Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 253
"Why is the bow and crossbow of Li Fei's Anton army so powerful?" Jia Xun was shocked.

Compared with the anti-army soldiers in the army formation who were blocked by shields, Du Jile and nearly two thousand cavalrymen of the Xi nationality beside the army formation were not so lucky.

"Puff puff--"

The rain of arrows directly covered them, and at this moment, at least a hundred cavalrymen of the Xi clan were hit by arrows.

Even Du Jile himself had an arrow stuck in his thigh, causing Du Jile to scream in pain.

"Seeking death!" Lu Xin stared at Du Jile and other Xi tribe cavalry who were standing next to the Youzhou anti-army army, with a sneer on his face, these Xi tribe cavalry were basically dead!

If Du Jile and other Xi cavalry fled to the outer periphery before they encircled them, they could still fight with some of Anton's cavalry for a while, but they couldn't form an army formation, they didn't have shields, but they were fighting against the Youzhou rebel army. Together, letting Anton's iron cavalry encircle and attack is not courting death.

"shoot!"

"Deng deng deng-"

Another round of arrows was fired, and Lu Xin specially greeted Du Jile and other Xi tribe cavalry who were outside the Youzhou rebel formation.

This round, at least [-] arrows directly covered Xiang Du Jile and other Xi cavalry.

In such a dense rain of arrows, Du Jile and other Xi cavalry not only had no shields, but also no armor on their bodies, and the power of the crossbow was so powerful that a large number of Xi cavalry fell off their horses in an instant.

"Shoot again!"

"Thump, thump, thump—" Another round of arrow rain covered it.

Under the two rounds of intensive arrow rain, even if the cavalry of the Xi clan could escape, the horses they were sitting on were more or less hit by the arrows.

Nearly 1000 Xi cavalrymen were like targets. Under the three rounds of arrow rain, more than 600 people were killed or injured, and more than [-] people fell directly from their horses, and arrows were not uncommon.

"Ah!" Du Jile was hit by an arrow again, and screamed. The arrow directly pierced his left shoulder. Counting the arrow in his right thigh, Du Jile was completely useless. .

"It's trash!" Inside the army, Jia Xun witnessed Du Jile and other Xi cavalry being shot down like targets by Anton's iron cavalry, killing them heavily.

"Open a hole and let the Xi clan cavalry come in." Jia Xun couldn't just watch Du Jile and other Xi clan people being shot dead, so he ordered the army to open a hole to let the Xi clan cavalry hide in, so as to reduce the chance of being attacked by Anton's cavalry. The blow of Arrow Rain.

Although Du Jile and the remaining more than 1000 Xi cavalry were able to avoid the Youzhou rebel army, they basically lost their combat effectiveness and became Jia Xun's burden instead.

"Kill!" The Anton iron cavalry began to approach the Youzhou rebel army formation about ten meters away, and shot arrows at the Youzhou rebel soldiers in the army formation at close range, exerting the greatest power of the divine arm crossbow.

At a distance of more than ten meters, the arrows of the god arm crossbow can shoot through even heavy armor, let alone the wooden and iron shields in the hands of Youzhou rebel soldiers.

"Pfft!" A rebel soldier holding a shield was shot and killed by an arrow that penetrated the shield.

In the army formation, the anti-army archers also kept shooting at the approaching Anton cavalry.

"Pfft! Puff——" Some Anton iron knight soldiers also fell from their horses with arrows, and their armor was not enough to withstand ordinary bows and arrows shot from a distance of tens of meters, or even more than ten meters.

Of course, Anton's iron cavalry had the advantage in numbers and god arm crossbow after all, and the casualty ratio was almost one to three compared with the Youzhou rebels.

If the fight continues like this, the final victory will definitely belong to Anton's iron cavalry.

Inside the army formation, Jia Xun's face was so gloomy that it turned black. Anton's cavalry did not attack his army head-on, but consumed each other in this way. Moreover, he did not expect that the crossbow held by Anton's cavalry was so big. power.

Miscalculation!
After all, Jia Xun followed An Lushan for many years, and was reused by An Lushan because of his meritorious service. He became one of the generals under An Lushan's command. The situation is still understandable.

Victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists. Since if you continue to fight, you will not be able to defeat your opponent, but you will be in danger of a disastrous defeat. Then it is inevitable to retreat back to Youzhou and fight again in the future.

"Order, the whole army is going to the direction of Youzhou City, and retreat while fighting!" Jia Xun ordered.

Immediately, while the anti-army formation continued to fight back against the Anton Iron Cavalry that surrounded them to attack, they also continued to retreat towards Youzhou City.

"So you want to fight and retreat back to Youzhou City? Hehe, it's so hard to encounter such a field battle where all aspects of the situation are beneficial to my Anton Iron Cavalry. How can you allow you to retreat to Youzhou City so easily?" Li Fei looked. Out of Jia Xun's plan, he sneered.

Almost all of the Youzhou rebels are infantry, and the number is still smaller than his Anton cavalry. If the Youzhou rebels retreat back to Youzhou City with their bodies like this, he will never be reconciled.

"I still have Zhentianlei that I haven't used yet. I want to retreat to Youzhou City with my whole body. You can survive a round of 'bombing' from my Zhentianlei first." Li Fei smiled sadly, and then ordered the messengers to order Lu Xinhe Wu Sheng and the two asked them to prepare all the Zhentianlei that they brought with the army, and they would throw them into the Youzhou rebel formation later.

After receiving Li Fei's order, Lu Xin and Wu Sheng immediately passed on the order.

There are 2 Anton Iron Cavalry, and not everyone has Zhentian Lei. Only about 300 of them carry Zhentian Lei, three bundles per person.

After all, to put it bluntly, Zhentianlei is four super-sized firecrackers bundled together, or black powder, with limited power. The biggest function is actually to scare the enemy's war horses, so that the enemy's cavalry can't prevent the chaos, so that they can be defeated in one fell swoop. The enemy cavalry was defeated.

Nine hundred bundles of Thunderbolts were distributed to nine hundred Anton Iron Knight soldiers.

"嗞——" the fuse was ignited, and [-] Anton iron knight soldiers rushed from all directions to the Youzhou rebel army that was fighting and retreating.

"Still!" Nine hundred bundles of thunderbolts were densely thrown into the formation of the rebels in Youzhou.

"What is this?" In the anti-army formation, Jia Xun stared at the shocking thunder suddenly thrown by Anton's cavalry, confused.

He had never heard of this kind of white smoke, and he didn't know how lethal it could be.

Could it be that Li Fei is planning to use smoke to destroy our army formation?This is the only possibility that Jia Xun can think of.

He wanted to laugh a little, thinking that Li Fei was too ridiculous, even if he wanted to use the 'smoke attack', at least get something with thicker smoke, this little bit of smoke could be stamped out by his soldiers with one foot.

Just when Jia Xun thought it was ridiculous and really had a smile on his face, nine hundred bundles of thunderbolts fell into his anti-army formation from all directions one after another, and one bundle fell on a place not far away from him. place.

Jia Xun didn't take it seriously, sneered and wanted to stamp out the white smoke with his own feet.
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(End of this chapter)