This is also the main reason why they can easily travel hundreds of miles. Lan
There are three horses for one person, and with his superb riding skills, he can even sleep on the horse while riding.
There is no doubt that the situation in Qiongshui County should be beyond the expectations of these barbarian cavalry.
When they arrived outside the county town, what they saw were bare fields with only wheat piles left, and not even a drinking well. As for the villages, houses, etc. outside the county town, they had long been burned to the ground.
Clear fields and strong walls!
Although these barbarian scouts have little culture, the meaning is still clear.
After all, sometimes, Daze Kingdom would send troops to attack small barbarian tribes on the border.
At this time, those small barbarian tribes would try their best to escape and destroy the clean water sources along the way. They would even kill all the cattle and sheep when they were overtaken by the Daze Army, and then pour them with feces and urine before abandoning them. The wilderness prevented the Dazeguo army from receiving any supplies. Lan
In short, they understand that the wilderness is clear and the walls are strong.
But even so, these barbarian scout cavalry didn't worry about anything at all. They even stopped their horses in the distance, pointed at the county seat and laughed, and then galloped towards the county seat.
At the same time, they took off the riding bows hanging on their backs.
Seeing this scene, Fang Xiaoyue naturally knew their intentions.
These barbarian scout cavalry wanted to show their skillful riding and shooting skills in front of the soldiers and civilians of Daze Kingdom, so as to severely weaken the will of the soldiers and civilians in Qiongshui County to defend the city.
They have done this many times before.
The effects are very good. Lan
They only need to rush to a distance of thirty or forty meters from the county seat, then run along the city wall and shoot a few county soldiers on the wall to achieve their goal.
After all, under such circumstances, even if the county soldiers on the city wall wanted to fight back, it would be difficult to shoot the fast-moving scout cavalry.
Now that he knew the other party's intention, Fang Xiaoyue naturally couldn't let the other party succeed.
"Get a bow!"
Fang Xiaoyue naturally had a way to kill those scout cavalry more efficiently.
But at this time, the county soldiers on the city wall had never experienced war at all. After seeing the barbarian scout cavalry, their legs were a little weak and their morale plummeted.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue naturally had to use more down-to-earth methods to boost morale. Lan
Although he was a little confused after hearing the order from the county magistrate, a county soldier beside him immediately handed over his bow.
There are not many archers in the inspection department.
There were only about thirty people in the Qianshui County Inspection Department before. Most of them died during the plague, leaving only seven people.
Among them was an archer.
However, after that, Fang Xiaoyue rebuilt the Inspection Department and recruited another 350 people in addition to Taoist soldiers.
Thirty of them learned archery from the archer.
It's not that Fang Xiaoyue doesn't want to train more archers. After all, in this battle to defend the city, her mother doubts the importance of archers. Lan
Unfortunately, just like the sharpshooter in Fang Xiaoyue's original world, training an archer also requires talent.
If there is no talent in archery, it will be difficult to train a qualified archer no matter how many arrows are lost.
What's more, there are only about thirty bows in the county treasury of Qiongshui County.
There are a few craftsmen who make bows and arrows, but it takes too much time to make a bow.
It takes three years to make any qualified bow.
After all, there is no such thing as carbon fiber or memory alloy in Daze Country. To make a qualified bow, you need a variety of materials, and the production of these materials is troublesome and takes a long time.
Of course, if you are strong enough, you can make an iron tire bow, which will save a lot of time. Lan
However, the iron tire bow has a pulling force of at least one stone.
The iron-tied bow with all-iron arms has an astonishing pulling force of more than five stones, and it cannot be used by any but a peerless general.
In a place like Qiongshui County, there is definitely no iron tire bow.
Fang Xiaoyue took the bow and gently tried the string. This was an ordinary military bow.
Of course, even an ordinary military bow is much stronger than a hunting bow used by hunters, and its range can reach about a hundred meters.
The cavalry bow used by the barbarian scout cavalry has a range of only fifty meters because it is easy to carry.
This is why when the barbarian cavalry wants to mount and shoot, they must at least close the distance to within fifty meters. Lan
He casually pulled out an arrow and missed it on the bow string, Fang Xiaoyue slowly pulled it away.
At this time, the barbarian scout cavalry also saw a man wearing civilian clothes on the city wall, drawing his bow towards them.
