Chapter 64: Inseparable

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Those Sizhou Zhuangding who were recruited by Zhang Liao this year ago, even if they had the standard armor of the northern and southern armies in Luoduku Mansion, they were still vulnerable in the face of the strong troops of the Liang State.

Pieces of subordinates fell, and the Liangguo horse crashed into the infantry formation, and it was a piece of people who fell on their backs, and when they entered the cavalry line, it was a piece of horses.

In the cavalry in Luoyang, the best vest is only equivalent to the armored light cavalry of the Liang Kingdom ten years ago. For no other reason, there are no excellent horse breeds in Luoyang.

The once powerful Han Dynasty had countless military horse farms, but most of these horse farms were in Liangzhou, and a few were in Youzhou...... The land in Sizhou is the most fertile, and the brain is bad for raising horses, and the best fertile land should be used to grow food!

This also caused the emperor to break with Ma Yue, and the imperial court no longer had excellent horses to ride, and those low and inferior horses could not carry the heavy armor of the cavalry with an astonishing weight, let alone a heavier number of horse armor.

On the other hand, Ma Yue of Liangguo, from the beginning of the Liangzhou era, mastered three large horse farms, including the Shandan Military Horse Farm, and then continued to open up new horse farms to serve themselves, and after the horse played to open up the territory and seize the Western Regions, it raised Dawan horses in Liangzhou, which was called the existence of Tianma in the Han Wu era...... Up to now, the three hippos are only serving under the cavalry of the Liang Kingdom in Jizhou, Qingzhou and other places, and the Liang Wang cavalry between the Liang and the Liang has all been replaced with Dawan horses with large load capacity, strong body bones and excellent endurance.

Even the ordinary cavalry of Liangguo have already ridden the mixed horses of Dawan and Liangzhou horses, and their physical fitness has improved a lot.

Zhang Liao suddenly realized at this time that maybe the prime minister took this opportunity to counterattack Liangguo, or it might be a wrong decision!

But the situation is already like this, and he can't do anything about it...... More than 60,000 Han soldiers and horses have been deployed within a radius of 100 miles to the east, and at this time he said to stop doing it?

Zhang Wenyuan is soft-spoken, but he is afraid that he does not have such great ability.

If it weren't for Prime Minister Cao Cheng, who thought that he still had his own number one in hand, I was afraid that Zhang Wenyuan would still be the captain who switched to Cao Cao from Bingzhou!

This shot is not only related to the future honor of the Han family, Prime Minister Cao Cheng's prestige in the world, but also to whether Zhang Liao can gain a firm foothold in the imperial court in the future and confirm the name of this general!

This is his Zhang Wenyuan's fateful battle!

If you win, you will be added to the knighthood!

If you lose, you can't turn over!

So he had to win!

Seeing the enemy's commanders and banners slaughtered into the battlefield under the cover of thousands of soldiers and horses, the armored iron cavalry tore through the gaps in the infantry and rushed straight to the main formation.

Then the foot soldiers formed sharp arrows with their tun, and one by one they plunged deep into the gaps torn by the cavalry, and quickly harvested their lives.

The hardwood crossbow projected pieces of bolts, and the force of the arrows caused the arrows to draw a nearly straight trajectory in the air, accurately hitting the enemy troops on both wings.

This army that came out of Tongguan was simply not human, they were like beasts that chose people to eat in Zhang Liao's eyes, frantically killing the sergeants he had personally raised.

Elite!

This must be the elite of Liangguotun stationed in Tongguan, otherwise how could he have such a strength comparable to the tiger and leopard, no, even more than the strength of the tiger and leopard?

Zhang Liao's face was cloudy, and the hand holding the long knife suddenly clenched, and after a moment, it relaxed slightly, but turned around and clenched it again.

Anxious!

This was the first time in Zhang Liao's 30 years in the army that he had encountered such a difficult moment to make a decision.

Should he use the whole army to swallow the elite of Liangguo, which is deployed in Tongguan?

Just when Zhang Liao was determined to make up his mind, Hua Ye was already stained with blood, and he was killing the 'rebels' with a long knife!

What could be more enjoyable? You know there are more enemies in the shadows, but they're too scared of you to come out of the way, and you're just cutting through the enemy formation in full view, even freeing up your hands to wipe the blood from the splatters of your visco.

In the one-sided slaughter, Hua Ye fixed his mount and tilted his head to look south.

Previously, the cavalry of the Han army had come to spread the word that tens of thousands of rebels had come out of Henan, broke through the two armies in the north and south of Luoyang to seize the baggage ordnance, and then were chased all the way by the army to this point...... To the north of Tongguan is the Yellow River, where there is nothing but the tall grass on the bank, and the only place nearby where people can hide is only more than ten miles away at the foot of the rolling mountains in the south.

Hua Ye didn't know if someone was really hiding over there and secretly watching the battle situation here.

Although he knew very well that even if someone was there, the human eye would not be able to see his movements clearly, he couldn't help but raise his long knife towards the south.

Under the hideous and terrifying armor were the corners of his mouth.

Eighty percent of the middle and lower-level officers in the Liangguo Army are filled by military households who have learned new tactics in the academy, which makes the mission of the generals in the battle array much easier, and they only need to put forward suggestions on the general direction of the battle.

