In the past two years, he has been recuperating, he is also busy with official business, and he has no leisure to practice martial arts, and his age is unconsciously forty years old, and he also feels that his body is far less than when he was young, he can chase and kill the Yellow Turban thief Kou Baili overnight, and then drink happily with the generals. Le Jin would not dare to exchange injuries for injuries like Cao Cao, but Sanhe, Wen Ping was beaten and had to withdraw to the Jingzhou army array.

At this time, Cao Chun's tiger and leopard ride also returned. Although he had the opportunity to compete with the world's powerful army Bai Ma Yicong, everything was not worth mentioning compared to Cao Cao's safety.

When Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and others returned, it was time for the Jingzhou army to pay the price for their actions.

"Let the thieves in Jingzhou know the consequences of provoking Cao Jun! Boys! Kill! ”

Cao Jun was very annoyed by the sneak attack of the Jingzhou army from behind, and his own lord actually went into battle to kill the enemy because of their incompetence, which made them feel very ashamed.

Cao Cao also withdrew from the military formation and returned to Guo Jia's side. He did not take back the command, but continued to give Guo Jia command of the army. Guo Jia's battle array command ability had already been fronted with enemy heads and blood all over the ground, so Cao Cao was not worried that Guo Jia would fail at all.

This time, Liu Biao really couldn't bear such a loss. He is different from Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei, Jingzhou is full of scholars, and he only relied on the prestige and strength of the Cai family and the Kuai family to reluctantly unify the Nanyang County, Nan County, Jiangxia County, and Zhangling County of the four counties of Jingbei.

(Jingzhou had only eight counties in the early Han Dynasty, namely: Nanyang County, Nan County, Jiangxia County, Zhangling County, Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, and Changsha County.) In the thirteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (208 years), Cao Cao took Jingzhou and set up Xiangyang County in the north of Nan County, so Jingzhou governed a total of nine counties, which was later called "Jingxiang Nine Counties". Zhangling County was established by dividing part of Nanyang County during the Liu Biao period, but Cao Cao later acquired Jingzhou and abolished Zhangling County shortly after establishing Xiangyang County, and reincorporated it into Nanyang County. ）

Liu Biao couldn't spend too much military power in this war where it was impossible to gain anything, otherwise he was worried that he would not be able to suppress the Jingzhou Shi clan, and the four counties of Jingnan might also take the opportunity to raise troops and rebel.

"Dejue, withdraw the troops."

"Lord!"

Liu Biao sighed, "Let him go with these faces, I don't care, if there is turmoil in Jingzhou, it will be troublesome." ”

Cai Mao also knew that what Liu Biao said was right, but he was a little unwilling, this was his first battle as a general in Jingzhou, and he reaped a big defeat, and anyone would be unwilling.

Liu Biao also understood Cai Mao's thoughts, and of course he had to take care of his wife's and brother's thoughts, and gave Kuai Yue a look on the side.

Kuai Yue understood, and arched his hand, "General, congratulations to the general for breaking the Cao army in this battle." ”

"Xenomorph, what are you talking nonsense? Our army's defeat has been revealed, how can we talk about breaking Cao's army? ”

"Since Guo Jia defected to Cao Cao, Cao Cao rejected Tao Qian in the east and resisted Yuan Shu in the south, but he was still defeated by the two of them, and even Yuan Shu was driven out of Yuzhou. But today's general's surprise attack strategy has already caused Cao's army heavy losses, hasn't it? ”

Cai Mao suddenly realized that Kuai Yue was giving him a step, indeed, this raid had already caused Cao Jun to suffer a lot of losses, and it was also under the condition that Cao Cao and Guo Jia personally led the army, which was enough for him to brag for a while.

With the steps down, Cai Mao's unwillingness was much better, so he ordered Wei Yan to retreat after the break.

Wei Yanqin led his hometown soldiers to form two thousand Yiyang dead soldiers.

This Yiyang dead army was all cavalry, but all of them were heavily armoured.

Heavy cavalry?

Guo Jia frowned, but Wei Yan's thinking was very advanced, and he knew the power of the heavy cavalry.

The earliest real heavy cavalry in Chinese history is called "armor cavalry", which originated from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The armor and cavalry equipment was only a short-lived product of the Great Division, and it reached its peak during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang dynasties gradually died out, and the role of the honor guard was greater than that of the battle.

In fact, the Western Han Dynasty also had heavy cavalry, but they did not add protective gear to the horses, which was similar to Wei Yan's Yiyang dead soldiers.

There are two reasons why hoplites are not popular.

The most vulgar reason is that this thing is too expensive.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the horse armor, also known as 'dang chest', it was made of leather, relatively simple and even so, the horse armor was extremely precious, and even in the history of the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's army was only twenty horse armor, which shows how valuable it was, and Yuan Shao occupied the four states of Hebei, but the complete horse armor was only 300 bodies. (In Cao Cao's "Military Policy Order", it is recorded that "Yuan Benchu armor ten thousand collars, my great armor twenty collars; There were 300 horses in the beginning, and I could not have ten. Seeing that he didn't do it, I made a surprise attack. It is the time when the soldiers are refined, not the same as the present time") It is precisely for this reason that the heavy cavalry cannot appear.

At the same time, there are also reasons for horses.

Chinese horses are not as good as European horses in terms of weight, which is indeed an important reason why the armor and cavalry equipment can not be popularized and continued, and the famous generals in Chinese history have stipulated that the heavy cavalry should dismount and walk when marching, and the battle is only allowed to get on the horse.

Therefore, the heavy cavalry was only a short-lived product of the Great Division, and it reached its peak during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang dynasties gradually died out, and the role of the honor guard was greater than that of combat.

As soon as he thought of this, Guo Jia's heart was slightly restless.

Why don't you go back and let Han Ji try to build a horse armor?

I have to say that Wei Yan's Yiyang dead soldiers are indeed brave, and the arrows of ordinary soldiers have almost no lethality for them as long as they do not hit the head.

However, the weakness lies in the horses.

Guo Jia smiled coldly, "The ironclad guard dismounted and slashed the enemy's horse legs with a long knife!" ”

"Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard cavalry to attack the Youzhou army with the Yuan army!"

Then, the ironclad guard handed the war horse to the Long Xiang sergeant on the side, and asked them to take it back to the formation, and then he came to the front of the formation, holding a large sword, kneeling on one leg. The cavalry of the Long Xiang Army dispersed for them and opened up the formation of the dead soldiers of Yiyang, which greatly weakened their impact. When the Yiyang dead soldiers rushed to the front of the battle, they slashed at the legs of the war horses under the crotch of the Yiyang dead soldiers from the side.

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