This almost made them laugh so hard that they almost fell off their horses.
This is not surprising. For so many years since the founding of the Daze Kingdom, the country has been somewhat emphasizing culture over military affairs.
Today's civil servants are not as capable as those in the early days of the dynasty.
To be honest, even if the average county magistrate knows a little swordsmanship, he is considered to be very powerful.
Skills like archery that require long-term practice are basically not mastered by civil servants in Daze Country. Lan
Moreover, those civil servants thought that wielding swords and guns was ungentlemanly and they were quite repulsive.
But what those Xiwan scouts and cavalry never expected was that when they were still more than eighty meters away from the city wall, Fang Xiaoyue loosened his bowstring.
Uh-huh!
An arrow pierced the head of the cavalryman who was rushing forward in an instant.
The cavalryman's head was slightly raised back, a few drops of blood were thrown out, and then he fell off his horse.
How is this going?
Although the incident happened suddenly, these scout cavalry were also elites who had experienced hundreds of battles. They immediately rolled over on their horses and hid their bodies on the sides of the horses. Lan
This is one of their special skills on horseback: hiding in the stirrups.
It is difficult for ordinary barbarian cavalry to do this while galloping.
Only these elites can.
This move can greatly reduce the exposure of your body to the enemy's sight, making the enemy lose the opportunity to aim and shoot you.
But Fang Xiaoyue, who was standing on the city wall, didn't accept this at all.
He quickly drew out an arrow again and missed it, then drew his bow and drew the string.
With a soft sound, another arrow flew out. Lan
A scout cavalryman hiding on the side of his horse fell straight off his horse.
After this cavalry landed, the rest of the scout cavalry immediately became angry. Regardless of the distance, they drew their bows and shot towards the city wall.
But at this time, there were still more than sixty meters away from the city wall. The bow power of the cavalry was weak, and the arrows shot missed and fell from exhaustion as soon as they reached the city wall.
On the contrary, Fang Xiaoyue took advantage of the height of the wall and shot two more arrows, killing two people again.
This scene immediately excited the trembling county soldiers on the city wall.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Fang, a civil servant, could be so good at shooting. This undoubtedly greatly boosted the morale of the defenders.
The remaining Siwan scout cavalry did not dare to move forward at this time. Instead, he used his superb horse-driving skills to quickly turn around and escape as fast as he could before the arrows on the wall were missed. Lan
Of course, it was not that Fang Xiaoyue couldn't shoot the Xiwan scout, the main reason was that he wanted to keep this cavalryman. Just the way he fled was enough to raise the morale of the county soldiers to a new level.
Soon, the news that the county magistrate had shot and killed four barbarian cavalry spread throughout the city, causing a burst of cheers from the people in the city.
After all, it is located in the northwest, and the people here know how terrifying the barbarians are.
Before that, if Fang Xiaoyue hadn't ordered the city gate to be closed, I don't know how many people would have escaped.
Now, the county magistrate is so powerful, and everyone feels more relaxed.
In fact, as the Xiwan scout escaped, at noon the next day, the county soldiers guarding the city wall came to report that there was smoke rising in the distance.
When Fang Xiaoyue rushed to the city wall, she saw a group of cavalry from a distance heading towards the county seat under the banner of the Xiwan Barbarian Canglang. Lan
Just by visual inspection, you can see that the number of this cavalry team is no less than a thousand.
This made Fang Xiaoyue feel a little relieved.
This is not the main force of the Siwan army. It is either the vanguard of the Siwan army, or a side army that separates to burn, kill and loot.
Perhaps angered by Fang Xiaoyue's previous shooting of four scout cavalry, the Siwan cavalry rushed straight over without any sign of stopping.
Fang Xiaoyue has been to many planes and worlds along the way, and has some experience in war.
So he immediately ordered the county soldiers to hold wooden shields and hide behind the walls as much as possible.
His order was correct. Lan
This group of cavalry was fifty or sixty meters away from the city wall. Then it looked like a long snake and began to turn, three in a row.
Once they turn, the cavalrymen will take off their bows, draw the strings, and shoot towards the city wall.
Waves of arrows fell like raindrops towards the top of the city.
Due to the angle, most of the arrows missed hit the battlements or flew over them.