The real implementation lies in those military commanders, just like today's battlefield, fifty or sixty people form a whole to fight separately, and there is no need to even change the formation, because the smallest formation unit is no longer accurate to the individual, but to them as a whole.

The sharp formations are like tiny jagged teeth on a cutter, biting and spinning, tearing every enemy soldier into it!

Zhang Liao finally made up his mind, fight!

The soldiers running in the forest quickly conveyed the order, and two 5,000-strong military formations were ready to go at the foot of the mountains, one left and one right, but Zhang Liao pressed the order to enter the battlefield at the end.

He was waiting, waiting for the morale of the soldiers and horses on the battlefield to collapse, waiting for them to involuntarily withdraw to the east, waiting for the moment when the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom launched a pursuit, and the foot soldiers and cavalry dispersed...... That's when his men enter the battlefield!

Against such soldiers and horses, even if he used more than three times their troops, Zhang Liao did not dare to guarantee that he could win, but if they were divided and surrounded, it would undoubtedly reduce their morale to the lowest!

The battle lasted less than half a pillar of incense, and the battlefield had shifted nearly three miles to the east.

On the one hand, they were chasing and fighting, and on the other hand, they were fighting and retreating, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of corpses had been left on the ground, and people's hearts began to disperse...... The soldiers and horses of the rear army could only watch the originally black crowd in front of them gradually become sparse, and finally they could even see those hideous butcher-like iron horsemen.

They finally lost their morale.

This army lasted for a long time, from the engagement to the collapse of morale, they lost more than 20% of their troops before they began to rout, which is already a relatively high morale on the battlefield.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the losses exceed 10%, and the enemy becomes more and more courageous, the commander will no longer let the soldiers engage in such a meaningless war of attrition, and will definitely choose to retreat decisively.

There was only one reason why this army could hold out for so long, because they were waiting, they were waiting for the general to give the order, and the reinforcements would arrive.

But at this time, even the most dull generals should know that there will be no reinforcements, and they must retreat the way they came.

The battle damage increased geometrically, and at first the forces of both sides were equal, but one side lost 10 percent, and the other side was unscathed, so it became 5,000 to 4,005. The greater the superiority on the battlefield, the more obvious the disadvantage will be.

And the order to retreat is never so easy to give, when the battle loss exceeds 20%, the order to retreat, if the broken general is brave enough to contain the pursuit of the enemy, maybe lose more than 10% of the soldiers and horses.

If the broken generals are not strong enough, most of the broken soldiers and horses will be slaughtered or surrendered to the enemy...... If the generals are incompetent after the break, or if they don't know what the Yellow Turban Army is like after the break, eighty percent of the soldiers and horses will be pursued by the enemy when they retreat, and at most forty percent will remain.

At the slightest chance of victory, the generals would not be willing to order a retreat.

In the end, it was the general who came out of the imperial court, and after leaving nearly 1,000 soldiers behind the rear, he immediately fled to the east with more than 2,000 subordinates who had withdrawn without looking back.

Hundreds of cavalry and more than 1,000 foot soldiers came with high spirits and fled in disgrace.

But Huaye won't let them go like this!

The fierce defenders of Tongguan ordered the iron cavalry to pursue when the enemy army broke and fled, and the foot soldiers surrounded them one after another, leaving the enemy army behind the sergeants to quickly close the siege, and quickly disintegrate the enemy's will to fight.

The galloping Hua Ye glanced back at the Tongguan City, which was already nearly 10,000 steps away, took a deep breath, and ordered to chase the enemy army and strangle the enemy army with a bloody breath.

At the same time, Hua Ye's heart was also constantly asking, and he was a little impatient...... He knew very well that he could only chase another 3,000 paces, beyond which the enemy might be able to strike from the south, and that although he would be able to escape, his men would not be so lucky.

Why haven't those enemies hidden in the mountains and forests come out yet?

Isn't what I've done enough?

He was luring the enemy with his body, Hua Ye knew very well that his father was now at the head of Tongguan City, paying attention to the movements nearby, and behind every closed gate in Tongguan, there must be an army of Liangguo elites waiting for the order to go out.

At this time, the comparison is who can calm down more!

Three Thousand Steps...... Two thousand steps...... A Thousand Steps......

Hua Ye's breathing was heavy, his face was no longer as relaxed as before, the cold hairs all over his body exploded, and he couldn't move forward anymore!

But the enemy forces have not yet moved in the slightest!

"Pass my command, and then pursue...... A thousand steps! ”

The speed of the charging of the mounted iron cavalry galloping around was obviously slowing down, and Hua Ye was ready to give the order at any time to lead the formation to the left and detour to the bottom of Tongguan City.

And more than ten miles away from the foothills, Zhang Liao stood still on the stone, looking at the cavalry that was separated from the foot soldiers for nearly 4,000 paces, although his face was expressionless, but the clenched fists still betrayed the tension in his heart.

"Pursue again, chase again, chase ......" Zhang Liao's eyes were not staring at the fifteen thousand steps away from Tongguan in Hua Ye's heart, but a little farther away. Seeing that Hua Ye was about to cross the line that was only drawn in his eyes, and the entire army of soldiers and horses seemed to be just a black line outside the horizon at this distance, Zhang Liao's clenched fist suddenly loosened, turned his head and pointed to the herald beside him in front of him and shouted, "It's now!" Pass my command, kill me! ”