Chapter 82: The First Battle of the Grassland (Part II)
The distance is getting closer, eighty meters! Seventy meters!
"Rush!"
Zhao Ming gave an order, and everyone began to drive the horses to rush towards the opposite side, and almost at the same time clamped the horse's belly and patted the horse's buttocks hard.
The horses accelerated faster than usual, and everyone began to lower their posture.
There is no so-called dodge, only neat and orderly movements, fifty meters!
Generally speaking, the range of bows and arrows, for some excellent archers in the grassland, can reach a good accuracy of 100 meters.
But mounted archery is different from infantry archery, and the nature of the two is different.
The range of the cavalry bow is much weaker than that of the infantry bow, which is that it is difficult for the cavalry to pull the infantry bow in the riding state, so the pulling force of the cavalry bow is relatively low.
Generally, the effective range of mounted archery is about 30 meters, so the basic weapon of Mongolian cavalry is two or three bows, riding and arching bows, and stationing or dismounting to shoot bows with infantry.
But there are exceptions, the Qing bow of the previous dynasty, the power of the cavalry bow is also not inferior.
And the people in front of them, when they reached fifty meters, they were still only in a state of drawing their bows, and it can be seen that they were all riding and shooting bows.
They have straight waists and legs that can easily control the direction of the ride, and gradually reach 40 meters as the distance progresses.
Sou! Whoosh!
Dense arrows suddenly shot out.
Burst!
Poof!
Bang bang!
The sound of sharp weapons breaking bodies, the sound of breaking the air, the sound of arrows hitting with flesh and blood, and the muffled snort of people falling from their horses, almost one after another.
Zhao Ming's body staggered, and an arrow was directly pierced into his left shoulder, and a sharp and tearing pain swept through his body, but he gritted his teeth and continued to bury his body and rush forward.
As far as the eye could see, more than 20 of the 80 brethren had fallen from their horses in just one round of cavalry shooting, and the remaining 20 or 30 men had also been hit by an arrow.
There were also a few people whose horses were shot in the hooves of their horses, and they stumbled in front of the horses, and one fell on their backs.
Before the confrontation, nearly half of Zhao Ming's side were injured, and he directly reduced twenty or thirty people.
How can this be fought?
A fine sweat flowed from Zhao Ming's forehead, but he still gritted his teeth and shouted, "Get close!" Get close! Rush over and kill them! ”
From beginning to end, everyone wants to seek a glimmer of life, and they can only fight into the crowd and seek a glimmer of hope with their immediate knife skills.
However, the first wave of cavalry was over, and the opponent did not covet the second round of cavalry at all, and the leader made a gesture.
Soon the large force of cavalry quickly retracted their bows and dispersed in two different directions, left and right.
This also means that the other party wants to use the horse shooting to consume Zhao Ming and them alive!
"Prepare your guns!"
Seeing this scene, Zhao Ming was not in a hurry, and the brothers could mess with him.
Hearing this, the brothers, who were already a little flustered, quickly stabilized, and those who had guns quickly took out the spears hanging from the horse's belly.
More than 40 brothers had already picked up their guns, but fortunately, the brothers with guns had just been shot on a horse, and they were not so damaged.
The fifty guns he brought were the only thing Zhao Ming relied on now.
"Straight ahead, free fire!"
Zhao Ming continued to give orders, and as soon as the words fell, bang bang!
There was a burst of gunsmoke, and the follow-up cavalry, who had not had time to disperse, suddenly fell down more than a dozen people, and some horses were injured, which made the team a little confused.
At first, Zhao Ming wanted to fight the other party hard, compared to shooting, he couldn't compare.
If you want to shoot, you must have more space for your body to stand upright, and there are more flaws, with the opponent's level of riding and shooting, there are many people, and you are afraid that if you come down in one round, you will kill some people on the other side, and there will only be more casualties on your side!
But he lowered his posture and rushed violently, greatly reducing his position and reducing flaws.
