In order to capture and kill Wei Yan, Xiahou Yuan ignored the hard work of the soldiers, and desperately urged them to hurry up and chase down the Wei army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon, Wei Yan's 2,000 cavalry arrived at the foot of Langling City.

Xiahou Yuan thought that Wei Yan was going to enter the city, so he sent an order: "Hurry, hurry, kill Wei Yan when he enters the city and seize Langling City!" ”

Chen Zhi in the city also thought that Wei Yan was going to enter the city, and he was uneasy.

Because he saw that Xiahou Yuan's Cao army's elite cavalry was bitten very tightly, and the distance between them and the Wei cavalry was less than a hundred paces, if he opened the door now to let Wei Yan's 2,000 cavalry enter the city, because the city gate was narrow, the cavalry would be blocked together in a hurry, and at this time, Xiahou Yuan's cavalry would take advantage of the situation to intercept and kill.

He didn't expect that Wei Yan only sent one cavalry to the city gate, and the men and horses of his headquarters continued to flee to the south.

The cavalryman arrived at the foot of Langling City, tore the bilateral stirrups and the Takahashi saddle off the horse's back, carried them on his back, let Chen Zhi put the basket down, and pulled him to the city tower.

Xiahou Yuan saw that Wei Yan sent a cavalry to the city gate, and hurriedly sent a dozen cavalry to catch the Wei cavalry, but after rushing across the drawbridge, the Wei cavalry had already been pulled to the city tower.

The dozen or so Cao cavalry found the war horse of the Wei cavalry, but found that there was nothing on the horse's back, only iron on the horse's hooves.

They were about to rush across the drawbridge and report to Xiahou Yuan, when the drawbridge was suddenly pulled up, and Xiahou Yuan's other cavalry were cut off on the other side of the moat, and these dozen Cao cavalry were all shot by the archers at the head of the city.

Xiahou Yuan looked at the city fiercely, knowing that it was impossible for him to take the opportunity to capture Langling City this time, and now there was only one way, continue to pursue Wei Yan.

Xiahou Yuan never expected that the Wei cavalry arrived at the head of Langling City and said to Chen Zhi: "Captain Chen, the lord has an order, ordering you to lead 2,000 men and horses to attack Xiahou Yuan's camp in another hour, and now there are only 500 people in Xiahou Yuan's camp, Captain Chen can intercept the remains of Cao Jun's soldiers along the road, pretend to be Cao Jun's soldiers, and take Xiahou Yuan's camp skillfully!" ”

Chen was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered two thousand men and horses, and prepared to set off in two hours.

It turned out that in order to pursue Wei Yan, Xiahou Yuan ignored the soldiers who were shot and wounded by the Wei cavalry, and let them cross the road or walk to the camp.

But it was said that Wei Yan and Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan had several times in the middle of the middle did not want to continue the pursuit, ready to Mingjin to withdraw the troops, his cavalry under his training, although tired, but also able to quickly reverse the direction and retreat in the direction of the camp.

But at this time, the Wei cavalry, who had run faster than a rabbit just now, actually regrouped and chased after them, and a dense rain of arrows was thrown over, and the Cao cavalry who shot it was furious, and turned around to chase the Wei cavalry.

In this way, Xiahou Yuan actually chased for another hour and a half, and at this time, it was more than seventy or eighty miles away from his camp.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan found that the cavalry under his command, whether it was men or horses, was sweating profusely, and some of the horses were so tired that they fell to their knees, throwing the cavalry on horseback half to death.

Xiahou Yuan also found that after a few rounds of shooting, there were not many feather arrows left, because they didn't have many feather arrows, because they were all cavalrymen wearing leather armor or iron armor, and in order to maintain their mobility, he didn't bring too many arrows.

On the other hand, each cavalry of the Wei army carried a large number of arrows, and each of them carried two large arrow sacs behind him, and each large arrow bag contained fifty arrows, for a total of nearly one hundred arrows.

