286 Cavalry fighting

In order to shield the cavalry of the police division, the Liao cavalry had to fight with the cavalry of the police division continuously, and the results of the battle successively made the Liao people, who thought they were a horseback nation, vomit blood.

He Dazhuang, as the leader of the cavalry squad of the police department, led his brothers to be intercepted by a group of Liao. He Dazhuang had already seen the riding and archery kung fu of the Liao people yesterday, but today he really understood why Li Daguan called the Khitans "a people on horseback".

Nearly a hundred paces away, the Liao people sent arrows like rain, not only shooting fast, but also shooting accurately, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight arrows were inserted on the ground in front of the horse and behind the horse. These arrows were all fired by the Liao people on galloping horses, and He Dazhuang knew that even after two years of inhuman training, most of the brothers of the cavalry of the police division could not reach this level of mounted archery, so they never wasted their strength on a single target at a long distance, and only shot at a group of targets.

With yesterday's combat experience, he already had a bottom in his heart, and led the cavalry squad to trot diagonally in the rain of arrows, making it difficult for the Liao people to aim. This is a tactical move that is emphasized during training to loosen the formation and run diagonally, with slight changes in speed and direction to make it more difficult for the enemy to aim. He knew that even sharpshooters would have a hard time hitting targets with varying speed and angles.

As a person with good archery skills, he knew that it was very physically exhausting for the Liao people to fire bows and arrows from a long distance, and at this distance, as long as they were not particularly unlucky enough to be shot at the part of the horse without armor, even if they were shot, they would not be harmed.

He was now relieved of his armor. Yesterday, the armor transformed from the rattan armor made in Shu was hit by the Liao's bow and arrow no less than five times, but none of the arrows could penetrate it. The face and hips of the horses under his crotch were also covered with rattan armor, which was completely capable of resisting feathered arrows thrown from a distance. This armor made him feel at ease and boldly continue to approach the Liao.

Seeing that long-distance shooting was useless, some of them put away their bows and arrows, turned their horses' heads, picked up spears, maces, and bones, and began to urge their horses to start galloping towards He Dazhuang. It's going to be a hand-to-hand fight. He Dazhuang stuck the small flag behind his neck, took off the five-meter-long riding gun from his shoulder, held it flat with both hands, clamped the horse's belly with both feet to urge the horse to accelerate, and touched the cold barrel of the gun from the fingertips exposed by the sheepskin gloves.

The bowstring sounded in the back, and the three best marksmen in the squad hid behind their soldiers who were ready for hand-to-hand combat and began to fire arrows. He saw a Liao man who was holding a bow aimed at him suddenly leaned over and fell from his horse.

These Liao people are all cavalry cavalry wearing light armor, the armor is not only thin and unable to resist the blow of the three-edged armor-piercing cone, but also can not protect the whole body, there are too many weaknesses, under the bow and arrow attack of the Song army, it is no different from no armor.

Before He Dazhuang could scream, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and he hurriedly raised the arm shield on the armor of his left arm, and with a bang, a feather arrow was shocked and flew away.

At this time, a Liao man had already rushed straight over waving his bones, and He Dazhuang was about to fight, when suddenly the Liao man fell back without warning and disappeared from the horse. didn't see the feather arrows, He Dazhuang immediately understood that it was the hand crossbow fired by the brother of the short soldier behind him who shot the Liao people, and the short arrows used by the hand crossbow were all afraid that they had all entered the Liao people's bodies.

Behind the Liao man who was shot to death, there was a Liao man with a spear, and when he saw the person in front of him suddenly fall off his horse, he was stunned for a moment, and then raised his gun to stab Cao Deng. He Dazhuang didn't even think about it, he clamped the gun in full accordance with the conditioned reflex formed by the usual training, used the gun to pull the spearhead of the Liao people, pressed the enemy's spearhead down with the situation, aimed at the position of the Liao people's chest a little lower, and let the horse rush forward to stab the spear.

The training of the cavalry of the police division is very simple, the spear is a pluck, the short weapons such as the tomahawk and the bone are a single blow, and there is no fancy action such as the forbidden army coiling the spear, so they who are from the forbidden army have also been strictly asked to change the habits brought from the forbidden army.

Don't look at these movements are very simple, but Li Daguan has high requirements for quality, and he has to do these simple movements hundreds of times a day during training, and has strict requirements for time. When the basic movements are almost practiced, it is necessary to face the impact of the stake with the long pole tied, and it is required to accurately hit the long pole and hit the stake in the impact.

