Chapter 34: A Brief Cavalry Battle

The few soldiers who fled together had already thrown away the armor that hindered their speed, and only some of them still had weapons, and of course they did not dare to stop against the three hundred cavalry. However, because the people were large and scattered, the slaughter slowed down after the first few hundred people were slaughtered.

Witnessing this situation, Tong Yuan ordered Huang Yu and Geng Qing to strictly defend the city, and the crossbowmen went up to cover the city, and he and Hu Lang'er led more than 300 elite cavalry to attack, with the goal of rescuing the fleeing soldiers and civilians, and defeating the enemy's men and horses.

Tong Yuan and the others went out of the city from the north gate one after another, and the enemy, of course, heard the sound of horses' hooves, and immediately gave up chasing and killing the people, and gathered to prepare for a cavalry battle.

Although they were only wearing leather armor and ordinary weapons, they were all full of killing intent, and they were eager to take the city in one go. Of course, the defenders of the city have sharp crossbow arrows, and they are not stupid enough to get close to the city and shoot directly as a target.

These 300 light cavalry, seeing that Tong Yuan's 300 heavy cavalry were well-equipped and well-organized, did not panic, and they thought that even if they couldn't beat it, they could get rid of the pursuit with their superb riding skills. After all, what is the strength of the other party, try it to know, if you return in vain, I don't know if you will be punished by military law.

After three or four hundred men and fugitives entered the cover range of the city's bows and crossbows, the two cavalry were eager to try, ready to fight. Tong Yuan's side formed a dense formation, and the opponents were lined up in three rows, with one hundred horses in each row.

The opponent did not carry a bow and arrow, so he started directly, and after preparing for the three-row impact, he directly exerted everyone's experienced personal martial arts. The distance of two hundred paces was only half of it in just a few breaths.

At this moment, Hu Lang'er gave an order, and a hundred heavy horsemen set up bows and arrows, aiming at the oncoming enemy and shooting. Mounted archery is not the unique skill of light cavalry, and on the Asian continent, regardless of light and heavy equipment, all excellent cavalry opportunities must master the skill of mounted archery.

Hu Lang'er's Hu Han soldiers are all good at archery, each with a compound bow, and more than 100 of them can even shoot on horseback. At this time, the enemy took nearly 100 steps, and suddenly sharpened his arrow, and immediately put down more than 30 of the opponent's horses.

In the next few breaths, Tong Yuanjun maintained a dense formation to surround the main general and others in the center, and did not accelerate the hedging. All men are armed with weapons and aim at the enemy, and the horses meet the enemy in small steps.

In an instant, the two armies clashed. Riders on each side stabbed each other with spears, and in an instant thirty or forty men fell from their horses. Although the Xinxi Liang Army's side was almost static and easier to attack, some of them blocked with the help of weapons and armor, unloading the power of the opponent's impact and not being knocked off their horses.

In addition, the Xinxi Liangjun maintains a dense formation in the shape of fish scales, and the impact surface is small, and only sixty percent of the opponent's entire front row can be in contact with the outer layer of the Xinxi Liangjun during the impact, so the impact effect is not good.

The fate of the people who fell off their horses on the two sides was also completely different, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army who fell off their horses could be said to be very lucky if they were killed by the blades in an instant.

Because the one who didn't die was quickly trampled into a pulp by the high-speed horses of his comrades in the back, even if he was lucky enough to be avoided, because he was extremely fast before, he fell half to death.

On Tong Yuan's side, it was completely the opposite, although the whole army was dense, it did not accelerate the impact. Some of the soldiers fell off their horses, but none of them were trampled by the horses of their comrades, and no one was so miserable that they fell to their deaths. There were only nearly ten slightly weaker ones, who did not dodge or block the opponent's attack, and were directly pierced, and the rest did not die more.

Although the enemy had lost more than fifty men, their ferocity remained undiminished, and they immediately surrounded themselves in hand-to-hand combat. The Western Liang army was in a more dispersed state and besieged outside, while the new Western Liang army was denser and attacked from the inside out.

The opponent's sabers and cavalry spears are difficult to fatally inflict fatal injuries on the heavy armored cavalry of the New Western Liang Army unless they are stabbed with all their might, and on the contrary, the light cavalry of the Western Liang Army will lose their combat effectiveness as long as they are hit.

Heavy cavalry has an absolute advantage in cavalry slashing, and light infantry can also rely on their agility to dodge attacks and stab them in the back. However, on horseback, especially without Takahashi's saddles and bilateral stirrups, and because of the formation, they had little chance of attacking the backs of the heavy cavalry.

Hu Lang'er gave an order, and the whole army no longer continued to remain static, and most of the people rushed to the outside. The Xiliang light cavalry was torn apart like a devastation, except for a few dozen people who saw that the situation was not right and retreated in advance, and all the rest were killed and knocked down.

However, the advance runner soon encountered a round of arrow rain, Hu Lang'er with nearly a hundred heavy cavalry in pursuit, of course, the heavy cavalry could not catch up with the light cavalry, but the horses were physically protected very well these days, and they would not be thrown away by the light cavalry within a distance of dozens of miles.

What's more, in the first song, everyone was equipped with compound bows, and a salvo was put into about twenty people. These Xiliang light cavalry had no protection on their backs, and there was no way except to dodge blindly. As a result, after three rounds of arrows, the enemy was completely annihilated.

The whole battle began from the two teams of cavalry to the annihilation of the enemy, but only a short time of incense. The cavalry battles were too fierce and fast, and the infantry often fought between them for several hours before the victory was decided.

Cavalry battles often lead to superior judgments, and will last for a long time unless one side uses kite, wandering, and detour tactics.

Tong Yuan has been staying with Hu Lang'er in the Chinese army and has not participated in the battle, according to Hu Lang'er, this level is not Lao Xiaowei personally shot. In the end, none of the enemy's 300 men fled, and 30 or 40 people were taken prisoner, and hundreds of high-quality horses were captured. Nineteen were killed and sixty-seven wounded.

The main ones who died in battle began to be killed by the impact. In the fighting, due to the huge disparity in equipment, there were many wounded, and only two people were killed in the battle, one was pierced by the enemy's team with all his spear, and the other was beaten by four or five people, one of whom went around his back and dealt a fatal blow with a knife.

Of course, Xu Rong and Hu Zhen saw Tong Yuan going out of the city to fight, but they did not send reinforcements at all. Their attention was obviously not on Haoyang's side, and they did not support the three hundred people at all, but accelerated their escape.

After half an hour of inquiry, Tong Yuan and the others learned from the team that Hu Zhen had fled, and it was indeed a change in the east of Chang'an. I heard that Li Dao and others led an army of 100,000 people to approach Chang'an, and they were very powerful.

This team leader and his subordinates did not want to follow Xu Rong and Hu Zhen to remain loyal to the imperial court, so they let the people go and surrendered to Weiyang Jun's men.

This was again verified by the pursuing light cavalry captives. After it was confirmed, Tong Yuan ordered someone to immediately deliver the good news to Dong Bai, and asked her to lead the people to return to Chang'an together. On the other side, the captives who slaughtered the civilians were beheaded, and the whole army was ready for the next battle.