The cavalry fighting styles of the white horse Yi Cong and the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry are completely different.
Because the White Horse Yi Cong has a high-quality horse source, all the horses they ride on are tall horses. However, the war horses of the Taishan Army are much inferior to the White Horse Yi Cong, both in terms of horsepower and height.
Therefore, the two armies presented two tactical styles. In the former, because the war horses are all grassland breeds, with fast speed and sufficient endurance, the tactics are more intersecting and rushing. However, although the Taishan Army's assault cavalry is not as good as the war horses, it is more disciplined. They pay attention to
What matters is discipline, strictness and obedience.
From now on, when these two armies fight, there is a good comparison, that is, a smart man versus a reckless man.
At the first moment of the collision, the proud warriors of the Feilong Army realized something was wrong.
The Han knights wearing crimson uniforms and riding white horses on the opposite side are not showy. The ends of their eight-foot-long horses are equipped with sharp claws, which can avoid the first collision every time.
After staggering, the opponent can use the end to stab again.
Many Flying Dragon Army officials were not prepared for this and were carelessly stabbed and fell off their horses.
The white-horse Yi Cong opposite had another insidious trick, which was that they relied on the strength of their horses to suddenly increase their horse speed before the collision, catching the Feilong Army officers off guard.
Tian Yue regrets it now.
He was from Guangyang County and was originally a member of the Youzhou Cavalry. However, he was abandoned in the battle during the Battle of Jize and finally surrendered together with Yan Rou, Wang Men, Shan Jing, Li Zhong and others.
Later, Shan Jing of Wangmen secretly ran away and returned to the Zhenbei Army, but he, Yan Rou, and Li Zhong chose to stay.
And just now, when he was rushing forward with fifty of his Feilong Army officers, the first person he met was his former boss, Wangmen.
Wang Men also rushed toward him with a white horse guard.
During the process, Tian Yue and Wang Men's eyes met, and then Tian Yue understood.
He slightly raised the horse he was holding Zhongzheng, preparing to cross the wrong horse.
After all, he and Wang Clan were brothers in life and death in the past, but they only faced each other due to fate, so let them go if they can.
The Wangmen on the opposite side obviously had the same plan as Tian Yue.
It seems that the war is a matter for the big shots. Why are we brothers fighting?
So Tian Yue and Wang Men tacitly bumped into each other, and then passed by the wrong horse. When they passed by, Tian Yue gave Wang Men a smile.
But just when he turned his head, he felt a sudden death, but it turned out that Wang Clan was so mean-spirited that when he missed the horse, he stabbed him backwards with the horse in his hand.
Tian Yue had no time to hide, so he just bent down and blocked the blow with his back armor.
The flag on his back was broken and his back armor was pierced. Tian Yue was seriously injured by this stab.
He endured the severe pain, hugged his horse, and directed his horsemen to break out of the encirclement.
Tian Yue died because of his naivety, but he could not harm his brothers. So he endured and would rather die in battle than be captured.
After that, Tian Yue's fifty-man team went against the lead of Baima Yicong and finally fought a bloody path after paying a heavy price.
But Tian Yue died in the battle.
After his mount was stabbed to death by Ma Jin, a white-horse follower, he fell off his horse and was trampled to death by the enemy.
Tian Yue's team finally broke out, with thirty riders left. When they saw that their general had disappeared, they all clamored to fight back to seize the general's body.
But a moment later, these Feilong Army officials who died for justice were surrounded by more white-horse Yicon, and were either shot to death or knocked to the ground by the horses.
None of the Feilong Army officials in this team chose to kneel down, surrender and beg for their lives, and they all died together with their brothers in Paoze.
But this statement is not accurate. To be precise, there is one survivor of this flying dragon army officer.
His name is Yang Xuan, and his original name is Yang Wazi. He is the adopted son of General Zhang Da of the Taishan Army.
Zhang Da finally got the beauty back and married Wang Xiaoniang, a pretty girl from the transport camp.
Yang Wazi's mother was a close friend of Wang Xiaoniang and was also the liaison between Zhang Da and Wang Xiaoniang. Naturally, she was loved by Zhang Da and Zhang Da, so she was adopted as an adopted son by Zhang Da.
In the past few years, as Yang Wazi began to grow up, he naturally wanted to join the army. This was also the inevitable path for the children of Taishan Army.
Originally, Zhang Da wanted to let Yang Wazi stay in the Central Guard Army, but this boy was obsessed with the majesty of the sudden cavalry and wanted to go. In the end, Zhang Da could only ask his old brother Li Hu to accept Yang Wazi as a sudden cavalry.
After Yang Wazi joined the army, according to tradition, he was named Xuan in the army.
So Yang Wazi became a cavalry pawn of the Taishan Army Feilong Army, the most basic cavalry pawn.
