Chapter 14: The Pursuit

When galloping past the earthen fortress that the thieves had attacked a while ago, Sun Jie felt his heart throb suddenly: although he knew very well that he would definitely not see the Jingguan outside the city gate here, he still subconsciously threw himself in that direction and hurriedly looked at it.

The murderous machine in the chest rises sharply.

However, Sun Jie knew that every iron rider who followed behind him thought so. As soon as you start to vent your anger and slash, the thieves in front of you will be strewn all over the field in an instant - but the thieves will also have the opportunity to lead their troops out of the battlefield and return to the camp to defend it, and the tactical objectives of kicking the enemy's camp in one fell swoop will be threatened.

It is necessary to let the rout gather together, contain the thieves and respond in place, and gather to annihilate them in one go!

Sun Jieqiang suppressed his urge to slash and kill indiscriminately, commanded the cavalry team that spread out in a double-layer fan shape, and once again gradually forced the routs who were all over the mountains and fields to drive together in the direction of the enemy's camp.

Outside, a cloud of smoke and dust gradually faded away.

Judging by the dust, at most forty or fifty horsemen - it is clear that the enemy's commander with his personal escort abandoned the army.

Abandon the army. Scold! Rat!

It's strange, though: the horse's hooves are clumps rather than threads – apparently, horses aren't fast.

"What's going on? Do you want to tempt me to divide my troops? It's impossible—that should be the first to hedge with the cavalry—the two sides are entangled, and I'm worried that the thieves' own battalion will then rush up, trap the armored cavalry with spearmen, and the sword and shield soldiers will gather to cover the rout, gather the crowd to resist themselves, and then press up the infantry...... Then he had to divide his forces, one way to meet the horsemen who were haunting the thieves, and the other to sweep straight past the phalanx of infantry that rushed to meet them...... Could it be a lack of horsepower? Siege warfare doesn't need cavalry, so why don't thieves have enough horsepower? ”

"Duh! Whatever—you can't run away! The sky has eyes, and blood debts are repaid! ”

As soon as he thought of this, the anger in his heart burned even more intensely, and his veins seemed to burst at any time. At this moment, once the victory was confirmed at hand, the murderous aura that had been forcibly suppressed erupted like boiling magma breaking through the crater, soaring into the sky!

Waving his sword, he signaled the brigade to continue to drive the rout, and led the internal guards out of formation. Ten tiger guards guarded the positions behind Sun Jie's sides, biting down on the puff of smoke and dust in front of them.

During the gallop, the tiger guards hung their swords and spears back into the saddle rings and drew their sabers.

The long soldier is the best choice when charging into battle, and it is also very effective in driving away the enemy - he only needs to stick out a sharp blade for the running enemy to see, and he will run to the other side - but the real chase is not very effective: the armor rider is relatively high-speed sprinting, the exhausted target is almost stationary, the long soldier stabs the human body, and the sudden resistance may even break the knight's wrist bone! Therefore, the standard attitude of the standard armored cavalry commander charge is to hold the gun, not to hold the gun (of course, there is also the factor of balancing the counterweight).

Many experienced horsemen would thin the barrel behind the head of the riding gun and nail gun, so that the barrel of the gun would break immediately after stabbing the human body, so as to protect themselves.

The saber is different, even if it is not completely chopped, as long as it is brought a little, the huge momentum of the unity of man and horse will pull a shocking wound on the opponent's body, even if it does not hurt the vital point, most of the targets will die of blood loss due to the difficulty of getting timely battlefield ambulance.

Guan Shengyun's guard captain Guan Yehuo was anxious.

Although it was only half speed, there was already a little foam at the mouth and nose of the war horse. Looking back and observing the pursuers for a while: in this way, they will be caught up within five miles - if they run down, the war horse will lose their strength, and the opponent's horse will just run out of character! There are only about a dozen chasing soldiers, although their own number is large, but the pursuers have good horsepower, as long as they are delayed, sooner or later the enemy's infantry will press up......

Just as he was thinking, there was a mournful roar, and a war horse in front of him kicked on a small ridge, and the tired galloping horse was no longer able to overcome the sudden impact of galloping, and fell to his knees - just like the reason that tired people are prone to fall, the war horse saw the ridge, and its brain judged that it could jump over, but the stiff muscles could not complete the instructions of the brain.

There was a click.

Under the action of huge kinetic energy, the broken bones of the front legs of the war horse broke out. The rider flailed his limbs helplessly like a rag doll thrown into the air by a naughty child, falling far away.

The rider who followed inevitably tripped and fell, one foot of the rider was stuck in the stirrup, and the upper body and thighs were twisted 180 degrees at once, and there was silence for a moment, and the howl suddenly sounded......

The third and fourth riders avoided it dangerously, but their mounts were also hit by oblique spurs, and their speed slowed down suddenly.

Guan Yehuo instantly made up his mind: the fish is dead and the net is broken! During the run, he shouted an order: more than a dozen guards with the best horsepower continued to escort Guan Dashuai, and the rest of the thirty or so rode the war horses and turned back to hedge!

It was a suicidal order. Even if the war horse is full of physical strength, it is impossible to raise speed at such a short distance - cavalry hedge, speed is life!

