Shi Jin saw that a thief who rushed ahead first was galloping, holding a bow in one hand and pulling out a carved arrow from the quiver in the other.

The bow opens like a full moon, and when you let go, the arrow goes like a shooting star.

Before one of the spearmen at the head of the Liang Shan army could react, he was directly shot through the throat by this arrow, desperately covering his wound, unable to stop the gushing blood, and fell down.

As the leader of the horse thieves opened his bow, the cavalry behind him also loosened.

"嗾~~嗾~~!"

The whistling sound of 200 arrows fell from the sky.

Shi Jin was shocked when he saw it. Ride and shoot!

Mounted archery does not simply refer to riding archery, as long as a person can shoot a bow and arrow on horseback, it is considered riding archery.

An arrow shot like that is not accurate at all. Don't talk about killing the enemy, don't kill your own comrades, it's not bad!

Only those who can shoot accurately in a certain direction on the back of a galloping horse can be regarded as riding in the true sense.

To master mounted archery, one must learn to ride a horse and shoot an arrow.

It was hard to master equestrianism, and without a year and a half of hard training, it was impossible to train equestrianism to the point where you could control the mount freely with just your feet.

The same goes for archery.

If you want to shoot a watermelon within 50-70 meters, it takes a year or two of hard training to practice.

After practicing these two, then get on the horse and ride on the back of a bumpy horse, not to mention the size of a watermelon, you can shoot a scarecrow in 50-70 steps, and you can't do it without a year or two of hard training.

Therefore, if you want to master mounted archery, you need a horse, a bow, and then practice hard for more than three or four years before you can initially master mounted archery.

The cavalry battalion of the Liangshan Army has been established for more than a year, and only one or two soldiers can barely shoot on horseback, and the others can only kill the enemy with swords.

It's because it's so hard to practice riding and shooting.

Even among the nomads who have been riding on horseback since childhood, only some of the herders who are often hunting can practice riding and archery.

And the nomads also relied on horse archery to threaten the Central Plains again and again, such as the Xiongnu, Turkic, Jurchen, and Mongolian.

Shi Jin never expected that he would meet a group of horse thieves who knew how to ride and shoot in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty today!

Seeing the hundreds of arrows flying over, Shi Jin shouted loudly: "Be careful! ”

Although the hit rate of mounted archery is not high, and this wave of arrows is more of a temptation. Most of the arrows fell before they could reach the formation.

Only a few soldiers in front were threatened by the arrows, but there were not many of them, and they shot them down with their spears.

Only one person died in this wave of arrows, and he was killed by the leader of the horse thieves.

When the gang of horse thieves ran to a difference of 70-80 paces from Liang Shanjun, they turned their horses' heads around and ran back again.

Watching the other party run back, Shi Jin was not happy.

Because he knows the big trouble is just about to begin!

The most terrifying thing about mounted archery is that they can use the mobility of horses to run for hundreds of miles, suddenly kill in front of the enemy, shoot arrows with bows, and hit and injure the opponent.

When the enemy wanted to come forward and fight, they turned their horses around and ran away.

Then run back and give you another rain of arrows.

You want to pursue people, whether they are infantry or cavalry.

As they run, they turn around and shoot you with their bows.

People can kill you with impunity, but you can eat their dust.

Under such endless harassment and shooting, anyone will collapse.

Once the soldiers fled, they would undoubtedly hand over their backs to the enemy unguarded, allowing the cavalry to slaughter them at will.

If you want to fight mounted archery, you can only use long-range attack weapons, such as bows, crossbows, muskets, artillery, etc.

Shi Jin immediately shouted forcefully, "The bow battalion stepped forward to suppress that group of horse thieves for me, the spear battalion guarded the bow and arrow battalion, and the sword battalion retreated to guard against the officers and soldiers." ”

When the Liangshan army heard the order, they immediately adjusted their formation, and the pikemen lined up in an anti-concave formation, standing in front of and on both sides of the bow and arrow battalion to guard against a sudden attack by the cavalry.

The bow battalion is in the middle, and the sword soldiers are in the rear army, guarding against Suo Chao's box soldiers.

