Chapter 145: The Longbow Team Mighty
The effect of the cavalry attack was obvious, the dreadnought Empire could not stop it at all, and in the almost one-sided slaughter, the cavalry team rushed to the bottom of the steep slope. However, the impact to the bottom of the steep slope also means that the cavalry advantage of the border pass city has been exhausted, and the next step is the withdrawal full of uncertainties!
It can be seen that although the Dreadnought Empire in the distance was full of doubts about the cavalry daring to attack at the border gate for a while, it still quickly organized a cavalry team of nearly 10,000 and began to rush towards this side!
There is no doubt that once the enemy cavalry team is in front of them, then the advantage will be reversed immediately, which also means that the cavalry team of Border Pass City will not want to return to the city again!
The cavalry generals are well aware of the weight of their responsibilities, impacting and cleaning up the enemy army in front of the city is only a small part of the task, and more importantly, leading the cavalry brothers back to the city safely, as long as most of the cavalry brothers can be brought back to the city, it means that the border pass city still has the strength to fight again, otherwise in the endless attack, the border pass city has only one way to fall!
Not daring to be greedy for merit at all, the cavalry team had just hit the bottom of the steep slope, and the cavalry general immediately ordered to withdraw, dismounted neatly, turned around and left, leaving behind two hundred sword and shield bearers, and this team that had just raged like a tiger descending from the mountain turned into a cunning fox and began to march towards his own nest.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, just even chopping and killing took less than a hundred breaths to rush to the bottom of the steep slope, at this time it is a difficult trek to return to the border pass city, but fortunately, those horses are all used to the terrain of the border pass city, and they can support it as much as they can, and they are moving forward one by one in the left and right swaying.
In fact, as long as this cavalry team survived the initial distance of more than 500 meters, it would be invincible, because the enemy's cavalry would also lose its maximum cavalry speed because of the steep slope. After that, as long as the archers on the walls could withstand the pursuit of the infantry. It's done.
The cavalry of Border Pass City was trying to climb the long steep slope, and the cavalry of the Dreadnought Empire were not willing to watch the enemy swagger back to the city, as early as when the cavalry of Border Pass City began to attack, Wolf began to organize the cavalry team to attack after the initial shock, so the cavalry of Border Pass City had just turned around, and the cavalry of the Dreadnought Empire had already rushed to the front.
Zhao Liuxing's personality is not the same as that of the calm Wang Xin, maybe it has something to do with age, he is even younger, he seems to be passionate, and he sees that the fearless imperial cavalry is about to catch up with his brother. The desire to make meritorious contributions can no longer be suppressed, "Blocking and shooting, the distance is 2,400 meters, and two waves of salvos!"
As Zhao Liuxing's order was issued, the longbow team members began their performance, and a rain of arrows almost shot out neatly at the moment when Zhao Liuxing's voice just fell, because of the distance, the method of projectile was used.
I saw that the rain of arrows first rose sharply towards the sky at an angle of about 45 degrees, and then under the action of gravity. Like a predatory vulture, they gradually swooped down towards the vanguard of the dreadnought Imperial cavalry!
While the first wave of arrow rain was still flying in the air, the second wave of arrow rain also shot into the sky, and the two waves of arrow rain were only separated by a distance of about 100 meters, and they rushed towards the target one after the other!
After a tinkling noise. The forward of the Dreadnought Imperial Cavalry, which had been maintained quite neatly, was suddenly in chaos, not to mention the pain caused to the cavalry by the sharp arrows of the Wind Feather Arrows penetrating into their bodies, and the nearly two hundred or so arrows alone rained down, which startled the war horses under their crotches.
So chaos is inevitable. The forwards were crowded together, and the follow-up echelons also couldn't pull the galloping horses, like dominoes. Nearly 200 cavalrymen fell off their horses, and the impact was completely contained!
It is said that a team of archers of only eighty people should not have such great power, but the words are divided into two ends, and this situation has a lot to do with the longbow team's practice of selecting the best of the best.
First of all, this is not an ordinary team of archers, they are the best of the best among the archers of each army of nearly 1,000 people, and secondly, their recent training has almost entirely focused on the training of recoil warfare, and the essentials of each command have been deeply rooted in the marrow.
Of course, there is also the fact that the distance of two thousand four hundred meters is an insurmountable distance under normal circumstances, and the reason why the Dreadnought Empire is not prepared to defend against the rain of arrows is precisely for this reason.
Looking at the longbow team's achievements, the cavalry generals of Border Pass City even collected the broken rear team that stayed behind, and began to rush towards the direction of Border Pass City with one mind!
And Worf, who saw this situation, was in his heart, and a mouthful of blood almost vomited out.
