Chapter 198: Sudden Encounter with an Enemy by the River
The first to encounter the Khitan army was the 1,000-cavalry Tiande army, led by Zhe Congyuan's son Zhi Deyan himself, and the task was to hunt and kill the Khitan scouts.
When the scale of hunting and killing rises to the level of 1,000 people, the efficiency of hunting and killing scouts is actually quite high.
The 1,000-strong contingent of the Tiande Army was divided into three teams, the largest team of 500 people was driven by a dragnet, and the other two squads of more than 200 people were ambushed at the predetermined position and intercepted from the side. As if hunters were chasing rabbits on the grassland, the five hundred cavalry Tiande troops were drawn in a row, driving out one Khitan scout after another from the grass and various pits at the foot of the mountain, and then chased after them closely.
More than 50 Khitan scouts who were driven out ran wildly to flee for their lives, but it was not good to run, and more than 200 horsemen suddenly rushed out in front of them, and they rushed straight over and fired a volley of arrows, and shot down half of the Khitan scouts in one round.
At this time, the Khitan scouts are like a lost dog fleeing in panic, where do they dare to fight back! Ever heard the story of a bear? Don't care if you can outrun the bear, at least you have to outrun those companions around you to have any hope of survival!
Anyway, everyone can run as fast as they can, and if the front is blocked, then turn around! Not long after turning the corner, a small river in front of me blocked the way! And on the other side of the river, another cavalry of two hundred men appeared!
That's it!
The roads in all three directions are blocked, and the only way to survive is to wade through the river!
Although the water of this small river is very shallow, and it has just reached the belly of the horse, the speed of the war horse has come down when it has gone down the river.
The three cavalry of the Tiande Army quickly arrived at the river, and did not speak, directly covered the past with two rounds of arrow rain, and those Khitan soldiers who crossed the river in a panic were hit by arrows in the back, and fell in the middle of the river one after another, quickly dyeing a large area of the river red, and the floating corpses of various people and horses rolled and floated all the way along the current, floating downstream.
Zhe Deyan was satisfied with the calculation of his results today, plus this batch, just came out to forage this morning, and ate nearly 80 Khitan scouts, it seems that the efficiency is still quite high.
Just as he was about to order the whole army to rest in place, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a few Khitan cavalry emerging from the small hillside on the other side of the river!
On one side of the river was a plain, the banks of which were almost level with the water, but on the other side of the river were three or four meters high, and the water actually flowed around the hill on the other side, which was only about ten meters high.
Several Khitan cavalry popped up on the small hillside on the opposite bank, and as the ninth of the top ten archers in the Central Plains, Zhe De was quick to shoot, brushing the ground and raising his hand to shoot an arrow, hitting one of them, and the other party rolled over and rolled off the horse from a distance.
However, more Khitan cavalry emerged from the opposite bank!
"Withdraw!"
No matter how bold he was, he didn't dare to stay by the river.
Apparently there's a big force over there! The terrain on the other side of the river is higher, and the Khitan army should have seen the scale of nearly a thousand cavalry of the Tiande army, but they were not afraid at all, and they still continued to gather towards the river, and even some people had already descended the slope and began to cross the river!
"Run, run!"
The party cavalry on this side of the river turned their horses' heads and slapped their horses to speed away from the river.
As soon as the Tiande army ran like this, the Khitan army behind them became even more energetic, and they began to cross the river with a bang.
Ever heard of the half-crossing attack? It is to take advantage of the enemy's crossing of the river to cross the river halfway, and then kill the general, and there will be a rich harvest. Although the Zhe family is a military talent, it is also a family of scholars!
Of course, he has read the story of the half-crossing attack, where is he willing to let go of this opportunity to make meritorious contributions!
The Tiande army ran out for less than two miles, and then turned around and began to line up.
This Tiande army came out to hunt and kill the scout cavalry, and there were no heavy cavalry deployed in the team, all of them were light cavalry. But it doesn't matter, since Zhedelan is good at archery, half of the team he leads is naturally an archer with bows and arrows. The archers are placed in the front three rows, and after shooting, they will naturally disperse, and wait for the light cavalry behind to rush up and slash!
Although it has only been a few days since Zhi Congyuan's father and son took over the Tiande Army, the speed of the Tiande Army's formation is very fast, and it is obvious that these two fathers and sons have their own set of military management capabilities! In addition, everyone is a party member, with the same voice, and came to this place to restore the past glory of the party and the family, and recover the so-called "party homeland", naturally everyone is excited, disciplined, and morale is high!
After a while, the German army in a thousand days lined up the posture of charging into battle, ready to go!
But, wait!
The Khitan army was crossing the river in Wuyang at this time, the middle of the river was black and pressing, densely packed with cavalry, people shouted and neighed, and hundreds of people on the bank had already gone ashore, and they were also arranged.
