The two armies were heavily arrayed, and there was a murderous atmosphere on the battlefield.
Li Tong, with several personal guards, rode his horse on a hillock and set up a pergola to carefully observe the enemy's lineup, his heart filled with ups and downs.
"He is worthy of being the best cavalry in the world. He realized that he had been ambushed, but the formation was not in disorder at all. Not only that, he was able to dismount and redress with ease, so as to increase his power! No wonder the lord has been tolerant and tolerant in the past few years.
, I would rather attack Guanzhong by force than give up Yanzhou and not give the Qingzhou Army a chance to attack..."
"Why should my father raise others' ambitions and destroy his own prestige? The soldiers are strong soldiers, but the generals are mediocre. My father used a clever trick, so why not lead him into arrest? Our army is more than twice as large at the moment, and we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat this unknown fool.
Husband?"
Li Xu was Li Tong's eldest son. He had just turned fifteen. He followed his father into battle for the first time, and caught up with the Central Plains war that attracted the attention of the world. It was at a time when he was in high spirits, how could he hear Li Tong's emotion?
Although Qin Feng has senior qualifications in the army, he has always been a deputy and his reputation is not obvious. He has not even been a guard. Fang Yue, who is following Wang Kuang, is famous, so how can he be noticed by Li Xu.
"Father, what are you waiting for now? Why not rush forward and kill him?"
Li Tong looked back and found that not only was Li Xu eager to try, but his horse was also breathing out its nostrils and was pawing the ground with its hooves. Looking back, he saw that Li Xu's bodyguards were inside.
Everyone looked very excited, waiting to rush into the battle and show off their power and fame.
Li Tong sighed, these young people didn't know the importance, so he had to ask the generals who led the team to tighten the restraints on the troops, rest their horses, and stop being impatient. He comforted his son and said: "Don't be impatient, now.
The distance is still far, so just approach slowly. If the enemy remains motionless, you can wait until they reach about a hundred steps before speeding up."
On my side, I had a good time lining up and pressing forward slowly. There was nothing to worry about. Anyone who has experienced the battlefield knows that this kind of battle is the most impatient. Since we have the upper hand, we just need to maintain it. Anyway, everyone
We all have time, so let’s see who has the best patience.
Li Tong is not greedy. With the quality shown by the opponent, it is definitely impossible to turn the battle into a battle of annihilation. If it could be done so easily, the gap in casualty ratio between the two sides would not be so big these days.
He just wants to win a victory with enough weight to boost the morale of the whole army, so that he can better fulfill the lord's request.
It's not that Li Tong didn't know that as the war progresses, it won't take a few days for Qingzhou's senior officials to see through their own intentions, and they will soon mobilize more forces to join in, and the pressure will become even greater. But the lord has always been wise.
. Several military advisors are also the wise men of the world, and the plans they reach a consensus on are always correct.
If you work hard for the right goal, your efforts will not be in vain, and your sacrifices will not be in vain. All you have to do is work hard to complete the task better.
Li Xu was still a little unconvinced and muttered something in his mouth. After all, he still did not dare to disobey the military order. He just raised the spear in his hand high and shouted loudly: "The general has orders, move forward steadily! Kill the thieves and take revenge.
Just a few days ago!”
"Kill the thief and take revenge!" Eight hundred Qingqi shouted in unison, with astonishing momentum.
This time, even Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang guessed wrong. The cavalry sent by Cao Cao to block the attack were not the remnants of Dong Zhuo who had surrendered and rebelled, but the old team he had carefully built over the past few years.
The total number of tiger and leopard cavalry, light and heavy cavalry from Cao Cao's old team is about five thousand. They have been training and fighting together for several years, and they are familiar with each other. In this battle, there were nearly a thousand casualties in five days, and almost everyone had relatives and friends.
When a friend died in battle, instead of losing morale, he gained a sense of mourning.
Under Li Tong's command, Cao Jun's light cavalry formed multiple lines. This was a standard cavalry attack formation. There was a fixed distance between each line and each member of the same line. In this way, the enemy could be better prevented.
The troops fired a volley of arrows. During the charge, the positions of the front row cavalry and the rear row cavalry should also be staggered to avoid accidental injuries caused by contact with the enemy and sudden slowdown in speed.
Compared with the white horse Yi Cong who can gather and disperse freely, this formation is a bit cumbersome, and it also shows that Cao Cao's cavalry is relatively lagging behind in terms of personal quality. However, Cao Cao has been working hard in the past few years, and it would be great if he could build such a cavalry.
It was already very difficult, but of course it was not as easy as Wang Yu directly borrowing Gongsun Zan's help.
Moreover, being bulky also has its advantages. Li Tong's cavalry was well prepared. Although they did not wear heavy armor, the weapons in their hands were spears and horse spears that were most conducive to organizing the overall offensive!
Between the neat queues, rows of spears stood tall. Both the visual effect and the actual lethality were quite astonishing.
Maintaining this state and slowly pressing forward will put great pressure on the enemy. If the enemy is a ragtag group, their morale may have plummeted, or the entire army may even collapse.
"Come on, Gale Cavalry, let me see your true abilities. How can you fight a way out in such a situation?" Seeing that the distance between the two sides had shortened to less than a hundred steps, Li Tong made a gesture.
, the entire army column began to accelerate, pressing forward like a mountain falling.
"Shields, crossbows, and spears...Isn't this just using light cavalry as heavy armored cavalry? It's just..." Qin Feng has been watching the enemy formation, wondering what response should be taken. Observed
The result is that although the individual quality of the enemy's cavalry is slightly poor, it can be made up for by the overall quality.
