Chapter 356: Take the initiative
The enemy soldiers entered the range of the god arm crossbow, a hundred god arm crossbows released arrows, sitting on the horse and shooting arrows with relatively high accuracy, a round of feather arrows passed, dozens of horses fell off the horse, although the enemy was a little surprised, but was not afraid, one by one close to the horse's neck, strange screams and charged.
Chao Gai waved his halberd and shouted, "Retreat." ”
This can make these warriors of the East China Sea tribe angry, and they want to run after the fight, and they chase after it. Chao Gai and the others turned around and released their arrows, and hurried their horses and whips them again. The effectiveness of riding a bow is obviously worse, and it is difficult for these people to hit when hiding on their horses.
Soon, Chao Gai and others rushed into the mountain col, Chao Gai was worried that they would not chase, and deliberately shot down several of their horses with arrows, the warriors of the East China Sea tribe were really annoyed, seeing that the distance was close, one by one shaking the scimitar, brushing, brushing, eager to chop the one hundred and ten cavalry in front.
Chao Gai and the others ran into the col, and the pursuers ran in without even thinking about it. The people in ambush on both sides looked at it, and the cavalry of Chao Gai and others got up as soon as they stumbled over the horse, the science of the design of the tripping horse, two up and down, the low one was more than fifty centimeters high, and the one that stumbled on the horse's legs, the high one was more than one meter six, just enough to stop the horse's neck. The warrior on the horse is worthy of being a master of horsemanship, and he is not in a hurry when he encounters this situation, and the person rolls off the horse.
The stumbling rope at Taniguchi also got up, and at least six or seven hundred horsemen were stopped in the col, and there was no way to advance or retreat.
On the hillside, Liu Tang saw it clearly, and with a wave of the flag, the divine arm crossbow first hit the tribal warriors who did not enter the mountain col, and the arrows rained down, and now it was a hot day, and they were wearing nothing more than a thin layer of animal skin, where could they withstand the distance of the strong bow and crossbow, and the people and horses were killed and injured countless after a few rounds.
Seeing that there was no way to get out, the cavalry in the col took out their bows and shot arrows at the hillside to counterattack.
The two sides shot at each other for a quarter of an hour, and the warriors of the East China Sea tribe were far from each other in terms of location and weapons, and they were reduced by two-thirds, and there were more than 500 horsemen left.
On the high slope, Chao Gai saw that the time was ripe and issued an order for a general attack.
The stumbling rope in the col was removed, and Lu Fang carried Fang Tian's halberd upside down, and crushed it with a thousand heavy cavalry covered in iron armor. The bow and arrow of the warrior of the East China Sea tribe shot directly on the iron armor and bounced away.
"It's the Iron Float, it's the Iron Float." The warriors of the East China Sea tribe shouted, their voices filled with fear.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, the leader did not love to fight, and turned around and retreated as soon as he whistled. At this time, it was so easy to retreat, and five hundred light cavalry rushed down from the mountain beams on the left and right flanks, led by Liu Tang and Guo Sheng, as the kidnappers of the heavy cavalry of Lu Fang. After three pinch-attack, the Donghai tribe was soon finished, and after escaping for five miles, he was chased up by his buttocks, and he was beaten viciously, Liu Tang waved his big knife and cut down the last tribal warrior, ending the battle.
Victory, the total annihilation of more than 1,500 chasing soldiers, due to the more ingenious design, their own casualties of more than 100 people, this is a big victory in the era of cold weapons, as the saying goes, kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800. It is not easy to achieve such a small casualty in exchange for such a large result.
Chao Gai ordered Liu Tang to clean up the battlefield, clean up the items, and then personally led the cavalry to scout in front of the col for more than ten miles, but until the sunset did not see the enemy coming, I thought that the enemy was careless, who would have thought that more than 1,500 pursuers could not win, but were completely annihilated.
In the evening, the cavalry was still stationed on the mountain beams, and the soldiers were giggling and laughing on the bonfires with fragrant horse meat. A multi-talented soldier took out a horse-head violin and played the galloping horses. The sound of the piano is like a herd of horses galloping and jumping on the grassland, which is shocking.
Learning from the previous lesson, Chao Gai ordered the whole army to be divided into three groups, and at least one-third of the cavalry was on standby at any time.
Liu Tang stood on the mountain beam, put his hand on the pergola and watched, and tried to look at it for a long time, but he didn't see anything.
"Brother, this pursuer is not coming yet." Liu Tang asked.
Chao Gai waved his hand and said with a smile: "I'm not Gongsun Daochang, how can I know this." Has the information from Yuan Lang's department arrived? ”
As he was talking, the herald came and handed over the information, saying that Yuan Lang's department had arrived at the beach. But there are too many horses in this herd, and getting on the ship is a problem, and it will be transported in two batches, at least this evening.
After reading the information, Chao Gai showed it to Liu Tang, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and others. Chao Gai said: "This group of horses are all savage and accustomed, not so obedient, they may not be able to do it tonight, it seems that we still can't retreat." ”
Lu Fang said: "The morale is very good, and the military spirit is usable." ”
Chao Gai said: "Yesterday's battle found that the power of this Iron Floating Slaughter is indeed extraordinary, the Iron Floating Slaughter frontal impact, with the flank attack, the enemy soldiers simply can't stop it. Why don't we take the initiative to attack, look for fighters, and intercept the pursuers. ”
The generals said, "This is very good, and the soldiers are in a hurry to make contributions." ”
Immediately, Chao Gai ordered the camp to be pulled, and the whole army went south, heading in the direction of the Donghai tribe. To the south was a flat grassland, and after walking for more than thirty miles, I encountered the enemy.
