Chapter 180: Feng Xian

Chencang is almost surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the central concave is open to the east, which is why it is so important here. Twenty or thirty miles east of Chencang, there were village soldiers of the Han army and local powerful troops, all of whom were in the camp hostile to the Xiliang army. When Chen Cheng used the "Scouting" skill, there were red dots everywhere in the east. Originally, these red dots were not a threat, but now, there are a large number of red dots rushing towards the west.

The Flying Bear Hussars almost clinged to Chencang City to the east, and then assembled in the open space to the east of the city. If Chencang had already been breached, they would first suffer a blow from the crossbowmen at the head of the city.

While they were moving, the vanguard of the official army had already been killed five miles away. Acting so quickly, regardless of whether you ask, it is naturally the most elite cavalry. Chen Cheng looked at the flying bear hussars behind him, but he suddenly remembered something he had seen in the history books.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the forbidden army stationed in Kaifeng Mansion was the strongest army in the world. Once the emperor of the Song State, he forgot whether it was Zhao Da or Zhao Er, when attacking a city, he didn't fight it for a long time, and the general of the forbidden army stepped forward to ask for battle. At that time, Emperor Song refused, and said: "The forbidden army is the elite of the country, I want to share wealth with you, how can I be willing to let you risk arrows and stones to fight the enemy with white blades?" ”

When Chen Cheng saw it, he scoffed at Emperor Song's words. The army is used to fight, no matter how elite the troops, if they are not allowed to go to the battlefield all the time, do they have to raise and have children? But just now, Chen Cheng found that he actually had the same idea as Emperor Song. These tooth soldiers were selected by him, and then trained quietly for more than a year, many of them are Yunwen Yunwu, and they can be promoted to officials, or let out to become managers at all levels of the factory, if they are lost on the battlefield, wouldn't it be a pity?

But Chen Cheng was still different from the emperor of the Song Dynasty after all, he just thought about it in his heart for a second, and then made up his mind. Everything else in the Song Dynasty is good, especially the refinement of poetry, but you must not learn the style of the Song Dynasty emperor.

He gently pinched the horse's belly with his legs, and the fiery red horse immediately rushed out. The Flying Bear Hussar followed him. The war horses galloped out of two miles, and the cavalry of the official army had already been killed. After the two sides met, they did not try, but invariably beat their horses and accelerated, and rushed towards the opposite side at a faster speed.

Chen Cheng drew his bow and fired, and the arrow broke through the air, and shot a cavalryman on the opposite side at a distance of more than eighty paces. At the same time, there was a sudden shock in his chest, and the feeling of severe pain had reached his mind.

Every time he goes into battle, he wears a set of chain mail inside, and an iron armor outside, and he is wearing double armor and is also shot through? Or in the middle of a cavalry battle? He followed the arrow through the air, and saw one of the enemy troops in front of him on the left, who had put down the iron bow in his hand and also looked this way.

The two eyes collided in the air, and they were immediately obscured by a large group of cavalry. In the sound of the guns tearing through the steel, thousands of horsemen on both sides had already collided together. At that moment just now, Chen Cheng had already seen the appearance of the horse archer on the opposite side. The man was very large, even if he sat on horseback, he could see that his hands and feet were much longer than ordinary people.

At a glance, he could also see that the man was not wearing a helmet, but tied up his hair with a purple and gold crown, and with the beast-faced head-swallowing serial armor on his body, he was extremely heroic.

Although the appearance of the military general opposite is extraordinary, what has the most profound impact on Chen Cheng is the person's expression. Blind, arrogant, conceited, and seems to take no one seriously. Just looking into those eyes, it was like seeing a burning flame and an eternal ice.

After Chen Cheng came to this world, he has also seen many celebrities, Liu Bei is deep and generous, Cao Cao is generous and heroic, and Ma Chao is brave and rebellious........ He has also seen a lot of murderous generals, but the person who released the arrow just now gave him a completely different feeling. It was not a question of ferocity or not, but rather that the man seemed to be the embodiment of the words "rebellious" and "tough".

If Ma Chao's conceit and recklessness are magnified several times, he will probably be similar to that person. Otherwise, what are you wearing such a sassy bag when you are fighting!

Chen Cheng's heart moved, and he had already guessed the approximate identity of that person. Who is dressed like this except Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian? As a result, he was even more worried, because the situation had turned out to be the worst that had been envisaged. He said to himself: Is even Ding Yuan here?

Chen Cang is located in the mountains, there is not much room for turnaround, and the current situation is not right, so Chen Cheng was not prepared to fight with the enemy from the beginning, and the official cavalry on the opposite side also had the same idea. On the one hand, there are thousands of choices, and Xiliang Xiaoqi, who has been practicing day and night for a year, and on the other hand, the elite of the Han army, theoretically speaking, this will be a dragon fight, but the actual situation is not at all.

The Flying Bear Hussars were usually trained as charging cavalry, and after the addition of a farrier and a Takahashi saddle, the queue for a cavalry charge was regarded as the most important training subject. Although the Han army also obtained the farrier and saddle stirrup techniques that were spread in Liangzhou and Hetao, their tactics remained at the previous level and were not updated with the update of equipment.

Therefore, in the narrow terrain east of Chencang, with just one charge, the Flying Bear Hussars penetrated the Han cavalry on the opposite side, even if the number of Han cavalry was larger. The Flying Bear Hussars leaned close together and crushed the Han army's attack momentum with longer cavalry guns.

