Chapter 138 White Horse vs. Iron Cavalry
Xiliang Iron Cavalry "HP-1, HP-1, HP-1"
Baima Yicong "miss, miss, miss"
In the first encounter, Gongsun Zan and his White Horse Volunteers emptied their entire pot of arrows. According to his previous experience in Youzhou, the opponent had been pierced like a hedgehog, and now he could go and reap the remaining damage.
When Gongsun Zan and his White Horse Volunteers approached the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Li Jue and others pretended to be dead and suddenly launched an attack.
"It's been stabbed like a hedgehog but it's still not dead!" Gongsun Zan was shocked. Tens of thousands of arrows had no effect.
He clearly saw that the cavalrymen on the opposite side were all pierced by arrows, and the leader had at least dozens of arrows in his body, but he was fine.
Gongsun Zan had originally planned to sacrifice some of his troops, but when he saw the sudden attack by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, he almost laughed to death.
"Is this the cavalry?"
Bai Ma Yi perfectly avoided the Xiliang Iron Cavalry with a drift, and then quickly distanced himself from them.
"Is this cavalry?" Li Jue was stunned. The Baima Yicong less than a hundred meters in front of him turned into a shadow and slipped away from his sight. He watched his attack hit the air.
Zhang Xiu reached out and pulled out the arrows from his body, but they didn't even penetrate his lining. Under the dual effects of defense and repulsion, the attack of the White Horse Volunteers was like a tickle.
"Is this the battlefield of my uncles? It's really terrifying."
Zhang Xiu finally set out on his expedition, and his first battle was against such a helpless opponent.
He had thought the battle was over just now. The speed at which tens of thousands of arrows were shot from the opposite side was truly terrifying.
Of course he was not afraid as his internal energy could leave his body, but he was worried about the loss of the troops he had just acquired.
When he turned around, he saw that except for the dozens of arrows stuck in his body, only a few of his men were hit by arrows, and no one was injured.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry has a first talent of defense and a second talent of force field. They can wear leather armor to give off the effect of iron armor.
As for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who pretended to be cavalry but were actually mounted heavy infantry, the Baima Yicong were more likely to kill them with arrows than with guns.
Gongsun Zan circled around the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and confirmed that they could not deal with these guys in front of them.
"General, should we go around them?" Yan Gang asked. It was had seen such an army. Their speed was terribly slow, and their defenses were also terribly thick. It seemed that they had no way to deal with these iron turtles.
"They are heading towards our camp. They must be here to block us on purpose. If we bypass the camp, the infantry and food supplies in the camp will be gone." Gongsun Zan was in a dilemma, as the other side was clearly here to intercept him.
Although they could bypass it directly, considering the opponent's defense , they might not be able to defend their garrison camp.
"Let's stay here. The other side doesn't want to fight with us. The order they received should be to tie us down." Gongsun Zan said calmly while sitting upright on his horse.
If the Youzhou noble family had not promised to help him drive away Liu Yu, he would not have gotten involved in this mess.
It's not that he is completely helpless against the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The four thousand white horses he brought this time have eight hundred guards. If he increases the speed, there is still hope of killing the enemy bit by bit. However, the cost is too high and he is not willing to waste his troops here.
Li Jue and others looked at each other in bewilderment. They had already seen that the white cavalry on the opposite side was very fast and was exactly their nemesis.
Without Feixiong, they had no way to deal with the opponent.
Fortunately, the other side estimated that they were going to dismantle the camp directly and were willing to hold each other back here, otherwise they would not be able to stop the white horse.
"Let's go back and talk to Military Advisor Chen to see if we can get some crossbow arrows. It's not a good idea to just passively take the beating and not be able to fight back." Fan Chou muttered, but he felt there was no hope.
When Li Ru trained them, he only gave them a horse and a set of white equipment, and they had to snatch the rest on their own.
If Chen Xi hadn't told them before, when he said he was going to change their equipment, that they could come to him if they needed anything in the future, Fan Chou wouldn't even have had this idea.
"Don't even think about the crossbows. I haven't touched them yet, and I don't know how many bows and arrows Advisor Chen can give me. I hope I can get a thousand bows and arrows. If not, a thousand blank bows will do."
Hearing Fan Chou's mumbling, Guo Si rolled his eyes. He still wanted a crossbow, but he had never touched that thing.
The Han Dynasty had no shortage of blank weapons. Any county could produce a lot of blank weapons. After all, they only required a small amount of iron to make.
However, items like bows and arrows and armor are still rare items, and even blank ones are very valuable.
To put it bluntly, blank weapons are just toys for playing house. At most, they can provide a level of proficiency in the weapons, and their lethality is impressive.
The only equipment that could truly be called equipment were green equipment. After fighting wars for so many years, their Xiliang Iron Cavalry had barely managed to gather enough green equipment.
Some of the leather armor had big holes on them, but they were reluctant to throw them away and wore them like treasures.
Before, Feixiong had changed into a new green outfit, which made them very envious. In order to grab the equipment that Feixiong had eliminated, they had a fierce fight, and in the end they couldn't decide the winner and had to divide it in a tie.
Because of these equipments, they could never raise their heads in front of Lu Bu, because only Lu Bu and Zhao Yun could quickly maintain the equipment and upgrade the white equipment to green equipment.
When they were changing equipment in the formation, they secretly took away a lot of it. It didn't look good, but it was much better than the blank equipment.
They took the equipment that Lu Bu had worked so hard to make, and they felt a little guilty when speaking in front of Lu Bu.
"Don't think about it. Just delay for time. I guess we won't get anything today. He even said he would take Xiu'er to see the world. I should have let Xiu'er follow Boss Hua."
Zhang Ji pounded his chest angrily. He had originally planned to lead his nephew to achieve great things, but he didn't expect that the first battle would be so frustrating.
"How about letting Xiu'er go up and fight with the generals?" Li Jue suddenly had an idea and thought of a way to let Zhang Xiu stand out.
There was nothing they could do. They were a bunch of rough guys and only had one descendant, Zhang Xiu, who was a promising one at that. He might be the future successor of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. It would not sound good to tell others that they had done nothing in their first stop.
"Xiu'er, are you confident?" Zhang Ji turned his gaze to Zhang Xiu. He truly treated this nephew as his own.
"I will definitely live up to my uncle's expectations."
"I am Zhang Xiu from the north, who wants to fight me?"
Zhang Xiu rode his horse ahead with full confidence and went forward to provoke. He was a master at the level of internal energy leaving the body. He might be immature in leading troops in battle, but when it came to a one-on-one duel, he was very confident.
Gongsun Zan narrowed his eyes but did not refuse. It was indeed a bit boring to just wait, and letting his men go up and fight would also be a way to test the other party's strength.
"Yan Gang, go ahead and teach that brat a lesson."
Yan Gang was a man with great internal energy and was a wild man. It was simply a dead end for him to meet Zhang Xiu, who was personally trained by the gun prodigy Tong Yuan.
Zhang Xiu defeated Yan Gang in just ten rounds and won his first victory on the battlefield.
