Chapter 119: Mounted Shooting, Mounted Shooting!
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"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"
Zeng Kui shouted loudly to withdraw, but it was too late to withdraw at this time.
Just as they turned their horses' heads and were about to raise their horses to retreat, Li Tianyan and Teng Huan's light cavalry had already been transported to both sides of the soldiers and horses in Zengtou City, when they heard a loud and high-pitched swan sound, and rows of divine arm bows were raised.
Seeing this, Zeng Kui's heart seemed to stop beating at this moment.
Divine Arm Bow! A divine arm bow that can penetrate heavy armor within 100 steps!
This Liangshan army was so extravagant that it actually equipped each knight with a divine arm bow!
Now that the other party has all entered the best range, the wings are cross-fired, and there is nowhere to hide if you want to, this will take a round of arrow raindown, and the consequences are unimaginable!
At this moment, a buzzing sound of crossbow strings like flying locusts sounded, and six hundred crossbow arrows crashed into the Jurchen cavalry array with a sharp whistling sound.
Blood splattered, and screams rang out one after another!
Zeng Kui's heart trembled, and he subconsciously looked up and down himself, and found that he was not hit by an arrow, so he breathed a sigh of relief;
Looking up again, I couldn't help but be pleased to find that less than 10% of the 800 soldiers on my side were shot and killed, and most of them were unscathed.
Zeng Kui was overjoyed, and without hesitation, he slapped his mount fiercely and retreated sharply, and at the same time ordered the remaining Jurchen warriors to shoot back with their riding bows on their horses.
The rain of arrows roared, the bowstrings trembled, and the sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air sounded messily and violently.
However, the Jurchens used a riding bow of six to eight buckets, and they could only shoot fifty or sixty paces away, and all the direct shots fell to the ground halfway, and the projectile accuracy was too poor, and even if they shot, they could not break the armor, and could only play a role in harassment.
Only a few sharpshooters with amazing arm strength holding a foot bow of more than one stone can shoot feather arrows into the military formation of the Liangshan army, and the Liangshan cavalry constantly fell with arrows.
Although the total number of people did not exceed ten, Rao was like this, but he had already forced the knights of the Liangshan Army, who surrounded the Jurchen army from both wings, to avoid the sides one after another.
Zeng Kui reacted immediately and shouted: "Spread out to the wings and shoot after them!" They can't wind the crossbow right away! โ
Before the words fell, he heard Shi Wengong behind him shouting: "The four generals must not underestimate the enemy, hurry up and withdraw first!" โ
It turned out that Shi Wengong had just escaped after getting rid of Lin Chong, but he was fighting with Lin Chong in a circle before, the horse speed was actually very slow, how to raise the horse speed in a short period of time, and was soon shortened by the three battalions of horse troops led by Wei He, Bian Xiang, and Luan Tingyu, who had already lifted the horse speed behind him.
When Li Tianyan and Teng Huan's light cavalry shot out the divine arm bow before, Shi Wengong also watched the whole process, and the result was almost 600 crossbow machines, and the hit rate of about 100 steps was only 10%, and Shi Wengong was also shocked to see it.
He also soon discovered that the cavalry of the Liangshan Army, except for a few with good riding skills, the vast majority of the rest were all novice riders, which was very different from the riding skills of the soldiers on his side.
Thinking about it, this gang of Liangshan thieves doesn't know where they suddenly came from, it is a newly rising force, and these cavalry look like they have just learned to cavalry for a month or two, so it is not difficult to understand.
But Rao is like this, the equipment of this gang of Liangshan bandits is really good, and every cavalry is equipped with a militaristic artifact like a divine arm bow!
Seeing that the pursuers behind him were about to chase within a hundred steps of Zeng Kui, it was much easier for these new scholars of horsemanship to design the target in front of them with the Divine Arm Bow than to the left and right, and the hit rate would definitely be greatly improved.
At this time, Zeng Kui was still stupidly trying to chase the Liangshan cavalry on both wings, but he forgot the enemy behind him, wouldn't he be suffering?
Sure enough, less than two seconds after Shi Wengong shouted, he heard a high-pitched and loud swan sound behind him, Shi Wengong was so frightened that he was also trembling in his heart, and he couldn't think about it anymore, he reached out and pulled out a short knife from his waist, and stabbed the war horse's buttocks.
The lightning white dragon horse was in pain, let out a long hiss, and the strength of his whole body suddenly accelerated by three or four percent, carrying Shi Wengong like a lightning bolt.
At this moment, he heard the sound of a crossbow string vibrating violently like a flying locust's wings, Shi Wengong's heart was excited, and he hurriedly came to hide in a stirrup, and his body hid close to the body of the white dragon horse.
I saw countless crossbow arrows flying above his head, like flying locusts into the military formation of the Zengtou City Army, this time the Liangshan Army not only increased the hit rate a lot, but also increased the number of two hundred, and more than a hundred knights in the Zengtou City Army immediately turned over and fell off their horses.
Shi Wengong saw that he and the lightning white dragon horse were not hit by the arrow, and he was also relieved in his heart, and immediately turned over and sat back on the saddle.
At this time, he had rushed to Zeng Kui's side, and Zeng Kui wanted to continue to ask people to shoot arrows to counterattack, so he heard Shi Wengong say: "Four generals, don't fight for a long time, we have found the weakness of this group of Liangshan thieves, and go back first, order the soldiers and horses and then fight with them!" โ
However, it was said that in the large formation of the Liangshan Army, Lin Chong calmly rode on the kicking snow and watched the battle in the rear, seeing that these Liangshan cavalry were crossbows (crossbows are effortless, so they can be aimed at ease), but the hit rate was so miserable, and he couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.
But this is also a helpless thing, the ability to shoot a salvo is not something that can be practiced overnight, many of this group of cavalry are farmers who have just put down their hoes, in such a short period of time, their riding skills can be practiced until the march charge is maintained in a basic array, and the formation change is not chaotic at all, which is already commendable.
In the end, it is not as good as those peoples on horseback, such as these mature women in front of them, they are talented, and on the bumpy and undulating horseback, the accurate head of the bow is comparable to the foot shooting that stands still.
Even if the Liangshan army is a light horse, it is also equipped with a set of half-body iron armor (light armor), wearing an iron scarf, although the light armor cannot defend against the divine arm bow, but it is more than enough to prevent the arrows shot by the cavalry bow, but the other party can shoot moving targets so accurately on the back of a bumpy horse.
Those knights of the Liangshan Army who were shot off their horses were all shot in the face or in the neck!
Straight lady thief, it seems necessary to strengthen training in this area, otherwise it will be too much of a loss against the horse nation in the future.
However, for riding and archery, Lin Chong has no talent, and in the Liangshan Army, Du Yan, Li Tianyan, Wang Yin and others are not good at this.
Yang Zhi's riding and shooting was very powerful, but he refused to go up the mountain.
Lin Chong couldn't help but think of coming alone, it seemed that it was necessary to go to Qingzhou.
"Husband, why didn't you let people shoot him, but let that Shi Wengong run away?"
said that Hu Sanniang slashed Zeng Mi with a knife, and rode a horse to Lin Chong's side to show off his skills.
At this time, seeing Wei He, Bian Xiang, and Luan Tingyu's eight hundred cavalry, none of them aimed at Shi Wengong to shoot, and asked curiously.
Lin Chong looked at Zeng Tou City and the others who had fled far away, Du Yan had already begun to order people to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded, and sighed a little: "This person is full of martial arts, give it to him again." โ