Because they were all riding on rhino-dragon horses, the teams of both sides were approaching each other rapidly. The strange thing was that at this time, no one on either side spoke. Yan Liqiang continued to charge forward with Sun Bingchen's team, while those cavalrymen dressed in black with their faces covered rushed towards them head-on. The two sides were like two express trains driving head-on on the same lane, approaching each other rapidly. Only the roar of the rhino-dragon horses' hooves rang in their ears.
To be honest, this was Yan Liqiang's first time participating in such a battle. Facing the two hundred or so Black Wind Bandits rushing towards him, although this was not a battlefield, it was no different from a real battlefield.
While running quickly, Yan Liqiang also glanced at the people around him.
Liang Yijie's face was as hard as steel, his lips were tightly pursed, and his two hands had already taken out the longbow hanging on his saddle...
Sun Bingchen narrowed his eyes, a cold light flashing in his eyes, looking at the Black Wind Bandits rushing over. There was no fear on his face, and the lines on his face were as sharp as knives...
Compared to these two people, the expressions of the guards around them were much more complicated. Yan Liqiang saw that some of them turned pale, while others looked nervous, and their hands that were holding the reins turned white because they were holding them too tightly.
But Yan Liqiang didn't feel nervous at all. At that moment, he only felt his blood boiling. The adrenaline in his body reached its peak at this moment, and his body actually felt a trembling and sinful pleasure as if a climax was about to come.
For a moment, what flashed through Yan Liqiang's mind was not the scene in front of him, but the scenes of blockbuster movies such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that he had watched in his previous life.
Like a flood of cavalrymen, the land was flooded...
The brilliant blade lights were in perfect unison, like bright lightning cutting through the thick clouds...
War horses neigh, iron spears are like dragons...
The iron hooves roar on the earth, and also roar in the chests of men...
Hot blood flows in the veins of men, and also in the rushing mountains and rivers...
It turned out that this kind of life and this kind of collision were what he really expected in his heart after living two lifetimes. Yan Liqiang suddenly had an epiphany, and then an indescribable emotion in his heart. He suddenly understood why God gave him another chance to be reborn and brought him into this world. Because, his life was like a dormant flint. Only on such a battlefield, in the most intense collision, could he experience the splendor and meaning of life. Only in this world could the hottest passion hidden deep in his soul bloom to its fullest!
Live like a summer flower!
In the setting sun, the Black Wind Bandits who were rushing towards Yan Liqiang and his men had already drawn their sharp swords, and many of them had taken out the bows and arrows on their backs.
In the northwest at the end of January, there was still a hint of winter chill in the air, especially when riding on a rhino horse, and after the rhino horse started to run quickly, the cold wind cut his face, but it was in this cold wind that cut his face that Yan Liqiang saw his summer...
Yan Liqiang, who was riding on the rhinoceros dragon horse, shouted loudly, and the horn python bow was in his hand. Then he squeezed his legs together, and the dark cloud covering snow under his crotch seemed to suddenly understand his intention. It let out a long cry, galloped forward, and instantly passed the first few people in front of Sun Bingchen's team and ran to the front of the team.
Take the lead and stand out!
"Li Qiang, be careful..." Liang Yiji shouted from behind, thinking that Yan Liqiang didn't know the danger of doing this.
As soon as Liang Yiji finished speaking, Yan Liqiang's first arrow was already on the bowstring. The five-stone-strength Horned Python Bow was instantly pulled into a full moon shape by Yan Liqiang on horseback. The bow and the man, the man and the horse, worked together, and the arrow was shot out...
The five-stone bow was definitely the most powerful bow in the hands of both sides at that time. On Yan Liqiang's side, even the bow used by Liang Yijie was only a four-stone bow.
The "strong" in "strong bow" fully demonstrated its terrifying power at this moment.
When Yan Liqiang shot the first arrow, the distance between the two sides was still more than a thousand meters. This distance was enough to make all the strong bows below five stones pale in comparison. However, the arrow shot from the strong bow in Yan Liqiang's hand was like lightning and accurately hit the rhino dragon horse under the crotch of the front man in the group of Black Wind Bandits rushing towards them. The entire arrow instantly penetrated into the body of the rhino dragon horse from under its neck.
Shoot the horse first when shooting a person!
The rhino horse let out a mournful cry, and its powerful double kicks softened, and the horseman on its back fell to the ground instantly. The horseman fell to the ground with it, and the horseman fell to the ground like a person sitting in an ejection seat at a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour. His bones and tendons were broken instantly, and while rolling, the horseman's head hit a stone on the ground, and his whole head instantly exploded, with brains and blood splattering everywhere.
