Chapter 1193: Trap
It is not easy to train a qualified archer. In Wang Zunzhi's team of 1,000 people, there are only 50 people who can skillfully use bows and arrows, not to mention the quasi-head or anything, at least they have been able to skillfully open the bow and shoot the feather arrows towards the target. Archers are even rarer in the Ming army, and in ordinary armies, only scouts will master this skill. The Ming army, which rose in a short period of time, did not have time to spend time training archers, and in fact, they did not need to deliberately train archers, because their long-range strikes were basically replaced by crossbow machines. The crossbow machine of the Ming army has developed to the present, and there are many models, the force is getting bigger and bigger, the rate of fire is getting faster and faster, and the mass of the crossbow machine is getting lighter and lighter. With this big killing weapon, the bow and arrow have become a chicken rib in the army, except for the scouts who act in the squad, the large army really does not need them.
The entire Ming army still has a large number of archers, and there is only one army, that is, the emperor's pro-army Agni death battalion. They are not only good at bows and arrows, but also good at riding and archery. These bows of the soldiers of the death battalion are not made by standard, but are tailored by the arsenal according to the characteristics and strength of each soldier, so as to maximize the power of the bow and arrow.
If he was now fighting against a person who was familiar with the Ming army, he would immediately find out that the enemy on the opposite side was the unit that belonged to the Ming army. But unfortunately, the generals of the Qin State who were familiar with the Ming army had either died on the battlefield or had now joined the Ming army.
Wang Zunzhi had never fought against the Ming army before, and he didn't know much about the Ming army. The perception of the Ming army is mainly the only few encounters after the Ming army came to the city.
The different fighting styles and shocking combat capabilities of this Ming army immediately made Wang Zunzhi tremble. As soon as the battle began, the defending side showed a tendency to be suppressed, and the feathered arrows shot by their own archers were crooked, and when they were blown by the wind, they lost most of their strength, but the enemy's feathered arrows came with a strong wind, whistling, shooting on the food bags, shooting on the shields, and occasionally two of them passed through the protection, and shot the soldiers, and immediately screamed.
The enemy's feathered arrows are also affected by the gale, but they still maintain great damage, which can only be said to be a problem, the arrows fired by their bows are powerful enough to cancel out the effects of the gale.
As if he had detected his own strength, the Ming Cavalry flew out and rushed towards the defensive position, the sound of hooves stepped on the snow, rolling up bursts of snow mist, the knight's body leaned forward slightly, and the horse lance in his hand poked out, and the blade of the lance shone brightly.
"Ready for battle!" Wang Zunzhi hissed and roared.
The Ming cavalry rushed closer and closer, the tall war horses, nimbly avoiding the climbing plows on the ground and some other obstacles, seemed to be about to crash into the position, the Qin soldiers were short of breath, the shield soldiers leaned forward, and the shoulder of the hand was stubbornly holding the shield, even if they knew that this was a mantis arm blocking the car, they still had to do it. In fact, they could not retreat even if they wanted to, because behind them were rows of spearmen with spears, and the moment they carried the onslaught of the cavalry, they stabbed the spears in their hands and stabbed the knights on their horses to death.
The shield soldier is an obstacle to life in the face of the cavalry charge. Their mission was to use their lives to consume the cavalry's horse speed.
There was no violent collision as expected, but a scream sounded behind him, and the shield soldier who closed his eyes and waited for his fate only felt the wind blowing through the gap in the shield.
When Ming Qi was about to hit the obstacle in front of him, a beautiful little whirl, the war horse brushed the obstacle and swept over dangerously, and in this moment, the horse lance in their hand stabbed out.
The sharp lance stabbed into the body of the pikeman behind him, and when it was pulled out, it brought out strings of blood that dripped on the snowy earth like blooming flowers.
Wang Zunzhi was desperate to see that his pikemen had just leaned out, raised the spear in his hand, and was stabbed down by a horse lance, and this was not the most fatal, because in an instant, behind the charging Ming riders, the longbows of another row of Ming riders shot a row of feather arrows at the right time.
Their coordination was seamless, and as soon as the figure of the cavalry in the front row had disappeared, the feathered arrows in the back row had already been shot in front of them. Without giving his pikemen any time to react, a platoon of pikemen fell to the sky screaming.
They are all infantrymen, wearing armor on their bodies, and they are hit by an arrow, as long as they do not hit the vital point, they may not be killed, but the loss of combat effectiveness is inevitable. However, those who were stabbed by the horse lance had their armor easily torn apart, and they could not survive.
The enemy's fighting awareness, fighting skills, and close cooperation with each other made Wang Zunzhi's heart suddenly cold. Not to mention that he is a raw melon soldier, even a veteran, under such an attack, he may not be able to support it.
