The fire horse was still dozens of feet away, but the deputy general's mount was already restless and almost uncontrollable.
No wonder the horse is frightened.
More than two hundred fire horses came galloping, like a rapidly approaching fire cliff, or like a giant snake whose whole body was spitting out flames. Even these elite barbarian soldiers were so frightened that their scalps were numb, let alone the horses?
I originally thought that horses, depending on their strength or weakness, would naturally run faster or slower, so the fire horse formation would not be too wide or too dense. As long as the various departments of Xiangwei left enough and wide enough channels, they would be able to
Let the fire horse formation pass.
But who would have thought that the fire horses are connected by reins?
In other words, more than two hundred horses were almost all crowded together. Except for a few leading horses, all the other fire horses saw in their eyes was fire and smoke. They had no direction at all. They would only follow the pull of the reins or inertia.
Run forward without turning south or north.
Not to mention how long the fire formation was, its width alone was more than ten feet, like a huge fire sickle, leaving no one behind wherever it passed...
"The two camps are heading north and south, separate...separate..." the deputy general roared wildly, swinging the horse whip in his hand quickly, drawing blood marks on the horse's buttocks.
As expected, these Hu cavalry grew up on horseback, and Xiangwei's reaction was extremely fast. Viewed from the sky, the originally neat cavalry formation looked as if a knife had cut it in the middle, splitting into two halves in an extremely fast time.
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It is also like a huge funnel, first narrow and then wide, and in the blink of an eye, a passage of twenty feet is opened.
The fire horse dashed past the two horns of the cavalry formation, and many sparks even splashed on the face of Hu Qi in the corner.
Just a tiny bit away, it was wrapped up in the fire horse formation.
No wonder the remnants only knew how to run forward, but didn't know how to turn and let the fire horse pass?
It’s too late: the leading horse only knows that the person running in front is his companion. The faster you run, the faster it chases...
The lieutenant general gasped for air, and cold sweat broke out on his head.
"Gather our formation and head east quickly..."
The deputy general roared fiercely, and instinctively looked to the northeast, praying in his heart: I hope Bai Qi didn't run too far, and he could still make it in time...
But before he could even turn his head, the lieutenant was suddenly startled.
Where are the people?
Where is Bai Qi?
All he saw in his eyes was the broken troops and the first group of fire horses that were still running wildly to the east. There was no sign of half a white horse at all.
Is it possible that I can still grow wings and fly away?
The lieutenant subconsciously looked to the northwest again, and his pupils shrank sharply.
Although no one was found, there was such a long section of wall, and there was still dust and smoke floating in the gap, how could he not see it?
Bai Qi actually crossed the side wall through that break?
The lieutenant general was ecstatic.
Haha, King Zuo Khan is just north of the border wall, with thousands of Xiang Guards under his command. Isn’t Li Chengzhi throwing himself into a trap?
Um...wrong?
Just after half a laugh, the voice suddenly stopped, as if frozen, and the smile froze on the lieutenant's face.
Five miles further north, there is another white cavalry...
Is this to unite the troops?
Didn't King Zuo Khan say that the two white knights didn't know each other? How did Li Chengzhi know that there were reinforcements on the north of the wall?
It’s over… it’s over…
King Zuo Khan would never have expected that Li Chengzhi would suddenly head north. If he was caught off guard, he would be caught unawares.
If the white cavalry from the north suddenly attacks southward again, and is attacked from both sides, it will be difficult for King Zuo Khan not to be defeated...
The cold sweat that had just subsided suddenly popped up again. The deputy general's face was as white as dirt, and his upper and lower teeth were chattering.
"Blow...blow the trumpet...to warn King Khan..."
There is no need to blow the trumpet, Li Chengzhi has already joined forces with Hu Qi from the north of the wall...
For dozens of miles east to west of Dun Town, the only places that could be climbed over the side wall were the dilapidated Suiting Pavilion and two broken walls on the left and right, so Murong Ding naturally had to focus on guarding them.
But no matter how focused we were on guarding, we were still guarding against the white cavalry in the north. Who could have expected that Li Chengzhi, who thought he was sure of his capture, would suddenly turn over from the south of the wall?
General Hu, who was sent by Murong Ding to defend the broken wall to the east, was so frightened that his eyes bulged wildly.
Li Chengzhi is even more confused than him.
I originally thought that after climbing over the wall, it would be a smooth plain with no obstacles. All I needed to consider was whether I could outrun the pursuers, whether I should change from heavy riding to light riding, and abandon the armor.
But I never expected that there would be an ambush on the north side of the wall to stop them?
The encounter was so sudden that it was too late to hide...
Perhaps because he was frightened, or perhaps because he was waiting for Li Chengzhi to give the order to turn around, Yafeng's horse speed obviously slowed down.
