Chapter 1571 Drumming
Since we set out in Longyou, the more we go to the west side of the Hexi Corridor, the more sparsely populated it is. It is even obvious that some villages and forts have been abandoned, leaving only some broken walls and semi-collapsed eaves, which vaguely proves that there was prosperity here for a period of time.
The clouds in the sky are extremely thick, as if they are directly overwhelming on the ground. Then just walk a little further and reach out to get it.
Of course, this is an illusion. In fact, the horizon is still the horizon, endless.
Lu Bu led a team of cavalry to move forward along the ancient road. The white smoke from the people lingered in his mouth and nose, and soon a lot of snowflakes accumulated and then formed ice.
On the deserted road, boredom and supplies are two ferocious beasts, peeking around unscrupulously, and then ready to pounce on them at any time.
The severe cold is not a big deal for the cavalrymen Lu Bu. With sweaters and original linoleum and fur, just be careful not to let the sweaters get wet with Han water or snow water. In fact, the problem is not very big, but the matter of replenishing supplies is still a big problem.
In other words, in an era of inconvenient transportation, supply is still one of the most important factors that restrict the army's expansion. Even if there are people in the enemy territory, how should we pass through the vast unmanned land? If there are grasslands, the model like Mongolia may be OK, but if there is not even grass, such as sea water, how can we break through?
Fortunately, Lu Bu didn't need to go too far this time. He brought about about ten days of food rations back and forth. It was almost the same.
This road was originally an official road for traveling, but unfortunately no one left now, so it was occupied by various animals and plants again. Now it has become narrower. If the plants grow wildly in spring and summer, some places may not be able to find a place to stay...
At the front was the ranger responsible for scouts. There were no shields, only bows and arrows. The sword was tilted behind his back. The arrows hung from his waist were already open for easy access. Under the leather felt hat, there were a pair of vigilant eyes, constantly searching for clues in front of him.
There are not many people in this part, but they are spread out very wide, like a comb, and they are pulled away for a long time.
In the middle, there are relatively dense main battle groups. These cavalry not only have combat knives, but also long spears wrapped in hemp ropes on the handle of the gun, and small shields on the side of the horse. They are sturdy in shape, forming relatively neat queues and slowly moving forward. If you look down from the air, it looks like a twisting gray-black rectangular patch.
At the end, most of the war horses are war horses, some carrying some water flap linoleums, but many of them are empty-loaded. These war horses are used for replacement. If you find that your war horse's physical strength has dropped too much, you will generally change it after a distance, wipe the war horses that consume too much sweating endurance, then wrap it with dry felt, and feed a few bites of fried beans, so that these war horses can temporarily follow behind and recover their physical strength.
The speed of the war horses galloped suddenly increased. The dense sound of horse hooves immediately turned into roars, and then it shook the entire battlefield like thunder.
It was like a sound of thunder, hitting heavily on the empty wilderness.
"Beat the drum! Arrive!"
The cavalry array of thousands of people suddenly changed from Lu Bu to the head of the geese, and the adult characters quickly began to change formations while running at high speed. The sharp geese formation was getting longer and longer and sharper. From a distance, it looked like a sharp sword shining with murderous aura. The cold light stimulated the eyes of everyone in the Lu Shui Xianbei, and even seized the sunlight in the sky. I felt that the next moment this sharpness would pierce the skin, flesh and blood, and pierce anything.
Prince Juqu Fei Yun seemed to be stabbed in advance by this sharp edge, with surprise, pain, regret and other colors on his face, mixed together. He originally thought it was just a small Han army, but a small team of reconnaissance team inadvertently discovered his nest. In order not to allow the Han people to escape back to report the news, and exposed the location of his nest, he rushed out with his men and horses, trying to encircle the Han army, but the result...
Run back?
Not to mention whether we can escape, how can we get anything in front of the Han soldiers alone? Should we leave the tribe behind again and then flee west?
Prince Juqu Fei Yun looked around and saw that the troops he brought out were two thousand-person teams. Although they were not completely full, they still had a certain advantage in number. If they saw the Han people, they would turn around and run away. No matter what, they would be a great morale blow to their tribe...
Prince Yu Yun pulled out his battle knife and shouted with all his strength: "The left wing moved closer to the central army, the right wing covered, the central army attacked, and advanced at full speed! Let the boy from the Ma family circulate the flank! Kill!" He kicked the horse's belly hard, and the war horse was hurt, and rushed out like an arrow. The surrounding guards immediately gathered together, forming a huge arrow, and rushed towards the middle formation of the Han army.
The cavalry on both sides are getting closer and closer!
Prince Juqu Fei Yun pulled the reins of the horse with one hand and waved the sword with the other hand, shouting in an unknown shout: "Hululu..."
Lu Shui Xianbei also shouted loudly at the same time. For a moment, the battlefield was filled with such strange shouts: "Hululu...Hululu..."
This method is like a ferocious beast in the arena or a wild beast in the forest, raising his head and howling. In addition to declaring sovereignty, it is also to enhance the momentum of oneself!
As both sides were racing on horseback at the same time, they quickly narrowed the distance between them.
