"Fire the arrow!"
This is Zhang Wenbi's fourth harassment.
With this superb riding skill and agility, although the Longwu Army's strong crossbowmen continued to fire the first three times, they were not able to cause much damage to Zhang Wenbi's horse archers.
Only a few thirty riders fell under the arrows of the Longwu Army. On the contrary, more than two hundred soldiers on the Longwu Army's side were injured by arrows and lost their combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
In this way, the morale that had been lowered just now by the serial divine machine ballista also improved a lot.
These Longwu armies are nothing more than that. They only rely on the strength of their weapons to fight. Without these magical skills, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of King Zhao's army.
Zhang Wenbi could clearly feel this improvement in morale.
Not only did his own morale rise, but Zhang Wenbi could also sense the restlessness of the soldiers in the Longwu Army Formation.
The archers of King Zhao's army became more and more skilled in riding and shooting.
This is just like ordinary people playing games on weekdays. When the wind is favorable, the operations will become smoother and bolder, and they will dare to operate.
But when the wind is against you, you will always be timid, worried, and afraid to let go.
The current Zhao Wangjun's momentum has changed from a headwind to a tailwind. They have fully demonstrated their riding and archery skills. They can hide arrows in the belly of the horse, draw their bows left and right, and ride and shoot at high speed... These days, the most elite cavalry in the army can show off. The art of riding and shooting was demonstrated one by one among the archers of King Zhao's army.
The forward Longwu army had powerful crossbows in hand but was unable to cause effective damage to Zhao Wangjun's archers. This made Zhang Wenbi's behavior become more and more arrogant.
In the latest attack, he was only 200 steps away from Long Wujun's forward formation.
But he still relied on his superb riding skills to avoid Long Wujun's powerful crossbow projectiles.
"Hahaha! What a big deal the little dragon warrior is, today I will follow the general and play tricks on him!"
With another roundabout, Zhang Wenbi's cavalry began to approach again.
With the previous experience, Zhang Wenbi became even more aggressive this time. He led a thousand bowmen and rode straight towards the Longwu Army's forward formation, pretending to charge directly into the formation.
"Zhang Gong!"
Following Zhang Wenbi's order, the bows and cavalry of King Zhao's army all opened their bows and fired.
The moment the arrow left its bow, the shield array of Longwu Army Formation suddenly opened.
A group of light cavalry suddenly rushed out of the formation!
This sudden change caught the archers and cavalry of King Zhao's army off guard. From the beginning of the battle between the two sides, the cavalry of Longwu Army never had a head-on confrontation with the soldiers and horses of King Zhao's army.
Even if he participated in the battle, he only assisted his infantry in defense and never took the initiative to launch an attack.
In this regard, the cavalry of King Zhao's army felt very disdainful.
The cavalry was originally designed to attack, but now they are being played defensively by these people in the Longwu Army. It is really outrageous.
Therefore, neither Zhang Wenbi nor the archers under his command thought that these Longwu Army cavalry would take the initiative to attack.
At this moment, the bow cavalry was accelerating its sprint, facing the Longwu Army's light cavalry, which was no more than 200 steps away.
The cooperation between Zhang Wenbi and this cavalry was really great. With just a simple command, the entire cavalry began to turn flexibly.
It's just that although their actions were fast, it was still too late in the eyes of Madam Yang!
accelerate!
The Longwu Army's light cavalry is getting faster and faster!
Even faster than the bow cavalry of King Zhao's army!
The horse archers of King Zhao's army use Youzhou's horse breed. This kind of horse is tall, has strong endurance, and can gallop in severe cold weather. It is the most common horse breed in Youzhou and Liaodong.
The Longwu Army's war horses are a hybrid of Bingzhou war horses and Southern Border war horses. Their endurance may not be as good as that of Youzhou horses and Liaodong horses, but their short-distance sprint speed is not comparable to that of Youzhou horses.
In a few breaths, the distance between the two parties became closer and closer!
"crossbow!"
Following Madam Yang's fourth order, all her cavalrymen raised their crossbows.
"shoot!"
Thousands of crossbow arrows were fired at the cavalry of King Zhao's army overwhelmingly.
Although they changed direction immediately, after all, the archers of King Zhao's army were only riding horses, not prancing horses, and they did not have the acceleration of 3.7 per 100 kilometers.
Even though he tried his best to avoid it, he was still covered by the arrow rain.
"ah!"
"Yo!"
The screams of people and the screams of war horses came one after another.
Perhaps Zhang Wenbi was really lucky. The moment the Longwu Army's crossbow was fired, he immediately hid in the horse's belly, hoping to reduce the damage of the Longwu Army's crossbow arrows.
Miraculously, however, none of the thousands of crossbow arrows fired by the Longwu Army hit his mount.
Not to mention the knights of the Longwu Army, even Zhang Wenbi himself found it incredible.