Judging from the clothes, it was a crossbowman running in front: he was wearing a very old leather armor, cloth pants, and shoes, and one had been lost, the crossbow machine and arrow magazine were long gone, and the long dagger at his waist was nowhere to be found...... Although most of the crossbowmen are elite veterans, if they don't stand in the way, the culprit is a mile ahead, and Sun Jie doesn't bother to chase and cut down such an enemy. But this guy was frightened and fainted, and galloped in front of his horse with two hands open......

The war horse galloped to a parallel position and shouted: "Chop!" ”

Leaning over slightly, with a wave of the war knife in his hand, a head flew into the air, and the carotid artery spurted out a half-human-high column of blood, and at the same time, the body that had lost its head still ran forward two or three steps, and then fell down with a poof, rolled a few times, and twitched his hands and feet a few times, announcing the end of another life on this day.

The dust in front of it changed: a small strand separated from the large mass that was rolling forward and continued to run forward, while the large mass suddenly stagnated and spread in place. The corners of Sun Jie's mouth showed a hideous smile line: "Do you just think of hedging at this moment?" It's late! ”

Hold your sword high again, stay for a moment, spin twice overhead, and point the blade forward!

The tiger guards who charged in the shape of geese behind them gave up their respective goals of chasing and slashing, and quickly gathered into a double column and galloped forward!

Compared to a sword that is powerful in slashing and more protective in swinging, the sword looks magnificent, but it is more suitable for stabbing. Although there is a saying of "stabbing to death and slashing" in terms of the killing effect, if you are stabbed in battle, you lose the ability to resist, and most of the people are dead. Actual combat is no better than dazzling the audience, and one move is the most important thing - you need to deal with the opponent as soon as possible, because there are more enemies ahead! Therefore, the sword is similar to a guard of honor weapon, which is something that the lords of the prison army and civil servants who do not need to fight themselves like to hang on their waists to show off, and the generals of this era mostly like to use knives in foot combat. But when riding a war, everyone has their own long soldiers, and naturally they will not interfere with what weapons their armored cavalry uses.

Sun Jie is different, compared to long soldiers such as horse swords and iron guns, he prefers sabers.

It was a long time ago when there was not much need to charge in person. However, after all, since he joined the army as a teenager, how many times he has brushed shoulders with death, so that Sun Jie has a soft spot for sabers.

The results of the hedging of the armor and cavalry depend to a considerable extent on the element of luck: although the knights with a lot of combat experience will definitely take advantage of one-on-one battles, the overall results of several battles are less than 20% - in contrast to this - the discount rate is also very high! After years of careful observation and personal experience, Sun Jie found that the problem was precisely in the weapon!

The so-called hedging is that the opposing sides are driving in opposite directions, and the horses are constantly accelerating, and the ideal state is to reach the highest speed at the moment when the two sides are staggered, avoiding the weapons poked by the other side, and at the same time piercing the opponent with the weapon...... If they don't hit, they will run some distance and then rein in their horses and repeat again...... Until one party hits the ground or runs away. Of course, how far to run and then to set the horse to rush back is a test of the rider's experience: the distance is too close, the horse speed can not be raised, it will suffer a big loss, run too far, the enemy has already turned back to accelerate, and his horse speed still can't be raised!

With long soldiers, on the surface, it seems that there will be a preemptive advantage when hedging, but in actual combat, everyone will instinctively take self-preservation as the first choice, and whether they can hit the enemy is secondary. Both sides are focused on avoiding each other's attacks, so they often hedge several times, but neither hits anyone. A veteran soldier who has been in battle for a long time has an advantage in terms of timing and confidence - and if one side is two horses with head to tail, the rider behind does not need to worry about the other side has already swung out the long soldier who has not had time to take it back, even if it is a novice, at this time it will often get results!

It's different with a saber. In high-speed movements, lateral slashes are sure to have a better chance of hitting than longitudinal thrusts - as long as you get close enough! It is not easy to take back the long soldier's stab, but as long as you practice diligently, the saber more than three feet long can be wielded continuously, even if the opponent is a two-horse column: block, slash, and block again, the three actions can be done in one go. Moreover, swinging the knife in different postures can be very convenient to convey various complex commands. And most importantly: it's a great weapon for bravery – you have to have the courage to engage the enemy in close quarters for it to be effective!

If you don't have a decapitation in one or two battles, it can be said that you are unlucky-after a few battles, and when you return to the camp, you can't tie a head of the enemy's blood under the neck of the horse, which can only prove that you have the courage to go to the camp yourself!

Thinking of this, Sun Jie consciously asked more than a dozen Ma Wei, who had mediocre records but by no means lacked courage, to replace their main battle soldiers with secondary weapons and knives, and after several simulated hedging, everyone was surprised to find that although the other side of the opponent was a decapitation horse, the hit rate of the knife group was twice as high as that of the opponent!

Since then, although everyone has their own long soldiers to use to charge the battle, and Sun Jie has no clear regulations, but if you want to gain a foothold in this horse team under Sun Zishuai, there is an unwritten rule: you must have the decapitation skill of the saber!

As for Sun Jie's internal guard armor - Sun Jie is a tiger, everyone is used to calling it a tiger guard - and must cross a threshold: third-level gong.