As a general who had been active in Biansai for a long time and had Hu blood, Lu Bu's cavalry command art can be said to be not only no worse than that of foreign people, but even after integrating the ideas of the Central Plains soldiers, he had a new improvement and his own unique style.

At least even if it looked more like a ragtag army behind him, it still looked like it in Lu Bu's hands - in fact, the cavalry of the Xianbei people was basically like this, and the young and strong soldiers drawn from various tribes formed one or several troops, and even worse than the side of the Bingzhou army was that they still had to pay for their own rations and equipment. So if they can't loot enough resources in a campaign, it's even better not to send troops to those soldiers who "pay for themselves".

Well, if you don't die after a battle, it's also a good thing to make money, after all, wars always kill people, and the property and space left by the dead people will not belong to the living.

The laws of the prairie have always been so cruel.

Gossip said that in the face of Lu Bu's provocation, the Xianbei cavalry seemed a little timid, and they didn't seem to dare to take the initiative to attack.

Lu Bu didn't seem to be in a hurry, under his command, this ragtag cavalry used the bow and arrow in his hand and the power of the war horse under his crotch to continuously pour arrow rain into the Xianbei army array, and then did not love to fight, patted the horse and left, looking as if it was a horse and archery competition held in the Western Regions when the "No Games" was held, preparing for the next round of strikes at a distance.

Of course, because it is a ragtag army, this requires a fairly tacit way of attack, and there will always be problems of one kind or another, but because of the "caution" of the Xianbei people. So that they did not seize those loopholes in the state army, and watched those cavalry leave calmly.

Maybe they didn't expect that without Lijian City as a barrier, the ragtag army in front of them would dare to take the initiative to attack.

When Lu Bu's cavalry completed two rounds of blows, these generals may have woken up from a dream, and the infantry marched slowly, leaving those Xianbei cavalry to Lu Bu for Lu Bu to toss slowly—looking like geckos with broken tails to survive. Of course, Li Shushi felt that it was more like the other party had been convinced that the cavalry commanded by Lu Bu was the main trump card in the hands of the Bingzhou army, and used the Xianbei cavalry to entangle the opponent's trump card, and used his own trump card to defeat the opponent's Chinese army.

Although the enemy made a choice, he did not completely press the troops. Just sent a force of about two thousand people as a vanguard. Probably to test the reaction of the people of Bingzhou, or to use these 2,000 people to deter the people of Bingzhou.

"Report to the princess, Pingcheng Changhua asked if he could order him to give orders. Sending the caravan guards on a tentative attack? ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing to say? Then let Yuan Jian do it. Just to see the depth of the Xianbei people with your own eyes. ”

The caravan guards belonged more to the category of the ragtag army. But because their nature is closer to the alien righteous servants or mercenaries, if they want to get more benefits in this war, they can only fight with their lives, and this also leads these miscellaneous troops to look at them in terms of military discipline and cooperation. However, they repeatedly denied that their blood, killing skills and small-scale cooperation cultivated in the grasslands were not much worse than those of the regular army, and they might even be slightly victorious.

"By the way, by the way, if the enemy's body dissipates after death and no corpse is left, then the weapon used during his death can also be used as a sign of receiving a bounty. This time the enemy is a little special, and it must not hurt the morale of the border people. ”

So, when the horn with a unique message sounded, Li Shushi heard a huge cheer from the caravan guards.

This time the enemy is indeed a bit special, even if according to Li Shushi, it will be taken advantage of by some treacherous people, but after all, it is a minority, and the high-intensity battle is enough to make the last person who receives the reward be charged within an acceptable range.

Of course, the civil servants will also make certain adjustments to the bounty according to the actual situation, so that the county finances will not suffer a big loss.

Like a fountain gushing out of the ground, a jumble of horses rushed out of the flanks of the Nazursu's formation, and soon they were scattered into thirty or forty bands, charging the enemy's vanguard from different directions.

Those who rushed to the front were naturally full of self-confidence, wanting to seize a favorable position at the first time to reap more results, while those who went around in a circle and wasted some time to attack from the other direction were probably planning to take a look at the situation before making a decision, after all, the enemy's previous cousin had heard a lot from those who fled into the city, and they were somewhat apprehensive in their hearts.

In any case, as long as there is no rout, the state army will not interfere with how the caravan chooses, and they are only responsible for deciding how much bounty should be paid according to the results of the caravan. Therefore, as long as the depth of the enemy is detected, even if those caravans escape in the end, as long as they do not collide with the Chinese army, probably the law enforcement team will turn a blind eye.

