"Don't worry, this caravan guard reacts quickly, and it is better than ordinary troops, and it seems that there is something inside. This group of reckless men did not wait for the army to gather and attacked on their own, just to test their strength. A man beside Ars in silver iron armor and a tight-fitting silk robe said in a deep voice, compared to the surrounding tribal warriors, his slender figure seemed to be a little thin, his face was a little pimple, and his lips had short thorns. However, Ars, the head of the Mandu Latu tribe with 800 tribal warriors under his command, was very respectful to him, because he was the nephew of Cai Guangrui, the envoy of the Dingyan Army in the north, and Cai Jiqian, who was officially appointed to the capital at the age of twelve. Cai Jiqian was only 14 years old at this time, and he was known as "good at riding and shooting, and he was wise and wise." Not only did his reputation among the tribes attached to the Tuoba clan far exceed that of his peers, but he also served as an envoy for two years, and he had already become famous among the various tribes in the northwest.

"It's just in time!" Han Yu, the centurion of the Ya military camp, shouted in a deep voice, "Prepare, take two hundred steps." Hou Rui, the archer behind him, bent his bow and pointed his arrow in the direction of the tribal cavalry's charge, "Align," the hundred archers bent their bows one after another to keep at the same angle as Hou Rui raised their bows in the direction of Hou Rui's bow. The sharpshooters in the Lanzhou army are selected by the army, and the salary is comparable to that of officers, and the arrows fired from a distance are all taken by the sharpshooters, and the other soldiers are aligned with the sharpshooters, and the rain of arrows shot is accurate and dense.

"Release!" This last command was blurted out by Hou Rui, a hundred sharp arrows broke out of the air, and steadily and ruthlessly plunged into the most dense group of tribal cavalry that happened to pass two hundred steps away, and suddenly more than a dozen horses fell off their horses, just after this round, "Shoot!" This is the archer Cen Peng's order, "Hair!" "Shoot!" The archer Deng Jun ordered, "Release!" Hou Rui, who had re-set up the arrow to get the right shot, shot the second arrow, and the cong of arrows continued to chase the cavalry and bite.

Seeing that the enemy troops continued to fall from their horses, but the enemy's vanguard had rushed within a hundred steps, Han Yu shouted loudly: "Change the crossbow!" In addition to Hou Rui, Cen Peng, and Deng Jun, the other soldiers picked up the strong crossbows that had been placed beside them, and took the team as a unit, ten people aimed at an enemy horse at the same time, under the command of the centurion, three hundred crossbow machines were divided into three groups and fired in turn, and the powerful crossbow arrows shot the enemy cavalry in front of the formation. And similar to Hou Rui and other marksmen took this opportunity to freely aim at the throat of the enemy horseman, the head and other vital parts of the arrow again and again, at this time the enemy is close, the bow does not have to be full to fire, Hou Rui and other archers have reached an amazing speed of arrows, Wu Yingying once observed the archer training also sighed in his heart, if ordinary soldiers can reach the level of archers, then the development of firearms is a waste.

The tribal cavalry also continued to fire arrows at the caravan's chariot array on their horses, but the cavalry bow fired little and was difficult to aim on the horse, and the caravan's crossbowmen were all wearing arrow armor and were hidden under the cover of the cart, so the cavalry counterattacked with a rain of arrows that only caused few casualties to the caravan, and the only hope was to quickly rush into the chariot formation, and use scimitars and iron hooves to repay the blood debt from these Han people who hid in turtle shells and put cold arrows.

But in the end, this round of crossbow shooting was too powerful, seeing that the bravest warriors of several tribes were shot down in an instant, and even the people and horses were shot like hedgehogs, the tribal warriors who were still grazing on the grassland yesterday were a little unbearable, and even Su He, who was bending down and hiding behind the horse's neck, was secretly frightened, he had seen some of the world, and knew that this crossbow arrow was also a forbidden thing among the people in the Central Plains, and ordinary caravans would secretly carry a dozen at most to deal with horse thieves, who had ever wanted to rob the merchants would also encounter such a dense crossbow shooting. When he looked back, many of the warriors of the tribe had already secretly beaten their horses and ran back, Amur, where did Amur go? Su He looked for his talisman everywhere and saw his back from a distance, this greedy dog who was afraid of death! Su He scolded in his heart, quickly turned the horse's head, and before he rushed to the front, he quickly returned to the horse and galloped, running faster than when he took the lead in the charge.

"What a rabble!" Han Yu looked at the enemy's distant back with some contempt, and had already run fifty steps away, and shouted loudly, "Collect the bow." "Three hundred archers were ordered to stop shooting at the retreating enemy. Behind them, a hundred pikemen and fifty swordmen and shieldmen, all dressed in armor and ready for battle, were still sitting on the ground, and the enemy's courage was not enough to support them in rushing to the front, and the soldiers were happy to rest for a while.

On the side, the caravan's men had moved their chariots to a road, and the hussar battalion captain Xingu led a hundred cavalry to pursue in the direction of the enemy's retreat. Compared with the tribal cavalry with poor armor and various blades, the hussars under Xin Gu are all in armor, and even the front chest of the horse has iron plate armor, the flank is covered by cowhide armor, and the long lance is held, and there are horizontal knives and bows hanging next to the saddle.

Because the armor of the hussars such as Xingu was placed on the cart when they marched on weekdays, and they were only worn when they were about to fight, the leaders of the tribes saw a fierce armored cavalry rushing out of the caravan, all of them were as white as earth, and many tribes had also been recruited by the Khitan warriors to participate in the battle, knowing that this kind of regular armored cavalry, whether equipped or forced, was far beyond the tribal cavalry that hastily assembled and fought, and the terrible thing was that such cavalry must represent a force behind it. Many leaders are already secretly regretting coming to this troubled water.

"Oh, are there still armored cavalry? This caravan is getting more and more interesting. Seeing that Als beside him was pale, Cai Jiqian twitched the corners of his mouth, and whispered to Murong Yao, the head of the guard behind him: "Let the iron harrier get on the horse, there will be a battle." "Just as the Lanzhou hussars were able to catch up with the defeated and fleeing enemy, a cavalry rushed out of the oblique thorn, although the number was not large, but the knight's whole body was wrapped in iron armor, and his face was also covered with an iron mask, only his eyes were exposed, and even the cavalryman's crotch war horse, except for the horse's eyes, nose, limbs and tail, was also covered with iron armor. Even the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry founded by Emperor Taizong did not have such thick iron armor, and compared with the real armored cavalry in front of him, the Lanzhou Hussar led by Xin Gu looked like a light cavalry. "Iron Harrier!" exclaimed the cavalry in front.

Xiazhou Iron Harrier, is the elite of the Xiazhou Tuoba clan, all the knights are Xianbei, party nobles, because the cavalry are nobles, so the most important family honor, rather die in battle than be ridiculed as cowardice, an iron harrier knight often has as many as ten servants, not only the whole body is heavily armored, and the healthy horses are good horses in the Western Regions, under the heavy burden of galloping assault can still not reduce speed, it is as unstoppable as a moving iron tower.

Armoured cavalry arose in the Northern Dynasties, but due to expensive equipment and poor mobility, it was gradually replaced by half-armored cavalry or even unarmored light cavalry, however, the Haju Tuoba clan from the North Korean royal family preserved the armored cavalry of their ancestors who swept the world intact, although this iron cavalry could not run as many miles as the Mongolian cavalry of later generations, but with the impact of this row of mountains and seas, it was the overlord on the flat frontal battlefield.