"General! Checkmate! ”

Far away, Biqiu Xing heard the scout's panicked and even somewhat distorted voice.

Biqiu Xing frowned and said, "What's the matter?!" ”

"General, general, here they are, here they are......" The soldier acting as a scout said in a somewhat flustered manner, pointing to the north and speaking incoherently.

"Who's coming?" As soon as the words came out, Bi Qiuxing suddenly understood, "You mean that the previous cavalry of the expedition to the west, that army came over again?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's that cavalry, I see their banner, it's less than thirty miles from us! They also sent men after us, and they shot several of us......" The scout nodded repeatedly, apparently still apprehensive.

"How many people came? How many cavalry? But there are foot soldiers, and how many are them? And who is the leader? Biqiu Xing didn't have the heart to calm the scout's little emotions at all, and asked directly.

The cavalry who was temporarily captured as a scout choked, when he saw a cavalry appear in the north from a distance, the first thing that caught his eye was the fluttering tricolor battle flag for the west, so frightened that he immediately turned his horse's head and fled without fighting with men and horses.

But when Biqiu Xing asked at the moment, he couldn't help but say it.

"General, there are thousands of cavalry...... scout said nonsense, since the heart of the expedition to the west appeared and killed a lot of his own cavalry yesterday, it must be indispensable.

Biqiu Xing was taken aback, thousands of cavalry appeared?

For Hongnong and Hedong, who did not have horse farms, cavalry was a luxury of arms. Not to mention the east of the Hongnong River, even Yuan Shao gradually built a cavalry team after taking Youzhou, and many of them were recruited Wuhuan cavalry......

War horses are not something that can be obtained casually, and war horses are scarce materials wherever they are.

"Someone, herald! The whole army is lined up and ready to meet the enemy! Biqiu Xing ordered loudly, although he didn't know very well whether Pingyang really had these troops, but since he came, there was no reason to retreat, not to mention that if the infantry fought against the cavalry, if the formation was a little careless, it was possible to be taken advantage of, leading to a collapse.

"Also, withdraw all the cavalry for the time being, and prepare for battle." As soon as I heard that the other party had thousands of cavalry, if they were all as fierce as yesterday, it would be trouble. Biqiu Xing knew that nearly half of his troops were just people's bravery, and if they fought alone, they were afraid that if they charged the western cavalry on the opposite side, they would be scattered, and they could only gather in one place before they could fight.

The rumbling war drums sounded, and clusters of figures swayed in a hurry, and began to move under the orders of the junior sergeants, standing at the forefront.

According to the military law of the Han Dynasty, normally speaking, the auxiliary soldiers or death battalions are the first troops to engage when the two sides are engaged in the field battle, just like the Roman army formation on the other side of the world at this time, and the light infantry is also listed in the first line.

These auxiliaries, after experiencing the first battle of iron and blood, can get the status of pawns, enjoy double the supply of soldiers, and no longer have to engage in those extra complicated labor, which is a huge leap for many people who have just changed from farmers to soldiers.

Because of the lack of basic education, and the ruling class does not regard the lives of these soldiers at all, so such a combat arrangement is the most normal survival of the fittest, and those who survive on the battlefield, whether it is because of luck or the so-called battlefield explosion, it doesn't matter to the ruling class, they are all consumables anyway, and they only need to defeat the other party before their own consumables are exhausted.

If it weren't for the fact that along the way, the people of several cottage villages belonging to Beifeiqian were gone, and Biqiu Xing would still levy some local people to serve as temporary laborers, and even directly supplement to the front line......

For this matter, Biqiu Xing felt quite strange, after all, and the prosperity of Pingyang in the north, he had heard of it more than once before he arrived, from an abandoned city, to a city that can be compared with Chang'an Luoyang, it is indeed amazing, but now they are not far from Pingyang County, but along the way, they only see empty villages, but no one is seen.

With the billowing smoke and dust, the sound of horses' hooves gradually sounded in the distance.

Biqiu Xing frowned, pointed to the smoke and said to Zheng Tai beside him: "Gongye, look at it!" ”

Zheng Tai looked at it, and was also a little puzzled, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "This...... The number seems to be a bit ......."

