Chapter 350 – A Failure Campaign
Tian Yu did not order his men to withdraw from the battle. Instead, he deployed a hit-and-run horse archer tactic against Wang Men's horse archers.
The crossbow arrows arrived at Wang Men's troops first, killing several hundreds of riders and a thousand horses in one volley.
Wang Men bellowed in anger, "Shoot back! Chase and shoot!"
Tian Yu also shouted, "Turn back and run! Retreat again!"
The surviving 4,500 horse archers released their arrows. The volley flew to the sky as they had predicted, but the result betrayed their expectation.
When shooting against a running away opponent, good archers usually predicted the target's movement and aimed ahead.
However, shooting on horseback was a difficult task even for elite soldiers. This skill required years of rigorous training and costs, so not every archer in Wang Men's troops were master bowmen.
