Chapter 203: The Power of Mounted Archery

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Under the order, the seven hundred tiger tooth soldiers also suddenly dispersed. The Huya Army assembled in this way is extremely terrifying, but the single Huya soldiers are also quite strong. Those who are accustomed to surnames, five people and one team, each gallop up at the fastest speed, choosing the target of attack. The best way to deal with a nimble mounted archer on the battlefield is not to charge head-on, let alone stay on the left hand side of the mounted archer and run in parallel.

There is a saying that describes the skillfulness of martial arts archers and horses, which is called opening the bow left and right, which refers to the master of riding and archery. Control the horse with both feet, and then shoot at the enemy with a hard bow while galloping, if you can achieve a more accurate hit rate, you can already be regarded as a master of mounted archery. Typically, mounted archers hold the bow in their left hand and draw the string in their right hand to shoot. In this way, the range of the mounted archer is on his left side, directly behind and directly in front, in a sector of less than 180 degrees.

The direction of the right hand side that is slightly greater than 180 degrees is called the blind spot, because of the influence of body sitting posture and so on, it is impossible to draw the bow to this blind spot, unless you can open the bow left and right. However, in this world, no matter how many masters of riding and archery, there is not much possibility, everyone is proficient in opening the bow left and right, and everyone's left and right hands can be used as the main force. Even this elite cavalry and archery army can do this, but it is less than one in a hundred.

It can be seen that as long as the horse can be mounted against the right hand side of the horse archer, the horse archer will not be able to attack people. But a riding archer is not a lamb to the slaughter. Every good riding shooter is first and foremost a good rider. Accelerating or decelerating by controlling the horse's steering, it will try to grab the right blind spot in turn.

This process of scrambling for the blind spot on the right side is tactically called grabbing the right. Tiger tooth soldiers, if you want to talk about riding experience, may be worse than these Houjin horse archers who grew up on horseback since childhood. But they are first-class masters, or grandmasters. Whether it is in terms of physical fitness, or reflexes, it is far superior to these post-gold horse shooters. The most important thing is that their war horses are extremely good, they are already extremely excellent war horses, after forty-eight months of super-concentrated spiritual energy nourishment, as well as the effect of one Peiyuan Pill per month. The comprehensive quality of these war horses is exaggerated to the extreme. Strong, sensitive, fast. It is even much higher than the average horse. Moreover, they will not let the arrows shoot at their bodies casually, no matter how strong the armor on their bodies is, they can't withstand the shots of countless arrows. The lowest are all first-class masters. With the swing of the long knife in his hand, it was easy to cut off the sharp arrows that came from him.

In the process of grabbing the right, it also took the advantage. Once it is attached to the right side of one team of horse shooters, the rest of the team's horse shooters will not dare to shoot indiscriminately. Otherwise, there is a high chance that the arrow will hit your own people.

Zhao Zhe took the lead, and the long Shura Dao in his hand danced impenetrably, and the sharp arrows were bounced away. A distance of more than 100 meters rushed over in almost a few breaths, riding a horse to grab the right side of this cavalry, Shura Dao dexterous everything, did not use too much true qi, with the impact of treading snow, Shura Dao easily cut the neck of a riding archer.

The war horse galloped two more paces, and was about to collide with another archer, but the snow leaped to the right with great dexterity. At the same time, the sword was stored on the left rear side of the Shura Dao, and it slashed diagonally upward.

A faint sound sounded. Shuradao's heavy, yet sharp blade slid beautifully across his neck. When the snow fell, another horse archer was killed. Almost at the same time, Zhao Zhe gradually felt the charm of cavalry warfare. Often, a dash like this, followed by a small leap to the right, is just enough to allow the blade to cut off a person's neck.

The hundred-person team that was targeted by Zhao Zhe naturally couldn't be killed easily. They were also cavalrymen who were extremely good at horse warfare, and immediately the hundred-man team began to adjust their tactics, and ran to the left, trying to draw an arc and regain the right. However, Zhao Zhe, where would they be so wishy-washy? Controlling their speed and agility, they are far superior to their snow treading and chasing after them. Like maggots on tarsal bones, they clung to their tails. At great speed, one by one, they cleared the mounted archers who fell behind. This cavalry archery team wanted to change direction several times. But he couldn't get rid of Zhao Zhe, but he was slashed alive by Zhao Zhe more than 20 times one after another. How have they ever encountered such a perverted character, not only can the armor on his body not be able to shoot through, the martial arts are terrifying, and the war horse under the crotch is as strong as an ancient beast, but it is extremely flexible.

The centurion was in a hurry, and immediately ordered, and eight more teams were divided, and each dispersed in all directions. In this way, Zhao Zhe bites one team at most, in fact, he can't even bite one team. If a team gets bitten, they can immediately disperse in a solo state.

