Chapter 294: Mounted Archery Troops
Suo Tuluo wore her hair scattered, her face was so embarrassed that she froze in place, staring at Yuwen Chengyu who had gone all the way with round eyes, with a trace of fear and full of anger.
On the battlefield, the helmet was taken away by the enemy, which was a great humiliation for the general, looking at the helmet raised by Yuwen Chengyu, it was like holding the head of Suo Tuluo.
The surrounding Turkic soldiers looked at each other, and even the adjutant general did not know how to comfort the general.
Finally, the last trace of reason in Suo Tuluo's heart was completely swallowed up by anger, he shouted violently, raised the long knife in his hand and roared: "Li Hao, if I don't defeat you today, I swear not to be a human being!" ”
In the absence of any formation to speak of, the Turkic army, under the command of Suo Tuluo, pursued Li Hao's cavalry.
"Owner, you've got it!" Yuwen Chengyu came to Li Hao's side and threw Suo Tuluo's helmet over.
Li Hao raised his hand to take it, looked at the heroic female general in front of him, and was shocked in his heart.
is worthy of being the granddaughter of Tianbao General Yuwen Chengdu, Cheng Yu's bravery and fearlessness on the battlefield is not much better than that of men.
After sighing, Li Hao no longer hesitated, and raised his helmet on the spear high: "Brothers, retreat!" ”
At the sound of an order, several arrows flew into the sky.
The cavalry team received the order, quickly gathered together, and under the leadership of the sweaty cavalry, turned to the west to fight their way out of the encirclement, and galloped all the way.
Suo Tuluo's eyes were red, and he led 5,000 cavalry to chase after the Li family's army. Although the speed of sweat and blood is fast, Li Hao's most of them are ordinary cavalry teams, and no matter how strong they are, they can only be on par with the Turkic cavalry team at most, and they can't get rid of them.
After running all the way for half an hour, the two armies had already run out of the sandbar grassland and came to a hilly and mountainous area.
Seeing the change in the terrain, the adjutant general faintly felt bad in his heart, and immediately said to Suo Tuluo: "General, the terrain here is complicated, and there may be an ambush, so you can't be rash!" ”
But Suo Tuluo was in a state of anger, where could he listen to the words of the adjutant general? Without saying a word, the pursuit continued.
The adjutant general was anxious and was about to say something more, but he saw a cavalry team of more than 100 horsemen suddenly come out of the col in front of him.
This cavalry team was a bloody cavalry, and they were ambushed here early to wait for work, and they were in good shape. And they have no heavy armor, and they don't even have long weapons to fight right away, so they are amazingly fast.
The leader of this cavalry team was Zhang Qi, they did not get close to the Turkic cavalry, but relied on speed and ran with the enemy, as soon as they got closer, Zhang Qi shouted: "Get on the arrow!" ”
There was a crisp click, and Lijiazhuang's special crossbow appeared in their hands.
"Left two, three, follow me, put!"
At the sound of the order, more than 100 sharp arrows roared and rained into the ranks of the Turkic cavalry.
These crossbows were so powerful that they could easily pierce through the armor of cavalry. even pierced two people in a row before running out of momentum.
This sudden attack stopped the momentum of the Turkic cavalry's pursuit, and the vanguard was disorganized.
"Here's your chance! Kill back! Li Hao immediately turned his horse's head, and took advantage of the chaos of the enemy's position to kill from the enemy's waist, cutting off the Turkic cavalry team like a bamboo.
Although Suo Tuluo's body had been dominated by anger, his long-term combat experience still made him make a judgment at the first time.
"Adjutant General, you divide 1,000 people to pursue the cavalry and archery troops, and the rest of the people will change from the rear team to the front team to block Li Hao's cavalry!"
The formation of the Turkic cavalry immediately changed, and more than 1,000 horsemen chased Zhang Qi under the rain of arrows, while Suo Tuluo personally led the team and killed backwards, vowing to trap Li Hao to death completely.
