More than a dozen horse thieves did not accept Han Shizhong's invitation to fight. Instead, they abandoned three scouts, turned their horses and retreated. However, the speed of retreat was not fast. As they retreated, they looked behind. One of the scouts was delighted to see the hunter.

, immediately turned back to chase after him. Unexpectedly, the three horse thieves turned around and fired arrows at almost the same time. This time, the range of the bows and arrows was far beyond the soft bow used just now. The scout was caught off guard and was hit in the horse's head by an arrow, and another arrow hit him.

An arrow hit his forehead and neck. Without even a scream, the men and horses fell down immediately. Han Shizhong saw that the enemy's cavalry was powerful with bows and arrows and could not catch up, and he was afraid of falling into an ambush. He immediately shouted loudly, ordering the riders not to pursue the enemy without permission.

Instead, they were more than fifty feet apart from each other, forming an arc to engage the enemy, standing two to three hundred steps away from the car formation.

The retreating horse thieves saw that they could not lure the enemy, so they turned back and fought back after a while. This time more people and horses came. To the east, there were more than a hundred horse thieves confronting Han Shizhong's forty cavalry. Both sides cautiously moved forward.

They maintained a distance of two hundred steps. In addition, in the woods in the three directions of south, west and north, there were constant figures of people and horses. From time to time, there were loud shouts and arrows being fired, and there were appropriate responses. It seemed that some signal was being conveyed by the horse thieves.

As traces of horse thieves appeared in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and seemed to be huge, many merchants and country warriors showed expressions of despair. On the contrary, it was the bodyguards hired sporadically by the merchants, because they had always suffered knife wounds.

In the life of licking blood, there was not much movement, but a trace of sadness appeared in the eyes, and they drew out their swords and swords one after another. These men of the world were fighting against the strong bows, crossbows, spears, heavy halberds and other weapons used by the two armies.

He is not good at it, but he travels around the world and is brave and fierce. Hand-to-hand combat is commonplace. At this moment, the trapped beasts are still fighting. Since they know that the horse thieves never leave anyone alive, many people took out their weapons and gradually showed a hint of ruthlessness in their eyes. Xiang Yong Archer

They timidly took out their bows and arrows, and carefully hid behind the carriage. These people were originally good citizens, and they rarely had fights on weekdays. They were asked to fight hand-to-hand with murderous horse thieves, and they were not allowed to eat rabbits.

Comes easily.

At this time, Zhao Xingde finally saw the appearance of the horse thieves clearly. Behind the more than a hundred horse thieves galloping in formation four hundred paces away, there were dozens of riders guarding the groups of horses. On average, each person had three or four horses. At this time,

It's almost winter, and most of the horse thieves wear fur hats with ear flaps. Apart from their fierce and cold eyes exposed, their mouths and noses are tightly covered by scarves like rags. Their faces can't be seen clearly, and their whole bodies are wrapped in

Among the rough sheepskin robes, the robe seems to be very thick, which can not only block the cold wind, but also play a slight protective role. The legs protruding from the hem of the robe are wearing long leather boots, stepping on the soft leather circle.

The stirrups allowed these horse thieves to move extremely flexibly on horseback. The horses ridden by the horse thieves in the front only had quivers and smaller bags of dry food and water hanging on their backs, while the horses in the rear carried more baggage, which could

Imagine that once these thieves escape, they will not need to replenish their supplies for a long time. No wonder they can come and go like the wind, and it will be difficult for officers and soldiers to chase them down.

Suddenly, Zhao Xingde's eyes narrowed, and he finally saw clearly that the ornament hanging on the chest of the horse thief's horse was actually a string of human noses, some of which numbered dozens or hundreds. Zhao Xingde had already heard about the cruelty of the horse thief.

I couldn't help but take a breath, and the hand holding the three-stone bow trembled slightly. I subconsciously took out ten arrows from the quiver and inserted them one by one into the black soil in front of me. Only then did I feel a little more at ease.

