The rapid drum sounded suddenly in the forest.

Countless stone bombs shot out of the forest, and raindrops fell to the Ming army's vanguard team that stopped. This was naturally not a stone bomb shot by a special trencher. It was just a local material, using ropes to cut off the extra branches of trees of appropriate thickness, and then weave the crown into a pocket, and place the stone of moderate size in it. When firing, loosen the rope, the tree pole rebounded, and fired the stone bomb out. Such a stone's elastic force is far inferior to that of the trencher, and the distance is not far, but it is better than that of the dense one. Of course, even if it is just a few kilograms of stone, it is bounced to a distance of dozens of meters, and it will really hit a person, of course it will be either dead or injured.

There are no other trees and stones in this forest.

When the rock bullets that covered the sky and the sun flew over, more than 500 cavalry vans at the forefront were like wild bees with a beehive, and they scattered in a buzzing sound. Although there were dense forests and slopes around, they rode away without hesitation.

Riding a horse in the dense forest is their specialty, and it is also the reason why they were re-enlisted again.

The place where the forward became an open space instantly.

When the rock bullet fell, there were naturally many unlucky guys hit and knocked off the horse. Some people were motionless, while others were still struggling. At this moment, among the teams that were fleeing in various places, ropes flew up one by one. The injured people consciously raised their hands and grabbed the flying ropes. Those who were lying on the ground were covered there. In short, these people were pulled up and then landed on the horses of the knights who were flying back.

After a round of stone bombs, countless people shouted in the forest accompanied by the sound of war drums. The vast Qi army surged out from the woods. There were still many branches on their heads. It was no wonder that the hawk in the sky could not detect it at all.

After all, the harrier hawk is just an animal. It depends more on its own consciousness to find enemies. It has no analytical ability.

After the cavalry of the Ming army rushed into the forest, they neither retreated nor tried to regroup. Instead, they rode their horses deeper in the forest on both sides. Those who were injured and still alive were left in place. The injured people struggled to climb onto the horse's back. Of course, there were still those who were unfortunately dead on the horse's back, and they were running towards the central army.

When the vanguard was attacked, the central army stopped immediately. Although they were cavalrymen, they did not gallop forward and charged forward. Instead, they stopped. The knights in front of them jumped off the horse, took out a package from the horse's back, opened it, and took out pieces of steel pipe-shaped things. With their rapid movements, horse lances suddenly took shape. These people gathered together, erected the horse lances, and actually used themselves as infantry. Behind them, strong bows had been raised, and the arrows were shining with cold light. Unlike ordinary feather arrows, four small iron pipes were embedded on them, and a piece of lead was hanging down.

Behind them, the rear army did not rush to accelerate, but still advanced forward slowly. However, it had transformed from marching mode to combat mode, and there were already many sentry spies on both sides.

The battle did not break out from the Central Army first, but in the depths of the dense forest that no one could see, the shouts of killing suddenly rang out.

A famous mountain barbarian soldier was controlling horses and walking through the woods like spirit cats. While he was moving, he could even bend his bow and arrows and shoot at the opponent's cavalry who were approaching quickly in the forest. They were the mountain cavalry of Qi soldiers.

Obviously, the number of cavalry in Qi army was more than that of mountain barbarians, but the barbarians were not nervous at all. Those people rode horses in the forest were much clumsy than them, and they were better than those of them who had been urinating in the mountains and forests since childhood.

Feather arrows roared and went, more often than not, shot on the tree poles, but screams came from time to time. Compared with the barbarian cavalry, Qi army used soft bows. When this feather arrow was shot, it was useless to hit the best armor of the barbarian cavalry. On the contrary, the barbarian cavalry used the special ratchet strong bows made by the Ming army. Each arrow was shot with a whistling sound, nailed to the tree, half a foot into the wood, and the three-edged arrows were extremely sharp.

This ratchet strong bow was specially developed by the Ming army for cavalry. On horseback, people had to control horses and draw bows and arrows, and their waists and legs could not rely on force. This made it impossible for cavalry to pull out hard bows on horseback, and could only use soft bows. However, the hard bow with this ratchet hard bow is installed without much effort. With a slight pull, you can use the power of the mechanical scoop to pull the hard bow open.

