The bows used by the Dai County crossbowmen are rare and exquisite long-slit horn bows, but the arrows shot are very different.

After all, Lu Yao only had a month in Dai County, and during this period, he had to worry about many things, and he was trying to make up for the Prime Minister's general affairs. In terms of arrows, in addition to urgently summoning craftsmen to create parts, he could only rely on the soldiers to find ways to make up for the number of them... This directly led to the variety of arrows, including sharp armor-breaking arrows, hollow and whistling sounds, as well as heavy arrows used by Hu's men, wide arrows, and even more strange-shaped arrows, and arrows made by themselves using discarded weapons fragments.

Among them, the largest number of heavy arrows are heavy arrows, and the one that caused the greatest losses to the Xianbei people was also the arrows.

The Hu tribe in the northern border has low production levels. In daily hunting and tribal battles, there are even bone arrows used as weapons. The bone arrows originated from ancient times. They only need to break the bone bones from them and then sharpen the wide and two ends, which become two arrows. After obtaining pig iron through trade with the mainland, most Hu tribes still like to make iron arrows into thick and heavy arrows, with wide and large blades on both wings, just like the form of primitive bone arrows. This kind of arrow is much heavier than the armor-breaking arrows of the Jin people. Although they lack penetration, they can cause huge wounds when dealing with bodies that cannot be armored. They can easily cut off the bones of the tendons and immediately deprive the person who is hit by the arrows.

The moment the Xianbei light cavalry passed by the Daijun chariot formation was enough for the crossbowmen to launch three volleys. Hundreds of heavy arrows rode on colorful tail feathers to fly to the Xianbei cavalry like dense flocks of birds by the water. Several knights closest to the crossbowmen fell to the ground immediately, and the knights behind had to snatch their horses to avoid them. In this way, their speed was even slower. Rows of arrows smashed them to the ground one by one like hail.

The ordinary Jin army had long collapsed after suffering such tragic losses, but the fierce character of the Xianbei people was in adversity, the more they were able to play. They turned around with the rainy arrows, took out the bows and arrows and shot them. With the excellent archery skills they had trained since childhood, the arrows they still shot almost straight towards the Daijun crossbowmen's face, and even contained special poisonous arrows. This poisonous arrow was made by applying gelatinous objects formed by mixing feces and urine onto the arrows. It not only smelled disgusting, but also easily caused the injured to ulcerate and die of pus.

This kind of arrow cannot be carried for a long time, so it is pitifully small, and its lethality will only be exerted after the war. However, during the battle, only three or five arrows are enough to force the enemy to dodge when facing all arrows, which gradually disintegrates the strict queue and the orderly volleys become scattered. In this moment, even the officers of the Dai County Army shouted, they could not stop the crossbowmen from becoming afraid.

The Xianbei people rose on the grassland after the Huns. I don’t know how many times they experienced a life-and-death war. The cruel competition has tempered every Xianbei man into excellent knights and archers. No matter how bad the situation is, they will never fall behind others in the road of bows and arrows, and can even make a comeback.

But the Dai County crossbowmen did not intend to shoot against them. With a drum sound in the chariot formation, all the crossbowmen suddenly fell and returned to the shield and the wooden wall of the chariot formation. Such defense was not something that the small-scale Xianbei archers in front of them could do. The Dai County crossbowmen rested leisurely under the cover, and some even took their hands out of the wooden wall leisurely and threw a poisonous arrow nailed to the wooden wall and threw it on the ground.

The Xianbei Light Cavalry, who had lost his opponent in an instant, shot a round at the layers of wooden walls, and could only put away the arrows in disappointment. As soon as he turned around, he saw the rising sand and dust covering the sky and the sun, and hundreds of cavalry rushed in.

Those Daijun elite cavalry who followed Liu Xia to attack. The Xianbei cavalry were divided into two groups and attacked from the left. Without hesitation, they chose the one close to their own front to rush over, and arrived just as the Xianbei people were attacked by arrow rain and lost their speed of running!

The number of Xianbei light cavalry was greater than that of the Dai County Army, but their troops were divided into two groups to encircle them. The group in front of them was ambushed by the Dai County Army, and the losses were very heavy. Only a hundred and dozens of cavalry could react in time to the impact of the Dai County cavalry.

The Dai County cavalry still used Liu Xia as the vanguard. The brave general rushed forward, and from a long spear to stab and swing him with a long spear in the distance, and from a small sword to kill him, like cutting off the unexpected Xianbei cavalry from the horse, and the blood splashed everywhere almost dyed him red. Compared with the loose formation of Xianbei people, the Dai County cavalry relied on the speed of the horse running wildly to exert the power of heavy weapons such as long spears and big swords to the extreme. This time the impact was like a destruction, and dozens of Xianbei people became wandering souls under the long spears in an instant, and the long sword that followed cut off the short bow that was wielding hard and took away the remaining lives.

