Xun You lowered his head, his eyes falling on the map as if he hadn't heard anything.
Liu Xie ignored Ma Chao and pondered Xun You's words, his eyes flashing thoughtfully.
Yang Xiu also nodded, and then smacked his lips again, seeming a little embarrassed.
Cai Yan and Pei Jun wrote hurriedly without even raising their heads.
Ma Chao's fair face gradually turned red, and he looked embarrassed.
Huchuquan was confused, but he didn't dare to say anything. He just lowered his eyelids and pretended that he saw and heard nothing.
A horn sounded from the front, and a group of Xianbei knights launched a tentative attack. A group of Han knights came out to fight. Both sides showed off their skills on the battlefield with a radius of two to three hundred paces, and fought back and forth.
After two rounds, the Xianbei people lost more than ten people and voluntarily withdrew from the battle.
The knights of the Han army returned to the formation, tied up the fallen Xianbei men, or redressed their wounds, plundered all their supplies, and brought back all the war horses. Those that could be used were used as spare horses, and those that could not be slaughtered for meat.
Several prisoners were brought to Liu Xie, and someone came forward to torture them.
Without much effort, the prisoners confessed, which was similar to what Hu Chuquan had heard, but more accurate.
The young commander who led his troops to fight was Fu Luohan's son Xie Gui Ni. He had five to six thousand cavalry under his command, all of them came from Fu Luo Han's personal guard cavalry. They were considered the elite main force of Fu Luo Han's command.
Xie Guini was just in his early twenties, but he had been fighting with Fu Luohan since he was a child, so he was considered to be battle-hardened.
Fulohan himself was at the foot of Chengyi City, making preparations for the attack.
After listening to the report, Liu Xie and Xun You exchanged glances and smiled in unison.
Just as they had expected, Fu Luohan didn't take them too seriously, and maybe he wanted to show off his son, so he just sent Xie Guini to lead twice as many troops to fight, while he stayed behind and raided the formation.
It is of course a good thing for your opponent to underestimate you.
What they fear most is that Fu Luohan will shrink his troops and prepare for battle, and both sides will fight to the death based on their strength.
In that case, even if we can win, we will win miserably.
"Instruct all the troops to hold back." Liu Xie rubbed his hands and issued the order.
The war drums sounded, and the soldiers rushed to different positions.
After a while, Zhang Xiu and Wang Fu sent back messages one after another, saying that they had received the order and would comply with it.
Xie Guini sat upright on the horse, looking at the centurion who had just returned from defeat, with a gloomy expression on his face.
The tentative attack failed and more than a dozen riders were lost.
The loss was not huge, but the centurion's attitude made him very angry.
Mrs. Bai believes that the Han army not only has complete armor, but also has a kind of horse gear that has never been seen before. The Han people sit very firmly on horseback and have obvious advantages whether they are slashing with swords or spears or shooting arrows.
With both sides having similar military strength, it would be difficult for the Xianbei people to take advantage.
If you want to win, you must have twice or even three times the strength advantage to win with more.
Xie Gui Ni was very annoyed.
The Han army had more than 3,000 cavalry, and he had more than 5,000, nearly twice as many.
The Han army was stronger than him, and he had already prepared for this, so he brought more men and horses, and they were the main force directly under Fu Luohan.
But he didn't think that the Han cavalry would be so strong that it could fight one against two.
If you follow what the centurion said, he should send people back and ask Fulohan to send more reinforcements, so that you can be sure of victory.
But he didn't want to do this. He hadn't really fought yet. If he sent someone to ask for help first, he would be regarded as cowardly by his father Fu Luohan. On the grassland, the strong are respected and there is no place for the coward. Once such a bad reputation is left, He will be looked down upon by others, and he will have no face to compete with other brothers for a big position.
After thinking about it for a while, Xie Guini decided to try again.
What if the defeat this time was not because the Han army was too strong, but because of the centurion’s own problem?
