With his horse convoy of less than a hundred horsemen, Unqi left behind the Rakshasas, who were several times his size, and roared past the gate of their camp as if no one was around.

This is the full embodiment of the "half-point leader" of the wit!

The current form is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The so-called "shoot a man first and shoot a horse first, and capture a thief and capture the king first", this truth is very familiar to the "old liner" Wu Enqi. If there is a head-on conflict, no matter how confident you are in the combat power of your subordinates, you can't rashly take a hundred people to fight five hundred people. But now the leader of these 500 men is leaving the camp with a few men to go hunting in the riverbank, is it not a godsend?

"Quick! Fast! Rush through the woods! ”

Un took the lead in choosing the shortest straight-line distance and galloped towards the river. As long as you pass through this coniferous forest, there is a small open field, and the river bend is behind the birch forest on the other side of the open field!

Half-point leader Wu Enqi kept turning back and shouting, observing the movement of the Rakshasa camp by the way. The brothers with blue flags behind him were full of energy, and they continued to join the "dark sentinels" scattered everywhere along the way, and the team was getting bigger and bigger. Even so, the scale of half a cow is only a little more than a hundred.

Sure enough, after only a quarter of the time to run through the Rakshasa camp, behind the Daqing horse team, the sound of the hooves of the Rakshasa cavalry was finally heard, but the momentum was much louder than on his side. This is also natural, there are more than 200 people, and we are half of them here! But as long as you capture their already drunk leaders first, it will be much easier to do it later!

The two teams of cavalry, one in front and one behind, gathered three or four arrows, and they rushed to each other like this. But soon. The same path had different effects on different cavalrymen - the Qing Dynasty used shorter Mongolian horses, which were perhaps not as fast as the Cossacks' Don hippos, but once they left the road and walked through the woods, the advantage of the Mongol horse's agility and durability was unmistakable. The Don hippopotamus is running through the dense forest, and it still looks too tall! It was often the branch that the Qing soldiers could pass by as soon as they lowered their heads, and when they got to the Cossacks, they had to take a detour! After two or three Don hippopotamus horses stumbled in succession, the Cossacks had to slow down their pursuit a little.

"Quick! Warriors! Kill those cunning short Tatars! The Cossacks were anxiously encouraging and urging each other, and although they also had great riding skills, the limitations of natural conditions could not be overcome by these horseback peoples in a hurry......

"Quick! Go to Riverbend! The Manchurian cavalry greeted each other and reminded. Most of the team had already made it through the small taiga. I stepped on that small open field as I wished......

Finally, walking through the birch forest in front of you is the destination!

"Look, my lord!" The little leader who was leading the way on the side suddenly pointed ahead and shouted loudly. Unqi looked in the direction of his finger. Sure enough, there were a dozen or so swaying Rakshasa people. They have just emerged from the birch forest and are walking in the opposite direction. It's open field, and it's just a stone's throw away!

The hapless Captain Peter and Jermak Jr. were already drunken and dangling on horseback. Naturally, the duck was not hunted, but that was not the end in the first place. The purpose of the trip. It's just a matter of leaving the camp and having a good drink. From this point of view, the two people have basically fulfilled their wishes. If it weren't for the fact that little Yermak "missed" and shot the short-eyed, Taowan man Alkildas [Alji], who left the camp without permission, and came to find the dead by himself, as well as the sudden noisy sound from the direction of the camp, and the annoying reminders and persuasions of the soldiers, the two of them would never have stopped drinking so easily!

"Your Excellency, Captain! Buryats! One of Peter's own soldiers, who was holding his horse, spotted Unki's horse team almost at the same time and was shocked.

"What? Buryats? Peter didn't seem to understand, and repeated as he dangled in the saddle.

"How is that possible...... Yes! Captain Peter, run! Little Yermak, who was also swaying, wisely opened one eye, and then suddenly became much more sober, and after the next sentence, he turned his horse's head with great speed, and ran back into the birch grove, leaving behind his boss and his drinking friend, His Excellency Peter.

"Brothers, catch the leader for me, and kill the rest!"

Wu Enqi shouted, and at the same time, he had already taken off the five-foot-seven-inch long, twelve-strong Manchurian composite ox horn bow [the bow is 1.78 meters long, belonging to the "middle bow" of the Qing soldiers], straightened up on the galloping warhorse, held his breath, and steadily mounted a sharp arrow......

"Whoosh-"

With the sound of long arrows rubbing against the air, the Rakshasa who led Peter's horse clutched his throat with both hands, unable to make a sound, and struggled to the ground, blood pouring out from his fingers, and convulsions in pain.

It's less than fifty paces away, which is a breeze for Uenqi! Behind him, the fastest horses that followed him the most closely also shot out long arrows with quite accurate heads, instantly knocking down the four Rakshasa soldiers on foot.

