Chapter 9: Winning the Command (8)

"Whoosh——!" Zhao Kuangyin decisively pulled the mechanism and shot the second crossbow arrow into the chest of an enemy general seven steps away.

"Whoosh whoosh-" The soldiers of the Guards Battalion followed Zhao Kuangyin's movements and pulled the mechanism. The crossbow arrows with stainless steel as the edge and hardwood as the rod slapped up the ridge like an angry tide again, cutting down the Caozhou army that had just arrived like a grain.

The Wuhou crossbow was expensive to build and troublesome to load. But after pre-installation, it can be fired three times in succession. And it can be operated completely by one hand, and can be penetrated with a double layer of leather armor within twenty steps. In horse warfare, it is definitely a first-class divine weapon. It only took two rounds of salvos to kill most of the Caozhou elites who had climbed the mountain beam first, and the rest were suddenly frightened, screamed, turned around and fled.

"Don't stop, follow me!" Zhao Kuangyin was still not satisfied, stepping on the blood of the enemy army and crossing the ridge, and then biting the tail of the rout and rushing down.

When they met in the wild, the enemy generals dared not to stand up first, and directly played with themselves to fight fast, what a group of cheap people who sold their heads! I think that at the beginning, even the Khitan wolf rode so contemptively. I really don't know, who gave the Caozhou army commander the courage to fight against the Cangzhou army with the same number of cavalry?!

"Keep up, keep up, press down on the crossbow body, and give the enemy a hot wave!" A battalion of prince guards followed Zhao Kuangyin's war horse over the hillside, and used the Wuhou crossbow to aim at the enemy army that collided with the rout more than ten steps away.

In the past three years, with Zheng Ziming's supply regardless of the cost, each of them has shot at least a thousand crossbow arrows. The operation mode and various properties of the Wuhou crossbow are well familiar. Almost at the same time as Zhao Kuangyin, he aimed at the nearest target and pulled the mechanism, "swishing ......"

The white crossbow bolts stuck to the hillside and swooped down. With the whistling sound of the air tearing, the enemy troops within twenty paces were instantly pushed into the arms of the bull head and horse face!

"Ahh

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The "poof" sound of arrows inserting into the flesh, the "boom" of the war horse overturning, the "hissing" sound of blood spraying into the air, mixed with the shouts of the wounded and the wails of the dying, in an instant, resounded throughout the hillside!

More than 150 Caozhou cavalry were overturned by crossbow arrows on the spot, and forty or fifty poor war horses fell to the ground one after another. At this moment, there has been no formal contact between the enemy and us! The cavalry of the Caozhou army are all in command, and they have not yet figured out the number of opponents and the name of the main general!

"Follow me, kill down!" Zhao Kuangyin didn't care if others knew his name, abandoned the crossbow, lifted the stick, turned his head and shouted, all the actions were done in one go.

Over the years, he has accumulated enough experience in fighting against the Northern Han Army, the Youzhou Army, and the Liao Army in the south to fight the Grass Valley. The ability to grasp fighters is by no means comparable to those mediocre talents who rely on seniority. Finding that the enemy's main formation was out of order, he immediately took the lead in pounced.

"Kill!" The prince's guards all threw down the Wuhou crossbow with a rope tied to their tails, drew their knives, rode their horses, and followed closely behind Zhao Kuangyin.

A Caozhou cavalryman with a crossbow arrow in his chest was lying on his saddle screaming. was smashed on the back of the head by Zhao Kuangyin, and he was angry on the spot. Gently slammed the stirrup with his legs, Zhao Kuangyin rode the yellow horse that had just been replaced for a long time and pounced on the next overwhelmed opponent, and the copper-covered stick smashed head-on with the speed of the war horse, splitting Huashan!

"Phew!" The head of the Caozhou cavalry was torn apart, and the whole person flew out upside down, turning into a bloody corpse.

"Sigh!" the war horse neighed, and several personal guards followed closely to protect Zhao Kuangyin's left and right. The rest of the soldiers of the Prince's Guards Battalion instigated their mounts, with Zhao Kuangyin as the front, and shrunk the team into a sharp wedge. More than 500 horses, taking advantage of the mountain, trampled on the corpses of the enemy and rushed down. Everywhere I went, there was a river of blood!

