Chapter 66: Step and Ride
In the wilderness, two parallel convoys are moving. The carriage is very unique in style. It is a four-wheeled carriage. I don’t know what kind of cargo is loaded in the carriage, which makes the wheels leave deep ruts in the wilderness.
It was afternoon, and the sun was shining. A river appeared vaguely on the front side, and there were lush green grass by the river. Although the team did not need to cross the river, when it arrived, it was a good time for the cart to take a horse to rest, drink water, and eat grass.
With this idea, the convoy slowed down and many accompanying soldiers took out buckets from the car, and it seemed that they were preparing to fetch water for a while.
At this moment, the whistle riding on the periphery suddenly blew the horn and warned the convoy with the shrill sound of the horn: An enemy is approaching.
The originally calm and orderly convoy became noisy in an instant. The generals shouted and directed the soldiers to set up defenses. The convoy quickly changed shape and connected front and back to form a circular formation.
The horse pulling the cart was untied by the driver and rushed into the circle. The reins were tied to the wooden stakes that had just been nailed to the ground. At the same time, the soldiers moved many bamboo horses from the carriage and laid them on the periphery of the carriage, and nailed them firmly to the ground with iron nails on the door.
The formation was launched very quickly. When the whistle cavalry wandering around the periphery entered the chariot formation from the specially left gap, the soldiers blocked the gap with a horse. At this moment, smoke and dust rolled in front of them, and hundreds of enemy cavalry approached the chariot formation.
The inner carriage plate of the carriage formed the chariot, and the soldiers boarded the carriage, stepped on the baggage loaded in the carriage, used the outer carriage plate as a barrier, bent their bows and arrows, preparing to fight the incoming cavalry.
The cavalrymen who were galloping slowed down and finally stopped a hundred steps away from the chariot formation. Seeing that the chariot formation was very prepared, they did not approach it rashly.
This convoy with nearly a thousand people was the prey that the cavalry had been watching for several days and had been harassing for several days. Although they did not find a chance to annihilate each other, they successfully slowed down the convoy's speed.
After a few days, the convoy advanced for only forty miles.
The cavalry is so comfortable to deal with the infantry. They come whenever they want, and leave whenever they want, raid the infantry team day and night, forcing the opponent to shrink their defense. After several consecutive days, the infantry will be very tired.
Even if there are carriages loading food, the infantry will sooner or later eat a lot of the food they transported. Even if they finally arrive at their destination by chance, most of the food they should have arrived would be consumed.
The grain transport teams approached the destination, but were constantly attacked by the cavalry, resulting in too little food transported, which would gradually lead to shortage of food in the garrison, and then the morale of the army was disintegrated and retreated in a mess.
By then, our main force will have the opportunity to annihilate it in one fell swoop.
This is the secret to the side with the advantage of cavalry and the lack of cavalry on the plains. The cavalry who were ordered to attack from Shouchun finally fought against the Yuwen army like this.
The cavalry was on the plain, and the attack distance was about 100 miles that day. The infantry could not catch up or escape. Once they were targeted by the cavalry and the infantry had no foreign aid, they would be finished sooner or later. Therefore, for this convoy, the cavalry with nearly 300 cavalry was determined to win.
After the horses were resting, the cavalry moved and approached the chariot formation, kept screaming, and took out their bows to shoot arrows towards the chariot formation.
In the chariot formation, soldiers who were waiting for the battle couldn't help but sweat when they saw the cavalry rushing towards them. However, they could not shoot arrows easily, so as not to be deceived by the enemy.
This is the cavalry harassment tactic that the instructor repeatedly emphasized during the "intensive training" in Guangcheng. Whoever dares to shoot arrows before getting the order, and the horse whip comes to the person.
The repeated whipping made the guest soldiers from Lingnan fear the horse whip far more than the approaching cavalry. Therefore, at this moment, none of the soldiers who bent their bows and arrows shot arrows randomly.
