By the Si River.
"Quick, line up!"
"Cavalry, spread out to both sides. The spearmen will charge forward and place their spears on their shields!”
"Don't be afraid. They only have a thousand cavalrymen at most, which is even fewer than us. Moreover, they can't be of much use in such a small area!”
"As long as we can take down that Great Qin General, regardless of whether he lives or dies, we will reward him with 100,000 gold coins!”
"If we can't get out, we'll both die here!”
After all, he was a veteran who had followed his father Xiang Yan through many battlefields. After the initial panic, Xiang Liang still recovered a little strength and shouted loudly to organize himself.
In order to speed up, Xiang Liang had even organized a supervision team of dozens of people. As long as they did not follow the order to charge forward, no matter who it was, they would be directly hacked to death!
After killing more than ten people in a row, the Xiang army, which had been scattered, was finally regrouped and arranged into formation again.
"Not bad, you do look like one!"
"Unfortunately, your understanding of cavalry is outdated!”
Ying Changfeng waved the lance in his hand, and the one-thousand cavalrymen who had been charging at full speed suddenly split into two groups. They changed from the arrow formation, which was most suitable for frontal charge, to the curved formation, which was most suitable for riding archery.
"How is this possible?"
"Such a narrow path, such a short distance, how did he manage to turn around so nimbly in the middle of the charge without being thrown away?”
Xiang Liang's eyeballs were about to fall out.
After all, he was Xiang Yan's disciple who had once commanded hundreds of thousands of Chu troops. Although Xiang Liang himself was not good at cavalry, he had more or less studied the ways of cavalry combat.
However, no matter which cavalrymen, including the Prairies people who grew up on horseback, the first problem they faced when charging into battle was how to not fall off their horses.
If they were to fall off their horses, even if they didn't fall to their deaths, they would be trampled into meat paste by the other warhorses that had no time to adjust.
Therefore, even the Xiongnu needed to maintain a considerable distance when charging in groups, and they would always pay attention to speed and formation.
Unless it was a life-and-death situation, they did not dare to sprint at full speed like the Long Wind Army.
The cavalrymen of the various countries, including the Qin army, were far inferior to the Prairie people in terms of riding. In a battle between armies, they usually only played a secondary role in scouting and chasing.
This was also the reason why Xiang Liang was not too afraid of Ying Changfeng's cavalry.
But now, in a real fight, the flexibility of the enemy cavalry had far exceeded Xiang Liang's imagination.
However, what made Xiang Liang even more shocked and even desperate was still to come!
"Ready, release the arrows!"
Under the astonished gazes of the Xiang army, the hundred or so Qin cavalrymen dashed to a distance of about 300 steps away from the Xiang army. They then raised their crossbows that were half the height of a human!
"Sou!"
"Sou!"
"Sou!"
Hundreds of crossbow bolts streaked across the air and were ruthlessly thrown into the Xiang Army formation, bringing with them a rain of blood.
The distance of three hundred steps was already very difficult for other crossbows, but for the improved version of the Divine Arm Crossbow that Ying Changfeng had drawn, it was nothing.
The crossbows, which were as thick as a baby's arm and more than five feet long, had an astonishing penetrating power. They easily broke through the leather armor and even the wooden shields of the Xiang soldiers, nailing them to the ground in a line!
"This is too terrifying!"
"What kind of cavalry crossbow is this? Its power is not inferior to a siege crossbow!”
"And from the looks of it, it seems to be able to shoot continuously!”
"Even a shield can be shattered. How can we fight?”
"Forget it, let's run first!"
"But!"
"There's no buts. Didn't you see that more than half of the supervising team was shot to death just now? If we don't leave now, it'll really be too late!”
Looking at the miserable deaths of their comrades, all the Xiang soldiers felt their scalps go numb. They did not have much fighting spirit to begin with, but it had completely dropped to the freezing point. Some of the timid ones even began to sneak away.
On the other side, the Qin cavalry had already retreated to the rear and began reloading their ballista bolts. The hundreds of cavalry armed with bows and arrows advanced in batches. When they were about a hundred paces away from the Xiang army, they fired round after round of arrows at the Xiang army.
Although their lethality was far inferior to the God Arm Crossbows from before, their numbers were far superior.
In the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, each of the Qin cavalry had fired at least ten specially made heavy arrows.
Ever since he had destroyed the Residence of Confucius, Ying Changfeng had become the richest person in Great Qin, and he naturally treated his trusted subordinates as well as he could.
These riding bows, which had been improved by Ying Changfeng, as well as the special bows and arrows made of refined iron, not only made their shooting more accurate, but also had a considerable lethality even at a distance of one hundred steps.
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