When Liu Xiong saw the gangsters fleeing without a fight, he felt resentful. He slashed at one of the gangsters with his sword and cursed: "Don't run away, go back..."
He chopped down a gangster beside him who turned to run. The gangster's body rolled down the slope of the official road.
Suddenly, a fierce bandit wearing a red military cap came with a mace and a big stick in his hand. Liu Xiong fell down from his horse without even screaming, lying on the ground, twisting and twitching. His head was smashed with a big stick.
The ruthless bandit grabbed the reins, turned over beautifully, jumped onto the horse, clamped his legs, and ran down the official road and away.
He Shihui rushed forward, and suddenly a light arrow flew towards him. With a "ding" sound, it penetrated through the gap in the armor leaf and pierced his belly. However, the arrow was resisted by the armor leaf and could only barely pierce the flesh.
Bai Shanzi clamped the horse's belly with both legs, urging the horse to gallop. The thirty knights gradually formed a row, with He Shihui in the center and Bai Shanzi and Sun Dashan on the left and right wings, rushing towards the bandits on the opposite side.
A bearded bandit leader, wearing a purple cloak, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, rode on a tall horse, and kept shouting: "Shoot the horse, you fucking shoot the horse, you can't ask them to charge over."
He raised his hand, opened his bow and nocked an arrow, "Whoosh... Whoosh..." With two arrows, he shot two fugitives to death, still shouting: "Go back, go back, don't run..."
Under his urging, more than thirty bandit archers immediately opened their bows and set arrows. Light arrows flew towards He Shihui and the others in confusion. Although they were protected by iron armor, the distance was too close, and many knights They all had arrows hanging on them.
In an instant, three war horses were hit by arrows and fell down. Fortunately, the knights on the horses reacted quickly. They all jumped up the moment the horses fell down. They were still rushing towards the fleeing bandits on foot.
However, they only fired one round before the knights rushed in front of them. He Shihui wielded his three-eyed gun and smashed it hard. Many of the poor bandit archers didn't even have time to draw their swords and were knocked to the ground.
They howled and rushed down the official roads on both sides. The leader of Qi Village in Waitou Mountain was wearing a purple cloak and riding on a horse, which made him particularly conspicuous. Bai Shanzi drove his horse and went straight towards him.
The short ax in Bai Shanzi's hand slashed at the leader of Qi Village. He couldn't dodge, but used his back to block. With a "click", the back of his bow broke. The ax scratched the bandit leader's chest, and blood spurted out. one slice.
The leader of Qi Village endured the severe pain and wanted to turn the horse's head. Another knight rushed towards him. The big stick in his hand was smashed diagonally, hitting the leader of Qi Village in the waist. With a "bang", he fell off the horse. .
After a burst of slashing, most of the bandit archers were killed or wounded, and the rest all rushed down the official road and fled without their lives.
On the opposite side, there was only one leader of the Hu village wearing a green cloak, leading about seventy horse bandits. He had withdrawn his bow and arrows, holding a long knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "We have twice as many people as them, kill them." Go up, kill them all, and divide the money with the women!"
Under his instigation, the horse bandits began to form a team. Most of them put away their bows and arrows and replaced them with long knives and sticks suitable for mounted combat. Only a few of them still held bows and arrows.
They were divided into two rows, with about thirty riders in the front row and about forty riders in the back row, and they began to trot forward.
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He Shihui led forty knights, and after driving away a group of bandits, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, we have never been intimidated in the capital or in front of the Tatars. Can we be intimidated today at home?"
"Can't...can't...can't..."
All the knights roared in unison.
He Shihui continued to encourage: "Kill the thieves bravely, kill the thieves!"
"Tiger...Tiger...Tiger..."
They shouted in unison and began to attack.
They formed a line, trotted forward, and charged towards the horse bandits a hundred steps away.
He Shihui had finished firing his three-eyed blunderbuss, and now he was waving a long knife in his hand. He roared loudly and urged his horse to accelerate at eighty paces.
"Kill, kill!"
When they were fifty steps away, they began to run wildly. Forty horses carrying forty brave knights rushed towards the bandit horse team on the opposite side.
In cavalry battles, there are rarely real confrontations. They are usually in open areas. The two sides compete, and one party will always collapse at the last moment. It is rare to see them collide with each other.
Even if both sides don't collapse, they will almost turn the horse's head in the last dozen steps, go around from the side, then regroup and charge again, it depends on which side collapses first.
Because war horses themselves also have the instinct to avoid powerful horses, they will not be stupid enough to take the initiative to collide with the opposing war horses. When real heavy cavalry charges, they always put a harness on the horse's head so that the horse can't see anything. It depends on the horse. Only when the knight controls the Mercedes-Benz can he move forward bravely.
But the real heavy cavalry, in addition to the men wearing armor, the horses also have equipment.
Of course, there is also a third possibility, which is like today. When the cavalry from both sides attacked, they kept gaps and crossed each other into the gaps, forming a melee situation.
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He Shihui rode his horse and rushed into the enemy's formation. As soon as he swung his long knife, he chopped down a horse bandit. A bloody arrow shot up from the bandit's neck. He continued to swing the long knife back, and the handle of the knife hit the chest of a horse bandit, directly hitting him. Knock the bandit off his horse.
"Bang...bang..."
The knight rushed from behind, and the explosion of the three-eyed gun was heard again. The two bandits fell off their horses, struggling and howling.
Suddenly a big stick was swung and hit the head of the war horse under He Shihui's crotch. Blood spurted out from the horse's head and it fell to the ground. He Shihui was also brought down. He lay on his back, swung his long knife upwards, and cut open a horse. On the belly of the war horse, blood and intestines flowed all over the floor.
After the horse-riding bandit landed on the ground, as soon as he turned over and jumped up, he was hit hard on the head by the knight's club from behind, and his blood and brains were mixed with each other and flew out.
He Shihui took the opportunity to turn over and jump up. Another horse bandit came running towards him. Before he could get close to him, he was knocked off his horse by a mace wielded by a knight. He Shihui hurriedly took two steps to grab the horse's reins. , got on the war horse left by the bandit.
The official road was in chaos, with officers, soldiers, and horse bandits criss-crossing each other. Fighting shouts and wails were constantly intermingled. Horse and human corpses lay on the ground. Blood was mixed with the intestines and brains, and the bloody smell made people sick.
On the south side of the official road, Sun Dashan led about a dozen knights and broke through the cavalry formation of the bandits. He waved his big stick and roared: "Kill back, kill the thieves, kill the thieves..."
They turned their horses' heads and roared back again.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
There was another sound of three-eyed guns exploding.
Bai Shanzi swung his hatchet and chopped down two horse bandits in a row. Suddenly, a horse bandit on the opposite side fired a three-eyed gun. A knight beside him flew straight back, and a blood arrow spurted out from his chest.
The war horse under his crotch was also hit by the bullet. The horse rushed forward two steps crookedly before falling down suddenly.
Before the horse fell to the ground, Bai Shanzi jumped up and rushed behind a horse bandit. He clamped the horse's belly with his legs to prevent himself from falling off the horse. His left hand reached out and grabbed the horse bandit's face, and his right hand The short ax turned over, the ax blade turned inward, and struck the horse bandit's neck. As soon as the blood arrow burst out, the horse bandit lost his breath.
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NOTE: There is another chapter at noon!
