Imperial Capital Chapter 143 The True Power of Cavalry
The elite attacking team, numbering two hundred, was all composed of soldiers from the Xiaocheng Realm, and they wore fingernails, the lightest but most defensive armor.
Their mounts are also covered with the same fingernails, and their bodies are tied to the back of their horses, and they either live with the horse or die with it.
This fully represents their will to fight, and at the same time, they have quivers behind their backs. On one side of the horse's back was a strong bow, and on the other side was a pouch with several spears inside.
As the order was given, a flurry of horse whistles passed forward, and the team in front gradually separated to the sides, leaving a gap in the middle.
Cheng Jiu, one of the commanders of this elite cavalry squad, after receiving the order, he did not hesitate to take the lead in urging the treasure horse under his seat, and rushed forward in the first step.
Behind him were a hundred horsemen, more than a step faster than the cavalry next to him.
In the ranks of cavalry, the cavalry in front generally has the role of breaking the wind and taking the lead, and breaking the wind can help the cavalry behind to reduce the consumption of physical strength.
And when attacking the enemy line at a critical moment, the team in front of the wind will retreat to the rear, allowing the cavalry in the middle to save their strength to charge with all their might.
This was the standard for cavalry charging and fighting, but the supreme commander of this cavalry contingent of five thousand men did not act according to such rules.
According to his opinion, there should be no high-ranking generals in this military camp, and the cavalry is the elite of an army, which is not something that ordinary people can control, so he first showed the enemy weakness, and first charged with the cavalry that had consumed most of the physical strength in front.
Once the other party thinks that this is the impact of the cavalry, then he can take it by surprise and let the cavalry behind him, who have preserved their physical strength, charge with all their might.
Now the step of charging and attacking has come to this step, and the attack team must first break the defense.
Once the defense is successfully opened, the cavalry team behind will continue to expand the results along this opening.
Under the leadership of Cheng Jiu, the attacking team became faster and faster, and soon reached the peak, and the team of the forward cavalry had also been completely separated, revealing the scene ahead.
Unlike Cheng Jiu's impression, every time he arrived at this moment, he was faced with a sharp spear and a solid shield, but this time he saw only a few nearly a hundred people scattered in front of him trying to stop them.
Cheng Jiu's heart couldn't help but begin to be ecstatic, he didn't expect the enemy to use such a camp to block them.
If he was facing a shield array and a spear formation, then his attacking team would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and even he himself would have a high probability of dying on the battlefield.
But if it was the situation in front of him, he could not hesitate to say that the hundred people in their team would have a probability of survival of more than eighty percent.
Once this attack is completed, all members of their team can be promoted to one level and rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, which is the fundamental source of the combat power of the attack team!
Fight once, fight to win, go to the peak of life, fight to lose, it's just a big deal.
The appearance of the attacking team actually attracted all the contestants, most of them were masters of the Dacheng Realm, and their ears and eyes could naturally hear the sound of the horses' hooves that were unique to this group of cavalry.
It can only be described in two words, and that is:
Neat!
It's so neat that you can hear the difference in the chaotic sound of horses' hooves.
Many of the contestants who rushed to the front were ready to retreat first and backward to see the situation.
However, the speed of the attacking team has been increased to the limit, much faster than other cavalry, and these contestants in front of them are not able to retreat if they want to, and they can only retreat while fighting in the face of the cavalry's onslaught.
So the attacking team rushed out directly, and immediately two Dacheng Realm martial artists were pierced by a shot by a knight at the front of this attacking team.
This time, it was the contestants' turn to be shot through two.
The rest of the contestants had shocked faces on their faces.
It was two Dacheng Realm martial artists who were killed in such an instant.
And he was killed in seconds at the same time, and the opponent only fired one shot.
Liu Xin's pupils froze, and his body was like a paper kite, which rose directly into the air and floated dozens of meters behind him.
The two spears that had been attacking him suddenly shot into the air, and the eyes of the two knights were full of hatred.
Even this young man had killed no less than ten of them.
But they did not hesitate, and followed the cavalry charge forward.
Liu Xin watched the attacking team continue to sprint forward, and the knight led by him penetrated a Dacheng Realm martial artist with one shot.
This person is Dacheng!
Liu Xin had such a judgment at the first time, he immediately ran behind him, he couldn't have known what such a team meant.
If it can't be stopped, the cavalry behind it will follow the team and drive straight in. The opponent is like the blade of a knife, cutting through the opponent's defenses.
At the same time, Huangfu Rongjiang also ran back frantically, he had the same purpose as Liu Xin, and he had to stop this team.
Only by stopping or hindering the speed of this attacking team can they avoid further casualties in the future.
Once the defenses where the barracks were located were breached, their numbering of less than 2,000 men alone would not be able to stop the cavalry of 5,000 men.
And among these contestants, the Dacheng Realm martial artists may be able to escape a group.
But if today's game is really lost, not to mention the possibility of whether the third round of the Zhengyang martial arts competition will continue to be held, the shame of today's defeat alone can completely ruin their future.
This feeling is incomprehensible to ordinary warriors without a background.
