September 20th, the darkest hour before dawn.

The five thousand Wuhuan cavalry led by Zhao Yun had breakfast an hour ago, and then quietly and slowly marched to the outside of Liu Yan's camp.

To the south of Wuyang County, the valley between Longquan Mountain and the Minjiang River is not too open, and Liu Yanjun has gathered 50,000 or 60,000 people, spread out on the front of more than ten miles wide, and there can be 5,000 people per mile.

Therefore, the suddenness of the action is not so important, but it is more important to keep the formation tight and tidy.

Zhao Yun was also prepared for this battle, because before setting off from Jiangzhou, in just a few days, the military advisor Li Su made some adjustments to his troops, and equipped the rope ring stirrups on both sides. Later, Jiangyang, Yandao, and Nan'an did not have the opportunity to fight in the field, so there was no opportunity for actual combat verification.

However, Zhao Yun tested it himself before setting off, and found that the stability of mounted archery had really improved, so he dared to try to raid the camp protected by long trenches and low walls today. Even if he can't rush in, he can concentrate his superior forces to suppress it, so as to defeat Liu Yan's morale and further bluff to continue to attract the enemy's main force on the southern front.

The double-sided stirrups and the saddle of the wooden saddle bridge are both technologies that are very helpful for mounted archery and even cavalry charge. Li Su had been holding back uselessness before, also considering that the difficulty of this kind of thing is very low, and it is easy to leak if it is used, and it will be learned by the enemy.

And Liu Bei's camp has not yet mastered the horse-producing land, and the current cavalry mainly relies on the 10,000 people brought in, plus Yu Fuluo, who is currently grazing idle in Yinping. The previous battle into Sichuan did not require cavalry to play, so Li Su only equipped his mount with double-sided rope ring stirrups, under the pretext that he was not good at riding, and he was too lazy to clamp the horse's belly, in order to save effort.

This time, it has hit the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, and the White Emperor City in the east should almost be taken by Guan Yu's partial division, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has been completely choked, and the entry and exit of business travelers are under the supervision of Liu Bei.

It also takes time for the troops to run in, and there is a process of trying and familiarizing the new equipment with new equipment. Li Su is still taking out the rope loops, which are not yet complete, so he can be mass-produced so quickly, and tens of thousands of hemp rope loops can be made in a few days. Will it definitely be customized in the future? I made a metal stirrup such as a bicycle pedal.

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"Array? Separate a song of people and horses, and step forward to scratch the hook and break the fence! ”

Zhao Yun came to the place of two arrows in front of the formation? Finally, it was confirmed that the enemy army had not had time to bury stakes and antlers in the trenches? It was just a pure earthen pit and dirt wall, and the order to storm was given.

Also thanks to his quick arrival? After all, Liu Yan has only been camping for two days, and the time is too rushed? Is all fortification construction a priority? It must have been a trench to pile the wall first, and then some sharp piles were buried at the same time as the wall to form a fence.

The construction of antlers is a lower priority, in fact, it has already begun, but the front of a dozen miles wide? Only a small half of the area is covered with antlers? For the cavalry with strong mobility, it is equivalent to nothing, and Zhao Yun can carefully observe the unpaved road section of the road.

Hundreds of cavalrymen crossed the crowd, divided into many groups, and threw hooks with hemp ropes tied to their hands? Hook the stakes buried in the low wall and spur the horses to pull back? The wooden stakes two or three feet deep into the earth were pulled by the combined force of many war horses, and they loosened and collapsed? Gaps are formed.

"Zhao Yun has robbed the camp! Hurry up! ”

Liu Yanjun's reaction was quite fast, when he heard the movement of breaking the gate? It has come out one after another. But does it take time for Liu Yanjun to line up? So it's too late to block it with arrows in advance.

Liu Yan himself is unwell these days? He was afraid of being noisy and disturbing, so he sat in the back camp, and he didn't have any generals under him.

The first three battalions were responsible for supervising the war, and they were all civilian under his command, including Wang Lei, Cheng Ji, and Qin Mi, all of whom were not materials for leading troops. Qin Mi, in particular, is completely a mouthful. In contrast, Wang Lei and Cheng Yi are reliable, at least good at rectifying military discipline.

Anyway, fighting with Zhao Yun, Liu Yan never expected anyone under his command to be able to fight Zhao Yun alone, as long as he straightened out the team and gave full play to the discipline of the group fight.

On the other side, Zhao Yun's leading cavalry had already rushed into the camp from several gaps, and began to take advantage of the chaos to shoot indiscriminately, drawing out his saber and slashing. The Wuhuan Assault Cavalry is not accustomed to sprinting with spears, and most of them are within thirty paces of cavalry shooting and sabre dragging.

Zhao Yun changed his state as a pioneer, but supervised the formation for a while, saw the composition of the face team, and then chose a key attack.

"Wedge formation, target the flank camp at the foot of Longquan Mountain on the right flank, rush with me!"