It's just that I didn't expect this group of thieves to want to shoot out, and this Zhao Ming naturally couldn't get used to them.
Sure enough, after discovering that Zhao Ming and the others also had long-range shooting capabilities, the other party suddenly became a little anxious.
Yaoyao, the leader of the two sides that had been separated, glanced at each other, and immediately made another gesture, about to continue to bypass and move forward, close in front of him, turn the horse's head, and launch another wave of guerrilla at the same time to launch the last wave of charge.
Because the first wave of arrows had already caused heavy casualties to Zhao Ming and his party, most of the next wave would be more than thirty or forty people left to continue to sit on the horses.
Nearly 500 people against 30 or 40 people, no matter how you think about it, there will be no more accidents.
The idea is good, but Zhao Ming is willing to give up this opportunity to continue the pursuit, without saying a word, he directly chooses one of the two, and chooses one side of the flank enemy cavalry to pursue the point again.
The fifty spears that Zhao Ming bought were all made in Hanyang, although they could not fire continuously like automatic rifles, but they were not like earthen guns that had to poke the barrel of a shot, and as long as they continued to load, they could continue to shoot.
The accuracy of the shooting was very limited, shooting while pursuing, throwing the time to load and aim, the pursuit lasted two or three minutes, and only three rounds were fought.
In total, more than a dozen people were shot down in three rounds, and the hit rate was simply stumbling.
But it also succeeded in provoking the other side and disrupting the other side's deployment.
Seeing this, the enemy cavalry, who had already readjusted their orientation, directly launched an attack on Zhao Ming and his party from the flank, intending to surround Wei to save Zhao.
It stands to reason that the five hundred of them don't need to take care of so much at all.
Zhao Ming and his entourage were only 80 people, and they shot down more than 20 people in the first round of cavalry shooting.
But those who wear shoes are a little afraid of bare feet, and there are obviously better casualty and lower casualty rates, so they naturally want to avoid casualties subconsciously.
One wrong step, one wrong step!
Zhao Ming had been observing the surrounding situation, and caught a glimpse of another wave of enemy cavalry twenty or thirty meters away had gathered and was ready to charge this way.
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhao Ming shouted, "Kill!" ”
The moment the password was issued, at the same time, his fingers hit the direction, and all the Zhen Songjun brothers subconsciously couldn't help but say, and their bodies subconsciously completed the coordination action, and they deviated slightly from the direction of progress with Zhao Ming.
From a distance, Zhao Ming was originally in good pursuit, but quickly completed a forty-degree offset turn, and the brothers also completed it together, and the movements were neat as if they were one.
These brothers of the Zhensong Army may not be good at riding and shooting, and their knife skills are not as good as the real Guanzhong swordsmen, but they have followed Liu Dashuai for many years in their early years, and they are all bandit gangs, and they have order in the army, and they also have the ability to fight on the rivers and lakes.
That ruthlessness was even more stimulated with the fight with Zhao Ming several times in a row, even more than before!
I've finally caught you!
Twenty meters is a blink of an eye.
The enemy cavalry on the opposite side obviously did not expect the group on the opposite side to be so decisive, and gave up their clenched tails, and instead resolutely confronted them.
You must know that in the cavalry battle, if your cavalry is bitten by the tail of the opponent's cavalry, and the opponent still has a certain long-range shooting ability, it is actually a very unfavorable situation.
After all, the cavalry is very disadvantageous in turning the front and rear directions, especially in the galloping state, and it needs to go around a large arc to turn.
This is also the reason why their wave of cavalry is supporting, but I didn't expect Zhao Ming to be so decisive.
Bang bang bang!
Whoosh!
The sound of gunfire and arrows bursting through the air was heard at about the same time, and the men on both sides quickly dropped their spears or bows into their wallets after the first wave of fire, and drew their swords at the same time.
Both sides are professionally trained in riding, so they know exactly what to do and what not to do.