But Mrs. Yang Si didn't pay attention. Instead, she smiled coldly. It was just right, catch him alive!
There were only more than 200 horsemen left beside Zhang Wenbi. The remaining soldiers and horses were caught off guard by Long Wujun's counterattack and had no time to avoid Longwu Army's crossbows.
Although the Longwu Army's cavalry crossbows were not as powerful as the infantry, they were still enough to penetrate the leather armor of King Zhao's Army at a distance of a hundred steps.
As soon as Zhang Wenbi got on his horse, he saw a female general in a red dress and silver armor rushing toward him.
"The general will be named! I will not kill Wuming with my halberd..."
Zhang Wenbi didn't expect the attacker's gun to be so fast. Before he could finish his words, the pear blossom gun in the attacker's hand was already in front of him.
"So fast!" Zhang Wenbi exclaimed in his heart, and swept out the big halberd in his hand to block the shot.
Unexpectedly, the enemy's spear was so nimble that it easily dodged the attack and hit his chest.
As a last resort, Zhang Wenbi had no choice but to dodge, holding the horse's rein with one hand and stepping aside.
The tip of the gun grazed Zhang Wenbi's left arm, leaving a bloodstain immediately on his left arm.
Zhang Wenbi was injured with just one casual move.
"Not bad! Somewhat capable!"
Seeing that Zhang Wenbi still dodged the shot in a hurry, Mrs. Yang also had a look of admiration in her eyes. It was rare to have such martial arts at such a young age, but it was a pity that she did not follow the right path and helped the evildoers.
Zhang Wenbi was even more shocked. He had fought against many powerful generals in King Zhao's army, and even Zhu Shihong, the former number one general in King Zhao's army, had given him guidance.
But no one has ever put such huge pressure on him on the battlefield. If he is not careful, he will become the dead soul of his opponent.
Before raising the army, King Zhao conducted an investigation on the armies of Zhou Dynasty, including the Longwu Army. Zhang Wenbi learned this from King Zhao.
Among the Longwu Army, only Cao Xueyang, the commander-in-chief of the Longwu Army, and Yang Miaozhen, the commander-in-chief of the Longwu Army, could possess such marksmanship!
Almost all the middle and senior generals in King Zhao's army have seen Cao Xueyang's portrait, and so has Zhang Wenbi.
If the person in front of him was not Cao Xueyang, it could only be Yang Miaozhen, the commander of the Longwu Army.
Although this person is a woman, her martial arts skills are not inferior to those of men, and she has a pear-shaped spear. She is known as "the few rivals in the world".
His self-created marksmanship is comparable to that of Tiance Army's Zhongwu General Tianqiang Yang Ning!
Such a character is definitely no match for him!
Zhang Wenbi was quickly looking for a way to escape in his mind, but Lady Yang's pear blossom gun struck again, giving Zhang Wenbi no chance to breathe.
When the remaining archers who were watching in the distance saw the Longwu Army's cavalry charging out, they knew something was wrong and immediately came to support them.
While Zhang Wenbi was parrying, he saw the horse archers running in the distance with his peripheral vision, and he felt happy. He was the only one who could persist in thirty, no... twenty moves, until the archers of King Zhao's army arrived. Not to mention being able to fight back, at least escaping is not a problem.
Imagination is always beautiful, reality is always cruel.
Zhang Wenbi boasted that his martial arts skills were not weak, but after the fight, he realized that the gap between the two sides was much wider than he imagined.
In just five rounds, his halberd skills were in chaos and he was unable to resist.
Seeing the reinforcements getting closer, Zhang Wenbi gritted his teeth and tried to hold on, but the strength of the force was difficult to change with the will to fight.
He only felt that Yang Miaozhen's gun was blooming in front of his eyes like pear blossoms and thousands of trees, making it impossible to guard against and unable to hide.
After three moves, Zhang Wenbi was hit by a shot in his right arm, and the middle door suddenly opened, making it difficult to defend.
Madam Yang Si shot Zhang Wenbi off his horse and knocked him unconscious with a blow from the tail of his spear.
"Tie me up!"
At this time, the remaining Longwu Army cavalry had wiped out all the remaining 200 people around Zhang Wenbi.
"The rebel reinforcements are coming! Let's retreat!"
Annihilating a thousand of the enemy's elite archers and cavalry, and capturing the enemy's general alive, such a victory was truly brilliant. Don't be too obedient if you get an advantage.
The enemy's situation is unclear, and they don't know how many cavalry are hidden behind the enemy's rear. In this case, it is extremely unwise to rush into battle with the enemy's archers.
At least the Longwu Army has focused on stability since the beginning of its establishment, so Mrs. Yang Si chose to retreat to the main formation at the first opportunity.
The archers of King Zhao's army looked at the retreating enemy troops, and the deputy general felt despair in his heart.