After a while, with the tricolor battle flag appearing in the field of vision, Biqiu Xing's face became gloomy, and he suddenly turned his head to stare at the lieutenant in charge of the cavalry, without saying a word.

The cavalry lieutenant shuddered, and hurriedly admitted: "Subordinate, subordinate dereliction of duty...... Subordinate to this ...... Deal with the scout......"

"It's ominous ......to behead the pawn in battle," Biqiu Xing said coldly, "and strip him of his identity as a pawn, fill the forward battalion, and atone for his sins!" ”

"Subordinates take orders!" The cavalry lieutenant hurriedly surrendered.

“…… If there is a next time......" Biqiu Xing said, staring at the cavalry captain, "you will go to the forward camp without a crown!" ”

"Ah, Yui! Only ......" The cavalry captain looked at Biqiu Xing's murderous gaze, and the beads of sweat on his forehead flowed down his face, but he didn't dare to wipe it a little.

Where are there 1,000 cavalry in front of him, no more than 300 at most, and a general at the forefront is holding the flag with the word "Zhang", with more than ten cavalry in front, and the rest of the cavalry is slightly behind, following behind.

Bi Qiuxing's face twitched, a little hot and uncomfortable, as if he had been slapped by someone. At this time, there were only 300 cavalry marching to the west, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly formed a formation to meet the enemy......

Zheng Tai hurriedly rounded the field and said, "Conquer the western cavalry or divide the troops to go elsewhere......"

Biqiu Xing nodded silently, accepting Zheng Tai's comfort, and then a nameless anger rose in his heart, pointing to the three hundred cavalry of the expedition to the west who were showing off their might in front, and said to the cavalry captain on the side: "You are brave and can you be Jiahu? Defeat it quickly! ”

As soon as the cavalry captain was excited, he hurriedly pulled out his sword, shouted, and rushed towards the cavalry of Zhengxi with the cavalry on standby in the middle of the battle!

Zhang Lie looked at the Biqiu Xingjun formation in front of him, laughed a few times, and said, "This group of fools, do you really think that a certain will not be able to rush into battle?" Put on such a posture, and you are not afraid of being tired? ”

Several cavalrymen who followed Zhang Lie also laughed, without the slightest sense of tension in the face of a large array of 10,000 people, as if they were not facing soldiers with swords and guns, but a large number of sheep gathered together.

"Look! The kid in front of him, holding a spear as if he was holding a hoe, didn't lift it, haha......" A cavalryman slowly stopped outside the range of Biqiuxing's army formation while turning the head of his horse and following Zhang Lie, pointing ahead and saying, which immediately caused several other cavalrymen to laugh too.

Veterans, when facing the battle array, most of them are relatively calm, and the nervous ones are often recruits, although some people can't see the expression on their faces, but the irrepressible tremor exposes their true thoughts in their hearts.

When in battle, especially when commanding the first recruits, the junior sergeants will even order these nervous recruits to directly raise their swords and guns, and then close their eyes and slash forward......

Don't worry about these closed-eyed recruits cutting into the air, and don't worry about whether they won't be able to dodge fatal damage in the first round of engagements, because there's more to it than that.

The local method, but it works very well, otherwise in the face of the bright swords and guns, not all recruits have a strong psychological quality to fight fear, once a few people fled timidly, resulting in the collapse of the array, it is the biggest mistake.

Those who survive after the first wave of contact, stimulated by adrenaline, will basically be able to adapt to the bloody battlefield.

Anyway, people are crowded, and the knives and guns wielded indiscriminately always have a chance to be hit......

War is brutal, and the vast majority of recruits lose their lives directly when they first step on the battlefield, and they can't talk about growth at all, and this kind of tragic elimination mechanism, especially for troops like death battalions, is even more so. For the princes everywhere, these recruits who are entering battle for the first time are not even bothered to equip their armor, anyway, they are consumables, except for a spear head, it is a waste to even give an extra battle robe......

The main pawn is different, there is more or less one piece of armor, and then according to the different types of troops, equipped with different weapons, the organization and discipline will be stronger, and it is generally used as an important force in the Chinese army.