The Dai County Army has repeatedly practiced the tactical battle of combining chariot formations, bows and cavalry short-range impacts, and the first battle was won. But victory was by no means without a price. In the fierce battle just now, the number of these cavalrymen was reduced by more than 30%, and many of the remaining people also had injuries of varying degrees. In order to avoid being chased by another team of Xianbei people, they did not dare to refuse to fight at all. "Retreat! Retreat!" Under Liu Xia's loud command, they shouted and beat the horses, galloped wildly, and quickly got rid of the entanglement of the remnants of the Xianbei people. Because they continued to advance along the momentum of this impact, they quickly returned along the several paths given out by the chariot formation, and the speed of retreating into the formation was much faster than when they came.

When another group of Xianbei light cavalry in the distance turned around in shock and anger to try to support, there were only Xianbei corpses left in front of the chariot. Several war horses that had lost their masters trotted back and forth worriedly, occasionally arching a certain torso in the pool of blood, making waves of wailing.

At this time, Xue Tong had led the soldiers of the headquarters to quickly fill the front army, and took over the entire chariot formation and the command of the crossbowmen and cavalry teams. Liu Xia returned directly to the central army.

In the battle just now, he was still inevitably injured. He was stabbed in the right hip bone. The wound was not big, but it was deep enough to the muscles and bones. The blood flowed down made the saddle red. He jumped off the horse and sprinkled a few handfuls of soil on the saddle to avoid being slippery and difficult to ride. Then he inserted the long spear to the ground forcefully, tearing off a piece of battle robe and bandaged it twice. After dealing with the wound, he took back the long spear and skillfully danced a few tricks. It seemed that the movement was a little bigger, and the wound was bleeding again, but Liu Xia nodded with satisfaction, as if he didn't feel any pain at all.

After completing this whole set of actions, he was able to ask: "General, what should I do next?"

Lu Yao said in a deep voice: "Don't be anxious. Wait a minute."

After all, the two armies fought close to each other for a short time, and the losses of the Youzhou army were not particularly heavy; the Dai County soldiers they killed by their numerical advantage were not a minority. However, the tried-and-tested light cavalry rushing technique was defeated after all, and this battle was undoubtedly the Dai County army gained the upper hand.

There were more than 1,500 remaining Xianbei light cavalry on the harassing mission at this time, and they were still able to fight in terms of military strength. However, they had exhausted a considerable degree of courage and physical strength, and they were circling around outside the range of the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Daijun Army, and were in a dilemma. If they continued to move forward, they seemed not to be able to achieve the expected results. And if they retreated... the Xianbei knights did not even dare to turn their heads and wait for the place where they were. Thinking about the cruel punishment of the Duan tribe to the losers, it seemed that the appropriate choice was to pluck forward and die on the spot.

The first step of the tactics that Duan Xianbei relied on to rampant northern borders was defeated. What should we do next? Such a battle situation was obviously beyond the expectations of the Youzhou army.

The sound of cow horns and whistles spread out for several miles in the enemy array arranged in huge arcs, and the soldiers were running around one after another. Since the morning mist had completely faded, from the location of Lu Yao and other generals, you can vaguely observe the Youzhou Army's main formation opposite. The tiny figures of the Youzhou generals seemed to be gesticulating and discussing something fiercely, but they have not issued the next order for a long time.

Everyone in the Dai County Army knew that this victory was not enough to affect the overall situation. The huge army of the Xianbei people was far from exerting its power. They would not retreat because of small setbacks. If they remained unmoved, they would have been like water piled up in a thousand-foot stream, and would have a thunderous momentum. The quiet battlefield was filled with a murderous aura. In the array of the Dai County Army, some experienced middle-level officers were running back and forth before the war reopened, cheering and encouraging the soldiers under their subordinates.

As expected by the soldiers of Dai County Army, after about a while, the Xianbei army took action again. This time, they used the main force, and the dark and unseen people were like thick clouds covering the sky. The tremor caused by the rushing and stomping on the ground caused by the tremors of the river!

"There are still light cavalry on both sides, probably to test whether there is any possibility of attacking our flanks through the river beach. And the central position..." Lu Yao murmured. Just in front of the Dai County Army, the Xianbei people rushed forward, and countless flags were waving, and the details were not clear. But such a mobilization of momentum would never be an ordinary harassment.

The enemy was getting closer and closer, but Lu Yao and Wei Cao both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and even showed a look of joy.

Wei Cao pointed in that direction, and continued the previous topic in time: "This is our chance to win! What does General Lu think?"
Chapter completed!