The Gulang grassland was flat and it was broad daylight. The sun was shining brightly and the view was extremely wide. As the two teams approached, they were still five or six kilometers away. When they saw that Yan Liqiang's army of less than 30,000 dared to split up in the face of the attack of his own army of 40,000, the leader of the Shatu people, a Shatu man with sunken eyes, a hooked nose and a big beard, suddenly became excited. The fatigue and hunger from the hundreds of miles of long-distance raid seemed to disappear at this moment. The Shatu general raised his knife without thinking and shouted loudly to the Shatu people around him, "Those Han dogs are looking for death. We don't need to pay attention to the troops on both sides. First, break through the Han army in front, and then deal with the Han people on both sides..."
The 40,000 cavalrymen of the Shatu people came from various tribes of the seven Shatu tribes. The general leading the troops at this moment was a general from the Wumu tribe among the seven Shatu tribes, named Shawuge. The Wumu tribe was the first to surrender to the Black Jie people and was highly valued by the Black Jie people. At this moment, it had already replaced the Uli tribe among the seven Shatu tribes and became the leading tribe among the seven Shatu tribes. This time, the coalition forces of the seven Shatu tribes were led by the people of the Wumu tribe.
The other generals of the seven Shatu tribes who were accompanying them did not question Shawuge's decision, because they also saw that among the flags of the team that was rushing directly towards them, there was one that was the flag of Inspector Qi Yun. On that flag, a word "Yan" was flying in the sky, which meant that Inspector Qi Yun Yan Liqiang was in the team rushing towards them.
Ever since Yan Liqiang issued the order to kill the Hu people, Yan Liqiang had long been the number one enemy of the Seven Shatu Tribes. In the past few months, countless people from the Seven Shatu Tribes died under the order. Almost every person from the Seven Shatu Tribes wanted to eat Yan Liqiang alive. When they saw Yan Liqiang's flag appear, how could these Shatu people bear it? Their eyes were red, and they waved their scimitars in their hands, rode their horses, and rushed towards the army where Yan Liqiang was without regard for their lives.
"Capture Yan Liqiang alive, reward of ten thousand taels, ten thousand cattle and horses..." Shawuge shouted, and the surrounding Shatu people went crazy all of a sudden, as if they were given an injection of chicken blood, with ghosts howling and wolves howling. The Shatu cavalrymen rode on their rhinoceros horses and danced with their scimitars in the sun.
"Capture Yan Liqiang alive..."
"Capture Yan Liqiang alive..."
"Kill those Han dogs and let them know how powerful we are..."
Amid the roar of horseshoes, the 40,000-strong Shatu army rushed towards the archers led by Yan Liqiang like crazy, and the distance between the two sides was closing rapidly.
Compared with the arrogant clamor of the Bishatu people, the more than 12,000 horse archers led by Yan Liqiang were silent as iron. In the team of more than 10,000 people, only the roar of the iron hooves of the rhinoceros horses stepping on the ground was rumbling. The rigorous training over the past two years and repeated battles have already made the fighting instinct integrated into the blood of all the horse archers. It is like a nerve reflex. No one needs to say anything. As long as the distance is reached, everyone's reflex nerves will be automatically activated, and everyone knows what to do and when.
When the distance between the two sides was 5,000 meters, all the archers had already taken up their bows...
When they were three thousand meters away, all the archers had already drawn the first arrow from the quivers hanging on their saddles...
At a distance of two thousand meters, the arrow was placed on the bowstring...
At a distance of 1,500 meters, everyone's hands had left the reins and they were controlling the horses with their legs only, beginning to adapt to the bumpy rhythm of the rhino horses' running.
When they were one thousand meters away, everyone started to draw their bows, and then they couldn't help but glance at the flying flags in the team. The angle and strength of the flags' fluttering silently told the wind direction and speed on the battlefield. The wind direction and speed on the battlefield would affect the effect of the arrows after they were thrown. So in the first round of throwing, the archers' elevation and deflection angles must be changed accordingly according to the wind speed. These things are valuable experiences summed up after repeated battles and training. …
In the blink of an eye, more than 12,000 pulley bows were fully drawn, facing the charging Shatu cavalry, with a 45-degree elevation angle, and then tilted five degrees to the west...
At this time, many people in the Shatu people had already seen the horse archers in Yan Liqiang's team, and many of them were still laughing in their hearts. Those Han dogs didn't even know how to use horse archers. How could they put horse archers at the front of the team to charge? Horse archers should be placed in the middle of the team. Putting a few horse archers at the front of the team, are they trying to scare people...
The distance between the two sides was within 800 meters in the blink of an eye. The archers at the front could even clearly see the ferocious expressions on the faces of the Shatu cavalry.
"Let go..." a loud roar echoed throughout the team.