"The enemy general is going to be rampant!" "Two Caozhou warriors dressed as 100 generals rushed forward with their lives, trying to stop Zhao Kuangyin's horse's head. The cooperation between the two of them is quite tacit, and the angle they find is also extremely tricky. However, they overestimate their opponents' abilities.

In the face of the enemy general who roared and rushed towards him, Zhao Kuangyin didn't bother to look at it, and directly lifted the copper-covered big stick, and with the speed of the horse, he pointed at the head of the opponent's mount on the left. Immediately the left hand pulled back and the right hand pushed horizontally, and the cooked copper stick was like a dragon, swinging its tail in the air, "Wow!", "Poof!"

"Uh-huh!" The head of the war horse under the crotch of the enemy general on the left cracked, and he fell to the ground with a wail. The enemy general on the right was swept off the saddle and fell unconscious to the ground. Zhao Kuangyin's mount flew past the two of them, and more horses' hooves stepped down, trampling the two of them into two lumps of meat for life!

The next one standing in front of the yellow huss was a group of panicked pawns. Zhao Kuangyin rushed in directly, and smashed the copper stick left and right, smashing the enemy army to pieces. The soldiers of the Guards Battalion drove straight into the cracks he had torn open, like a sharp steel knife, cutting into the depths of the enemy's army, cutting all the opponents who dared to resist and had no time to dodge along the way!

The eight battalions of Caozhou cavalry, in terms of numbers, were far higher than the five hundred people led by Zhao Kuangyin. However, in the face of the prince's guards, who swooped down from the mountain, they had almost no power to fight back. Although Yang Xuan was constantly adjusting his countermeasures, and although there were some brave guys who were trying to fill the gap, the "cracks" that had been torn open by the Caozhou army were getting deeper and wider!

"Boom, boom!" "Boom, boom!" Zhao Kuangyin took the prince's guards and drove straight in! In the vicinity of the "crack," the soldiers who were lucky not to die in the first battle turned around and retreated with blood stains like rolled flesh. collided with the panicked robe of his own robe, and the person turned on his back.

The sound of "bang bang bang" continued one after another, and the panicked war horses hit one after another, and the cavalry on horseback fell like dumplings, and then was ruthlessly trampled by their own people, and they were dying in an instant.

"Mother!" "Help-" The cavalryman, who was lucky not to be trampled to death by the horse's hooves on the spot, screamed and crawled around. More horses followed, knocking them down, trampling them over, and breaking their tendons.

"Stop, stop him! Yang Bin, Liu Wu, Zhu Ding, Hu Yidao, a few of you go together. If you can't stop him, you will come to see him!" Seeing that the opponent was about to rush in front of him, the cavalry of the Caozhou army was so angry that his eyes were bloody. waved his knife sharply, and named the four brave generals under his command who relied on him the most.

"Yes!" Yang Bin, Liu Wu, Zhu Ding, and Hu Yidao knew that they had no way to retreat at this moment, gritted their teeth and agreed, and each took their guards upstream.

They were actually not far from Zhao Kuangyin, however, they couldn't get to each other's side for a long time. More and more of their own brothers were defeated and retreated, and people crowded people, horses and horses, and it became a pot of porridge. Even if they swung their blades directly to open the way, they would not be able to increase the speed of their mounts by the slightest.

The generals will face off immediately, and without speed, everything will be lost. It's too late, it's fast, just when several Caozhou brave generals were competing with their own rout, Zhao Kuangyin had already rushed down with his own soldiers. first knocked away a Caozhou cavalryman, and then couldn't help but say, the copper stick in his hand was rounded and turned towards Yang Bin's head is a Mount Tai pressure.

"Open!" Yang Bin is also a life-fighting expert, and immediately raised the iron shovel and pushed it up. I thought that with the strength of my two arms, I could block the copper-clad stick from a safe distance, and even push it back. Unexpectedly, I only heard the sound of "dangchang" in my ears, and immediately after, there were two heart-wrenching pains in my shoulders. A pair of arms were raised above his head like branches, completely out of control.