Rows of cavalry swept in front of the position like marquees, and each time they passed, they would bring some damage to the Qin soldiers. They didn't seem to be in a hurry to break through the position, but seemed to be playing tricks on them.
The arrogance of the enemy made Wang Zunzhi calm down a little, and now he could only wait for You Ge's Thunder Army cavalry in this area to come to his aid quickly. The enemy used him as a rat, but he didn't have any psychological burden, as long as he could drag on for a while, he would be able to escape this disaster safely.
Every time the Ming army charged, it would take a few lives or let some Qin soldiers fall to the ground injured, but Wang Zunzhi could still afford such losses. He was originally worried that those Ming cavalry would break the formation with all their might, he didn't think that his simple defensive formation could stop these wolf-like cavalry, as long as the opponent was willing to pay a certain price, he would be able to kill into the formation, and at that time, these raw melon soldiers were only afraid that they would run away subconsciously. As soon as the lineup was dispersed, the infantry immediately became fish on the felt board of the cavalry. The first few times, Wang Zunzhi had enough of such hardships.
You know, there were not as many Ming Cavalry as there were in the previous attacks.
They are always like wolves, coming in wave after wave.
There was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Wang Zun's heart was overjoyed, and when he looked up, sure enough, it was the figures he was familiar with, and the cavalry of the Thunder Army once again appeared when he was most in danger. However, the number of them was much smaller than the last time they met.
Liu Kui, that cavalry general is already an acquaintance with him.
Seeing the familiar figure rushing over, Wang Zunzhi let out a long breath.
When the attacking Ming cavalry saw the appearance of Qin Cai, he whistled and left, without the slightest intention of fighting. It seemed that the nearly two hundred cavalry of the Thunder Army who had come over to support them had made them timid.
The cavalry of the Thunder Army shouted and bit the tail of the Ming cavalry and chased after him, and when Liu Kui swept past Wang Zunzhi's side, he roared loudly: "Old Wang, hurry up and go." ”
"Liu Kui, be careful, this cavalry is different!" Wang Zunzhi roared with all the strength of his body.
The sound of hooves rumbled, and Liu Kui passed by him like a gust of wind, and he didn't know if he heard his roar. Looking at the two cavalry teams that were gradually moving away, Wang Zunzhi took a deep breath, turned his head, and shouted loudly: "Quick, quick, put a climbing plow on the horse, load the grain on the carriage, and go quickly." The dead brothers don't care about it for now, and the injured brothers go back to Yongdu City by themselves. ”
Everyone knew that the time was urgent, and they didn't know when a second group of Ming Cavalry would arrive, and they had to seize this little gap and move forward quickly.
The army of Shuanglian City will go out of the city for ten miles at most to meet them, and once they are far away from Shuanglian City, the Ming army may cut off their way back to the city. For Wang Zunzhi, as long as he enters within ten miles of Shuanglian City, he will be safe.
The two cavalry rushed out one after the other, and in an instant, they ran far away. Liu Kui didn't want to fight the enemy to the death, and for him, it was enough to be able to send this batch of grain to Shuanglian City. He slowed his horse and slowly stopped.
As soon as they stopped, the Ming cavalry running in front also stopped, and more than a hundred cavalry turned around and stared at them, as if they were ready to charge at any moment.
Although his own number was twice that of the other party, Liu Kui did not dare to be careless at all, and he had already learned the combat effectiveness of Ming Qi many times. In the past, when they met, they would always charge at themselves without fear of death.
Wait a minute! Liu Kui suddenly remembered something, in the past, as long as the Ming cavalry reached more than fifty horses, they dared to charge their own brigade of cavalry, but now this one obviously has more than 100 horsemen, and the number of people is not much less, why did they not invite to fight but run away after seeing themselves?
This is not normal.
When he was separated from Wang Zunzhi before, it seemed that Wang Zunzhi shouted something.
"This cavalry is different!" By the way, it was such a sentence, and a cold sweat broke out on Liu Kui's head all of a sudden.
"Withdraw, withdraw immediately!" He said sharply to his companions on the left and right.
"Look, boss!" A cavalryman's hurried voice sounded, and Liu Kui followed his gaze to look over, and countless snow mist rose in the distance on the left. With his experience, at least there are about 100 horsemen.
"Chief, right!" Almost at the same time that enemy tracks appeared on the left, enemy tracks were also found on the right.
"Trap!" Liu Kui finally understood why this group of cavalry wanted to run when they saw him, they wanted to introduce themselves into this ambush circle.
"Withdraw, withdraw, and join Wang Zunzhi." He snapped, shook the reins of his horse, turned around and ran in the direction of the Twin City.
The Ming cavalry came to surround him from three sides, and it seemed that he had already expected Wang Zunzhi's plan, and the Ming cavalry attacking from the left and right sides did not rush straight to Wang Zunzhi's team, but pulled out a huge arc to surround him.