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Chapter 286 The first battle with the rebels

Under normal circumstances, when cavalry chases cavalry, the pursuit side will suffer more losses and suffer more casualties.

Because the arrows shot from the escape direction are even more powerful and the range seems to be 30% higher out of thin air. This is why, when many cavalry fight, even if they defeat the opponent, the winning side is unwilling to pursue too much, just to avoid major casualties during the pursuit.

However, such an iron law seems to not work on Anton Iron Cavalry, because everyone in Anton Iron Cavalry has a King of Bows and Crossbows.

Even the Tang Dynasty's bows and arrows are far from the power range of the Divine Arm crossbow, not to mention that the bows and arrows of the Xi people are much behind the Tang Dynasty's bows and arrows, which is even more different from the rifles and sniper rifles than the Divine Arm crossbow of the Andong Iron Cavalry.

The Andong Iron Cavalry's divine arm crossbow not only has a range and power far exceeding the bows and arrows of the Xi people such as Dujile, but the Andong Iron Cavalry also has an advantage in the number of people and the armor on his body.

The number of Xi people who were shot and killed and fell off the horse was almost five times that of Andong Iron Cavalry.

Du Jile was shocked and extremely urgent. If this continues, even if he can escape to Youzhou City, there are probably not many Xi warriors around him.

Suddenly, Dujile saw a large army approaching in front of him.

"It was the reinforcements from Youzhou City!" Du Jile was overjoyed. With the reinforcements from Youzhou City, he was able to counterattack the pursuit of Andong Tang army and regain the territory of the Xi tribe.

Compared with Dujile's great joy when he saw the reinforcements in Youzhou, Jia Xun frowned when he saw the defeated Dujile and other Xi cavalrymen. Are the Xi people defeated so quickly?

What made Jia Xun most dissatisfied was that it would be fine if the Xi people were defeated too quickly, but there were only less than two thousand cavalry left. Is the Xi people so useless?

"Andong Protectorate, Li Fei's army!" At this time, Jia Xun also saw the Andong Iron Cavalry pursuing behind Dujile and other Xi cavalry.

"Get a formation and prepare to face the enemy!" Jia Xun hurriedly ordered loudly. He did not want Andong's cavalry to rush directly into his army. Infantry that did not form a military formation could not kill the cavalry.

Since An Lushan took almost all the cavalry to attack Luoyang and Chang'an City, only the generals who stayed in Youzhou City had war horses.

"An Lushan's anti-army in Youzhou City!" Li Fei also saw Jia Xun and other anti-army in Youzhou, and immediately stopped his war horses and stopped pursuing the Xi people such as Dujile.

Le and other less than two thousand Xi cavalry left, quickly rushed to the left of the Youzhou anti-army formation.

Li Fei stopped the war horses sitting down, and the other Anton Iron Cavalry soldiers also stopped the war horses they sat down and gathered with Li Fei.

The Andong Iron Cavalry and Jia Xun and other Youzhou anti-army confronted each other for about 300 meters.

"Sir, the number of anti-soldiers in Youzhou is about 12,000." Wu Sheng quickly estimated the approximate number of anti-soldiers in Youzhou such as Jia Xun and informed Li Fei.

Li Fei nodded, and with nearly 2,000 Xi cavalry including Dujile, there were nearly 14,000 people. He led 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry into the territory of the Xi tribe, but now he has only been killed or injured more than 300 times, and his strength is almost equal to not being damaged.

The Youzhou anti-army force is not enough to make him retreat.

"Prepare for war!" Li Fei ordered that he was preparing to fight in the last battle. If he had the chance, he would directly annihilate the Youzhou anti-army. If he could not annihilate, he would also have to deal with severe damage to prevent him from recapturing the Xi tribe.

Opposite, Dujile rode his horse to Jia Xun. Because of the disastrous defeat, he could hardly raise his head in front of Jia Xun.

