The baggage and the wounded were quickly loaded onto the vehicle, and there was not much food left on the vehicle, and it was estimated that it would be completely out of cooking by noon tomorrow. Faced with the problem of food shortage, in this emergency situation, Zhao Hong has already thought of countermeasures. If there is no improvement in the shortage of food tomorrow, if there is still no food to be found, then the only way to satisfy hunger is to kill a ox that originally pulled a cart.

In this era of agriculture, the role of a ploughing ox in agricultural production is similar to that of a few sturdy laborers, and the treatment of people is the same, ploughing cattle also have to be registered in the household registration, and killing ploughing cattle without authorization is a crime. But in the current situation where all survival is threatened, and in the face of the threat of a formidable enemy, it is certain that continuing to fight must not leave all of his men hungry. If you are defeated because you are weak because you have no food, don't say that your life cannot be saved, even these ten cattle are also someone else's trophy. At a deeper level, even the cavalry of the county has killed so much, and the rebellion is already a certainty, so why don't you commit a crime?

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Two columns of vehicles are slowly pushed down the hilly road to the south. The advantage of such a formation is that in the event of an emergency attack by the enemy, the vehicles can quickly change from two columns to a circular formation to defend on the spot, even if it does not become a circular formation, the surface area at both ends is very small, and it is much easier to defend.

Under the protection of these ten cars, Zhao Hong's team descending from the hills slowly marched towards the official road. It was still nearly two miles away from Mianmanshui, and the cavalry of the county to the south soon noticed that something was wrong----- the enemy who had been holding on to the hills had descended the mountain.

The cavalry of the county, intent on revenge, quickly gathered together on horseback, and soon followed. The cavalry of the county did not rush forward directly when they saw the moving vehicle. Obviously, the cavalry of the county also knew that directly attacking the team protected by vehicles was similar to sending them to death, but they didn't have any good ideas for a while, and they refused to give up the rare opportunity, so they were not far away and close to Zhao Hong's convoy to look for opportunities.

At a distance of several hundred meters from these vehicles, many of the cavalry of these counties were still good at riding, but they did not hold the reins with their hands, and they only relied on their legs to control the direction and speed of the horses. Several county cavalry on the galloping horse, took out less than half of the length of the bow to ride the bow, they galloped fifty or sixty meters away from the vehicle, from time to time released a few lost and flew over, the cavalry bow due to the volume limitation, the elastic potential energy stored is much smaller, so it belongs to the soft bow, the soft bow shoots out of the feather arrows shot dozens of meters away There is no energy, the floating flight trajectory is clearly visible with the naked eye, and then it is gently blocked by the young man on the periphery with the door panel.

Both Ma Yao and Cao Peng gritted their teeth and looked at the light cavalry in the distance. But for these provocative enemy cavalry, Zhao Hong's team did not have a bow and arrow to shoot back, for fifty or sixty meters away, a few lonely horses in the running to shoot, that kind of behavior is almost useless except for wasting arrows, of course, if there is a guy in the team who can pass through Yang Yang in a hundred steps, it needs to be another matter, but unfortunately this is just an assumption.

Seeing that Zhao Hong's team did not return fire, the county cavalry began to whistle and laugh at the incompetence of the young man behind the vehicle, and with Zhao Hong's connivance, the behavior of these county cavalry became more and more presumptuous.

Three or four cavalrymen boldly rode their horses toward the convoy, and they drew their bows and arrows at a distance of more than twenty paces from the ox-carts, trying to shoot at close range. Seeing that the enemy had entered the effective firing range, Cao Peng and other archers raised many newly captured foot bows one after another, holding a strong bow tightly in their left hand and holding the bowstring in their right hand, struggling to pull the bows into a full moon. At the same time that the cavalry of these counties loosened the soft bows of the cavalry, more than 20 strong arrows flew towards the cavalry of these counties with the sound of "let" and "let".

A county cavalry was hit by an arrow from a war horse, and this war horse with five or six arrows stuck in its head and chest ran for more than a dozen steps, and finally the front hooves of the heavily injured war horse softened, and then fell down heavily, and the horse's tail was raised high, like a flag fluttering in the wind. Under the effect of inertia, he suddenly lifted the knight above. Before the knight could struggle to his feet, a dozen more arrows struck in his direction, and then shot the county cavalry into a hedgehog.

