Chapter 602: The Battle of the Rangers
Tong Weiyong, this person can be said to be a very strange person whether it is the empire's net organization or the dark night quicksand in Liu Fan's hands, not only because this person appeared out of nowhere, but also because of the strength shown by this person. Just when the military quality of the young Tong Weiyong or his personal strength made everyone feel that their eyes suddenly lit up, the Yongzhou army did not intend to continue to expand after occupying Yongzhou City, but it was this Tong Weiyong who defeated the invincible Yuwen Chengdu, so he was able to keep the northern part of Yongzhou, and the insufficient strength of Yuwen Chengdu also chose to lead the troops to lie dormant in the south of Yongzhou and wait for the opportunity, but I didn't expect that Yuwen Chengdu completely lost the opportunity to fight with Tong Weiyong.
Li Sheng took his 3,000 men to avoid the main road, and the 3,000 people were immediately divided into three teams, Li Sheng personally led a team of 2,000 men to meet Tong Weiyong's army, and the remaining 1,000 troops Ma Chao and Nian Qianyao were one and a half, and the scouts of the Tong Jiajun who were responsible for cutting off Tong Weiyong made them completely blind and deaf. Li Sheng stood on a small high ground, with two thousand cavalry lined up behind him. Yuwen Chengdu has lost the opportunity to fight Tong Weiyong again, so he told Yue Fei all the information he knew, and combined the information sent by the quicksand in the dark night, Li Sheng knew that this battle was not very easy, not only the combat effectiveness of the Tong Family Army was very strong, but even the strength of Tong Weiyong himself was probably not much worse. If you want to drag down the 200,000 army, the only way to do it is to use skill, and a key part of it is the duel between Li Sheng and Tong Weiyong, but Li Sheng is still thinking about how to create such an opportunity.
Yongzhou is one of the breeding bases for war horses in the north of the empire, and it is also an important stronghold of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants. The Shili of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants in Yongzhou is not small. When Yuwen Chengdu raised his army, he did not buy weapons and armor from the Eight Imperial Merchants. It's a pity that for various reasons, the amount that can be bought has not been large, and the corps that Yuwen Chengdu wants cavalry can't be formed at all. Pegasus Ranch, this is an important horse ranch in the north of Yongzhou of the Eight Emperors' merchants, Tong Weiyong got a large number of war horses from here, and almost all of the 200,000 cavalry under his command were one person and two horses, and they quickly advanced towards Yongzhou City.
The war horses beat the earth, and the land of Yongzhou, which has not yet reached autumn, already looks a little desolate. Winter in the north of the empire has always come earlier. The scouts of the one-man and two-horse Tong Jiajun marched quickly on the land of Yongzhou, and their rangers were all based on a team of 100 people, each of whom was equipped with three war horses, so that the range of reconnaissance was wider. These soldiers all have a strong murderous aura on their bodies, and their equipment is even more luxurious than the Imperial Praetorian Guard, from the helmets on their heads to the combat boots on their feet, every piece of equipment is better than the Imperial Praetorian Guards. What's more important is that each of them is equipped with a crossbow in their hands, which is absolutely impossible for the Yongzhou army to configure, and this kind of cavalry crossbow is simply an artifact for scouts to fight. Strong penetration, easy to carry and onto arrows. This kind of cavalry crossbow didn't even have the Empire's Praetorian Guard, because they had just invented it, and Li Sheng and the others didn't know the news.
The two sides of the march found each other almost at the same time, Ma Chao picked up the dragoon gun in his hand almost the moment he saw the other party, he accelerated the speed of the horse and rushed towards the other party, and the more than 100 cavalrymen who followed behind him also took off their spears and rushed to the rangers of the Tong Army who were galloping all the way. Obviously, the other party did not expect to encounter the army of the Shenwu Army here, but they did not retreat, but drew the war knife at their waist and kicked the horse that sat down, and at the same time untied the reins of the horse buckled on the saddle, and rushed towards the rangers of the Shenwu Army.
