After Cao Cao promoted to Duke Wei, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, which originally belonged to the Guard of the Prime Minister, moved into the central military system of the Duke of Wei. In order to cooperate with the rapid expansion of the Duke of Wei, the scale of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry has expanded a lot, and it is no longer possible to select members from the hundreds of generals who have outstanding military achievements like that. However, their equipment and training level are still far behind the crowd.
These cavalrymen all wore iron armor and helmets painted with beast patterns, and even war horses were wearing leather armor. Some even used iron chests and curtains. They held various exquisite spears and spears, and many of them held weapons in both hands like the leader Cao Zhen, and used their legs to control the war horses.
On the other hand of Chen Dao, half of the soldiers in Hebei and Central Plains were elite soldiers accumulated by the King of Hanzhong over the decades of round-rotary battles; half of them were heroes of Lianglong, which was the result of the continuous economic infiltration of the Longxi and Qianghu tribes in recent years. This group of men and horses are usually in the sequence of Baili soldiers. They were blessed by the King of Hanzhong, and were given strong armor and sharp soldiers and entrusted with safety. They have long been determined to repay them to the death.
The two armies approached quickly in the wilderness.
During the intervals of several miles, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who were under heavy protection, all clearly noticed that the two armies seemed to be galloping in opposite directions, but in fact the angle and speed of the running were constantly changing. Cao Zhen's side tried to cut diagonally through the interception several times and continued to assault the left wing of Liu Bei's army; while Chen Da's side changed their movements several times according to Cao Zhen's adjustments.
Only these subtle and difficult changes show that both sides have great cavalry experience and outstanding soldiers who are strong in will and follow the general without hesitation.
But the horses were running against each other too fast, leaving them to restrain each other, and the time for dealing with them was very short. In an instant, the two armies continued to approach. After a rain of arrows, all the soldiers raised their soldiers and stabbed forward as much as possible. From a distance, it was like two giant beasts suddenly bursting out of steel scales all over their bodies in the rolling smoke and dust.
The next moment, two cavalry teams collided with one place.
It can be seen that at the forefront of the two cavalry teams, each with outstanding martial arts knights as the guide. These knights flexibly waved their weapons, assassinated the enemy on the opposite side, and at the same time, they rode their horses into the gaps in the opponent's queue and continued to go deeper.
Many people rushed through two rows and three rows in the blink of an eye, leaving behind them screams and the muffled sound of falling off a horse from humans.
As the heroes gradually disappeared in troubled times, all the strong people who could survive focused on military construction. Over the years, whether they were Liu, Cao or Sun, the command system of the troops under their command has become increasingly perfect, the equipment has become increasingly excellent, the fighting will is becoming increasingly stable, and various fighting skills have been continuously summarized, refined and trained.
If we take the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Bai Li elite soldiers who are fighting at this moment, when the heroes first arose decades ago, any army will be enough to fight ten times or even more enemies, and it will be enough to kill the generals and flags in an unimaginable dangerous environment, unbeaten, and support a powerful force that is once powerful.
But at this moment, these elite soldiers of hundreds of battles are just insignificant consumables on the eve of a war.
It is precisely because everyone is at a very high level that many outstanding soldiers who clearly possess the courage of a hundred people and are enough to win great reputation on certain occasions died one after another, and died no differently from ordinary soldiers. The cause of death was just bad luck, or meeting the same strong man.
As the two cavalry teams wedged into each other, someone was pierced by the spear that was coming, and the whole person was driven away from the saddle by the impact, and then he was stepped on as meat paste by countless iron hooves following behind.
Although some people avoided the thrust that must be killed, they were cut by the sharp blades on both sides of the spear. The huge sharp blade nearly a foot easily tore their skin, muscles and blood vessels. When they continued to rush, blood spurted out from the wound, taking their lives.
There are still some people who have saved themselves, but they cannot save their war horses. After Chen Dao stabbed a Cao army cavalry over, he found that the war horses under his crotch began to slow down. But he didn't have time to look down and tried his best to urge the horses to rush over the interception of the second Cao army cavalry and killed him.
