Chapter 105 Killing and Rushing to Dongying
The sentry whistle went away in response, and steered the horse to the army's camp. Although there is a shortage of war horses among the Yellow Turban Thieves, there are enough generals and sentries in the supply army.
Liu Ye saw the yellow scarf thieves poking the whistle and pulling the horse away from a distance, and secretly thought it was not good.
"Miaocai, is it possible to shoot the yellow scarf thief running away? He probably reported to the camp."
When Xia Houyuan heard Liu Ye's words, he looked into the distance. At this time, the seven hundred cavalry were still trapped in the formation of the Yellow Turban bandits, more than four hundred steps away.
"No, it's too far away, we have to get closer." Xia Houyuan shook his head slightly.
It's not that Xia Houyuan is not confident in his archery skills. The effective range of a normal step bow is 150 steps, and the maximum range is 250 to 300 steps, while the effective range of a cavalry hornbow is 50 steps. Between one hundred steps, the maximum range is two hundred steps.
An arrow can shoot four to five hundred steps, which must be the range of a crossbow, that is, a soldier shoots an arrow with both feet. As the saying goes, the arms cannot twist the thighs, which means that only the strength of the thighs can shoot four or five hundred steps and still have lethality, even for a sharpshooter like Xia Houyuan.
Liu Ye nodded, and tightly held the long spear in his hand with five fingers.
"A certain cavalry led the formation. If Miaocai felt that there was a chance, he would shoot the bow."
After all, Liu Ye no longer sat firmly in the central army, but rode to the front. Seeing this, Guan Hai, who was bloodied from the killing, obediently gave up the sharp front position to Liu Ye.
If Guan Hai is full of bravery, Liu Ye is unstoppable.
The Eight Great Spears were used in Liu Ye's hands, and a long spear was thrown from left and right, sweeping away thousands of troops. The long lance stabbed and killed, and swept out with one lance. Even if the five or six yellow turban thieves in front of them were swept away, the red cloak on the back was fluttering in the wind. Let alone challenge, the yellow turban thieves couldn't even get close.
As the saying goes, an inch is long and an inch is strong. Although Liu Ye's long lance is not as long as Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, which is more than four meters long, it forms a light curtain when it is rounded. Either he was stabbed and killed, or he was beaten to the ground vomiting blood by an unstoppable force.
At this time, Guan Hai felt tired from beheading more than ten people, while Liu Ye was full of energy as the vanguard, and the seven hundred cavalry still maintained an unstoppable momentum, fighting against the current from tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves.
"Keep up, don't fall behind!"
The 700 cavalry had just swept past, and the army formation of the Yellow Turban Thieves was thrown into disarray, and they hadn't assembled yet. Although the formation in the back row was not large, the dense formation was like an iron wall. come.
Yu Jin's face was serious, and he commanded five hundred infantry, followed closely behind seven hundred cavalry, who opened the way for the infantry, and the crowded army formation in front immediately became loose. But the yellow scarf thief who had just been hit by seven hundred iron cavalry before he could react, the ring-shoulders of the Licheng army fell heavily.
Why did the ancient army pay attention to fighting in formation? Because forming an formation can maximize the strength of the collective, and soldiers who do not form an formation are stragglers. Why do you pay attention to attacking halfway in the art of war? Isn't it just because a charge disrupts the opponent?
Although the number of yellow turban bandits was large, they were knocked into stragglers by the 700 cavalry who cleared the way, and the 500 infantry in a dense formation pressed heavily on them, as if a big iron ball was slowly rolling over, trying to block the enemy. Everything in front of him was crushed into powder.
The 1,200 elite soldiers of the Licheng Army rushed out suddenly, and immediately scattered the Yellow Turban bandits in the north, greatly reducing the pressure on defense. Cao Cao immediately dispatched men to other sides to strengthen the defense and strictly prevent the defense.
Although Bocai commanded 50,000 yellow turbans to besiege the official army, but the offense has always been more disadvantaged than the defense, and the Han army has a tight formation, tacit cooperation, and refined equipment, so it is like a stone, containing the offensive of the yellow turbans.
And Bocai was not in a hurry, anyway, his advantage was that he had a large number of people, not to mention two Yellow Turban thieves for the life of a Han army, even three for one, he would earn money, coldly commanding the Yellow Turban thieves under his command to besiege on all sides, At the same time, a supervisory team was arranged behind the formation, and when they saw the pawns running away, they would kill them without saying a word.
In today's battle, Bocai is bound to win. Although there are few officers and soldiers on the outskirts, they are always harassing on the outskirts, affecting the siege of the Changsha. Even if they pay some price, they will be eradicated today.
Although Cao Cao didn't have much experience, he was familiar with military books after all and had the appearance of a famous general, so he commanded calmly, but he was evenly matched.
And Liu Ye led seven hundred cavalry to charge all the way, and Yu Jin led five hundred infantry to cover up the attack, and finally broke out from the tens of thousands of yellow scarf thieves, screaming to the sky.
"The whole army obeys the order, kill and run to the enemy camp!"
The 700 iron cavalry who dashed out from the yellow turban bandits seemed to be reborn, without the stop of the yellow turban bandits, they galloped over the wilderness, as if they were fish entering the sea and regaining their freedom.
But Xia Houyuan patted his horse out, broke away from the army formation, and galloped out alone. Although the war horse under his crotch is not a famous Dawan horse, a bloody horse, it is also a good one out of a hundred, so the distance between him and the yellow scarf thief is getting closer and closer.
Sentinel also realized that there was someone chasing behind him, so he kept urging the horse, but the two of them got closer and closer, and gradually the distance between them narrowed to about 350 steps.
Xia Houyuan stretched out his ape arm lightly, picked up an arrow from the quiver with two fingers, put it lightly on the bowstring, took a breath, and pulled the bowstring into a full moon shape, stretched tightly, containing powerful kinetic energy.
I could see his body rising and falling with the horse's back, but his upper body was almost stable, as if a statue had been finalized, his two eyes almost shot out, staring at the scout's back.
collapse!
The arrow was sent out against the wind, and in an instant, it covered a distance of more than three hundred steps, and flew out with a whoosh.
"Ugh!"
The arrow was unbiased, and it just hit the scout's back. It was powerful. It passed through his chest from his back, and the arrow feathers went all the way to the end. An arrow pierced hard out of his chest. After piercing through two layers of leather armor, he was about to break out.
And this yellow turban thief was sent flying out by the huge force carried by the arrow, leaned forward from the horseback, and knocked his face on the ground, because of inertia, he was still moving forward. After rubbing it for a few feet, it was a veritable face brake.
But the ownerless war horse stopped after running for a while, turned around and screamed, and ran gently in front of the owner, lowered its huge head, pressed close to the owner's face, and arched his shoulders again, but its owner slightly Trembling, but can no longer stand up.
Xia Houyuan heaved a sigh of relief and galloped back to the formation.