This time was Yang Xuan's third time on the battlefield. After getting over the initial nervousness and excitement, he began to let himself go. When he charged, he was directly left behind by Tian Yue and the others.
He was also unlucky. While chasing the team, he happened to lame the horse's leg in a depression.
After Yang Xuan stood up in a hurry, a white horse Yi Cong galloped over brandishing a ring-headed sword.
The first blow from the opponent hit Yang Xuan on the head, directly cutting off his pocket. Although the sharp blade was old, it still made several wounds on Yang Xuan's head and face.
Yang Xuan was stunned by this blow. He raised his head in panic and looked at the white horse Yi Cong opposite him. Then he saw the opposite man brandishing a knife towards his head to chop him a second time.
At this time, Yang Xuancai bent his head in happiness and dodged the blow. Then he suddenly jumped onto the opposite horse and directly brought the White Horse Yiconong down with him.
Pressing down on this white horse Yi Cong, Yang Xuan could clearly see the strange color in his eyes, and he didn't look like a Han Chinese. Yang Xuan had eaten well and trained well over the years, and his martial arts skills were not weak.
He had just escaped death twice, and he was a little excited. When he saw Yi Cong looking at him fiercely, Yang Xuan bit him on his own finger.
Following the heart-rending screams from the other side, Yang Xuan spit out a finger.
After that, he held the person down with only one hand, then took out his sword and stabbed the person in the neck with one blow.
The gushing blood covered the young warrior's face.
Yang Xuan sighed and licked the blood on his mouth. A strong fishy smell rushed straight to his forehead, which immediately made him go crazy.
After slashing the name Cong several times with a knife, Yang Xuancai cut off the man's head, then got on Yi Cong's horse and went to find the location of the robes.
In the process, Yang Xuan was hit hard on the back by the cruising Han cavalry, and a section of his finger was also cut off.
But Yang Xuan finally found his team.
Looking at the headless corpse lying on the ground, Yang Xuan couldn't believe that this was his robe. But the names and numbers on the epaulettes all told him that these brothers and feet who died in the battle were his robes.
Yang Xuan shed tears and tore off the armbands of the robes one by one. This belongs to Ashin, this belongs to Mavericks, and this belongs to Lao Huang...
It was the first time that Yang Xuan endured such sadness, which was even heavier than the sadness when he learned that his father had died in the war when he was young.
Brothers who helped each other day and night, died tragically like this?
But time no longer allowed Yang Xuan to think too much. He wanted to take off the armbands of the robes as soon as possible. This was an important basis for future pensions for the brothers. This was what Yang Xuan had to do.
Soon, Yang Xuan found their team flag in the arms of his team general Tian Yue. Tian Yue held the flag tightly in his arms and pressed it with all his body strength.
Just like that, Yang Xuan took the team flag, the armbands of the sacrificed brothers, and a war horse that was wandering nearby, and ran wildly to the east, where Chen Huan and Sima were still fighting hard with their brothers.
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Li Hu didn't know that his subordinate Tian Yue had died, but even without statistics, he knew that the Feilong Army had suffered heavy losses this time.
When he led the Feihu Army to fight through, he found that the road ahead had been blocked by the Han infantry formation following Baima Yicong.
Li Hu just glanced left and right and knew he couldn't rush now.
Therefore, he could only lead the participating Feilong Army to the east of the battlefield and prepare to regroup.
Following the gap in front of the Han army's infantry formation, the Feilong army withdrew safely without being attacked by the Han army's arrows.
When Li Hu and others stopped on a flat ground, not far away was the right wing of the battlefield, and the flag belonging to the Taishan Army was firmly planted on the dock wall in front.
Only at this time did Li Hu and the others feel safe.
Then he counted the number of people and found that there were 237 people.
Before the charge, there were a total of 446 actual soldiers, but now there are 209 fewer. There must be some of these people still alive, but it is not known where they are scattered now.
But no matter what, Li Hu had to take a rest and reorganize his formation before he could continue fighting.
But over there, on the battlefield in the middle, Baima Yicong was still running rampant.
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After the Feilong Army suffered huge casualties and withdrew from the battlefield, Yan Gang's Tianwei Army was no match for the White Horse Yi Cong's troops, and gradually withdrew to the edge of the battlefield to rest and lick their wounds.
Therefore, Bai Mayi led the Daibei Hu people's mixed cavalry and began to wreak havoc on all the formations in the middle of the Taishan Army.
The first one they attacked was Chen Huan's department on the far right. This department had 3,000 soldiers and was the most important phalanx of the Taishan Army's Middle Route Army.
Here, Baima Yicong's good luck seems to have run out all at once.
First, Wang Men, who had been showing off his bravery just now, was hit in the temple by an arrow from an unknown source, and then fell off his horse without saying a last word.
