Chapter 168: The First Battle of Hanyue [5]

"Speed up your march!" Fan Li ordered loudly, Fan Li didn't expect that the other party's weapon was so sharp, a few points more powerful than the Chu State Great Bow, which was known as the world's best, but his reaction speed was very fast, a few points faster than Yang Zilu.

At this time, Yang Zilu felt that he was too conservative in this battle, and the power of the longbowmen was beyond his expectations. He felt that even in the field, he was eighty percent sure of defeating the Yue army.

"Order the cavalry and go around the back of the Yue soldiers!" Yang Zilu roared at the heralds.

This time, the herald was a lot of trouble, the herald beside Yang Zilu conveyed the order to the longbowman located on the mountainside, the longbowman passed the order to the infantry at the foot of the mountain, and the infantry herald conveyed the order to the cavalry. Yang Zilu just hopes that these guys won't be nervous and say the wrong word. Fortunately, the herald did not live up to Yang Zilu's expectations, and the armored iron horse led by Yang Tugou interspersed with the Yue soldiers.

Now the Vietnamese soldiers are divided into two parts, one is the 300 people under Fan Li, and the reason why they did not attack together is to protect the baggage and wounded soldiers. In addition, these soldiers have just participated in logging, and their physical exertion is about the same. At the same time there were not enough tower shields to equip the soldiers. There is no tower shield on the battlefield, who knows, it is basically given to the longbowmen as targets, so they stayed with Fan Li.

The other part was the 500 Yue soldiers who launched the attack, and they were led by Zhu Yong himself. But at this moment, Yu Yong's heart is full of bitterness. Although they understood Yang Zilu's intentions, in order to block the rain of arrows, they had to turn their backs to the cavalry. Several Vietnamese soldiers turned around and held their shields on their backs, trying to resist the attack from both sides, but they soon regretted it.

As mentioned earlier, the arrows of the longbowmen are very powerful, and many of them penetrate the shield, revealing the arrows. If you hold it with your hand, the chance of being shot is still very small, but leaning on your back is different. When the unlucky ones were pierced in the back by the arrow, they screamed miserably, and their bodies moved involuntarily in pain, but this time it was even worse.

The tower shield fell to the ground due to the instinctive twitching of the soldier's sting. The arrow cut a long wound on the soldier's back, as if pulled by a sword. But this is not over, the Vietnamese soldiers who lost their tower shields seemed to appear in color. The beauty in front of the wolf, and it is also red. Bare. The naked kind. Without hesitation, the longbowman beckoned the arrow to the soldier's position, and the soldier quickly retreated from man to beast, the hedgehog.

Seeing this, the tongue Yong became even more entangled in his heart. If you fend off the arrows of the archers, you have to sell your back to the enemy's cavalry. If you deal with cavalry, you have to sell your back to the archers' arrows. It's just that there is no choice between this, no matter which one is defeated, but it is just a choice to die in the hands of swords and spears or in the hands of arrows. But time did not allow him to think about it now, and the enemy's cavalry would soon be behind them.

"All the troops press!" Fan Li's face turned dark, he couldn't let this situation continue, even if he paid a lot of casualties, he had to fight!

Fan Li immediately took the lead in meeting the cavalry with a bronze sword in one hand and a leather wooden shield in the other. Because the 300 Vietnamese soldiers all set off lightly, the speed was very fast. By the time the longbowmen reacted, they were only twenty paces away from the cavalry, a distance that could easily injure the cavalry by mistake, and the longbowmen were in a dilemma.

And the pressure of Tongue Yong was also light, and Tongue Yong knew that if he didn't seize the opportunity, he was afraid that there would be no possibility of turning the tables again, so he couldn't thank Fan Li. Pushing the bronze tower shield in front of him, he roared: "If you don't defeat the enemy, then the enemy will defeat you!" If you enter, you will live, and you will get 100 acres of land! If you retreat, you will die, and you will be scolded by the people! Why should you think about it! Defeat the enemy! ”

"Kill!" The Vietnamese soldiers were also demoralized by the tongue.

Tongue Yong led the soldiers to abandon the heavy tower shield, although they were taken care of by the longbowmen who reacted halfway, and people were constantly shot. But the Yue Kingdom can be regarded as a ruin this time, and all the Yue soldiers fearlessly followed behind Yu Yong. The distance of sixty steps is long and short, but in fact, if you abandon the tower shield and run away, it will only take sixteen or seventeen seconds. And except for the distance close to the foot of the mountain and the fear of accidental injury, the tongue is just a long-range strike of twelve or thirteen seconds.

Guarding the right flank was Ju Gu, who strictly abided by Yang Zilu's orders and fought against Tongue Yong in the mountains and forests. If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom were not as familiar with the terrain as the Yue people, I am afraid that Ju Gu would have led the soldiers and horses to retreat one after another, but the situation was not optimistic.

Yang Zilu's face turned dark when he saw this, and he took a deep breath to calm himself down. Even if Yang Zilu hates Fan Li very much, at this moment Yang Zilu has to admit that Fan Li is indeed unusual. Very good at seizing opportunities, but if only that's it! You Fan Li underestimate me Yang Zilu too much!

Yang Zilu was also aroused by Fan Li's monstrous battle intent, "Order the cavalry to leave the battle immediately!" ”

"Yes!" The herald replied loudly.

Although Yang Tugou didn't understand why he retreated when he had the upper hand, as one of Yang Zilu's henchmen, he didn't understand and didn't want to do so. But Yang Tugou still strictly obeyed Yang Zilu's orders and led the cavalry out of battle. At this time, the characteristics of the cavalry are fully reflected, speed! The cavalry easily got rid of the three hundred armor soldiers under Fan Li's command and threw them far away.

Before Fan Li had time to repel the enemy happily, he had already reacted immediately, his face changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "Oops! ”

The generals around Fan Li couldn't help but wonder when they heard this, why was it bad that they repelled the enemy's soldiers and horses? Before I could ask, I heard the sound of breaking the sky in the sky. Looking up, the Yue soldiers were so shocked that they only felt a cool breath rushing from the soles of their feet to the Tianling Gai. I saw a rain of arrows rising like dark clouds and shooting towards them.

"Retreat!" Fan Li didn't care about whether it would cause a big rout if the cavalry took the opportunity to cover up at this moment, but it was too late!

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