"Not good!" Ma Chao saw that the other party took out a pair of bows and crossbows from behind his back, and his face suddenly changed, Ma Chao's shili was excellent, and he could see at a glance that the other party's hand was not the infantry crossbow used by the empire, and although the imperial cavalry also had a bow and crossbow in his hand, it was obviously not the kind of bow and crossbow in the other party's hand. Ma Chao raised the gentian gun in his hand high, and the soldiers behind him roared, put down the spear in his hand, took off the shield on the war horse, and raised it high into the sky. For this kind of extravagant cavalry crossbow, the Shenwu Army, which has no weapon manufacturing department at all, can't afford to play with this thing at all, even if Liu Fan controls more than half of the empire's taxes, and no empire buys this kind of empire-controlled bow and crossbow.
"Gale, gale!" The boy scouts who quickly killed the Shenwu Army roared in unison, and the sound of the clanging bowstrings sounded in the queue, and the crossbow arrows of a hundred people did not cover the sky, but a hundred crossbow arrows were enough to make people's hearts rise a trace of coldness. The cold crossbow arrows rushed towards the Shenwu Army with a powerful killing intent, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army raised the shields in their hands high, trying to keep their bodies as low as possible, ready to meet this wave of crossbow arrows, Ma Chao raised the dragoon gun in his hand high, and roared, and a dragoon general roared out and wrapped Ma Chao in it.
The crossbow bolt pierced the air and slammed into the shield in the hands of the Shenwu Army, and a dozen soldiers flew off their horses with a muffled snort and landed on the ground. The war horse that had been blindfolded did not hesitate to step on the corpse of his comrade-in-arms, and the sound of dozens of bones breaking made the Shenwu army who was charging suddenly angry, the war horse screamed and fell to the ground, and the knight on the horse was thrown in front of the war horse, and before the soldiers of the Shenwu Army reacted from the attack of this wave of crossbow arrows, suddenly a wave of crossbow arrows fell from the sky in the air, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army suddenly changed their faces, and raised the shield in their hands to meet the crossbow arrows that were fired.
The charging distance of hundreds of paces, for them who were cavalry on both sides, only needed to blink an eye, but in the blink of an eye, the other party actually shot two crossbow arrows, which immediately shocked the soldiers of the Shenwu Army. This kind of crossbow bow is not even the most elite Praetorian Guard in the empire, but I didn't expect to be able to encounter it here. The two sides didn't have much time to think, but fortunately, there were only a hundred rangers in this team, and most of them aimed their goals at Ma Chao, who was charging forward, so that the losses of the follow-up soldiers in the rear were not very heavy. Ma Chao's face was a little ugly, although he used Liliang to bounce all the crossbow arrows away, but the powerful Liliang on the crossbow arrows still made Ma Chao's heart secretly surprised. Be sure to send this information back immediately. Otherwise, the Shenwu Army will suffer a big loss.
"Follow me. Kill!" The dragoon spear in Ma Chao's hand shook, and a dragoon charged out, and the dragoon who wrapped Ma Chao in it raised it high, and the dragoon in his hand smashed into the cavalry of the Tong family army that was coming at great speed like an unstoppable torrent, and the cavalry behind him threw away the shields in their hands, took off the spear on the victory hook and followed Ma Chao's rear, and charged towards the enemy's rangers.
Boom, the dragoon slammed into the bodies of several rangers of the Tong Family Army who rushed to the front, and the aura of the two sides collided together in an instant. The powerful Liliang collision instantly threw these cavalry into the sky. The dragoon in the hand of the dragoon shook and swept over, and dozens of cavalry rushed behind him were suddenly swept under the horse, and Ma Chao took the lead and followed closely behind the dragoon general and rushed into the enemy's cavalry, and the dragoon spear in his hand threw an enemy soldier into the sky. With a change of one hand, the dragoon spear in his hand swept the two cavalrymen who rushed under the horse.
Puff, puff, the sound of spears entering the body continued to sound in the cavalry's phalanx, the cavalry of the Shenwu Army was equipped with spears, the so-called one inch long and one inch strong, for the high-speed charging cavalry, the two sides just simply met and the corpses had been killed all over the field. The soldiers of the Shenmu Army told the enemy with their spears in their hands. They are the real elite of the cavalry. In the end, the Tong Jiajun defeated the army of the Shenwu Army, and with the front team, they were swept to the ground by the soldiers of the Shenwu Army and Ma Chao. The enemy soldiers in the rear team, the body moved, bent down and hid on the side of the war horse to avoid the spear that stabbed directly, at the moment when the war horse staggered, the body moved and turned over on the horse, and the war knife in his hand turned over and slashed on the back of the soldiers of the Shenwu Army, which suddenly made more than a dozen cavalry of the Shenwu Army fall under the horse, and the cavalry battle of 100 people only needs to blink an eye to chisel through the opponent's formation.
