Zhang Xiaowu looked from a distance and saw that the Wuhuan cavalry had only one side of armor. To the north, let alone iron armor, there was no leather armor, only cotton robes. He couldn't help but become excited because the Wuhuan cavalry had completely exposed its back.
He gave them 300 Han cavalry. If he had 5,000 cavalry in his hands, he was fully confident that he would keep these 30,000 Wuhuan people.
It's a pity that they only have 300 people. Zhang Xiaowu felt regretful, but then he said with a sinister smile: "This is life-threatening. They are not afraid of death and only wear a piece of armor. If I have 5,000 cavalry, they rush over from behind...
These tens of thousands of Wuhuan cavalry are the souls killed by my sword!"
Li Yuan naturally knew, but he explained: "Sir, in fact, the Wuhuan Iron Cavalry originally had only five thousand people, and they were all covered in iron armor, and their horses also wore leather armor. At that time, the Wuhuan Iron Cavalry was really incapable of cutting with swords and unable to be penetrated by arrows.
Especially on the plains, the Wuhuan Cavalry Science and Technology Commission was invincible. The Wuhuan people relied on these five thousand cavalry to sweep across the West in the first place.
Fang Continent, Southwest Road and Northern Continent became the overlord of the West. But after their territory expanded, the Wuhuan Cavalry also had to expand their numbers. It is said that the Wuhuan Cavalry had 200,000 cavalry at its most glorious time. But from that time on, they
Our cavalry can no longer reach the elite level of the 5,000-strong cavalry army. Does your Excellency know the reason?"
"Could it be that they lack armor and weapons?"
"no."
"Lack of suitable soldiers?"
"No."
"What is that?"
"Lack of horses! Lack of strong gravity-bearing war horses!" Li Yuan introduced with a smile on his lips, "The horses used by the initial five thousand Wuhuan cavalry were all Wuhuan red horses. This Wuhuan red horse is tall and strong.
With strong strength, strong endurance, and stronger explosive power, it is second only to the sweat-blooded horse in the world. The sweat-blooded horse is rare in the world and is not suitable for forming an army. The Wuhuan Red Horse became the best war horse. But that day
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After the Huan people swept across the continent to expand their cavalry, they could no longer find so many Wuhuan red horses, so the Wuhuan cavalry had to lower their standards and use some hybrid horses and other horse breeds instead of purebred Wuhuan red horses.
I heard that Wuhuan's vest weighed a hundred kilograms, and his armor weighed sixty kilograms. Nowadays, many war horses cannot bear the full body armor of knights and full body vests. The iron cavalry has become an iron tortoise and can only stand there and wait to die.
Nowadays, in order to maintain the neat formation of the Wuhuan cavalry when charging, the Wuhuan people have to reduce their weight. Some of the cavalry wear half-length armor, and the waistcoats no longer cover their hips. Therefore, this is the shortcoming of the Wuhuan people. They still charge head-on.
The world is invincible, but once you are faced with enemies from both sides, your success will fall short."
Li Chuncheng pulled out his sword, looked at Zhang Xiaowu, and said, "Sir, what are you waiting for? Let's kill him?"
Li Yuan said: "What can we do with three hundred light cavalry? Moreover, this is a plain. By the time we ride to kill them, they have already turned around."
Zhang Xiaowu squinted his eyes, his eyes were cold and he was excited: "Old Li is right, we can't let this opportunity pass by, we have to kill it." He came to a higher mound, looked around, and said hello
Everyone said: "Let's go around there. There is a sand dune there. The terrain is higher and closer to the Wuhuan people. If our war horses come out of that sand dune, they will definitely be caught off guard."
Li Yuan smiled bitterly. With three hundred of us taking the initiative to fight someone else's 20,000 cavalry, even if there is no armor on the back, 300 people fighting against 20,000 - isn't this looking for death? He quickly stopped him and said, "Sir, we can't fight."
Zhang Xiaowu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we can't defeat them, but they can't catch up with us either. We just focus on riding and shooting. How have you been practicing riding and shooting these days?"
"Fulfilling the mission."
"Okay!" Zhang Xiaowu turned to face the crowd. The three hundred cavalrymen under him were still dressed in white as the Beiyi people. He couldn't help but laugh. The Beiyi people were still white and the Mohe people were still black, so the Beiyi military uniforms were all white. From a distance,
It looked like a funeral procession. Zhang Xiaowu shouted: "Brothers, do you dare me to test how much Wuhuan's most elite armored cavalry weighs?"
"dare!"
The sergeants shouted one after another.
"Follow me—kill!"
"kill!"
After three hundred Han cavalry disguised as Beiyi people climbed over a hillock, they suddenly appeared behind the Wuhuan cavalry like a whirlwind. They shouted slogans and charged towards the Wuhuan cavalry. Although there were not many in number, the distance between the two sides was only two feet.
A thousand steps later, the Wuhuan people were frightened, but when they saw clearly that the opponent was only a few hundred people, they immediately felt relieved and laughed at the enemy for not overestimating his own capabilities.
At this time, Wu Litan was also terrified. He regretted that he had left the slave soldiers behind him because he had gathered to intercept the Beiyi people. The Wuhuan cavalry usually had the cavalry in front and the slave soldiers followed closely behind. Their role was to protect the cavalry on the one hand and on the other hand.
On the one hand, heads were harvested to record military exploits.
Seeing these hundreds of "Bei Yi people", Wu Li was relieved and pretended to be relaxed. He turned around and asked who could kill these hundreds of "Bei Yi people".
A captain volunteered to lead eight hundred cavalry and turned to fight. The other cavalry still chose to confront the Beiyi army. The Beiyi people did not dare to attack the Wuhuan people head-on easily. They were afraid of offending their opponents and being crushed by tens of thousands of cavalry. They could only
Anxiously watching the hundreds of Beiyi soldiers rushing towards the Wuhuan army half-suicide, many Beiyi soldiers even started crying and asked Pu Xianlie to fight.
Park Xianlie stared at these Beiyi people, feeling slightly surprised. He asked the generals in the army if they knew who they were, but everyone in the army said they didn't know. Jin Zaibin whispered: "Could it be the seventh prince of the Han people?"
From a long distance, they could only see a white figure, but they couldn't see clearly who the other party was.
"Three hundred pieces of armor..." Jin Zaibin reminded.
Park Xianlie was certain that these "Northern Yi Cavalry" were the Seventh Prince of the Han Dynasty and his party, so he turned his attention to the battle between the 300 light cavalry and the 800 iron cavalry.
In everyone's impression, the light cavalry would be easily crushed by the iron cavalry, and these three hundred people were not enough to fill their teeth. Everyone believed that in just one round, the three hundred light cavalry would be slaughtered, and people would only remember their tragedy.
I mourn for them in my heart.
However, something unexpected happened. When the two sides were five hundred steps away, the three hundred light cavalry of the "Beiyi people" quickly divided into two teams and made a ninety-degree turn in front of Wuhuan's eight hundred cavalry.
Like a snake, it snaked around the front of the cavalry and quickly cut to the back of the cavalry.
"Da da da, da da da..."
The sound of horse hoofbeats splashed up the sand and gravel on the ground, and everyone saw that they could not see clearly the enemy or ourselves from a distance, but Zhang Xiaowu's three hundred light cavalry were already within a hundred paces of the Wuhuan cavalry army.
"shoot!"
Li Yuan gave an order, and three hundred cavalrymen drew their bows and fired. On the bumpy horses, three hundred arrows flew into the formation of eight hundred Wuhuan cavalry.