Chapter Seventy-Five: Defeat
The Yellow Turbans still have cavalry?
Hu Chi'er had never heard of such a thing. But even though he was horrified at this time, there was no way to relieve these Yellow Turban cavalry from rushing towards him.
At the critical moment, Hu Chi'er immediately asked the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses around him to start blocking these cavalry.
"Quick, go back to defense, go and stop these cavalrymen, don't let him rush over!"
In fact, if Hu Chi'er can calm down and let the 3,000 soldiers and horses form a formation, he will still have the strength to fight against the 700 cavalry on Liu Zheng's side.
But in a panic, he forgot to form a formation to deal with the cavalry, but actually let the soldiers and horses under his command rush towards the cavalry, in a vain attempt to use these soldiers and horses to fill the cavalry and relieve the impact of the cavalry.
In this way, the three thousand recruits, who had never participated in any battles, were blindly commanded by Hu Chi'er, and directly let the three thousand soldiers and horses rush to the horses of these cavalry under Liu Zheng's banner.
A confrontation ended in a fiasco.
Xu Huang led the seven hundred cavalry under Liu Zheng's command to charge, and more than a dozen war horses rushed to the front, holding steel spears, and in the gallop of war horses, the steel spears had been raised fiercely.
Rushing to the nearest enemy, he only used a little force to hold the steel spear, which was nearly a foot long and pierced directly into the chests of those officers and soldiers.
The huge swooping force directly allowed the steel spear to penetrate the chests of those officers and soldiers, piercing through the chest, and even being able to bring people up and stab at the second person.
Just like the skewers that Liu Zheng had eaten, the steel spear in Xu Huang's hand directly pierced several people in a row, and it was only because the weight was too heavy that he couldn't hold it, so he gave up directly.
Discarding the spear, Xu Huang turned around and pulled out another long axe, began to hold the battle axe with one hand, and slashed around.
Such a terrible fight made these officers and recruits have never experienced it at all.
After all, they are just some recruits, and they haven't experienced a few battles at all, even if they have been surrounded and suppressed by Hu Chi'er a few times before, but it is also a one-sided battle, although they can participate in the battle and understand the cruelty of the battlefield, they have definitely never encountered such a situation as now.
They had been indoctrinated that the Yellow Turbans were all rubbish, fragile waste, but now, they understand the strength of the Yellow Turbans.
In just one photo, 3,000 soldiers and horses, more than 500 people were killed and wounded.
The rest of the officers and soldiers who were still in the rear and had not yet rushed to the front of Liu Zheng's cavalry were panicked.
As soon as the officers and soldiers in front of them died, they had to face these cavalry, but they had no ability to fight back, and they also had a sense of fear, everyone was afraid of death, if they went up to die, if no one used their lives to render them loyal.
They wouldn't be willing to die.
Someone was frightened and began to retreat.
This retreat made most of the officers and soldiers have the idea of retreating, and many people directly lost their weapons and began to flee.
As soon as Hu Chi'er saw his men and horses, he actually began to run away at this time, he also panicked, and immediately rode on his war horse, running around, roaring hoarsely, trying to stabilize the army's heart.
He knew that once his men and horses fled in all directions in a cowardly manner, it was impossible to escape from the cavalry, as Dong Zhuo's general, he knew the power of the cavalry, and the more he fled, the more defeated.
"Come back, don't run, there is only one way to escape!"
Hu Chi'er drew the weapon beside him and slashed at a retreating soldier with a knife, threatening many fleeing soldiers and horses.
But his threat only increased the fear of these soldiers and horses.
Soon, more than half of the 3,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out by the cavalry led by Xu Huang, and the rest of the people scattered and fled, but they didn't escape so easily.
Liu Zheng looked at these people who began to flee in all directions, turned around and shouted at Huang Zhong.
"Brother Huang Zhong, it's your turn to make a move, look at the results of the training in the past few days, these people are living targets!"
Liu Zheng immediately asked Huang Zhong to bring a thousand shooters and pulled them out at this time.
The archers who have been trained for a few days, although they have just learned to shoot arrows, and the hit rate is really not high, but Liu Zheng wants them to practice on the battlefield, only in this way can they improve their ability to face the battle on the spot, so that they will not have too much fear on the battlefield, and can calm down and concentrate on shooting the enemy.
"Ready, draw the arrow."
"Draw the bow!"
"Aim!"
"Shoot!"
Huang Zhong had long known Liu Zheng's intentions, so he had been preparing, and when Liu Zheng opened his mouth to order, Huang Zhong had already given an order at any time.
Immediately, those archers who had been trained by Huang Zhong shot the arrows in their hands.
At this time, thousands of arrows began to hit and scatter, shooting those soldiers and horses who escaped from the core battlefield individually.
However, the first round of shooting was not very ideal for Liu Zheng.
The training time of these shooters, after all, is too short, and the hit rate is not high.
More than a thousand arrows were fired, but not many hits, and three or four out of ten could not reach it. It can only be said that 12 out of 10 arrows can hit the enemy.
And it is not necessarily fatal, even if it hits the enemy, it is not so easy to shoot the enemy.
However, Liu Zheng was not depressed, the shooter was a surprisingly winning class, and it was impossible to change the situation of the battle with just a few shooters in a battle.
Soon, the round of shooting ended, and the damage caused to those officers and soldiers was not very much, but at this time, it greatly hit the morale of the officers and soldiers.
The appearance of the shooter is even more terrifying than the cavalry, and the kind of mental pressure is terrible.
The cavalry had to come to the front before they could inflict damage on these officers and soldiers, but the archers were unwilling to take people's lives from a distance of 100 meters.
The officers and soldiers who were originally lacking in war spirit had no heart to fight at this time, and the only remaining soldiers and horses began to flee completely at this time.
The remaining more than 1,000 people immediately scattered and fled, and even the 2,000 forward soldiers and horses that rushed towards Yang Feng and Guo Taijun at the beginning also fled at this time.
Without the support of the headquarters behind him, the forward was powerless to resist the combined forces of Yang Feng and Guo Tai.
In just a few moments, a battle of nearly 10,000 people came to an end.
Half an hour later.
The fighting outside the village had basically stopped, and Liu Zheng took people and began to clean up the battlefield.
Yang Feng and Guo Tai came over to report the results of this battle to Liu Zheng.
"Great victory, great victory, we actually relied on more than 4,000 people to destroy the enemy army of 5,000 people in one fell swoop!"
Guo Tai was in extreme excitement at this time, after eliminating those Hu Chi'er's soldiers and horses, his whole person was excited, he had participated in the uprising for so long, this was the first time, and he was so happy to kill.