However, the army sent by the Xianbei people, who were originally a grassland race, was composed of infantry, while the army sent by the Han people, who were an agrarian nation, was all composed of cavalry, and such a battle was rare in the history of war between the Han and the grassland people.

Unfortunately, this time he was not distracted by this sudden thought and went into a daze on the battlefield, but instead focused on the battlefield where the battle was about to break out, and he wanted to know which of the humble army was stronger or weaker than the Fars Cathars.

Until the merchant horses were about fifty paces away from the enemy, the Xianbei people still did not react, they seemed to be completely indifferent to the approaching enemy, and still marched forward in order. However, the caravan guards would not give up what they should do because of the strange behavior of their enemies, just like Song Xianggong - I don't know if it was the leader who shouted, the horse team did not charge directly at the Xianbei army, but slightly deviated from an angle and detoured to the flank of the Xianbei army. At the same time, the reins are spread with both hands, and the bow is mounted behind the back, and the bow is bent and the arrows are buckled.

There is no need to shout any passwords, with their own horse team as a unit, the cavalry of the Han family also clamped the horse's belly with their legs on the galloping horses like Hu people, and the hand holding the curved bow did not shake with the ups and downs of the mount, and then shot the feather arrows at the same time.

A team of horses can shoot more than 100 feather arrows at a time, and at least even a dozen, even if the damage that feather arrows can do is scattered and extremely limited. But it makes the scene look a bit continuous. It stands to reason that it can somewhat demoralize the enemy.

"Wen Qiao, haven't you noticed that the armor on those Xianbei people is not thick, and at least thirty percent of the attacking caravans should be old soldiers. Most of the arrows used are also clusters of iron arrows. The lethality will not be low. Why hasn't anyone fallen until now? ”

"I've heard later that many of those who fled back to Pingcheng claimed that many of the Xianbei soldiers were invulnerable, especially those who were in charge of ascending the city. At first, his subordinates thought it was an exaggeration, but now it seems that it may not be groundless. ”

"Looks like we should have a pension for these caravans." This is, of course, just a joke. There were no such rules in the northern frontier, and it was impossible for the caravan guards who licked the blood to get the same treatment as the regular army.

But what is certain is that even if you just observe from the sidelines, everyone is aware of the strength of the opponent.

But what surprised them even more was yet to come!

After about two rounds of feathered arrows, the horse team had completely dispersed, moving back and forth around the Xianbei vanguard in small groups, and even if there were occasional collisions, they were basically running smoothly.

But none of the squads dared to rush up to fight the Xianbei vanguard troops, because these Xianbei people were too weird.

Yes, weird.

As if Li Shushi had already noticed it in the rear, these Xianbei soldiers were so hard that many feathered arrows would be directly bounced off even if they were shot on their cheeks or exposed skin, not to mention other parts of the body, to paraphrase a popular phrase in online games, many of the attacks of those caravan guards could not even break the defense.

Obviously, this can't be because the skin of those Xianbei people has broken through the sky, after all, there are still some feather arrows that can break through the skin of these Xianbei people, but the wounds caused will be much worse than when they usually fight the enemy.

This made many caravan guards muttered to themselves, feeling that the idea was not easy to deal with. Even if they can't flee immediately, they'd rather "fly kites" on the sidelines than pick up the guys and rush over to engage in hand-to-hand ♂ combat - no one here can't think of looking for death.

"Where is Zhong Kang?"

"The last general!"

"Order you to lead a hundred troops to try to rush the enemy vanguard, no matter what the result is, don't fall in love with the battle, return immediately!"

"Whoa!" Xu Chu didn't say much, and immediately ordered all the people and horses to rush out.

"I wish my instincts weren't so sharp." Recalling the palpitations just now, Li Shushi's brows furrowed even deeper.

However, before Xu Chu could leave the distance of the Chinese army, the situation on the battlefield changed almost dramatically - the Xianbei infantry, which had been steadily advancing, seemed to have endured to the limit, and they finally launched a counterattack.

"Is this really the speed that infantry can have? Although it seems that it is still a little incomparable to the speed of the light cavalry, it is impossible for the average person to reach such a speed even if they run with all their strength, and these guys can continue to perform such high-intensity sprints without fear of body and muscle soreness, no wonder they can return to the dock overnight. ”

As Li Shushi exclaimed, the enemy's appearance was really unexpected...... Well, it's not an exaggeration to use the word horror here, after all, it's surprising enough to be able to sprint with all your might regardless of your physical condition, but these strange Xianbei infantry are still able to accurately use their weapons to launch deadly attacks on the enemy in such a high-speed sprint.

