Chapter 76 The battle settled in half an hour
Regarding the riding and shooting of the grassland people, Pei Min had a conversation with Xia Shan when she was training her light cavalry.
When he saw Xia Shan training light cavalry with a good look, Pei Min put forward different opinions.
He felt that no matter how Xia Shan trained her on the archery, it would be difficult for most people to compare with the nomadic people of the grassland unless she was talented.
Riding and shooting are part of life for nomadic peoples. They usually start to learn horse riding at the age of six or seven, and are already able to run horses and shoot archery in their early teens. However, unless they are rich families, there are not many ordinary soldiers who master riding skills, let alone difficult riding and shooting skills.
Basically, the soldiers of their farming nations were riding and shooting together, and their innate nature would lose to the nomadic peoples.
This is a national difference and is something that is difficult to make up for.
Since it is not comparable, Pei Min does not recommend Xia Shan to focus on riding and shooting training.
The truth is to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses and play to your own advantages. Spending time on the enemy's advantages and making efforts may not be the enemy's opponent, and it is not worth it.
Compared with the grassland nations, the advantages of the Tang army are obvious. The rigorous military discipline, execution, fighting skills, military formation cooperation, sharp weapons, and excellent armor are not comparable to those of the grassland nations.
Instead of training light cavalry to shoot against nomads, it is better to train how to approach quickly and engage in hand-to-hand combat with them.
How to avoid arrows has become one of Xia Shan's main training events. After six or seven years of training, Zhenxi Army has mastered the technique of changing formations and avoiding arrows, and shined in this battle.
Avoid two rounds of strong shots, and after a few breaths, the two sides collided hard!
The Tang army has increased its speed to the extreme, but the Shatu Turks have not yet increased its speed.
After contacting Pu, the difference was very clear, and the Tang army gained a decisive advantage.
The cavalry of Zhenxi Army wedged into the Shatu Turkic cavalry, splitting the loose formation of the Shatu cavalry, showing their training results over the years.
They waved their sharp sabers and fought with the Shatu Turks' cavalry in groups, and cut the Shatu people down from their horses like mowing grass. Large pieces of blood splashed on the grass covered with fresh green.
Xia Shan's performance was even more men's. She fought hard and combined the troops and horses. The hundreds of skilled swords in her hand swung the heads of the oncoming Shatuo cavalry, and led the western army of the town to continuously advance towards the formation of Shatuo soldiers.
With the help of the impact force, Xia Shan took the lead in penetrating the enemy soldiers with a destructive force.
After rushing out of the enemy formation, Xia Shan did not immediately turn around and cover the kill. Instead, she continued to accelerate forward, circled around the right side, increased her speed, and entered the enemy formation again from the right rear of the Shatu Turks.
Hu Yanjie Ligu could not have thought that he would be beaten so embarrassedly after a meeting. He looked at the soldiers around him and saw dead bodies everywhere. He couldn't help but breathe a breath: almost in one meeting, his side had almost lost more than 400 elite cavalry.
Looking at Xia Shan who launched a new round of assault, he knew that he could not stop this assault again, so he would be really a good thing.
He roared and led more than a hundred followers to collided fiercely towards the oncoming enemy.
Blood splattered everywhere, people and horses flipped.
The moment Hu Yanjie Ligu was about to collide with the enemy cavalry, the mace suddenly swung out and smashed the opponent and his weapons.
He saw Xia Shan's existence and knew that she was the commander of the army, so he rushed towards her without saying a word.
He had a very high equestrian skills, and he even grabbed the position in an instant, met Xia Shan, and maceed suddenly towards Xia Shan's face.
After all, Xia Shan was a woman, and she was not strong enough to take this plan, so she lay flat on the horse's back.
Hu Yanjie's bones swept in a blank space.
Although Xia Shan avoided it, the horse still kept rushing forward, and the two passed by in a row.
Xia Shan straightened up and shouted, "Protect me!"
The cavalry immediately rushed around Xia Shan to resist the enemies on all sides for her.
Xia Shan bit the sword with her mouth, took off the bow and arrow on her back, turned around and opened the bow and aimed!
Hu Yanjie's Li Gu beat the sky with one move and cursed "Coward!"
Just as I was about to turn around and look for the other party, the current situation was that only by killing her could she turn defeat into victory.
But there were Tang troops around him, so how could he turn around in a while?
Waving his mace to kill two Tang soldiers, Hu Yanjie Ligu turned around and searched for Xia Shan's traces, but the moment he turned around and saw her, a sharp arrow had already jumped to his throat and protruded from the back of his neck...
"The ghost woman actually fired a cold arrow!"
With strong contempt for Xia Shan, Hu Yanjie's ligu lost all consciousness and fell off the horse's back, trampling into meat paste!
When the war reached this point, the Shatu people who had lost their command were defeated and had no intention of fighting and intended to escape...
When An Zhongjing and An Chongzhang, the father and son, returned to the tribe, gathered people and led more than 500 people to arrive, the Tang army had already begun to clear the battlefield.
They collected the heads and picked up scattered armor and equipment...
An Zhongjing and An Chongzhang looked at each other. They only took half an hour to go back and forth, but they never expected that the Tang army had won in just half an hour.
Thousands of horse hooves ran noisily and chaoticly, and a team of thousands rushed to the vicinity in an instant.
An Zhongjing and An Chongzhang's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly shouted: "We are the people of Gaochang. When we learned that the horse thief was coming, we came to help us specially. There was no malice or malice."
An Zhongjing felt a little regretful in his heart. Killing Liang and taking credit for it is not uncommon, and they are still in a state of fighting...
It was because the Shatu people pretended to be horse thieves, which brought them too much hatred and did not worry so much for a while.
And he also believed in the military discipline of the Longyou Army.
An Zhongjing has heard the slogan "If you don't demolish your house when you freeze to death, if you don't plunder when you starve to death, you won't plunder when you starve to death." He felt that as long as they successfully raided the rear of the bandits and helped the Tang army, the Tang army would not do anything that both human and gods would be angry with their people.
But they never thought the war would end so quickly!
More than a thousand cavalry came nearby and heard the other party's shouts. Xia Shan stopped the army's attack and came to the front of the formation. Looking at An Zhongjing, An Chongzhang and his group confirmed their identities and said, "Go back, you are the people, and your life is a comfortable life. We should leave this to our soldiers to do this. I, Xia Shan, promise you today that I dare not say that there will be no thieves in Xizhou in the future, but as long as there are horse thieves, there will be our army figures, one kills one, one kills one pair, and one pair, until all the bandits are destroyed!"
Hearing Xia Shan’s domineering declaration and the terrible strength shown by the Zhenxi Army.
More than 500 people who were suffering from the traitors and bandits cheered.
An Chongzhang originally looked down on the Tang army, but when he looked at Xia Shan and Zhenxi Army, he suddenly had the idea of joining the army.
Chapter completed!