Chapter 611: The Pursuit Between the Cavalry
In ancient wars, why did commanders like to find a small hill to climb and look, but they really couldn't find any high places on the flat ground, but also to make a wooden shelf platform, the main purpose is to increase the convenience of commanding and mobilizing the army, and to better observe the changes on the battlefield.
For a person like Ma Yan who is inside the battlefield, if he wants to know the changes outside the battlefield, he can only rely on other methods......
Ma Yan tilted his face slightly, looking for it on the nearby hill.
The pace of cavalry combat is faster than that of infantry combat, and the slightest mistake can lead to unpredictable losses. Ma Yan was measuring the residual physical strength of the horses according to the degree of breathing and sweating of the horses under him, and he was also a little anxious, although what Fang Cai said was quite relaxed, but he didn't dare to be careless, the Xianbei people behind him were close to a thousand horses, and the slightest carelessness could be a disaster.
Because of the long-term galloping, coupled with the fact that the equipment on the Hanqi is heavier than that of the Xianbei people, the endurance of the war horse is gradually declining, and the Xianbei people are chasing closer and closer, and the Hanqi who are behind are even shot down by the Xianbei people......
The situation is increasingly turning against Mayen.
The Xianbei people shouted, and every time a backward Han cavalry was shot down, it caused a burst of cheers from the Xianbei people......
Ma Yan didn't care about the situation behind him, his eyes patrolled the surrounding mountains, and suddenly, on the mountain not far to the left, he saw that several flags had been erected at some point, flying in the wind.
A smile crept up the corner of Ma Yan's mouth, and then Ma Yan turned his horse's head and walked in the direction of the flag......
More than 1,000 horsemen against 400, Chang Hanlu believed that the opponent's Han cavalry would definitely not be able to withstand the next charge, Chang Hanlu led more than 1,000 horsemen to still have a lot of horsepower, but the horses of the Han cavalry in front of him could clearly see that the frequency of wheezing had increased significantly, and if they continued to run like this, it would not take more than half an hour, and the speed of the horses had to be lowered because of the accumulation of a lot of heat in their bodies.
Chang Hanlu sneered, endured the pain in his leg, clamped the belly of the war horse, shook the spear in his hand, pointed at the Han horse in front of him, and shouted: "Speed up, catch up, kill the Han dog-"
"Kill the Han dog—"
More than 1,000 Xianbei knights also roared excitedly, slapped their horses, and chased after the Han cavalry in front. The Xianbei cavalry roared, twisting their bodies lightly on the back of their horses with the ups and downs, waving their blades, as if the next moment of victory was in sight.
It's a pity that the Xianbei cavalry didn't wait for the smile of the goddess of victory, but ushered in the surprise attack of Xu Huang's troops that had been prepared for a long time.
Xu Huang led eight hundred cavalry and rushed out of the valley on the side, like an incomparably sharp sword that had just been pulled out of its sheath, stabbing straight at the waist of the Xianbei cavalry!
For a while, the sound of horses' hooves monopolized everything in heaven and earth, and everyone on both sides seemed to have only this muffled thunderous sound in their ears!
Chang Hanlu was so anxious that he shouted: "Order the rear team to turn!" Meet the enemy! ”
After all, the war horse is not a machine, and even if it is a machine, it is not something that can be done in an instant if it wants to eliminate inertia, and the cavalry of Changhanlu, who is biting Ma Yan tightly, has no way to turn around immediately, and can only watch the Han cavalry killed from the oblique stab pass by......
But after all, it is a nation that grows on horseback, and when the Xianbei rear team saw that the situation was not good, they hung their bodies on the side of the horses in the sound of Changhanlu's horns, as if they had been rehearsed, and used their weight to forcibly change the direction of the horses' running, and came towards Xu Huang's cavalry.
The horses galloped, the hooves thundered, and the battle between the cavalry and the cavalry was as fast as if in the blink of an eye.
Xu Huang didn't leave most of the time for Changhanlu's troops to change, and the strikers rushed to the flanks of Changhanlu's troops. Chang Hanlu was forced to be helpless, so he had to order: "The front team accelerates!" Catch up with Han Qi! Rear team to attack! Waiting for the reinforcements! ”
What to do?
That's all I can do......
Changhanlu didn't have much choice, and the decision he made now was a more appropriate move at the moment.
It's a pity that just as Chang Hanlu was calculating the physical consumption of Ma Yan's horses, Xu Huang and the others were also calculating the physical consumption of Chang Hanlu's cavalry......
Xu Huang brandished a large battle axe and instantly crashed into the ranks of Xianbei's cavalry.
Unlike Ma Yan's swift and sharp spear, Xu Huang's tomahawk speed is obviously much slower, and it is so slow that it can even make Xianbei people adjust their posture to meet the tomahawk, but the problem is that Xu Huang's tomahawk weighs more than twice as much as Ma Yan's spear, and the heavy weight plus the speed of swinging, even if it is staring, and then struggling, whether it is touching, picking, swinging, racking, etc., it seems to be as futile as a praying mantis blocking a car.
A Xianbei cavalryman blocked it with a war knife, but in the next moment, the war knife was broken into two knots like a wooden stick, and at the same time, under the slash of the battle axe, a huge wound suddenly appeared under the armpit, and the whole person flew off the horse like a torn rag doll!
The guards beside Xu Huang were holding shields, and their main responsibility was to protect the flaws that were exposed when they wielded the battle axe, and killing the enemy was not their main task, but if the blindless Xianbei man bumped into him, they didn't mind pulling out the ring head knife and slashing it down.
If Ma Yan is like a sharp drill, the wound is not big when it penetrates the Xianbei people, but now Xu Huang is like an extremely blunt machete, not only cutting the Xianbei people into two sections, but even constantly hanging all kinds of flesh and blood......
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The horses couldn't dodge, and the sound of them crashing into each other was endless.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Both sides were in different languages, but they were shouting the same word.
Although the oncoming autumn wind was constantly blowing, the Han on Changhanlu's face couldn't be blown dry, and it kept flowing down his cheeks. Now even a fool knew that he had fallen into the Han calculations, listening to the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and hearing some familiar howls behind him, Changhanlu whipped the war horse with the hilt of his spear and shouted, "Speed up! Faster! Hasten! Kill the Han dog! ”
Changhanlu now has only one way, first solve the Mayan troops in front of them, who are gradually losing their horse strength, and then have a way to turn back and rescue!
An irresistible thought popped up in my mind, how could the Han people suddenly become so tough?
Chang Hanlu really didn't expect that this time he would encounter such a tricky situation when he went south from Yin Mountain......