But Zhang Xiu still underestimated the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command.

Two thousand five hundred Xiliang iron horses, horses wearing heavy armor, people with full armor. Each hand has a heavy spear, the flat end facing forward. Sitting down on the war horse, some of them are the original Xiliang good horses, although the horses are short, but the foot strength and weight are just suitable for the requirements of the Xiliang iron horse.

The other part is because of the perennial war, and it is a miscellaneous horse from all over the world. Of course, these so-called miscellaneous horses are actually carefully selected from ordinary military horses, because ordinary war horses can only load a full set of vests required by Xiliang Iron Cavalry at most, and they can't afford to carry a strong man with full armor.

So you can imagine how strong the impact of the Xiliang Iron Ride is.

But Zhang Xiu has never personally led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry charge! Therefore, at the critical moment, Zhang Xiudu wanted to grab the reins of the horse, restrain the war horse, and guide the wedge formation behind him to crash towards the other Cao troops.

But Zhang Liao has already led the wolf cavalry of the state to come out to meet him, if he doesn't attack the Qingzhou soldiers in front of Cao's army, wouldn't he sell Zhang Wenyuan, who went straight to Xiahoudun?

Zhang Xiu could only be ruthless, looked ahead, clamped the horse's belly, raised the tiger's head golden gun, and shouted a word viciously: "Rush!" ”

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry had never fought with the Qingzhou soldiers, but because the other party was caught off guard, they could still have such a united and disregarding personal life and death, they all put away their contempt, grabbed the heavy gun, and pinched the horse's belly to speed up.

The hundreds of Qingzhou soldiers who launched the charge were like wave after wave, surging. And these thousands of Xiliang iron horsemen who rushed into battle with guns were like a torrent, a torrent of steel belonging to this era.

Zhang Xiu is at the tip of the awl array, which has always been the essence of Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The more elite the people, the more horsepower horses are good, and the charging is put at the forefront.

Naturally, if the fierce general who plays the tip of the cone is braver, the more powerful the natural awl array will be. For example, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Ma Chao later served as the tip of the cone, followed by Pang De Ma Dai, and then the brave Xiliang Eight Generals. In the field battle with Cao's army, he always broke more with less.

But what if the person who is the tip of the cone is actually a greedy person who is afraid of death?

When Zhang Xiu rushed to the Qingzhou soldiers, of course he didn't go straight to the Qingzhou soldiers facing him with a gun, but reined in the horse and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.

At the moment when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was about to contact the Qingzhou soldiers, Zhang Xiu's war horse straightened its hind legs and jumped up on its front legs because of Zhang Xiu's horses. Then the two front hooves stomped fiercely on the two Qingzhou soldiers who rushed to the front.

Due to inertia, Zhang Xiuqing clearly saw how powerful these two horses' hooves were: the horses' hooves actually stepped directly into the chests of these two Qingzhou soldiers!

The two Qingzhou soldiers fell directly to the ground and died, and they also collided with the three rows of Qingzhou soldiers who followed closely behind. However, the inertia was not over, and the war horse continued to collide. Because the front and rear rows of Qingzhou soldiers were too close, the first few rows of Qingzhou soldiers who were knocked down became the meat pads of Zhang Xiu's war horse. The Qingzhou soldiers who were rushed to the back by the war horse.

Zhang Xiu successfully tore a crack for his subordinates in the wave of Qingzhou soldiers, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that followed closely behind also followed Zhang Xiu, knocking away the Qingzhou soldiers on Zhang Xiu's left and right.

If there are enough Qingzhou soldiers, then the dense formation and neat charge will indeed have a great blocking effect on the heavy cavalry charge. However, at this moment, there are only seven or eight hundred Qingzhou soldiers in formation, and in the face of two thousand five hundred Xiliang iron cavalry, it is really a mantis arm.

Without a sufficiently dense gun formation, it was really difficult to hinder the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was extremely capable of charging into formation. Although these more than 800 Qingzhou soldiers had done what they could, they still let Zhang Xiu lead the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which still roughly maintained the formation, to rush to the center of the front army, and met Zhang Liao's troops.

