Chapter 53: Guarding the Village
In peacetime, there have been countless drills in the county, and it played an extremely important role in the war. Thousands of people are methodically busy.
The strong cavalry always has the advantage, at this time several of the scouts who were sent out were killed and wounded, and more than a dozen cavalry cavalry in the distance fled back in embarrassment, seeing that the clothes were their own cavalry, but followed by dozens of black-armored cavalry. The two teams of cavalry galloped and fired at each other. From time to time, people fall from their horses with arrows, or their horses run wildly with arrows, or they fall to the ground with serious injuries.
The horses with empty saddles galloped at high speed with the cavalry, and occasionally there were a few breaths left after the horses, and they were also trampled by the Xiliang cavalry behind. Blood and muddy water mixed together.
Seeing that his scouts were not in a good position, Chen Zhi ordered Deng Jian to lead a team of cavalry to meet him, and Deng Jian was the general of the Yellow Army who surrendered to the official army after conquering Shiguang. The physique is taller than ordinary people, and he is a brave warrior who is one in a hundred, especially with superb archery skills. The legs were between the horse's belly, and at the same time, the bow and arrow movement was extremely smooth, showing a superb riding skill, which was not inferior to the Western Liang cavalry on the opposite side.
Whoosh! It turned out to be a bow and two arrows, and it hit two Xiliang soldiers at the same time.
"Good!" A burst of applause erupted in the large array of officers and soldiers. The Xiliang cavalry on the opposite side is well-trained, no, it should be said that it is as simple as living on horseback for many years and almost drinking water and eating, facing the large force of enemy troops rushing in front of them, dozens of Xiliang cavalry horseheads are deflected, avoiding the edge of Shi Jianbu like flowing water, and fleeing into the distance. They also controlled the speed of their horses, and at this time, they increased their speed, and the enemy did not expect to be able to catch up with them in a short distance. While retreating, these people turned around on horseback to shoot arrows, and the same action was much smoother than that used by Chen Qiong's scouts before.
The Xiliang soldiers came faster than Chen Qiong expected, and when they rode their horses and whipped, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and the cavalry was surging like a flood of fierce beasts.
Cao Muma, Chen Qiong scolded, Xu Rong, this kid is cheating, just looking at this momentum, the cavalry alone exceeds 2,000 people, looking at the degree of armor, all of them are elite Xiliang iron cavalry, and the infantry team following behind is also around 15,000 or 6,000 people. The team of nearly 20,000 people actually made the outside world think that there were only more than 12,000 people, but in fact, the strength was greatly surpassed, and the enemy was placed together before the battle.
Woo----- long and desolate horn sound accompanied the stride of the Xiliang soldiers.
"Hey, hey!" The sword and shield hands in the Xiliang soldiers struck the shield with their swords, roared in unison, and the majestic first launched a tentative attack from the east of the camp.
Under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, a part of the Xiliang soldiers began to gather the iron thistles and wood tribulus terrestris sprinkled on the ground into a ball. On the other side, Chen Qiong naturally couldn't let Xiliang soldiers clear these obstacles smoothly.
Zhou Cang, who was already on the front line, raised his hand slightly, and more than two hundred longbow bowstrings made a tense squeak, and hundreds of arrows pointed obliquely at the sky.
"Put!" Zhou Cang waved his hand down.
Whoosh ......
Hundreds of arrows soared into the air and shot at the opposite side. Bang bang bang ... From time to time there was a muffled sound of arrows hitting the shield. Those Xiliang soldiers who had the courage to run out to collect the thistle terrestris were not spared, the arrow only penetrated through the body, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling on its body.
The retaliatory rain of arrows in the Xiliang army was quickly thrown over.
"Retreat!" Zhou Cang smiled, everyone took a few steps back, and the large wooden planks on the wooden cart that had already been waiting there were erected and lined up in front of them. The sword and shield hand raised the shield row above his head, and the row was densely packed. After a dull thud, the planks and shields were filled with arrows.
"Woo ---" There was another horn sound on the opposite side, and I saw the dense group of soldiers move to the side, and five or six rushing cars covered in cowhide quickly crashed towards the guardrail under the push of more than a dozen soldiers.
"Shoot the arrows!" Zhou Cang smiled coldly, although it is difficult to deal with the skin rushing cart, but those who push the cart have lost the protection of the shield, but they will be reduced to live rakes!
Ah---- on this battlefield, either die or live, die and be happy, I am afraid of being injured and suffering, after a rain of arrows, all the Xiliang soldiers who pushed the cart fell to the ground. The few who were not hit fell to the ground and screamed miserably. Soon, other Xiliang soldiers filled the vacant slots of dead and wounded.
After paying nearly 200 soldiers' lives, Skinskin crashed into the guardrail, knocking up the guardrail stakes that had been driven deep into the ground. Wooden stilts with dirt on stilts.
"Kill!" A sturdy Xiliang soldier leaped in, smiling and slashing at a wounded soldier's neck. But before he could take a few steps, several spears stabbed at different angles. A group of pikemen then blocked the gap, stabbing up and down in unison. Dozens of Xiliang soldiers who poured in were unprepared, howling miserably and falling under the guns one after another.
Whoosh ......
A rain of arrows was thrown, and dozens of pikemen and more than a dozen Xiliang soldiers were immediately killed and wounded, and mourning was everywhere.
"Huh...."A Xiliang Military Academy was holding a heavy round shield, and a ring-headed knife was obviously larger than the other soldiers. Taking advantage of the blank space at the guardrail, the Xiliang Military Academy rushed in and cut the soldiers in two with a single sword. Several stabbed spears were also cut off by one of the spear heads, Xiliang Military Academy rushed forward, left and right slashed the result of two people, the soldier in front of the Xiliang Military Academy was hit by the big shield of Xiliang Military Academy, the whole person fell far away, fell to the ground ribs were broken, and there was no breath.
"Death!" A loud shout sounded, and Liao Hua also changed to a large ring-head knife, under this kind of foot combat, the big knife is not as agile as the ring-hand knife.
Liao Hua kicked on the heavy shield, Xiliang Military Academy couldn't hold back his strength, and took a few steps back one after another. The two personal soldiers beside Liao Hua rolled to the ground, and while his position was unstable, they each slashed at his ankle with a knife. Xiliang Military Academy fell to the ground with a miserable howl, and the soldier next to him suddenly stabbed him in the throat.
Liao Hua strode over the corpse of the Xiliang Military Academy, and with a slash of his sword, he slashed and killed several Xiliang soldiers who rushed up.
Ha! A Xiliang soldier rolled on the ground a few times, holding Liao Hua's right leg tightly. Another Xiliang soldier jumped into the air and slashed at Liao Hua's neck.
Liao Hua kicked the Xiliang soldiers on the ground a few times, and the Xiliang soldiers vomited blood, but they didn't move at all. Liao Huasen smiled coldly, holding the handle of the knife with both hands, and slashed from the bottom up.
Boom! The long knife of the Xiliang soldiers who jumped in the air was actually slashed by Liao Hua, and before he could react, the knife flashed suddenly, and the Xiliang soldiers were cut into two sections in the air, and the misery of death made the Xiliang soldiers who followed closely behind also frightened.
Without waiting for Liao Hua's knife to cut down, the pro-soldier next to him had already jumped forward a few steps, grabbing the hair of the Xiliang soldier who hugged his leg and stabbing it to the throat, striking his head, but the headless corpse with blood gushing like a spring still hugged Liao Hua's right leg tightly.
"Get out of the way!" Liao Hua shouted, and the long knife in his hand swung down, and the arms of the headless corpse of the Xiliang soldiers were cut off in response.