Seeing the number of Zhang Lie's cavalry, Biqiu Xing's soldiers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and even the cavalry who rushed over seemed to be excited for a while, waving their swords and shouting and rushing over.

It is human nature to bully the soft and fear the hard, these soldiers of Biqiu Xing faced Zhang Lie's cavalry, which was only more than three hundred people at most, and naturally a lot of courage surged in the depths of their hearts, and even felt that this was a matter of pinching snails with ten fingers, and the strength of the people was great, although most of the soldiers were not necessarily stronger than the opponents, but the knives and guns in their hands were not pinched in the mud.

Isn't that what it takes to fight in the countryside?

Or when they charge so vigorously, the opponent will naturally run away when they see that they are invincible......

Of course, this was their idea, not the idea of the cavalry of the expedition.

"Yo, the momentum is not bad......" Zhang Lie smiled, flicked the horse's head, and then whistled, "Let's go, take them for a walk!" ”

Zhang Liecai is not stupid to hedge with Biqiuxing's cavalry here, at such a distance, even if the speed of the horse can be increased, after the hedge passes, it is equivalent to entering the range of Biqiuxing's infantry, even if he and his cavalry are well equipped, after all, it is not like those armored heavy cavalry with vests, such a stunned past, not to be shot into a fool?

Therefore, tearing the distance and hanging the cavalry troops of Biqiuxing, they will take a cold breath when they have the opportunity, and they will not force it if they have no chance, this is Zhang Lie's combat goal.

Of course, in addition to this reason, Zhang Lie deliberately led his troops to constantly dangle in front of Biqiu Xing, just to attract Biqiu Xing's attention and make him inadvertently ignore something......

Just like a person staring at the black dots on a piece of white paper, they will only subconsciously fall on the black dots, and forget about the white paper itself, Zhang Lie's three hundred rides are actually the "little black dots" that were specially taken out for Biqiu Xing to stare at.

The point is that this "little black spot" also has thorns, and if you are not careful, you will be stabbed.

Biqiu Xing just saw Zhang Lie and others "fleeing from the wind", and he was a little proud in his heart, brushed his beard, and shook his head. However, after a while, when he saw that the war horse was very fast and disappeared from sight, Biqiu Xing's heart jumped suddenly, and he hurriedly ordered: "Someone! Quickly send an order to the lieutenant, just disperse, don't chase after it! ”

However, in order to wash away the embarrassment and shame in front of Biqiuxing, the cavalry captain did not realize the danger coming......

Although Biqiuxing's scouts were hit hard before, most people thought that one was ambushed by the cavalry of Zhengxi, and the other was a hundred scouts who attacked Biqiuxing with 300 cavalry at that time, and the defeat was also deserved, and now he has a thousand cavalry, which is three times the number of Zhengxi cavalry fleeing in front, and the current strength ratio is reversed, victory is in sight, how can he give up easily?

The two sides rushed one after the other, and ran for more than ten miles in a blink of an eye.

In this process, both sides have opened their bows and shots, and the arrows shot by the Biqiuxing cavalry are naturally much more than Zhang Lie's cavalry, but the lethality of these bows and arrows is quite limited, especially the arrows shot by Biqiuxing, even if they catch up with Zhang Lie and others, most of them have no strength, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were scratched by the arrows on the buttocks of the war horse, there is no damage at all.

Of course, the bow and arrow that turned around and shot was also a stroke of luck, but because Biqiuxing's cavalry rushed up against the arrow, once the arrow was hit, the degree of injury was naturally much more serious than that of Zhang Lie's men, and several cavalrymen stumbled off their horses and disappeared into the smoke and dust between the horses' hooves.

The sporadic casualties even stimulated the anger of the Biqiuxing cavalry, shouting and waving their blades, as if this would speed up and catch up with Zhang Lie and the others, but they didn't notice that they didn't know when, Zhang Lie and the others slowly ran away, from the original oval shape, unfolded into a larger fan.

The horse's hooves were churning, and from the horseback of Zhang Lie and others, small black dots fell one after another, disappearing into the raised smoke and dust, without attracting attention at all......