He took off his helmet, scratched his tangled hair twice, bared his teeth and said with a smile: "Not to mention, the power of this move is also pretty good, especially against our Gale Army. Back then, General Gongsun led everyone to conquer Bei in this way.
Those bastards in Xinjiang beat the shit out of them..."
"General, how do we fight?" The person who served as Qin Feng's deputy was a military commander named Wu Cai. Seeing that Qin Feng was mumbling words but was slow to give orders, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"How else can we fight?" Qin Feng smiled, his voice suddenly turned cold, and he shouted coldly: "The old way, shoot them with cavalry!"
"Here!" Wu Cai accepted the order with his fists clasped, turned on his horse, raised his left hand high, spread his fingers, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, mount your horse and fight. If you encounter a stronger force, show your true skills!"
"Kill!" The five hundred cavalrymen mounted their horses in unison. Without going through any steps of forming a team, the five hundred men suddenly accelerated on the spot like one person, rushing forward like an arrow from a string.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Seeing the enemy approaching, Li Xu roared loudly. He took the lead, and the eight hundred soldiers of Cao's army also entered a state of excitement, howling like wolves, urged by the sound of war drums
Work hard to move forward.
The two teams of knights facing each other ran faster and faster, and the smoke raised by the horses' hooves covered the sky and the sun, blocking each other's sight. However, they could not shake the fighting spirit in their chests and the murderous intent in their eyes.
"Raise the shield! Set up the crossbow!" Li Tong rushed forward with his own soldiers, demonstrating the movements for the brothers behind him. He raised his arms, lowered his elbows, leveled the long spear, straightened it, and rushed forward with the speed of the war horse.
Towards the slightly thin enemy formation.
The most powerful method of the Gale Cavalry is mounted shooting, but they were ambushed. Their horsepower was low and they were unable to maneuver at high speeds for a long time. They could only choose between fighting or escaping.
So far, Qingzhou's senior officials have reacted a little slowly, not realizing that their side is not conducting conventional battlefield shielding, so the light cavalry sent out are still pure light cavalry, and the company commander does not bring many weapons.
How useful can mounted archery be in this situation? With a distance of less than a hundred steps and a cavalry charge, can the most elite archer shoot two arrows?
This battle will be won! Li Tong said to himself in his heart.
A dense sound of piercing the air sounded. At a distance of about fifty steps, the gale force cavalry all drew their bows and fired the first round of arrow rain. Although smoke and dust were rising on the battlefield and visibility was limited, the quality of this round of arrow rain was quite high.
It was so high that it neatly smashed into the center of Cao's cavalry array, encircling a death zone of more than twenty steps.
A large proportion of Cao's cavalry carried shields. However, their shields could only block frontal shots and did not play a significant defensive role against such intensive projectiles. The shield area was limited, but the density of arrows was very high.
The piece fell down and blocked the head, but it couldn't block the body, it blocked people, it couldn't block the horse. Once it was trapped, it would only cause the person to flip over.
"Pick up the spear and kill!" Li Tong shouted with all his strength, and the cavalry did not live up to his efforts as a pioneer. They ignored the death of Pao Ze around them, banged their stirrups desperately, and squeezed the speed of their mounts to the limit. They
He stopped shouting, held his breath, and there was no other noise in his ears except the thud of horse hooves and the hiss of arrows.
Yes, the enemy's cavalry and archery were very strong. While galloping, they actually displayed the skills that only elite infantry archers possess, and had a great restraint effect on their own multiple horizontal formations.
However, the distance between the two sides was too close. Behind the other side was the Pu River, and the horses had been running for a long time. They lost the space to maneuver. No matter how strong their riding and shooting skills were, they had no chance to show off.
At most, they only need to withstand one more round of shooting, and it will be their turn to take revenge. The opponent's formation is relatively loose, and the results of the crossbow shooting are quite limited. But if they can avoid the crossbows, can they also avoid the spears and horse spears?
The forest-like spear was laid flat, like the fangs of a beast. Under the dim light of winter, it emitted a cold light that was not bright, but enough to make people feel cold. No one would doubt that these fangs
With its power, as long as you get close enough, you can chew up all the enemies!
Li Tong's belief that he will win comes from this.
However, his belief only lasted for a few moments. After the first round of arrows were fired, the gale force cavalry did not rush to open their bows and fire the second round. They also had no intention of drawing their swords to fight. Instead, they twitched their horse's reins and turned their horses' heads.
, ran away to the left and right respectively!
Li Tong could hardly believe his eyes. Although cavalry is called a clutch soldier, it must have a limit. In such a cavalry confrontation, using dispersed formations to avoid the enemy's edge is not seeking death.
The 800 people under his command sent a total of eight platoons and a hundred cavalry in front of him. How could they avoid it in such a short time? Well, the other party may have been prepared in advance and controlled the horse power well enough.
Judging from this posture, it is indeed possible to avoid it... but the problem is that even if most people can avoid it, it is impossible for those in the first few rows!
After a while, Li Tong finally came to his senses. The forwards of the Gale Cavalry were indeed too late to avoid the sharp edge. After discovering this, these people actually gave up evading, laughed, drew the bowstring, and pointed Senhan's arrow at
He is about to kill his enemy!
All the changes actually happened in the blink of an eye. Before Li Tong could recover from the shock, the two sides had already collided fiercely!
In an instant, smoke and blood intertwined and rose into the sky, dazzling and gorgeous, as if the souls of the warriors were contained in it. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendation, monthly vote, you
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