Chapter Eighty-Nine: Death Without Turning a Blind Eye
The iron hooves hit the earth, and the hearts of the horn soldiers were also pounding, after all, they were all on the battlefield for the first time, and there were no veterans in the battle, all of them were new soldiers, to say that they were not afraid was fake. But in ordinary training, the severe whipping made them dare not move, nor dare to make a sound, and they did not even dare to show their expressions of fear!
In normal training, as long as they have the slightest expression on their faces, the whip of the tun commander will be violently drawn on their bodies, and the severe, impersonal, and unreasonable punishment will make them have a conditioned reflex, no matter how fierce the enemy troops in front of them are, they will not be able to make any expression of fear!
Looking at the Hun cavalry rushing over like a black cloud, Li Qin only felt a dry mouth, he had killed people, seen blood, and experienced small-scale battles as early as when he exterminated the bandits. But now he understands that the reason why bandits are bandits and can't become a big climate is because they are too different from regular cavalrymen to be the same!
Moving his cheeks vigorously, Li Qin swallowed a little saliva and moistened his throat. He was nervous, but he must not show a nervous expression, if he panicked, the army would have to collapse immediately!
Li Qin laughed and shouted: "Look at it, this is the cavalry of the Huns, it's not bad, it's not as good as our cavalry." β
When the horn-raising soldiers heard this, they were a little relieved, but they were relieved, they didn't see that the Huns were worse than their own cavalry, and they were so hideous, on the contrary, they were even better!
Li Qin said again: "Brothers, listen, when we will kill people, everyone will be quick, kill all the Huns as soon as possible, let's start the fire and cook early, I have been tossing for so long a day, I am hungry, are you hungry?" β
At this kind of moment, who can feel hungry among the horn soldiers, but when Li Qin asked, they all found that they seemed to be really hungry.
Shen Yi shouted first: "Hungry! β
With the standard answer, the horners replied in unison: "Hungry!" β
Li Qin smiled again: "It's good to know that you are hungry, then let's fight quickly, slaughter all the Hun soldiers, and then let's eat their war horses, two per person, one for meat, and one for the side, not for anything else, just for the comfort of our hearts!" β
After a few pretending to be relaxed words, although it was normal to put it in general, there was nothing funny, but in this tense situation, the emotions of the horn soldiers were quickly relaxed, and as soon as they were not nervous, the usual training methods returned to their minds!
Zhao Zheng was holding a bow and arrow, standing at the northernmost end of the first row of queues, he thought to himself: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, when I was in the competition, I was too nervous to only stab twelve wooden balls, I can't be nervous anymore, this time I must kill a few more Hun soldiers, no less than twelve, there are more Hun soldiers than wooden balls!" β
The hooves roared, the Huns ran closer and closer, but the battle line was not too long, where the Fujiao soldiers stood, there were woods on the left and right, although it was not a big forest, mainly bushes, but for the cavalry, as long as it could reduce the speed of the horse, it was fatal and had to be bypassed!
The sudden attack of the Hun soldiers did not arrange the troops as usual, nor did they carry out a big detour to outflank, they saw that the Han soldiers were few, and there were half of them, the Han soldiers did not need to be taken into account, as long as a charge, tear apart the Han soldiers' formation, and when the Han soldiers were afraid, they turned around and fled, they followed behind and cut people. The Huns knew very well in their hearts that when the two armies were fighting, the real casualties were not when they cut each other, but when the enemy fled!
Therefore, the first charge must be fierce, to collapse the Han army at once, as long as they escape, then everything will be easy!
Three hundred steps! The horn soldiers did not move, just looked at the rushing Hun soldiers, and the Hun soldiers also looked at the horn soldiers in front, the soldiers in the two armies, no one pulled their bows, no one released arrows!
Two hundred and fifty paces, the horn soldiers were still not moving, and the Huns slowed down their horses and began to look around, as far as the eye could see, there were no ambushes, very good!
Two hundred steps, the horn soldiers still did not move, and the Hun soldiers no longer reined in their horses, and the horses galloped faster and faster, and they had already begun the final speed!
One hundred and fifty steps!
Li Qin shouted, "It's all there, readyβ" The horners all raised their bows and arrows, arrows pointing towards the sky, ready to shoot on their backs, but they were still silent; The Huns on the opposite side were screaming, and they all held their arrows in their hands, and after entering a hundred steps, they were about to release their arrows!
In the blink of an eye, the Huns were already one hundred and thirty paces away!
Li Qin shouted: "Release!" β
With his shout, the horned soldiers opened their bows and released arrows, and the first round of 400 feather arrows shot towards the Hun soldiers!
The Hun soldiers on the opposite side saw that the Fujiao soldiers suddenly released arrows, and the centurion at the front stopped screaming and shouted: "Good! β
The Han soldiers released the arrows too early, at such a distance, the arrows could be shot, but they could not pierce the armor, and the Han soldiers must be nervous, as long as the hand was a little soft when opening the bow, it was possible that they could not even shoot so far!
One hundred and ten steps, and one hundred and thirty steps are only twenty steps away, only twenty steps, but it is the dividing line between death and life!
Feathered arrows are roaring!
The sound of porphyria, the neighing of horses, the barking of people, just before this dividing line, all kinds of sounds are like sheep in the field when they suddenly encounter hail!
The brave Hun centurion, rushing to the front, had just finished shouting a good word, when he saw three or four arrows coming from mid-air, and he looked up on his horse and shouted, "Not good......