The cavalry approaching the chariot formation were very skilled in riding, and they happened to be about seventy steps away, but they did not deceive the chariot formation with an arrow. After the cavalry tossed for a while, many people simply got off the horse on the spot, took off their armor skirts, took off their big-mouthed pants, and showed their butts in the direction of the chariot formation and cursed.
Feng Xuan, who was in the car formation, looked at the big white butts with Qianlijing, sneered several times, then handed Qianlijing to someone else, took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "It's almost time, get ready!"
"Yes, the man!"
A creaking sound came, and the large crossbow on board that had not been used for several days was lifted out of the carriage by the soldiers and fixed it. Then, when the order was issued, the winch turned and the stringed crossbow was turned.
The Feng clan soldiers brought by Feng Xuan were attacking as bait soldiers this time, specifically luring enemy cavalry to attack, so in the carriage called "Side-Villa Carriage", there were not only a lot of food, but also many large crossbows and sufficient arrows.
Feng Xuan read "Records of the Grand Historian" and knew that the Han general Li Ling led 5,000 troops to attack the Huns. He spent a long time with the Xiongnu cavalry on the grassland, killing countless Xiongnu soldiers until he used all his arrows. He was captured and surrendered.
He dared not compare himself to Li Ling, but this time his convoy was well prepared and had strong support outside, so Feng Xuan did not think that he would end up with Li Ling. As agreed, today is the time to hunt.
The soldiers in the chariot formation were preparing silently, while the cavalry outside the chariot formation kept tossing, trying to lure the soldiers in the chariot formation into attack in various ways. The two sides were in a stalemate for nearly an hour.
The cavalry saw that the other party was not fooled and were about to get on their horses and evacuate, but they heard a whistling sound from a distance behind them. When they turned around, they saw that a few sparks were blooming in the clear sky.
Something was strange, and the cavalry felt something was wrong. At this moment, the sound of bowstrings sounded in the formation, and large crossbows shot out stone bullets, catching the cavalry off guard.
Within a distance of less than a hundred steps, the stone bullet arrived instantly. Although the accurate head was not very good, as long as it hits a person or horse, it would instantly stir up a blood mist, and the broken limbs and arms would fly in the fog.
After a rock blasted, the carriage plate on the outside of the chariot suddenly fell down, and many soldiers shouted and jumped out of the carriage, rushing forward in a team of ten people.
Five sword players were in the front and five spear players were in the back. According to the triangular formation trained in the previous "strengthening training", the archers behind them bravely challenged the cavalry under the cover of the archers.
At the same time, dust was made in the distance, and the cavalry led by Xue Shixiong arrived as agreed. At the same time, some of the cavalry of the Hulin Army led by Liu Boer were also arrived.
The two cavalry groups had only 200 cavalry, and their strength was smaller than that of the enemy cavalry, but this was no longer a problem, because the cavalry of Xue Shixiong and Liu Boer who were attacking had already increased in speed.
A carefully planned ambush made the hunters who were preparing to hunt prey. Facing the front and back attacks, the poor prey was at a loss for coping. First, he was shot down by a group of people by arrows, and then, when the formation was scattered and the speed was not rising, he was defeated by the sneak attacked cavalry.
In the chariot formation, Feng Xuan boarded the carriage, pulled out the armored arrow and placed it on the bow, aiming at an enemy cavalry that was galloping past the edge of the chariot formation.
The war horses in the Central Plains are much better than those in the Lingbiao. They are tall, strong and powerful, and run very quickly. Feng Xuan wanted to seize a horse with his ability, so he was reluctant to shoot the horse with a shooting arrow, but instead chose a more difficult shooting person.
Release the bowstring, the arrow left the string, and hit the target's back. The cavalry shook, then fell on the horse's back, and without the mount controlled by the master, he continued to run forward and leave the battlefield.
Feng Xuan didn't care about sighing when he saw this, because there were still many defeated cavalry on the battlefield. He shouted "kill the enemy" and drew out another armor-breaking arrow to aim at the next target.
Chapter completed!