After thousands of repeated training, He Dazhuang did both actions smoothly, directly squeezing the spear of the Liao people into the outer spear and stabbing the Liao people in the abdomen.

The Liao man was not simple, seeing that the spear was stabbed and could not be blocked, he hurriedly threw the spear in the saddle and fell backwards, trying to avoid the doom of the spear in the abdomen. But He Dazhuang has been playing with the spear for a few years, and he still has this feeling, so he immediately pressed the spear down and pushed it forward, and immediately felt a huge momentum in his hand.

Although he was wearing gloves, he still felt that the huge momentum made it impossible for him to grasp the barrel of the gun. He lifted his arm as he had done in training, and pulled a tomahawk from his leather bag behind his shoulder.

A Liao man saw that his spear was out of his hand and saw that it was cheap, so he picked up his mace and smashed it at He Dazhuang's head at the speed of the horse's galloping.

The training of the cavalry of the police division is not fancy, but it pays attention to the three words "steady, accurate, and ruthless", and the tactical movements must be practical, and everyone must practice thousands of times and thoroughly practice them. There are also special tactical moves for dealing with heavy weapons, and He Dazhuang has long been familiar with it.

He gently pulled the horse's head to the side, shook his wrist vigorously, and the heavy tomahawk danced, and the back of the axe struck the mace from the bottom up. The mace was knocked to its feet and flew over He Dazhuang's head lying on horseback. Although the two weapons did not collide head-on, the mace was too heavy, and He Dazhuang only felt a shock in his hand. Fortunately, the sheepskin gloves relieved the pain in the hand, and the tomahawk did not fly out of his hand.

He Dazhuang glanced back from the corner of his eye, and with a flick of his hand, the axe brought out a puddle of blood from the buttocks of the Liao people and horses that were galloping by. As he looked back, he could clearly hear the sound of the horses falling to the ground with a mournful sound.

Before he could be happy, there was a sudden thud, and a strong push on the right side made him shake on the horse's back. He felt something sharp in his right shoulder, and looked over to see a thick feathered arrow nailed to his shoulder. The arrow had already torn through the iron armor of the arrow, and perhaps even the inner rattan armor, which must have been shot at close range.

He swept his gaze and immediately saw a Liao man who had just rushed in front of him was putting his arrow on the bowstring again. But before he could fire the arrow again, a brother of He Dazhuang turned around on the horse and drew his bow like a full moon and shot an arrow, and half of the arrow shaft sank into the Liao people's body.

After running fifty or sixty meters, He Dazhuang turned his horse's head and prepared for a second impact. During the run, he had counted the number of people and found that two brothers were missing. But the Liao people fell off their horses more, and he saw his brothers pulling out of the textbook-like formation again in the run, just like during training, and his confidence was even stronger.

But the Liao people didn't give him another chance, and ran away without looking back.

Relying on strong armor, sharp weapons, and scientific and harsh training, the cavalry of the police division obtained an astonishing exchange ratio of more than 1:3 in the conflict with the Liao cavalry, captured more than 20 prisoners and came back for interrogation, and captured more than 100 war horses, but Li Buqi was still trembling in distress.

There are more than 100 people, all of whom are good men from a hundred. What's more, with the nearly 200 casualties in yesterday's battle, Li Buqi's cavalry ready for the attack has been reduced by more than one-tenth. Therefore, the exchange ratio of one to three is not cost-effective for Li Buqi.

When the prisoners were interrogated and asked the Liao people to prepare to pull out the camp today, but the main force was still here, and after receiving the alarm that the cavalry of the Liao brigade appeared far away on both flanks, he immediately ordered the troops to return to the city.

He wanted to use the method of shrinking the formation to show the enemy's weakness and lure the Liao cavalry to attack the crossbow array again, but the Liao people obviously learned to be obedient yesterday, and just watched the Song army slowly retreat into the city from a distance, and did not dare to move lightly.

Yeluyi first received a report that the Song army had retreated to the city, although he was very annoyed that the Song army had wasted most of his time, but he had no idea of attacking Baozhou. Yesterday, I tried to attack Suicheng of the Guangxin Army, but all the generals said that they could not take it. Seeing that the city of Baozhou is taller than Suicheng, and the Song army in it is so capable of fighting, he will not touch this stone unless he has to. Now his first pursuit is to transfer the Song army out, destroy the Song army in the field, and then attack the city when the opportunity is right. So he did not hesitate to order the whole army to move westward.