With roars like thunder and morale like rainbows, countless cavalrymen rushed forward in a black mass. Compared to the cloudless group of cavalrymen at the rear, the hundreds of people in front who were also running for their lives seemed like a tiny horse.
Like ants.
"Riding and shooting!" Xue Dongyang, the commander of the Snow Wolf Guards who was gradually catching up on the flank, said with a cold smile.
Xue Rengui shouted loudly: "Hurry! The whole army is hiding and lying on their backs!"
Along the way, Xue Rengui indeed suffered a lot of losses at the hands of Xue Dongyang. This Xue Dongyang can be said to have brought Gou to the extreme. No matter how provocative Xue Rengui was, he never clashed head-on with Xue Rengui, and just relied on his speed advantage to keep entangled.
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Although this tactic of boiling frogs in warm water is not very lethal every time, if it continues, it is the most disgusting method.
Following Xue Rengui's order, the remaining black knights all turned over flexibly and quickly hid under the war horses to avoid and resist the arrows of the Snow Wolf Guards. The war horses had vests on them, so they were not
Fear of bows and arrows.
The horse's belly is a riding technique used by the nomadic tribes in the north to avoid the cold arrows fired by the enemy in front when they are chasing the enemy. It can be said to be one of the highest and most demanding performances of riding.
Fumadu requires extremely high riding skills. If you don't have good riding skills but try to show off your strength, the only result will be to fall off the horse and be trampled to pieces.
This kind of technology is not something that everyone can master, even the Beidi people who have been accompanying war horses since childhood.
Although everyone in the Black Cavalry has superb equestrian skills and has been trained in the most dangerous environment, however, not everyone can master the skill of bending the horse's belly.
Some black knight soldiers who were unfamiliar with their movements were still poisoned by the Snow Wolf Guards.
"General Xue, I'm afraid this is not an option! If this continues, our army will be destroyed by the enemy sooner or later!" Guan Yu said, breaking an arrow on his shoulder.
Speaking of which, Guan Yu was indeed not very good at dodging arrows. Among the generals present, apart from Yang Zaixing, he was the only one who was hit by an arrow.
Throughout the Three Kingdoms period, no one except Guan Yu had killed a top-notch general among the generals fighting in front of the two armies. This alone reflects Guan Yu's military power.
However, Guan Yu's ability to defend against arrows is really not to be praised. After all, during his career in the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu had the experience of being hit by arrows on both sides of his arms, a total of four times. Although on the battlefield,
Going through life and death, injuries are inevitable, but among super-class generals there are not many who have such a high rate of receiving arrows.
In his early years, he passed five passes and killed six generals. When he passed the Luoyang pass, he was shot in the arm by an arrow. During the battle in Changsha, if Huang Zhong had not had the intention to let him go, he would probably have died from Huang Zhong's arrow at that time. He was nearly sixty years old.
During the battle with Pound, his left arm was injured by his arrow; while attacking Fancheng, he was shot in the right arm by a poisonous arrow, etc. There were really many injuries.
In contrast, Zhao Yun, who is also one of the Five Tiger Generals, has never been hit by an arrow. Changbanpo was heavily surrounded, and he went in and out seven times to save Adou from being injured by arrows. It was even more thrilling to cut the river to save Adou, and he braved the rain of arrows.
He rowed a small boat to catch up with the enemy's large ship, then jumped into the enemy ship and subdued the enemy without hurting a hair on his own.
"Tell the soldiers! Throw away all the unnecessary armor and all the unnecessary things, save only one weapon!" Xue Rengui simply calculated the distance, gritted his teeth and ordered.
The Black Cavalry cannot match the Snow Wolf Guard in terms of speed. It is not because the personal qualities of the soldiers are inferior to the opponent, nor is it because the soldiers' riding skills are inferior to the opponent. It is because the types and emphasis of the cavalry are different.
The black cavalry is not a heavy cavalry, but it is a cavalry that is best at charging forward. Even if it is not a heavy cavalry, the protection of the armor must not be low, and the weight of the armor must naturally be maintained at a certain level.
As for the Snow Wolf Guards, as a light cavalry among light cavalry, their armor is also completely light armor.
Even if other places are not considered, this gap alone has already caused the final difference in speed between the two sides.
Before that, in order to speed up the march, Xue Rengui had ordered his soldiers to give up their crossbows, even those armor-piercing crossbows. After all, in the battle here, the arrows in their hands had long been
It has been used up, and the bows and crossbows are useless.
Now, in order to speed up the march, Xue Rengui has made plans to abandon armor. In fact, not only abandoning armor, except for a weapon, all other useless things need to be thrown away!
Facing mounted archers, if they lose their armor protection, their casualty rate will definitely rise sharply. Taking the initiative to abandon armor is no different from seeking death.
However, the situations faced are different, and even if the methods are the same, the final results will definitely be different.
Thirty miles later, and another thirty miles later, they had arrived at the seaside, at the place agreed with Wang Yu and the others. As long as they got on the boat, they would be safe.
Therefore, this last thirty-mile distance is also the last pursuit that Xue Rengui and the others will face. As long as they can survive this distance, they will be qualified to continue living.
If they don't take the initiative to speed up now, with the Snow Wolf Guards constantly pestering them, it will be difficult for them to survive the last thirty miles with the few people they have left.
But if they gave up their armor and tried their best to speed up, they might gain a chance of survival.
The biggest reason for the speed gap between the Black Cavalry and the Snow Wolf Guards is the weight of their equipment. Now, the equipment load on the Black Cavalry soldiers has been reduced to a peak, and the speed of the Black Cavalry soldiers has greatly increased.
, a considerable distance opened up in an instant.
"Keep shooting! Hurry! Keep shooting!" Xue Dongyang watched helplessly as the black knights continued to throw away supplies and armor on their horses. He was shocked but also overjoyed.
Even though the opponent's speed has greatly increased, they are still not out of their shooting range. And the opponent no longer has the protection of armor at this time, which is the time for them to seize the time to increase the damage.
"Go forward with all your strength, ignore them! Go forward with one heart!" Xue Rengui shouted decisively.
The armor has been abandoned and it is a foregone conclusion. At this time, they can only use their strength to cover their heads and rush forward. If they can rush out, they will succeed. If they fall under the opponent's arrow in the process, then
I can only blame them for their bad fate.
When a desperate situation like this is needed, the biggest taboo is not to hesitate at all. Any more hesitation means more possibility of death. On the contrary, only by ignoring it like now and just rushing forward with your head covered can you survive.