"Half of the Xi tribes rebelled, and I was defeated." Du Jile defended himself.

Jia Xun frowned and his face was not good-looking. How could half of the Xi tribes rebelled?

Jia Xun was a little confused, but now the battle is imminent, so I will defeat Li Fei first.

Although Li Fei's 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry had a greater force than the remaining cavalry of the Xi tribe, such as Dujile, Jia Xun was not panicked, but was very confident in defeating Li Fei.

Jia Xun's confidence comes from following An Lushan for many years of war. Almost all the soldiers under his command are elite soldiers who have experienced many battles. Li Fei is just a yellow-haired boy. In the past few wars, he just didn't meet a real elite.

Jia Xun's confidence almost became a conceit. He felt that the few battles Li Fei had experienced were not worth mentioning, and subconsciously despised Li Fei. As for whether he could really defeat Li Fei with less, he would have to wait for a big battle to know.

"Get attacks left and right, give full play to the advantages of our divine arm crossbow, and do not fight head-on with the anti-army. Find opportunities to use the 'Sky Thunder' to see if the anti-army formation can be dispersed!" Li Fei noticed that there was also a Mo Dao Army with a population of about 3,000 in the Youzhou anti-army. He knew the power of the Mo Dao Army. If he fought head-on, even if he could win in the end, the casualties of the Andong Iron Cavalry would not be small, so he ordered Lu Xin and Wu Sheng.

Li Fei's meaning is to draw on the tactics used by the Khitans when they attacked the Khitan two days ago, and rely on the mobility of the cavalry to shoot arrows around the Youzhou anti-army formation. Anyway, they have divine arm crossbows, and even if they shoot at the opposite end, they can gain an absolute advantage.

The so-called "Sky Thunder" is actually the original explosive tied together by four super-large firecrackers. Its power is weaker than the iron shell thunderbolt bomb used by Andongmo sword formation, but it also has some power. If you have never seen it, you will be frightened and urinated for the first time when you are bombed.

"Kill!" Li Fei ordered the Andong Iron Cavalry to start the attack.

Nearly 20,000 cavalry were divided into two parts, attacking the military formations of Jia Xun and other Youzhou anti-army.

The ones who followed Jia Xun and other Youzhou anti-army formations were nearly 2,000 Xi cavalry including Dujile. Originally, as cavalry, they should not be close to Youzhou anti-army formations, which were inconvenient to movement, and allowed the Andong Iron Cavalry to surround them and attack. However, Dujile and the Xi cavalry were defeated in a miserable battle and were chased all the way. Subconsciously, they wanted to come to rescue their Youzhou anti-army formations next to each other to find a "sense of security", so they didn't think much about it. When Dujile realized something was wrong, the Andong Iron Cavalry had already surrounded them with 12,000 Youzhou anti-army formations.

"shoot!"

"Ding thud---"

Thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows and rushed towards the formation of Jia Xun and other Youzhou anti-army.

"Shield, get up!" Jia Xun ordered calmly.

In the Youzhou anti-army formation, the shield soldiers raised their shields to block the rain of arrows.

Arrows were like rain, and some arrows passed through the gap between the shields and killed the Youzhou anti-soldier soldiers inside. Some arrows also penetrated the shields directly and inserted into the body of the shield soldiers behind the shields.

Although it is just a shooting, the divine arm crossbow can throw the arrow higher. The higher the arrow falls, the greater the power. The shield of the Youzhou anti-armor army is made of wood-covered iron sheet, and is built with reference to the power of arrows that resist ordinary standard bows and arrows. Ordinary standard bows and arrows cannot be shot through, but the power of the divine arm crossbow is almost twice that of those ordinary standard bows and arrows, so some arrows directly shoot through the shield.

Two of the dozen shields standing beside Jia Xun's side that resisted Jia Xun's arrows were shot through by two arrows. One of them was inserted under the soil at Jia Xun's feet, which scared Jia Xun's hairs stood up in an instant.

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