This does not mean that the Qingzhou soldiers are incompetent, but they do not belong to the anti-heavy cavalry class in the first place. Although their main weapon is a gun, it is only a short gun. Most of them are good at melee combat, but not good at formation.

This is also related to Cao Cao's management style and the source of Qingzhou soldiers. The Qingzhou soldiers were originally Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and the military discipline was originally loose. In addition, Cao Cao relied on the Qingzhou soldiers to start, and he had always been relatively lenient in the management of the Qingzhou soldiers, so he was more laissez-faire in training on weekdays. Therefore, most of the Qingzhou soldiers like more casual melee combat, and are too lazy to train spear formations and shield formations that require high queue formations.

Seeing Zhang Xiuchong enter the Chinese army, Xiahoudun's first reaction was to retreat to the Chinese army. It's just that as soon as he saw Cao Xing, who was closely following Zhang Xiu, he immediately changed his mind, shouting and holding a gun to take Cao Xing.

"Despicable villain, take your life!"

Zhang Xiu saw that Cao Cao's men could count the fierce generals Xiahoudun rushing towards Cao Xuan, and couldn't help but laugh secretly: "It seems that it is right to bring Cao Xuan, maybe you can still leave Xiahoudun's head!" ”

Xiahoudun came all the way, Cao Xing naturally pulled his bow and rode the horse, how far he could dodge, just let go of the arrow.

At this time, the formation of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had dispersed, and the various units rode against each other to start a fight. Xiahoudun had to deal with the interception of Xiliang Tieqi all the way, but he couldn't catch up.

It wasn't until Li Feng led 1,500 Xiliang iron cavalry to cut off Xiahoudun's Chinese army that Xiahoudun let out a roar of anger and turned his horse back to the battle.

Li Dian and Le Jin are gathering stragglers at the moment to stabilize their positions.

The Chinese army was cut off, and it was really not that these two generals of the Cao army did not command well. It's that the soldiers and horses under his command are too weak. The cavalry numbered no more than a thousand, and they were all light horsemen. There were tens of thousands of infantry, but there were too few heavy armor and pikemen.

The most important thing is that the average quality of these 40,000 Cao troops is actually a lower quality part of the 250,000 Cao army, and the combat effectiveness is a combination of Yuan Shu's surrender.

Therefore, it is reasonable that it can't stop the world's first heavy ride. It's just that the 20,000 Xiliang soldiers brought by Zhang Xiu have not yet arrived, and Li Dian and Le Jin still have a chance to stabilize their positions and fight back.

After Li Feng led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to pass through the middle army of Cao's army, even if he completed the task assigned by Zhang Xiu - to isolate the front army of Cao's army.

Next, Li Feng immediately formed a formation on the other side of Cao's army, waited for Zhang Xiu's order and intercepted the reinforcements that Cao's army might send to the front army.

And Zhang Xiu will also meet Zhang Liao at this time. The 60,000 horses of Zhang Xiu's army in Dongying came out of the camp, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry killed more than 10,000 Cao army front troops who were helpless.

At this time, Xiahoudun wanted to flee to the rear army alone, and immediately commanded the surrounded front army, with thousands of Qingzhou soldiers as the inner encirclement and thousands of ordinary soldiers as the periphery, forming a circle formation and resisting stubbornly.

Zhang Xiu didn't know how long it would take for the reinforcements sent by Cao Cao to arrive, and the combat policy of a quick battle made him give an order to organize the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to charge again.

Let Zhang Liao lead Song Xian Wei to lead the troops to suppress Li Dian Lejin's army, and let Hou Cheng lead his troops to surround Xiahoudun's front army, Zhang Xiu transferred back to Li Feng, and the four thousand Xiliang iron cavalry no longer lined up in a wedge-shaped formation, and directly five hundred cavalry in a team, divided into eight directions to attack the Xiahoudun round formation that lacked spears and giant shields.

At this time, 20,000 lightly armored Xiliang soldiers arrived, mixed with Zhang Liao's army, followed by the cavalry and launched a charge.

