Shi Jin saw a thief who was rushing ahead, holding a bow in one hand and pulling out a carved feather arrow from the quiver with the other.
The bow opens like a full moon, and when you let go, the arrow flies like a shooting star.
Before the spearman at the head of the Liangshan Army could react, his throat was shot directly through the arrow.
He desperately covered the wound, but could not stop the gushing blood and fell down.
As the leader of the horse thieves drew his bow, the cavalry behind him also relaxed their bows.
"嗾嗾" 200 arrows fell from the sky with a whistling sound.
Shi Jin saw Da Hai.
Mounted shooting Mounted archery does not simply mean that as long as a person is riding a horse and can shoot a bow, it is considered mounted archery.
An arrow shot like that has no accuracy at all.
Don't talk about killing the enemy, don't kill your own comrades.
Only those who can shoot accurately in a certain direction while riding a galloping horse can be considered mounted shooters in the true sense.
To master mounted archery, you must learn to ride a horse and shoot an arrow.
Mastering equestrian skills is already very hard.
Without a year and a half of hard training, it is impossible to master equestrian skills to the point where you can freely control your mount with just your feet.
The same goes for archery.
If you want to shoot a watermelon within 5,070 meters while standing still, it will take one or two years of hard practice.
After practicing these two, then get on the horse and ride on the bumpy horseback.
Not to mention the size of a watermelon, you can shoot the scarecrow within 5070 steps.
You can't do it without a year or two of hard training.
Therefore, if you want to master mounted archery, you need a horse, a bow, and then practice hard for more than three or four years before you can initially master mounted archery.
The Liangshan Army's cavalry battalion has been established for more than a year, and only one or two soldiers can barely ride and shoot, while the others can only kill the enemy with sabers.
It is precisely because riding and shooting is so difficult to practice.
Even among the nomads who have been riding horses since childhood, only some of the herdsmen who often hunt can practice mounted archery.
It is precisely through riding and shooting that nomadic peoples, such as the Huns, Turks, Jurchens, and Mongolia, can threaten the Central Plains again and again.
Shi Jin never expected that today in the Song Dynasty, he would encounter a group of horse thieves who knew how to ride and shoot.
Seeing the hundreds of arrows flying over, Shi Jin shouted loudly: "Be careful!"
Although the hit rate of mounted shooting is not high, and this wave of arrows is more of a test.
Most of the arrows fell before they could reach the formation.
Only the few soldiers at the front were threatened by the arrows, but there were not many of them.
They shot down the arrows with their spears.
Only one person died in this wave of arrows, and he was killed by the leader of the horse thieves.
When these horse thieves were 7080 steps away from Liangshan's army, they turned their horses' heads and ran back again.
Seeing the other party running back, Shi Jin did not feel happy.
Because he knew big trouble was about to begin The most terrifying thing about mounted archery is that they can use the mobility of their horses to rush hundreds of miles, suddenly arrive in front of the enemy, shoot bows and arrows, and inflict damage on the opponent.
When the enemy wanted to come forward and fight, they turned their horses and ran away.
Then he runs back and gives you another wave of arrows.
You want to chase people, whether they are infantry or cavalry.
As they run, they turn around and shoot you with their bows.
People can kill you without restraint, but you can eat their dust.
Anyone would collapse under such endless harassment and shooting.
Once a soldier escapes, he will undoubtedly hand his back defenseless to the enemy, allowing the cavalry to slaughter him at will.
If you want to fight against mounted archery, you can only use long-range attack weapons, such as crossbows, muskets, artillery, etc.
Shi Jin immediately shouted loudly, "The archer battalion comes forward to suppress the horse thieves.
The spear battalion protects the archer battalion.
The sword battalion retreats to guard against the officers and soldiers."
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Upon hearing the order, the Liangshan Army immediately adjusted their formation.
The pikemen lined up in a counter-concave shape and stood in front and on both sides of the archer camp to guard against a sudden attack by the cavalry.
The bow and arrow camp is in the middle, and the swordsmen are in the rear to guard against Suo Chao's side troops.
Sure enough, the group of horse thieves rushed over again.
This time, the leader's visual assessment was more accurate.
When he was nearly 120 paces, he shouted: "Shoot!"
Pang Wanchun also visually measured the distance, opened his eyes angrily, and shouted: "Kill your opponent with your arrows."