As for the strength that surpasses ordinary people or something, it is not a too powerful feature for Li Shushi, who is already a little numb, at most it is just for him to shout two more sentences "It's amazing, it's amazing" or something, and it's still a good reading tone.

Of course, the caravan guards were dismayed by the fact that the enemy was not ordinary, and although they did not die as soon as the Assassins did, they could not remain for long. And their weapons, though sharp when they were in their hands, were left with only a pile of ...... that looked as if they had been eroded by an unknown number of years when the wielder died Broken copper and iron. Anyway, if you take this kind of thing to receive a reward, the caravan guards feel that they will never accept it.

Under the double blow of material and spirit, these caravan guards did not flee the battlefield directly because Li Shushi was the big boss, and they were worried that they would encounter the trouble of settling accounts after the autumn.

"I'm afraid it's up to Zhong Kang's results now, otherwise those caravan guards will not be too much to wipe out even if the whole army is wiped out."

But even so, the trouble in front of you is enough to cause a headache. If the enemies he will face in the future are all like this, Li Shushi feels that such a force can definitely be invincible in the world, after all, even if it is a strong army in the world, it needs enough time to grow, and from the beginning, he can only shrink in Lishi City and deal with the people of Xianbei and Xianbei. Until now, even if he has to face such a strange army, Li Shushi also has the pride of World War I. There have been too many experiences in the middle, and it has taken nearly ten years.

Whether it is a strong man like Xiaoqiang and Zilongchan, or these soldiers around him, who one of them didn't come over like this.

The tentative assault between the two sides had reached a stalemate by now - the caravan guards were caught off guard because they did not anticipate the enemy's speed. The losses were quite heavy. Even if there are some lucky escapes from the enemy's surprise attack. However, the war horses under the crotch often did not have such good luck, and many were killed by the enemy, so that the guards also became horseless infantry.

There should be a complaint here, and sure enough, even if for the time being, there are still cavalrymen with horses. But will they still become horseless infantry after all?

Although the guards who turned into infantry saved their lives for the time being, it is conceivable that they would eventually die.

They are obviously also very aware of their own situation, so in this case they show the demeanor of being a Northland man, since they have fallen into the death and there is no possibility of survival, then let's hold the enemy and die together, killing one is enough, killing two is still profitable, and the most important thing is to give the other robes of the caravan a chance to escape from the attack range of the Xianbei infantry.

Their speed is indeed very fast, completely ignoring the basic physical ability of human beings to sprint, jump, attack and other actions, but no matter how fast the speed of these two legs is in a short period of time, they are not the opponent of four legs, as long as those horse teams are given a time to react, they can completely escape with the help of horsepower, and re-form a new encirclement on the periphery, whether it is fighting or fleeing, they are more calm.

It was in this situation that Xu Chu rushed over with a force of 100 officers, looking murderous and aggressive.

However, many horse teams who were originally going to survive with their tails cut off slightly let go of their small calculations in their hearts and rejoined the battle.

In fact, if you can save your robes, these men who have lived in the border area for many years are still unwilling to give up, especially the kind of friendship formed after years of ups and downs, and it is not something that can be put down by waiting for leisure.

The hundred-man team led by Xu Chu under Li Shushi's personal guard is still very different from the caravan guards, such as the weapons of the hundred-man team - except for the treasure-level blade of the ancient ingot knife given by Li Shushi, each of the other guards is equipped with a "horse sword" between the long handle and the short handle, which was originally intended to be used to deal with thick-armored targets that the war knife cannot deal with.

It should be pointed out that this "horse sword" is not recorded in the historical materials can basically be equated with the legendary Shang Fang sword, not so much a weapon as a ceremonial guard of honor, but a battlefield weapon designed with the idea of infantry against cavalry, don't look at the Han Dynasty is not too famous, but its derivatives are famous - Tang has a hundred battles Mo knife, that is, Tang straight knife, later the prototype of the Japanese sword. The Song Dynasty evolved into a bending knife, a knife between the eyebrows, and a phoenix mouth knife.

Of course, the horse slashing sword held by Li Shushi's personal guard belongs to the kind of sword that retains a strong attack power and becomes easy to use on horses, but it has relatively high requirements for physical elements, after all, this thing really can't play without a little power, let alone the recoil generated after high-speed sprinting and slashing, which means that ordinary troops have no possibility of equipping this thing at all.