With a wave of Zhao Yunyin's spear, the white horse jumped out first, followed by thousands of horsemen.

The enemy is outnumbered, and the difference in strength between the two sides is ten times, if the whole line blooms and rushes head-on, it will definitely be killed, even if these Wuhuan Turquoise cavalry is experienced in the war for a long time, it is useless.

Therefore, Zhao Yun only dealt with one part of the enemy army, and he knew that fifty or sixty thousand enemy troops could not gather to one point to fight him, so on the local battlefield, his disadvantage in strength was at most one to two or one to three.

And the unlucky guy he chose was Liu Yan's henchman Wang Ti. His camp was located in the easternmost part of the army, backed by a hillside at the eastern foot of Longquan Mountain. The soldiers under Wang Lei's command were the 10,000 Qingqiang and Suo barbarians recruited by Liu Yan at a great price.

The reason why Zhao Yun chose him was because through the brief observation just now, he found that there were almost no pikemen among these barbarians, but mainly swords, shields and other short weapons.

There is no way, the brute soldiers in Yizhou are almost all good at mountain warfare, even if the Qingqiang soldiers have the word "Qiang" in their names, but they are not the same concept as those Qiang soldiers in Liangzhou who are good at cavalry combat.

The Qingqiang of Yizhou, which was later known as the "Qingtang Qiang", is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the junction of Sichuan and Qinghai - those with a little geographical knowledge know that in the northwest of Sichuan in later generations, there are still some administrative divisions that are autonomous in Tibet and Qiang, and Liu Yan's Qingqiang soldiers came from that place, so they are also masters of mountain warfare based on short weapons.

In contrast, Liu Yan's "Dongzhou soldiers" composed of tens of thousands of exiled Yongliang Han people were all crossbow soldiers and pikemen, and they were very good at countering cavalry. Since Zhao Yun has discovered this characteristic, of course, he has to pick a soft persimmon that is not good at restraining cavalry.

The Qingqiang soldiers are known as the first elite under Liu Yan's account, but there is no mountain battle for them today, they have to go to the Meishan Plain to resist the cavalry charge professionally, and they can only resign themselves to fate!

"Quick! Stand it out! Zhao Yun attacked the camp, the men and horses were only one-tenth of our army, and if it lasted for a quarter of an hour, the reinforcements from Cheng Zhizhong would come to help in the battle! Wang Lei watched Zhao Yun rush over in person, and hurriedly cheered for the barbarian generals around him.

The commander who led the 10,000 barbarian soldiers today is the two barbarian kings of Yinping County, named Yang Ju and Qiangduan, Yang Ju led the soldiers, and Qiangduan led the Qingqiang soldiers.

The two of them also took money to do things, and they were encouraged by Wang Ti, and they were not afraid at all in their spirits, and calmly faced Zhao Yun. After Liu Yan entered Sichuan, he killed local famous families, confiscated land slaves and distributed them to Dongzhou scholars, or exchanged them for money and grain to send to the barbarian king, and the loyalty of these two types of people to Liu Yan was still very guaranteed.

"Kara-poof-sneer~" Zhao Yun's spear was like a dragon, a little cold came first, and the momentum was not blazing.

After breaking the first shield wall, it is like a cow that is unraveled, entering the room with no thickness, and recovering its ease and ease. On the opposite side, blood splashed repeatedly, but there were no few sounds of blade gridding, which seemed to pass through the gaps and angles of the enemy's weapons very accurately, and it didn't take much action to harvest more than a dozen lives.

The difference in the length of the weapons is too large, the weapons of the infantry are shorter than the cavalry, and for the masters of cavalry, there is no need to even dodge and block, anyway, the enemy has already been poked to death before he can cut himself.

Zhao Yun couldn't help but have an illusion in his heart: "These barbarians who grew up in the Wen Mountains in western Sichuan have never fought against a large-scale cavalry in their lives?" ”

The Wuhuan Tuqi behind him was naturally happy to pick up the cheap, taking advantage of the gap that Zhao Yun had killed, he rushed in and tore the gap bigger and more bloody as soon as possible.

Countless Qingqiang barbarians jumped with their experience to make up for the disadvantage in height and impact, but they often jumped up and stood against the shield, and even the people with the shield were knocked away by the horses. Even if you take a 30-pound iron-faced heavy shield, you can't withstand the impact inertia of a 500-pound horse.

A shield array with no spears and only shields does nothing to prevent trampling.

The most despicable thing is that after the Wuhuan Raider broke through the shield array, he didn't plan to stop and fight with you hand-to-hand, but rushed out from behind the formation as soon as he dipped it, and the follow-up troops strangled the formation, and they were twenty or thirty steps away from the Qingqiang soldiers in the dense array, and began to shoot arrows at close range, and switched between distance and close combat freely.

The formation is loose, and it is even worse to be trampled by the cavalry charge, and the formation is tight, and once the shield wall is broken and there is chaos, the rain of arrows can take more lives.