These wealthy nobles, who are considered by most to be born with golden keys in their mouths, actually have to bear much more pressure than ordinary people.
Unless you're completely rotten and willing to be a gentleman.
But whoever pursues it must work several times harder than ordinary people.
Huangfu Rongjiang is such a person, he is very proud, because his talent is very outstanding.
But equally, even someone as gifted as him is under a lot of pressure.
The elders of the family had high hopes for him, hoping that he would become a figure like their ancestors, and only then would he be considered a qualified heir.
And the highest expectation is even that he will surpass his ancestors.
But the ancestor, what kind of person is that, Huangfu Rongjiang never thinks that he can be comparable to the ancestor.
But this is what the elders expected, and he could only rush forward.
Just as he knew at the moment, he couldn't stop this team alone, but he had to.
But fortunately, in the next moment, Huangfu Rongjiang saw Liu Xin, Shan Si, Zheng Xiao, and more than a dozen people who made the same choice like him.
Cheng Jiu lifted the spear in his hand, and his heart was already full of fighting intent.
As soon as he made a move, he defeated three Dacheng Realm martial artists, which made him feel the surging battle intent that he had never felt in his life.
He even felt like he could challenge the Grandmaster now.
But soon, the quality of being a soldier overpowered the delusions in his heart.
He knew exactly what he had to do now, all he had to do was to cut through the opponent's defensive circle and open a hole for the team behind him.
However, as he made a strong charge through the rejection formation and came to the apparently treated subsidence, he did not choose to slow down, but stood directly on the horse's back, and once his horse fell into the trap, he could jump off the horse and rescue his horse from the trap.
This is his exclusive ability as a martial artist of the Dacheng Realm, and the rest of them can't do it.
As long as he is still at the front of the team, their attacking team is the most penetrating.
Liu Xin looked at the knight standing high on horseback and knew that he was the leader of this cavalry.
He must be defeated before this cavalry contingent will be affected.
Taking two steps in depth, Liu Xin threw it hard and shot the last spear in his hand.
Cheng Jiu noticed it, turned his head and glanced behind him, and there was a knight beside him who immediately understood, turned the horse's head and blocked Cheng Jiu's side, and the next moment a spear pierced from his back, piercing out of his chest, and his whole person was about to fall off the horse.
But because his body was tied to the horse, he just hung there diagonally, and the horse was still galloping forward.
Liu Xin didn't expect the other party's knight to be able to do this, so he used his strength to show his skills, and he was even faster than a horse galloping to the extreme.
Cheng Jiu saw the people on both sides who were approaching quickly, and snorted coldly, and the horse whistle in his mouth sounded a syllable.
Five fast horses were separated from each of his sides, and the knights on horseback roared wildly and charged towards both sides.
Huangfu Rongjiang also learned the top body method, and his body trembled in place, as if he had separated several doppelgangers.
The knight who came to stop him hesitated for a moment, and the next moment the red cloak of Huangfu Rongjiang shrouded the top of a person's head.
The knight was not slow to react, and the spear in his hand stabbed out fiercely.
But Huangfu Rongjiang's body glided in the air, and the spear stabbed against his chest, while he himself turned sideways. The spear in his hand swept directly into the knight's head.
The knight smashed directly on the horse's back, and the huge force caused the charging war horse to stumble under his feet and fall to the ground.
After the horse fell to the ground, it rolled on the ground several times in a row, and several horses beside him jumped over it with great vigor.
Although Huangfu Rongjiang successfully broke through, there were Zheng Xiao and others behind him.
However, in the face of the four charging war horses, these Dacheng Realm martial artists behind them were obviously not so fearful.
Zheng Xiao pulled out his war knife and slashed it in the air, directly cutting off the horse's head, but he himself was almost stabbed in the chest by the knight's spear that jumped down.
But the knight only had time to stab the shot, for when the horse he sat down fell to the ground, he fell with him.
The knight was directly pressed under the horse's body, and the huge weight of the horse directly crushed it into a pile of soft flesh, and the bones all over his body were instantly broken.
Zheng Xiaokan was able to kill one knight, while the rest of the Dacheng Realm martial artists were not so lucky.
Although the remaining three knights also ended up fighting to their deaths, one of the contestants was killed, one was seriously injured, and several were slightly injured.
Zheng Xiao's heart twitched violently, is this the battlefield?
Even the martial artists of the Dacheng Realm could encounter the danger of death anytime and anywhere in this environment.
Whenever he slows down just now, he could be stabbed, or at least seriously injured.
He looked at the cavalry squad in front of him who was rapidly sprinting forward, and a feeling of cowardice and retreat rose in his heart.
But he gritted his teeth and persevered, he was a nobleman, and his father didn't know how many times he had fought on such a battlefield.
It was the first time he understood his father, who had been together since he was a child.
And Liu Xin, who saw all this out of the corner of his eye, also ushered in his opponent.
Two fast horses charged towards him with the knight above.
Liu Xin's body technique was extremely fast, and the moment he got up, he dodged a shot, grabbed it with one hand, and with the momentum of the spear, and at the same time used the light Hongyan body technique, his body suddenly stopped in the air, causing another knight's shot to be pierced in the air.
