"You are so bold! You are so impatient to live!"
Zhang Hong was stunned.
Whenever they went to plunder the villages before, everyone saw them coming like locusts and fled in panic.
The wealthy man in the village wanted to buy his life with money and food, but Zhang Hong chopped off his head without mercy and burned down his manor.
The women of wealthy families were captured by them and brought into their group to be played with and enjoyed at any time.
As for the common people and refugees, they would join the rebel army without hesitation as long as they were given a bowl of rice.
Zhang Hong's tactic worked every time, and his team grew like a snowball.
He had long known that the village in front of him was a big village. If he could take it, the number of soldiers under Zhang Hong would be expanded to a thousand, and he would immediately become a force to be reckoned with in front of Li Jingang.
Everything that was lost before can be taken back immediately.
However, how could he not be surprised that this village actually sent troops to fight?
"Let me see who are the ones who are not afraid of death!"
Zhang Hong led his men and hurried forward, and immediately saw who the person was.
A charging squad consisting of seventeen war horses shot towards them like arrows.
"Just a dozen or so people dared to attack, they're courting death! Their warhorses are mighty strong, capture them all!"
Zhang Hong saw the opponent's warhorse at a glance, and his eyes were full of greed.
Li Jingang gathered a crowd of 30,000 people. Except for the cavalry who was the leader, the rest were all infantry.
If these ten or so war horses were captured, wouldn't Zhang Hong become even more arrogant and proud in front of other leaders?
These people probably have never seen a cavalry charge, and have little idea of the power of cavalry.
Upon hearing Zhang Hong's order, the rebels howled like wild beasts and attacked Zhao Muyun and others with various weapons including steel forks, wooden sticks, broadswords, spears, etc.
They felt that with so many people on their side, it would be like ants biting an elephant. No matter how strong the enemy was, they would be defeated.
Soon, they paid a heavy price for their ignorance!
"shoot!"
The rebels had no bows and arrows, and were unable to suppress Zhao Muyun and his men from a distance.
This made the charge on horseback by Zhao Muyun and others very smooth.
When they were one hundred and fifty steps away from the rebel vanguard, Zhao Muyun shouted angrily and took off the compound bow on his back.
Just an hour ago in the valley, Zhao Muyun and Wang Tiezhu, relying solely on the improved compound bows in their hands, managed to defeat Li Runjin and the one hundred men he brought with him to encircle Bai Ruolan.
Without any close combat, Li Runjin was shot and injured, and his fighting ability was lost.
Now, if there are seventeen people on horseback, each holding a compound bow, it is hard to imagine what kind of power it would be.
Following Zhao Muyun's order, seventeen arrows shot out like meteors with a bang.
These scouts have long since mastered horsemanship in their scouting, and can shoot arrows steadily on horseback.
Ahhhh!
Screams were heard, and seven or eight rebels fell to the ground.
Before the rebels could react, another wave of arrows came, and then another seven or eight people fell.
"This... this must be a retainer from some wealthy family in the village! He must have retired from the army, otherwise how could he have such superb archery skills on horseback?"
"But it doesn't matter. We have more people, and their arrows will eventually run out. As long as they get close, it will be our turn to take charge!"
When Zhang Hong saw this situation, he immediately comforted himself in his imagination.
However, the enemy's arrows seemed to have eyes and continued to harvest the heads of the rebels.
When Zhao Muyun and others had rushed halfway, at least five rounds of arrows had been fired, and thirty or forty people had fallen to the ground.
Seeing their companions fall down like this, it was impossible for the rebels not to panic!
They also worried that they would be the one to fall under the arrow.
But the only thing to do now is to get closer quickly.
However, when Zhao Muyun was halfway through the journey, he suddenly turned his horse's head and cut across the rebel army from the side.
He wouldn't be stupid enough to rush into the crowd.
The cavalry's tactic against the infantry is to fly a kite.
Maintain a certain shooting distance from the infantry, and constantly use arrows to wear down the enemy's will and manpower.
This is also the tactic that the Tatars are best at.
In response to the Tatars' tactics, during the previous battle of Shuozhou, Fan Nan, who was the commander-in-chief, was also afraid of the Tatars' tactics. He would never fight the Tatars in the field, but would adopt the strategy of luring the enemy deep into their territory and using the terrain and cities to ambush the Tatars in order to win the war.
Unfortunately, plans could not keep up with changes, and a chain reaction of various factors led to Fan Nan's defeat and failure.
Now, Zhao Muyun has learned and applied the Tatars' tactics to deal with these rebels.
"They ran away! Hahaha!"
"It seems they are still afraid of us!"
"There are only a few of them, yet they dare to attack us. They really don't know that the Horse King has three eyes!"
“…”
Seeing Zhao Muyun and his men turning to retreat horizontally, the leaders around Zhang Hong burst into laughter.
Zhang Hong also laughed heartily and shouted, "Brothers, don't let them get away! Capture their horses and I will reward you handsomely!"
"Charge, kill!"
Encouraged by Zhang Hong and others, the rebels who had just been frightened suddenly became courageous again. They danced and shouted loudly as they chased after Zhao Muyun and others.
snort!
With Wang Tiezhu's cold snort, they turned around on their horses, drew their bows and arrows, and attacked one after another.
Another round of screams rang out, and more than ten people fell down at once.
It turned out that when they chased each other like this, everyone suddenly became focused.
Wang Tiezhu and his men didn't even need to aim; they could shoot people with their eyes closed.
Back away and shoot arrows!
Round after round, after only four rounds of arrows, forty or fifty rebels fell.
Zhang Hong was dumbfounded!
Only then did he realize that he had met a tough opponent. The opponent was able to use the mobility of the cavalry so flexibly to reap lives. He was not someone else's generals at all, but Dayin's well-trained cavalry.
There aren't many cavalrymen in Yanzhou Zhechoufu?
Where did they come from?
A big question mark popped up in Zhang Hong’s mind.
But what made him sad was that nearly a hundred people in the team of more than 600 people he had just recruited with great effort had died in an instant.
How could he bear such a huge loss?
If the other side attacks us a few more times, won’t we be back to the days before liberation?
"Don't chase them, head straight for the village!"
Zhang Hong woke up as if from a dream and shouted angrily at his men.
The group of people under his command also woke up instantly, stopped hurriedly, turned around and rushed towards the village.
“It’s a nice thought, but it’s not that easy!”
"Shoot five more rounds of arrows on the flank, leaving ten arrows, and then enter the village defense."
Zhao Muyun calmly observed everything before him. After giving his orders, he murmured, "I think by the time we've fired all our arrows, Captain Du's troops should be here too!"
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