But if you think about it carefully, even the world-famous Mo Dao Hands can't compile a large number of them for various reasons. Even in the end, it completely disappeared into history, so that even if future generations wanted the demeanor of the immortals, they could not get it, and they could only cite it from the side.

Without superfluous words or passionate roars, Xu Chu led a team of 100 men to appear on the battlefield almost silently, but their impact was not as low-key as when they appeared - they did not try to use bows and arrows to contain them, and directly led the troops to rush towards the enemy with lightning speed. Xu Chu, who rushed to the forefront, held an ancient ingot knife in his hand, first used the power of the tiger talisman to kill a small leader who was very active and looked like he should have some status in the Xianbei army, and then stabbed backhand, leaving a deep mark on the body of another Xianbei infantryman, and this Xianbei infantry was quickly killed by the guards who followed him.

In fact, when the guards who had lost their horses began to fight desperately, they found out. Although these feathered arrows seem to be difficult to do much damage to these Xianbei infantry. But this does not mean that the convenience is really outright copper skin and iron bones, in fact, whether it is swords, guns, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, it seems that these Xianbei infantry have far more destructive power than bows and arrows, and the stronger the weight of the weapon. Or the greater the kinetic energy carried by each swing. The more damage is done - this is nonsense, of course.

However, this so-called "considerable" damage is also relative to the damage caused by the feather arrow. In fact, the enemy's physical attacks on close quarters are much less protective than bows and arrows, but still surpass those of heavily armed warriors in iron armor, coupled with their superior foot strength and agility. Even if these soldiers are not assisted by war horses, they are still a headache for all generals on the battlefield.

Not to mention anything else, anyway, it is indeed difficult for some strong people to let these brave and cunning caravan guards fight hard.

Therefore, when Xu Chu chiseled the enemy back and forth and returned to the Chinese army, the caravan guards also seemed to have received a signal and began to take the initiative to leave quickly to the side and rear.

Li Shushi directly ignored the actions of these guys, after all, these mercenaries who were just here to earn a reward had already paid about thirty percent of the battle losses in such a short period of time, and the number of enemies they destroyed was only about to reach three digits, which meant that except for a few lucky guys, their tentative actions basically suffered a heavy setback.

By the way, this will reach a three-digit victory, and a large part of it will still follow behind Xu Chu's hundred-man team to pick up cheap gains, but unfortunately there are still a few who are so bold, and most of the guards still prefer to shoot the feather arrows in their hands around the enemy from a distance, probably they have been frightened by the swift and ghostly enemy.

In comparison, Xu Chu's back and forth charges caused more results than these caravan guards. Visually, it seems that it can be at least more than two hundred, and even close to three hundred, which is still not counting the results obtained by the caravan guards who followed behind him to make up for the head of the person - of course, because the number is not much, and those "warriors" who picked up the leaks also paid a lot of price, Li Shushi felt that it was not too harsh, anyway, those guys should not go too far, such as taking merit or something, just ignore it.

"My lord, the strength of the enemy should not be underestimated. If it weren't for the fact that the enemy had been attracted by the caravan guards before, the formation had been loosened, and we would not have been able to cut through it so easily. It is conceivable that if the enemy is in an orderly manner and attacks in formation, I am afraid that the strength will have to be higher than the first line. ”

Xu Chu, who has personal experience, has a solemn face, he himself is a fierce general, and he is an elite soldier, and he can be regarded as unprepared for attacking the enemy, which has achieved good results. But don't forget that the enemy they were facing just now was nothing more than a vanguard that had been thrown out for a temptation. It can be said that if it were an ordinary soldier, it would be possible to hold the line of defense under the pressure of the enemy's army, which is really doubtful.

As if to confirm Xu Chu's worries, the enemy army sounded a strange horn sound, although I don't understand what this means, but as long as I see the enemy army starting to slowly advance with the sound of the horn, just like those vanguard troops just now, you can know that the enemy commander probably also feels that the information is almost gathered, and he can start a general attack.

And the biggest change came from the Xianbei infantry who were the vanguard.

Once again, they began to charge with all their might, as if they were going to ram the state army with their bodies.

In the distance, it was Lu Bu, who was leading his subordinates to use the width of the battlefield to tease the Xianbei cavalry, and far away from the battlefield, a group of seemingly inconspicuous "little dots" were gradually approaching their target.

The development of the battlefield situation seems to be about to enter the most white-hot stage.

Pan Sen: I went to the market today to buy a book, but I was told that the model I wanted was out of stock, and I asked the store why I didn't replenish the stock, and the store told me: "It will be purchased after 3.15." "I always feel as if I know something, but I don't seem to know anything...... (To be continued......)