Chapter 82: Besieged on the Peak
"Okay, let's see what the Xianbei people are going to do first. I guess they will try to attack twice before dark." Huang Zhong said;
Sure enough, after thinking for a while, the commander immediately arranged for four centurions to attack the top of the hill where Huangfu Chaobo and the others stayed. However, the terrain limited the Xianbei people to only about a hundred people coming up at a time, and if there were more, they would not be able to spread out.
Several centurions stopped at the 500-step foot of the mountain. Several centurions discussed it and decided to send two centurions to try first. So two centurion cavalry ran up the mountain with scimitars, bows and arrows in their hands. A group of eight people immediately arrived behind the first earthen wall. Huangfu Chaobo clenched the bow and arrow in his hand, and it took him a long time to calm down. Huang Zhong said from the side: "My lord, look, our terrain is nearly four feet higher than theirs. The range of ordinary bows and arrows is usually 60-70 steps, but now we can increase the range to nearly a hundred steps. And they are shooting from the back, when they are at a hundred paces, their bows and arrows are not very lethal to us, but once they enter about 50 paces, then we have to be careful."
"Well, I see." Huangfu Chaobo responded;
I saw everyone standing behind the earthen wall, and took out twenty more arrows from the quiver, and stuck them where they could easily reach them with their right hands. Huangfu Chaobo did the same.
Two hundred Xianbei cavalry yelled strangely and drove their horses towards the hill. It didn't take long to reach a distance of two hundred paces.
Dugutian laughed beside him and said: "Haha...a good show will be staged soon..."
The Xianbei cavalry originally heard that the centurion who came earlier said that the opponent had a sharpshooter who could shoot arrows without fail at 200 paces. , All of a sudden, I thought in my heart that those Han dogs must have been frightened by my more than 200 horses, and now they all seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, barking wildly and rushing towards the mountain bag.
One hundred and fifty steps. . .
Seeing that the hundred paces was about to be reached, the Xianbei cavalry became even more frightened, thinking that they would be able to show their power by cavalry and shooting at one hundred paces, and two hundred people could kill the Han dogs on the mountain bag with just one round of arrows.
One hundred and twenty steps.
The Xianbei cavalry had their bows and arrows ready. . .
Seeing that it was about to reach a hundred steps, the Xianbei cavalry were all ready to shoot arrows, and everyone on the mountain was also ready.
One hundred steps. . .
"Shoot..." The Xianbei centurion hadn't finished speaking yet. One of the Xianbei cavalry's horses stepped into the horse pit.
"what..."
"thump..."
"thump..."
Then, people fell off their horses one after another, and the Xianbei people realized that there were traps and pits on the ground. The one in front quickly reined in the horse, but the one behind didn't know it, and was still rushing forward, so the two groups quickly collided.
"boom..."
"what..."
"Don't stop the one in front, go ahead... ah..."
"There is a horse trap, the ones behind stop quickly..."
For a moment, people turned their backs on their backs, and it was very lively, but everyone on the mountain didn't have the heart to watch the excitement, they picked up the bows and arrows in their hands and shot down.
"Whoosh..."
"what..."
"Yeah. I shot one...haha..." Seeing that he had been hit by an arrow, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help shouting from the sidelines.
Huang Zhong and the others ignored him and continued to shoot down. This is a rare opportunity. There is a mess below, and there are no arrows to shoot up the mountain.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
A few rounds of arrows went down, and the Xianbei cavalry halfway up the mountain immediately had more than 20 people who went directly to meet their Sirius God. Some had broken their feet, and a few unlucky ones were directly crushed by horses.
If there is no help for a horse weighing several hundred kilograms, they will never think about climbing out from under it by themselves. In a short time, the Xianbei cavalry of the two centurions had nearly fifty casualties, and lost twenty or thirty horses. The cavalry behind finally reacted, turned their horses and ran back. At this time, Huang Zhong began to chase the opponent's back and shoot again. The Xianbei cavalry didn't stop until they retreated more than two hundred steps away. The two centurions saw that they understood the centurion in front. Why a dozen people were lost in one face-to-face meeting. My two hundred people retreated before they reached the range of my bow and arrow. Even so, my two hundred people lost nearly sixty people, and there were still about thirty war horses. It seems that it is impossible to suppress by riding and shooting on the horse.
The thousand commander and several other centurions at the foot of the mountain have been watching the attack of the two centurions. When they first saw that more than two hundred people rushed to the range of more than a hundred steps, everyone was relieved. As long as you get within the range of the bow and arrow, no one in the world can stop the Xianbei warrior's riding and shooting. Several centurions even sneered at the centurion in front of them, but that one didn't answer, just laughed secretly in his heart, you will know how powerful those Han dogs are later. Sure enough, before the Xianbei warriors here opened their bows, they were already turned on their backs, and retreated before the battle, and they had lost fifty or sixty people on their side.
Seeing this, the whole group took a breath of air.
At this time, halfway up the mountain, dozens of wounded war horses were lying on the ground neighing non-stop, mixed with the groans and shouts of Xianbei people, and it suddenly became much more lively.
Huangfu Chaobo was about to go out to kill all the Xianbei people who did not die, but was stopped by Huang Zhong: "My lord, wait a moment, the Xianbei people are going to attack again."
Huangfu Chaobo saw that it was not the case. Several centurions wanted to retreat, but they were afraid that the centurion would scold them. After discussing it, they decided to let everyone dismount and walk to attack again. So the two complete centurions dismounted, took their own weapons, and attacked towards the mountain.
"Hee hee...The bow-legged legs are still dismounting and fighting on foot, aren't you courting death?" Huangfu Chaobo said to Huang Zhong with a smile;
It is well known that the nomads are naturally bow-legged, so their pace is very slow. In addition, there are obstacles they put up a hundred steps away, dozens of horses and dozens of Xianbei The corpses of the cavalry and those who were wounded made it more difficult for them to walk.
Seeing that the Xianbei people were about to jump over the horses and corpses, when Huangfu Chaobo was about to shoot, Huang Zhong said: "Young master, wait a little longer, let more people come in, and leave them all behind."
Huangfu Chaobo thought so too. He was slow when he came, but if he was attacked, he would be even slower when he retreated. When nearly fifty of them passed the pile of corpses, Huang Zhong shouted: "Shoot..."
Just raise your hand and go out with an arrow
"Whoosh."
"thump..."
A Xianbei fell in response.
The other seven people immediately followed suit and shot the arrows in their hands.
For a while, arrows flew in front of the Xianbei people non-stop, and only the shouts from the mountainside could be heard one after another. Although there are only eight of Huangfu Chaobo and the others, they are military generals, and everyone's archery is above the intermediate level, and they are condescending. Except for Huangfu Chaobo and Hu Yanda's accuracy, the others are basically the same. One arrow, especially Huang Zhong and Hu Yandu, the Xianbei people who were brought down by them were basically killed with one arrow.