Chapter 192

This time, however, it was Zhang jaw first. Liu Ye's rear hall just caught the heavy loss of Jiangdong soldiers in the middle.

After Liu Ye's death, they are not satisfied with the sound of Liu Ye's soldiers chasing after Liu Bojian.

Although the number of Hu cavalry is almost four times as many as his own army, Liu Ye is not at all alarmed. Instead, he looks calm, as if he has a plan in mind.

After a few miles of galloping, we can see that on the open field ahead, an army of nearly 5000 soldiers stands on the field, and the general flag is very visible.

Sun Jian can't help being stunned when he sees the scene in front of him: is this what Liu Ye relies on? To go to 5000 infantry to resist 20000 cavalry?

Yu Jin, who is in the array of soldiers, sees Liu Ye's troops galloping from afar. Hu Qi follows him closely and orders immediately.

"The Bowman draws the bow and sets the string!"

"Get ready to pull the crossbow."

Of the 5000 troops, 2000 were soldiers of Tianshui County, and the remaining 3000 were from Zhou Shen's army, all of whom were archers. In addition, Yu Jin also specially recruited nearly 1000 pouting crossbows from Zhou Shen's army.

Now all these 5000 people are archers.

In the front row, the bowmen are half kneeling, the rear ones are standing upright, and the third row are raising their arms slightly.

Thousands of Han Army bowmen sat on the ground, their feet stepped on the huge pout crossbow, and both hands grasped the bowstring with both hands. Then the whole body suddenly fell to the ground, and the two fingers of arrow were slowly wound up. There was no doubt that even if the arrow did not hit the key point, it could kill people.

Below, as the hooligan was approaching, he stood on the road.

"The enemy has reached 150 paces!"

"Shoot!"

With Yu Ban's command, the Han archers with tight arms immediately gave up. A dense rain of arrows suddenly covered the sky, covering thousands of horsemen in front of them.

In the Hu riding array, people screamed and fell to the ground from time to time, especially the crossbow arrows launched by nearly a thousand pouting crossbows, which were two fingers thick and thin enough, and were surprisingly powerful.

Why could the Qin army drive out the Huns from Hetao plain? We should know that the cavalry force of the Qin army is far less than that of the Xiongnu. Among the seven heroes of the Warring States period, the cavalry force of the state of Zhao is the most. Since then, the cavalry of the state of Zhao has remained high.

However, neither the state of Zhao in Hufu or the Huns on horseback were rivals of the Qin army. The main reason was the crossbow.

Qin army and the enemy base, first with intensive crossbow cover type attack, and then step out.

In fact, it is very simple, crude and effective. In fact, it is the same as the Japanese invasion of China, artillery bombardment and infantry attack.

Two fingers of crossbow arrow whistling down, fiercely penetrated the chest of a horseman. The powerful force pushed the crossbow arrow forward. After penetrating the chest, it was shot into the neck of a horse. The powerful force directly shot the horse to the ground and convulsed.

The horse in the front row was shot to the ground, and was immediately trampled into flesh and mud by the iron horse rushing up from behind. However, the horse in front of him and his comrades were all stumbling blocks. Many horsemen were directly tripped over by fallen horses and corpses, and fell to the ground.

"Wind up!"

The first few rows of archers had just launched the arrows on the string, and immediately withdrew to the rear, while the rear rows of archers immediately made up for them, and the ready arrows in their hands rushed out.

Five thousand archers shoot in batches under the command of the ban. They leave immediately after a row of shots and never entangle themselves. The archers who have already stretched their bows and tied the strings in the rear are immediately filled up.

In such a cycle, crossbows and arrows were launched in a continuous stream, and the firepower was endless. In a short distance of 150 steps, Hu Qi had been killed and injured as much as 34000, and the bodies of the horses were piled up on the road, making it difficult to move.

"The front row knife shield hand prepares, the Spearman prepares, continues to shoot."

The Han troops in the first row were armed with large shields and listed a wall of shields. Spearmen were ready for battle, while the bowmen behind them were constantly sending out arrows.

But unexpectedly, after leaving more than 3000 corpses, Hu Qi retreated without fighting and fled directly.

In fact, although there are many Huqi rebels, the science and technology tree of the Han Dynasty is far more than that of the Hu people. Sometimes, it is not surprising that Geng Gong, as mentioned above, had only a few hundred Han troops around when he faced the Huns in the western regions, but he persisted for a whole year under the siege of tens of thousands of Huns.

Pouting crossbow, rhubarb crossbow, iron armor These are the crystallization of the ancient Central Plains Civilization. If it had not been for the chaos of the Three Kingdoms, it would have been impossible for the Hu people to herd the Central Plains.

Yu ban ordered the soldiers to harvest the spoils, pull out crossbows and arrows for reuse, and bring back intact horses.

Sun Jian was relieved and jumped off his horse to solemnly thank Liu Ye."Liu Jun Shou, I can't repay you for saving my life. Please accept my worship!"

Sun Jian prostrates Liu Ye to the ground, but his arms are firmly held by Liu Ye.

"Wentai doesn't have to be like this. You and I are both officials of the Han Dynasty. It is our duty to send troops to rescue you."

Liu Ye smiles. This fierce tiger in the east of the Yangtze River is worthy of its reputation. With more than 1000 troops to resist the siege of tens of thousands of horsemen, it can be regarded as a rare fierce general.

"Let's go. Zhou Dangkou is still waiting for us."

Liu Ye gets on the horse, takes Sun Jian, Zhang jaw and Yu ban, and returns to Zhou Shen's place.

During the first World War in Yuzhong, Zhou Shenjun was blocked by Han Sui's garrison at Kuiyuan gorge, and the Han Army's combat effectiveness was greatly reduced due to lack of food. Zhou Shen did not listen to Sun Jian's policy and advocated to retreat.

Beigong Boyu, who had recovered from Yuzhong City, sent troops in a large scale, and defeated Zhou Shenjun in the first battle. However, Liu Ye, the governor of Tianshui, led his troops to help him in time, so he did not become a great defeat.

Liu Ye leads the army to pull back the storm, attacks Li Wenhou and sends troops to save Sun Jian. Hu Qi followed closely, and was repulsed by Yu Jin with a crossbow array.

During the war, about 8000 people were killed and wounded by Hu Qi, while the Han army was greatly reduced due to lack of food. More than 7000 people were killed, more than 3000 were seriously injured, and more than 2000 people fled. Zhou Shen's 30000 army suffered nearly half of the casualties, and was almost completely disabled.

Liu Ye's headquarters, however, injured hundreds of people each, and the organizational system was still more than 6500, basically without any damage to its combat effectiveness.

Soon after, Dong Zhuo, the general of the broken prisoners, was in trouble.