Wielding the horn bow in his hand, the long cavalry career, the elite background of the empty bag, made him extremely strong in martial arts, with a wave of the horn bow, knocked off two feather arrows, opened his right hand, grabbed an arrow that came over, and the side of the body, dodged the last arrow!
The strong martial arts made him safe and sound, and he escaped the fierce arrow rain of this round of horn soldiers...... However, his horse did not dodge!
A feathered arrow hit his horse by the neck, and the horse only took a few steps before he threw himself to the ground, knocking the brave centurion on his back and crushing one leg under him!
The brave centurion screamed and tried to get up, but at this most urgent moment, a horse's hoof stepped heavily on his back! The brave centurion's blood spurted wildly, and he fell to the ground, his body could not move, and when he looked ahead, he saw that the war horse that stepped on him had also fallen to the ground, and the Hun soldiers on the horse twisted their bodies and lay on their sides, and the two of them fell face to face!
The brave centurion saw that this subordinate who was once alive, with a feathered arrow in his forehead, had died long before he fell off his horse, and how could this subordinate die so simply that he did not have to suffer a little bit of pain!
The Han soldiers were still shooting arrows, round after round, and every round of arrow rain came, there was always a branch or two that shot the brave centurion, every time the arrow was hit, the centurion's body had to twitch, all had to twist, with the force of the arrow rotating, and finally he looked up to the sky, round eyes, looking at the sky!
The neighing of horses does not stop, the screams do not stop, whenever there are fallen horses and Hun soldiers around him, the brave centurion can feel the shock, I don't know how many people died again, but gradually he can no longer hear the screams, and he can not feel the vibration!
The eyes couldn't even blink, the brave centurion looked at the sky, how blue the sky, how white the clouds were, he remembered when he was a child, Daddy took him to ride a horse on the grassland, what a happy time, Daddy pointed to the north, and told him that there was a high snow-capped mountain over there, and there was a beautiful goddess living on the snow-capped mountain, and it could be seen that the goddess could not come back, because they only cared about the beautiful appearance of the goddess, and their bodies gradually became cold, and finally they were frozen to death on the snow-capped mountain!
I'm so cold, is it bleeding? The centurion never closed his eyes again!
"Put, put, put!" Li Qin gave orders one after another.
The horn soldiers in the formation, open the bow, open the bow, and then open the bow, until the chicken rib bow is scattered, then stop, all thrown to the back of the formation, and then take another chicken rib bow!
Suddenly, Li Qin shouted: "Stop, stop shooting, all stand up!" β
The horn soldiers straightened up and stood upright, and only then did they have time to catch their breath and look at the battlefield in front of them!
Everywhere you look, there are white feathers everywhere, dead corpses everywhere, and there are miserable howls made by the Hun soldiers before they die. The shooting just now, said that it was long, but it was actually fast, but it was less than half a meal, and this first round of combat was over!
The Huns had already begun to retreat, half a mile away, and they were also looking this way!
The Fujiao soldiers were all surprised, even if there was a strict order not to show their expressions, but they still opened their mouths wide and couldn't close them, this is the end, and the Hun soldiers will retreat?
Suddenly, a laugh came, but it was Jia Xu, he smiled, his expression was abnormal, obviously he was so excited that he couldn't control himself, pointing to the position in front, he smiled: "The best thing for the Huns is to release arrows, but we shot them to the ground, and they could only turn around and run!" God, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who told me, I wouldn't believe it, many of those Hun soldiers would not have died, right? This is called the good traveler drowning, and the good rider falling......" He laughed as he spoke, and the laughter grew louder and louder.
Li Qin turned his head and shouted angrily: "Shut up, don't laugh, when you are about to fight, you must not show your expression or make a sound, this is a strict order!" β
The laughter stopped abruptly, Jia Xulian claimed that he didn't dare to laugh anymore, but as soon as he didn't laugh, his emotions slowly returned to normal and he was no longer so excited!
Looking at the battlefield in front of him, Li Qin was not pleased, in the battle just now, the arrows of the Hun soldiers could not shoot, so it was only a one-sided slaughter, and the Fujiao soldiers won completely. But it was just an instant battle, but the horn soldiers shot out 4,000 arrows, but only killed the Huns in their early 300s, and many of them were injured because the war horses fell to the ground, and were trampled to death by the people behind, and even now there are still people who are not dead, and there are more than 200 people who were really killed by arrows!
Li Qin was shocked and anxious, and shot out 4,000 arrows at once, how many arrows did he bring in total, and he thought it was enough, but the Huns rushed a few more times, and they wouldn't die so much.
Under the rain of arrows, killing enemy soldiers is like reaping crops, killing in pieces is all fake, all fake!
The Hun soldiers who retreated far away on the opposite side were also shouting: "Which army is on the other side?" Haven't seen it before! β
"It seems to be called the Fujiao Army, yes, yes, it is called the Fujiao Army!"
"Damn, since it's called the Fujiao Army, why don't you use a horn bow, their bow is the same as a hard crossbow, such a shooting method, who can shoot them!"
"Ah understood, it's fake, they're not Han soldiers, they're pretending to be Shan Yu's wolf soldiers, they're all fake, they're all fake!"
The Huns were frightened and frightened, and they didn't know whether they should rush over again, they couldn't figure out which army on the opposite side was, and the commander of the thousand soldiers didn't come over!
Looking back, the Hun soldiers thought in their hearts: "What about the commander, where did he run away during the fierce battle?" β