The troops led by Zhang Qi were not wearing armor, and a head-on clash with the Turkic cavalry was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. He immediately turned his horse's head and led the salvo to run.
"One on the right, two on the right, follow me with the arrow, release!" Another volley, and the Turkic cavalry pursuing them lost another hundred cavalry. What's more, blocked by this round of arrow rain, they have been completely distanced by the cavalry troops.
The leading lieutenant general was anxious in his eyes: "You can't be wounded, divide into two teams, and outflank the enemy!" ”
The Turkic cavalry was well-trained, and as soon as they heard the order, they immediately spontaneously separated from the left and right, and outflanked Zhang Qi's cavalry troops from the left and right.
"The Turks have divided their troops, so let's divide them too!" Zhang Qi's lieutenant said hurriedly.
"No, we don't have many people, we can't fall for the enemy's plan to reduce the troops, everyone listen to my orders, aim at the enemy on the left, and fire three volleys!"
"Boom!" Three rain of arrows roared down. The Turkic cavalry on the left was baptized by a rain of arrows and suffered heavy losses.
Killing them didn't expect that the crossbows used by Li Hao's salvo troops were not only powerful, but even the speed of changing arrows was desperate.
The Turkic cavalry on the left was almost completely wiped out, and the pressure on Zhang Qi and them was suddenly reduced a lot, and they continued to rely on their speed advantage to run with the enemy on the right.
The Turkic cavalry could not catch up, could not escape, did not listen to the attack by the rain of arrows, and suffered unspeakably for a while.
In the positive direction, Suo Tuluo finally caught up with Li Hao, biting him to the death, the two weapons frantically exchanged weapons, and they fought equally, behind them, Li Jiajun and the Turks were entangled with each other, and the fight was inextricable.
The enemy was outnumbered, and although the Li family's cavalry was brave, they still fell behind in the end.
This Turkic cavalry seems to have seen the weakness of the spider silk armor, which can only protect the body of the cavalry, but the neck and head, in any case, cannot be taken care of.
So he concentrated his firepower and attacked the head and throat of the Li family's cavalry. Ordinary cavalry were picked off their horses one after another, and even the sweaty cavalry began to suffer casualties.
The two sides fought for a cup of tea, and the Li family's cavalry team was no longer able to ride more than 600 horses.
And the Turkic infantry phalanx had already caught up behind him, and it seemed that he was about to begin to encircle.
Li Hao took a deep breath, waved his arms violently, and finally forced Suo Tuluo's piece of kraft candy back.
"You can't fight, hurry up!"
Yuwen Chengyu received the order, and immediately broke through with the sweaty cavalry team to cover the Li family's cavalry.
They fought and retreated, and soon made a gap in the encirclement of the Turkic cavalry.
"Quickly fill the gap, we can't let them escape!" Suo Tuluo saw Li Hao's intentions at a glance, and personally led people to kill the gap.
But just as they were about to plug the gap, they saw Zhang Qi's cavalry and archery troops rushing over again, and a round of arrows fell, and the cavalry team led by Suo Tuluo suffered heavy losses.
"How is that possible!" Suo Tuluo brandished his weapon to shoot down the arrows that were shot at him, and looked at Zhang Qi's troops in disbelief.
Didn't he send his lieutenant a thousand cavalry to hunt them down? How could this cavalry unit be reinforced?
As if seeing his doubts, Zhang Qi sneered and threw a human head over.
The head rolled to Suo Tuluo's feet, and he was a dead lieutenant.
The Turkic cavalry formation was completely disrupted by the continuous fire of the cavalry troops, Li Hao took the opportunity to lead the troops, under the cover of the rain of arrows, to kill a bloody way, and in the moment before the Turkic infantry successfully encircled, he killed out in a thrilling way.
After several hours of fierce battles, the cavalry of the Li family was already sleepy and tired, and Li Hao knew that he could not fight anymore, so he no longer cared about the Turkic barbarians behind him and fled all the way forward.