A small number of arrows fell on the wooden shields placed on the heads of the county soldiers, making a trembling sound, which frightened the county soldiers who had not experienced war and trembled for a while.
But they were also glad in their hearts. If the county magistrate hadn't given the order in time, they would have been riddled with bullets from the barbarians.
You know, although this team of Siwanese cavalry uses cavalry bows, their shooting skills are very good. Most of the missed arrows were just shot from the battlements or between the battlements. Lan
If everyone on the city wall stood still, the damage would probably exceed 80%.
This is the main reason why the Xiwan barbarians only have a population of five to six million, but they can become a hidden danger to the Daze Kingdom.
You know, as a farming country, the population of Daze Country far exceeds that of the Xiwan barbarians.
According to incomplete statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs last year, the population reached 50 million, and the total number of conventional military forces in Daze Country totaled two million.
This is not surprising. The land area of Daze Country is not small. According to Fang Xiaoyue's estimation, it is not less than 13 million square kilometers.
From the easternmost point of Daze Country to the westernmost point, if we don’t count the obstacles of mountains and rivers, even the best horses would have to run for two months!
This land area actually exceeded the control of the ancient feudal dynasty. Lan
It's just that Daze Country has a dragon energy system, and ordinary memorials and other things can be transmitted all the way to the capital through the inns along the way.
In the event of an emergency, local officials can ask the local branches of the Taoist Supervision Bureau to use Taoist techniques to convey information to the capital.
Including the military disaster of the Siwan invasion, the governor of Luyuan Province and even the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army may have reported the news to the capital long ago.
Of course, even if the regular military strength of Daze Country exceeds two million, when faced with a large-scale invasion by barbarians, there is still the embarrassment of not caring about the head and the tail.
As mentioned before, barbarians like Xiwan, due to the needs of nomadic life, children as young as five or six can run around on ponies.
Children over the age of twelve are within the scope of selection and recruitment when the barbarian Khan gathers his troops.
After being called up, these barbarian cavalry do not need special training to become more qualified cavalry. Lan
Whether it is riding or archery, I have been practicing since childhood.
And like the barbarian vanguard cavalry rushing outside Qiongshui County, they are elites selected by the barbarian Khan.
Whether it's riding or archery, they are both the best!
Therefore, under such circumstances, if Fang Xiaoyue was not in charge of Qiongshui County, most of the county soldiers would have been killed in just such a round of cavalry shooting.
After losing most of the city's defenders, the difficulty for the remaining county soldiers to defend the city will undoubtedly reach an extreme.
When the fierce rain of arrows from the thousands of barbarian cavalry ended, Fang Xiaoyue immediately poked his head out from the battlements, not only drew the bow but also ordered the few archers to follow him and shoot those who were moving away from the city wall. Barbarian cavalry.
Those archers are not ordinary county soldiers. They are the strongest and most talented in shooting among the young men. Lan
Moreover, Fang Xiaoyue also asked Zhang Yuanming to teach the Heaven-shaking Sword Technique to the county soldiers.
Although this Sky-shattering Sword Technique is a sword technique, it is not just a sword technique.
When practicing the Shocking Sword Art, the spiritual energy absorbed by the movement of the Shocking Sword Art will also continuously refine and strengthen the body.
Therefore, although it is impossible to perform the Sky-shattering Blade Technique with a bow and arrow, the arm strength, endurance, etc. of these archers are not comparable to ordinary archers.
And these differences were quickly reflected in the battle.
When Fang Xiaoyue took the lead in shooting a barbarian cavalryman who had his back turned to him, the other archers took action one after another, shooting arrows one after another.
Due to the close distance between the two sides and the dense barbarian cavalry camp at this time, more than ten people were shot dead on the spot and fell off their horses in a blink of an eye. Lan
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As for the counterattack on the city wall, the barbarian cavalry had expected it. Whoever it was would have been furious and counterattacked after being hit with such a wave of arrows.
But if you want to shoot high-speed cavalry from the city wall, the difficulty has been mentioned before.
Generally speaking, if more than thirty arrows are missed, it is considered good to hit three or four.
After all, those barbarian cavalry are not vegetarians, and they will not wait stupidly to be hit by arrows.
What kind of things are hidden in stirrups, what kind of people hide horse heads, etc. will all be used.
