Chapter 295: Kite Flying
Lu Bu gave an order, and the archers and cavalry battalions shot arrows. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Qiang cavalry thought that Lu Bu was going to fight him and charge, but he was unprepared for a while, and the cavalry that rushed the most fiercely in front let out a miserable scream.
Although the hardwood bow of the archery battalion is not enough to kill the Qiang cavalry with one arrow, once someone is injured and the body is in severe pain, the legs that clamp the horse's belly are slightly relaxed for half a moment, and it is at this moment that the Qiang people fall off their horses, and the horse's hooves behind them step on their bodies and continue to rush forward.
Qiang rode under the horse's hooves and screamed again, and a trace of ominous premonition rose in the hearts of Qiang people. In order to stifle the danger signal in their hearts, the leaders of the Qiang cavalry took a deep breath, the sound of the horn became urgent, and the Qiang people desperately whipped their horses to speed up their forward charge.
When they got closer, they were about to engage with Lu Bu's cavalry, and Lu Bu's cavalry suddenly pulled the reins, and the war horse turned around and ran away at the same time.
Seeing that the enemy rode menacingly, arrogant and ambitious, and did not dare to fight, the fart and urine flowed with their heads and rats, and there was a disdainful laugh among the Qiang people. The next moment, the Qiang people's laughter was stuck in their throats, and they couldn't laugh anymore. I saw that the enemy horsemen let go of the reins and let the horses gallop forward, and they turned back at the same time and shot arrows.
Another wave of dense arrow rain poured down like raindrops from seventy or eighty paces away, and the hearts of the Qiang people were cold. When did the Han Chinese ride so well? So much better than these nomads who grew up on war horses? They felt the end of the tribe coming, and a trace of despair gradually rose in their hearts.
"Chase!"
The Qiang people felt threatened, and a trace of thought flashed in their hearts at the same time, that is, to destroy this enemy army, not to let him grow, not to let him threaten the survival of the grassland tribe.
When Lü Bujun turned back to shoot arrows again, the Qiang people were completely convinced that this was not an accident, and the enemy was skilled in arching and horseback. A cavalry archer that had never appeared before was developed by the Han infantry who were not skilled in horsemanship. When the Qiang people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, they died under the hooves of their horses, but they could not stop the pursuit of the Qiang cavalry.
Lu Bu came here to make a surprise attack on Xiao Pass, and in order not to reveal his whereabouts, he later chose a trail between the mountains to march. At this moment, he completely attracted the forces around Xiao Pass, if this Qiang cavalry chased after him, as long as he lured them away, Lu Lingqi set out from Qinchuan and captured Xiao Pass without a trace of force. If this Qiang people wanted to escape, the sweaty cavalry led by Wei Yue was always ready to turn back and pursue.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) Lu Bu led the archer battalion to go straight along the old road of Xiaoguan, when the archery battalion ran out of more than ten miles, everyone shot nearly 30 arrows, no less than 800 Qiang people fell from the horse, and more Qiang people continued to chase with two or three arrows.
In fact, the Lu Bu Archery Cavalry Battalion was equipped with light-lethal hardwood bows, and if it was a heavy bow and arrow, it was not easy to pull it away on a running horse, even if it was pulled with a great reduction in accuracy. This kind of light bow is the current weapon, unless Lu Bu can develop a hand/crossbow, the lethality of crossbow arrows is much greater than that of bows and arrows. It's a pity that although Lu Bu has received many years of higher education in his memory and knows that there are such things as cannons and atoms/bullets, he can't even make a crossbow arrow that has been eliminated in the long river of history.
Light bows and arrows are also good, they can't kill you, they can hurt you, and the cavalry will fall off their horses if they are accidentally shot, and they can only be trampled by the subsequent cavalry charge, and the bones will be left and die. There is another advantage, the war horse will not be killed by an arrow, and the enemy's war horse is a trophy.