From a distance, there seemed to be a flash of black clouds above the Dragon Tooth Army's archers. Shawug, who was charging with 40,000 Shatu cavalry, was slightly stunned, thinking, what is that? Shawug had already seen the archers in the front drawing their bows, but what he could never have imagined was that the archers rushing towards him were not just those in the front of the team, but all of them...
The war horses continued to charge forward, but in just two breaths, before Shawugu and the 40,000 Shatu cavalrymen he led could react, 12,500 arrows swooped down from the sky. The sharp arrowheads, carrying huge momentum and the breath of death, instantly landed among the 40,000 Shatu troops charging forward.
The 40,000 charging Shatu cavalry were like a surging wave crashing into an invisible iron wall. Amidst countless splashing blood-red waves, the surging wave of 40,000 Shatu cavalry came to an abrupt stop.
The 40,000 Shatu cavalry had no idea that their opponents would have so many arrows, so when they charged, their formation was still as dense as ever. However, this dense formation was just a huge moving target for the Longya Army's archers.
The power of the more than 12,000 arrows fired by the archers in the first round could only be described as terrifying in this situation. In just a moment, the number of people and horses directly hit by the arrows was close to 4,000. The Shatu cavalry that were not hit would inevitably bump into the people and horses in front of them during the rapid charge. Amid screams, the 40,000 Shatu army was thrown to the ground...
Watching the cavalrymen who were charging forward beside him fall down in a flash, listening to the sudden screams and the chaotic formation, the leader Shaug felt his mind go blank and everything in front of him was so unreal—they were still a mile and a half away from the Han people, and the archers in his team hadn't had time to shoot yet, so why were the Han people able to shoot? And with such a long range, this was simply impossible! The dense rain of arrows that fell from the sky, more than ten thousand at a time, was more like an illusion. Could it be that all the archers in Ganzhou were in the Han team in front of him
The vast grassland will not give an answer to these Shatu people who are in shock and pain, but the archers of the Dragon Tooth Army will!
After the first round of shooting was completed, the archers riding on the rhinoceros horses continued to charge forward, pulling out the second arrow quickly and accurately like a machine, and putting it on the bow. The binary pulley bow with a high labor-saving ratio was instantly pulled to the full again. Within three standard breaths, 12,500 bows were opened again, and the elevation angle dropped by five degrees. With a humming sound and a flash of black clouds, the second round of arrows was shot out, and in the blink of an eye, they fell into the chaotic Shatu team again.
The sound of countless arrows piercing flesh rang out, and countless flowers of blood bloomed again. There were ghost cries and wolves howling again in the Shatu army, and the team that was still charging forward seemed to be plowed through in an instant.
Shawug drew out his scimitar and knocked away two arrows, but the rhino horse under his crotch had no ability to resist arrows. The third arrow directly pierced the neck of the rhino horse under his crotch. The rhino horse screamed and fell to the ground, throwing Shawug on the horse heavily...
"Those Han people are devils, devils..." In the team of Shatu people who had just clamored to capture Yan Liqiang alive, some people were already shouting in fear in the breath of death brought by the terror and blood. Those ordinary Shatu cavalrymen simply could not understand why so many deadly arrows fell on them from the sky. This was completely beyond their understanding of war and bows and arrows.
Seeing countless people around them falling down in the blink of an eye, many Shatu cavalrymen in the team had already turned their horses around, screaming and trying to flee the battlefield.
Shaug, who had just stood up after falling down and getting dizzy, saw someone trying to escape. His eyes turned red. He chopped down a cavalryman who turned his horse around with his sword, and then jumped onto the horse, holding up his sword and shouting, "Don't run away, keep charging..."
Just as he finished shouting, the third round of arrows fell again, and thousands of Shatu cavalry were shot and fell screaming. The last courage of the 40,000 Shatu cavalry was completely crushed by the third round of arrows, and the whole team was in chaos. The cavalry of the seven Shatu tribes that gathered temporarily, and the cavalry of the Uli tribe that was at the front of the team, screamed and turned around to flee. Seeing the people of the Uli tribe running away, the remaining cavalry also scattered and fled.
Before Shawugu could say anything, Shi Changfeng shot an arrow at him from a distance. The arrow went straight through his chest and knocked him off his horse.
The Shatu people began to flee in the chaos, but the fourth round of arrows fell as expected, and countless Shatu people screamed and fell down...
As the distance got closer, the elevation angle became smaller, and the accuracy of the archers' volleys also increased. The threat posed by the more than 12,000 pulley bows increased instead of decreased.
"Hahaha, I said these Shatu dogs wouldn't last until the fifth round..." Shi Dafeng laughed loudly, looking at the retreating Shatu people in the distance, "Brothers, don't let any of them go..."
(End of this chapter)