Chapter 281: A Small Victory
"Lord Captain, we only have about five hundred people gathered here now, do we still want to carry out operations against the cavalry of the Black Snake Army below?"
Luo Yi pondered for a moment, slapped his left palm with his right fist, and said, "Action, you must act." We can't rely on scattered archers to inflict a devastating blow on the Black Snake Army. Although there are many of us, there are not many real archers, most of whom have just started to touch bows and arrows, and the casualties that can be brought to the Black Snake Army are not large. If they were all archers, I am afraid that if they were here, none of the three thousand Black Snake Army would be able to escape. ”
"In order to reduce casualties among the cavalry and the brothers of the first battalion at the mouth of the river, the cavalry must be killed as much as possible. But now, there are more than 1,000 cavalry, and there are still seven or eight hundred. So, this time we have to deal a heavy blow to them. ”
"However, although it is difficult for the Black Snake Army cavalry to exert their combat power under this kind of terrain, with just five hundred of us, I am afraid it will be difficult to completely annihilate these more than seven hundred Black Snake Army cavalry, let alone the Black Snake Army foot soldiers who can support at any time."
Luo Yi smiled: "It's okay, I don't plan to wipe them out." They are still some distance from the exit, as long as we fold a small half, and the rest go to the exit, I am afraid that there will not be too much left. ”
Luo Yi pointed to the short distance below and said, "Look there, because of the corner of the mountain and rocks, the road there is steeply narrow, only less than ten meters, and you can only pass three people at a time. As long as that passage is stuck, we can leave the severed Black Snake Army cavalry behind and destroy it without worrying about the support of the Black Snake Army in front of us. In order to completely annihilate the opponent and reduce our losses, we only need to leave 300 cavalry behind this time. Five hundred against three hundred, there is no problem at all, and more importantly, here, the cavalry is completely ineffective, and is not even as flexible as the foot soldiers. ”
"Remember, you have to move fast, you have to wipe it out. I know everyone is tired, but these Black Snake Army are more tired than us, they have been running for most of the day and haven't even eaten. Xu Mai, you take your team to cut off the enemy's retreat and give me reinforcements in front of the dead card master. Zhang Ling and I led people from both sides to attack, the archers suppressed from afar, and the rest fought in close combat. Do you all understand? ”
"Understood!"
Luo Yi nodded and said decisively: "Action!" ”
Each captain led his team into the grass on both sides of the road and lurked for help. Real archers also took a good position, silently lurking. Xu Mai, on the other hand, was about fifty meters away from them, lurking in the westernmost part of the narrowest road.
There had been no arrow raids for a while, and these Black Snake cavalry were much more relaxed, but their mood was still tense. I am also worried about the situation in front of me.
One by one, the cavalry leads to the Guò mountain road. After most of the time passed, the best target entered the shooting distance, Xu Mai quietly half-squatted up, pulled his bow and arrows, and reached the full moon, and then gently let go, only to hear a whoosh, the arrow with a sharp sound of breaking the air, accurately penetrating the neck of the cavalry. Subsequently, the war horse under his crotch was also shot down. Together with the next few soldiers, seven or eight soldiers were all killed by the sudden arrows, and even the war horses under their crotches fell, blocking the narrow road.
The black snake cavalry snorted, clutched his neck, and fell down unwillingly, bright red blood gushed out from his fingers, he wanted to grab something, but he never caught it, because someone came up quickly from the side and stepped on his throat, he struggled weakly twice, and finally completely lost his breath.
Xu Mai, who released the arrow, immediately let go of the big bow in his hand, drew his long knife, and quickly followed, and after stomping the throat of the cavalryman who was shot by himself, he quickly pulled out his waist knife and faced the cavalry who continued to come. As for the cavalry who had just passed, it would be a problem for a while to turn around. Only after the narrow passage through Guò, which is more than a meter, can the horse's head be turned sideways and turn back to fight.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The rest of the cavalry immediately shouted.
"Die!"
Luo Yi roared angrily, brandished a horizontal knife and rushed forward, the blade spun, and cut down the cavalry who shouted loudly, and the rest of the Black Snake Army cavalry was killed one by one by the Shunzhou army that followed before they could react.
At the same time, the archers in the rear began to exert their might.
"Whoosh!" Seeing Luo Yi raise his hand, the more than 100 life archers who were ambushed in the rear immediately appeared, and the continuous bowstring sounded with a whoosh, and nearly 100 cavalry of the Black Snake Army fell immediately. This includes a team rate.
The captain had been shot hard by the archer on the bridge of his nose and three in the chest, and it seemed that more than one of them had taken aim at him. Subsequently, the team leader fell off the horse and was trampled on the neck by the chaotic war horses around him. Just listen to the click of the neck and break, the whole body is in a very unnatural state.