When the cavalry on both sides turned their horses' heads earlier, the soldiers of the Shenwu Army all drew their swords from their waists and looked at each other coldly, while the cavalry of the Tong Family Army looked at the enemy in front of them with a solemn face. The corpses on the ground were obviously the corpses of the Tong Jiajun, accounting for the vast majority, and the Shenwu Army's charge with Ma Chao as an arrow was obvious. Ma Chao's powerful strength disrupted the opponent's formation the moment he rushed into the opponent's camp, and killed more than a dozen enemies without any suspense.
"Wait here!" The dragoon spear in Ma Chao's hand was horizontal, blocking the war horses of the cavalry who were still going to charge, and the enemy was only less than forty people left. This point can easily kill the other party, and the distance between the two sides is enough for the other party to shoot a round of crossbow arrows, and if the Shenwu army without a shield continues to charge, the casualties under the opponent's blow will undoubtedly be heavy. Ma Chao held the reins of the horse in his hand tightly, and the horse that sat down knocked the ground twice, let out a long neigh, and rushed towards the rangers of the Tong Jiajun who had already lined up in formation.
"Hmph!" Ma Chao snorted coldly, the dragoon spear in his hand shook, and a powerful air flow formed a strong aura pressure under the mobilization of the dragoon lance. The aura in the air was quickly solidified together, and an aura shield was instantly formed in front of Ma Chao. The dragoon spear in Ma Chao's hand shook and shouted, the dragoon spear suddenly skyrocketed several times, and the powerful aura gathered on the dragoon spear, Ma Chao shook the dragoon spear in his hand and drank, and immediately swept the surrounding cavalry under the horse, and the powerful aura instantly attacked these cavalry, Ma Chao's aura with all his strength was not something that these soldiers could deal with, and the cavalry and war horses around Ma Chao suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, and the blood flowed through the skin and went straight to the sky. Ma Chao's powerful aura shattered the opponent's meridians, and the aura in his body directly shattered his skin, and his whole body died of blood, this cruel Quartet suddenly made the surrounding cavalry hesitate slightly, and immediately several cavalry turned their horses' heads and fled in another direction, while the remaining cavalry rushed to Ma Chao without fear.
"I still want to go!" Ma Chao responded coldly, the dragoon spear in his hand shook, and a dragoon general roared out, and the dragoon spear turned into aura suddenly stabbed the two cavalrymen in front of him to the ground. Ma Chao did not hesitate to inject the powerful aura in his body into the aura gun of this virtual dragoon, and the figure of the dragoon was suddenly bright, and the dragon horse that sat down raised his front hooves and slammed them on the ground. With a bang, the front hooves of the dragon horse slammed into the ground, which suddenly made the earth shake violently, and more than a dozen cavalrymen couldn't stabilize their bodies and fell to the ground, and the dragoon general didn't care about the soldiers who fell to the ground. The seated Ryoma roared and rushed towards several cavalrymen who were fleeing for their lives.
"General. This kind of bow and crossbow has not been seen in our army. "As soon as the battle is over. Ma Chao sent dozens of soldiers to clean up the battlefield and collect the war horses, and now every batch of war horses is a valuable asset for the Shenwu Army. But Ma Chao's favorite thing is the dozens of Wanhaode cavalry bows and crossbows collected from the battlefield. The power of this kind of bow and crossbow Ma Chao has seen, and the empire's standard cavalry bow and crossbow Ma Chao has also seen, but it is far from being as good as this kind of bow and crossbow captured by Ma Chao, and it is obvious that this is a new type of bow and crossbow.
