Chapter 85: The Battle of Ji County
When Wei Duan felt that he would soon be unable to resist the offensive of the Xiliang rebels, he once again sent Yang Fu to ask Dong Shouye for help.
To say that this Yang Fu can really be said to be a mixture of luck and wisdom, breaking through the blockade of Han Sui and Ma Teng several times in a row is all dangerous.
After Dong Shouye met with Yang Fu, he didn't say any nonsense, and the soldiers and horses under his command were already hot-blooded.
This guy led the soldiers and horses and set off with Yang Fu on the same day.
Ma Teng has also been waiting for a long time on Dong Shouye's inevitable road.
This enemy was very red when he saw him, not to mention that Ma Teng felt that Dong Shouye had deceived his young heart.
Don't talk nonsense, just spread your arms and get started.
In fact, what Ma Teng didn't know was that the reason why Han Sui asked him to send troops to resist Dong Shouye's army was an extremely bad idea.
Han Sui saw that Dong Shouye's soldiers were strong and brave, and Dong Shouye was also resourceful, and he had bad water in his stomach, so he made up his mind to avoid any conflicts with Dong Shouye as much as possible, so as not to hit his head and bleed, if he rushed too hard and accidentally several generals under his command had to move their heads, the entire army would also suffer heavy losses, after all, Dong Zhuo's grizzly army was not vegetarian.
But Dong Shouye always has someone to resist, and the dead friends are not poor people, Han Sui still thinks it is better to let Ma Teng touch Dong Shouye's moldy head.
Ma Teng didn't know that Han Sui was deliberately scheming him, and he rushed forward desperately.
I saw Dong Shouye pull out the Xiang Yu treasure knife on his body with great vigor, and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Zhang Liao immediately rushed forward with a group of cavalry.
First, the knight accelerated with the horse's trot, then the knight mounted and drove the mount to gallop faster, then galloped faster, and finally accelerated with all his strength and began to charge.
It takes less than a minute to go from start to charge at full strength.
The cavalry led by Zhang Liao was trained by Dong Shouye and his generals in recent years, and it was an archer cavalry. With a longbow in hand and two pots of arrows, the whole army maintained a formation, rushed to the front of the Ma Teng army, drew the bow and shot arrows.
The horses that ran with great inertia increased the range of the archers under Zhang Liao's command, making the bow and arrow have a longer range, stronger strength, and stronger penetrating power.
A rain of arrows whizzed out, fell from the sky, and landed on the soldiers of Ma Tengjun, and there was a sound of shouting, which was the sound of Ma Tengjun's knights being shot by the archers under Zhang Liao's command, and Ma Tengjun's knights immediately planted off their horses.
When the two armies were fighting, they fell from their horses and had only one result, death. They were even trampled by thousands of horses' hooves, turned into pulp, and their bones were gone. There is no chance of survival.
Zhang Liao used this shooting method called projectile, that is, the whole army of archers will shoot the bow and arrow in their hands at an elevation angle of 45 degrees, forming a parabola, and then fall into the air, this design method pays attention to a large area of killing, no need to deliberately pursue shooting accuracy, as long as you can use the strong bow in your hand to shoot the bow and arrow, of course, this requires the soldiers under your command to be relatively strong in strength, can shoot the bow and arrow in their hands far enough, high enough, and all the soldiers should tend to be close in terms of strength, In this way, the rain of arrows shot is relatively dense, and if it is shot scattered, it will not form any lethality.
Just this wave of arrow rain knocked Ma Teng blind!
It is already rare that Ma Teng's army can make up 50,000 people, how can there be any good equipment to equip!
Not to mention the formation of archery troops, it is difficult to equip the whole army with ordinary weapons. Ma Teng's command is basically a United Nations army, to put it simply, it uses a variety of weapons, everything, just to be able to kill, and nothing else.
Although there are also some Han standard equipment, the number is too small, and it is all snatched from the hands of the official army, and it cannot form an establishment at all.
In this regard, Ma Teng can't be compared with Dong Shouye, Ma Teng is a poor and short rub, and Dong Shouye is a handsome and rich. Some soldiers in Ma Teng's army had no weapons and could only use bamboo spears, and the equipment in Dong Shouye's army was all the standard equipment of the Han official army, that is, powerful princes like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu could not come up with such luxurious, complete, and standard equipment as Dong Shouye.
When two armies are at war, weapons are not the decisive factor, but they are also one of the key factors in success or failure.
It is difficult to imagine what the fighting mentality of a warrior with a bamboo spear is like against a warrior with a steel spear, although the result is affected by multiple factors, but the probability of victory for the side of the steel spear is undoubtedly greater than that of the side with the bamboo spear.
If it is a formed unit, the result will be even more obvious.
The current Ma Teng has just gained a firm foothold in Xiliang, but he is not the Ma Teng who has been operating in Xiliang for decades in history, although his strength has been there, but it has not yet been consolidated.
After Zhang Liao led his troops to shoot the first wave of arrows, he immediately drew his bow again and shot the bow and arrows.
This time, instead of using a 45-degree elevation projectile, he chose to shoot directly flat.
This was due to the fact that the officers and men under Zhang Liao's command were already relatively close to Ma Teng's troops, and the distance between the two sides was less than 300 meters in a straight line.
The sound of a whooshing sound was heard, accompanied by a scream, mixed with the huge scene of thousands of horses galloping, but it seemed somewhat insignificant, and soon the sound was muffled by the sound of rumbling horses' hooves.
The geese have left a voice, and the people have left a name.
But some people are dead, even without a trace, just like the soldiers who died in the battle between the two armies, all of them were turned into meat puree, mixed together, and there was no one me, and one you could not be distinguished.
The flat shooting of the bow and arrow, coupled with the inertia brought by the horses running at full speed, is extremely powerful and penetrating, and the soldiers in the Ma Teng army are relatively poorly equipped, and few people can be equipped with a steel armor, that is, they do not even have ordinary leather armor.
Therefore, the arrows shot by the troops under Zhang Liao pierced through the bodies of the soldiers of Ma Teng's army without any resistance.
Under normal circumstances, the strength brought out by the strong inertia of the horse's charge makes the bow and arrow penetrate so powerful that even some people wearing armor made of steel are very likely to be pierced, let alone not even leather armor.
Scenes of tragedy happened in front of Ma Teng, making Ma Teng's heart seem to be dripping blood. At this time, he vaguely understood that Han Sui's arrangement seemed to be uneasy and kind, and he was to let himself act as the front of the army to block Dong Shouye's army.
Originally, Ma Teng's loss in capturing Ji County should have been greater than that of Dong Shouye, so he happily accepted the order. Only now did I find out that Dong Shouye is not easy to mess with, so why don't you attack Ji County? Wei Duan in Ji County is definitely easier to deal with than Dong Shouye.