Chapter 21 Shoot the Man Before the Horse
After walking for half an hour, cutting the head all the way forward, and by the way, recovering the arrows that were not damaged, the two Qin army heralds with flags behind their backs suddenly rushed from the front.
Seeing the state of this group of archers, the herald couldn't help but laugh dumbly, the team in front is already leisurely enough, but you are more leisurely.
"See General Yang." The two horsemen rushed to the archers and asked who Yang Yifei was, then dismounted and hugged their fists.
Yang Yifei said in surprise: "The two of you came in a hurry, what happened?" ”
One of them said: "General Yu, General Li led the border army with 30,000 cavalry, which has reached more than ten miles away, and we have brothers who have found out from the side that Di Rong's 60,000 troops are lined up four miles ahead. ”
"General Li asked General Yang to hold off these 60,000 troops to ensure that there are no enemy scouts on the main battlefield who can cross you, and it will take them about half an hour to arrive."
Yang Yifei's eyes lit up and asked, "Where is General Meng now?" ”
The herald grinned and said, "General Hui, General Meng led 20,000 Mengjia troops to bypass this Dijon army from the north and go straight to the enemy's camp. ”
"After breaking through the enemy camp, they will flank the 60,000 Dijon army with General Li in front and back, General Li said that if nothing else, this war is expected to end within half a month, and this is still the time to support Beidi County."
"Hahahaha...... Okay, good...... With a good move, he copied his lair and burned his grain and grass, and Di Rong's army was self-defeating. ”
Yang Yifei was overjoyed, laughed loudly, he patted the scout on the shoulder, and said, "Brother, the two of you will run again, and I will order another team of people under my command to come here to join us." ”
The herald smiled and said, "My subordinates have informed them of General Li's order, and when we came, they were already rushing to this side, but in order to rest the horses, they were slow to move by the horses, and it probably won't take a moment to arrive." ”
Yang Yifei nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, and said generously: "The two brothers have worked hard, this military merit all over the ground, one of you can take the first level!" ”
"Thank you, General Yang, for the reward." The two heralds were overjoyed, as heralds, they basically didn't have much chance to go into battle to kill the enemy, and there were other ways to calculate military merits, although they were relatively safe, but the accumulation speed of military merit was too slow, and it was better to behead the soldiers at the first level!
I don't know how many distances I have to run to accumulate the military merits of this level, Yang Yifei's reward is more precious than anything!
The two of them happily went to cut a head, and once again expressed their gratitude to Yang Yifei, and then got on the horse and left, and the archers had easy military achievements, and they didn't care about the two heads.
"Brothers, everyone hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and get a good rest before the brothers arrive."
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After waiting for about ten minutes, another group of archers arrived, each with three or four heads hanging on their backs.
Although Yang Yifei had long been accustomed to killing people, the appearance of the head swaying on the back of this horse still made him a little uncomfortable, so he had to try not to pay attention to it.
After a short rest, the archers mounted their horses again and set off, marching slowly in the direction of Dijon's army, and did not chase the enemy scouts when they saw them, allowing them to bring back the news.
At this time, more than an hour had passed, and General Dijon had naturally learned about the situation of the archers from the cavalry.
A group of generals got together and studied for a long time, but they never came up with an effective way to deal with the archers.
As long as the range of their bows and arrows is not comparable to that of the Qin army for a day, they will not be able to break the archers at all on the frontal battlefield, and they don't know how the bows and arrows of the Qin State are made, how can the range be so farther?
At present, there is no good way but to think of other ways.
In fact, the archers are not completely unbreakable, but with Dijon's backward productivity and backward technical level, coupled with the lack of resources, they can't get those things at all.
For example, thistle terrestris, this is a sharp weapon against the archers, but if they can make a large number of thistle, they will not be so inferior to the Qin army in terms of equipment.
After discussing for more than half an hour to no avail, General Dijon decided to withdraw to the camp first and then make plans, at present, in the face of the archers, they can only let the cavalry carry round shields and defend a little, but they all know that bringing a round shield is only better than nothing.
And just when the army withdrew from the formation and was about to return to the camp, a large number of scouts returned and brought news that the Qin archers and cavalry came again.
General Dijon was immediately furious, it was not enough to harvest their five thousand horsemen, and they came? Is it true that our cavalry is a leek?
At that moment, General Dijon ordered to send all the remaining cavalry, a total of 15,000 horsemen, and give them all the round shields of all the foot soldiers.
This time, even if there are many casualties, they will not be allowed to retreat, and they will chase to the end until the opponent's war horse can no longer hold on, and they will destroy these two thousand Qin archers at all costs.
Dijon's generals thought very well that if this cavalry archers were not destroyed, they would definitely become a serious problem for them, and that this endless harassment alone would drag down their army.
Dijon only had 8,000 sword and shield soldiers, and the round shield was naturally only 8,000, and the 8,000 cavalry with the round shield in hand ran in front to resist the opponent's arrows.
The cavalry is to improve the security, but the foot soldiers do not have a round shield, they will not be able to form a shield array, if the Qin army attacks, they can only hold spears and knives, with flesh and blood to resist the impact of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry.
When Yang Yifei saw the Dijon cavalry who appeared in front of him again, he said jokingly: "Yo, you brought an extra shield!" However, this is of no avail. ”
Muttering to himself, Yang Yifei shouted: "Brothers, the enemy army is equipped with a round shield, and this time the target is the war horse. ”
The order spread quickly, and all the archers sighed in their hearts, what a good war horse! It's all their trophies, which can be exchanged for military merits, so they were shot and killed, what a pity, this time it's a big loss!
The old thing repeats itself, but this time the procedure for the first salvo is missing, because the opponent has a shield in his hand, and the projectile basically does not have much effect, maybe two thousand arrows fly out, and it is considered bad luck for the enemy to shoot dozens of people.
So the archers turned around directly and ran wildly, but this time when they turned around and shot arrows, the target became the war horse under the crotch of the Dijon cavalry.
"Sigh the law ......"
The battlefield resounded with the neighing of war horses one after another, and the war horses of Dijon's cavalry continued to fall, one after another "horses lost their front hooves", and the knights on their backs were naturally not spared.
And the horse falling to the ground can have a greater impact on the rear robe than the knight's fall, if the knight falls, the rear war horse may step over as soon as the hooves are raised, even if they step directly over, there are few trips.
But if the war horse falls to the ground, the impact on the rear will be too great, after all, the war horse is so big!
The first round of shooting caused a large number of Dijon cavalry to fall and fall into a mess, which was much more effective than the damage caused by direct shooting.
Therefore, there must be gains and losses, and there must be gains and losses, and the trophies of the archers have decreased, but the killing rate has become higher.