"Kill Jin Gou!"
"Kill Jin Gou!"
Liu Cong did not hesitate to lead the 30,000 cavalrymen under his command to the Jin army's cavalry. He did not believe it. With the Jin army's small strength, what kind of waves could it make?
He accepted this great achievement of killing the enemy!
As one of the old Xiongnu nobles, even though the Xiongnu have disappeared and become Yuan Meng, Liu Cong and others still have the sense of honor that a Xiongnu warrior should have.
After all, when the Xiongnu were at their peak, they could not bully the Han people. Although since the rise of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han people have bullied the Xiongnu!
But in the hearts of people like Liu Cong, both the former Han people and the current Jin people are just objects of robbery for them.
However, due to the strength of the Jin army, there were very few opportunities for them to plunder. Even for plunder, we can only attack some small villages and towns on the border. If we go a little deeper, once we run into the soldiers and horses of the Jin army, it will be unpredictable.
This time, the enemy army came to the grassland, came to their home ground, and wiped out this soldier and horse. When His Majesty's reinforcements arrived, the two soldiers and horses merged and rushed into Liangzhou. Do some looting.
It had been many years since they had been able to pick out some small towns and villages in the corners of the country, but they had not really entered the prosperous places of the Han people and looted them.
As one of the insightful people in the grassland, Liu Cong can also see the benefits to both sides of mutual trade on the border, but this still does not affect his continued thoughts of plunder.
Mutual trading is exchange, and the money is made by the merchants, but robbery is a business without capital!
The Jin cavalry, on the other hand, rode on their horses with calm expressions and said nothing, concentrating on controlling their horses and rushing toward the enemy.
"Fire the arrow!"
Liu Cong shouted loudly, and many good cavalrymen on the grassland bent their bows and set arrows. Each arrow was like a meteor piercing the darkness, shooting at the Jin cavalry.
This is the only trouble in fighting on the grassland. Everyone on the other side, whether they are regular soldiers who have been trained for a long time or herders who have been summoned temporarily, have the ability to ride and shoot.
However, it is difficult for the cavalry of the Jin Dynasty or the cavalry of other Han princes to achieve mounted shooting, and only the elite battalions can do this.
However, each prince in the elite camp only has a few people in his hands, but everyone on the other side can ride and shoot.
As a result, the two sides had not even started fighting hand-to-hand, but they were already consumed by the enemy. If you meet those Gou generals, they will not even engage you in close combat. Instead, they will give full play to kiting tactics and completely eliminate you from long range.
The key point is that whether it is the cavalry of the Jin army or the cavalry of other princes of the Han army, it is really difficult to outrun those people on the grassland.
After all, the reason why the Han cavalry can fight with the grassland cavalry is because although the opponent's riding skills are superior, their equipment is superior.
Good equipment represents a certain weight, and the heavier the weight it bears, the harder it will be to outrun those bastards on the grassland.
Boo hoo hoo…
Arrows pierced the air and shot into the Jin cavalry formation.
However, Dou Xian did not panic at this time. Instead, he calmly issued orders through the generals around him.
As the order was issued, the soldiers at the front raised their arms one after another, with a small arm shield protecting them in front of them.
Since the arm shield is called an arm shield, its size is naturally extremely small, and its protective area is naturally not much larger. However, there is no need to protect their entire bodies, as long as they can protect the key points.
Of course, after all, they only have one arm shield, which is good enough to protect the heart and vital parts of the chest. If any unlucky guy is shot in the face, there's nothing we can do!
Or maybe there is an unlucky guy who is not strong-willed and falls off his horse due to injury, then there is nothing that can be done about it!
However, in general, although many soldiers were injured, the number of direct defeats was still within controllable range.
After all, the Central Plains still has an advantage in equipment compared to the grasslands, and the armor coverage rate is not comparable to that of the grasslands. On the grassland, although the battle bows of the Yuan and Meng regular armies have been improved, their technology in this area is definitely second to none.
However, the herdsmen on the grasslands still use the same old bows and arrows, and most of them are even bone arrowheads. Even if Yuanmeng discovered an iron mine, iron was still a strategic material and was fully used to ensure military use. It was impossible for the herdsmen's bows and arrows to be equipped with iron arrowheads.
Although the Jin cavalry could not wear iron armor and could only wear leather armor at most, the protection of key parts was increased, giving them another layer of protection. Maybe they can't protect against the bows and arrows of the Yuanmeng regular army, but if they are just the bows and arrows of these ordinary herdsmen, the key protective parts of these soldiers' armors still have a very strong protective effect. The Yuanmeng herdsmen can kill them with one arrow. First.
Unfortunately, two-thirds of this Yuanmeng army were grassland herdsmen, not regular Yuanmeng soldiers.
"Throw the gun!"
When the distance between the two parties reached a certain level, Dou Xian suddenly ordered.
It is indeed impossible for the Jin army to compare with Yuan Meng in terms of riding and shooting capabilities, but it doesn't matter. Who said the Jin army was rich? If I can't beat you technically, then I'll just throw money at you!
Since the soldiers could not bend their bows and arrows while riding on their war horses, they could still shoot javelins.
Among the princes in the world, and among the forces on the grassland, which one dares to include the javelin as a standing weapon like the Jin army? Although other princes or grassland forces would also use javelins, they would only use them once in a while at most, and they would not be included in the standing weapons of a certain army.
The iron resources needed to make a javelin can be used to make several bows and arrows!
Yuanmeng had used a javelin before when he was fighting at the iron mine where he was discovered, but Yuanmeng's javelin was a wooden javelin. In order to ensure the lethality, a layer of iron sheet was added to the tip of the javelin to maximize the damage. save resources.
But the Jin army was different. Although it was impossible to regard the entire javelin as being made of iron, the soldiers would not be able to throw it very far. But although the body of the javelin is made of wood, the head of the javelin is actually made of iron.
Moreover, coupled with the fact that the Yuanmeng herdsmen do not even have the most basic armor, after these javelins are projected, as long as they can hit, it is likely to be a string of two, or even a string of three.
"Prepare!"
"Draw your sword and kill!"
The cavalry of the two armies approached quickly and collided in the blink of an eye.
After the two sides carried out their own long-range strikes, they finally entered a state of handover.
(End of chapter)
