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The Black Armored Army passed in front of the Chu Army like a gust of wind, and the wind also brought a few intensive rain of arrows. The Chu Cavalry Army was shot dead and injured more than 100 people on the spot.

Where is Xiang Luo willing to stop there, now he ordered:

"Chasing, don't let them run away!"

The subordinates rushed to chase after him.

There were more than two thousand people who caught up in the first batch. This team was led by a military officer named Zhang Su.

Perhaps because of the large number of people, or perhaps because the Black Armed Forces are "escape", Zhang Xiu didn't feel scared at all, but was rather eager to do meritorious service.

So Zhang Xi led the cavalry and chased at full speed from the beginning.

When the Qin Shi cavalry fought against the cavalry, it was often taboo to be chased by the enemy.

Because being chased by the enemy is to be in the front, this will become the enemy's target, and the enemy can safely open the crossbow and aim at the rear.

If you are in the front and want to release an arrow, you have to turn back...not to mention that this turning movement is quite dangerous in the era without stirrups. It is still in the enemy's line of sight throughout the whole process. Avoid body.

So this is a situation that should be avoided as much as possible in riding warfare, as is car warfare.

Therefore, riding wars and car wars are more face-to-face rushing back and forth, or simply dismount and fight, even if you want to escape, you will leave a team behind the palace, instead of the current black armies. "Run away" ahead.

At this time, the more than two thousand Chu troops led by Zhang Xi were in a favorable position to catch up from the rear, so the morale of the Chu troops was high while firing crossbows and arrows while drinking and drinking.

However, it didn't take long for Zhang Xiu and the Chu army to realize that something was wrong.

The Chu cavalry was holding a crossbow, and the ballistic trajectory of the crossbow bolt was relatively straight, so the arrows could only be fired a few rows in front, and the trajectory would be blocked by itself.

With such a calculation, only a few hundred of the more than 2,000 people in the army can make a difference.

What made Zhang even more angry was... the black armor was very tightly armored. Not only did it have a big wheel-like hat-style helmet, but also a cloak. Only the forearm was exposed, and the back was also carrying a buckler.

The rattan armor is light, even with such a large area of ​​protection, the weight is still small.

So even if the Chu cavalry fired a crossbow arrow forward from a favorable position, it was like scratching a black armored army. The arrows were either nailed to the cane shield or could not penetrate and bounced to the ground.

Round vine shield is not as protective as square vine shield.

The reason why the round vine shield is used is because the cavalry has a small combat space on the horse and needs to maintain a balance. It is obviously inappropriate to carry a square shield that is too large.

The round rattan shield is woven into the frame with rattan rods, unlike the square rattan shield, which is usually criss-crossed.

There is a problem in the circle knitting. There is a large gap between the circle and the circle. If the arrow is inserted into the gap laterally, it may penetrate and be nailed to the buckler.

But this problem is not big, the reason is that this round vine shield is carried on the back of the black armor as an extra protection, and there is a layer of carapace under it.

If the situation is just like this, that's all right, the two armies are helpless with each other.

However, this is not the case...

The black armour uses a bow.

The biggest difference between a bow and a crossbow is that its trajectory is curved, which means that it does not have a blocking problem like a crossbow, so almost two thousand black armies can play a role. The arrow is a continuous wave of shooting. To follow the Chu Jun chasing afterwards.

Seeing this, Xiang Luo who followed could not help but gasp.

Xiang Luo was surprised because the Black Armored Army could not only put arrows on horseback, but also put arrows backwards, which was unprecedented in the Central Plains Cavalry War.

In fact, the Black Armored Army has also gone through months of hard training in order to possess this ability, and it is not "backward" in a substantial sense, but "backward" to release arrows.

This is somewhat like the tactics of the navy, that is, the black armour is divided into several teams and marches forward side by side. This team is responsible for shooting and killing the enemy forces behind the other team, and the enemy forces behind it are handed over to the friendly forces.

So "backward" becomes "backward" to release arrows, which is obviously much less difficult but can achieve the same combat effect.

Chu cavalry was wearing light armor...

This is the common ground of the cavalry in this era. Without stirrups, it means that it is impossible to wear heavy armor, otherwise it is impossible to mount and maintain balance.

So almost all cavalry only wear breastplate, which is to protect the vital parts of the chest, and most of them are lighter leather armor.

Although the area exposed to the Black Armored Army cannot be said to be large, it is much larger than the Black Armored Cane Armor.

As a result, the Chu cavalry continued to be shot off horses during the chase, and the result was that the less chasing, the less chasing, and the Chu cavalry only chased a few miles away, and it was half less.

Zhang Xi was shocked secretly, but when he thought that there were reinforcements behind him, he gritted his teeth and continued to chase him.

However, the guards beside him also fell a few times before shouting:

"Receive troops, retreat!"

"Return to Ruanqiao Town to join the main force!"

...

In fact, this is where the "recruitment" is, obviously it is to escape, and it is still frightened to escape.

Where was the Black Armored Army willing to let them go. Seeing that the Chu Army reined in his horse and turned his head, he also turned his horse's head to cover up from behind.

As a result, the pursuit of the enemy and us fell all the way, becoming the enemy fleeing and we chasing.

At this time, the Black Armored Army's advantage is even greater. As mentioned before, the cavalry on the run has almost no lethality... This is not true for the Black Armored, but it is for the Chu Cavalry.

At this time, the Chu Cavalry was a target, and the Black Armored Army was shooting forward, so the firing speed was faster and the bow was drawn more intensely. So the row of arrows rained over and the Chu Cavalry screamed and fell off the horse.

Zhang saw that the situation was not right, and if this continued, I was afraid that he would have been shot clean before escaping to Ruanqiao Town and meeting the main force.

Shouted again:

"There are two soldiers!"

Then he ran in the other direction with his guard alone.

Zhang Xi hopes to escape separately to get rid of a large number of black armies pursued.

This may be right, because Zhang Xiu and his guards are few in number, and may be treated as a rout and ignored.

But Zhang Suck was soon disappointed, and the Black Armed Forces then separated a small team to chase Zhang Suck and his guards alone.

Zhang Zhang gritted his teeth with hatred. All he could do was to throw arrows on the crossbow in his hand, and then turned around and shot.

Zhang Xi knew that the crossbow arrows could not hurt him, so he just vented his anger.

Unexpectedly, just as Zhang Slap turned around, an arrow swish across his face, and Zhang Slap was so frightened that he fell off his horse.

Before he could get up in a hurry, the Black Army rushed up...No one would stop because of this, even if the plumes on his helmet indicated that he was an officer.

So, one by one, horseshoes stepped on Zhang's back fiercely, and Zhang just hummed a few times before lying on the ground without a sound.

The guards panicked when they saw this situation.

As soon as the main commander died, their guards could not escape death even if they fled back, so they didn't know who was leading them, and they surrendered with their weapons.