And when the infantry and cavalry were shooting at each other just now, another cavalry company with a horse was shot seven or eight arrows, and then the cavalryman of the county who was hit by the arrow couldn't help but throw his bow on the ground, and the stubborn will of his hands still controlled the reins of the horse, trying to flee quickly, blood could not help but gush out of the wound caused by the long arrow, and then the blood flowed along his legs to the stirrups, and then from the stirrups dripping onto the ground covered with thick loess. But when the tenacious cavalry of the county had not yet run more than ten zhang away, the cavalry of the county who had lost too much blood was crooked, hanging on the horse, and only two feet were still in the stirrups. No one controlled the war horse and continued to run, and it took off the corpse that landed on the head more than a dozen feet away, and a heavy blood mark immediately dragged out of the ground. It was not until the body touched a raised stone that its legs broke away from its stirrups, and then it completely fell from its horse and fell to the ground motionless.

And in the cavalry shooting of the county cavalry, a feather arrow shot by the cavalry bow also made Zhao Hong's side have a person hit by the arrow, so the young man who was shot in the chest wore the captured cavalry armor, and the short arrow from the soft bow penetrated the cavalry armor, but also lost energy, that is, it broke a little skin.

The sharp counterattack made the county cavalry realize that harassment with a soft bow was obviously a loss-making deal in the case of rapid mobility, and if you shoot with a powerful hard bow, you can only dismount and shoot on foot, just like attacking the mountain just now. The cavalry of the county country, which had already suffered heavy losses, naturally did not have the capital to shoot at the Baoji Zhai tribal alliance with vehicles and door panels. After this fire reconnaissance, the cavalry of the county was much more honest and did not harass again.

After successfully stopping the harassment of the cavalry, the team pushing the cart reached the river. While collecting firewood and drawing water, the elite in the team changed the position of the vehicle under Zhao Hong's order. With the river behind him, Qing Zhuang quickly surrounded the vehicle in a semicircle facing the north, like a half-moon moon.

Zhao Hong standing in the ox cart is very satisfied with this shape, the first moon is half of the full moon, so it is also called the "lack of the moon", in ancient times, "missing" and "but" were all fake, "lack of the moon" is also called "but the moon", so this "lack of the moon" shape of the ox cart is the "but the moon" array.

Although the number of ox carts is a little less, and there is no strong bed crossbow, this thing is still very powerful against cavalry in the case of relying on the river, and in another time and space, the Beifu soldiers of the Northern Expedition used the Moon Formation to kill the Xianbei cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty all over the field. The advantage of the moon formation is that the river behind it seriously restricts the maneuver and detour of the cavalry, so naturally there is no need to worry about the flanks and two wings, you only need to focus on the front, and in the case of concentrating firepower to defend the front, the slightly muddy road on the river beach is not conducive to the cavalry galloping, if there is a light cavalry to rush into the moon formation, it will be the best target for a strong bow and crossbow.

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Even so, the cavalry of the county, who saw the enemy forming a semi-circular formation, still did not intend to let them go—————— this team that had caused them more than half of the losses. It's just that the cavalry of the county also knew that they couldn't gnaw it just now, and at this time, they were even more sent to death in vain. As a result, they all dodged far from the range of the Missing Moon Array's bow and arrows.

Until the sun began to set in the west in the afternoon, neither side took the initiative to attack, so they confronted each other.

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Sitting behind the ox cart, Zhao Hong looked a little bored, he looked at it, the late autumn sun was still so dazzling, so that the blue sky of thousands of miles was as clear as a pool of blue water. The trees and vegetation are all illuminated by the harsh sunlight and leave colorful shadows behind them. Zhao Hong, who was sitting by the river behind him, looked at the wide stretch of water, the water waves kept shaking under the blowing of the northwest wind, and the sparkling river surface was like a silver python shaking his body. Zhao Hong, who was a little bored, immediately stood up and reopened his vision that had been blocked by the ox cart.

In the distance, the cavalry of the county also dismounted, and they also sat on the ground, looking in the direction of the ox cart. Around the cavalry, hundreds of horses bowed their heads and were leisurely nibbling on the dry grass that had already withered and yellowed. The number of horses of the cavalry of the county was far more than the number of cavalry, obviously because of the dismount just now and attacking the mountain, and the cavalry of the county in the herd of horses looked like herdsmen on the grassland, grazing their cattle very leisurely.

"If only I could get some horses!" Zhao Hong looked at those cavalry so many horses, he couldn't help but feel a little jealous, and even his words were full of sourness, "In that case, we can also have a small number of cavalry in our team, so that both reconnaissance and vigilance are much better." ”

"Take those prisoners......" Liu Song's voice beside him came, Zhao Hong turned his head to look at Liu Song whose eyes were dripping, Liu Song was also very greedy for those war horses, and the degree of jealousy was far from being comparable to Zhao Hong as the leader, Zhao Hong felt that Liu Song's eyes were almost about to erupt fire, he pointed to a few bound prisoners, and shouted at Zhao Hong, "We exchange prisoners for horses!" ”

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