Zhao Xingde could see clearly because Han Shizhong was forced to retreat continuously by the horse thieves. The leader of the horse thieves was very experienced and was very good at taking advantage of the numerical advantage of his cavalry. He spread his wings and slowly approached the more than forty cavalrymen of the cavalry army, and fought with them.

The cavalry army, which is good at charging and fighting fiercely, maintains a distance of two arrows. The speed of the cavalry army's horses is not advantageous compared to the horse thieves. As long as they charge out, not only will they not be able to contact the enemy, but they will easily be surrounded by the horse thieves, who can shoot them with a swimming move.

Chew every bite until there is no residue left.

Once the enemy troops with open left and right wings tried to get between him and the chariot formation, Han Shizhong had to step back to intimidate the enemy cavalry behind him. Unfortunately, there was no general in the chariot formation who was good at fighting to preside over the infantry's arrow formation. Otherwise,

He attacked the enemy cavalry from both front and back with rifle fire and cavalry fire, so that the opponent suffered a moderate loss. Han Shizhong signaled again and gave the order to retreat, but this time it was slightly different. He inserted the car formation and the front

The horse thieves among the cavalry army seemed to be too rampant, and they were barely fifty steps away from the cavalry formation. Han Shizhong retreated sideways behind his horse, while calmly gesturing to the two men who had followed him all year round.

More than a dozen cavalrymen hung their bows and arrows slightly on their saddles and held their hands on their spears and sabers.

The leader of the horse thieves who were slowly pressing forward seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and began to shout loudly and rhythmically in thieves' words. Just when the horse thieves between the car formation and the cavalry army were about to move, Han Shizhong shouted: "I

Fuck you!" He pulled hard with his left hand, and the bit almost choked the horse's mouth to bleed. As soon as the war horse turned half of its body on the spot, it was started running very fast. More than forty cavalry soldiers were all crouched on the horse.

Behind the neck, he took off the weapon from the saddle, and the horse thieves at the rear had barely started to move, and these iron cavalry rushed over fifty steps and came to the front.

The anger of the comrades who died in the battle and who had been pressed back by the horse thieves finally broke out at this moment. The horse thieves were trying their best to beat the horses and run away. Before they could change their bows and arrows into fighting weapons, several of them screamed and were stabbed off their horses.

Come, Han Shizhong used a long-handled sword. Under the blade, the horse thief's sheepskin robe, which could only be used as a shield, was cut open without any suspense. Then blood rushed out, splashing all over his head and body.

As if stimulated by the blood, he fought more and more excitedly with his sword, beating the horse with all his strength to kill the nearby horse thieves who had not had time to escape. The same was true for the surrounding cavalry troops, who slashed with their guns and knives. In just a few breaths, they were able to kill two or three horse thieves.

The ten horse thieves were killed and thrown off their horses. They even panicked and rushed towards the chariot formation.

Although he was excited to kill, Han Shizhong still observed the situation around him. The chariot formation was the basis for everyone to resist the horse thieves. He looked down upon this and immediately shouted at the chariot formation: "Fire the arrows! Fire the arrows!" It was a pity.

On the battlefield, there were shouts of killing, screams, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of people flipping on their backs. Even the cavalrymen closest to him could not understand Han Shizhong's shouts. The Jianghu bodyguards in the car formation were originally a piece of loose sand, but the leader of Xiangyong

Zhou Mulan has never seen such a bloody scene. Although he barely stopped fighting with his upper and lower teeth, his legs were weak and he was at a loss. Seeing the ferocious horse thieves riding in twenty or thirty horses actually came towards him to kill him, his head was buzzing.

The sound of the ground was blank, and even the sound of fright was blocked in the throat and could not be shouted out, let alone commanding the villagers to bravely launch arrows but the enemy was defeated.