Luo Yi didn't stop at all, the horizontal knife in his hand flew up and down, and those Black Snake Army cavalry who were close only felt a chill on their heads, and then lost consciousness, and the companion next to it only felt that a blood mist was splashed in front of him, and he also lost consciousness, and his two heads flew high, and blood spurted out wildly. Luo Yi raised his knife and fell, and two more Black Snake Army soldiers fell to the ground. Speaking of which, this is also the fault of the cavalry's inability to move here. The terrain is not spacious, but it has to be crowded together because of the acceleration of travel. It doesn't work flexibly at all, and it's much more convenient for foot soldiers.
At this moment, the Black Snake Army was completely stunned, they didn't expect that they would be ambushed by the Shunzhou Army here, and they didn't hesitate to kill it. Even, they didn't even see the figure of the Shunzhou army clearly, the people in front wanted to turn around and pull back to open the distance, but the people behind kept their inertia and ran forward, ready to join the battle. The two sides crashed into each other, and there was chaos.
The rest of the teams of Shunzhou sergeants and others took the opportunity to kill from both sides, like a knife, inserted into the ranks of the Black Snake Army. As for the cavalry of the Black Snake Army, which was ready to counterattack with bows and arrows, they had already become the main targets of the archers of the Shunzhou Army. Because of the repeated violations of the Black Snake Army in the past, these Shunzhou troops have been defeated repeatedly, and they have long been holding their breath, and they can finally vent it at this time. The scimitar slashed down diagonally, and a cavalryman of the Black Snake Army was slashed from his waist, and the internal organs in his stomach suddenly slipped down, and the cavalry also fell off his horse with a terrible shout. The war horses of the Black Snake Army gave the Shunzhou Army infantry the best defensive tools, which greatly affected the attack of the Black Snake Army's cavalry.
Among them, the most fierce was Luo Yi, and the horizontal knife he used temporarily had already been smashed in two because of the collision with the heavy weapons of the Black Snake Army. At this moment, he is using his own Cold Moon Knife, in the middle of the Black Snake Army cavalry, there are enemies in front and behind, but he is not afraid, it uses the war horses that are no one around, dodging left and right, and killing is particularly easy. In the middle of his breath, four more Black Snake Soldiers fell under his sword, and it was really like entering a no-man's land.
At the beginning, a few soldiers of the Black Snake Army took the initiative to come up to block Luo Yi, but they all lay on the ground, and the rest of the Black Snake Army cavalry immediately learned to be obedient and did not rush towards Luo Yi, but they were surrounded by their own people and ownerless war horses, as well as the wolf-like Shunzhou army, they had no chance to escape at all.
The Black Snake Army, which had turned around in front, also began to return to help, but only three people could pass through the narrow passage. This place has long been blocked by Xu Mai's team, and they can't rush through at all, they can only watch as more than 300 Black Snake Army cavalry are pressed and beaten by the Shunzhou army of 500 people within a range of hundreds of meters.
In the eyes of the Black Snake Army, the Shunzhou Army is completely a soft persimmon, and it is impossible to be so brave. Now, these Black Snake Junhuai didn't expect such an encounter at all, they had already panicked in their hearts, and they were frantically killed by these wolf-like Shunzhou troops, and they had no intention of fighting at all, and habitually turned around and ran, but unfortunately, they were crowded and couldn't leave at all, besides, the surrounding Shunzhou troops would not let them leave.
Now Luo Yi is completely crazy, and several Black Snake Army cavalry were chopped up by him and his people, and there was a blur of flesh and blood all around. The sharpness of the Cold Moon Knife is obviously not comparable to ordinary weapons.
The team of archers also plays to their strengths. In addition to shooting cavalry that were ready to counterattack with longbows, it also specialized in curbing the enemy's retreat, and in addition, assisting the infantry in killing and wounding enemy troops. Many of them shot multiple enemies in succession alone, greatly reducing the threat of the Shunzhou army's foot soldiers.
There was Xu Mai in front of him, and the Shunzhou army was chasing and beating fiercely, and the back road behind was broken. Coupled with the secret arrow attacks of archers from time to time, more than 300 cavalry of the Black Snake Army fled east and west, but in the end they did not escape the fate of destruction, and in the end, more than 300 corpses were left lying on the road.
"Tell you to kill our men! that you may plunder our people! Do you have it today? ”
There was a soldier named Kang Yan, cursing in a low voice, carrying a horizontal knife, responsible for cleaning the battlefield, and when he found the soldiers of the Black Snake Army who were not dying, he stuck a knife in their throats and sent them out of this world.
"Withdraw!" The Black Snake Army in front saw the death of their companions who were ambushed by the Shunzhou Army one after another, knowing that they were completely finished, and they were powerless to return to the sky, the officers were shocked and angry and ordered the soldiers not to return to help and accelerate their advance.
"Lord Captain, it's finally done, we've succeeded!" Xu Mai, who was covered in blood, laughed and shouted frantically.
"Yes! We did it! Now, treat the wounded immediately, and leave these horses here for the time being, waiting for the aftermath of the war. Luo Yi also said happily.
"My lord, we have lost more than 200 people, of which more than 170 people were killed and more than 20 were seriously injured, basically all of them were slightly injured."
"Alas...... They are all heroes in the Shunzhou army, write down the list, and the adults will arrange it properly. Luo Yi said faintly.