"Steady, steady, steady...... Keep charging and don't retreat. The leader of the Qiang people stopped blowing the trumpet, and directly told the shouting: "Hold the bow and prepare to counterattack!" ”
The Qiang cavalry grew up on war horses since childhood, and although they could not reach the archery battalion that kept running and shooting, they could still let go of the reins and barely shoot an arrow or two in a straight charge.
"Full speed ahead and running around the opposite hill." Lu Bu knew Qiang Hu very well, and once he reached a straight line, he immediately looked for a place with obstacles to run, and did not give Qiang a chance to ride. The Qiang cavalry belongs to rushing shooting, with inertia bonuses, and the range is farther than Lu Bu's archery battalion reverse shooting, and there are many Qiang people, so Lu Bu does not dare to be careless.
At the same time, Wei Yue led the sweat and blood horse to constantly harass and shoot on the side of the Qiang horse, once the Qiang horse was ready to counterattack, Wei Yue ran out of two hundred steps away with the soldiers shouting the slogan Oh Oh, and the Qiang war horse did not even have the possibility of catching up with the sweat and blood horse, and was passively beaten.
Wei Yue restrained from the side, and the two teams of cavalry cooperated closely on one side and the other, resulting in a gap in the range of the Qiang cavalry. Basically, from the beginning of the Qiang cavalry pursuit, it was faced with a one-sided massacre. The huge gap in the number of the two armies has become insignificant to the battle situation, and the Qiang cavalry is even more dense due to the large number of cavalry, and the enemy cavalry fleeing in front does not need to be deliberately aimed, and every arrow, a Qiang cavalry automatically collides with it, catering to the arrow piercing.
As the arrows ran out, Lü Bu ordered a temporary halt to shooting and let the cavalry concentrate
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) manipulate the war horse to escape. Escaping thirty miles of road, gradually approaching the direction of Qinchuan, the road ahead became more and more flat, it was difficult to find the next bend mound in a short time, and the archer battalion began to have sporadic casualties, as long as it was not hit by an arrow on the spot, the soldiers of the archery battalion would not fall off their horses due to injury, greatly reducing the number of casualties.
has been fleeing for more than 30 miles, the war horses began to foam, and if they don't rest, these war horses will be scrapped, although Lu Bu has plundered a lot of war horses and lost thousands of horses at once, he is still reluctant to give up, and this batch of war horses is the most majestic batch selected.
"Are these Qiang people going to consume war horses with me?" Lu Bu asked Pound next to him, Pound was sweating profusely manipulating the war horse, he didn't have the treatment of a stirrup saddle, and if he wanted to ride a stable war horse, he had to keep clamping his legs.
Pang De never knew that the cavalry under Lu Bu had such a high level of cavalry archery, and seeing the cavalry on horseback constantly firing arrows, he was frightened, if Lu Bu was given time, it would not be difficult to sweep the world with this cavalry. He was carefully observing the stirrups trampled by the cavalry and the saddle with the buttocks to ponder the reason, when he heard Lu Bu question, Pound said:
"There are indeed countless war horses in the Qiang tribe, but they can't withstand such consumption. The summer with abundant water and grass is good, but in this winter, the Qiang people have no extra concentrate to feed ordinary horses, except for war horses, the rest of the horses have long been fat. Although Song Jian has been the king for more than 20 years, he dominates one side, and he can't take out tens of thousands of war horses to sacrifice, and the last general speculates that it should be the enemy cavalry who feels the threat of the war horses under the command of Ming Gong, so he chases after him. ”
Hearing Pang De's explanation, Lu Bu relieved himself, since the Qiang people have no extra war horses, then first destroy this Qiang cavalry that went deep into Anding County. Waiting for Song Jian to send troops to take revenge in the coming year, Lu Bu already has a heavy army to hold Xiao Pass, and it is difficult for Song Jianjun to break through Xiao Pass.
Lu Bu took out the horn and ordered Wei Yue's sweat and blood cavalry to contain the Qiang cavalry with all his might, and he needed time to occupy the war horse. Sweat and blood horses travel thousands of miles a day, and there will be no major problem if they run for several hours in a row.
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