dodging the arrows from behind, while the people behind were chasing and facing the arrows, which was equivalent to sending them to others as targets, which was the cavalry' 'Gang Shooting Method', a scoundrel, but extremely powerful tactic, was originally created by the Mongolian iron cavalry that swept across the Eurasian continent, and now it has been pirated by Xiao Yi more than a thousand years in advance.
"Chase! Heaven chased to Qiongxiao Palace, chased to the ground to the Ghost Gate, and today I desperately want to catch up with this group of Xuanjia soldiers, chop them all into meat sauce, and avenge the dead brothers! The captain led by the Xiliang soldiers roared loudly on horseback, at first they were just chasing and killing at random, but as the brothers continued to fall from their horses with arrows, now they are really angry, and today they have to catch up with the opponent anyway, and cut off the enemy's head with the saber in their hands, and only in this way can they hate the dead brothers.
"No!" The rest of the soldiers were also bloody at this time, and the other party's rogue tactics made them all mad, especially when one of the other soldiers was holding a helmet on the saber in his hand, which was the relic of one of their brothers who died in battle, which was a great humiliation, and they had to chase and kill to the end for the sake of the robe, and they would never die!
In order to speed up the speed of the horse, some Xiliang soldiers even began to use daggers to bleed the sitting war horse, which is an extremely cruel method to stimulate the final potential of the war horse, although it can speed up for a while, but after that, the war horse will be wasted, and the cavalry will not easily use this trick unless it is absolutely necessary, but today it is indeed red-eyed, and they have only one thought in their hearts at this time, to catch up and kill them all, so when they saw those Xuanjia soldiers turning into a dense forest, they did not hesitate, And they pursued them......
"The sound of bowstrings vibrating, the sound of arrows shooting into people, the screams, the neighing of war horses, the shouts of men, ......," all kinds of voices sounded in unison in the dense forest, and soon calmed down, and then the thick smell of blood wafted through the dense forest, inviting a large flock of crows to enjoy a beautiful meal.
In the middle of the sound, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army who were responsible for luring the enemy walked out like no one else, and the saber led by him still had a helmet on it, but it changed from the soldier's helmet at the beginning to the helmet of a Xiliang military captain, as for the owner of this helmet, you don't have to think about it...... It must have become a feast for the crows; A few people are talking and laughing and going to be bait again, to see if they can let a few fools take the bait today, for these tactics and tactics of their own commanders, in addition to stretching out their thumbs to praise, there is no other sentence in their hearts: "Black enough, ruthless enough, poisonous enough, shameless enough!" ……”
Although it makes people shudder when they see that 'Chiyou Ghost Face', they like such a leader who specializes in winning battles!
There is such a joke in the Xuanjia army that can illustrate the mentality of the soldiers, they say: "Follow the commander, they dare to go anywhere to fight, even if it is to hell, but they will leave Xiao Yi in hell and then run back by themselves, because 'Ghost Face Xiao Lang' should have belonged to hell in the first place!" ”