The neighing of the horses, the shouts of the officers, gathered the cavalry that had been loosely formed. The horse slowed down and stopped at the edge of the road. In the hedge just now, the exchange ratio reached one to three, and what was even heavier was that the enemy's formation had been completely disrupted.

If such an onslaught could have been repeated a few more times, if there had been light cavalry following behind, the ensuing battle would have turned into a one-sided slaughter. It's not something that can be changed by a person's martial arts, even if there is that person.

But it is a pity that behind the flying bear hussars, there are no light cavalry to follow, but in the further east, you can already see the follow-up cavalry of the Han army, and behind the cavalry, there are also infantry of the Han army marching towards this side. The infantry had no armor, not only iron and piercing, but also no bundle and leather armor. Armed with crossbows, ring-headed knives, and spears of a foot or so, they ran fast on dirt roads.

This was the "light soldier" in the Han army, which was used to pursue, outflank and seize dangerous passes. Behind the "light soldiers" is the main force in armor. If it is entangled by light soldiers, the main force of the Han army will immediately rush over and launch a thunderous blow.

Seeing that Chen Cheng was observing the enemy army in the east, Liang Xing came over and asked loudly, "Lord, should we continue to attack forward, or should we return to disperse the cavalry of the official army?" ”

On the road to the west, the scattered cavalry of the officers and soldiers was also gathering. Chen Cheng glanced at it, but he didn't see Lu Bu, probably blocked by the flying dust and the passing cavalry. He glanced to the east again, and the light troops of the Han army moved quickly, although they were advancing rapidly, they still maintained their formation, and it was obvious that the organization and morale were very good.

To the east, the cavalry of the Han army was continuing to advance, but instead of colliding head-on, it spread out towards the two wings, as if trying to surround this Western Liang army. If you continue to advance eastward, you will encounter the main force of the Han army, and then you will be outflanked by the cavalry on both flanks, that is, Han Xin's resurrection will not work. However, Chen Cheng felt that people might not look down on his thousand cavalry at all, and looking at the direction of their actions, they obviously had a greater appetite.

Chen Cheng read in a low voice: "All dynasties are weak, and the only Han is strong and dies!" Sure enough, it's not just talking. ”

Liang Xing didn't hear Chen Cheng's whisper clearly, and asked in a loud voice again, "Lord?" ”

Chen Chengle turned the horse's head, stretched out his hand and pulled out the arrow under his ribs, bringing out a large canopy of blood, and then said in a loud voice: "Let's rush back!" ”

"No!"

The soldiers on the side shouted, "Turn the horse's head and charge west!" ”

The officers shouted loudly, and the flying hussars turned their horses' heads and once again formed a charging formation. Except for Chen Cheng's own soldiers, who were all equipped with iron armor, the other flying bear hussars generally wore armor, which was more convenient and cheaper to move around. Piercing armor has good protection against arrows and can also resist slashing damage, but it is not so ideal for protection against piercing attacks.

Even if he knew that iron armor would be better, but under the current technical conditions, Chen Cheng could not equip all the troops under his command with iron armor. It's not just a matter of money, it's also because there aren't as many people as there are people to make it. However, he only brought out 5,000 soldiers this time, and there was no iron armor, and there were still armor and armor.

After the formation was adjusted, Chen Cheng was still in the first row of the queue as usual. He looked to the left, the color of steel, and to the right, where spears were erected to the right of the cavalrymen, like silver-gray trees. Some of the cavalrymen's rifles had been broken in the impact just now, and they were all replaced with spare rifles.

Chen Cheng retracted his gaze and ordered, "Forward!" ”

The horse's hooves sounded, the ground shook, and the horse began to run in small steps, and after running for a distance, the speed became faster and faster. The cavalry spear on the right side of the cavalryman's body was naturally lowered, and the tips of the spears were pointed at the enemy on the opposite side.

The imperial court soldiers and horses in Guanzhong can be roughly divided into three parts, one is the three auxiliary soldiers and horses in the hands of Gai Xun, the equipment is acceptable, but the number is not large, and the troops must be divided into garrisons everywhere, and the few that can be used for expeditions are almost negligible.

The second is the 40,000 elites under the command of General Zuo Huangfu Song. This army once followed Huangfu Song to conquer the east and west, and pacified the Yellow Turban Army, which disturbed the world and numbered millions. The 40,000 elites under the command of Huangfu Song are extremely brave, even compared with the northern army stationed near Luoyang, it is not far behind.

Third, it was 30,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Ding Yuan, the general of Zhengxi. Most of these troops came from Jiuyuan, Yanmen and other counties in Bingzhou, and also accepted some of the soldiers and horses of King Qin, and the overall combat effectiveness was not bad, but in the first half of this year, he fought with Dong Zhuo's army in Hedong repeatedly, and finally retreated across the Yellow River outnumbered. During the battle, Ding Yuan's army lost a lot of elites, and some were replenished in Chang'an, recovering to the size of 30,000 people. On the whole, the combat effectiveness has decreased, but some units have become stronger because of the experience they have accumulated in the war. For example: Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf ride.

Lu Bu is Ding Yuan's master bookkeeper and Ding Yuan's righteous son, this person is nine feet tall, and his raw instrument is majestic and majestic. Last year, as the vanguard of the army, he once led his troops to kill the city of Ji County. When he was in Hedong this year, Lu Bu also repeatedly defeated the soldiers and horses under Dong Zhuo's command, spanning more than 1,000 miles from east to west, with few opponents.

In this western expedition, Lu Bu was also the vanguard of the army and rushed to the forefront. It's just that this time, Lu Fengxian, who was once invincible on the battlefield, kicked him on the iron plate.