"Didn't the Tong Family Army have equipment before?" Ma Chao held the cavalry bow and crossbow in his hand, and his face showed a trace of doubt, this kind of bow and crossbow is extremely penetrating, and the kind of shield equipped by the cavalry of the Shenwu Army only needs three arrows to shatter the shield of the Shenwu Army. This powerful bow and crossbow is heavily equipped in the Scouts. And if Li Sheng didn't know the news, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"No, this kind of bow and crossbow is the first time I have seen it, our army has never seen this kind of bow and crossbow whether it is fighting with the Tong Army or the Liangzhou Army, this kind of bow and crossbow should be the crossbow of the new equipment of the Tong Army. The lieutenant frowned, thought about it, shook his head, and said: "In the past, the cavalry of both of us was not equipped with this kind of very expensive cavalry bow and crossbow, and the cavalry of both sides charged directly against each other, and I have never seen this kind of bow and crossbow arrow." ”
Ma Chao nodded solemnly and said, "Immediately inform General Li Dudu and General Nian of this news, and ask those two generals to gather their troops and not attack alone." Immediately gather the troops and move closer to me, and from now on the five hundred-man teams will be combined into one team and attack together. ”
"No!" several horsemen immediately turned on their horses. Picking up a few crossbows, he hurried in different directions. The cavalry of the cavalry quickly cleaned up the battlefield, led their captured war horses and followed behind Ma Chao to continue to sweep the rangers outside Yongzhou City. And after the previously scattered rangers of the Shenwu Army hit a wall, they quickly received orders from their own commanders and began to concentrate on their own commander's position. When Li Sheng and Nian Qianyao received the news, they made almost the same decision as Ma Chao and reduced their troops. If this kind of bow and crossbow is really equipped with the Boy Scouts, then it will be a heavy blow to the Shenwu Army that is now scattered to sweep away the Boy Scouts' rangers.
After all, the order came a little late, and when the armies gathered their men and horses, they found that the scattered rangers had more or less suffered a lot of losses, and every one of these surviving soldiers said that they had been hit by the bows and crossbows of the boy soldiers. Li Sheng immediately reported the news to Yue Fei, and at the same time reduced his forces and prepared to carry out the operation. Tong Wei is brave and brave, but he is suspicious, as long as he finds a way to delay his marching speed, he will naturally be able to find an opportunity to defeat them all, and Jihua who fights with the other party cannot be avoided no matter how Jihua Li Sheng is.
"General, we have wiped out another team of the opposing team's rangers, where are we going next?" A captain covered in blood walked to Ma Chao's side and looked at Ma Chao with excitement. The attack was only three days, and the Ranger Extermination Team, which originally had only five hundred horses, now has more than one person and three horses, and even many soldiers are one person, four horses, or five horses. This plays a key role in Ma Chao, almost every battle is Ma Chao charging forward, with a strong strength against the opponent's crossbow arrows, Ma Chao with his practical actions to win the respect of these soldiers, now every cavalry fighting under Ma Chao is full of confidence, the decline of the previous defeat is swept away.
"This is already the tenth team of the other side's rangers that we have wiped out, and we have less than three hundred brothers left. Ma Chao sat on his war horse and glanced around coldly, although it was said that the rangers were far more elite than the regular army, but the strong combat effectiveness of these rangers and the determination to fight to the end made Ma Chao's heart rise a solemn sense of unease. In this case, he still had his own presence, and he exterminated the opponent's ranger troops, and even sacrificed more than 100 of his own, which made Ma Chao a little more jealous of the opponent's combat effectiveness.
"Send a few wounded brothers, send the extra horses back, and each of them will follow me here. Ma Chao's fingers tapped on a point on the map and said to the officers gathered next to him, everyone looked at the point that Ma Chao was pointing at, and suddenly there was a heavy color on their faces, but no one expressed any objection.
"No!" everyone immediately agreed, and quickly selected a few soldiers who were not suitable for fighting anymore to transport the surplus war horses and weapons and armor back to the camp in Yongzhou City, and the rest of the people immediately loaded their horses and followed Ma Chao to continue to rush to the next battle site.
It was not only Ma Chao's army that was active, but also Nian Qianyao's troops quickly aimed at an extremely important point after destroying several ranger troops. Although Li Sheng gave them the order to exterminate the cavalry, he did not restrict them from doing anything, which also allowed Ma Chao and Nian Qianyao to give full play to their talents. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm so tired every day, I don't know because of weishenme, the more I write, the worse I feel, keep writing, I won't be a eunuch, and now it takes more and more time