The vanguard rangers fled back in disarray, where they were confronted by about 500 warriors from the East China Sea tribe.
Chao Gai said: "When the brave meet on a narrow road, it is just a good time to train the soldiers." Liu Tang, I'll leave it to you this time, I'll watch from the side. ”
Liu Tang said: "Don't worry, please watch the performance of the sons." With a wave of his hand, Lu Fang's department dispatched 500 heavy cavalry, and Liu Tang's department and Guo Sheng's department each dispatched 600 light cavalry.
Although there were many enemies, none of the warriors of the East China Sea tribe flinched, shaking their scimitars and screaming and pounced upward. In a real hard encounter, Lu Fang took the lead, and killed Fang Tian's halberd left and right in his hand, and overturned six or seven tribal cavalrymen one after another. The heavy cavalry behind him was also brave, and the spear shot killed, and many times the spear pierced into it and could not be pulled out, and the cavalry drew out the spare cavalry knife and fought again.
On both wings, Liu Tang and Guo Sheng led the cavalry not to fight hard, shooting fiercely with short bows, and the enemy cavalry was not armored, although the hit rate was low, but there was also a 20 percent harvest, and the enemy cavalry continued to fall off the horse.
On the high slope, Chao Gai watched carefully, and saw that the battlefield seemed to be like a frying pot, and the cavalry running back and forth, people shouted and neighed. Suddenly, Chao Gai found that a bald head with pigtails of the East China Sea tribe rider was very fierce, dodging the heavy cavalry stabbed with a gun, grabbing the gun to the arms, so the heavy cavalry did not have time to let go, was thrown off the horse, this man took a gun to the throat of the heavy cavalry, pierced into the throat, behind the two heavy cavalry to attack him, actually let him dodge.
Chao Gai secretly pondered, thinking that this guy should be the general of the Golden Vulture going south in the future, and he must not be allowed to live, so he immediately said: "Order Liu Tang, kill the generals, and strangle the bald man." ”
Lu Fang also discovered this fight, which was really hateful, and killed three heavy cavalry in a row, and a light cavalry actually killed heavy cavalry. Just as Lu Fang wanted to go back to him, Liu Tang's light cavalry arrived, signaling Lu Fang to go in and charge, and handed it over to him here.
Liu Tang beckoned, more than 30 horsemen behind him with a short hand crossbow charged up, this hand crossbow is not comparable to the god arm crossbow, very short, half a meter long, forty centimeters wide, delicate small crossbow arrows are only chopsticks long, aiming at this bald head, swishing, raindrops hit the past, this bald body method is really zero, turned over and hid under the horse's belly, but how is that, the war horse was hit by more than a dozen arrows Herod screamed and fell to the ground, this bald head rolled out from under the horse's belly, rolling in place to avoid the crossbow arrows.
Liu Tang watched coldly, the second round of arrow rain of the crossbowman arrived, and one of them couldn't dodge and was shot in the thigh. Trampled under the horse's hooves by the heavy cavalry charging from behind.
This guy was too brave, Liu Tang was afraid that he would not die, so he let the soldiers shoot into a hornet's nest in the past.
Half an hour later, the battle was over, and the enemy had run away with more than 30 horsemen, and the others were completely annihilated. The meadow was littered with the corpses of men and horses lying down, both enemy and own.
The results of the battle were counted, 480 enemies were destroyed and 10 were captured. Its own casualties were also relatively large, and it was a hard encounter, and under the superiority of troops, 60 people were still killed, and as many as 100 people were injured. It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Jin people is indeed very strong, if the Song soldiers were replaced and under the oppression of four times the enemy, I am afraid that they would have surrendered without a fight.
On the high slope, Chao Gai watched all this on his horse, and sighed softly.
Liu Tang asked, "Brother, what are you sighing about?" ”
"Actually, we can outwit it, and our own casualties will be controlled within thirty people, but I don't, soldiers who have never seen blood can't grow up, and they can only mature if they experience more war." Chao Gai said.
Liu Tang said: "Brave soldiers die on the battlefield is the best destination, eat food and become a soldier to have a sense of sacrifice, brother does not have to blame himself, not every time there is a way to think, hard battles are inevitable." Brother looked at Guo Sheng, he has matured a lot after a few bloody battles, and he is no longer like before, no one is convinced, and he always feels that he is very powerful. ”
Guo Sheng is indeed mature and stable, and his kung fu has also improved, and he is helping the health soldiers to help bandage the wounded soldiers.
After cleaning up the battlefield, the soldiers regrouped, and Chao Gai roared: "Are you still afraid of the Jin soldiers, and are you still worried about whether you are worried." ”
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The soldiers shouted.
Chao Gai said: "Rumors are rumors, there has never been an invincible person, just a group of local chickens and dogs, as long as we train hard and work hard, they are not our opponents at all." ”
"Kill, kill, kill." The soldiers cheered.
Chao Gai shouted: "Do you have the courage to continue to go south, they don't dare to pursue." ”
"Dare, dare, dare."
"Okay, continue south. Next, if they encounter a large group of enemies, let them taste the power of our pepper bombs. Chao Gai laughed.
After these two battles, a lot of seizures were made, and more than 1,000 horses were captured, and the wounded were left there alone. But these tribal warriors are also really poor, just a bow and arrow, a scimitar, and nothing else worth seizing.
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