And the Longbow team was not satisfied with delaying the enemy's onslaught, Zhao Liuxing's password exited again, "Cover the shot, target the enemy gathering point, the distance is two thousand three hundred meters, two waves, shoot!"
The so-called interception shooting is a shooting method formed by dividing more than 80 people into eight groups and evenly distributing the firing area according to the width and narrowness of the enemy's front line.
The covering shot was different, and the more than 80 strong archers were almost each responsible for a point of attack according to a pre-rehearsal method, and there was no repetition, so that the damage caused far exceeded that of the first blocking shot.
When the two waves of arrows fell, it was the critical moment when the generals of the enemy cavalry team tried to gather the personnel and organize the attack again, and in the chaos, only a few cavalrymen in the front row were organizing the defense with poor small round shields, and the others were looking for horses and gathering together, and they didn't realize that a greater danger was waiting for them at all!
After the rain of arrows fell this time, unlike the last time, the shooting target was extremely accurate, and the neighing of horses was rare, and instead the screams of people resounded throughout the shock formation.
The two waves of arrow rain actually caused nearly a hundred casualties among the cavalry, and the casualties of these nearly 100 cavalry further blocked the impact of the Dreadnought Imperial cavalry, making them no longer able to move forward, but instead gathered into a large mass because of the chaos!
Such a target is exactly what Zhao Liuxing likes, so he only slightly assessed the results, and the shooting command was exited again, "Extended shooting, the distance is two thousand four hundred meters, four waves of continuous shooting!"
The successive arrow rain attacks made the cavalry team of the Dreadnought Empire suffer enough, not to mention the pursuit of the cavalry of the border pass city, and now in such a state, even if the team is well organized, it has become a luxury to withdraw from the battlefield safely!
The generals in charge of the second echelon were not too stupid, and they gave the order to stop advancing in time, but they only ensured that the follow-up echelons would not fall into the same situation, and the brothers who saw the heavy casualties in the first echelon were powerless.
However, the attack of the Longbow team could only end here, before and after, almost the eight waves of arrows at their maximum range had consumed their bodies, except for some outliers who were full of bodies, more than 90% of the members of the entire Longbow team had lost the ability to fight again in a short time.
Of course, with proper rest and adjustment, they will become vigorous again, and even after surviving this war, there will be a lot of progress, but for now, looking at the enemy's chaotic cavalry, there is no way to attack the entire border pass city.
Finding that the fatal rain of arrows never appeared again, the cavalry general of the Dreadnought Empire was overjoyed, and seized the time to order the forward to retreat and reorganize the army, and suddenly thought of the task he was undertaking, the general couldn't help but look in front of the border pass city, but only saw the last few border pass city cavalry into the city!
The wonderful cooperation between the longbow team and the cavalry team allowed the border gate city to temporarily survive the difficulties in front of them, and all the generals showed smiles on their faces again, in their opinion, such a reincarnation a few more times will definitely be able to consume a large number of the living forces of the dreadnought empire, and it is not impossible to even annihilate the 200,000 troops here.
Only some veteran generals and Liu Wenyuan know that no matter how good the tactics and tactics are, they only occupy the word surprise, which is the so-called surprise victory, and the tactics that have been used once in front of the enemy are obviously impossible to occupy this strange word again, and the enemy will definitely come up with a way to crack the same situation next time.
In other words, the same tactics may be able to win next time, but it will never be so easy, and the results will never be so brilliant. Moreover, after using it twice or three times, maybe the enemy army will also devise various strategies to counterbalance this tactic.
Liu Wenyuan was thinking, some shrewd generals were also thinking, Wolf was also thinking, of course, looking at the initial victory in the tactics he had trained, Ling Xiao was also thinking excitedly.
Everyone is thinking about the same question, how to continue to fight this war in front of us!
Ling Xiao, who has always been whimsical, is actually thinking about two problems, one is that the two tactics he has trained have been presented in front of the opponent, and the enemy will not give himself the same opportunity to play these two tactics.
As for the other question, how to return to the border city, it is not a way to stay in such an awkward place all the time. When they are accidentally discovered by the enemy, what will the dreadnought imperial army that is in anger do to their enemies, and you know with your toes that there will be no good end!
Then the question is how to win by surprise while returning! And the time to return is when the cavalry of the border pass city is dispatched again, Ling Xiao has already estimated that when the cavalry of the border pass city attacked just now, the farthest place they reached was only a kilometer away from the boulder where they were hiding.
If the timing is well coordinated, the dreadnought Imperial army that has suffered from the impact will definitely not notice their actions, and it is not an impossible task to take advantage of the momentary chaos to cross the distance and join the cavalry team to return to the border pass city.
The difficulty is that since he has made up his mind to return, he can't waste this position in the coincidence that he is in, and compared to the defenders in the border city, he can do more things in this position. (To be continued......)