If the enemy chooses to fight, he still has a chance to rescue Zhang Wenbi, but now he can only watch the Longwu Army's cavalry take the captured Zhang Wenbi away, helpless.
Zhang Wenbi was the legitimate son of the coach Zhang Shimei, and he was favored and trained by King Zhao. Such a person was caught, but he, the deputy general, could only stare... The deputy general could almost imagine his own end.
His heart skipped a beat, and the lieutenant whipped his horse hard under his crotch, and rushed forward with his own soldiers.
At this moment, the other archers didn't know whether they should continue to follow.
They had no direct affiliation with Zhang Wenbi's department, and were temporarily assigned to Zhang Wenbi's command by Zhang Shimei.
Zhang Wenbi was here just now, so there was no problem. They were all different from Zhang Wenbi in terms of official rank, status, and martial arts skills, so there was nothing wrong with following his orders.
But now Zhang Wenbi has been captured, and the highest-ranking lieutenant among his troops is just a school captain. The rest of the people were naturally unwilling to listen to his command, especially when the command was unreliable.
Therefore, Zhang Wenbi's lieutenant continued to chase Yang Si Niangzi's troops with only more than 400 cavalry. The rest stopped 600 steps away from the left wing camp of Longwu Army and stopped to watch.
This place is beyond the killing range of the Longwu Army's divine machine crossbow, and ordinary powerful crossbows cannot reach it.
Mrs. Yang Si also discovered the soldiers and horses chasing from behind. She originally thought that as long as she and others entered the range of Longwu Army's powerful crossbows, the enemy troops would stop chasing. She did not expect that there were such soldiers among the enemy troops. Stunned.
But then Madam Yang discovered that the number of enemies she was chasing was only five hundred. This was not a pursuit, it was clearly a surrender!
Madam Yang Si asked her deputy to lead the captured Zhang Wenbi first, while she suddenly turned around with more than a thousand horsemen and attacked the more than 400 horse archers who were pursuing them.
The deputy general obviously did not expect that Mrs. Yang Si would suddenly return to the army, but the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, so he could not help but run away!
"Brothers, fight with me! Defeat the enemy and rescue the general!"
Under the encouragement of the lieutenant, the morale of these four hundred horse archers increased greatly, and their momentum was astonishing for a while.
It’s just that this momentum didn’t last long!
In just one encounter, the deputy general was shot off his horse by Mrs. Yang Si.
In just a few dozen breaths, all four hundred horse archers were wiped out, and only the deputy general was captured alive.
This is not to blame for the weak combat effectiveness of the archers. It is just that the general was captured and the deputy was knocked off his horse with one move. It is impossible for any army to have strong combat effectiveness.
The archers in the distance just watched quietly and did not dare to make any move.
No one is giving orders now. In this case, if you do more, you will be wrong, but if you don't do it, it will be good!
The tightly bound lieutenant still saw his general. Compared to Zhang Wenbi, this lieutenant was in a better condition, with just some bumps and bruises, and Zhang Wenbi was shot in both arms!
After confirming that he was captured and escorted together with Zhang Wenbi, the deputy general fainted with peace of mind.
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"What?! Wen Bi has been captured! Who can actually defeat our army's horse archers?!"
In the left wing formation, Tan Yuan, who was waiting for Zhang Wenbi's signal with his cavalry, was shocked when he received the news.
Just now, Zhang Wenbi was galloping on horseback and beat Long Wujun to a great extent. Why did he suddenly suffer heavy losses and was captured by Long Wujun's men? !
"General Tan, the Major General was originally leading the cavalry to harass the enemy formation. Who knew that the enemy was extremely cunning and had already targeted the Major General. Just when the Major General was approaching and firing arrows, the Longwu Army's light cavalry suddenly came out. The Major General was caught off guard, and without any defense, the Major General was defeated by the Long Wu Army..."
Tan Yuan's face darkened upon hearing this, let alone Zhang Wenbi's impact on the flank battlefield. Just because of his identity, Tan Yuan had to treat him seriously.
No matter how you say it, Zhang Wenbi is Zhang Shimei's legitimate son, and Tan Yuan is one of the top generals of the left wing at this time. Now that Zhang Wenbi is captured by the Longwu Army under his nose, Zhang Shimei, no matter how clear the distinction between public and private, must be. with ideas.
"Tell General Liu, the commander of the left-wing infantry, to prepare the infantry to press forward! Cooperate with us in the battle!"
As Tan Yuan's order was passed down, the iron cavalry who were still resting under their horses dressed up and got on their horses!
This cavalry is a magic weapon to break the Longwu Army's formation. As long as it can tear apart the Longwu Army's defensive formation from the side and disrupt its deployment, Tan Yuan believes that Zhang Shimei will definitely be able to defeat the Longwu Army's forward frontally!
By then, Zhang Wenbi's success or failure will not be so difficult to explain!
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(End of chapter)
