Yan Liqiang did not take action from beginning to end, because he was afraid that if he did, he would scare away the Shatu people on the opposite side. There was really no one among the Shatu people on the opposite side who was worthy of his action. Just being in the team was enough to scare him away. Everyone felt at ease and could let his men complete the entire battle step by step.
The first battle of the Dragon Tooth Army's horse archers went more smoothly than Yan Liqiang imagined. The 40,000 Shatu people who charged fiercely from the opposite side had just broken up and fled for their lives as soon as they got within one mile of the horse archers, that is, within 500 meters. No, all they left on the ground were corpses all over the ground.
Until this time, the twelve thousand horse archers had not suffered any casualties.
This result was expected by Yan Liqiang. It was not accidental, but inevitable. The military thought represented by the horse archers was unprecedented and ahead of the entire Silver Continent. Even after a thousand years, it also represented the development direction of the war. At the same time, The daily training of his horse archers and the powerful pulley bows they equip are also a thousand years ahead of the entire Silver Continent.
The military thinking is a generation ahead, the training level is a generation ahead, and the equipment is a generation ahead. Among the more than 12,000 sergeants, the ratio of the backbone sergeants at the samurai level is close to ten to one, far more than ten times the opponent. If this does not lead to a great victory, That's when there is a ghost.
Although this was a duel between cold weapons, the gap between the two armies was no less than that between the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Qing Army. Such a great victory was only expected.
For other bystanders, witnessing such a battle was a soul-cleansing shock.
Zhao Dachuan, who was in charge of outflanking the left and right, and other officers of the Ganzhou Army, as well as the two battalions of cavalry led by Gong Tieshan and Wang Naiwu, did not expect that the cavalry led by Yan Liqiang would be so terrifying, let alone the incoming sand cavalry. The Tuchu army would be so vulnerable. They originally thought that what was going to follow would be a hard battle, but the reality was so dramatic. Their troops had not yet fully entered the outflanking fighting position. The surviving Shatu people seemed to be panicking. Like the flock of sheep, they began to run away.
Gong Tieshan, who was on the left wing of the cavalry archers, looked away from the battlefield in the distance and was trembling all over. At this time, he was not allowed to think too much. He raised the spear in his hand and roared at the surrounding sergeants, " Brothers, don’t let those Shatu dogs get away. One head has ten acres of grassland. The time has come to seize the grassland. Fight with me..."
All the sergeants roared angrily and rushed towards the defeated Shatu people, fearing that they would not be able to grab their heads if they were too late.
Zhao Dachuan, who was on the right wing of the cavalry, also roared angrily, leading his troops and horses to quickly pursue the fleeing Shatu people.
And further away, the rangers and militiamen who had been following the Shatu army from afar and constantly harassing the Shatu army along the way were also paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. When they saw the Shatu people defeated and fled, those rangers The Rangers and the militia team immediately discovered the opportunity. Like sharks and wolves that smelled the smell of blood, they suddenly surrounded them from all directions and prepared to snatch their heads. This is exactly what these Rangers and the militia team followed Yan Li and forced them to do. The reason why the army came here together is that after such a big battle, those Shatu people who fled and were defeated were their long-awaited prey and targets.
The Shatu people who escaped came after a long journey. Although they had rested on the way, their horses were already a little tired and their leg strength was used up a lot. When they escaped, the slight difference in the leg strength of the two sides' mounts suddenly became apparent. The gap, at this time, has to be filled by those Shatu people with their lives.
The five battalions of cavalry led by Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng, Shi Dafeng and Yan Liqiang have been divided into four parts like fists. Yan Liqiang led two battalions of cavalry and pushed across the middle, while Shi Changfeng, Shen Teng and Shi Dafeng each led a battalion of horse archers to spread out on both sides and quickly caught up with the fleeing Shatu people. However, they did not rush forward. Instead, they kept their strongest pulley bows about two hundred meters away. Killing distance, constant shooting, the pursued Shatu people were like escaping rabbits. Every minute and every second, pieces of Shatu people screamed and were shot from their horses.
