The two armies stopped at this time, and formed a situation where Chen Zhi and Cao surnamed were far away from each other from tens of thousands of enemy troops, and the spear formation of the enemy army in front of the two people, countless sharp spears were like hedgehogs waiting for the two teams of cavalry to charge, and the bows and arrows in the middle of the spear array were also ready, and ten thousand arrows could be fired at the same time as an order, and there was a team of cavalry guards on both wings of the spear array.

But a strange scene appeared, the two did not charge, and after stopping, they shouted: "Put away the long knife, equip the bow and arrow, and surround the crowd with thousands of horses!" ”

Listening to the soft sound of "jingling bells", the five thousand horsemen neatly put away their swords, replaced them with iron tire bows and wolf's tooth arrows, and the two teams of men and horses bent their bows and arrows, and also shot diagonally upwards at a forty-five degree angle! The difference was that two groups of people sat on horseback and one knelt on one knee.

"Shoot the arrows!" With the order, the two teams released arrows one after another, and with a whistling sound of breaking through the air, five thousand feathered arrows flew like raindrops towards the enemy's spear array.

Shan Jing and Yan Gang immediately panicked, and shouted at the same time: "Release the arrow!" Hurry up and release the arrows! The two teams of archers in the spear formation also let go of their bowstrings, and the two groups of men and horses fought together for long-range fire.

In this way, the problem arises, the quality and range of the bow and arrow are not to mention for the time being, the distance alone gives Ma Chao's cavalry a great advantage, they are only eighty paces away from the spear array, and the single archers are one hundred and twenty steps away from Ma Chao's cavalry. The effective range of the authentic two-stone iron-tired bow can reach 100 paces, which means that Ma Chao's cavalry can shoot the spearmen on the periphery, while the archers inside can hardly pose an actual threat because of the difference of 20 paces.

The screams were endless, five thousand arrows were shot into the dense spear array, even if the hit rate was only one percent, it was enough to cause five hundred casualties, and ten thousand people were only twenty five hundred, who could stand it like this? After a lot of hatred, I suddenly remembered the world-famous Shenwei Battalion under Ma Chao, wasn't it this tactic that the Shenwei Battalion won in the Southern Xiongnu and Wuheng at the beginning?

"Archers come forward! Concentrate on the periphery and shoot at it! The two hurriedly adjusted their tactics and tried to confront them.

"Ready! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Ready! Shoot the arrows! ”

Chen Zhi and Cao surnamed saw that the other party did not charge, but only commanded their respective men and horses to snipe with bows and arrows, and their hearts were ecstatic. If you can annihilate 10,000 enemies this time, you can get an average of two heads per person, and the reward is a lot of money.

Since the implementation of the military rank system, even senior generals such as Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, and Ma Xiu have to start as privates. For example, Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, Pang De, Fa Zheng and the soldiers of the Shenwei Battalion have been in the army for four years, and they are all sergeants, and the soldiers who have been captured and recruited have to start over, but the military rank of Zhang Hebu is generally higher, and that is because of the military exploits made when resisting the Yellow Turban thieves entering Bohai County.

Every time a soldier kills a Yellow Turban thief, he can increase his military age by one month, but Jiu Chengren exchanges his head for military age, after all, it is more cost-effective to upgrade his rank in the long run. Besides, in the barracks, I don't see you looking up, who doesn't have the heart to compare, Ma Chao also designed a set of simple epaulettes, divided into three kinds of light red, medium red and dark red, the private's epaulettes are yellow, the corporal is with a light red bar, the sergeant is two, the sergeant is three, and the lieutenant becomes a medium red, and so on, the highest colonel is the dark red three, which looks clear at a glance.

After five rounds of shooting, I felt unbearable and couldn't help it, mainly because the equipment was too well-equipped, and it was obvious that after long-term training, the overall quality was more than a notch higher. The private soldiers under his command were originally domestic slaves, although they were much stronger than the Yellow Turban Thieves, but compared with Ma Chao's regular troops, they were simply worlds apart.

First of all, they have money that is either used for pleasure or hidden, where is they willing to invest it in ordinary soldiers? Anyway, Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves are everywhere, and if they die, they will gather a group of people. As long as they are fed, someone will give them their lives at any time, so most of the soldiers under their command are equipped with cowhide armor, and most of them are made at their own expense, and many people have no armor at all, and their weapons are spears and bows and arrows, and there are few sword and shield soldiers and simple sword soldiers.

There's no way around it, spears and bows and arrows are cheap! All you need is a spear head and a wooden barrel, and bows and arrows are made of fine bamboo or birch and other hardwoods and pulled with cow tendons, all at a low cost. The sword and shield soldiers are different, it has only been less than 400 years since they said goodbye to bronze, and the grassland people still use bronze weapons! Refined iron and salt are controlled by the imperial court, and they cannot be obtained in large quantities with money. Ma Chao sits in the land of three states, controls the imperial court, and often worries about the lack of refined iron! Not to mention the war-torn Qingzhou.

On the other hand, Ma Chao's part is really envious of others! Even ordinary pawns have fish scale armor and black iron helmets, and everyone is armed with a horse chopping knife and an iron tire bow, both near and far, neatly and consistently. Not only that, even the horses that sit down are equipped with horse armor, unless they are shot at close range, it is difficult to cause casualties to the opponent at a distance of about 100 paces. If the two of them knew that Ma Chao's heavy armored cavalry was ten times more terrifying than this, they didn't know how they would feel in their hearts.

After only a few rounds of shooting, the two were completely desperate, looked at each other, and said in a low voice: "It's better to charge with cavalry!" Fight with them! ”

Yan Gang hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't kill yourself, we only have 3,000 cavalry in our hands, and one person and one arrow can let me wait for the whole army to be annihilated." ”

Shan Jing said: "How good should it be, I really didn't expect Ma Chao thief to have such a ability, this team is the lord's white horse righteousness, how much is better!" ”

Yan Gang sighed: "Ma Chao has unpredictable abilities, but we are too light on the enemy, if we want to survive in front of us, the only way to survive is to give up the infantry army and only take the cavalry to Changyi City to temporarily avoid its edge, and when the pursuers retreat, the two of us immediately set off from the sea to Youzhou to join the lord and have a way to live!" ”

After pondering for a while, although he was reluctant, but now he had no choice but to do so, and after discussing it for a while, he shouted: "The whole army is defending, and the cavalry will follow me and the two of us to make a detour and outflank it!" ”

Nearly 10,000 people were already in chaos, and the spearmen kept waving their spears to try to push away the flying arrows, and the archers did not dare to go to the periphery to shoot at them, and they all hid in the center of the large array. Six or seven thousand people, except for the more than 1,000 who died in battle, were all in a mess with panic and screams.

The two took advantage of the chaos to gather nearly 3,000 remnants of cavalry, and rushed straight to the southeast without even saying hello. The Lord fled, and the rest had no desire to fight, and rushed to the gap on both sides. (To be continued.) )