Chapter 18: Step to Ride
"Brothers in Longyou, I said to take down Yin Seoul to reward you. I, Yun Xiao, have done it. Now your wealth is in the car behind you.
The three thousand Hun cavalry came to catch up with them, and they would definitely be faster than us on horseback. If they were caught up, none of us would return to the Great Wall. Now I will lead you to kill those Hun cavalry, and they will have about an hour away from here.
We will make some preparations during this period. Now I order you to pick up the weapons in your hands. Everyone digs two pits of a bowl and a foot deep on the road. Listen, this is a powerful weapon to resist the charge of the cavalry. If you don’t want to be knocked away by the horse galloping over, you can fool things."
Yun Xiao stood in the carriage and yelled at the Longyou soldiers. The sound was so loud that he slashed his voice, but he still insisted on what he was about to say.
"Brothers, enjoy the wealth in order to live."
Liu Cheng waved his hand and rushed to the front with his subordinates and pulled out his sword and dug it up from the ground. He now believed what Yun Xiao said without any doubt. Yun Xiao said that these small pits could block the cavalry, so he would definitely do it.
When the soldiers in Longyou saw the leader taking the lead, they all ran out one after another. For a moment, the ground was filled with people digging holes, and the tools they used were also varied.
Although the land is very frozen, it is not difficult to dig a pit one foot deep in the mouth of the bowl. Take off a layer of hard shell on the top, and the soil below is still soft.
Heavy snow like goose feathers began to fall in the sky, and the soldiers in Longyou were all good crops. In less than half an hour, they completed their tasks and returned to Yun Xiao's team with their hands crossed and stood in line.
Yun Xiao looked at the flying snow all over the sky and said in his heart that the heaven helped me. Although the retreat was in a hurry and did not bring triangular nails, this method was also a good way to deal with cavalry. The heavy snow would soon cover these small pits, and the impacting cavalry would definitely suffer a big loss inadvertently.
Seeing that everyone had finished the work, Yun Xiao ordered Liu Cheng to withdraw from the thirty steps. The sword and shield hand was in front and the long halberd hand was behind. All the crossbowmen boarded the carriage, the Yun family's hometown hero was in the middle, and the wings were crossbowmen in Longyou.
The guys in the front row were nervous and sweating. They had heard of the power of the Huns. Although they won, it was also a bloody battle. I don’t know how it was like this time. The sword and shield hands all prayed to go back alive and enjoy their own robbery results.
"I've heard it now. If the sword and shield hand turns around, the long halberd soldiers behind can be killed. The long halberd soldiers turn around and archers shoot and kill them. There will be advances and no retreat in this battle. If there are escapees at the battle, they will be killed immediately."
Yun Xiao picked up the horn made of iron again and shouted loudly at the military formation of the village warriors.
The sword and shield hand in the front row greeted Yun Xiao's ancestor eight generations. But no one dared to turn around. Judging from the appearance of this marquis, he really knows how to shoot and kill deserters.
Lukali did not let Yun Xiao wait too long, and the two scouts ran away like cats being chased by dogs. The ground began to tremble slightly, and then a dense yellow dot appeared in the wind and snow.
The Huns knights wore leather felt hats on their heads and leather robes on their bodies and chests. Seeing the Han army formation opposite, the Huns cavalry strangled their horses one after another.
The red armor of the Han army was extremely conspicuous in the wind and snow, and Lukali was breathing heavily. The continuous march had already made them feel weak at first. Now he regretted not resting in Seoul for a while. Instead, he was angry by the tragic scene and chased after him angrily.
"The front team conducts harassment shooting, and the other two teams have a break."
The Han army was infantry, while the Huns were cavalry. When the two armies were facing each other, the Huns usually first launched a cavalry and shot the Han army with bows and arrows. After the formation was shaken, they could only attack and defeat the Han army and then chase after it.
For decades, the Huns have been doing this and have won a series of victories, so today Lukali has adopted traditional tactics without any hesitation.
The Huns' cavalry rode horses like the wind, and it was difficult for Han crossbowmen to hit them. Especially in such windy and snowy weather, both wind and snow affect people's sight, as well as the trajectory and accuracy of crossbow arrows' flight.
So after a brief rest and adjustment, the five hundred Hun cavalry drew their bows and arrows and rushed out. These were all the Sagittarius or Quasi-Starring Condor Heroes, the group of people with the most superb arrow skills in the Huns.
The horse's hooves shattered the thin snow on the ground, and the Huns rushed in from one side of the battlefield. This prevented the accident of two people or two horses colliding in the chaos.
Without warning, a Hun's Sagittarius suddenly fell off his horse. Then there was the second, the third... The Hun's Sagittarius had already fallen down a series of people before it even entered the range.
Rukali's mouth was so wide that he could stuff three eggs into it. He turned around and looked at Nacha in horror, hoping that his cousin could tell him the answer. It is true that the Han people's crossbows could shoot far, but no Han people's crossbowmen had such accuracy. He could shoot the flying Hun cavalry at a distance of 500 steps.
"My cousin, I told you that they have a kind of crossbow arrow with a very long range. But I don't know that they will shoot so accurately. It is not easy to hit targets that are five hundred steps away in such weather."
Nacha was telling the truth. He did tell Rukali, and he really didn't expect that the Han army shooting on the opposite side would be so accurate.
Lukali gritted his teeth in hatred. The archers used the opportunity of loading crossbow arrows to reach the range. They pulled the hard bows in their hands and flew straight into the Han army's military formation. The sword and shield hands all retracted their heads into the big shield, and the arrows shot on the big shield with a bang.
After a round of shooting, only a dozen people were shot down. They were quickly dragged away by the people behind. Those who were alive quickly treated, while those who were dead were placed aside and those who were dead were dealt with after the war.
"Stay calm, those who don't want to die will fuck him back behind the shield. Damn, Wang Xiaoer, you're so impatient to death."
The lieutenants began to shout at their subordinates and asked them to indent their bodies under the protection of the shield as much as possible.
The villagers loaded the iron-tied crossbow again. Although the wind and snow affected their shooting effect, their usual training was not in vain. They had a good grasp of the trajectory of crossbow arrows. After calculating the advance measurement, the crossbow arrows were activated again.
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Many people were unable to do so after being dragged back, and grabbed their companions and told their last words. Most of them were torn apart by their companions and began emergency treatment.
Rukali couldn't sit still anymore. These Sagittarius players were the essence of the Huns. They could not consume them on such a large scale. Rukali quickly ordered people to sound the horn of retreat.
Only more than 300 people came back, and it has to be said that this was a failed attack. Lukali was a little at a loss. The Huns had been following the tactics of more than 100 years and failed. This made Lukali very confused. He didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him. Because he had never encountered such a powerful Han army before.
"Nacha, what do you think of? Their long-range crossbow arrows are so powerful."
Rukali could only turn to his cousin, and he was the only person who had dealt with this Han army.
"They are all infantrymen, not the cavalry team I encountered. It's better for us to rush over directly and use continuous charges to shake their army. As long as they are defeated, all we have to do is to ride on horseback."
Nacha expressed his opinion that cavalry attacking infantry was another traditional magic weapon for the Huns to deal with the Han army. Nacha dared to say such words because he did not see the powerful cavalry in the other party's military formation. Maybe they went to perform other tasks, Nacha guessed like this.
Chapter completed!