In the final analysis, these elite soldiers still suffered the loss of "after being recruited by Liu Yan, they have not fought a battle other than mountain warfare", and their experience and response are too lacking.

"Zhao Yunxiu wants to be rampant! Yang Ju, the lord of the White Horse Kingdom, is here! Your lord Liu Bei has no faith, and he will give Yu Fuluo the land of the counties along the Baishui, take my mountains, forests and grasslands, and eat me with an axe! ”

After all, Yang Ju is a barbarian king, he still has horses, and he also has long-handed soldiers, seeing that the athletes under his command were trampled and killed by Zhao Yun, he was furious and enthusiastic, and he couldn't help but kill him with brute force.

He said that he was the "Lord of the White Horse", the name of which was a county of Wenshan County, which was newly established by Liu Yan in the northwest of Shu County, next to Yinping County. Therefore, this Yang Ju's land, along with the Yuzhong Basin, was allowed by Liu Bei to the Southern Xiongnu to graze and collect taxes in Yufuluo, no wonder Yang Ju was so loyal to Liu Yan, because he was hurt by Liu Bei because he belonged to his vital interests.

In the same way, Qiangduan calls himself the "Lord of Guangwu", and his territory is in a county in Yinping County, and his interests are also damaged, but he is not as miserable as Yang Ju. He thought that he couldn't kill Zhao Yun alone, so he took advantage of Yang Ju's life to go up and attack with a horse sword.

"Drink!" Yang Ju ran through his whole body, with a life-for-life fighting style, and slashed at Zhao Yun's head with an axe.

Zhao Yun's gun did not have any blocking posture, it was still a flat-end forward stab, but the arm holding the gun was slightly raised, and the horizontal position of the gun was as high as the eyebrows, no longer a shot from Zhongping, but a shot from Gaoping.

Although the war horse galloped closely, this gun was like the main gun barrel of a tank equipped with a two-way stabilizer in later generations, allowing your horse to gallop, the relative height and angle between the gun and the ground remained unchanged, and it was stable and stable. is like a hurdler who has won the Olympic championship, no matter how the lower limbs take off, the overall center of gravity is always maintained on a horizontal line.

"Ding~" There was a soft sound, and Zhao Yun's gun was flat and blocked Yang Ju's giant axe on the road, and the force angle of the intersection of the two blades was very small, so that Zhao Yun could still hold the gun in one hand.

"He can restrain my big axe with a gun in one hand? Then I'll push down a little bit and cut off four of your fingers before decapitating! Yang Ju's heart sank, fine-tuned the angle of the axe blade, and continued to sweep.

However, just when he was smiling with a cruel smile on his face and saw that his axe blade was about to cut off the four fingers that Zhao Yun was holding the gun, Zhao Yun actually let go of his hand instantly, then shrank his hand down an inch, and instantly moved forward by one foot, and re-grasped the gun in the safe position where the axe blade had been swept.

The action of putting down the rod and grabbing the rod is estimated to be no more than a fraction of a second, so that the barrel of the volley gun has not had time to fall, and it almost still remains at the original horizontal height.

A trace of disbelief flashed in Yang Ju's eyes, as if a big move had been scraped in front of the enemy, but the enemy dodged it in the direction of the big move.

"Poof!" Zhao Yun, who flashed successfully, gently pushed the spear blade into Yang Ju's neck, and even broke his cervical vertebrae.

Zhao Yun is also in danger this time, he knows that if he is beaten by Yang Ju and Qiang Duan without talking about martial arts, it will be difficult to deal with it for a while, so he is in danger to kill one as soon as possible.

And Qiang Duan witnessed the change in the scene two feet away, and his brain was down for half a second for a while, and Zhao Yun had already adjusted his state and turned over to kill him.

Qiang Duan hurriedly shook his spirit and responded to the battle carefully, not daring to fight for his life again, but he supported five or six more rendezvous than Yang Ju, but in the end, he was inevitably picked off the horse by a shot.

These two barbarian kings are also fierce men, and later defected to Cao Cao in history, and followed Xiahou Yuan to kill Zhang Fei's deputy generals Wu Lan and Ren Kui in the Battle of Hanzhong, but in this life they obviously have no chance to open. I just followed Liu Yan for two years, and I explained it here.

Wang Lei looked at the tragic situation in front of him and was completely stunned. When Cheng Ji came up with a large army of Dongzhou soldiers in a tight formation, the Qingqiang soldiers and Suo soldiers on the east side had been killed and completely lost their formations and fled, the two barbarian kings were dead, and these barbarian soldiers no longer had the morale to work for Liu Yan.

Zhao Yun was optimistic that tens of thousands of enemies were surrounded and immediately retreated.

This battle is claimed to have completely defeated the most elite barbarians under Liu Yan, and on the return trip, he can easily capture some barbarian prisoners, which is enough.

Although it is the barbarian soldiers who are not good at dealing with cavalry on the plains, and the profession is not right, it is cheap, but it has a good reputation.