Mounted archery is really a very annoying tactic, Zhao Zhe was so angry that he tried his best to kill more than 20 of them. These riding archers are as alive as loaches in a pond. It is no wonder that the Mongols at that time, with their excellent riding and archery skills, played with the heavy cavalry in Europe. Thanks to these seven hundred tiger tooth troops, they all have a super-first-class war horse, otherwise they will really be worn to death by these horse archers one by one.

Zhao Zhe stuck his horse to the right side of the horse and did not kill him. But with extremely flexible riding skills, no matter he moves left and right, or stops and accelerates, it is firmly attached to him. Guy Zhao Zhe had also seen that this was their centurion, the hundred cavalry team he commanded. The other mounted archers, throwing rat traps, could not shoot arrows at Zhao Zhe, otherwise it was very likely to shoot their centurion. Just like a swarm of flies, running around.

Zhao Zhe, on the other hand, took advantage of the situation to take down the bow straddling the horse's side. This is a strong bow seized from Daoqin, and I don't know what kind of material it is made of. In short, it is extremely light to hold in the hand, but the pull is terrible. Even a strong soldier would not be able to pull the bowstring of this bow. Zhao Zhe has also tested that it takes some true qi to pull the strings.

But the arrows shot out are full of strength, even if they don't use true qi to attach to the arrows, the power is quite terrifying. Even the armor worn by the Tiger Tooth Soldier could not completely resist this kind of arrow.

Since you like to play mounted archery, then I will also accompany you to have fun. With this thought in mind, Zhao Zhe continued to control the horse and stick to the unlucky centurion. The bow was fired indiscriminately at a horse archer who was galloping on his horse. With a whoosh, the arrow flew almost a few feet away from him. After flying straight out for more than 100 meters, it was interspersed with a small mound, and the tail of the arrow directly sank into the mound, and I didn't know where to go.

Well, Zhao Zhe is also extremely embarrassed. Bow and arrow, although not the first time to play. But it was the first time to shoot an arrow at a gallop on a horse. I regret that I didn't bring some exquisite guns. With that thing, it's a lot easier to shoot these loach-like horse archers. Zhao Zhe didn't know that riding and archery was not such a simple thing to practice well. Even if you are good at riding and archery, if you want to practice riding and archery, you will not want to be proficient in a few years.

However, he is a person who is not willing to admit defeat. He shot arrows again and again, and after the only pot of arrows that was hanging and playing was shot in the air, only one arrow hit. And the one who was hit by the arrow was not the one Zhao Zhe originally wanted to shoot, and there was a difference of several horses between the two. However, Zhao Zhe felt that he was interested. Sticking to the hapless centurion, pinched his attempt to slash people with a scimitar. In the other hand, he snatched the two large bags of arrows that he hung on his waist.

The centurion, who had never been so disgraced, let go of him with Zhao Zhe's kindness and tried to use him as a shield again. He roared angrily, in a language that Zhao Zhe didn't understand. Immediately after that, he stopped and jumped off the horse. Roll backwards.

Almost at the same time, the cavalry archers, who had been gathering momentum for a long time, but had not fired a single arrow, held back a force. Dozens of arrows shot at each other. Zhao Zhe didn't want his beloved armor to be smashed, so he immediately urged the snow to run forward. Those dozens of arrows, all of them missed. The speed of stepping on the snow is really too fast, and the instantaneous explosive power is also extremely strong, and in a breath, it can often run out of ten zhang. This kind of speed falls into the eyes of people, like a ghost's extreme speed. Even those riding archers know how to calculate the amount of advance, and it is difficult to capture the running posture of stepping on the snow.

Newly got two big bags of arrows, Zhao Zhe borrowed the horse fast and thick skin. I started to try to shoot at the horse archers. Although his bow is extremely fast and has a long range, at a long distance, Zhao Zhe, who has not yet become familiar with cavalry shooting, will definitely not be able to shoot the cavalry that is still running a hundred meters away. Using the old method, he grabbed the right and aimed at a cavalryman in front, and after approaching quickly, when the two were only a few steps away, they maintained a constant speed and drew their bows to shoot to the left front.

"Zheng" sounded with a sharp arrow off the string, and at close range, the shooting angle was extremely comfortable. The arrow finally landed on a mounted archer. The extremely powerful arrow actually broke through his leather armor and body, and flew out dozens of meters with a slip of blood before falling diagonally. It can be seen how powerful this bow is.

After killing a person with riding and archery techniques, Zhao Zhe's interest increased greatly. He began to borrow the horse fast, the riding skills were good, and under the iron bucket that arrows could not penetrate, he began to play games with the riding archer.

The Grandmaster deserves to be a Grandmaster, and the Grandmaster's reflexes, body coordination, and learning abilities far surpass those of ordinary people. With strong comprehensive quality, Zhao Zhe is making progress little by little.

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(To be continued)