Li Chengzhi’s hair stood up in shock.
What is Li Rui thinking?
Turning around at this time is equivalent to giving these ambush soldiers a chance to react. The enemy can catch up with them with just a slight urging of the horse.
A heavy cavalry can't outrun a light cavalry.
This is the real meeting on a narrow road. There is no other way except moving forward...
Li Chengzhi's eyes were about to burst, and he roared like thunder: "Kill..."
Before the sound arrives, the arrow arrives first.
Wei Yu seemed to see a shooting star again, a cold light shot past the top of his head and nailed a Hu Bing's face accurately.
Seeing a blood flower burst out, Li Rui heard the roar. It was like a death knell. He was so frightened that he trembled, and his body reacted instinctively: clamping the horse with both legs, and quickly drawing the bow with both hands.
Up arrow.
"Idiot...change your gun..." A sharp shout suddenly came from my ears.
Too sudden...
These horsemen are only twenty feet away from the side wall. At the speed of the horses at this time, the distance of twenty feet can be reached in ten seconds at most. If they are exhausted, they can only shoot one arrow. After shooting the arrow, they can draw their guns. The two sides are afraid that
They have bumped into each other.
The best way to fight is to change your lance now and charge forward with a series of pokes and collisions.
Li Rui turned around fiercely...who else could it be but Lang Jun?
With a sudden impulse, he quickly lowered the bow to the horse's belly, grabbed it with his left hand, threw the square shield on his back to his chest, stretched it inward, and put his arm into the rope buckle on the back of the shield. Although the shield is square, the back of the shield has four slopes. The enemy's lance can offset a considerable part of the impact...
After hanging up the shield, he leaned over again and saw that the lance was in his right hand.
Similar to the infantry spear of the Baijia Battalion, the lance is five feet long and equipped with an iron grip on the tail, allowing the cavalry to extend the lance as much as possible.
The gun is held about three feet forward, and is equipped with a leather strap. When charging, the gun barrel is held under the arm, and the strap is put on the arm to enhance the impact and offset the recoil force.
Moreover, the gun head is still alive, and there is a folding iron between it and the gun shaft. As long as the recoil force reaches a certain level, the gun head will automatically fold, which not only prevents the gun head and gun shaft from being broken, but also just follows the inertia and easily
If it's loose enough, you can pull out the spear from the enemy.
If the force of the impact is too great, and the lance tip and the broken iron are all pierced into the enemy's body, the cavalry can take advantage of the situation and swing the lance sideways, or directly behind them, and then throw away.
At this time, another leather rope connected to the tail of the gun grip and the iron ring under the horse's belly began to work. Even if it couldn't be shaken off, at most it would drag the enemy's body forward without losing the gun.
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Of course, the cavalry can only change their swords...
Don't underestimate these things, especially the folding iron connecting the gun head and the gun barrel.
When the Mongols dominated the world, there was no such thing. The earliest record of this thing was already in the Qing Dynasty.
The reason why he appears here is naturally due to Li Chengzhi.
However, the cavalry in the Han Dynasty had already equipped the lance with a noose at the end of the gun. First, it was used to fix the lance while marching. Second, it used horse power when charging to make the impact of the lance stronger. Third, it could offset the recoil force and prevent the cavalry from attacking.
Being knocked off the horse or losing the gun...
So Li Chengzhi has always been puzzled. After so many years of opening of the Silk Road, why didn’t Europeans learn to tie a rope to the gun and connect it to the horse?
In the 17th century, European lances were disposable items that could be flushed once and then thrown away...
Li Rui had already bent down, stretched the tip of his spear over the horse's head, and pointed it at the Hu soldier who was facing him, and then he suddenly realized: Why is Lang Jun here?
This is Yafeng...
How else could it come from?
Li Rui slowed down his horse, but Li Chengzhi did not dare to slow down.
Not only did the horse's speed not slow down, but it accelerated even faster, and he naturally ran to the front.
In the entire cavalry formation, there is no place more dangerous than Yafeng, but what can Li Chengzhi do?
Even he thought that after escaping nearly two thousand defeated troops, more than a thousand fine cavalry, and then climbing over the Great Wall, he could basically escape.
But despite all calculations, there was an ambush behind the wall.
What a serious blow to morale this is?
Even he is like this, but what about ordinary soldiers?
Seeing how Li Rui slowed down his horse without realizing it, you can tell how disappointed he felt and how strong his fear of war was?
If he doesn't want to be surrounded and die here, Li Chengzhi can only take the lead and inspire the morale of the soldiers as much as possible...
Li Chengzhi understood this, and Li Liang also understood it. So he did not dare to say a word, but urged the horse hard and protected Li Chengzhi's left side.
