Li Dang immediately slashed his sword, looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, but his face was happy.

He was ordered to attack Yingcheng, cut off the connection between the loyal army and Ezhou City, and completely turn Ezhou into an isolated city.

How does this make him not happy?

Xia Yi had a garrison of 10,000 troops in Yingcheng, of which 3,000 were cavalry. This is also the festival of the Central Plains, all of them attach importance to cavalry, and the northern land is also suitable for large-scale cavalry combat, unlike the south, where the water network is dense, and the major forces pay more attention to foot soldiers. It's really because the cavalry is not very powerful. Of course, it is really difficult to get a war horse suitable for combat.

Li Kang was born in cavalry.

When he attacked the land of Liangzhejiang earlier, Liu Ruyan did not have enough cavalry, but now, it is very different. After the connection on land was opened, war horses were not a problem for the Tang Army at all.

Because of the area controlled by Li Ze, there was no shortage of horses, and there were a large number of Yi tribes attached to it, and there were countless people who were good at raising horses.

But now under Li Kang's command, there are still only 1,000 cavalry.

Attacking the city, the cavalry was not very useful in the first place. It is even more of a waste to use cavalry to attack cities. After all, it is much more difficult to train a cavalryman than to train a foot soldier.

However, of the 1,000 cavalrymen, 200 of them were brought out by Li Dang from Li Ze's personal guard battalion. Another 300 people were recruited from among the attached barbarians, and the other 500 people were selected from the reorganized Qianniuwei. In terms of combat effectiveness, this cavalry is extremely powerful, which is also the reason why Li Dare saw Xia Yi on the opposite side leading a large army to attack, and he was not surprised but happy.

"Kmutl!" Li Dang turned his head and looked at an eight-foot man holding a big iron rod, his long hair was combed into two ponytails, and it hung down from the inside of the helmet to the left and the right, so that people could tell at a glance that it was the Yi clan inside.

"General Lee!" Kmutr galloped to Li Kang's side. He was born in Mobei, and he was attached with the tribe after Xu Ziyuan and Zhang Jia were ordered to build a city in Hetao. People like them who are attached, although they have a household registration and divide the land after the attachment, but at the same time, there are many restrictions, Xu Ziyuan prefers to use them to raise horses in the Tang Army, but he is not keen on recruiting these people into the army, although Zhang Jia is the highest commander of the army, but he is partial to recruiting the army and training the army, but it is not within the scope of his jurisdiction, and the military affairs department of his own province is responsible for this matter, and he only accepts the recruits who have been preliminarily trained by the military affairs department to enter the army.

It was against this background that Kmutr rode alone to the interior. In the end, he was recruited into the army in Wuyi, and now he is the commander of this 500 cavalry.

Li Dang looked at this guy with a big stick in his hand with some disgust.

I think that when Li Dang first saw this guy, it was on the recruitment school field, and this guy was holding a wooden pole in his hand, but it was polished brightly. It was with that lever that this guy swept across the school field and was caught by Li Dang at a glance.

Li Dang originally wanted to exchange a decent weapon with this guy, but he didn't want this guy to buy it, he just said that he was used to using this stick, and in the end he just wrapped the two ends of the stick with cooked copper.

"One thousand against three thousand, are you confident?" Li Dang pointed to the smoke and dust in the distance and said with a smile.

"Dirt Chicken Tile Dog!" Kemutr looked into the distance contemptuously, stretched out a finger, and shook it in front of Li Kang.

"I'll break the formation, you will kill!" Li dared to say: "Xiao Wen is responsible for sweeping. ”

Kemutr nodded, and did not fight with Li for this task of breaking the formation. Kemutel has only lost to one person in a single battle in Wuyi, and that is Li Han, the leader of the Modao soldiers. That guy is bigger and more powerful than him. Li Kang's personal martial arts are inferior to Kemutr's, but Kemutl knows very well that if Li Dang takes his two hundred cavalry to fight against the three hundred cavalry under his command, he must lose.

Li Ze's personal guards are all carefully selected cavalry, these people are deeply influenced by Tu Lichun, Min Rou and others, all of them are swords, and the method of the battle formation practiced is also born from the wolf cavalry, used to break the formation, it is really indestructible. And these cavalry led by him have extremely excellent individual combat ability, skilled in bows and horses, and shoot bows and arrows on the galloping horses like walking on the ground, but in any case, they can't maintain a complete battle formation in the high-speed gallop like these personal guards.

When Li Dang broke through the opponent's military formation, and then his own people took advantage of the chaos to cause a large number of casualties, and finally Xiao Wen came to clean up the battlefield, which was the most suitable arrangement.

