"Hmph, there is indeed an ambush."
Huang Chen sneered, immediately took out his riding bow and arrows and shouted: "Run and shoot!"
The so-called galloping archery is an advanced level of mounted archery, that is, shooting at fixed or moving enemies on the side while galloping on horseback.
The archery skills it requires are deeper than ordinary mounted archery.
If you are shooting on the move, The enemy not only needs to rebel the enemy's position at the next moment, but also needs to calculate the speed of his own horse, which means to estimate the lead time.
Ordinary mounted archery is to fire a volley at a large area of enemies in front while riding horses.
Its disadvantage is that it is slightly less accurate.
Its advantage is that it has a wide strike area, high maneuverability and flexibility.
If it encounters a dense enemy force, Military formations have limited protective capabilities, so they can certainly inflict heavy damage on the enemy, while at the same time giving full play to their hit-and-run advantage.
There is also the ultimate level of mounted archery, which is flying shooting.
Flying shooting is a situation of free scattering.
It does not require the knights to collectively fire together.
The knights can shoot as many arrows as they can according to their own abilities.
The faster they shoot, the better.
The more accurate the better, and it also requires a skill that uses the body to stand up suddenly to increase the acceleration of the arrow.
Technique, this timing must be grasped very accurately to allow the arrow to gain extra strength and increase speed.
Its shooting range is longer than that of mounted archery.
It is the first to launch flying shooting tactics before one's own side enters the enemy's bow and arrow range.
Be the first to inflict heavy damage to the enemy in front, which will cause a huge blow to the enemy's morale.
In the Western Qin Army, not all cavalry are capable of running and flying shooting skills.
The standing army cavalry soldiers basically only know the riding shooting skills and free riding shooting techniques.
The generals of the standing army can only command mounted shooting tactics and free riding shooting tactics.
Only the imperial guards, escorts, and dragon guard cavalry learned the shooting skills.
The leading generals learned how to command and launch running and shooting tactics, and flying shooting technology is the special skill of cavalry.
This is a riding and archery technology exclusive to cavalry.
It can only be mastered after years of practice.
Only the archer generals learned the key to commanding and launching this tactic.
Since they had been told that there might be an ambush before entering this basin, the officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army were mentally prepared.
Therefore, when the ambush of the Dashi Army appeared, the officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army did not appear to be very panicked.
They got After Huang Chen's order, they all used their running skills.
The soldiers on the left turned to the left.
The soldiers on the right fired arrows at the large food army rushing down the sand dunes on the right.
They fired arrows quickly while galloping on their horses, so that they could attack the enemy at the same time and move as fast as possible.
Crossing this basin at a high speed, fully utilizing the high-speed maneuverability of the light cavalry.
When cavalry is fighting, the enemy and we will not deliberately attack or shoot each other's horses, because all cavalry generals and soldiers feel for their horses like brothers and sisters.
If there are no horses, the cavalry will not be cavalry.
Any The cavalry of a country and nation love their war horses just like they care for their own relatives.
Unless they are forced to do so, they will generally not harm their war horses.
War horses are not only wealth, but also an indispensable companion for the cavalry.
After the battle started, arrows fired from both sides came back and forth.
People kept falling off their horses after being hit by arrows.
Some horses were unlucky and could not survive being hit by arrows.
The knights on the horses were also thrown off. .
Since launching the attack, Burke frowned while firing arrows.
He found that this Western Qin army did not panic after being ambushed, and they became more and more brave as they fought.
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They not only used bows and arrows to shoot, but also accelerated their speed. , wanting to rush through the mouth of another section of the basin, and even more so that Burr What is worrying is that the riding and shooting skills of these Western Qin cavalry are very powerful.
Even when they are ambushed, running at high speed, and shooting arrows at side targets, their accuracy is very high.
This kind of riding and shooting skills make Burke He couldn't help but become frightened, but he didn't know that this cavalry was the Guards of the Western Qin Forbidden Army.
The gap in equipment began to show.
Polk's cavalry were all members of the Caliphate's Guards and had uniform equipment.
All of them wore leather helmets and leather armor, which were much lighter than iron armor, but had better defensive capabilities.
It is not strong enough and can defend against some short bow shots, but it cannot defend against strong bows and hard crossbows.
The light cavalry of the Western Qin Army are generally equipped with steel helmets and steel armor.
The main steel plates of this kind of steel helmets and steel armor are made by stamping, that is, plate armor.
Compared with the plate armor of Western heavy cavalry, it is thinner and lighter.
Of course heavy cavalry cannot do it, but equipped with light cavalry it can In order to greatly improve the defense power, ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate it at all, and its weight is similar to that of leather armor.
More importantly, it is not afraid of getting wet by rain or soaked by sweat.
Leather armor absorbs water and sweat.
It will become heavier, but the plate armor of the Western Qin cavalry will not.
Although the defensive ability of plate armor against bows and arrows is not necessarily stronger than that of scale armor and chain armor, in addition to being equipped with plate armor, the cavalry of the Western Qin Army also wore densely woven silk clothes.
This kind of clothes can Effectively blocks the penetration of arrows.