As the rhino horse fell to the ground, several rhino horses and the Black Wind Bandits on the horses that were charging at the back collided with the fallen rhino horse. The ones behind were unable to dodge and were immediately hit by the ones in front. For a moment, there were falls, tumbles, fractures, collisions, horses neighing, and people shouting, just like a tragic traffic accident on the highway. Several Black Wind Bandits who were thrown off the rhino horses were knocked away by the rhino horses that were following closely behind before they could react. Then a piece of iron hoof stepped on their bodies and they never stood up again...
Just from Yan Liqiang's first arrow, at least eight of the Black Wind Bandits who were rushing towards them were killed.
What Yan Liqiang didn't know was that after he shot the arrow, the group of Black Wind Bandits had actually started to panic, because their leader, who had just rushed to the front, was the first one to be hit by an arrow on the Rhino Dragon Horse under his crotch, and the first one to fall down.
Just when the Black Wind Bandits had not yet reacted, just one second later, Yan Liqiang's second arrow arrived. The Rhino Horse under the crotch of the Black Wind Bandit in the front suddenly felt one of its hooves soften while running, and it knelt down all of a sudden. While throwing the Black Wind Bandit off, it inevitably collided with the three Rhino Horses that were rushing from the back.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Liqiang's third arrow came, and another rhinoceros horse fell down, followed by the one behind it.
After just three arrows, more than ten people were missing from the Black Wind Bandits' team.
The Black Wind Bandits who were rushing towards Yan Liqiang and his men finally reacted at this time. They let out a whistle, and their originally tight formation suddenly dispersed.
But Yan Liqiang's arrows did not stop. Just as the group of Black Wind Bandits dispersed, Yan Liqiang's fourth arrow came again. The Black Wind Bandit who was rushing in the front was pierced through the chest by an arrow and fell off his horse...
Someone among the Black Wind Bandits couldn't help but shoot an arrow at Yan Liqiang, but because the force was not enough, the arrow flew three or four hundred meters and fell softly to the ground. At this time, the distance between the two sides was still nearly seven hundred meters.
Yan Liqiang did not stop for a moment. He kept drawing his bow and shooting arrows while riding on his horse. All his movements were as smooth as flowing water, and he basically maintained a speed of shooting two arrows every three seconds, continuously pouring his arrows at the Black Wind Bandits who were rushing towards him.
Basically, the arrows shot by Yan Liqiang never missed their targets. As long as the bowstring shook, one of the Black Wind Bandits in black would be hit in the vitals and fall off his horse.
On the way here, Yan Liqiang wanted to hide his strength, but now, in this life-and-death situation, with his blood boiling, Yan Liqiang didn't care about so much. At this time, if you don't kill people, they will kill you. If you hide your strength and are stingy with pulling the bowstring, the surviving Black Wind Bandit may cost your companion his life. Between a little consideration of power and the lives of many companions around him, Yan Liqiang chose the latter without hesitation, trying his best to reduce the loss of his people. As for his exposed archery skills, after this moment, he can find a reason to explain it, believe it or not...
The key point is that Yan Liqiang did not expect that he would encounter such a situation just after leaving Ganzhou. This is because plans cannot change quickly enough.
However, seeing that he could kill an enemy with just a flick of the bowstring, the pleasure of being able to sweep through thousands of troops and crush the enemy's courage with a bow in hand, stimulated Yan Liqiang so much that his blood boiled and he wanted to roar to the sky.
Yan Liqiang had used up the arrows hung on his saddle, and the distance between the two sides had shortened to about 500 meters. However, the number of the Black Wind Bandits had been reduced by one-fifth, and they seemed much sparser. After sacrificing so many people, the Black Wind Bandits didn't even touch a hair of Yan Liqiang's side. They had lost their previous momentum, and many of them were already discouraged. However, the Black Wind Bandits continued to rush towards Yan Liqiang because they knew that if they turned around and ran away, the fate that awaited them would definitely be more terrifying than death.
Only at this moment did Yan Liqiang truly understand why the skill of archery was so highly regarded in the Han Empire army, and was called the best combat skill among military commanders, even above martial arts. Apart from archery, where else could other combat skills and martial arts kill people at such a long distance, as easily as taking something out of a bag, and equate the value of a life with the simple action of pulling a bowstring
Yan Liqiang even had a feeling that as long as he was given enough arrows and the rhino dragon horse under his crotch could maintain a speed and endurance that was one level higher than that of an ordinary rhino dragon horse, he could even kill all of these Black Wind Bandits by himself without giving them a chance to get close to him.
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ps: I recommend the masterpiece by my good friend Taxue Zhenren, which has more than 3 million words and is full of passionate hotlines!
There are only two kinds of enemies of mine, the one who is kneeling and the one who is lying down.
My name is Gao Zhengyang, the most domineering and willful person in this wild world.
—"Chronicles of the Overlord"
(End of this chapter)