This kind of strong bow is not very popular among the Ming army, because the Ming army is gradually eliminating archers, and a qualified archer is not so easy to cultivate. In the Ming army, they first used crossbow machines, and now they have begun to transition to hot weapons. With the start of mass production of the Ming Dynasty Style 1, archers withdraw from the stage of history, which is destined. Only these barbarians are special guys. They have been touching bows and arrows since they were young, but they really like this ratchet hard bow.

As the general of Qi army Sun Yang said, the Ming army was stronger than the Qi army, but in fact it was stronger than these equipment. The Ming people were always able to equip them with weapons that were more suitable for them according to actual needs and the specialties of the troops. Just like this kind of ratchet strong bow, there were also the socketed horse lances that the central army was using, and those longbows equipped with gunpowder weapons.

The cavalry on both wings took the lead in fighting. After several rounds of feather arrows, the cavalry on both sides fought in the forest. The battle between mountain cavalry and flat cavalry is completely different. What you have to do is not only fight with the enemy, but also fight with the ubiquitous forest. If one is not good, you will add people and horses to the tree. If the other is not good, you will be able to deal with it improperly, and the end of the body and head are different.

The number of barbarian cavalrymen is smaller, but they are obviously more suitable for this kind of combat. The flexible mountain horse control technology makes them feel like fish in water in the forest. Although the number of Qi soldiers is large, they are still unable to perform.

The so-called "just" is a game of chess, and it is like this. At the earliest, the Qi army's mountain cavalry had no temper at all, but later they met the barbarian cavalry, and the ones who had no temper became them. The ones who were brine and tofu were reduced to one thing, and this was the case.

The barbarians appeared and disappeared in the forest, showing their superb skills to their heart's content, and outside, the battle officially began.

"Light!" Looking at the Qi infantry rushing up, a Ming army officer ordered loudly.

The leads were ignited and burned, and there was no order to shoot, but the archers were still moving.

"shooting!"

With a command, dozens of such feather arrows were shot out, unlike the scattering shootings that were used by cavalry on the plains when they fought, but the shooting targets were very scattered at this moment.

The arrows did not move, but the movement was really not small.

The feather arrows that had landed or had not yet landed suddenly exploded. The fire suddenly appeared, and the small iron pipe looked very strong, but they completely shattered in the explosion, and the scattered fragments became deadly things.

From time to time, some people fell down screaming, and some people fell to the ground without saying a word. If those sharp little pieces hit a place like the head, they would basically be fatal to one blow.

"Ignite, shoot!"

The Ming army officer did not look at the results of the battle in front, but continued to order, so the second row of arrows shot out.

The rumbling explosions were heard endlessly.

After three rounds of arrows, the charge of Qi infantry group began to become sparse. Murong Hai pulled out the scimitar with a choke. The scimitar was unsheathed. The horse lances in front immediately put away the long horse lance, dismantled it neatly, and turned it onto the horse.

"Charge!" Murong Hai shouted loudly.

Hundreds of cavalry in the central army rushed up with a strange cry, leaving only hundreds of people in the rear camp, still on guard.

From time to time, wounded soldiers retreated from the forest, and immediately others pulled out their scimitars and rushed into the forest with shouts.

Murong Hai flexibly walked around a big tree and stabbed a Qi army off with one knife. The horses riding by the barbarians were small and not fast, but they were extremely flexible.

The sound of shouting for killing came everywhere in the dense forest. Murong Hai frowned slightly. This time it seemed different from the past. The Qi army no longer attacked tentatively at the touch, but instead was a real fight.

It seems that Guangyang City is really the bottom line of the Qi army.

This kind of head-on fight with Qi army is not what Murong Hai hopes to do.

After a while fighting, Murong Hai was even more sure that he felt good. With a sneer, he took out a whistle from his arms, put it in his mouth, and blew it continuously.

The barbarians who heard the whistle began to rush into the depths of the dense forest in small groups.

In such a complex environment, the most difficult thing to fight is to determine the enemy's position. Now that you already know the specific location of the Qi army, the next step is naturally the home court of these mountain tigers. First lure the enemy's cavalry and then lure them over, let them distance themselves from the main infantry force, clean them up first, and then chew the infantry step by step.

After fighting for so long, Murong Hai had roughly determined the enemy's strength.

Behind Murong Hai, the main infantry led by He Weiping was following the road after Murong Hai swept. Murong Hai was responsible for cleaning up possible ambushers in front of him, and the infantry of He Wei was the main force to attack Guangyang City. They carried a large amount of supplies, not only supplying themselves, but also needed to provide supplies to Murong Hai's troops.
Chapter completed!