Chapter 150: Can Heavy Cavalry Run Than Light Cavalry?
Cheng Hui happened to lead his army to pass through this place on this day, and a scout quickly reported that he had found a large number of Xianbei cavalry staying in a hidden open space, and it seemed that their state was not like resting, but like waiting for an order to move.
Cheng Hui, who heard the news, realized that it might be the Xianbei cavalry preparing to invade south, and immediately took out a large map of Wuyuan County, and found that the location mentioned by the scout was very close to a system township, and it could be reached in less than half an hour at the speed of cavalry, and their current location was about two hours away from the system township.
The heavy cavalry unit led by Cheng Hui was the largest of the three-way cavalry troops, with a full 4,000 cavalry, and even if they encountered an army of 100,000 people in the field, they could defeat the enemy in an encounter.
When it was only two or three miles away from the township of the system, a cavalry came out of the town and galloped straight towards Cheng Hui.
"Marshal, this cavalry seems to be a heavy cavalry, if we fight hard, we may not be able to defeat it."
The leader of the Xianbei cavalry could naturally see the heavy cavalry in the distance, but in fact, he felt that something was wrong from the moment he came out, because the dust raised by the other party when he came over was not like what ordinary cavalry could do.
As a nomadic people, the Xianbei people have always been a key to restricting their development. Although Tanshi Huai had purchased iron products from unscrupulous merchants in the Han Dynasty through various means, it could not fundamentally change this, perhaps everyone had iron or higher-grade weapons, but if they wanted to build an army of full-body armor or heavy cavalry, it was difficult for them to afford the iron products they needed. The leather products of the Xianbei clan are more developed, and although the defensive attributes of the leather armor produced are not as good as those of the same level of armor, they are more flexible and can resist general attacks.
The Xianbei cavalry boasted of looking down on the Han Chinese, but if you wanted them to fight hand-to-hand with the heavy cavalry, they would not have the courage. Heavy cavalry is covered with armor over a large area, and although wearing too much of it can affect movement, charging on horseback can make up for the disadvantage in this regard. Once the Xianbei cavalry and the heavy cavalry fight hand-to-hand, they will not be able to give full play to the advantages of high mobility, and they will enter the opponent's advantages and touch the opponent's strengths with their own shortcomings. Therefore, even the experienced Xianbei cavalry will avoid its edge and dare not go head-to-head.
Soon, the leader of the Xianbei cavalry immediately changed his strategy, and he must not charge up without a brain, but divided the five thousand men into two halves, preparing to detour the heavy cavalry of Cheng Hui.
Cheng Hui saw that the Xianbei cavalry in front of him was divided into two teams, and wanted to go around the two wings, how could he not guess the other party's thoughts, said a few words to the deputy general, and similarly divided into two teams of people to chase up, and he took a team of men and horses to meet the leader of the Xianbei cavalry.
The changes in the heavy cavalry could not escape the eyes of the leader of the Xianbei cavalry, and he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that the generals of the reinforcements must not know the art of war, and they actually dared to disperse their own troops, were they not afraid that they would be kited on both sides?
The Xianbei cavalry reacted quickly, since the heavy cavalry divided their forces to pursue them, then they turned their heads and ran, in short, it was impossible to fight hand-to-hand. According to their experience, if the heavy cavalry kept chasing them, they would keep a certain distance, consume the physical strength of the heavy cavalry horses, and turn around and shoot arrows from time to time. When the heavy cavalry horses were almost exhausted and ready to retreat, the Xianbei cavalry would shoot arrows behind them to harass them. If you can't drive it away, you can't hit it, you can only be kited by people, this is the correct tactic for light cavalry to meet heavy cavalry.
Thinking of this, the leader of the Xianbei cavalry couldn't help but smile proudly, he had already thought of the scene of annihilating this heavy cavalry, harvesting thousands of sets of heavy cavalry armor, and being rewarded for his merits, which also made him even more convinced that he would annihilate the reinforcements without leaving any stone behind.
However, this thought only flashed in his mind, but the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the situation he expected the Xianbei cavalry to pull the bull's nose of the heavy cavalry was very different, the two sides had just started a life-and-death chase on the plain, and the distance had been narrowing, and the leader of the Xianbei cavalry could see that his Xianbei cavalry had been maintaining the highest speed, but he couldn't shake off the heavy cavalry behind him.