Prince Yu, Juqu Fei, shouted: "At the arrow, the arrow..."
The Xianbei cavalry skillfully took the bow and arrow into their hands, then bent the bow and shot it out into the air, trying to disrupt the Han people's formation with one or two waves of arrow rain between contact.
"Swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish..."
Amid the sound of the bowstrings, arrows, either gray, black or yellow, flew into the air with different heights, and then quickly turned from the air and turned down, like a group of blood-sucking insects, or like a sparse black cloud, covering Lu Bu's forward.
"Raising the shield!"
Lu Bu shouted, and then Fang Tian Huaji hovered in the air and swept down a large area of arrows, not only covering himself, but also helping Red Rabbit Horse No. 2 and close guards dialed the arrows...
Although the expedition to the west has always emphasized equipment and has extremely high immunity to arrows in the backbone era, to be honest, in the war, it is not entirely dependent on equipment, but also a considerable part of luck. Therefore, after the arrow fell, some soldiers with luck fell to the bottom of the valley were shot into the face by arrows, or at some joints, and suddenly they were overturned by the subsequent horse hooves, leaving only a bloody and fuzzy mark...
The two sides are forty or fifty steps apart, and each other's appearance can be clearly seen when facing each other.
"Take the spear! Send!"
Seeing that both sides were about to run into each other, Jiang Jie shouted loudly while taking the short spear behind him and threw it forward!
“Buzz…buzz…”
Because of the cast iron gun head and short body, the short spear is some of the heavy front and light back, but because of this, it is particularly suitable for throwing, just like a large crossbow arrow. Although the range is much shorter than that of a bow and arrow, it is several times more powerful than a bow and arrow in close range!
The soldiers of the Lushui Xianbei fell down in an instant as if they were bitten by an invisible beast. One or two hundred Xianbei soldiers screamed, and accompanied by the tragedy of the war horses before their death, they were trampled on by the soldiers and Han soldiers who rushed up like falling wheat straw. In the yellow sand, they were trampled into a piece of bloody meat sauce by countless horse hooves, which was even bloody and terrifying than the slaughterhouse.
However, more soldiers didn't have time to have any special feedback on blood. The next moment, they were like crazy people who had lost their minds, and they were fighting each other. The shouts of killing came one after another and collided with each other.
The strong smell of blood cannot even blow the wind. The fierce battle between the two sides became the strongest sound in this world at this moment.
Lu Bu waved the Fang Tian Hua Ji, and didn't even look at the Xianbei swords and guns that were stabbing directly. He roared, and a few simple straight and swept across the edge, with a unique roar, just like a ferocious beast released from hell waving its sharp claws. Not only ordinary Xianbei soldiers, but also the heads of the Xianbei war horses rushing towards him were cut and chopped down by Lu Bu!
By the time he was lucky enough to have the Xianbei soldiers who had not yet died, accompanied by other Xianbei people and horses, they could not control their bodies flying in the air because of the death of the war horses. Before they could even land, the cavalry following Lu Bu shot through their chests and abdomen!
Under the leadership of Lu Bu and Jiang Jie, the Han cavalry moved forward and fought bravely to fight the enemy. Because they were unfolding a long geese formation, even if they failed to hit a single blow, they continued to gallop forward without hesitation, allowing other comrades to follow behind to deal with it. Go forward, only forward, the galloping horse was like a blade piercing into flesh and blood, moving forward with blood!
Lu Bu leaned over and chopped off an enemy soldier who was about to chop off his horse. Another small turn slammed off half of the enemy cavalry on the left, pulled it to the side, and cut off the neck of another Xianbei cavalry. The dead Xianbei people around him splashed out blood like layers of blood mist, immediately dyed Lu Bu's armor, dyed Lu Bu's robe, and dyed Lu Bu's red rabbit horse!
This ball of red, jumping, agile, with endless murderous intent, and a breathtaking magnificence, was like igniting an extremely bright red flame in the battlefield, attracting countless creatures and flesh, becoming the bones under his seat, and achieving the reputation of the God of War!
Lu Bu is in front and Jiang Jie is on the right. The two of them are the signs of the advance of the entire Han cavalry. The Yanxing Formation exerted its powerful impact and destructive power. The soldiers on the outside cut off the enemy cavalry, and the soldiers on the inside supplemented the casualties on the outside. They were actually orderly, like a huge hair twee. With the intertwined canine teeth, not only did they cut the hair, but also brought up a whole blood groove!
The Ma army, which was originally going to rush to attack the flanks of the Han army, couldn't help but slow down the horse speed after seeing this scene and hesitated a little...
"Who is this man?!" Ma Xiu stared at Lu Bu, who was like a bloody flame, with a look of horror in his eyes. Ma Xiu thought that his martial arts were also good, but if Lu Bu was in the battlefield like this, he would still be lightly scattered, but he would lift heavy weights and split the blood waves, as fast as a ferocious beast and as sharp as a divine weapon, but it was extremely difficult. Without having to fight head-on, Ma Xiu was already a little scared.
Chapter completed!