There are also archers among the Shatu people, but those archers are the worst at the moment, because according to the combat regulations of the cavalry, the enemy's archers are the first target of the cavalry when they approach. The enemy's archers have summarized two sets of mature combat plans. The first plan is to use all the archers in the cavalry with archery skills above the first level to accurately snipe and kill them from a long distance. The second plan is to use small teams and Small flags are used as units and priority is given to concentrated fire coverage.
Under such a blow, not only the archers among the Shatu people were eliminated immediately, but even the Shatu cavalry who were close to the archers also enjoyed the fire covered by countless arrows for the first time. The feeling is that an archer is often running away, and a large number of arrows are shot from behind, which instantly clears the ground within tens or hundreds of square meters around the archer.
The army of 40,000 Shatu people came as one force, but when they started to flee, they faintly divided into seven groups. The surviving people from each tribe gathered together and ran their own way, but they had not traveled more than ten miles. , those Shatu people who fled found that when they gathered together, the target was larger and it was easier to attract arrows from behind. Therefore, during the pursuit, all the Shatu people were slowly killed by the horse archers. They were so frightened that they could only run away and could no longer gather together.
"Blow the trumpet, all horse archers stop chasing!" Seeing this scene, Yan Liqiang gave the order decisively. The trumpeter who was following Yan Liqiang took out the brass bugle from his waist and started blowing it with a specific rhythm. The long sound of the bugle echoed on the Gulang grassland and spread far away. Upon hearing the sound of the bugle, all the chasing horse archers stopped and regrouped.
"Sir, we haven't finished killing those Shatu people yet..." Xiong Gungun, who served as the captain of Yan Liqiang's personal guard, put away the pulley bow in his hand and looked at the Shatu people fleeing in the distance with a puzzled look on his face. asked.
Yan Liqiang smiled and looked back from a distance, "If we kill them all, others won't get the credit. We don't want to eat alone. We eat meat ourselves and leave some soup for others to drink. This is the best." , Those Shatu people will never go back!”
Xiong Gungun smacked his lips and muttered, "Well, grandma, I haven't had enough yet. I only fired ten bows. Those Shatu people are too inexperienced!"
"It's not that the Shatu people don't fight, it's that we are too strong. Whoever replaces us will have the same result!" Yan Liqiang said calmly.
Xiong Gungun scratched his head, as if he was still a little embarrassed and unsure, "Well... are we strong, stronger than Fengyun Army?"
Yan Liqiang smiled and stopped talking. In the past few years, everyone has been training and training desperately. Everyone has endured countless hardships, shed countless sweats, and experienced many hardships. Everyone is used to it and has no feeling. There is something so special about the hardships and things they experienced in the past. And just now, although this group of young people have just experienced an unprecedented victory, many of them are also not very clear about this victory. What does the victory mean to them? They are still wondering if their praise of them is a bit exaggerated, and they are still looking up to Fengyun Army, a powerful army that is famous all over the world.
As an army, unknowingly, these energetic faces in front of them have grown to a point of strength that they themselves cannot believe. But they haven't realized it yet. They still think that they are ordinary students of the Kyudo Club, and they are actually quite cute. of.
The battle just now was seen by countless rangers and militiamen in the distance. Yan Liqiang believed that in a few days, the reputation of the Longya Army would shake the world with the outcome of this battle.
The battle on the grassland is still going on, but at this time, it may not be called a battle, but a hunting competition. The more than ten thousand to twenty thousand Shatu people who escaped from the battlefield are followed by Gong Tieshan and Zhao Dachuan. They were chasing them desperately, and there were rangers and militia groups surrounding them from all directions in front of them. Unless their rhinoceros horses could grow wings, it would be impossible for anyone to return to Xingxing Lake alive...
After today's battle, the power of the seven Shatu tribes on the Gulang grassland has been exhausted!
(End of chapter)