Li Min laughed, pointed his long sword at the soldiers who were in a panic on the other side of Yingshui, and said, "This is an ambush?" There is no rejection of horses, no arrows and crossbows, and some straight spears and short knives, what is the use? ”

The most important reason is that Li Min has captured a number of war horses of Dong Zhuo's army, this kind of sweetness that has been tasted, let him be a little unstoppable, although some of them are damaged, but to recuperate from injuries, there can still be seventy or eighty horses to drive, if you can hide in front of the infantry behind the rest of the more than 100 war horses, you can form nearly a thousand cavalry under your own control......

Scattered cavalry is at most one-on-two-three, but cavalry in formation can be one-on-five, or even higher. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the Han Dynasty, the greater the number of cavalry, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the army, and the difference between the combat effectiveness of hundreds of cavalry and thousands of cavalry was almost doubled.

Looking at the tired knights who dismounted one by one, and observed that there were no archers in the infantry battle formation that came to meet the enemy, they only needed to cross the river and defeat these five or six hundred people, and those already exhausted cavalry became the things in the urn......

Thinking of this, Li Min, who was itching, ordered his soldiers to cross the river in pursuit.

Although there are only five or six hundred people on the opposite bank, there is no comparison between this and the pursuit battle, in the pursuit battle, as long as the chasing side runs fast, does not fall behind, and is not caught by the encirclement, there is no danger to life, and as long as the pursuing side does not lose its horse and hooves, the risk is even smaller......

But when you go out to battle, it's completely different. Coming out of battle means nine deaths, which is true for both sides.

Regardless of whether it has an advantage or not, even if it is the dominant side, it may not be able to ensure that there are no casualties, and under the conditions of lack of medical treatment and medicine in the Han Dynasty, even a small wound may lose its life due to infection complications.

Although the people on Li Min's side believed that there would always be victory in the end, but before that, some of the soldiers who took the lead in the battle would inevitably fall on the bank of Yingshui, dyeing this piece of river red, and the fruits of victory would not be related to them.

Their meaning is to use their own flesh and blood to tear apart the opponent's formation, and the sooner they defeat or destroy the opponent, the more hope their side can gain to live.

Li Min was not stupid enough to directly order his few cavalry to cross the river directly to attack, but ordered the infantry who came one after another to form a phalanx, and let his archers advance to the river first to prevent his soldiers from being attacked by the other party in the process of crossing the river, and then ordered the infantry to cross the river and seize the territory on the other side of the river......

Maybe it was timidity, maybe there were no archers who couldn't resist, maybe it was some other reason, although the five or six hundred Dong Zhuo soldiers who were lined up in the distance were a little riotous, they did not step forward to stop Li Min's army from crossing the river.

Li Min's infantry quickly crossed the waist-high river, and against the fierce cold wind, they scattered their formations to make room for the follow-up troops.

Then the soldiers of the second team crossed the river, Dong Zhuo's army seemed to have some intention of attacking, and approached more than a dozen steps forward, but it stopped again, and because of the inconsistent actions of the left and right to stop the footsteps, the entire battle formation was twisted and twisted, and it was extremely ugly......

When Li Min saw this, he pointed to Dong Zhuo's soldiers, who were no longer very formed, and said to Zhang An: "If you see it, you have lost its shape, and under one blow, you will definitely be defeated!" Then he ordered the cavalry and archers to cross the river together.

The cold wind was fierce, although the river was not deep, but after the body was wet, it was blown by the wind, and there was a little chill.

Li Min also knew this, so without saying a word, he directly ordered the soldiers in the front to move forward to engage in the battle, and let the eight hundred cavalry under his command be divided into two ways to the left and right to extend to the side and front to prepare for outflanking......

The war drums rumbled, and Li Min's front row of sword and shield soldiers put the big shield in their hands on the ground every five steps, and after a breath, they re-lifted the big shield and continued to advance, and the shouting horn sounded on the banks of the Yingshui River, and the neat footsteps shook the earth and seemed to tremble.

And Dong Zhuo's army seems to have fallen into despair, the original strength is not superior, and then it will soon fall into the situation of being hit by many times the number of troops, and it seems that the situation will be surrounded and suppressed from three sides, and the formation is becoming more and more scattered......

Just when the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer about a hundred paces, Dong Zhuo's army shouted in unison, and they scattered with a bang, turned around and ran, and those cavalrymen who were originally hiding behind the infantry also hurriedly climbed onto their horses and fled together......

Li Min was originally ready to fight the soldiers in the front battle, but when he was messed with by Dong Zhuo's soldiers, he was stunned at first, and then couldn't help laughing.

This time, even Zhang An, who has always been cautious, was a little dumbfounded, and now the battle turned into a pursuit battle again......

The subsequent evolution naturally became that Dong Zhuo's small force fled to the mountains in front, and Li Min's soldiers bit their tails to pursue, and from time to time the backward Dong Zhuo soldiers were caught up and hacked to death by the blade, and the head became a treasure for robbery.

This time, Li Min's cavalry gained more than the cavalry that pursued Dong Zhuo before, staring at a backward Dong Zhuo soldier, riding a horse forward to cut it down, and then he could dismount as if no one was around, cut off his head and hang it on the horse's neck, and then pursue the next target......

And those infantry could only look at it with red eyes, and rushed forward desperately on two legs, hoping to capture something before collecting the troops, even the armor and blade banners that Dong Zhuobing discarded all the way were all picked up while pursuing.

Li Min followed the Chinese army and rushed forward, just turned a small hill, he heard a rumbling drum sound, and then a majestic shout sounded, and a banner was suddenly erected on his side, with the words "Zhonglang General Xu" written on it.

Xu Rong immediately stood under the banner, looking at Li Min's army, which had been disjointed because of the pursuit, and waved his hand expressionlessly, he heard what seemed to be thousands of hornets shaking their wings at the same time, and the rain of arrows in the sky was projecting towards the position of Li Min's Chinese army.

Then a column of Xiliang cavalry emerged from behind the small hill, brandishing their swords, galloping down, slashing left and right, blocking the Chinese army that had just suffered the blow of the rain of arrows and rushing into two sections......

Li Min shouted loudly in a hurry, asking his soldiers to form a formation to meet the enemy, but it was only that some soldiers near him heard his order, reluctantly gathered together, and raised their swords tremblingly, while the other soldiers who were far away from the Chinese army were now in a mess, where could I hear what he was shouting......