Chapter 970 Arrows are like rain
The Yueqi Battalion attacks on a surface that is several miles wide. Within the distance of this arrow, each cavalry can shoot three to four arrows. The cavalry in the front row can use small angles to shoot, while the cavalry in the back row uses large angles to shoot.
Because the Sima army's formation was quite dense, the Vietnamese cavalry did not need to aim at it at all, and they just raised their hands to shoot. As long as they shot arrows in this direction, they would be almost gone.
Almost every arrow can cause casualties to the Sima army. The worst Sima Bing was hit by a dozen arrows and almost shot him into a hedgehog. Such high efficiency is simply terrifying. The Vietnamese cavalry only needs to focus on how to shoot the arrow faster, and there is no need to worry about whether it can hit it.
In a short period of time, the Yue cavalry had shot three or four arrows in a row, and the fastest people even shot as many as five arrows. In other words, in such a short period of time, the Yue cavalry camp had shot tens of thousands of arrows into the Sima army's position, as dense as a sudden rain, pouring towards the Sima army.
Sima Jun was completely stunned. Faced with the dense rainy arrows, they had almost nowhere to hide. Many people could only jump off the war horses and hide behind the war horses. They were pitiful to those mounts, who were ridden by others when they were alive, and had to act as shields when they died.
As a result, Sima Jun's formation was in chaos. In order to avoid arrow rain, all kinds of defense methods were used. The originally deployed rifle formation has long been out of shape.
Until now, Sima Jun has not understood the taste. How could the cavalry rushing to the formation have become a scattered arrow? How could there be so many cavalry masters in the Bingzhou army? Judging from this stance, ten thousand cavalrymen are obviously good at cavalry and shooting.
This completely subverts their cognition. You must know that riders who can ride and shoot are originally rare talents. They cannot be said to be one of them in a thousand, but at least one of them will appear among hundreds of people. For example, in the Sima army, those with riding and shooting ability are regarded as treasures, and at least they can easily get to the level of team leader Dubo.
And in the Yueqi Camp, such riding and shooting masters are everywhere, how can Sima Jun's riding and shooting masters feel?
The Sima Army cavalry had a record of fighting with the Yue Cavalry Battalion, that is, among Shangdang, the Yue Cavalry Battalion was just an ordinary cavalry at that time, with richer combat experience and stronger combat power, but it was definitely not as outrageous as today.
In just two or three years, the Yueqi Battalion underwent such a complete transformation. In contrast, the Sima Army's cavalry, except for the increase in the number of people, did not improve at all in terms of combat effectiveness. Even due to the increase of a large number of new recruits, the combat effectiveness did not increase but decline. The combat capability of individual soldiers is probably a world of difference from that of the Yue cavalry.
Although the Sima Army's defense line was already full of holes and was hit by the rain of arrows, the Yueqi Camp did not rush to break the formation. Instead, it rushed forward and did not continue to detour to both sides, leaving the middle position for the subsequent cavalry to continue firing arrows.
After the Yueqi Camp became archers, medium and long-distance attacks became their strengths, so when attacking, the Yueqi Camp did not rush up directly to fight with the enemy cavalry, but deliberately maintained a relative distance and took turns to attack with arrows.
This kind of attack method with zero casualties is naturally Deng Ai's first choice tactic. Since the Yueqi Battalion has the ability to strike in medium and long range, he will definitely not easily throw the Yueqi Battalion into close combat with close combat, maintaining the medium and long range attack method, and using bows and arrows to kill the enemy's living power is naturally the best way Deng Ai has chosen at present.
As for whether the Yueqi Battalion is involved in close combat, it needs to be made according to the situation of the battle. It is too early to talk about this.
The attack method of Yueqi Battalion made Man Bing, the leader of the Sima Army's right wing battalion, go crazy.
Last time, the Cavalry Camp easily broke through the defense line and was severely injured, Man Bing learned from his mistakes and decided to learn from his lessons and use the lancers to build a solid defense line to avoid repeating the same mistakes again.
The direction of the Bingzhou Army's ambush this time was actually the right-wing camp led by Man Bing. Could it be that the Bingzhou Army regarded him as a soft persimmon that could be kneaded at will?
Although Man Bing was very angry, he was well prepared this time. If the Bingzhou Army really chose to break through from him, he would definitely not be able to eat any good results.
Man Bing seemed to be full of confidence in this, and he still thought this way until Bingzhou rushed to an arrow.
But when the Vietnamese cavalry shot out arrows, Man Bing realized that he had fallen again this time. The lancers had very strong defense capabilities in resisting the impact of the opponent's cavalry. However, they had no resistance and no protection capabilities against the archers. On the battlefield, they were just living targets standing there, and they could only let others attack, without any power to fight back.
Man Bing wanted to fight back, but he didn't have many good riding and shooting players under him. Most of the cavalry were not equipped with bows and arrows. They couldn't use it anyway. If they wanted to fight back with bows and arrows, they wouldn't have the ability at all.
What's more, the archers and cavalry of the Bingzhou Army are now aiming at the Sima Army's cavalry and archers to attack. Whoever dares to emerge and counterattack at this time will definitely be blown up by the Bingzhou Army as soon as possible.
Whoever dares to shoot an arrow will be immediately retaliated by the Bingzhou Army's ten times arrows. If the gun strikes the bird, whoever dares to make the first move will die the fastest at this time.
Man Bing felt so miserable. Last time he was beaten up by the Xiaoqi Camp, and this time he was beaten up by the Yueqi Camp, so why is he always unlucky every time?
Of course, Man Bing was also very unwilling to accept it. After all, his father Man Chong was also a famous general in the Wei State. The Man family was also a pillar of the court. When did he fight such a cowardly battle and suffer such a frustrating loss?
So, after thinking about it over and over again, Man Bing decided to send troops to counterattack. Now the Bingzhou army deliberately kept a distance and only launched long-range attacks? Then the Sima army only needs to send troops and horses to face the wind and drag the Bingzhou army into close combat, which may be able to reverse the current unfavorable situation.
Any team with strong long-range attack power has average melee capabilities. After all, any army is not omnipotent. Bingzhou Army sends troops that are good at long-range attacks, which means that such an army is not good at melee combat.
This is probably the last chance for the right-wing battalion. As long as they can seize the opportunity and attack decisively, they may receive unexpected results.
Chapter completed!