The opinion was not adopted, but was misunderstood by Gui Ni as incompetent. The centurion was very depressed and returned to the front line in dismay.
Amidst the sound of the horn, another group of Xianbei cavalry rushed out of their position and galloped towards the Han army's position.
Zhang Xiu saw clearly and ordered to fight.
Hundreds of knights came out of the queue and began to accelerate to meet the Xianbei knights.
When the two sides were a hundred steps apart, they began to bend their bows and shoot at the same time.
Someone was hit by an arrow and fell from his horse.
Xie Guini rushed to the front of the formation, widened his eyes, and watched carefully.
The two sides were too far apart and he couldn't see the details of the battlefield clearly, but he could vaguely tell that most of the people who fell from their horses were Xianbei people.
Soon, the two sides crossed the range of the arrow formation and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
After three rounds of fierce fighting, the Xianbei knights gradually lost ground. Although they were still fighting hard, Xie Guini could see that if they persisted, they would only suffer more and more casualties, but there would be no possibility of reversal.
He ordered the trumpet to be blown to recall the knights who had gone to war.
The Xianbei knights retreated, and the Han knights pursued them for a hundred or so steps before reining in their mounts, turning their horses' heads, and slowly retreated.
Xie Guini immediately asked the centurion who went out to fight.
The centurion's head was covered with sweat and there was some blood on his body. He panted and said that the Han army's equipment was indeed good. When the numbers were equal, it would be more difficult to win. It would be much easier if they could increase their strength by half.
With twice the number of troops, victory would be unquestionable.
If thousands of cavalry charge and fight continuously, the Han army will soon fall behind due to lack of physical strength.
During the battle just now, he discovered that the impact power of the Han army dropped rapidly, apparently because he was not very clear about saving horsepower.
Xie Guini was relieved and immediately ordered Qianqi to go out and launch a real attack on the Han army. He also ordered Qianqi to prepare.
He planned to use his superior strength to conduct a wheel battle to consume the Han army's physical strength, and then personally lead the cavalry and attack them in one fell swoop.
Defeating the Emperor of the Han Dynasty will not only gain honor, but also a large amount of loot.
These armors, these swords and spears are all his trophies. Except for the part that must be handed over to Fulohan, they will all become part of his strength.
The horn sounded, and the Xianbei cavalry began to accelerate. The horses' hooves trampled the ground that was no longer hard, kicked up mud, and ran faster and faster.
"Woo" the horn sounded again, and the Xianbei knights raised their bows and arrows and shot out a dense rain of arrows.
The Sanqu Han knights on the opposite side also began to accelerate, charge, and shoot.
Soldiers on both sides were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, and some were trampled by flying horse hooves. Their bones were broken, their skin was torn, and their blood flowed freely.
The Han army's protective capabilities were better. Even if they were hit by arrows or injured, not many of them lost their combat effectiveness. Most of them could still sit firmly on their horses and continue to charge, which invisibly narrowed the gap in strength between the two sides.
After three rounds of arrows, the forwards came into contact. The two sides kept a tacit understanding to keep their distance and avoid a head-on collision. Each raised their swords and spears to attack each other.
More knights fell from their horses.
These Xianbei knights are elites from the Fuluohan tribe. Most of them have armor, relatively complete weapons and equipment, and have strong combat effectiveness. Although they are not as good as the Han army, they are not much worse.
For a time, the two sides were fighting inextricably.
After a round, some Han knights broke away from the formation, returned to their own formation, and reported the battle situation to General Zhang Xiu of Habayashi Zhonglang.
Zhang Xiu looked back at the Emperor's battle flag on the hillside, gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "Hold it, at least for two more rounds."
The knight shouted: "General, don't worry, we are fine." He turned his horse's head and reentered the battlefield.
Zhang Xiu felt itchy in his heart and kept rubbing his hands, staring intently at the figure under the opponent's banner.