At this time, he had the time to look down and saw an extremely huge bloody mouth extending backward from the horse's chest, almost cutting off all the tendons above the right leg, and finally penetrated into the internal organs, causing the bloody blood to flow out, dyeing the horse's front legs and chest abdomen red. I really don't know how this horse persisted and continued to sprint for hundreds of steps.
Chen Dao jumped down before the horse fell, pulled out his sword, and acted in a stance of fighting in the field. Fortunately, his cavalry caught up immediately and brought him a masterless war horse. Chen Daoyue looked back and looked back. The injured war horse lay on his side on the ground without neighing, but just barely looked up at the master, his huge eyes full of tears.
Relatively speaking, the Cao army cavalry had more experience in facing the frontal rush wearing armor, and their military equipment was more suitable for this situation. When Chen Daohu shouted and gathered his subordinates again, although the Cao army cavalry was also seriously injured, their impact was not even interrupted. They did not stop, but continued to go west and tried to sprint to the left wing of Liu Bei's army.
Chen Dao immediately led the remaining troops to pursue. He and his companions killed several fallen tiger and leopard cavalry in succession. This entanglement forced the Cao army's cavalry to turn north and run into a huge arc, turn around and continue to attack Chen Dao's troops.
However, at this time, neither side could maintain the line. The knights of the two armies danced like huge bees, changing their various postures, appearing and disappearing in the smoke and dust, entangling and biting each other.
Chen Dao was on his side at some point. After thinking for a while, he decided not to fight deeply, but to take dozens of subordinates to gallop along the periphery, and at the same time, he set off a bow and arrow and shot at the cavalry of Cao's army.
This move caused the Cao army knights who tried their best to break through the front to suffer a great loss. In a short period of time, cavalrymen were constantly falling off their horses or were hit by injured war horses.
But Cao's army also reacted very quickly. A cavalry team in front of the center continued to attack without stopping. After penetrating the enemy's queue, they quickly turned around and chased Chen Zhi's rear.
Chen Dao noticed that the person who led this cavalry team was an extremely strong general of Cao's army. His speed of breaking through the formation was much faster than Chen Dao expected. At this moment, he shouted and urged the horse to come, and the murderous intent in his eyes seemed like burning flames.
"General, that guy is the leader of Cao's army!" The left and right cavalry shouted eagerly.
"Don't stop, keep moving forward." Chen Dao said calmly.
His long spear was nowhere to be broken. At this time, he was holding a spear he picked up casually to fight. At this time, he placed the spear behind the saddle bridge, pressed it against his thighs, and then set off a bow and arrow to shoot at the chasing Cao army.
The other soldiers shot with him, dozens of bowstrings trembled at the same time, making a dull trembling sound.
Dozens of arrows fell on the chasing Cao's cavalry, hitting the armor, making crackling and crisp sounds. Some of them pierced into the human body, but there was no sound. Only the Cao cavalry could be seen falling down swayingly. The rest of the Cao cavalry had to stomp the horse and avoid the arrow rain.
As soon as their speed slowed down, Chen went to the other side of the cavalry.
But this little upwind, like a fortress stacked by children on the beach, was immediately swallowed up by the huge waves of the army fighting.
When all the riders around him were screaming loudly, Chen Dao wiped the blood from the eaves of the helmet and tried his best to look into the distance. He was hit by a Cao army with a spear pole, and the side of the helmet was concave. Although there was a leather lining in the helmet, it was inevitable that the skin would be bursting and dizzy.
So he rubbed his eyes hard and wiped the blood away. He saw that the entire battlefield, which was four or five miles wide, was pressed by tens of thousands of Cao's army. Their black armor gathered into a wave, as if the entire Wei River had surging to the Xianyang Plain, and waves were still stretched out, with an extremely terrifying momentum.
Correspondingly, there were more than a dozen commanders holding the red flag in the array on the Hanzhong King's side, galloping out. Wherever the red flag went, drums from various armies rumbling, and the soldiers stepped forward, roaring like thunder.
No matter how elite cavalry is, it is impossible to survive when it falls into the battlefield where tens of thousands of troops are fighting head-on.
Chen Dao noticed that several of his cavalrymen had turned pale.
Fortunately, at this time, the cavalry of Cao's army shouted and retreated to the battlefield.
Chapter completed!