The military generals duel, and you can tell the difference between life and death in the blink of an eye. Zhao Kuangyin swept with a stick without hesitation, and with a "snap", he smashed Yang Wei's ribs, smashing this person so that blood sprayed wildly in his mouth, and one heel fell under the horse.

"Brother Yang-" Liu Wu, Zhu Ding, and Hu Yidao's eyes burst when they saw it, and they cried and shouted to step forward to Zhao Kuangyin desperately. The latter pursed his lips and sneered disdainfully, wrapped a copper stick in his hand, flicked it again, and swept the weapons of Liu Wu and Zhu Ding aside, and the head of the stick went straight to Hu Yidao's chest like an oolong.

"Dangchang-" The sound of gold and iron was deafening, and Hu Yidao's steel knife retracted back half a foot and hit his lower abdomen. A mouthful of blood spat out of his mouth. He didn't dare to fight, and pulled his mount to the left to dodge. Zhao Kuangyin didn't care about Liu Wu and Zhu Ding, who pounced on him again, raised the copper stick, and swept after his back, "Bang!"

"Ah——!" Hu Yidao screamed and fell from his horse, his life and death uncertain. Zhao Kuangyin twisted around and waved his stick, once again put aside the weapons of Liu Wu and Zhu Ding, and went straight to Caozhou Cavalry to command the commander's banner.

Four Zhao soldiers rode their horses to follow, separating Liu Wu and Zhu Ding from their own generals. More soldiers of the Guards Battalion rushed through at high speed, each of them waved their weapons, or sent a full blow to Liu Wu or Zhu Ding, and then galloped away without looking back.

Pity the two Liu Wu and Zhu Ding, although their martial arts are clever, they are like two reeds blocking the torrent, and they are staggered by the cavalry. Suddenly, his body tilted one after another, and he fell off the horse with a scream, and was trampled into two balls of meat sauce by the hooves of the horse that galloped by!

"The enemy general has a kind of don't run!" Zhao Kuangyin smashed several Caozhou soldiers who couldn't dodge one after another, and swooped towards the handsome banner of Yang Xuan, the commander of the capital. All over the body, sprinkled with enemy soldiers* and plasma. The nearby Caozhou soldiers were frightened and scattered, and they all turned their horses to dodge, lest they hide slowly and become ghosts under the stick.

"For the sake of the generals, don't be brave!" Yang Xuan, the cavalry of the Caozhou Army, was willing to fight hard with him as an "unknown junior". Seeing that the guards in front of him were getting thinner and thinner, he immediately turned his mount and dodged sideways. The other party rushed down the hill at a very fast speed. The other side was followed by hundreds of brothers, and it was easy not to change direction. And he only needs to temporarily avoid its edge, let this round of attacks pass, and then he can reorganize the team and fight again for a short time!

Sure enough, Zhao Kuangyin's strength fell into the void, and he could only pick up a stick and knock over several soldiers to vent his anger, and then continue to go down. In the blink of an eye, he distanced himself from Yang Xuan. Yang Xuan, who succeeded in his plan, immediately ordered his soldiers to blow the horn and adjust their tactics. He ordered all the officers and men to move closer to him and regroup on the hillside.

As long as the team is put in order, they have occupied the favorable terrain again. And even if the enemy general succeeds in chiseling through the Caozhou army, he will fall below. The offensive and defensive momentum can be reversed in a few breaths.

Just when he was smug, suddenly, he saw Zhao Kuangyin turn around and raise his middle finger high at him! "What do you mean?" Where can Yang Xuan understand this gesture passed down by Zheng Ziming, and he was immediately stunned! Immediately, there was a rolling thunder above his head. "Boom, boom!"

It wasn't violent, but it shook the ground. With the instinct of a military general, Yang Xuan quickly turned his head. I saw a junior general with three battalions of cavalry, lined up in a dense horizontal line, and pushed down the hillside diagonally. The Caozhou army along the way was overthrown like weeds and bulldozed one by one, no matter how large or small there were, they had no power to resist!