In panic, Li Rui suddenly urged his horse, and naturally it merged to the right side of Li Chengzhi.
At this point, the three highest-ranking people in the battalion are tied as Yafeng.
Li Liang and Li Rui don't matter, but Li Chengzhi is not only the husband of the Li family, but also the coach of the White Armor Battalion...
Seeing Li Chengzhi taking the lead, the eyes of the more than two hundred riders who followed suddenly turned red. A fire seemed to be lit in their hearts, and the blood all over their bodies boiled.
If it weren't for the strict military discipline that had been ingrained into their bones, they would have all rushed forward and killed the enemy side by side with Li Chengzhi.
Li Chengzhi leaned close to the horse, holding a shield in one hand and a gun in the other, and sounded like a bell: "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins... kill!"
"Kill!" More than two hundred white knights followed closely behind, roaring like thunder, shaking the surrounding areas.
Bai Qi was like a divine soldier descending from the sky, shocking Hu Bing to the point where his hair stood on end.
Murong Ding led the Xiang Guard to guard against the north. At this time, the horse's head was naturally facing north. In addition, the enemy's shadow could not be seen, and it was time to change the melee weapons, so nine of the ten Hu soldiers were still holding
Bow.
No matter how elite you are, you still need time to react.
Those with quick hands just turned the horse's head, while those with slow hands didn't even have time to turn the horse around, so they could only hurriedly raise the bow and arrow and shoot out.
But what’s the use?
Suddenly, Hu Qi had no idea that these white cavalry were different from those he had encountered a few days ago: the former had half steel armor and half wood armor, but the current one, not to mention the men were all covered in steel armor, even the horses were covered in armor.
Yes.
It is impossible for everyone to be as strong as Li Chengzhi, and it is impossible for everyone to be Xi Kangsheng. Most of the cavalry in Tuyuhun wore short bows. Such bows could at most penetrate leather armor and hit steel armor.
, just like scratching an itch...
The arrows are like a rain of locusts, and a jingling sound is like hundreds of bells ringing.
But I only heard the sound, but didn't see any effect.
There were three to four hundred arrows in a round, but none of the men or horses on Bai's horse were hurt. Eighty-nine out of ten arrows were knocked out by the steel armor.
Only those who were lucky enough to be embedded in the front of the armor, but the strength has disappeared, and there is not much lethality at all.
In the time it took to shoot a round of arrows, the two sides were already less than five feet apart. Hu Bing's hair stood on end, and he didn't even have time to pick up his gun and draw his sword. Bai Qi's lance was thrust into his eyes.
While Li Rui adjusted his lance, he admired Li Chengzhi in his heart: Lang Jun's eyes are too poisonous...
If the white cavalry did not change their guns, they would still shoot arrows like the barbarian cavalry. Although they could kill some of the barbarian cavalry, by the time they finished shooting the arrows and then changed their guns, the horses of both sides would have already collided with each other.
It would be like this time, when the spear heads of Bai Qi have penetrated the body of Hu Qi in the first row, or the Hu soldiers have been knocked off their horses, and the enemy's sword and gun have not yet been drawn out...
Li Rui pedaled hard with his feet, his upper body clinging to the horse's back, and the tip of his spear pierced the chest of a Hu soldier accurately.
The horse speed at this time was at least about 20 kilometers per hour. How powerful was the impact of the lance?
A flash of sparks appeared, and Hu Bing was knocked away. Li Rui felt his right arm go numb and almost knocked off his gun.
He gritted his teeth fiercely, used most of his strength on his right arm, clamped the spear tightly, and quickly reined the horse with his left hand. The war horse swerved to the left, avoiding the ownerless Hu horse, and jumped from the two Hu horses.
I inserted it in the middle of the ride.
Li Rui is the thorn, Li Chengzhi is the split.
He tilted his spear to the right, and when approaching the Hu cavalry, he swung it sharply to the left. Immediately, two Hu soldiers were swept off their horses by him.
But the problem is that fighting a war cannot rely solely on strength.
Due to excessive force, the war horse that was about to slip through the gap between the two horsemen was deflected by him, and just hit it squarely...
There was just a "bang" sound, just like being hit by a car while riding a bicycle. The horse slowed down suddenly, and Li Chengzhi couldn't help but pounce forward.
Just as he was about to fall headlong, a gun shaft suddenly emerged from the slanting stab, lying in front of Li Chengzhi.
As if grasping a life-saving straw, Li Chengzhi instinctively dropped the shield in his left hand and grabbed the barrel of the gun to stop his fall.
In an instant, Li Chengzhi was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and his heart beat loudly: It was so dangerous, it almost became a stumbling block...
