Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 211 Unexpected Victory

The Youwu cavalry army rushed to Huqiu and joined Zhu Yezi's slave soldiers, and their morale was restored.

With Qi Ming's order, the whole army was mobilized, and they arrived within a short time after a journey of more than ten li.

At the mouth of Huqiu, the enemies met each other, and they were extremely jealous. Zhu Yezi said: "Brother Qi, let the brother charge first, destroy this thief, how about atonement!"

Qi Ming said: "Your Majesty has led the army here, as long as we hold back the Bian army and prevent them from escaping, it will be more beautiful for General Zhu Ye to charge forward again in front of His Majesty."

"Then let's make an agreement in advance, when the time comes, you have to let my cavalry army go first."

Qi Ming didn't make a sound, how could such a good deed be cheap for Zhu Yezinu.

"All captured in this battle will be returned to Commander Qi, how about it?"

Qi Ming shook his head, looked at Zhu Yezinu's crotch, and licked the drool from his lips.

He said: "It's just some property, I don't care about it. I heard that when the concubine Xian came to Luoyang, she gave you five black horses. Is there such a thing?"

"Hey!" Zhu Yezinu let out a long sigh and said, "Now there are only four horses left, the dog thief Li Si'an insulted me too much!"

"Two, just two..."

After speaking, Qi Ming stared at Zhu Yezinu. He is no exception to a good general. The Wucong horse is quite majestic, half a head taller than his horse. It is said that this horse came from the Western Regions. Come on, regardless of speed and endurance, it is quite extraordinary.

You must know that military generals live a life of licking blood, weapons, armor and horses all rely on their bodies to save their lives.

"Okay, just two horses, I'll give you back!"

"Give it now!"

"Not in the army!"

"I have seen it all!"

"..."

Qi Ming changed into a war horse, quite heroic.

"Charmin, take 100 horses and rub them."

"promise!"

What kind of good words can bad guys in the army come up with, so-called kneading, kneading your hemisphere.

It means that the cavalry circles around in a circle without contact with you, and only shoots bows and arrows. If you come out to chase, I will run, and if you go back, I will chase.

One of the key points of this kind of tactics of playing with people is that your bow is better and the shooting range is farther than others. Otherwise, if people shoot you, you can't shoot others. Isn't it a joke.

What this group of people used was a refined composite long horn bow made of ox horn, fish glue and tendon, and the cost of a bow was more than a hundred guan.

Moreover, bows and arrows are special armor-piercing arrows. The arrows are slender and long like an awl, with a perfect circular cross-section. The arrows are specially tempered, with extremely high hardness and smooth surface.

Since there are no barbs and chisels, in order to increase the lethality, it is specially soaked in feces and urine, which is a heavy-tasting arrow.

And this kind of soldiers is much stronger than ordinary cavalry, with much stronger arms, at least one stone bow must be pulled, and those who shoot ten arrows in a row, you must know that Tang Dynasty martial arts used one stone bow, and most of the bows used by cavalry were seven-dou bows.

These archers are the treasures of each army, and there are only three to fifty qualified cavalry armies, and the rest are all seven-dou bows.

Cha Erming led the army to rush towards the Bian army, and the Bian army was already ready to fight, and they also sent more than a hundred cavalry to fight.

Just as the two sides were about to engage in battle, the Charming army turned their horses to the right to avoid confrontation with the Bian army.

"Hahaha!"

There was a burst of laughter among the Bian army.

"A bunch of rat ears!"

They didn't even dare to join the formation, the former Bian army was qualified to say that, but Li Si'an, who was watching the battle from a distance, was quite surprised when he saw this army.

The cavalry equipment of the imperial court was very good. Almost everyone had heavy armor, waist knives, spears, and heavy spears. Many of them also carried shields, bows and arrows.

And this group of more than a hundred people who rushed forward only wore light paper armor or rattan armor, each with a bow, and the rest had no other weapons, not even waist knives for close combat.

The horses are taller than most of the cavalry, and their horsepower seems to be stronger.

What does this mean?
Li Si'an couldn't figure it out, so he looked at the army Cao Wang Yingjiu at the side.

Wang Yingjiu said: "This army cannot fight in close quarters!"

Li Si'an frowned and said, "What's the use of cavalry if they can't fight melee!"

Wang Yingjiu didn't speak, he looked at this group of strange cavalry.

The front army of the Bian army was chasing after them, but the front army of the imperial court seemed to slow down slowly, bending their bows and nodding their arrows one by one.

Wang Yingjiu shook his head, all of them were heavily armored, and the soldiers were supported by round shields, so bows and arrows were basically useless.

If it wasn't like this, how could Li Si'an lead more than a hundred cavalry in Qin Zongquan's tens of thousands of troops, if he entered no man's land, he would have been shot into a hedgehog long ago.

But the reality made Li Si'an and Wang Yingjiu dumbfounded.

A round of arrows rained down, and the Bian army fell off their horses one after another, as if the armor did not exist.

The group of Bianjun who were laughing just now panicked.

"Why so!"

Wang Yingjiu shook his head, he didn't know what happened.

Heart-piercing screams came from not far away. They were all veterans in the army, and they had long been used to it.

"A round of arrow rain hits at most three or two unlucky ghosts, and most of them hit horses. I'm afraid there were twenty or thirty horses hit by arrows in the round just now!"

"General, quickly, Ming Jin retreats, or it will be too late!"

Li Si'an turned to look at Wang Yingjiu.

"Not at all, but more than a hundred riders, as long as we catch up, our army will surely win."

Wang Yingjiu smiled bitterly and said: "The enemy army is all light cavalry. Our army has twice as much load. How can we catch up? After a long time, our army and horses are exhausted, and the enemy army still has strength. At that time, the enemy army will calmly gather and shoot. What can we do?" Woolen cloth?"

After thinking about it carefully, Li Si'an's face changed drastically.

"Ming Jin withdraws troops!"

There was a clanging metal knock.

The remaining seven or 80 members of the front team of the Bian Army turned their horses around one after another and returned to the main formation.

But at this time, since they could go back if they wanted to, Cha Erming's department also turned their horses around.

It is much more comfortable to shoot straight ahead than to turn around. Both the accuracy and the rate of fire are greatly improved. After two or three rounds of arrow rain, the remaining 80 people in the Bian army are only two or three riders.

The speed made Li Si'an's eyes wide open, and Wang Yingjiu felt a chill go straight to his head.

Zhu Yezinu turned his head to look at Qi Ming, and found that Qi Ming was also dumbfounded, obviously he didn't believe this record.

"Your Majesty asked me to practice light cavalry archers, is that the case?"

Zhu Yezinu smiled wryly and said: "Some chiefs came from the Ministry of War to select brave men from the army and build light cavalry archers. , it's too late to regret now!"

Qi Ming said: "I didn't want it at the beginning, the above list was not established, but His Majesty didn't allow it..."

The light cavalry archer has practiced a little bit, he can hit you, but you can't hit him, and there is no way to chase him.

More than a hundred people from Chaerming wiped out the former Bian army, and Li Si'an's main battle nightmare came.

There is no special tactics, just one word, "knead".

Circle after circle around Li Si'an's army, shooting arrows non-stop.After a while, the Bian army lost more than a hundred people.

Li Si'an was furious and led the whole army in pursuit, but Cha Erming didn't give Li Si'an a chance at all, and ran away as soon as he chased, and even turned around and shot.

An arrow was shot, and Li Si'an raised his shield to block it.

puff!
The arrow pierced through the round shield, and the arrow body passed through six inches before stopping...

(End of this chapter)