Chapter 458: The Dead

It was too sudden, it can be said that after Jiang Feng and his party were sniped in Yangzhou City, the guards had already strengthened their security and were very vigilant, but on the way to leave Jiangnan, they were attacked again.

The sailors on the shore of the lake, who were talking and laughing, without warning, took out their bows and arrows and fired at the knights on their horses, and in the hills on the other side of the road, there was a sudden sound of arrows and firearms.

Compared with the surprise of Jiang Feng's team, these people in ambush were even more surprised, because in the first round of sudden shooting, only a dozen of their targets fell from their horses, and they were basically caused by the shooting of firearms, and the rest of the people reacted quickly except for the neck or the arrow in the vital point.

On the road, the horses are only around the core and the supplies of the guards, and the horses and horses are very loose in order to run quickly, and the gap between them is very large, so that when the two sides are attacked, the people on the outside of the horse team cannot provide shelter for the people on the inside, and they are all exposed to enemy fire.

This is what the ambushers had in mind, and their men were either disguised as grain ship workers passing by, or they were hidden in the hills on the other side of the road, covered in vegetation. If you want to be surprised, you are ready to break up the unprepared Jiang Feng horse team under the first blow.

Similar successful ambushes have been done many times, so at this time, it is just like the cat and the tiger, and when Jiang Feng and his party move forward, they are not the same way as usual.

After all, it was about the carriage and the guards, and the people of the Netherlands had more say, after all, they had never eaten pork and seen pigs run.

According to the discipline of the Jiang family's army, whenever there are important people or important materials guarding, the cavalry around the carriage must act in accordance with the format of the cavalry formation, and the outermost personnel should be in armor or half armor, and the distance between the knight and the knight should not exceed half a horse.

Originally, after Jiang Feng entered the customs, in order not to attract attention, he was also quite confident in his own safety at that time, and felt that there would be no danger, so he didn't pay too much attention to the drill or anything, but after being attacked by the Cao Gang, neither Jiang Feng nor the guards around him dared to continue to be so careless.

Every move is done in accordance with the rules of the code, although it is troublesome, it is much better than something out of control.

Moreover, it seems that the horses cannot be indulged in galloping, and only maintain a constant speed to advance there, but in the actual situation, the strict control of the horse speed, the advance of the brigade is a method of maximizing the efficiency of horsepower in a period of time.

The so-called horses that travel thousands of miles a day and 800 at night are of course in the legend, even if they maintain a high-speed impact, the horses only hold on to a stick of incense for about a long time, and they will lose their strength and collapse after a long time.

The people on the periphery of the horse team were covered with cloth robes on the outside, but the inside was a sandwich armor with cowhide nails and iron blades, and the bows and arrows fifteen paces away could not completely penetrate this armor, and the damage caused by the first wave of ambushes was completely caused by the firecrackers.

No matter how bad the firearms are, there are enough kills within twenty steps, and most of the guards who fell off the horse were injured because of this, and the others were not very good.

The truth of "shooting people first shooting horses" is also known to the people in ambush, but in the battle by the lake, more than a dozen guards killed nearly 100 good hands in Yangzhou rudder, such combat power, so that the ambushers can not help but consider that even if they shoot the horses and cause chaos, the other party has not suffered any damage, and there will still be trouble in the next fierce battle.

Simply in the first wave of attacks, they directly moved towards the knight on horseback, they expected it to be very good, but they didn't expect Jiang Feng's group to be so well prepared, and the effect was far less than they imagined.

The second round of shooting was not yet ready, and the guard next to the coachman who was pulling Tang Xuan's carriage shouted:

"Left and right, divided into ten, the rest keep moving forward!"

There were ten knights on both sides of the horse team, urging the horses under the crotch to rush out, and the team did not stop at all, and continued to advance, and the dozen or so people who fell to the ground, all who could still get up struggled to get on the horses to keep up, and the rest were either dead, that is, they could only wait for death.

The people on the river bank thought that after the first wave of attacks, the opposing team would inevitably stop defending, or simply disperse in chaos, so after the shooting was completed, they began to quickly prepare for the second round of shooting, whether it was a bow and arrows or a firearm to apply medicine, it would take time.

The knights of the horse team drew their sabers and rushed down quickly, how far could the river bank be from the official road, not to mention the power of bows and arrows and firearms, they were very close.

In an instant, Jiang Feng's guards and knights had already arrived in front of him, and the sabers held high in their hands were cut straight up and down, bows and arrows and fire guns could not resist the impact of the cavalry in this kind of close combat, and a terrible scream sounded on the river beach, blood splattered, and the sneak attackers had already fallen six or seven people.