Li Dang raised the horse chopping knife in his hand. The drums rumbled, and the 1,000 cavalry was divided into three attacking formations, with Li Kang at the front, Kemutl in the middle, and Chauvin at the end. Behind them, the five thousand foot soldiers had long since turned into a phalanx one by one, with shields on the outside, spears protruding forward, swords and shields in between, and in the middle, crossbowmen.

As for the logistics auxiliaries, the minfu had already connected the carriages together at this moment to form a chariot formation, with the auxiliaries living outside and the minfu in the middle.

This is also in the south, if it is in the north, these recruited people, when they fight, they are not inferior to the army. Li Ze's conscription system and retirement system have created a large number of hidden sources of soldiers for the north.

Li Dang pointed forward at the saber, the war horse under the crotch neighed excitedly, and began to move forward with small steps, behind Li Kang, two hundred war horses, two hundred swords, and pointed forward at the same time.

Kemutr was behind, and when he saw two hundred and one horses slowly moving forward with the same steps, he felt goosebumps all over his body. As a man who grew up on horseback, he knew how difficult it was to train such a cavalry. It's hard to imagine what it's like to have a cavalry of hundreds of men like one person.

Kmutr watched the drill of the Chengde wolf ride, and that time, his ambition as a horse warrior was shattered, and he knew very well that when he faced the Chengde wolf ride, there would be no other end than being chopped into slag by the other party.

Fortunately, there were only a hundred such cavalry.

Fortunately, I joined their side.

Li Dang began to accelerate, two hundred and one riding, eight hundred and four horses' hooves trampled on the ground, the rhythm was so distinct.

"Attack!" Kemutr raised his large copper-clad stick.

Xia Yi, the general of the Zhongwu Army stationed in Yingcheng, was quite dissatisfied with his superior's order to defend the city, especially when the scout told him that the Tang army that came to Yingcheng only had 6,000 people, of which only 1,000 cavalry.

Annihilating the enemy in the field, he gave the order for the whole army to attack almost without thinking.

He is the capital of the loyal army, he is the top general in the loyal army, he has an army of 10,000, including 3,000 elite horsemen, how can he face an enemy who is far inferior to his own number, but he does not come out of the city?

Kill the invading enemy, and then lead troops to rescue Ezhou City, cooperate with Liu Xindali, and break the enemy in one fell swoop, and his reputation will inevitably resound in the universe. Now outside Ezhou City, it is Li Ze's wife Liu Ruyan, if he can defeat her, his reputation will not be loud.

Under the banner of the Chinese army, he looked at the galloping Tang cavalry with contempt in his eyes, and there were only a thousand horsemen in total, and they were divided into three attack waves.

He narrowed his eyes, ready to admire the spectacle of his three thousand elite horsemen drowning in the enemy horsemen of the incoming attack.

Then, he saw the shining light of the knife.

Two hundred and one horses chopped the saber, raised it in unison, and slashed it down in unison.

The knife rises, the knife falls.

The sword light is connected, and it seems that there is no time to stop.

Xia Yi's eyes widened.

The sword light was like an arc with a cold light, constantly flickering, constantly rotating, and constantly galloping forward.

If his 3,000 cavalry is a magnificent sea, then the other party is like a giant ship that cleaves the waves, and the waves do not overturn the huge ship, but crash into the giant ship, and then it shatters.

Kmutl roared and danced his brass stick like a windmill, unlike Li Kang's two hundred cavalrymen who killed the enemy in silence, but he roared with every swing of his stick, and the three hundred horsemen he carried with him were almost the same set. They don't have a lineup, and the weapons they use are varied, but their riding skills and horse fighting are all strong.

The cavalry of the Zhongwu Army, which was broken by Li Dang, had not yet recovered its breath, and was scattered again by these people, and then in the individual battle, they were cut off by these cavalry one by one.

When Xiao Wen's five hundred cavalry rushed over, they were almost already facing stragglers.

It was only at this time that Xia Yi understood why his boss repeatedly told him to hold on to the city. But he understood too late. The same army, the same cavalry, but there is a gap between the cavalry and the cavalry.

He saw the cavalry wielding the saber coming out of the formation, he saw the hideous-looking Tang army chasing his cavalry everywhere, and he saw that in the distance, the Tang army's infantry army formation was in the sound of drums, like a steady fortress, steadily advancing.

1,000 cavalry against 3,000 cavalry, but the battlefield that is truly presented in front of everyone has the opposite effect of the number of people. Xia Yi's foot soldiers were still reorganizing the ranks, and the two hundred cavalry that came out of the formation had already killed diagonally from the flanks of the battlefield, and killed from the ribs into the foot soldiers, as if they had stabbed a hornet's nest.

Before the lineup could be set up, the loyal army was broken up and turned into a long-distance runner all over the mountain.