Then even Gongsun Zan, who was rampant in Yaowu, was shot on his mount and fell down.
If Zou Dan hadn't seen him behind him and pulled Gongsun Zan up, our White Horse Lieutenant might have been trampled to death by his own people.
Looking at the frightened Gongsun Zan, Zou Dan suggested:
"Commander, we have achieved significant results. The enemy's charge has been crushed by us. Let's withdraw."
Indeed, Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yi Cong were fighting particularly well at this time, and they had just captured three flags of the Taishan Army, which were enough to go back and deliver the mission.
But Gongsun Zan was unmoved and only replied:
"Until the blood dries, I will never look back."
After saying this, Gongsun Zan found his trumpet soldiers and ordered Baima Yi to continue attacking Chen Huan's troops.
This time, Gongsun Zan took the lead and crashed into Chen Huan's phalanx battalion amid a hail of arrows.
The person responsible for guarding this camp is Zheng Xiang, a veteran in the army.
This Shanliao leader who was born in Xingshan is already thirty-six years old this year and can be considered a veteran in the Taishan army. He has a stalwart figure of eight feet and three inches, and on his head is a robe that he has been wearing since he was a Shanliao leader. Wearing a bearskin browband.
Facing the surging white horse Yi Cong, Zheng Xiang was not afraid in the face of danger.
He stood in front of the formation, holding a giant axe, and first knocked over a running white horse Yicon, and then split the man's skull open with a blow of the axe.
After that, Zheng Xiang led the officials of his camp to the front line.
But Zheng Xiang's battalion was a pure crossbow unit. Although everyone had a ring-shaped sword, they lacked weapons such as spears that could withstand cavalry charges.
Therefore, without any surprise, Baima Yicong came in and killed him.
But those who are careful can see that although the officers and soldiers of Zheng Xiang's battalion are in chaos, they have begun to form a small circular formation. Under the protection of the limited infantrymen, the crossbowmen in the formation are constantly counterattacking.
At the same time, not far away, Gongsun Du led his 500 cavalry and fell behind Gongsun Zan's white horse righteous army.
Liu Yi next to him saw Bai Ma Yicong's crazy look in front of him and couldn't help but said:
"Are these people crazy? Aren't they afraid of death?"
Gongsun Du did not answer him, but frowned and looked at the battle ahead.
At this time, after Baima Yicong defeated several enemy troops, his entire morale had reached its peak.
Under Gongsun Zan's horn, they shouted loudly and waved their swords to continuously attack the Taishan Army's formation. These crimson knights continued to surge like a tide, seemingly majestic.
But as long as you look carefully, you will see that under the dense arrows from the opposite side, the white horse Yi Cong and their war horses continue to fall to the ground.
Gongsun Du felt something was wrong, so he quickly ordered Liu Yi to blow the trumpet and ask the cavalry to increase their speed to support Gongsun Zan.
However, although Gongsun Du felt that Gongsun Zan was in a bad situation, Gongsun Zan, who was charging in the formation, did not think so.
On the contrary, he felt that things were very good now.
Just now, he cut down the camp flag of Yi Taishan Army.
Although the Taishan military camp general was somewhat brave, and his soldiers were also very difficult to deal with, under Gongsun Zan's double-headed spear, all resistance was in vain.
But there is an episode here. Just after Gongsun Zan stabbed the deputy camp general on the opposite side to death, the camp flag in his hand slipped down and fell on the horse head of a knight behind Gongsun Zan.
That knight was none other than Zheng Yi, who had sent the order before. It turned out that he did not return to the central army, but bravely charged with the white horse Yi Cong.
As soon as Zheng Yicai picked up the camp flag, he heard his senior brother shouting in a rather sinister tone:
"Junior brother, are you trying to steal my meritorious service?"
Zheng Yi blushed, and hurriedly carried the flag to Gongsun Zan, apologizing:
"Brother, this flag only belongs to you."
Only then did Gongsun Zan smile again, then he tore off the flag, wrapped it around his body and shouted:
"I follow my white horse and I am invincible in the world."
Everyone, including Zheng Yi, shouted:
"Invincible."
Among these thousands of troops, Gongsun Zan's blood surged, and he had never felt so glorious for a moment.
So far, he has defeated five enemy formations in a row with his eight hundred white horse followers. This kind of bravery is something that even Xiang Yu could only do in his lifetime.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Zan once again shouted:
"Invincible."
But a cold and sharp arrow followed the sound of people's voices and instantly hit Gongsun Zan's neck.
Gongsun Zan felt that all his strength was draining away. He listened to the voices of his nearby subordinates getting smaller and smaller, looked at the sun again, and then fell to the ground.
The person who killed Gongsun Zan was Chen Cheng, the most capable archer in the army.