At this time, among the grain boats on the riverbank, the covered tarpaulin was lifted, many men with knives and guns rushed out with shouts, and ten knights ran up to the official road with a bag of horses.

Jiang Feng's guards, who rushed into the woods over there, took out the thick barrels of firearms from the blankets on the side of the saddle, and all of them turned over and dismounted, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, forming a sharp and angular formation, and rushed towards the place where the bow and arrow were fired at the hills.

Huazhou's unique thick pipe firecracker is in a state of loading ammunition when marching, and the medicine is directly applied before the battle, and the fire rope can be used.

When they rushed into the hills and bushes, another wave of bows and arrows was fired, but this time they were all stopped by the shields, and two thick barrels of fire were placed on the shields, and they were fired in the direction of the bows and arrows, and countless lead particles roared in, although it was impossible to see the position of the opponent.

But this kind of fan attack is more effective in the chaotic battle of this kind of terrain, and the screams inside are repeated, and the sword and shield hands shouted in unison, and raised their swords to kill them.

The sound of horses' hooves rumbling in the direction of Jiang Feng's road became louder and louder, and gradually the drifting smoke and dust could be seen, and the attackers on the other side of the river counted no less than two hundred people hiding in the boat, but they were chaotic, not that these people were not brave, not that they were not desperate.

Instead, the tactics of Jiang Feng's guards were quite reasonable, ten horses kept going around on the official road, often after pulling a distance, quickly turning the horse's head towards the crowd is rushing, these ambushed men were all wearing cloth clothes, holding knives and axes in their hands, and the previous bows and arrows and firecrackers were either killed or wounded.

For Jiang Feng's guards, who were wearing light armor and were well-armed, there was no way to storm on horseback, they were often gathered, they were scattered, and then regrouped, and the horses over there rushed over again.

But after all, there were a lot of people, and the horses guarded by Jiang Feng couldn't withstand such a high-density turnaround run, and there were three knights halfway, and the horses suddenly knelt down there, and the ambush men who were overwhelmed rushed up, swords and axes together.

Looking at the smoke and dust not far away, the morale of the ambushers here is getting higher and higher, desperately entangled with the guards after the break, on the side of the hills of the official road, the rough pipe fire gun sounded two more rounds, shouting and howling to kill, more tragic than on the official road, in the tall grass is a hand-to-hand white-knuckle battle.

Not long after, five Jiang Feng guards covered in blood walked out of it, and only four of the ten guards on this side were left, who had just rushed through once and turned back.

The men who were ambushed were not too afraid of the impact of the horses, because the fatigue of the horses was no longer so impactful, the horses turned back, and these people actually shouted and chased after them, and at this time, there was a loud noise, and countless scorching high-speed flying lead particles came to the face, and the first row suddenly fell to the ground, and the momentum slowed down, but they stood there and did not dare to move forward.

I thought that the opponent had something like a tiger squat cannon, and suddenly I didn't dare to move forward, taking advantage of this opportunity, the warriors on the other side of the hill brought the horses, and now the horses ridden by the remaining nine people did not consume too much horsepower, and the nine people sat on the horses, just finished fighting, although it was nine people and nine horses, but there was also an awe-inspiring atmosphere, and those men who killed red eyes did not dare to move forward.

There were more than a hundred fierce men in the middle, and behind these men, that is, in the direction of Jiang Feng's path, Jiang Feng's guards had already seen the horse team following behind, and those people were wearing arrow suits in green clothes, dressed tightly, and carrying weapons on their backs.

These more than 100 knights actually controlled the speed of the horses, and it seemed that these people had been following behind, ready to wait until the interception of Jiang Feng's convoy here would make the final blow.

"Brothers, the idea is there!"

"Half a pillar of incense's kung fu, you can still catch up!"

After a few loud answers, the horse team was already in front of those men, and the teams on the official road were separated like a tide, and the Tsing Yi horse team rushed over directly.

Jiang Feng's nine guards were in the middle of the official road, and they didn't run, but just looked at the Tsing Yi knights rushing in front of them, the horses under them were already restless, and the horse speed of the Tsing Yi knights was still unhurried, and the people in front drew their swords one after another.

"Great grace to adults, I will repay it in the next life!"

The nine guards raised their sabers, urged the horses, dragged their tired bodies, and rushed towards the fresh force dozens of times their in front of them, and they were unstoppable......