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Chapter 95: Plundering the Zhai Family Caravan (Part 2)

The overwhelming arrows completely suppressed the archers of the Zhai family caravan. Huang Degong, with more than 200 cavalrymen, rushed to about twenty steps away from the caravan. He immediately pulled out his horse and turned around, took out his bows, and shot a round of arrows at the caravan guards on the periphery.

The caravan guards covered the horses with shields, but many people were still hit by arrows in the crotch, making a sad neighing sound and falling down.

In fact, the Ming cavalry was similar to the Mongolian cavalry, and was mainly light cavalry. They used cavalry to harass, sabers, and then chased after the opponent's formation was in chaos. Therefore, after the cavalry shot a row of arrows, they immediately turned around.

The caravan guards also fought back with bows and arrows. Man Gui and others had already pulled their horses away. All the arrows shot by the guards landed on the ground behind the Ming cavalry horses. Occasionally, one or two arrows shot into the back of the cavalry. With the force of departure offset, the arrows that were already almost at their limit could not even penetrate the clothes, let alone the layer of chain mail inside.

"Chasing! Don't let these bandits run away!" shouted the boss of the caravan escort.

While Huang Degong's cavalry retreated into the valley, they used the Manguda tactic to turn around and shoot arrows. This tactic is just a harassment tactic, and the lethality effect is actually not very good. After turning around and shooting a few rounds of arrows, only a few three caravan cavalry were dropped.

The archer also began to retreat and shot arrows at the caravan cavalry who rushed over seventy steps away. The light arrows shot fell into the caravan cavalry and horses. Only a few screams were heard, and seven caravan cavalry were dropped.

A simple archer dares not fight against the cavalry. Light arrows have very poor killing effects on cavalry. Heavy arrows can only cause killing effects on cavalry entering within fifty steps. However, if a cavalry enters within fifty steps, the archer cannot shoot a few rounds of arrows, and then they will be slaughtered one-sidedly. The cavalry restrains the archer, and the archer defeats the archer, but if the archer gives up archer riding, he draws his sword to rush to death. The archer is not an opponent. Therefore, the archer must cooperate with the archer, so he can hide behind the archer and shoot the archer so that he can call him dad.

The archer was not very far from the hillside and quickly climbed up to avoid the impact of the caravan cavalry. Huang Degong's light cavalry fled into the valley.

While shooting arrows, Gao Shixin ran up the hillside. While he was retreating, he shot out five consecutive bead arrows in one breath, and each arrow shot down a cavalry. When the cavalry of the escort approached him, he climbed up a large stone one by one, stood above the stone, and five more arrows appeared in his hand, shooting out another round of pearl arrows. The five arrows flew out in turn, and then shot and killed five cavalry. Then he jumped and jumped to the top of the slope.

The archers who had already climbed up the hill also shot arrows one after another, shooting heavy arrows within fifty steps, and shot over more than a dozen cavalrymen in succession.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the caravan cavalry turned around and ran away. Huang Degong and the others rushed out of the valley again. Huang Degong, who was the leader, tapped the bow and arrow, and shot two caravan cavalry in succession.

It was about to chase the caravan formation, and the Ming cavalry disguised as horse thieves turned their horses' heads and turned to retreat again. At this time, a row of arrows shot out from the caravan formation. Except for a horse thief who had no time to evacuate, the rest escaped in time.

"The opponent's more than 20 cavalry have been consumed, and you can launch an attack!" Gao Shixin calculated the opponent's casualties, and then he took out a sound arrow from the quiver and put it on the bowstring and shot it into the air.

The arrow flew out and made a loud whistle.

Hearing the sound of arrows, Huang Degong shouted: "Prepare for attack!"

More than 200 cavalrymen dismounted to restore their horses to their horses. The opponent's cavalry did not dare to rush over at this time. They had just chased and retreated and their horsepower was consumed considerably.

Huang Degong and his friends took out a handful of beans from the grain bag, put them in the palm of their hands, reached to the mouth of the war horse, fed the horse the beans, and then took out a bucket to feed the horse water. After a while, the horse's power gradually recovered.

In the valley, teams of sword players and spearmen emerged in neat formations, and the archers on the hillside also came down, following the sword players and spearmen, forming a neat formation. Then the cavalry were lined up on both wings of the infantry formation, and the square team walked forward step by step with neat steps.

"This is not like a horse thief, it looks like a well-trained army!" Zhai Fa was shocked.

The formation is orderly, and the cavalry protects the two wings. Which horse thief can do? In fact, Zhai Fa made a mistake in judgment. Most of the attackers were real horse thieves, but many horse thieves were originally from the Ming army in Liaodong. After Gao Shixin's training during this period, these horse thieves were able to line up well and cooperate with each other to fight.

The archers behind the Ming army formation kept shooting light arrows and shot arrows into the caravan formation.

Although the archers of the caravan were hiding behind the caravan array, they could not stop the rain of arrows falling from the sky. These archers who were temporarily acted as caravans did not have any armor protection at all. The falling light arrows pierced on people, easily penetrated their clothes and penetrated into their bodies, which could be said to be arrows and flesh.

The archers in the inner circle were suppressed, and the remaining resistance of the Zhai family caravan was the cavalry with less than 300 people outside. These cavalry were all a group of dead soldiers raised by the Zhai family. They had high martial arts skills and excellent riding skills, but they did not dare to ride horses to rush to the neatly lined infantry formations.

The infantry phalanx approached the chariot formation step by step. The sword players in front pulled out thunder from their waists, ignited the fuse, and threw it into the center of the chariot formation.

"Boom, boom, boom" a series of deafening explosions sounded, and iron nails and iron beads shot out in the vehicle array, and wooden boards flew across. Caravans hiding behind the vehicle array, acting as infantry, fell down one after another in the explosion.

The caravan cavalry launched an attack on Gao Shixin and their infantry platoon from both wings, and was blocked by Huang Degong's cavalry. Gao Shixin and the infantry archers behind the infantry replaced heavy arrows and shot straight at close range, shooting the caravan cavalry one by one. Then the spearmen came out of the formation and rushed towards the caravan cavalry that was forced to stop by their own cavalry.

"Breaking the formation! Breaking the formation!" A burst of cheers came from the crowd.

The thunderbolt thunder thrown by the sword player exploded the car formation, and then the sword player rushed forward, pushed the vehicle away, and entered the formation. The caravan players in the car formation were vulnerable to the sword player, just like a group of lambs to be slaughtered, being cut one by one in a pool of blood.

A few caravan workers who were still alive knelt down and surrendered. The surrounded caravan guards were unable to escape. Except for some who were killed, the rest were captured by the Ming army.

Zhai Fa failed to run away. He knew that he had mastered many secrets of the Zhai family and wanted to commit suicide to avoid falling into the hands of the Ming army. Just as he was swinging his knife to commit suicide, a feather arrow flew over like lightning and shot through his wrist holding the knife. The steel knife fell to the ground with a "destiny" sound, and then it was held down by two Jinyiwei.

"The criminal has been arrested and taken back to Fushun Pass immediately!" Gao Shixin ordered. He had successfully attacked the Zhai family caravan and must evacuate this place as soon as possible, otherwise the cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty would arrive.

The caravans were filled with important strategic materials such as grain, tea, cotton, salt, iron, etc., and all of these goods became the spoils of Gao Shixin.

"You guys hurry up and take the goods back to Fushun Pass. I will stay and cut off the rear and restrain the Jiannu cavalry!" Gao Shixin said.

"Sir, let's stay together." Huang Degong and the cavalry said one after another.
Chapter completed!
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