At the same time, Liu Xin actually retreated with the two knights, the two knights didn't expect this, and before they could react, a bright sword light appeared in their eyes.
Liu Xin's Dao Breaking Sword easily cut through the armor on the two knights, Liu Xin was on the back of the horse, and the whole person continued to rush forward.
The two knights fell crookedly, and because they were tied to their mounts, their bodies were carried away.
Without the control of its master, the war horse will only gallop forward.
After Liu Xin landed, he still rushed forward.
At this time, Cheng Jiu had already come to the area of the subsidence, with his Dacheng Realm martial artist's keen five senses, as well as an intuition, he bypassed two traps one after another, but it was also inevitable that his speed had dropped a little.
At this time, Huangfu Rongjiang had already caught up.
The red cloak shrouded forward, and a cold light was hidden behind the red cloak.
Cheng Jiu had rich combat experience, and directly ordered the sitting war horse to rush fiercely in the direction of Huangfu Rongjiang.
The red cloak was therefore draped directly over the horse's head.
But the direction in which the horse is moving is not controlled by itself, but by its owner, so it is completely unaffected.
was struck hard by the war horse that continued to sprint forward, and the attack that Huangfu Rongjiang had just wanted to send was interrupted.
But Cheng Jiu had already stabbed the spear in his hand forward.
With the impact of the war horse, his gun already has the combat power of the mid-grade Dacheng realm.
Huangfu Rongjiang forcibly raised his internal force to dodge to the right side at the critical moment, narrowly avoiding this shot.
Cheng Jiu didn't expect that the other party would be able to dodge at the speed of this shot, but with a twist of his wrist, the spear swept towards Huangfu Rongjiang.
Huangfu Rongjiang couldn't dodge it a second time and was directly swept by this shot, but fortunately, he had deep internal strength. Forcibly carry this blow.
Huangfu Rongjiang took a few steps back, and the position where he was swept by the spear was hot, and a stream of qi and blood surged up, and there were already blood stains overflowing from his mouth.
He never imagined that he would one day be easily repelled by a low-grade Dacheng Realm martial artist.
At the beginning, when he had not yet been promoted to the Dacheng Realm martial artist, he was already able to fight with the inferior Dacheng Realm martial artist.
After being promoted to the lower grade Dacheng realm, he did not suffer a loss under the same level of martial arts.
And now he is already a middle-grade master!
This made him unbearable for a while, but the cavalry that followed him had continued to attack him, and he had no time to think at all, so he could only subconsciously counterattack.
But by this time his state of mind had been disrupted. The shot was so hasty that he was not able to kill another knight.
The current he is not at the same level as the previous one.
Although a strong attack team is extremely elite, except for Cheng Jiu, who is the leader, is outside the borders of Dacheng, the rest are actually only in the realm of Xiaocheng.
Even with the full blessing of the war horse, it should not be the opponent of Huangfu Rongjiang at all.
Huangfu Rongjiang could only retreat first, but when he retreated, the vigilance of being a martial artist made him directly turn over and dodge.
But I saw that a pair of black hands stretched out from nowhere, and slapped directly at his original location.
Huangfu Rongjiang turned around, wanting to see who it was, but only saw a phantom flashing in front of him.
However, at this time, the cavalry caught up again, and Huangfu Rongjiang could only retreat again, but in the process, he searched back and forth, but he didn't see anyone.
But just now he did suffer.
And the one who attacked him should have been the same contestants.
When is it, there is still infighting!
Huangfu Rongjiang was angry in his heart, the more angry he was in his heart, the more chaotic his moves became, he could only keep retreating, and even Zheng Xiao and others caught up at this time.
And most of this attacking team has passed through the trap area, and beyond that is the shield array composed of ordinary soldiers led by Weng Bingliang.
Once the opponent breaks through the shield formation, the large force of cavalry behind them will definitely follow their pace, trying to completely penetrate the entire camp.
Huangfu Rongjiang finally calmed down at this time, and turned his head to look at Cheng Jiu, who was already a hundred meters away, they couldn't stop it, and they couldn't even delay the speed of the other party, which was undoubtedly a great shame for his identity.
If you can get lucky enough to go back alive today, you will inevitably be scolded by the elders of the family.
It's simply a loss of face for the entire Huangfu Rongjiang family.
But the next moment, he saw a figure appear in front of Cheng Jiu.
Look at it closely, isn't that Jinyi Wei Liu Xin, who has a good relationship with the four singles!
Although his strength is not bad, the gap between the cultivation of the inferior Dacheng realm and the cavalry of the same level of cultivation is too great.
Even if he is also a genius, he can fight across levels, and he can fight with the other party at most.
And the commander of the cavalry squad, his purpose is to rush forward with all his strength and break through the shield array.
Definitely will not entangle with Liu Xin.
If you can't stop him, it's useless.
This is the battlefield, not the competition.
It doesn't have to be life or death, the Commander just needs to complete his task to penetrate the shield array. He was already victorious.
Therefore, at this moment, Huangfu Rongjiang was desperate in his heart.
But the next moment, there was a look of shock in his eyes.
As far as he could see, the commander was kicked off his horse by Liu Xin.