When did heavy cavalry become more able to run than light cavalry?
The corner of the Xianbei cavalry leader's mouth twitched, and he couldn't laugh anymore, because Cheng Hui, who was chasing him, had already narrowed the distance, and at this speed, it would only be a matter of a few minutes for the Xianbei cavalry to be caught up.
Although there is a voice in the heart of the leader of the Xianbei cavalry, telling him that this is the effect of the other party's acceleration skill, this is not a very unusual skill, he also has it, but it is strange, when he turned on the acceleration skill, he obviously noticed that the speed of the heavy cavalry has increased a bit, and it is estimated that it is also the effect after turning on the acceleration skill.
"You are worthy to fight me? Brothers, give me arrows. "The leader of the Xianbei cavalry knew that if he didn't act, he would be caught up.
The Xianbei cavalry turned around on their horses, and fired a salvo of thousands of curved bows, because they were fired behind them, and even if the heavy cavalry forwards could dodge this rain of arrows, the Chinese part would definitely be attacked. And if the people in the rear want to shoot arrows at the Xianbei cavalry in front, they have to consider the movement speed of the Xianbei cavalry and the speed at which the arrows fall, unless the distance between the two sides is not far, it is not easy for the pursuing army in the rear to cause damage to the front.
"Hmph, just these old tricks, do you think you Xianbei people have a lot of ability?" Cheng Hui snorted coldly and ordered the heavy cavalry to enter a defensive stance, while the army shrank back a little to reduce the area under attack.
The arrows shot by the Xianbei cavalry fell on the heavy cavalry, almost painlessly, after all, they were only fifth-order soldiers, although they were better than ordinary cavalry under the same force value, but they were not archers after all, and the power of the arrows shot did not exceed that of fifth-order archers, so the arrows were shot on the armor made of 100 steel, at most the arrows were inserted into it, and they could not hurt people or horses at all.
At the same time, in order to protect the war horse, Lu Shuang actually spent some effort on the armor of the war horse, which may not be as strong as the armor worn by the cavalry, but it is enough to resist general attacks, and some vital parts such as eyes also have protective measures.
After the Xianbei cavalry fired two rounds of arrows, the distance between the two sides was already less than a hundred meters, and this distance was actually as long as the heavy cavalry accelerated. Cheng Hui knew that the heavy cavalry was not good at long-distance running, in order to save the physical consumption of the war horse, he ordered the soldiers in the army to take advantage of the gap between the opponent's archery to counterattack, the arrows shot by the seventh-order soldiers and the eighth-order soldiers were not comparable to the fifth-order soldiers, not to mention that most of the Xianbei cavalry wore leather armor, and it was good to deal with ordinary arrows, and it was their bad luck to meet the soldiers of Lu Shuang, and more than 200 people were caught off guard, and even fell directly from the horse.
Because the speed of the war horses used by the heavy cavalry was better than that of the Xianbei cavalry, in several waves of arrow rain, the Xianbei cavalry threw down hundreds of people, only caring about their own lives, and did not dare to have any idea of turning back and fighting back.
Cheng Hui naturally wouldn't let go of such a good opportunity, what he wanted was to annihilate the Xianbei cavalry in front of him. Due to the speed of the heavy cavalry troops, they were divided into two units again in the process of pursuit, outflanking the Xianbei cavalry left and right, and the Xianbei cavalry who could not escape intended to fight to the death, and they hoped that the war horses of the heavy cavalry were already on the verge of exhaustion, and they could be saved by only a while, and the leader of the Xianbei cavalry led a group of people to desperately break through.
"Dog thief, take your life!" The leader of the Xianbei cavalry recognized Cheng Hui as a general, and in line with the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, he slapped the horse's butt and rushed over.
"If you don't do what you can, you will find death." Cheng Hui's expression on his face also clapped his horse and charged.
The leader of the Xianbei cavalry is a force capable of commanding nearly 20,000 people, and his own strength is extraordinary, he is a military general who has just stepped into the king level and has a force value of 93 points. This time, he went south to plunder, seamless opponents, of course, he didn't take the people in front of him in his eyes, thinking that it was just that the overall strength of the soldiers was high, and the strength of the generals was not necessarily high.
But who knows, as soon as the master makes a move, he will know if there is one. The leader of the Xianbei cavalry felt despair in the first round of taking over, this is a military general who is above him.
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