Chapter 56 At the door of the house, can we be cowardly?
When Liu Xiong saw the gangsters fleeing without a fight, he felt resentful. He slashed at one of the gangsters with his sword and cursed: "Don't run away, go back..."
He chopped down a gangster beside him who turned to run, and the gangster's body rolled down the slope of the official road.
Suddenly, a fierce bandit wearing a red military hat came with a mace and a big stick in his hand. Liu Xiong didn't even scream, he fell down from his horse and lay on the ground, twisting and twitching.
His head was smashed with a big stick.
The ruthless bandit grabbed the reins, turned over beautifully, jumped onto the horse, clamped his legs, and ran down the official road and away.
He Shihui rushed forward, and suddenly a light arrow flew towards him. With a "ding" sound, it penetrated through the gap in the armor leaf and pierced his belly. However, the arrow was resisted by the armor leaf and could only barely pierce the flesh.
Bai Shanzi clamped the horse's belly with both legs, urging the horse to gallop. The thirty knights gradually formed a row, with He Shihui in the center and Bai Shanzi and Sun Dashan on the left and right wings, rushing towards the bandits on the opposite side.
A bearded bandit leader, wearing a purple cloak, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, rode on a tall horse, and kept shouting: "Shoot the horse, you fucking shoot the horse, you can't ask them to charge over."
He raised his hand, opened his bow and nocked an arrow, "Whoosh... Whoosh..." With two arrows, he shot the two fugitives to death, still shouting: "Go back, go back, don't run away..."
Under his urging, more than thirty bandit archers immediately opened their bows and set up arrows. Light arrows flew towards He Shihui and the others in confusion. Although they were protected by iron armor, the distance was too close, and many knights
They all had arrows hanging on them.
In an instant, three war horses were knocked down by arrows. Fortunately, the knights on the horses reacted quickly. They all jumped up the moment the horses fell down. They were still rushing towards the fleeing bandits on foot.
However, they only fired one round, and the knights rushed in front of them. He Shihui wielded the three-eyed gun and smashed it hard. Many of the poor bandit archers didn't even have time to draw their swords, and they were knocked to the ground.
They howled and rushed down the official roads on both sides. The leader of the Qi village in Waitou Mountain was wearing a purple cloak and riding on a horse, which made him particularly conspicuous. Bai Shanzi drove his horse and went straight towards him.
The short ax in Bai Shanzi's hand slashed at the leader of Qi Village. He couldn't dodge, but used his back to block. With a "click", the back of his bow broke. The ax scratched the bandit leader's chest, and blood spurted out.
one slice.
The leader of Qi Village endured the severe pain and wanted to turn the horse's head. Another knight rushed towards him. The big stick in his hand was smashed diagonally, hitting the leader of Qi Village in the waist. With a "bang", he fell off the horse.
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After a burst of slashing, most of the bandit archers were killed or wounded, and the rest all rushed down the official road and fled without their lives.
On the opposite side, there was only one leader of Hu village wearing a green cloak, leading about seventy horse bandits. He had withdrawn his bow and arrows, holding a long knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "We have twice as many people as them, kill them."
Go up, kill them all, and divide the money with the women!"
Under his instigation, the horse bandits began to form a team. Most of them put away their bows and arrows and replaced them with long knives and sticks suitable for mounted combat. Only a few of them still held bows and arrows.
They were divided into two rows, with about thirty riders in the front row and about forty riders in the back row, and began to trot forward.
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He Shihui led forty knights, and after driving away a group of bandits, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, we have never been intimidated in the capital or in front of the Tatars. Can we be intimidated today at home?"
"Can't...can't...can't..."
All the knights shouted angrily in unison.
He Shihui continued to encourage: "Kill the thieves bravely, kill the thieves!"
"Tiger...Tiger...Tiger..."
They shouted in unison and began to attack.
They formed a line and trotted forward, charging towards the horse bandits a hundred paces away.
He Shihui had finished firing his three-eyed blunderbuss, and now he was waving a long knife in his hand. He roared loudly and urged his horse to accelerate at eighty paces.
"Kill, kill!"
When they were fifty steps away, they began to run wildly. Forty horses carrying forty brave knights rushed towards the bandit horse team on the opposite side.
In cavalry battles, there is rarely a real confrontation. They are usually in open areas. The two sides compete, and one party will always collapse at the last moment. It is rare to see them collide with each other.
Even if both sides don't collapse, they will almost turn the horse's head in the last dozen steps, go around from the side, then regroup and charge again, it depends on which side collapses first.
Because the war horses themselves also have the instinct to avoid powerful forces, they will not be stupid enough to actively collide with the opposing war horses. When the real heavy cavalry charges, they always use a harness to put the horse's head on so that the horse can't see anything. It depends on the horse.
Only when the knight controls the Mercedes-Benz can he move forward bravely.
But for real heavy cavalry, in addition to men wearing armor, the horses also have equipment.
Of course, there is also a third possibility, which is what happened today. When the cavalry from both sides attacked, they maintained a gap and crossed each other into the gap, creating a melee situation.
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He Shihui rode his horse and rushed into the enemy formation. With a swing of his sword, he chopped down a horse bandit. A bloody arrow shot up from the bandit's neck. He continued to swing the sword back, hitting the chest of a horse bandit with the handle.
Knock the bandit off his horse.
"Bang...bang..."
The knight rushed from behind, and the explosion of the three-eyed gun was heard again. The two bandits fell off their horses, struggling and howling.
Suddenly a big stick was swung and hit the head of the war horse under He Shihui's crotch. Blood spurted out from the horse's head and it fell to the ground. He Shihui was also brought down. He lay on his back, swung his long knife upwards, and cut open a horse.
On the belly of the war horse, blood and intestines flowed all over the floor.
After the bandit landed on the horse, as soon as he turned over and jumped up, he was hit hard on the head by the knight's club from behind, and his blood and brains were mixed with each other and flew out.
He Shihui took the opportunity to turn over and jump up. Another horse bandit came running towards him. Before he could get close to him, he was knocked off his horse by a mace wielded by a knight. He Shihui hurriedly took two steps and grabbed the horse's reins.
, got on the war horse left by the bandit.
The official road was in chaos, with officers, soldiers and horse bandits crisscrossing each other, shouts of fighting and wailing and mourning constantly intermingling. Corpses of horses and humans lay on the ground, blood mixed with the intestines and brains flowing, and the smell of blood made people sick.
On the south side of the official road, Sun Dashan led about a dozen knights and broke through the cavalry formation of the bandits. He waved his big stick and roared: "Kill back, kill the thieves, kill the thieves..."
They turned their horses' heads and roared back again.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
There was another sound of three-eyed guns exploding.
Bai Shanzi swung his hatchet and chopped down two horse bandits in succession. Suddenly, a horse bandit on the opposite side fired a three-eyed gun. A knight beside him flew backwards, and a bloody arrow spurted out from his chest.
The war horse under his crotch was also hit by a bullet. The horse rushed forward two steps crookedly and fell suddenly.
Before the horse fell to the ground, Bai Shanzi jumped up from his horse and rushed behind a horse bandit. He clamped the horse's belly with his legs to prevent himself from falling off the horse. He reached out with his left hand and grabbed the horse bandit's face with his right hand.
The short ax turned over, the ax blade turned inward, and struck the horse bandit's neck. As soon as the blood arrow burst out, the horse bandit lost his breath.