After hearing the order, except for some archers who deformed because of fear, most of the archers also listened to the order and drew their bows to shoot arrows.
For a moment, the sky was filled with arrows, and their feathers were like locusts.
This wave of arrow rain hit, and most of it covered the Liangshan army.
One archer and three spearmen were killed.
Three were seriously injured, and countless others were slightly injured by arrows.
The horse thief rode a horse very fast.
The arrow rain from Liangshan Army only covered part of the people and killed one of the horse thief.
Seeing this exchange of fire on the ground, Liangshan's army suffered a huge loss.
Shi Jin yelled, "Pang Wanchun, you take command, and the other leaders will follow me to kill."
Shi Jin rode his hot red horse straight towards the horse thieves.
Wang Yin and the other five leaders followed Shi Jin on horseback to kill the horse thieves.
Seeing Shi Jin chasing the bandits, Pang Wanchun hurriedly shouted, "Follow me, the whole army!"
Shi Jin whipped the Huotan Red Horse repeatedly, and the Huotan Red Horse ran very fast and gradually caught up with the bandits.
The horse thieves who were running at the end saw Shi Jin catching up, turned around quickly, drew their arrows and drew their bows to shoot at Shi Jin.
Seeing this, Shi Jin hurriedly waved the Fangtian Painted Halberd to ward off those arrows.
Seven or eight arrows were blocked.
Fortunately, they happened to turn their horses around at this time, and there were only about twenty people running behind.
If there were 200 people shooting at Shi Jin, even if Shi Jin had three heads and six arms, he wouldn't be able to resist it.
After resisting this wave of arrows, Huotan Red Horse was at a distance of a hundred or so steps and killed them in an instant.
Seeing Shi Jin coming to fight, the horse thieves riding at the end were shocked.
They put their bows into their bow bags, took out their sabers, turned their horses' heads, and charged towards Shi Jin.
Seeing the horse thieves coming, Shi Jin yelled, "You're here just in time."
Fang Tian's painted halberd in Shi Jin's hand swept across with all his strength.
Finally, the bandit was swept by Fang Tian's painted halberd and was immediately split into two pieces.
Hot blood spurted out from the fractured waist, and his lower body was still injured.
While riding on horseback, his upper body fell to the ground.
After killing one, Shi Jin did not stop and continued to move forward.
He wanted to take advantage of the speed of Huotan Chima to hold back this group of horse thieves, and then let Wang Yin and the others catch up to help him share the pressure.
In the end, as long as the spear battalion and the bow and arrow battalion can arrive, even if they cannot completely annihilate this group of bandits, they can still defeat this group of bandits miserably.
Shi Jin brandished Fang Tian's painted halberd and rushed into the crowd of horse thieves.
None of these horse thieves had any enemies.
Shi Jin felt like he was in a deserted land, killing them to his heart's content.
Seeing how arrogant Shi Jin was, he came to kill him single-handedly.
Many horse thieves turned their horses and charged towards Shi Jin.
At this moment, the leader of the horse thieves heard the movement behind him and finally discovered that Shi Jin had caught up and was killing his men.
Seeing five or six ownerless horses standing there, the leader of the horse thieves understood that Shi Jin had killed five or six of his men alone, and if he allowed the other party to continue killing like this, he didn't know how many casualties his men would suffer.
You must know that riding and shooting is too difficult to practice, and these 200 people have worked hard to practice it.
Seeing his men being slaughtered by Shi Jin, the leader of the horse thief, his eyes completely red, controlled the horse with two legs, held a bow with one hand, and drew an arrow with the other, stringing it up and firing it, and shouted: "Look at the arrow."
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One arrow after another was shot towards Shi Jin with the roar of the wind.
The arrow flew away in the blink of an eye, heading straight for Shi Jin's throat.
Only when the arrow was in front of him did Shi Jin sense the danger approaching.
Without hesitation, Shi Jin's whole body suddenly fell backwards, The arrow happened to fly right in front of Shi Jin's eyes, and he barely dodged the arrow.
When Shi Jin stood up and prepared to continue charging, he just looked up and saw another arrow coming towards him.
In the inertia of getting up, Shi Jin couldn't even fall back.
Shi Jin looked at the arrow in horror, and thought of a thought in his mind: "My life is at stake":