The hundreds of people who crossed the river are not the point, the point is that this section of the river is not the only one with relatively shallow water!
The entire river is shallow for several kilometers long! The Khitan army can cross the river on all the shoals!
Zhe De saw clearly that the size of the Khitan army on the opposite bank was at least 5,000 people, and it was stretched to a width of two kilometers, and thousands of people were crossing the river together at the same time!
I'm wiping, fortunately, I just lined up for pretending to be forced, if I accidentally fainted and got entangled, I couldn't run away if I wanted to!
No, I don't dare to fight!
"Turn! Slalom! Run! ”
One thousand light cavalry, where would you dare to touch a brigade of five thousand light and heavy mixed cavalry!
In this thousand days, the German light cavalry could not care about making profits, and everyone turned around together and began to run backwards.
The Khitan army behind looked at it, why did you run away again? Are you still fighting?
Probably a little anxious, the nearly 1,000 Khitan cavalry who had just come ashore no longer lined up, and they started to chase after them directly!
The 1,000-day German army ran wildly in front, and the 1,000-day Khitan army chased wildly behind, and within five miles, the Khitan cavalry gradually caught up.
There's no way, the Tiande Army is all coming from the side of the Dingyan Army, and they are all riding high-headed horses in the Western Regions!
The horses of the Western Regions are tall, but their endurance is far inferior to the Khitan horses in the northern grasslands, and it took a lot of horsepower to pursue the Khitan scouts before, and they haven't had time to rest, and now they have to start running for their lives, so it's no wonder that they won't be caught up by the Khitans!
The Khitan army ran the fastest, chasing the person in front, and the two sides were already close to about three hundred meters from the last person hanging behind the ass of the Tiande army.
Who is running behind the German army? Fold the German wall!
Just now, the front team changed to the back team, and he turned around and ran directly, who made him prepare to rush to the front just now to "attack halfway"!
As soon as he saw that the Khitan army was catching up, Zhe Delan didn't talk nonsense, and immediately pulled out the longbow on horseback!
But how do you shoot?
We have already said when we criticized Xiao Baiwen earlier that turning around and shooting is a technical job, and the requirements for the waist are very high, and if you are not careful, you will be injured! Where do ordinary archers dare to turn around and shoot backwards casually!
As a nineteen-year-old young man who ranked ninth in the top ten archers in the Central Plains, Zhe Deyan was not an ordinary archer, and of course he couldn't turn around and shoot.
No way, every mortal in the world has his own flaws and habits.
For example, this fold is lustful!
Ever since he opened meat at the age of fifteen, the young man has been madly obsessed with it. The father of the family is the assassin of Fuzhou, and the grandfather is also a retired civil servant, where can a noble son like Zhe Deyan worry that there is no woman around him!
Eighteen or nineteen years old is the age when boys are the most vigorous, and the son is made at sunrise, sunset, and fell, without moderation at all, and excessive and frequent expeditions, resulting in serious strain on the psoas muscles, and he has long dared not turn around and shoot arrows on the horse!
However, although he didn't dare to turn around and shoot, he grew up playing with horses since he was a child, and his riding skills were very exquisite!
So he simply turned around, turned his face towards the horse's buttocks, pressed the horse's reins with his thighs, and rode upside down!
When the Khitan soldiers who rushed to the front saw it, hey, how could there be a birdman's face, and he turned backwards and rushed at the horse's buttocks?
Before he could react, an arrow from 300 meters away flew in the air, and the Khitan soldier who ran fastest in the middle fell off his horse with an arrow!
Zhe De Yan is a first-class archery master, once you start to bend the bow and shoot arrows, where will be polite to you! One arrow after another, a meteor shower shot over, one, two, three, each arrow must be hit, and the arrow is not missing!
In the blink of an eye, all the feather arrows of the quiver were shot! More than 20 Khitan cavalry who rushed to the front were shot down!
Ordinary people's quiver contains twenty or thirty arrows, and the bow and arrow of the folded German wall are the guys who eat! His solution was to hang five more quivers in the saddle.
After shooting one pot, immediately open another pot and start shooting again!
By the time he finished shooting the third pot of arrows, the speed of the Khitan cavalry slowed down significantly! No one dared to get any closer.
However, at the beginning, the Khitan army that pursued the Tiande army only had 1,000 horsemen, and this group of people slowed down, but the other 4,000 horsemen who crossed the river quickly followed, and merged with the 1,000 Khitan soldiers who started the pursuit at the earliest!
Zhe De was so frightened that his soul flew away, and Nima actually chased after five thousand horsemen, it seems that today is more troublesome!
Hurriedly turned around, rode back on the horse, and slapped the horse to speed up! (To be continued.) )