"Kill—"

The distance was too close, and the more than ten Eight Banner soldiers in front had already drawn out the Yanling knife on their waists, stood in mid-air, and pursued into the woods.

As dozens of war horses arrived behind them, the soldiers spontaneously divided into two teams - a small team followed Uenqi to chase and kill the six or seven remaining Rakshasas who were panicking, but most of them chose the end of a relatively wide open space, turned their horses' heads one after another, and lined up in a neat array of horses!

Waiting, just waiting, the Manchurian cavalry with blue flags, at this time, can only hear the anxious snort of the war horses under their crotches, and the sound of horses' hooves coming from far and near!

On the shore of this unknown river bay, on the "open space" with the size of four or five arrows in length and width, a good show of "Manchurian Cavalry vs. Cossacks", which was originally not carefully planned, but was coveted by countless "military dicks" in later generations, finally kicked off......

"Blue flag, rush!" The little martial artist from the eighth rank who led the team here listened carefully to the voice of the Rakshasa people and horses, and before he saw them bypass the forest behind the most Lu, he decisively gave the order to charge!

"Kill-" Less than 100 Qing cavalry almost simultaneously urged the war horses under their crotches, lying on the horseback, moving from static to quiet, and then rumbling, accompanied by the increasingly tight wind in their ears, launched a charge!

Just as the horse team was about to rush to the center of the clearing, the speed was only half of the speed, and the Cossack horse team finally arrived at the battlefield. The speed of the Qing army was not fully raised, and the Cossacks had just bypassed the last "corner", so the time had come for hand-to-hand combat.

"Oh howl...... Oh howl......"

The Cossacks, as veteran cavalrymen, also reacted extremely quickly, immediately shouted out their usual whistles, and rushed forward with no indomitable moves. There was no way, the battlefield was too narrow, so the Qing soldiers no longer crouched on the horse's neck to speed up, but raised their bodies slightly, but still lowered their waists to avoid the sharp arrows that might appear, and at the same time firmly stretched forward the saber in their hands. Unlike them, the scimitar in the hands of the Cossacks was not blindly raised above their heads, but in a circle above their heads, but with the same cold light!

It turned out that this was dictated by the peculiar construction of Cossack cavalry knives. The traditional Cossack cavalry knife was less than a meter long, with a thick back and a wide blade with a small arc, an oak leaf-like tip, a deep arc of blood that occupied nearly two-thirds of the overall width, and a grip without a handguard, so its center of gravity was backward, making it easy to swing and turn the knife in intense sports. Therefore, the traditional chopping technique of the Cossack cavalry is to use the center of gravity to do an "arc" chop, which is the typical horse bandit style that we often see in TV dramas like "hooligans" babbling and waving their sabers!

At this time, the saber commonly used by the cavalry of the Qing army, the Yanling knife, had its own characteristics. The average soldier's Yanling knife is generally less than 90 centimeters long, with a blade length of only 69 centimeters and a wide surface of only 3.3 centimeters. However, the blade of the knife has a double blood groove, a quarter of the way to the tip of the knife, a ridge and a reverse blade, the upper blood groove to the reverse edge, and the lower blood groove goes straight through the tip of the knife. This kind of knife is light and flexible, and the total weight is only about one pound and ten taels [old two], but the blade is thin and sharp, and it is suitable for "stabbing" and "cutting", which is more suitable for its cavalry tactics. Since it is "stabbing and cutting", and the two armies charge first to assassinate, naturally the Qing army does not have to wield the long knife in their hands like a juggler, more like the medieval European knights used their spears to stab their opponents.

After a hedge, the two sides swapped places and each lost a dozen brothers. This is not good for the Qing army, which is already small in numbers. The cunning Cossacks naturally discovered their numerical superiority, and at last they found four or five infantry corpses lying on the edge of the woods behind them, and thus understood the possible whereabouts of the two captains. So, a small half of their cavalry quickly turned north to "rescue" their commander. The remaining half, about 123 men, were ready to launch another "deadly" charge against the Qing army, which was less than 80 men 1,000 meters away[1] on the opposite side......

(Chapter to be continued)

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

The layout is a long-cherished wish

It's hard to come and go

Get up and spend a hundred years

Point out the suffering and diseases of the world

The edge of the town was razed to the sea

Wen'an Wuding tears of joy

[1] At this time, the concept of "meter" or "meter" had not yet appeared in Europe. The metre/meter was developed by the Academy of Sciences of Paris in 1791 and was defined as "one ten-thousandth of the length from the North Pole to the equator as one ten-thousandth of a meter through the meridian of Paris". However, for the sake of conciseness, the author has the right to use it and does not do conversion. Don't spray the Fang family, thank you! (To be continued......)