Xiahou Yuan was very strange as to why the Wei cavalry could put so many arrows in their quivers.

Of course he didn't know, Wei Yan improved the ordinary quiver, changed to a squeezed quiver, this extruded quiver is short and practical, the skin inside can tightly clamp the arrow so that it does not drop the arrow on horseback or during the run, even if the arrow is hung upside down, the arrow will not fall out, it is convenient to pull out the arrow, and the angle and direction of the arrow tail can be adjusted in advance when inserting the arrow, so as to maximize the rate of fire.

The structure is not very complicated, the multiple layers of leather are folded in half to form an extrusion, and there are two fixed points in the middle to separate the arrow grooves.

Wei Yan borrowed from a squeezed quiver of the later Xibe tribe, which could hold fifty arrows in a large quiver.

With such quivers, the Wei cavalry could become light cavalry that relied entirely on bows and arrows, and could perfectly execute the tactics of retreating and firing back.

Xiahou Yuan found that it was not good, and if he continued to fight like this, when he chased Wei Yan, he was afraid that without the other party's fight, his own people would already be exhausted.

He hurriedly ordered to stop the pursuit and let the horses and soldiers rest.

But as soon as he ordered to stop resting, the Wei cavalry, who was still fleeing just now, turned their horses' heads, approached the Cao cavalry, and continued to use their abundant bows and arrows to throw and shoot.

The cavalry of the Cao army had few bows and arrows left, and they wanted to fight back, but they could not form an effective counterattack.

They could only curse hopelessly: "Coward! Piff! Coward! Dare only with a bow and arrow! Have the ability to use knives and guns in melee combat! ”

If it had been a few months ago, there might have been stupid Wei cavalry running to fight with them, but now they have been trained by Wei Yan, to fight smartly, to fight smartly, to be able to shoot from a distance, they will never fight hand-to-hand, they will definitely not be stimulated by the words of Cao's cavalry.

Moreover, a considerable number of these Wei cavalry escaped Cao Cao's massacre and ran to Runan, and some of their fathers and brothers were slaughtered by Cao Cao before the Yellow Turban soldiers, in addition, Wei Yan's deployment to each combat unit also instilled the brutality of the Cao army in the soldiers before the war, so that the soldiers had a bitter hatred for the Cao army from the depths of their hearts, in this case, what the Wei cavalry is doing now is very simple, that is, to pull the compound bow to perfection, and then shoot the slender and long arrows out and shoot them on the body of the Cao cavalry.

Now the horses of the Cao cavalry are tired, they can't run at all, they want to rush to kill the Wei cavalry but they can't catch up at all, and they are consumed by the other party's rogue tactics of shooting back while fleeing, and they can't get close at all, and the sabers and spears in their hands are useless at all.

Xiahou Yuan was stunned to find that his elite cavalry, which had once crisscrossed the Central Plains, encountered Wei Yan, a group of cavalry that was far inferior to his own in terms of both horses and armor, and now he had no power to parry, and was completely pressed and beaten by Wei Yan, his original pride was greatly frustrated, and he had to admit that he underestimated Wei Yan too much!

Now, he had no other choice, so he fled quickly, fled back to the camp, and waited for Cao Hong and Yu Ban's follow-ups.

But at this time, will Wei Yan let him escape easily?

Xiahou Yuan's men and horses now had only more than 3,000 horsemen left, and they fled to the north in embarrassment.

Compared with the speed when chasing and killing the Wei cavalry just now, the speed of the Cao cavalry is not fast at all, the horse is very tired, and the cavalry with the horse's belly between their legs is even more tired.

On the other hand, the cavalry of the Wei army, completely liberated their legs and hands, and kept firing their bows and arrows while riding their horses in hot pursuit, while their war horses under their crotches were only slightly tired, and their running speed completely exceeded Cao Jun's war horses, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

And at this time, there were still two people and two teams waiting for Xiahou Yuan on the road.