I was so scared, I was really scared!
Yan Liqiang used the power of his spear to kill the Shatu general from 500 meters away, which immediately frightened the Shatu cavalrymen who were rushing over. The rhinoceros horses near the Shatu general seemed to be startled by the loud noise caused by the iron spear thrown at them. They stood up while charging forward, causing many Shatu cavalrymen to fall off their horses, causing considerable chaos.
More than 500 meters away!
An iron spear more than two meters long was thrown over like this!
He killed the leader on his side in one fell swoop!
Is that human being
How could I possibly be a match for such a person
In just a moment, this thought flashed through the heads of many Shatu cavalrymen. They were trembling with fear, and their legs went limp with fear. The little bit of morale that they had just forced themselves to charge forward was shattered by the spear thrown by Yan Liqiang before the two sides officially started fighting.
But at this time, both sides were riding on rhinoceros horses and approaching each other quickly. The large groups of people and horses were about to collide with each other in the blink of an eye. Even if the Shatu cavalry were terrified, they had no time to think at this time. They could only bite the bullet and continue to rush forward with strange cries.
In contrast to the Shatu cavalry, all the people in the team led by Yan Liqiang, when they saw that Yan Liqiang's terrifying spear strike at this distance caused such a heavy blow to the Shatu people, they all felt like they had taken stimulants. They suddenly became courageous and their whole bodies were filled with strength. They roared and charged towards the Shatu people.
"Brothers, kill those Shatu dogs!" Wang Naiwu shouted in the team. While shouting, he whipped his horse and gradually rushed to the front line.
In just a blink of an eye, the distance between the cavalry of both sides was within two hundred meters. The archers in the two teams were already shooting at each other. There were about seventy to eighty archers in the Shatu team, and there were also about seventy to eighty archers in the Tieyunshan team. Compared with the troops on both sides, the proportion of archers on the Tieyunshan side was even higher.
The archers on both teams fought in exactly the same way. They would shoot at each other before getting close, and then draw their swords and weapons for close combat after getting close enough.
Yan Liqiang drew out the long sword he was carrying and shot down two arrows that were shot at him. Soldiers and horses from both sides were hit by arrows and fell down. In comparison, the cavalry from the Shatu people were hit more often, because the cavalry from Tieyun Mountain were equipped with small shields. When they saw the enemy's arrows coming, many cavalry from Baishi Pass had raised the small shields in their hands to protect their vital parts such as their heads, faces and chests, and the damage was relatively small. The cavalry from the Shatu people were not equipped with small shields.
The archers in the cavalry teams of both sides had just fired the first wave of sparse shots, and before the Shatu cavalry could react, a swarm of arrows like locusts, buzzing, cut through the sky, and the dense arrows fell almost at the same time on the Shatu cavalry teams that were rushing towards this side.
The five hundred guards brought by Yan Liqiang took action. In the first volley, almost 500 arrows flew at the same time. In an instant, the front of the Shatu cavalry team that was charging forward was thrown to the ground, with dust flying and ghosts howling. Almost at the same time, more than two hundred Shatu people fell off their horses, and the rhino horses that were charging forward suddenly fell to the ground, and then tripped the rhino horses behind them.
In the fast-charging cavalry team, more than 200 soldiers fell down in the front at once. This was a disaster for the people behind. Just now, some Shatu cavalry and their mounts were shot by arrows and fell to the ground, and then immediately collided with the rhinoceros horses of the charging cavalry. The momentum of the Shatu cavalry team suddenly slowed down.
In this era, there were no organized archers, nor mature tactics for them. The Shatu cavalrymen who rushed over would never have imagined that there were so many cavalrymen with bows and arrows in Yan Liqiang's team. Among the cavalrymen of Baishi Pass, the cavalrymen with bows would scatter and kill the enemy when they were close to each other. This was also the routine of the archers among the Shatu cavalrymen. When Yan Liqiang's guards shot arrows in formal battles, they basically fired volleys in a rhythmic and regular manner. Even if there were the same 500 people, the lethality brought by volleys and scattering was completely different. This was not a problem of accuracy, but a problem of mathematical probability.
The Shatu cavalry was stunned by the gunfire, but before they could react, the second wave of volleys hit their team again. A large number of Shatu cavalrymen fell down again. By the time the cavalrymen of both sides officially engaged in close combat, the guards led by Yan Liqiang had already completed three rounds of volleys. Before the Shatu cavalrymen who rushed over officially fought with the Baishiguan cavalrymen, they had already lost about 400 to 500 people. The original 1,700 or 1,800 cavalrymen were reduced by a quarter...
The 500 horse archers controlled their horses with their feet and did not collide with the Shatu cavalry. Instead, they went around the edge of the Shatu cavalry and drew an arc on the grassland, like a group of wild wolves, circling around their prey and spying on them.
“Kill…” Yan Liqiang roared, and the long sword in his hand turned into a shocking rainbow. With just a flash of sword light, the head of a Shatu cavalryman in front of him flew off and fell off the rhinoceros dragon horse. With another sword, he chopped off the long spear that a Shatu cavalryman stabbed at him, and then cut off the wrists of the Shatu cavalryman. The Shatu cavalryman screamed, blood spurted from his hands, and fell off the rhinoceros dragon horse. Then he was kicked in the chest by the hind hoof of Wuyun Gaixue. With the sound of broken bones, he flew ten meters away with blood spurting out of his mouth. The sword light flashed again, and the whole body of a Shatu cavalryman in front of him was directly cut off by Yan Liqiang’s sword. His internal organs flowed out and splashed on the back of the rhinoceros dragon horse...
Yan Liqiang was alone with his sword, as if he was in an empty space. As long as he moved his sword, a Shatu cavalryman would fall off his horse. In the blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang rushed into the Shatu cavalry team and killed more than 20 Shatu cavalrymen in succession.
Tie Yunshan and Wang Naiwu followed Yan Liqiang closely, guarding on both sides of Yan Liqiang, and each of them killed more than a dozen Shatu cavalrymen...
Seeing Yan Liqiang so brave, the morale of the cavalrymen at Baishi Pass was greatly boosted. They stabbed and chopped at the Shatu cavalrymen with their spears and swords. As the two cavalrymen crossed, they cut down the Shatu cavalrymen from their rhinoceros horses one by one...
(End of this chapter)