Even if it is shot, the arrow will only stay in the muscle layer and will not penetrate the chest and abdominal cavity.
When Burke saw that the front cavalry of the Western Qin Army was about to rush out of the basin, he immediately blew a loud whistle.
The cavalry of the Great Food Army that had escaped from the mouth of the basin suddenly returned and blocked the mouth of the valley.
Although he had already expected this situation, Huang Chen's expression still changed.
Now the back road was cut off, the valley entrance in front was blocked, and there were cavalry from the Great Food Army on both sides.
It was surrounded on all sides, and the entrance to the valley was tightly blocked.
It was basically impossible to rush out.
The sprinting power of the war horse was not strong enough.
Huang Chen reined in his horse and stopped, turned around and looked around, dropped his bow and crossbow, drew out his sword and said sternly: "Abandon your bow, draw your sword, and fight to the death."
"Fight to the death" The Western Qin cavalry abandoned their bows and crossbows one after another, pulled out the swords from their waists, and faced the rushing cavalry of the Food Army.
In the cavalry melee, the lethality of the swords was much greater than that of the guns.
The cavalry of the Great Food Army had already rushed forward.
At this time, the bows and arrows were of no use.
He also discarded the bows and arrows and drew his scimitar to kill the cavalry of the Western Qin Army.
In this small basin, the two sides launched a desperate battle.
Melee fighting.
Er Zhu Xianzhong led a large group of soldiers and horses to pursue him quickly.
When he got close, he heard a lot of shouts of killing, the sound of weapons and the neighing of war horses coming from the basin ahead.
He knew that Huang Chen encountered an ambush by the food army in the basin. , we must go to the rescue immediately, but at the same time as the rescue, we must also ensure that these ambush troops cannot escape.
Erzhu Xianzhong immediately ordered to divide his troops into four parts.
The first part went around the basin and quickly blocked the exit of the basin.
The second part went around to the left and climbed up the sand dune and attacked downwards.
The third part went around to the right.
Climb up the dunes and attack downwards.
The fourth part rushes in from the entrance of the basin and breaks up the large food army blocking the entrance of the valley.
After the mission was assigned, all ministries took action quickly.
Er Zhu Xianzhong personally led the fourth group of cavalry to rush to the entrance of the basin.
The cavalry of the Great Food Army at the entrance heard movement behind them and turned around to look around.
At this sight, they suddenly panicked. stand up.
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"No, a large number of Western Qin Army cavalry are coming.
Go and report to the general."
A centurion ordered the soldiers around him.
"yes" At this time, Boerke was personally leading troops to surround and kill the trapped Western Qin Army cavalry.
He was on the front line and could not get the news in time.
When he felt a commotion in the rear and looked back, Er Zhu Xianzhong had already led the troops.
The soldiers broke up the cavalry of the Great Food Army blocking the rear entrance and were charging towards this side.
"General, our rear has been attacked.
A large number of Western Qin cavalry rushed in from the entrance.
Brothers can no longer resist it," a centurion shouted anxiously to Burke.
Boerke's face changed and he found that there were nearly 500 Xi Qin cavalry rushing in.
This was a large force, and he now had less than 400 in hand.
He couldn't help but cursed: "The Tang people are too So cunning” The centurion quickly asked: "General, what should we do?"
Burke was hesitating whether to order to withstand the attack of the Western Qin army behind him and annihilate Huang Chen's besieged Western Qin army first, but at this time, a large number of shouts of killing came from the sand dunes on the left and right sides, and countless Western Qin troops The figure of the Qin army's cavalry rushed down over the top of the sand dune.
Boerke had no choice anymore.
The ambush failed and he was surrounded instead.
The only thing he could do at this time was to break out before the Western Qin army completed the encirclement.
He immediately said sternly: "Break out, everyone follow me to break out."
There are people and horses everywhere in the basin.
It is so easy to break out.
The cavalry of the Great Food Army are no longer interested in fighting at this time.
They can only try their best to escape from this terrible place.
The friendly troops at the exit did not hear it.
The order to break out was therefore still blocked At the exit, the food armies in the basin rushed toward the exit.
However, a large number of food troops were entangled by Huang Chen and his men.
It was not so easy to escape.
In the process, many food armies The soldiers were killed by the Western Qin army who fought back.
Under the protection of his trusted soldiers, Boerke cut down many soldiers blocking the way and finally squeezed to the exit, only to find that there were already many Western Qin Army cavalry arrayed outside the exit, blocking their way to break out.
"I am Burke, everyone listen to my orders, turn around and rush outside together.
If we can't rush out, we will all die here.
Only by rushing over desperately can we have hope of survival.
For the sake of Allah, follow "I'm going to charge!"
Boerke shouted, taking the lead in raising his sword and rushing towards the Western Qin army in front.
Seeing this, the food army behind could only bite the bullet and charge forward.
Of course, if there is hope of survival, they must seize it, even if they die in It would be better than being wiped out by the Western Qin army here on the way.
"Fire arrows!"
shouted a captain of the Western Qin Army.
The knights behind him fired arrows at the cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed over to break through.
The continuous arrows knocked down the high-speed sprinting cavalry of the Great Food Army
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