What is stretched out is Li Liang's lance.
No matter how critical the situation was, Li Liang never forgot the fact that Lang Jun was still a rookie.
The one on the Jingzhou city wall doesn't count, it can only be considered an ambush at most. This time is Li Chengzhi's first real battle.
And it’s still riding combat...
Knowing that Lang Jun had almost no combat experience, Li Liang took off his lance early just in case, but he didn't expect it to happen.
If he hadn't blocked the shot, Li Chengzhi would have been almost reduced to a pulp even if he hadn't been trampled by a horse.
This is the main reason why Li Liang did not dare to let Li Chengzhi serve as the leader...
Li Chengzhi subconsciously wanted to let go, but suddenly felt a light movement in his hand, and the gun was actually in his hand.
He turned around and saw that Li Liang had already drawn his saber and slashed at the Hu soldier who was facing him.
Hearing a miserable howl, half of Hu Bing's face was chopped off, and his blood flowed out like it was free of charge. He also fell off his horse with a somersault.
Li Liang rushed forward and struck the second Hu Bing with his sword.
Looking at the broken rope at the tail of his left pistol, Li Chengzhi had a strange thought in his mind: Two-gun general?
It’s not impossible...
He put his guns under his left and right armpits, knocked the horse's belly with his legs, and continued to rush forward.
Li Chengzhi learned his lesson this time and knew that horses are very spiritual creatures. As long as there is a gap in front, they will most likely not collide with each other.
This time he changed from chopping to whipping, trying not to interfere with the horse's direction of travel.
Li Chengzhi's strength is already great, and the horse is a tall horse selected from thousands of people. It can't be stronger. With the combination of the two, he is invincible and no one can defeat him.
In fact, I still took advantage of the long gun.
Hu Qi's lance is already short, only one foot. Moreover, it is not as deep as Bai Qi's. It also has a solid iron gun grip to balance the center of gravity. Therefore, in actual combat, at least one third of the armpit must be left behind so that it can be used for combat.
The part is even shorter.
The tip of Li Chengzhi's spear had already hit Hu Bing's head. The tip of Hu Bing's spear was still five or six feet away from Li Chengzhi, and could not even reach the head of Li Chengzhi's mount...
He swung his gun to the left, swung his gun to the right, and swept away with one shot. At least two or three horses fell off their horses... For a time, with Li Chengzhi as the center, no one within a radius of ten feet dared to approach?
Whether it was the white cavalry behind him or the Hu soldiers in the distance, they were all stunned...
Can the war still be fought like this?
But who makes Lang Jun strong...
Li Rui and Li Liang were both excited and helpless, and they didn't dare to move forward for fear of being accidentally injured by Li Chengzhi. So they could only stay a horse behind and mend Li Chengzhi's sword.
The more Li Chengzhi killed, the more excited he became. The two long spears were swung as fast as windmills. But after swiping them, they suddenly came to nothing...
When he calmed down and took a look, there was no one in front of him?
Hahaha, I actually killed him...
Li Chengzhi was ecstatic.
Why is Hu Bing's cavalry formation so thin, and it doesn't feel like he has much charge?
He quickly glanced around and realized that there didn't seem to be many people in this riding formation, only four to five hundred people.
In fact, there are not even four or five hundred...
Murong Ding only left a thousand guards, but there were three places that could pass through the border wall, and they were quite far apart from each other. In desperation, he had no choice but to divide his troops.
He led 400 cavalry to guard the Suiting Pavilion. Naturally, the two broken walls on the left and right could only send 300 cavalry each.
Two hundred heavy cavalry versus three hundred light cavalry, and the light cavalry was still caught off guard, so it felt like the victory was so easy...
"Kill!"
Li Chengzhi didn't hesitate and turned back to kill him.
It's not that he doesn't want to escape, but that he has no way to escape.
If this group of barbarian cavalry is not completely defeated and all two hundred guards are not liberated, who will protect him and escape?
On his own?
Are you kidding?
Murong Ding casually assigned dozens of riders, and then rode three or four horses to easily chase Li Chengzhi into a dog...
So even though he had heard Hu Bing's call for reinforcements, Li Chengzhi still resolutely killed him back.
He drove the horse in a circle, and just as he completed the turn, he suddenly heard an exclamation from the formation.
The voice was sharp and thin, clearly Wei Yu's.
Li Chengzhi's scalp jumped and he looked up. On the black horse specially prepared for Gao Wenjun and Wei Yu, there was no sign of anyone there.
I don't know what happened to these two idiots, but they fell off their horses.
Taking a closer look, Li Chengzhi's pupils suddenly shrank into needle eyes: a Hu soldier had already raised his sword and was about to chop it off on Gao Wenjun's head...