The leader was like this, and the village heroes below were even more unbearable. Except for a few who fired a few arrows randomly in panic, the other more than a hundred people just stood there, watching the horse thieves getting closer and closer, watching the battle with suspicion.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty were too frightened to speak at this time. Two of them had closed their eyes and murmured the words "Emperor Zhenwu, Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva bless you."

The horse thieves who originally fled in a hurry did not expect that there was no way to fight back in the car formation, and they suddenly became braver. The one at the front had already hung up his bow and arrow, brandishing a machete in his right hand, and controlled the horse with his left hand, preparing to get within three feet of the car formation.

He picked up the reins and jumped over the low chariot shaft to harvest the heads. Under the urging of the horse thieves, the war horses increased their speed to the extreme. The horse thieves around them also became excited, and various whistles and shouts were heard.

At this moment, a powerful arrow suddenly shot out from the chariot formation, and shot into the forehead of the front horse with a snap, nailing it deeply. The horse that was running at full speed received a fatal arrow, and its front hooves immediately softened.

, the body hit the ground heavily with a sense of inertia. Thanks to the agility of the horse thief in front, he quickly freed his legs from the stirrups when the horse fell, using the buffering power of the dead horse's body to offset the impact.

The impact caused him to roll over, and he was less than twenty steps away from the car formation, but he was unscathed. This man was a brave man who was not afraid of death. As soon as he stood up, he was about to kill forward with a knife, and a wild goose feather

The arrow followed him like a shadow, hitting his face with a snap, piercing his head, and half of the arrow pierced through the back of his head. The horse thief's cry of killing suddenly stopped, and he fell to the ground with the arrow stuck in his head.

The person who shot these two arrows was none other than Zhao Xingde, a Confucian scholar from Bianjing Imperial Academy. He usually looked gentle, but his attacks were so ruthless. All the bodyguards and local heroes were shocked, but they heard Zhao Xingde shouting: "What are you doing standing still?"

, let’s fire the arrow together! Fire the arrow!” He quickly picked up an arrow from the ground, put it on the string and shot it out. His three-stone hard bow was extremely powerful. At this moment, most of the horse thieves rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty steps, and they didn’t need to open the bow at full capacity.

But when he shot out, an arrow went out and hit another horse in the forehead. The horse thief was caught off guard, but he was not as capable as the horse thief. He broke his neck head first, and was pressed down by the dead horse. The corpses of one man and one horse were still there.

It was twitching slightly, and was stabbed in it by arrows shot from two or three vehicles.

At this moment, the brave archers from the countryside finally came to their senses. Regardless of whether the shot was accurate or not, they set their arrows one after another and fired with all their strength. Forty or fifty arrows immediately killed the three or five horse thieves in front of them.

The dozen or so people behind lost their previous arrogance and lowered their bodies one by one, instead of gently turning their horses' heads to avoid the rain of arrows coming from the front.

It's a pity that these brave warriors woke up too late. The distance of twenty or thirty steps was not enough to fire two arrows. The horse thieves behind had already approached the chariot formation. They skillfully picked up the reins and jumped up, and struck down with the scimitar in their right hand.

, with the help of the impact of the war horses, several village warriors were chopped almost simultaneously on their faces, shoulders, etc., blood spattered on the spot, some heads rose into the air with blood rain, and some upper bodies were almost chopped into two pieces, with a sound

They fell down without saying a word, while some covered their bloody faces and screamed in agony.

"I'll fuck your grandma!" Zhao Xingde's eyes were also red. At this moment, he no longer cared about fear or fear. The surrounding situation and sounds were all invisible or audible. He threw away his bow and arrow and picked up a caravan weapon.

The pry bar that was used when the wheel got stuck in the mud pit was swung upwards, and it was sweeping on the left front leg of a leaping war horse. The huge momentum suddenly made Zhao Xingde's hands stretch open, and he involuntarily let go and pried

The stick flew out along with the inertia of the falling horse. As soon as the horse hit the ground, its tibia was broken into two pieces and it fell to the ground with a thud.
Chapter completed!