Xiahoudun's decision was undoubtedly correct, and it was better to fight together than to be together.

However, in the face of absolute strength, all tactics are useless.

There were only six or seven thousand soldiers who could be recruited by Xiahoudun, but Zhang Xiujun had four thousand iron horsemen to charge.

If you convert the weight, the weight of Zhang Xiujun's 4,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, including men and horses, is at least worth 18,000 Cao Jun's foot soldiers. If you add the weight of a full set of vests and armor, then just by calculating the weight, four thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry can completely explode more than 20,000 Cao Jun foot soldiers!

So it was still a wave, and the circle formed by Xiahoudun's temporary organization was shattered. The tens of thousands of Zhang Xiujun foot soldiers and light cavalry that followed instantly flooded the remnants of Xiahoudun's front army.

Xiahou was still fighting and killing himself, but he was not Zhang Fei, let alone Zhao Zilong, who came and went freely in the army, and was soon captured by Zhang Xiu, Li Fenghou, Cheng Cao, and countless Zhang Xiu sergeants.

On the other side, Zhang Liao commanded tens of thousands of horses, and was also suppressing Li Dianlejin's remaining less than 30,000 Cao troops step by step.

Li Dianle Jin saw that the front army had been destroyed, and immediately left thousands of men and horses under the command of Le Jin, who was responsible for breaking the rear. Li Dian led most of the troops and horses to retreat.

Zhang Liao seized the fighter and personally led the wolf cavalry to charge the battle, defeated Lejin, and broke the Cao army.

Zhang Xiu then led the cavalry to follow Zhang Liao to chase Li Dianle into the eastern camp of the Cao army, this time Li Dian led thousands of foot soldiers to defend the camp, and Le Jin led the rest of the Cao army to continue to retreat.

This time it didn't take much effort, and the Xiliang army that came later brought the equipment of the Cao army to attack the camp, and broke through the Cao army camp in the same wave. Li Dian and Zhang Liao shot at each other, but they were hit by Cao Xing's arrow and fled in embarrassment.

Zhang Xiujun, whose morale was like a rainbow, continued to pursue, preparing to annihilate the Cao army of more than 40,000 in one fell swoop by virtue of the advantage of more cavalry.

It seems that the balance of victory has completely tilted in favor of Zhang Xiujun.

Zhang Xiujun pursued not far away, and Li Dianle fled to a valley with the defeated army. The valley is neither wide nor narrow, and the mountains next to it are also ordinary. The whole valley has no character, it is very ordinary.

Zhang Xiu led the army to chase to the mouth of the valley, and was about to urge the horse into the valley to chase and kill the Cao army who was close at hand, but Zhang Liao grabbed Zhang Xiu with a puzzled face: "General, there are hundreds of grasses here, the trees are abundant, and it is very easy to be ambushed!" Let's give way to the pawn first. ”

Zhang Xiu laughed: "Wen Yuan, you are a little too careful." It is indeed easy to ambush here, but Li Dianle Jin is close at hand, and all the troops of the Cao army are on the front line without landing, except for the rear army with nearly 10,000 foot soldiers in the grain field, there are still troops to ambush here? Could it be that they knew a long time ago that we would break their army in the Eastern Theater? ”

Zhang Liao was speechless, he knew in his heart that what Zhang Xiu said was right. Cao's army of 250,000 horses, 100,000 attacked Ji Ling's western camp, 100,000 attacked Qiyang City, and 40,000 restrained himself.

Although there are many generals in the Cao army, the first-class generals who are really capable are also on the front line, and even if the remaining second- and third-rate generals come to ambush, he Zhang Wenyuan thinks that even if he does not win, he will not lose too much.

But why, do you always feel uneasy?

Maybe he has followed Wen Hou for too long, and he has always been too worried about Cao Cao's tricks.

Zhang Liao exhaled, didn't think about it anymore, and beckoned the Bingzhou wolf cavalry and the light cavalry of the headquarters under his command to follow the cavalry led by Zhang Xiu.

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