The gang of horse thieves did rush again, this time the leader's visual inspection was more accurate, and when he was nearly 120 paces, he shouted, "Shoot! ”

Pang Wanchun also visually measured the distance, opened his eyes angrily, and shouted loudly: "Shoot!" Kill your opponents with your arrows! ”

Hearing the order, except for some archers who were deformed because they were afraid, most of the archers also obeyed the order to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

For a time, the sky was full of arrows, and the feathered arrows were like locusts.

This wave of arrows struck, most of them covered the Liangshan army, 1 archer, 3 pikemen were killed. 3 were seriously wounded, and countless were slightly injured by arrows.

The horse thief rode a horse and was very fast, and the rain of arrows of the Liangshan army only covered part of the people, killing a horse thief.

Seeing such a confrontation on the flat ground, Liang Shanjun suffered too much, Shi Jin roared, "Pang Wanchun, you will command, and the other leaders will be killed with me!" ”

Shi Jin rode a red horse with charcoal and went straight to the horse thief, and Wang Yin and their five leaders rode horses and followed Shi Jin to kill the horse thief.

Seeing that Shi Jin was chasing after this gang of bandits, Pang Wanchun hurriedly shouted, "The whole army should keep up!" ”

Shi Jin whipped the charcoal red horse again and again, and the fire charcoal red horse ran fast, and gradually caught up with this gang of bandits.

The horse thieves who ran last saw Shi Jin catching up, and hurriedly turned around and drew their bows to shoot at Shi Jin.

Shi Jin saw that he hurriedly waved this Heavenly Painting Halberd to fend off those arrows.

Seven or eight arrows were blocked.

Fortunately, they just turned their horses' heads around at this time, and there were only two dozen people running behind at this time.

If 200 people shot at Shi Jin in a volley, Shi Jin would not be able to resist even if he had three heads and six arms.

Resisted this wave of arrows, a distance of one hundred and ten paces, and the red horse of the fire charcoal was killed in an instant.

Seeing Shi Jin coming, the horse thieves who rode last were shocked, and they put their bows into their bow pouches, drew their sabers and turned their horses' heads to kill Shi Jin.

Seeing that the horse thief was coming, Shi Jin yelled, "It's just right!" ”

The Fang Tian Painting Halberd in Shi Jin's hand swept with a thousand equal momentum, and in the end, the thief was swept away by the Fang Tian Painting Halberd, and was immediately split in two, hot blood spurted out from the broken waist, and the lower half of his body was still riding on horseback, but the upper half of his body fell to the ground.

Killing one, Shi Jin did not stop and continued to rush forward.

He wants to take advantage of the speed advantage of the red horse to drag this group of horse thieves, and then let Wang Yin and them catch up to help him share the pressure.

In the end, as long as the spear battalion and the bow battalion can arrive, even if they can't completely annihilate this gang of bandits, they can make this gang of bandits defeat miserably.

Shi Jin brandished Fang Tian's halberd and rushed into the crowd of horse thieves.

These horse thieves have no one enemy, and Shi Jin is like entering a no-man's land, slashing and killing to his heart's content.

Seeing Shi Jin so arrogant, he single-handedly killed him.

Many horse thieves turned their horses around and killed Shi Jin.

At this moment, the leader of the horse thieves heard the movement behind him and finally found that Shi Jin had caught up and was killing his men.

Seeing five or six ownerless war horses standing in place, the leader of the horse thieves understood that Shi Jin alone had killed five or six of his subordinates, and if he allowed the other party to kill like this, he didn't know how many casualties his men would have.

You must know that riding and archery is too difficult to practice, and these 200 people have worked hard to practice.

Seeing that his subordinates were slaughtered by Shi Jin, the leader of the horse thieves was blinded, controlled the horse with two legs, held a bow in one hand, and wound an arrow with the other, and shouted in his mouth: "Look at the arrow!" ”

One arrow after another whistled towards Shi with a fierce wind.

The arrow opened in the blink of an eye, and the arrow went straight to Shi Jin's throat.

When the arrow was killed, Shi Jin sensed that danger was coming.

Without hesitation, Shi Jin's entire body fell backwards suddenly,

The arrow flew right in front of Shi Jin's eyes, and he was able to dodge the arrow.

When he got up and was about to continue to kill, Shi Jin just looked up and saw another arrow in front of him.

In the inertia of getting up, Shi Jin didn't even have the ability to fall backwards again.

Shi Jin looked at the arrow in horror, and thought to himself: "My life is over!" ”